The seriousness of this matter was clear to the four of them, and they didn't say it, but they all tacitly concealed it.

Gu Jiao asked Gu Xiaoshun not to come here these days, although the contagiousness of the early low-bacteria leprosy was not so strong, there was still a certain risk.

Gu Jiao didn't go up the mountain to pick mushrooms again, and took care of the old lady at home for a few days.

At noon on the third day, the old lady woke up completely and was no longer dazed, but her brain seemed to be a little wrong.

Gu Jiao asked who she was, and she looked at Gu Jiao with wide eyes; Gu Jiao asked her where she lived, but she still looked at Gu Jiao with wide eyes.

It can't be Alzheimer's, right?

"Do you remember what kind of illness you have?" Gu Jiao continued to ask.

The old lady was still staring with wide eyes.

Gu Jiao is out of options.

It seems that the old lady not only does not remember who she is, but even forgets everything about her illness.

In fact, it's okay to forget, Gu Jiao can watch and not let her go out, but she can't prevent the villagers from coming to the door, in case the old lady doesn't pay attention to telling her about leprosy, she, Xiao Liulang and Gu Xiaoshun, close contacts, will have to suffer.

As for how she will be resettled in the future, that is a matter for the future, and the most urgent thing is to cure her, and no one will find out that she has leprosy.

Thinking so, Gu Jiao picked up the medicine jar and went to boil medicine for the old lady.

The medicine in the medicine box must be eaten, and the Chinese medicine must also be eaten, otherwise the secret of the medicine box will be exposed.

As soon as the old lady saw Gu Jiao holding the medicine jar, she skimmed her face in disgust.

Gu Jiao vaguely heard a resentful hum, this old lady, is her temper quite big?

The medicine had to be boiled on the simmer for half an hour, and when the medicine was ready, Gu Jiao took out the small medicine box and checked it.

She has used a lot of medicine these days, and she has never had a chance to take a good inventory, so she has to see how much of her medicine is left, and which ones can no longer be used casually.

As a result, she was a little dumbfounded after the examination.

The anti-inflammatory medicine that she had eaten up had a new bottle, an extra antibacterial ointment to spare, and a few more potions that she couldn't remember when she put them in.

Gu Jiao looked at the motionless small medicine box, touched her chin, and fell into deep thought.

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Towards the end of the month, the college has another exam.

Gu Dashun entered the first class of the Son of Heaven with the aura of the second freshman, and then he really lived up to expectations and performed very well. This time, he took the second place in the exam.

Master Chen was very happy, but Gu Dashun's face did not show much joy.

Chen Fuzi thought that he was blaming himself for not winning the first place, and patiently relieved: "You and Han Zhi are both the best among the freshmen, Han Zhi is two years older than you, and he is enlightened early, and he has been a book for several years before you, so you don't have to worry about your current achievements." ”

Of course, Gu Dashun is not worried about this, the student named Xu Hanzhi is just relying on studying a few more years than him, so he is just a little presumptuous, but the other party's talent is not as good as his own, and he has great confidence to surpass him.

It's just that his ambitions don't stop there.

He came for the dean's personal disciple, and he hoped that the dean would become his teacher.

Since the last time, he has written a lot of good articles, and Master Chen has shown them to the dean one by one, but the dean has never seen him again.

"What's wrong? Anything else? Master Chen noticed that he looked like he wanted to speak and stopped.

Gu Dashun thought about it, but still mustered up the courage to say: "I heard that the entrance exam questions this time were issued by the dean, I wonder if the dean has any plans to accept disciples?" ”

"Yes, indeed." Chen Fuzi will be happy when he thinks about it, but unfortunately, the dean's favorite candidate is not Gu Dashun.

Gu Dashun saw a trace of regret from Master Chen's eyes, and his heart was cold: "Is it Xu Hanzhi?" ”

"It's not him." Master Chen shook his head, "This matter has not been decided at all, don't ask yet." Even if he can't be a disciple of the dean, the dean will take the time to guide the outstanding students in the academy. ”

How can this be the same? One is to inherit the mantle of the dean, to be the dean's successor, and to get not only knowledge, but also the dean's connections.

And casual guidance is much weaker.

He is a poor kid who wants to soar into the sky in his dreams, if he is not good enough, he will be fine, but he has enough conditions to be favored by the dean.

How willingly was he?

Gu Dashun still wanted to ask, but Master Chen was reluctant to say.

Zhongzheng Hall.

The dean looked at Xiao Liulang, who had cold eyebrows, and said gently, "How did you think about it?" ”

Xiao Liulang said lightly: "You want to be third from the bottom?" ”

In this exam, Xiao Liulang took the third-to-last exam, which is not that he has improved by one place, but that there is one more Gu Xiaoshun at the bottom.

The dean cleared his throat and said, "I don't embarrass you, in this way, you can go back and think about it for a few days first, and you don't have to rush to give me an answer." I will be in the academy for many years, when will you figure it out, when will you reply to me. ”

Speaking this kind of thing from the mouth of the dean can be said to be very sincere.

Don't look at Tianxiang Academy as just a school in the town, but the dean was once ranked first among the four great talents in the capital, and his reputation and talent are beyond doubt. If it weren't for the accident at home, he wouldn't have left the capital and come to a small Qingquan town to teach and educate people.

He met so many students, and what really gave him the urge to accept him as a personal disciple was Xiao Liulang the first.

"You want him like that? I'm not afraid that I won't be able to lower this thorn. ”

After Xiao Liulang left, the old man in cloth inside the screen snorted faintly.

The dean bowed to the screen and said with a smile: "I'm really afraid that I won't be able to hold it down, so it's better to ...... The teacher accepted him as a disciple, right? ”

There was silence behind the screen, and after a while, there was a faint sigh from the old man: "You forgot, I said that in this life, I will never accept apprentices again." ”

The little marquis is dead, the Guozijian is closed forever, and the teacher's heart is completely dead.

After school, Xiao Liulang and Gu Xiaoshun took Second Uncle Luo's ox cart back to the village. When they left the town, they found that there were several more checkpoints on the official road, all of which were searching for lepers, and the two became more vigilant.

After Xiao Liulang arrived home, Gu Jiao told him about the old lady's situation: "...... She doesn't remember anything. ”

Xiao Liulang doesn't think it's a bad thing, at least not for now, and he won't say anything if he doesn't know.

"Is she clamoring to get out?" Xiao Liulang asked.

Gu Jiao shook her head: "That's not true, I told her that she has tuberculosis and can't go out to blow the wind, and the red spots on her face are frozen." Because tuberculosis is contagious, it is best for her to stay in her own room so as not to pass on the illness to others. Looking at her appearance, she seemed to have listened to it, and she was quite peaceful all afternoon. ”

Xiao Liulang went to the house to see the old lady, her condition had improved greatly, the skin lesions were much lighter, and the red spots on her face could hardly be seen if she didn't look carefully.

What Gu Jiao didn't say was that after a few days of treatment, her leprosy would lose its infectiousness.

In the blink of an eye, at the end of the month, it was also the day when Feng Lin made an appointment with "Doctor Zhang" to treat Xiao Liulang's legs.