Farmhouse Green Plum

Chapter 232 Medical Books

"No, there will be many people who will come to you for treatment in the future!" Shen Jing shook his head with a firm expression, "There are too few female doctors in this world. Even in the palace, most of them are just old women doctors who know a little bit of medical skills."

There are some diseases that even the ladies in the palace have to endure, let alone other women in the world.

He thought for a moment and said, "How about this, if you need any medical books or tools to study medicine and you can't find them or afford them, you can come to me and I will buy them for you."

Song Ying: ???

Their relationship isn't that good, is it?

After all, she and Shen Jing had only met three times, one of which she was in a coma. Nothing special happened during these three times, so their relationship was not that good.

Moreover, Shen Jing had paid for her calligraphy and saved her because of Yuan Qing.

She looked at Yuan Qing, a little confused.

Yuan Qing smiled and said, "Brother Shen is a man of great temperament and is very warm to others."

Song Ying blinked, feeling that what he said was meaningful.

She smiled and nodded to Shen Jing: "If I need anything, I will find you."

In his heart, he secretly made up his mind that unless it was absolutely necessary, he would never bother Shen Jing if he could avoid it. He always felt that it was a pie in the sky and no good thing.

At this time, the waiter brought a very exquisite ebony box. The shopkeeper took it and opened it. There were several thin booklets inside. The four characters "Su Nu Qi Fang" were written in beautiful small characters on the cover, and there were gold-painted floral patterns on the corners. Song Ying didn't recognize what kind of paper was used, but its texture showed that it was of great value.

"Wow, Chengxintang paper, your boss is really willing to spend it!" Shen Jing exclaimed.

The shopkeeper was helpless: "Mr. Shen is a connoisseur of goods. Our price for this set of medical books is 5 taels, which is really very low."

If the owner did not want to collect such a set of "Su Nu Qi Fang", they would not spend a lot of money to make exquisite woodblocks.

In order to recover the cost, he originally wanted to print a few more sets with ordinary paper and ink and sell them to make up for the investment. However, the boss was stubborn and insisted that using ordinary paper and ink to print would defile the set of woodblocks and refused to allow it.

He had no choice but to print out a set using the same Chengxintang paper and Yuhubing Ink. He decided to sell one set and then print another.

Unexpectedly, not a single unit was sold.

Asking someone to copy it will not defile the boss's exquisite carved plates, and ordinary paper and ink can be used. As long as the selling price can cover the cost of materials and labor, there will be profit.

He took out the top volume and handed it to Song Ying: "Just copy this one first. Take a look at it. If you find it too difficult, you can give up copying the book."

Song Ying took the book solemnly and opened it. The first page recorded a prescription for treating cough, and the words used were not uncommon.

The difficulty was much lower than she had expected. She became more confident and said to the shopkeeper with a smile, "No problem for me. I can copy it."

The shopkeeper also smiled, and a small piece of cloth appeared in his hand: "Do you want to look through it again or just wrap it up for you."

Song Ying flipped through it casually and handed it to the shopkeeper, "Wrap it up."

After her medical book was agreed upon, the shopkeeper went to carefully check the books copied by Yuan Qing and Shen Jing. After finding no problems, he paid them and asked the waiter to bring the books that needed to be copied.

All the books picked by Shen Jing were primers that had already been learned. In addition to primers, Yuan Qing also picked some books other than the Four Books and Five Classics, such as Tao Te Ching and Zhuangzi.

For each book, the shopkeeper would ask them to flip through it first. Song Ying realized belatedly that when flipping through the books, they were not only checking whether the content was difficult and whether they could be copied, but also checking whether the books were incomplete.

After coming out of the bookstore, Song Ying said goodbye to them and returned to the clinic.

"It's already this late, you don't have to come to the clinic," Lin Wenxuan was very considerate, "You have to rush back to make medicinal food later, don't you feel tired?"

"Oh, I forgot to tell you that I don't have to go back to the Shen Mansion to watch them make medicinal food in the future."

"Huh? Why aren't you staring at me again?" Lin Wenxuan wondered.

Song Ying considered it for a moment and said vaguely, "Master told me to hurry up and memorize the book."

She didn't want to continue this topic, so she shook the cloth-wrapped book in her hand and said, "I just went to Chengyang Bookstore and took a job copying medical books from the shopkeeper."

"Does Chengyang Bookstore still need to copy medical books?" Lin Wenxuan became curious. "Let me see, what kind of book is it?"

Song Ying uncovered the cloth and handed it over. "It's called 'Su Nu Qi Fang', and it seems to contain all prescriptions."

"'Su Nu Qi Fang'? I haven't read this medical book." As he spoke, Lin Wenxuan opened the book and flipped through it. "This prescription for treating cough is a bit similar to the one in 'Treatise on Febrile and Miscellaneous Diseases', but also a bit different..."

He flipped through several prescriptions in a row and found that many of them were seen in other books, but some were different, "like a prescription improved by a certain doctor."

Being able to improve prescriptions sounded impressive, and Song Ying became interested: "I'll go ask my uncle, maybe he knows who wrote this book."

She entered the clinic with a medical book. There were no patients at the moment, and Doctor Ma was sitting in front of the stove reading a book.

"Uncle Master, take a look at this book. Do you know who wrote it?"

Doctor Ma frowned after only seeing the name: "You are a beginner now and cannot distinguish right from wrong. Don't read every book. Read the works of famous doctors. Wait until you have some experience before reading the notes of other doctors."

"Handwritten notes? Wasn't this book written by a famous doctor?" Song Ying was a little surprised. The owner of Chengyang Bookstore specially carved it carefully for collection, so how could it not be the work of a famous doctor?

Doctor Ma looked through it for a while, frowning even deeper. "They are all simple prescriptions. The combinations and medications are very simple. They look like the notes of a beginner."

He returned the book to Song Ying and said, "You'd better not read this book. If a beginner doesn't follow the book and changes the recipe right away, there might be mistakes."

Song Ying became even more confused after hearing this. Why would the owner of Chengyang Bookstore collect a beginner's notebook?

She decided to go back and ask her master.

When she returned home in the evening, she trotted back with her lunch box, pushed open the gate and shouted, "Master, I'm back!"

Walking through the yard and around the wind-blocking screen at the entrance of the main hall, she saw a young girl in gorgeous clothes sitting at a table, holding a book and looking at her.

"Fifth Miss!" Song Ying was extremely surprised, his eyes fell on the "Shennong's Herbal Classic" in her hand, and a thought suddenly popped up in his mind. Could it be that she was still unwilling to give up and was planning to find out from the medical books which medicinal herbs were incompatible and could poison people to death?

Thinking of this, Song Ying couldn't help swallowing his saliva. Who on earth did Shen Wanting want to poison?