Chapter 199: Want To Learn Traditional Chinese Medicine?
Yun Jiao is indeed a genius.
Her powerful soul allows her to have an eidetic memory.
However, when it comes to mathematics that requires calculation, it’s better not to mention it; even with an eidetic memory, she cannot learn things that require rapid brain activity.
She has an eidetic memory but doesn’t want to use her brain.
Yun Jiao can quickly remember things that rely solely on memory.
Old Master Xu touched Yun Jiao’s little head as if he had discovered a treasure.
“Not bad, not bad, little one, do you want to come and learn Traditional Chinese Medicine with me?”
Yun Jiao tilted her head.
Old Master Xu and his apprentices were all charmed.
Cute, not only is this young girl good-looking and well-behaved, but more importantly, she is intelligent!
Who wouldn’t want a child like this.
Learn Traditional Chinese Medicine?
Her tiny little head seriously considered this question.
Yun Jiao was indeed curious about Traditional Chinese Medicine, but only curious; she had never thought about learning it.
But…
Yun Jiao thought of the two elders at home, and she also knew that when Grandma was sick before, it had used up all the family’s money and even incurred a lot of debt, leading to further poverty.
And the gout, and rheumatism problems.
If she learned Traditional Chinese Medicine, could she treat her family members herself in the future, and relieve their pain?
Grandpa Yun’s mouth opened; he wanted his good granddaughter to accept this rare opportunity.
But… he wanted his good granddaughter to make the decision herself.
Although his granddaughter was young, she had her own opinions.
After thinking for a while, Yun Jiao looked at Old Master Xu and nodded seriously.
“I want to learn.”
Immediately, Old Master Xu smiled, looking very happy.
“Come find me here the day after tomorrow, and then you will officially apprentice under me and study with this old man.”
Yun Jiao obediently nodded: “Okay.”
Grandpa Yun smiled beside her, his wrinkles becoming much more apparent.
He became even more enthusiastic towards Old Master Xu.
Old Master Xu felt the same way.
After putting away the needles, Grandpa Yun held Old Master Xu’s hand and shook it up and down, as if they were brothers who hadn’t seen each other for many years.
“Comrade Xu, thank you so much. You’ll have to trouble you with our Jiao Jiao from now on…”
Old Master Xu said, “I also like this child Yun Jiao very much. Her personality is quiet and intelligent. I’m more than happy to have such a good apprentice, so there’s no trouble at all…”
After exchanging pleasantries, considering that Old Master Xu’s medical hall still had many things to do and many patients were waiting outside, Grandpa Yun did not disturb him further.
“Then we’ll be leaving now. We’ll bring Jiao Jiao again the day after tomorrow.”
After leaving the medical hall, Yun Linhai and the others were still somewhat dazed and hadn’t fully recovered.
Who would have thought that after coming to see a doctor, their treasure Jiao Jiao would find herself a master, and an old Traditional Chinese Medicine doctor at that!
Yun Linhai was overjoyed and grinned. He picked up Yun Jiao and kissed her chubby cheek.
“Our Jiao Jiao is truly promising! It’s like our ancestors’ graves are emitting smoke; Jiao Jiao has actually become the apprentice of such an amazing old Traditional Chinese Medicine doctor!”
Before Yun Jiao could even speak, Shen Yunlian scooped her up and also kissed her fiercely on the cheek.
“Jiao Jiao is truly amazing. From now on, you’ll seriously study with your master. Our Jiao Jiao is truly promising.”
Then she was taken by Wang Mei…
After being passed around by the whole family, Yun Jiao was kissed several times, and compliments rained down on her.
She was quite happy at first, but after going through this whole process, little Yun Jiao’s expression was a bit numb.
(?_?)
She rubbed her face vigorously.
Even if they were family, they shouldn’t leave saliva on her face.
Yun Jiao looked at them with a resentful gaze.
“Ahem… it’ll be fine after you wash your face when we get back.”
It was just that they were too excited and couldn’t resist.
Hehehehe…
“Let’s go, since we’re here, and it’s almost New Year, let’s buy more things to take back.”
Food, necessities, and clothes—they would have a good New Year this year!
“Come, Jiao Jiao, look at this red jacket. It will definitely look good on you.”
For the New Year, new clothes should naturally be festive.
Red cotton-padded jackets, socks, and hair ties were all prepared for Jiao Jiao.
Such a good-looking little doll, it would be a shame not to have her dress up as a Lucky Charm.
Yun Xiaowu and the others naturally had new clothes too, but they weren’t red.
Because their skin was so dark, wearing a red outfit looked unfriendly to the eyes.
However, red socks were still necessary, just for the festive spirit.
“No need for popcorn and fried rice. Closer to New Year, people will come to the village to make popcorn; we’ll just buy some saccharin.”
“Prepare more biscuits and candy.”
“And sunflower seeds and peanuts.”
“We’re running low on oil at home, so let’s get some soybean oil.”
Granny Yun pointed at the red paper: “Buy some of this too, we’ll cut window decorations ourselves when we get back.”
Grandpa Yun rubbed his hands: “Hehe, let’s get some wine, some sorghum wine.”
They couldn’t afford the expensive wine or were reluctant to drink it, but they could have a small drink of this loose-sold sorghum wine.
Everyone chattered, and they bought everything they needed.
It was the first time they had bought so many things, and it cost quite a bit of money.
But they were also happy.
As they were leaving, Yun Linhai, Yun Linhe, and the other men reluctantly withdrew their gazes from the bicycles.
Shen Yunlian, Wang Mei, and the others shifted their gazes from the sewing machines.
Sigh… they couldn’t afford it.
It wasn’t just about the money; the main reason was that they didn’t have the coupons!
Coupons for sewing machines and bicycles cost over a hundred yuan each and were hard to come by.
They returned to the village with their bags and backpacks full, and were immediately met with enthusiastic onlookers.
“Didn’t you go to see the doctor? Why did you buy so many things back?”
Granny Yun: “We were thinking that since we earned some money this year and the new house is also built, and we didn’t have a good New Year when we were poor before, we have to make up for it this year. The whole family went to the county, so we just bought the New Year’s goods in advance.”
“You do need to prepare. Next time, we’ll also go to the county to buy New Year’s goods.”
Granny Yun winked at her son and daughter-in-law, then stayed behind to chat with the group.
Yun Linhai and the others understood immediately and quickly left with the New Year’s goods to go home.
If they stayed any longer, some impolite people would start lifting their backpacks.
Yun Jiao stayed to accompany Grandma, but in reality, she just purely wanted to eat melon seeds and gossip.
She skillfully squeezed into the crowd and sat next to Grandma, taking a handful of sunflower seeds from her small bag and giving them to Grandma.
She also took a handful for herself.
“I heard that those two families were causing trouble at your house today. It turns out Cai Jinhua was sentenced to three years, and Yun Dana was also sentenced to two years. The Zhou family’s situation is even more serious.”
“What? Sentenced to so many years just for marrying off a daughter?”
“Didn’t the leaders say that arranged marriages are not allowed? What they did was to use a living person for a ghost marriage. To put it nicely, the person marrying over is just changing places to live, but in reality?
Not to mention that the person marrying over would surely be treated like a beast of burden, and they probably wouldn’t know how they died. Anyway, as far as I know, of the girls who were used for ghost marriages before, none of them had a good life, and they all died early. This matter is unlucky.”
“Exactly. Yun Laidai was also harmed and died in this matter.”
