I lay on the couch and dreamed groggily all the time, dreaming of many things that had happened in the past.

More than ten years ago, I was just an ordinary peasant daughter, although I lived a poor life, my father and mother loved me, and I lived a happy life.

It's just that when I was five years old, there was a drought in my hometown, and the food in the field was only enough for our family of three to feed ourselves.

Locusts came all over the sky, Daddy carried a broom to the ground to fight, Auntie hugged me, hid in the room and wept secretly.

The locusts worked tirelessly to eat the grain in the field day and night, and Daddy was soon defeated, looking at the dark and oppressive sky in the house, and sighed.

After the insect plague, people dare to come out in search of food. However, the fields were already bare, and the price of food in the store was high, and many poor families, including my family, had no choice but to pick up the bark of trees and dig up the soil to eat.

No one knows how the plague spread quietly, but it could be that someone was so hungry that he caught a rat and contracted the disease.

Large swaths of the poor collapsed, feverish, coughing up blood, and dying in two or three days. For a while, there were cries in every house, and even worse, no one dared to go to bury them.

My mom and dad coughed quickly. They snuggled up in their beds, covered their faces, and did not want to pass on their sickness to me, and from then on they would not eat anything, but would leave everything to me to eat.

Daddy died soon, I was too young and at a loss, I only knew that when I was stunned, there were two great families descending like gods, one surnamed He, and the other surnamed Ji.

They were well-trained doctors and soon began to heal the living and bury the dead.

I watched Daddy's body being carried away, and subconsciously wanted to follow, but was stopped. They fed my mother medicine, but my mother was so sick that she was delirious, and she vomited after drinking, and in the end she was still not saved.

I didn't cry at that time, I thought my tears were dry.

The masked girl sighed and said to me, "I'm sorry......"

I shook my head: "Thank you for being willing to save my mother." ”

This is what my father and mother taught me, they said, be polite when you go out, and you will not suffer anywhere.

She was stunned and touched my head: "What's your name?" ”

"Chen Ejiao," I watched as my mother was also carried away, my nose hurt so badly, but I couldn't cry, "My name is Chen Ejiao." ”

"The name of the medicinal herb is related to my family," the girl hugged me, "My name is Ji Peilan, and from now on, I will be Ejiao's sister." ”

Sister A, who was fifteen years old at the time, was the eldest lady of the Ji family, and she took me to meet the head of the family, Ji Yuanzhi, and said that she wanted to adopt me. The head of the house, who was so busy that he didn't raise his head: "Okay, okay, put her down, hurry up and boil medicine, there are so many people who can be saved." ”

Sister answered and shoved me beside her father.

I watched the head of the house keep his feet on the ground, and kept dispensing medicinal herbs and handing them to others to boil, until someone came to change shifts, he breathed a sigh of relief, and then noticed me: "What's your name?" ”

"My name is Ejiao Chen." I answered again.

"Ejiao, cure all wind poison and joint pain, and moan non-stop. Good name. He narrowed his eyes and applauded.

When he saw that I had been staring at the person who was boiling the medicine, and that I had just lost my parents, he muttered for a moment and asked me, "Do you want to learn?" ”

I didn't understand what he meant, so I tilted my head to look at him.

"Do you want to study pharmacology? That way, you won't be helpless when you meet someone with the same condition as your parents in the future. The head of the family didn't seem to realize that such words were difficult for a five-year-old child to understand.

But I understood, so I nodded like pounded garlic and called him: "Master, I want to learn pharmacology." ”

The head of the family was also stunned, and then touched my head with a smile: "I am also a person with apprentices." ”