Mountain dwelling practice: I am a gentle guest in the world

Chapter 736

The stall owner couple were very talkative. They answered every question she had, and their answers touched her heart, which made Sang Yue understand why Lanshui Town was so peaceful and harmonious.

However, nothing is perfect.

Lanshui Town is good in every way except that it is hard to see a doctor. If people in the town have a minor illness, they just go to the nearby mountains to pick some herbs and boil them into water to drink according to local folk remedies. If they have a serious illness, they have to go to Jinchuan City, thousands of miles away, to see a doctor.

Hearing this, Sang Yue couldn't help but feel moved.

When she was at home, she didn't know any medical skills, and she usually made medicine according to the prescription. To see how effective the medicine was, she would either test it on animals or ask the butcher and Long Yu to test it on patients.

Even if you don't understand medical principles, as your cultivation becomes higher and higher, you will be able to see through everyone's problems at a glance.

After arriving at Xingsui Continent, with the notes from Zhuang Zimo's cousin, everything suddenly became clear. In the past, I only knew which organ in a mortal's body was malfunctioning, but I didn't know the name of the disease. But after reading the description in the notes, I could identify the disease.

She couldn't be considered a medical genius now, unless she had the special poisons and medicines made by the other party's high-level medicine cultivator, ordinary minor illnesses would not be a problem for her.

"So if I want to open a clinic here, what procedures should I go through?" Sang Yue asked.

Since leaving Yancheng, she has collected countless medicinal plants and spiritual plants. It is time to find a place to settle down. She has no plan to return to Yancheng. Ah Lu, Ah Shui and Ah Xing finally get rid of her influence, who is highly valued by the Yan family, and grow up on their own.

If she goes back now, the Yan family will definitely send someone to visit her and discuss future cooperation with her.

This would be too much for her, and the sense of achievement of Ah Shui and the other two people in starting a business would be immediately reduced by half. If she agreed to the Yan family, it would be enough to be annoyed by the younger generation of the Yan family who did not obey her; if she did not agree, Ah Xing, who was in the guard camp, would be in an awkward situation.

Even if the Yan family would not make things difficult for her, it would still be uncomfortable if there was a rift in the hearts of both sides.

In order to prove that she didn't get into the patrol camp because of Ah Sang, Ah Xing would work harder than others. She would even rush to do some dangerous missions that no one dared to take.

Maybe I was overthinking it, but Sang Yue didn't want everyone to live a more tiring life than others because of her.

Having a good friend who is far away and not a source of hatred can make the three people live more easily than others. Sang Yue is also very satisfied with this lifestyle. Of course, Zhuang Zimo's kindness in giving her the notebook cannot be forgotten.

If the Yan family in Yancheng needed her help, Ah Xing and the other two just needed to let her know and she would rush back immediately.

Although she was self-taught, without Zhuang Zimo's guidance, she would not have such a deep and clear understanding of pharmacology and pathology, let alone dare to open a clinic.

When they learned that she wanted to open a clinic, not only the stall owner and his wife, but even passers-by who accidentally heard about it would stop on their way and take a quick look at who this young-looking woman was.

It would be great if someone opened a clinic in Lanshui Town, so that she wouldn't have to travel thousands of miles to the city to find a doctor. But seeing that she was so young, he felt that she was unreliable, so he shook his head silently and left.

Sang Yue was aware of the movement around her, but remained indifferent.

She opened the clinic to test her medical skills and the effectiveness of her elixirs, and at the same time find a place to settle down to make more daily potions and elixirs, or research new drugs.

It doesn't matter how mortals see themselves.

"Girl," the stall owner advised kindly, "Opening a clinic is not an easy thing. Someone has opened one before..."

He had been practicing medicine for several years, but a monk passing by called him a quack and said that the medicine he prescribed was useless and that he was just seeking fame and reputation but had no morals or talent. "The doctor was a middle-aged man, and his family had been practicing medicine for generations and only treated mortals. But the monk said that he had internal injuries from a fight with someone else, and the medicine used to treat mortals was also suitable for him. The doctor saw that he looked pale and boiled some medicine for him..."

Unexpectedly, a few days later the monk came to the clinic to cause trouble, accusing the doctor's medicine of being ineffective.

He said that his body was no different from that of an ordinary person, and that he was just injured in a fight. The medicine he had taken elsewhere for treating ordinary injuries was still effective. But the doctor's medicine was ineffective, which showed that he was a quack.

"He is a cultivator after all. Even if his injuries are serious, they should be somewhat different from those of ordinary people. The doctor has no experience in this area and was tricked..."

Unfortunately, some people in the town were so ignorant that they thought that the monk who was causing the trouble would not lie. They believed it to be true, and even though the doctor had treated them before, they joined the monk in verbally abusing his family.

The doctor and his family lived a stable life in Lanshui Town for several years, and they had to endure some grievances.

But his old man could not bear the humiliation and died of anger. His children were also bullied and insulted by the neighboring children when they were playing outside, saying that his family were all liars and would not have a good death in the future.

The doctor had no choice but to move his family away and never saw the man again.

After the doctor left, several doctors came to Lanshui Town one after another. Some of them were pure money scammers, and were condemned by everyone after being exposed; some of them were not well-trained and turned a healthy fever patient into a paralytic, and fled overnight for fear of being hunted down.

There were also Taoists and monks dressed up and settled in Lanshui Town to distribute elixirs that could cure all kinds of diseases. Each pill was worth ten taels of gold, and those with less effective effects also cost ten taels of silver each.

During that period, the living standard of the entire Lanshui Town dropped dramatically. There were many young couples who were suffering from terminal illnesses but were still young and wanted to continue living, and they were willing to sell their children and even their houses and land for a pill.

Until the atmosphere of resentment in the town became so thick that it alarmed the Yuntai Sect and Wenxin Pavilion on the mountain, and they sent disciples down the mountain to investigate the cause.

Only then did I know that those Taoists and so-called alchemy practitioners were either collecting money or collecting people. The former was fine, but the latter was so cruel that they sold the children of local residents as boys and girls for sacrifice, which was a horrible sight.

Therefore, the townspeople did not have a good impression of the Taoists and monks who opened clinics in the local area.

Because the other party was a Taoist priest, they did not dare to offend him and would rather travel thousands of miles to Jinchuan City to see a doctor. The stall owner and his wife were well-informed. Seeing that the girl went out alone, openly and fearlessly, they guessed that she was a monk.

Moreover, she has a gentle attitude and is very kind, so I couldn't help but tell her these things to remind her to think twice before acting.

"It's okay. I'm just an apprentice of medicine cultivation," Sang Yue said frankly. "I came down the mountain this time to practice my medical skills and the effects of elixirs. I'm happy to have business, but it's okay if I don't. I'll just find a place to settle down for a few days..."

Now that she knew the town's past history, she did the opposite.

He directly said that he was an apprentice so that he would not be surprised if there were cases that could not be cured in the future; he also stated that he was a monk so that ordinary people would be afraid and dare not cause trouble easily.

There is no perfect place in the world. The only thing that can make you feel comfortable everywhere is to take things as they come.

Sure enough, when the townspeople who were eavesdropping heard her claim that she was a medicine practitioner apprentice, they showed an expression of "as expected". Because of her frankness, everyone was not too opposed to her identity as a monk.

She is definitely still on guard, but that’s okay, she didn’t open the clinic to make a living.

If I don't get any patients in a year or two, I'll just close the door and leave. Just think of it as a vacation, and after I've rested enough, I'll go to the next place to try my luck.