He paused, then asked Eunuch Wei, "Which one is the medicine from the white bottle, and which one is from the black bottle?"
"Ah... this, this..." Eunuch Wei, looking embarrassed, said, "This servant remembered it on the way here, but now suddenly, suddenly I've forgotten."
These were a pair of jade bottles, each with a different pattern on its body.
Eunuch Wei thought he could rely on his memory, but it turned out he had overestimated his own mind.
The Emperor waved his hand dismissively, "Never mind, the young healer is a physician, he must be able to distinguish them."
As it turned out, the Emperor had also overestimated someone.
Gu Jiao indeed could discern the subtle differences in scent between the two medicinal pills and knew they were different, not to be mixed in one bottle, but she couldn't remember which one was the white medicine and which was the black.
So the only option was to bluff her way through, as if life were a play entirely dependent on one's words.