"This subordinate... understands." The chief clerk of the Household Office lowered his head listlessly.
The officials and clerks looked at the chief clerk of the Penal Office. They already understood that Fang Yun would uproot all of Shen Ming's influence in Ning'an County, yet even the Left Prime Minister himself could not object.
Suddenly, a clerk's body went limp and he collapsed. The officials beside him hurried to catch him, causing a brief commotion.
As the man fainted, Fang Yun caught sight of his face and remembered that he was a distant relative of Shen Ming's.
Two clerks supported Shen Ming's relative, one on either side. One said, "Have mercy, Your Honor. Shen Hu seems to have fainted. He should be sent to a physician."
Instead, Fang Yun said, "Someone bring him a chair. Today is the Medical Way Literary Assembly. I have already sent a message, and members of the Medical School will be here shortly."
Despair immediately rose in the officials' hearts, and they silently cursed up a storm. They had happened to run straight into the Medical Way Literary Assembly, with renowned physicians of the Human Race gathered here. Even using illness as an excuse to leave was impossible.
Ao Huang gave an unkind, gleeful grin. "These people have run into the most rotten luck imaginable!"
Before long, members of the Medical School arrived: three Hanlin Academicians, seven Metropolitan Graduates, and a large group of Provincial Graduates serving as assistants. The elderly Hanlin Academician who came even said that if the illness was serious, they could invite a Grand Academician of the Medical School, plunging the officials before the hall into even deeper despair.
Under normal circumstances, finding Medical School scholars of this caliber would take two or three days, not merely in Ning'an County, but even