Come Learn Medicine

On the 27th, Thursday, Xia Yu came to Yin Shulan's place for the second time.

To avoid being involved in making lunch, Xia Yu logged into the game after lunchtime.

The lunch at the Yin family was later than he had imagined, and he almost missed his chance.

When he came over, Yin Shulan was cleaning the table.

Looking at the table without any meat, just vegetable soup and fried beans, Xia Yu asked Yin Shulan, "Is hunting strictly regulated here?"

This was a mountain village, relying on a large mountain, so there shouldn't be a lack of meat.

"There used to be some sneaky hunting, but some people came from outside to investigate secretly, and several people were caught, so no one dares to do it now." Yin Shulan answered.

Nowadays, pheasants and hares are protected animals, and only wild rats can be killed at will.

However, rats are not part of ordinary people's diets.

After tidying up the table, Xia Yu said goodbye to Yin Ling and went to the town.

It took him three hours to walk there, and he finally arrived near dusk.

He now had only one hour to wander around before four thirty, at which point he had to return, otherwise, it would be dark.

The town had only one street, no coffee shop, just a teahouse with someone playing the erhu.

After listening for a while and determining that the player's skill level was around Lv3, Xia Yu knew that plan A wouldn't work.

A Lv3 erhu, although far inferior to a Lv5 one, unfortunately, the gap between the two was not something ordinary people could hear.

Aesthetic appreciation requires cultivation, especially for musical instruments. Ordinary people who have not been educated in musical aesthetics can only reach Lv3 at most, and whether it is Lv4 or Lv5, it sounds the same as Lv3 to them.

Moreover, the erhu player seemed to be a relative of the teahouse owner, and the owner called him uncle.

Plan A was the easiest to achieve, but the chances of implementing plans B and C were slim.

It turned out that directly sending money was more convenient.

If he couldn't transfer the money, he could stuff it in an envelope and mail it.

However, experienced postmen could determine what was in the letter by touch, and they might intercept it.

In this world, same-city express delivery has emerged, but cross-regional logistics are still being explored.

It was still necessary to come over, get close to the town, and then use someone else's hand to give the money.

What a hassle.

Sighing, Xia Yu casually picked up a newspaper and started reading.

"Is it possible or not? If not, don't bother finding other ways to make money, just go back to weaving baskets." Yin Shulan tried to get Xia Yu back on track.

The day before yesterday, she found out that Xia Yu was not just twice as fast as her; he could keep weaving for two hours straight while she needed to take breaks, and her efficiency would decline over time while his would not.

With such a difference, it was a two-fold gap!

She could make twice as much money in a month!

Such a great talent would be wasted if he didn't weave baskets!

Hearing the words about weaving baskets, Xia Yu clenched his fists, thinking about whether he should stop coming for a while and just wait until he had sent the money.

It would probably take him two or three days to send the money over, which was not very long.

Before he made up his mind, he saw a notice on the newspaper.

It was for a translator who needed to know Russian and be proficient in the local dialect.

It was an advertisement from four days ago, and the application deadline was today.

The location was a chemical plant in the small town.

If it was just for the money, Xia Yu didn't need to work at all; he could just wait quietly for his main body to come nearby and distribute the money.

But he wanted to conduct an experiment.

He had wanted to do this experiment for a long time, but he had been too busy before, and neither Xu Youxiang nor An Siyao were suitable subjects.

Following the address on the newspaper, Xia Yu arrived at the chemical plant.

After speaking to the guard at the gate, the guard led him to the boss's office, wearing a puzzled expression.

"Who are you?" the boss asked, looking at the old lady in front of him.

"I'm here to apply for the translator position. I can speak Russian," Xia Yu replied.

"Madam, we need a Russian speaker, not a goose speaker. It has nothing to do with poultry," the middle-aged boss thought Xia Yu had misunderstood.

"…I can read characters, I know it's Russian," Xia Yu didn't expect the boss to have a sense of humor.

"Oh, you can read? That's truly rare," the boss said with a smile, but he was only marveling at Xia Yu's literacy.

Not wanting to explain further, Xia Yu asked directly, "Did you find someone? If not, you can test my level."

"I know your local dialect is standard, but we need Russian here, not the local dialect," the boss still didn't believe Xia Yu. He saw the old lady in front of him, dressed simply, with calloused hands and an aged complexion, clearly an ordinary farmer.

However, he followed Xia Yu's suggestion and tested her.

He took out his phone, called up a translation app, and asked Xia Yu to say "Good morning" in Russian.

Without any difficulty, Xia Yu accurately spoke the words.

The boss exclaimed in surprise.

He looked at Xia Yu incredulously and asked, "Can you translate the tongue twister, 'Black fertilizer evaporates and turns black'?"

In Chinese it was a tongue twister, but in Russian, it lost all its magic.

The translation appeared on the phone, with some words out of order, but they were all there. The boss was now sure of Xia Yu's ability.

Putting down his phone, the boss enthusiastically shook Xia Yu's hand: "I didn't expect our town to have such a hidden talent like you."

Finding a Russian translator wasn't hard, but finding one who also knew the local dialect was difficult.

Face-to-face translation usually requires at least two translators; it was too cumbersome.

Now that they had Xia Yu, the boss was overjoyed.

"Let's discuss the salary and work hours," Xia Yu said.

"It's a total of three days, starting from around 2 pm tomorrow and ending at noon on the 30th; I can give you two thousand!" The boss took out his wallet on the spot.

The price was acceptable.

"I can only work during the day," Xia Yu added, as a condition to conceal the eight-hour work gap.

"No problem, but there's a dinner party tomorrow night..." The boss looked at Xia Yu.

"As long as it doesn't go past nine o'clock," Xia Yu answered.

"Alright." The boss shook Xia Yu's hand, "Your payment will be settled daily. I'll give you 800 tomorrow night, 700 the day after, and the final 500 will be given to you at the end."

"Okay." Xia Yu knew that the boss was worried about him suddenly leaving, so he opted for installment payments.

After finishing his conversation with the boss, Xia Yu left the chemical plant and headed for the village.

"Can you really get 2,000 in three days?" Yin Shulan couldn't believe it.

"This is the power of knowledge," Xia Yu replied.

"But, even if I learn this, I won't be able to do it," Yin Shulan was well aware of her limitations.

"Indeed, you wouldn't be able to do this even if you learned it, but you have other talents," Xia Yu tried to probe further.

"What is it?"

"Dispensing medicine," Xia Yu said.

"Herbal medicine? I do know a bit," Yin Shulan said, "but I haven't been dispensing medicine since practicing medicine without a license was banned."

"You can do that?" Xia Yu was pleasantly surprised, "Once the money issue is resolved, I will prove that this is the real path for you to become rich."

The profit from medicines is also quite extraordinary.

Eight hours later, he returned to his own body.

Looking at the double game points he received, Xia Yu confirmed that as long as he used someone else's body and did what that person wanted, he would get more game points.

This way, his speed of accumulating experience cards would be much faster.

However, this proved that dominating the East was indeed not what An Siyao wanted. Throughout the process, An Siyao's game points never increased.

The next morning, he told Yuxue and Kong Hanyue that he felt the call of nature and needed to go on a trip for a week.

Then, he went to the bank, withdrew some cash, and boarded the high-speed train.