Chapter 14: Eternal Youth
Gu Dan's life is becoming increasingly busy and fulfilling.
He would practice martial arts during the day, and then take advantage of the time to read medical books while taking a medicinal bath. At night, he would go to the Imperial Hospital to get medicine and send it to the prison.
It is worth mentioning that when he got the medicine from the Imperial Hospital this time, he happened to meet Lin Xiaoyi's father, Imperial Physician Lin.
When Imperial Physician Lin heard that Xu was going to open a martial arts school and a medicine shop, he specifically asked him what his plan was. Naturally, he didn't need to carefully explain the reason to this customer as he did to Andy Hui.
He just said that he was not very talented and knowledgeable, so he thought it would be better for him to open a pharmacy to treat some common patients and accumulate experience. As for the martial arts school, he could open it with his friends, which would be a way to make a living.
It is not uncommon that many imperial doctors had experience as pharmacists in martial arts schools before coming to the Imperial Medical Bureau.
In response to his answer, Imperial Physician Lin nodded without comment. The relationship between the two was not as close as that between Gu Dan and Andy Hui. After a brief chat, they went about their own business.
Apart from this, Gu Dan never saw Niu Shitou and the prisoner who tried to get away with it again in prison.
"How do you feel?"
After delivering the medicine, Gu Dan asked the patient a routine question every day.
"Sir, I feel like I'm getting better soon." The prisoner who responded was called Ding Ji, a 'big customer' who had been taking the medicine package prescribed by Andy Hui for three months in a row.
If ordinary people were to take medicine and treat illnesses in this way, they would have probably gone bankrupt long ago.
Fortunately, Gu Dan had the support of the Imperial Medical Bureau, so he dared to do this.
At the same time, a familiar vitality was introduced into Gu Dan's body.
He immediately focused his consciousness and called out the panel.
[Lifespan: 26/80 (+2)]
Gu Dan almost burst into tears.
After four months of hard work, he finally made up for the thirty-three years that had been cut off, and added two more years to his lifespan! But, why didn't he just add two more years to his lifespan? At the moment, his mind was immersed in it, and Gu worried.
A surge of vitality suddenly came over him, flowing into his limbs and bones, as if the most gentle hand in the world was caressing every part of his body, making Gu feel relaxed and happy, with his body and mind clear and clean.
Invisibly, he underwent a special and pure baptism.
By the time he came to his senses, the panel had changed again.
[Lifespan: 25/80 (+1)]
"That's how it is!"
Gu was worried and realized something.
The life span he gained from curing illnesses and saving lives was not increased directly and simply by the upper limit, but by the effect on his body and mind! The so-called addition was actually the subtraction of the wear and tear brought to him by the years.
Compared to simply increasing the upper limit of lifespan, this power that can make up for the losses caused by the years is more precious.
Even though times have changed, he can still maintain the physical vitality and mental state of his twenty years old.
This is what is called eternal youth, which is much better than simple immortality.
The most important thing is that although he looks "one year younger" on the surface, his own strength has not diminished at all.
'What will happen if I accumulate more lifespan in the future and my age drops to zero?'
Gu Dan suddenly had an idea.
The so-called zero age refers to the time when a person is just born.
Would he turn into a baby directly then? Of course, it was just a thought.
Gu Dan is not prepared to do such a thing as using himself as an experiment.
In addition to discovering new uses for "healing the world with medicine", there was another major gain.
That means one person can get the benefit twice! Last time, Ding Ji took the medicine for a month, which gave him three years of life. Now it lasted for another two months, which gave him eight years of life in total!
Last time, Ding Ji's symptoms were much alleviated, and this time he was almost cured.
If things go as expected, the amount of life he saved for Ding Ji should be this number.
However, life span itself is not fixed, nor is it unchangeable.
For example, your lifespan may allow you to live to be a hundred years old, but if you are hacked to death in the middle of the lifespan, it will be immediately reduced to zero.
Or it is normal for someone to live to be eighty, but suddenly swallow a pill of unknown effect and die.
This is why he wants to win over Mo Qiu. The method of eternal youth alone is not enough, he must also practice the art of self-defense diligently to ensure that he can avoid various natural and man-made disasters.
When it is unavoidable, you must have the strength to turn the table over.
"grown ups?"
Seeing that Gu Dan didn't speak for a long time, Ding Ji called out cautiously.
"Oh, you're doing great! Just continue to stay here and you don't need to take medicine. Your illness is cured." Gu Dan came back to his senses and was in high spirits.
"Thank you, sir! I will always remember your kindness to me! If you need me to do anything in the future, just tell me and I will do my best!"
Ding Ji kowtowed loudly, expressing his gratitude.
In this cell, you can receive special care from the jailer and eat more meals!
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Not to mention that Gu Dan didn't ask for any money and paid out of his own pocket to cure his long-standing illness. It is no exaggeration to say that he was doing him a favor.
"Ha, there's no need for you to do anything." Gu Dan shook his head, not caring.
The reason why Ding Ji went to jail was because he was competing with other villages for water sources over irrigation. The two sides were unwilling to give in and got really angry. He called on his friends and eventually killed someone.
It wasn't Ding Ji who beat the man to death, but he was the one who called his friends over. In the end, he couldn't escape punishment and was thrown into prison.
Gu Dan didn't want to know the right or wrong. He was a doctor and he only needed to cure diseases and save lives.
If the patient being treated has done many evil things and made people unhappy, the worst that can happen is that he can be killed after being cured, which can also be regarded as waste utilization.
"My Lord, my illness has improved a lot!"
With Ding Ji as an example, another person immediately spoke up.
When Gu Dan looked over, he saw Cui Jiu, who had the same symptoms as Ding Ji.
This guy was a gambler. He went to a gambling house and lost all his money. In the end, he sold his children and his house to try to get the money back, but naturally ended up in complete failure.
He still refused to let go and even dared to borrow money from loan sharks in an attempt to make back his money in the gambling house, but he lost everything again.
In the end, he was severely beaten and thrown into prison.
He had the same illness as Ding Ji and took the same medicine. Ding Ji recovered, so there was no reason why Cui Jiu couldn't be cured.
Familiar vitality floods in, adding another four years to one’s lifespan.
Cui Jiu's symptoms are obviously milder than Ding Ji's, and he should recover faster than Ding Ji.
Gu Dan had nothing to say about this kind of scum. He nodded calmly and said, "In that case, go back to your original cell."
"ah?"
Cui Jiu was dumbfounded and his eyes involuntarily looked at Ding Ji beside him.
His illness had been cured for some time, but he kept it to himself because he was afraid that he would not have enough to eat if he told others about it.
Seeing that Ding Ji was the first to admit that his illness had been cured and he would stay to eat a few more bites of food, he naturally followed suit.
But it's the same disease, and it's been cured, so why can't he stay here and eat a few more meals?
"Why, you don't want to?" Gu Dan's voice was a little higher.
Wang, the jailer standing by, looked over with eager eyes.
"I got it!"
Cui Jiu didn't dare to say anything more and kowtowed quickly.
(End of this chapter)