Second Update.
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Cai Pingyuan didn't disturb Qin Fang and Ma Yunzhi. He acted as if he didn't see anything. He went back to drinking tea while humming the tune of Beijing opera.
When Elder Ma returned, Qin Fang noticed him. As soon as they entered the courtyard, the two of them looked at each other. Elder Ma nodded at Qin Fang. He didn't come over but went directly to Cai Pingyuan.
Qin Fang wanted to go to Cai Pingyuan, but this unscrupulous master waved his hand and signaled Qin Fang to do what he should do. Qin Fang could only continue to stay and learn acupuncture from Ma Yunzhi.
Elder Ma's name was Ma Pingzhang. He was older than Cai Pingyuan and was already eighty years old. However, his body didn't look like an eighty year old man at all. He looked as hale and hearty as Cai Pingyuan.
"Brother Cai, I really want to congratulate you. You have accepted such a good disciple. You can finally feel at ease in your heart, right?"
Elder Ma laughed and talked with Cai Pingyuan. Presumably, when he came back just now, the mute uncle said something to him, so he said this when he saw Cai Pingyuan.
"Old man, you're not bad either. I think that girl, Yunzhi, is also very smart. Her acupuncture skills are already at 50% of your skills …"
Cai Pingyuan also laughed and said. At least, he agreed with Old Ma's praise of Qin Fang. This indeed made him put down the big stone in his heart.
"Ai, that girl Yunzhi …"
Speaking of Ma Yunzhi, Elder Ma's face couldn't help but become a little gloomy. "Yunzhi is indeed very smart, but she is a girl after all. Even if she can inherit my legacy, it will be difficult for her to lead the family!"
Every family had its own difficulties, especially a family like the Ma family that had been passed down for hundreds of years.
Although the idea of favoring boys over girls had gradually faded, such things were still unavoidable in such an ancient family.
The Ma family now had many famous doctors, but most of them were led by Western medicine. Most people learned some Chinese medicine treatment, but most of it was to supplement Western medicine.
Elder Ma was very supportive of this kind of treatment. He had always been encouraging it.
However, in the past twenty to thirty years, many people in the Ma family had changed their minds. Some of the younger generation even felt that the medical skills passed down in their family were not as good as the methods of Western medicine. This was what made Elder Ma the most heartbroken.
This kind of thinking led to most of the younger generation not paying enough attention to their family's medical skills. In the end, only Ma Yunzhi was the best seedling.
However, a girl would eventually have to get married. For such an ancient family, this was the biggest obstacle that restricted Ma Yunzhi from inheriting the family's legacy.
"Sigh, every family has its own difficulties!"
Hearing Elder Ma say this, Elder Cai couldn't help but think that the situation at home was the same.
However, Elder Cai's situation was better. Although people who practiced martial arts also cherished their own skills, they still took care of their disciples. Basically, they would not hold anything back. This was one of the reasons why there were so many schools of fist techniques such as Tai Chi, Eight Trigrams, and Xingyi.
Medical families were different. They were very inflexible about the inheritance of some ancient skills. Many skills were even lost because of this reason. Such families were often controlled by a couple of old fogeys. It was very difficult to pry them out of it.
For example, in the Ma family, Elder Ma was the head of the family, but there were still a few old guys of the same generation as Elder Ma. In addition, Elder Ma's children and grandchildren were even more flourishing. Hundreds of people would come every time to worship the ancestors. The Cai family originally had more than ten seedlings, but it was much more complicated.
"Let's not talk about this. If it really doesn't work, let Yunzhi marry a son-in-law into the family. Isn't that enough?" The old man's thoughts were sometimes quite simple.
"You old ghost, you're talking nonsense. Yunzhi's marriage can only be decided by her. If anyone dares to say anything, this old man will slap him to death …"
As the one who loved his granddaughter, Ma Yunzhi, the most, Elder Ma couldn't tolerate his granddaughter's unwillingness. He had already expressed that her marriage was up to her. No one else had the right to interfere. Even Ma Yunzhi's parents and Elder Ma's son and daughter-in-law could not interfere. Everyone in the Ma family had long known about this.
"Right, speaking of marriage, I see that your disciple outside seems to be quite good. Why don't we choose him?"
Although he said so, Elder Ma seemed to have the same idea as Elder Cai in his heart. Just now, he also saw that Qin Fang and Ma Yunzhi seemed to be very harmonious. He immediately winked and said.
"Get lost!
Don't even think about it … "
If Elder Ma didn't say to let Ma Yunzhi inherit the Ma family's legacy, perhaps Elder Cai would really help to matchmake them. This way, the relationship between the two families would be even closer.
However, this Old Man Ma wanted to make a move on his legacy disciple. He also wanted to marry Qin Fang. How could he agree? He immediately scolded.
"Alas, if this trick really works, my Qing girl is much more beautiful than Yunzhi girl …"
However, Elder Cai also thought with some regret in his heart.
"This is none of your business. What if this Qin boy likes my girl?
I'll go and take a look … "
It was said that the older a person was, the more he looked like a child. The two old men in their seventies and eighties were really like children fighting over a lollipop. They laughed and joked like this. Elder Ma was even more direct. As he spoke, he stood up and walked towards Qin Fang and Ma Yunzhi.
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"That is to say, if I use the internal breathing method to move the needle, I can even directly eliminate the focus of the disease like described in novels?"
Just now, Ma Yunzhi gave him a simple acupuncture lesson. Qin Fang, who had obtained the beginner level of acupuncture, was no longer the beginner who stopped at acupuncture. With Ma Yunzhi's explanation, the acupuncture knowledge that had been instilled in his mind was constantly integrated with Qin Fang's own memory. He could already have his own opinions on some problems by analogy.
When Elder Ma came over, he did not disturb Qin Fang and Ma Yunzhi. He just stood by and listened. When he heard Qin Fang's words, he suddenly felt that Qin Fang's ideas were a bit deep. However, what Ma Yunzhi taught Qin Fang were some basic things, and Qin Fang also listened very seriously. Obviously, he was a beginner, which made Elder Ma even more surprised.
"The internal breathing method to move the needle can really have such a miraculous effect. However, it still requires some very special techniques and acupuncture techniques to be used together to achieve such a goal. Otherwise, not only is it impossible to use it rashly, but it will also have a large degree of adverse effect …"
Ma Yunzhi was a bit stumped by Qin Fang's question. It was not that she did not know the answer, but she did not know what kind of entry point to answer. Elder Ma saw his granddaughter's dilemma and immediately laughed. He was actually in the mood to explain to Qin Fang.
"Special techniques and acupuncture techniques?"
Qin Fang was slightly stunned when he heard this. Obviously, he still expressed that he was quite unfamiliar with this.
"The acupuncture technique has been passed down for thousands of years. In such a long time, many very famous miracle doctors have emerged, such as Bian Que, Hua Tuo, Zhang Zhongjing, Sun Simiao, Li Shizhen, and so on … Their attainments in medical skills are considered to be at the peak. Almost everyone has their own unique acupuncture techniques, such as Bian Que's Nine Heaven Seizing Needles, Hua Tuo's Tianxuan Acupuncture Technique, Sun Simiao's Medicine King's Divine Acupuncture Technique, and so on. In addition to these reputable miracle doctors, there are actually many famous doctors with superb medical skills who also have their own acupuncture techniques …"
Elder Ma's attainments in acupuncture were also very good. He knew a lot of allusions in detail, especially when he was talking about the latter part. His face showed a little pride.
Elder Cai secretly despised Old Ma. He knew that the Ma Family also had a set of very special acupuncture techniques. It once had a very famous reputation in the Chinese medicine world. His ancestor really relied on this set of acupuncture techniques to enter the palace and become an imperial doctor.
"Received guidance from a grandmaster-level medical doctor. Acupuncture skill upgraded to intermediate level, proficiency 0%."
What Qin Fang did not expect was that simply listening to Elder Ma's words would directly upgrade his Beginner Acupuncture skill, which he had just acquired, to the Intermediate Level. This speed was like sitting on a rocket.
"Wait, grandmaster-level?"
However, Qin Fang suddenly noticed that Elder Ma's level was actually at the grandmaster-level.
Qin Fang's martial arts master was Cai Pingyuan, and Cai Pingyuan was a master-level national martial arts master. Therefore, after he taught Qin Fang Xingyi Fist, the skill of Xingyi Fist directly started from the intermediate level.
Elder Ma was at the grandmaster-level, and it seemed that he was even above the master-level Cai Pingyuan. Then, if he personally taught Qin Fang acupuncture, wouldn't it directly be … advanced level?
Thinking of this, Qin Fang's joy suddenly became very faint for some reason.
F * ck, there was originally an opportunity to directly upgrade to an advanced level skill, but because of my greed, I squandered a small advantage and could only muddle to an intermediate level.
"It doesn't seem right … If I didn't learn acupuncture from Ma Yunzhi, Elder Ma wouldn't say these words to me. Then, I wouldn't even be able to reach the intermediate level now …"
However, Qin Fang's thoughts were still relatively realistic. After thinking about it this way, he felt that he didn't regret it so much. This was simply a matter of opportunity.
Under a very suitable premise, there was such a very suitable opportunity. If he missed this opportunity, there would naturally be no such opportunity.
Moreover, Cai Pingyuan also roughly told Qin Fang about the situation of the Ma Family. He knew that such a traditional Chinese medicine family had very high requirements for accepting disciples. For an amateur like Qin Fang, let alone Elder Ma, it was impossible for him to accept him as a disciple. If it wasn't such a coincidence, Elder Ma wouldn't talk about acupuncture with him.
At most, he would talk about Qin Fang's attainments in Xingyi Martial Arts. After all, Qin Fang was here today to accompany his master, Cai Pingyuan, to get acquainted with him and get to know him better … (To be continued, if you want to know the future, please go to www.qidian.com to read more chapters.