Chapter 1740 Care, Talent, and Recruitment
It was easy for Mingyan to go down the mountain. He rode quickly on horseback and entered the city before noon.

When we came back, we were much slower because we had to carry the medicinal herbs.

By the time he brought the herbs back, Su Mingzhe's progress with Zhu Yingtai had not improved much, but Yin Xin's eyes were already sparkling when she looked at Su Mingzhe.

With the medicinal materials, Su Mingzhe skillfully classified them and then matched two prescriptions for removing dampness and dissipating heat.

Mingyan prepared the medicine and wanted to help take care of the patient, but Su Mingzhe sent him to the infirmary to help.

As for Zhu Yingtai and her servant, Su Mingzhe had to help feed them personally.

Faced with Su Mingzhe's considerate care, Zhu Yingtai did not refuse. On the one hand, she had been fed porridge by Su Mingzhe twice in the morning and at noon, so she didn't care this time. On the other hand, she had been taken care of by eight brothers in the family since she was a child, so she didn't think there was anything wrong with Su Mingzhe, her sworn brother, taking care of her.

However, Yin Xin was so anxious that she wanted to vomit blood when she saw Su Mingzhe and her young lady taking care of her almost closely.

Finally, when Su Mingzhe wanted to take care of Yin Xin, the girl quickly refused:

"Mr. Su, I can do it myself."

Yin Xin is not sure about the outcome of Su Mingzhe and her young lady, so naturally she doesn't dare to get too close to Su Mingzhe.

What's more, she was just a maid, so how could she be worthy of being served by a young man like Su Mingzhe who came from a famous family.

"If you can sit up on your own, I won't help you."

Su Mingzhe acted like a domineering president.

Yinxin tried hard to sit up, but naturally couldn't.

After all, she had been ill since yesterday and hadn't eaten anything all day. She was so weak that she had difficulty even opening her eyes, so how could she get up and take the medicine by herself?

So, Su Mingzhe directly and domineeringly hugged the little maid Yinxin in his arms and fed her the medicine attentively.

When the man walked out of the house, the master and servant looked at each other. Their fair faces were red, not knowing whether it was because of illness or shyness, which looked very beautiful.

……

There were no specific medicines like penicillin in ancient times.

If you want to cure an illness, it is really like 'the illness comes like a mountain falling, and goes away like a thread being pulled'.

Often a cold or fever would require bedridden for more than a month.

As for the master and servant Zhu Yingtai and Yinxin, even though Su Mingzhe took good care of them and had them take medicine on time every day, they still had to lie down for five or six days before they had the strength to get up.

……

When she woke up that morning, Yin Xin felt that she had regained some strength. Not only did she refuse to let Su Mingzhe serve her anymore, she also took over the task of serving Zhu Yingtai.

Su Mingzhe didn't want to reveal his thoughts, so he could only pretend to be relaxed and walked out of the house.

"Master, breakfast is here!"

Mingyan had just entered the courtyard with her lunch box. When she saw Su Mingzhe coming out of the house, she was about to help carry the lunch box into the house, but was stopped by Su Mingzhe:
"Give me the lunch box. After you finish eating, go fill the water in the yard and bring a bathtub. Although you can't forgive them for catching a cold, Yingtai and Yinxin have been sweating for so many days. They must be uncomfortable. It's best to let them take a bath."

Su Mingzhe is really thoughtful. I don’t know whether Zhu Yingtai and Yinxin, the master and servant, will be grateful and repay the favor.

……

This influenza epidemic has troubled the college for nearly a month.

Except for a few days when Su Mingzhe was busy taking care of Zhu Yingtai and her servant, he spent the rest of his time in seclusion and devoted himself to cultivation.

In the blink of an eye, it was already the twelfth month.

Letter from home.

In the letter, Su's father used code words to tell Su Mingzhe that he had already discussed the marriage with Prime Minister Xie An.

Everything has to wait until those three articles are spread and announced to the outside world.

……

After the twelfth lunar month, it is New Year’s Day.

I don’t know what’s going on in this dimension. It’s only the Eastern Jin Dynasty and there are already fireworks.

During New Year's Day and Lantern Festival.

The academy bought a lot of fireworks and the atmosphere was lively for a long time.

After the New Year.

The academy finally invited a new teacher - Gu Kaizhi.

Gu Kaizhi was originally a military officer under the Grand Commander Huan Wen.

After the failure of the Northern Expedition, the Grand Commander rested in Jingzhou to observe the current situation.

As a native aristocrat from Jiangnan, Gu Kaizhi was sent back by Huan Wen to build relationships with the major aristocratic families.

It just so happened that the Nishan Academy was short of teachers, so Gu Kaizhi took the initiative to come to the academy as a guest professor through a friend. …

this day.

Gu Kaizhi gave everyone a painting lesson, and suddenly asked:
"Is that classmate Su Mingzhe?"

"Master, this is my student Su Mingzhe!"

When Su Mingzhe heard the other party's question, he immediately stood up and saluted.

When Gu Kaizhi saw the handsome Su Mingzhe, his eyes lit up:
"Are you Yuyao Su Mingzhe?"

"The student is Yuyao Su Mingzhe!"

Su Mingzhe thought the other party was an old friend of his, so he clasped his fists and looked at him curiously.

Gu Kaizhi did not hide his feelings and asked directly with a smile:
"Did you write the poem "On the Love of Lotus" on the stone tablet at Caoqiao Pavilion at the foot of the mountain?"

"Um, this is what the student did when he was at home in Yuyao..."

Su Mingzhe hesitated for a moment, then recounted the story of how he met and got to know Liang Shanbo and Zhu Yingtai.

After hearing this, Gu Kaizhi nodded repeatedly:

"Yes, yes. There are many lovely flowers on land and in water..."

Gu Kaizhi recited the short passage of just over a hundred words in a blink of an eye, and then said with a smile:

"I like this article "On the Love of Lotus" very much."

……

Gu Kaizhi liked many students besides Su Mingzhe.

The purpose of his coming to Jiangnan this time was to win over the Jiangnan gentry, so for the students in the academy, as long as their family had a good background, he would make friends with them.

But poor students like Liang Shanbo were ignored by him.

……

With Gu Kaizhi's praise, "On the Love of Lotus" spread to all parts of Jiangnan in less than a month.

end of February.

Su's father wrote to him saying that the Zhou family had caught their daughter who had run away from her marriage and wanted to ask him to resume the marriage, but he refused.

In response, Su Mingzhe just smiled faintly and did not express anything.

Su Mingzhe had met Miss Zhou once in secret at Xie's house in Shanyin County. She was pretty, with a face as white as a silver plate and a nice figure. She was somewhat similar to Xue Baochai in the 1987 version of "A Dream of Red Mansions".

If Miss Zhou had not run away from her marriage, Su Mingzhe would have married her and let her secure her position as the mistress of the Su family.

However, she ran away from marriage in pursuit of freedom.

How much of a bootlicker must Su Mingzhe be to accept her return.

……

As On the Love of Lotus became popular among the literati in the south of the Yangtze River, Xie An took advantage of the opportunity to help spread On the Humble Dwelling and Ode to Afang Palace.

The name Su Mingzhe suddenly became popular.

March.

Su Mingzhe began to receive recruitment documents from governors and prefects, inviting him to become an official.

The positions were not small, the lowest being an assistant clerk in a prefecture (sixth rank).

In response, Su Mingzhe declined all the offers, saying that he still needed to concentrate on his studies.

After Wang Shiyu learned about this, his impression of Su Mingzhe suddenly improved a lot, and he invited him to his home for dinner several times in a row to show his closeness.

……

The Qingming Festival has passed.

The weather in the south of the Yangtze River is changeable.

Many students began to fall ill.

In order to prevent the shortage of medicinal materials, sisters Wang Lan and Wang Hui had to go up the mountain to collect herbs every day.

After Su Mingzhe learned about this, he simply asked Mingyan to send most of the medicinal herbs he had collected to the clinic.

Mingyan reported back after a short while:
"Sir, there's no one in the infirmary. I'll give it to Aunt Su in the kitchen and ask her to pass it on!"

"There's no one in the infirmary, so they must have gone up the mountain to collect herbs."

Su Mingzhe expanded his spiritual sense, and the Golden Immortal-level spiritual sense instantly covered the entire mountain and found the two women.