Chapter 21 - That Fellow is too Pretentious
Su Tao turned on his computer and accessed the Three Flavour Hall's website after reading some information on the Hanzhou Branch's Jianghuai TCM University.
The generation of internet toppled many traditional procedures. In the past, patients would have to queue, but nowadays, they only had to make an appointment online.
Doctors had to progress along with the trend, especially for physicians. The TCM culture would continue to deteriorate if they stuck to the old traditional ways, losing out the potential to improve.
Business hadn't been good after Su Tao took over the Three Flavour Hall, so he had tried a new method and set up a website for the Three Flavour Hall to introduce TCM and shared his experience.
Despite the spa.r.s.e traffic, Su Tao made sure to check on it daily. Today, there's a message left by a netizen, "Saw your site and noticed that you have been diligently writing your insights. There aren't many physicians that would do that nowadays, which I give you my respect for it."
Su Tao chuckled at the message. This particular netizen had taken him for a geezer. It's understandable, since physicians gave others an impression of a geezer. Nowadays, younger generations would look more towards western medicines that provided them with broader prospects.
Turning off his computer, Su Tao started to prepare his teaching material, since it would be the first for him to teach tomorrow. Despite his eloquence and the right mentality, he still insisted on making preparations. It was his philosophy in putting in the effort at everything he does.
Jianghuai TCM University could be ranked amongst the top five specialist universities in the country, producing large quant.i.ties of talents for the country. Before western medicine got popular in the early 1980s, there were three grandmasters in the Zhongnanhai Medical Team with their stories spreading far and wide.
But as western medicine progressed, TCM gradually deteriorated, which resulted in the lack of students and poor development in the past few years.
Jianghuai TCM University was also experiencing the same problem as other universities. The main branch provided talents for several leading hospitals, but for the Hanzhou Branch, they suffered from a poor educational quality, which resulted in the poor quality of students.
Originating from a remote village in Sichuan, the Eight Bridge Village, Xiao Jingjing was a legend of the village being the first ranking undergraduate in the village's history. However, she had to walk a few kilometres daily to attend school due to the lack of educational resources provided in the village.
Back then, the village chief garnered donations from the village. Despite being only sufficient for a year's school fee, Xiao Jingjing was touched by that kindness and was determined to work hard and repay the villagers after she earned her first bucket of gold.
However, reality gave her a harsh slap on her face when she came to the university. Firstly, the university was only a branch of the Jiangnan TCM University, and secondly, the quality of the professors and diploma were also one grade lower.
But even so, she wasn't discouraged and worked harder instead. She memorised the Basis of TCM, Prescription Studies, Cold Disease a.n.a.lect, Synopsis of Golden Chamber's Prescription and the International Standard Library of Chinese Medicine and other similar study materials, a bookworm that only knew how to study in the eyes of her cla.s.smates.
On the contrary to her, her roommate, Liu Qian, was a bimbo that often skipped cla.s.ses aside from lessons held by strict professors. Today, she had already made plans for some afternoon shopping, and so, she requested a favour from Xiao Jingjing, "Please help me sign my attendance for the afternoon cla.s.s."
Xiao Jingjing adjusted her black-framed gla.s.ses and reminded, "I heard a new professor is conducting the afternoon cla.s.s. What should I do if I'm exposed?"
