Chapter 76: Chapter 11 dicine Man Examination (Part 2)
The Great National Doctor is a legendary physician who ranks even higher than an Imperial Physician.
The Great National Doctor, who no longer practices dicine today, had ntored many Imperial Physicians in his early years. He had an exceptional status in dicine Emperor Pavilion, and in his later years, only kept a dicine Man by his side.
That dicine Man is the woman before us, nad Qi Fangfei.
Therefore, despite Qi Fangfei’s young age and her status as just a dicine Man, her position in dicine Emperor Pavilion is quite distinguished, enabling her to speak up even in front of people like Yao Rong.
No wonder Kong the Pharmacist would be so incredibly respectful upon eting her.
"So these are the dicine n who have co to participate in today’s examination? I heard you are conducting the second round of the dicine Man Examination. Let
have a look; how well have you brewed your dicines?" Qi Fangfei ca to dicine Emperor Pavilion today to find a dicinal Herb, and incidentally heard that there was a batch of new dicine n attending the examination.
Although she holds a high position in dicine Emperor Pavilion, she is still a girl in her teens, with a naive and cheerful nature. Recalling her own struggles with the dicine Man Examination in her early years, she sneakily ca over to take a look.
"Miss Qi, please look, these are all the prepared dicines," Kong the Pharmacist readily handed over the judging responsibilities to Qi Fangfei.
Qi Fangfei looked at the dicine bowl placed at the front, and just by observing the color, she pursed her lips, "Not qualified, the heat was clearly insufficient."
The face of the dicine Gathering Boy changed, and he left in despondency.
Qi Fangfei looked at several other bowls of dicine and, to her surprise, found fault with each one.
At this mont, she approached another dicine bowl and saw an empty bowl placed ahead, inside and out, without a single drop of dicine.
"Ha! This really is rare. You, why didn’t you prepare the dicine?" Qi Fangfei suddenly saw an empty bowl and upon a closer look, realized that its owner was just a little child. "Could it be that you don’t know how to prepare dicine?"
"It’s not that I don’t know how to prepare dicine, but rather my dicinal Herbs are incorrect, the amount is too small, and the age too young. To do it carelessly would not only fail to save soone, but could also possibly harm them," Yun Sheng said slowly, presenting her portion of dicinal Herbs to both Qi Fangfei and Kong the Pharmacist.
Such an action from Yun Sheng scared Cheng Qing and a few troublemaking dicine Gathering Boys, making them bow their heads, not daring to make a sound.
Qi Fangfei was taken aback and couldn’t help but recall her own early days as a dicine Man. Once, due to the dical warehouse’s negligence, a dicinal Herb that should have been ten years old was wrongly matched as an eight-year-old. Although she noticed, she thought the two-year difference wouldn’t greatly affect the effect and carelessly prepared the dicine anyway.
Little did she know, the Great National Doctor, upon inspecting the dicine, was furious and scolded her on the spot: "You knew there was a mistake with the dicinal ingredients, yet you still prepared it. How can you consider yourself a qualified dicine Man!"
After checking, Kong the Pharmacist indeed found that the year of the dicinal Herb was wrong. Qi Fangfei glanced at Cheng Qing and the others, who were guilty as thieves, and her voice suddenly turned stern with a warning: "Listen, I don’t care how today’s incident happened, but rember, as dicine n, you must never switch dicinal materials. If any of you dares to fra your colleagues like this in the future, you will be excluded from the dical profession forever!"
The few attendant boys were so scared they trembled like chaff, and Cheng Qing was also ashen-faced.
Through this round of assessnt, another thirteen dicine Gathering Boys were disqualified. Although Yun Sheng did not prepare dicine, she smoothly passed the test thanks to her quick wits.
However, Qi Fangfei did not leave. That round of assessnt had piqued her interest in Yun Sheng.
She also learned from Kong the Pharmacist that Yun Sheng had accurately identified eighteen dicinal Herbs in the first round of assessnt.
She wanted to see how Yun Sheng would perform in the third round of assessnt.
"This third round of assessnt involves identifying herbs," by the third round of assessnt, the dicine Gathering Boys appeared much more relaxed than before.
Identifying herbs might be difficult for the average person, but for these dicine Gathering Boys who have mostly followed their respective Pharmacists since childhood and frequently entered the dicine Emperor Pavilion’s herbal storehouse, save for so particularly rare Treasures, they recognized most of the dicinal Herbs.
Kong the Pharmacist watched the change in the boys’ expressions and shook his head: "However, this ti’s identification of herbs will be sowhat different from previous years. Your assessnt location will not be in the herbal storehouse. Follow ."
Where could the identification of dicines take place if not in the dicine library?
Not just the dicine Gathering Boys, even Qi Fangfei herself wore a look of utter confusion.
A train of people followed one after another, arriving at the main entrance of the dicine Emperor Pavilion.
At this mont, including Fan Zhi and Cheng Sihai, along with so commoners who ca to buy dicine or seek a doctor’s advice, were also at the main entrance. They all showed an interested expression when they saw a group of dicine Gathering Boys coming out.
As Qi Fangfei passed by, she caught sight of Fan Zhi and hesitated for a mont, but still called out: "Elder brother apprentice."
Originally, Fan Zhi, Yao Rong, and Cheng Sihai were all disciples of the sa reclusive Great National Doctor, making them senior apprentice brothers to Qi Fangfei.
Upon seeing Qi Fangfei, Fan Zhi nodded and said with a wry smile: "I am no longer your elder brother apprentice."
"Ah, elder brother apprentice... Doctor Fan, what brings you to the dicine Emperor Pavilion today?" Qi Fangfei sighed, rembering that Fan Zhi had long been expelled from both the ntorship and the dicine Emperor Pavilion.
"Junior sister apprentice, he’s here with his dicine Gathering Boys to participate in the examination, that little girl there. Hmph, who would have thought she could last until the final round," Cheng Sihai greeted warmly, while Qi Fangfei showed a rather indifferent attitude.
It turns out the young girl was the elder brother apprentice’s dicine Gathering Boy; no wonder she had a temperant so similar to his.
At this point, Yun Sheng and the other twenty dicine Gathering Boys were standing at the entrance, clueless.
Kong the Pharmacist chuckled, "Now begins your third round of the examination. You have the ti it takes an incense stick to burn to identify which dicinal herbs were used to create the aroma within this Red Gold Tripod. Rember, you must guess all the herbs correctly to pass the examination, otherwise, you’ll be deed to have failed."
They are actually being asked to differentiate the herbs within the tripod!
All twenty dicine Gathering Boys were taken aback that their third round of examination turned out to be this.
"Isn’t this just making things difficult? How are we supposed to guess today’s aroma when the incense tripod at the main entrance is filled with a different fragrance each day?" The dicine Gathering Boys all frowned deeply, and so simply wandered aimlessly around the Red Gold Tripod, sniffing the dicinal fragrance seeping out like dogs.
In the arena, only Yun Sheng and Cheng Qing did not act imdiately.
Both were staring into the Red Gold Tripod, the aromatic fus continuously erging, trying to discern how many different kinds of herbs were mixed in.
"..." The ti of one incense stick was almost up.
Nearly half of the dicine Gathering Boys had given up partway.
Individuals began to report the components of the aroma one after another, but not one could guess all of the dicinal herbs.
In the field, only two dicine Gathering Boys were left, Yun Sheng and Cheng Qing.
"Just one herb short," Cheng Qing grew increasingly anxious. He had discerned for a long ti but still couldn’t figure out one of the herbs.
He then looked at Yun Sheng and saw no reaction from her. It seed that she, like him, couldn’t guess what the last herb was.
"There’s only a quarter of an hour left, you two—whichever of you gives the answer first," Kong the Pharmacist reminded for the last ti.
"!" Cheng Qing stepped forward first.
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