After Su Jiaoniang finished speaking, she checked the account book and glanced at Su Tong, who liked to read, in the crowd.

She said, "Keeping accounts like this is a bit cumbersome. Let me teach you another way."

Su Tong put down the silk thread in his hand and walked to Su Jiaoniang's side.

Su Jiaoniang taught Su Tong a simple bookkeeping method.

The expenses, income, and costs of the disabled and children's home are not very complicated.

Daily consumption is mostly the same. Although times are tough now, prices haven't risen and fallen rapidly yet, so there's no need to understand all the accounting and bookkeeping algorithms.

"I'll teach you the rest later," Su Jiaoniang said.

Su Tong pursed his lips and glanced at Su Jiaoniang: "I want to study medicine."

“Okay!” Su Jiaoniang agreed.

Although Su Tong was very talented in making hairpins, the items in the shop were more than enough to support the expenses of the orphanage.

But why should life extinguish your passions when you have them?

“There’s a doctor named Liu in the village. He’s very skilled, but he has a bad temper. You’ll have to be patient with him,” Su Jiaoniang said.

Su Tong lowered his head, feeling somewhat embarrassed.

"Am I a particularly bad person, Dean?"

"What's wrong? Where is it broken?" Su Jiaoniang blinked.

Su Tong reached out and touched his knee. He said, "If I study medicine, I will have less time to make hairpins, and the shop's income will also decrease. However, the number of people that the orphanage needs to care for will increase in the future, and perhaps one day, we will be unable to make ends meet."

“But we can’t sacrifice you. You’re at the age where you’re learning new skills, right? I won’t refuse to help if you can, but if you have a need, ideas, confidence, and resilience, why not let you try?”

Su Jiaoniang patted Su Tong's head. The child was young, but he had many ideas.

Perhaps because of his leg disability, he was both self-conscious and arrogant, and his personality was somewhat obsessive.

However, he is still a child. If he is injured and still laughing and joking, she would suspect that there might be something wrong with his mind.

He can still communicate, he can talk to her, and he can express his own thoughts, which is good.

Su Jiaoniang couldn't help but praise, "So well-behaved!"

Su Tong blushed and lowered her head.

"If you go to study medicine, you'll have to live in the village, which means you'll be separated from Tiger Girl and the others. Aren't you scared?"

"I'm not afraid!" Su Tong shook his head.

"I can use my spare time to make hairpins and keep accounts while I'm studying medicine, so that I won't get numb here!" Su Tong became obedient, which made Su Jiaoniang feel sorry for him.

What a lovely child!

They're so sensible.

"Don't work too hard. Balance work and rest. Don't put too much pressure on yourself. You're still a child," Su Jiaoniang said.

Su Tong nodded.

He is a child, but precisely because he has plenty of time, he should make the most of it.

Otherwise, he won't be capable when needed.

Then he would be truly pathetic and utterly useless.

Su Jiaoniang left the orphanage and began to devise a plan to bribe Doctor Liu to take in Su Tong.

There is no doubt that Dr. Liu is a skilled doctor.

But he is also someone who enjoys research.

Asking him to teach Buddhism was already putting pressure on the old man.

Now there's one more, Su Tong.

Never mind, such excellent medical skills cannot be passed on without a successor. Although Futu is talented and capable, the child is somewhat distracted. He is not focused on learning medicine; he also studies for the imperial examination.

They also need to learn martial arts.

He had to get involved in everything, big and small, at home.

It's very difficult to get him to focus on studying medicine and become Dr. Liu's successor.

But Su Tong was different; he brought it up himself.

When Su Jiaoniang returned home, she realized that distracting Doctor Liu couldn't be solved with just one meal.

Dr. Liu is interested in advancements in medical technology. She is not a doctor, and the things she knows are mostly emergency measures.

But these measures...

Su Jiaoniang thought she should give it a try.

She asked Ms. Xie to prepare hot pot ingredients, and then took them to Doctor Liu's house.

As I entered the courtyard, I saw Lu Wujiu standing inside.

What is he doing here?

Su Jiaoniang had some doubts.

Could it be that the wound on his chest hasn't healed yet?

Lu Wujiu's gaze fell on Su Jiaoniang, and he was at a loss for what expression to make.

Dr. Liu said there was nothing wrong with his eyes.

There's nothing wrong with his mind.

The possibility of hallucinations or illusions is very small.

This proves that she really did see his face and his wounds in the snow that day.

I want to explain something, but at this moment I have no way to explain it.

He walked over to Su Jiaoniang and stood silently beside her.

Su Jiaoniang no longer felt any respect for this man. The Regent? Ha... He's just a piece of trash who abandoned his wife and children.

She glanced at him, then looked at Doctor Liu: "What are you busy with? Come and have some hot pot with us."

Doctor Liu wasn't really interested in eating. He said, "The fox is paying respects to the chicken. You can't have come here for nothing. Tell me, what do you want from me?"

“There’s a child who wants to study medicine. You happen to have superb medical skills, practically a miracle doctor. Why don’t you mentor him?” Su Jiaoniang said with a smile.

Dr. Liu looked up and inhaled, staring at Su Jiaoniang: "Do you think I have a lot of free time?"

“Then he must not be very free.” Su Jiaoniang said, setting out the food she was carrying, pushing a stool aside, and Doctor Liu washed his hands and sat down opposite Su Jiaoniang.

"Do you think I have the time?" Dr. Liu asked while eating hotpot.

Su Jiaoniang raised an eyebrow: "Time is like water in a sponge; you can always squeeze some out."

"..." Doctor Liu didn't speak, he was not happy about it.

Su Jiaoniang exhaled: "Do you know CPR and artificial respiration?"

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