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Gu Jiu followed Doctor Xu to his study in the backhouse.
His servant was ordered to serve tea.
When the tea was served, Doctor Xu waved his hand and said to the servant, “Guard the door outside. Don’t allow anyone to enter.”
The servant was puzzled, but bowed and went out.
Not waiting for Doctor Xu to speak, Gu Jiu lifted the tea cup and took a sip.
“Good tea. Wushan yuqian tea is this year’s latest tea.”
Doctor Xu smiled. “Gu xiaojie is worthy of being the daughter of a noble family. You were able to identify the product in just one sip.”
Gu Jiu put the tea cup down. Looking at him with a smile that wasn’t a smile, she said, “I’m a noble daughter, but even I am unable to drink this wushan yuqian tea which has just hit the market. It is indeed beyond my expectations that Doctor Xu can serve this expensive wushan yuqian tea to guests. But then again, it also comes as no surprise.”
Doctor Xu was stunned, smiling embarrassedly. Sure enough, the reason for her visit seemed to be nothing good.
“Do Gu daren and Gu furen know about Gu xiaojie coming here wearing a disguise?”
Gu Jiu raised her eyebrows and laughed. “Is Doctor Xu’s relationship with my father very good?”
Doctor Xu laughed. “Since Gu daren thinks highly of me, I can enter and exit the provincial governor’s fu and exchange views on sutras with Gu daren.”
Gu Jiu smiled. She hadn’t spoken about her purpose of visit yet and Doctor Xu had already begun to threaten her.
Could it be that Doctor Xu thought that if he complained to her father about her disguising herself and visiting him secretly, she would tuck her tail between her legs and leave immediately?
Gu Jiu sneered. Doctor Xu was looking down on her too much.
“What is Gu xiaojie smiling about?”
Gu Jiu’s mouth curled. “I’m laughing at your stupidity. Your death is near at hand but you are still not aware.”
Doctor Xu’s complexion changed drastically. He said angrily, “Gu xiaojie must speak cautiously. If the news of you, as the daughter of a prestigious family, disguising yourself and secretly leaving the fu passes out, Gu daren’s face would be stomped on the ground. How would Gu xiaojie face outsiders then?”
Gu Jiu brows bent. She said, smiling, “If Gu daren knows that his trusted doctor unexpectedly colluded with others to plot against and secretly kill his di daughter, tell me, would Gu daren slaughter this doctor?”
“Venomous slander!” Doctor Xu indignantly denounced.
Gu Jiu raised her brows, smiling mockingly. Then, she took out a prescription from within her bosom, placing it on the table.
“Doctor Xu must be familiar with this prescription which you wrote.”
Doctor Xu took a closer look at the prescription and was startled.
Licorice root, euphorbia, euonymus, zhimu
 this was a poisonous prescription.
Doctor Xu shouted, “This prescription is fake! This old man has never written this prescription!”
“Who will believe that this prescription is fake?”
Doctor Xu turned pale with fright, reaching out to grab the prescription.
Gu Jiu was staring at him and quickly took the prescription back.
Gu Ting stepped forward. “What does Doctor Xu want to do? Do you want to snatch it from us? Sit down. Otherwise, my fists won’t recognise people.”
Saying so, Gu Ting showed his fist, glaring at Doctor Xu.
Doctor Xu was furious, staring at Gu Jiu unwaveringly. “The prescription is fake. Gu xiaojie wants to harm me.”
Gu Jiu raised her brows, smiling. “An eye for an eye. Doctor Xu nearly killed me while ‘treating’ my illness before. Now, I’m only retaliating.”
“Nonsense! The prescription I wrote for Miss Gu at that time had no problems!”
“Who can prove it?” Gu Jiu looked at Doctor Xu with a smile that wasn’t a smile. “You say that the prescription has no problems. How can you prove it? The fact is that under your treatment, my small wind chill was dragged on for half a year without improving. Instead, my condition deteriorated.
“In such a situation, when you say that your prescription has no problem, who will believe? On the contrary, the prescription in my hand is evidence that you want to harm me. Nothing is more believable than the prescription that Doctor Xu personally wrote.”
“The prescription in your hand is not what this old man wrote! It’s fake!”
Doctor Xu was angry.
Gu Jiu was indifferent. She took out the prescription and laid it on the table. “You say that the prescription is fake. But this is indeed your handwriting, your sign and your seal. If you bring this to the court, will the official believe you or me?”
Doctor Xu pointed at Gu Jiu. “You, how did you do it? You imitated this old man’s handwriting and stole my seal.”
Gu Jiu laughed lightly. “Doctor Xu misunderstood. No one stole your seal. Your seal is still safe on your being. If you don’t believe me, you can check.”
Doctor Xu hurriedly checked. Sure enough, the seal was still on him.
How was that possible?
Doctor Xu stared at Gu Jiu in disbelief.
Gu Jiu smiled lightly, seeming harmless.
In her last life, she couldn’t go out to have fun because of her heart disease. So she had several hobbies in order to pass time.
Unexpectedly, she became fond of carving seals on radishes.
Initially, it was simply because it was interesting, but after some time, she really became proficient in it.
She always thought that it was a casual hobby for her to pass time, but she didn’t expect that it would actually become a big help for her.
When she found Doctor Xu’s prescription, she carefully imitated his handwriting, then stamped it with her radish seal, making the prescription official.
If Doctor Xu denied that he had written the prescription, would anyone believe it?
Doctor Xu accused her of forging his prescription.
But who would believe that a fourteen-year-old little girl was not only capable of imitating his handwriting but also could create counterfeit seals?
No one would believe it.
As things stood, Doctor Xu was in a tough position.
Doctor Xu was drenched in cold sweat. “You want to harm me.”
Gu Jiu laughed. “If Doctor Xu had no intentions of harming others, then why would others want to harm you?”
“It wasn’t my intention. Moreover, the prescription I wrote had no problem.”
Gu Jiu nodded. “Your prescription indeed had no problem. It was just that the medicine you prescribed wasn’t appropriate for my illness. It couldn’t cure my illness. In addition, with my servants goofing off, my illness became increasingly grave. If I died, no one would be surprised.
“They would only sigh, saying that I had a bad fate. It was just that this time, my luck was actually pretty good that I ran into Doctor Chen. Doctor Chen, with his brilliant medical abilities, could save my life.”
Doctor Xu stared at Gu Jiu. “What does Gu xiaojie want?”
Gu Jiu smiled gently, pushing the prescription on the table forward. “Doctor Xu needn’t be nervous. I only have one request. Please buy this prescription.”
Hehe!
Even while blackmailing and threatening, she spoke in such a refined and elegant manner.
She was worthy of being the daughter of a prestigious family.
Doctor Xu said, “Gu xiaojie, please quote a price.”
Gu Jiu looked around. “Seeing the decorations in this room, Doctor Xu shouldn’t lack money. You can buy this prescription for one thousand five hundred taels of silver.”
Gu Ting’s stopped breathing for second.
Su Zheng’s palms began to sweat. Xiao Jiu biaomei was truly opening her mouth wide. But this feeling was really invigorating.
Doctor Xu shouted angrily, “Impossible. One thousand five hundred taels, you’re clearly committing daylight robbery.”
Gu Jiu raised her brows, smiling as she put away the prescription. “If Doctor Xu doesn’t want to buy, you needn’t curse me to my face. I will go to the yamen at once to strike the drum to appeal for justice, and hand over the prescription as evidence to the county magistrate.”
“How dare you? Gu daren values his reputation the most. If Gu xiaojie lets Gu daren lose face, it’s impossible for him to let you off.”
Gu Jiu’s appearance was moving as she smiled. “You are right, father will certainly punish me. And how will he punish me? He will simply punish me to shut myself up in the ancestral hall and ponder over my mistakes for half a year. After this matter settles down, I will return. I will still be me, I will not have lost anything on the surface level.
“And you, Doctor Xu, as a servant, the mastermind behind plotting the murder of the di daughter of the provincial governor’s fu, what end will you have? Will you die in a prison cell? Or will you die on the way to exile? Will you be able to save your family property which you have gained after so many years of hard work?”
Doctor Xu was drenched in sweat, staring at Gu Jiu.
How could a little girl be so malicious?
He had really never looked at her before.
Gu Jiu folded the prescription and put it back in her bosom. “As a doctor, when you wanted to harm me, you should have realised this.”
“This was really not my intention.” Doctor Xu said with great difficulty.
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Gu Jiu smiled knowingly and said, “Do you mean to say that you harmed me on someone’s orders? Fortunately, you haven’t said it. If you speak out the name of the person behind you, you will die much faster!”
The words, dying much faster, caused Doctor Xu to tremble with fright.