Hearing this, the man slumped his shoulders in disappointment, looking a little dejected. Then, as if he had thought of something, his eyes lit up again.
"Did you make this medicine yourself? Do you have a recipe? Will you sell it to me? I..."
"Chu Han!"
A muffled warning sounded behind the two of them.
The man named Chu Han stiffened, a look of discomfort flashing across his face.
“Master…”
Old Bai approached the two of them with a serious face, looking at the man in front of him whom he had raised.
"Put away your petty thoughts and don't ask about other people's things!"
After saying that, he looked at Gu Zuozuo who was silent beside him.
"Hello, my name is Bai Cheng, and I'm your personal doctor. I'm a Chinese medicine practitioner. I've heard of you, and you're quite good!"
Gu Zuozuo bowed as a junior, his attitude correct yet distant.
"Hello, I'm sorry, but the prescription is part of our family's medical heritage and cannot be shared with outsiders. Without telling anyone else, are you willing to sell your life's collection to someone else?"
Looking at his apprentice with his head drooped, Old Bai waved his hands and sighed.
"It's okay, he's just a drug addict, ignore him."
My own apprentice knows it well. If you say that he has any bad intentions, that’s not the case.
He was interested in all unknown medicines. In order to find some unknown herbs in Shennong Mountain, he once hid himself in the mountains for two years, but he was finally pulled back by himself.
Some time ago, the elixir sent by Shi Mobai was so effective that he also wanted to study it. If he hadn't stopped him, he would have chased after him to ask about its origin. Now that the owner of the elixir has appeared, how could he still hold back?
He even suspected that if the current situation was not unstable, traditional Chinese medicine would be classified as feudal dregs, and some practitioners would be suppressed to the point where they could not raise their heads, and their families would suffer as well.
Perhaps because he has seen too many tragedies of broken families and deaths, he is afraid of bringing trouble to his own family. This disciple of his is probably willing to send himself into the Ten Thousand Mountains for the sake of medicinal herbs and never come out again.
Gu Zuozuo nodded. If she hadn't sensed any ill will towards her from the man, how could she have stood here so obediently?
"Even if I give you the prescription, it's useless. If you can't find the herbs, you won't be able to get any results from your research."
Hearing this, Chu Han became even more listless, even his eyebrows drooped, and he quietly walked aside to digest his emotions.
Old Bai awkwardly stroked his chest-length beard, glanced at the people gathered around the bed, and sighed.
"Or maybe I'm not good enough in my studies."
Gu Zuozuo raised an eyebrow, pretending not to hear his self-mockery, glanced at the people still surrounding the hospital bed, turned around and walked out.
Old Bai's beard trembled and he almost pulled out a few of his own hairs.
Why didn't this little girl respond to him? How could he openly propose to exchange medical skills with her?
"Why haven't you left yet?"
The sudden question made Si Jue look up with resentment.
"Aren't you going to apologize to me?"
Gu Zuozuo looked puzzled.
"Why should I apologize?"
Did she do something wrong?
Si Jue looked like a good woman who had been abused, with her eyes and eyebrows full of drama.
"You knocked me out..."
"I'll keep you here without beating you? Why didn't you tell me earlier? I definitely wouldn't have touched you."
Si Jue paused, his expression becoming extremely complicated for a moment.
This sentence immediately destroyed all his gentleness.
This woman is so straightforward that it's a bit despairing.
Gu Zuozuo waved goodbye and walked away in a very cool manner, with a look of joy behind him.
Si Jue watched her walk away, and the depth in his eyes gradually turned into a smile.
Suddenly, Si Jue looked at the middle-aged man in the corner, and his eyes instantly became cold and gloomy.
"You'd better put your little thoughts away."
Chu Han met his gaze, his body trembled inexplicably, and a chill ran down his back.
"Who are you?"
Si Jue tilted his head, the loose hair around his ears hung down, covering his delicate jaw, and there was a lazy and tired look between his eyebrows.
"Does it have anything to do with you? If you want to improve your pharmaceutical skills, you should be down-to-earth. Don't always think of taking shortcuts. If you dare to raise your claws to her, be careful that she will tear your head off."
After saying that, he disappeared from the spot, and the people around him seemed not to notice the figure disappearing out of thin air before their eyes.
The guard still stood straight with a sharp look in his eyes.
Only Chu Han thought he had seen a ghost. He was so scared that his face turned pale and his mouth trembled for a long time without uttering a word.
★
When Qi Meng and Li Mo came back from climbing the Great Wall, they saw a slim figure wearing a long black windbreaker, a black scarf, and a baseball cap standing at the door of their house.
"Um...is it Zuo Zuo?"
Li Mo looked up and met Gu Zuozuo's cold gaze.
"Ah! Zuo Zuo! It's really you!"
Qi Meng simply threw away her boyfriend, with whom she had just been so sweet, and pounced on Gu Zuozuo with open arms.
Li Mo looked at his hand that was shaken away and pursed his lips.
……→_→.
"When did you come to the capital? How did you get here? How did you find your way here? Have you eaten? Why are you only wearing a sweater and windbreaker? Are you cold?"
Gu Zuozuo put his index finger against her forehead to stop her excessive enthusiasm.
"I helped write the envelope when you sent the letter to your uncle."
So, how did she ask such a stupid question?
Qi Meng struggled for a long time but failed to hug Gu Zuozuo. Finally, he gave up and resigned himself to letting the slender index finger press against his forehead. He just gave up.
"I forgot... hehe."
Gu Zuozuo pushed her back to her boyfriend with a little force and turned to knock on the door.
Qi Meng's uncle, Ulanxun, a student of Gu Zuozuo's mother, is a gentle man wearing glasses.
"Brother, long time no see."
Wu Lanxun widened his eyes in astonishment and looked her up and down in disbelief, as if he had seen an alien.
"Zuo Zuo? Are you really Zuo Zuo?"
How could he have changed so much? He was like a completely different person.
When I was a child, I lived with my teacher, which was like watching her grow up with my own eyes.
How did that little junior sister with a timid smile like a dodder grow up to be the girl with a strong aura and calm eyes?
"Brother, we've been apart for over ten years. If I haven't changed or grown at all, wouldn't that be a waste of my life?"
A year before the original owner's parents disappeared, Wulanxun was sent back to her own home by her parents.
Since then, they have never seen each other again. Even though they often send things and write letters to each other, when they meet again, they still feel like strangers to each other and it is impossible to tell that they are childhood sweethearts.
Wulanxun was really surprised, even a little scared.
After spending a day together, he finally understood everything clearly.
This wasn't a change in her growth; perhaps she had simply transformed her soul. She felt completely unfamiliar to him, from the inside out.
Gu Zuozuo lowered her eyes and drank her tea calmly, not minding his gaze at all.
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