The Challenge of a Farmhouse Son-in-Law-Chapter 984 - 978: Heavy Rain in Lotus Village

The eldest prince returned to the court, ready to marry Gu Youyou from Zhuzhao Country who was known as both the Divine Doctor and the most talented lady. The news spread throughout Zhuzhao Country and naturally reached Qingshui Town and Lotus Village.

Qin Changlin held the account book that Gu Youyou had someone send back, pulled a piece of paper from it, and toasted it over the fire to reveal the hidden writing. This was the method Gu Youyou had shown Qin Changlin for reading the letter when she was last in Qingshui Town.

After reading the content of the letter, Qin Changlin squinted his eyes.

The rumors were indeed true. He hadn’t expected that after all their circumventions, they would end up together. And Jin Zijin’s identity was truly bizarre—first a poor hunter from nowhere, then a senior brother from Tianzong, and now he had turned out to be the missing eldest prince of Zhuzhao Country?

No matter how his identity had changed, his feelings for Sister Youyou had always remained the same.

They were soon to be together openly, which was a joyous matter.

Qin Changlin smiled, picked up a transparent crayon, reopened the account book, and began to reply to her in the same way.

There was a knock at the door. Qin Changlin stopped smiling and hid the crayon and the account book.

"Who is it?" he asked.

"It’s me, Jin Yi," replied the man outside.

The business at Jisheng Hall was booming. The people with the means from several nearby towns came to get medical treatment and medicine at Jisheng Hall. To lighten his load, Qin Changlin had hired a few doctors, and this Jin Yi, was a recent addition.

He was very skilled at treating cold symptoms.

"Doctor Jin, what’s the matter?" Qin Changlin opened the door.

Jin Yi hesitated then said, "Gu Wen from Lotus Village caught a chill a few days ago and delayed the treatment. Now he has started coughing up blood. The Gu Family has sent someone to ask you to make a house call. I came to ask if you would go?"

Jisheng Hall had a rule of not making house calls, but of course, rules were rigid, while people were flexible. They didn’t make house calls lightly.

As a doctor, he couldn’t just stand by and watch someone die, could he?

Recently, there had been continuous heavy rains, even damaging the mountain roads to Lotus Village. Gu Wen had been brought once by his son, suffering from a serious chill. He had prescribed some medicine and advised him to return for a follow-up after a few days.

But since the heavy rains, the roads had become difficult to navigate, which caused the delay.

Qin Changlin’s expression darkened as he thought of the half-finished letter and of Gu Youyou.

He had always particularly looked after the people of the Gu Family except for Gu Wen.

Everyone in the Gu Family had started to see Gu Youyou differently, only Gu Wen harbored resentment still—resentment for the year he’d spent in prison because of Gu Youyou. But Gu Wen was, after all, Gu Youyou’s only blood-related elder in the Gu Family. Now the man was gravely ill. Could he really just ignore that?

Yuancheng stuck his head out from the front hall where he was studying and said to Qin Changlin, "Brother Qin, you should go. Sister Youyou has a sharp tongue but a soft heart. If she were here, she would definitely help Gu Wen."

Qin Changlin looked at the young man and suddenly laughed. His master had passed away, and Yuancheng had then been entrusted to his care.

Fortunately, with Gu Youyou’s help, the boy hadn’t been ruined.

Now, not yet fifteen, he had already passed the Scholar examination.

Qin Changlin said with a laugh, "Alright, alright, I’ll listen to you. Sister Youyou insisted on you attending private school, you really did her proud and even became a Scholar. Now you’re giving me advice too."