"Master, you have underestimated the degree of desire of women in the world for immortality." Cui Jiuan said as he sent the washed snakes and fish into the kitchen.

"The hair hasn't grown up to talk about women in front of me." Du Youjia said unconvinced.

"The master is right, I still have a long way to go when I am young! It's better than the old virgin. I don't know if it's the nature that has been released, the young man in front of me who not only has a poisonous tongue but also holds a knife and chops vegetables is not at all similar to when he was in the capital.

"Whoever is an old virgin and a woman who loves your master, this Hundred Medicine Valley can't fit it." Du Youjia plucked the chicken feathers vigorously.

"Then why don't you marry and have children? There is no woman in the world who can enter the eyes of your old man? Cui Jiuan stored the boiling hot water in a copper basin containing pheasants.

"I want to marry a wife and have children, and I have your boy's share of apprenticeship?"

"It's as if I begged to worship you as a teacher, but you begged to take me as an apprentice." Cui Jiuan threw a roll of his eyes to Du Youjia, who was still struggling with chicken feathers.

"I haven't settled accounts with you yet, why do you let your heart hide it from me?" Cui Jiuan shook the bright kitchen knife in his hand when he said this.

"What, you still want to murder as a teacher?" Not to be outdone, Du Youjia stood up, and the tall man looked down at the angry boy.

"Tell me why."

In the face of the young man's excavation, Du Youjia glanced at the girl who was making fruit outside.

"That sarcoma was cut by me, but there is still a possibility of recurrence, I kept you for three years just to observe and recuperate for her."

Cui Jiuan nodded secretly, he guessed well, and his heart really did not heal. This old guy is actually afraid that he will sneak away with someone, he is really a villain's heart and a gentleman's belly, can they hide themselves from themselves for three years? Cui Jiuan secretly decided to study medicine more diligently.

"Master, I'll learn by heart." With this, the boy put down the knife and turned out of the kitchen.

"The master will also teach you." Knowing the young man's determination, Du Youjia spoke tightly for the first time.

"Second brother, look, I dug out all the pits of the plums." The girl shows the flattened green plum in her hand.

"Bring me the honey."

The young man picked up the green plums one by one and spread them all over the bottom of the jar, took the honey handed by Cui Ranxin and spread a layer, then put a layer of plums, a layer of honey, and so on, and the honey green plums filled the porcelain jar.

"It can be eaten after being sealed for half a month." Cui Jiuan handed over the porcelain jar.

Cui Ran took it with anticipation, smiling like a flower.

Cui Jiuan covered his mouth and walked away, just now he had a momentary impulse to do something bad.

"Stinky boy, take the lotus leaf and follow." A pair of eyes in the kitchen stared at the somewhat embarrassed teenager, and the smile on the corner of his mouth reached the bottom of his eyes.

Du Youjia wrapped the pheasant that had been stuffed with condiments in the green lotus leaves, put it into the freshly dug pit and covered it with soil, surrounded the city with stones and put dry branches on the fire, and completed this series of actions before looking up at the young man who came with a pile of firewood.

"You're not brothers and sisters, are you?"

Du Youjia's sudden inquiry surprised Cui Jiuan.

"How did the master see it?" The teenager did not deny it.

"With your concentration, if you are a brother and sister, how can you stretch out your thoughts." Du Youjia pulled out a dead branch and threw it into the fire.

"Master, is it lonely for a person to be a companion with the mountains and a neighbor to the water?"

"If you haven't tried prosperity, you won't feel lonely, there are hundreds of grasses in the courtyard, and there are hundreds of beasts in the mountains, so it's good to be a teacher." Du Youjia didn't know whether to say this to the other party or to comfort himself.

"An'er, you must know that the more concerns you have in the mortal world, the less you have to understand pharmacology, and all you can do as a teacher is to cut off the dust and take refuge in the mountains and rivers."

"Master, have you ever regretted it?"

"You are smarter than when you were a teacher, and now you have my life's work, you don't need to follow in my footsteps, you can do whatever you want." After Du Youjia finished speaking, he got up and left.

"Master-" Cui Jiu'an's heartfelt call broke all the defenses of the Du family.

"Small love and big love, I chose the latter, you can make up for the regrets for the teacher."

Looking at the gradually disappearing back, Cui Jiuan felt that the master's steps were extremely heavy.

When Cui Jiuan returned to the house with the fragrant roasted pheasant, Cui Ranxin and Du Youjia were chatting about something, and both of them were smiling.

"Second brother, you are finally here, just now my father-in-law told me about his experience of going out to collect medicine, it's so interesting, I asked my father-in-law to bring us with me next time."

"Stinky boy, I'm waiting for you, let me see my roast chicken." Du Youjia took the blackened lotus leaf and put it on the tip of his nose to smell it gently, and the lotus fragrance mixed with the meat fragrance made people salivate.

"I'm going to get the fish soup."

Suddenly, a golden roasted pheasant on the stone table, a plate of stir-fried wild vegetables, a large bowl of snake soup and fish soup, Du Youjia poured a cup of medicinal wine for Cui Jiuan and Cui Ranxin, and the three of them feasted happily.

"Tomorrow I will go out of the mountain for free clinic, it is estimated that there will be seven or eight days, you go to Longquan Snow Mountain to pick some morning chrysanthemums and come back, dry them and send them to several villages around Panyang Town, it is easy to get heat stroke when you do farm work in hot weather."

"Okay." Cui Ranxin and Cui Jiuan spoke in unison.

"The road in the snowy mountains is not easy to walk, stinky boy remember to follow the route I drew for you, do you know?" Du Youjia said and got up and took a hand-drawn map to Cui Jiu'an.

"Master, if you don't want to go to the free clinic with you, I'll pick chrysanthemums myself." Looking carefully at the map in his hand, Cui Jiuan was a little uneasy, the further north he went, the sparsely populated, the snow-capped mountains had high altitudes, steep terrain, and severe peaks, which was very dangerous.

"You stupid boy, don't think you're capable, you two have something to take care of."

"Second brother, the two of you will pick a little more, let me go together." Cui Ran was afraid that Cui Jiuan would have to keep him, so he hurriedly said.

"Then you'll have to listen to me all the way." Cui Jiuan reluctantly agreed.

"No problem."

"Remember that the yellow and red at the top of the mountain must be effective, the kind at the foot of the mountain will not work, and it must be picked before the first ray of sunlight shines." Du Youjia reminded again.

"Father-in-law, but how much can the two of us take!"

"So you have to go to a place called Longquan Village at the southern foot of Longquan Snow Mountain to find Li Zheng there, and he will select a group of people to go with you."

"Most of Longquan Village makes a living by growing herbs, and the people in that village are all surnamed Quan, and there is a stout ginkgo tree at the entrance of the village."

"Master, can you tell the whole thing at once!"

"Don't be too demanding of an old man, be more patient."

At the end of July, a new moon hung in the night, and it has been more than two months in this valley, a grass and a tree are already familiar, the mountain breeze blows to take away the slightest bit of stuffiness, and the insects and frogs add a bit of noise to this quiet canyon.

"Father-in-law, this is the cloth shoe I made for you a few days ago, you can try it!" Cui Ranxin took out a pair of shoes in his arms as if offering treasures, and squatted down to change them for Du Youjia.

"Good daughter, my father-in-law will come by himself." Du Youjia was moved to rub the shoes in his hand, with mixed feelings in his heart, and Cui Jiuan's question sounded in his mind again, "Master, have you ever regretted it?" ”

"Father-in-law, try it! If it doesn't fit, I'll change it for you tonight. Du Youjia looked at the girl in front of him with anticipation, and suddenly brightened, it was because of his previous perseverance that he could exchange for the encounter with the two of them in this life, there is a cause and effect, how can he regret it?