Rebirth 1977 Great Era

Chapter 486: Deng Tietao's disciple, grandson of Xiao Longyou, one of the four famous doctors

When Fang Yan heard Meng Jimin's words, he turned around and looked at him.

He really didn't expect that Meng Jimin actually knew this person.

At this time, the young man opposite also saw Meng Jimin beside Fang Yan, and immediately smiled and bowed:
"So Senior Brother Meng is here too!"

When I heard Brother Meng's dialect, I immediately understood.

This is a colleague!

And it was passed down from a famous teacher.

He must know Mr. Zhu, otherwise he wouldn't have called Meng Jimin "Senior Brother Meng".

"Junior Brother Xiao, long time no see. I didn't expect you to come to the capital." Meng Jimin also stood up and bowed to him.

The young man surnamed Xiao responded with a smile:
"The capital has always been my home, and coming back this time is also my father's wish."

Fang Yan frowned and asked:

"Who is this?"

Without waiting for Meng Jimin to answer, the young man opposite said:
"Comrade Fangyan, let me introduce myself again. My name is Xiao Chengzhi. I also study Chinese medicine. A few days ago, I heard from an elder in the sect that you are the best among the younger generation of Chinese medicine practitioners in Beijing! It is a great honor to meet you today."

After hearing this, Fangyan knew that his guess was correct, they were indeed in the same industry.

He asked Xiao Chengzhi:
"I don't know who this elder is, and why he thinks so highly of me? But Fang is not worthy of being number one."

"Deng Mengnian." Xiao Chengzhi responded.

Fangyan was stunned when he heard the name, then he remembered that this was Lao Dengtou's real name.

The other party is a junior of old Deng, so from this it seems that the other party should be Deng Tietao's student?
Fangyan asked:

"Mr. Deng Tietao, is that you?"

"It's my teacher." Xiao Chengzhi responded.

Fangyan asked:

“Are you from Guangdong?”

After asking, he realized that the other party had just told Meng Jimin that he was considered a native of Beijing.

As a result, Xiao Chengzhi responded at this time:
"My ancestral home is in Sichuan, and I studied medicine in Guangzhou."

Fang Yan was even more confused now, but after exchanging a glance with Meng Jimin, he knew that the other party must know a lot, so he stopped asking Xiao Chengzhi and nodded, bowed and said:
"Nice to meet you."

The two exchanged a few more pleasantries, and then Xiao Chengzhi said he had something else to do, and then he left with everyone.

The other party was very polite, so Fang Yan and Meng Jimin had to be polite as well.

The two left their seats and walked them to the door.

After waving goodbye, he returned to the table.

Then Fangyan greeted the people who were still waiting for him to start eating:

"Use your chopsticks, use your chopsticks, we are all hungry now, don't just stand there!"

When everyone started eating, Fang Yan and Meng Jimin sat down again.

Fang Yan asked Meng Jimin:
"Who is this Xiao Chengzhi?"

Meng Jimin certainly knew what Fangyan wanted to ask, so he said:
"In addition to being a disciple of Guangdong's famous doctor Deng Tietao, his grandfather is also the leader of the four famous doctors in Beijing - Xiao Longyou."

Fang Yan was stunned. He really didn't expect that the other party was so powerful.

But he immediately asked Meng Jimin curiously:

"His grandfather was one of the four famous doctors in Beijing. Why did he go to learn medicine from Deng Tietao?"

Meng Jimin said:
"His father, Xiao Jin, is the deputy chief engineer of the Guangzhou Railway Bureau and the chief engineer of the Third Survey and Design Institute of the Ministry of Railways."

Fang Yan knew a lot about Xiao Longyou's life, but he didn't know much about his children.

I only remember that Xiao Longyou had a granddaughter named Xiao Chengcong.

Inherited Xiao Longyou's mantle.

I should be thirty-seven years old this year.

She is the daughter of Xiao Longyou's second son Xiao Zhang.

I only remember the names of the other people in their family who spoke dialect.

After thinking about it, I remembered:
"Xiao Jin is Xiao Longyou's eldest son?"

"That's right." Meng Jimin nodded.

Fangyan suddenly realized, that's what it was.

Then Meng Jimin started talking and spoke about Xiao Jin in dialect.

It turns out that this person was taught to read by his father when he was 7 years old. Because he was smart and studious, he was admitted to the Affiliated Middle School of Beijing Normal University at the age of 13. At the age of 17, he was admitted to the Tangshan Engineering College of Jiaotong University with excellent results. Then he devoted himself to studying railway engineering and was recommended by the school to study abroad. Later, he studied in the United States at his own expense.

In 1931, he studied at the University of San Francisco and soon transferred to the University of Illinois to study railway engineering, where he received a master's degree.

After leaving school, he interned at the Illinois Central Railroad Company in the United States. He returned to China in 1933 and worked in the Nanjing Railway Ministry. From 1942 to 1944, at the invitation of Zhu Kezhen, he served as a professor at Zhejiang University. During this period, Xiao Chengzhi was born.

Soon after the founding of the People's Republic of China, Xiao Jin was transferred to Guangzhou Railway Bureau as deputy chief engineer. Xiao Chengzhi followed his father to Guangzhou, and at the age of fourteen, he became a disciple of Deng Tietao.

As for why he didn't take over his grandfather's mantle, Meng Jimin guessed it was because he didn't have the opportunity.

Xiao Longyou passed away in BJ in 1960, when Xiao Chengzhi had just started studying for more than a year.

Of course, it might also be because of Xiao Jin's work. At that time, their family was in Guangzhou, so the second son Xiao Zhang and his family were with Xiao Longyou.

The second son, Xiao Zhang, is a linguist and professor at Beijing Normal University.

His daughter, Xiao Chengcong, is the heir of Xiao Longyou's medical skills.

It sounds a bit strange that the eldest grandson did not inherit the medical skills, but the granddaughter did. However, according to the time calculation, Xiao Chengcong is several years older than Xiao Chengzhi. Plus, he happens to be in BJ, just like his master Lu Donghua and granddaughter Lu Wangyou. It becomes very normal when you think about it this way.

The one near the water should get the moon first.

Anyway, I'm old and my grandchildren are not around, so I'll pass it on to whoever I can.

Besides, it’s not a loss for Xiao Chengzhi to learn from Deng Tietao.

Before studying medicine, Xiao Longyou served as magistrate of Zibo and Zaoyang. After studying, he often came into contact with high-level figures, such as Yuan Shikai and Mr. Sun Yat-sen, so he had a good eye.

His grandson is studying with Deng Tietao, a famous doctor in Guangdong. If he feels that it is inappropriate, he will definitely say it. Since he doesn't say anything, it means he definitely recognizes Deng Tietao's medical skills.

However, Fangyan didn't gossip about the family affairs of the leader of the four famous doctors.

Instead, he asked Meng Jimin:
"How is Xiao Chengzhi's medical skills?"

Meng Jimin said:
"We met once in Shanghai a few years ago. He was quite impressive at that time. He was extremely good at dialectical treatment. He could tell a lot about a person just by looking at his face."

Hearing what Meng Jimin said, Fang Yan remembered the time when Xiao Longyou treated Mr. Sun Yat-sen. At that time, he also diagnosed the disease with just one glance.

This method is either the extremely powerful visual diagnosis or the use of physiognomy.

Fangyan narrowed his eyes:
"This is quite similar to Xiao Longyou! Didn't he inherit Xiao Longyou's medical skills at all?"

Meng Jimin said:
"I don't know about this, but my master said that he must have a unique method, otherwise he wouldn't be able to see so accurately."

Fangyan understood when he heard this.

Mr. Zhu is an expert in physiognomy. Since he said so, it must be that Xiao Chengzhi is definitely quite capable.

Although Deng Tietao Fangyan has never met him, in his previous life, everyone's impression of him was that he was good at treating various difficult and complicated diseases, rescuing critical illnesses, and had many theoretical knowledge and medical works.

The theories related to the five internal organs, the spleen and stomach, the phlegm-related theories, the relationship between typhoid fever and febrile diseases, TCM education ideas, the development of new Chinese medicines, medical history and literature research, and Lingnan regional medicine research have put forward many valuable academic arguments, which have had a positive impact on the development of modern TCM theory.

But no one has ever said that he could dialectically diagnose a patient accurately just by looking at the records.

It is obvious that what Xiao Chengzhi uses is not the technology of the Deng family.

Just like Fang Yan, although he was Lu Donghua's apprentice, the acupuncture method he used was the Cheng family's Sancai needle, and the prescriptions he used were also varied, including ancient prescriptions, Mr. Zhu's secret recipe for insect medicine, traditional Chinese medicine prescriptions from several previous lives, and even prescriptions developed abroad.

However, it seems that he is planning to continue pursuing the path of Traditional Chinese Medicine when he returns to Beijing this time. There is a high probability that he will be one of his future classmates at the Capital University of Chinese Medicine.

Now that I'm in the limelight, these masters might be eyeing me one by one. It's not clear whether they're here to make friends with me or to challenge me and become famous by stepping on me.

But Fangyan was not panicking. He had gone through so many ups and downs, so this was just a small matter for him.

Next, Fangyan and his friends finished their meal and walked out of the cafeteria.

At this time, it started snowing lightly.

Fang Yan and his friends walked towards the gate of No. 156 Middle School. At this time, the school secretary had already begun to invite everyone to go into the examination room early to avoid the snow.

However, some people still stood under the eaves outside the classroom door in groups of three or five in order to review with acquaintances.

The students in the verification room did not shake hands with Fangyan in the morning, but they hurriedly shook hands with Fangyan in the afternoon, and then ran to the classroom with smiles on their faces.

It seemed that they had been blessed with the good luck of the dialect and they no longer had to worry about the Chinese language test in the afternoon.

Fang Yan and the others did not rush into the classroom, but came to Chen Kaige's jeep.

At least the seats here are soft and it's warm with the windows closed.

Everyone in the car started talking about the Chinese language test questions that might be encountered in the afternoon.

Today's difficult science and mathematics test in China gave everyone a bit of a shock. In the afternoon, everyone had a premonition that the liberal arts Chinese test would definitely be a big one.

Except for Sun Jialin, everyone else in this car is taking the liberal arts exam.

Apart from the dialect, everyone was still a little nervous.

After discussing several directions, it was almost time.

Tomorrow, except for Chen Kaige, Sun Jialin and Fang Yan who have to take the English test, the eldest sister and younger brother will be done with this test.

After encouraging each other, everyone opened the car door and walked towards the examination room.

After the examination, Fangyan walked into the examination room and came to his seat.

After a while, two invigilators came with two sets of test papers.

After going through the previous process, they started distributing the papers.

As the papers were handed out, Fangyan heard many students taking the liberal arts exam gasp.

(End of this chapter)