Farmhouse Green Plum

Chapter 233 Gold

At this time, Doctor Lin came out from the inner room and said, "You are back. Let's eat first. Miss Fifth should stay with us."

"No, Siqin should have taken the food back." As she said this, she closed the book and stood up.

In the corner, a maid came over, took the book from Shen Wanting, put it back on the bookshelf next to her, and then took the cloak from the shelf next to her and helped Shen Wanting put it on.

It was not until the maid came over that Song Ying noticed that there was another person in the room.

When the maid was helping her put on the cloak, Shen Wanting turned her head and said with a smile: "Doctor Lin, I will come to learn again tomorrow. You won't find me annoying, right?"

"How could that be?" Doctor Lin shook his head gently and warned, "It's dark outside, walk slowly on the way back."

After the master and servant left, Song Ying said worriedly, "Master, Miss Fifth wants to..."

Before she finished her words, Doctor Lin stopped her and said, "She is here to learn medicine, so I will teach her. We don't know anything else. Do you understand?"

"But she wanted to kill someone. That's a life!"

Doctor Lin was somewhat helpless. "As doctors, we need to know what to listen to and what not to listen to, what to see and what not to see. Especially since you are destined to go in and out of the inner courtyard of the mansion in the future, you should pay more attention to these."

Song Ying still found it hard to accept it. Those were human lives. How could he pretend to be deaf and dumb?

"I know you can't understand this now, but it doesn't matter. Just remember this and do it. When you grow up and experience more, you will understand."

Song Ying stared into his master's eyes. In those slightly cloudy eyes, there was deep concern, lingering worry, endless helplessness, as well as endless vicissitudes and sadness.

Facing such a pair of eyes, she couldn't say no, so she could only nod: "I remember."

"Not only must you remember it, you must also do it." Doctor Lin was worried and reminded him again.

Song Ying raised three fingers: "I promise!"

Doctor Lin was amused by her and jokingly broke off her raised finger, "You naughty girl, just agree to it, there's no need to swear."

Song Ying suppressed his worries, took out the book "Su Nu Qi Fang", and asked, "Master, do you know who the author of this book is?"

"Su Nu Qi Fang? Where did you get it?" Doctor Lin took it, took a look and said, "This is only the first volume. There are four more volumes."

Song Ying's eyes lit up, "Master, do you know this set of books? Is it a work by a famous author?"

After asking, I felt that it was a bit confusing, so I quickly told him what Doctor Ma said today.

"It's not really a masterpiece," Doctor Lin said as he flipped through the contents. "It was written by a princess from the previous dynasty. It's said that Princess Zhaohua of the previous dynasty loved medicine since she was a child. She read a lot of royal books and compiled and recorded all kinds of interesting prescriptions."

"Fun?" Song Ying was puzzled. Isn't medical skills about curing diseases? How can it be related to fun?

"She studied medicine in order to become more beautiful. The book she compiled, 'Su Nu Qi Fang', not only contains various body shaping and beauty prescriptions, but also methods of making ointments and perfumes.

Therefore, her set of "Su Nu Qi Fang" was sought after by the upper class ladies. Later, when the previous dynasty fell and Princess Zhaohua's whereabouts were unknown, her books became even more sought after and were hard to come by. Occasionally, one or two copies would appear, and they would be extremely expensive. Unfortunately, no complete set has ever been seen."

Song Ying's eyes brightened: "Chengyang Bookstore has a complete set!"

Doctor Lin paused, very skeptical: "Really?"

Song Ying nodded vigorously: "The shopkeeper was worried that I would damage the book, so he only allowed me to take this one volume back to copy, but I saw that there were four more volumes inside!

This is a specially made engraving by their boss, so they definitely wouldn't print the same book twice!"

"Copying books?" Doctor Lin was stunned for a moment, then laughed and said, "It seems that the shopkeeper doesn't know the value of this set of books."

Song Ying also thought of this and said excitedly, "I have to finish copying this volume quickly and go find the shopkeeper to get the next one!"

This is a priceless book! If she misses this opportunity, she can't afford it!

Seeing her eagerness to try, Doctor Lin shook his head in amusement and reminded her, "You can copy books, but don't fall behind in your studies. I'll punish you after dinner."

"Okay!" Song Ying was not afraid at all. She had been reading and memorizing books last night and this afternoon.

At this time, Doctor Lin had roughly finished reading the book, and said thoughtfully: "It seems that this is her early work, and the use of medicine and herbal medicine is very crude."

"You mean, the last four volumes are the essence?" Song Ying asked excitedly.

"It should be." Doctor Lin turned around and put the book on the bookshelf, saying, "Let's eat first."

Song Ying responded, quickly took out the food from the food box and placed it on the table one by one.

"Have you found a craftsman to make your silver needles?" Doctor Lin asked casually as he sat down at the table.

"I found him. He is the blacksmith that my uncle often uses. He has great skills and is a nice guy. It's just that his house is quite remote, in the north of the city, close to the city wall."

"Blacksmith?" Doctor Lin frowned. "Can a blacksmith make silver needles?"

Song Ying didn't understand. What's wrong with asking a blacksmith to make metal tools?

Facing her master's incredulous look, she asked uncertainly, "Don't you ask a blacksmith to make the silver needle?"

"What's wrong with this brat Wenxuan? He is so smart that he can't even think of making a silver needle, even if it's a delicate job like that!" Doctor Lin was speechless. Seeing that his little apprentice was still confused, he patiently explained, "The tools that folk blacksmiths make are mostly hoes, sickles, kitchen knives, etc. The forging tools are all very large, so how can they do delicate work like making a silver needle?"

She shook her head and said, "Take the blueprint tomorrow and Master will take you to Jin Man Lou to ask the silversmith."

“But Uncle Xu really knows how to make silver needles. My brother said that Uncle Xu and several other doctors all had their silver needles made by him.

A few years ago, his family not only monopolized the silver needles of all doctors in Qingshui County, but even doctors in Shunqing Prefecture came to him to make silver needles. "

"A blacksmith can make silver needles?" Doctor Lin was surprised. "How is that possible?"

"It's true. Uncle Xu said that his family's craft was taught to his father by a doctor many years ago. The doctor lived in his home and taught him detail by detail. Later, he also left a set of silver needle drawings for them.

With this skill, their family had accumulated a lot of wealth, but his son was born weak and the medicine he took drained out the family's wealth."

At this point, Song Ying remembered Xu Lei's request and said hurriedly, "By the way, Master, he wants you to check on his son's illness."

"A doctor taught me," Doctor Lin repeated softly.

Song Ying nodded and wanted to ask her again if she could treat Xu Lei's son, but she seemed to have thought of something and looked up suddenly: "What kind of doctor? How old is he? When did you teach them?"