Du Wenhao said: "'Ephedra' is also called 'trouble'. There's an interesting legend here. In ancient times, ephedra was called 'leafless grass' because it did not grow leaves. There is an old man who brought an apprentice, and after studying for a few years, this apprentice felt that he was great, and he didn't take Lao Langzhong in his eyes, so he wanted to start another business and practice medicine on his own. Before parting, Lao Langzhong was not at ease, and told him a sentence: 'Leafless grass can't be used indiscriminately, sweat with stems, and use roots to stop sweating, once you make a mistake, you will die!" The apprentice didn't care and left. Not long after, when the apprentice was practicing medicine, he misused leafless grass and cured the person to death. He was sent to the official office. When the county lord went to the hall and asked, he learned that he was the apprentice of this old man, so he sent the old man to ask him how to teach the apprentice. ”

Yingzi said: "The quack apprentice treats the dead, causing trouble to the master, this ephedra is really troublesome!"

"Yes, after hearing about this case, Lao Langzhong said that he had taught his apprentice a mantra and asked the apprentice if he still remembered. The apprentice recited this mantra with a bitter face: 'Use the stem to sweat and the root to stop sweating, once you make a mistake, you will die.' The magistrate asked: 'Does the sick sweat?' The disciple said, "Sweating profusely." "The magistrate asked, 'What medicine did you prescribe?' The disciple replied, 'Stems of leafless grass.' The magistrate was furious: 'What a quack! If the patient is sweating and still uses sweating medicine, can he not die? Your master taught you, and you are still messing around? The apprentice kowtowed and said, "I was wrong, I didn't care about the mantra that Master pointed out." The county magistrate wants to convict this apprentice of murder as a quack doctor and exile him for 3,000 li. Thanks to Lao Langzhong's intercession, he paid a lot of silver taels to the bitter master, so he was beaten and his sentence was commuted to imprisonment. ”

"Well deserved!" Yingzi applauded, "This kind of person who has no respect for his elders deserves bad luck!" ”

"Yes, after this incident, this apprentice realized his own shortcomings, returned to the master to study medicine, and eventually became a generation of famous doctors, after that, because this leafless grass brought him this big trouble, so he has been calling this leafless grass 'trouble grass', and then it was called open, and later because the root of this medicine is yellow, the descendants changed it to ephedra."

Yingzi said with a smile: "This allusion is good, I have to tell Miss Yuqin and Fei'er, this little girl, that they will their tails before they learn from other doctors, and harm others and themselves." ”

Lin Qingdai wanted to speak and stopped, Du Wenhao was a little strange, and asked, "What do you want to say?" ”

"Well, the apprentice of the divine doctor is talking very excessively, but ......, it is very good for the patient that the divine doctor does not collect money, and the people in all over the country respect him, if anyone offends him, those who receive his favor are only afraid of ......"

"I see, are you saying that I was too rude to speak to the miracle doctor, for fear that others would hate me because of this, speak ill of me, put on small shoes for me, and even make trouble for me? It also affects our Wuweitang business? ”

"Probably not," Lin Qingdai smiled apologetically: "However, the divine doctor is actually quite good." ”

"I know, I will pay attention to what I say in the future, and be polite to him. Thanks for the reminder! ”

Lin Qingdai saw that Du Wenhao understood what she meant, smiled sweetly, and toasted him with a glass of wine.

Lin Qingdai was about to flip through the book again, Du Wenhao held down his medical book, shook his head and said: "If it goes on like this, you will lose or win, I can't drink even if I want to, so we have to change the wine order." ”

"Okay, what to change?"

Du Wenhao thought for a while and said, "I'll guess the herb riddle for you, guess it, I drink, I can't guess, you drink!" ”

"Okay, you want to drink, don't you? There are only a few hundred flavors of herbs, and if you want to find the answer to the mystery from here, it won't be difficult for me! ”

"Don't blow it, we'll see!" Du Wenhao raised his head and looked at the moon in the sky, clapped his hands, and said, "There is!" - 'The Sacred Tree of the Moon'! ”

"Huh! What's so difficult about this, the trees in the moon are only osmanthus, and naturally they are 'osmanthus branches'! Drink bars! ”

Du Wenhao smiled and took a drink: "This is too simple, you have to think of a more complicated one." Uh-huh......, um, there it is! - Eight thousand miles of clouds and moons, don't wait for the young man's head to be white, empty and sad! ”

"Good words!" Lin Qingdai applauded, "This word was made by Mr.?" ”

This is Yue Fei's Man Jianghong, Yue Fei is a person from the Southern Song Dynasty, Lin Qingdai naturally doesn't know, Du Wenhao smiled and said: "No, it was written by someone else, guess it!" ”

"It's not difficult, eight thousand miles of Luyun and Yue, they have already named their ambitions in the distance, so the riddle is 'Yuanzhi', right?"

Du Wenhao had no choice but to drink another glass, thinking that Lin Qingdai opened a pharmacy and was very familiar with the name of the medicine, so he had to think of a more difficult one.

While he was thinking, Lin Qingdai asked: "Mr. Shicai recited two poems, the Qingdai of Su Dongpo has heard it, but this one 'Eight Thousand Miles of Clouds and Moon', but I have not heard it, can Mr. recite it in its entirety, let Qingdai enjoy it?" ”

"Okay," Du Wenhao got up, put his hands behind his back, walked to the railing, looked up at the bright moon, and said in a low voice: "Angry hair rushes to the crown, leaning on the railing, Xiaoxiao rain rests......"

When he finished reading Shangyun and was about to recite "Jing Kang is ashamed, still not snowing", he suddenly remembered that this was a matter of the fall of the Northern Song Dynasty decades later, and it hadn't happened yet, and they wanted to ask, but it was really hard to explain, so he paused and smiled embarrassedly: "I drank wine, and I forgot ...... Xia Rong"

Although there was only Shang Run, the second daughter couldn't help but applaud: "Good words! Good words! It's a pity that I didn't finish listening. ”

Lin Qingdai said: "This poem is extremely heroic, and it is completely opposite to the graceful style of Su Shi, which makes people's blood boil when they hear it!" ”

Lin Qingdai mentioned Su Dongpo, which reminded Du Wenhao of a traditional Chinese medicine story related to Su Shi's sister, among which there is a Chinese medicine riddle, which is very difficult, you might as well take it out to embarrass Lin Qingdai, and said: "I'll make another riddle, if you can guess it, I'll drink three cups in a row!" I can't guess that you drank three glasses in a row! ”

Lin Qingdai smiled and said, "Okay, try it!" ”

"This time the riddle is a bit laborious, I have to guess the twelve flavors of medicine, three flavors in each sentence!"

"Hmm!"

"The riddle is very simple, it is the four pleasures of life-

A long drought and a sweet rain,

Encounter old acquaintances in a foreign land.

Candle night in the cave room,

When the title of the gold list. ”

Lin Qingdai smiled: "This mystery is also chic, wait for me to think about it." ——A long drought and a sweet rain, the nectar is one, and the dripping gold (scientific name is the swirling flower) is a taste, and there is a ......"

Yingzi didn't understand medicinal materials, so she couldn't help, and looked at Lin Qingdai embarrassed and anxious.

Du Wenhao smiled: "This mystery is a bit difficult, I can't think of it slowly, you can think about the back first." ”

Lin Qingdai got up, lowered her head in the corridor with her hands behind her back and slowly paced and thought: "When you meet an old acquaintance in a foreign land, what are the two flavors...... Candle Night in the Cave Room—"

Lin Qingdai glanced back at Du Wenhao, she couldn't see her face clearly in the dark, but her words were a little shy: "The candle night in the cave room - I only guessed the two flavors of 'Hehuan' and 'privet'!" I can't guess the other taste. ”

"It's already very good, guess the next sentence."

"When the title of the gold list is inscribed - Shangjia (that is, turtle Jia) is counted as a taste, and a joy at first sight (scientific name andrographis) is counted as a taste,...... The rest of the man couldn't guess. Let's admit defeat and ask Mr. ”

Du Wenhao said with a smile: "It's rare to guess the seven flavors of the twelve flavor medicine in such a short time!" That's it, guess most of it right, I'll drink two cups, and the other half won't guess, you have a drink! ”

"It should all be guessed to count, so let's drink a cup together with you and I, and if you teach the remaining five flavors, I'll have another drink!"

"It's good!"

After the two drank the glass of wine, Du Wenhao said: "After a long drought and sweet rain, in addition to the nectar and dripping gold you guessed, there is also a taste of Ze Yuan. When you meet your old acquaintance in a foreign country, in addition to the blind birth land you guess, the other two flavors are to see Fengqing and Sanfan Brother. Candle night in the cave room, in addition to the two flavors you said, there is also a gentleman, the difference in the title of the gold list is ginger. ”

Lin Qingdai frowned: "Ze Yuan is more appropriate, this is Fengqing, Sanfan Brother, Gentleman and Ginger, but they are all puzzling, how to cut the riddle?" ”

Du Wenhao said with a smile: "To be honest, I heard this mystery, not my own thoughts, according to legend, it was Su Shi's sister Su Xiaomei's problem, and she wanted to test the lyricist Qin Guan." So, that's the way it is, and I don't think it's right. ”

"Hmph, you don't think it's right, and you still come to let me guess, it's clear that you deliberately make things difficult and punish you for drinking!"

Yingzi also shouted: "That's it, Mr. punishes drinking!" ”

"Okay, I'll admit the punishment!" Du Wenhao took the wine glass and drank it all.

As soon as the two of them came and looked, the pot of rice wine had been drunk, and Yingzi held the wine cup and said, "I'll go get wine!" Turning around to leave, I saw something moving in front of the threshold of Du Wenhao's room, and two things were bright, I was very curious, I took two steps forward and looked, Mom, the wine jug in my hand fell to the ground and shattered, turned around and ran behind Du Wenhao: "Old ...... Tiger......! There are tiger ......! ”

That thing is the little tiger cub that Du Wenhao brought home, just now he was full and no one cared, he climbed the threshold and turned out, squatted in the dark and looked around, but he didn't dare to walk around, just Yingzi came to see, Yingzi screamed, and the wine pot was broken, and the little tiger cub was scared to the ground, screamed, got up and ran into the house, hit his head on the threshold, banged, sat on the ground again, shook his little head, got up and jumped up, put his front foot on the high threshold, kicked and grabbed with his two hind feet, wanted to climb up the threshold, But the threshold is too high, and I can't climb up for a while, and I can't get up or down if I hang there, and I am so anxious that I scream.