Jiang Wan immediately jumped back, her face cunning as she said, "Grand-master, don't think you can trick me into agreeing to your terms just because I'm young."
"This medicinal herb isn't mine. I'm helping you by offering to treat it, and you want to use this opportunity to make demands of me!"
"Grand-master, you're being a bit unfair. Normally, I should be the one asking for compensation after I've cured the herb, shouldn't I?"
Physician Jin's old face turned red. This little chubby girl was quite difficult to fool.
"Don't you want to hear what it is?"
Jiang Wan scampered away, "No, no, no, I won't listen to your nonsense."
She didn't need to rack her brain to guess what Physician Jin wanted to tell her. It was probably to ask her not to mention seeing that pair of master and disciple to anyone.
Actually, she wasn't curious about their identities at all, nor did she want to know why they were looking for Physician Jin. Therefore, she couldn't be bothered to play these little games with Physician Jin.
Sometimes, playing games could lead one to get entangled in them.
It was just a pot of medicinal herbs. If it died, it died. It wasn't hers, so she wouldn't feel bad.
To her surprise, when she returned home in the evening, Jiang Wan found that pot of medicinal herbs in the carriage.
Chen Yuezhi, completely unaware, said, "Your grand-master said you quite liked this medicinal herb, so he asked me to bring it over."
Jiang Wan secretly rolled her eyes.
Sly old fox!
He clearly wanted to try his luck with a dying horse, to see if she could really cure the herb. Even if she couldn't, it didn't matter, as the herb looked like it wouldn't live much longer anyway.
The carriage swayed and rumbled back to the small mountain village. Before they even reached the doorstep, they heard someone shout, "They're back, they're back! Sister-in-law Jiang, oh, no, Divine Physician, please quickly take a look at my son. What's wrong with him?"
"I was here first, let me see!"
Jiang Wan quickly lifted the carriage curtain and saw several unfamiliar faces gathered at her doorstep.
A very familiar woman stepped forward, pushing the others aside, and smiled triumphantly at Chen Yuezhi, "Yuezhi, look, these are all the patients I've brought for you. Hurry and get down to see them. We've been waiting for you for a long time."
Chen Yuezhi recognized this woman as Liu Tiegen's wife from the small mountain village.
This woman didn't interact much with the Jiang family, so Jiang Wan didn't have a strong impression of her.
However, her current behavior was quite annoying.
Chen Yuezhi quickly got off the carriage, looking somewhat troubled, "I'm afraid everyone has made a wasted trip. There's a rule in my sect that I cannot treat patients privately before I've completed my studies. So, please all go back."
She wasn't lying. Yesterday, she had already understood something from her master: how inappropriate her previous actions of treating and saving people had been.
Her methods of saving people were learned from her father when she was young. Her father himself was only half-trained, and he had only a superficial understanding of medicine. What she had learned was even less.
The reason she hadn't encountered any problems while saving people over the years wasn't because her medical skills were good, but because she had good luck. She had only encountered minor ailments like headaches and simple external injuries. The most serious injury was Zhang Qiaoxiu's, but even then, her life was saved with the help of the old immortal.
Without the old immortal, Zhang Qiaoxiu would have absolutely no chance of survival.
It was with this realization that she couldn't help but feel a chill of fear.
Therefore, she had also made a decision: she would absolutely not treat patients privately until she had completed her studies and graduated.
This was for her own responsibility and for the responsibility towards her patients.
The summoned patients were suddenly dumbfounded, "Not treating?"
Liu's wife quickly pulled Chen Yuezhi aside, "Yuezhi, aren't you going to earn the money that's being delivered to your doorstep?"
"This isn't about money. I'm not qualified to treat patients yet, so I really can't treat them."
Chen Yuezhi looked back at the patients, "These people aren't from our village. How did they come to see me?"
Liu's wife whispered flatteringly, "Yuezhi, you're really good at keeping secrets. You're actually keeping such good news to yourself. If I hadn't been there to join in the fun the day before yesterday, I probably wouldn't have known you had taken Physician Jin as your master."
It turned out that this woman had also been at the medical clinic the day before yesterday.
"Yuezhi, you're now a disciple of a divine physician. With this title, who knows how many people will come to see you in the future. You're going to get rich, you know?"
"These people are the business I've brought for you, so don't turn them away. Also, don't charge for the consultations like you used to. You should at least charge a bit more than the physicians in the city, after all, you are a disciple of a divine physician."
Chen Yuezhi's face turned cold, "I've never told anyone that I would practice medicine under the guise of being a divine physician's disciple. Since you've brought these people, you should quickly take them away."
Liu's wife became anxious, "Why can't you tell the difference between good and bad? I'm trying to help you make money!"
Jiang Wan trotted over, "Auntie Liu, why don't you mention that you brought people here after receiving benefits from others?"
Chen Yuezhi's face immediately darkened, "What do you mean?"
Jiang Wan pointed at the bewildered strangers, "Mom, I just asked those people. Auntie Liu has been soliciting patients outside using your name, and she's charging them five wen each as an introduction fee."
Since Physician Jin himself rarely treated patients personally, and his direct disciples were not in Yaoxian, and the medical clinic was also not cheap,
This Liu's wife had gone to the foot of the mountain where the medical clinic was located and told people that she knew Physician Jin's last disciple, and that she could help speak well of them so that Chen Yuezhi would charge less for consultations and treat them diligently.
When these patients heard about this, they followed her.
It had to be said that this Liu's wife was quite shrewd, a modern-day scalper and tout!
But her plan had gone awry!
Chen Yuezhi was furious. She grabbed Liu's wife and brought her to Jiang Pan, "Constable Jiang, here's a woman who is swindling and deceiving people. Please take her to the yamen."
Liu's wife's face turned pale with fright, "Yuezhi, what are you doing? I was doing this for your own good, how can you repay kindness with enmity?"
"Kindness? Is this kindness?"
Chen Yuezhi pushed her, "You're trying to get me condemned by thousands and reviled by millions! I finally managed to become a disciple and study medicine, and you've deceived these people and want me to collude with you. What are your intentions?"
Liu's wife frantically waved her hands, "I really didn't have any bad intentions. I just thought that you already knew how to treat people and had become a divine physician's disciple, so I brought people here... Yuezhi, I'm truly thinking of you..."
"Ptooey!"
Chen Yuezhi spat on her face, "Hurry up and return the money you took from them, and then send them away! Otherwise, I'll have my husband send you to the yamen!"
Liu's wife had no other choice and quickly beckoned to the people she had brought, returning the money she had collected.
Who would have thought that when those people heard that Chen Yuezhi would not treat them, they turned and knelt before Chen Yuezhi.