The autumn wind was bleak in Medicine King Valley, and even the aroma of roasted meat could not soothe the wounded heart of the Third Young Master Ming.
"Didn't you say that Medicine King Valley produces miraculous doctors? Look at what they've done to this."
None of them are as good as his family's small, dilapidated house in Jiangjia Village.
Everything was burned to ashes. For the past few days, Jiang Mingxu had been sleeping outdoors, exposed to the elements, in a truly miserable state.
He wanted to go home.
When I get home, there are soft cotton quilts that my mother has aired out, and delicious dishes she makes: fermented pork, sweet and sour pork, braised pork, sliced beef and tripe in chili sauce, sweet and sour carp. Which of these is not as delicious as this charred rabbit?
"Everyone makes mistakes sometimes," Tian Bu'er sighed. "So, you must never be blinded by beauty in the future."
Zheng quickly interrupted him, "What nonsense are you talking about?"
Jiang Mingxu is just a little kid, is it really necessary to tell him this?
"Didn't his mother say that education should start from childhood?"
Zheng was speechless for a moment before finally saying, "I think you don't learn anything good, you just learn all this nonsense."
They're all talking nonsense.
"Take some time to read more medical books and pharmacopoeias, so you won't embarrass your Medicine King Valley when you go out."
Seeing the two brothers arguing, Jiang Mingxu sadly tore off pieces of roasted rabbit meat and ate it. After his mouth was full of oil, he asked, "When are we going back?"
"No rush, let's heal your leg first. Don't you want your leg healed?"
Jiang Mingxu's eyes lit up upon hearing this, but soon a strange look appeared in the little boy's eyes. "Are you sure you can cure me?"
Why does he seem a little suspicious?
Tian Bu'er glared at him, "Even if we're not talented, we've still been practicing medicine for decades, so what's wrong with that?"
Zheng, however, spoke with some hesitation, "I'm somewhat confident, but it will probably take several years to completely cure it."
Several years!
Jiang Mingxu was completely dumbfounded. "So that means you deliberately tricked me into coming here?"
It's not good for children to be too smart. Tian Bu'er coughed lightly, "How can you say it's a lie? It was your suggestion after all."
He had thought about this before, but had never been able to do it.
It was Jiang Mingxu who suggested it, and after discussing it with his senior brother, Tian Bu'er decided to go along with the plan and bring the person to Medicine King Valley.
While it's possible to get medical treatment outside, for Jiang Mingxu right now, the most important thing is to learn about medicine and pharmacology, and not to be constantly distracted by worldly affairs.
Mr. Yan, who could recite the medical classics fluently before he was five years old, can we really expect Jiang Mingxu to do the same?
He would fawn over Gu An'an one minute, and then pull Bao'er around to play the next.
How can you not be able to calm your mind and practice?
However, this child is indeed a bit playful, and correcting this habit will not be an easy task.
Tian Bu'er was still somewhat uncertain, fearing that the child might misbehave.
He patiently persuaded, "If you stay here peacefully for a few years, heal your leg, and learn the methods to cure your brother's headache, then when you return home, your mother, brother, and sister will look at you with new respect. Wouldn't that be wonderful?"
"Oh no!" Jiang Mingxu realized he had been tricked. "You're all liars, you child-stealing liars!"
Suddenly, a hidden weapon attacked, and Tian Bu'er quickly dodged and looked away.
The hidden weapon—a rabbit leg bone—flew past his cheek.
Tian Bu'er was relieved to find it a false alarm. He immediately realized that if he were truly unhappy, he would have already unleashed a barrage of needles, not just a rabbit's leg.
In the end, things have loosened up.
“Silly boy, what do you know? You’re always by your mother’s side, and you’re such a little troublemaker. She can’t help but want to beat you when she sees you. But you’re just a little kid away from home, and your mother is too worried about you to even think about it. She’ll definitely send you all sorts of food, toys, and necessities. She’ll always be thinking about you. Your status will suddenly surpass that of your older brother and sister.”
Jiang Mingxu took a big bite of the rabbit leg. "I was originally ranked first."
"Yes, yes, but this time we'll far surpass them." Tian Bu'er continued to deceive the child. "The saying 'familiarity breeds contempt' applies here. Let's stay here and focus on studying the pharmacopoeia and medical classics. Once we've finished, we can go back sooner, and you can see your mother sooner. What do you say?"
not good.
Jiang Mingxu felt very wronged. He just wanted to go back and snuggle in his mother's arms to make her happy.
"If I'm not home, who will massage my mother's shoulders and back?"
Tian Bu'er said repeatedly, "Aren't there still your older sister and Bao'er?"
"My older sister practices martial arts all day long, and her whole body is stiff and hard. Bao'er only knows how to eat and cling to his older brother to play. He doesn't care about his mother at all."
This child is really resentful. "Then you can write to them later and tell them that if that doesn't work, you can ask your mother to buy another maid to serve you."
"Are the maids who serve you free? Are you going to pay them?"
Looking at the little boy tilting his head and looking at him, Tian Bu'er suddenly felt as if he had fallen into a trap, a trap carefully dug by Jiang Mingxu.
He actually got outsmarted by a little kid! Who can he complain to?
"Okay, okay, I'll pay you, I'll pay you, alright?"
Why do I have to coax this little devil into studying medicine when it's clearly a good thing? Who does he owe us?
"Senior brother, pay up."
"Wait!" Jiang Mingxu quickly stopped him. The Third Young Master Ming took out his little notebook and began to calculate, "A maid's monthly salary is three taels of silver. In addition, my mother has to make clothes for her and so on. Let's say it's fifty taels of silver a year."
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