Jian Ning had a good impression of Yang Jinyu the first time she met him. Some people's character can be determined after a brief contact, but some people's character can never be seen clearly even after a long contact.
Yang Jinyu belongs to the former.
Most importantly, Jane Ning hopes that Grandma Wu’s achievements in traditional Chinese medicine can be passed on to this world, and that the modern medicine she brought can gradually become popular in this world, so that it can help more people.
Yang Jinyu is undoubtedly a good candidate. With his identity, doing these things will not seem so shocking, and it can also save her a lot of unnecessary arguments and trouble.
The reason why Jian Ning did not immediately agree to his request to become his disciple was because he still needed to find out more about him from other sources.
At the dinner table, Jian Ning asked him a few case studies seemingly casually. He knew that Jian Ning was testing him, so he swallowed the food in his mouth before answering each time. The ancients emphasized not talking while eating and not talking while sleeping. This does not mean that you cannot talk at the dinner table, but that you should not talk with food in your mouth.
Yang Jinyu could name all kinds of medicinal herbs fluently. His grandfather asked him to start by learning how to purchase and identify medicinal herbs in order to lay a solid foundation.
Jian Ning nodded slightly, feeling more confident.
After dinner, Yang Jinyu said goodbye and took Xiao Si away when Blind Liu arrived. Jian Ning saw that his sleeves and shoes and socks were slightly wet, and guessed that he had gone to the river to wash clothes. Although he didn't say anything, he had a plan in mind.
The Ma brothers came after having dinner at home, and with them came Ding Sheng, who was called by Ma Xiaomai to listen to Journey to the West.
"Yaoyao, this cricket is for you. I named it Xiaoyaoyao. Do you think it sounds nice?" Ma Xiaodou ran straight to Sanniu as soon as he arrived. He took out a square cricket nest made of mud as if presenting a treasure, and smiled with a flattering look on his face.
Ding Sheng looked at Ma Xiaodou in surprise. The cricket was his. The Ma brothers came to his house and asked him to listen to stories. When Ma Xiaodou entered the house and saw his cricket, he couldn't take his eyes off it. He thought he liked the cricket and gave it to him generously, but he didn't expect that the cricket came to please Sanniu.
He didn't care. There were plenty of crickets in the vegetable garden, so if he gave this one to Ma Xiaodou, it would belong to Ma Xiaodou. But he didn't expect that Ma Xiaodou would just give something he seemed to like so much to Sanniu.
Sanniu wasn't very interested in crickets, but she was interested in the mud nest. There were many winding passages in the mud for the crickets to crawl through. She poked the cricket lying inside with her finger and giggled, "It doesn't sound good. Let's call it Xiaodouzi. Xiaodouzi sounds better."
Ma Xiaodou nodded vigorously. "Okay, I'll listen to you and call you Xiaodouzi."
"Let me see..." Erniu squeezed forward. The cricket became impatient after being poked by Sanniu several times, and poked its head out of the hole. Its two long antennae moved, and Erniu was so scared that she knocked the mud ball to the ground with one hand.
"Oh! It ran away, my cricket..." Sanniu saw the cricket fall out of the mud nest and jump out of the door.
"Don't run!" Sanniu chased after him.
A few children reacted and followed after him.
The cricket jumped a few times and landed on the porch. It was still light outside at this time. Ding Sheng was chirping and was about to pounce to catch the cricket. Suddenly, a rooster walking in the yard ran over with its wings spread, and swallowed the cricket into its stomach with a few pecks.
"It's all your fault!" Ma Xiaodou pushed Erniu angrily. Erniu cried and ran to the kitchen to complain to Jian Ning.
While washing the dishes, Jian Ning asked what happened, gave some guidance, and then let Erniu solve the problem herself, saying that she believed she could handle it.
When she came out of the kitchen, she saw the children talking, laughing and playing together again.
She was about to enter the house when a villager brought firewood. Knowing that her family needed a lot of firewood to make wine, villagers kept delivering firewood one after another. Soon, it was piled up in the corner as high as a hill. The firewood was collected by the villagers after they finished work and went up the mountain to catch prey in the trap.
Jane Ning was really touched. Most villagers knew how to return a favor, so she was not stingy and directly exchanged the secret water for firewood. She also told them that if they wanted the secret water in the future, they could exchange it with anything, whether it was firewood or vegetables, as long as it was edible.
Before preparing to tell the story, Jane Ning drove the chickens into the chicken coop and locked up the civet cat in the utility room. Although the civet cat was very smart and seemed to understand what she said and would not actively attack people, some villagers were afraid of it. It would be bad if someone else came later, especially the elderly, and they were scared by it and fell and got injured.
That night, the story was about "The Three Strikes on the White Bone Demon." Ma Xiaomai and the others were listening intently when the spirit cat meowed in the utility room. Jian Ning, thinking someone had come to the yard to replace the beans, had just gotten up when he heard two bangs from the kitchen.
She thought to herself that something was wrong, and hurried out, heading straight for the kitchen. When she got in, she saw a dark shadow running out of the back door towards the courtyard wall, trying to escape over the wall.
She gave a light shout, pointed her toes, leaped over, pulled the man down from the wall, and stepped on him.
"Bitch! If you have the guts, I'll step on your Fifth Master to death!" The man was stepped on tightly by Jian Ning, twisting his body and cursing.
Jane Ning felt the voice was familiar, but she couldn't remember who it was.
"Old Five?" Ding Youtian recognized the voice as Old Five, Ding Youli. There was a lantern hanging on the porch in the front yard. He took the lantern and shone it at Jian Ning's feet. The person staring at him with resentment on his face, who else could it be but Old Five?
Jane Ning exerted a little force on her feet, and he started howling.
"He smashed our two new pots. Bring us a rope, tie him up, and bring him to the village head."
Ding Youtian responded with "OK", but before he turned around, he heard Ma Xiaomai say, "Bring it here, a thick hemp rope." Ma Xiaomai ran over and helped Jian Ning tie up Lao Wu tightly.
When Old Ding learned that Old Five had secretly gone to smash the two brewing pots at Old Four's house, and was tied up by Old Four and his wife and taken to the headman's house, he was so angry that he scolded Old Five for being a fool at home!
After scolding him, he still had to take the eldest brother back to the headmaster's house.
Many villagers gathered around the headman's house. Lao Wu was still tied up and thrown on the floor of the main hall. Many villagers spat on him and cursed him with gritted teeth.
If Jian Ning fails to make wine, the villagers won't be able to exchange it for beans. He is openly making an enemy of the entire village. How can everyone not hate him!
Tian and Chang rushed over upon hearing the news, and they wanted to skin him alive!
"Send him to the government office at dawn and let him eat jail food!"
"First, give him forty lashes of the cane, until his skin is torn and his flesh is exposed. Then we'll see if he dares to do it again!"
All the villagers were filled with righteous indignation. Only then did Lao Wu feel scared and realized that he had offended everyone. He didn't want to see the officials or go to jail. He was so scared that his face turned pale. Just when he didn't know what to do, his father Lao Dingtou and Ding Lao Da walked in.
As soon as Old Ding entered the yard of the village head's house, he was spat on and someone pointed at his nose and scolded him for being immoral and instigating his son to do such a bad thing.
"I swear to God, even my father didn't know about it. It was the fifth brother himself..." Before the eldest brother Ding Youwang could finish his words, someone kicked him from the side.
He couldn't see who it was in the dim light.
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