Time travel is risky, and love requires caution

Ling Qiqi, who is now six years old, is a little anxious. She is almost growing hair from idleness.

If she were in modern times at this age, she should have started nine years of compulsory education.

The economic base determines the superstructure. Now that she has enough food and clothing, her material life is definitely upper-class, so Ling Qiqi feels lacking in spiritual civilization. She can't just keep playing with cats and dogs, eating and waiting to die.

If she were to travel back to the modern era at some point, she would definitely not be able to take her belongings back with her. Wouldn't it be a big loss for her if she couldn't take anything with her?

She suddenly felt that what her teacher said before was really true. Only the knowledge and talents she had learned were truly hers. She had no shortage of knowledge, but as for talents, she really didn't have anything to show off. She might as well take advantage of this opportunity to learn something back.

So Ling Qiqi began to observe and try out various different crafts.

Today I followed the palace maids to learn embroidery.

Tomorrow I will go to the Empress Dowager's library to look for secret books and mess up the library.

The day after tomorrow, he went into the small kitchen of Deoksugung Palace and started kneading dough and mixing stuffing for the Empress Dowager to make snacks.

The day after tomorrow I followed the Empress Dowager to her small storehouse, actually wanting to practice my ability to appreciate rare treasures.

She is busy as she fishes for three days and rests for two days.

Ling Qiqi's pursuit of skills is not that she does not reject all skills. She is still quite picky. In fact, her target range is very clear: intangible cultural heritage - those that have been listed or are likely to be listed as intangible cultural heritage of mankind in the future.

When she woke up that morning, the Empress Dowager felt unwell and ordered the Imperial Physician from the Imperial Medical Bureau to come and treat her. When Ling Qiqi found out, she also rushed to serve the Empress Dowager. Although she was serving the Empress Dowager, she didn't have to do anything. The palace maids would serve her wherever it was her turn. She was just there to accompany her.

Not long after, Imperial Physician Du came in a hurry, observing, smelling, asking, palpating, writing prescriptions, and giving medical advice, a set of professional procedures is needless to say. Fortunately, the Empress Dowager was not seriously ill, just caught a cold. Although the medical technology was not developed in the past, the cold could also kill people, but the palace had famous doctors and good medicine, and the Empress Dowager was in good health, so she just needed to take a few doses of medicine and carefully adjust her body.

After Du Yuyi left, the palace servants began to prepare medicine according to the doctor's instructions. Ling Qiqi chatted with the Empress Dowager obediently. Not long after, the Queen heard that De Shou Palace had called the imperial physician, so she hurried over to greet her.

Ling Qiqi hasn't seen the queen for some time.

Ever since the incident with Concubine Jing three years ago, the Queen has been recuperating almost all the time. Except for occasions where she must attend, she rarely appears in public. Even when she does, she looks sickly.

As time went by, the emperor couldn't help but feel pity for her and rewarded her with many tonics. After all, they were husband and wife, so there was always some affection between them.

While the Queen was recuperating, the affairs of the harem were still left to Concubine De and Jiang Shuyi to take care of. After the two gradually got the hang of it, they were able to arrange all the affairs of the harem in an orderly manner.

The palace had not added any princes or princesses in recent years, and gradually, the rumors of divine punishment had revived. So last year, a new batch of talented people entered the palace. They were young and ambitious, and there was jealousy again. Fortunately, two of them had become pregnant with dragon seeds, and they would give birth soon. The emperor had conferred the title of Wanrong on them and ordered them to wait for the birth of their children.

Defei and Jiang Shuyi were extremely careful and did not dare to make any mistakes.

When the Queen came out this time, she looked much more energetic than before. It seemed that she was going to take back the real power of the harem. I just didn't know whether it would be before or after the two Wanrongs gave birth.

The Queen carefully inquired about the Grand Empress Dowager's condition and personally helped her take medicine. The Grand Empress Dowager asked her to return to the palace on the grounds that the Queen's health was not yet fully recovered and it was not appropriate for her to serve her.

Unexpectedly, not long after, the Empress Dowager vomited all the medicine she had taken.

Imperial Physician Du hurried to De Shou Palace for treatment and said that the patient's gastrointestinal discomfort was caused by cold and wind, and that it was not suitable to take herbal medicine, so he switched to acupuncture.

After a few injections, the Empress Dowager felt much better. She drank some porridge and took a short nap, and her spirit recovered a lot.

After the emperor left the court, he also rushed to De Shou Palace to attend to the patient, but was persuaded to go back by the Empress Dowager.

In the next few days, Imperial Physician Du came to De Shou Palace every morning and evening to give acupuncture to the Empress Dowager, and Ling Qiqi was always by her side.

It wasn't to show off her filial piety, she was just curious about acupuncture.

According to Ling Qiqi's incomplete research in the past few days, the following one-sided conclusions were drawn:

First, from the perspective of professional prospects, acupuncture skills are timeless and have been included in the list of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity. They will not be eliminated easily and still have great room for appreciation.

Second, in terms of professional status, whether in ancient times or modern times, they are all medical workers who save lives and heal the wounded, and are highly respected and respected.

Third, from the perspective of the cost of the profession, the tools for acupuncture are simple, just a few silver needles, which are easy to carry around. Moreover, the cost of silver needles is controllable, the materials are easy to obtain, the process is not difficult, and the consumption is not high.

Fourthly, and most importantly, Ling Qiqi does not have the smart brains and diligence of a top student.

She knew that there were twelve meridians in the human body, and although there were three or four hundred acupuncture points, they should be much easier to remember than the four thousand words in the English Level 4 test. Even if she couldn't remember all the acupuncture points after putting them back on, it didn't matter, because there were acupuncture point maps to check. And the operation was not tiring, just raising her arm, taking the pulse, and inserting needles didn't take much effort.

In fact, Ling Qiqi had considered studying Chinese medicine, but there were thousands of Chinese medicines, and she would never be able to remember the eighteen anti-compatibility and nineteen fears of compatibility. The key was that some medicinal materials were too precious and too expensive, so patients were reluctant to use them, and Ling Qiqi was reluctant to give them to them. In addition, many ancient medicinal materials may have become extinct, degraded, or mutated in modern times, and without them, it would be easy to affect the performance of medical skills.

Acupuncture is different. It does not rely on herbs, but on skills. And the acupuncture points will not change. Everyone has them, and they are exactly where they should be. As long as the patient is willing to let her have them, she will be willing to treat him.

Therefore, even if he travels back to the modern era, his acupuncture skills will not be affected at all, which is equivalent to bringing back an invisible golden rice bowl.

Ling Qiqi decided that she wanted to learn acupuncture.

Just do it, find a master first.

After Imperial Physician Du gave acupuncture to the Empress Dowager that day, Ling Qiqi begged and pleaded with Imperial Physician Du to be her disciple in front of the Empress Dowager.

Of course, the Empress Dowager and Imperial Physician Du refused to agree. After all, as a princess of a country, the treatment of illnesses should naturally be left to the imperial physicians.

But Ling Qiqi refused to give up. She held on to Doctor Du's medicine box and refused to let go, insisting on paying homage to him as her apprentice.

The Empress Dowager had always doted on Ling Qiqi, and thought that maybe after three days of enthusiasm, the child would give up. So she asked Imperial Physician Du to teach her for a month. If Ling Qiqi failed the exam after a month, she would not be allowed to ask for her apprenticeship again.

Imperial Physician Du had no choice but to accept the Empress Dowager's decree and made an agreement with the Seventh Princess that from tomorrow onwards, every other day at the time of Shen, the Seventh Princess would go to the Imperial Medical Bureau to study for an hour.

Ling Qiqi agreed readily.

From then on, Ling Qiqi's days became fulfilling.

She went to class on time and carefully reviewed the acupoints taught by Imperial Physician Du after class.

In order to practice better, she also asked Yu'er to make a doll for her. The doll was shrunk according to the proportions of a real person's head, neck, torso and limbs. Then Ling Qiqi marked the corresponding position of each acupoint she learned on the doll.

Yu'er has good craftsmanship and the dolls she makes are very pretty, so Ling Qiqi asked Yu'er to make a few sets of small clothes and shoes for the doll so that she can change them when she has nothing to do.

Later, Ling Qiqi asked Yu'er to sew a strap on the doll so that she could wear it diagonally. She also gave the doll a name, "Barbie".

Ling Qiqi often carried a Barbie with her, and from time to time she would use the palace maids' embroidery needles to practice needlework on the doll. The Empress Dowager would always watch with great interest, laughing from ear to ear.