When Yan Sen heard the little kid say that he wanted to learn forbidden spells, he couldn't help but frown.
"I heard that you are good at making medicine, why do you suddenly want to enter the Yin-Yang Department?"
The Medical Department is divided into two departments, medicine and yin and yang, and the yin and yang department includes the thirteen departments of incantations.
Yingbao: "I have been majoring in forbidden spells, and the medicine I make is only effective because of the blessing of forbidden spells."
She just wants to learn forbidden spells, let’s see what the heroine can do to her
Yan Sen flipped through the booklet, frowning even more tightly. He tried to persuade the little girl to change her mind: "Why would a girl like you learn forbidden spells? It would be better for you to learn how to prepare medicine from the doctor of medicine. It will be easier for you to take the examination for the provincial academy later."
Yingbao blinked: "I like forbidden spells, and I don't want to learn anything else."
She didn't want to take the entrance exam for the provincial academy, as she might be sent to the border if she wasn't careful.
Because the imperial court would appoint some medical assistants or doctors to practice medicine in various places every year, and they would be assessed every three years. Only those who passed the assessment would have the possibility of being transferred to the provincial capital or the capital to take up positions.
If a place is hit by an infectious disease such as plague or typhoid, doctors from the medical offices of various counties, prefectures and states will be sent to that place in advance.
The lucky ones may be able to come back intact, but the unlucky ones who are infected with some incurable epidemic will have to be buried in the wilderness.
No, it was impossible to even bury the bodies. They would most likely be burned in a fire and even the ashes would be abandoned.
I am still young and haven’t lived enough. There is still a lot of money in the cave that I haven’t spent. How can I die at such a young age
Seeing her stubbornness, Yan Sen threatened her, "Do you know that once you learn the forbidden spell, you must strictly observe the Five Precepts, the Ten Virtues, the Eight Precepts, and the Four Refuges?"
Yingbao nodded: "I know." But whether to obey it or not is up to her.
Yan Sen was speechless for a moment.
But the doll was stubborn and he was helpless, so he had to take it to a spell master in the Yin-Yang class.
There was only one forbidden spell master in the medical department, who was in his fifties and had two forbidden spell apprentices.
Yingbao recognized at a glance that one of the younger disciples was the boy who had laughed at her before.
Master Zhou was very gentle, but serious. He wore a feather crown, a Taoist robe, and held a whisk in his hand. He tested the girl on several forbidden spells, asked her to perform two sacrificial dances, and drew several talismans, and then accepted her as his wife.
"These two are your senior brothers. You will do your homework with them from now on."
Master Zhou then said to his two disciples, "Zhou Hao, Zhang Min, take your little sister to read the Immortal Scripture first. I will test her in a few days."
"Yes." The eldest brother Zhou Hao and the second junior brother Zhang Min bowed to the master and took the younger junior sister to the classroom.
As soon as he entered the classroom, Zhang Min stretched his neck and came over, smiling, "Junior sister, you really are a fellow practitioner. Your Yu Bu is better than that of Senior Brother."
Zhou Hao glanced at his second junior brother and said calmly, "Junior brother, stop being so funny. Hurry up and get a set of ritual implements for the little junior sister."
Zhang Min agreed and happily ran to get the things.
He was with this stern senior brother all day long and was scolded from time to time. He was almost depressed to death. Now, a younger sister has finally come and he can finally satisfy his senior brother's desire.
After a while, Zhang Min brought in a wooden box and took out a set of wizard robes, a handheld tambourine, a stack of yellow talisman paper, a brush, and a box of cinnabar.
Zhang Min handed the things to Ying Bao, "What you need here is a peach wood sword and a tube of phosphorus powder. I'll go to the front and get them for you later."
Yingbao nodded: "Thank you, Second Brother."
Next, Yingbao officially enrolled in the Yin-Yang Department.
Every day she not only had to memorize the spells, but also practice the Qi Transferring Technique with Master Zhou.
This set of exercises combined with the Yu Step can absorb true Qi into the body and circulate it through all the meridians. It can both improve health and cure diseases.
These words were said by Master Zhou, who also created a set of boxing techniques that he required his three apprentices to practice every day.
Ten days passed in a flash, and today was a day off, so Yingbao decided to go to her own shop to check out and buy some daily necessities.
Of course, the main reason was that she wanted to go out and relax, and eat some meat.
Because the master said that when learning the forbidden mantras, one must abstain from meat, alcohol, sex, and the five pungent vegetables. One is also not allowed to argue with others, and one cannot be angry or happy at random, or kill at will.
She could accept everything else except giving up meat.
So Yingbao had to sneak back to the shop alone and ask her second cousin to buy some meat for her.
Just as she walked out of the hospital door, she heard someone calling her, "Yingbao, where are you going?"
Yingbao turned around and saw that it was Chen Tiantian, Wen Yurong, and Senior Sister Xueqian.
"I'm going home." Ying Bao didn't want to pay attention to Chen Tiantian, but with Senior Sister Xue Qian beside her, she had to answer.
Xue Qian was surprised: "So Junior Sister's home is in the county town."
Yingbao nodded.
Chen Tiantian smiled and said, "Yingbao, we don't know where your home is. Can you take us to have a look?"
"No." Ying Bao didn't want to spoil her, and said, "The elders in the family are not in the county town. Only my eldest brother and his wife live there. He and his sister-in-law just got married, so it's not convenient for them to receive unmarried women."
Before Chen Tiantian could say anything, Ying Bao turned to Xue Qian and said, "Senior Sister, I have something else to do, so I'll leave first."
After saying that, he left quickly.
Chen Tiantian gritted her teeth secretly, but smiled and said to Xue Qian and Wen Yurong: "Yingbao always speaks like this. It's ok for her to be rude to me, but she was also rude to Senior Sister Xue Qian and Sister Yurong."
Xue Qian and Wen Yurong both looked unhappy.
It's really embarrassing to be rejected directly.
Wen Yurong scolded, "Tiantian, we are not familiar with her, and she treats you badly, why do you want to go to her house?" Isn't this just asking for trouble? It would be fine if Chen Tiantian embarrassed herself, but she had to drag herself and Xue Qian into it. It was really inexplicable.
Chen Tiantian paused and said aggrievedly: "We are classmates after all, so I thought I could have a good relationship with her, but I didn't expect her to be so unkind and not even give face to my senior sister."
Xue Qian frowned and looked at her for a while, then said, "I have something else to do, so I won't go shopping with you." Then she turned around and went back to the hospital.
Wen Yurong also felt that Chen Tiantian was a little weird, especially when facing Yingbao, but she was unfamiliar with the place and had to continue to stay with her.
"Tiantian, didn't you grow up in this county? How about we go to your home and take a look?" In order to ease the awkwardness, Wen Yurong made small talk.
Chen Tiantian was silent for a moment and nodded in agreement.
Her house was sold by her uncle, but she had one hundred taels of silver sent by her mother and another hundred taels of silver given by the Xiao family. With two hundred taels of silver, she didn't know if she could redeem the old house.
The two girls were wearing white medical gowns, and no one in the county dared to mess with them, so they hired an ox cart and headed towards Zhuzhi Lane.
Arriving at Zhuzhi Lane, Chen Tiantian got out of the car and stood in front of her house.
The house here consists of three tiled houses with a kitchen. A low wall half a person's height surrounds a small courtyard that you can see the end of at a glance.
"Erya?" A woman came out from the kitchen and saw two girls in white clothes and black hats standing outside the low wall. She looked at them carefully for a while and called out Chen Tiantian's nickname directly.