The Challenge of a Farmhouse Son-in-Law

Gu Youyou nodded and said, "So, Master’s intention is definitely not to make you an attendant, but a doctor, isn’t it?"

"Yes, but Yuancheng is too stupid, always failing to learn well." He hung his head in frustration.

Gu Youyou shook her head, her voice warm and smiling, "It’s not that Yuancheng is too stupid, but rather that Yuancheng learns too quickly."

"Learns too quickly?" Yuancheng jolted, suddenly lifting his head to look at Gu Youyou.

Gu Youyou explained, "Learning anything is like building a house, we need to lay a solid foundation first and then slowly build up from there, so that the house is sturdy. Yuancheng, medical texts are much more difficult than the books normal students read. Even if you can understand the words, it doesn’t mean you can apply them deftly. A house can be dismantled and rebuilt, but Medical Skills are different; there is no second chance, it doesn’t tolerate even a slight mistake. Because one error from you could mean the death of a patient, do you understand?"

Yuancheng looked at Gu Youyou with a dazed half-understanding.

Gu Youyou smiled and said, "This is what we’ll do. I’ll have Qin Changlin enroll you in school. You should start by learning to read and write there. At the very least, you need to be able to recognize every character in the medical texts on your own."

Holding the medical book and pondering for a long while, Yuancheng seemed to grasp what Gu Youyou meant and muttered, "Does Sister Youyou mean to recognize all the characters first before studying the medical texts?"