If you don't give up, I'd like to be your adoptive father.

Chapter 143 Stealing Kung Fu
These days, Xiaoyu goes to Bao'an Hall every afternoon.

She practiced swordplay in the morning, and after breakfast went to Lixiang Garden to teach Ziying and a group of girls who were willing to learn from her swordplay.

She didn't stop her own "schoolwork".

Reading, practicing piano, dancing, poetry. She has now come to terms with it and doesn't want to be an "ancient high-level illiterate" with modern thinking.

She would study a little bit of anything she could learn.

You don't need to be proficient in it, just have a basic understanding of it.

After lunch, she went back to Xiaojingxuan, changed into medicine boy's clothes, tied her hair into a bun and fixed it with a wooden hairpin, and changed her embroidered shoes into white linen shoes.

Dressed like a handsome little Taoist boy.

Doctor Min did not teach her any medical skills. Like other medicine boys, she first learned to identify, process and dry the medicinal materials. These were the basic skills.

The next step is to refine and weigh the medicinal materials and prepare medicine bags according to the prescription.

The next step is to refine the medicine.

It is not just about boiling medicinal soup, there are pills, powders, external plasters, and squeezing "magic juice" from medicinal materials.
After two days of tossing and turning in Bao'antang, Xiaoyu had to admit that even though Doctor Min was a superb doctor, he was still a traditional ancient doctor.

When it comes to treating disciples, don't even think about the one-on-one teaching and the close relationship between master and apprentice like father, son, or brothers in the classical fantasy novels.

They are even worse than the primary and secondary school teachers in modern society who are indifferent to human nature.

The medicine boys at Bao'antang are not like apprentices, but more like free child laborers.

Dr. Min basically does not teach classes or conduct public teaching.

The new little medicine boy is taught by the older medicine boy, who mainly reads medical books to lay the foundation.

Only after the patient had finished reading the medical skills that Dr. Min had specified as required and had proved in the test that he had truly read and understood them, did Dr. Min take him with him to treat patients together.

The apprentice diagnosed first, and he then tapped the pulse three times with his fingers.

If the apprentice was correct, he would nod slightly; if the apprentice made a mistake, he would remain silent, but would correct it when writing the prescription, and give the apprentice a few pointers after the patient left.

Xiaoyu can understand Dr. Min's approach.

He is a chief physician, not a teacher in medical school.

Treating patients is Dr. Min's main responsibility, and training apprentices is just a secondary responsibility.

There is not enough time and energy to provide one-on-one teaching to apprentices.

Even Xiaoyu is the same as the other medicine boys.

These days, Xiaoyu has been working as a child laborer, cleaning and drying medicinal materials for Dr. Min for free.

This is the job with the lowest technical content but very high workload.

Doctor Min still took her special situation into consideration and did not intend to exploit this young female worker.

He gave her Shennong's Classic of Materia Medica and asked her to memorize it and read it thoroughly before coming to the clinic to see him, so that she could avoid the "primary child labor" stage of handling medicinal materials.

Xiaoyu understood his intentions. She herself also felt that handling medicinal materials was repetitive work, complicated and unproductive.

But she came on the first day, and continued to come on the second day, and it even became a habit.

Because she has the Heart Sea Jue, she can steal the skills of the entire Bao'an Hall.

For example, now, she was squatting by the ear gate, and several old peasant women from outside the city were pushing wheelbarrows, wanting to sell the dandelions, ancient oil, and "old garlic" they dug from all over the mountains during the slack season to Bao'antang.

Another medicine boy was responsible for weighing, and Xiaoyu was responsible for keeping accounts and paying.

She seemed to be working hard, and in fact she was.

She has excellent mental arithmetic skills and never makes mistakes without using an abacus.

But at the same time, she entered the Xin Hai Jue state and listened to Brother Zhang teaching his fellow disciples the "36 Tian Gang Methods" - the 36 secrets of making medicinal soup by the fire in the backyard.

Also in the pharmacy in the backyard, 40-year-old Cai Yao "Tong" teaches his fellow apprentices how to make medicine pills.

In the pharmacy on the left side of the main hall, there are thousands of neatly arranged medicine cabinets and four or five wooden ladders. Seven or eight medicine boys are climbing up and down with nimble hands and feet, holding prescriptions and preparing medicines for patients.

In the corner of the pharmacy, there was a senior brother named Li, who was explaining the "Dr. Min's Pulse Diagnosis Song" to his three junior brothers.

Well, Doctor Min compiled the basic medical theories of pulse diagnosis into a verse and taught it to his "senior apprentices".

It can be said that although Xiaoyu was apparently dealing with medicinal materials, her medical knowledge was growing rapidly every day.

The knowledge she gained in one day was the result of the hard study of an ordinary medicine boy for dozens of days or even months.

But all of the above only consumed three or four points of Xiaoyu's attention, and she focused more of her energy on Doctor Min.

Doctor Min was taking the patient's pulse, tapping gently on the pulse three times as usual.

With just three clicks, he not only knew all of the patient's own symptoms, but also knew the conditions of the people the patient had daily contact with and close blood relatives.

What Xiaoyu was concerned about was not the expression and movements of Doctor Min, but the reaction of the "qi" in the patient's body after he tapped the pulse three times!

Doctor Min never explained his "medical skills" to any of his apprentices, but he did not hide anything about the patients' "disease energy" and "life and death energy".

Not only did he directly say that he was checking for illness by taking the pulse.

When he gave daily medical knowledge instruction to senior apprentices, he also explicitly asked them not to prescribe medicine for patients according to fixed prescriptions.

Even for the same disease and the same patient, the circumstances may be different and the same prescription cannot be used to dispense medicine.

The key is the illness!
The so-called "sick qi" refers to the unbalanced qi in the yin and yang qi of the human body.

In short, the yin and yang energies of the human body must be balanced, and the qi of the five elements must also be balanced. Yin and yang are the trunk, and the five elements are the branches and leaves. The "qi" that makes the yin and yang and the five elements unbalanced is the disease qi.

By eliminating the pathogenic qi and restoring the balance of Yin and Yang and the Five Elements, the disease can be initially treated.

Being sick will cause the Yin and Yang and Five Elements' Qi to be weakened. Even if a balance is achieved, only the symptoms will be eliminated, but the person will still become weak due to the weakening of Yin and Yang and Five Elements' Qi.

Only by allowing the Yin and Yang and the Five Elements to be replenished and strengthened again can we truly eradicate the root cause of the disease and restore health.

All the middle and senior apprentices in Bao'antang know this kind of medical theory.

Even other doctors can talk endlessly and give a long passage of similar theories.

But the key is how to identify the "disease" accurately and efficiently.

The doctor's methods of observation, auscultation, questioning and palpation are to indirectly infer the "disease qi" through the patient's external appearance. The magic of Dr. Min is that he can capture the "disease qi" directly by palpating the pulse.

Inference may be wrong, and the process of inference is time-consuming and energy-consuming. Directly "seeing" the pathogenic qi is efficient and accurate and will not make mistakes.

However, everyone can guess why Dr. Min is so awesome, but no one can learn to be as awesome as him.

Not to mention an ordinary medicine boy, even a human immortal master, standing by and staring at it without blinking, would not be able to notice anything unusual.

Xiaoyu didn't think about prying into the secrets of Doctor Min at first.

She just thought that handling medicinal herbs was too boring, so she did three things at once as usual: while dealing with the matters at hand, she silently exercised her inner strength, and at the same time used her intuition to deduce the "Heart Sea Jue 1.1" to make it more perfect and even go a step further.

Then she discovered that Xin Hai Jue could eavesdrop on the medical experience of her fellow practitioners.

When she projected Dr. Min and the patients diagnosed by him into her own "Kunpeng Sea of ​​Mind", there appeared a strange and extremely subtle ripple in the depths of the dark and quiet sea of ​​mind, emanating from Dr. Min and the patients!

"The ripples on the patient's body come from the disease. Are the ripples on Doctor Min's body the 'medical spirit' that stimulates and senses the disease?"

Xiaoyu had some enlightenment and felt more motivated to come to Bao'antang.

"Mr. An will probably be here today." Xiao Yu sighed softly after seeing Doctor Min that afternoon.

Doctor Min was stunned for a moment and asked, "Which old An is it?"

"The old steward of Mr. Wang's family." Xiao Yu said.

Doctor Min pondered and said, "She hasn't come to the clinic these days since she left last time. Did you go to the Wang family to visit her?"

Xiao Yu shook her head and said, "Mr. Wang is a particular person, and particular people are often too troublesome.

No matter what small gift you give him today, he will ask his son and daughter-in-law to give you a more expensive gift in return the next day.

I did a little favor to his family today, but he didn't express his gratitude or return the favor immediately, and I even couldn't sleep well at night.

The neighbors were all concerned about his family's condition, but they didn't dare to get too close.

Within two days of moving into Xiaojingxuan, Xiaoyu became familiar with Cui'er and Aunt Zhang in the backyard.

I also bought some snacks such as sugar cubes and cakes, wrapped them in colored paper, and gave them as small gifts to nearby neighbors.

Aunt Zhang and the others accepted it with a smile, but the next day, the Wang family asked Cui'er to give her a piece of brightly colored silk in return.

It is also wrapped in colored paper, very standard and formal.

On the afternoon when Mrs. Xu jumped into the river, Xiaoyu helped the old steward. The next day, Mr. Wang's eldest son stood at the back door early in the morning, waiting for her to jump onto the roof to practice sword. He immediately bowed to her and said a lot of words of gratitude.

This made Xiaoyu very uncomfortable.

Later, when she became familiar with Aunt Zhang and the others, she told them about this incident. Aunt Zhang smiled and said that Mr. Wang had always been like this.

Neither Mr. Wang nor his two sons usually go out to hang out or chat. Except when they go out of town to take care of the farm outside the city, they spend their free time at home reading.

But if a neighbor visits his home, he will definitely welcome them warmly, respond to their requests, and be extremely sincere.

Whenever neighbors helped his family, he would want to repay them on the same day.

When the old man fell ill this time, the neighbors initially visited him with old chickens and ducks. As a result, the next day, the two sons of the Wang family went from house to house to return the gifts.

The old mother fell ill, and the two sons were really filial. They served her medicine day and night. In just a few days, she became very thin. The neighbors felt both sad and pity for them and could not bear to make them suffer any more.

However, a few ladies secretly formed a group and went to the City God Temple to pray for the old temple master twice.

The Wang family was not informed.

Doctor Min smiled and said, "Mr. Wang is a sincere gentleman. He is actually very easy to get along with. He can even be described as humorous and witty, and he is suitable for both the refined and the popular.

He could have a lively conversation with farmers on the ridges of the fields, scholars in the court, and hermits in the mountains. "

"Do you know him?" Xiaoyu asked.

Doctor Min nodded and sighed, "He and I are both locals in Tianmen Town. In his early years, he tried to study medicine to make a living. I gave him a few medical books."

After a pause, he asked again: "Since you haven't seen the Queen herself, why do you say that her death is today?

Even if his family starts preparing the coffin, funeral clothes and other items, they may not be used immediately.

Not to mention the wealthy families like Mr. Wang, even ordinary families would prepare funeral items for their parents in advance, so that they can pass away peacefully and calmly. "

Xiao Yu said, "I saw Sister Cui'er. She had a strong aura of death. It must be that Old An is dying."

Doctor Min carefully observed her expression and eyes, and asked, "Can you see death energy? What does death energy look like?"

Xiaoyu expressed her feelings again.

Doctor Min was surprised and said: "It is indeed a sign of death, Old An is about to die!
Alas, she didn't live more than half a month. But why can you see the death energy?"

Xiao Yu smiled and said, "Because I am your disciple."

Doctor Min narrowed his eyes, twirled his goat beard, and said calmly, "I remember you have been processing herbs in the backyard these days."

Xiao Yu said: "I have sharp ears and bright eyes. I heard my senior brother and teacher explain medicine and saw the teacher feel the pulse of the patient."

After saying that she looked at him expectantly.

Doctor Min sighed softly, avoided her burning gaze, and said, "You are very talented. You can read more medical books in the backyard!"

After saying that, he turned and left.

"Just read more medical books?"

Xiaoyu looked disappointed, but she didn't want to force it.

That night, while she was cultivating her inner energy in the pool and studying the golden carp jade pendant, she suddenly heard a heart-wrenching wail coming from the back alley.

She was startled and stood up from the pool, immediately guessing that the old master of the Wang family was gone.

After standing on the roof and watching for a while, we saw that the lights were bright and the whole family was crying.

She activated the Heart Sea Technique and scanned the surroundings carefully, noticing that the ghosts of the Guan family in the rockery pavilion were also watching the Wang family, but she did not see the ghost of the old master, nor the Black and White Impermanence who came to take souls.

"Don't even think about getting a good night's sleep tonight, why not..."

Xiao Yu had an idea and changed his clothes. Then he flew towards West City as lightly and silently as a big bird.

(End of this chapter)