Each of them had a rabbit leg, and the smell filled the room.
"Rabbit legs are easy to talk about! These are the most indispensable thing for people in the mountains! Even if you eat here for the rest of your life, you still have enough!"
Lao Liu said enthusiastically,
"Do you want more? I'll ask my mother-in-law to make two more!"
Xu Fenglei waved his hand quickly and said vaguely:
"That's enough, that's enough. Eating too much late-night snacks can easily lead to diabetes..."
"It's getting late, you should take a rest early!"
Old Liu smiled naively, responded, and then exited the room.
In fact, there are only two bedrooms in his home, one is for his eighty-year-old mother, and the rest is the one where Xu Fenglei and Sun Simiao live.
This also meant that he and his mother-in-law had no choice but to lay the floor in the hall.
But even so, Lao Liu was happy with it.
…
inside the house.
Xu Fenglei ate until his mouth was full of oil. He chewed the rabbit leg until only the bones were left, and then twirled his fingers.
"Look at your bad looks..." Sun Simiao said with disdain, "If you were my disciple, you would have beaten me long ago."
"Hey, what's this?"
Xu Fenglei said nonchalantly,
"It's not clean. You won't get sick after eating it."
As he spoke, he got on the kang, took out a bunch of copper coins from his arms, held them in his hand and muttered something.
"Huh? What are you doing?" Sun Simiao bit off a piece of rabbit meat and asked curiously, "Divination? What are you predicting?"
Wow!
As soon as he finished speaking, the copper coins in Xu Fenglei's hands were already thrown on the kang.
The six copper coins were slightly scattered, but still lined up.
Sun Simiao took a closer look.
"Yin and yang are yin and yang is yin and yang. The ones with the word are yang and the ones without the word are yin... Is that how you see it?"
He murmured,
"What hexagram is this?"
Xu Fenglei glanced at it and said with a smile:
"Water rises above and fire falls below. The outside is dangerous and the inside is bright. In these sixty-three hexagrams, water and fire are both complementary hexagrams."
"What's the significance? What did the divination come up with?" Sun Simiao asked repeatedly.
Although he specializes in medicine, he is also interested in metaphysics.
"During the late Qin Dynasty, Ji Bu hid in the Zhou family and obtained this hexagram through divination, and then met Liu Bang, the great ancestor of the Han Dynasty."
Xu Fenglei smiled mysteriously,
"Here you come. In this hexagram, you can see the image of a king, and it is also a symbol of respect."
"The person I'm waiting for is coming soon."
Sun Simiao: "???"
Old Sun's head was filled with questions. What was this kid talking about?
He was about to ask in detail, but suddenly he caught a glimpse of a human face outside the window, and he was startled!
"Who?!" Sun Simiao said in shock.
As the candle flame flickered on and off, the face became a little clearer. It was that of an immature child.
"Grandpa, I want to study medicine."
The child's pupils were as dark as ink, and he said with piercing eyes,
"Please accept me as your disciple, I will kowtow to you..."
As soon as he finished speaking, his head popped up.
Sun Simiao stood up and looked outside, and saw that the child was kowtowing at the base of the wall.
"Hey, hey, kid, stop knocking, stop knocking..."
Sun Simiao stuck out his head and said,
"You get up first, get up, come in and talk."
The child immediately stood up and knocked twice on the door.
"Who?"
"Ah...it's Xiao Linzi. Don't worry, I haven't forgotten. I'll be there early tomorrow morning..."
"Ah? Grandpa asked you to come in?"
"..."
After a brief conversation outside the house, the door was lightly knocked twice.
"Come in." Sun Simiao said.
With a creak, Old Liu walked in with the child, a look of helplessness on his face.
"Mr. Sun, this child..."
Plop!
The child immediately knelt down towards Sun Simiao.
"Grandpa, accept me as your disciple! I want to study medicine!" He looked up at Sun Simiao, his eyes firm and clear.
"You kid, why..." Upon seeing this, Lao Liu went up to pull him up, but was stopped by Sun Simiao with a wave of his hand.
"It doesn't matter."
Sun Simiao showed a kind smile and smiled at the child,
"Your name is Xiao Linzi, right?"
"Can you tell me why you want to study medicine?"
Xiao Linzi pursed his lips.
"My father is dead."
He lowered his head and said,
"If I knew how to heal, he wouldn't have died."
"So I want to study medicine so that my grandma and my mother won't die too."
Lao Liu: "..."
Others are stupid.
This answer is too... straightforward.
Xu Fenglei watched all this with great interest and smiled without saying a word.
"I see."
Sun Simiao suddenly understood, nodded and said,
"Grandpa, I agree with this reason."
"But studying medicine is a very hard-working and talent-based skill. It not only requires you to memorize various medical classics, but also requires you to travel across mountains and rivers to find medicinal materials. It also requires the ability to keep your hands steady in times of crisis."
"There are many disciples around me who have studied for more than ten or even decades, but their medical skills are still mediocre and they are not qualified to treat people..."
When Xiao Linzi heard this, he immediately shook his head.
"I'm not afraid of hardship! I'm not afraid of tiredness either!"
He knocked his head to the ground and said stubbornly,
"Please grandpa teach me medical skills!"
Sun Simiao stroked his beard gently.
"This guy has a pure heart, so why not accept him? Anyway, you have so many disciples, it doesn't matter if you have one more."
Xu Fenglei joked.
Sun Simiao rolled his eyes.
"I am not accepting more disciples now than I used to. To teach a disciple requires hard work, and that's fine. But if you don't know how to teach, you will not live by eating this bowl of rice. You will waste your youth in vain, which is fatal."
He shook his head and said,
"We must learn from the past lessons..."
"Nowadays, if you want me to be interested in accepting a disciple, you have to examine many aspects. A heart that is not afraid of hardship and tiredness is not enough."
Xu Fenglei nodded slightly.
Old Suntou felt that he was getting older and no longer wanted to recruit random disciples, but wanted to find a real successor to his mantle.
"Child, you get up first."
Sun Simiao helped Xiao Linzi up, stroked his beard and said,
"You want to become my teacher, that's not impossible, but you need to pass my inspection."
"If you pass the examination, I will accept you as a disciple and teach you the medical skills; if you fail, then there is nothing I can do."
"Anyway, grandpa, I am willing to give you a chance."
When Xiao Linzi heard this, a look of surprise suddenly appeared on his face!
"Really?"
"Master!"
Without saying anything, he kowtowed three times!
Xu Fenglei shouted in his heart that this kid should come to the Dao. Before he could even write these eight characters, the master called him up first!
"Okay, okay, it's getting late. You should go back to bed quickly."
Sun Simiao smiled and said,
"It's the time when your body is growing, so you can't waste your rest."
"Yeah!" Xiao Linzi responded loudly, turned around and ran away.
"This kid really has a pure mind." Sun Simiao felt a little fondness in his heart when he saw him coming and going like the wind, clean and neat.
When he recruits a disciple, the most important thing he values is quality!
Purity is undoubtedly the best quality. From this aspect, Xiao Linzi has passed the first level.
"Old Liu, what's wrong with this child? His father is gone?"
Xu Fenglei asked.
"this……"
Lao Liu hesitated for a moment, then sighed softly,
"Speaking of which, he is also a miserable child."
"His father is a good hunter in the woods, so he is nicknamed Lin Zi. He is very skilled, but when he was hunting in the woods a few days ago, he accidentally fell into a deep pool."
"In the forest, he was very good at walking, but he didn't know how to swim. He almost drowned! The man who went with him finally rescued him. I thought he would be fine after resuscitation, but that night he developed a high fever, trembling all over and could not get out of bed. I'm sweating like crazy, I can't even hold it down!"
"He died within two days..."
Sun Simiao looked condensed.
"Everyone in the village said that he collided with a water ghost in a deep pool and was possessed by the water ghost and took away his soul!"
Lao Liu shook his head and said,
"No, tomorrow he will have just passed his first birthday, and the people in our village will have to bury him on the mountain. I am also one of the coffin bearers."
There aren't many people in the village, so if something happens to someone's family, it's natural for the whole village to help.
"Water ghost?"
Sun Simiao looked at Xu Fenglei thoughtfully and said,
"What is your business scope?"
Xu Fenglei rolled his eyes.
"My business is a piece of shit! If you don't sweat and feel irritated, Da Qinglong Soup is the master of it."
He said angrily,
"Are you leaving here to test me?"
"This person must have been affected by the cold air of Hantan. He cannot sweat. Naturally, he is troubled and scratches his heart because the cold evil has invaded his lungs."
"Old Liu, let me ask you, did he keep scratching his heart and liver before he died, and his chest was about to be scratched?"
When Lao Liu heard this, he nodded in surprise!
"Yes! How do you know?!"
He quickly gave a thumbs up and said in admiration,
"You are so amazing!"
"Lin Zi was indeed scratching his heart before he died. The skin in his chest was scratched! His flesh and blood were all turned out!"
"It is precisely because of this that everyone thinks he was harmed by a water ghost. Otherwise, how could there be such a strange disease and self-mutilation..."
Sun Simiao nodded slightly.
"Your master's teachings are good." He praised, "This is indeed a disease. Da Qinglong Decoction is the most effective prescription for producing sweat. Once applied, the sweat will fall like rain, and the disease will go away on its own."
Xu Fenglei snorted lightly and did not respond.
"No wonder this kid wants to study medicine..."
Sun Simiao said with emotion,
"If I had come seven days earlier, maybe his father could have been saved."
"Because there was no good doctor in the village, he could only watch his father die in pain, and was accused of being a ghost."
"Today he saw me practicing medicine and curing patients. It is reasonable for him to have such a simple wish and ambition."
As he spoke, he felt even more pity for Xiao Linzi.
The thought of taking on a disciple had already entered his mind.
"It turns out he is really sick..."
Old Liu suddenly understood after listening to the conversation between the two, and couldn't help but sigh,
"We were ignorant and thought it was ghosts that were harming people, so we did a lot of rituals to exorcise evil spirits..."
"Tomorrow I will go clarify it to everyone in the village. This is what the two gentlemen said. Everyone must believe it!"
Xu Fenglei nodded.
It's time to clarify, we can't let people die and still be regarded as bad luck, right?
"Mr. Sun, Xiao Linzi is a very well-behaved child! Please accept him!"
Old Liu suddenly bowed and begged,
"He will definitely learn medical skills!"
Publicly and privately, he hoped that Sun Simiao would accept Xiao Linzi as his apprentice.
In this way, their village will have a doctor who can treat illnesses and save lives!
"...I will consider it."
Sun Simiao thought about it again and again, but still did not make a rash decision. He waved his hand and said,
"Okay, it's getting late, let's go back and rest."
Xu Fenglei suddenly added:
"It will be buried tomorrow. Let's go and see it together. I just love watching people being buried."
Lao Liu: "..."
What kind of special hobby is this?
"good."
He responded, turned around, closed the door for the two of them, and went back to the hall to sleep.
