"You... you're really giving me these two medical classics?"
Ye Xiaxuan felt she certainly counted as someone who had seen the world. What grand occasion hadn't she witnessed?
Her family had quite a few unique surviving medical texts, but these two medical classics before her were absolutely the most precious she had ever seen.
She swore that if these two medical classics went to auction, they would fetch at least a billion.
If these really were Bian Que's Inner Canon and Bian Que's Outer Canon, surely such things wouldn't even be allowed to go to auction in this country.
Su Yi also knew what these two medical texts meant to ordinary people.
Bian Que counted as a famous figure in history. His homework was nothing much to Su Yi, but to Ye Xiaxuan, it should count as something fairly good.
Still, Ye Xiaxuan had formally become Su Yi's disciple, so Bian Que's homework naturally didn't count as anything particularly good.
"If you like them, take them."
Su Yi didn't care about these few things at all. Seeing Ye Xiaxuan's expression, he naturally abandoned the idea of writing a separate medical text for her.
"So these really are the Inner Canon and Outer Canon written by Bian Que?" Ye Xiaxuan still found it hard to calm her excitement.
Su Yi nodded. "He wrote them."
"His original works?"
Su Yi nodded again. They were certainly the originals, without a doubt.
Ye Xiaxuan asked again, "Are you sure?"
"Do you want them?" Su Yi said. "If you want to study medicine, you can take these two medical classics home and read them first. They're no use sitting here with me anyway."
"All right!" Ye Xiaxuan still found it a little hard to believe these were Bian Que's originals, mainly because the two volumes of bamboo slips were simply too well preserved. There wasn't any damage, the characters carved into them were clear, and there wasn't even the slightest stain.
Bian Que had lived during the Spring and Autumn and Warring States periods. How could something from that era have remained so perfectly preserved to this day?
Though she didn't quite believe it, the contents of the bamboo slips were concise and to the point, and many of the treatments were ones she had never even heard of.
"Do you know how to make tea?" As Su Yi spoke, he had already taken the tea set out of the chest.
"Of course!" Ye Xiaxuan froze again after answering. The tea set Su Yi had placed on the table didn't look cheap at all!
She came from a distinguished family, after all, and could still tell whether something was good.
"Master, this wouldn't happen to be Song dynasty Jun porcelain, would it?" Ye Xiaxuan was no stranger to the world. The tea set before her looked fine and exquisite, its patterns magnificent, very much like Song dynasty Jun porcelain.
Without even looking up, Su Yi took the tea leaves from the chest and said, "It should be. Just use this to make tea. There aren't any other cups at home-the others have all been used by other people. Once you've finished making tea, take the bowls, chopsticks, and cups out and throw them away."
"Got it." Ye Xiaxuan had rarely waited on anyone in her life, but Su Yi's identity truly made him curious.
Leaving aside the bamboo slips he had given her so readily, this tea set had also caught her eye. She had been wanting to pick it up for a closer look.
When Ye Xiaxuan went over to fetch the tea set, she glanced at the things on the desk and couldn't help falling into a daze.
The inkstone, brush stand, and writing brushes on the desk all seemed to have some age to them. Though she hadn't studied such things, she knew at first glance that they were definitely all fine pieces.
As she picked up the tea set and headed out, she glanced again at the chest beside it.
No way!
Even the chest looked valuable, so why didn't Su Yi look like a rich man?
Ye Xiaxuan's tea-making technique wasn't very professional. She simply rinsed the tea leaves, then brewed them. What she didn't know was that the tin of tea in Su Yi's chest was Pu'er Golden Melon Tribute Tea. Apart from the tiny amount still held in the Capital Museum, which had been classified as a second-grade national cultural relic, the only tea remaining in the world was this tin of Su Yi's.
These tea leaves weren't merely worth their weight in gold. They were simply impossible to value.
At first, Ye Xiaxuan hadn't thought much of it. She had only felt that the tea set was exceptionally exquisite and had handled it carefully throughout. Only when the faint fragrance of tea spread did she realize: could these tea leaves be worth a fortune too?
Su Yi came out of the house. Ye Xiaxuan was making tea at the stone table in the courtyard. That focused look, paired with her unpracticed technique, really wasn't much to speak of.
"I'm heading to work in a bit. Make yourself at home. Add me on WeChat. I'll message you when I need you." Su Yi took a sip of tea. It hadn't been brewed properly. She really wasn't as good as Jiang Changfeng.
As Ye Xiaxuan added Su Yi on WeChat, she asked, "Where do you work?"
If the bamboo slips Su Yi had given her were originals, they were already worth a king's ransom. Did he still need to go to work at night?
Sitting on a stone stool, Su Yi said, "A bar."
"Oh!" When Ye Xiaxuan heard the word "bar," her thoughts went a little further.
When rich people like them went to work at a bar, did that really count as working?
Most likely, it was to pick up girls, or rather, to go around conning them.
Ye Xiaxuan's attitude toward Su Yi had improved considerably by now, but that didn't mean she thought he was a good person.
"Take the house key and get a copy made for yourself." Since Su Yi had accepted her as his disciple, he treated Ye Xiaxuan as one of his own. "Give the house a thorough cleaning. Leave that study from earlier alone."
Without giving Ye Xiaxuan a chance to object, Su Yi tossed down the key and left, leaving her standing there dumbly.
He had just given her the key? And once again, he had told her to clean the house.
After Su Yi left, Ye Xiaxuan sat in the courtyard by herself and began drinking tea.
"This tea... is pretty good!" Ye Xiaxuan didn't know tea, but she could still taste that these were good tea leaves.
She sat in the courtyard and drank an entire pot before going inside to tidy up.
Once everything was in order, she took all the bowls and chopsticks from the kitchen out and threw them away, then went to a nearby supermarket to buy three new sets.
"Grandpa, I've become his disciple." Ye Xiaxuan decided she should report this to her grandfather after all.
Hearing this on the other end of the phone, Ye Lin almost jumped with excitement. "Really? Has he taught you anything?"
"He hasn't taught me anything, but he gave me two volumes of bamboo slips. He said they were Bian Que's Inner Canon and Outer Canon, though." Ye Xiaxuan couldn't help chuckling. "The contents are very good, but they probably aren't originals. He even said they were Bian Que's homework."
"Then that's what they are!" Ye Lin said. "They must be Bian Que's Inner Canon and Outer Canon!"
"Grandpa, you haven't even seen them, and you already know they're genuine?" Ye Xiaxuan was very doubtful about the authenticity of the two volumes of bamboo slips, but she truly didn't know why her grandfather was so certain they were genuine.
Ye Lin said with certainty, "As long as he gave them to you, they must be genuine! What else did he say?"
Ye Xiaxuan thought for a moment and said, "He... said earlier that he'd write a medical text for me..."