Chapter 7 – Apprenticeship

Thinking of the Che family's brother Che Yuechi, the remaining half of the big stone in his heart finally fell completely.

So Lan Yi patted his chest and let out a long breath.

He had already made up his mind to ask the Che brothers and sisters for help, so when he took over the herbal medicine book, he was already in the chest.

A little joy crept up the corners of his mouth, and he said goodbye to the Mo family's father and daughter, and left the tiled house full of herbs.

When he went to look for Che Yuechi, he happened to meet Cheerilee and Che Yuechi brothers and sisters who were about to go up the mountain to collect medicine, he greeted the Che brothers and sisters quite gracefully, Che Yuechi didn't think much about it, and still greeted Lan Yi with a smile as usual. Instead, Cheerilee just bowed her head and silently responded.

Lan Yi informed Che Yuechi about wanting to apprentice, and said that Master Mo limited him to go up the mountain within three days to find 360 kinds of unrepeatable herbs, saying that this was a test before apprenticeship, and Che Yuechi should have experienced it back then.

What he didn't expect was that Che Yuechi scratched his head, looked at the roof of his house for a while, and replied for a while: "No, why don't I remember such a thing, besides, I was only seven years old at the time, no matter how ruthless the master is, he will not let me go up the mountain alone." ”

"Huh?" Lan Yi seemed to be pierced through her heart like a lightning strike, and stood there stunned for a moment without reacting, and finally smashed the big stone in her heart that covered the sky and the sun, and ushered in a sunny day, but when she heard the news, she couldn't accept it for a while, so Master Mo was still embarrassing me after all?

"Hahaha, hahaha." After listening to Lan Yi's story and seeing his current situation, Cheerilee was amused, the face that was tense when she saw Lan Yi couldn't hold back anymore, she finally laughed, like the voice of a warbler's song, crisp and beautiful.

"I'm afraid that you fell for Master Mo's trick, he expected that you wouldn't be able to finish it, so he deliberately came to trick you." Cheerilee finally raised her head to look at Lan Yi's clear eyes, and said humorously.

Lan Yi hadn't seen Cheerilee smile at him for many days, and now he finally saw this smile of reunion after a long absence, and his heart was about to melt into a pool of spring water.

However, he still couldn't believe it, and was angry about Master Mo's grandiose "deception": "Master Mo also gave me a copy of the Encyclopedia of Herbal Medicine, could this be fake." ”

As he spoke, he handed the encyclopedia of herbal medicine to Che Yuechi, who was proficient in herbal medicine, and Che Yuechi only flipped it slightly, and then smiled: "This book is not fake, I often read it when I was a child, presumably the master has ulterior motives for doing this, and you don't take it too seriously." ”

"I think Master Mo knows that you don't understand herbal medicine, just to see if you have the ability to adapt to changes, so that you can understand the principle of cooperation and mutual assistance, probably also want your senior brother to run in again, and then let your brother lead you to get started by the way." Cheerilee said it at a glance. After Cheerilee's click, Lan Yi was suddenly empowered.

Cheerilee knew that it was her fault that she hadn't paid attention to Lan Yi for so many days, so she began to let go of the girl's shy evasive mentality and talk to Lan Yi.

"Then you're going to ask us for help."

"Exactly." Seeing that Cheerilee's attitude eased, Lan Yi replied hurriedly.

"Then my brother and I will help you with this, you will have to study hard in the future and help my brother treat the injured."

"Of course." Saying that, Lan Yi also smiled stupidly, as if there was a fairy in front of him giving orders, who would have guessed that the second young man of the Fang family, who was unruly in the past, would have such a tender side.

"Little sister, it's natural to help Lan Yi, let's go up the mountain." Che Yuechi picked up the medicine basket and walked towards the mountain while talking to Lan Yi.

Alas, this brother, everything is taken for granted, he is really a good person, but doesn't he always suffer?

My sister thought that her brother relied on his medical skills, and whenever an elderly and poor old man came to him for medical treatment, he always helped generously and did not charge a penny.

At first, people said that he was a good person with a doctor's heart, but as time went on, more and more people came to him for medical treatment, and young people who were able to repay the medical bills also defaulted on medical payments, always prevaricating that Che Yuechi was a good person.

And my brother is also an honest man, after a long time, not only can I not make money but also put in a lot of herbal medicine expenses, my sister persuaded him not to leave a merciful heart for those old lai, kindness should be left to those in need, but my brother always lowered his eyebrows and said: "People can't help but save." "This is infuriating my sister.

After thinking about it, maybe Lan Yi would be better off if he came to help, after all, Lan Yi's brain was more agile than his brother's.

The three of them went up the mountain together. At this time, I only heard Lan Yi say: "If you are a threesome, you must have my teacher." ”

Sister Cheerilee quipped, "Then who is your master?" As he spoke, he glanced at his brother.

Lan Yi immediately understood what Cheerilee meant, smiled warmly, and said in his calm tone: "That must be Senior Brother Yuechi." ”

"It's not necessarily whether it's a senior brother." Che Yuechi, who has never spoken much, also made a joke. made Cheerilee and Lan Yi laugh out loud. Cheerilee didn't expect her brother to be so funny. Seeing this scene, my brother also laughed.

The weather was clear, the sun was warm and wanton, and the wisps of light shone on people's faces like broken silver through the branches, and it was very gentle, and a few turtledoves cooed on the branches, and it was a day full of energy.

The three of them stepped on the solid soil and the ruined leaves under their feet to rush up the mountain, although the sun was soft and warm, but after all, it was winter, the weather was already a lot colder, and the cold wind was blowing. The icy cold wind blew across Cheerilee's face, making her little face flush and fluttering, making her even more delicate and charming.

The leaves of the surrounding trees had fallen and the pine needles had fallen to the ground, and they tore away a clump of dead grass and found the first herb under a strange rock, and then a dozen more in succession.

During this period, the back of my sister's hand was scratched by a branch, and my brother and Lan Yi both fought to bandage Cheerilee, but Cheerilee was still embarrassed to quit and wrapped herself in a strip of cloth.

And Lan Yi's hands were already covered with yellow, black, red, dirt and dust, and his fingernails were also all there. Lan Yi had fine skin and tender flesh, and his hand soon cracked, and he couldn't say anything, and blood seeped out.

It was still Cheerilee who found out, although she was a little embarrassed when she thought of Lan Yi's confession before, but she still carefully helped Lan Yi deal with her wounds, and all of this was seen by Che Yuechi.

Che Yuechi himself is considered to have experienced a hundred battles, and his hands have long been calloused for many years because of the collection of medicine, and the matter of natural medicine collection is to be caught, although there are also small scratches, he just bandages it silently by himself, and all this sister sees it in his eyes.

Dusk was approaching, the sun was hidden at the end of the mountain, the light was dimmed, and the three of them went down the mountain happily with a basket full of Chinese herbs.

Go back and spread the herbs in the medicine basket to the courtyard, with the light of the moon, my brother and sister and Lan Yi counted the herbs in the courtyard, excluding the duplicates, a total of 188 kinds of herbs were harvested today, which is considered a great harvest.

After thinking about it, my sister Cheerilee felt that about twenty or thirty of the 188 herbs were picked by herself, so she couldn't help but feel a little smug. Shaking his head and humming a little tune.

The elder brother Che Yuechi saw through his sister's careful thinking and knocked her finger on Cheerilee's head.

"You're in boasting mode again, aren't you?" Saying that, his brother Che Yuechi rubbed his sister Cheerilee's little head melon again.

"I have to thank Cheerilee, she's a girl." Lan Yi said appreciatively.

Yue'er quietly rose to mid-heaven, it was already late, and Cheerilee's eyelids were fighting, so she yawned and said goodbye to her brother and Lan Yi and went back to the room to rest.

At this time, my brother suddenly looked at the moon and asked Lan Yi, "Do you really like her?" ”

Lan Yi was a little surprised by this sudden question, but he still looked at his heart and replied, "I like it, I like it very much." ”

"Okay, I got it."

Che Yuechi's heart hurt again, and he lowered his head to look at the herbs all over the ground, "But you don't know that there are herbs everywhere that I once regarded as treasures, but I looked up and saw her, and I regarded it as life." ”

"She? Which one of her? Is it a cherry? She's your sister, and of course you see her as your life. Lan Yi still didn't understand the meaning, and said ignorantly.

"Hmm." When Che Yuechi heard the word "sister", he felt a pang in his heart and felt a pain. He picked up an herb and pouted with a wry smile.

Lan Yi was puzzled, the two of them sat quietly in the courtyard and admired the moon, and before they knew it, a long time had passed.

I had to sigh for my brother Che Yuechi, the mountains have trees and branches, and I don't know.

This is the second day of Master Mo's limited date, the sky is gray and extremely dark, as if there is a sad atmosphere after the parting of the infatuated and resentful girl. There was a hazy sadness that drifted through the air, swaggering towards the mountain. The light is not so abundant, and the sun seems to be stingy with its enthusiasm, hiding its brightness in a sea of clouds.

Cheerilee went out to look at the sky, inexplicably a little depressed, she was naughty when she was fourteen years old and went up the mountain alone, and accidentally rolled down the mountain to the mountain stream, so she was particularly sympathetic to Lan Yi.

When she was fourteen years old, the fall into the mountain stream had a great impact on Cheerilee's body, and her body was not very good all year round, but fortunately, Master Mo's father, daughter and brother took care of her, and she slowly recovered in recent years.

And the day of the fall more than ten years ago happened to be a foggy day, the sky was gloomy and dark, like wearing a mask.

So when Cheerilee saw this day, she couldn't help but feel faintly uneasy, as if something was going to happen, her heart was pounding, maybe she was nervous, Cheerilee thought to herself.

Cheerilee was restless this morning, and she didn't plan to go up the mountain to collect medicine, but when she thought of agreeing to Lan Yi's request, her heart sank, and she decided to go to collect medicine.

Cheerilee came to ask her brother Che Yuechi and Lan Yi to have breakfast, and her brother seemed to notice the strangeness of his sister's expression and asked her if she was unwell.

A slight smile tugged at the corner of Cheerilee's mouth, and she prevaricated: "It's okay, it's okay, it's just a little restless, it's all because of the weather, it's really dull." ”

"Are you really okay?" Che Yuechi is still a little worried.

"Brother, I'm fine." Cheerilee was afraid of delaying the progress of the medicine collection, so she explained to her brother.

Seeing that Cheerilee's face was darkly melancholy, Lan Yi decided to let her stay at home and rest, "Cheerilee, you just stay at home and wait for us, have a good rest, and you will be in a good mood." ”

What I didn't expect was that Cheerilee refused and insisted on going up the mountain to help, but Che Yuechi and Lan Yi couldn't help it, so they had to agree.

"If you don't let me help, I'll be in a bad mood."

"Okay, sister, just let you help."

"That's it, that's it." Lan Yi also chimed in.

Along the way up the mountain, the three of them didn't know if it was due to this weather, the bad luck was not good, they didn't find many herbs, and they were shivering by the cold wind, which made the three of them feel disheartened and felt that they had run in vain.

Cheerilee drooped her little head along the way, picking up the withered yellow branches and hitting the trunks along the way, looking wilted, but not for a moment she picked up her spirits and threw herself into the battle to find herbs.

Che Yuechi has always been bright-eyed, scanning under the various grass piles and trees, using his hands that have experienced vicissitudes of life to push away one bush after another, never daring to take it lightly.

And Lan Yi was also in the same mood as Cheerilee at first, leaning against a tree in a daze, slamming the trunk with his fist, lamenting that his luck was too bad. But then he got up and continued to look for herbs, and he felt that this frustration could not be endured, and he did not deserve to bring happiness to Cheerilee.

Seeing that a morning's time was quietly stolen, they still didn't have much to gain, and it was raining when it was close to noon, or Che Yuechi suggested that it was not a way to find it like this, and it was not too late to go down the mountain and wait for the rain to stop and then look for it.

So the three of them went home, Lan Yi was very unwilling, and wanted to go up the mountain alone to find it again and was persuaded by Cheerilee.

"You blindly go up the mountain like this, it's just useless work, or listen to my brother's words, rest at home for a while, and it's not too late to go in the afternoon." Cheerilee persuaded.

"We've finally harvested thirty or forty kinds of herbs, and it's okay, so let's sit down and count what are the repetitions." Che Yuechi made a suggestion to Lan Yi.

"Alright then, I'll listen to you."

After counting, a total of 32 kinds of herbs were harvested, and the elder brother comforted Lan Yi and said that the situation was not so bad.

What I didn't expect was that Master Mo's father and daughter and the Che couple were eavesdropping on them outside the house. Master Mo squinted his eyes and smiled for a while: "I knew that they would encounter difficulties, but Lan Yi, this kid, is also flexible, and he knows how to ask your daughter and son for help." ”

Father Che said: "Lan Yi, this kid is smarter than my son, but he can't hold his breath. ”

"That is, you don't know Yuechi's temper, he has always been so calm and easy-going. It's just that he hasn't married yet, and he lacks someone who loves him. ”

When the mother said this to the father, she looked at Mo Dai, and Mo Dai's eyes met the mother, and the meaning of the mother's shining eyes made Mo Dai hurriedly lower her head in shyness.

Master Mo understood his daughter's thoughts, and it was inconvenient to ask, so he casually diverted the topic: "Cheerilee, this girl is lively and cute, clever and eccentric, maybe Lan Yi has fallen in love with her." ”

The father said: "He dares." ”

Although Father Che looked like he was angry, he was not angry at all, and his tone was not angry at all, and he could also see that Lan Yi liked Cheerilee, and he liked this gentle young man. However, he felt that Lan Yi was a foreigner after all, and he didn't know the background, so he didn't dare to hand over his baby daughter to him easily.

"No matter how good my Cheerilee is, how can you have your Mo Dai, Cheerilee is too naughty, and Mo Dai is more understanding." The mother is praising Mo Dai again, obviously treating her as the best choice for her daughter-in-law.

"Where is it, Sister Cheerilee's Bingxue is smart, and she is beautiful, Mo Dai can't compare." Mo Dai replied shyly.