Out of the hospital, Shen Chi exhaled deeply, sighing for his mentor's unknown past. Back home, Shen Chi went to the orchard to pick the best salvia and yellow essence and dug up one plant each. After thinking about it, I felt unsafe and went to my experimental field to dig up a ginseng plant, and then told everyone that I was going to go out to do some errands, and it happened that Zhang Cong and they were going back to help find the location of the new store.

The five of them took a car to the city together, and then went their separate ways.

Shen Chi bought a ticket to Jingshan, stayed in Shen Chi, a small county town under Jingshan City, for one night, and went straight to the address given to him by Li Shoumin the next day.

Li Shoumin said in detail, but Shen Chi still found Zheng Jiawan after looking for a day and a half. Li Shoumin's eldest brother is called Zheng Yuansheng, who seems to be well-known in the local area, Shen Chi found someone on the road and asked him where his house was, and the locals gave Shen Chi directions.

At noon, Shen Chi was walking on the rural road to Zhengjiawan, and the people working in the fields were all going home at this time.

In the paddy fields on both sides of the road, the seedlings more than a foot tall are verdant and green, and their growth looks very gratifying. Shen Chi was walking when he was suddenly attracted by the seedlings in a rice field on the side of the road.

I couldn't help but follow the stalk to the paddy field, where the seedlings and plants were much taller than the paddy field next to it.

Shen Chi has been exposed to few rice seeds, but he has done a lot of experiments, and he guesses that this seedling must have been carefully cultivated.

Just as he was looking intently, a voice suddenly came from next to him: "Young man, what are you squatting next to my rice field looking at?"

Shen Chi responded to the prestige, and saw an old man with a thin figure and sunken cheeks three meters in front of him. He was wearing a sky blue, but white-washed thin spring coat on his upper body, and a pair of black trousers on his lower body, which were pulled up high at this time.

Wearing a pair of yellow sneakers on his feet and a hoe on his shoulder, he was looking at Shen Chi with a puzzled expression. "Uncle, this is your family's rice field. Your seedlings are growing better than the ones next to you. Shen Chi said as he got up and walked towards the old farmer.

When I got closer, I found that although the old farmer's cheeks were sunken and his face was dark, his eyes were bright, which made the old man look different from ordinary people.

"Of course, my seedlings can be carefully cultivated by me." Shen Chi heard this in his heart, and secretly said that this is indeed the case, this is Zhengjiawan, could it be that this old man in front of him is the person he is looking for?

While he was in doubt, the old peasant asked Shen Chi, "Young man, you are dressed from the city, what are you doing in our poor country?"

Li Shoumin told Shen Chi not to say that he was his student, and Shen Chi had already thought of an identity for himself: "I am a researcher at the Provincial Academy of Agricultural Sciences, and I am now researching the topic of rice seed improvement.

Our Jingshan is also a place where excellent rice is produced, so we came here to get seeds."

Hearing Shen Chi say that he was a researcher at the Academy of Agricultural Sciences, the old man's face softened: "Then it's not the right time for you to come, last year's rice seedlings have been raised, and this year's rice is not yet ripe."

"It's okay, I don't want many seeds, a little is enough. It's really not possible, and it's okay to buy a few seedlings and go back. Shen Chi said with a smile.

"Hmph, scientific research is rigorous, from the time the seeds are planted, you must start to make serious observations, how many seedlings do you buy and go back to our Jingshan rice seeds when will germinate, what kind of temperature has the highest germination rate, and what kind of fertilizer ratio has the best growth, do you know?" When the old man heard Shen Chi's words, he scolded him.

From the old man's words, Shen Chi became more and more sure that this person was most likely the teacher's senior brother, and the person he was looking for on this trip was Zheng Yuansheng.

"Uncle, you have taught you a lesson, it is true that my attitude is not good enough. Uncle, do you still have extra rice seeds at home? I don't want more, just a few grains.

And how is your rice grown, and why does it grow better than others? Shen Chi said, and took out a notebook and pen from his bag, ready to record carefully.

Seeing that Shen Chi had a good attitude, he changed the old man's stern expression when he made a mistake, and then he eased up, and said to him, "I happen to have some rice seeds from last year at home, so if you want me, I'll sell some to you."

"That's great, thank you, uncle." Shen Chi thanked the old man with a happy face. The old man just nodded slightly, and then walked forward.

Shen Chili

Chi followed: "By the way, I haven't asked the old man's surname yet."

"Old Zheng Yuansheng." The old man replied.

Shen Chi secretly said in his heart, "Sure enough, it is the person he is looking for." "Uncle, you don't look like an ordinary farmer." "Old Man used to be a researcher at the Institute of Agricultural Sciences like you."

"Then I'm going to ask you even more, why did you stay in this remote part of the country?"

....

Zheng Yuansheng seemed unwilling to mention much about his own affairs, and was silent in the face of Shen Chi's questioning. Not long after, Shen Chi came to his house with Zheng Yuansheng.

A red brick house, in stark contrast to the small two-storey buildings that surround it.

When I entered the house, the white lime on the wall was already a little mottled by the time.

Just as Shen Chi was looking, Zheng Yuansheng had already taken a bucket of millet out of the room where the grain was placed, and handed it to Shen Chi in a cloth bag: "You are engaged in scientific research, originally this bucket of millet should not have received your money, but now my granddaughter is seriously ill, so ........"

Zheng Yuansheng sighed when he said this, and Shen Chi hurriedly took out a blue version of a hundred-yuan bill from his bag and handed it to Zheng Yuansheng, "I know, you accept this money."

"Give me change, I don't have money to find it." Zheng Yuansheng said. "It's all for you, no need to look for it." Shen Chi said with a smile.

Zheng Yuansheng was stunned when he heard this: "Give too much."

"It's a lot of money, you see it's noon, it's not easy for me to come out, and I don't know anyone here." Shen Chi was worried that he couldn't find an excuse to stay.

"But there's nothing to entertain at home." Zheng Yuansheng was a little embarrassed. "What to eat, I don't pick what to eat." Shen Chi replied with a smile.

"That's okay, I'm not welcome, old man." Saying that, Zheng Yuansheng accepted the hundred yuan. Then he called out to the room on the left, "Junzi, you go to the village pond to catch a fish and come back, there are guests at our house for dinner at noon."

The dilapidated wooden door creaked open, and a tall, middle-aged man stepped out.

He didn't make a sound when he saw Shen Chi, but just took a bamboo cover and went out with a sad face.

Seeing that this family was probably worried about the child's illness, Shen Chi then asked Zheng Yuansheng, "Uncle Zheng, I heard from you just now that your granddaughter is sick, she is not talented, and she knows a little bit about medical skills, can you let me show your granddaughter."

Zheng Yuansheng waved his hand with a dead gray face: "The hospital is no longer treated, how can you be cured well, forget it."

Shen Chi was about to say something, when the door creaked open again, and a middle-aged woman with deep-set eyes and a haggard face stood at the door and said to Zheng Yuansheng, "Dad, let him take a look."

Zheng Yuansheng opened his mouth to say something, but in the end it turned into a helpless sigh.

Shen Chi got up and nodded at the woman, knowing that if it wasn't really a dead end, they wouldn't let them see it, and now this is a dead horse as a live horse doctor.

Let Shen Chi into the room, a little girl on a double bed is covered with a thin blanket, and her exposed cheeks and arms are really skinny, completely thin and out of shape.

Shen Chi wanted to check the pulse of the little girl, but before his hand could reach over, the little girl was so frightened that she cried loudly.

The middle-aged woman hurriedly ran over and hugged the little girl and kept comforting: "Yuanyuan is not afraid, the eldest brother is just treating Yuanyuan, and when Yuanyuan is well, she can go to school like other children."

The little girl quieted down at this time, and the woman smiled at Shen Chi and said, "The child is afraid of life, I'm really embarrassed." 「

"It's fine." Shen Chi took out a lollipop from his bag and handed it to the little girl and said, "Little sister, what is this?"

A strange look flashed in the little girl's eyes, and Shen Chi took the opportunity to peel the sugar and hand it to the little girl. The little girl glanced at her mother, timidly took the lollipop and put it in her mouth.

"Mom, this candy is so sweet, you can eat it too." As he spoke, he handed the candy to the woman's mouth.

"If my mother doesn't eat Yuanyuan, she will get better if she eats it." The woman said as she cast her face aside and quietly wiped her tears.

This made Shen Chi uncomfortable, and gently stretched out his hand to the little girl, "

Let my brother see your hands."

As he spoke, he gently caught the little girl's pulse, the pulse was very weak, and the qi and blood were very poor. "How?" The woman's eyes were hopeless, but they were still full of hope. "I can give it a try." Shen Chi said to her.

Hearing Shen Chi say this, the middle-aged woman got up excitedly and said to Shen Chi, "If you can really cure my daughter's illness, our family is willing to use you as a cow and a horse!"

As he spoke, he knelt down in front of Shen Chi with a thud.

Shen Chi hurriedly helped the person up: "Auntie, hurry up, I can only do my best, and I am not completely sure if I can be cured."

"If there is hope, even if it's ......," the middle-aged woman said after a pause, "even if it is enough for my daughter to live for a year and a half more and spend more time with me, I will be content."

At this time, Zheng Yuansheng also walked in and said excitedly, "Are you really sure to cure my granddaughter's illness?"

"I'm 50% sure." Shen Chi said conservatively.

Fifty percent, which is already very high. Zheng Yuansheng said with tears in his eyes: "Please save my granddaughter, as long as I can cure my granddaughter, I will repay you for smashing pots and selling iron."

"I'll try it as much as I can." Shen Chi replied.

This little girl's symptoms are very similar to Hu's, and Shen Chi has cured his grandmother better, so she has experience this time. Immediately took out a pen and paper and wrote down the recipe for treating grandma before, and then handed it to Zheng Yuansheng with slight changes: "You first grab five pieces of medicine according to this recipe, and give the little girl three bowls of water to one bowl of soup."

At this time, Zheng Yuansheng's son also returned, and Zheng Yuansheng hurriedly introduced to Shen Chi: "This is my son Zheng Jun, she is my daughter-in-law Tian Huifang, and my granddaughter's name is Zheng Yuanyuan."