Chapter 9: Studying Medicine

“There shouldn’t be a shortage of rabbits here,” Leng You looked around, her meaning clear.

Xiang Wentian: “…”

He twitched the corner of his mouth involuntarily.

Sure enough, she’s still a child, her mind already on food.

“There’s another one there.” Leng You saw a gray shadow disturb the dense withered grass, pointing and exclaiming softly.

Xiang Wentian also keenly caught the anomaly in the grass at the same time. He threw a stone, and the large fat rabbit that leaped out let out a “squeak,” before collapsing before the sound was fully emitted.

“Brother, teach me.” This time, Leng You didn’t immediately run to pick up the rabbit, but looked at Xiang Wentian with a serious expression.

The strength might be due to the magical purple mist, but such accuracy must be the result of special training.

“Okay!” Xiang Wentian didn’t hesitate, nodding solemnly.

This child must have the ability to protect herself; otherwise, he wouldn’t feel at ease when she returned to Pingdu.

They placed the two fat rabbits by the water’s edge and continued their exploration northward.

This time, they didn’t follow the creek but walked into the forest along the east bank.

This route led Leng You to a new discovery: the forest was full of precious medicinal herbs, such as American ginseng, astragalus, angelica, dendrobium, fo-ti, and gastrodia.

There were also many edible fungi, such as wood ear, matsutake, tiger palm mushroom, chicken mushroom, porcini, morel, green head mushroom, truffle, coral mushroom… and so on, too many to enumerate.

As magical as the Huanghuali and small-leaf red sandalwood trees, most of the medicinal herbs and fungi should grow in southern regions.

“You recognize these herbs?” Seeing Leng You’s eyes shining as she effortlessly named the herbs, Xiang Wentian was incredibly surprised.

“Grandpa Bai taught me.” Leng You wasn’t lying.

In her previous life, when she was five years old, her stepmother forced her to dig wild vegetables in the mountains. While in the fields, she saw Xiang Huaixin collapse, clutching his chest.

This man, who had pulled her into his house to warm herself by the fire on a snowy day and secretly given her food many times, was one of the few sources of light in her miserable life.

Although she was timid and weak due to her stepmother’s abuse, she ran towards him without hesitation at that moment.

After calling Xiang Huaixin for a long time without a response, she tried to save him, mimicking what she had seen Bai Changpu do. She pressed on Xiang Huaixin’s chest.

When she realized that her weak pressure was ineffective, she punched him repeatedly, only to find that her strength was still insufficient.

Frowning, she thought for a moment, and her next action shocked the onlookers. She stood on Xiang Huaixin’s chest and jumped forcefully.

Ma Dahua, her stepmother, who was also watching the commotion, was stunned by Leng You’s shocking move. After a moment, she rushed forward, scolding and trying to drag Leng You away to inflict violence.

Miraculously, Xiang Huaixin woke up at that moment.

Bai Changpu, arriving breathlessly, took Xiang Huaixin’s pulse and listened to the crowd’s accounts (naturally, no one spoke well of Leng You; everyone considered her actions extremely vicious). He then took Leng You’s hand, expressing his gratitude and sincerity towards her.

He then coldly explained to the crowd that Leng You had performed CPR on Xiang Huaixin, saving his life. Without her intervention, Xiang Huaixin might have died.

Because of this incident, Xiang Huaixin treated Leng You like his own granddaughter.

Knowing that Ma Dahua would never let her go to school, he spent time teaching Leng You to read and count, and before his exoneration and return to Pingdu, he paid for her enrollment in school.

Even after returning to Pingdu, he sent her tuition and living expenses every year, along with clothes and other necessities.

For the first few years, the Xiang family would send someone or entrust someone to visit Leng You and check on the use of the money.

After several visits, perhaps seeing that Leng Shugen and Ma Dahua, while still mistreating Leng You, at least didn’t prevent her from going to school, they stopped sending anyone.

However, when Leng You’s terrible father and stepmother saw that no one from the Xiang family had come for several years, they grew bolder. Before the start of the second semester of her first year of high school, they secretly went to school and withdrew Leng You, blatantly seizing all the money sent by the Xiang family.

If not for this, with Leng You’s top academic performance, she would have been able to attend a good university, leading a completely different life and avoiding such a tragic fate.

Bai Changpu, because of little Leng You’s “shocking” act of saving Xiang Huaixin, discovered her latent talent and began teaching her medicine and pharmacology.

Even after he was exonerated and returned to the city, he taught Leng You medical skills for four years and left her many medical books before leaving.

Leng You indeed possessed extraordinary talent in this field. Coupled with her own efforts, she eventually not only identified all herbs but also reached a certain level in medicine.

If she hadn’t been forced to drop out of school early, if she hadn’t been deceived by Wang Zicheng, she could have avoided the bloody fate of her past life.

…

“Study hard; he doesn’t easily take on apprentices.” The Xiang and Bai families had a long-standing friendship, so Xiang Wentian knew Bai Changpu’s medical skills and temperament well.

Not only Xiang Wentian, but almost everyone in Pingdu City knew that Bai Changpu, known as the national medical sage, had a volatile and eccentric temperament. It was extremely difficult to even ask him to see a patient, let alone become his disciple, and this had absolutely nothing to do with money.

“Mm!” Leng You nodded seriously.

However, she felt regret and disappointment. According to the timeline of her past life, Xiang Huaixin would be exonerated and return to the city in six months, and Bai Changpu would return to Pingdu five months later.

In other words, she had less than a year to study medicine with Bai Changpu.

Clenching her fist, she decided to learn as much medical skill as possible in the remaining year.

They didn’t rush to collect herbs and fungi; this area would be theirs for a long, long time.

They continued their exploration northward.

Suddenly, Leng You stopped.

A burning sensation surged through the grape blossoms on her right wrist. The strange feeling from yesterday returned, like an invisible thread pulling her head towards a certain direction.