Su Fu had secluded himself in the mountains to hide his identity as an assassin, but in Li Tai's mouth, he was transformed into a reclusive expert with origins from the Medicine King family of Suzhou, thus making his explanation seem quite credible.
"Since he does not care for fame or gain, why would he take up a post at the Imperial Medical Bureau?" Li Chengqian asked with a semblance of genuine curiosity.
Li Tai smiled and said, "I haven't asked him about that, but... since he has the habit of wandering to study Medical Skills, and the Imperial Medical Bureau is the center of Great Tang's medical practice, it's not strange for him to join."
The passion of the doctors from the Sui and Tang dynasties for prescriptions is unimaginable to later generations, so Li Shimin did not suspect otherwise and turned to Zhong Rui, saying, "Summon Imperial Physician Su Ziqi."
