Song Ci had already changed her clothes and was sitting on the edge of the bed in a daze.
After hearing Song Fei's words, Song Ci's mind slowly turned. When she regained consciousness, she said, "As expected, the subsequent assessments will only become more and more difficult."
"Take it one step at a time."
The two went downstairs and saw off the group of people who had failed the exam. Turning back, they saw Candidate No. 12 standing behind them. This uncle was old enough to be Song Ci's father. His name was Friday, the "Five" in Friday.
Wu Zhou looked up at the scoreboard and smiled awkwardly. "Song Fei, what do you think of this first competition?"
Song Ci said: "It's difficult."
Zhou Wu smiled and said, "Actually, this is just the most basic part of the assessment. Did you know that during the time of the Mo family's ancestors, there was also a formidable doctor named Zhou, who was blind? Although blind, he could distinguish the flavors of medicinal herbs."
"In that era, Divine Doctor Zhou was a famous doctor in Kyoto. The reason why the ancestor of the Mo family left Kyoto and came to this Shu land was because Kyoto already had Divine Doctor Zhou, and there was no place for the ancestor Mo to develop."
"But later, the emperor became critically ill. Doctor Zhou was ordered to enter the palace to treat the emperor, but he was unable to cure the emperor. In the end, it was Patriarch Mo who returned to the capital with a pill made from the heart of a rare beast, and it brought the emperor back to life."
"After the emperor recovered, Patriarch Mo earned the reputation of being the nation's sage doctor, while Divine Doctor Zhou's reputation waned. He later moved away from Kyoto and became a rural doctor..."
Wu Zhou crossed his arms and said, "Ancestor Mo admires Divine Doctor Zhou's ability to identify each herb by its scent, so he added this assessment to the future exams."
Song Ci and Song Fei had no idea that there was such a genius as Dr. Zhou in this world, so they listened very carefully.
There was no one else around; the three of them were the only ones left in the entire dormitory building. After Divine Doctor Zhou finished speaking, Song Ci pursed her lips and smiled. She had a guess in mind, and she asked Zhou Wu with a smile, "Although Divine Doctor Zhou's lineage is declining, the legacy hasn't been broken, has it?"
Zhou Wu was not tall, only about 1.7 meters, and he was about the same height as Song Ci. Hearing this, Zhou Wu tilted his head and looked at Song Ci, then smiled suddenly. "Teacher Song Fei, you are indeed a smart person."
Song Ci suddenly took a step forward and was very close to Friday.
Zhou Wu looked at Song Ci doubtfully and couldn't help asking, "Teacher Song Fei, do you have something to say?"
Song Ci lowered her voice and whispered, "Divine Doctor Zhou has an amazing sense of smell. I wonder if he was able to identify the beast when he smelled the miraculous medicine. What kind of beast was it?"
Wu Zhou's expression changed slightly. The questions raised by Song Fei were really thought-provoking.
"Teacher Song Fei..." Zhou Wu looked at Song Ci in surprise and doubt, his heart full of uncertainty and suspicion.
Song Ci suddenly took a step back and said to Song Fei behind her, "We should go have breakfast, otherwise it will get cold."
Song Fei followed Song Ci and left.
Zhou Wu stared at Song Ci's back. He remembered something and gradually narrowed his eyes.
Divine Doctor Zhou passed away six hundred years ago, but before his death, he wrote a family letter that has been passed down through generations. Every heir of the Zhou family knows that letter by heart.
The crooked letter from home reads:
【To the younger generation:
In the 48th year of Jianwu, I and a group of imperial physicians knelt on both sides of His Majesty's bedroom. When we heard that Mo Liansheng had returned with a miracle drug, we were all happy that His Majesty could be saved.
Mo Liansheng walked into the temple in a hurry. When he opened the box containing the magic medicine, we all smelled a strange medicinal fragrance.
All the doctors and eunuchs were shocked when they smelled the medicinal fragrance, and so was I. However, I felt that the scent of the medicine was somewhat familiar, but I couldn't place it for a moment.
After His Majesty took the miraculous medicine, he truly recovered from his critical condition and was brought back to life. The thick layer of dark clouds that had been pressing down on Kyoto for those few days finally dissipated.
When I returned to the pharmacy, I was shocked to hear that General Nangongxian had passed away. However, because Your Majesty was in good health and the whole world was celebrating, there were no funeral banners or elegiac couplets in the Nangong Mansion.
General Nangong Xian spent his whole life in military service, and made great contributions to the country. However, after his death, he was not even given a funeral. I can't help but feel sad for the passing of General Nangong Xian.
Another day, the old man from the Nangong Mansion came to the clinic and asked me for some sleeping pills. It turned out that the old lady Nangong couldn't sleep all night because of her daughter's death, and she needed sleeping pills to help her fall asleep.
As I prepared medicine for Old Lady Nangong, I suddenly remembered the familiar aroma of medicine I had smelled in the temple that day. It dawned on me that this strange aroma was exactly the same as the aroma emanating from General Nangongxian!
When Old Lady Nangongxian was six months pregnant, she nearly miscarried. She later asked me for a medicine to preserve her pregnancy. After taking it for several months, her baby girl was finally born safely.
Mr. Nangong invited me to a banquet on the occasion of the full moon. The first time I saw General Nangongxian, I smelled the strange medicinal fragrance on her body, but strangely, no one else could smell it.
Thinking of the strange medicinal fragrance I'd smelled in the temple, I ventured a hypothesis. To verify it, the next day I personally wrote a letter and sent it to the Mo Mansion, hoping to get an explanation from Mo Liansheng.
In the letter, I questioned Mo Liansheng whether the existence of the strange beast was completely fictitious. From the beginning to the end, the real strange beast was General Nangongxian!
The next day, Mo Liansheng asked me to meet him in the suburbs. I was cautious and asked two martial arts masters to protect me secretly, and then I went to meet Mo Liansheng.
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