Chapter 60: Witchcraft

On this day, a group of people from the Gu family sent Gu Tingchuan and three others to a private school in the city.

Gu Feixue looked reluctant, while Gu Sang and Gu Da beside her looked surprised.

"Dad and Mom, please go back. I will take good care of Xue'er and the others."

When the Gu family held the highest official rank, they always invited teachers to come to the house to teach Gu Tingchuan, but this was the first time he went to a private school.

When she arrived at the school, Gu Feixue saw no less than twenty young boys chattering there.

In an instant, Gu Feixue was overwhelmed.

"Xue'er, can we learn the Central Plains dialect in the future?"

Gu Feixue saw Gu Sang and Gu Da who were very excited, and nodded weakly.

Then the two of them walked aside to make new friends.

This private school adopts the teaching philosophy of teaching without discrimination. The teacher explains some knowledge every day, and then everyone reviews their lessons.

Gu Sang and Gu Da were naturally confused and had to start with simple listening, speaking, reading and writing.

Gu Tingchuan, however, had already read the Four Books and Five Classics thoroughly.

As for Gu Feixue, she could even understand medical books, but here she could only pretend not to understand and follow Gu Sang and Gu Da beside her to do nothing.

Two months passed in such a boring way.

The Spring Festival is just a few days away, and Gu Feixue finally made it to the ancient winter vacation.

During this period, Gu Feixue slacked off in school during the day, and at night she would sneak to Taoyuan to read while Gu Sang was asleep.

I only stay in Taoyuan for an hour every day and then go back, but I still gain a lot.

At least Gu Feixue had already memorized most of the herbs from the north and south, and she only had to read some foreign herbs from the Western Regions to complete her reading.

However, after reading all this, Gu Feixue didn't know what to do.

Firstly, Gu Feixue has to go to school during the day, and it is dark at night, so she can't light a lamp to farm.

Secondly, after two months of studying herbal medicine, she discovered that those expensive and profitable herbs were basically aged.

If she can't grow anything in ten or eight years, what's the point of growing anything?

By the time these herbs are grown, the daylilies will have grown too.

There are cheap and fast-growing herbs, but there are a lot of them on the mountain. In ancient times, few people knew about herbs, and the mountains were almost full of treasures.

If she wanted to sell them for money, it would be faster for her to go directly to the mountains and pick them.

But she still had several hundred taels of silver on hand and had nowhere to spend it, so why should she go to the mountains to suffer?

So the plan of growing herbs was completely aborted, and after learning all the knowledge about herbs, Gu Feixue didn't know what to learn next.

That day, Gu Feixue arrived at Taoyuan as usual and saw Rong Xing was also in the Sutra Library.

Seeing him sitting on the cushion she had brought without any courtesy, Gu Feixue said depressedly:

"Didn't I give you two too? Get out of here."

Rong Xing's attitude was completely different from two months ago. Before, he looked at Gu Feixue with a flattering smile:

"Xue'er, I forgot to bring mine. Let's sit together."

As early as a month ago, Rong Xing became Rong Qi's disciple and accepted the Rong family's medical inheritance, so he naturally had access to the Sutra Library.

However, what puzzled Gu Feixue was that Rong Xing's attitude towards her had improved a lot since the medicine cabinet exam that day.

Sometimes she gets bored and wants to talk to someone but can't.

When Gu Feixue heard Rong Xing's shameless words, she naturally didn't argue with him.

I took the book I had finished reading last time and sat on the other half of the cushion, reading it out of boredom.

"Xue'er, why do you look like this?"

Rong Xing quickly noticed Gu Feixue's depressed expression.

"Alas, I have finished reading these books, but I don't know what to do afterward."

Rong Xing was slightly stunned, then blurted out, "Don't you want to grow herbs? You can plant them naturally after reading this."

Gu Feixue rolled her eyes:

"I'm in the city now, attending a private school all day. How can I find the time to grow herbs?"

Rong Xing scratched his head. "That's right. Why don't you study medicine like me? You have a foundation in herbal medicine. I'll ask my master to find some medical books for you to read."

Gu Feixue's heart moved when she heard this.

"Can your Rong family's medical skills be passed on to others?"

Rong Xing, however, had a look on his face that said, "You don't know."

"Master has already considered you his disciple, otherwise he wouldn't have allowed you into the Sutra Library. However, the Grandmaster has set a rule that each successor can only accept one disciple, so he didn't ask you to become his disciple, but allowed you into the Sutra Library."

Gu Feixue became even more confused after hearing this:

"Then even if I study medicine, I need someone to teach me. I can't learn it just by reading books, right?"

Rong Xing, however, had a look of no need to worry:

"Master said you have a good understanding, maybe you can learn it?"

Gu Feixue thought to herself that Rong Xing really thought highly of her.

But there is no harm in taking a look. Even if you can't learn it completely, you can at least learn the basics, and you will definitely not suffer any loss when you venture out into the world in the future.

"Okay, then I'll listen to you. Where's Rong Qi?"

Rong Xing suddenly thought of something and slapped his head:

"I forgot that Master goes into seclusion every year at this time. Why don't we find it ourselves? The medical books are in the Sutra Library anyway. You can learn whichever one you like."

"That's fine. Let's talk to Rong Qi when he comes back. Take your time reading it. I'll go find some medical books."

So Gu Feixue started hanging around the Sutra Library. The books she had read before were all related to herbal pharmacology.

I haven't visited other places yet, but after visiting here, I found that there are countless types of books in the Sutra Library.

It also covers all walks of life, even books on dietary supplements, which are not considered orthodox medicine.

Of course, she also saw some royal secrets of sexual intercourse, such as the art of absorbing yin to replenish yang, which Gu Feixue watched with great interest. She had never thought that the ancients had such research, which was truly eye-opening.

After searching for a full half hour, Gu Feixue finally found a medical book that interested her very much at the top of a bookshelf.

However, this medical book is not an ordinary medical book, because it teaches the Miao witchcraft.

Of course, it also contains methods to resolve these witchcrafts, otherwise how can it be called a medical book?

As for why Gu Feixue was interested in this, it was naturally because of the three strange wild boars she encountered on Ruyi Mountain a long time ago.

At that time, the three wild boars seemed to be insensitive to pain and wanted to attack her like crazy, with their pupils all bloodshot.

After they were shot to death by Zhuifeng, Gu Feixue was cautious and checked the wild boar corpses.

Sure enough, there were some unusual things in the wild boar's blood. They looked like maggots, but were darker in color. As the wild boar's blood coagulated, the insect eggs gradually lost their vitality. Gu Feixue believed that they were poisonous insects.

After all, in his previous life, special forces soldiers had also seen some strange local witch doctors when they went to some special areas to maintain stability.

However, modern witch doctors are different from ancient ones. They usually use insects to suck out the dirty blood of the human body instead of using poisonous insects to harm people.

Now that she happened to see the witchcraft of this era, how could she not be interested?

Once she had learned the art of witchcraft, she would naturally know what kind of poisonous insects had been put into those wild boars.

She can also find out who wants to harm her.