Chapter 133: Refining Medicine
Early the next morning, Yang Chengzhi got up, went to the kitchen, made a big pot of millet porridge with space water, and made five light side dishes.
Yang Chengzhi took a bowl of millet porridge, sandwiched a little bit of the five dishes, and went to his mother Zuo Yuxia's house.
Zuo Yuxia saw Yang Chengzhi coming in, with a smile on her anxious face, and said softly: "Guozheng, I thought you wouldn't take me away."
Yang Chengzhi put the millet porridge on the bedside cabinet, took his mother Zuo Yuxia's hand and said, "Mom, I won't leave you, I'll have breakfast first."
Under Yang Chengzhi's careful care, Zuo Yuxia ate the things that Yang Chengzhi brought over, and when she saw her mother finish eating, Yang Chengzhi took the dishes and chopsticks and took Zuo Yuxia out of the house.
After putting away the dishes and chopsticks, Yang Chengzhi took Zuo Yuxia to his room, gave Zuo Yuxia a bottle of space water that had been filled, and let Zuo Yuxia drink a few sips.
After drinking the space water, Yang Chengzhi helped Zuo Yuxia to take a slow walk in the courtyard. Seeing that Zuo Yuxia was a little tired, Yang Chengzhi sent Zuo Yuxia back to her room and asked Zuo Yuxia to lie down and rest.
Looking at Zuo Yuxia, who was lying on the bed with a ruddy complexion, Yang Chengzhi comforted her softly for a while, and Zuo Yuxia fell asleep sweetly.
In the morning, Uncle Zuo Yaozu told Yang Chengzhi that the medicine stove was sent over and placed in the room where Yang Chengzhi lived. Yang Chengzhi settled Zuo Yaozu and didn't let people come over to disturb him in the morning, and entered the house after speaking.
Yang Chengzhi went back to the house and saw the cast medicine stove on the ground in the house, the whole stove was pale gold, half a meter high, more than 30 centimeters in diameter, with ears on both sides, and a lid with three small holes on it, just like a large incense burner with a hat.
Reaching out and touching the medicine furnace, Yang Chengzhi nodded with satisfaction, and couldn't help but secretly praise the strength of the Zuo family. He checked the other tools he had asked his uncle Zuo Yaozu to prepare for brewing medicinal materials, and the pharmaceutical tools he had prepared were all neatly placed in a corner of the room.
This medicine furnace should be placed in an ordinary person's house, let alone made overnight, and it would be good to find the materials for the refining medicine furnace in half a month.
After finding a big basin, Yang Chengzhi put the medicine stove into the basin, and there was a space that had been prepared for water to soak up, and after doing this qiē, Yang Chengzhi began to assemble the equipment that his uncle Zuo Yaozu brought him to make medicinal materials.
Pulverizer for crushing medicinal materials, dryer for drying medicinal materials, separator...... A large number of machines were assembled one by one according to the instructions. This assembly, more than 30 square meters of the room, suddenly accounted for half of it.
He sorted the medicinal materials he bought yesterday and cleaned them with space water, dried them, then crushed them with a crusher, ground them into powder, and then soaked them in space water, and then separated and dried them after soaking.
Just a few simple steps, the strong Yang Chengzhi was sweating profusely. Looking at the white medicine powder in the thirty-small paper bag in his hand, Yang Chengzhi knew that this was the first step.
Put down the medicine powder in your hand, take out the eight kinds of medicinal materials picked last night from the space, remove the discarded parts, clean the useful parts, put them in the machine to squeeze them into medicinal juice, and then separate and dry.
Looking at the thirty-nine small packets placed on the table, Yang Chengzhi knew that the first step of brewing medicinal materials was completed.
It's time to boil it next, this step is not sloppy at all, and if you are not careful, your previous efforts will be wasted.
Yang Chengzhi sat in the room, trying to calm himself down, about half an hour, Yang Chengzhi took out the medicine stove from the space water, and carefully wiped it several times inside and out, until there was no trace of water on the medicine stove.
He put the medicine stove on the electric heater and plugged it in, since he had never refined the elixir, Yang Chengzhi specially asked Zuo Yaozu to prepare an electronic thermometer that can withstand high temperatures.
Connecting the electronic thermometer to the special interface of the medicine furnace, Yang Chengzhi added some space water to the medicine furnace, and the space water accounted for about one-third of the entire medicine furnace space.
The ancients relied on eyesight and experience alone, Yang Chengzhi was a rookie, and he couldn't master the heat, and he had no experience at all, so he thought of using a thermometer to master the heat.
He has specialized in studying the various heat required for refining pills in the "Qing Capsule Sutra", and has checked it on the Internet, the comparison table of ancient and modern temperature and temperature, studied it for a period of time, and has also done several practical things, and he has roughly mastered the ancient fire temperature tongguò thermometer.
After adding space water, Yang Chengzhi put thirty-nine kinds of medicinal material powders in a place where he could reach out, and sat quietly in front of the medicine furnace to observe the changes in the water temperature in the medicine furnace.
Whenever the water temperature in the space reached a certain temperature, Yang Chengzhi quickly dismantled a kind of medicine that needed to be put in at this temperature, heated up and cooled down, and it took more than an hour for Yang Chengzhi to put all the thirty-nine kinds of medicinal materials into the medicine furnace.
Closing the lid of the medicine furnace, a small stick of special characteristics was inserted from the small hole above, and Yang Chengzhi kept stirring the medicine in the medicine furnace until the medicinal fragrance escaped from the small hole.
Yang Chengzhi knew that he was about to succeed, so he increased the temperature of the electric heater to the maximum. He saw that the three small holes in the lid of the medicine stove were bubbling with white gas with the fragrance of medicine, and when the white gas came out was slightly reduced, he immediately turned off the power.
After a moment of effort, the medicine furnace was completely cooled, which was the reason why Yang Chengzhi asked his uncle Zuo Yaozu to find special materials to refine the medicine furnace. The biggest advantage of this material is that it heats up quickly and cools down quickly.
Lifting the lid and putting it aside on the table, Yang Chengzhi saw a layer of dark red medicinal mud spread on the bottom of the medicine furnace, and he knew that the furnace medicine had been successfully refined.
Using a small shovel, he carefully shoveled the medicine clay from the medicine stove into a prepared glassware, and he cleaned the medicine stove and set it aside.
Yang Chengzhi took out a small bottle of monkey wine from the space, mixed the monkey wine and honey into a paste, poured it into a glassware containing the medicinal mud and stirred it.
When the medicinal paste emitted a clear fragrance, Yang Chengzhi stopped stirring, and the medicinal paste at this time was pale red and exuded bursts of medicinal fragrance.
Yang Chengzhi washed his hands and began to knead the medicinal mud into pills the size of a dragon's eye, and in half an hour, the medicinal mud turned into eighteen pills of uniform size, put the pills on the dryer to slightly harden the epidermis of the pills, Yang Chengzhi carefully pinched the pills and put them into a prepared jade bottle.
In fact, the best way to refine pills is to let the pills dry naturally, so as to maintain the efficacy of the medicine, because the medicine is to be used in the afternoon, so Yang Chengzhi thought of using a dryer to dry it a little.
Yang Chengzhi washed his hands, rubbed his red eyes, looked at the jade bottle on the table, and said in his heart: The pill is successful, it depends on the effect of acupuncture in the afternoon, and I hope that the Five Elements Golden Needle can bring surprises.