Wu Yuan came to Old Man Sun's broken courtyard to worship early in the morning, because Wu Yuan was a woman, there was no public announcement about apprenticeship and medical studies, but several elders of the Wu family knew.

Wu Yuan arrived at the residence of the old man Sun, and saw that the north side of the middle hall hung the portraits of the ancestor and the first master, and there was an incense case. Old man Sun first offered incense and table to the ancestor and the master, performed the first salute, told the ancestor and the master, absorbed the disciples, and passed on the successors. Then Old Man Sun sat on the special seat next to him, Chen Wenyuan of the Eight Treasures Zhanghong Pharmacy was considered to be the same teacher as Old Man Sun, Chen Wenyuan sat on the lower side seat, and Chen Yi stood behind Chen Wenyuan.

Wu Yuan first brought a cup of tea to Old Man Sun, and said, "Please drink tea, Master." ”

Old man Sun took the teacup and took a sip of it, which was considered to have been drunk.

Old man Sun put down the teacup, took out a cloth bag from the coffee table, took out the basically worn medical book, and said to Wu Yuan: "Everything you want to learn in the future is here." After I leave, you have to study diligently and ask more, if you don't understand something, you can go directly to the Babao Zhanghong Pharmacy and ask you Chen Shibo. He turned his head and said to Chen Wenyuan, "Brother Wenyuan, I'm bothering you a lot in vain." ”

Chen Wenyuan smiled and bowed, and there was no disagreement.

The apprenticeship is complete.

Old man Sun handed Wu Yuan a few medical books and the key to this broken courtyard, and said, "Originally, I wasn't going to accept any more apprentices, but I really didn't worry about the herbs in this courtyard. Among them, most of them are common herbs, and the more rare and expensive ones are in the backyard, you have to take care of them for me. As for why you have to be recognized as an apprentice, there are also considerations for being a teacher, but it is really a teacher's medical skills that are not like what you Chen Shibo have learned. Your Wu family on East Street has a big business, and the dealer specializes in the supply of your Chen Shibo's medicinal materials, so that the source of your medicinal materials will not be a problem, and there will be enough financial resources to support you to study the medicinal spectrum. ”

After listening to this, Wu Yuan realized that this old man Sun's medical skills were inherited from the court of the previous dynasty, no wonder he did not open a pharmacy with great fanfare like Chen Shibo to make a living, but he was afraid that before he opened it, the government would come to interrogate him.

Wu Yuan flipped through a few medical books given by Old Man Sun, and really couldn't see anything special, Chen Yi walked over with a smile and said: "You are also a blessing in disguise, I was determined to follow Mr. Sun to study medicine, but he said that I was not the material for studying medicine, and he insisted on not teaching me." ”

When Wu Yuan saw Chen Yi, he pouted and said, "Then my master's vision is indeed unique, and I can see at a glance that you are a gentleman, not a material for studying medicine." ”

Chen Yi was blocked by Wu Yuan's words, touched his nose, where did he become a gentleman, he has been praised since he was a child, and it is the first time someone has said that he is a gentleman, this person is still a little girl.

Chen Yi said kindly: "Mr. Sun's words, you have to take it to heart, you have put away the key to this yard, a few herbs in this backyard are indeed precious and rare, you have to take care of them, if you take care of them and die, I am afraid that Mr. Sun will run back from Qiongzhou angrily." ”

"I don't need you to say more, I naturally know that these are my things in the future, so don't bother Chen Gongzi to advise." Wu Yuan was impatient to go to the backyard to see those incomparably precious herbs.

Chen Yi also followed Wu Yuan to the backyard, only to see that there were a few herbs in the medicine garden separated from others.

Wu Yuan wanted to step forward and touch it, "Don't move, it's poisonous." ”

Chen Yi hurriedly pulled Wu Yuan back, "Why do you have to touch the herbs at every turn, didn't anyone tell you that the herbs in this backyard can't be touched at will?"

Wu Yuan was a little overwhelmed by Chen Yi's severe reprimand, isn't it just a medicinal herb, there is something untouchable, anyway, it is for people to eat. It won't kill you if you touch it.

Chen Yi was still chattering and pointed to the garden and said: "The medicinal herbs in this garden have different habits, like the one over there, it is the broken intestine grass, after people eat it, the intestines will become adhesional, abdominal pain and death, if you are accidentally contaminated, you really don't know how to die." The tree over there was a broken sword wood, and if its sap entered the human body through the wound, it would immediately be life-threatening, and people in the rivers and lakes often used it to smear it on the arrows and shoot the enemy. Have you all apprenticed to your master, and you still don't know what kind of person your master is? ”

Wu Yuan was stunned, she had promised to worship Old Man Sun as a teacher to study medicine in order to save her father, and she didn't know what Old Man Sun was going to teach. No wonder Old Man Sun can't find an apprentice, this courtyard is full of poison, and ordinary people will follow him to study medicine when they are tired of living.

Chen Yi was speechless, "You are really big-hearted, Mr. Sun is the best at studying poison and recuperation, you also heard Mr. Sun say, these things were used in the court of the previous dynasty, and the nobles in the palace naturally asked the doctors to study poisons in every way in order to prevent being poisoned." But you don't have to be afraid, I don't know what prescription Mr. Sun is studying, but he is indeed a good person, and his medical skills are also very exquisite, you can rest assured that you can learn, but are you sure you really want to study medicine? This doesn't seem to have a good reputation. ”

Wu Yuanman didn't care, "Do I have a choice, just learn, if I can use it one day, the worst is the worst, I can still see a doctor." ”

Chen Yi asked, "If you can't get married, you don't care?" ”

Wu Yuan glanced Chen Yi up and down, "What does it have to do with you, you care about it like my brother." ”

Chen Yi coughed and said, "I am a few years older than you, so I naturally became your brother." Besides, you have worshiped Mr. Sun as a teacher again, so it is not an exaggeration for you to call me brother. ”

Wu Yuan thought that he couldn't say anything about this gentleman, so he raised his feet and walked out of the backyard, only to see that Old Man Sun had already packed his baggage and was talking to Chen Wenyuan.

Wu Yuan didn't want to run into Chen Yi again, so he hid behind a tree and waited for the Chen family father and son to go out before leaving.

"Brother Wenyuan, I don't know when I will be able to come back, so I'll leave the rest to you." I saw Old Man Sun making a gesture to Chen Wenyuan.

"Senior brother doesn't have to be so polite, if I hadn't recommended you to the eldest lady of the Wu family, you wouldn't have to travel to the remote Qiongzhou."

"After listening to your description, I feel that the condition of the eldest master of the Wu family is the same as that of the master back then, so I got up with the idea of going to Qiongzhou to find out. Even if you don't recommend me to the eldest lady of the Wu family, I will have to find it myself. What's more, I have gained a lot from this trip, not only with fine clothes and food, but also with an apprentice who can inherit the mantle. Old man Sun touched his beard and said, after a pause, Old Man Sun lowered his voice, "Don't mention our relationship in front of Ling Lang, I think he is outstanding, sooner or later he will enter the official career, the less he knows about this matter, the better for him, lest he follow in the footsteps of his grandfather in the officialdom in the future." ”

"I know, I think that when my father was a young man, he was also favored by everyone like Chen Yi today, who knew that when he first entered the official career, he met Qin Jitong and that old horseman, and he was constrained everywhere, and finally he was depressed, and he had to resign from the official office and return to his hometown, which is really a traitor." Chen Wenyuan gritted his teeth and said.

Wu Yuan didn't dare to speak out when he heard these words, what kind of enmity does the Chen family have with Qin Xiangye, Chen Shibo is so resentful, doesn't it mean that Chen Wenyuan's father and Qin Xiangye are just politically discordant?

Wu Yuan couldn't figure out the relationship.