"What are you saying?" Li Chu looked at his son with some confusion, not understanding what he was asking.
"Oh, Dad, it was you who just pricked Grandpa a couple of times with that needle, and he woke up. Then you pricked him a couple more times and he fell asleep again."
Wenxuan became more and more excited as he spoke, and he started gesturing with his hands as well.
"Just a couple of quick pricks?" Li Chu's lips twitched incessantly at his son's words.
"Come here, Wenxuan, let me prick you a couple of times, and I'll just prick you randomly. Don't ever say you're my son when you go out in the future, I can't bear the shame."
Ding Qiunan finally couldn't help but laugh out loud, and everyone else in the room laughed along with her.
Even if he didn't understand traditional Chinese medicine, Li Wenxuan knew he had said the wrong thing, and he scratched his head in embarrassment.
"Dad, I just don't understand. You seem to find it very easy, so I thought it was simple."
"Simple?" Li Chu rolled his eyes at his son speechlessly. "Haven't you seen the human acupuncture point chart hanging in my study?"
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"I've seen it."
"Can you remember it?"
"How can I remember so many acupoints? By rote memorization?" Li Wenxuan stared wide-eyed at his father.
"So how do you think I remembered it?"
"Is it enough to just memorize that acupoint?"
"What are you thinking? Just like when you learn math, you think you can get a high score by simply memorizing the formulas?"
"Uh..." Li Wenxuan was speechless after being rebuked by his father.
Li Wenhui, watching from the side, was anxious for her younger brother. She took the initiative to speak up and said, "Dad, my brother is interested in traditional Chinese medicine and wants to ask if it's too late for him to start learning from you now?"
"Wenxuan, is that what you mean?"
"Yes, yes, that's what I meant. I suddenly find traditional Chinese medicine quite interesting." Li Wenxuan nodded vigorously after his sister explained it to him.
"Fun? My young master, you should rest."
Li Wenxuan looked at his father with a face full of questions: "Dad, why don't you want to teach me?"
Aunt Wang, sitting to the side, spoke first: "Xuanxuan, it's not that your dad doesn't want to teach you. If you really want to learn, that's fine. But if you just think it's fun, then there's no need to learn. Your dad suffered a lot to learn traditional Chinese medicine for more than eight years. He only slept five or six hours a day and spent the rest of his time studying hard. Do you really think your dad's medical skills came from thin air?"
Everyone in the room stared at Li Chu in surprise. Not to mention the outsiders, Ding Qiunan herself was not very clear about the time when her husband was studying traditional Chinese medicine under a master.
"Grandma, was my dad really that hardworking back then?" Li Wenhui sat down next to Aunt Wang and asked, taking her hand.
"What do you think? Your master was already quite old back then, and he was afraid that his medical skills would be lost, so he tried his best to teach him everything. If it weren't for constantly using those good medicines to nourish your father's body, your father would probably have been bedridden long ago and wouldn't have been able to hold on."
The children were secretly astonished by what Aunt Wang said.
Li Wenxuan lowered his head and thought for a long time. When he raised his head again, his eyes were firm: "Dad, I still hope you can teach me."
This time, Li Chu didn't directly refuse his son. He thought for a moment and said, "How about this, let's not talk about teaching for now. You know that book on basic knowledge in my study, right?"
"Yes, I know."
"There are still two weeks until the college entrance examination results are released, which means there are about two weeks before you fill out your college applications. During this period, you should memorize that book. I want to see how much you can memorize before you fill out your applications. Also, take this time to think carefully about what you really want."
"So, you're going to memorize that book?"
"yes."
"Okay, I'll start tomorrow."
“Let’s not wait until tomorrow,” Li Chu said, taking out his keys from his pocket. “Go to my office and get them. I remember there are a few left in the cabinet.”
Li Wenxuan took the keys, but he found it a bit strange: "Dad, why did you buy so many of these textbooks?"
"you do not know?"
What should I know?
“Oh dear, this book was written by your dad,” Ding Qiunan couldn’t help but interject.
Li Wenxuan felt his eyes widen in disbelief. Li Wenhui and Wang Yueyue, who were sitting next to Aunt Wang, were also staring at Li Chu with their mouths agape.
They all only knew that Li Chu was a doctor, and had never known that he also wrote books.
Suddenly, Li Wenhui had a bad feeling: "Dad, am I going to have to memorize that book you wrote in the future?"
"Snap!" Li Chu snapped his fingers: "My daughter is so smart, she thought of that in advance."
Li Wenhui showed no joy at being praised by her father. Her little face was all scrunched up. She leaned her head on Aunt Wang's shoulder and wailed dramatically, "Grandma, my life is so miserable!"
Aunt Wang raised her hand and slapped Li Wenhui's thigh: "This girl, what nonsense about having a hard life."
"Ouch...it hurts!"
Everyone laughed again at Li Wenhui's antics, and it took them a long time to stop.
Li Wenxuan shook the keys in his hand: "Dad, I'm going to get the book now."
"Wenxuan, bring me a copy too. I'd better start early."
Li Wenhui looked at her younger brother who was walking out and said something.
"Brother Xuan, wait for me, I want to go too!" Wang Yueyue stood up abruptly and skipped away.
Li Chu then calmly said, "Auntie, you can all go back later. Don't worry about my uncle here. I'll take good care of him. Let him rest here tonight. I'll stay with him. He should be fine tomorrow."
Aunt Wang thought for a moment, then looked at Li Chu and asked, "Xiao Chu, tell me the truth, is your uncle really alright?"
"Auntie, I wouldn't say such things carelessly. My uncle's health is definitely fine, he's just a little tired."
Aunt Wang nodded in relief: "Let Junzi come and keep his dad company tonight."
"Auntie, there's no need. Junzi and the others are probably quite busy with the war in the southwest, so let's not bother them."
Aunt Wang thought about it and realized it made sense. Since mid-February, Wang Jun and his wife had only shown up briefly the day before yesterday when the children had just finished their exams. The rest of the time, they were so busy that they didn't even go home.
"Alright then, you can keep your uncle company tonight. Your aunt won't say anything."
"What are you saying, Auntie? Qiu Nan and I are your and my uncle's son and daughter-in-law. How can parents thank their own children?"
Aunt Wang patted Li Chu's hand with satisfaction and said nothing more.
After Wenxuan brought the book back, Li Chu sent them home. Aunt Wang was getting old and was in a very emotional state today, so he specially wrote another prescription and asked the staff who came with Aunt Wang to take it to the pharmacy to get the medicine and brew it for Aunt Wang to drink.
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