[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"origin-the-challenge-of-a-farmhouse-son-in-law":3,"chapter-the-challenge-of-a-farmhouse-son-in-law-the-challenge-of-a-farmhouse-son-in-law-chapter-217":6},{"origin":4,"title":5},"english","The Challenge of a Farmhouse Son-in-Law",{"chapter":7,"nextChapterSlug":19,"prevChapterSlug":20,"totalChapters":21,"novelImage":22},{"id":8,"novel_id":9,"title":10,"slug":11,"index":12,"content":13,"wordcount":14,"created_at":15,"updated_at":15,"volume":16,"translator":17,"content_hash":18},1543602,2006,"Chapter 217 - 217 216 Making the Best Use of Everything","the-challenge-of-a-farmhouse-son-in-law-chapter-217",217,"\u003Cp>217: Chapter 216: Making the Best Use of Everything 217: Chapter 216: Making the Best Use of Everything Gu Youyou nodded and said, “So, Master’s intention is definitely not to make you an attendant, but a doctor, isn’t it?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Yes, but Yuancheng is too stupid, always failing to learn well.” He hung his head in frustration.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>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.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Learns too quickly?” Yuancheng jolted, suddenly lifting his head to look at Gu Youyou.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>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.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yuancheng, medical texts are much more difficult than the books normal students read.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Even if you can understand the words, it doesn’t mean you can apply them deftly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>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.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Because one error from you could mean the death of a patient, do you understand?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yuancheng looked at Gu Youyou with a dazed half-understanding.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Gu Youyou smiled and said, “This is what we’ll do.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I’ll have Qin Changlin enroll you in school.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>You should start by learning to read and write there.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At the very least, you need to be able to recognize every character in the medical texts on your own.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>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?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It wasn’t the whole of it, but the gist was correct, so Gu Youyou smiled and nodded.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Jin Zijin went hunting in the hills behind Lotus Village today.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Having vegetables every day, all three of them couldn’t stand it anymore, nearly sick with it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yue Rujing rolled up his pristine white lower garment, bundled it, and rolled up his sleeves to weed the garden in the courtyard.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He saw that the pear tree had already been pruned neatly by him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>To Gu Youyou’s critical eye, the ‘tree shape’ was pruned quite well, good enough for eight points at least, though it remained to be seen how it would bear fruit next year.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Oh, you’re back so early today?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Gu Youyou lifted the medicine in her hand and replied, “I’m back to prepare the medicine at home!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Do you need my help?” Yue Ruqing disdainfully slapped the mud off his hands, how he hoped for Gu Youyou to nod!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Preparing medicine was much easier than weeding, and importantly, it was clean.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But Gu Youyou wouldn’t acquiesce to his wish and smilingly said, “Someone’s already helping me with the medicine, so you continue weeding!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yuancheng timidly followed inside and, seeing Yue Rujing’s ethereal presence, felt even more awkward and ill at ease.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Gu Youyou whispered, “He’s a relative from my sister’s home; his family used to be wealthy, but unfortunately, they’ve fallen on hard times, now even worse off than us.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>See, he’s weeding, isn’t he?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Once wealthy still meant wealth.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>For someone like Yuancheng, who had lived at the bottom all his life, the sense of self-pity was not easily shaken off.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“What if we let him do the weeding?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He does look like someone cut out for weeding.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“You’re the one who looks like someone cut out for weeding, get on with it!” Gu Youyou retorted, unamused.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Only when Yuancheng heard Gu Youyou so naturally giving orders to that person and accepting a scolding, did he feel less nervous and even managed a small laugh.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He straightened his back as he followed behind Gu Youyou.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This infuriated Yue Ruqing.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yuancheng tended the small furnace to prepare the medicine, while Gu Youyou was in the kitchen making candied lotus root with osmanthus again.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>To make it tasty, it required some time.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Outside, Yue Ruqing had already cleared out two patches of the vegetable garden and planted new vegetables.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Another task was to make a bigger bed for Abao, which he found quite disgusting.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Gu Youyou had made it clear to him that if he didn’t work, he would be thrown out.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>For his senior brother, he endured it.\u003C\u002Fp>",722,"2026-06-06T06:54:47.694Z",1,"novelbin.me","9eb06d1f57291312f086d1d95ed0e7ee851cf49e63dfcc6daa12fd1ee5c45274","the-challenge-of-a-farmhouse-son-in-law-chapter-218","the-challenge-of-a-farmhouse-son-in-law-chapter-216",1812,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fthe-challenge-of-a-farmhouse-son-in-law-cover.jpg"]