On the first day after Lin Bo was sent to Qiongshan Valley, he saw villagers running up the mountain carrying a coffin - his father had a strange disease that no one within a hundred miles could cure.
Just when everyone was about to give up, he squatted down, opened his eyelids, and felt his pulse with his fingertips. No one knew that he had memorized the "Compendium of Materia Medica" at the age of three, and could learn acupuncture points at the age of twelve. The thread-bound ancient medical book that his grandfather had thrust into his hand before his death, together with the set of "Thirteen Needles at the Gate of Hell" that had been missing for fifty years, were burning his chest right now.
Three days later, his father woke up, but the village party secretary came to his door: There was a plague in the next village, and the "experts" at the commune health center could only administer streptomycin. The county party secretary made harsh words - if the disease could not be cured, all the educated youth in the commune would be sent to repair the reservoir. As Lin Bo stared at the medicine that brought his father back to life, he suddenly realized that he could no longer hide his abilities.
