The Challenge of a Farmhouse Son-in-Law

Dawn had just broken when Gu Youyou left the house, for she feared the strange visitor from last night would block her path early this morning.

According to Qin Changlin, Doctor Zhou should have returned last night. Although she had never met Doctor Zhou, Qin Changlin had already arranged for Gu Youyou to be placed under Doctor Zhou as a female disciple, which would provide her with an official status when she would eventually consult at Jisheng Hall.

Gu Youyou’s medical skills may not have been inferior to Doctor Zhou’s, yet she was very willing to become his disciple because Doctor Zhou was a true man of medical ethics.

With his medical skills, he could have opened his own clinic in a much larger city by now, but he chose to stay in the small Qingshui Town to ensure that the local people had access to medical care.

With time to spare, Gu Youyou first went to a breakfast shop selling wontons and had a bowl before heading over.

Qin Changlin had mentioned the day before that Doctor Zhou might return very late after several exhausting days and might not get up early, so she could come a bit later.

But Gu Youyou still arrived too early.

The attendant in the clinic had just opened the doors, and was wiping the clinic’s signboard at the entrance. The boy was merely in his early teens - employing child labor was indeed something only people from the ancient times would undertake.

Seeing Gu Youyou, the boy hurried over, "Sister Youyou is here early. Qin Shixiong is currently washing up in the back hall, and will come out in a moment."

As she followed him in through the main door, Gu Youyou laughed, "Early to bed and early to rise makes for a healthy life. Besides, I’m not that early. If I were in a farming household, I’d have to start working on the fields much earlier."