Chapter 22 Genius
Chen Ji watched the killer die silently, and the other's eyes gradually lost their luster.

The moment you look into the eyes of the deceased, compassion will naturally arise in your heart. There is regret, despair and reluctance in the dead eyes.

Chen Ji sat leaning against the wall. He felt that this night was particularly long. It was only a few hours since the dark clouds beat the white cat, but he felt like he had experienced the entire late autumn.

He stood up and walked to the killer's body, feeling around in his clothes, but found nothing.

Finally, he lowered his head and sniffed the scent on the other person's clothes, and suddenly frowned: "Let's go home."

Chen Ji stood up holding Wu Yun and limped towards the Taiping Medical Clinic. The part of his body that had just been hit by the killer was still aching.

The dark clouds climbed up to his shoulders and just stayed there, firmly, as if they were meant to be there.

The man and the cat walked leisurely into the dim light of dawn. Chen Ji said, "When we get to the clinic, the breakfast shop should be open. I'll buy you some buns."

Wuyun suddenly perked up: "You asked Yunyang for eight cents just now, just to buy me some buns?!"

"Yes."

"Chen Ji, you are quite nice."

"necessary."

"Chen Ji, I wish you make a lot of money in the future!"

"When I become more powerful in my practice, I will no longer be bullied by Yunyang and Jiaotu! When the time comes, I will kill anyone who stands in my way. May the Buddha...ancestors bless me!"

"Will you take revenge on Yunyang and Jiaotu in the future?"

Chen Ji thought for a moment and said, "Yes."

"Hey hey hey."

"Hey hey hey."

When they returned to the clinic, the rooster had already crowed, but Liu Quxing and She Dengke had not yet gotten up.

After eating two buns, Wuyun returned to Wanxing Garden. Chen Ji stood in the yard, took off all his clothes, and used a gourd ladle to scoop cold water from the water tank and pour it on his head and body until the blood was washed away and his whole body was red. Only then did he stop.

He changed into the tattered clothes that had not yet been mended and sat in a small chair beside the apricot tree in a daze.

In a few days, he had killed three people: Wang Long, the housekeeper, and the killer.

Even a person with a strong mind would feel hesitant, not to mention that Chen Ji was only seventeen years old.

The sound of a door opening outside interrupted Chen Ji's thoughts.

He dried his body, put on his clothes and walked out. Suddenly he saw Old Man Yao walking in slowly with a medicine box slung over one shoulder.

Old man Yao looked up at him, and in an instant, Chen Ji's body stiffened and his heart skipped a beat, as if he was being stared at by a tiger!

Strange, why do I feel this way?
Before Chen Ji could react, She Dengke half-pegged out of the apprentice dormitory and asked curiously: "Master, why did you come back so soon?"

"What? You don't want me to come back?" Old man Yao glanced at him.

She Dengke quickly said, "No, no, I'm just a little curious!"

As he was talking, Liu Quxing came out of the room, tying his belt while complaining to Chen Ji and She Dengke: "You two are such idiots, don't you see that Master is still carrying the medicine box? You don't even bother to help Master pick up the things first!"

Chen Ji: "..."

She Dengke: “…”

Liu Quxing took the medicine box and asked curiously, "Master, has the old man of the Liu family been cured? You said you would be gone for ten days or half a month, but you came back in just one day."

Old Man Yao said angrily: "The one from the Liu family is already dead. If I don't come back, am I going to stay there and pray for his soul to be reborn? I don't know how to do that!"

Chen Ji was surprised and asked, "Ah? Old Master Liu is dead, and even you, Master, can't help?"

Old Man Yao said, "Why should I help? The Liu family lives in a manor outside Luocheng. The carriage I was riding in broke down halfway. It took me most of the day to repair the carriage. When I arrived at Liu's manor, he was already dead. I didn't even see him. It was really unlucky. If people who didn't know the inside story heard about it, they would think that my medical skills were not good enough!"

Ok?
Chen Ji was shocked. Wasn't it just a coincidence that the carriage broke down?

That carriage was for officials of the second rank only, so how could it break down just like that?

At this time, Liu Quxing said: "You should have arrived at the Liu Family Manor last night, right?"

"Yeah," Old Man Yao nodded.

"Then I'll send it back to you overnight. Aren't you afraid of getting yourself in trouble?"

Old man Yao sneered: "Why stay there? If I stay a few more days, I will have to give gifts to his family... I'm going to take a rest first. When I wake up, I will count the inventory and check the accounts. Anyone who dares to make me lose money will be beaten up!"

Chen Ji cried out in his heart that something was wrong, he hadn’t bought the ginseng yet!

……

……

Before daybreak, the servants in Feiyun Garden were already busy.

They boiled some hot water in the side room, carried a copper basin with a snow-white towel draped over the edge of the basin, and walked up to the second floor of the building.

Concubine Yun got up and put on her makeup while being served with wedding cakes. She said lazily, "The weather has turned cold. I asked Xitang to get the account book this morning and prepare to distribute firewood and charcoal to each household. I sent someone to the East Market to ask the people of the Cao Gang. If the silver charcoal from the West Mountain Kiln arrives, I will buy a batch and bring it back for use. I will pick out the best ones for Baili's household. She and the prince will be back from Donglin Academy soon."

Xibing smiled and combed her hair: "Madam is right, the silver charcoal, gray like white frost, is not easy to extinguish, and there is no smoke yet."

"Hey, where's Bai Prajna?" Yun Fei frowned, "I haven't seen it this morning." "Maybe it slipped out to play by itself?"

As he was speaking, Bai Prajna limped up the stairs. His originally pure white fur was covered in blood, and his face was swollen in several spots as if he had been beaten crooked. His eyes were filled with tears.

Concubine Yun: “…”

Wedding Cake: “…”

With a clang, the bronze mirror fell to the wooden floor.

After a long time, Concubine Yun laughed and said, "Sister Jingfei has made great progress."

Xibing whispered, "Madam, please calm down."

Concubine Yun looked at Bai Prajna, thought for a moment and said, "Take it to Taiping Medical Clinic and let the doctor take a look at it. Let the apprentice named Chen Ji take a look at it. The clothes promised to reward this apprentice should be ready. Go to Xitang and ask. If they are ready, send them over. Don't neglect him. I will need him in the future."

Xibing replied in a low voice: "Yes."

In the morning, Xibing carried Bai Prajna and a maidservant who was about twelve or thirteen years old to the clinic. As soon as they arrived at the door of the clinic, Liu Quxing came out with a smile and said, "Miss Xibing, why are you here today?"

"Consulting," Xibing said, standing on tiptoe to look into the backyard. "Where's Chen Ji? Ask him to come out and diagnose the patient."

Liu Quxing's face suddenly fell, and he shouted towards the backyard: "Chen Ji, Chen Ji! The wedding cake girl is looking for you!"

After saying that, he also looked at the clothes held in the little maid's hand: "Miss Xibing, what are these things?"

"This is a gift from my wife to Chen Ji," Xibing smiled and touched the cloth, "This is all made by the embroiderer in the Jiangnan Garment Bureau. Look at the stitches, they are very fine."

Liu Quxing's face turned bitter. Didn't the master say that going to the palace for a diagnosis was a very bad omen? The master was biased!

At this time, Chen Ji was wiping the water off his hands on his sleeves and asked curiously, "Miss Xibing, what are you doing..."

Wedding Cake said, "I don't know which evil person did it, but he actually injured my wife's cat. It has not had a drop of water since this morning and is listless, so he sent me to bring it to see."

Chen Ji was in a dilemma: "Master just fell asleep not long ago, how about waiting for him to wake up?"

Xibing shook his head: "My wife specifically asked you to treat Bai Prajna, so your master doesn't need to come. Here, those are the clothes that my wife said she would reward you with, and the medical fee she prepared for you."

But then the little maid took out a small silver ingot from her sleeve, weighing about one or two taels.

You should know that apprentices in a clinic are not qualified to charge consultation fees. Imperial Physician Yao only charges five taels of silver for each consultation. Now Concubine Yun is so generous in treating a cat, her intention to recruit Chen Ji is obvious.

But once you receive the money, you will have to choose between Concubine Yun and Concubine Jing.

After thinking for a while, Chen Ji said, "Let me check Bai Prajna's pulse first."

Xibing was stunned for a moment: "Can cats also take pulses?"

Chen Ji was silent for a moment: "...Okay."

Right?
After a long time, Chen Ji hesitated and said, "Miss Xibing, Bai Prajna's external injuries are easy to treat, but if you want it to recover faster, I'm afraid it needs to replenish its qi and blood. I'll prescribe a prescription for it."

When Chen Ji was writing a prescription, Old Man Yao pushed the door open and walked out of the main house. He looked around the backyard with his hands behind his back. There was not a single fallen leaf on the ground.

He went to the kitchen again and found that even the kitchen was clean.

In the past, these apprentices would be lazy when cleaning, sometimes they couldn’t even clean the stove. But today was different, it was so clean that it looked like they had moved into a new place.

Not only that, the water tank in the yard was also full.

Old man Yao pouted and walked towards the main hall: "If you are too attentive for no reason, you are either a traitor or a thief!"

Walking into the main hall of the clinic, Chen Ji had just stuffed the packaged medicinal materials into the hands of the little maid and sent away the wedding cakes.

He turned around and saw Old Man Yao with a gloomy face saying, "Didn't I say that you are not allowed to diagnose patients? Although I, Yao Qimen, love money, I will never take human life lightly. Before you become a master, you must give me your approval before you prescribe any medicine for others!"

Chen Ji hurriedly said, "Master, I'm not diagnosing a person, I'm healing Yun Fei's cat's wounds."

Old Man Yao raised his eyebrows: "The white cat was beaten up?"

"probably……"

Old Man Yao stretched out his hand: "Let me see the prescription you wrote."

Chen Ji handed it over and said hesitantly, "It's a herb like Cnidium monnieri that can stop bleeding and clear silt... I also prescribed some medicine to nourish it."

Old man Yao took the prescription and the more he looked at it, the more his brows furrowed.

After a long time, he looked up at Chen Ji with a look of shock on his face: "You gave that cat a fifty-year-old ginseng?!"

"hold head high."

"The other party actually agreed to put the account on hold?"

"hold head high."

Old Man Yao took a long breath and exclaimed, "You really are a genius in business... If Concubine Yun needs me to see her in the future, you can go with me."

Chen Ji: “Ah?”

Old Man Yao seemed to have remembered something and said, "Oh, by the way, I saw your father on the road yesterday. He must have just come back from the riverbank to rest. You should also take a day off tomorrow and go home to get the tuition money and medicine money."

Chen Ji was stunned. Father?
(End of this chapter)