Chapter 6 Pharmaceuticals (II)

Jin wrong knife, also known as a knife flat five thousand, is the late Western Han Dynasty Wang Mang period cast knife money, its money body by the knife ring, knife body composition, bronze casting, knife on the word "a knife" with gold inlay, appear brilliant and gorgeous.

This gold knife is also the earliest and only one used in Chinese history to use wrong gold, that is, a coin made by the process of inlaid with gold. In addition, the currency system was chaotic during Wang Mang's period, there were many counterfeit coins, and real gold knives were extremely rare, and the market price was also among tens of thousands.

This kind of money is hard to come by, even if Mo Ling has a strong identification ability, there is no real thing on the market, and it is useless for heroes.

Zhao Zhuo put aside the trouble of looking for money, got off the bus halfway, came to the medicinal herb market, and began to look for medicinal materials to make up the painting.

Unlike the era of 300 years ago, those medicinal materials that are scarce in production and enjoyed by the power of the king and noble have been widely available, and the difficulty is that these 24 herbs have very high requirements for the year, and most of them are more than 10 years old.

Zhao Zhuo inquired everywhere, including the pharmaceutical company, and it took more than two hours to finally collect 24 medicinal materials.

When he returned home, it was noon, Zhao Zhuo hurriedly washed the medicinal herbs and put them in the sun to expose them to the sun first.

For repainting, pharmaceutical is the first step, but also a very important step, if the medicine is not prepared, then there is no repainting.

Pharmaceuticals take at least two days, to repeatedly dry, torment, although the link is not complicated, but the time, heat and other requirements are very strict, fortunately now are gas stoves, the fire is small and twisted, but also reduce some technical problems.

Today happens to be a big sun, the temperature is also good, after two hours of exposure, the dried herbs are all damp, and they are all very dry.

Next, first weigh the 12 flavors and pour them into the clay pot, add water and start boiling, Zhao Zhuo went to buy a gas canister and came back, according to Mo Ling's guidance, while watching the time, turned the fire to the maximum, and began to decoction.

When decocting the medicine, you must stand in front of the stove, staring at the water in the jar, as long as Mo Ling says that the fire is big, you must turn off the fire, and if the fire is small, you must turn it on, which is very tossed.

But Zhao Zhuo is not inferior to others in terms of his surname, not to mention that the painter has spent more than ten years researching this formula, and it will naturally take some effort to make this formula three hundred years ago come out again.

Different medicines were put in at different times, and after three hours of boiling over low heat, the medicine had been fried like a viscous liquid, Zhao Zhuo picked it with chopsticks, but Mo Ling shook his head, saying that the herb was not dry enough, and the water overflowed when cooking, resulting in insufficient viscosity.

After all, although Mo Ling was proficient in the whole process, he couldn't touch the real thing.

Fortunately, Zhao Zhuo had already prepared, and there was more than one copy of the herbs dried at noon, so he took out the other one and dried it for another half an hour, and when it was very dry, he began to decoct the medicine again.

Each decoction takes three hours, and the boiled ointment should be left cold at night to absorb the moisture of the night. The next day, I continued to suffer, and it took several times in a row to be able to really finish.

After Zhao Zhuo boiled one part, he immediately began to cook the second part, and after three days of work, he finally boiled the perfect ointment.

The ointment is white and transparent, and when you stick it with your hand, it will be as sticky as glue, but you can clearly feel the moisture contained in it, and after the various medicinal smells are neutralized with each other, the ointment has almost no taste.

Next, Zhao Zhuo picked up a special small brush borrowed from the museum, gently brushed it on the ointment, used the temperature to melt it, and then gently applied it to the ancient painting, and then placed it in a ventilated room.

An hour later, when Zhao Zhuo looked at the painting again, he was suddenly taken aback, and the effect was immediate. The color of the ancient painting is much thicker, as if the ink color in the precipitation has been stimulated, and the dry and cracked painting paper is like an ancient branch being moistened, gradually softening, and the broken edges are perfectly glued.

He couldn't help but be amazed, Mo Ling really didn't boast about Haikou, this ointment is simply miraculous, it can revive the broken paintings, it can be called the only one in the world.

Although the ointment is applied once, in order to maintain its effect, it is necessary to apply it at a fixed point within a few days according to the damage, and it is necessary to constantly observe the state of the painting after application and adjust it before the painting can be maintained. If you just apply it once, the calligraphy and painting will soon return to a broken state, and it will be difficult to repair it again with ointment.

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