Dressed as the uncle of farming culture

"What nonsense?"

Xiao's mother's face became even more red when she was asked. After staring at the man for a while, she suddenly pushed him outside the courtyard door, and said before closing the courtyard door, "When you go to pick up the third child in the evening, you Ask him to go!"

After finishing speaking, the gate of the courtyard was mercilessly closed in front of Father Xiao.

Father Xiao was dumbfounded, and then hurriedly knocked on the door, "Old woman! I didn't have a big hoe!"

With a creak, the door opened at once, and the hoe was placed at the door. Before Father Xiao got it, the courtyard door closed again, and the force was stronger than last time, which showed how impatient the people who closed the door were.

"I dug these herbs a few days ago. I will teach you how to deal with the herbs I dug."

This is also Doctor Liu’s first time accepting apprentices. He didn’t know where to start at the beginning, but the medicinal herbs at home are really piled up. Let Xiao Le help to deal with them first. After drying, he will teach the other party to identify herbs.

Xiao Le studied very seriously, Doctor Liu showed him once, and Xiao Le could do it very well.

This made Dr. Liu very happy, and Mrs. Liu brought them some herbal tea from time to time.

"Thank you, Ma'am."

Xiao Le took the herbal tea bowl and raised his head in thanks.

Mrs. Liu let out an ouch, and smiled brighter than Xiao Le. She didn't look like she was a little bit displeased with Xiao Le before.

In just half a day, the herbs were processed, and the whole yard was covered in the sun one by one.

In order to teach Xiao Le to identify medicinal herbs, Dr. Liu sorted them out in the sun, "Look at this."

He pointed to the medicinal herb on the top of the wall, "This is Huoxiang, the most abundant herb in the village, and there are a few in front of your house, can you recognize it?"

Xiao Le nodded, "You can also cook fish."

"Bake fish?" Dr. Liu was taken aback, "I've never cooked this before, does it taste good?"

"I don't like it very much," Xiao Le frowned slightly thinking of the smell, "but my elder brother likes it."

"How many times have you done it?"

With confusion in his eyes, Xiao Le replied, "I can't remember, anyway, after my sister-in-law came in, I often do it at home."

The fish was brought back from the river by Brother Xiao. It was tender and plump, and it was considered the most common meat dish at home.

Dr. Liu made a note, when preparing to have fish at home, let the old woman try it with Huoxiang.

"This Huoxiang has a lot of uses," Dr. Liu said in detail about the functions of Huoxiang.

"Qingpi, slightly bitter, but soothes the liver and breaks the qi, eliminates stagnation..."

"This is cloves. I planted some myself. It has the effect of lowering qi and arresting er, dispelling cold and relieving pain..."

Doctor Liu finished talking about all the herbs that were drying in the yard in one breath, and told Xiao Le one by one about the herbs that had been stored and packaged before, and didn't stop until Mrs. Liu asked them to eat.

The master and the apprentice washed their hands in the bucket. Doctor Liu said to Xiao Le while washing, "I said so much just now, but I didn't want you to write it all down. I just gave you an overview. I'll talk about it one by one this afternoon. Tell you in detail, argue in detail."

Xiao Le listened quietly. When eating, he saw that he was not very good at using chopsticks. When Mrs. Liu was going to get him the wooden spoon used by her little grandson, Xiao Le hurriedly declined.

"I can," he didn't avoid the fact that he was too lazy to use chopsticks in the first half of his life.

Hearing this, Doctor Liu motioned Granny Liu to sit down, and Granny Liu gave up.

After eating, Dr. Liu asked Xiao Le to come to the yard with a small bench. They happened to be in the corner, "This Huoxiang..."

"Transforming the spleen and waking up dampness, eliminating filth and harmonizing, the most well-known of which is to relieve heat..."

Xiao Le took it naturally.

"Then this lilac?"

Dr. Liu suppressed his excitement and pointed to a certain place casually.

"Depressing Qi to stop uh, it is used to dispel cold and relieve pain..."

Xiao Le didn't even hesitate, and said directly.

Dr. Liu held his heart, and pointed out all the herbs drying in the yard with shaking hands, "Tell me everything you can remember, don't be nervous, and speak slowly."

"Okay," Xiao Le nodded, pointed at one point, and said one, "Great thistle, cools blood to stop bleeding, eliminates stasis and detoxifies... Cuscuta has the effects of nourishing the liver, improving eyesight, nourishing the kidney and strengthening essence, master, that's all in the yard. "

Xiao Le picked up his little stool and said to Dr. Liu who was in a daze.

"Okay...Okay! Hahahahaha I never thought that I, Liu Daneng, would have such a disciple! Smoke is rising from the ancestral grave! I have to go burn incense! Kid, you have to come and burn too!"

Dr. Liu got up in a hurry, and when he came to Xiao Le's side, he even fell down, which surprised Mrs. Liu and Xiao Le.

But as soon as Xiao Le helped him up, the other party dragged him into the room and kowtowed to the spiritual tablet.

Mrs. Liu also saw Xiao Le's ability, and liked him even more.

As for the two sons-in-law, it's not that the old man has never thought about taking one of them as his disciple, but the two of them would yawn when they heard the old man talk about medicinal herbs, and they were not suitable for this bowl of rice at all.

Never expected that Xiao Le, the laziest person in the village, would be so smart!

But in the evening, when Xiao's father came to pick up Xiao Le, Dr. Liu said, "He, Uncle Xiao, take Xiao Le back, so you don't have to bring him here tomorrow."

These words startled Father Xiao and Xiao Le.

Xiao Le grabbed Doctor Liu's sleeve, his eyes were reddish and said, "Master, but what did I do wrong?"

"That's right, Doctor Liu," Xiao's father was also anxious, "What mistake did he make, you just beat and scold him, don't tell me to take it back!"

Mrs. Liu was also very puzzled.

Dr. Liu's eyes were even redder than Xiao Le's. He choked up and said, "You misunderstood, I mean this kid is really very smart, but leaving him to me will bury his intelligence, why don't you send him to a private school, It can also earn a part-time job for your Xiao family."

"what?"

Father Xiao was stunned.

Xiao Le knelt down and said, "Master, I just want to be a doctor, not an official!"

"You don't know the importance of this," Dr. Liu endured the pain in his heart, called Xiao's father aside, explained Xiao Le's performance this afternoon in detail, and explained to him how rare Xiao Le's memory is. If you ask too much, the scholar is just randomly selected.

Father Xiao returned home with a downcast Xiao Le in a trance.

"what happened?"

Brother Xiao, who was watching at the gate of the courtyard, immediately came up to him and asked.

Xiao Le let out a wow, and cried while holding the cloth bag, "Master doesn't want me anymore!"

"What?!"

Xiao's mother, who had just brought the food to the main room, ran out immediately, "What do you mean? Why don't you want me?"

"Let's talk when we go in," Xiao's father patted Xiao Le on the shoulder, looked at his family and said, "It's not that Doctor Liu doesn't want him, but he thinks Xiao Le is too smart to be a doctor, and he's a bit buried, and wants us to send him off." Go study."

Xiao Le returned to the room with the cloth bag in his arms, without saying a word.

In the main room, Father Xiao told his family exactly what Dr. Liu said.

Mother Xiao and the others gasped.

"It sounds like Doctor Liu's suggestion is justifiable," Brother Xiao nodded.

"Is this what the master said about wealth and honor?"

When Xiao's mother thought of Xiao Le becoming a high-ranking official in the future, wouldn't that be a fortune?

Huang Si Niang thought of Xiao Le's temperament and the way he was crying just now, and said softly, "But, my uncle has a pure and kind nature, is the officialdom really suitable for him?"

I'm afraid that I will be eaten until there are no bones left.

These words made Xiao's mother and Xiao's father's expressions froze immediately.

That's right, with the temper of the youngest son, can he be in the officialdom?

The reason why he has a little understanding of official affairs is because the son of the village chief opened a shop in the county and often came into contact with rich men and women, and gradually heard a lot of things about officialdom and shopping malls.

"I don't want to be an official, I want to be a doctor."

At this moment, Xiao Le who was standing at the door of the main room suddenly said loudly.

He was still holding the cloth bag.

Everyone looked back.

Xiao Le's eyelids were swollen, "I'm only interested in herbs."

Brother Xiao got up and pulled him to sit down in front of his family, "You can think clearly, based on your memory, it is not difficult to get the honor of a scholar."

"Yes, do you know what a scholar is? As long as you become a scholar, your family can be exempted from grain tax, and you can still get five taels of silver from the court every year!"

Mother Xiao said.

"And no matter where you go, those white people will respectfully call you Master Xiucai," Father Xiao also said.

"But I want to be a doctor," Xiao Le said, "I know what's good about my memory. I'm not good at reading, but I'm good at memorizing herbs. Parents, elder brother, sister-in-law, I've lived for 19 years. I have never had such a strong idea, I want to be a doctor, I must be a doctor."

the next day.

Dr. Liu, who had been sneaking under the covers all night, stood at the gate of the courtyard when he got up, wondering what he was looking forward to.

After feeding the chicken, Mrs. Liu saw that he was still outside the gate, and walked out amusedly, "Didn't you push him away? Look, who is suffering?"

"I just don't want him to regret it in the future." Doctor Liu sighed.

"Yeah, if such a smart child really becomes a town doctor, he will be buried."

Mrs. Liu also sighed, but eating is the most important thing right now, "How about eating egg pancakes in the morning?"

"It's all right," Dr. Liu kept looking at the side of the path. After Mrs. Liu entered the kitchen, he suddenly gritted his teeth, turned around and entered the courtyard door, and closed the courtyard door without saying a word.

Then I went to the kitchen to help the old wife make breakfast.

After breakfast, Dr. Liu glanced at the courtyard door, with more and more disappointment in his eyes, and then smiled, "I really don't want to part with it, but I can't delay him."

Mrs. Liu glanced at him with a smile, packed up their dishes and went into the kitchen.

Seeing that the sun was coming out, Mrs. Liu was going to hunt pigweed. As soon as she opened the courtyard door, she saw Xiao Le standing at the door wearing the new clothes she gave him yesterday, holding a cloth bag.

Seeing how his legs were trembling, he didn't know how long he stood there.

"Old man! Come out!"

Granny Liu shouted loudly.

Doctor Liu thought something was wrong, so he ran out quickly, only to see Xiao Le standing stupidly at the gate of the courtyard.

He glanced at the other person's shoes, the mud was dry, but he wanted to come here early in the morning, but he didn't dare to knock on the courtyard door.

"Have you decided?"

he asked.

"Well! I want to be a doctor!"

Xiao Le nodded vigorously.

In the end Xiao Le stayed.

Dr. Liu has been drying herbs for the past few days and has no intention of digging herbs, but now that he has a young apprentice, Dr. Liu is lazily leaning on the bamboo chair, watching the little apprentice carefully and seriously drying the herbs, and then holding the wooden Stick came to him and sat down.

After a few days, in the morning, he dried the herbs, repeated the efficacy of those herbs, and asked Xiao Le to close his eyes. Doctor Liu held the herbs in front of him, let him smell them, and then told the name and efficacy of the herbs.

Xiao Le didn't miss it.

In the afternoon, Xiao Le was taught to read and write.

This Dr. Liu is an outsider. He came to the village as a traveling doctor when he was young. Later, he married Mrs. Liu and lived in the village.

I heard that Dr. Liu's family is in the county town, and his family also runs a medicine shop, but there are too many brothers in the family, and it is not his turn to inherit the shop, and his qualifications are not very good, but he wants to be a good doctor, so he did it. Travel doctor.

There are three literate people in the village, the village head, Dr. Liu, and an old scholar.

Dr. Liu has the best relationship with the old scholar. He only knows simple characters, so it is no problem to prescribe medicine, but for more and more complicated characters, he has to go to the old scholar for advice, and then come back to teach Xiao Le.

In just one month, Xiao Le has become Doctor Liu's little helper.

"Doctor Liu, I've had a headache for several days, and I can't take it anymore. Please help me, Doctor Liu, what's wrong?"

One day, an uncle from the village came to see Dr. Liu for a headache.

Xiao Le quickly brought him a stool, asked the uncle to sit down, and continued to turn over the herbs. The uncle endured a headache and looked at Xiao Le a few times.

"Xiao Sanlang has really changed a lot now."

For more than a month, Xiao Le was the one who talked the most in the village, and some young people made private bets on when Xiao Le would go home and continue to lie down.

But he never expected that in the past month, Xiao Le not only persevered, but also often went up the mountain to dig herbs with Dr. Liu. When he went up the mountain for the first time, he was in a mess and said he fell.

The second time, a discerning person found that Xiao Le had already used a lot of herbs, and he had the most herbs in his back basket.

Gradually, Xiao Le became the matter of Dr. Liu's disciple, and it also became the matter recognized by the villagers.

"Don't praise him, this kid will go to the sky as soon as he praises him," Doctor Liu said, but the expression on his face was that he wished the uncle could praise his beloved disciple more.

"Please hold out your hand."

Doctor Liu said.

The uncle quickly stretched out his hand and continued to talk about his illness, "It hurts more at night than during the day, especially the back of the head. It hurts so much that I can't sleep."

"My wife annoys me a lot, so I'm here to trouble Dr. Liu."

He also tossed and turned and disturbed his wife to sleep well, and after learning that he had a severe headache, he urged him to come to Dr. Liu to see what was going on.

"tongue."

After Dr. Liu withdrew his hand, he said again.

The uncle stuck out his tongue and head.

Dr. Liu nodded, "You have a headache caused by the evil of rheumatism, and you should dispel wind and dampness, so you can't drink any more."

This uncle loves to drink, and he can't afford any good wine, but even if it's mixed with water, in his current situation, he can't drink too much.

"Xiao Le! Grab the medicine for Uncle Li!"

Doctor Liu said loudly.

"Eh!"

Xiao Le, who was drying the medicinal herbs, immediately responded loudly.

"What?! He gave me medicine?!"

This uncle almost had the words "My life is over" written on his face.