He held the bowl in a daze, then setting it down, he asked, "Why this sudden question?"
"Well, is there or isn’t there?" Gu Youyou asked directly.
He answered, "Yes, the day you first arrived, your condition was serious. You fainted without saying a word. Fearing you wouldn’t make it till dawn, I gave you my blood to drink."
Thinking back to that night, she felt like she had been resigned to death.
It was the most humiliating night of her life.
With his confirmation, Gu Youyou felt both embarrassed and angry, balling up her fists and swinging at him.
"You jerk, why didn’t you tell me sooner?"
She had misunderstood for so long.
Jin Zijin had no idea why she was suddenly , and simply said, "Don’t be too touched. You didn’t drink much, and I’ve long since taken it back."
Hmm? Just now, she scolded him for not telling her sooner, and now she’s telling him to shut up. Ajing was right; women really are strange creatures.
When Yue Rujing came in, what he saw was the odd scene of them fighting.
He had important matters to discuss, so he didn’t bother asking what they were up to.
"Gu Youyou, could you please stop hitting my elder apprentice brother and listen to what I have to say?"
Gu Youyou’s already flushed face turned even redder. Pushing Jin Zijin away, she asked seriously, "What’s the matter?"
Yue Rujing handed her a piece of paper and said, "These few herbs listed here are in short supply. See if you can replace them with others that have similar properties."
Gu Youyou glanced at it, frowned, and said, "Except for the first and the fifth herbs, the others can’t be substituted. You should take more silver and buy them from nearby pharmacies. Those fellows are afraid of catching the disease and having no cure, so they often hoard quite a lot. You are the Princely Heir; you should know how to make them cough up the goods without me teaching you, right? As for the two herbs that can be replaced, you’re a doctor yourself, can’t you find ones with similar properties?"
Yue Rujing felt like he was being scolded by Gu Youyou. Not even his father had spoken to him in that tone before.
Her rhetorical questions were sarcastic, almost like a general talking to his soldiers.
If his elder apprentice brother had not been there, he would have argued with her.
Well, never mind, what she said did make sense after all.
He snatched the prescription from her hand and, without saying another word, stormed off, clearly frustrated.
Jin Zijin commented with a smile, "You have the air of someone in command."
Gu Youyou raised an eyebrow, realizing that her tone just now wasn’t very pleasant.
But she couldn’t help it, she’d long been used to it. That was how she had been during her years as the CEO.
The temperament her grandfather tried to cultivate in her ever since she was a child was also , and she had yet to spend two years here.
A person can change many things; she even unexpectedly changed her own body, but temperament is the hardest to alter. Just like the old saying goes, "A state can be altered, but nature is hard to change." The ancients indeed did not deceive me.
Under Gu Youyou’s effective control, a month later, the dreaded typhoid epidemic was ultimately contained, and the death toll was far less than what she had initially promised, barring those few who had already been in the grips of death by the time she began treatment; all the others survived.
The Marquess was very pleased and decided to hold a banquet in the military camp three days later to see the doctors off.
Gu Youyou didn’t want to attend this farewell banquet. She was well aware of the role she had played during the epidemic and knew she would be the center of attention at the banquet.
But ever since she was plotted against at her own lavish birthday party, she had no desire to attend another event where she was the main focus.