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"Gu Family’s second girl, where did you learn this healing skill?" Uncle Wang from next door asked curiously, and everyone else perked up their ears.
Nianyang had already thought of an excuse, "There are books about traditional Chinese medicine in our school library. I read them whenever I have time and picked up a few things."
Hearing this, the neighbors looked at Nianyang even more admiringly. Wow, just by reading medical books, she could learn to heal. Her intelligence must be incredibly high.
It is a known fact that since ancient times, medicine has been divided into Western and Chinese practices. Western medicine is a science, while Chinese medicine is a culture, amassing over two thousand years of pharmaceutical knowledge, profound and extensive.
Western medicine uses instruments for diagnosis and treatment, with drugs made up of chemical components, harming the liver and kidneys.
Chinese medicine emphasizes looking, listening, questioning, and feeling the pulse, with medicines being purely natural, known as Chinese herbal medicine.
In the eyes of rural people, Chinese medicine can assimilate Western medicine, but Western medicine can never assimilate Chinese medicine. Even after 200 years, Western medicine still cannot compare.
Thus, Chinese medicine is the hardest to learn. Without decades of effort, it is impossible to learn it properly. Hence, very few study Chinese medicine, and many give up halfway, choosing the easy and fashionable Western medicine instead.
At the moment, Nianyang is just a teenage girl who can understand how to treat diseases with Chinese medicine just by reading a book. It’s truly amazing.
In contrast, the so-called genius girl Gu Youlan was simply not worth mentioning. In the recent emergency, not only did she not help with the treatment, but she also misguided everyone with sarcastic remarks, truly thinking Nianyang was being reckless.
Thinking about how they misunderstood Nianyang just now, everyone felt a bit of resentment towards Gu Youlan.
Saozi Gao sarcastically said, "Big Gu girl, doesn’t your academic performance surpass Second Gu girl’s? Why didn’t you step up to help DouDou just now?"
Gu Youlan could tell this remark was sarcastic towards her, and she felt miserable, forcing a smile, "I’m aiming for college in the future, why would I read medical books unrelated to academics? Yangyang’s grades are poor probably because she reads too many medical books and forgets her duty as a student."
The White Lotus truly lives up to her name; with one sentence, she eased her embarrassment while subtly mocking Nianyang for only reading leisure books and not focusing on proper studies.
Nianyang smirked coldly in her heart, aren’t you just proud of your academic achievements?
Wait until the preliminary test scores come out, let’s see how proud you are then!
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Upon returning to the house, Gu Youlan accused, "Yangyang, when did you learn to heal, why didn’t you tell me and Mom and Dad? You just made us look so foolish."
Nianyang looked innocent, "Sis, I was just trying the remedies mentioned in the medical book, and didn’t expect it to work. Moreover, the school arranged an emergency rescue class earlier and gave each student a medical book. Didn’t you understand it?"
This statement indirectly implied that Gu Youlan was ignorant and dull-witted. Gu Youlan’s face stiffened.
Wang Ying, protective of her daughter, immediately jumped in, "It’s just reading a shabby old medical book, nothing worth flaunting about, it won’t fill your stomach. Your sister has excellent grades and will be the college student of the family, unlike you, a silly girl who doesn’t study properly, always fiddling with useless things."
Wang Ying was uneducated, with little cultural knowledge, oblivious to the fact that knowing healing was far more valuable in today’s world than burying one’s head in books, even more than being a college student.
But Gu Youlan knew very well. Precisely because she knew the high status of medical skills nowadays, hearing Wang Ying say this made her feel extremely humiliated.
"Mom, stop it." For the first time, Gu Youlan felt embarrassed to have such a mom, tugging at her sleeve awkwardly, and walked away, feeling stifled.
"Hey, Lanlan..." Realizing her elder daughter was unhappy, Wang Ying quickly followed after her, turning halfway to give Nianyang a vicious glare.
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With a bang.
Two fireworks suddenly bloomed in her mind.
A cute and soft voice of the Space Spirit sounded [Congratulations to the master for successfully treating little DouDou, earning 5 Life Value points. The current total Life Value in the database is 6, just 4 points away from being able to redeem the right to use the laboratory]
Nianyang, "..."
This Space Spirit is truly something, it can even set off special effect fireworks?
However, thinking about how she toiled all night just to earn 1 Life Value.
Just now solving DouDou’s snake venom in merely ten minutes and easily gaining 5 Life Value points, it was so satisfying, looks like there will be more life-saving and healing in the future.