I'm wearing it, but I'm still suffering.

No, I want to study medicine. Isn’t Dr. Chen in our team?

Since there is nothing to do along the way, I might as well talk to him and see if it works.

Thinking this way, she did it. After saying goodbye to her grandfather and her mother, she walked excitedly towards Chen Ke's cave.

As soon as they arrived, Liu Xiaoxiao saw Chen Ke carrying a backpack and preparing to go out, so she asked, "Doctor Chen, what are you going to do?"

Chen Ke had packed everything he needed, so he finally found time to answer Liu Xiaoxiao, saying, "We're in the mountains! I see everyone's gone mushroom picking."

Liu Xiaoxiao quickly interrupted, "I see, so you want to go too, right?"

Without waiting for Chen Ke to deny it, Liu Xiaoxiao continued, "Doctor Chen, let me discuss something with you! I'll help you pick mushrooms, and you can teach me some medical skills!"

Chen Ke waved his hand and said as he walked, "First of all, I'm not going out to pick mushrooms, but to pick medicinal herbs. Secondly, do your parents know that you want to study medicine with me? Do they agree?"

Liu Xiaoxiao thought he wanted to receive the apprenticeship gift, so she said, "I haven't told them about this yet, but if you agree, I will tell them right away and ask them to give the apprenticeship gift as well."

Chen Ke shook his head and said, "It's not something you can learn overnight. Moreover, even if you really want to learn, it depends on whether you have the talent. Only then can we decide whether to accept you as an apprentice. It's not something you can learn just because you want to. Kid, don't think everything is so simple."

Liu Xiaoxiao realized that she had been overthinking it! The other person didn't say that just to accept the gift. But she still said, "Then what should I do? How can I know if I have talent?"

Seeing her serious look, Chen Ke couldn't refuse directly, so he said, "How about this! I'm going to pick herbs, right? You come with me, and I'll tell you the medicinal properties of each plant I pick. If you can still tell me the medicinal properties when you come back, then you can follow me and learn from me, and become my disciple."

When Liu Xiaoxiao heard this, she thought, isn’t this just a question to test her memory?

She might not have been able to do it before, but now! After being nourished by the spiritual spring water, she felt that maybe... probably... she could give it a try.

So he replied, "Okay, then Doctor Chen, you go ahead!"

Along the way, whether it was Chen Ke's deliberate provocation or the sheer abundance of medicinal herbs on the mountain, it wasn't long before Chen Ke had named no fewer than twenty different herbs. At first, she could still remember them, but as the number of herbs grew, she started to get confused. After an hour, she finally gave up and said to Chen Ke, "This is too difficult!"

Chen Ke smiled and said nothing. He thought about how hard he had worked to learn medicine.

Liu Xiaoxiao leaned against a tree trunk, sighed, and then continued, "And there are several kinds of medicinal herbs here, and they all look similar. How do you remember them all?"

Seeing her like this, Chen Ke thought she might need a break. Coincidentally, he was also a little tired, so he took out the folding stool from his backpack, placed it on a flat surface nearby, and this time answered Liu Xiaoxiao's question.

"This thing! You can't be impatient, you have to master a method."

He paused at this point, as if recalling his time as a medical student.

He smiled and continued, "You! It's just a spur of the moment thing. If you really wanted to learn, you wouldn't have waited until now. Besides, since ancient times, only men have studied medicine, and women... I've rarely seen one."