[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"origin-the-challenge-of-a-farmhouse-son-in-law":3,"chapter-the-challenge-of-a-farmhouse-son-in-law-the-challenge-of-a-farmhouse-son-in-law-chapter-204":6},{"origin":4,"title":5},"english","The Challenge of a Farmhouse Son-in-Law",{"chapter":7,"nextChapterSlug":19,"prevChapterSlug":20,"totalChapters":21,"novelImage":22},{"id":8,"novel_id":9,"title":10,"slug":11,"index":12,"content":13,"wordcount":14,"created_at":15,"updated_at":15,"volume":16,"translator":17,"content_hash":18},1543589,2006,"Chapter 204 - 204 203 Doctor Zhou's Letter","the-challenge-of-a-farmhouse-son-in-law-chapter-204",204,"\u003Cp>204: Chapter 203 Doctor Zhou’s Letter 204: Chapter 203 Doctor Zhou’s Letter He couldn’t see them himself, so he invited the visitors into the house, where Gu Youyou provided consultation from behind a curtain.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After a busy day, she could finally rest in the evening.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Gu Youyou changed into her own clothes, gently wiped away the beads of sweat, and prepared to return to her own small courtyard.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Sister Youyou!”Qin Changlin called out to her from the backyard.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Gu Youyou turned around and saw Qin Changlin holding a box in his hands, his face haggard!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Sister Youyou, this is what Master left for you,” he said.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Gu Youyou was taken aback, not expecting Doctor Zhou to leave anything for her, and quickly took the box to examine it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The box was made of high-quality zitan wood, a rare and valuable material that seemed excessive for a doctor from a small clinic like Xiaoqingshui Town to possess.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She suspected that some of the answers to her questions might lie within this box.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Holding the box, she went back inside the house and used the key hanging on the side to unlock the delicate copper lock.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Inside, several medical texts lay quietly; the first was the Inner Canon of Huangdi, the second was Treatise on Febrile and Miscellaneous Diseases, and the third was Notes by the Zhou family.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It seemed that the third book was his own writing, containing some of his unique insights into medicine.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The fourth…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>there was no fourth book.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The fourth book’s yellowed cover bore no title, and inside were the words Doctor Zhou had left in a letter.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At first glance, the writing was chaotic, and an ordinary person would likely have difficulty deciphering it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Only someone like Gu Youyou, who was professionally trained in medicine, could understand it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was written in the same way modern doctors write prescriptions.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Gu Youyou smiled wryly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Was it coincidence, or coincidence?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She just happened to be able to read it; otherwise, she would have had to find a professional to interpret it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>However, the content within was somewhat puzzling.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>(I knew you were coming.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I didn’t expect that you would come, alive!)The first page contained just these few disjointed sentences which confused Gu Youyou.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She turned to the second page.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>(From the moment I agreed to do this task, my conscience has constantly tormented me.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As a healer, I have treated every one of my patients with the intention of healing the world, using my life’s knowledge to save countless people.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I do not seek fame for eternity, but only to live a life worthy of my master and the noble name of healer.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yet I did not anticipate, in my later years and after I had already submitted my resignation to the Imperial Medical Bureau, that I would encounter something that would destroy my reputation and lead to the death of my whole family!)Perhaps some will say I fear death, others may say I seek fame and fortune.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>However, I refuse to die without a cause, and that’s why I have survived.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But the price…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>made me truly betray what it means to be a healer.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A simple peasant girl unknown to me, I don’t understand why they wanted me to stay here, providing her family with a special medicine each month.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>While the herbs were exceedingly precious, they only cost a trivial amount of silver tael.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Through my years of research, I understood what that medicine was and eventually concocted a prescription that could suppress the cold poison.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This girl had been taking the medicine for years with no cure in sight, only hoping that my prescription could extend her life, at least to avoid the bone-chilling agony when the poison took effect.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>One day, when I saw a recipe for an excellent detoxifying remedy, I knew that the young girl had finally come forth.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I don’t know where she got her prescription from, but it was much better than what I had developed over many years.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I knew then that perhaps there was hope for her.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I intentionally inquired about the girl from Lotus Village who was always locked in the house, knowing she had come to Jisheng Hall, whether by intention or accident.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>No matter what her purpose was, I dared not meet her, could not meet her—that was the agreement I had with that person.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>To avoid her as much as possible, I began making constant house calls.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I didn’t know how long I could delay, just taking it one day at a time.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Perhaps when the day comes that I can no longer delay, it will be the day I die…)\u003C\u002Fp>",778,"2026-06-06T06:54:47.694Z",1,"novelbin.me","ea14aae6f0ae3d12c646ce314da4af00fa6b3eb217b8b2b40d01e14492a12cdf","the-challenge-of-a-farmhouse-son-in-law-chapter-205","the-challenge-of-a-farmhouse-son-in-law-chapter-203",1812,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fthe-challenge-of-a-farmhouse-son-in-law-cover.jpg"]