Chapter 59 Familiar Background
"What should I do Nuannuan? I can't remember more than 1/3 of the herbs in that book. Professor Zhao will conduct a random check today. I don't know what the punishment will be in the end. Will I be expelled?"
"Don't worry, it won't happen. But what do you do every day when you get home? How come you haven't memorized it in a month? I remember I checked you several times and you almost remembered the knowledge of medicinal herbs. How come you don't even remember 1/3 of it? You are exaggerating."
"It's mainly because the leaves of the herbs, especially during the growth period, look similar. If you put the herbs in front of me and ask me to tell them apart, I probably won't be able to tell them apart. If you tell me about the growing environment of the herbs, their effects and uses, I can still memorize them, after all, every herb is different, but I really can't remember their appearance."
"It's okay, take your time. Studying medicine is a long process. No matter what you study, it takes a long time to accumulate knowledge. We are just getting started, so don't be anxious. Next time if you can't tell the difference or remember something, tell me and we can work together to find a solution."
After Shen Baozhu said this, Lin Nuan really didn't know what to say. She could only comfort her by saying that her memory had improved since she drank the spiritual spring water. Even so, she didn't dare to say that she could 100% distinguish the appearance of herbs during their growth period.
After all, no matter how often you talk about something on paper, it is not as memorable as practicing it in person.
What’s more, these people have never been exposed to Chinese medicine.
Their Department of Traditional Chinese Medicine has more than one classroom. Although there are not many people, there are also open classes and teaching is divided by grade.
Chen Hanwen had already notified in advance that there would be an exam today, and that he would randomly check the task assigned a month ago, which was to memorize the medicinal materials in the introductory book.
The exam is divided into two parts: one written exam and one on-site exam.
The written exam papers were handed out and supervised by a sophomore senior.
After an hour of collecting the papers, Professor Zhao arrived at the classroom, gave the students ten minutes to rest, and then began to ask questions.
There were only five freshmen in the Department of Traditional Chinese Medicine. Shen Baozhu was very nervous at first, but then she saw that except for Lin Nuan who looked very calm, everyone else was as nervous as she was, and her mood calmed down.
For those who were able to be admitted to Peking University, memorizing a book in one month is not a difficult task. Most of them can tell the effects and uses of the medicinal materials based on their names. However, they become a little confused after memorizing too many, after all, there are many similar medicinal materials.
Zhao Hanwen did not criticize him too much. Instead, he said a lot of encouraging words and once again emphasized the difficulty of studying Chinese medicine.
During this month's classes, there were four other professors in the Department of Traditional Chinese Medicine besides Zhao Hanwen, namely Sun Shanwei, Song Ziyuan, Zhou Jiren, and Zheng Hong.
However, these people were just figureheads. Except for Zhou Jiren and Sun Shanwei who had attended a few classes, the other two had only attended classes for a month, but I had never seen them once.
Later, I learned from my senior that although these five people are all professors of the school, they are very different. Zhao Hanwen has always been teaching diligently in the school. He is also the oldest. The other four have their own pharmacies at home. Zhou Jiren and Sun Shanwei will come to the school to teach in their spare time, but they rarely show up at other times.
There are some differences between Song Ziyuan and Zheng Hong. Zheng Hong would come to the school once a year or two or when an important person came to visit, but Song Ziyuan never showed up from beginning to end. People said that this guy was a little weird.
With this calculation, Zhao Hanwen is the only serious teacher and professor in the school, and it is difficult to judge the others.
It's nothing but fame and fortune. The school has an honorary professor, but he only teaches a class occasionally. The main reason is that there are too few students of traditional Chinese medicine, and it would be a waste of resources if they all stay in the school.
Lin Nuan unsurprisingly became the first in the class, even though there were only five places in total.
During this month, all I learned was written knowledge and I have never put it into practice.
Now that the basic knowledge is almost complete, we will start taking practical classes this month.
The knowledge taught in the practical class is how to prepare medicine, how to boil medicine, and how to make medicine into pills.
The medicinal herbs in the school can only be used by students during class, and they are in fixed quantities. If Lin Nuan wants to make medicine, she needs to buy the herbs herself.
She and Shen Baozhu agreed to go to the Chinese medicine shop to buy some medicinal herbs on Saturday.
Shen Baozhu stayed at He's house on Friday night. The two of them slept until they woke up naturally. At ten o'clock in the morning, they packed up and went shopping.
Ever since Zhao Mingyan and Su Yao came to visit with their two children, it must be because both families have children, right?
Su Yao often brings her two children to find Wang Xiaoli to go shopping together. Her five-year-old son, Zhao Lei, is now familiar with everyone.
The He family and the Zhao family interact more frequently than the Shen family. After all, they sometimes get together to look after their children.
Lin Nuan and Shen Baozhu also went to Zhao's pharmacy to buy Chinese medicinal materials today. They already knew the address of the pharmacy from Su Yao.
The two chatted and laughed all the way. Lin Nuan suddenly stopped the car. Shen Baozhu also slammed on the brakes and almost fell over. She turned her head to look at her.
"Nuan Nuan, why did you stop suddenly? What are you looking at?"
Lin Nuan looked at the alley ahead again with some confusion. She had just seen a very familiar figure, but when she stopped the car and wanted to take a closer look, she could no longer see it.
"I didn't see anything. Just now, someone walked past the entrance of the alley. I saw his back and it looked familiar. I thought it was someone I knew."
Shen Baozhu also raised her head and looked in the direction she was looking.
"How come I didn't see them? There are so many people here, you must have seen them wrongly. Otherwise, let's ride over and take a look around."
"Forget it, I must have seen it wrong. Let's buy some herbs! We also need to buy some tools later. If we have time, we can go shopping again."
Lin Nuan shook her head, thinking that she must have seen it wrong. The man was thousands of miles away. He might be carrying out a mission in some remote corner or deep in the mountains at this time. How could he appear in Beijing? You know, he is very secretive about Beijing.
When the two of them rode past the alley, Lin Nuan still took a look inside, then shook her head and put it out of her mind.
What she didn't know was that only five or six minutes after the two men rode away on their bikes, a group of people came out of the alley. If she had been there, she would definitely have recognized the familiar face in the crowd.
Zhao Mingyan knew that Lin Nuan was going to the pharmacy to buy Chinese medicinal materials. He arranged for the staff in the pharmacy early in the morning to pick out the best medicinal materials and also helped prepare some tools for grinding medicines and making medicines, which saved a lot of trouble. At the beginning, he even insisted on giving them to her as gifts.
However, Lin Nuan couldn't do such a shameless thing as taking other people's things for free. Even if she had done a favor to the Zhao family before, she couldn't squander that favor. Otherwise, no matter how great the favor was, it would soon be exhausted.
Even brothers have to settle accounts clearly, so Lin Nuan finally paid according to the market price.