Chapter 77: Study

Chapter 77 Studying
In the morning, the cold wind whizzed across the street, almost overturning a simple thatched house beside the road.
Sitting in the room, Gu Shiba Niang, whose hands were red from the cold, didn't seem to feel the impact of the cold wind, and she seriously wrapped a piece of oil paper around the toad.
"That's how you get toad crispy?"
The old man's voice sounded from behind her, with a little impatience.
Gu Shiba Niang nodded, "Yes, in the book..."
"On the book, on the book, on the book again" The old man's voice was a little anxious, "You can't say anything other than the book?"
Different from the joke attitude he used to get along with, the old man looked a little harsher when he saw her medicine these few days, and his words became more and more rude.
Gu Shiba Niang lowered her head and did not speak. Apart from books, where else could she learn from?
Seeing her boring gourd usually does not speak, but still busy with oil paper, the old man only feels a pain in his chest.
"Where's your brain?" He poked his hand on Gu Shiba Niang's head, his voice anxious and dissatisfied, "You can't think about it by yourself"
"You dead old man..." Gu Shiba Niang was furious, stood up and stared at the old man.
"Heh" the old man saw her raised eyebrows and stared, and he couldn't help jumping up, "Do you still know how to be angry?" He stretched out his hand and patted himself with a distressed look, "I should be angry, why are you so stupid? You are not very smart. Huh? How come you can't even make a toad crispy even the simplest way? Why are you so stupid?"
When the old man said this, he coughed loudly while holding his chest. Originally, Gu Shiba Niang wanted to respond with a few words, but seeing him like this, she only sighed.
"I was stupid..." She smiled bitterly, found a tea bowl in the house, poured a cup of tea for the old man and handed it over.
The old man didn't pick up her tea, but stared at her, bulging his cheeks for a long time, and suffocated a sentence, "It's not you stupid, I'm stupid"
He sighed, turned and went out.
The old man's originally thin figure became more and more rickety, shaking his head and walking into the cold wind like this, especially desolate and desolate.
Gu Shiba Niang looked at his back and couldn't help feeling a little sad. She felt that the old man was very disappointed...
Is it because you have seen your own pharmaceuticals in the past few days and found your true skills and disappointed? I found out that the smart person I always thought was a fool...
I’m just stupid. No one else teaches me how good I can be except books... I didn’t say I’m smart. You think so...
She smiled bitterly, lowered her head to look at the toad on the table, using her brain, not a book...
When night came, the old man didn't come back. The darkness swallowed Gu Shiba Niang's sight, and she woke up and realized that it was dark.
Rubbing his sore neck, moving his stiff hands, stood up and looked around outside the door. He couldn't see the old man. This old man wouldn't be angry and won't come back again?
Gu Shiba Niang sighed, and closed the door with a little worry and walked home carrying the toad basket.
That night she was still lighting the lamp until late at night, but she couldn't help but think of the old man's words when she read the book, use her brain, not the book...
"I don't need a book, what brains do I have..." She pushed the book away with a bit of frustration, and she was exhausted from all over her body, leaving her weakly lying on the bookcase.
Only by thoroughly figuring out the real can one make a fake...
These words glided through her chaotic mind like a flash of light.
"I really figured it out..." she murmured, raising her head abruptly, sweeping away her exhaustion, and turning over a book of Materia Medica from the table, quickly turning a few pages, finding a page to Toad, and beginning to be serious Looks.
Sunlight penetrated through the gaps in the windows, and the tiny fragments of light spots dotted the girl who was sleeping peacefully in front of the desk. The book finally fell to the ground with a slap in her hand and awakened the girl.
"When is it..." Gu Shiba Niang rubbed her sour arm, dazzled by the bright sunlight.
Cao's caring greetings sounded outside the door.
After freshening up and simply eating a meal, Gu Shiba Niang rushed out of the house and ran to the hut on the edge of the city.
Twilight disappeared into the sky, and the girl's figure came out of the hut again.
Such a thin figure went back and forth on the road, and there was no sunlight back and forth. The girl didn't pay attention. While she was running around, a young figure always followed behind her, and a basket of toads were always placed outside the hut in time.
Groping and studying, slowly passing through forgetful sleep and food, standing behind the big tree not far away, the old man looked at the focused little girl in the hut and sighed with some relief.
"Although the qualifications are a bit poor, but this mind is okay..." He smiled bitterly, not happy or sad. To talk about his mind, he had seen more smart people in his life. He didn't expect it, but in the end Only found this...
"Is this girl clever or stupid?" the old man muttered unwillingly.
For a person like him, he had an answer in his heart after just a few days of getting along, but he just didn't want to admit it.
Hearing a cough from someone behind her, Gu Shiba Niang turned her head and saw the old man standing aside with his face drooping.
"Lao Zhang, you just came here." Her haggard face was radiant, her eyes glistened, "Look, you see, I know how to take a large amount of toad crisp"
Garlic and were scattered on the table. One hand was pressing the toad, and the other hand was scraping the slurry with a small bamboo chip.
The old man snorted, reached out his hand to pick up a small wooden stick from the side, and gently tapped it on the toad's head, and the slurry suddenly perspired.
"Oh, old man, is this all right?" Gu Shiba Niang was overjoyed and shouted with a smile.
The small wooden stick hit her head.
"What are you calling out?" The old man stared.
"Lao Zhang, are you not angry anymore?" Gu Shiba Niang smiled while looking at his face.
The old man's complexion was not very good, and he was even more depressed when he heard that, he snorted, who can he be angry with? alone?
"Get up, I'll do it for you, take a good look," the old man said, and glared at Gu Shiba Niang. "It's so stupid, this is ideal for so many days..."
Gu Shiba Niang pursed her lips, did not speak, stood up and let go, watching the old man sit down.
"...What's the matter with your hand?"
"... dumb dumb dumb..."
"...Wrong and wrong..."
"...Where did you put your hands..."
The young man standing in a dark corner not far from the house, listening to the scolding from time to time inside, mixed with the sound of bamboo lashes, his expressionless face couldn't help twitching twice.
The old man spoke horribly, and he really started to hit him. A trace of doubt appeared on his face. Isn't this girl a good lady who lives in a big house? How could you learn this? Called by a dirty old man.....
"Hey, that kid" the old man's voice came from the room, interrupting the young man's sullen thoughts.
"Say you", the old man stood at the door of the house, stared at him with his hips akimbo, and threw a bamboo basket out, "Go, catch some toads"
The young man was taken aback and moved out from behind the rock.
"Move quickly and don't grind," the old man glared and shouted, dissatisfied with his slow motion ~EbookFREE.me~ The young man couldn't help but tugged at the corner of his mouth, took a few steps, picked up the bamboo basket and strode away. .
A few days later, looking at a basket full of toad crisps, Gu Shiba Niang couldn't help but smile. Today, the daily production of toad crisps is equivalent to the amount she used for three days.
"...Lao Zhang, you are really amazing." She looked at the old man and exclaimed her sincerely for the first time, "It seems that you are not only making fake drugs..."
The old man snorted quietly and kicked the basket under his feet, "Go, sell it, what's the point of concocting these low-grade medicinal materials... Go get some ginseng, Dendrobium, etc...."
Mountain Ginseng and Dendrobium... Gu Shiba-niang twitched the corner of her mouth. Does this old man know what he said? Those medicines, even the toad cake sold for one year, can't be obtained without eating or drinking...
"What to look at, picking up the biggest medicine store," the old man glared at her, then grabbed a few sparse hair, squinted and looked at Gu Shiba Niang with a smile, "Also remember, don't make a price. And let them make a price"
what? Gu Shiba Niang was stunned