Gu Xinran looked at his expression, which changed from decadent to excited in a moment, and felt uneasy. She thought there must be something wrong when something was abnormal.
It was really strange to see a flattering smile on the face of a sixty-year-old, highly respected old man, especially to a little girl like her.
He advanced and she retreated. Gu Xinran retreated to the side of Dou Taifu, where there was no way out. Her voice trembled as she shouted, "Stop! If you have something to say, just say it."
Doctor Zhang stopped three steps away, collected his thoughts, straightened his clothes and hat, and said solemnly: "Miss Gu, I admire your pharmaceutical skills very much. I sincerely ask you to accept me as your apprentice."
After saying this, he clasped his fists and bowed with a determined look, keeping his posture at 90 degrees without moving.
The three people present were stunned, thinking they were hallucinating.
Regardless of other things, Gu Xinran hurriedly helped Doctor Zhang up in horror. If the old man in his sixties twisted his waist if he kept this posture, she would become a sinner.
Besides, it was too premature for her to be so polite to her grandfather. She quickly bent down 90 degrees to salute him and returned the greeting.
He said in panic, "Doctor Zhang, with your generation and status, it's really insulting to me to accept me as your master! Take that joke back now."
After saying that, he retreated to the door, keeping the maximum safe distance, intending to turn around and slip away if he continued to pester him.
There was no way Gu Xinran would be accepted as a disciple, mainly because he was afraid of misleading the disciple, and of course he couldn't mislead his grandfather either.
She doesn't have any advanced medicine-making skills, she just relies on the spiritual spring water to cheat.
I can't think of anything advanced that can be taught to people in the pharmaceutical field no matter how hard I try.
At this point, she began to reflect on whether it was right to rely too much on the spiritual spring water. The amount of this spiritual spring water was small and could only provide help to a very small number of people.
Thinking of how my uncle and my boyfriend led troops to quell the rebellion, countless people were killed and wounded in the battle. Relatively speaking, the medicine made from this little spiritual spring water is just a drop in the bucket.
Only by inventing and formulating medicines that can benefit the general public can this ancient dynasty be promoted.
Gu Xinran suddenly realized that her ideological realm was really getting higher and higher.
Suddenly, a good medicine that could be made without the use of spiritual spring water emerged in her mind - penicillin.
She had successfully extracted this thing herself in the early days of the apocalypse, so she had experience with it.
Although I thought so much, I was actually only stunned for a moment.
Doctor Zhang was deeply shocked to see that Xinran avoided him like the plague. The old man looked at her pitifully from afar.
Youyou said: "My little friend, the master is the teacher, which is the long-standing spirit of craftsmen. I am serious about becoming your disciple. You are hiding so far away, it hurts my heart."
Dou Taifu couldn't stand it any longer and tried to mediate. "What kind of little girl would accept a grandfather as her apprentice? Old Zhang, you're going too far. Look, you've frightened Ran so much that she's pale."
Then he waved to Gu Xinran, "Come here quickly, Grandpa Dou is here, he won't dare to act rashly."
Gu Xinran finally nodded, slowly moving back to her seat next to Grandpa, and said with an awkward smile, "Doctor Zhang, don't misunderstand me. I'm just too surprised. A medical expert like you is my idol, so why would I hide?"
The New Year gifts were delivered and that was enough. After that, Gu Xinran called his grandfather to say goodbye to Tutor Dou.
At this moment, Grandpa Gu was still in shock. This former Imperial Physician, who was about his age, wanted to take his granddaughter as his disciple! Could it be that all masters were so unique!
Grandpa Gu couldn't wait to go home. If his granddaughter really accepted such an apprentice, he would be very embarrassed to address her. The generation relationship was too difficult to calculate.
Taifu Xiao glanced at this troublesome old friend, shook his head and sighed.
It was time for him to teach the children, so he didn't keep the guests any longer. He picked up the mahogany box and sent the two of them out of the hall.
The old man, Doctor Zhang, was unwilling to give up, so he followed the grandfather and grandson and accompanied them all the way.
When asked seriously about the knowledge of medicine preparation, Gu Xinran really didn't understand, so she could only change the subject and bring up the miraculous drug penicillin.
When Doctor Zhang heard that penicillin could treat various injuries and prevent them from festering, and could also treat tuberculosis, typhoid fever, laryngitis, and other diseases, and even had an inhibitory effect on some dysentery and plague, his eyes lit up.
At this moment, Gu Xinran was emitting golden light in his eyes, which further strengthened his determination to become his disciple.
The journey was short but the conversation was long. Doctor Zhang had not yet finished chatting when the carriage arrived. He was reluctant to leave and really wanted to go back home with his future master.
He once again risked his pride and mustered up the courage to speak, "Miss Gu, please reconsider and accept me as your disciple!"
Gu Xinran could see that he was passionate about medicine. Even at the age of sixty, he still had the spirit to fight for his ideals. It was awe-inspiring, and she was also moved by it.
It was decided to teach him how to cultivate and produce penicillin.
At that time, we can cooperate to open a penicillin workshop. If we dare to think about it, it is not impossible to create a finished medicine production base.
Before getting on the carriage, Gu Xinran spoke seriously, "Doctor Zhang, forget about becoming your disciple. After the New Year, I can work with you to develop the miraculous drug penicillin. Then we can mass-produce it for the benefit of soldiers and civilians."
Doctor Zhang's eyes lit up after hearing this, and his voice trembled, "Okay, little master, everything is up to you."
Gu Xinran was helpless. She just listened to him shouting, waved goodbye, got on the carriage and left.
Doctor Zhang was left alone in front of the Grand Tutor's Mansion, excited. If he could make the penicillin that the young master had mentioned, countless young lives would be spared on the battlefield, and his only son would be...
Sitting in the carriage, Gu Xinran lifted the curtain and looked around. Apart from a few peddlers hawking their wares in the distance, he didn't see anything unusual.
Gu Xinran asked Xiaomei and Liao Wu, "Did you spot anyone sneaking around today?"
The two shook their heads, and Gu Xinran couldn't help but doubt herself. Was it really an illusion yesterday?
It’s best if nothing happens!
A quarter of an hour later, the carriage stopped at the gate of Gu's house. When Gu Xinran got off the carriage, she felt like she was being watched again.
Following her instinct, she turned her head and saw a dark shadow quickly disappearing into the alley around the corner.
Gu Xinran took a deep breath and chased towards the alley entrance, Xiaomei and Liao Wu followed closely behind.
When she arrived, there was no trace of them.
Gu Xinran said to Xiao Mei Liao Wu with a serious face: "Did you notice that someone was watching us when we just got off the bus?"
The two of them shook their heads, secretly suspecting that their kung fu had regressed, especially Xiaomei. Her master had also said that something was wrong yesterday, but she just didn't feel it.
Gu Xinran looked around the corner for a long time but found nothing, so he could only walk back with a heavy heart.
On the way, he instructed: "In the future, you must strengthen patrols inside and outside the mansion to ensure the safety of your family. Be careful on the way to pick up Xuanxuan later."
The two men clasped their fists and accepted the order.
After more than half a year of being nourished by the spiritual spring, Gu Xinran's five senses became extremely sharp, far surpassing those of ordinary people. Coupled with the vigilance she had developed in the end times, she was sure that someone was monitoring and spying on her.
Her perception was correct. At this moment, in a house not far from the Gu Mansion, several men in black clothes and Li's mother and daughter were discussing something. One of them was the person who was peeping at the alley entrance.
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