Song Qinghuan was the daughter of the imperial envoy to the imperial hospital. She married into the British government at the age of sixteen and became the wife of the eldest son, Gu Yunshen.
Three years after their marriage, Gu Yunshen respected her like ice and doted on his concubine Liu who came from a poor family. Mrs. Liu was jealous of her medical skills and status as a head wife, and framed her for "poisoning people," causing the old lady of the British government to be poisoned and comatose. Gu Yunshen ignored everything and drove her out of the house with a divorce letter.
Song Qinghuan returned to her parents' home and found that her father had been implicated and dismissed from office, and her family was in decline. She took her young brother and opened a small medicine shop called 'Qinghuantang' in a remote alley in the capital. She sat in clinic during the day, developed new prescriptions at night, and treated poor people for free, and gradually became famous in the capital. She improved Jinchuang medicine and developed anti-plague pills, which saved thousands of people's lives when the plague broke out in the capital.
The Queen Mother heard of her reputation and summoned her to the palace to nurse the nobles back to health. Song Qinghuan relied on his superb medical skills to gain a foothold in the palace, and successively cured the empress dowager's chronic illness, the queen's infertility, and even rescued the young prince who was sentenced to death by the imperial doctor. The emperor personally awarded her a plaque titled "Nv Bian Que" and authorized her to open a "Women's Medical Clinic" to recruit female disciples. Song Qinghuan became the first officially recognized female physician in the Zhou Dynasty.
At this time, Gu Yunshen discovered Liu's conspiracy and regretted it. Later, when the border war became tense, Song Qinghuan led a female medical officer to the front line, and met Gu Yunshen again on the battlefield. The two experienced life and death, and finally reunited.
Reader comments
The part about the female doctor receiving the merit monument is very well written!
The part about the female doctor receiving the merit monument is very well written!