Rebirth: After Becoming the Villainess-Chapter 81: Medical Clinic, Goddess Doctor

Song Lianhe said at a leisurely pace, "I’ve already laid out the stakes for Mr. Su. Since he doesn’t mind, how could I let his good intentions go to waste? So from this day forward, Mr. Su... oh, my mistake, Young Master Wanzhang, you are now officially an external member of our Medical Clinic!"

At that, Shuang Ye and Ah Yu readily played along and began to clap.

"Hold on, let me get this straight. I’m... an external member? The unpaid kind?"

Song Lianhe sighed to herself. ’No wonder he’s the male protagonist’s chief strategist. He’s so quick on the uptake!’

"But you’ll be serving the people!"

"..."

Su Huaqing suddenly burst out laughing. "...Fair enough."

And so, Su Huaqing officially joined the Medical Clinic family, where Song Lianhe began ordering him around as a matter of course.

He also discovered that she ordered him about with such brazen confidence, more readily than she even ordered Ah Yu. It was a fact that left him utterly baffled.

The Medical Clinic put up a sign announcing three days of free consultations, and a long queue immediately formed outside. Shuang Ye and Ah Yu managed the crowd, Cao Ying ran errands inside the clinic, and Xuan Mei stood guard from a high vantage point, sword in hand, vigilantly watching the surroundings. As for Yan Wen and Su Huaqing, they were mobbed by the young women who had come seeking treatment.

Song Lianhe was aware of her reputation, so she wore a veil while seeing patients.

Her consultations were swift. She followed the four traditional methods of diagnosis, and her conclusions were remarkably precise. Patients would then go to Cao Ying to receive the appropriate medicine.

Unlike at other clinics, all the medicine they received came in the form of pills in small porcelain bottles.

It wasn’t that people had never seen medicinal pills before, but the fact that everyone received pills to be taken directly, without any need to brew herbal decoctions, was somewhat incredible.

But most of those who came for the free consultations were poor. They couldn’t afford to be concerned with such details; they simply took the medicine and offered a thousand thanks.

Su Huaqing watched the focused woman, then glanced at Yan Wen. "I’ve never heard that Second Miss Song studied medicine."

Yan Wen shot him a look and said cryptically, "To know you don’t know is strength. To not know and think you know is a weakness."

Su Huaqing paused, then slowly leaned closer and stared at him. "Rongbai, you’re not acting like yourself."

Yan Wen raised an eyebrow.

"It’s been a while since you’ve mentioned that goddess from your dreams."

Yan Wen’s face instantly flushed red with embarrassment. "What nonsense are you talking about!" Just then, a patient came over, and he immediately took them to see Song Lianhe himself.

Su Huaqing watched his flustered retreat, the corners of his lips twitching upward.

’So he’s finally figured it out.’

The clinic held free consultations for three straight days, and the number of patients grew steadily. By the third day, the place was absolutely swamped.

"A divine doctor! She’s truly a divine doctor!"

"That’s right! My little girl had been bedridden for days. I brought her to the divine doctor, who just gave us a few pills, and now my girl is up and about!"

"My father-in-law was suffering from night blindness. But thanks to the divine doctor, she cured his eye ailment with just a few needles!"

Word spread like wildfire through Ling’an City: the Medical Clinic had a divine doctor in residence whose pills could cure an illness in an instant.

「Across the street from the clinic, on the second floor of a teahouse.」

"My Lord, I got them!"

The Shadow Guard stepped forward and respectfully offered him a few small pills.

Zhou Cangyan took them and held them under his nose, sniffing.

The Shadow Guard reported, "The black one is called an ’Antipyretic Pill.’ You take one for a persistent high fever, and the fever breaks after one hour. The red one is an ’iodine oil pill’ for treating goiter... And the white one is called a ’Miasma Pill,’ which specifically treats miasma poisoning and malignant malaria..."

Zhou Cangyan rolled a pill between his fingers, observing it closely.

"Just this one tiny pill?"

Knowing his lord wasn’t entirely convinced, the Shadow Guard said, "Forget treating common fevers—she can even cure goiter, and all with just these tiny pills! In a mere three days, the ’Medical Clinic’ has become a household name in Ling’an City! They’re calling Second Miss Song the reincarnation of the Medicine King, a Heavenly Maiden descended to the mortal world!"

The Shadow Guard seemed to share in her glory, continuing his praise, "Back when Second Miss Song suddenly displayed her miraculous skills and cured the poison afflicting Shen Fu and the others, I knew then that she was no ordinary person!"

He then added, unable to hide his delight, "For you to have Second Miss Song on your side, My Lord, is truly a divine blessing!"

Zhou Cangyan shot him a cold glare. The Shadow Guard, knowing he had overstepped, quickly bowed his head and backed away, not forgetting to mutter under his breath, "It’s no use even if you won’t admit it. After all, what’s in Second Miss Song’s belly... is yours, My Lord... You... you can’t deny it even if you wanted to... OOF!"

All three pills had shot into his mouth and slid straight down his throat.

"My Lord..."

A rare, pitiful expression appeared on the unmasked half of the Shadow Guard’s face.

Zhou Cangyan paid him no mind, his gaze slowly drifting back toward the clinic across the street.