Thinking about going to the capital tomorrow, I felt both excited and a little uneasy.

The capital city was a completely unfamiliar place to her. Was there any hope of curing her father's leg there?

Thinking about all this, Xia Wan drifted off to sleep.

The next morning, while it was still dark and the first rays of dawn had not yet pierced the thick night, Xia Wan was already jolted awake from her sleep by the system's shrill alarm clock.

She rubbed her sleepy eyes, quickly rolled out of bed, and completed the simple washing and grooming process as fast as she could.

Immediately afterwards, she began to pack her luggage with quick and efficient movements, neatly placing each item into her backpack.

When she stepped out of the room with her luggage, she found that her father, Xia Jianguo, had been waiting for a long time in the main room in his wheelchair. He was holding the familiar cane tightly in his hand, and his eyes were calm and gentle as he looked at the door.

At the same time, Xia Tao, the older brother, was carrying two bowls of steaming food into the main room. When he saw his sister come out, he called out with a smile, "Xiao Wan, come and wash your face and get ready to eat. You have to catch the train so early in the morning, you can't go without eating a full stomach!"

"Okay, brother, you guys eat first, I'll be right there!" Xia Wan replied, forcing herself to quicken her pace towards the washbasin. After all, time was of the essence, and she couldn't afford to dawdle.

A moment later, Xia Wan quickly washed her face and sat down at the dining table.

However, despite the enticing aroma of the steaming porridge in front of her, she had absolutely no appetite.

Xia Tao saw all of this and said softly with concern, "Xiao Wan, you should eat more. You've had a long and tiring journey."

Hearing her brother's concerned words, Xia Wan could only force a smile, then slowly picked up the spoon and painstakingly shoveled small mouthfuls of porridge into her mouth.

Ugh, eating right after waking up is such a terrible feeling, I have absolutely no appetite!

After dinner, Xia Tao took his father to the train station on his bicycle, where they would leave the bicycle at a friend's house near the station.

In the 1970s, the train station square was already overwhelmed by bustling crowds. People carried large and small bags, some with bedding and clothes wrapped in tattered cloth, others with baskets full of dry food, and hurriedly surged into the station.

A long, winding queue stretched for dozens of meters in front of the ticket window. People stood close together, occasionally tiptoeing and craning their necks to anxiously look towards the window, afraid of missing the ticket seller's call. Someone shouted loudly for those in front not to cut in line, causing a small commotion.

The waiting hall was bustling with activity. Benches were packed with people, some with luggage on their laps, others at their feet, and the narrow aisles were completely blocked. Children ran and cried through the crowd, their shouts and cries mingling with the sounds of their games. In a corner, some sat on the floor, their eyes weary yet filled with anticipation for the journey.

Whenever an announcement comes on that a train is about to arrive at the station, the crowd surges like a tide toward the platform. Everyone clutches their luggage tightly, struggling to make their way through the crowd. It's as if this crowded train station is a vivid microcosm of people's busy lives in this era.

Xia Wan and her group arrived at just the right time to have their tickets checked and board the train.

Xia Tao carried his father on his back and squeezed into the carriage, while Xia Wan used her strength to create space for them.

After finally finding seats with great difficulty, Xia Wan and the others breathed a sigh of relief.

"Phew, finally we can sit down. There's still a long way to go. Dad, Xiaowan, you two rest first. I'll watch the things." Xia Tao placed his family's bundles beside him.

Anyway, they didn't have much stuff, so he could easily take care of it all by himself.

"I'm fine, brother, you should rest first. You got up so early today." Xia Wan looked at her brother and said, "I'll call you when I'm tired."

Xia Tao glanced at her a few times to make sure she wasn't tired before leaning back in his chair and closing his eyes to rest.

Having already taken the train once, Xia Wan had lost her curiosity and stared blankly with her eyes half-closed, her consciousness actually sinking into the space.

Since I can sense the outside world even from inside the space, I might as well take some time to go inside and learn some medical skills.

She has recently started trying to take pulses; the space has a lifelike simulator and all the tools for learning medicine.

Anything she needed to learn medicine at the Chinese Medicine Academy would be simulated there.

What a pity! Studying here is truly a real learning experience; you have to accumulate knowledge little by little.

Fortunately, she has a fairly good memory. Otherwise, she probably wouldn't have been able to memorize those difficult and obscure Chinese medicine prescriptions, which were like heavenly books, no matter how much time she had.

However, even so, so far, all she has been able to memorize are some of the most basic Chinese medicine prescriptions.

"Oh dear, little system, couldn't you give me some kind of magic pill or something so I could understand all this knowledge completely in one go?"

Although she has managed to memorize this knowledge, it will take a lot of time and effort to truly integrate and thoroughly understand it.

[I'm sorry, host, there is no such magical pill. Only knowledge acquired through your own hard work and learning can truly belong to you. Please stop trying to find shortcuts.]

Hearing this, Xia Wan couldn't help but purse her lips and muttered with dissatisfaction, "Hmph, it's obvious that you're incompetent, but you're stubborn and refuse to admit it, and you have to find some high-sounding reasons to fob me off."

The system was utterly speechless...

Xia Wan couldn't help but sigh inwardly, feeling that the system she was bound to was worlds apart from the systems that the female protagonists in the various novels she had read about were bound to.

Look at other people's systems, they are all so gentle, cute, and considerate; then look at my broken system, it's just a lifeless wooden stake!

"Sigh... It seems I'm truly destined not to be the leading lady. Not only is this so-called 'golden finger' pitifully thin, it can't even do something as simple as chatting with me to relieve my boredom."

Xia Wan muttered to herself with a heart full of resentment, her tone laced with bitterness.

The system continued to play dead, ignoring everything Xia Wan said.

Xia Wan found it boring, so she pouted and continued studying at the Traditional Chinese Medicine school. No matter how much she complained, she still had to learn what she needed to learn!