"Wow, these four little ones are so cute. You can tell they are going to grow up to be good-looking," Gong Juese exclaimed with even greater joy upon discovering the four little ones in the cradle.
Gong Juechen also found the four little ones adorable and liked them very much; however, when his gaze fell upon An Yiyun, his peach blossom eyes narrowed slightly.
An Jing noticed this and hurriedly said, "This is my son with the congenital deficiency. Please, Doctor Gong, take a look at him."
Gong Juechen held An Yiyun solemnly and examined him closely for a while before saying, "Indeed, he has a congenital deficiency."
An Jing asked, "Doctor Gong, can you cure him?"
Gong Juechen said, "I can only tell you that it’s treatable, but it can’t be completely cured."
An Jing: "What do you mean?"
Gong Juechen: "It means he can live without taking medicine every day, but his body will still be weak and not as strong as a normal person."
An Jing pressed her lips tightly and looked at her little son An Yiyun for a long while before asking softly, "Isn’t there any way to completely cure him?" She really wanted to completely cure her son.
Gong Juechen said, "There isn’t."
An Jing said, "Do you, Doctor Gong, know of anyone whose medical skills surpass yours?"
Gong Juechen said, "I do not."
Gong Juese interjected, "Jingjing, don’t underestimate my brother because he’s young, but my brother’s medical expertise is truly exceptional. Even our master praised him, saying his skills have surpassed the master’s and no one can compare. If my brother can’t fully heal your son, then probably no one else can."
Despite Gong Juese referring to her so familiarly as Jingjing, An Jing wasn’t in the mood to care about that; instead, she asked, "Your master is...?"
Gong Juese said, "I don’t know his real name, but everyone used to call him a ’strange doctor.’"
Meng Zhuqing, fearing that Gong Juechen might be deceiving them, had already invited Doctor Jiang, an Imperial Physician. Having a knowledgeable person from their side was always good.
Upon hearing the words ’strange doctor,’ Doctor Jiang exclaimed, "Wasn’t he said to have died a long time ago?"
Gong Juese said, "Yes, he died, but not long ago – just two years ago."
After a silent pause, Doctor Jiang said, "I am just a doctor. When I first started studying medicine, I heard about your master. Not only were his medical skills exceptional, but his martial arts were also powerful. However, at that time... that was twenty years ago, I had already heard that your master was dead."
Gong Juese laughed and said, "That was because he went into seclusion in the mountains; he no longer wanted to treat people because it was too troublesome. He claimed to be dead as an excuse."
Doctor Jiang said, "I see."
An Jing asked, "Doctor Jiang, was the strange doctor’s medical expertise really that high?"
Doctor Jiang said, "Yes, very high. There are even legends about him to this day, claiming he could bring the dead back to life."
Gong Juese immediately laughed loudly and said, "What dead people? That person wasn’t completely dead yet; he was still alive. My master told me and my brother about it as a joke. He said that he saved someone who wasn’t completely dead, and then everyone started spreading rumors that he could resurrect the dead. After that, even more people came to him for treatment. But there were too many people coming to him for cures, and it got to the point where he had no time to sleep. Eventually, he got annoyed and paid people to spread the rumor that he had died. Then, he himself retired to the seclusion of the forests."
"However," Gong Juese continued, "my master’s medical skills are indeed superb. The reason my brother’s medical skills are so advanced is also thanks to our master’s excellent teaching. It’s just a pity that I’m not interested in medicine, so I only learned martial arts from our master."