After Mr. Qian found out about this, he went straight to Zhou Man, "Did Mr. Zhou recruit Hu Xiaomei specially to attract people to become apprentices?"
Zhou Man smiled and said: "This is just one of the reasons. The most important reason is that Hu Dalang begged me, and Hu Xiaomei also wanted to be an apprentice, so I accepted it."
Mr. Qian couldn't help asking, "How talented is she?"
"At least it's okay to learn medicine."
Mr. Qian understood it, and then went out overnight. The next day, many people in Beihai County heard about it, especially the shopkeepers and doctors of the two pharmacies. I took in an apprentice yesterday, who is only nine years old, so I plan to teach him from an early age."
"It's just an apprentice, and it's not certain whether it can be learned."
"The last time, there will be no problem in taking medicine in the future. I heard that she is an ordinary little girl with a poor family background. It is better to learn skills than to waste time at home and get married when she is old."
"With Master Zhou's heart, even though he is only an apprentice, he will definitely teach him well."
"Yeah, last time I asked her about chest pain, she went to search for medical books and answered me. She still has such intentions for outsiders like us, let alone apprentices."
"It's a pity that we were born at the wrong time. If we were born twenty years later, I would also go to the medical office as an apprentice."
"... Shopkeeper, you are from the Xinglin family, even if you are an apprentice, should we go like this?"
"What's the matter, Ji Shitang even gave their young treasurer to Mrs. Zhou as an apprentice. At that time, she was not famous all over the world." He felt that even if he couldn't be an apprentice, being an apprentice was more than enough.
It's just a pity that I was born at an untimely time, and was born too early.
This incident did not cause much commotion in Beihai County at first, but not long after, someone took the child to the medical office and wanted to ask Zhou Man to accept the child.
Mr. Qian refused directly instead of Zhou Man.
The medical department wants apprentices, but they are mature, have medical skills, at least have a certain understanding of pharmacology, and can help. Hu Xiaomei is the first one, so it is special, and they will not randomly accept the latter.
Everyone is busy now, who has time to take care of the children
It was Hu Xiaomei, she was sensible and obedient enough, Zhou Man only accepted her. She has been doing the work of cutting and grinding medicinal herbs for several months before, and she is already familiar with it.
It's the same now, she still has to do these jobs, but she used to have wages, but now she doesn't, and now, every time she cuts herbs, Zhou Man will tell her what the herbs are called and what their medicinal properties are, and then let her keep cutting and memorizing them all the time. …
The next time she needs to grind other medicinal materials, Zhou Man will tell her what this medicinal material is called and what its properties are, and let her continue to grind the medicinal materials and memorize them.
Sometimes she can memorize three or four herbs in a day, sometimes she can only memorize one, and sometimes she needs to recognize more than a dozen herbs in a row. Continue to recognize and carry on.
This is a daytime job, and she will have to learn to read later in the day.
Most of the time, Zhou Man taught her a certain number of words every day, and occasionally Mr. Qian would teach her when he saw it.
But this kind of non-systematic learning is very difficult, especially this kind of character is not from easy to difficult, it is to learn whichever medicine is learned.
After less than ten days of teaching, Zhou Man felt that this was not possible, because after ten days, Hu Xiaomei memorized only two words, and all other words were mixed up.
Fortunately, she had memorized most of the herbs, otherwise Zhou Man would have doubted his judgment of her.
So Zhou Man took out a copy of "Thousand Characters" from his study room and gave it to her, saying: "It's too difficult to read from the names of medicinal materials, you should read it from the Thousand Characters."
Zhou Man taught her two thousand-character sentences every day, and then compared them to recognize the characters.
This effect will be much better, at least when Zhou Man asked her to recognize the writing, she finally recognized it.
Mr. Qian looked at it and couldn't help being curious, "Master Zhou, did you doctors learn to read from the names of medicines?"
"I'm not," Zhou Man said after thinking for a while, "but other people learned it this way, not only the apprentices in the pharmacy learned it this way, the disciples of the Xinglin family also learned to read from medical books."
First memorize the prescriptions of famous medicine and medicine, and then compare and recognize characters one by one. Even Zheng Gu knew characters like this when he was a child.
He's okay, he started to read the characters by memorizing the names of the medicines. Generally, apprentices first recognize the medicinal materials, and only after he has recognized the medicinal materials almost can he start to read the characters against each other, and then he has to learn to grasp the medicines with the prescriptions...
Therefore, the process of apprenticeship to study medicine is particularly long, and one needs to be able to endure loneliness and endure hardships.
Such a boring apprenticeship life without even seeing the way forward is very torturous, and there are so many repetitive tasks to be done on a daily basis.
When Zhou Man was sitting in Jishitang, she saw what the apprentices of the medicine boy had to do every day and passed it on to herself. She felt that she might not be as good as them. She felt that her patience was never good enough.
Mr. Qian laughed and said, "That's why adults are different from them."
Mr. Qian felt that since there are better and more systematic learning methods, why must he follow the habits of pharmacies and clinics
But looking at Hu Xiaomei, I know how difficult it is to study medicine. I don't know how many years it will take for her to be able to help Zhou Man.
So they still need mature "apprentices", and Mr. Qian continued to work hard.
Finally, not long after the winter solstice, someone finally came to the door. It was a middle-aged doctor with a young man. After entering the medical office, he went to Zhou Man directly, "Master Zhou, we meet again."
Zhou Man had just finished dealing with a patient, when he turned his head and saw him startled for a moment, then laughed, "Doctor Wei, please sit in the main room."
Dr. Wei is a doctor from Qingzhou. He owns a pharmacy in his home. Naturally, it cannot be compared with a big pharmacy like Jishitang Baicaotang, but he is also well-known in Qingzhou. Last time, he and several doctors from Qingzhou came to Zhou Man for advice. question.
There are still patients in Zhou Man, so she can only let him sit down for a while. She reads the rest of the patients first before going to receive them.
Because the last two patients were men, Dr. Wei stood by and watched for a while. When he saw the prescription prescribed by Zhou Man, he made a comparison in his heart before prescribing it himself. ah.
Zhou Man not only prescribed medicine, but also prescribed acupuncture, but she looked at the time and said to the two patients: "You need to eat before getting the needle, and it's almost noon now, so go and eat something first. Come back in the future, and I will give you a needle."
The two responded immediately.
As soon as the patient left, Dr. Wei immediately called up the young man beside him, and said with a smile to Zhou Man: "Master Zhou, this is a dog."
He had communicated with Zhou Man and knew that she didn't want to be courteous, so he said directly, "I heard that Mr. Zhou is accepting apprentices. What do you think of my son? He has studied with me for several years. Look at Fang Grabbing medicine is not a problem, if adults need it, feel free to order him, if he is stupid, he is free to beat and scold him."
The young man stood quietly aside, and when Zhou Man looked over, he nodded in agreement.
Zhou Man turned her head to look at Dr. Wei. In fact, she didn't like his son, she liked him, but how could she speak
So sad.