Suddenly, I heard someone above my head: "God rewards hard work!"

Ji Deyue looked up when she heard the sound, who would have thought that there was someone talking above her head, could it be that he was on the hillside?

It turned out that it was not an old man standing in his own courtyard looking at them, and this courtyard was actually halfway up the mountain.

The courtyard is surrounded by centuries-old trees, which cover the houses in the shade, and the lush greenery looks like a hillside from the back.

At this time, when I looked up, I could see that there was a house hidden in the shade of the trees, so unique!

That's why they didn't see his house all the way and went to his door!

If it weren't for his attractive voice, we would have missed this spectacle, Ji Deyue looked over, this house structure is preserved in the architectural style of the Qing Dynasty, antique taste!

There is a bluestone staircase path of almost 90 degrees that connects the houses halfway up the mountain with the public mountain road at the foot of the mountain!

Ji Deyue couldn't see the old man clearly, so Yu Jia politely shouted: "Old man, is it convenient for us to come to your house as guests?"

The old man seemed to be in a good mood and said, "Please come up!"

Yu Jia took the lead in the front, and the bluestone steps are easy to grow moss, especially on rainy days.

Ji Deyue is very strange, this old man is also relatively old, is it convenient to live here?

The more you go up, the more you can see the whole picture of the house, the more shocking it is, from below I thought it was a house, and I realized that the door was not open to the courtyard, but a typical bucket-type structure.

The green bricks on the outer wall have also turned some black over time, but because of the high position, deep foundation, and low humidity, they are still well preserved.

In the Qing Dynasty, the hall well style dwelling was another major type of courtyard dwelling, which was characterized by open halls and small patios.

That is, the four houses that form the courtyard are all connected to each other, the roof is overlapped, tightly surrounding the small courtyard in the middle, because the eaves are high and the courtyard is small, the shape is similar to the wellhead, so it is also called the patio.

Patios are generally covered with floor paving and drainage channels. Each house has a large front porch or eaves in front of it for easy passage on rainy days.

At the same time, some of the houses are made into semi-outdoor spaces such as open halls, which are used together with the patio as living spaces. Its structure is mostly a bucket frame.

Ji Deyue looked at this gate and it was still quite magnificent, and there were also two round stone tables in the outer courtyard, each stone table was equipped with 4 stone benches, and the old man moved a few chairs out according to the number of people!

Only then did Ji Deyue see the old man's appearance clearly, and vaguely felt very familiar, thinking about it carefully, the light bulb in his heart suddenly lit up.

Isn't this the old man you met when you were digging herbs?

A faint smell of medicine rushed into the tip of the nose, as if it was emanating from the courtyard, and then looked at the outer courtyard carefully, saw the door link on the door, and knew it in my heart!

She stepped forward to greet the old man and said, "Hello, old man, do you remember me? I didn't expect to meet you here by such a coincidence!"

She took off her mask as she spoke, although she also wore a mask during the day, now that she knows that everyone is a person who understands medicine, she should respect him even more!

The old man was also very pleased: "Yes, I didn't expect you to be so bold as a female doll."

It's dangerous for you to run around like this! I see what you're looking for?"

Ji Deyue nodded and said, "Yes, I heard that there are many snakes in the village, we want to catch a few and go back to see!"

The old man laughed again when he heard it, shook his head and said, "When you catch the snake, it's getting dark, and you've already entered the hole, where will you come out!"

Ji Deyue scratched her head and smiled awkwardly, this snake catching was also a temporary idea, she pointed to the door and said, "Grandpa is also a person who understands medicine?"

I saw that the door couplet read:

Heaven sets a strange square, said snow and hail and frost, and together it becomes three white scatters,

The earth is a good medicine, the name of Ling is even the name of the cypress, and it is rhubarb soup when it is fried.

Horizontal batch: the sky is round and the place is round

Lianzhong Sanwei Chinese Medicine, Huang Ling, Coptis chinensis, Phellodendron Phellodendron chinensis, and Sanbai San, Rhubarb Soup.

The old man smiled and said: "I am an old Chinese medicine doctor in the village, the villagers have a small cold or something, you can come to me to grab the Chinese medicine, you can come in with me to take a look!"

After speaking, he took a teapot and gave them water, and then led the way to take Ji Deyue in to watch!

As soon as it is close to the gate, the medicinal fragrance is stronger, ordinary people may feel pungent when they smell these, but Ji Deyue feels that it is ten miles of fragrance, it seems that there are many kinds here!

Sure enough, all that caught your eye were four- to five-storey shelves, and on the shelves were bamboo plugs, which contained all kinds of herbs!

The courtyard is very large, next to the courtyard is the corridor, under the corridor there are many hooks, and the hooks are also hooked with baskets, which is completely in line with the lifestyle of Chinese medicine.

Compared with the Ming Garden, the Ming Garden is a living herb, and here is the practice of living herbs into medicine!

Ji Deyue couldn't help but look up and down, and from time to time she encountered something that couldn't be distinguished by the naked eye, so she reached out and rolled it to her nose and sniffed it, and couldn't help but sigh:

"So many medicines, it took you a lot of time!"

The old man stretched out his hand and stroked the stopper, his hands were full of tenderness, and he nodded as if looking at a lover:

"Spring, summer, autumn and winter, year after year, I can't remember how long it has been, anyway, which medicine is available at which time, I spare no effort!

It's just that now I can't admit that I'm old, and I'm in a hurry when something so big happens in the village!"

Ji Deyue looked at the old man's sudden sadness and was a little sad for a while, and comforted: "You have accumulated the blessings of most of your life, it is time to enjoy your old age in peace, leave these things to our young people!"

The old man smiled and said: "You are exaggerated in this sea, then I will see how much ability you have, since you understand the couplet in front of the door, we will pair the pair!"

After speaking, he said catchily: "Pulsatilla, holding a halberd, crossing the seahorse, fighting lilies with the horsetail grass coward, returning to the dynasty, worthy of the old generals;"

Ji Deyue heard that there were medicinal names in this couplet: Euphorbia, Seahorse, Horsetail, Caokou, Lily, Xuanfu, General, (Rhubarb) Guolao (liporice).

He calmly replied: "The red lady inserts a golden hairpin and wears a silver flower, which is five times better than peony and peony, and she calmly walks out of the pavilion like a mica fairy." ”

This couplet is extremely neat, and there are interesting names to correspond: golden hairpin (flower), (gold) honeysuckle, peony, peony, five times (seed) cistanche, mica, fairy (seed).

The old man is very happy, although these pairs may be very good, but at least more than 5 years of medical study can be able to easily and skillfully embed these rare drug names!

He waved his hand and said: "Pulsatilla crossed Changshan Mountain, and fell on talc and broke the ox's knee;"

New Chinese medicine is added to this couplet: Changshan, ox knee.

Ji Deyue thought about it and said: "The yellow flower girl moxibustion grass is piled up, and the wind is lost and burned into grass. ”

Corresponding: Yellow Flower Girl, Moxibustion Grass, Grass Wu, yes, quite satisfied!

The old man nodded and said, "February orchid, three white grass, four-leaf ginseng, schisandra;"

Ji Deyue replied: "Six Divine Songs, Seven Leaf Lotus, Eight Centimeters of Hemp, and Nine Miles of Incense." ”

The more he answered, the happier he became, and no one had accompanied him for decades.

I couldn't help asking: "Little girl, if you have such knowledge, you must learn from celebrities, who is your master? I still know quite a few people among the older generation of doctors!"

Ji Deyue saw that she asked this question and thought about it for a while, since she had already studied under Li Chongming, and Li Chongming was a well-known figure.

It shouldn't be an exaggeration to move his name out, so after thinking about it, he said with a little pride: "Li Chongming is my ancestor!"

When the old man heard this name, he couldn't help but be stunned, and asked uncertainly: "But that Mingyuan Li Chongming?"

Ji Deyue heard him name Mingyuan, and knew that he really knew the name of the ancestor, so he nodded and replied: "Exactly!"

The old man suddenly looked a little excited, his eyes were slightly moist, and he looked at the opposite hillside.

Touching the grass, I couldn't help but recall that decades ago, the three of them were only fifteen or sixteen years old, and they were apprentices under the master.

From time to time, the three of them drink together, and the vassals are elegant, chanting poems, playing chess, and doing wrong things to be punished together, it seems like a long time ago!

These three people are Li Chongming, Xiang Kechang, and he Wen Changjin!

At that time, Li Chongming chose the best path, he followed the Communist Party as a military doctor, he was famous and capable, and he was in the limelight for a while!

And Xiang Kechang is not so lucky, he is a brilliant doctor, enterprising and researching, and he is dedicated to the study of the most cutting-edge medicine!

Later, he was favored by the Kuomintang, and then he got very close to the Japanese, and at that time Japanese medicine was quite developed, and his talents had a place to use, so he went astray.

After that, the society could no longer tolerate him, and I heard that he died of depression in his later years, and a generation of talents couldn't close their eyes!

Thinking of what happened to the three of them, he couldn't help but sigh, time flies, if time can be turned back, he will still choose to return to his hometown to be a village doctor.

At that time, his parents were the only one who could not join the army to serve the motherland, so he chose to practice medicine, and by chance, he worshiped under the master of Xuanji with those two people!

When he finished his studies, there was bad news at home, and his old father suddenly died, leaving only his old mother alone and in tears all day long.

When he learned of this, he resolutely chose to return to his hometown, so he bought his current residence, served his mother, married a wife and had children, and benefited the township!

Thirty or forty years have passed, my hair is gray, and my eyes are spent, I don't know what happened to Brother Li Chongming!

His eyes couldn't help but moisten, and after glancing at Ji Deyue for fear of being seen through by her, she turned around and said tremblingly: "Then your ancestor is still in good health?"

Seeing him ask like this, Ji Deyue guessed that he had really heard of Li Chongming's name, so she said:

"My ancestor walks like flying, his eyes are clear, okay, my grandfather has seen my ancestor?"

Wen Changjin nodded and said, "I met a few times by chance when I was young!"

Then the conversation changed and said: "I'm afraid it's tomorrow to catch the snake, and now it's getting dark, go back quickly and don't run around!"

As he spoke, he led Ji Deyue out again, and when he was about to send everyone away, the old man said to Ji Deyue: "If you have time, can you come and chat with me?"

Ji Deyue was naturally happy when she met a fellow practitioner, so she readily agreed, she decided to bring all the information to him tomorrow, she felt that this was a mysterious old man!

As soon as I walked out of the recess, I saw Lou Tai and a group of people standing in a slightly empty place, as if waiting for them, but his face was unusually stinky!