Gasp! She's a Time Traveler Using Modern Tech to Improve Ancient Life Chapter 171 - 170: Yangtze River White Sturgeon

Regardless of whether it’s Chinese or Western dicine, trying to learn well solely through self-study isn’t feasible. One must have a teacher to guide them.

Soone like Lin Wanwan, with her limited skills as a barefoot doctor, can only handle ergencies. If she manages to heal soone, it’s purely luck, like a blind cat stumbling onto a dead mouse, using the right dicine by chance, as she did when saving Xiao Chong.

Learning Chinese dicine is extrely difficult. She thought she had just begun, but in truth, she hadn’t even scratched the surface.

If Lin Wanwan truly wishes to pursue the path of a healer, she should quickly pack up and follow the old immortal Sun Simiao, at least studying with him for another ten years before she can graduate.

The brief stay in Qiantang is absolutely insufficient; she would need another golden opportunity of enlightennt to have any hope.

But Lin Wanwan’s study of dicine was like a duck being pushed onto a perch, her intentions were not pure. Without the true heart of a great physician, how could she be worthy of being the dicine Saint’s disciple?

Even if the dicine Saint Sun Simiao, considering her dical book contributions, truly accepts her as a disciple, she herself would not be able to make the decision to give up her current carefree life to devote herself to dicine.

To be honest, she’s quite attached to her holand and doesn’t have grand ambitions. She hasn’t left the Jiangnan area since childhood, even attending a local university. To follow and study dicine in a place like Chang’an, facing that assembly of elites, she’s not psychologically prepared.

In the rural seaside of Mao County, with the sky high and the Emperor far away, is it not comfortable to have a house facing the sea where "spring will bloom"? Teaching kids to read, helping family with small fortunes, isn’t that fulfilling? Occasionally visiting relatives in Qiantang County and strolling around West Lake, isn’t that enjoyable?

Why travel all the way to Chang’an? She doesn’t possess the deep-seated desire to heal and save people. Her initial self-study of barefoot doctor knowledge was rely to treat little Qingyu.

With her sowhat incautious personality and inability to handle grievances, going to a place like Chang’an, where officials are at every step, she would surely offend people. When the ti cos, facing those who navigate the Great Tang, she wouldn’t even know how she died.

And if by any chance Li Shimin takes an interest in her, or randomly arranges a marriage for her, wouldn’t she have to roll back to the modern day imdiately? It would be even harder to return to the Great Tang.

So, she decided to let it go and continue being a small landowner, a small salted fish.

Of course, while the old immortal Sun Simiao is around, studying should still continue. After all, he’s a legendary figure in Chinese dicine, and following such a teacher is an opportunity not to be wasted.

While Sun Simiao was present, Lin Wanwan even went back to the modern day to make use of Lu Shouyue’s network, buying many Chinese dicine formulas, such as the famous Angong Niuhuang Wan. She respectfully offered the secret recipe to the old immortal and brazenly asked him to make a few pills.

My goodness, this is a life-saving ergency dicine that only erged in the fifty-eighth year of Qianlong, reputed to "save ergencies instantly, and rescue those on the brink in a mont," capable of snatching people from the hands of King Yama; it must be kept as a reserve.

In the modern market, it’s nearly impossible to buy an authentic one, requiring special channels.

Comprising over a hundred kinds of dicinal materials, with complex preparation processes, many materials are extrely rare and valuable today. For example, rhinoceros horn is a dicine, yet there are only over twenty thousand rhinos left in the modern world, and a horn costs seven to eight million — plus, they’re protected animals, where would you get one? Similarly with bezoar, musk, these aren’t ordinary items either.

Most of the Angong Niuhuang Wan you can buy today is a diluted version, and certainly less effective than the original.

But in the Great Tang, it’s still feasible! Animal protection laws are nonexistent! As long as you have money, you can eat bear paws and shark fins with no restrictions! And in the Great Tang, Lin Wanwan is absolutely financially free, given the inexhaustible supply of pepper worth its weight in gold!

Sun Simiao, renowned as the dicine Saint, had tasted countless herbs. When he saw the Angong Niuhuang Wan secret recipe Lin Wanwan presented, after examining it for a while, he couldn’t stop praising it.

Additionally, with Lin Wanwan tirelessly gathering dicinal materials from various drugstores in Qiantang City, the old master had no reason not to try making it and seeing its efficacy.

Lin Wanwan helped on the side and learned quite a bit, and she also stashed away a bottle of Angong Niuhuang Wan.

Sun Simiao sighed, "The recipe is indeed a good one for saving lives, but the poor can’t afford it. We need to cut down on a few ingredients to lower costs."

Lin Wanwan grinned and said, "Whatever the old master decides is fine, I’ve already given the recipe."

The old master gave Lin Wanwan a long, steady look and said, "Wanwan, how many of your master’s secret recipes are you still hiding? Can’t you show them all to ?"

With a secret recipe in hand, Sun Simiao couldn’t resist assembling it because it would greatly benefit the people, a pursuit he dedicated his entire life to. Seeing Lin Wanwan bring out a new recipe each day, he couldn’t help but suspect she had many more stashed away.

Lin Wanwan quickly put on an innocent smile, "I’ve shown you everything I have, old master. These are all that I rembered. My master indeed taught many, but most of them were lost, and with my inadequate skills, I can’t recall a lot."

Sun Simiao was at a loss for words, he tapped Lin Wanwan and said, "You, you rogue little child! Following soone as extraordinary as Mr. Green Mountain yet not learning properly. Do you have any idea what a rare opportunity this is?"

What could Lin Wanwan say, except respond with a guilty chuckle.

That day, Lin Wanwan managed to find so ti and took her maid to the dock to pick fresh ingredients. The past half-month learning dicine from the old immortal, whenever there was a chance, she wanted to repay him with good food.

The old master loved fish slices, so Lin Wanwan ca to pick a freshly caught one. Of course, it wasn’t a big deal if she couldn’t find a satisfactory one because she actually planned to buy it in the modern day; visiting the dock was just a front.

She initially wanted to make tuna slices for the old master, as she wasn’t impressed with river fish, fearing too many parasites. Deep-sea fish were safer.

But there she found sothing that made her eyes light up — Yangtze River White Sturgeon, a species already declared extinct by the International Union for Conservation of Nature!

Though Lin Wanwan didn’t claim to have strong environntal consciousness, every ti she heard of an extinction, she’d lant.

This resilient species couldn’t be fard, they pursued freedom and needed vast spaces. Once captured, they’d starve themselves to death. By the ti people realized they needed protection, it was already too late, leaving only regret.

Yet now, before Lin Wanwan was a whole net of Yangtze River White Sturgeons, big and small, fresh and lively, clearly just caught from the Qiantang River!

Bring them back to the modern day!

This was Lin Wanwan’s first thought. She hadn’t deliberately sought to do this, but since she’d encountered them, it was destiny, and she couldn’t just ignore it.

Buying the fish was a trivial expense for Lin Wanwan, but getting these big guys back into the river from the hotel unnoticed was a difficult task.

With surveillance caras everywhere in the streets, it was almost impossible to do it flawlessly. Plus, those fish couldn’t be out of the water for long. They’d already been starving and agitated since being caught, and ti wasn’t on their side.