"Apprentice?" The young Xue Yin didn't quite understand the meaning of the word.

The man touched her head and patiently explained, "I am a doctor, and I make a living by treating people. Because I like to travel everywhere, I go to the mountains to find herbs recorded in medical books in my spare time, so I don't have a fixed place to live, and it doesn't matter where I go. Originally, it was good to be at ease alone, but it has been a little lonely to walk alone in the past few years. Besides, if I accidentally die one day, I always want to find someone to pass on my medical skills. So, you come to be my apprentice, and I'll teach you medical skills, okay?"

Xiao Xue Yin blinked and asked very bluntly, "Is there any benefit to being your apprentice?"

The man touched his chin: "Hmm...... Is it good to be well fed and clothed?"

Xiao Xue Yin's eyes lit up, and he immediately nodded and agreed: "Count!"

In this way, Xue Yin got rid of his identity as a beggar and became an apprentice of a certain Xiaolang. She didn't have a name at that time, and everyone else called her a girl. The man thought about it, so he asked her to follow her surname Xue, and take the hidden character in "The sun is oblique and the light is hidden, and the wind is still shadowed", and made her name.

In the evening of the same day, the little master took the little apprentice to his temporary residence, filled a basin of bath water, and prepared to wash her well. Xue Yin was still young at that time, and he did not involve any issues of whether men and women were intimate or not. Without any scruples, he took off his dirty clothes and jumped into the water to wash them clean.

Master Xue Rong helped her wipe her back while laughing: "In a few years, when you become a big girl, you can't be nonsense like this." Ay...... In fact, I always wanted to find a boy to be my apprentice, so that I wouldn't get awkward. But since I met you, I guess it's fate. ”

Xue Rong said this unintentionally, but Xue Yin secretly wrote it down sensitively. After that, although his body developed and his appearance became more and more standard, his temperament was no different from that of a boy, and he often followed Xue Rong to run around the mountains, and he didn't look like a girl at all.

Xue Rong also said to her a few times, but she turned a deaf ear. Over time, Xue Rong had no choice but to let her go. However, although this little apprentice is a little naughty, his medical skills are better than the blue, which makes him quite proud to be a master.

Xue Yin was raised by Xue Rong, and they have been together for more than ten years, with ups and downs, and their feelings are naturally deep. For Xue Rong, Xue Yin is his own apprentice, his own child, and he loves him and cherishes it incomparably. However, for Xue Yin, Xue Rong is the master, and the person she loves, she doesn't mind that Xue Rong is more than ten years older than herself, she has fallen in love with this man since the day she was picked up by Xue Rong.

Originally, this matter had been hidden in Xue Yin's heart, and he didn't dare to say it. But one day, when the master and apprentice were eating, Xue Rong inadvertently said that the eighteenth year of the female college has changed, and the daughter is older, and it is time to talk about marriage, so she can't stay with the master all the time.

Xue Yin dropped his chopsticks at that time and said that if he didn't marry, he would always stay by his side. In order to appease her temper, Xue Rong had to smile bitterly and perfunctorily, thinking that she was not sensible yet, and when the love first opened one day, maybe he didn't need to say it, and he ran away with the handsome guy.

Xue Rong seemed to have a fatherly mentality, but he never expected that the girl he raised by himself had already moved his mind. However, he is not a young talent, nor is he a personable son. What makes the apprentice's heart flutter is that he is the master.

In this way, the two of them have their own thoughts, and another two years have passed. During this period, Xue Yin has become very famous in the rivers and lakes. Everywhere she went with her master, there was an endless stream of people who came to seek medical treatment. Xue Rong once asked her if she wanted to settle down in one place? She was extremely insecure, afraid that if she lived in one place for a long time, one day she would wake up, and the master would be gone, so she firmly vetoed it.

Xue Yin knew that Xue Rong had always treated her as a daughter, so he carefully hid his thoughts, for fear of being discovered by him. She has thought about it, if she doesn't marry in this life, she will be by Xue Rong's side. When the master grew old one day, she carved a monument for him and buried him with her own hands. Then he set up a cabin where he was buried and continued to accompany him.

But that's what she thinks, Xue Rong doesn't think so. Although he is also alone, as he grows older, he has also thought about whether to marry a wife and have children. He has no fixed place to live, and he is afraid of endangering other girls. But seeing that he, a little apprentice raised since childhood, followed his spirit of jumping around all day long. I think, is there a girl who is willing to live such a life with him?

So, when he took Xue Yin to live in a small town, a matchmaker in the neighborhood came to tell him about matchmaking. He said that there was a girl from a family on the corner of the street, who was very smart, and that he would take him to meet her if he wished.

Xue Rong is relatively coarse about things other than medical skills. Thinking that he is not too small, some people say that the matchmaker, just meet when you meet. But he never expected that the girl saw it, and he felt very good. When I came back and said this to Xue Yin, I didn't think that Xue Yin would get angry immediately.

Thinking of the female doll he raised single-handedly, he knew his temper, but he didn't know that she would be so angry. Xue Rong thought that Xue Yin was afraid, and he would not want her after marrying a wife, so he comforted: "Xiao Yin, don't worry." One day as a teacher and a father for life, before you find a good man, the master will never leave you. ”

When Xue Yin heard this, he couldn't hold back anymore, and cried: "Master, if you really want to marry a wife, can you marry me?" I've always liked you, and I was afraid that you would dislike me, so I didn't dare to tell you." ”

Xue Rong was stunned at that time, and he didn't relax for a long time. Later, he thought that Xue Yin had misunderstood the love between men and women and the relationship between father and daughter, so he explained to her rationally.

But Xue Yin shook his head and said very firmly: "I have never regarded you as my father. I know that you like to study medicine, and I study hard to please you, just to get your approval. I think that one day when I become famous, you will see me as an equal, and not as a father's love for his daughter. I know you raised me with your own hands, and it's hard for you to see me as a lover. So I didn't dare to say anything, I just thought I could be with you all the time. But...... But you're going to marry someone else?"

"Is she beautiful? Is she more beautiful than me? Can she be a doctor? Can she stay with you in the mountains for three days and three nights and eat wild vegetables without feeling bitter? Can she stay in the herb pile with you all day without sleep, flipping through the medical book to confirm the medicinal properties?"

"Xiao Yin...... Don't ...... that."

Xue Rong couldn't listen to it, to be exact, he didn't dare to listen to it. The child he raised single-handedly, and he naturally knew how much suffering he had endured along the way. But no matter what kind of predicament she encountered, she never cried. God knows that sometimes he feels very tired and doesn't want to go on. But she, who is an apprentice, has been encouraging herself, holding him with her little hand and accompanying him to move forward.

And now, he just said that he wanted to marry a wife, and she cried so desperately. Despair convinces him that she really loves herself. And he really can't treat her as a lover.