The Prime Minister's Darling
Chapter 803 - 803 374 Abuse the Scum (first update)

Chapter 803: 374 Abuse the Scum (first update) Chapter 803: 374 Abuse the Scum (first update) Gu Jiao played chess with the old beggar for a while and then left, of course, she didn’t forget to take her earned gold ingot and “working fee”.

However, she did have a bit of conscience; she left the copper coins and scraps of silver for the old man.

It was still early in the day, so Gu Jiao went to the Hanlin Academy. She originally planned to wait for Xiao Liulang to finish his duties, but after asking the academy’s Kong Mu, she found out Xiao Liulang had gone to the countryside again.

This time, it wasn’t to a distant place but within the Capital City, and he would be back by night.

“Thank you,” Gu Jiao said politely and then turned to leave the Hanlin Academy.

Today, Xiao Jingspace was going to play at Xu Zhuzhu’s house; he had given notice in the morning, so she didn’t need to pick him up from Guozijian. The Xu Family would send him back to the Medical Hall in the evening.

Gu Jiao decided to go directly to the Medical Hall.

What even Gu Jiao hadn’t anticipated was that on her way back to the Medical Hall, she would encounter some hooligans.

Gu Jiao hummed in wonder—it was still far from the New Year, were they starting to do business so early?

There were six hooligans in total, dressed like bandits or refugees from their attire, but all of them were sturdy and wielded knives and swords with a certain air, suggesting they did have some martial arts skills.

The men were masked with cloths, staring at her menacingly.

After thinking for a moment, Gu Jiao asked, “Robbery?”

Given her current dignified appearance, it surely was not molestation, right? But one couldn’t be sure, as some men who hadn’t eaten meat for a long time wouldn’t care about the niceties.

Sigh.

Gu Jiao was not interested.

Gu Jiao turned around and walked away, too lazy to fight.

“Stop right there!”

The leader of the hooligans shouted fiercely.

The result of Gu Jiao stopping was that she beat up the hooligans until their noses and faces were swollen, and they cried for their fathers and mothers.

Gu Jiao didn’t bother to report it to the officials; given their miserable condition, it wouldn’t be long before they would attract the nearby officers, so there was no need for her to take action.

Gu Jiao dusted off her wide sleeves and walked back to the Medical Hall.

The reason she chose to walk was not that she had too much time on her hands, nor was it because she was too stingy to hire a carriage; she simply wanted to observe the shops along the street.

On her way back to the Medical Hall, she didn’t encounter any more trouble.

“Little Gu! You’re back!”

It was the second in command.

The Medical Hall’s business had improved a lot, and the orders from the medicine factory had increased. In addition to making their own branded wound medicine, they also made some qi-enhancing and blood-replenishing pills.

The second owner was so busy he was going bald, and it was rare for him to bump into Gu Jiao.

“Uncle Hu,” Gu Jiao greeted him, “What’s the happy occasion today?”

The second owner smiled mysteriously, “Let me show you something!”

“What?” Gu Jiao asked.

“This!” The second owner took out a glittering invitation from his bosom, “It wasn’t easy to get this. Our Miao Shou Hall is newly established and didn’t initially qualify to attend such an assembly, but who made me so awesome!”

Gu Jiao still didn’t quite understand.

So the second owner explained to her, and finally, Gu Jiao understood that it was a networking event organized by the Capital City’s commercial association. Though Miao Shou Hall was a medical clinic, it wasn’t a welfare institution of the government and was eligible to join the commercial association.

In the association, one could seek more development opportunities and business partners, with a distinction between formal and informal members.

The second owner indeed expended great effort to secure an invitation to the association’s meeting, which was scheduled for the next month.

He didn’t expect to become an official member of the association immediately; after all, Huichun Hall had also attended for several years before joining the ranks of the association.

“The first time is to learn, the second to get familiar, we’re mainly going to broaden our horizons this time. What do you think?” the second owner asked.

“Fine,” Gu Jiao had no objections; she fully trusted the second owner with business matters.

It has to be said, this feeling of being trusted is quite nice.

The second owner laughed, “Then I’ll go make arrangements, and you remember to keep these days free!”

“Mmm,” Gu Jiao nodded in agreement.

“Alright, you go on with your work, oh my!” The second owner all of a sudden screamed looking at Gu Jiao’s sleeve, “You’re injured!”

His shout was so loud that the entire Grand Hall heard it, including Eunuch Wei who had just gotten off his carriage.

“What’s happened? Who’s hurt? Is Miss Gu injured?” Eunuch Wei hurried inside, jogging all the way to Gu Jiao’s side.

Gu Jiao lifted the sleeve the second owner was looking at, which indeed had a few drops of blood on it. However, she wasn’t injured; it must have been the blood of the hooligans that she had accidentally rubbed onto her clothes.

“It’s not mine,” Gu Jiao said.

“Then what’s this blood about?” Eunuch Wei, pointing at her sleeve, asked worriedly.

Gu Jiao let out an “oh”: “I ran into a few hooligans just now and gave them a lesson.”