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Chapter 2 - Chapter 2: Sickly Senior Sister

The memories left by the original owner are not many, mostly bits and pieces of life with Master Sun Simiao and Senior Sister Sun Youwei.

Day after day, year after year, it was a bit monotonous.

This guy's life was a bit too boring.

Indeed, the kindness of Master to him, teaching him medicine with great attention, Senior Sister was naturally beautiful, intelligent, and she treated him like a younger brother...

He didn't want to be treated as a younger brother, but he never expressed his feelings to Senior Sister.

He felt somewhat inferior, thinking he wasn't worthy of Senior Sister.

This feeling no longer exists now.

Then speaking of the death of Master Sun Simiao, the cause was a medical accident.

In Qingping Town, there was a family, the head was named Huang San, who suddenly fainted and foamed at the mouth while working in the field, and his family rushed to take him to the Sun Family's Herbal Hall for treatment.

After examining, Sun Simiao, based on the description by the patient's family, judged it as symptoms of heatstroke (it was the middle of summer), and prescribed a cooling and heat-relieving medicine, to be taken decocted in water.

Unexpectedly, after taking the medicine home and decocting it, the patient died before the next day.

The patient's family refused to let it go and immediately filed a lawsuit against Sun Simiao at the government office, accusing him of being an incompetent doctor who misdiagnosed and killed, demanding his life!

Sun Simiao, upon hearing this, was instantly struck by rage, contracting a wind-cold.

Lin Miao guessed it was: a stroke.

He remembered the prescription Sun Simiao gave to the Huang-named patient, it was indeed for heatstroke symptoms, he was not sure about the symptoms and dared not say whether the prescription was appropriate, but the prescription certainly wouldn't kill.

This is strange, how could the patient have died that night?

If the medicine couldn't kill, then it might have been a misdiagnosis, and the patient might have had other diseases.

If it was a misdiagnosis, even without taking the medicine prescribed by Sun Simiao, the patient could have died.

But the problem is, the person had been dead for two months, already buried, and now the Master also died because of this medical accident, seeking the truth is too difficult.

This became a muddled case.

However, Sun Simiao's death did not make this family spare the Sun Family, seeing that demanding a life for a life was impossible, the Huang Family demanded compensation for damages instead.

The death could have canceled everything out, but the Huang Family was a large family in town, with significant clan power, the government also feared them somewhat.

So they judged that the Sun Family should compensate the Huang San family with three hundred taels of silver.

Sun Simiao practiced medicine and was benevolent, helping others, plus at home he had a daughter in poor health, there was no extra money for compensation.

The only valuable thing was the "Sun Family's Herbal Hall."

And the Huang Family had always wanted to buy the "Herbal Hall" to expand their family ancestral hall, but Sun Simiao refused to sell...

Then came the incident with Huang San.

Now, after the seven-day mourning for Sun Simiao, if the money wasn't available, the "Herbal Hall" would have to be given as compensation, he and Senior Sister would be homeless.

This beginning was really unexpected.

The stomach suddenly grumbled, not having eaten anything after "sleeping" for a whole day, just brewed medicine for Senior Sister, finally realized he was hungry.

Even in a physician's home, no matter how poor, one could find something to eat.

There was some rice left in the vat, Lin Miao was overjoyed, washed it, and added some red dates, longan, and other ingredients to nourish and calm the mind.

Dietary therapy is much better than medicine.

Start a fire, cook porridge.

An hour later, the porridge was ready, served in a clay pot, and then brought to the main hall again.

Incense was lit again.

Returning to the room, seeing Sun Youwei sleeping sweetly, Lin Miao stepped forward to gaze carefully, her long eyelashes, curved bangs, just like a fairy in a painting, truly beautiful.

Especially the faint melancholy between her brows, it really made one's heart ache.

"Senior Sister, Senior Sister..." he called softly.

She mumbled in response.

Feeling someone calling her, Sun Youwei opened her eyes, seeing Lin Miao's face only three inches away, screamed in surprise: "Junior Brother, why are you so close to me?"

"Senior Sister, you are so beautiful."

Sun Youwei blushed immediately upon hearing this, this Junior Brother had never said such flirtatious words to her before, she was somewhat thin-skinned, unable to handle it, not knowing how to face it, the atmosphere became somewhat awkward.

"Senior Sister, you haven't eaten anything all day either, I cooked porridge, get up and have some." Lin Miao naturally reached out, supporting Sun You as she sat up.

"This, what kind of porridge is this, why does it smell so good?"

Junior Brother brewed medicine more bitterly than others, his cooking skills were even worse, how could it suddenly become so good?

As Lin Miao lifted the lid of the clay pot, a fragrant sweet aroma instantly filled the air, catching Sun Youwei's full attention.

"I added some medicinal herbs while cooking the porridge, simmered it into this pot of medicinal porridge, it's good for your health." Lin Miao explained while serving her a bowl.

"You added medicinal herbs to the porridge?" Sun Youwei was startled, having a painful past experience, almost losing her life from vomiting and diarrhea.

"No, isn't it okay?" Lin Miao was dumbfounded for a moment, isn't herbal and food medicine the same concept?

"Junior Brother, medicine is medicine, food is food, you must never mix them, it could result in death!" Sun Youwei seriously warned.

"Who said that?"

"Father said so, remember that time you added something to the soup, both father and I had severe vomiting and diarrhea, he especially warned us, did you forget?" Sun Youwei asked.

Lin Miao froze for a moment, searched through his memory, and indeed, there was such a past event, it was a misunderstanding caused by his limited knowledge of herbal properties.

However, the medicine in this world is honestly very different from the world he was from.

"Senior Sister, why don't I drink first, if I'm fine, you drink?" Lin Miao said, then took a sip himself.

Sun Youwei was very moved by this, her eyes instantly turned red, and she promptly said: "Junior Brother, this illness of mine can't be cured anyway, if it kills me, then bury me with father."

Watching Sun Youwei looking like she was close to death, Lin Miao sighed inwardly, "Ignorance really kills."

A bowl of sweet medicinal porridge went down her belly, not only did Sun Youwei not feel any toxic discomfort, but rather a warm sensation in her stomach, a warm current flowed to her limbs and bones, instantly dispelling the cold within her, it felt very comfortable.

She hadn't felt this comfortable for a long time.

Especially her chest, which always felt like something was pressing on it, now felt much more relaxed, and she realized she hadn't coughed much from the time she drank Lin Miao's medicinal soup until now.

This was unimaginable before.

"Junior Brother, what medicinal herbs did you put in this porridge?"

To be honest, this disciple was considered dim in Master Sun Simiao's eyes, while Senior Sister Sun Youwei's talent in medicine was above his.

Usually, when learning medicine from Sun Simiao, if he could comprehend one out of ten sentences, it was already good, while Senior Sister could not only understand but also infer new knowledge from old.

Sun Youwei, being a girl, even if she learned medicine, passing medical examinations was many times more difficult than for men; if she wanted to open a clinic and practice medicine, it would be more difficult, with many unexpected obstacles.

"Just ordinary red dates, lily, goji berries, and adenophora." Lin Miao casually said.

"Measurements, how much of each?" Sun Youwei asked excitedly, as any prescription had a certain fixed quantity, not to be casually mixed, it was knowledge drawn from the sacrifice of predecessors.

Therefore, every prescription in this world was well-forged, passed on by physicians from generation to generation, not to be changed at will.

"This, I didn't pay attention..." Lin Miao was indeed stumped, these things were grabbed at random, he didn't decide the quantity, just went with the feeling.

Sun Youwei nearly rolled her eyes, such a good dietary prescription was lost just like that, knowing that this kind of dietary prescription that could cure disease is very precious, and ordinary people couldn't afford it.

Of course, whether it was a dietary prescription was not for anyone to decide, it required government evaluation and confirmation for it to be deemed truly effective, only then could it be classified as a dietary prescription.

Once classified as a dietary prescription, regardless of whether it is public or self-operated, there are countless benefits.

The evaluation of dietary prescriptions had long been monopolized by the Imperial Pharmacy, Xinglin Institute, and various medical families, whenever a new dietary prescription was born, it must have originated from these sects and institutions, wild pharmacists had no chance at all.

Alas, I was overthinking, Junior Brother is pure-hearted, how could he know these things?

I don't have much time left either, why think so much, Father, you left, your daughter is afraid she will soon accompany you.

Suddenly feeling her abdomen moving, Sun Youwei blushed and said, "Junior Brother, please leave for a moment, I need to relieve myself."

"Can Senior Sister manage herself?"

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