After the Mid-Autumn Festival, Cao Xin was preparing to study medicine.

This decision was not made randomly.

Cao Xin had been thinking about it for a long time. He probably had this idea when several brothers and his father Cao Kun died of illness while fleeing from famine.

In today's world, there are many good doctors and even more quacks.

Whether it is for your own future health or for your family, training yourself to be a good doctor, a famous doctor or even a miracle doctor is certainly the best plan.

On the other hand, Cao Xin himself was very interested in medical skills.

A hundred years of life.

There must always be some pursuits, some dreams, some interests and hobbies that come from the heart.

If you only practice martial arts all your life, you are a martial artist and a martial arts idiot.

Not a normal person.

Cao Xin cannot devote all his attention to martial arts training in this life.

A useless person is a scholar!

So why not a martial artist?

In addition to practicing martial arts, you must also have a skill and other hobbies.

Medical skills.

Practice medicine.

This is an excellent choice.

He makes a lot of money and his status is not low.

Although in Daliang, powerful people can indeed boss doctors around, even well-known doctors can only get a few compliments at most, but they still dare not disobey, lest they cause disaster.

But Cao Xin is different.

"I practice martial arts myself and have the 'Bronze Immortal Sect'. My attainments will not be too low in the future."

"On this basis, if I study medicine and practice medicine, in the future I will compete with figures like the 'Famous Murderer' Ping Yi Zhi, 'Diegu Medical Immortal' Hu Qingniu, 'The Enemy of the King of Hell' Xue Muhua, and even the 'Peach Blossom Island Master' Huang Yaoshi."

If you have excellent medical skills, you will have a wide network of contacts and will have friends everywhere.

If your medical skills are mediocre, you will not show it to others and just study in silence to pass the time.

In short, as long as you have force at your side, you will not be afraid of disaster.

However.

It is not easy to study medicine.

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"I have inquired about it. Large medical clinics such as Hongji Tang, Renxin Tang, and Shanxin Medical Bureau have their own requirements for recruiting apprentices. They also need to have connections and referrals."

"This is especially true for smaller medical clinics. They are usually passed down from descendants and nephews. Even if they accept apprentices, they are always selected from the clan and neighbors, who are clean, smart and smart."

On August 18, Cao Xin brought back bad news.

Want to study medicine?

There is no way to learn!

There is absolutely no place to learn, and we will not accept you at all.

As for the practice of medicine, if there is no master to lead you in, teach you carefully, and teach by words and deeds, it would be unreasonable to just rely on self-study by reading medical books.

Cao Xin's ambition to study medicine was blocked at the first hurdle.

"Don't worry, there are no more than 200 medical bureaus, clinics, and pharmacies in Xijing City. I will go and ask around in the next few days, and there will always be one that can do it."

Cao Ren comforted his younger brother, but actually he didn't have much hope in his heart.

From ancient times to the present, it has not been easy to learn medical skills.

For example, in the smaller medical clinics and pharmacies in Xijing City, many doctors followed their parents or were sent to their masters at a very young age. First, they had to go to the mountains with their masters to collect medicines, go to collect medicines from pesticide dealers, and also prepare medicinal materials.

, and at the same time recite various books on Chinese medicine enlightenment.

For example, "Ode to the Properties of Medicines", "Four Hundred Flavors of Traditional Chinese Medicine", "Lake Pulse Jue", "Soup Song Jue", "Thunder God Pao Zhi Lun", etc., each master teaches one method. This period of time is actually a process of recognizing medicine, and it is also a long-term process.

It is a tedious process and takes about five to ten years.

As a young apprentice, I almost know the forms and types of fresh medicine, crude medicine, dried medicine, and processed medicine.

This is the first step completed.

At this time, you can go to the stage and take medicine in front of the hall. At the same time, the master will recite a book. This set of books is basically the "Huangdi Neijing". There will be no difference. After reciting "Su Wen", he will recite it to

"Lingshu" until the Yellow Emperor's Internal Classic has been recited.

In the next step, different schools of thought will give different books. For example, the Febrile Disease School will give "Treatise on Febrile and Miscellaneous Diseases", the Yishui School will give "The Origin of Medicine" and "Treatise on Spleen and Stomach", and the febrile disease school will give "Treatise on Plagues"

"Treatise on Warm Heat", "Treatise on Warm Diseases", "Warm Heat Jingwei" and the like.

In addition to reading and memorizing, you also need to be familiar with all kinds of people in front of the stage, the dosage and proportion of various traditional Chinese medicines, etc. If you are smart, this process will take about three to five years. It will not be considered until you have memorized all the books given by the master.

Passed another level.

In fact, a large number of people have been eliminated at this time——

Memorize medical books and understand medical books.

Behind the scenes and on stage, people are so sophisticated.

This is not simple. Even if you are smart since childhood, there are not a few people who are stopped.

For those who stopped here, some changed careers and became pharmacists, while a larger number had no choice but to find another way out.

Only those who pass the first two levels and can continue to the next step can follow the doctor's side. The daily routine consists of copying medical notes, writing prescriptions, cleaning, and serving tea and water.

Occasionally, the master will ask the apprentice to feel the pulse personally, and then ask how to do it, how to do it, how to do it, how to do it, and how to do it.

This process takes about three to five years.

Most people were sent away at this time, and it was no longer a problem to treat a minor illness or disaster.

Master teaches skills.

Apprenticeship begins.

One has the ability to support his family in Hukou, and the other has worked as an apprentice for more than ten or twenty years in vain.

It's like everyone gets what they need, and it's easy to get together and disperse easily.

There may also be people here who have truly learned part of Master's mantle and can start their own business.

But there are only a few who can stay.

Usually there are two disciples, the first disciple and the last disciple. They can inherit all the master's mantle, including the connections.

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Study medicine!

Practice martial arts!

The two are very similar in terms of perseverance.

If you want to achieve success in your studies, it usually takes more than ten or twenty years of hard work.

"Twenty years."

"If I start learning now, I will be 28 years old at that time, still very young."

Cao Xin is not afraid of difficulties.

He will have no shortage of money and plenty of time in the future.

Being idle is also idle.

Apart from practicing martial arts, it is not bad to study medicine and cultivate one's character, so as not to be a good appearance but also a good doctor.

"Since I can't find where to go at the moment, I can buy some medical books and read them first."

Cao Xin is an activist.

The next day, I asked my eldest brother to go to the bookstore to buy medical books——

"Ode to the Properties of Medicine", "Four Hundred Flavors of Chinese Medicine", "Binghu Pulse Jue", "Soup Gee Jue" and "Lei Gong Pao Zhi Lun".

"Suwen of the Yellow Emperor's Internal Classic", "Lingshu of the Yellow Emperor's Internal Classic", "Three Character Classics of Medicine", "Preface to Treatise on Febrile Diseases", "The Sincerity of Great Physicians", and "Motto of Health Preservation".

These books involve medical ethics, medical history, medical theory, diagnostic methods, traditional Chinese medicine, acupuncture, health care and many other aspects, and basically cover the common sense and principles that must be understood to get started in medicine.

Cao Ren went to look around for a list of books and bought back one after another the books he could find.

Add slowly.

Thanks to the popularity of movable type printing in this dynasty, the price of Daliang's books was greatly reduced compared to the previous dynasty. With further progress, they could fly into the homes of ordinary people.

Even though it was still a lot of money, Cao Xin sold more than a hundred kilograms of fresh fish to the Sun Family Restaurant through Xu Dazhi every day, earning two thousand cash a day.

The money spent on buying books is nothing.

then.

In the future.

Cao Xin spends time every day raising chickens, catching fish, and building houses in the primitive fairy world. Apart from following his elder brother to deliver fish in the morning and evening, buy food, and household belongings, he still has at least three hours left every day to read medical books.

Read thoroughly first, then understand, then recite.

Cao Xin put all his energy into sprinting for the college entrance examination and wandered in the ocean of medical books.

Until this day——
Chapter completed!