Chapter 39 Apprenticeship Ceremony
"Grandpa Chen, I have gathered all the herbs."
In the small courtyard on the mountainside, Lu Qing showed the medicine basket to Dr. Chen with some breathlessness.
After digging the ox bone grass, he rushed up all the way, fearing that he would not be able to make up the time.
The old doctor looked at the herbs in the medicine basket and nodded with satisfaction.
"That's right, it's hard to believe that you can really collect all these herbs."
"Grandpa Chen, what do you mean by this?" Lu Qing was a little confused.
The old doctor seemed to have something in his words.
"Do you know why I set the scope of the assessment near the village?" the old doctor asked.
“I don’t know.” Lu Qing shook his head.
"That's because there are not many herbs growing near the village, only a dozen or so." The old doctor stroked his beard and said, "You can dig up these herbs and bring them up intact within an hour. It can be imagined that you pay a lot of attention to these herbs."
Hearing this, Lu Qing couldn't help but feel ashamed.
Normally, he didn't really pay attention to the medicinal herbs near the village.
Perhaps subconsciously, I thought that there would be no precious medicinal materials near the village where people come and go.
So unless you encounter it when you are out, you will use your power to check it.
But if you really try to find out how many kinds of medicinal materials there are around the village, you won’t find any.
It seems that my mentality is still a bit too casual.
Even the old doctor knew what kinds of medicinal materials were available near the village, but he had special powers, but he failed to do this, which really shouldn't be the case.
Lu Qing couldn't help but reflect on herself.
Seeing that Lu Qing was silent, Old Doctor Chen thought he had acquiesced.
He smiled and said: "Okay, you passed this test. Now go and ask the village elders to come up."
"Invite the village elders to come up?" Lu Qing was a little dazed.
"Yes, if I want to formally accept you as a disciple, I have to have some witnesses present, otherwise it will be too much fun."
"Yes, I will go now!"
Lu Qing was so happy that he ran down the mountain again.
The people in the village knew that Lu Qing was going to be assessed by Dr. Chen today, so they had been paying attention.
Seeing Lu Qing running down the mountain, they were all overjoyed to learn that it was the old doctor who invited the village elders to the mountain to witness the ceremony where he officially accepted Lu Qing into the family.
"Well, now, our village is finally going to have a doctor!"
"Well done Ah Qing, he is indeed the smartest kid in our village, he really passed the exam."
"Aqing, go tell Dr. Chen, we will go up soon!"
The villagers had seen that Lu Qing went to the old doctor Chen every day to learn things, and they once thought that he was already the old doctor's disciple.
But later Lu Qing told them that he could only be regarded as an apprentice of Old Doctor Chen now, and was not yet qualified to officially join the old Doctor's disciples.
Now that I heard that Lu Qing has finally passed the examination and will be officially accepted as a disciple by the old doctor, how can I not be excited?
Lu Qing returned to the small courtyard in the middle of the mountain. Not long after, the village elders came to the mountain neatly dressed one by one.
Some village elders even put on clothes that they would only wear during the New Year.
In addition to the village elders, some other villagers at home also came up to watch the fun.
Some villagers also brought some rice, flour, eggs, meat and other items.
Old doctor Chen was already waiting at the entrance of the courtyard.
Seeing everyone coming up, he stepped forward and bowed.
"Thank you fellow villagers for coming to this ceremony to accept me as a disciple."
"Old doctor, you are really embarrassing us." The leader, Uncle Zhang, said quickly, "We should thank you."
"Since After you came to our Jiuli Village, you have relieved us of so many illnesses. We will always remember your kindness in our hearts."
"Old Zhang, I just fulfilled my duty as a doctor and cannot afford any kindness." The old doctor smiled lightly.
"Whether we are kind or not, we naturally know in our hearts."
Uncle Zhang took a basket from the hands of a young man behind him.
"Old doctor Chen, we are poor in the countryside and don't have anything valuable to offer. The eggs and bacon here, as well as the rice noodles at the back, are regarded as our apprenticeship gifts to Ah Qing. I hope you don't mind it." After saying this, two more young men came up with two bags of rice noodles.
This scene not only made Lu Qing stunned for a while, but also the old doctor Chen.
It is a shame to say that most of us in Jiuli Village fled from famines elsewhere. "
" It was a difficult era. If it had not been for the support and guidance of Grandpa Ah Qing on the road, I am afraid that we would not have been able to escape that disaster. We survived all the way and found the place where we are now."
"It can be said that without the leadership of Ah Qing's grandfather, there might not be the current Jiuli Village."
"Unfortunately, Ah Qing's grandfather fell ill during the escape, failed to receive good treatment, and died early."
"And we were unable to protect his son and wife. As a result, they were deceived and left in an accident, leaving only two lonely children, A Qing and Xiao Yan. "
"Now that A Qing is lucky enough to be favored by you and become your teacher, it is a great blessing for him. I hope the old doctor will understand his lonely life and be more tolerant even if he makes a careless mistake in the future and give him more opportunities."
After saying that, Uncle Zhang gave Old Doctor Chen a deep bow.
Other villagers also learned to bow to the old doctor.
Seeing all the villagers bowing to him in unison, even with Old Doctor Chen's decades of qi-nurturing skills, he couldn't help but feel a little shaken in his heart.
As for Lu Qing, he was already shocked.
One is that some of the things Uncle Zhang said were not in the memory of the original owner.
The other thing is that he never expected that the people in the village would do this to him.
Old Doctor Chen was stunned for a moment, then quickly stepped forward to help Uncle Zhang up.
"Please get up first, fellow villagers. If you do this, you will really be ashamed of me."
Then he said to Uncle Zhang: "Old Zhang, Lu Qing is a very smart boy. It is a blessing for me to have him as my disciple, so don't worry, I will definitely teach him well."
Uncle Zhang suddenly became excited: "Then I will thank you, old doctor, on behalf of his grandfather and parents!"
Hands over the basket in his hand.
"I hope you will not be dissatisfied with accepting these small gifts."
"Zhang Zhang must not do it. I know that your life is not easy, so there is no need to be more polite."
"The etiquette cannot be discarded. Since it is a apprenticeship, there is no way to not show the gift of apprenticeship."
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After several refusals, Old Doctor Chen finally took a few eggs and a piece of bacon from the basket as the apprenticeship ceremony prepared by the villagers for Lu Qing.
As for the others, nothing can be accepted.
Lu Qing looked at this scene and secretly made a note, planning to make up the money after he went back.
To be honest, he really didn’t expect the apprenticeship ceremony.
I thought it was enough to just kowtow to the old doctor a few times in the presence of everyone.
But he ignored that this is a different world similar to ancient times.
The formal apprenticeship ceremony was more complicated than he imagined.
After such an episode, the old doctor invited the villagers into the yard.
Then under the witness of everyone, Lu Qing began to formally become a disciple.
(End of this chapter)
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