Chapter 3382 Extra Strong Sister 36
Everyone agreed and walked forward, supporting each other.
After going down a slope and the ground became relatively flat, everyone relaxed a little.
Mr. Wei came up from behind and asked Bai Jingxing with a smile, "Did I just hear Miss and Miss Wang say your last name is Bai?"
Bai Jingxing was stunned for a moment and then nodded, "Yes."
Mr. Wei nodded slightly and asked, "Is it the Longzhou Bai family?"
Bai Jingxing paused and nodded. Yang Zezhi beside him asked with a smile, "I wonder what your surname is, sir? Your accent doesn't sound like you're from Qianzhou."
Mr. Wei stroked his beard and smiled, "Don't mention your surname, Wei. I'm not from Qianzhou. I'm from Lingnan. However, I've been in Qianzhou for five or six years. I usually live in seclusion in the mountains and know very little about what's happening outside. Judging from your accents, you all seem to be from the capital."
Yang Zezhi nodded, "Yes, we are here to study, and we didn't expect to meet you here by chance."
"Traveling to study," Mr. Wei said with a wistful expression, then stroked his beard and smiled, "Indeed, you are young yet you have already acquired considerable knowledge and youthful vigor. This is a blessing for our country."
His gaze still mainly fell on Bai Jingxing, and he asked with a smile: "I wonder if the current Prime Minister Bai and the Imperial Medical Bureau Director Zhou are the young lady's?"
Bai Jingxing couldn't help but look up at Yang Zezhi. Seeing him nod slightly, he smiled and said, "Mr. Wei, the Longzhou Bai family is quite powerful. How can you be so sure that I am related to Prime Minister Bai?"
Mr. Wei laughed heartily and said, "Young lady, there is only one Bai family in Longzhou, and Prime Minister Bai is from the Bai family. Even if you are from a branch, it is still related. But from what you said, it is obviously not a branch."
Bai Jingxing then remembered that she rarely went back to Longzhou, and she didn't feel it was real. She nodded generously and said, "Yes, those are my parents."
Mr. Wei's eyes fell on Yang Zezhi's hand supporting Bai Jingxing, and he understood, "No wonder..."
He smiled slightly and said, "I've heard that Prime Minister Yang and Prime Minister Bai have a very good personal relationship. Seeing it today is indeed true."
How could their relationship not be good if they even dare to let someone take their daughter abroad for study?
Yang Zezhi was slightly surprised, "Mr. Wei knows me?"
Mr. Wei pointed to the middle-aged man walking behind him and said, "He recognizes you."
The middle-aged man and his niece followed with difficulty. Hearing this, he stopped and saluted Yang Zezhi, saying with a smile: "I am Wang Shanheng from Wanzhou. I once had the honor of meeting Prime Minister Yang. Young Master Yang and Prime Minister Yang are very similar."
Yang Zezhi waited until Bai Jingxing stood firm before withdrawing his hand. After returning the greeting, he smiled and said, "It turns out to be Mr. Wang."
Mr. Wei was most interested in Bai Jingxing and continued to talk to her. "I see that the young lady is also proficient in medicine and acupuncture. Did she learn from your mother?"
Bai Jingxing nodded, "Yes."
"As expected, a tiger mother will have no dog daughter."
Bai Jingxing: ...
She was very familiar with this kind of compliment and asked, "Mr. Wei, do you want to see my mother?"
Mr. Wei immediately said, "I have something to ask of you, Lord Zhou."
Bai Jingxing knew her mother liked to collect difficult diseases, and she was curious herself, so she asked, "I wonder what it is?"
Mr. Wei: "Young lady, do you know that there is miasma in Lingnan? People from the north who come to Lingnan often get sick, and local people also often get typhoid fever, which is difficult to treat."
He looked at Bai Jingxing expectantly. "I've lived in the mountains for a long time. I just heard a few days ago that Lord Zhou went to the Taihu Lake area to inspect the medical offices. He diagnosed the curse that has plagued them for thousands of years as being caused by schistosomiasis. I wonder if the miasma in Lingnan is also caused by some other insect?"
He said, "There are more insects in Lingnan than in Taihu Lake."
Bai Jingxing: "...I can only write to my mother and ask her about this, but she has never been to Lingnan, so I'm afraid it's hard to make a definitive conclusion."
She looked him up and down, then asked hesitantly, "Does Mr. Wei have any existing patients? I wonder if we can go to the capital. If we can, let my mother take a look. Maybe she can treat him."
She definitely couldn't do it anyway. She had heard of the miasma in Lingnan, but wasn't that poisonous? How could it be related to insects?
Mr. Wei raised an eyebrow and asked, "If I can send the patient to the capital, will Lord Zhou be willing to treat him?"
Bai Jingxing rolled his eyes and said, "My mother likes flowers and plants she has never seen before, as well as insects, fish, birds and animals. I've heard that Lingnan is rich in products, and there are many things that are not found in the Central Plains and the North. If the person you send can take some with them, even if it's just common weeds and flowers on the road, as long as it's something my mother has never seen before, she will be very happy."
"One thing requires one medical consultation opportunity," Bai Jingxing said, "If not, I will write a letter to ask my mother."
Mr. Wei: "Actually, I've always had a question. Lord Zhou seems to be a gentleman, but if he's a gentleman, why would he have such a habit?"
Bai Jingxing couldn't bear to hear others say bad things about his mother. "My mother didn't collect these for personal gain, she collected them for medical purposes."
Bai Jingxing said, "She said that everything in the world can be used as medicine, especially living things, flowers, plants, trees, insects, fish, birds, beasts, and even things on the human body can be used as medicine."
"for example?"
"Human nails and hair, etc., can all be used as medicinal materials."
Everyone froze and stopped.
Bai Jingxing noticed that Yang Zezhi's hand holding her stiffened for a moment, so he said, "What's so strange about this? It's already been recorded in medical books."
Mr. Wei had come back to his senses. He stroked his beard and smiled, "I see. It was I who misunderstood Mr. Zhou."
He was very curious about Bai Jingxing, or rather, about his mother, Zhou Man, so he kept talking to her along the way. "When Master Zhou was your age, he was already a world-renowned young doctor. I wonder how your medical skills are now, young lady. Have you ever thought about traveling to Lingnan to study?"
Bai Jingxing, "You want me to go to Lingnan to see patients suffering from miasma?"
Mr. Wei smiled gently, "Young lady, why don't you consider it? Go further and gain more experience."
Bai Jingxing turned around and looked at Yang Zezhi.
Yang Zezhi smiled and said, "Our time for traveling and studying is limited. We will definitely return to the capital next year. However, we are just starting out in Qianzhou now. The mountains here are steep and the roads are narrow, so our progress will be very slow."
He said: "We must not forget our original intention and put the cart before the horse."
Bai Jingxing said to Mr. Wei with a look of regret, "It's impossible this time. You should send the patient to the capital. Besides, my medical skills... can only be compared with the sixth and seventh grade students in the Imperial Medical Bureau. Miasma, it sounds very powerful. It is like the so-called curse of Taihu Lake, which has plagued Lingnan for thousands of years. Apart from my mother, I am afraid no one in the world can solve it."
She paused and said, "But I advise Mr. Wei not to hold out too much hope. Qi is difficult to control. If it's not the insect disease you suspected, then my mother may be powerless to help."
Mr. Wei nodded and said with a smile, "I'm not in a hurry about this. This problem has troubled Lingnan for thousands of years. We've waited for thousands of years, so why should we be afraid of waiting a few more years? I can go with you, and we can go to the capital together to pay our respects to Lord Zhou."
(End of this chapter)
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