70 Chapter 11: Imperial Dr. Yen, Quack Doctor and Dumb Eunuch (1/2)

The pine forest near the inner palace drops its dead branches and leaves once a year, which created the ideal conditions for the growth of a particular mushroom. What she was holding onto was the rare mushroom with the spreading conical cap, the matsutake. Matsutake Mushrooms are a good source of B vitamins, protein, copper, potassium, zinc and selenium. All essential minerals to a healthy diet. It was a small forest, but as they are often found growing in groups, her basket contained five matsutake mushrooms.

At the medical office, besides the loach mustache old man, was an unfamiliar pale-faced eunuch.

He kept rubbing his hands for some reason.

”Oh hey, lass. Just as I wanted to see you,” the quack doctor said.

”What is it?” Yen asked.

”It looks like his hands have developed a rash. Can you make a salve for me?” he said.

In no way could those be the words of the one who controls the medicine of inner palace. Well, as it's the usual, she went to the room with the medicine shelves next door.

Before that, she set down the basket and took out the matsutake. ”Do you have charcoal and stuff?”

”OH, you brought some splendid things. It would be good if we have sauce and salt.” It was early to talk about his favorite foods. With a happy bounce in his steps, he went to the dining hall to pick up some seasoning for her while pathetically leaving behind his patient as he is.

When the quack doctor came back with seasoning, charcoal, and a grill mesh, she was just finished with making the viscous salve. Taking hold of the eunuch's right hand, she carefully smeared the cream onto his red rash. She had to endure the smell as it was somewhat strong. Color seemed to have returned to his pale face for a bit when she finished applying the medicine.

”Ohhh, what a kind maidservant,” the eunuch said.

”I know right. She oft' helps me,” the quack doctor replied.

The two eunuchs conversed without care. Eunuchs, according to the times, are treated as bad people who are filled with a lust for power, but in truth, those were only a small handful. Most of them have calm personalities like this.

Yen made an unpleasant face as she set the charcoal on fire, placed the mesh and added the matsutake she picked by hand. She cut the sudachicitrus that she had stolen from the orchard again. She served it on a plate once the wonderful fragrance reached her nose and they were a little charred.She then enjoyed it seasoned with salt and sudachi.

The moment the two old men placed it in their mouths, she determined them as accomplices.

As Yen chewed, the quack doctor was chatting in a carefree manner. ”The lass is helpful because she can do anything. She made a lot of medicine aside from the salves for me.”

”Hoooh, how wonderful,” said the eunuch. Yen was somewhat troubled by the fact that he was treating her as if she was his daughter.

A tiny bit unsettled by the strong feelings, the quack doctor said the odd things that a quack doctor would say. ”Ahh, there aren't medicines you can't make, right?”. Yen gave him a confused look.

Before she told him to stop with the false advertising, the eunuch before her reacted. ”Anything?”