Herbs cannot be used when they are collected, and they must be prepared and stored appropriately to ensure their medicinal properties. Before adopting, it depends on the origin and season. For example, there are many places where fritillary is available, but only the fritillary of Sichuan Songpanwei has the best medicinal effect, so many recipes can only be effective with pine shellfish.

The preparation methods of each pharmacy are also different, and the effect will vary greatly from the origin, year, and storage conditions of the drug. Sun Yufeng's second drug adjustment is mainly to increase or decrease the strength of the drug.

After Tong Wanqing took the new prescription, she recovered faster and was able to go for a walk in the patio in less than five days.

Xu Xiaole gradually got used to the life of decocting medicine and reading every day. But when it comes to reading, I have to complain: Daming's books are too expensive!

Xu Xiaole originally only had less than five taels of silver left, grabbing medicine for his sister-in-law, inviting his uncle and master to go to the restaurant, and in the end there was only less than one tael of silver that could be used to buy books.

One or two pieces of silver obviously can't afford the entire "Historical Records".

However, the owner of Qiyue Bookstore is a kind person after all, and he took a deposit of one or two silver on the face of Xu Xiaole as an old customer and a big money owner, and allowed him to rent a volume of "Historical Records" back to read. As long as it's not stained, you can return it. If it gets dirty, I'm afraid you'll have to have your deposit seized.

Xu Xiaole read very carefully, and begged his sister-in-law to buy paper and pens and start copying books by himself.

Tong Wanqing raided twice and found that Xu Xiaole was really copying serious books, and she almost couldn't believe that she was sick or Xu Xiaole was sick...... But reading is good after all, although she can't understand the use of reading history books. What's more, Xu Xiaole said that Sun Yufeng asked him to read it, so Tong Wanqing naturally would no longer object.

Xu Xiaole copied the book for a long time, and his wrist was sore, so he put down the pen and shook it.

Tong Wanqing's body was not enough to work, so when she was lying on the bed, she watched Xu Xiaole copy books in the study. She was sitting on Xiaole's bed cutting her nails, and when she saw Xiaole shaking her hands and looking obedient, she said: "If you sell those dirty books, I'm afraid you have bought back the two sets of "Historical Records", and it will take so much effort!" ”

Xu Xiaole said in his heart: If I sell all my good friends, I will buy back all ten sets of "Historical Records"! But then I won't have the slightest sense of righteousness!

He said confidently: "You can only memorize the book if you copy it once." ”

Tong Wanqing was barely literate, and she didn't know anything about endorsement, so she didn't say anything.

After five days like this, Sun Yufeng took Li Xiqiang to Mudu, and Luo Yun also came as promised. Tong Wanqing originally wanted to ask the Tang family's mother to help and renovate a table of good dishes to entertain Sun Yufeng and Li Xiqiang. However, Sun Yufeng said that he had to go to Qionglong Mountain as soon as possible, otherwise it would be inconvenient for the Taoist temple to arrange accommodation, and the banquet could only be postponed.

Li Xiqiang saw Luo Yun, needless to say, he also knew that this was the labor Xu Xiaole was looking for, and secretly said in his heart: Although this kid doesn't accumulate virtue in his mouth, his heart is okay. was not hypocritical at the moment, and handed over a big back basket to Luo Yun.

Luo Yun didn't mind carrying the basket and asked casually, "What's in it?" ”

Xu Xiaole went to look through it, and said while watching: "Dry food, kettle, thin quilt, what is this?" Futon? Clothes...... Yikes! ”

Xu Xiaole screamed and jumped back, as if he was frightened.

Luo Yun didn't know why, turned around to see what was behind him, like a puppy biting his tail, and couldn't help asking, "What's wrong?" What's wrong? ”

Of course, Li Xiqiang knew what was in the back basket, and deliberately refused to say anything, smiling evilly on the side to watch the excitement.

Sun Yufeng stepped forward, put his hands into the back basket, and took out a small thing the size of a palm from it. The little thing's eyes were huge, almost half of its face, and it looked around curiously, showing no fear.

Xu Xiaole just touched this fluffy little thing, and was startled by those eyes, and he was a little out of shape. Now that my uncle took it out, I found that it was an extremely cute little monkey.

He leaned up and looked at the little monkey: "Why does this little monkey have black hair?" ”

The little monkey was different from other monkeys Xu Xiaole had ever seen, only with light white hair growing from the root of the ears to the cheeks. The hair stands erect in the middle, as if wearing a crown. When the little guy saw Xu Xiaole, he stretched out his black monkey paw and scratched at Xu Xiaole, as if greeting, but he didn't recognize him at all.

Sun Yufeng said: "This kind of monkey is called a black ape. When I saw a black ape in the mountains of Guizhou, he accidentally fell into a trap and broke a leg. So I rescued it and helped it heal its leg injury. Unfortunately, after its leg injury was healed, it was unable to climb the cliff to forage for food on its own. I took it with me to feed it, but I didn't know that it was so much that even its wife and children were called. ”

Xu Xiaole laughed when he heard this: "This is the ancestor of Master Lai." So this little monkey is the son of a cheeky monkey? Grandson? ”

Sun Yufeng thought for a while: "I'm afraid there are more than ears and grandchildren." It was only weaned a few days ago, and I went to Fujian and Guangdong in August to send its parents back. Even if this black ape grows up, it is much smaller than other apes and is easily bullied by other monkeys, so it cannot be put into the mountains casually, and can only be sent back to the place where they live. ”

Xu Xiaole stretched out a finger to tease the little monkey. The little monkey also stretched out his hand and grabbed his fingers, and one person and one monkey were very flattering.

Sun Yufeng saw that Xu Xiaole and the little monkey were easy to get close, so he asked Xu Xiaole to hug the little monkey: "You have to take good care of it in the future." ”

Xu Xiaole was overjoyed: "This is for me?" ”

Sun Yufeng said: "It's not a send." It's for you to live together. You take care of it on weekdays, and it can go to some dangerous places for you to collect medicine. If you treat it as a plaything, not only will I not let you raise it, but I will never pass on your healing skills in the future! ”

Xu Xiaole hurriedly said: "I'll treat it as my younger brother!" ”

No one else in the family had ever seen such a monkey with black hair, and they all came forward to watch. Xu Xiaole shouted: "It's my brother, no one is allowed to bully it!" ”

Tong Wanqing smiled: "I already knew that my brother-in-law was a skin monkey!" ”

The crowd burst into laughter.

Xu Xiaole also laughed and said, "Thank you sister-in-law for giving me the name, it will be called Xiaopi in the future." He held Xiaopi in the palm of his hand, looked left and right, and the more he looked, the happier he became: "Hehe, Xiaopi...... Xiaopi can be your big name, and I'll give you a milk name, and I'll call it ...... Del piero! Yes, you'll be called Pipsqueak from now on! ”

Sun Yufeng was so happy to see Xu Xiaole, and he was also a lot more relieved, and told Xu Xiaole about the experience he had observed with the black ape for many years.

Because this black ape has a wide range of recipes, young leaves, lettuce, young bamboo shoots, pears...... Eat almost as long as it is vegetarian, so it is very easy to feed. The only thing to watch out for is winter. They have grown in the southwest for generations, and the climate in the south of the Yangtze River is quite cold for them, so they must pay attention to keeping warm.

Xu Xiaole remembered them one by one in his heart, since his brother left, he finally had a "brother" again, and immediately drove Luo Yun, who ranked second in his heart, down one place and gave it to Pippi.

In the first place, of course, is still the sister-in-law.