Chapter 32: Learning Medicine
Disbelieving, Gu Yu took the book from Gu Qingheng’s hand and flipped through it. Seeing the dense small characters inside again, Gu Yu felt his eyes about to blur.
“Is there no writing in this?”
“No writing? Isn’t there writing here?”
“Brother-in-law, don’t think you can trick me just because I’m young! The book in your hand is completely blank, just a pile of white paper stitched together.”
Listening to Gu Qingheng’s words, Gu Yu immediately fell into doubt.
Gu Yu knew that even if his younger brother-in-law didn’t like reading, he wouldn’t make up such an excuse to lie to him. After all, if he wanted to cover his ears while stealing a bell, Gu Yu could find someone else to look at it to know the truth.
Another reason Gu Yu believed Gu Qingheng wasn’t lying was that this medical book wasn’t bought from a bookstore but taken from the space. Perhaps there were other strange settings.
He suddenly thought of the first page of that lightness skill manual, which stated that only women could practice it. Then… this book might also have a prompt!
While thinking about these things, Gu Yu ignored Gu Qingheng’s chattering beside him and quickly flipped the book to the first page to check the writing.
[For Gu Yu’s eyes only, others cannot see the words in the book.]
“…Good heavens, is this a joke?”
Originally, Gu Yu had wanted his younger brother-in-law to learn more knowledge so he could become a strong support for him. But who knew… the books produced by the space this time required only Gu Yu to study them!
Others couldn’t even see them, so what was the point of learning!
This was forcing him to read!
After Gu Yu discovered that only he could study this book, his excitement quickly faded. He just wanted to throw the book back into the space and let it be wherever it wanted. He would definitely not read these books with dense small characters and say goodbye to a beautiful and pleasant life.
“By the way, Brother-in-law, have you seen my sister?”
“No! I just woke up, what’s wrong?”
“Hehe, after Brother-in-law suddenly fainted, my sister was so scared that she almost fainted too… After some persuasion, my sister decided to take you to the medical hall in town to see a doctor, so you wouldn’t catch any serious illness and delay it further.”
“…”
However, just as Gu Yu was thinking about throwing the book into the space for a passive rest, the words that came out of Gu Qingheng’s mouth made his face freeze. He quickly asked what was going on!
The result was that Gu Qingheng’s words made Gu Yu very speechless.
He fainted simply because the space was upgrading, not because his body had a problem. But this kind of thing was not easy to explain to Mengyao and her brother, so Gu Yu could only think of another way.
Now, just looking at Gu Qingheng smiling like a cunning fox, he knew that this kid must not have said anything good about him in front of his sister, otherwise, he wouldn’t be smiling in such an annoying way.
Gu Yu glared at his younger brother-in-law angrily and continued to worry about what to do next!
Gu Yu knew he wasn’t sick, but Mengyao didn’t know… If she looked over with teary eyes again, he might directly surrender and obediently go to see a doctor.
But thinking about the bitter traditional Chinese medicine in ancient times, Gu Yu didn’t want to go to the medical hall at all!
But if he didn’t go, how could he solve the problem in front of him!
As Gu Yu was thinking, his eyes landed on the thick book he was holding. Between drinking bitter medicine and studying, he resolutely chose the latter.
When Heaven bestows a great task on a person, it must first try his resolve.
Reading and writing were nothing!
After quickly enacting the “it’s true when I get it” law, Gu Yu strengthened his determination to study the medical scripture.
As for why, it was very simple!
With the medical scripture as an excuse, Gu Yu could say that his fainting was planned. That is to say… he fainted in order to secretly test the medicinal effects.
Instead of his body being weak, which caused him to faint from time to time…
Becoming a doctor in ancient times was not easy. Because prescriptions were exclusive treasures, it was extremely difficult to learn or develop new prescriptions.
Moreover, it required many tests and various risks of testing medicines to become a true doctor.
Otherwise, it would be considered quitting work, specifically referring to incompetent doctors with poor medical skills.
If Mengyao didn’t believe him later, then Gu Yu could only find some cases from the medical scripture to cover his tracks.
Afterwards, while the Gu family of three was having dinner, when Mengyao looked over with teary eyes, Gu Yu, who was prepared, immediately said what he had planned, his serious expression showing that he was not lying.
When Gu Yu said this, Mengyao and her brother were instantly shocked!
After Gu Yu could make money and compose poetry, he was going to study medicine?
He was too much of a genius! He was almost monstrous!
“Cough, cough, Brother-in-law, did I hear you correctly? You want to study medicine?”
“Yes, I’ve been secretly learning, I just didn’t tell you… I originally planned to tell you after I learned it, but now that Mengyao wants me to see a doctor, I can’t hide it anymore, so I have to reveal everything.”
“Yu, if you study medicine, you’ll need to try many herbs, right? It’s too dangerous. Your repeated fainting scared me to death… Now that we have quite a lot of money, I don’t want you to get hurt.”
Mengyao had just recovered from her shock. When she thought of Gu Yu testing medicines on himself in the future, her eyes immediately turned red.
Her sad expression seemed to have foreseen how painful the outcome would be if the medicine testing failed.
This made Gu Yu speechless, feeling that his little wife was overthinking.
With the medical scripture from the space, where would he need to test them one by one? They were all ready-made prescriptions, so it wouldn’t be dangerous.
“Mengyao, you’re wrong. Although testing medicines when learning medicine is dangerous, your husband is not an idiot. He wouldn’t dare to easily ingest medicines with obvious conflicts. It’s just that my body foundation is not good now, and I’m easily affected by the medicinal effects. It will be much better later.”
“If that’s the case! I’ll help you test medicines. My body is very good, so don’t test your own body.”
“…”
After Mengyao finished speaking, when she looked at him with her big eyes, the determination contained within them moved Gu Yu deeply.
However, Gu Yu then thought… Mengyao was too foolish to stand in front of danger like this.
Even if he was Mengyao’s husband, he couldn’t…
Okay, Gu Yu was now thinking for Mengyao.
In his opinion, Mengyao didn’t need to pay the price of her life to help him… After all, he was petty and vengeful, far from the magnanimity of a noble young master.
If this were a novel, Gu Yu felt he would be the kind of villain that made people grind their teeth in hatred.
However, Mengyao’s firm words at this moment made Gu Yu both touched and angry, and he didn’t know what to do with this little wife!
How could she be so cutely foolish!
Perhaps this was the best opportunity to reveal everything…
“Sister, don’t cause trouble. Besides, Brother-in-law isn’t like those possessed guys who have various strange abilities and can know prescriptions in advance… If you get hurt even a little, Brother-in-law will be more upset than if he fainted himself.”
“Qingheng! Don’t say that. How can you compare Yu with those vengeful spirits!”
“…Mengyao, I don’t want anything to happen to you. And don’t worry about me, because I never fight a battle without confidence. As long as I’m careful in the future, it’ll be fine.”
“But, Yu, you haven’t even taken a master, and you’re randomly using herbs to concoct prescriptions. It’s very dangerous!”
“It’s alright, I’m actually very familiar with a doctor in town. However, he said he was going to the capital to visit relatives in a while, so he didn’t let me become his apprentice.”
Just as Gu Yu was moved and wanted to reveal that he was a transmigrator, Gu Qingheng’s words made him swallow his words back.
After reacting, Gu Yu immediately agreed with his younger brother-in-law’s words, not wanting Mengyao to get hurt in any way.
“If that’s the case, I won’t strongly object… But, Yu, you must promise to be well and not get into trouble!”
“Don’t worry, I absolutely won’t get into trouble. I still want to grow old with you for the rest of our lives!”
“Brother-in-law! I’m still here! Can’t you go to your own room to say sweet things? Listening to you makes my skin crawl and almost makes me sick!”
“What are children listening to? Hurry up and eat, then go back to your room and study!”
After Gu Yu agreed to Mengyao’s request, Mengyao’s eyes were instantly filled with emotion when she heard the words “grow old together.” A small hand then reached out and grasped Gu Yu’s right hand under the table.
Because Gu Yu was left-handed, Gu Qingheng sat opposite him during meals, and Mengyao sat to his right.
Touching his wife’s soft hand at this moment, Gu Yu felt incredibly happy. Coupled with not having to go to the medical hall, he happily picked up his chopsticks, picked up a piece of food for his wife first.
When Mengyao blushed and ate the food Gu Yu picked up, Gu Yu’s smile became even brighter. Seeing this, Gu Qingheng suddenly wanted to play a prank.
“Brother-in-law, you have to recite books later, right? Come to my room, let’s do it together!”
Indeed, as Gu Qingheng’s subsequent words quickly reached Gu Yu’s ears, Gu Yu’s smile instantly fell, and he felt that his life was too difficult.
Although he didn’t have to go to town to drink Chinese medicine, those few thick books were not easy to deal with.
He had to study them, otherwise, if he encountered some minor illnesses in the future, he wouldn’t be able to treat them, which would be too embarrassing!
Moreover, Mengyao and her brother might think he was lying to them, which would not be good.
Although Gu Yu was indeed deceiving them now… but when his younger brother-in-law mentioned being possessed by a ghost, Mengyao’s frightened expression made Gu Yu very concerned.
Therefore, he absolutely could not expose this secret!!!
