Chapter 5: The Hall of Rejuvenation
Chapter Name: Chapter 5 Rejuvenation Hall
Chapter 5: Rejuvenation Hall
After a good night's sleep, Qiu Chen got up early the next morning, washed up energetically, made breakfast according to last night's standard, and then called the children to get up, ready to eat and set off, and went to the town to sell the schisandra and poria harvested yesterday. Lin Xu still got up early to fetch water, automatically and spontaneously loaded yesterday's firewood and schisandra cocos, and went to Manchu's house to borrow a wheelbarrow and came back, loaded the things into the car, and Afu Aman could also sit in the car.
The town is seven or eight miles away from Liujiaao, and Ah Fu's short legs can't walk.
This kind of wheelbarrow has a high wooden beam in the middle, and two wicker baskets are usually played back on both sides, and the person pushes the cart behind. Goods can be loaded in baskets and beams, which is a very common means of human transportation in the north.
Qiu Chen took out a thin mattress, spread it in a basket on one side, put Afu Amandu in it, and covered the legs and feet of the two children with a mattress. Put the poria cocos in the basket on the other side, and cover it with firewood.
After cleaning up, the sun had already revealed the horizon, Lin Xu pushed the car, Qiu Chen followed, and finally walked out of the house.
Go out and go down a gentle slope, and then pass by a few houses to reach the main road out of the village. When he met people in the village on the way, Qiu Chen followed Lin Xu to call people, and some people were curious about what the family was doing, but it was useless for Qiu Chen to teach, but Lin Xu replied that he was decent, only saying that he didn't have food at home, so he went to cut a little firewood and sell it for some rations.
His statement was reasonable, and those people did not show suspicion.
Only one old man, known as the third grandfather, said hello and asked, "Xiaofu, are you good?" β
Qiu Chen was stunned, and when he saw the old man staring at her suspiciously, he suddenly realized that the other party called the child, but in fact, he called the child his mother! Hurriedly replied with a smile and expressed his gratitude, and then the old man waved his hand and asked them to leave quickly. Qiu Chen also secretly breathed a sigh of relief.
The town near Liujiaao is Qingshui Town, because the Qingshui River is named, and it is not too far away, about seven or eight miles away, and it has to pass through another slightly larger village.
Lin Xu was obviously used to walking, and he didn't say a word of bitterness when he pushed the car all the way, but Qiu Chen couldn't stand it. In her previous life, when she went to school, she also had a bicycle to walk, where did she walk so far. Looking at Lin Xu's sweaty face, she proposed to rest, but Lin Xu denied: "Sister-in-law, let's go out late, let's hurry up to the town, otherwise we will come back late, and the road will not be smooth." β
Qiu Chen is right to think about it, this is not the city she used to be familiar with, the distance between villages is rare, if it is dark, there is really no way to protect the robber and the thief.
Understanding the situation, Qiu Chen didn't say anything more, and silently followed Lin Xu and walked hard. In fact, her foot was blistered when she went up the mountain yesterday, although it was not broken, but it hurt very much, and she hurried with a breath today, and it didn't take long for the blister to burst, and the other foot was also blistered...... Every step she took, her feet were distressed, but she didn't say a word, and she didn't even wrinkle her eyebrows.
There are four people in the family, even Lin Xu, a half-grown child, is so hard-working and tired that he doesn't snort, Ah Fu is also obedient and well-behaved, and he knows how to give it to his sister if he has delicious food...... She is so big, what can she do when she is a mother and a sister-in-law? Even if you complain, you don't have an object!
Sure enough, the delicate must be pampered to be able to move.
The four of them hurried to the town before the sun rose overhead.
In Qiu Chen's eyes, there are just two small streets and towns, and the three children, including Lin Xu's eyes, are all very prosperous.
Because it is not a fair, there are not many stalls on the street to sell things. Qiu Chen and Lin Xu didn't wander around, and directly pushed the cart and went straight to the only pharmacy in the town, the Rejuvenation Hall.
Huichun Hall is located in the middle of the front street, three rooms open up the pattern, the faΓ§ade is spacious, the inside and outside are clean and tidy, one end is full of small drawers medicine cabinet, a big dispensing medicine cabinet, two young men grasp medicine medicine with hands and feet. At the other end, there are two bookshelves, and at the back of a desk sits a gray-haired old man, who is examining the pulse of a middle-aged woman with a pale face and swollen eyes. Standing next to him was a young man in his twenties, who thought he was a junior who was a medical woman.
There were still four or five people waiting to see a doctor in the door, they were busy, the shopkeeper of the pharmacy was busy settling accounts and collecting money, and the young men were so busy that no one paid attention to them, after Qiu Chen entered the door, he took two steps towards Lang Zhong, and then quietly stopped and waited. The shopkeeper in the pharmacy thought she was waiting to see a doctor, but he didn't care.
Na Langzhong changed hands to check the patient's pulse, stroked his beard and groaned for a while, and then said under the gaze of the patient and his family: "...... This sister-in-law is weak and short of breath, sleepless at night, and has little food to eat...... It is evidence of excessive thinking, heart deficiency and spleen prolongation, resulting in heart qi deficiency. This is the recipe, you go get the medicine, after eating these, you should be able to see better. This certificate takes medicine to recuperate, and the sister-in-law needs to relax her mind on weekdays, and don't be too worried and anxious about everything......"
The patient and his family listened to Lang Zhong's rambling about pharmacology and pathology, but they couldn't understand it at all. The young man thanked Na Langzhong again and again, "Thank you Mr. Zhao, thank you Mr. Zhao!" My mother is cured, and I will definitely come to thank you! β
Mr. Zhao, surnamed Zhao, waved his hand, and then waited for the patient to see the patient. The young man helped his mother to go to the medicine cabinet to grab the medicine.
Qiu Chen also followed the two of them and moved to the medicine cabinet, and after a while, he heard the young man who grabbed the medicine raise his voice to report the account: "Three servings of Yangxin soup, a total of one hanger and another sixty Wen!" β
When the young man grabbed the medicine just now, Qiu Chen next to him looked at the medicine he caught, this so-called 'Yangxin Tang' Jun medicine is Poria cocos, followed by sour jujube kernels and cypress kernels, as well as two or three kinds of qi regulating and spleen atractylodes and other things, all of which are auxiliary medicines, and the dosage is much smaller. These few flavors of medicine are worth nearly four dollars of silver per serving...... Qiu Chen already has a rough estimate of the price of Poria cocos.
At this time, the cashier and bookkeeper at the counter over there also saw Qiu Chen, and when he saw her standing on the ground, he asked, "This little lady, are you seeing a doctor or taking medicine?" β
Qiu Chen smiled, stepped forward and said: "Shopkeeper, I found some medicine on the mountain and wanted to sell it, I heard that Huichun Hall is fair and kind, and there is no deception to treat people, so I came over to ask if you can accept it." β
"Oh?" This woman's clothes are rough and shabby, and it can be seen that she is quite poor, but she didn't expect that as soon as she opened her mouth, she felt completely different, her words and sentences were not rude, and her demeanor was also generous and dignified, without the slightest hint of cowering and twisting. The shopkeeper was slightly surprised, looked at it quietly, and asked, "Where did you get the medicinal herbs?" Whether you want it or not, what is the price, you have to look at your things before you can speak. β
"That's nature!" Qiu Chen agreed, asking the shopkeeper to wait, and she turned around and walked out of the Rejuvenation Hall.
Lin Xu took the two children to guard the cart and wait outside the door, and after waiting for a long time, he finally saw Qiu Chen come out, and quickly stood up: "Sister-in-law, how is it?" β
Although Qiu Chen already had a rough estimate of the price of Poria cocos in her heart, after all, the business had not been negotiated, and she couldn't talk nonsense now, so she only smiled and said, "They want to see things." β
Lin Xu agreed, so he went to untie the hemp rope on the basket and pulled out the pockets containing Poria cocos and Schisandra chinensis. Qiu Chen took the pocket and told Lin Xu to wait at the door with the child, and she entered the Rejuvenation Hall again.
Dusty puff pockets on the ground, the two young men invariably showed a trace of contempt, this kind of mountain people dug up medicine to sell, they have seen a lot. Every time it is regarded as a rarity, it turns out to be just some ordinary goods that are common in the mountains.
The shopkeeper looked calm, and didn't see anything unusual, but naturally squatted down, stretched out his hand to open his pocket to check, but as soon as he stretched out his hand, he couldn't help but be stunned again, and then took out a round black thing from inside.
The two young men had a heavy look on their faces. This village woman wants to be crazy about money, where did she get two broken stones to sell as medicinal herbs? They even thought that the village woman would be kicked out directly by the shopkeeper next.
The shopkeeper glanced up at Qiu Chen, but he didn't speak, but turned his face to a guy and ordered, "Go and invite Master Jiang over!" β
At this time, the processing of medicinal materials is also a craft, like other crafts, the same attention to a inheritance and confidentiality, each gunpowder master has their own skills, such as good frying, good knife work, good medicine...... And so on, and so on. However, to be able to be hired as a gunpowder master by a big pharmacy, there are some achievements in all aspects, such as drug identification, which are basically necessary talents. When the pharmacy purchases medicinal materials, these gunpowder masters are responsible for the identification of the varieties and the identification of the advantages and disadvantages.
The young man's face was too disdainful to take it, and when he heard the shopkeeper's order, he was stunned at first, and was scolded by the shopkeeper, and hurriedly agreed and hurriedly ran in. Not long after, the young man walked back with a man in his fifties with gray hair, a rough cloth coat, and an apron tied around his waist.
"Shopkeeper, why do you have to come to me? I've been soaking the beetle for a few days, and it's at the critical point, if it passes, the medicinal properties will be lost......" Obviously, this Master Jiang has a lot of temper with his skills, and he also looks down on the shopkeeper of the pharmacy, and he questions the shopkeeper very unceremoniously as soon as he appears.
When Qiu Chen heard this, her brows furrowed, and she couldn't see the slightest mistake in the laboratory, so she subconsciously said, "Shanjia, why are you soaking it?" Wouldn't it be good to blanch it directly and remake it...... "L3L4."