Farmer’s Blessed Girl

When Mr. Qian knew about this, he went directly to Zhou Man, "Did Mr. Zhou specially accept Hu Xiaomei to attract people to be an apprentice?"

Zhou Man smiled and said, "This is just one of the reasons. The most important reason is that Hu Dalang begged me, and Hu Xiaomei also wanted to be an apprentice, so I accepted it."

Mr. Qian couldn't help but ask, "How is her talent?"

"At least it's okay to study medicine."

Mr. Qian understood, and went out overnight. The next day, many people in Beihai County heard about it, especially the shopkeepers and doctors of the two pharmacies, who met and chatted together in their spare time, "I heard that the medical office Yesterday I accepted an apprentice, only nine years old, this is my plan to teach from a young age."

"It's just an apprentice, I'm not sure if I can learn it."

"The last time, there will be no problem with taking medicine in the future. I heard that she is an ordinary little girl with a poor family background. It is better to learn skills than to waste time at home and get married when she is old."

"With Lord Zhou's mind, even though he is only an apprentice, he will definitely teach him well."

"Yeah, the last time I asked her about chest paralysis, she even went to look for medical books and replied to me. She has such intentions for us outsiders, not to mention the apprentices."

"It's a pity that we were born at the wrong time. If we were born 20 years later, I would also go to the medical office to be an apprentice."

"...The shopkeeper, you are from the Xinglin family. Even if you are an apprentice, should we go like this?"

"What's the matter? Ji Shitang even gave their young shopkeeper to Lord Zhou as an apprentice. At that time, she was not famous in the world." He felt that even if he couldn't be an apprentice, it would be more than enough to be an apprentice.

It's a pity that I was born too early.

This incident did not cause much disturbance in Beihai County at first, but it didn't take long before someone took the child to the medical office, and wanted to ask Zhou Man to accept the child.

Mr. Qian directly refused instead of Zhou Man.

The medical department wants apprentices, but they are mature, have medical skills, at least have a certain understanding of pharmacology, and can help apprentices. Hu Xiaomei is the first, so it is special, and they will not arbitrarily accept them.

Everyone is busy now, who is free to take the kids?

It was Hu Xiaomei, she was sensible and obedient enough that Zhou Man accepted her. She had been cutting and grinding herbs for several months before, and she was already familiar with it.

Even now, she still has to do these jobs, but she used to have wages, but now she doesn't. Now, every time she cuts the herbs, Zhou Man will tell her what the herbs are called and what medicinal properties they have, and then let her keep cutting them and memorizing them all the time. ...

When she needs to grind other herbs next time, Zhou Man will tell her what the herb is called and what the medicinal properties are, and continue to let her grind the medicine and memorize it all the time.

Sometimes she can memorize three or four herbs a day, sometimes she can only recite one, and sometimes she needs to recognize more than a dozen herbs in a row. Continue to recognize and continue to back.

It was the day's work, and she would have to read a little later.

Recognizing the name of the medicine directly, most of the time, Zhou Man taught her certain characters every day, and occasionally Mr. Qian would teach her when he saw it.

But this kind of learning that is not systematic is very difficult, especially this word is not from easy to difficult, it is the medicine that you learn.

After less than ten days of teaching, Zhou Man felt that this would not work, because after ten days, Hu Xiaomei had memorized two words, and all the other words were mixed up.

Fortunately, most of the herbs she memorized were memorized, otherwise Zhou Man would doubt his judgment of her.

So Zhou Man pulled out a "Thousand-Character Text" from his study and gave it to her, and said, "It's too difficult to recognize the characters from the names of medicinal materials. You should read it from the Thousand-Character Text."

Zhou Man taught her two thousand-character words every day, and then read it by himself.

This effect is much better, at least when Zhou Man wrote and let her recognize it, she finally recognized it.

Mr. Qian looked at it and couldn't help but wonder, "Master Zhou, all of your doctors learned to read from the name of the medicine?"

"I'm not," Zhou Man said after thinking for a while, "but other people learned this way, not only the apprentices of the pharmacy, but also the disciples of the Xinglin family started from medical books."

First, memorize the prescription of the famous medicine and Litang, and then compare it word by word. Even Zheng Ku knew this way when he was a child.

Fortunately for him, he starts to read the name of the medicine. Generally, apprentices recognize the medicinal materials first, and when he recognizes the medicinal materials almost, he starts to recognize the characters by comparison, and then he has to learn to take the medicine with the prescription...

Therefore, the process of apprenticeship studying medicine is particularly long, and it takes a lot of patience to endure loneliness and hardships.

This boring apprenticeship life without even seeing the way forward is very torturous, and there are so many repetitive tasks to do on a daily basis.

When Zhou Man was sitting in Ji Shitang, she looked at the things that the apprentices of the medicine boy had to do every day, and put it on herself. She felt that she might not be as good as them. She felt that her patience was never good enough.

Mr. Qian smiled and said, "That's why adults are different from them."

Mr. Qian felt that since there is a better and more systematic study method, why must he follow the habits of pharmacies and clinics?

But looking at Hu Xiaomei, I also know how difficult it is to study medicine. If she wants to help Zhou Man, it will take many years.

So they still need mature "apprentices", Mr. Qian continued to work hard.

Finally, not long after the winter solstice, someone finally came to the door. It was a middle-aged doctor with a teenager. After entering the medical office, he found Zhou Man directly, "Master Zhou, we meet again."

Zhou Mancai finished treating a patient, turned his head and saw him stunned for a moment, then laughed, "Doctor Wei, please take a seat in the hall."

Dr. Wei is a doctor in Qingzhou. He owns a pharmacy in his own home. Naturally, it cannot be compared with a big pharmacy like Jishitang Baicaotang, but he is also famous in Qingzhou. Last time, he and several doctors from Qingzhou came to ask Zhou Man for advice. question.

Zhou Man still had patients, so he could only sit for a while. She read the rest of the patients before going to the reception.

Because the last two patients were men, Dr. Wei stood beside him and watched. Seeing the prescription prescribed by Zhou Man, he compared the prescription he prescribed in his heart. what.

Zhou Man not only prescribed a prescription, but also prescribed an injection, but she looked at the time and said to the two patients, "You have to eat first when the needle is inserted. It's almost noon now, you go and have something to eat first, Come back sometime, and I'll poke the needles for you."

The two responded immediately.

As soon as the patient left, Dr. Wei immediately called the boy next to him and smiled with Zhou Man: "Master Zhou, this is a dog."

He communicated with Zhou Man and knew that she didn't want to be polite, so he directly said, "I heard that Lord Zhou is accepting apprentices, what do you think of my son? He has studied with me for a few years, and he has It is not a problem to catch the medicine, if the adults need it, you can call him, if you are stupid, you can beat and scold at will."

The boy stood silently aside, seeing Zhou Man looking over and nodding his approval.

Zhou Man turned to look at Dr. Wei. In fact, she didn't like his son, she liked him, but how could he say it?

So sad.

See you tomorrow