You are unlucky and I am tough

You need to pay an entrance fee to enter the city. The ox cart dropped people off at the city gate. The driver Lai Fu told everyone the time to go back and specifically reminded them that they would not be waited for after the time limit.

As soon as Cheng Shuang got out of the car, she grabbed Wei Qinglang and ran away, fearing that the gossipy women in the village would follow them to see what they were doing.

After paying the money and entering the city, they went straight to Baicaotang. On the way, Cheng Shuang told them what happened last time in Baicaotang.

Baicaotang was still busy. There was a queue in front of the doctor, while others were dispensing medicine or greeting patients.

Cheng Shuang went straight in and walked to the counter. Doctor Tao was dispensing medicine at the counter, with a pharmacist standing beside him to help.

"Doctor Tao, I'm here." She called out.

Doctor Tao turned around and saw Cheng Shuang, and he was delighted. "I was just wondering why you hadn't arrived yet. Did you change your mind? We have quite a few patients scheduled for today."

Then he saw Wei Qinglang standing beside him and asked, "Who is this?"

"My husband, Wei Qinglang." Cheng Shuang introduced generously. Since they were going to live together as husband and wife, there was nothing to hide.

"Oh, so you're married." Doctor Tao was surprised. "Then I can't call you little girl anymore. From now on, I'll call you Madam Wei."

There was no rule in Daliang that women had to tie their hair up after getting married. Since Cheng Shuang looked young, he naturally thought she was still an unmarried girl.

"No, just call her by her name or Dr. Cheng."

Cheng Shuang was just about to say that it was all right when Wei Qinglang spoke first.

He said seriously, "Her ability to treat illnesses is her ability. I have no credit for anything. Calling me Madam Wei is just flattery. A woman shouldn't be unable to show her name just because she's married."

Doctor Tao smiled and stroked his beard, praising him, "It's rare for a young man to be so wise and open-minded at such a young age."

Cheng Shuang also looked at him deeply. She didn't think about these things and thought it was just a name.

But if you think about it, she is the one who practices medicine and saves lives. When she becomes famous in the future, people will talk about her as the wife of the Wei family, which will indeed make her depressed and unhappy.

"Come with me to the back clinic, Shuang." Doctor Tao called to Cheng Shuang.

Since Wei Qinglang said so, you can call him whatever you want.

Cheng Shuang pulled Wei Qinglang along and went into the clinic to take off the backpack first.

Cheng Shuang said, "Doctor Tao, I brought some herbs here today. Would you like to take them?"

Doctor Tao went over to look at the herbs in the basket. There was a golden thread lotus in it, which was exactly what he needed. He nodded and said, "Take it. I'll give you three taels of silver for all of these, okay?"

"Okay, whatever you say is fine. I believe you won't cheat me."

"You also know medical skills. Can this old man cheat you?" Doctor Tao pretended to be angry.

Cheng Shuang smiled and took out the cloth-wrapped Gastrodia elata from her arms, actually from the system space, "Don't be angry, I have some good stuff here."

Doctor Tao took the cloth bag, opened it carefully, and was surprised to see a whole Gastrodia elata inside.

"This is a big piece of Gastrodia elata. It looks like it's five or six years old." Doctor Tao was a little excited. "Did you dig this?"

Cheng Shuang nodded. "There are many mountains in our Chengjia Village, and deep in the mountains there are old forests. My husband and I went into the old forest and searched for a whole day before we found this tree."

"Oh, baby, baby." Doctor Tao couldn't let go of it.

Cheng Shuang and Wei Qinglang looked at each other and asked, "Will you take this medicine?"

"You want to sell it?" Doctor Tao was surprised. Cheng Shuang was also a doctor, and he thought she was just showing it to him.

Gastrodia elata is a rare commodity, usually used by the wealthy. The price of a dose of it is beyond the reach of ordinary people.

He only collected a little bit when he went to the provincial capital two years ago, and it was used up long ago. For related diseases, other medicinal herbs can only be used instead of Gastrodia elata, but the effect is far inferior to Gastrodia elata.

Doctor Tao nodded hurriedly, "Take it, take it. Of course we should take this kind of good stuff."

If you want to sell it, you have to negotiate the price. Doctor Tao carefully confirmed the age and quality of the medicine. After examining it for a quarter of an hour, he stroked his beard and held up three fingers. "I'll offer three hundred and fifty taels. This price is absolutely fair. Would you two like to discuss it?"

"No need to discuss." Cheng Shuang nodded readily, "Just three hundred and fifty taels."

This was already much higher than the price she had estimated, and she was very satisfied.

After the deal was settled, Doctor Tao took a box and carefully packed the herbs, then gave Cheng Shuang three silver notes of one hundred taels each and fifty-three taels of silver.

After the business deal was done, it was time to get down to business. The patients who came outside to see the female doctor were already queuing up to get numbers.

Cheng Shuang asked Wei Qinglang, "Are you going to walk around the streets and find a place to sit, or what other arrangements are you making?"

Wei Qinglang thought for a moment and said, "You'll be done around two o'clock, right? Then I'll wait for you outside in the yard. I can even go out and bring you some food at noon. I don't know what else you'll be buying besides the duck, so we can go shopping together when you're done."

As agreed with the clinic before, because Cheng Shuang had to go home before dark, her consultation hours would only last until noon, which was around 2:30.

She had no objection to Wei Qinglang's arrangement and handed him a silver note worth one hundred taels. "It's boring for you to just sit there. Go out and find a bank to exchange this silver note for silver. It will be convenient for you to use in the future."

Wei Qinglang agreed and went out with the banknotes.

Cheng Shuang also sat in the clinic, took out the silver needles and other medical tools she had bought in advance in the mall, and waited for her first patient.

A woman in her thirties lifted the curtain and came in. When she saw a teenage girl inside, she was stunned. She looked around in confusion, thinking she had come to the wrong place.

Then he turned around and was about to leave.

"Auntie, you've come to the right place." Cheng Shuang stopped the woman who was about to leave, "I am the doctor."

The woman looked at Cheng Shuang in surprise, then said angrily, "Isn't this Baicaotang a scam? They said there was a female doctor seeing patients today, but I came early in the morning and they asked me to get a number and wait, and then they sent out a little girl to fool us."

In her opinion, the older the doctor, the better his medical skills are. She thought she was at least a woman of school age.

But this girl looks about the same age as her daughter. Can she treat a disease?

Cheng Shuang anticipated this situation, and she maintained a smile as she said, "Aunt doesn't believe me because I'm young, but being young doesn't mean I'm not a good doctor. Why would Baicaotang, which is doing well, invite someone to destroy its reputation?"

Why don't you sit down and let me take a look at you? If I can't convince you, you can go out and settle the score with the doctor."

The woman was skeptical, but she still sat down and put her hand on the pulse pillow. "Well, then you can try it."

Cheng Shuang placed her hand on it and after a while said, "Auntie just gave birth less than six months ago. She lost a lot of blood and is still weak. She must have had a heavy hemorrhage during childbirth."

"You really diagnosed it correctly." The woman was surprised. "I almost died at that time, and my health has been very poor for the past six months."

"Auntie, your lung qi is deficient and your kidneys are weak. This time, I think she's not here to recuperate. It's probably because of postpartum urinary incontinence."

The woman raised her head suddenly, her face flushed instantly, and she asked uncomfortably, "This, this you have diagnosed too?"

Cheng Shuang comforted her, "Aunt, don't be embarrassed. Women go through a near-death experience during childbirth. If there are any injuries to the body, they can be cured. It's not something to be ashamed of."

The woman's affection for Cheng Shuang suddenly increased. With red eyes, she said, "I thought life would be easier after having a son, but the past six months have been miserable. As soon as I move a little... I can't help with the family food business anymore. My mother-in-law despises me and scolds me all day long."

Cheng Shuang patted the back of her hand and said, "Don't be sad, Auntie. I will cure you."

"Can it really be cured?"

The woman was excited and a little bit incredulous. "But I asked my sister-in-law, and she has the same problem. She has taken medicine for several years but it hasn't improved."

She came today because she heard that there was a female doctor trying her luck.

"She must be too embarrassed to tell the doctor about her symptoms. Of course, she can't be cured without the right medicine."

Cheng Shuang turned to the small table next to her and wrote a prescription, saying, "I'll prescribe you some medicine for internal and external use. For the external medicine, you can go back and take a sitz bath according to the method I wrote.

I'll be here in ten days. Come back and I'll give you acupuncture. A few acupuncture treatments and two courses of medicine will cure you."

The woman thanked him repeatedly with gratitude.

Cheng Shuang wrote the prescription and held out her hand obediently, "Thank you for the consultation. The fee is twenty cents. Take the prescription to the counter outside to get the medicine."