Chapter 161, The Patient
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Zhou Linlang, who was worried, was helping with herbs in the backyard of a pharmacy at this time.
Although she looks rusty, she is serious and willing to endure hardships, and fine sweat breaks out on her forehead, and she just wipes it casually, and she still works hard.
Someone called her: "Linlang, copy the new medicinal materials for me." ”
Zhou Linlang responded with a "come", and then got up.
There was a white-haired old gentleman sitting in the room, and if you looked closely, it was the old man who Zhou Linlang smashed down with a stool. He also had a pair of reading glasses on the bridge of his nose, glanced at Zhou Linlang critically from above the glasses, and said, "Your handwriting has also been practiced for several months, have I made any progress?" ”
Zhou Linlang said with a smile: "There must be progress, otherwise why do you ask me to copy all these times?" ”
The old gentleman said disgustedly: "If it weren't for your pitiful ......"
Zhou Linlang said: "Okay, okay, I know, if it weren't for my pity, you wouldn't have taken me in, if it weren't for my pity, you wouldn't have asked me to copy any medicinal herbs and prescriptions so that I could take the opportunity to rest." ”
"Shhhh Hurry up and copy it, don't copy it well, believe it or not, I'll whip you with a rattan whip? ”
Zhou Linlang knew that this old man was hard-mouthed and soft-hearted, so he didn't fight him, said "yes", and wrote carefully.
The old gentleman looked at it for a while, snorted and said: "You are thick-skinned, and you are shy and sell melons, and you praise yourself, just your word, even a three-year-old child is not as good." ”
Zhou Linlang didn't raise his head and said: "You can be content, I still know the words, otherwise you would have asked my senior brothers to copy it?" I'm afraid that I won't be able to recognize them all. ”
The old gentleman sneered and said: "They are apprentices who sold themselves in, and I am not a bodhisattva with a good heart, so it's good to call them a bowl of full rice, and I still need to ask Mr. to teach them to read and write?" ”
Zhou Linlang bit her lip, of course she knew that people who read and wrote in this era were simply living treasures, even if they were the first talents, they went to ask for other people's teachings with a rich bundle of cultivation, and they had to pick and choose, and not everyone would accept them.
The six apprentices recruited by the old gentleman, the family are all poor, there is really no way, so he ruthlessly sold the child to the pharmacy to be an apprentice, what the old gentleman said is right, being able to manage three full meals is already the best he can do.
This old gentleman's surname is Su, and he is a cousin of Mr. Su Er in Tong County, but Mr. Su Er left his hometown and went to the capital, and this Mr. Su Qi has been staying in Zhongzhou.
Without Mr. Su Er's recommendation, Zhou Linlang really couldn't find it herself.
Despite this, Mr. Su disliked Zhou Linlang in every way. Who made her a woman? Although he didn't elaborate on his life experience, it was clear that he ran away. Mr. Su Er wrote a letter, the language of which was unknown, Mr. Su Qi was Zhou Linlang who was pinching his nose and taking him in.
Zhou Linlang recognized a few medicinal herbs, but they were all specially concocted finished products, and Mr. Su Qi were all freshly picked or harvested raw materials.
Mr. Su Qi casually took a herb to test her, and Zhou Linlang was stuck, but she would drop her bookbag, after all, she was curious to turn over the compendium of materia medica, what medicinal properties of various herbs, and what diseases were treated, she could still tell her.
Mr. Su Qi pressed her neck and let her learn from her apprentices for more than two months, and Zhou Linlang roughly understood that the preparation of medicinal materials is a very delicate process, first of all, net selection, through picking, sorting, dusting, sifting, scraping, brushing and other methods to remove ash, impurities and parts that cannot be used in medicine. After that, it is either crushed or cut, and the drug is made into the required specifications according to the characteristics of the drug, the purpose of which is to make the components of the drug rest in the bath and facilitate other processing.
Only then did Zhou Linlang understand that there are many specifications for slices of medicines, such as those that are specially cut into thin slices, such as gastrodia and betel nut, and those that are specially cut into thick slices, such as Ze Epsom and Atractylodes, and those that are specially cut into oblique slices, such as astragalus and chicken blood vine, and those that need to be cut into round slices, such as white peony and licorice...... There are also shredded, cut into pieces.
Zhou Linlang is like falling into the Baicao Garden, dizzying, if she is not literate and can write it down at any time, otherwise she will not be able to remember it anyway.
Although she can write, but the current brush writing skills are obviously not enough, Mr. Su Qi caught her as a laborer when she was fine, and sneered, thinking that her words were ugly, not as good as a three-year-old child, so old, I don't know how to grow......
At first, Zhou Linlang still felt embarrassed, but after a long time, she also calmed down, and gradually learned to deal with Mr. Su Qi, who had a poisonous tongue. Although she doesn't write well, she can still write.
Although Mr. Su Qi was mean, he was really good to Zhou Linlang, Captain Lu led people to investigate, so he locked Zhou Linlang in the backyard, accompanied Mrs. Su Qi, and ordered the guys and apprentices in the pharmacy not to say a word outside.
After a long time, he also asked Zhou Linlang: "Girl, listen to your accent, you are from the capital, no matter what the reason, you have been out for half a year, so don't you go back to take a look?" Aren't you afraid of your family's concerns? ”
Zhou Linlang shook his head: "Forget it, I'll make trouble for them when I go back." ”
Mr. Su Qi blew up his white beard and said, "Reprimand, you are sensible, but why don't you want to trouble me?" ”
Zhou Linlang also thought about the question of where she should go.
In addition to Zhou Yuchen in the capital, there is really no one she can remember, that is, Zhou Yuchen, Zhou Linlang always thinks that it is better for him to stay in the Zhou family than to follow her and drift without a fixed place.
But she has been staying in Mr. Su for no reason, which is indeed a problem.
Zhou Linlang could only get by, she cheekily said to Mr. Su: "Should I make trouble, I have also added it, if you always dislike it, I can really only go to the Guzi Temple to be a nun." Don't you know, I was sent there when I was a child, and the temple was not a human life at all, and the bad-hearted old nun not only didn't give me enough food to eat, but also forced me to go up the mountain to chop wood. I'm only 10 years old, how can I have the strength? Several times I rolled down the hill......"
Although Mr. Su looked serious, he finally listened to it, but he still said indignantly: "What sister-in-law temple to go to, you look like this, can you still live in peace when you go to the sister-in-law temple?" ”
Zhou Linlang laughed: "So, I'm still waiting for you to take me in for a while, wait for ......" She didn't know how long she would have to wait.
Suddenly, the senior brother outside the door came in and said: "Master, there is a seriously ill patient outside, look at the dress, not like ordinary people, and the accent is like from the capital, the apprentice simply looked at him, it seems that he has been accumulating years and has traveled a long distance, so it is a little bad, you go and take a look?" ”
Mr. Su said angrily: "A seriously ill patient still runs so far? Looking for death? After that, he glared at Zhou Linlang again.
Zhou Linlang nodded: "I understand, I understand, I will go to accompany my wife and promise not to take a step." ”