Chapter 1409: Recruiting a Disciple (November Monthly Ticket Plus 5)
Manbao took the tea and took a sip. She felt around her body but found nothing. Because it was her birthday, she didn't prepare any gifts.
After thinking for a moment, she opened her purse, took out a copper coin, and placed it in the palm of Shopkeeper Zheng's hand. She smiled and said, "This is for you. It's not a very valuable thing, but it means a few years. I didn't think too much about it when I first learned medicine. It's just that my mother was not in good health, and the cost of seeing a doctor and taking medicine was too expensive. I also knew some medicinal herbs and liked to pick flowers and plants everywhere, so I learned medicine."
"Although my mother's illness was finally cured, there are many people in this world who suffer from the same illness as my mother but can never be cured. So I hope that my medical skills can be very powerful and I can become a person like Bian Que and Hua Tuo in the future." Man Bao said: "I hope that you can become such people in the future."
Man Bao smiled and said, "You have superb medical skills and noble medical ethics. As long as there is still an unsolved disease in the world, you should continue to study medicine and not judge the disease based on money."
Although he felt that the two points Manbao mentioned, especially the first one, were difficult, Shopkeeper Xiao Zheng still nodded in agreement. He respectfully took the copper coin from Manbao's hand with both hands and decided to tie the copper coin with a red rope when he returned to prevent him from accidentally spending it as an ordinary copper coin.
Zheng Gu stood up and gave the box of ginseng to Manbao as a gift to become his apprentice.
He stood up and stepped aside, and it was Doctor Liu's turn to kneel down. She also served tea and put the jade pendant she had just taken off into her purse and gave it to Manbao.
Manbao also gave her a copper coin and said the same words.
Xiao Shao then knelt down, served tea, and took the copper coins from Manbao. Manager Zheng then handed him the gift box containing bird's nest.
When it was Sanya's turn, she looked around and found that she had nothing to give to her aunt. The main reason was that her aunt had not told her about this incident before she left. So she knelt down and discussed with her aunt, "Aunt, how about letting me do your hair from now on?"
Manbao thought this was a good idea, so he nodded repeatedly.
Her three senior brothers and sisters: ...
It was such a bad idea.
Zheng Gu and Zheng Shao: ...Even if we wanted to, we wouldn't dare to do it. There is a big difference between men and women.
Doctor Liu: ...What a mistake. I should have moved in with Doctor Zhou.
Manbao did not show favoritism and gave San Ya a copper coin as well.
San Ya hesitated for a moment holding the copper coin, and decided to ask Doctor Liu what they decided to do with the copper coin.
If she accidentally spent it, what if they got separated in the future and needed copper coins to find their relationship?
Although my aunt's copper coin looks no different from other copper coins, she can't just pick out one and say it's this one, right?
It seems very disrespectful.
After the apprenticeship was over and everyone had witnessed it, they all went to the front hall with smiles on their faces. Doctor Ding asked Manbao with a smile, "How have you been this month?"
Manbao nodded and said, "Not bad. Where's Doctor Ding?"
"It's no different from previous years, but the lanterns this year aren't as pretty as in previous years."
Manbao: “…I didn’t see it.”
"It's okay. If I didn't see it this year, I'll see it next year."
Manbao: ...Maybe we won’t be able to see it next year.
Although the lanterns are beautiful, she always has to go home to see her parents. Otherwise, if she doesn't go back once a year, her parents and sister-in-law will miss her to death.
Manbao was a little disappointed. "Why do we have to watch the lanterns during the Lantern Festival? Why can't we watch them once on the 30th day of the first lunar month?"
Doctor Tao: "...Besides the Lantern Festival, don't we also have lanterns during the Mid-Autumn Festival? I've never heard of people watching lanterns on the 30th day of the first lunar month."
Man Bao said, "Festivals were invented by everyone, they didn't exist since ancient times. The lanterns during the Mid-Autumn Festival are different from those during the Lantern Festival. I heard that there are more lanterns during the Lantern Festival, and the emperor in the palace would stand on the city wall to enjoy the view with all the people."
Doctor Ding: "That's right. This year I squeezed to the front and happened to see His Majesty. Hey, he's so majestic!"
Manbao didn't think the emperor was majestic, but he still said, "I haven't seen the emperor for a long time."
After these words were spoken, several people were choked and didn't want to talk to her anymore.
Doctor Ding turned around and said to Doctor Tao and the others, "Let's go and see the patients."
"please--"
Seeing that they had all left, Manbao turned to Sanya and said, "Follow me in the clinic for a while and see how I treat patients. When there are no more patients, I will take you to identify medicinal herbs."
Then he said to Xiao Shao, "Put up the sign saying you're seeing a doctor."
Xiao Shao agreed and hung Dr. Zhou's nameplate at the door of the clinic.
Soon, patients who came to Jishidiang for medical treatment saw the sign. Those who knew the name lined up there, and those who didn't know the name asked and heard that it was a young miracle doctor from the capital, so they also followed the crowd and lined up there.
But when he lifted the curtain and saw how young Zhou Man was, he immediately backed out and made a new appointment with another doctor.
Although I know that the little doctor may be a little small, this is too small.
Manbao treated the patients in an orderly manner and only let Xiaoshao and Dr. Liu follow him to learn. As for Zheng Gu, he could take pulses and was confident that he could prescribe medicine, but the shopkeeper Zheng and Doctor Ding felt that the prescriptions he wrote were not very good and lacked spirituality, so they did not allow him to prescribe.
So he was not following Manbao at this time, but was still picking medicine from the medicine cabinet.
It was still the first month of the year and the weather had been quite cold these past few days, so there were not many patients. The four doctors finished seeing all the patients in less than an hour.
But soon, someone came to ask Dr. Ding and Dr. Tao to see a patient, and the two of them left with their medicine boxes.
Manbao and Doctor Gu stayed in the pharmacy.
Since there were no patients, they sat in the backyard to talk and discussed how to teach the four disciples.
The main reason is that their progress is different and the difference is too big.
What Zheng Gu lacked was what's called spirituality. Manbao couldn't understand it at first, so Doctor Gu explained, "This child prescribes medicine just like memorizing it. There's nothing wrong with pulse diagnosis and diagnosis. He just prescribes according to the key problem."
Manbaodu looked confused, "Isn't this right?"
Doctor Gu paused for a moment and then said, "That's true, but it lacks spirituality. How can I explain this? Forget it, when a patient comes later, ask him to prescribe a few prescriptions for you and you'll know."
Doctor Gu took the tea Xiao Shao poured and said with a smile, "But there are fewer patients now. When February comes and the weather changes, sometimes cold and sometimes hot, there will be more patients."
Shopkeeper Zheng had just finished a rough inspection of the newly arrived medicinal herbs and confirmed that there were no quality issues. He had just finished massaging his lower back when he heard this and nodded. "That's right. It's been too cold these past few days, and there's no sign of warming up, so not many people are getting sick."
Seeing Zhou Liru's stunned expression, Manager Zheng changed the subject and said, "But peace and prosperity is a good thing."
Doctor Gu nodded immediately and said repeatedly: "Yes, it's a good thing."
Manbao: ...
(End of this chapter)
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