CHAPTER 75 - MEDICINE ASSISTANT ASSESSMENT (1)
Translated by Luxican
Edited by madghost
The Medicine Association was worthy of being the best medical examination organization on Wu Ji Continent. When Yun Sheng entered the examination room with several other Medicine Apprentices, she found that dozens of Medicine Apprentices were already standing there.
Some of them have participated many times already.
Yun Sheng's sharp eyes were able to find that, although all of them looked like they were Medicine Apprentices at first, most of them were divided into small groups. Some Medicine Apprentices' clothing were obviously more elegant and most of them seemed to know each other.
Cheng Youhais's Medicine Apprentices Cheng Qing seemed to know quite a lot of them. After he entered the examination room, he greeted a few familiar people and started discussing the possible assessment content today. Many of them who wanted to come here already knew each other's masters.
"She is the Medicine Apprentice of that magician doctor Fan Zhi," Cheng Qing pointed at Yun Sheng and thought she wouldn't be able to hear what he said.
But since Yun Sheng broke through the second mysterious meridian her five senses have become more sensitive, what a few people said behind her back were heard by her.
"Isn't Fan Zhi the doctor who killed someone? I heard that he opened up a man's chest," several Medicine Apprentoce were stunned when they heard Fan Zhi's name.
Everyone spontaneously pulled away from Yun Sheng, as if Yun Sheng was something filthy.
Yun Sheng didn't mind it at all, she was too lazy to bother about a group of children.
A Pharmacist walked in. He was the main pharmacist in charge of the assessment today.
"Silence, I am your chief pharmacist today for the Medicine Assistant examination, you can call me Pharmacist Kong. Most of you here are the Medicine Apprentices of the Medicine Association, and I believe that you guys are familiar with the Medicine Assistant examination. Today there are 43 of you participating in the assessment, and I hope that all of you will become qualified Medicine Assistants in the end. Our first round of assessment will be to gather medicine. Everyone please follow me to the first floor."
"Amazing!" Yun Sheng stepped into the herb storehouse of the Medicine Association with the other Medicine Apprentices.
The herb storehouse of the Medicine Association was like a huge underground parking lot. There were as many as ten thousand types of herbs here, which were neatly divided into several areas, such as low, intermediate and advanced herbs.
Yun Sheng's surprised expression fell into the eyes of the Medicine Apprentices, and they laughed at her.
"Prescription was given to each of you, when you entered the storehouse. There are a total of 18 types of herbs on the prescription. The first assessment is that, without using the medicine scale you have to accurately weigh each of the 18 types of herbs. Those of you who gather the right amount of 15-18 types of herbs correctly will get a high grade, those of you who gathers the right amount for 10 to 14 types of herbs will get a medium grade, 6 to 9 types of right amount of herbs means you're qualified, and if gather less than 6 herbs you're disqualified," after listening to the content of the assessment, the Medicine Apprentices immediately started checking the prescription in their hands.
The Medicine Assistant is different from the Medicine Apprentice, fetching herbs was one of their most important jobs.
In the Medicine Association, there were hundreds of thousands of prescriptions being sent out every day, qualified Medicine Assistants simply don't have enough time to use the scale to weigh the Medicine.
They can weigh the exact amount of medicine to be used with their hands, which in turn helps with faster pill making.
Cheng Qing quickly weighed the 18 herbs, and he proudly gave the medicine to the pharmacist.
The pharmacist announced after inspecting, "Cheng Qing, out of the 18 herbs, a total of 16 were correctly weighed. For the first examination he has a high grade." Accurately gathering 16 out of 18 herbs without using a medicine scale. The other Medicine Apprentices were all surprised, praising Cheng Qing for being worthy of Cheng Yunhai's Medicine Apprentice title.
Several other Medicine Apprentices passed the assessment, while two of them failed to meet the minimum six herbs standard, and were eliminated in the first round.
Yun Sheng also gave the herbs she had weighed to the pharmacist.
Pharmacist Kong glanced at her and found that Yun Sheng was a new face.
"Yun Sheng, out of the 18 types of herbs, weighed accurately...18. Assessment result: high grade," Pharmacist Kong, who reported the result of " high-grade" was disbelieving himself.
Not to mention everyone else, including the people who had laughed at Yun Sheng earlier were all stunned.
"18 types! Did you hear? The magician doctor's Medicine Apprentice actually weighted 18 herbs accurately." There were many types of herbs in the Medicine Association, not only fresh and dried herbs, but also semi-finished herbs grounded into powder, and even some in liquid form, but Yun Sheng had accurately gathered all the herbs.
Yun Sheng was secretly laughing.
Joke's on them, in her previous life from the moment she learned to walk, she had been forced to learn medicine everyday under her grandfather. Learning to weigh herbs for more than 20 years, how could she lose to a group of little Medicine Apprentice brats.
She did not need a scale, she herself was already as accurate as them.
On the other side, Cheng Qing's face was ugly. He stared at Yun Sheng's back and pulled a Medicine Apprentice and the two started murmuring.
In the first examination of herb gathering, a total of ten people failed, from the original 43, only 33 were left.
The second round of evaluation was concocting Medicine, and the evaluation site was the first-floor Medicine storehouse. Only this time, the Medicine Apprentice were going to make medicines based on the prescription they had received
When her herbs were sent up, Yun Sheng frowned.
Something was not right with these Medicinal herbs.
The herbs for the medicine concocting had been replaced by others. Yun Sheng looked at the herbs of the other Medicine Apprentice and found that her herbs were not only less than the others', but also had a different age. The main herb which was supposed to be a five-years-old was found to be a three-years-old one.
Since the age of the herbs were wrong, the medicine would naturally fail as well.
Cheng Qing and several other Medicine Apprentices looked at her sneakily, and Yun Sheng immediately guessed that they were the ones who had caused the trouble.
Seeing that Yun Sheng didn't say a word, and she just continued to concoct medicine, the few Medicine Apprentices all showed a victorious smile.
Just let her dominate in the first assessment, but now see how she can concoct qualified medicine with unqualified herbs.
About half an hour later, the 33 Medicine Apprentices had all finished concocting their own medicines.
Cheng Qing sneaked a look at Yun Sheng's bowl of medicine. The amount of medicine was only half as much as his. The amount of herbs had obviously been insufficient. Needless to say, she would surely be eliminated.
Just when Pharmacist Kong was about to check everyone's medicine, a girl about 13 or 14 years-old came in.
"Miss Qin, why are you here?" Pharmacist Kong asked in a kind tone.
The girl looked beautiful, and had a Medicine Assistant's token on her body.
As a matter of fact, Pharmacist Kong's identity was superior to a simple Medicine Assistant's, so he shouldn't be so respectful.
But Pharmacist Kong, including the Medicine Apprentices, all were looking at her with respect, just because she was a personal Medicine Assistant of a great personal in the Medicine Association.
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