Chapter 273: Cotton Tea

"This is your medicine field? You planted this herb just now? "Although Xiao Yuanbo has not been engaged in the cultivation of medicinal herbs, he was young. It was the herb pickers who used to go to the countryside and the countryside to go to the mountains to collect wild herbs. But in today's Chinese medicine, no one will go to the mountains to know these medicinal materials. They stiffly memorized the medicinal properties of the herbs and then used them in their own recipes. Very little is known about the herbs themselves. Even if they encounter wild medicinal herbs in the wild, few people can recognize them.

Chen Andong nodded, "I transplanted it from the mountains." But here, these herbs grow better than in the mountains. The medicinal properties should also be more than doubled. ”

"Don't brag." Xiao Yuanbo was obviously a little hard to believe.

"Boast or not, teacher, you can compare it on the spot. These hyssops were only planted this year, you see, these hyssops are better than wild hyssops, whose medicinal properties are better? Chen Andong pointed to a piece of ox knee in front of him and said.

Xiao Yuanbo pulled one out of the ground, twisted it with his fingers, and put it in front of his nose to smell it. It was found that as Chen Anton said, the medicinal fragrance was purer and richer, and it was indeed a rare good medicinal material.

"That's good. But hyssop is an annual medicinal herb, and the dosage is large, is it cost-effective for you to use this planting method? Xiao Yuanbo asked.

"Teacher, for us Chinese medicine, what is the happiest thing than using the best medicinal materials? A good prescription may be due to the lack of medicinal properties of one of the most common medicinal materials, which greatly reduces the effect of the whole prescription. Although Chinese medicinal materials are divided into monarchs and ministers, how can medicinal materials be distinguished from high and low? Chen Andong said.

"Well said. On the contrary, the teacher was so confused that he couldn't see this truth clearly. Xiao Yuanbo said calmly.

"It's not that the teacher is confused, it's that the teacher is too considerate of the students. Money is something that you don't bring in life, and you don't bring it in death. No matter how much money I make, it is a number in the end, and I am now relying on my salary, which is enough for me to eat and use, so why should I be too obsessed with money? Chen Andong said with a smile.

"Well, let's be doctors. Traditional Chinese medicine, in particular, should have such an open-minded mind. Xiao Yuanbo looked around, "Where are your tea trees?" I'm really looking forward to the tea you produce here. There will be a blessing in the future. ”

"It's not here, it's on the top of the mountain, the tea trees are originally wild, and they are growing over there, and I don't bother to move." Chen Andong took Xiao Yuanbo to the top of the mountain.

Those few are also tea trees, and Chen Andong also discovered them by accident. It is the soil tea here in Happiness Village. The people in the village call it cotton tea, and the ordinary tea trees are a little different. The people in the village don't even have the simplest processing, so they directly pick the tea leaves and dry them and use them to make tea and drink. But even so, this cotton tea is still sweet and delicious. Because this kind of tea is easy to obtain, the people in the village do not value it, and just plant a tree in front of the house and behind the house for their own tea to drink. No one thought of selling this tea for money. Therefore, no one values these wild tea trees on the mountain.

Chen Andong drank the cotton tea of Xingfu Village and thought it tasted pretty good. If you can process the tea with a little technology, the taste will definitely not be worse than those teas. These tea trees must be planted in their own modified medicine fields. The quality of wild tea will be even more improved. In the future, it is not surprising that the quality of the processed tea will surpass those famous teas.

"Mr. Xiao, these are the tea trees I said." Chen Andong pointed to a few cotton tea trees in front of him and said.

Xiao Yuanbo was dumbfounded: "Haha, Xiaodong, you won't admit your mistake, right?" This is not a tea tree. ”

"Teacher Xiao. In fact, there are many types of tea trees. Many different trees, because the leaves can bring the same sweet thirst quenching to people, as long as they have this property, they can become tea. For example, chrysanthemum tea, honeysuckle, and so on. This tree may not be tea elsewhere, but here in Happiness Village. People here have been drinking for hundreds of years. You keep talking, is this a tea tree? Chen Andong explained.

"Yes, of course. But you told me that in two years' time, you were going to give me tea that was even better than mine. Is it really okay to have tea leaves on this tree? Xiao Yuanbo was a little suspicious.

Chen Anton selected some young shoots from the tree, put them in a white plastic bag containing specimens, and then said mysteriously: "I'll go back and test it for you later." ”

"Then I'll take a look at it later. Let's see what the quality of the tea recommended by your Xiaodong is. Xiao Yuanbo said with a smile.

After looking around, Xiao Yuanbo expressed his opinion on Chen Andong's medicinal herb cultivation base: "You have chosen this place well. There are no sources of pollution around, and the water source is very clean. If the environment here can be maintained in the future, your medicinal herb base will indeed have a lot to offer. But your medicinal base investment is too high. Your approach will certainly not solve the problems faced by TCM in China. So, you still have to find a way to reduce the cost of your transformation of the medicine field. I don't know why your retrofit costs are so high. In fact, you can consider replacing those expensive materials with some cheap ones. As for the effect, you can try it slowly. As long as the effect is improved to a certain extent, it can already meet the general needs. To cure you with high input, you can grow valuable medicinal herbs with relatively high value. ”

Xiao Yuanbo's suggestion simply pointed out a path for Chen Andong. Chen Andong suddenly found that he was too strict about improving the quality of medicinal materials. Although this method can indeed greatly improve the quality of medicinal materials, for the public, how can ordinary people afford this kind of expensive medicinal materials? It is not necessary that the medicinal properties of medicinal materials are not high, but these medicinal materials are required to be of stable quality and safe. That's enough.

It turns out that I have been drilling the horns of the bull. Chen Andong scratched his head. Xiao Yuanbo's idea can be tried. In this way, he can completely transform thousands of acres of medicinal fields here in Xingfu Village, and make use of all the wasteland and barren mountains in Xingfu Village. It can not only provide development opportunities for the people here in Xingfu Village, but also quickly increase the important supply of medicinal materials base.

"Teacher, there is a treasure in the family. That's true. Teacher, your opinion is so valuable. Solved the problem I had been worrying about. Due to the large amount of investment, the area of my medicine field has not been able to go up. There is no way to be more complete in the variety of medicinal materials. There are a lot of barren mountains and wastelands in Xingfu Village, and if I can make use of them all, it will be good news for the people here. Chen Anton said happily.

There are few people in Happy Village, and there is a lot of wasteland. Of course, there is very limited amount of fertile land that can be cultivated. Less than one acre of paddy field per capita. But there are many mountains and many wastelands. Now that the young people have gone out, they can't take care of these good lands, let alone the wastelands. Last time, Chen Andong circled so much wasteland, and he gave a lot of annual rent. Much better than they farmed. Everyone wanted to rent their wasteland to Chen Andong. Pity. The expansion rate of Chen Andong's medicine field was too slow, and he couldn't enclose all the wasteland in the entire village at once. But now that Chen Andong has changed his mind, this situation will change completely.

Xiao Yuanbo looked at Chen Andong's excited appearance, a smile appeared on his face, and he saw his youth from Chen Andong. At that time, he was also like Chen Andong who was active in everything and studied hard to improve his medical skills. As soon as there is a harvest, it will be like a child, smiling. Effort at that time. Leave one of the most valuable assets in life. And now I am no longer young, and the future depends on these young people to create. Some of the ideals that they have not realized themselves also depend on these young people to fulfill. Xiao Yuanbo was very emotional.

Back at He Chuanliang's home, Chen Andong began to stir-fry tea. Chen Andong directly found a tutorial on a piece of DIY tea through Baidu, and then began to stir-fry. Although Chen Andong has never practiced, Chen Andong is a master of concocted medicinal materials, although this fried tea is slightly unfamiliar to Chen Andong, but the operation, there is no sense of jerkiness. It's really a one-size-fits-all approach. Chen Andong completely regarded fried tea as a concocted medicinal material.

A few hours later. There is a fragrance of tea wafting through the room.

"Huh? The fragrance of this tea is really good. Xiaodong, your craftsmanship is okay! Although Xiao Yuanbo has not yet tasted the taste of this freshly fried cotton tea. But as a master of the tea ceremony, as long as you smell the smell, you will already have a certain grasp of the taste of the tea.

"Actually, the main thing is that this tea is good. I'm just using this tea as a medicinal herb to tann it. It can be regarded as a crooked beating, and the stir-frying of this tea and the processing of medicinal herbs still have something in common. Chen Andong told the truth.

"Haha, you're pretty honest. No wonder I said that your method of roasting tea leaves is a little familiar? It turns out that you are using roasted tea as a medicinal herb to concoct it. But it's a good idea. We use traditional Chinese medicine to maintain the medicinal properties of the medicinal materials to the greatest extent. Tea farmers fry tea leaves to maintain the color and aroma of tea to the greatest extent. Different means to the same end. Xiao Yuanbo said with a smile.

Chen Andong went to boil a pot of mountain spring water.

Then he used the freshly fried tea leaves to make Xiao Yuanbo a cup of tea: "Teacher." Originally, the tea tasted the best after a period of time. However, I can't wait now, so let the teacher evaluate it first. ”

Xiao Yuanbo smiled: "It's okay, it's okay, you can collect the rest of the tea leaves for me first." I'll take it back and let it sit for a while before tasting it. ”

"That's fine. You should still try it to see if this tea is still to your taste. Chen Andong said.

Xiao Yuanbo took a bite and savored it: "It's not right." ”

Chen Andong thought that there was something wrong with the tea leaves, and looked at Xiao Yuanbo in a daze.

Xiao Yuanbo deliberately teased Chen Andong like this, and said with a smile: "Your tea has a medicinal smell in it." But does it smell? Not bad. This mountain spring water is also very suitable for making tea. Complement this tea. ”

Chen Andong thought that there was really something wrong with this tea, but when he saw Xiao Yuanbo say this, he was relieved.

"This cotton is very promising. If the quality is even better, this is the best tea, I really didn't expect that a kind of wild tea that can be seen everywhere in the mountain village has such a good taste. However, your frying method needs to be improved appropriately. Maybe the flavor is even better. Xiao Yuanbo said with a smile.

"Teacher, this cotton tea is just a by-product of my medicinal material base, and my focus is still on these medicinal materials. The main reason why I grow my own medicinal herbs is that I have several ancient recipes, and I have extremely high requirements for the quality of medicinal herbs. After these medicinal materials meet the requirements, I will be able to concoct those ancient recipes. Chen Andong said.

"Very good, I'm waiting to see your ancient prescription." Xiao Yuanbo said with a smile. Although he was very interested in Chen Andong's ancient recipes, he understood that an ancient recipe might mean infinite wealth. He had no purpose in accepting such an apprentice. I just want to train a great doctor. He is not short of money to spend. By this young age, he had already looked down on everything. Only I can't let go of Chinese medicine.

"I'll try." Chen Anton said with a smile.

Xiao Yuanbo and Chen Andong stayed in Happy Village for a day, and Chen Andong had completely forgotten the previous depression. The mood is much better. But soon there was another class of "Acupuncture and Moxibustion", and Chen Andong and Xiao Yuanbo rushed back to Baisha overnight the next day.

The next day's class will be held in Lecture Hall 1 just like the previous one. All seat tickets have already been issued. Many students run around to get a ticket to the lecture hall. Some students even asked the school to issue some standing tickets appropriately. However, for the sake of the quality of the classroom, the school refused such a request, but broadcast it live on the school television station. Students who do not get tickets can go to other multimedia rooms to watch the live broadcast. The school has arranged several lecture halls for live broadcasting. Students are free to come in and watch.

This time, the school did not arrange for the school's academic committee to attend the class, but almost all the members of the academic committee attended the class. Even Hu Qian himself appeared in the front row of the classroom.

"You experts, how can this be? I've heard it once, it's almost the same, why can't I get along with other young teachers? President Hu, every time our college distributes tickets, there is a lot of pressure, do you think the academic committee members can vacate these best positions? Wang Yuzhang, the director of the Chinese Medicine Hospital, walked in and made a joke.

"Lao Wang, these positions must be kept for us for a long time. "Acupuncture and Moxibustion" has now become the key curriculum of the school, and the teaching reform of "Acupuncture and Moxibustion" has become the key teaching reform topic of the school. In the future, it may also become a key national education reform topic. The school attaches great importance to it, and we, the members of the academic committee, naturally have to follow the arrangements of the school. Don't hinder the development of your school. Zhang Quanshu immediately put a high hat on Wang Yuzhang.

"Commissioner Zhang, don't scare me. I can't stand being scared. Wang Yuzhang said with a smile. (To be continued.) )