Chapter Seventy-Seven: Studying

In the early morning, a cold wind howled through the streets, almost toppling a simple thatched house on the side of the road.

Sitting in the room, Gu Banniang, whose hands were already red from cold, didn't seem to feel the impact of the cold wind, and she carefully wrapped a piece of oil paper around the toad.

"That's how you take toad?"

The old man's voice sounded from behind her, with a little impatience.

Gu Banniang nodded, "Yes, it's on the book..."

"On the book, on the book, on the book again" The old man's voice was a little anxious, "You can't say anything else except the book?" ”

is different from the joking attitude that they used to get along with, when the old man watched her medicine these days, his expression was a little stern, and his speech became more and more unpolite.

Gu Banniang lowered her head and didn't speak, apart from books, where else could she learn from?

Seeing that she didn't speak, still busy with oiled paper, the old man only felt a stuffy pain in his chest.

"Where's your brain?" He stretched out his hand and poked Gu Bainiang's head, his voice was agitated and dissatisfied, "You can't think about it yourself"

"You dead old man..."Gu Ba Niang was furious, and stood up and glared at the old man.

"Heh" The old man couldn't help jumping up when he saw her eyebrows raised, "You still know how angry you are?" He stretched out his hand and patted himself, looking distressed, "It's me who should be angry, why are you so stupid?" Aren't you smart? Why can't you even make a toad crisp, and can't even think of the easiest way? Why are you so stupid? ”

When the old man said this, he held his chest and coughed loudly, Gu Bainiang was about to say a few words in return, but when she saw him like this, she only sighed.

"I'm stupid," she smiled wryly, found a tea bowl from the room, poured the old man a cup of tea, and handed it over.

The old man didn't take her tea, but stared at her, puffed out his cheeks for a long time, and held back a sentence, "It's not that you're stupid, it's me who is stupid."

He sighed, turned and went out.

The old man's already thin figure became more and more rickety, shaking his head and walking into the cold wind, especially lonely and desolate.

Gu Bainiang looked at his back, and couldn't help but feel a little sad in her heart, she felt that this old man was very disappointed.....

Is it because I have been disappointed to see my own medicine with my own eyes in the past few days and discover my true skills? There are many words without mistakes, and I find that the person I always thought was extremely smart turned out to be a fool......

I'm just stupid, no one else teaches me except books, how good can I be... I didn't say I was smart, you thought so....

She smiled wryly and lowered her head to look at the toad on the table, using her brain, not the book......

When the night came, the old man did not come back, and the darkness engulfed Gu Bainiang's vision, and she woke up only to find that it was already dark.

Rubbing his sore neck, he moved his stiff hands, stood up, looked around outside the door, and couldn't see the old man, this old man won't be angry and never come back, right? No mistakes in many words

Gu Bainiang sighed, closed the door with a little worry, and walked home with the toad basket.

This night, she still lit the lamp until late at night, looking at the book, but she couldn't help but think about the old man's words, use her brain, don't use the book....

"I don't need books, what other brains do I have." She pushed the book away in some frustration, and the exhaustion all over her body came well, making her lie on the bookcase weakly.

Only by pondering the real one can we make a fake....

The words were like a flash of light sliding through her chaotic mind.

"I've really figured it out...."She muttered, raised her head suddenly, swept away her exhaustion, took out a copy of the Materia Medica from the table, quickly flipped a few pages, found a page of toad, and began to look seriously.

The sunlight filtered through the cracks in the window, and the fine spots of light dotted on the girl who was sleeping on the table, and the book in her hand finally fell to the ground, and the girl woke up with a snapping sound.

"When?" Gu Bainiang rubbed her sour arm, a little dazzling by the brightness of the daylight.

Cao's caring greeting sounded outside the door.

After dressing up and eating a simple meal, Gu Bainiang hurriedly rushed out of the house and ran to the thatched hut located on the edge of the city.

Twilight disappeared into the sky, and the girl's figure came out of the hut again.

Such a thin figure went back and forth on the road, back and forth without seeing the daylight, the girl did not pay attention, while she was rushing, the figure of a teenager followed behind at all times, and a basket of toads was always placed outside the hut in time.

Standing behind the big tree not far away, the old man looked at the little girl who was focused in the hut and sighed with some relief.

"Although the qualifications are a little worse, but this mind is also okay...."He smiled bitterly, not happy or sad, to talk about the mind, he has seen more smart people in his life, I really didn't expect that in the end, he only picked up such a ....

"Is this girl smart or stupid?" The old man muttered to himself a little unwillingly.

For a person like him, in just a few days of getting along, he already has an answer in his heart, but he just doesn't want to admit it.

Hearing someone coughing behind her, Gu Bainiang turned her head and saw the old man standing aside with a drooping face.

"Uncle, you came just in time" Her originally haggard face was radiant, and her eyes were shining, "Look, look, I know how to take a large amount of this toad"

Garlic and ginger were scattered on the table, and she was pressing the toad with one hand and scraping off the slurry with a small piece of bamboo with the other.

The old man snorted, reached out and picked up a small wooden stick from the side, and gently knocked it on the toad's head, and the slurry suddenly sweated.

"Oh, old man, is that okay?" Gu Bainiang was overjoyed and shouted with a smile.

The little stick struck her on the head.

"What are you shouting about," the old man glared.

"Uncle, aren't you angry?" Gu Banniang looked at his face and said with a smile.

The old man's face was not very good, and he was even more depressed when he heard the words, and snorted, who could he be angry with? Yourself?

"Get up, I'll do it for you, you can take a good look," the old man said, glaring at Gu Banniang, "It's really stupid, this point has been ideal for so many days....."

Gu Bainiang pursed her lips and smiled, did not speak, stood up and got out of the way, and watched the old man sit down.

“… What's going on with your hands? ”

“… Stupid dead, stupid dead..."

“… Wrong and wrong..."

“… Where are you putting your hands..."

The young man standing in a dark corner not far from the house, listening to the scolding sound coming from time to time inside, mixed with the sound of bamboo strips whipping, his expressionless face couldn't help but twitch twice.

This old man's words are ugly, and he really beats him, and a trace of doubt appeared on his face, isn't this girl a young lady from a good family who lives in a big house? How did you learn this? Being called around by a dirty old man.....

"Hey, that boy," the old man's voice came from inside the house, interrupting the boy's thoughts.

"Say you," the old man stood at the door of the house, crossed his waist and glared, and threw out a bamboo basket, "Go, catch some more toads"

The young man was stunned for a moment and moved out from behind the rocks.

"Hurry up, don't grind," the old man glared, dissatisfied with his slow motion.

The young man couldn't help but tug at the corners of his mouth, walked a few steps quickly, picked up the bamboo basket and strode away.

A few days later, looking at the basket full of toad crisps, Gu Banniang couldn't help but smile, now the toad crisps made in one day are equivalent to the amount she used to have in three days.

"Uncle, you're amazing." She looked at the old man and gave her first sincere admiration, "It seems that you really don't only know how to make fake medicines... ”

The old man snorted angrily, and kicked the basket under his feet, "Go, sell it, what's the point of concocting these low-grade medicinal materials... Go get some ginseng and dendrobium or something...."

Dendrobium ginseng... Gu Bainiang tugged at the corners of her mouth, this old man knows what he said, right? There are many words and medicines, that is, the toad crisp that has been sold for a year can't be eaten or drunk.......

"Look at what, pick up the biggest medicine store," the old man glared at her, grabbed a few strokes of his thinning hair as he spoke, squinted at Gu Bainiang and smiled, "And remember, don't make a price, let them make a price"

What the? Gu Bainiang was stunned.

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