Chapter 15: Black Stone
"Once upon a time there was a lovely little girl who liked everyone who saw her, but the one who liked her the most was her grandmother, who gave her whatever she wanted. Once, my grandmother gave the little girl a little red riding hood made of velvet, which was just right to wear on her head. From then on, the girl never wanted to wear any other hat, so everyone called her Little Red Riding Cycle......"
Qin Lin told the story of Little Red Riding Hood and the Big Bad Wolf, and Qing Dai listened to it with relish, propped her chin on the desk with both hands, revealing her warm and jade-like forearms, her bright eyes flickering, immersed in the story.
Tutoring Qin Lin for medical introductory knowledge, Qing Dai was still a little nervous at first, but after all, she was young, Qin Lin made her relax when she talked and laughed, and later the two got along like childhood friends.
Although Li Shizhen didn't manage her granddaughter like an ordinary official eunuch lady, Qingdai was the daughter of Zhengqipinzhi County after all, and she rarely went out except to accompany Li Shizhen to the mountain to look for medicine.
This is embarrassing for Qin Lin, he has been in Wanli for less than a month, and his eyes are basically black, what can he say? Although there are many stories about the past experience, I can't tell it, so it's hard to tell the little girl about the "five. 17 Nameless Naked Corpse Case", or "Nanhu Village Murder and Burning Corpse Tragedy"? The content is very yellow and violent, and it is too discordant......
So Qin Lin had no choice but to shake out the fairy tales that a few later generations of little pot friends had listened to, but he didn't expect that the popular fairy tales of later generations would be extremely lethal hundreds of years ago, and Qing Dai was fascinated by it.
Looking at the little girl's mellow and sweet spring two autumn waves, the slightly exposed skin at the neckline, delicate and warm with an attractive color, Qin Lin felt that he had the potential to become a big bad wolf and eat this "Little Red Riding Hood", evil, evil......
Qing Dai's heart is as pure as transparent crystal, naturally she doesn't know that Qin Lin is transforming into a sticky monster uncle, all the senior brothers in the ordinary world are holding the shelf of giving and receiving kisses, and they don't say a word to her in the same school, even if they speak, they are old-fashioned and stiff-faced, and it is the first time in their lives that Qin Lin talks and laughs like this, in the heart of the little girl, Qin Lin's favorability swoops up.
Qing Dai first talked about the four diagnosis methods for half an hour, Qin Lin then told the story for a quarter of an hour, and then when Qin Lin was reading by herself, she took out a large stack of white paper, her wrist was hanging in the air, and Chun Liang held a small lake pen tightly, and carefully sketched the pattern.
Li Shizhen's Compendium of Materia Medica is an encyclopedic pharmaceutical masterpiece that includes 1,892 drugs, most of which are illustrated except for the most common ones that are not easily misunderstood, and a total of 1,160 illustrations are required.
These illustrations are an extremely important part of the "Compendium of Materia Medica", because there are many similar forms of traditional Chinese medicine materials, which are easy to misuse, if you only use words to describe, for example, the rhubarb's "leaves, seeds, and stems are like sheep's hooves, but the stems are six or seven feet high and brittle, the taste is sour, and the leaves are thick and thick", if people who have never seen rhubarb read this description, I am afraid that they will still be confused in the end, and they can't outline what rhubarb looks like in their minds; But with beautiful illustrations, it can be seen at a glance, and it is not easy to get confused.
Li Shizhen is over the age of six, writing books is okay, with a small pen to draw illustrations is inadequate, it was originally the second son Li Jianyuan painted for him, since Li Jianyuan and Li Jianmu were admitted to Xiucai to study in the house, Pang Xian and Li Jianfang had to be busy with a big mess of things in the hospital, and the task of drawing illustrations was handed over to Qingdai.
This is the reason why Li Shizhen has repeatedly taken her granddaughter up the mountain: to observe the state of the medicine when it is alive and prepare for the illustrations.
Spread out the pen and paper, Qingdai carefully drew illustrations.
The girl who is concentrating on the drawing on the bookcase, quiet and beautiful, sometimes the end of the lake pen is contained in the middle of the lip flap, sometimes the lines that deviate from the original intention on the illustration are beautiful and slightly frowned, the afternoon sun penetrates through the west window, the sound of cicadas comes from the backyard, and the rich medicinal fragrance slowly fills the ......
Qin Lin was in the middle of it, like a fairyland on earth.
"Oops, what the hell, it's stained again!" Qing Dai's beautiful face was wrinkled, and under her thin brush, a certain plant pattern was vividly drawn, but it was a pity that a drop of ink accidentally made all the work wasted.
Seeing that the little girl was so frustrated, Qin Lin laughed: "Are you so embarrassed?" I'm here to draw for my sister, so that you can see the methods of my brother. ”
Qin Lin has studied simulated portraits in criminal investigation, and has practiced sketching for a year.
But as soon as this guy took the pen, his face was wrinkled more than Qingdai: the brush, the brush for sketching, is very good and powerful......
The brush can express the pen heartily, write immortal masterpieces such as "Orchid Pavilion Preface" and "Cold Food Post", and can also draw "Qingming Riverside Map" and majestic ink splashing landscapes.
But accurate drawing is not his forte, in Qin Lin's hand, a tube of wolves seems to have a thousand weights, before he puts the pen on the paper, the soft pen tip is crooked, not to mention painting, even a straight line can not be completed.
Qing Dai laughed so hard that her stomach hurt, her wrinkled little face stretched out, and she stretched out her fingers and gently scraped her face: "Bragging, shameless!" ”
Qin Lin scratched his head and looked at the illustrations that Qing Dai had completed before, the lines were precise and the patterns were lifelike, and he didn't know how much effort she had put into it.
If only there were pencils...... That's right, pencil!
Qin Lin slapped his head and said confidently: "It's too inconvenient to draw illustrations with a brush, I have a way to draw more delicate paintings than this, and the time it takes is less than half of what it is now." ”
Qing Dai wanted to brag, but seeing that Qin Lin's expression didn't look like nonsense, she was very concerned about it, and said happily for a while: "Really? That's great, what to draw with? ”
Qin Lin thought about it, learned the recipe he had memorized when he was in handwriting identification, and said, "If you need sulfur, clay, and graphite, you can draw various patterns easily and accurately." ”
"Hmph, what, it turns out that I'm still joking with others, it's so annoying!" Qing Dai pursed her lips and turned her back to ignore Qin Lin.
Hey, why did little Lori suddenly become tsundere? Qin Lin couldn't figure out the situation, so he had to emphasize again and again that there was no lie, if there was no truth, the world would not tolerate it, and it would be fierce and evil to find a wife in the future.
Qin Lin was funny when he swore an oath, and said in his heart that my future wife is in front of him, but whether it is fierce and evil is a matter of opinion.
Qingdai's little face turned crimson, knowing that she was probably wrong, she lowered her eyebrows and said: "Good junior brother, you didn't lie to me, senior sister blames you, the 'stone pen' you said, let's do it!" ”
Qin Lin asked her why she misunderstood, Qingdai became squirming and pinched, and she refused to say anything, so she had to give up.
The scale of the Li Family Medical Hall is very large, and the attached pharmacy is not small, the milk bowl, medicine mill and other materials are very complete, there are more than 20 guys, and more than a dozen apprentices.
The shopkeeper's surname is Zhou, and he is a thin old man with gray hair, unlike the shopkeeper elsewhere who looks like a philistine and cunning, but a little pedantic.
Hearing that Qingdai asked for graphite and sulfur, he turned around and opened the drawer to take the medicine, and his mouth chattered:
"Sulfur, also known as yellow sand, yellow teeth, Yanghou, general...... Graphite, the so-called multicolored stone resin blue, yellow, black, white and red, graphite is black stone grease also, also known as thrush stone, said that the text is called Dai......"
Qin Lin suddenly realized, it turns out that graphite is also known as black stone grease and thrush stone, and the dai of Qingdai is the meaning of thrush stone, no wonder I think I am joking with her.
Qin Lin smiled at Qingdai, the little girl lowered her head, and the roots of her pink ears were a little red.
Sulfur and graphite are both traditional Chinese medicines, and Lee's Pharmacy has them, and clay is even more common, and they are quickly prepared.
The most in the pharmacy are stone mills, milk bowls, medicine mills, stone grinders, etc., the eldest lady has an order, and all the guys work together to grind these things into powder and mix them in an instant.
The shopkeeper Zhou looked inexplicable next to him, and said to himself: "Sulfuric acid, warm, toxic, treatment of typhoid fever and yin, qi deficiency and discharge, black stone lipid is not used alone as medicine, and colorful stone lipid is used together to stop diarrhea and stop bleeding, is it possible that someone has severe dysentery?" But there's no reason to add clay! ”
Of course, it is not used to stop diarrhea, Qin Lin instructed: "Brothers, use water to knead these powders and mix them together." ”
Shopkeeper Zhou suddenly realized, his heart is to make pills, where there are water pills, honey pills, wax pills, paste pills and other types, water adjustment is the most common.
But then Qin Lin asked the guys to carve a thin groove out of wood and squeeze the reconciled graphite ball into thin strips, and the shopkeeper Zhou didn't understand it again, and secretly thought to himself: I often heard that there is a kind of black jade intermittent ointment in the Western Regions that can generate muscle and invigorate blood, which is black strips, isn't that what Brother Qin did? However, sulfur and black stone lipid do not have the medicinal effect of muscle building and blood activation!
The ink strips were squeezed out, and Qin Lin asked the guys to take them to the kiln where the medicine was baked for barbecue.
Shopkeeper Zhou said to himself: By the way, sulfur, lead, mercury, multicolored stone grease and the like are not tricks played by Taoist priests who carry cans? This little brother Qin is going to refine the pill!
Oh, it's not good, if the old man knows about it......
Shopkeeper Zhou's expression became a little unsightly.
Zhou shopkeeper can think, naturally other people think, this sulfur, colorful stone grease are Fang Shi furnace alchemy, lead and mercury art used things, the land of Jingchu since the Warring States period witchcraft, Taoism prevailed, Qizhou west of Wudang Mountain, east of Longhu Mountain, Taoism has a great influence, keen on alchemy and immortal Jiajing Emperor Longyu returned to heaven is only ten years, people are still fresh in memory.
Bai Yong was on duty as an apprentice, and when he saw this, he immediately turned around and sneaked away while people were not paying attention.
A moment later, Zhang Jianlan sneaked into Li Jianfang's small courtyard.
After waiting for another cup of tea, Li Shizhen, Li Jianfang and his son came to the pharmacy.
The face of the Great Ming Divine Doctor turned red, his white beard turned up one by one, and he kept pounding the ground with his crutches, and scolded Qin Lin for hating iron and steel:
"Y-What are you doing?!"