Sun Simiao knew how to comfort people, and after his words of comfort, Li Jue felt much better.
"Thank you, senior brother!"
"No need to thank me..."
"If we're really going to thank you, I should be thanking you, senior brother!"
"If you hadn't passed on the secret techniques of Qingnang to me, I might have only ever been a great physician, leaving behind a legacy of medical excellence. How could I have saved so many patients?"
"If you're still angry, I have a knife here. Go in and stab that man, and end his life!"
"I……"
Li Jue gripped the scalpel tightly, but ultimately had no choice but to give up.
"Senior brother, my heart is in turmoil..."
"chaos?"
Sun Simiao frowned slightly, then grabbed Li Jue's arm with one hand and placed the other hand against Li Jue's chest.
Li Jue felt a warm current flow from his chest, quickly traveling along his meridians to his spine, and finally to his head, clearing his mind.
"Senior brother!"
"Don't speak, close your eyes, and feel with your heart!"
"oh……"
Li Jue closed his eyes and felt incredibly relaxed and at ease. He forgot all his troubles and even his own origins, as if he were a fish, a fish that could swim freely in the air, unrestrained and carefree.
He didn't know how much time had passed when he opened his eyes again and saw Sun Simiao, whose face was haggard.
"Senior brother, my mind is no longer troubled!"
"Thank you, Senior Brother!"
Upon hearing this, Sun Simiao wiped the sweat from his forehead and then patted Li Jue's head encouragingly.
"Do whatever you want, win or lose, your senior brother will always be on your side!"
"Senior brother, do you know what I want to do?"
"well!"
"You Li family members are born with a fighting spirit!"
"I……"
"Senior brother, you are a highly accomplished master. Could you please calculate my chances of winning?"
"You..."
Sun Simiao pondered for a moment and then said.
"I am not skilled in fortune telling, but I sense a great opportunity in you. I believe that if you dare to compete, you will surely win!"
"But I still want to tell you a sentence, a sentence from the Tao Te Ching."
"What did you say?"
"If one does not contend, then no one in the world can contend with him!"
Sometimes, the choice between fighting and not fighting is just a matter of a single thought. You only need to be yourself and stay true to yourself. What is yours will not be taken away by others, and what is not yours will be futile to fight for!
Li Jue remained silent for a long time after hearing Sun Simiao's words, and only after a while did he get up to express his gratitude.
"Thank you, senior brother. I understand!"
"Do you really understand?"
"I understand!"
"Should we kill the person inside?"
"Don't kill!"
"Killing someone who goes against my conscience will only make my thoughts even more confused!"
"I may escape the death penalty, but I will not escape punishment. I will take my revenge in another way!"
Sun Simiao nodded upon hearing this, then pushed open the courtyard gate and let the Zhou family members in.
When Zhou Zhengqing's wife saw Sun Simiao, she immediately asked him with concern.
"May I ask, Dr. Sun, how is my husband?"
"He's mostly recovered; he just needs to rest in bed for a few days to fully recover!"
"Thank you so much, Dr. Sun!"
The old woman took a plate from the servant; the plate was filled with gleaming gold coins.
"Dr. Sun, my husband is an honest and upright official and hasn't accumulated much wealth. Please consider this few strings of cash as the consultation fee!"
Sun Simiao nodded upon hearing this, and then instructed his disciple to accept the gift.
Although he didn't care about worldly money, he couldn't deprive other doctors of their livelihoods, so he still had to collect the money he was supposed to, and sometimes he would even deliberately charge more to make more people envious of doctors' income and thus abandon literature for medicine.
However, this falls under the realm of "Tao," which is difficult for ordinary people to understand, and he is too lazy to explain it to others.
Sun Simiao left two apprentices to care for the patient and then led Li Jue away from the Zhou family, returning to his own clinic.
However, Li Jue did not stay at the clinic for long. He got up to leave after a short while, saying that he had important things to do.
Sun Simiao didn't stop him, but just smiled and watched his junior brother's departing figure.
"well!"
"What a fine child! If he hadn't gone after the throne and had instead followed me to learn the Dao and explore the mysteries of the universe, he would surely have become a grandmaster in the future!"
Lu Zhaolin curled his lip in disdain upon hearing this.
"Master, it would be a real shame if he didn't try to seize the throne!"
Sun Simiao turned around in surprise upon hearing this, and when he saw Lu Zhaolin's chubby face, he immediately showed displeasure.
"What are you standing there for? Hurry up and catch up with them, and properly assist the eldest grandson!"
"The eldest grandson didn't let me go, saying that children shouldn't get involved in such matters!"
"oh?"
"Hahaha!"
"You two... one is ten years old and the other is nine. You're only one year apart, yet there's already a generation gap between you, hahaha!"
Lu Zhaolin's face darkened immediately upon hearing this.
"Master, instead of advising your eldest grandson, you're in the mood to make fun of me!"
"Li Jue said you're a child, so you should just be a child!"
"You two...you really are alike, both of you are more mature than you are!"
"However, in terms of mental fortitude, you're far inferior to my junior brother. My junior brother's mental age is comparable to that of someone in their thirties or forties. How is this thing called again? My junior brother mentioned it to me before..."
"Mental age!"
"Yes, yes, that's exactly it!"
Lu Zhaolin retorted, unconvinced.
"I'm not young at heart, I'm even older than my father, so why should the eldest grandson look down on me!"
Sun Simiao had no interest in coaxing the child. He went straight back to the inner room, sat on the prayer mat, and meditated to rest.
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