500: Chapter 500 Compulsory Education

When Lin Xiao, Gu Zhiyao, and the other women arrived at the bedside, Lü Sixian was already unconscious and breathing with great difficulty, as if he might stop at any moment.

Little Shui'er was surprisingly calm; the girl didn't cry, but her small hands gripped her father's arm tightly, as if letting go meant she would never see him again.

"Little Shui'er, let go of his hand," Gu Zhiyao said with a rare gentleness in her voice.

The little girl shook her head stubbornly, tears welling in her eyes.

"Be a good girl, Shui'er. If you stay like this, Divine Doctor Gu won't be able to administer the needles."

After quite a bit of persuasion from the medical team members, Little Shui'er finally let go.

Gu Zhiyao immediately got to work, pulling open Lü Sixian's clothes.

She picked up a silver needle, heated it over a flame, dipped it in Penicillin, and pierced the subcutaneous layer of his chest.

Repeating this process, she checked his pulse while gradually increasing the dosage of Penicillin, acting like a precise medical instrument.

Lin Xiao nodded inwardly as he watched. This was true professionalism; he only knew the theories, but Gu Zhiyao could put them into practice.

Half an hour later...

Gu Zhiyao removed her hand from Lü Sixian's wrist, a look of disbelief in her eyes.

Lü Sixian's breathing had stabilized, and his expression was no longer so pained.

"Master, he doesn't seem to have a fever anymore. Has the heat toxin been suppressed?" Zhao Cailing asked anxiously from the side.

"It's not just suppressed... his lung heat is receding."

Lin Xiao had been observing closely and could sense the changes in the lungs.

To be honest, even he hadn't expected the effect to be this good. It was likely because the people of this world had never been exposed to antibiotics before.

Gu Zhiyao said in disbelief, "Even a Fever-Reducing Powder brewed from the most precious medicinal herbs wouldn't have such a miraculous effect."

"No wonder the Prince went to such great lengths to produce it. This Penicillin... is truly a divine medicine!"

Overjoyed, Zhao Cailing grabbed Little Shui'er's hand and hopped twice happily. "Little Shui'er, your father is saved! He's going to get better!"

The pressure on Little Shui'er finally broke, and she burst into loud wailing. Ignoring the attempts to stop her, she knelt on the ground and kowtowed to Gu Zhiyao and Zhao Cailing.

"Thank you, Divine Doctor Gu! Thank you, Doctor Ling'er!"

Gu Zhiyao hurriedly helped her up. "If you want to thank someone, thank the Prince. He is the one who came up with this divine medicine. Without him, we would have been helpless."

Zhao Cailing and Hua Nongying both nodded in agreement. Without Lin Xiao, none of them would have thought of turning a pile of moldy, rotting food into a treasure!

The surrounding crowd was struck with awe upon hearing this.

This divine medicine was actually created by the Prince of Zhenbei!?

Not only was the Prince a formidable commander in battle, but his medical skills were also heaven-defying, even making the divine physician of Medicine King Valley feel inferior!?

Everyone present looked at Lin Xiao as if they were looking at a god.

Lin Xiao felt somewhat ashamed, but for the sake of Comprehension Ability points, he could only "reluctantly" accept the praise!

In a single night, the news that the Prince of Zhenbei had invented a divine medicine and that the sore plague could be cured spread throughout Hanyang City.

In the Inspector's Office, Lin Xiao happily collected another wave of Comprehension Ability points.

He predicted that once this news spread further, he would make a huge profit; after all, Hanyang City didn't have many people left right now.

Meanwhile, the women were incredibly busy.

Hua Nongying continuously produced Penicillin. Since storage was an issue, making too much at once would be a waste.

To ensure maximum effectiveness, she could only make it as it was needed.

Gu Zhiyao and her disciple moved between the various wards, personally teaching the medical team doctors how to use this divine medicine on the patients.

But in reality, because the dosage of Penicillin was so specific, the master and disciple basically had to do it all themselves.

After observing for a day, Lin Xiao felt that things couldn't continue like this.

Penicillin would definitely be used extensively in the Zhenbei Army in the future, and might even be promoted to the entire world.

Increasing production, improving storage methods, and ensuring doctors mastered its use—a series of tasks needed to be put on the agenda.

The following night.

Taking advantage of the time when Gu Zhiyao returned to the Inspector's Office to rest, Lin Xiao brought up his ideas in the study.

First, spin off the New Northern Medical Academy as an independent entity and expand enrollment.

Second, move the headquarters of Northern Pharmaceuticals to Hanyang to engage in herb cultivation and processing.

Hanyang was currently mostly deserted and needed reconstruction to attract people back.

"Is the Prince saying we should use the name of Medicine King Valley to recruit students, establish a school, and open a pharmacy in Hanyang?"

"It should be called 'cooperative education.' Since your Medicine King Valley has such profound medical skills, you should teach more students to benefit the people. Why keep it so mysterious?"

Lin Xiao smiled. "Dr. Gu, you promised me that if the Penicillin worked, we would become one family. This request isn't too much, is it?"

"I can lead Medicine King Valley to assist the Prince in achieving his great ambitions, but recruiting disciples is another matter."

Gu Zhiyao sighed. "Medicine can save people, but it can also kill without a trace. Once you recruit too many people, it becomes a mixed bag and difficult to control."

"You don't have many people now, but didn't you still end up with a traitor like the founder of the Ten Thousand Poison Cave?"

Lin Xiao dismissed her concern. "The human heart is unpredictable, but we shouldn't lose the big picture for the small. The reason Medicine King Valley is respected is that you save far more people than you harm."

"The reason I want to cooperate in education is to let the medical academy handle establishing medical ethics while your Medicine King Valley handles teaching medical skills."

"If we were afraid to spread medical skills just because someone might do bad things, then all the martial arts sects in the world should die out. Why teach martial arts at all?"

A look of deep thought appeared on Gu Zhiyao's face, and after a long while, she nodded.

"The Prince is absolutely right. In fact, my master, my grandmaster, and many ancestors of Medicine King Valley have thought about taking on many disciples..."

"However, in the end, due to some special reasons, they chose to maintain the status quo."

Gu Zhiyao gave a slightly mischievous smile. "Does the Prince know why?"

Lin Xiao frowned. "Could it be some secret you're afraid of leaking?"

Gu Zhiyao didn't speak. Instead, she suddenly went into the courtyard, leaped up, and plucked a few unripe crabapples from a fruit tree.

Lin Xiao was a bit puzzled. "They're still green. You want to eat them?"

"Of course not," Gu Zhiyao said playfully. "Didn't the Prince ask me before how to treat Fairy Changle's hysteria?"

"I will tell the Prince now that my Medicine King Valley has a unique therapy for hysteria."

As she spoke, Gu Zhiyao took several metal needles of different materials from her silver needle pouch.

Following that, the woman sliced the fruit open and inserted the needles in pairs into the juicy flesh.

After inserting five sets, she took out a copper wire and connected the needles together...

Halfway through watching, Lin Xiao's eyes were already bugging out!

Holy crap! Isn't this a 'fruit battery'!?

Has this woman also undergone nine years of compulsory education!?

When Gu Zhiyao finally connected two silver needles in series, Lin Xiao couldn't believe what he was seeing.

The Medicine King Valley's treatment for mental illness was actually using acupuncture combined with 'electrotherapy'!?