Chapter 25 (1/2)
Chapter 25 Willing to Be a Lighthouse!
”What?”
Not only Qiao Mu but all the class was stunned, including those boys who thought Fang Qiu was just trying to seek the limelight. They were all shocked by Fang Qiu's reply.
One might preview one or two chapters on a whim, whereas, it must be more than an impulse to read the whole book.
It must be down with a strong will, with a clear aim!
None of them had carefully previewed a whole book since day one, nor had they seen anyone ever achieve that.
The three from Fang Qiu's dormitory also turned to look at Fang Qiu sitting between them with utterly astonished expressions.
Being his roommates, they had been eating together and playing together. Although they knew Fang Qiu was thirsty for knowledge, they never thought he could be as thirsty as that.
”You previewed the whole book!”
”Who do you think you are!”
But girls were gazing at Fang Qiu even more admiringly.
Qiao Mu almost choked to death on Fang Qiu's reply. ”He really does not play with normal rules!”
Now, how could he proceed with his routine?
He deliberately pondered over it to compose himself. He still did not want to give up and decided to take a detour.
”It's not really a big deal even though he previewed the whole book.”
”Although he previewed, if he can't remember anything or know nothing about the book, it will be the same as not doing the preview at all.”
If it went like that, he could go back to his routine.
”Great!”
Qiao Mu abruptly raised his voice. He looked at Fang Qiu with appreciation and said, ”It truly surprised me that a student could be so self-motivated. I wonder how much you learned from your preview. Now, I'll quiz you a bit to see how effective your preview went. Is that OK with you?”
”Quiz me?”
To show the teacher some respect, Fang Qiu stood up, nodded and replied, ”Yes.”
Hearing that, Qiao Mu was somewhat disappointed. ”How I wish you could say no. That would mean you're not sure of your preview effect and we would not continue the quiz.”
”I think all of you are well aware of what the five internal organs are. Now, I ask you, since the Chinese Medicine divides everything into Yin and Yang, including the five internal organs, what belongs to Yin out of the five internal organs?”
Qiao Mu was so familiar with the ”Basic Theory of Chinese Medicine” that he could simply ask a relative question at the drop of the hat. Now, he posed a question of medium difficulty.
At that question, all the students were dazed other than Fang Qiu.
They actually did not know the five internal organs were divided into Yin and Yang. For all the time they have assumed that the five internal organs were just the five internal organs, which had nothing to do with Yin and Yang.
Let alone which ones belonged to Yin.
But Fang Qiu was staring at Qiao Mu beamingly.
That question was too easy for him. Then, he responded, ”The heart is an element of fire, governing body warmth and blood flow, so it is a Yang organ out of the Yang category.”
”The lung is an element of gold, governing purifying and descending, so it is a Yin organ out of the Yang category. The liver is an element of wood, governing ascending and dredging, so it is a Yang organ out of the Yin category; the kidney is an element of water, governing blocking and storing, so it is a Yin organ out of the Yin category; the spleen is an element of earth, located in middle-jiao, so it is a Yin organ out of the Yin category.”
”Gee!”
The whole class was astonished.
”He not only accounted which ones belonged to Yin but also which ones belonged to Yang. He was only asked with one question, but he also answered which five elements the five internal organs correspond to in respective!”
”He even answered what the five internal organs govern!”
”Bravo!”
Now, the class began to believe Fang Qiu did preview the whole book. Nevertheless, they themselves had no idea about the connection between the five internal organs and the five elements, not to mention their Yin and Yang properties.
”Not bad!”
Qiao Mu nodded. ”Seems that the kid didn't lie about it.”
”He did preview the lessons.”
However, he had no intention to let Fang Qiu off the hook. He was determined to go through his routine!
”Correct. Now, the second question.”
He decided to ask him a tricky one.
”Amendment of Categorized Canons – Mecial Changes mention how shall we deal with the most dynamic and how shall we handle the most Yin?”
”Subdue the most dynamic with the static, and overpower the most Yin with the Yang!”
Replied Fang Qiu.
At that, Qiao Mu thought, ”Impressive.”
”You can even answer such a trick question.”
”Then, I will take it up a notch and ask you a series of questions. I don't believe you can still give me the answers!”
”When the Qi of heart-fire is enough and to spare, what can it overtake? And what can it restrict in reverse? When the Qi of heart-fire is not sufficient, it will cause what to overtake? And what will restrict it in reverse?”
”When the Qi of heart-fire is enough and to spare, it can overtake lung-gold and restrict kidney-water in reverse. When the Qi of heart-fire is not sufficient, it will cause lung-gold to overtake and kidney-water will restrict it in reverse.”
Fang Qiu answered rapidly.
”The therapeutic principle of mother-supplementing and child-draining applies to what kind of illnesses?”
That question Qiao Mu asked was no longer a question on theories but on illness treatment.
Even though the theories were easy to recite and understand, treating illnesses was a different thing.
He did not believe the student in front of him could remember those therapeutic principles simply by doing the preview.
”It applies to the circumstances when the child element got the mother element's illness, the mother element's illness spread to the child element, or when just one organ is ill.”
But Fang Qiu's reply dashed his expectations.
His answers were completely correct!
Sweat started to bead on Qiao Mu's forehead. During the six years' teaching, it was the first time that he felt the class was sort of beyond his control.
”What are the meanings of 'produce me', 'restrict me', 'I produce', and 'I restrict'? Illustrate by examples.”
Asked Qiao Mu anxiously.
”'Produce me' means...”
Like a contest between two martial arts experts, Qiao Mu and Fang Qiu asked and answered each question successively, dazzling the eyes of other present students.
Internally, they were in great shock.
As a teacher, Qiao Mu could pose one question after another without thinking, which was quite an evidence to his level of knowledge.
But what was more horrifying was that Fang Qiu actually answered all the questions.
His answers were perfectly correct.
It really felt like two top swordsmen from ancient times just confronted each other. As one attacked, the other launched his counterattack. How thrilling!
As they watched, the questions came up more and more rapidly and became more and more difficult, but the answers flowed out more and more swift as well, though they were as flawlessly accurate as those previous ones.
Admiration rose in the hearts of students who were present, so did a vogue feeling of loss.
”We are all students.”
”But look at Fang Qiu, he has nearly grasped all the knowledge of the whole book. Then, look at me, I'm still at a loss with what Chinese Medicine is.”
”That's a large gap!”