Chapter 7 Studying Medicine and Literature First

Out of the mountains and forests, the master let go of Mu Wenbin's hand and said, "Good apprentice, can you remember this road?" ”

"Well, remember, but master, I didn't seem to have this road when I went?"

"I said that I am an immortal, and in the future, you just need to walk along this road to reach the master."

"Well, I'll remember."

"Good apprentice, then you should go home quickly, and don't tell anyone else about the master when you go back."

"Why, master?"

"I don't want anyone else to know."

"Well, I'm not going to tell anyone else about you. Master, I'm going home, I'll definitely go over to find you tomorrow."

Mu Wenbin waved his hand to the master and walked to the village, walked a few steps and looked back at the master. only to find that the master was gone.

Parting with the master, it was already dark, Mu Wenbin stepped up his steps and walked home, before he got home, he heard a lot of people in the family, his sister kept crying, and grandma's crying, "Xiaobin, don't let anything happen to you, if something happens to you again, how can we two face your parents in the underworld!" Grandpa also kept sighing. There were still seven or eight voices in the house, some were comforting the second elder, some were coaxing the younger sister, and some were discussing how to quickly mobilize the people in the village to go into the mountains to find them.

Mu Wenbin heard it and hurriedly ran up, opened the door, and called, "Grandma, I'm back." Everyone in the room immediately turned their eyes to the little boy at the door. Grandma's eyes were not good, she was sitting on the bed crying, and when she heard the voice, she immediately looked at the source of the sound, and whimpered, "Is it Xiaobin?" Is Xiaobin back? Come to Grandma and let Grandma take a good look at you. Everyone got out of the way, Mu Wenbin slowly walked to the grandmother, the grandmother stretched out her trembling hand, stroked her grandson's face, and then hugged her into her arms and cried again. The room full of people shed tears, looking at the eight-year-old boy in front of him, although he looked childish, but his eyes were full of tenacity, which was the eyes that an eight-year-old child should not have. None of the neighbors in the house spoke, but left silently next to each other.

After everyone left, the little sister stopped crying, the grandfather put the little sister on the bed, took the grandson's hand, and then the old tears flowed, the grandson's little hands were full of scars, full of calluses, and he secretly hated his own incompetence. The son and daughter-in-law are gone, but the grandchildren are still there, and they can't be so decadent anymore, and they are only sixty, although they are not as sharp as when they were young, but their experience is still there.

When the little sister saw her brother coming back, she smiled happily, and kept shouting her brother in a milky voice, asking her brother to play with her.

Because he came back so late, the family has not yet cooked, Mu Wenbin coaxed the little sister and was ready to cook, at this time there was a knock on the door, Mu Wenbin opened the door, it was the second aunt Wang in the village who sent a few steamed buns, the second aunt Wang said that the family steamed too much, I was afraid that I couldn't eat it, so I sent a few, Mu Wenbin didn't say much, I took it after thanking the second aunt, the second aunt left not long after the third uncle of the Li family came over, sent some mixed wild vegetables, Zhang Si's grandfather sent the cooked porridge, the uncle of the Tian family is a hunter, and sent stewed rabbit meat…… Mu Wenbin didn't say much, he knew in his heart that no one in the village was rich, but everyone would help each other when they had something, and not saying it didn't mean that they didn't have gratitude in their hearts. The four grandfathers and grandsons gathered around the broken table of eight immortals, looking at the table full of "sumptuous" dinners, and they all smiled happily with tears in their eyes. Grandpa took care of grandma to eat, Mu Wenbin fed his little sister to eat, after eating he cleaned up the house, grandpa squatted at the door and smoked dry tobacco.

After cleaning up the house, grandpa called Mu Wenbin to the yard and said to his grandson: "Xiaobin, don't go into the mountain to collect medicine in the future, grandpa's health is not much serious, you can enter the mountain after two days of rest, grandpa has experience, and he is much stronger than you in picking medicine, you are still young, it is too dangerous to enter the mountain alone."

"Grandpa, don't worry, I'm looking for it on the mountain near the village, I was very young and I climbed the hill with my second aunt's mud egg to play, I can't lose it, I came back so late today because I found a stream in the mountain, there are small fish and shrimp in it, and the water is also very delicious, but I came back late when I was greedy for fun." After Mu Wenbin finished speaking, he ran into the house and took out the kettle, "Grandpa, you taste it, this is the water I poured into the stream in the mountains."

Grandpa unscrewed the lid and took a sip of it, which was indeed extremely sweet, much better than the water in the cistern at home. didn't say anything more, and then said: "Xiaobin, you are eight years old, it is said that you should go to the primary school in the town last year, it was too young before, we are not at ease, I heard that school is about to start, and when school starts, you will go to study with your uncle's brother Xiangzi, learn your skills, don't even know a word like grandpa." ”

"There are still a few days before school starts, and I won't go into the mountains when school starts, and you will be better at that time, grandpa" Mu Wenbin originally wanted to say that he didn't want to go to school, because he wanted to go to the mountains to find a master to learn medicine, but he was afraid that his grandfather would be sad, so he agreed to his grandfather first.

Grandpa didn't say anything more, grandchildren don't look like an eight-year-old naughty boy at all, and his heart is so mature. I touched my grandson's head and went back to sleep.

The next day, Mu Wenbin woke up early in the morning to find that his grandfather had gotten up, made breakfast, and specially baked two cakes for him to eat hungry. Originally, he wanted to keep it for his grandmother to eat, but when he thought of it, he brought it with him.

According to the master's words yesterday, I found the road soon after leaving the village, although I had no impression of the road before, but I still walked along the road according to the master's instructions, and walked for more than an hour until I reached the end of the road, saw the small pool of yesterday, and found the cave near the small pool. When he arrived at the entrance of the cave, Mu Wenbin did not rush in, but knelt down directly and kowtowed, and then shouted: "Master, apprentice Mu Wenbin came to learn art." ”

Then a voice came from the cave: "Good disciple get up quickly and come to the cave." ”

Entering the cave, the master smiled and said, "Apprentice, I came directly later, you don't have to care about those false courtesies, as long as you have a master in your heart." ”

"But master, we have to sing big operas during the Chinese New Year in our town, I have watched it with Brother Xiangzi several times, and those people in it are all like this?" Mu Wenbin asked puzzled.

"Haha, the apprentice misunderstood, did you forget that the master is a god? The dramas you watch are all performed by mortals, they have seen immortals there, they are all some cliché false etiquette, immortals will not be like that, listen to the master's right. The master replied with a bow.

"The apprentice listens to the master, and he will no longer learn the drama in the future. By the way, master, today my grandfather baked me two cakes, I brought them to the master, master, you can taste them," Mu Wenbin said.

"Oh? The child can be taught, and the good apprentice can think of the master, and the master is very pleased" The master said happily, "I haven't eaten grains for decades."

"Master, how old are you this year, why haven't you eaten for decades? Aren't you hungry? Mu Wenbin asked.

"You forget, there are fruits to eat here, and there are fish and shrimp in the pool outside, and the master just hasn't eaten grains for a long time." The master replied.

"Yes, yes, I ate that fruit yesterday, and it was delicious. Master, this is a cake, you can taste it quickly, and after eating, you can teach me medical skills. Mu Wenbin also said happily.

The master took the cake and opened his mouth to eat it, and the taste was indeed very good, and he quickly ate both cakes. After eating the cake, he walked out, called Mu Wenbin out, and when he arrived at the edge of the pool, the two sat on the ground.

The master spoke: "Apprentice, can you read?" ”

Mu Wenbin replied: "The apprentice has not gone to school yet, and he is not illiterate. ”

The master then said, "Then the teacher will teach you to read first." ”

Mu Wenbin said a little unhappily: "Master, I want to study medicine, it takes a lot of time to read and write, my grandparents are not in good health, I want to learn to treat him quickly." ”

The master laughed: "It's right that you are filial to your grandmother, but if you can't read, can you understand the things in those medical books?" How can you learn if you don't understand? Master handed her a book, he opened it and looked at the pictures and words in the books, and he could see that the paintings were all medicinal herbs, some of which he still knew, but he didn't know any of those words.

Mu Wenbin suddenly said: "I see, the apprentice understands, and the apprentice is willing to read first." ”

In the blink of an eye, a day has passed, Mu Wenbin learned very seriously, one day the master let him learn for two hours, learned forty words, he still wants to learn again, but the master said that greed is not rotten, can not be radical, and then take him into the mountains and forests, where there are a lot of that kind of delicious fruits, and also picked a lot of medicinal materials, follow the master into the mountains can always find some precious medicinal materials, and even can pick wild ginseng. It was already a little late when he returned to the cave, so the master asked him to go back first, because his grandparents should be worried about him when he went back late, so he listened to the master and went back early.

Then it was like this for three days in a row, every day was to read and write by the pool, and the master would not let him learn for two hours, and took him up the mountain to pick medicine and those delicious wild fruits, and let him go home when it was getting late.

On the fifth day of the next day, after studying for an hour, the master stopped, looked at Mu Wenbin and said, "The apprentice has something on his mind? Why are you absent-minded for the sake of the teacher? ”

"Master, the apprentice does have something on his mind, my grandfather asked me to go to the primary school in the town from tomorrow to study, I don't want to be a master

It's sad, but I can't come to the master every day when I go to town, so I don't want to go," Mu Wenbin replied.

"Hahaha, I'm worried about it, you are here at the master to learn words, you can still learn words when you go to the school, learning is not overnight, it is a long-term accumulation, when you finish the words, you will teach you to know medicine for the teacher, even if you go to the school, you can learn by yourself, and you can go to the master in your spare time." The master smiled and said to him, "Okay, I'll learn this today, and I'll take you into the mountain for the teacher."

Then he followed the master into the mountain, picked some wild fruits he had never seen and some medicinal herbs, and when he went out of the mountain, the master asked him to bring a few fruits for his grandparents to eat.

In the evening, I went home and took the fruit to my grandparents, and my grandparents also ate such delicious fruits for the first time, and I didn't find this kind of fruit after living in the mountains all my life. He had no choice but to promise his sister that he would go into the mountains to pick for her when he didn't go to school on Sunday.