Chapter 502: Chapter 496: The Envy-Inducing Ancient Recipe of the Chen Family Chapter 502: Chapter 496: The Envy-Inducing Ancient Recipe of the Chen Family “How’s your learning there?” Tong Feng asked his granddaughter who just returned, “Director Zhu is your father’s friend, they were classmates.
He had a good relationship with your father, he should have taken good care of you.”
“Hmm, it’s fine, Uncle Zhu did take good care of me.”
Tong Shu quickly assisted Tong Feng to sit down.
Tong Feng, now nearly eighty years old, was a renowned Saintly National Doctor in the country who had been treating important figures and some specific patients.
He had treated and saved many lives.
The name of Saintly National Doctor was not self-proclaimed by him, but given by others.
“I heard from Uncle Zhu that he found you a good young doctor who has been studying traditional Chinese medicine since childhood, how is it going?”
Tong Feng was not a bad-looking man, although he was old, one could still see the handsome features from his youth.
His hair had turned to frost and his eyebrows had grown long, which were known to symbolize longevity.
His beard was white, and he was always in a green tunic, adding a sense of immortal spirit.
His title as the Saintly National Doctor was deserved, even just his demeanor was impressive enough.
“What young doctor?” Tong Shu curled her lip, “Grandpa, we were all deceived by Director Zhu.
That’s just a person who came from the countryside, learned a few days from a village doctor when he was a child, an internal medicine doctor, a swindler about my age.
What kind of ability does he have?”
“An internal medicine doctor?”
Tong Feng gently stroked his white beard, “It does seem to be a bit of an exaggeration, but you can also learn from her, more knowledge is good for you.”
“Grandpa, don’t worry, I will,” Tong Shu held onto Tong Feng’s sleeve tightly.
Tong Feng patted her granddaughter’s head.
Among all his grandchildren, only this granddaughter showed some talent in medical field, the others were just mediocre and unlikely to achieve greatness.
The situation now is incomparable to the past.
At present, each family has fewer children, and they are precious.
Even if she’s a granddaughter, a big family might only have one like her.
He wanted his grandson to inherit the medical skills of Tong Family, but his grandsons were all disappointing.
The medical skills of the Tong Family were traditionally passed down to the males.
But he couldn’t insist on sticking to old regulations now.
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If they were to continue with the old mindset, would the medical skills of the Tong Family disappear with his generation?
Out of everyone in this big family, only Tong Shu has such a great talent, which even surpassed her father and several uncles.
Alas, this generation of the Tong Family is indeed in decline.
“Grandpa, what are you making?” Tong Shu stood up, ran to the cabinet, took up some Chinese medicine and sniffed.
How could the smell of this medicine be so strange, clashing with each other, the end taste made people want to vomit.
“Some random concoction by your grandfather.”
Tong Feng smiled, “Oh, I’m getting old, I don’t have the energy I used to have.” He used to stand for days and nights without feeling anything, and he would still be full of spirit the next day, but now he couldn’t.
Just standing for a while, he began to feel aches in his waist and back, he’s really getting old.
“Grandpa is not old at all, you will definitely live to a hundred.”
Tong Shu ran over again and cuddled Tong Feng’s arm playfully.
“Grandpa still wants to see another Saintly National Doctor arise from our Tong Family.”
“Another Saintly National Doctor, who?”
Tong Feng had no idea who that would be.
His foolish son?
Alas, his son is indeed diligent and has made some accomplishments, but he is limited by his natural endowment and potential, so he won’t make much more progress, that’s just the way he will be for his lifetime.
As for the others, well, they are not even as good as the eldest.
Tong Shu pointed to her own nose, “Grandpa, of course it’s me.
I am the future Saintly National Doctor in our family.”
“Oh…” Tong Feng suddenly stroked his beard and chuckled.
“Right, how could I forget.
Our family’s little Shu is indeed the most talented one in our Tong Family.
She is only twenty-four, and she has already made some achievements.”
“That’s right,” Tong Shu was indeed very satisfied with her own medical skills.
She was the granddaughter of Saintly National Doctor Tong Feng, how could she be inferior to others?
With such good resources for her use, and she grew up under such circumstances, who could surpass her?
“By the way, Grandpa, what kind of medicine are you concocting?
I can’t smell what’s in it.”
Tong Shu ran over again and stirred the bag of herbs.
With her sharp nose, she was at a loss about what kind of medicine had been added inside to create such a strange smell.
“Ah…” Tong Feng sighed, “Originally, I wanted to make a medicine according to an ancient prescription, but unfortunately, it failed.”
“Ancient prescription, grandpa, do you know any ancient prescriptions?
Is it the one lost by our Tong Family?”
Tong Shu was very sensitive to the two words ‘ancient prescription’.
Their Tong family did have a few ancient prescriptions.
One of them was their family treasure, and it was this ancient prescription that had brought them today’s achievements.
Therefore, ‘ancient prescription’ is the lifeblood of their Tong family.
“No,” There was nothing Tong Feng hid from his granddaughter.
Tong Shu would inherit everything from the Tong Family one day, so it was not a problem to tell her about this.
“It’s Chen Family’s ancient prescription.”
“Chen Family’s ancient prescription?” Tong Shu frowned, “Which Chen family is grandpa referring to with this Chen Family’s ancient prescription?”
“It’s a mysterious family hidden from the world,” Tong Feng stroked his beard again, still keeping the demeanor of an old sage, “I was fortunate enough to meet a member of the Chen Family once, but sadly, he was only from a collateral branch, so he didn’t know much.
He once told me something about the Chen Family.”
“Chen Family’s ancient prescription was said to be passed down from the Divine doctor Hua Tuo.
Many of them are now extinct and they are very exquisite ones.
The Chen family is best at formulas that involve the interaction and restrictions of various herbs, changing their properties and tastes.”
“So can they turn the medicine sweet?”
Tong Shu snickered a bit.
Change the taste?
In her knowledge, medicine was always bitter.
The more ingredients added, the stranger the taste would be.
She had only heard that the taste would become worse, bitterer, and harder to swallow.
But no one ever mentioned that the taste could become sweeter and nicer to drink.
“It can be turned into sugar,” Tong Feng sighed again.
“It’s just a pity that the person from the collateral branch didn’t know much himself.
All he could tell me were just some basics.
If the taste of the medicine could really be turned sweet, then it could be used to treat children’s diseases instead of relying on transfusions every time they fall sick.”