In July 2013, in a dilapidated yard.

From now on, when you enter my door, you should remember: If you are a doctor, you should be a person first, remember, but if you are a doctor, you must calm your mind, have no desires and no desires, and wish to save the suffering of all souls! Don't avoid hardships and dangers, day and night, cold and heat, fatigue, and go to the rescue. There is no heart to do kung fu. Can you remember?

I knelt down in front of the old man, and he took a ruler and pressed it on my head, and after reciting the "incantation," I said, "Yes."

He said, "Okay, get up, from today you will be my apprentice, but you can't call me master, just call me sir." When answering, he said he knew and understood. Remember?

I replied: Yes, understood.

The master is a poor and remote Tulangzhong, who has no medical license, no licensed pharmacist certificate, and has never attended a serious medical school. But he is famous in this area, and patients from dozens of miles away come to him for consultation. However, since the country's medical reform, due to the lack of documents, the pharmacy has been closed, and there are few medical treatments. Unless an acquaintance comes to the door, or he doesn't see it.

When I was a child: My parents asked me, what do you like to study, and what are your hobbies?

I said, "I don't know."

Sing?

I shook my head.

Dance?

I glared and shook my head.

What about musical instruments?

I bowed my head and shook my head.

The mother's face was disappointed. Say, you baby, why are you not self-motivated at all? Look at those versatile children on other people's TVs, look at you, what will you do?

I said, "Then I don't like singing and dancing."

Mother said: Okay, okay, I won't talk about you, you go your own way, I don't want to care about you.

Later, I dropped out of school and ran out to work.

My father asked me again, "What trade do you like to learn?" and I will send you to learn.

I heard that CNC is very popular, do you want to learn it?

I only said resignedly: people. . . That's going to be good at math.,I'm here.。。 I learned that.

He said, "What about repairing the car?"

I said, "It's dirty, it's no, no."

The father said, "What about driving an excavator, or a forklift driver?"

I said, "No."

The father looked disappointed and said: You baby, you don't learn this, you don't learn that. You are a child from the countryside, with no education and no crafts, how will you earn money to support your family in the future?

I bowed my head and said, "Don't worry about it, I know it in my own heart."

The father said impatiently, "Do you have any numbers?" Forget it, let's not talk about you, you can see for yourself.

During the period of depression, I ate very little every day, basically one meal a day, whether it was hot or cold, as long as I was full and not hungry. Finally, one day, the body collapsed. I couldn't eat or drink water because of my stomachache for three days, and I vomited immediately after eating and drinking, and the whole person lay on the bed as if the time limit had come.

Grandpa was very angry: let you eat well all day, but you just don't listen, such an adult, you have to have someone to serve you, what is it like?

I can't refute it, because I don't have the strength to speak.

Grandma hurriedly persuaded on the side: Okay, you don't have to say a word, let's talk about it first. It's been three days, injections, medicines, and water, and I'm not optimistic about it when I run out of methods.

Grandpa said: Okay, don't worry about it, I'll take it to find out who (my master) is.

After about an hour of getting me into the electric car, he led me to the door of a lookout house and knocked on it. An old man came out, with gray hair and old age, but his eyes were bright, as if he could see through everything, and he stared at me, and even looked at me with a weak heart, and lowered his head and did not dare to look at him.

Grandpa said: "Brother, I have to trouble you today, show my grandson, this child has not been able to eat or drink water for several days.

The old man smiled and said, "It's easy to say, come in and sit down." When the two of us entered, he sat there drinking tea and chatting with his grandfather, without mentioning anything about seeing a doctor. Grandpa couldn't interject, and it was hard to say anything.

I scolded in my heart: Damn, you are going to trap Lao Tzu to death, Lao Tzu can't do it anymore, you are still sitting still. When I'm well, I'm going to have to tear down your walls.

The old man suddenly looked at me and smiled: If you are not feeling well, don't think about it.

In the summer, I was covered in a cold sweat. Damn, who's this? I sat there with the pain, not daring to move.

After ten minutes, he got up and said, "Come and lie on the bed."

I got up and went over and lay down.

He pulled out an iron box from the chest next to him and pulled out three silver needles.

smiled and said: Don't move, it'll be fine for a while, you have to move, I'm not responsible for the deviation.

I lay there, not daring to move, for fear of being punctured. He twisted the thumb and index finger of his right hand on the handle of the needle, and his middle finger against the tip of the needle, straight down to my navel, and pricked one on each of my calves, and then twisted it with two fingers. After a few minutes, there was no pain, and the whole person didn't know how easy it was.

He prostrated himself and looked at my tongue and said, "All right, it's all right."

After speaking, he took out the silver needle, put it aside, took a pen and wrote down the prescription, and told me: This prescription, go and grab three pairs, and you will be fine after eating.

I got up and hurriedly thanked him.

He said: I knew what was wrong with you when you entered the door, your face was yellow, your eyes were blank, and you didn't eat well at first glance, and the reason for the irregular schedule was that I didn't eat well, so I deliberately talked to your grandfather more, just to punish you and make you have a long memory. Okay, let's pay for the consultation and go, I won't care about it next time.

I hurriedly replied: Remember, remember. How much?

He took a sip of tea: two.

I was confused.

He glanced at me and said, "Just charge two yuan for the consultation, put it down and go."

This old man is really a strange person, he only charges two yuan for a doctor, and he can't pay for death.

A few days later, I called the old man: Hey, Dad, I want to study medicine, I want to study Chinese medicine, just learn from the old man next door to our village.

My mother answered the phone: Why do you remember to study medicine, you said that you would be sent to medical school to study at that time. Now tell people that you want to study medicine?

I said, "I don't care, I'm going to study medicine, right away."

Father said: Then you see that people are willing to accept you, that old man has a strange temper, and ordinary people can't speak. If people are willing to accept you, you can go and learn, I don't care.

I carried the fruit and knocked on the old man's door.

He opened the door less than halfway and said to me, "Put the things at the door first, and if people come in, you will have to take them away after a while." That's how he is, always seems to be able to anticipate everything.

I flashed in through the crack in the door and walked into the courtyard, where he was watering the flowers, and the yard was very spacious, seven or eight meters wide. Half of Teng Chu planted flowers and plants, and some side dishes for eating on weekdays, including beans, leeks, and a few baht eggplants, the whole pastoral life.

He put down the kettle and said, "Say, what's the matter?"

I said, "I want to study medicine with you."

He said: If you are young, it is not good to learn something, and if you study Chinese medicine, this will not make money.

He waved his hand, his words full of disdain.

I said, "I don't want to make money, I just want to be like you."

"Then give me a reason, why, why do you want to study medicine?"

I said, "There's no reason, I just want to study, and I was told in my heart that I had to study medicine."

He said again: That's it, I'll test you, and if you answer it, I'll make an exception and accept you, what's the matter?

I said, "Okay, you can do it."

He hooked me up and led me into his pharmacy, where I saw a very large cabinet of Chinese medicine.

He said, "Do you remember the medicine you took?" There are eleven flavors of medicine, and you can find out six flavors from here, even if you pass it.

After that, point out an area for me to look for in that area. I opened the drawer of the charge one by one to see, chicken inner gold, this is a taste, hawthorn, tangerine peel, citrus aurantium, woody fragrance. The sixth taste, the sixth taste, damn, it's just one missing, I thought about it for a long time, and I can't remember whether it's dead or alive.

He looked disappointed and didn't speak.

I turned around and saw the flour bag next to me, and suddenly realized, yes, I remembered, and there was malt, enough, enough.

He didn't speak, but his face was clearly a little better-looking, with a slight smile. He led me to sit down in the courtyard and said, "It seems that you are indeed a little talented, and there are many people who come to me to see a doctor, and there are many people who want to learn from me, but there is really no one who has found his own medicine from the medicine cabinet." The good ones can find two or three things, and the almost ones can't be found at all. You can calculate better, and you can find out more than half of it, but this is not your proud capital, and it is far from my standard, but in comparison, well, it is better, after all, there is no foundation, and I don't know medicine. It's very important to be careful, it's still a little bit! I'll ask you again, have you thought about it? Studying medicine is very bitter and boring. Moreover, you can't make a profit from it, can you have the confidence to do it?

I made up my mind and nodded vigorously: I can do it.

He said, "Well, I hope you can remember every word you said as you stand here today." If you commit a crime in the future, I will not spare you.

I replied: I will definitely remember it.

He stood up, dusted off his body, took out a ruler, and said to me: Kneel!

I knelt down lightly and fell in front of him.

He said, "Today the name is changed to you, the son and the son." I hope you can be strong and stick to your principles, understand?

I immediately replied: Yes.

"From now on, when you enter my door, you should remember: those who are doctors should be people first, remember, but those who are doctors must be calm, have no desires and no desires, and are willing to save the suffering of all souls! Don't avoid hardships and dangers, day and night, cold and heat, fatigue, and go to the rescue. There is no heart to do kung fu. Can you remember"?

"Know, understand"

"Okay, get up, from tomorrow onwards, while studying medicine, while self-cultivation, every day to memorize a chapter of the Tao Te Ching, not a word wrong, but also to tell me your understanding, moreover, what you learned that day can not be left behind, remember?"

I said angrily: I know, I understand.

Since then, I have found my own home, followed my master, learned medical skills, learned to be a man, and gradually came out of the shadows of the past.