Chapter 549 A Dream of Youth 81
"The school has delayed the morning reading time, why are you still getting up so early?" It's autumn and winter now, and the nights are long, so he doesn't have to go to school so early anymore.
"Get up when you're awake. Father is already up. If I don't come to wake you, do you expect Father to wake you up?"
Xie Qi shuddered, quickly crawled out of bed, and started putting on his clothes. At the same time, he urged Xie Ning to leave, saying, "Bao'er, you go wait in the garden first, I'll be there in a bit."
He kept muttering something under his breath.
Xie Ning nodded in satisfaction, then went out and took Qingli towards the garden. When they were almost in the garden, she finally realized where the sawing sound that had woken her was coming from.
It was right here with the Xie family elders.
Just then, the courtyard gate wasn't closed yet. Xie Ning turned on her tiptoes and ran inside. "Grandfather! What are you doing?"
Grandfather Xie was drawing lines with a stone when he saw Xie Ning run in. He couldn't help but smile and narrow his eyes. "Bao'er, you're up so early. Grandfather is making a handcart. The outer city is too far from here. Grandfather is too old to carry it."
We'll just make a handcart to haul goods.
Xie Ning looked at the simple cart and silently squatted down to the side. Xie's grandfather knew some carpentry. The chopping board that Xie Yun used on the stall before was made by Xie's grandfather.
"Grandfather, this cart only has one plank. If we put a lot of things on it, won't it fall over?"
Xie Ning placed her hand on the wheel again and asked curiously, "Grandfather, these wheels are so big! Do all handcarts have to have big wheels? Can't they have small wheels?"
......
"Grandpa, can't we put this stall on the cart? Then we can just push it wherever we want to set up the stall..."
The more questions Xie Ning asked, the more confused Xie's grandfather became, and he was completely led by the nose by Xie Ning. In the end, he even designed a human-powered food cart.
Grandfather Xie: Am I perhaps a genius?!
An excited grandfather Xie immediately pulled open the wooden board and began to paint, then began to tap and bang on it. Xie Ning just obediently watched from the side until she received a tap on the head.
Xie Qi's soft voice came from behind, "Bao'er, I was wondering where you went, turns out you hid here with your grandfather! You didn't practice your sword this morning!"
He had intended to look for the person when he noticed they weren't there, but as soon as he turned around, he bumped into his father sitting quietly in the garden pavilion, burning incense. After that, he dared not run around anymore and obediently recited his lessons and practiced swordsmanship. Only after his father left did he run off in a flash.
When I came back, I heard laughter and chatter from here. I peeked in and saw the grandfather and grandson chatting happily!
“Brother, I’m watching Grandpa make a cart. Look, Grandpa is amazing! He says he can make a cart that can be pushed around to sell food!”
Upon hearing this, Grandfather Xie subconsciously straightened his back, raised his chin slightly, and his beard trembled as he said very modestly, "No, no, I just learned by doing it."
Then he explained his idea in detail.
"Grandfather, you're amazing!" Xie Qi had never seen a car like this before! The streets were full of peddlers carrying goods, or small stalls and food shops with fixed stalls.
The two children's praise made Grandpa Xie feel quite pleased with himself, and his neck turned red.
"Still working on it?" Grandmother Xie walked in from outside. "Go eat first, Qi'er still has to go to school."
At the dinner table, Grandfather Xie couldn't help but reiterate his idea. Xie Wangzhi had some understanding of it, and after seeing the "design drawings" that the grandfather and grandson had drawn together, he also offered some suggestions.
Xie Ning drank her lotus seed porridge, nodding in agreement. These were points she couldn't bring herself to bring up directly. If they were modified, the food cart would not only be more stable, but also easier to push.
After finishing breakfast, Xie Wangzhi rode off to work. The coachman dropped Xie Qi off at the Imperial Academy and then returned to pick up Chen Wanniang and her daughter Xie Ning.
One was going to Dejitang, and the other was going to the outskirts of the city; they happened to be going the same way.
Doctor Gu led Xie Ning to sit down. They had already tested Xie Ning's abilities yesterday, and today he had already figured out how to teach this little girl.
“Miss Xie, these next few days you will follow Mingzhao and Xiaoshi to take each other’s pulses. They will teach you some pulse diagnosis techniques. Once you can roughly identify their pulses, I will teach you others.”
Xie Ning responded softly.
Du Mingzhao, carrying a medical book, led Xie Ning into the backyard. "Young Lady Xie, have you studied pulse diagnosis?"
Xie Ning sat down opposite Du Mingzhao, asked Qingli to put her books on the stone table, and then replied with a smile, "I have studied some; a royal physician taught me when I was in Quanzhou."
Although it was only mentioned briefly.
A hint of surprise flashed across Du Mingzhao's eyes, but remembering that it was taught by the imperial physician, she understood. "Alright, have you studied Mo Yi?"
"Having studied it, one must understand the principles of heaven and earth when inquiring about the reasons for healing. The heavens are insufficient, and the northwest and left are cold..." Xie Ning memorized all three of the Mo Yi's principles, and when Du Mingzhao asked him questions about their interpretations and understanding, he also carefully explained some of them.
Du Mingzhao frowned, glanced at Xie Ning's small stature, and sighed, "I originally wanted to teach you the meaning of pulse, but I see that you still have some questions about the meaning of ink. Today we'll learn the meaning of ink first, and once you're familiar with it, we'll slowly learn the meaning of pulse, is that alright?"
Xie Ning nodded. She was deliberately hiding her talents. After all, the Ink Meaning Chapter was not simple, and there were many things that she couldn't understand at her age. She could show her genius, but she couldn't be too monstrous.
However, she really didn't expect Du Mingzhao to ask her about Mo Yi directly, and couldn't help but wonder, "Is Manager Du planning to take the exam for the Imperial Medical Bureau?"
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