"You want to study medicine?"
In Mingxintang, Mr. Li put down the book in his hand and looked slightly surprised.
"right."
Chu Mu nodded and said nothing more. He had known Mr. Li for a while, and Chu Mu had probably figured out his character.
A person who tells the truth doesn't need to say too much.
It's best if he agrees. If he doesn't agree, then he will think of other ways.
Extraordinary power is beyond his reach, but secular medicine is not difficult.
"Every family has its own basis for inheritance."
"But the old man has no children, so he doesn't think much of it."
"But medicine is as vast as the sea and cannot be learned overnight. You are busy with official duties, so I'm afraid..."
Chu Mu didn't seem to hear the polite refusal in Mr. Li's words, and still said to himself: "Now that I have been promoted to captain, my time is much more relaxed, so there should be no big problem."
"I'm curious, since you have already made a name for yourself in officialdom, why do you still want to study medicine?"
Chu Mu smiled: "If you study medicine... you will live longer!"
Mr. Li took a deep look at Chu Mu and pondered for a moment: "Brother Mu, since you insist on doing this, I can't refuse."
"Don't worry, Mr. Li, I understand the rules."
As he spoke, Chu Mu took out a small wooden box from his arms and handed it to the table in front of Mr. Li.
There was nothing else in the box, just a wad of banknotes.
Three hundred silver!
This price, which was extremely expensive and almost wiped out all of Chu Mu's remaining net worth, was naturally justified.
Before coming, Chu Mu inquired through the inspection station's channels about the apprentices of Mingxintang. Of course, this apprentice refers to the apprentices who truly inherit Mr. Li's medical skills, not the apprentices who do odd jobs.
According to what Chu Mu heard about, there are two types of apprentices. One is naturally appreciated by Mr. Li himself and accepted as a disciple to pass on what he has learned.
The other kind is through various relationships, and then giving money and property, and finally being accepted by Mr. Li as a disciple to pass on what he has learned.
The value of the property is generally around two hundred silver.
Studying medicine is obviously not a despicable profession in this era.
It can even be said to be a respected position.
After all, whether it is at the beginning of qi and blood practice, which requires an understanding of the body's structure, or when starting qi and blood practice, the assistance of medicinal materials is inseparable from medicine.
Judging from what Chu Mu knows now, studying is something only wealthy people can do, and practicing martial arts requires wealth and status.
Without money, he cannot support the expenses of practicing martial arts, and without status, he has no access to martial arts at all.
The respect for martial arts in a certain sense also directly led to the soaring status of medicine.
Mr. Li in front of him is undoubtedly the best example.
According to Chu Mu's opinion, three hundred silver was undoubtedly a little too little.
After all, if someone can enter Mingxintang as an apprentice with about two hundred silver, there must be other favors involved.
His three hundred silver seemed expensive, but it lacked a vital human connection.
Mr. Li did not glance at the wooden box in front of him. Instead, he looked at Chu Mu again: "I heard that there were large-scale casualties in the mine yesterday?"
Chu Mu frowned. He didn't care that Mr. Li was well-informed, but more importantly, could he tell?
The gag order does exist.
Misfortune may come from the mouth.
It only took a moment for Chu Mu to make a decision. After pondering for a while, he slowly told what he saw and heard in the mine yesterday.
"Life is like a piece of grass..."
After listening to what Chu Mu said, Mr. Li looked a little melancholy and sighed softly.
Immediately, Mr. Li stood up and pulled out a stack of books from the bookshelf on the side: "Brother Mu, take these books back and study them yourself."
“The way of medicine is vast, but the key is perseverance.”
"Brother Mu, since you have chosen medical skills, you must not slack off."
"Mu understands."
Chu Mu took the thick stack of books with a slightly solemn expression.
He knew very well that for him, this pile of books was no longer just a simple medical book, but represented the future he could foresee.
As for other things... such as a higher level of transcendence, although he dreams of it, at least for now, he has not been able to find a way to contact it.
After leaving Mingxintang, Chu Mu stopped. The sun was blazing above his head. The weather was still sunny in the cold winter months. The number of patrols on the street had returned to the previous level of security.
Chu Mujin went straight to his home, but he was not in too much of a hurry. Wu Shuo had full control over the town's security forces and had great power, so he was directly granted a whole day's leave.
A day off is a rare leisure day.
When I got home, the most eye-catching thing was naturally the big hole in the bedroom roof.
It's just that I just lost 300 silver and almost wiped out all the little money I had left. I have no money to repair it, so I can only put it on hold temporarily.
Touching the banknotes in his arms that he could no longer feel, Chu Mu couldn't help but twitch the corner of his mouth.
After all, his income is really not bad.
The beheading reward alone was nearly a year's monthly salary, and black gold was also included. In just one or two months, he earned hundreds of silver!
An ordinary farmer's family might not be able to earn so much money in their lifetime.
But the more money you make, the more you use it.
Walking into the room, a stack of books was spread out. The couch in the bedroom had been moved over. Chu Mu sat on it, picked up a book and started reading.
With several previous books on human body structure as a foundation, Chu Mu naturally had some understanding of the medicine of this era.
According to Chu Mu's understanding, medicine in this era is like a combination of Chinese medicine and Western medicine.
Although it is still the same theory of Yin Yang and Five Elements, the dialectical thinking in it is also very obvious.
In other words, traditional Chinese medicine is more scientific and pioneering.
This point can be clearly seen from the medical books on human body structure that are comparable to professional anatomy books in previous lives. Medicine in this era does not stick to conventions and is limited to itself, but is exploring the unknown.
If Chu Mu was still confused about such anomalies before, but now that he knows about the higher level of transcendence, all of this is undoubtedly a matter of course in Chu Mu's view.
Whether it is a higher level of transcendence, whether it is cultivating immortals, or whether it is martial arts and fantasy, it must involve the mystery of human evolution.
How can it be possible to stick to the rules in a world that involves the mysteries of human evolution?
And under the control of such a world, no matter how feudal and backward this world is, it is inevitable to be affected.
Those volumes of anatomy books and the extremely cheap food, in Chu Mu's view, are probably the manifestation of being influenced by a higher level of transcendence.
There must be many more manifestations of this kind.
Just like the iron ore in the mine, the secular governance structure of Nanshan Town and even Qinghe County, and even the entire county...
There must be others.
It's just that Chu Mu hasn't discovered it yet. After all, although he has been in this world for several months, his scope of activities, except for that time when he went into the mountains to suppress bandits, was limited to Nanshan Town.
Cognition and understanding are still limited.
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