Chapter 3075 I Like You
After Mr. Qian learned about this, he went straight to Zhou Man and asked, "Did Mr. Zhou specifically take in Little Sister Hu to attract people to be his apprentices?"
Zhou Man smiled and said, "That's just one of the reasons. The most important reason is that Hu Dalang asked me for help, and Hu Xiaomei also wanted to be his apprentice, so I accepted him."
Mr. Qian couldn't help but ask, "What's her talent?"
"At least there's no problem studying medicine."
Mr. Qian understood and left the house overnight. The next day, many people in Beihai County heard about it, especially the shopkeepers and doctors of the two drug stores. They met up to chat in their spare time. "I heard that the Medical Department accepted an apprentice yesterday, only nine years old. They plan to teach him from a young age."
"I'm just an apprentice, I'm not sure if I can learn it."
"At the very least, there won't be any problem getting medicine in the future. I heard that she was just an ordinary girl from a poor family. It's better for her to learn a skill than to waste her years at home and get married when she's older."
"With Master Zhou's broad mind, he will definitely teach me well even though I'm just an apprentice."
"Yes. Last time I asked her about chest pain, she even went to look up medical books and answered me. She's so considerate even to outsiders like us, let alone her apprentice."
"It's a pity we were born at the wrong time. If I had been born twenty years later, I would have been an apprentice in the hospital."
"...Boss, you come from a distinguished family. Even if you're an apprentice, you should be like us, right?"
"What's the big deal? Jishidiang even sent their young manager to be Lord Zhou's apprentice. She wasn't famous at that time." He felt that even if he couldn't be an apprentice, being an apprentice was more than enough.
It’s a pity that he was born at the wrong time and too early.
This incident did not cause much stir in Beihai County at first, but not long after, someone brought the child to the medical office and asked Zhou Man to take the child in.
Mr. Qian directly refused on behalf of Zhou Man.
The Medical Bureau wants apprentices, but they need to be mature, have medical skills, or at least have some understanding of pharmacology, and can help. Hu Xiaomei is the first one, so she is special. They will not accept any apprentices later.
Everyone is busy now, who has time to take care of the children?
It was Hu Xiaomei, who Zhou Man accepted because she was sensible and obedient. She had been chopping and grinding herbs for several months and was already very skilled at it.
Even now, she still has to do these jobs, but she used to be paid, but now she isn't. Now, every time she cuts herbs, Zhou Man will tell her what the herbs are called and what their properties are, and then let her keep cutting and memorizing...
The next time she needs to grind other herbs, Zhou Man will tell her the name of the herb and its medicinal properties, and continue to let her grind the herbs and recite them.
Sometimes she could memorize three or four medicinal herbs in a day, sometimes only one, and sometimes she had to recognize more than a dozen herbs in a row. If she couldn't remember them, she would continue to recognize and memorize them the next time she encountered the need to deal with such herbs.
This is her daytime work, and later on she has to learn to read.
She learned to recognize the words directly from the names of the medicines. Most of the time, Zhou Man taught her certain words every day, and occasionally Mr. Qian would teach her when he saw them.
But this kind of unsystematic learning is very difficult, especially since the characters are not arranged from easy to difficult, but you learn the corresponding medicine based on the flavor you want.
Zhou Man felt that this was not working after teaching for less than ten days, because after ten days, Hu Xiaomei only remembered two words and mixed up all the others.
Fortunately, she remembered most of the medicinal herbs she was asked to remember, otherwise Zhou Man would have doubted his judgment of her.
So Zhou Man took out a copy of the Thousand Character Classic from his study and gave it to her, saying, "It's too difficult to recognize the characters from the names of the medicinal herbs. You should read it from the Thousand Character Classic."
Zhou Man taught her two sentences of Thousand Character Classic every day, and then she learned to recognize the words by herself.
The effect is much better. At least when Zhou Man wrote something and asked her to recognize it, she finally recognized it.
Mr. Qian looked at him curiously, "Master Zhou, do you doctors all learn to read by learning the names of medicines?"
"I'm not," Zhou Man thought for a moment and said, "but others learn this way. Not only do the apprentices in the pharmacy learn this way, but the disciples of the Xinglin family also learn to read from medical books."
First, memorize the name of the medicine and the doctor's prescription, and then compare and recognize the characters one by one. Even Zheng Gu learned to read in this way when he was a child.
He was fine, as he started by memorizing the names of the medicines. Most apprentices would first identify the herbs, and once he had most of them, they would start by learning the words by comparing them. Then, he would learn to dispense the medicines from the prescription...
Therefore, the process of apprenticeship in learning medicine is particularly long, and requires one to be able to endure loneliness and hardship.
Such a boring apprenticeship life with no future is very torturous, and you have to do so much repetitive work every day.
When Zhou Man was sitting in the hall of Jishiditang, she looked at what the apprentice medicine boys had to do every day. When she put it on herself, she felt that she might not be as good as them. She felt that her patience had never been good enough.
Mr. Qian smiled and said, "That's why adults are different from them."
Mr. Qian felt that since there was a better and more systematic learning method, why should we follow the habits of pharmacies and medical clinics?
However, looking at Hu Xiaomei, you can see how difficult it is to study medicine. I wonder how many years it will take for her to graduate and help Zhou Man.
So they still need mature "apprentices", and Mr. Qian continues to work hard.
Finally, not long after the winter solstice, someone finally came to the door. It was a middle-aged doctor with a young boy. After entering the medical office, he went straight to Zhou Man and said, "Master Zhou, we meet again."
Zhou Mancai had just finished treating a patient. He turned around and saw him startled for a moment, then smiled, "Doctor Wei, please come sit in the main hall."
Doctor Wei is a doctor in Qingzhou. He runs a pharmacy at home. Of course, it cannot be compared with big pharmacies like Jishidiang and Baicaotang, but it is also famous in Qingzhou. Last time, he and several doctors from Qingzhou came to Zhou Man to ask questions.
Zhou Man had other patients, so she could only let him sit for a while while she finished seeing the rest of the patients before going to receive them.
Because the last two patients were men, Doctor Wei stood by and watched for a while. When he saw Zhou Man's prescription, he compared it with the one he had written in his mind. He couldn't help but sigh again that there was still a big difference.
Zhou Man not only prescribed medicine, but also acupuncture. However, she checked the time and said to the two patients, "You need to eat before acupuncture. It's almost noon now. Go eat something first, and come back at 5 p.m., and I'll give you acupuncture."
The two of them agreed immediately.
As soon as the patient left, Doctor Wei immediately called the young man next to him up and said to Zhou Man with a smile: "Master Zhou, this is my son."
He had spoken with Zhou Man before and knew she didn't want to be bewildered by politeness, so he was direct. "I heard that Master Zhou is looking for an apprentice. What do you think of my son? He's been studying with me for a few years and can easily read prescriptions and dispense medicine. If you need him, feel free to use him. If he's stupid, you can punish him or scold him as you please."
The young man stood quietly by the side, and when he saw Zhou Man looking at him, he nodded in agreement.
Zhou Man turned around and looked at Doctor Wei. In fact, she didn't like his son, but she liked him. But how could she say it?
I'm so sad.
See you tomorrow
(End of this chapter)
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