Doctor Liu tried to pull his hand back but shook his head, saying, "Old Du, I won't do any experiments involving drinking medicine."
Du Xiuyuan gritted his teeth and said, "Don't worry, I'll only use five silver needles."
Oh, it's acupuncture. That's fine; the Imperial Hospital staff often practice acupuncture on each other.
"Oh! Just five silver needles, can that really demonstrate the unparalleled medical skills your master taught you?"
Everyone in the Imperial Medical Academy put down what they were doing and came over to see what funny medical skills Du Xiuyuan had learned from a young woman.
Five is enough!
Du Xiuyuan asked Physician Liu to roll up his sleeves, and Du Xiuyuan inserted silver needles into his upper arm as he felt them.
Soon, five silver needles were inserted into different acupoints, and they didn't look any different at all.
"Doctor Du, I can do something like that too. Is this what your master taught you?"
Everyone who came to see it wanted to burst into laughter, and even the dean only glanced at it before shaking his head and leaving.
He had thought Du Xiuyuan was really capable, but now it seems he's nothing special.
At first, even Physician Liu didn't take it seriously and even wanted to tell Du Xiuyuan to quickly remove the silver needles to avoid making a fool of himself.
It wasn't until Du Xiuyuan spoke that he realized what it meant to be utterly shocked.
"Doctor Liu, try clenching your fist."
Doctor Liu's brain issued the command, but the silver needles in his arm seemed not to receive it and there was no reaction at all.
"What... what's going on? I can't move my hands."
The crowd quieted down, noticing that Doctor Liu's hand showed absolutely no reaction.
"Old Liu, you can't move anymore, you've lost all feeling."
Du Xiuyuan then inserted two more silver needles into Doctor Liu's forearm and the most painful spot on his thumb, but Doctor Liu did not react at all.
"Doctor Du, what's going on?"
The onlookers quieted down. How did Du Xiuyuan manage to make people feel no pain?
"Old Du, please tell me quickly! I'm so anxious!" Physician Song also wanted to know how Du Xiuyuan managed to use such silver needle techniques.
"Don't be afraid, Lao Liu. This is just local anesthesia with silver needles. For example, if you have an injury, you can use silver needles for local anesthesia so that you won't feel any pain anymore."
Sometimes, what can be fatal is pain. If we could reduce that pain, wouldn't we reduce casualties?
Doctor Liu stretched out his left hand and pinched his right hand hard, but it really didn't hurt.
Amazingly, Du Xiuyuan accomplished this using only five silver needles.
The dean was also drawn in once again; he couldn't believe such medical skills existed in the world.
"Doctor Du, is this your secret technique?" the dean asked.
Du Xiuyuan shook his head, removed the silver needles from Physician Liu's arm, and said, "That's one thing, but it's just the tip of the iceberg of my master's medical skills."
Once all the silver needles were removed, Doctor Liu could move his hands again, and the pain returned to the spots where his colleague had pinched and squeezed him earlier.
"Old Du, did you really learn your silver needle technique from that young lady this morning?"
Physician Song and his group stopped Du Xiuyuan. They had never been exposed to this local anesthesia technique before and were really eager to learn it.
"Everyone, when I first saw such medical skills, I had the same expression as you do now. Now you know why I, Du Xiuyuan, became Su Niangzi's apprentice."
With such medical skills, who wouldn't want to become her apprentice? Moreover, Du Xiuyuan said that this is only the tip of the iceberg of Su Luo's medical skills, which means that her medical skills are unmatched.
However, within the time it takes for an incense stick to burn, the Imperial Medical Academy underwent a complete transformation, with those who had bowed to Du Xiuyuan as their young master all changing their ways.
Now they've all shut up, their eyes filled with a hint of envy. They really don't know what stroke of luck Du Xiuyuan had to meet a master like Su Luo.
"Old Du, Old Du, don't go! Old Du, how did you learn this local anesthesia technique? Teach us, I'll give you money."
Du Xiuyuan glanced at the five or six imperial physicians behind him and sneered, "You can't learn it. My master taught me step by step, and it took me almost a year of hard practice to succeed."
You haven't experienced what I've gone through, so you shouldn't even think about it.
Physician Liu also wanted to learn this, so he followed in Du Xiuyuan's footsteps, going wherever Du Xiuyuan went.
"Old Du, what experiences have you had? Tell me about them, just in case I've had something similar."
Du Xiuyuan went about his business, leaving only one sentence: "I know more about corpses than the coroner."
Physician Liu and Physician Song were completely bewildered. They were imperial physicians; what did this have to do with a coroner?
Currently, only Du Xiuyuan in the entire Imperial Medical Academy knows what human neurology is.
...
When Su Luo returned to the Du residence in the evening, Xie Wanwan was teaching Yi Huan in the afternoon, so Su Luo didn't disturb them.
Du Xiuyuan's room door was tightly closed, and noises could be heard coming from inside from time to time.
Just as Su Luo was about to see what was going on, Yun Hui appeared behind her and said to Su Luo.
"Madam Su, you must be tired after a long day. Go back and rest."
The banging on the door came again from Du Xiuyuan's room, as if someone was being imprisoned.
"Miss Yun, what's going on?"
Yun Hui smiled and covered up, saying, "It's alright, Madam Su, don't worry about them. Go and rest if you're tired."
Just as Su Luo was about to leave, the door was opened, and Du Xiuyuan and Du Siyuan were unable to catch Physician Liu and Physician Song.
The two rushed out and knelt down in front of Su Luo.
"Madam Su, please take us as your apprentices. We want to learn medicine from you."
Before Su Luo could react, the two men were still wearing the robes of imperial physicians, so they must be Du Xiuyuan's colleagues.
"What are you two doing? Get up and we can talk about it."
Su Luo turned to the side, preventing the two imperial physicians from kneeling in front of her.
“Madam Su, my surname is Liu and his surname is Song. We have come to you sincerely to become your disciples. Please accept us as your students.”
Su Luo had no idea what was going on. Why did these two people want to become her apprentices as soon as they met? What was going on?
Du Xiuyuan was helpless. His two friends had followed him here today, and he wanted his master to take them in as well.
The master is so busy, how could he possibly take on apprentices? They're two people who just won't listen to reason or persuasion.
"Doctor Du, what's going on?"
Du Xiuyuan told Su Luo what had happened at the Imperial Hospital that day, explaining why these two also wanted to learn medicine from her.
Su Luo sighed and said, "I only accept one disciple, so I'm afraid we are not destined to have a master-disciple relationship."
The two had prepared their words before they arrived, knowing that Su Luo would definitely refuse, and they had memorized their lines.
But Su Luo changed the subject: "I will only take Physician Du as my apprentice, but how many apprentices he takes is up to him."
Physician Liu and Physician Song stopped moving and talking, exchanged a glance, and then looked at Du Xiuyuan at the same time.
Su Luo wouldn't accept them as apprentices, but they could become disciples of Du Xiuyuan and learn this unparalleled medical skill.
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