Miss Star, spoiled by her father and brother

Chapter 293: Confessing the Origin

Being able to return to the planet Goodall is an opportunity for Xu Weiwei.

Her biggest worry was that she had no place to display her medical skills and could not find a suitable excuse. But now, the opportunity was presented to her.

After thinking for a long time, Xu Weiwei finally spoke after an acupuncture treatment: "Priest, can I learn medicine from you?"

There was only her and the old priest who was sterilizing the needles in the room. In this place with underdeveloped productivity, it was impossible to treat them as disposable.

The priest glanced at her, and asked calmly while continuing his hand movements: "Why do you want to learn this?"

"I think your medical skills are amazing, and very different from what we have. If you learn it, you can save more people like me." Xu Weiwei answered in a proper manner, but unexpectedly, the other party's next sentence directly poured a bucket of cold water on her.

"My medical skills are not to be passed on to outsiders."

"But Sister Taohua..."

"She is going to inherit my mantle and become the next priestess of the Gudel tribe. Do you want to stay too?"

Xu Weiwei was speechless.

The room was completely quiet. Seeing the priest putting all the needles in a row too far, and then inserting them back one by one, Xu Weiwei began to get anxious. If it were her doting grandparents, she could just be shameless and act like a spoiled brat and give them some advice.

But she didn't know what to do when facing strangers, as she was not the type to make friends easily.

The priest rolled up the acupuncture bag with his dry fingers and tied the rope tightly. Then he turned around and looked at Xu Weiwei and said something irrelevant, "I read your fortune when you were just born."

"The hexagrams show two contradictory destinies."

Xu Weiwei's eyelids twitched, and she lowered her eyes and remained silent.

"I thought it was new, so I calculated it carefully again after I got back."

"One of them is Tianliang, which means the owner is well-educated, smart and knowledgeable, and will be famous when he is young. Unfortunately, Kongjie is in the life, and he also encounters Qisha, which means he is destined to be lonely, poor and hard, and may even die a violent death."

The priest stopped and saw that Xu Weiwei had no reaction, then continued slowly: "Another set... Ju Men sits in the Parents Palace, and Wu Qu is transformed into Lu, which means that the family is well-off, the family is engaged in a military-related business, and they eat royal food."

"But you, Qi Sha is in your fate, and Po Jun is inside. Lian Tan is trapped in the Palace of Parents and the Palace of Brothers. People with this fate are prone to doing evil. They are impulsive and act without regard for the consequences. They act only based on their own preferences and are easily influenced by others. If you guide them to do good, they will do good. If you guide them to do evil, they will do evil."

"Because of this trait, it brings harm to relatives."

Xu Weiwei felt her throat dry and didn't dare to look up. Because she studied Chinese medicine, she had some respect for things like ghosts and gods, and Taoist culture, probably because they came from the same source. But when she was stripped down to her underwear, she felt terrified.

"The first kind of fate is fine, but if it's the second kind - little girl, how can I trust my skills to such a person?"

The wrinkles on the old woman's face formed gullies, and her back was hunched, but her eyes were still very clear, and her pupils, like deep pools, seemed to be able to see through all her secrets.

"No..." Xu Weiwei swallowed and said dryly, "It won't be the second one..."

"I'm not... not that kind of person."

Xu Weiwei's forehead was covered with beads of sweat, and her hands were clenched so tightly that wrinkles appeared on her skirt. She knew that such words were too pale. Why should she say that it was not true?

What should I do? Should I confess? Can I trust this person?

The old woman stared at her for a few seconds, then stood up with her cane, as if she was going to end the conversation.

"You are on guard against me, and I have mysteries in my heart, too. Go back. Don't mention studying medicine anymore."

After saying that, he walked towards the door. Xu Weiwei really didn't want to end up in this situation, but there was nothing she could do.

Suddenly, Xu Weiwei's eyes froze as she scanned a painting on the wall. It was as if she had found the entrance to the Peach Blossom Spring. She hurriedly asked, "Do you know Zhang Zhongjing?!"

The old woman's footsteps floated in the air and then slowly fell down.

Xu Weiwei struck while the iron was hot and continued to ask: "The Medical Saint Zhang Zhongjing, the King of Medicine Sun Simiao, as well as Shennong and Bian Que... "Treatise on Febrile and Miscellaneous Diseases", "Thousand Golden Prescriptions", "Shennong's Classic of Materia Medica"... Have you heard of them?"

The old woman slowly turned around and asked expressionlessly, "How did you know this?"

Seeing her reaction, Xu Weiwei felt relieved. She looked into the old woman's eyes and replied calmly, "My grandfather told me that my family has been practicing Chinese medicine for generations. Not only that, I also know about the Xia Dynasty, the Shang Dynasty, and the Zhou Dynasty..."

"Don't test me. You and I are not from the same place."

Xu Weiwei paused after her thoughts were exposed. She had indeed always had this guess, and she had mentioned so many dynasties just to judge from her expression when she was from.

The old woman sat down again, poured herself a cup of tea, drank it in small sips, exhaled a long breath, and then told her story.

"I was born in this place. Logically, I belong to the Guder tribe. But my mother is from another place."

She took another cup, poured tea into it, and pushed it in Xu Weiwei's direction. The old woman continued, "My mother told me this when I was sixteen. She also told me not to tell anyone else about this."

"It's been so long, and I have no one to talk to, so I can't remember a lot of things. I don't know the 'dynasties' you mentioned, but I only remember my mother saying that the place where she lived was not peaceful, and many foreigners invaded."

Xu Weiwei's expression changed, but she didn't interrupt.

"My mother said she didn't belong here and she had no memory of how she got here. When she first arrived, there was still a war going on here and there were fierce conflicts between several tribes. She was almost killed as a foreigner, and it was my father who pleaded for her that saved her life."

"Gradually, she learned the language and adapted to life here. She also tried to find her hometown, but couldn't find it, so she gave up after a long time."

"With her own abilities, she became a prestigious priestess in the tribe. And she trained me as her successor since I was young."

"She is the most beloved woman in the tribe, more beloved than the chief's wife. She knows many interesting stories, has many skills, sings beautifully, and tells us many great truths."

"It was also her idea to set up the public school in the tribe."

"Everyone even worships her as a 'goddess'..."

When she said this, a look of reminiscence and longing appeared on the old woman's face.