A life of two souls traveling through time

Chapter 464 Chen Lin Aspires to Study Medicine

When the time of Si arrived, Xiaolu opened the gate and was surprised to see Mr. Cheng, the owner of the Mucheng Rice Shop, and a clerk forcibly dragging his mother, Old Lady Cheng, into the medicine shop. He hurriedly stepped forward with an embarrassed look on his face to stop them:

"Boss Cheng, why did you bring your mother here again? Hurry up while our owner is still in the backyard..."

"Listen... they're chasing me away before I even get in the door... why did you drag me here?" Before Xiaolu could finish, old lady Cheng suddenly raised her head and scolded her son, but her beautiful face was now half crooked and looked very funny, and the words that came out of her crooked mouth were mumbling and unclear.

Xiaolu suppressed his laughter and looked at Boss Cheng. The other party was helpless but did not dare to annoy his mother, so he could only sigh to Xiaolu: "You can see that my mother had a stroke and half of her face was paralyzed. Because of the previous incident, she was too embarrassed to come to Sanxiu Pharmacy again. I let her suffer and hired people to perform rituals and chant sutras. I also found two doctors in the city to see her, but she still didn't get better..."

"Who...who is sorry...you are such an unfilial son, you keep slandering your mother..." Without waiting for her son to finish, Old Lady Cheng started scolding him again with a frown and a crooked mouth.

"I have no choice but to come here. I am embarrassed to trouble Mr. Sanxiu, I just want Doctor Siyao to take a look at my mother." Boss Cheng ignored his mother's unreasonable behavior and continued speaking what had just been interrupted.

"Miss Yao is already in the clinic." Seeing that Old Madam Cheng was still as arrogant and unreasonable as she was back then, Xiaolu didn't dare to offend her and could only lead Boss Cheng to the clinic.

"I said... I won't go... I won't ask for Sanxiu Pharmacy..."

"Can you please stop being so irritable at this time? If you don't want to be cured, then don't stay at home complaining all day. You want to kill me, your son, to feel satisfied, right?"

Seeing that his mother was still making a fuss, Boss Cheng could no longer suppress his anger and yelled at her. Fortunately, there were no patients watching the quarrel at the moment, and the medicine boys in the village were no longer surprised by the quarrel between the mother and son at the door.

Her son's roar finally calmed down Old Mrs. Cheng, and she had no choice but to follow them into Sanxiu Pharmacy with a feeling of grievance.

"But after sweating profusely, you were blown by cold wind?" In the clinic, Si Yao saw that the left side of Mrs. Cheng's face was crooked and one of her eyes was almost squeezed shut. She first took her pulse and pressed two acupoints on her face. Seeing no response on the affected side, she asked Boss Cheng beside her.

"It seems so. Two months ago, my mother caught a cold for some reason. She had vomiting and diarrhea several times that night. She looked like this when she woke up the next day." Boss Cheng turned his head to look at his mother, thought about it carefully, and then nodded.

Si Yao didn't say anything else. She stood up and helped Old Lady Cheng to the acupuncture room. Xiaolu saw this and hurried over to prepare the needles. Old Lady Cheng saw that the doctor in front of her was a girl with cold eyes and a pretty face, and for the sake of her son's face, she had to obey and cooperate.

Arriving at the acupuncture room, after Old Lady Cheng lay flat, Si Yao inserted a needle into the Hegu acupoint on the patient's right hand. Then when he was about to insert the second needle up and down the right side of her face, the old lady panicked and stopped him:

"Can you cure it, girl? My left face is paralyzed. Why are you trying to stick needles in my right face?"

"Mom, Doctor Si Yao's medical skills are well-known. Please stop being unreasonable!" Seeing that his mother was about to start making trouble again, Boss Cheng was ashamed and embarrassed, and frowned and advised her.

"For left-side diseases, treat the right side; for right-side diseases, treat the left side; for upper-level diseases, treat the lower side; for lower-level diseases, treat the upper side. The twelve meridians in the human body intersect with the Ren and Du meridians, so the qi and blood in the meridians circulate among each other and can be treated left and right, up and down." Si Yao faces patients' confusions every day. Although old lady Cheng is impatient, she just smiles at them patiently and then explains.

Old Mrs. Cheng didn't understand medicine, so she was naturally confused by Si Yao's explanation. But when she saw that Si Yao was calm and not angry, and after hearing what her son said, she felt relieved.

Si Yao continued to give acupuncture after the patient stopped making any noise. The Hegu point had been used to calm and relieve pain. The second acupuncture point was to use a silver needle to penetrate from the Dicang point to the Jiache point, then to the temple, and finally two needles each at the Ren Zhong point and Chengjiang point.

After Si Yao finished the acupuncture, she walked out of the acupuncture room to write a prescription. Boss Cheng followed her out and bowed to her and thanked her:

"Thank you, Doctor Si Yao, for today."

"We should treat patients who come to us for medical treatment. You are too polite, Boss Cheng." Si Yao smiled faintly, and then approached him and whispered, "You don't have to bring your mother here next time. I will remember to go to Mucheng Rice Shop for a follow-up visit for your mother."

Seeing that Si Yao was willing to see the patient, Boss Cheng couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief and quickly agreed. This way, he wouldn't have to worry about his mother causing trouble again when she met Mr. Sanxiu, and causing trouble for Mr. Sanxiu. Presumably, Miss Si Yao was worried about such a thing happening, so she told him this.

On a remote mountain road far west of Mucheng, a horse-drawn carriage was slowly heading west. Xiuming was taking Chenlin and Caiyi to Chenlin's hometown, Yunxiang Village.

"Your home is so far away from the pharmacy. How did your mother think of sending you to the pharmacy?" The carriage had been shaking for nearly half an hour. Caiyi yawned and asked Chen Lin, who was silent beside her.

"I don't know." Chen Lin lowered his eyes and shook his head. At this moment, he was both happy and worried. He had been away from home for more than a year. He didn't know how his grandparents, mother, brothers and sisters were doing. He was also one year older. Would they still recognize him?

Seeing that he was reluctant to speak, Caiyi knew that he was worried so she stopped talking and took his little hand and held it tightly.

Xiu Ming, who was standing by, couldn't help but feel warm at heart when he saw Cai Yi's delicate concern for Chen Lin. This girl was truly untainted by the mud. Even though she had been ravaged by wind and rain, she still had bright eyes and a kind look, emitting warmth.

Soon, the carriage stopped under a big tree. Xiuming and Caiyi each held little Chenlin's hand and continued to cross the golden rice fields towards the small village ahead. After about another cup of tea, Chenlin stopped at the entrance of Yunxiang Village. He looked at the laughter in a farmyard from afar with a sad look on his face.

Because tomorrow is the Mid-Autumn Festival, two peasant women, one old and one young, are busy making mooncakes in the farmyard. On the other side, an old man with a half-white beard is teaching a girl about seven or eight years old to make lanterns, which causes laughter from time to time.

"Grandpa, grandma, mom, I picked up some snails!" At this time, a teenage boy ran into the yard holding a green lotus leaf and smiled happily at the three elders.

"Oh, we have snail meat to eat tonight!" The girl hurriedly threw down the lantern, came to the boy, clapped her hands, jumped and shouted.

"My silly sister, you can't eat it tonight. You have to save it until the Mid-Autumn Festival tomorrow!" The young man poured the snails wrapped in lotus leaves into a clay basin filled with water. He turned around and touched the girl's head with a doting smile, and then there was another burst of laughter in the yard.

Seeing that his family members were all well, Chen Lin felt that he should be happy and should rush over to reunite with them immediately, but for some reason, the warm laughter in the yard was like a knife stabbing into his heart.

After lunch, Si Yao accompanied the master to rest in the tea room. San Xiu glanced out the window and shook his head and muttered, "Why haven't they come back yet after being gone for most of the day?"

"Chen Lin hasn't seen his family for more than a year. Now that he's back, he naturally has to stay longer." Si Yao handed a cup of tea to Sanxiu and replied.

"Why bother looking for trouble? What's wrong with accompanying him back to meet him? It will only make him more sad." Sanxiu still shook her head and pouted.

"Chen Lin has always been well-behaved and sensible. He finally said that he missed his mother, so let's fulfill his wish." Si Yao had just finished comforting his master when he heard the noise outside. He immediately stood up and said, "Maybe my senior brothers are back. I'll go and take a look."

Si Yao bowed to San Xiu and walked out of the tea room. From a distance, she saw Cai Yi wiping tears outside Xiu Ming's room. She hurried over and asked with concern, "What's wrong?"

"Sister Si Yao, it's all my fault. I shouldn't have pestered the master to take Chen Lin home." Seeing Si Yao, Caiyi leaned on her shoulder and cried softly with even more remorse.

"You girl, Chen Lin just got tired of crying, and you start crying again?" Without waiting for Si Yao to speak, Xiu Ming, who had already walked out of the room, smiled helplessly at Caiyi.

After hearing what the master said, Caiyi stopped crying and got up from Si Yao.

"Are you asleep?" Si Yao didn't have time to comfort Caiyi, but pointed to the quiet room and asked his senior brother.

"I'm afraid you must be tired after crying all the way." Xiu Ming nodded and sighed.

Later, after being informed by her senior brother and Caiyi, Si Yao realized that Chen Lin did not reunite with her family. She only saw the family talking and laughing in the yard from afar. She must be sad that she had become a redundant and abandoned person, so she couldn't help crying on the way back.

The moon on August 14th was not bright enough, but the sky was cloudless and clear. Chen Lin leaned in Si Yao's arms, looking at the bright moon outside the window without saying a word. He looked listless, and his eyes were still red, swollen and lifeless from crying.

"Chen Lin, have you ever thought about what you want to do when you grow up?" Si Yao took a sip of tea and suddenly asked him.

"I want to be a doctor who saves lives like Miss Yao. Maybe if there is one more doctor in this world, there can be one more person like me who is frail and sick and brings trouble to my relatives." Chen Lin came back to his senses, sat up from Si Yao's arms, and replied in a baby voice.

"You have great ambitions, so you must study harder in the future." Si Yao saw the determination in his eyes but didn't know how to comfort him for a moment, so she just raised her hand and stroked his head gently.

"Well, when I can recognize more words, I will ask the owner of the manor to take Miss Yao as my master." Xiao Chenlin nodded firmly again and said childishly.

Si Yao said nothing, but just smiled at him.