The Prime Minister's Darling

Chapter 299: 164 Father and Son (First Update)_3

It’s not Xiaoba.

Sigh.

Quite dissapointed.

Xiao Jingkong unwillingly accepts the fact that his bad brother-in-law is still human, for now.

Xiao Liulang wears a confused expression.

What’s going on?

Did he disappoint him just because he didn’t play with him and their dog early in the morning?

He hadn’t even blamed him for arbitrarily changing the dog’s name.

Gu Jiao went to the kitchen to make breakfast.

After eating, as Gu Jiao heads to clear the dishes, Xiao Liulang says, “I’ll do it.”

The old lady brazenly says, “No need, go about your business, someone else will clean up.”

That someone is the old priest.

After the looting of his private savings and the invasion of his room, the old priest’s life started revolving around being ruthlessly exploited by the old lady.

There was a lot going on at home these days, and Gu Jiao stopped visiting the Medical Hall. Only today, a little patient on Vermilion Bird Avenue, who had been sutured, needed her stitches removed.

Gu Jiao packed her small bag and left the house.

Xiao Liulang glanced at her: “You’re leaving?”

Gu Jiao hummed an affirmative: “On call.”

She could no longer hide her medical prowess, so Gu Jiao didn’t bother.

“Is it far?” Xiao Liulang asked.

“Vermilion Bird Avenue,” Gu Jiao replied.

“I have to deliver something there anyway, let’s go together.”@@novelbin@@

Xiao Liulang had written a few articles for a wealthy young man from Guozijian and promised to deliver them before New Year’s Eve.

Gu Jiao had no objections.

They hired a carriage for the long distance to Vermilion Bird Avenue.

Xiao Liulang first dropped Gu Jiao off at her patient’s house, then went to deliver the articles and planned on picking up Gu Jiao on his return.

Gu Jiao’s patient, a lively six-year-old girl, had injured her leg from falling down stairs. Apparently, her energetic nature had led to the accident.

Her older sister, a student at the women’s school, had sought out the reputed Miao’s Clinic due to the little girl’s condition.

“Your wound is healing nicely, don’t worry, it won’t hurt.” Gu Jiao reassured the girl while carefully removing the stitches with a pair of scissors.

The little girl bore it in silence.

The woman asked: “Does it hurt?”

The little girl shook her head, looking at Gu Jiao with admiration: “No, it doesn’t hurt. Sister is very skilled. Mom, I want to be a doctor when I grow up!”

The woman was taken aback.

Being a doctor… in Zhan Country, that profession was considered lowly, especially for a woman. Being a female doctor was practically akin to being a servant.

Living on Vermilion Bird Avenue meant that they were of a certain stature. Why would they want their daughter to be a lowly medical woman in the future?

The little girl before them must belong to a poor family and had no choice but to become a medical woman, right?

Not every ailment was a simple injury on the leg. What if the ailment was somewhere unclean? Could a well-dressed person look at those areas?

Moreover, the rumors stated that when the Medical Hall was busy, female doctors couldn’t avoid treating men.

Wouldn’t their modesty be compromised? How could they then arrange a proper marriage?

Families with some reputation would never send their daughters to become medical women.

Gu Jiao did not respond to the awkward expression on the woman’s face. Instead, she gently squeezed the little girl’s face and softly said, “Being a doctor is no easy task, you have to know how to read, you have to study hard, be diligent, endure hardships. Ruining a dish only means skipping a meal, but a mishandled treatment could cost a life, the responsibility is immense.”

The little girl appeared partially enlightened. She thought about it and softly uttered, “But they say that medical women are of an inferior status.”

Without missing a beat, Gu Jiao calmly said, “In life, where is the distinction between noble and lowly?”

The woman felt a sudden pang of shame.

She had looked down on medical women.

But at this moment, she felt a profound shock deep within her core.

She wasn’t sure if it was due to the words spoken by Gu Jiao, or the faith reflected in her eyes.