Chapter 24: Are You Willing to Be My Disciple?

Translator: Henyee Translations Editor: Henyee Translations

Doctor Wu quickly took her pulse and wrote a prescription. He said to the middle-aged man, “Go get the medicine!”

After the middle-aged man took the prescription, he immediately went to the shop assistant to get the medicine. Lin Ran looked at the woman’s painful expression and turned to ask Doctor Wu, “Doctor Wu, this patient is in a lot of pain. Can I help her relieve it?”

“No, you’re not a doctor. What if something goes wrong?” Doctor Wu objected with a straight face as he looked at Lin Ran. When he saw that the person who spoke was Lin Ran, his expression softened and he said, “Oh. Miss Lin, I didn’t realize it was you.”

“Do you remember me?” Lin Ran smiled. She did not expect Doctor Wu to remember her.

“Of course I remember,” Doctor Wu said in his heart. He naturally remembered the first woman he had seen using strong alcohol to reduce a patient’s fever but almost ended up drowned in the pond.

“Why are you here? Are you feeling unwell, or are you here to get medicine?”

“I’m here to sell herbs.” Lin Ran pointed at the shop assistant. Since the shop assistant was busy collecting herbs, Lin Ran’s basket was still placed by the side.

“Do you know about herbs?” Doctor Wu was pleasantly surprised. When he thought about how she knew how to reduce the patient’s fever from strong alcohol, he was no longer astonished.

Lin Ran smiled and replied, “I know a little.”

When Doctor Wu heard Lin Ran’s words, he recalled that she had said that she wanted to help the woman relieve her pain. His heart skipped a beat and he said, “You said that you can help the woman relieve her pain?”

“Yes!” Lin Ran smiled and nodded. “I have two ways to relieve the pain. One is acupuncture, and the other is massage.”

Doctor Wu was worried about acupuncture because he had never heard that Lin Ran knew medicine. Massage was noninvasive, so he was more open to the suggestion and said to Lin Ran, “Then give her a massage.”

“Okay!” Lin Ran was waiting for Doctor Wu to say this. She walked to the woman’s side and said with a smile, “Grandma, I saw that you were in a lot of pain, so I will give you a massage to relieve it, okay?”

“Can you really help me relieve my pain?” The woman had a look of disbelief on her face. She turned to Doctor Wu and asked, “Doctor, is this your disciple?”

Doctor Wu shook his head and said, “Miss Lin is not my disciple, but I think we can let her try. If it can really ease the pain in your body, won’t everyone be happy?”

The woman hesitated but finally nodded.

Seeing that the woman agreed, Lin Ran rolled up her sleeve slightly and pressed a few acupuncture points on the woman’s body. As she did so, the woman’s expression softened. Doctor Wu was a doctor, so he could tell at a glance that Lin Ran was pressing on an acupuncture point. He immediately became intrigued and asked, “Miss Lin, who is your master?”

Lin Ran wanted to say that her grandfather taught her Chinese medicine, but she was afraid of exposing herself. She was now a villager in Shanglin Village, and there were no medical practitioners in her family. In addition, she still wanted to acknowledge Doctor Wu as her master, so after some thought, she said, “I don’t have a master. I just read some medical books myself and tried it on my parents in the past.”

She initially thought Doctor Wu would get angry and think she was messing around. Unexpectedly, Doctor Wu looked at her in surprise and asked, “Miss Lin, do you want to be my student?”

When Lin Ran heard this, she was stunned. She did not expect things to go so smoothly. She was still thinking about how to ask Doctor Wu to take her in as his disciple after selling the herbs.

Doctor Wu had unexpectedly taken the initiative to bring it up. This was quite a stroke of luck and she had gotten what she wanted.