Fifteen-year-old Su Qingwu was the daughter of a judge at the imperial hospital. She copied prescriptions for medicines and memorized "Treatise on Febrile Diseases", but she never really felt the pulse because "women's hands are not allowed to touch the skin of nobles." Overnight, his father was framed and imprisoned, and his mother pushed her out the back window before hanging herself, leaving only the words "Don't come back."
She escaped from the capital with the sac sewn by her father—three medical books, seven silver needles, and half of ink. From tremblingly delivering babies to peasant women in a dilapidated temple, to going to the fields to treat poor people; from being scolded as "women's practice of medicine is immoral" to establishing a Qingnang Women's Clinic in the outer city of the capital. In the past ten years, she has tried various folk medical techniques, rewritten tampered medical records, and carved a ray of light into the copper and iron walls of Taiyuan Hospital.
Gu Yanzhi, the young minister of Dali Temple, secretly helped her because of old friendship, but after witnessing her saving people again and again, he changed from guilt to respect. What really pushed Su Qingwu to the end was that she finally understood her mother's "forbearance" back then, her great-aunt's "no regrets" when she died unjustly, and the deep love behind her father's words, "You were born at the wrong time."
Overturning the verdict is not the end. When the imperial court finally relented and allowed the establishment of "a seat in the women's department," Qingwu refused to enter Tai Hospital. She opened the Qingnang Women's Medical Clinic in the west of the city, which only accepted female disciples - daughters of stable mothers, embroidered mothers who escaped from marriage, and concubines who were unwanted by officials. She said to them: "There are no men or women, only life and death. Your hands are no worse than anyone else's."
Intention: Don't hide your youth – you can't hide your abilities, you can't hide the truth, you can't even hide a woman's determination to live an upright life.