Just as Su Qiushi was filled with emotion, Su Ruyi returned.
Su Ruyi saw his figure appear at the backyard gate and waved to him: "Grandpa, are you going out?"
Su Qiushi hurriedly walked back, pretending to have the same bewildered expression as a few days ago, and asked, "Yanran, where exactly is this place?"
Su Ruyi smiled and said, "Didn't you already say that this is a house that 'higher up' rewarded me with?"
Su Qiushi pressed further, "Who exactly are you referring to as 'above'?"
Su Ruyi laughed again, "'Above' naturally refers to the 'above' who awarded me such a house!"
Seeing that he was being treated like a child and unable to get any information out of her, Su Qiushi had no choice but to give up.
As they talked, Su Ruyi led Su Qiushi back into the courtyard.
He led Su Qiushi directly to the study, and placed the book that Su Qiushi had been struggling with for days back into his hands: "Didn't you say you wanted to thoroughly study this book?"
Su Qiushi looked at the thread-bound book, her eyes turning strange again.
However, he concealed it and didn't let Su Ruyi notice.
Who wrote this book?
Su Qiushi is a well-known traditional Chinese medicine doctor in Haicheng, and everyone jokingly calls him the best in Haicheng.
But he had never seen a book like this before.
It cannot be called a classic text or a secret recipe; rather, it offers a new way of thinking, a completely new way of thinking, or even a way of looking at traditional Chinese medicine that transcends the traditional Chinese medicine mindset.
It was like a sudden enlightenment, a moment of profound clarity.
The author of this book must be a master who is a thousand times, ten thousand times greater than Su Qiushi.
Su Qiushi's gaze swept over the study again, over the full bookshelves crammed with medical books...
He knew those books were medical books, but he just couldn't open them.
He even vaguely understood that the reason he couldn't open it was because his cultivation level was too low.
These past few days, he's also watched Su Ruyi studying these books in the study.
He found it hard to describe the learning process; it seemed as if the knowledge in a book simply entered Su Ruyi's mind.
In his daze, he somehow understood the process and felt that it was acceptable!
Looking back now, it's utterly absurd!
Just then, Su Ruyi sat down opposite him and opened a medical book.
Just like he had witnessed a few days ago, the strange process repeated itself—he watched as Su Ruyi's eyes darted around rapidly, then she paused for a few seconds before closing the book, shutting her eyes, seemingly savoring the moment…
Immediately afterwards, Su Ruyi arrived at the consultation room on the first floor. As she came downstairs, a patient was already knocking on the door.
How did she know that a patient was coming?
When Su Qiushi saw the patient who entered, his pupils dilated instantly—the patient was a man with a cane and a gourd on his back…
How do we define it?
beggar?
Cloud Wanderer?
Anyway, it doesn't belong to this era.
The patient was a middle-aged man dressed in shorts and coarse cloth.
Her long, gray hair was dirty and tied in a bun with a bamboo pole or some kind of straw stuck in it.
It was obvious that he was a poor man, because his clothes had seven or eight patches and he was filthy.
Su Ruyi doesn't discriminate against patients; she treats everyone equally.
Su Qiushi watched as she greeted the patient with a smile.
What Su Qiushi found even stranger was that after this patient left, the next patient quickly knocked on the door of the consultation room, as if they were queuing up outside.
However, the windows of the entire first-floor lobby were filled with such thick, impenetrable white fog that the outside view was completely obscured!
The sound could be heard slightly when the window was open—the place seemed to be located in the middle of a bustling street.
However, opening the back door reveals a pastoral scene!
All these contradictions left Su Qiushi completely confused and gave him a headache.
Su Qiushi discovered that Su Ruyi had ten patients every day, and all ten patients had the same ailment, as if... he was deliberately making Su Ruyi practice her diagnostic skills for a certain ailment.
However, these ten patients had subtle differences, which also honed Su Ruyi's diagnostic skills.
It's like...
As Su Qiushi pondered this, it suddenly dawned on him—this was a school! A miniature Traditional Chinese Medicine college!
It's practice! Day after day, practice that leads to qualitative change through quantitative accumulation!
Good heavens, this isn't a consultation room, where is this place?
All ten patients were seen and left satisfied.
Su Ruyi stretched, and just then, the elegant and noble empress arrived again, right on time.
Su Qiushi had seen this empress several times before and never found it strange, but seeing her today truly shocked him, because he had fully regained consciousness!
The empress saw an old man standing in front of her staring at her and immediately flew into a rage: "Where did this old rogue come from? If you look at me again, I'll cripple your eyes! Get out of here at once!"
Su Qiushi immediately felt ashamed and quickly stepped aside.
Although the Empress was alone and had no attendants, her dignified and imposing aura, and her various manners, were something that no modern person could ever achieve.
Su Ruyi began to administer acupuncture to the Empress.
Su Qiushi carefully observed Su Ruyi's hand gestures. Every acupuncture point she placed was exquisite, flawless, and something he could never have imagined.
He knew in his heart that Su Ruyi's medical skills were now far superior to his, perhaps even ten or a hundred times better.
Looking at this strange clinic, he thought with a touch of regret, if he had been able to obtain such a precious place to practice when he was young, then given time, by the time he reached his twilight years, he would surely have become a medical sage or a medical saint!
They could have benefited the local people long ago, and even become a figure who will be remembered for all time!
Thinking of this, he even felt a little jealous of his own granddaughter, wondering how she had managed to get such an opportunity.
Of course, there was more joy than anything else.
He decided to impart all the medical skills passed down in the Su family to Su Ruyi!
Watching Su Ruyi skillfully administer acupuncture, Su Qiushi's eyes welled up with tears—this clinic, this strange place, everything seemed out of place—intersecting timelines, chaotic characters, the only constant being Su Ruyi herself and her day-to-day practice.
It's as if all possibilities exist, and everything is reasonable.
Su Qiushi's thoughts drifted, and she fell into another worry—was Su Ruyi still her granddaughter?
Could it be that her body has been possessed by some kind of fox spirit or demon, like in a folk tale, where she has been possessed?
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