Doctor Zhou's eyes were shining as he stood aside and looked at Chu Yue for a long time, as if he wanted to examine Chu Yue carefully from head to toe, wishing he could cut open her heart and carefully identify whether she was someone he could trust.

He was thinking about something very important.

Chu Yue did not sense any malice in Doctor Zhou's eyes, so she didn't think anything of it. Instead, she stood up, took a chair, and put it next to Doctor Zhou.

"Doctor Zhou, please sit down. Do you have anything to say to me?"

After a long time, Doctor Zhou seemed to have made some decision and lowered his eyes slightly.

When he looked up, Doctor Zhou pointed to a wooden box beside him and asked Chu Yue to take it.

A small wooden box drawer, when opened, contained some dried herbs. To ordinary people, they looked like ordinary dead grass, but in Chu Yue's eyes, they were eye-opening.

Doctor Zhou pointed at the herbs in the wooden box and asked Chu Yue, "Do you recognize these herbs?"

Chu Yue picked it up, looked at it, smelled it, and answered one by one.

"This is Saxifraga, this is Cibotium barometz... this is Polygonatum sibiricum, Rejuvenating Herb... and there are Acorus calamus, Paris polyphylla, Drynaria fortunei... Doctor Zhou, you even have Paris polyphylla."

While Chu Yue was answering Dr. Zhou's questions, her eyes were shining with excitement.

That was her joy out of her doctor's instinct.

Because the medicinal herbs in this wooden box are all rare and wild, they are hard to come by and it takes a lot of luck to come across them.

Doctor Zhou has so many talents, probably because he has accumulated them through decades of medical practice.

These things may look like weeds, but in terms of value, they are more valuable than pearls and diamonds.

Chu Yue is fortunate enough to see it now, and even though it doesn’t belong to her, she still feels happy.

When Doctor Zhou was testing Chu Yue, Doctor Hao came over to take a look. He knew a little bit about Chinese medicine, and was good at treating headaches and fevers, but he didn't know much about Chinese medicinal materials and had never heard of some of the rare herbs.

He was amazed by what he heard, and at the same time he had a vague feeling in his heart what Doctor Zhou was going to do.

Just a few minutes ago, Doctor Hao examined Doctor Zhou, and the final result was...they both looked at each other and shook their heads.

Doctor Zhou was severely poisoned, and because he had been overworked for a long time after the poisoning and ignored his health to take care of other poisoned patients, he had no time to rest at all, and the poison eroded his internal organs.

Doctor Zhou doesn't have much time left, maybe just these few days.

Doctor Zhou had no regrets for sacrificing his own life to save more than a dozen people in the village.

He is just an old man. It's no pity if he dies.

Unfortunately, because he had no children and had never met any talented younger generations, Doctor Zhou never accepted any disciples in his life. If he died, his medical skills would have no one to inherit.

God was still kind to him, because in the last moments, he sent Chu Yue to him.

After hearing Chu Yue's answer, Doctor Zhou let go of the last bit of insecurity in his heart and completely accepted Chu Yue.

Chu Yue's talent and talents are unmatched.

Doctor Zhou doesn't need to teach her from scratch, nor does he have the time to teach her from scratch. She is definitely the best successor.

He raised his head and looked at Chu Yue, "Chu girl, do you want to learn Baiyao?"

In silence, Doctor Zhou changed the way he addressed Chu Yue, and his attitude also changed.

Chu Yue was stunned at first, then she reacted and asked excitedly, "Doctor Zhou, are you willing to take me as your apprentice?"

Doctor Zhou smiled and shook his head. "You know more than me, but I am not as good as you in medical skills. I am afraid I am not qualified to be your master. I don't have much time left. I have no children and no one to worry about in this life. But my ability to identify hundreds of herbs will not be inherited by anyone. I am afraid that Baiyao will be lost in my family. If you are willing to learn, I will teach you everything I know. I hope you can pass on Baiyao."

"Doctor Zhou, I will definitely study hard."

Chu Yue looked sincere and promised seriously.

Doctor Zhou nodded with satisfaction, then asked Chu Yue to sit down and began to tell his story.

"I am a Bai people..."

When Dr. Zhou was a child, he lived in a village deep in the mountains. All the people in the village were Bai people, and they had made a living by growing and selling herbs for hundreds of years.

The deep mountains of the southwest have a special geographical climate that can produce a variety of magical herbs that are not found anywhere else.

Because it was discovered, recorded and used by the Bai people, it is also called Baiyao, and their village is Baicao Village.

Among them, the formula of Southern Yunnan Baiyao is the most famous in later generations.

But unfortunately, the war came, the country was destroyed, Baicao Village was bombed in the war, and the Bai people fled in all directions. Some died, some hid in the deeper mountains, and some, like Doctor Zhou, moved to other villages and hid their Bai identity.

"Chu girl, these things are the result of my decades of hard work in practicing medicine. Now I hand them over to you."

Doctor Zhou slowly stood up and took out a thick stack of papers and books from the cabinet. The papers were yellow and wrinkled, with dense calligraphy written on the back, and they looked quite old.

Chu Yue just glanced at it briefly and immediately showed respect.

The paper part contains prescriptions recorded by Doctor Zhou, each of which can deal with various difficult and complicated diseases.

Among them is the recipe for the Diannan Baiyao that Chu Yue wanted to learn in her previous life but was unable to because it was a state secret. This thing is worth ten thousand taels of gold.

Under the stack of prescriptions is a book written by Doctor Zhou, titled "Baizu Materia Medica". [Photo]

The book contains illustrations of various medicinal herbs, all of which record Bai medicine of the Bai ethnic group. From leaves to rhizomes, from the front to the side, they are all carefully drawn, and the names, uses, and properties of the herbs are noted for easy use as medicine.

It is a thick book containing at least several hundred kinds of herbs.

Doctor Zhou spent his entire life recording all the herbs he had seen and used in this book.

What Chu Yue held in her hands at this moment was no longer a piece of light paper, but a heavy responsibility, the inheritance of Chinese medicinal herbs.

"Doctor Zhou, these things are too valuable."

"These things are just a pile of waste paper to me. You might as well burn more gold ingots instead of burning them for me when I die. It is the best use of them to make great progress in your hands." Doctor Zhou patted Chu Yue's hand, "Chu girl, we are destined to be together. I leave these to you."

For Chu Yue, being able to study medicine unexpectedly was a fate between her and Dr. Zhou; for Dr. Zhou, it was a blessing for him to meet a talented apprentice before his life went astray.

That evening, Song Qi came to the village to pick someone up.

Doctor Hao had been busy all day, from midnight till dark. He was still in the alcohol withdrawal period, so his energy was not good and he looked tired.

Chu Yue helped Doctor Hao get into the car and told Song Qi, "Song Qi, drive slowly on the road and pay attention to taking good care of Doctor Hao."

Song Qi responded and asked doubtfully, "Sister-in-law, aren't you going back?"