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"The Tao that can be spoken of is not the real Tao; the name that can be named is not the real name... The mysterious and the mysterious, the door to the myriad wonders... Man follows the earth, the earth follows the sky, the sky follows the Tao, the Tao follows nature... The sky obtains the One to be clear, the earth obtains the One to be peaceful, the gods obtain the One to be spiritual... The Tao gives birth to the One, the One gives birth to the Two, the Two gives birth to the Three, the Three gives birth to all things... The way of the sage is to act without contention."
Tao Te Ching has 81 chapters and 5,162 words. Zhou Huaiyue helped her sort out the key points and logical order of the whole text and connected them together using the story memory method. Shen Roujiao relied on her strong concentration and effective methods to master Tao Te Ching within 12 hours.
Before the master went to sleep, she stood at the head of the kang and recited the entire article.
"He is indeed a smart person. Has he really not eaten?" Ciyun was very satisfied. He heard from Lingxi that the third disciple had been carried in the bamboo forest behind the Taoist temple for a whole day and had not eaten the two meals that Zhou Huaiyue had sent him. He was very stubborn.
The truth is that she didn't eat a single bite of rice, but ate more than ten candies and five or six eggs, which were all secretly stuffed into her by Master Zhou.
At this moment, he was still roasting sweet potatoes in the kitchen, waiting for her to pass the exam so that she could eat the ready-made ones.
"See, I told you that you must call me senior sister." Lingxi squatted beside the stove in the kitchen, staring at Zhou Huaiyue who was moving a sweet potato with a stick.
"She is the one who wants to call you Senior Sister, why should I call her that?"
The sweet aroma of roasted sweet potatoes became stronger and stronger, filling the air and making her hungry. Lingxi swallowed her saliva and said unconvincedly, "Humph, I heard what you said to threaten the master." Lingxi's eyes rolled around, looking very cunning.
It was still a year ago. Zhou Huaiyue diagnosed and prescribed medicine for Ciyun, who had recovered from her illness, and deliberately sent them away. Lingxi was more cautious and hid behind the curtain to eavesdrop.
"I bring her here and let her live in a Taoist temple in the mountains as a Taoist nun? Impossible." Even though he knew that Jingxuan was Shen Roujiao's biological mother, he would never bring her to become a disciple.
He is not crazy. Who would send his beloved to a Taoist temple to become a nun?
What's more, Shen Roujiao is not the type to stay in the mountains. Her mind is full of business, and to her, making money is a form of spiritual practice.
The master coughed heavily a few times and said, "I know what you are thinking. You saved me, and I will definitely help you." Ciyun said earnestly.
Who knew that Zhou Huaiyue would not appreciate it at all.
"Saving you has nothing to do with anything else. She can't come, no matter what I say." His attitude was firm and there was no room for negotiation.
"How long can you keep it a secret when her mother is here? Besides, I accepted you as my disciple to teach you the recipe, and it has nothing to do with anything else. It will not affect her getting married and having children, nor will it affect her doing things. What are you afraid of?" The master pointed out the crux of the problem bluntly, trying to dispel Zhou Huaiyue's concerns.
"Who said I was afraid? It's just that she likes bustle and doesn't like quiet." He was very stubborn.
"In our sect, marriages cannot be divorced. This is more effective than anything else. And yet, you are still moved." After Ciyun finished speaking, he turned sideways and stared at Zhou Huaiyue intently. He liked the girl and couldn't hide it.
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"Marriage? Divorce?" The questions were too far-fetched. Shen Roujiao would be seventeen next year and eighteen the year after. It was not certain whether he would be able to find a partner, let alone anyone else.
"It's a match made in heaven, what are you afraid of! Besides, you saved her."
"Don't tell her, I'm afraid she'll know." He was afraid that the gratitude for saving his life would affect her choice.
He hoped that if she chose him, it would be just because of him and nothing else.
"You young people are such a trouble." Ciyun shook his head. It was obvious that fate had tied them together long ago, and once the gears of fate started turning, no one could stop.
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"Junior Sister, eat sweet potatoes." Zhou Huaiyue followed Shen Roujiao and called out this in order to shut Lingxi's mouth and make her keep the secret.
After completing the recitation task, Shen Roujiao followed the warm and tempting sweet fragrance and went into the stove. The three of them crowded in front of the red stove, eating sweet potatoes and chatting. Lingxi told many stories about the master and the mysterious recipe.
"That's it!"
When Shen Roujiao heard the so-called secret formula, she couldn't believe it because it was too simple, so simple that there was no mystery at all.
The master whispered the prescription into her ear and she was not allowed to write it down; she could only memorize it.
"Please repeat it again and I'll listen." When imparting a prescription, one must be precise, and the secret to remembering it accurately is repetition.
"Three flowers, five leaves and one grass: honeysuckle, chrysanthemum, and locust flower; five-leaf gypsophila and nameless grass."
She remembered clearly that they were all common medicinal herbs, except for the last one, the nameless grass, which was beyond her range. Zhou Huaiyue once wrote in a letter that when he was feverish and unconscious, he ate a kind of juicy green grass, which was the nameless grass.
After repeating it once more, the master taught her the specific proportions and usage of the main herbs one by one, and repeatedly reminded her not to tell the proportions of the herbs in the prescription to a third person, unless they were her disciples. Just like the master accepted her as his third disciple.
As for the efficacy of this mysterious prescription, Ciyun smiled and said, "It can relieve exterior symptoms, dissipate heat, soothe the liver and soothe the stomach. It has a different effect for different people. It is comparable to the universal magic prescription Xiao Chaihu Tang."
For many days afterwards, Shen Roujiao was almost always preparing and testing the medicine according to the proportions. Zhou Huaiyue just helped and never asked about the details.
"Master, this medicine is so bitter, who can drink it?" Before adding the juice of the nameless grass, the warm soup tasted pleasant, but after cooling down and adding the juice, it became too bitter to swallow.
"If it's for curing a disease, people will drink it no matter how bitter it is. If it's for preventing a disease, you can only adjust and modify it slowly. When this problem is solved one day, that's when the prescription will be famous and flourish."
Grand Master Ciyun had previously placed all her hopes on her third disciple, but when the prescription was really passed out and she saw Shen Roujiao and Zhou Huaiyue trying the medicine again and again, she let go of her obsession. Everything is about fate and timing, and for many things, one only needs to work hard on the cause; as for the result, God will give the answer.
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Six days before the start of the school term, the three of them left Nanshan Village and returned to Yunnan. The days together were terribly short, and Shen's mother could not leave, so she could only watch the two children come and go.
Before leaving, Shen Roujiao gave the gift she bought to her mother. It was a seal. There were no words on the seal, only a plum blossom engraved on it, which was taken from the "Mei" character in Tan Cuimei's name.
"Mom, Tan Cuimei is you, and Jingxuan is also you. No matter what your identity is, you are still my mom. We respect your choice."
During their brief time together, Shen Roujiao could see that her mother loved her identity as a Taoist doctor. She never slacked off in her morning and evening scripture recitation. In her spare time, she would take the initiative to discuss with Zhou Huaiyue the prescriptions she had compiled. People shine when they do what they love.
In the hearts of Shen Tianhua and Shen Roujiao, Jingxuan is not only a mother, but also a shining star. They all think that such a mother is very good and brave.
Mother Shen, who held the seal tightly and let her tears flow, finally combined her two fragmented identities into one at this moment. Even if she was someone else's wife or mother, she could still be herself.
"Master, please take care of your health. I will work hard to promote the prescription!" Shen Roujiao knelt down and kowtowed to Ciyun. He pressed a bigger red envelope under her pillow and coaxed the master to be happy, "I will go back and make more money, give it to you, and buy you delicious candies."
Shen Roujiao peeled a piece of candy and put it into Ciyun's mouth. She also liked the candy that her apprentice secretly ate.
"Third brother, with you, Master can leave with peace of mind. As for the prescription, it is my job to pass it on to you, and it is your job to make it work in the future. Master is happy to have found you."
The master and disciple held hands together, Xianyun cried, but Ciyun did not.
They each have their own missions, and once she finds her, many things will be determined.
The result is destined to happen.
On the way home, Shen Tianhua discussed with his younger sister that he was going to sell the snack stand to the factory to steal things for his mother's medical treatment. He then implicated the co-worker who returned the things to him. The child was not a bad person and could endure hardships.
He wanted to go back and prepare, and when the weather got warmer, he would bring his father here to visit his mother. His family was not short of money now, and he did not have any big ambitions, but he wanted to take good care of his parents, so that the Shen family would not have to worry about the future and could do their best.
And Shen Roujiao also has big plans.
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Hedong Village, Yunnan.
Although the Shen siblings were unable to bring their mother back, from what they shared, they learned that although their mother lived a poor but wealthy life, she was doing well.
Everyone agreed with Shen Tianhua's plan. When the weather gets warmer, the four brothers want to accompany their father to visit their mother safely.
But when the younger sister told everyone her plan, everyone fell silent.
"I don't agree!" The first to speak was the third brother Shen Tiannan, "Next year you will be in the third year of high school, and you will graduate in a little over a year. I won't stop you from doing anything you want to do. Since you went to high school in the county, you have made so much progress. The girls in our village all look up to you as a role model. How can a role model drop out of school?"
"Little sister, fourth brother also wants to persuade you to reconsider. Now second brother is doing very well at the herbal medicine station, our family has no worries about money, and there is nothing to rush. Why don't you wait until you graduate from high school?" It was from his little sister who was in high school that Shen Tianyou saw the power of knowledge and believed the saying: knowledge can change destiny.
The eldest brother and Shen's father didn't say anything because they knew that the younger sister could do anything she wanted and they couldn't persuade her.
"Brother wants to ask you, what do you plan to do after you drop out of school?" The second brother Shen Tiancheng has a high EQ. The thing that can make my younger sister drop out of school must not be an ordinary matter. It must be a bigger matter than the medicinal materials business.
"I want to grow medicinal herbs." What he grew was none other than a nameless grass.
She had no intention of going to college, so after the epidemic, Shen Roujiao planned to drop out of school.
Especially when trying the mysterious prescription in Nanshan Village, Zhou Huaiyue said that if this prescription could solve two major problems, it would be a more universal medicine than Xiao Chaihu Decoction, curing diseases and preventing diseases.
These two major problems,
One is the planting of nameless grass.
Wumingcao is the finishing touch of the prescription and is an indispensable herb, but it is too difficult to grow. If it can be successfully planted on a large scale in Yunnan and Yunnan, the prescription can be promoted. Otherwise, it will only be a useless prescription that is nested in the hands of the master and rots in the mountain ravine of Xiaonan Village and cannot be removed.
The second is the taste issue.
If the bitter taste is not solved, there is no way to prevent diseases. Because the prescription itself has the effect of regulating the stomach, the taste of children and daily use cannot be bad. After all, no one wants to suffer.
At that time, everyone listened to the master's explanation of the origin of the prescription, and they all thought it was a legendary story. Only Shen Roujiao heard it as a huge business opportunity. If this business opportunity could be seized and realized, it would be a big business with hundreds of millions of people.
She wants to do something big that will make the impossible possible!
Perhaps, relying on this prescription, she can create a huge business empire, stand at the forefront of the times, spread her wings and soar, and be on the list!