The Prime Minister's Darling
Chapter 880 - 880 406 Mother-in-law and Daughter-in-law Meet (second

Chapter 880: 406 Mother-in-law and Daughter-in-law Meet (second watch)_2 Chapter 880: 406 Mother-in-law and Daughter-in-law Meet (second watch)_2 After all, the Dragon Shadow Guards never speak, so they couldn’t possibly expose her on the spot.

Princess Xinyang’s gaze was fixed unblinkingly on Long Yi’s face. Naturally, she wouldn’t just take Gu Jiao’s word for it; she wanted to hear Long Yi’s answer.

But she also understood that Long Yi would not communicate with her.

The Dragon Shadow Guards were the master’s most trusted secret protectors, privy to all the master’s secrets. If they fell into the hands of someone with ulterior motives, the consequences would be unthinkable.

To prevent any risk, the late emperor had trained the Dragon Shadow Guards to be silent and uncommunicative, ice-cold tools.

However, Princess Xinyang did not believe that Long Yi had ever met with the daughter of the Marquis Residence of Ding’an. Long Yi had always been by her side; the only time he had left was to escort Yujin to the underground Martial Arts Arena to buy medicine.

A daughter of such a distinguished family would hardly visit such a place.

So, did Long Yi simply not want to give a gift to the Crown Princess but felt obliged to send something, so he handed it off to a random passerby?

Princess Xinyang was utterly baffled; she wasn’t bold enough to speculate whether Long Yi would dare to let a stranger into the palace to treat her and change her dressings.

Gu Jiao put the box back on the table.

Princess Xinyang stopped her, saying, “Since Long Yi wanted to give it to you, then you should keep it.”

But she didn’t want to keep it. What if, after accepting it, he insisted she clean out all the charcoal pencils in the box…

“Then… thank you very much.”

She would accept it for now, and then throw it away later. No way she was going to clean out any pencils!

“I shall take my leave now, you two have a nice chat,” Gu Jiao hastened to make her escape, preventing the fellow named Long Yi from catching up with her to make her clean pencils!

Gu Jiao was there to pick up something from the palace, but now she didn’t bother with it and headed straight for the palace exit.

She quickly boarded her carriage, planning to see just how many charcoal pencils that guy had prepared for her. But when she opened the box, she found lying inside a supreme, millennia-old ginseng—

She had lived two lifetimes and had never seen such fine ginseng.

Gu Jiao was stunned.

Back at the Medical Hall, Gu Jiao handed the millennia-old ginseng to Shopkeeper Wang: “Sell this.”

While the millennia-old ginseng was indeed valuable, no one in her family needed it, so it was better to sell it for a good price.

Gu Jiao would occasionally bring some rare and exotic medicines to Shopkeeper Wang to sell, so he was no longer surprised.

“What is it this time?” Upon opening it and seeing the contents, he nearly dropped the box in shock, “This, such a huge ginseng? Where did this come from? This must be a millennia-old ginseng!”

Truthfully, ginseng does not grow for a thousand years. Even a ten-year ginseng is rare to see, and what’s commonly referred to as a millennia-old ginseng on the market is generally just a hundred-year-old ginseng—still extremely rare nonetheless.

Gu Jiao said, “It’s a gift from someone. Be sure to sell it for a good price.”

“Eh!”

Was there any doubt it would fetch a good price? One need only look at how many years the ginseng had grown!

Hehe, with the news of acquiring a millennia-old ginseng spread, Miao Shou Tang would once again be famous in the Capital City!

Gu Jiao didn’t need to worry about business matters. She planned to change clothes and head to the underground Martial Arts Arena.

She should have gone there yesterday afternoon, but something came up, so she rescheduled for today.

Just as she turned to walk to her own courtyard, an urgent male voice came from behind her: “Doctor Gu! Doctor Gu!”

Gu Jiao stopped and turned around.

It was the patient from yesterday, the one who had his stitches removed, Mr. Xu the scholar.

“Is there something wrong with the wound?” Gu Jiao asked, looking at him.

The scholar had run so fast that he was out of breath. After a long pause, he managed to say breathlessly, “Doctor Gu… how could you… break your promise?”

Gu Jiao pointed at herself in confusion, “I… broke my promise?”

The scholar was clearly upset, “Yes… didn’t you promise to… to go treat my classmate’s mother… for tuberculosis… why didn’t you go?”

Gu Jiao responded, “I did go, she didn’t have tuberculosis.”

The scholar was annoyed, “You’re talking nonsense… I went to ask my classmate today… no doctor had been to his house…”

Gu Jiao spread her hands, “But I really went there.”

Seeing her manner, the scholar hesitated slightly, “Which house did you visit?”

Gu Jiao recalled, “I followed your directions, kept going straight ahead, the first house after the orange tree.”

“When did I mention an orange tree? I clearly said a peach tree…” The scholar’s expression froze, “I said it was an orange tree…”

He slapped his forehead!

He had given the wrong directions!

“I’m so sorry! Miss Gu, I’ll pay you another consultation fee, please come with me again! Old Mrs. Sun is really very sick…”

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