Longevity starts with learning

"You want to study medicine?"

In Mingxintang, Mr. Li put down the book in his hand and looked slightly surprised.

"right."

Chu Mu nodded and said nothing more. He had known Mr. Li for a while, and Chu Mu had probably figured out his character.

A person who tells the truth doesn't need to say too much.

It's best if he agrees. If he doesn't agree, then he will think of other ways.

Extraordinary power is beyond his reach, but secular medicine is not difficult.

"Every family has its own basis for inheritance."

"But I have no children, so I don't think much of it."

"But medicine is as vast as the sea and cannot be learned overnight. You are busy with official duties, so I'm afraid..."

Chu Mu didn't seem to hear the polite refusal in Mr. Li's words, and still said to himself: "Now that I have been promoted to captain, my time is much more relaxed, so there should be no big problem."

"I'm curious, since you have already made a name for yourself in the officialdom, why do you still want to study medicine?"

Chu Mu smiled: "If you study medicine... you will live longer!"

Mr. Li took a deep look at Chu Mu and pondered for a moment: "Since little brother Mu is determined to do this, I can't refuse."

"Don't worry, Mr. Li, I understand the rules."

As he spoke, Chu Mu took out a small wooden box from his arms and handed it to the table in front of Mr. Li.

There was nothing else in the box, just a wad of banknotes.

Three hundred silver!

This price, which was extremely expensive and almost wiped out all of Chu Mu's remaining net worth, naturally had a basis.

Before coming, Chu Mu inquired through the inspection station's channels about the apprentices of Mingxintang. Of course, this apprentice refers to the apprentice who truly inherits Mr. Li's medical skills, not the apprentice who does odd jobs.

According to what Chu Mu heard about, there are two types of apprentices. One is naturally appreciated by Mr. Li himself and accepted as a disciple to pass on what he has learned.

The other kind is through various relationships, and then giving money and property, and finally being accepted by Mr. Li as a disciple to pass on what he has learned.

The value of the property is generally around two hundred silver.

Studying medicine is obviously not a despicable profession in this era.

It can even be said to be a respected position.

After all, whether it is at the beginning of qi and blood practice, which requires an understanding of the body's structure, or whether it is the beginning of qi and blood practice, the assistance of medicinal materials is inseparable from medicine.

Judging from what Chu Mu knows now, studying is something only wealthy people can do, and practicing martial arts requires wealth and status.

Without money, he cannot support the expenses of practicing martial arts, and without status, he has no access to martial arts at all.

The respect for martial arts in a certain sense also directly led to the soaring status of medicine.

Mr. Li in front of him is undoubtedly the best example.

According to Chu Mu's opinion, three hundred silver was undoubtedly a bit too little.

After all, if someone can enter Mingxintang as an apprentice with about two hundred silver, there must be other favors involved.

His three hundred silver may seem expensive, but it also lacks a vital human connection.

Mr. Li did not glance at the wooden box in front of him. Instead, he looked at Chu Mu again: "I heard that there were large-scale casualties in the mine yesterday?"

Chu Mu frowned. He didn't care that Mr. Li was well-informed, but more importantly, could he tell?

The gag order does exist.

Misfortune may come from the mouth.

It only took a moment for Chu Mu to make a decision. After pondering for a while, he slowly told what he saw and heard in the mine yesterday.

"Life is like a piece of grass..."

After listening to what Chu Mu said, Mr. Li looked a little melancholy and sighed softly.

Immediately, Mr. Li stood up and pulled out a stack of books from the bookshelf on the side: "Brother Mu, take these books back and study them yourself."

"The way of medicine is vast, but the key is perseverance."

"Brother Mu, since you have chosen medical skills, you must not slack off."

"Mu understands."

Chu Mu took the thick stack of books with a slightly solemn expression.

He knew very well that this stack of books was no longer just a medical book for him, but represented the future he could foresee.

As for other things...such as a higher level of transcendence, although he dreams of it, at least for now, he has not been able to find a channel to contact it.

After leaving Mingxintang, Chu Mu stopped. The sun was blazing above his head. The weather was still sunny in the cold winter months. The number of patrols on the street had returned to the previous level of security.

Chu Mujin went straight to his home, but he was not in too much of a hurry. Wu Shuo had full control over the town's security forces and had great power, so he was directly granted a whole day's leave.

A day off is a rare leisure day.

When I got home, the most eye-catching thing was naturally the big hole in the bedroom roof.

It's just that I just lost 300 silver and almost wiped out all the little money I had left. I have no money to repair it, so I can only put it on hold temporarily.

Touching the banknotes in his arms that he could no longer feel, Chu Mu couldn't help but twitch the corner of his mouth.

After all, his income is really not bad.

The beheading reward alone was nearly a year's monthly salary, and black gold was also included. In just one or two months, he earned hundreds of silver!

An ordinary farmer's family might not be able to earn so much money in their lifetime.

But the more money you make, the more you use it.

Walking into the room, a stack of books was spread out. The couch in the bedroom had been moved over. Chu Mu sat on it, picked up a book and started reading.

With several previous books on human body structure as a foundation, Chu Mu naturally had some understanding of the medicine of this era.

According to Chu Mu's understanding, the medicine of this era is like a combination of Chinese and Western medicine.

Although it is still the same set of theories of yin and yang and the five elements, the dialectical thinking in it is also very obvious.

In other words, Chinese medicine has more scientific pioneering and enterprising spirit.

This point can be clearly seen from the human body structure medical books that are comparable to the anatomical professional books of the previous life. The medicine of this era is not confined to the rules and limited to itself, but is exploring the unknown.

If Chu Mu was still puzzled by such abnormalities before, but knew about the higher level of extraordinary, all this, in Chu Mu's view, is undoubtedly taken for granted.

Whether the higher level of extraordinary is immortal cultivation or high martial arts fantasy, it must involve the mystery of human evolution.

How can such a world involving the mystery of human evolution be conservative?

And the secular world under the control of such a world, even if this secular world is feudal and backward, is inevitably affected.

Those volumes of anatomical books and the extremely cheap food, in Chu Mu's view, are probably the real manifestation of being affected by the higher level of extraordinary.

There must be many more manifestations of this.

Just like the iron ore in the mine, Nanshan Town, Qinghe County, and even the secular governance structure of the entire county...

There must be others.

It's just that Chu Mu hasn't discovered it yet. After all, although he has been in this world for several months, his range of activities, except for that time when he went into the mountains to suppress bandits, has been confined to Nanshan Town all the rest of the time.

His cognition and understanding are still limited.

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