Chapter 476 - Preparing for the Examination of Doctors of Brightness

The next day, Fang Qiu and Jiang Miaoyu arrived at the conference room in the hotel on time.

“Today, we’re going to record the fifth episode, and 15 of the 20 contestants will advance.”

Director Li Huawen said, “The subject of this episode is decocting medicinal herbs!”

Hearing the subject, everyone was stunned.

Decocting medicinal herbs?

What a tough subject!

In medical skills, common sense, diagnostic skills, these contestants were not weak and were very confident.

But decocting medicinal herbs was a different skill.

There were as many other ways of decocting medicinal herbs as there were people in the world.

One more drop of water, one degree lower the temperature, the medicine would be completely different.

Clearly, the program group was going to screen and eliminate contestants based on nuance!

“During the decocting period, the three judges will always pay attention to your decocting techniques and finally grade the medicine according to its efficacy, so as to determine the ranking,” said Director Li Huawen.

When they heard the rules, the contestants thought it was as what they had expected—the judges would pay attention not only to the way the medicinal herbs were decocted but also to the property of the medicine.

Then everybody felt the pressure.

As long as the competition started, they must do their best and concentrate on every step!

Subsequently, under the arrangement of the program group, 20 contestants took a bus and came to the empty factory building where yesterday’s competition was held.

When they returned, they found that the 30 rooms that were temporarily built in the factory yesterday had been demolished and replaced with three square arrays of stoves. Each square array consisted of six stoves arranged in an arc.

Next to each stove was everything needed to decoct medicinal herbs.

Stoves were spaced more than a meter apart.

At the front of each square array was a set of tables and chairs for the judges.

“How come there are only 18 stoves?”

“Three judges, six contestants for each?”

At the sight of the stoves, the contestants began to discuss.

“As you can see,” said Li Zhengtang, pointing to the three stove arrays, “since Fang Qiu and Luo Jie have advanced to the top 15, they don’t need to participate in this round, so there are 18 contestants in this round.”

At his words, everyone nodded.

No one questioned Fang Qiu and Luo Jie.

After all, the two had shown their powerful abilities yesterday. Since they were so good at processing and distinguishing herbs, their basic skill of decocting medicinal herbs couldn’t be questioned.

So, asking them to participate in the competition would only consume the energy of the three judges. It would be better to keep them out.

“Ready, recording begins.”

Director Li Huawen shouted, “All the contestants are free to choose the seats.”

Hearing the director’s words, the 18 people spread out under the lenses of many cameramen and began to choose stoves.

A little while later, when all the contestants had finished selecting stoves, the three judges freely took a seat.

“The competition begins.”

With the director’s command, the competition of decocting medicinal herbs officially began.

But in this kind of competition, no one was in a hurry. Everyone began to decoct medicinal herbs step by step with great care.

Meanwhile, the three judges intently watched the contestants that they were responsible for.

As for Fang Qiu and Luo Jie, they didn’t get involved in the whole process. They just watched from the side, and occasionally a cameraman would shoot them.

The final result didn’t come out until three p.m.

As the descendant of a Chinese Medicine family, Jiang Miaoyu successfully made it into the national top 15.

In addition to her, Gu Shaoyu, Leng Wenzhuo, Li Sanxiao, and Chen Ziju, the descendants of the four Chinese Medicine families also undoubtedly entered the national top 15.

The rest of the qualifiers were all experts.

There was no doubt that these 15 were the most elite members in the young generation since they had emerged from so many people in the country to become the national top 15 today.

No one was easy to deal with.

For both Jiang Miaoyu and Fang Qiu, the challenges ahead were going to get bigger.

“The recording is over.”

Finally, after identifying the top 15 in the country, Director Li Huawen announced that the recording was over, saying, “The next recording will be in two weeks, and we will send you a text message next week to tell you the specific situation. Now dismiss. Those who need to go back to the hotel can take the program group’s bus, and those who don’t can leave now.”

Then all the people dispersed.

Fang Qiu and Jiang Miaoyu didn’t go back to the hotel with the program group.

After the other people left, Fang Qiu took Jiang Miaoyu to stroll around the downtown area of Bozhou and ate many local special snacks. Then he took Jiang Miaoyu to an amusement park and stayed there until the evening before returning to the hotel.

The next day, Fang Qiu returned to Jiangjing with Jiang Miaoyu.

Once back to school, Jiang Miaoyu went to Chu Yunyun to report.

Fang Qiu went back to the dorm, took off his backpack, and headed for the library.

When he came to the library room, Fang Qiu smiled and shouted, “Mr. Xu, I’m back.”

“Oh.”

Sitting at his desk, Xu Miaolin glanced up at Fang Qiu and asked blankly, “What are you doing here?”

“I’m ready to take the examination for doctors of brightness,” Fang Qiu replied.

“Well.”

Xu Miaolin, not at all surprised, nodded and said, “I was going to ask you to attend the examination of doctors of brightness when the Young Chinese Medicine Doctor was over. But since you have mentioned it, start preparing now.”

“Okay.”

Fang Qiu nodded, and said, “Why don’t you pick a field for me?”

At his words, Xu Miaolin frowned and pondered.

Xu Miaolin had previously explained to Fang Qiu about doctors of brightness and the assessment methods.

Doctors of brightness were those who had learned about the basics of Chinese Medicine and were properly trained by real masters; they had inherited their teachers’ knowledge; they understood pathogenesis and could diagnose comprehensively and dialectically with outstanding understanding and capability in some field.

For a craftsman doctor to become a doctor of brightness, he must memorize at lease three classics of one field and pass the test drafted by five doctors of brightness in the same field from the Provincial Chinese Medicine Association with no error.

Actually, Fang Qiu had been planning to take the examination for doctors of brightness for a long time.

However, he had never decided which field to choose. That was why it had been dragging on.

Now, Fang Qiu threw that choice at Xu Miaolin.

He wanted Xu Miaolin to advise him.

After all, within this year, his strength in Chinese Medicine was linked to Xu Miaolin’s future happiness. In order to make Fang Qiu a highly-skilled doctor, Xu Miaolin would try every means to teach Fang Qiu the best things.

Although Xu Miaolin had done the same thing before, the difference was that Xu Miaolin now felt a little more eager.

“Well…”

While pondering, Xu Miaolin muttered before continuing, “Then choose ‘Earth-replenishing Field’ of Li Dongyuan, one of the four great doctors in the Jin and Yuan dynasties.”

The Earth-replenishing Field?

Fang Qiu froze for a moment, and information about Li Dongyuan and the Earth-replenishing Field came to his mind immediately.

Li Dongyuan was one of the four great doctors in the Jin and Yuan dynasties in the history of Chinese Medicine; he was the founder of the theories about spleen and stomach in Chinese Medicine; he emphasized the important roles the spleen and stomach played in human bodies. Because the spleen and the stomach belonged to the central earth in the five elements, his doctrine was known as the “Earth-replenishing Field”.

Li Dongyuan thought that spleen and stomach were the source of vitality and the motive force of human life activities and emphasized the important roles of spleen and stomach in human life activities.

“Yes.”

Xu Miaolin nodded and said, “The spleen and the stomach are the sources of human life activities, and diseases often arise from the two parts. What’s more, modern people don’t pay attention to diet, and their spleen and stomach are easy to have problems, so it is more appropriate to choose the Earth-replenishing Field.”

At this point, Xu Miaolin began writing a book list for Fang Qiu.

“Clarification of Perplexities About Internal and External Damage, Treatise on the Spleen and Stomach, Secret Book of Orchid Chamber, Medical Invention, Dongyuan Prescriptions, Keys of Living. And Records of Typhoid, The Book on Baby-protecting, Main Points for Treating Typhoid, Dongyuan’s Tips, Prescriptions on Curing, Arguments on Medicine, The Treasure Book of Medicine Use, Keys of the Five Meridians, Treatise on Ulcer and Sores, Prescriptions for Women, and Drug Properties in Verse.”

After finishing it, Xu Miaolin patiently listed the locations of these books in the library.

“These are the works of Li Dongyuan.”

As he handed the list to Fang Qiu, he added, “Get these books out and read them thoughtfully; in addition, the examination for doctors of brightness is required to apply in advance, at least 10 days ahead of time. Tell me when you’re ready.”

“Got it.”

Fang Qiu thought about it and said, “Well, the end of the month, the 30th.”

At his words, Xu Miaolin mentally calculated the time.

There were 16 days left before the end of the month.

“Only half a month to go, do you have confidence?” Xu Miaolin asked.

“I have to be confident.”

Fang Qiu grinned and said, “You know whose student I am.”

“Hmph.”

Xu Miaolin rolled his eyes at Fang Qiu and replied, “That’s the truth!”

Fang Qiu spread his hands.

“All right, you go and prepare it.”

Xu Miaolin waved his hand and said, “If there’s something you don’t understand, just ask me. As for the other matters about attending the examination, I will deal with them all.”

“Thank you, Mr. Xu.”

Fang Qiu thanked him and walked into the library with the book list. Then he found all the books on the list and carried them back to the dormitory.

As soon as he got back to the dormitory, he heard Sun Hao’s strange cry.

“Oh, my God!”

“What?”

Fang Qiu looked at Sun Hao inexplicably.

“Hey, you’re strong enough, but why are you still so eager to learn? All of a sudden, you’ve got so many books. Is it because of the pressure the show put on you that you came back to study?” Sun Hao asked.

Fang Qiu rolled his eyes at Sun Hao without explanation.

“Oh, by the way,” Zhu Benzheng turned to look at Fang Qiu and said, “The youngest, you just came back. I’ve got news for you.”

“What’s it?” Fang Qiu asked.

“Apprenticeship training model has been in practice for half a year. The school has announced that from next week, students who have taken part in the model will be assessed. There will be a school-wide assessment.

“This is like a school-wide competition of the Young Chinese Medicine Doctor.

“The school is going to compare the performance of the average student with that of the student in this model to see how well the apprenticeship training model works.”

Speaking of this, Zhu Benzheng beamed and asked, “This is the model that you put forward to benefit the whole school. Do you have faith?”

“Of course I do.”

Fang Qiu immediately replied, “As long as the teacher is serious, this method is definitely better than the normal teaching method.”

Although he said so, this was not Fang Qiu’s activity.

All he had to do was concentrate on preparing for the examination for doctors of brightness.

Besides, the next day was Friday. His scheduled battle with Qingfeng Jian Li Chengtian would be taking place in the evening!