Chapter 212: Good at Raising Insects
After the carriage swayed along the road for an hour, it finally stopped.
Baiyun Academy is located in Baiyun Town on the outskirts of Beijing.
There were not many people here originally, but since the construction of Baiyun Academy, the population has gradually increased. The deserted road in front of the academy became a street, and many houses were added around the street, slowly forming a small town.
The entrance examination of Baiyun Academy is held every three months. Although it is called an entrance examination, it is actually also the monthly examination of the college.
Children who want to enroll will take the exam together with the students of the college. Those with excellent grades can be admitted, while students in the college who do not work hard may be eliminated due to poor grades and lose the qualification to study.
Even so, not many people are qualified to register for the exam held in March.
Shen Changfeng and Gu Mingda were riding in a carriage. Gu Mingda closed his eyes and took a nap as soon as he got in the carriage, which made Shen Changfeng feel relieved.
After getting off the carriage, Shen Changfeng immediately asked Niuniu: "Your brother seems not so nervous anymore?"
Shen Changfeng still remembered that Gu Yan had a pale face and was restless while eating. He was obviously too nervous. He didn't expect that he would return to normal while riding in the carriage.
Niuniu replied: "Because big brother has figured it out."
"What did you figure out?" Shen Changfeng was puzzled.
Niuniu answered him in her own way: "Even if Big Brother failed the exam, he is still our favorite Big Brother and a good son to our parents."
Shen Changfeng couldn't help but feel envious when he heard this. It seemed that no matter what he did, his father didn't like him.
"How can I make my father like me so much?" Shen Changfeng said softly.
Niuniu still looked like she was "disappointed with a child" and said, "I've already told you it's your father's fault. Why do you always think you're the one who's unlovable? As long as we kids haven't done anything bad, we should be loved by our family. If they didn't like us, why did they give birth to us?"
Shen Changfeng looked at Niuniu and was filled with admiration.
Niu Niu is an adopted daughter, but she can have such a righteous idea. He just thought about mentioning such words to his father, but he felt he couldn't say it out loud.
Niuniu said like a little adult: "If you don't dare to say it, I will help you say it."
The way Shen Changfeng looked at Niu Niu changed into starry eyes when he looked at the big sister.
What he dared not say, someone else dared to say.
"You didn't give birth to me to bring honor to your family, so it's only natural that I want to eat some candied haws!" Gu Zhao said righteously, with his belly sticking out, pointing at an old man selling candied haws nearby.
Such words were naturally ruthlessly suppressed by Zhang Yunniang.
"You can't eat sweet things. I can buy you something else to eat." Zhang Yuniang didn't put too much pressure on the man.
Gu Zhao's request was also very low: "That's fine."
Zhang Yunniang not only bought food for Gu Zhao, but also asked Niu Niu and Shen Changfeng to pick out some snacks.
Shen Changfeng was embarrassed to take it, and said: "Aunt, I'm not a child anymore, I can buy food myself if I want."
Zhang Yunniang said, "Before you get married, you are still a child. You should call me Master's wife in the future, just like your own child. There is no need to be restrained."
Shen Changfeng felt relieved, knowing that Zhang Yunniang treated him as her own child, so he picked out a portion of the Xueyunsu that Niu Niu wanted to eat, and then secretly shared it with Gu Zhao and Niu Niu.
The old doctor lived in the town, and the group arrived in just a cup of tea by walking along the town's streets.
The gate of the yard was open, and a lot of herbs were drying inside. People passing by could smell the rich herbal aroma.
Because the old doctor never revealed his identity, his neighbors just thought he was a country doctor.
"Old Yan, Old Yan, are you at home?" Shen Changfeng shouted into the house.
Old Doctor Yan walked out of the room slowly with a gloomy face.
"Keep your voice down, I'm not deaf!"
Shen Changfeng chuckled, then rushed in like a monkey, and kept muttering to Doctor Yan for a while.
"You little brat, you're always looking for trouble!" Old Yan scolded with a smile, but he didn't bother with Shen Changfeng. He then turned to the Gu family members who were still waiting outside the courtyard gate and said, "Come in."
The Gu family stepped in.
"Wow, so many bugs." Gu Zhao's eyes lit up as he looked at the dried insect corpses in the yard.
Gu Mingda quickly held down the brat's hand, and then picked him up, fearing that he would do something bad.
Gu Zhao didn't think anything was wrong. He leaned on his father's shoulder and continued to look around at the medicinal herbs.
"The child is snoring. Let me see what's going on."
Doctor Yan asked Gu Zhao to stretch out his wrist so that he could feel his pulse and then asked him detailed questions.
The pulse diagnosis took a long time, and not only Gu Zhao was questioned, but also Gu Mingda and Zhang Yuniang.
The couple couldn't answer many of the questions, and even Niu Niu was helping to answer them.
The old doctor frowned and pondered for a long time, then said, "It's exactly as I guessed."
Gu Mingda and Zhang Yunniang suddenly became nervous again and asked, "Doctor, what is wrong with my son? Is it difficult to treat?"
The old doctor shook his head and said, "It's not difficult to treat, but there are a lot of problems."
The couple breathed a sigh of relief when they heard this.
The old doctor continued to explain: "In addition to the snoring problem, this kid is restless, has a scattered mind, is hot in the five parts of his body, and has night sweats and nocturnal enuresis..."
When he said this, Gu Zhao jumped up anxiously: "I can only wet the bed a few times a month!"
"Hahaha! How come you still wet the bed at this age!" Shen Changfeng couldn't help but burst into laughter.
Doctor Yan didn't give him face and said, "What's so funny about you? Didn't you wet the bed until you were eight years old?"
Shen Changfeng was like a chicken being strangled by the neck: "Old Yan, how can you expose someone's shortcomings so casually!"
After bullying him, Doctor Yan felt satisfied and continued, "Should we treat this liver and kidney yin deficiency together?"
Gu Mingda nodded and said, "Of course."
Doctor Yan picked up the paper and pen beside him and began to write the prescription.
"Bamboo shavings, tangerine peel, Clematis chinensis, Bombyx batryticatus..." He muttered softly as he wrote the prescription.
Gu Zhao got excited again when he heard this: "Bombyx batryticatus, I have memorized it in Shennong's Herbal Classic!"
Children are always like this, they get extremely excited when they hear a familiar word.
The old doctor uttered a sigh: "Wow, you are still reciting this, recite a few sentences for me to hear."
"Bombyx mori has a salty, neutral and non-toxic taste... It is used as medicine when the silkworms are dead due to wind disease." Gu Zhao recited loudly, looking so enthusiastic, as if he had just been asked by the teacher to answer a question he was good at in class.
Doctor Yan couldn't help but nod his head and said, "You recited it word for word. You are just a kid. Why don't you read the Four Books and Five Classics? Why do you recite this? Do you want to be a doctor?"
Gu Zhao touched the back of his head and said, "My father asked me to recite it, and I like to recite it myself."
"Then let me ask you, Zhu Ru, what is recorded in the pharmacopoeia?" the old doctor asked with a smile.
Gu Zhao shook his head: "I only carried the bugs."
The old doctor was stunned when he heard this.
Gu Mingda was a very alert man. He had originally thought of training his youngest son to become a doctor. Seeing the opportunity, he immediately said, "Old doctor, you don't know that my son has always loved insects, is familiar with their habits, and is good at raising them."
The old doctor's eyes suddenly lit up.
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