Although I didn't go to bed until nearly twelve o'clock last night, it was enough for Yechen, who had slept less than four hours a few days ago. I got up at half past six the next day, stood on the balcony and sat up for morning exercise. It wasn't until Aunt Yun came up and called Yechen to eat that Yechen stopped exercising.

At this time, Murong Shiyao and Haiyao were already sitting at the dining table, drinking the porridge in the bowl.

"Aunt Yun, why isn't Shangguan Xiaoxiao here?" Yechen said with some doubts.

"Miss and Miss Mu have packed a little porridge and have returned to the company." Aunt Yun said while wiping her hands.

Yechen didn't say anything, and sat down in the empty seat.

"Brother Chen, the porridge made by Aunt Yun is delicious. Brother Chen, try it. Murong Shiyao grabbed the spoon and said to Yechen like a child.

"Yes!" Yechen smiled and nodded, "Aunt Yun will also sit down and eat together." ”

"No, I've already eaten it." Aunt Yun shook her head gently.

Yechen blew the hot porridge in his hand and took a sip gently.

"Ahh Yes! Ah......h

"Brother Chen, are you okay?" Murong Shiyao took a glass of water from the water dispenser and handed it to Yechen.

Yechen drank it all, sticking out his tongue and exhaling heavily, "What's going on?" Why do I have so many chili peppers in my porridge. ”

"Night...... Brother Night, I'm sorry. At this time, Hai Yao lowered his head and walked to Yechen, and said with a little sobbing voice.

"Hai Yao, why do you want to apologize." Yechen was a little puzzled.

"Mengjie...... Mengjie said...... Big Brother Night...... Enjoy...... Likes to eat chili peppers...... So...... So ......"

Yechen looked at the porridge on the table, it was all red underneath and he was a little scared, and the last thing he could eat was chili peppers, no need to think that Meng Jie must have told Hai Yao in order to take revenge on him, no wonder he talked and laughed with Hai Yao and Murong Shiyao last time, and he was in a hurry to leave as soon as he came.

"It's okay, I'll just change another bowl of porridge." Yechen comforted Hai Yaodao.

"En~ I'll help Brother Ye make a bowl of porridge again."

"Alas~" Yechen sighed softly.

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It's summer, the sun is blazing, and even in the morning, the air is full of heat. There was no one on the path of the academy, probably all of them hiding in the classroom to cool off.

However, the people in the Department of Traditional Chinese Medicine are still busy in the medicine field, and no one complains, keeping their heads down and doing their own things.

At this time, a middle-aged man appeared out of nowhere and stopped in front of Yechen, "You are the freshmen of this class, I am your mentor, you can call me Mentor Lin." From today onwards, you can come to me if you have any questions. ”

The middle-aged man was wearing a big white coat, short hair, and black-framed glasses on his eyes, giving people a comfortable feeling.

"Hello Mentor Lin, I'm Murong Shiyao." Smiled and bowed.

"Hello Mentor Lin, I'm ...... My name is Hai Yao. ”

"Hello mentor, I'm Yechen."

"Well~ yes, this is your credit list." Mentor Lin smiled and handed each of the three of Yechen a watch. "You can pick up quests in the tents around the medicine fields and exchange them for the corresponding credits. You can graduate when you reach a certain level of credits. Each time a task is completed, it is recorded on this sheet. ”

"Since you're new to school, let's start with some simple tasks." Mentor Lin took the three of them to the tent and picked out some simple tasks and handed them to the three of them.

Yechen looked at it, these were some simple tasks, nothing more than some to find some simple medicinal herbs. But the requirement is that you must find it in the medicine field. There is only the name of the herb to be found on the task list, nothing else, no pictures, no instructions.

Hai Yao is okay, after all, Hai Yao has studied Chinese medicine before, and this task of finding medicine is not too much of a problem. But for Murong Shiyao, who has never studied Chinese medicine, this is a little difficult.

"Tatsu ...... What is Brother Chen's licorice? As expected, Murong Shiyao was dizzy as soon as she saw the title.

Yechen had already seen the small circles that appeared in Murong Shiyao's eyes.

Yechen took Murong Shiyao's task list, looked at it and said for a while: "Hmm~ Licorice mostly grows in the northern temperate zone. The soil is mostly sandy. The pH of the soil should be neutral or slightly alkaline, and the growth in acidic soil is poor. Licorice glabrola likes the ecological environment of sufficient sunlight, low rainfall, very hot summer, severe cold winter, and large temperature difference between day and night, and has the characteristics of light-loving, drought-tolerant, heat-tolerant, salt-alkali tolerant and cold-tolerant. Licorice root is cylindrical, 25~100cm long, 0.6~3.5cm in diameter. The surface is reddish-brown or gray-brown, with prominent longitudinal wrinkles, grooves, skin pores and sparse fine root marks. The texture is solid, the section is slightly fibrous, yellowish-white, powdery, the cambium ring is obvious, the radiation is radial, and some have cracks. There are bud marks on the surface of the rhizome, and there is a pith in the middle of the section. It has a slight smell and a specific licorice sweetness. Yechen spoke carefully to Murong Shiyao.

Murong Shiyao also lowered her head and patiently took notes, and nodded from time to time.

"But where should I look for it?" Murong Shiyao bit her pen and said distressedly.

"Go to a place where the soil is alkaline and sandy, Xiao Yao can look for it in the medicine field far away from the lake." Yechen took the notebook where Murong Shiyao took notes, and drew a sketch on it, "It shouldn't be much of a problem to find it according to what is drawn in the notebook." ”

"Yes!" Murong Shiyao took the notebook, hugged the notebook to his chest, and ran away happily.

Yechen looked at Murong Shiyao's back and smiled, looking down at his task.

The medicinal herbs that Yechen is looking for may not be a task for Yechen, as long as there is a Coptis chinensis, it will be considered to have completed the task.

Coptis chinensis, a perennial herb, prefers cold, moist places.

Yechen looked at the entire medicine field, and the only place suitable for the growth of Coptis chinensis was the rockery by the lake, and Yechen walked towards the rockery by the lake in a hurry.

Strange to say, when I first entered the school, the weather was so hot that people didn't want to go out, but after stepping into the Chinese medicine department, the weather was not so restless, but a little cool. And the closer you get to the lake, the more pronounced the sensation becomes.

If it's an ordinary refreshing, Yechen doesn't think it's anything, but it seems to be mixed with some coldness in this refreshingness. It stands to reason that when this happens, the lake must have a treasure with cold attributes.

"Looks like I'll have to go to the lake when I have time." Xiao Yechen said with his cheeks dragged in Yechen's body.

"Why did you come out in broad daylight today?"

"It's not that you can't come out during the day, what's so strange." Xiao Yechen said dissatisfiedly with a curled mouth, "Don't you want to go and see the baby of the lake?" ”

"I don't want to." Yechen replied without thinking.

"Don't you be curious at all?"

"Not curious" Yechen walked to the rockery by the lake, squatted down and began to look for any ripe coptis in the vicinity.

"You're so boring." Xiao Yechen dropped this sentence and began to be silent.

Yechen didn't care about him, and dug up the coptis on the ground by himself.

"Brother Chen! Brother Chen! ”

Hearing Murong Shiyao's call, Yechen looked in Murong Shiyao's direction.

I saw Murong Shiyao running over with a jump, ** shaking on his chest, very dazzling.

Yechen froze, "What's wrong, Xiao Yao?" ”

"Brother Chen, do you see what Xiao Yao is looking for?" Murong Shiyao held the herbs he found in the palm of his hand and stretched them out in front of Yechen.

"The roots are cylindrical, with a reddish-brown or grayish-brown surface, with significant longitudinal wrinkles, grooves, skin pores, and sparse fine root marks." Yechen broke a small piece of the medicinal herb in Murong Shiyao's hand, "The section is slightly fibrous, yellowish-white, powdery, with obvious cambium rings and radial rays. There are bud marks on the surface of the rhizome, and there is a pith in the middle of the section. ”

"That's right, this is licorice, Xiao Yao can go and hand in the task." Yechen touched Murong Shiyao's head in praise.

"Yes! Kindness! Murong Shiyao stretched her head forward with great enjoyment. Has Brother Chen found it? ”

Yechen shook the coptis in his hand, "Mine has also been found, let's go and see how Hai Yao is." ”