An Chang patted Zhao Jinzhong on the shoulder, tacitly agreeing with his suggestion, "This matter still needs to be considered carefully."

"The martial arts tournament is in a few days. Are you confident?"

Zhao Jinzhong looked relieved and patted his chest, saying, "Don't worry!"

Two days later, just after Zhou Ruo finished treating the patient, a voice rang in her mind:

"Spiritual power restored to 73%!"

"Hmm?" Zhou Ruo analyzed that since the clinic opened, she had not treated many ordinary patients.

In total, the spiritual power that could help her recover from healing an ordinary patient was less than one percent.

That extra three-tenths of spiritual power must be the antidote pill taking effect.

When Zhou Ruo told Zhao Jinzhong the news, Zhao Jinzhong's first reaction was that Consort Zheng had taken the antidote and recovered.

About an hour later, An Changxing rushed into the clinic.

"Great news! Her Highness the Imperial Concubine has taken the antidote!"

After An Chang told Zhao Jinzhong and Zhou Ruo the news, neither of them reacted.

Zhou Ruo simply said "Oh," while Zhao Jinzhong lowered his head to read.

A moment of silence fell over the hall, and An Chang seemed to hear the sound of a crow cawing as it flew by.

"Hey you two, why are you ignoring me? Isn't this something to be happy about?"

Without looking up, Zhao Jinzhong said, "You knew too?"

"Yes, when I left the day before yesterday, I specifically instructed Ziying to find a way to confirm whether the Imperial Concubine had taken the antidote pill."

If she hasn't eaten, we need to find a way to get her to eat.

Just now, Ziying sent someone to the Prince's Mansion to tell me that the Imperial Concubine had taken her medicine yesterday.

I rushed over to tell you as soon as I received the news, but you...

An Chang mumbled a long string of words, but then realized something was wrong.

"Wait, something's not right, Zhao Jinzhong, what did you just say? What do you mean I know too?"

"What does 'yes' mean? You already knew? You knew before I did?"

Zhao Jinzhong found An Chang's chatter annoying and replied perfunctorily, "Well, Ruoruo can tell fortunes, that's how she figured it out."

An Chang immediately turned to look at Zhou Ruo: "My God! My dear sister, when did you learn this skill?"

Zhou Ruo just chuckled at him without saying a word.

An Changlai got excited and said, "Hey, Ruoruo, can you help me calculate when I'm going to get married?"

Which family's daughter will he marry? How many wives will he have? How many children will they have?

Zhou Ruo recalled that when she used to run a medical stall, the stall next to hers was a fortune teller.

She mimicked the old fortune teller, shaking her head and saying, "Heavenly secrets cannot be revealed..." Hehehe!

An Chang looked at Zhao Jinzhong and Jia Yuntian, who were trying hard to suppress their laughter, and suddenly felt excluded again.

Just then, a sudden commotion of footsteps sounded outside the door, accompanied by urgent urging:

"Make way! Everyone in front, please make way!"

"Hurry! Hurry! The Ling Shu Hall is just ahead!"

An Chang and Zhao Jinzhong quickly walked to the door and saw Li Wan'an leading people running towards the Ling Shu Hall.

Behind Li Wan'an, several people were struggling to lift a wooden plank, on which a person was lying.

"Young General!" Li Wan'an saw Zhao Jinzhong standing at the door and hurriedly called out.

Zhao Jinzhong immediately went to greet him, "Dr. Li, what happened?"

Li Wan'an pointed at the person on the wooden board, swallowed hard, and was about to speak.

Zhao Jinzhong immediately recognized the injured person. "This is... Minister of Justice Cai Jingsi?"

"That's right! That's right! Young General, is Miss here? Please save Lord Cai!" Li Wan'an was sweating profusely with anxiety.

The people who had followed them were gathered around the entrance of the Ling Shu Hall, gossiping and speculating.

Zhao Jinzhong led Li Wan'an and the others into the clinic.

Some people tried to squeeze in, but Zhao Jinzhong quickly closed the door, keeping unrelated people out.

While Zhao Jinzhong and Li Wan'an were talking at the door, Zhou Ruo had already sensed that there was a patient outside the door.

As Cai Jingsi was carried in, Zhou Ruo sighed, "Oh my~ such a strong poison!"

When Li Wan'an saw Zhou Ruo, he felt like he had grasped a lifeline.

"Miss, come quickly and take a look at Lord Cai! He's been shot with an arrow. I pulled it out and cleaned the wound, and I found it was poisoned!"

Zhou Ruo stepped forward, but was stopped by Cai Jingsi's guards. "Where did this child come from?"

Li Wan'an quickly explained, "Sir, she's a renowned physician. Let her examine Lord Cai first!"

"She's a miracle doctor?" The guard looked at Zhou Ruo suspiciously. "You can heal? Can you cure our master?"

"Of course!" Zhou Ruo said confidently, "He was poisoned by the snake spirit."

Upon hearing this, Li Wan'an's face turned pale instantly, and he stammered, "Snake...snake...spiritual essence? That's the most potent poison among snake venoms!"

"Hehe, that's right!" Zhou Ruo not only showed no fear or panic, but actually looked quite happy.

Seeing the contrast in attitudes between Li Wan'an and Zhou Ruo, the guard felt that Zhou Ruo was being somewhat frivolous.

He angrily rebuked, "If your haphazard treatment leads to Lord Cai's death, I will not forgive you!"

The guards were loud and aggressive, which startled Zhou Ruo, who quickly grabbed Zhao Jinzhong's leg.

"Brother, I'm scared..."

An Chang couldn't stand it any longer and stepped forward before Zhao Jinzhong, confronting the guard: "If you're so capable, then don't come to us for treatment!"

The guard recognized An Chang. When An Chang suddenly stood up, the guard was so frightened that he immediately knelt down and bowed.

"This humble servant was unaware that Prince An was present; please forgive me, Your Highness!"

An Chang couldn't stand this kind of attitude.

"Let me tell you, you adults are lucky to have met Zhou Ruo. If you delay any longer, even a god can't save him!"

The guard dared not act rashly again and quickly replied, "Yes, yes, yes!"

Then he turned to Zhou Ruo: "Please, young doctor, save Lord Cai!"

An Chang rolled her eyes. "If you had adopted this attitude earlier, all the adults would be cured by now!"

The guard felt uneasy, thinking he was spouting nonsense, but dared not speak out, only nodding and agreeing.

"Yes, yes, Prince An is right!"

Zhou Ruo released Zhao Jinzhong, took out some silver needles, and said to the guard, "I'll heal him first, then I'll heal you!"

"Me?" the guard asked, puzzled.

"You were hit by an arrow too," Zhou Ruo said, pointing to the graze on the guard's arm.

The guard turned his head and saw that his clothes on his arm had been ripped open by an arrow, and the skin where it had been torn had turned black.

"I...I...I've been poisoned too?" The guard suddenly felt like the sky had fallen.

He wasn't that scared when he saw Cai Jingsi was about to die.

Zhou Ruo's gaze was already focused on Cai Jingsi's wound, and she responded to the guard indifferently, "Yes, that's right."

Upon hearing this, the guard suddenly felt dizzy and fainted from fright.

He was helped to the side by the other guards.

Cai Jingsi was riding in a carriage through the city market when he was shot by a poisoned arrow not far from Jishetang.

Guided by the local people, the guards escorted Cai Jingsi to Jishetang, which was nearby.

Li Wan'an thought to himself, "Lord Cai must not die at my hands, otherwise the reputation I have built up over a lifetime may be in jeopardy."

So when he discovered that Cai Jingsi had been poisoned, and he didn't know what kind of poison it was, he transferred him to Zhou Ruo's place.

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