After being forced to leave the marriage, I became the wife of a top scholar.

Chapter 166 Game
As soon as Bai Wanqing returned home, she immediately went to the backyard to pay her respects to Master Luo.

Master Luo was studying herbs in the courtyard at the time, and was clearly unaffected by the incident.

But Bai Wanqing still lowered her head and said softly, "Grandmaster, I've dragged you into this."

Master Luo glanced at Bai Wanqing and snorted softly, "Damage me? With your abilities, how could you possibly implicate me?"

Bai Wanqing said, "The century-old medical clinic in Huaizhou City was established by taking advantage of my master's name. Now that the century-old medical clinic has run into trouble, it has naturally affected my master's reputation."

"How can it not be a consequence?"

Master Luo put down the herbs, stood up, walked to Bai Wanqing, and laughed heartily.

"Qing girl, in your eyes, is your grandmaster someone who would be burdened by his reputation?"

"Then you've underestimated your grandmaster's stature."

"I don't care, I don't mind."

"If I really cared, would I still be able to work in your small, century-old clinic?"

"Why don't I just go straight to the Imperial Hospital and steal their reputation?"

Bai Wanqing knew that her master doted on her, and if her master didn't care, she couldn't help but care.

"Grandmaster."

"Hey? Don't try to coax me, I can't solve this case." Master Luo took a few steps back and said.

Bai Wanqing chuckled, and seeing her grandmaster's expression, she finally felt relieved.

"I understand, Grandmaster. Leave this matter to me. I will definitely give you justice," Bai Wanqing said with a light smile.

Old Man Luo coughed lightly, "Whether I seek justice or not is not important, but this century-old clinic is your mother's life's work, and you, young lady, cannot ruin your mother's reputation!"

Bai Wanqing nodded, "Understood, Grandmaster."

The next day, Bai Wanqing gathered all the doctors from the century-old medical clinic together.

Dr. Zheng and Dr. Liu are in prison; everyone else has arrived.

The sudden closure of the clinic was clearly a blow to everyone; they all lowered their heads, their faces grave.

"Dr. Xu, why are we so unlucky? We finally found a company willing to take us in, and then this happens all of a sudden," Dr. Zhang said with a worried expression.

Dr. Xu felt helpless. "Yes! Our clinic has already made a name for itself. People in Huaizhou City have finally come to recognize our medical skills. But with this commotion, our clinic's reputation is probably ruined."

Upon hearing this, the other doctors also sighed.

"I wonder if the boss called us here today to talk about being laid off?" Doctor Zhang said with a look of reluctance. "If the boss lays me off, I'll have no choice but to go back to farming."

"Old Zhang, it's not just you who's going back to farming, it's me too."

"No, I might be even worse off than you. My family has no land left. I'm afraid I'll have no choice but to sell myself to a brokerage firm and become a long-term laborer in someone else's home," Dr. Xu sighed.

Everyone was expressing their confusion about the future.

Only Dr. Yang remained silent throughout.

"Dr. Yang, if you're not going to work here anymore, what are you planning to do?" Dr. Zhang asked.

Dr. Yang seemed preoccupied and didn't even hear Dr. Zhang's question. It was only when Dr. Xu nudged Dr. Yang that he snapped out of his reverie.

"What? What did you say?" Doctor Yang asked in alarm.

Dr. Xu glanced at Dr. Yang and shook his head, saying, "Dr. Yang, you're really a coward. Ever since what happened the other day, you've been completely distracted."

"If you were the one who got arrested, instead of Dr. Liu and Dr. Zheng, I bet you'd be tortured into confessing!"

After Dr. Zhang finished speaking, he realized something was wrong and changed his words, "It wasn't a forced confession, it was a confession without being tortured."

Doctor Yang was somewhat annoyed. "Zhang Fei, what do you mean by that?"

Do I look like a little person?

Dr. Zhang pursed his lips. "Isn't that right?"

"Yang Ying, if our clinic's medicinal herbs want to be sold in the shop, do they all have to go through you?"

"You're all so nervous right now, who knows if you brought these fake medicinal herbs in?"

Dr. Yang was furious at being falsely accused, shouting, "Why would I do such a thing!"

"Zhang Fei, you're making baseless accusations."

Dr. Zhang snorted coldly, "I don't know if I'm making false accusations, but Yang Ying, you were the one who begged Dr. Zheng to let you join the clinic."

"Now, because you didn't keep a close watch on things, you've directly gotten Dr. Zheng and Dr. Liu into trouble. In the end, you're repaying kindness with enmity."

Dr. Wang, who had also remained silent until now, spoke up: "Yes! Dr. Yang, you probably can't escape responsibility for this matter."

"You're talking nonsense! I didn't!" Doctor Yang was so anxious that he couldn't utter a single word in his defense. He could only stomp his feet and point at Doctors Zhang and Wang, trembling.

The next second, Dr. Yang reacted and was about to pounce on Dr. Zhang and Dr. Wang.

Chaos erupted in the room immediately. The doctors tried to break up the fight, but Dr. Yang was like a wild beast that had been set ablaze, holding onto Dr. Zhang and Dr. Wang tightly. The doctors quickly got into a brawl.

"Stop!" Bai Wanqing was walking towards the house from a distance.

Upon hearing the owner's voice, the doctors all stopped, and Doctor Yang also released his grip on Doctors Zhang and Wang's hands.

"Hmph! If the master hadn't come, I would have torn your mouths apart." Doctor Yang was truly enraged this time.

Bai Wanqing entered the room, her gaze sweeping lightly over the somewhat disheveled doctors Yang, Zhang, and Wang, without saying a word. She then sat directly in the chair of honor. Doctor Yang and the other two doctors, feeling somewhat uneasy, lowered their heads and returned to their seats.

The doctors all focused their attention on Bai Wanqing.

“Our clinic has been shut down. I’m sure you all know the reason better than I do!” Bai Wanqing said with a serious expression.

The doctors all sighed, but Dr. Xu spoke first.

"Boss, just say what you're thinking. Although we're reluctant to leave this place, you gave us hope, and now the clinic is in trouble."

"We can accept whatever decision you make, employer."

As soon as Dr. Xu spoke, the other doctors echoed his words.

"Yes! Yes! The clinic helped us during our most difficult time, and we will accept whatever decision is made now."

Bai Wanqing gently curled the corners of her lips. "Dr. Xu, and everyone else, I just want to ask why our clinic was shut down."

“As you all know, I wasn’t there when the place was seized that day; you were all there. You must know more about it than I do.”

"That's all!"

Doctor Xu suddenly looked up. "Boss, weren't you going to lay us off?"

"Dismiss?" Bai Wanqing was slightly taken aback, then laughed and said, "Dr. Xu, you're joking. Although our clinic has been shut down, we must have been wronged. The clinic will continue to operate. Why would I dismiss you?"

Should we continue? This caused an uproar among the doctors.

Doctor Wang couldn't sit still any longer. "Boss, our shop was shut down by the authorities for selling counterfeit medicine. Is it possible to overturn this decision?"

"The evidence was absolutely conclusive at the time!"

Bai Wanqing gently raised her eyes. "Conclusive evidence? What do you mean by that?"

Dr. Wang was taken aback, lowered his head and stopped talking, while the other doctors looked bewildered.

To be honest, none of them actually saw the fake medicine.

However, the soldiers suddenly brought out medicinal herbs from the clinic, claiming they were fake. Only Doctor Zheng and Doctor Wang went forward to examine them.
Is this why Dr. Wang said the evidence was conclusive?

Seeing that no one spoke, Bai Wanqing smiled and said, "Don't worry, everyone. I have personally inspected all the medicinal herbs that our pharmacy has purchased."

"There certainly can't be any counterfeit drugs."

"But why did the officials say our medicinal herbs were fake?"

"There are only two possibilities. One is that the government wants to frame us. They brought in fake medicine from outside and claimed it was from our clinic."

"How is this possible?" Dr. Xu suddenly stood up and asked.

Bai Wanqing laughed and said, "Why is that impossible?"

Dr. Yang recalled, "It was indeed impossible. When the yamen runners came in, they had nothing in their hands except for knives."

"If someone were to hide a whole box of fake white magic on their person and take it out right under our noses, that would be too difficult."

The other doctors all nodded in agreement.

"Okay! Since the first option won't work, then we'll have to go with the second one."

"The second one?" The doctors' faces began to turn grim.

"Yes! The second possibility is that someone in our clinic replaced the medicine in the Atractylodes macrocephala medicine cabinet; there is a spy in our clinic."

Upon hearing this, the doctors all became restless.

Especially Dr. Yang, who had just been slandered by Dr. Xu.

"Boss, are you doubting us? We're all doctors! How could we possibly substitute counterfeit medicine?"

"Yes! If this is a prescription, changing this one ingredient will affect the efficacy of the medicine!"

"We, as doctors, cannot do such a thing; it violates medical ethics, it violates medical ethics!"

Seeing that everyone had expressed their opinions, but only Doctor Wang sat there silently, Bai Wanqing coughed lightly, and everyone gradually quieted down.

"Perhaps he was forced to do it?"

"Forced to do something? What kind of forced situation could make him lose his medical ethics?"

"Yes! This...this could be deadly!"

As Dr. Wang listened to his colleagues' discussion, he felt increasingly uneasy, and a fine layer of sweat gradually appeared on his forehead.

"Then everyone, come and tell me what happened back then!"

"The more detailed the better, the more it will help me find the traitor among us."

"I'll go next door now. Ruixin, whichever doctor wants to speak with me, bring that doctor over. The other doctors who haven't been decided can go with Fengniang to rest in different rooms."

Different rooms?
Seeing everyone's puzzled expressions, Bai Wanqing explained, "Please don't misunderstand. The reason we asked everyone to rest in different rooms was so that you could recall the scene on your own without being disturbed by others."

That's all, please forgive me.

After a moment's thought, the doctors realized that their employer's actions made sense, so no one objected further, and they followed Fengniang out to rest.

The first person to stay was Dr. Xu.

(End of this chapter)