With Du YueYao helping, the two of them saw patients at noticeably twice the speed. And afterward, patients who came in alone all went to the more renowned Little Doctor Du's table, leaving Lu Zheng much more relaxed and with time to chat.
So he tested Yang Caiyi's cultivation and asked after Du Yuru and his wife's recent circumstances.
"Father wants to go home again this year. I had originally wanted to ask my elder brother Lu to help, but now I can take them back myself."
Lu Zheng raised a brow. "I remember you went back the year before last. You're going again?"
Great Jing was unlike Blue Star. There was no such thing as going home for the Spring Festival travel rush. Great Jing was vast, and though Official Roads linked its regions, there were no relatively fast means of transportation. Ordinary mortals could spend months simply walking.
Once many ordinary people left their hometowns, they truly could never return for the rest of their lives. Thus, when most people left home, they brought along a handful of soil—not only as something to remember it by, but also as the first handful of earth that would one day go into their coffins.
Even a high official like Du Yuru, the chief administrator of an entire prefecture, found it extraordinarily difficult to return home. Before the year before last, he had only gone back once every six or seven years.
At this, Du YueYao could not help smiling, her tone somewhat complicated. "Father has governed Yizhou Prefecture well these past few years. The court issued a commendation summons, ordering him to return to the capital for a report during the New Year."
Lu Zheng raised a brow. "Does this mean... another promotion?"
Du YueYao nodded. "Most likely."
Yang Caiyi,