Chapter 153: First Victory

It was a spacious hall, and there were no tables, chairs, benches, and other furnishings in the general hall, and the room was already full of people, mostly men and women.

Groups of three and two gathered to talk, and there was a buzz in the hall.

Gu Bainiang swept over at a glance, mostly unfamiliar faces.

Hearing the sound of the door opening, the eyes of everyone in the hall also turned over, and after seeing them, their expressions were a little solemn, these were the great pharmacist seniors they had admired for a long time, but when they saw that walking in front of the seniors they admired was a young girl, their expressions became a little confused.

"Elder Qi, when does it start?"

Walking along a road that everyone automatically gave way to, there was no shortage of people around me who asked.

Elder Qi, the head of the medicine shop who was walking beside Gu Bainiang, said with a smile: "It's about to start, wait for everyone to give the medicine to the prince...."

Saying this, the group had already passed through the noisy hall, bypassing the screen and heading towards the Medicine King Palace.

When they left, the uproar in the hall intensified.

"Who's that man?"

"I actually walked in front of Kang Lao and them"

"Why didn't you see Liu Gong?"

"Ah, I know, she is Liu Gong's apprentice"

Soon the news spread, although it was already known that Liu Gong had accepted a female apprentice, but it was still unexpectedly young when he saw it.

"It turns out that that's Liu Gong's apprentice...", many people's faces suddenly appeared with unconcealed eagerness.

Even though she has Liu Gong's guidance, her age is too young after all, and the concocting technique is like wine, which needs a year to brew.

"Don't think about beautiful things, people have that status, it's not certain whether you participate in the competition or not." Naturally, someone sneered.

"Yes, after all, it's a little girl, if you lose, won't you lose the face of Liu Gong and his old man....." There are also people who are yin and yang. With a distant bell ringing, everyone's expressions lifted, and the medicine meeting began.

After the incense ceremony, everyone gathered outside the medicine king's hall, and under the gaze of everyone, the president of the medicine store and several respected pharmacists, because Liu Gong did not come, Gu Bainiang replaced Liu Gong and drew out the name of the medicine for this big medicine competition.

With the extraction of four pieces of paper, the scene was also quiet and a little nervous.

After some humility, it was finally read out by Elder Qi, the president of the Medicine Guild.

"Competitive medicine, the first scene, making cantharids, Morinda officinalis, myrrh, and purple river car."

After he finished reading it, there was already a large number of people writing it hanging high in a conspicuous place inside and outside the Yaowang Temple.

There is no threshold for this big medicine club, as long as it is a pharmacist, he can submit it according to the extracted medicine to determine the grade.

Gu Bainiang stood on the steps with more than a dozen people and looked at everyone, facing all kinds of eyes, her application did not change at all, with a quiet smile, listening to the conversation of the pharmacists beside her.

“.. The first game is the basic skills, cultivation, water, fire ....." President Qi, who was always smiling, whispered, explaining the rules of the game to her in detail, "So keep it simple....."

Someone next to him snorted, obviously not very satisfied with his words.

"Simple? Don't underestimate this simple basic skill, you can get out more than half of the pharmacists in this field...."The older pharmacist said, looking at Gu Ba Niang, a smile appeared on his face, "Gu Niangzi, are you interested in trying it?" ”

For Liu Gong to choose himself as a disciple, many pharmacists don't say it on their faces, but they are really uncomfortable in their hearts, not to mention anything else, this woman's identity alone is enough to disappoint everyone, although it is a lowly industry in the eyes of the world, but in the eyes of these pharmacists, their skills are extremely precious, comparable to life, so the choice of heirs is naturally very solemn, even in their own family, they choose men and women, let alone accept apprentices.

Women, no matter what way they are, how can they take on the responsibility of inheritance.

Although Liu Gong chose his own heir, given his supreme position in the pharmacist world, this move will inevitably attract many doubts.

Gu Bainiang raised her eyes and looked at the old man beside her, who was about the same age as Liu Gong, with a smile on his wrinkled face, looking amiable, and undoubtedly like an ordinary old man.

But from the news that Xin Chaoyang told her, this old man surnamed Kang, as long as he wanted, a nod could make a medicine store of the scale of life collapse overnight, and he had done such a thing more than once.

Among the surviving pharmacists today, he ranks in the top ten.

With his words, the other old pharmacists who were originally looking at the hustle and bustle of the people in the field suddenly looked over, and their eyes were cloudy, and they were all shimmering.

"Okay." Gu Bainiang smiled and nodded.

She agreed too quickly, which made everyone stunned, and before she could say more, Gu Bainiang had already stepped out.

Just walked down the stairs and stopped.

The eyes of the old pharmacists jumped, and they were going to make excuses......

"Mr. Qi, are you going to the side hall to get medicine?" Gu Banniang turned her head and asked with a bright smile from a girl.

President Qi almost exhaled to relieve it, "Yes, yes," while stretching out his hand to call someone, "Come on, take Gu Niangzi there.."

There was a long queue of people waiting for the selection of medicines, for the sake of fairness, all the medicines were provided by the Big Medicine Association, since the competition must comply with the regulations, of course, Gu Bainiang did not have to queue up by herself, she wrote down all the auxiliary materials needed and handed them to Xiao Wu, and he went to collect them one by one.

"Gu Niangzi will definitely take the lead," Xin Chaoling said triumphantly.

"At least it won't be scooped down." Gu Banniang said with a smile.

"Gu Niangzi is humble." Xin Chaoyang said with a smile.

As they spoke, Ah Si and Deng Er came back with crude drugs, and they also had the assigned pharmacy number.

"Then I wish Gu Niangzi a victory." Xin Chaoyang grabbed Xin Chaoling, who was still chattering, and smiled.

"What if we lose?" Gu Bainiang smiled and glanced at Xin Chaoyang.

This ordinary glance made Xin Chaoyang's heart jump, but the expression on his face did not change in the slightest.

Gu Niangzi laughed. He said with a smile.

"It's good to win, it's good to lose." Gu Banniang seemed to say something to herself, and then said goodbye to the Xinjia brothers.

The prescribed time of these four medicines is not long, and at this time, many pharmacists have begun to concoct them, and the Xinjia brothers also know this truth, and once again wish her a victory, watching Gu Shiniang Shi Shiran walk away with the little girl.

"Brother, isn't Gu Niangzi sure?" Xin Chaoling asked.

"How?" Xin Chaoyang turned around and walked out.

There are a lot of people here, full of medicinal smell, the faint medicinal fragrance smells fragrant, and the medicinal fragrance of nearly 1,000 people is not very pleasant.

This medicine takes a long time, and for them as pharmacists, there is nothing to see, just stay in a comfortable room and wait for the moment when the results of the evaluation of the drug come out.

"There's no expectation of losing in the casino, I sometimes feel like I'm going to lose, so I will say something bullshit like it doesn't matter if I win or lose, I want to make friends and so on, you listen to what she just said, it's good to say that defeat is good, isn't that also self-comforting... Xin Chaoling followed him and said.

Xin Chaoyang smiled when he heard this, "You listen attentively." ”

Xin Chaoling was rarely praised once, and grinned happily, "That's, that's, Gu Niangzi's winning or losing has a lot to do with our faces。。。。。 ”

Xin Chaoyang laughed and patted him on the shoulder, "Wrong, it's Liu Gong's face that is the relationship between winning and losing, and let's... He shook his head lightly and whispered, "It's good to win, and it's good to lose." ”

"Huh?" Xin Chaoling didn't understand it now, why did his brother say this? Is this defeat good?

"Miss, our number plate is three hundred and ninety-eight... Ah Si squeezed around the crowd while holding the medicine, while tiptoeing to look at the rows of makeshift cabins in front of him.

It is said that it is a house, but in fact, it is simply built with wooden planks, which can barely shelter from the sun and rain, but it is impossible to block the visits of other people next door.

"Good luck, good luck, the same as Miss's name... Deng Er replied with a smile with a smile on his back with a medicine pot on his back, a knife, a shovel, a dustpan and other things.

The surroundings are full of people, or crowded to find their own position, find a place and are busy placing various tools, and the placement of tools has begun the most preliminary purification, although the news of Liu Gong's disciples participating in this pharmaceutical competition has been spread, but not many people pay attention to the woman who walks by.

"Eighteen mothers... A familiar voice whispered behind her, as if it could be suppressed for fear of being heard, so that it was drowned out in the noise, and a hand slapped her on the shoulder.

Gu Banniang was frightened and turned back.

"Mr. Wang..." She laughed, "Why are you here?" ”

"You come with me." Wang Yizhang said in a low voice, motioning for her to come out.

Gu Bainiang looked at Ah Si, who was already standing in front of her number plate, "Why don't you talk here." ”

Wang Yizhang looked at both sides, and the two pharmacists who had already sat in also looked at them.

"Or come out and say... Wang Yizhang said in a low voice.

"What's wrong?" Gu Bainiang looked at him with a solemn face, asked with a smile, but did not follow him out, but entered his own wooden house.

Wang Yizhang couldn't, so he had to follow in.

"You don't have to participate in this kind of competition... He kept his voice to a minimum, "After all, you are the only disciple of Liu Gong, and you can directly enter the second competition。。。。。 ”

These old guys are playing tricks on me。。。。。 Gu Bainiang couldn't help scolding in her heart, but she smiled indifferently on her face.

Seeing her indifferent face, Wang Yizhang breathed a sigh of relief in his heart, it seems that this was decided by Gu Niangzi herself, presumably deliberately to shock those people.

"That's good, that's good, it's just an insult to Gu Niangzi's identity... He laughed.

Gu Bainiang smiled and said politely, Wang Yizhang didn't dare to disturb her anymore and got up to say goodbye.

Watching Wang Yizhang leave, the smile on Gu Banniang's face collapsed violently, in this first competition, she not only has to pass the test but also win the first place, otherwise, it will be too embarrassing

This group of old guys, if they want to see their own jokes, it's not so easy

"Stand down, all of you." She waved.

Ah Si and Deng Er had already placed the medicinal tools in place, and they were a little hesitant when they heard her words.

"Miss, although we don't understand this, let's give you a hand, serve tea and pour water... Ah Si said, "What's more, it will take a day and a night, and you will be alone... ”

Gu Bainiang shook her head and refused, "I'm just meditating alone, you guys go down, just come over tomorrow on time to deliver medicine for me." ”

Seeing that her expression was obviously unrefusable, Ah Si and Deng Er had no choice but to retreat.

Seeing that Gu Baniang was just sitting alone in the wooden house, with two pharmacists on both sides, he couldn't help but cast a stunned gaze, it was not easy to make four medicines in less than a day and a night.

"Master, pick it up." The sound that could be lowered sounded loudly, interrupting the visit of the two pharmacists, and they hurriedly focused their eyes on the medicine they were about to concoct.

Of these four medicines, everyone's first choice is to make cantharids, remove the head and feet and fry the rice to dry.

There is no requirement to remove the head and feet of the wings, just leave it to the hands to do, the two pharmacists nodded, tested the temperature of the medicine pot, and took out the soaked moist rice and pasted it to the bottom of the pot, their movements were smooth and skillful, and when they were doing it, they could also look around.

Although it is a cantharid, each family also has its own actions, and the steps are almost the same.

"Master, master." A whispered call.

The pharmacist concocted medicinal materials to avoid being disturbed by others, and couldn't help but glare at him when he heard the sound.

"Master, that one." The twenty-something-in-one had a strange look on his face, and his hand was pointing to the side under his sleeve.

The direction is Gu Ba Niang.

"Do? She wants to see herself, and it's not a concocted pill, so she doesn't need to keep it too secret... The pharmacist said indifferently.

"It's not..." He whispered, "She didn't even give the cantharids their head and feet。。。。。 ”

When the pharmacist heard this, he couldn't help but look over, and saw that the girl was already stir-frying the cantharids in the pot, because the smoke was diffuse, and he couldn't see what shape the cantharids were, but he couldn't help but talk nonsense when he wanted to, so he couldn't help but smile mockingly and shook his head.

It seems that a child with half a bottle of water came out to hang out。。。。。

"Don't worry about it, I'm about to soak the Morinda sky... He ignored the side, saw the white smoke coming out of the pot, poured the cantharid into it, and concentrated on frying it.

How many years later, this pharmacist remembered that day and night, and he still regretted vomiting blood because he didn't look twice, and he knew that it was Gu Baniang next to him, and he would rather give up the game than let go of Gu Niangzi's every move throughout the whole process.

The darkness gradually swallowed up the afterglow of the setting sun, and the lights lit up around and the stars in the sky stared at the busy and tense large square of the apse of the Yaowang Temple, waiting for the arrival of a new day.

When the daylight covered the earth again, in the side hall next to the Medicine King Palace, there were already ten people seated, including Kang Lao and Gu Lingyun, they squinted slightly, as if they were closing their eyes to recuperate, and some of them tapped their fingers on the armrest.

"How many prescription medicines have been handed in?" Kang Lao asked suddenly.

A man standing beside him immediately replied respectfully, "A hundred people have already handed it in... ”

"That's it... An old man opened his eyes when he heard this, with some regret on his face, "The last big medicine meeting has already handed over more than half of it at this time... It's really not as good as the generation. ”

"Slow work produces meticulous work, and the processing of this traditional Chinese medicine is more effective than speed. . . ." Kang Lao said lightly.

Zhong Lao smiled, swallowed the sentence and didn't know if Gu Niangzi sent it up, in fact, even if he asked, it was in vain, the medicine presented was like the students' scientific examination, and the names were pasted up, and no one knew who was who until the final evaluation results came out.

The room was quiet again, and only the sound of dripping monotonous echoes could be heard.

In the middle of the day, the door was pushed open.

"Ladies and gentlemen, more than half of the medicine has been submitted, please start tasting." Elder Qi said with a smile on his face.

"In that case, let's please." Gu Lingyun stood up and said.

So everyone got up and walked towards the main hall of the medicine king, although there were more than 100 people in front of them to look quite sad, but for these old pharmacists who could distinguish the quality of medicine with their eyes closed, it was a piece of cake, the medicine passed in front of ten people like flowing water, each attached to a grade, divided into one to ten, each person evaluated a class, and finally added up, from high to low.

As time went on, more and more medicines were delivered, and the speed of evaluation became faster, and everything seemed to be extremely orderly and smooth.

"Huh?" An old man frowned suddenly, looked at the sun shadow outside the window, and couldn't help asking, "What's the matter, Gu Niangzi's medicine hasn't been delivered yet?" ”

Although the name is confused, this does not prevent these old pharmacists from recognizing the craftsmanship of some famous pharmaceutical schools, and Liu Gong's medicine is naturally more well-known.

They have already seen nearly 800 medicines, and there is no craftsmanship of Gong Liu, so to speak, Gu Niangzi has not yet handed in the medicine.

"Hurry, this is called the style of a master." The old man surnamed Zhong smiled.

This master's demeanor is really extraordinary, until the nine hundred and ninety-eight medicines are presented, there is still no medicine that shows Liu Gong's craftsmanship, including Kang Lao, his face is a little strange.

A total of 1,000 people participated in this medicine competition, and one of them gave up halfway, that is, only the last one remained, if the last one was not at all...

"What's the highest score today?" Gu Lingyun asked.

On the other side, the person in charge of transcribing the score opened the dense paper, looked at it for a moment, and replied, "Ninety." ”

This means that this medicine is equivalent to getting a score of nine for everyone.

No matter how slow she is, she won't be so slow, not to mention that she is still Liu Gong's apprentice.

"If this is Liu Gong's place... An old man couldn't help but say, his face was a little strange, thinking of Liu Gong's temper.

It must have been scolded. Everyone thought at the same time.

Gu Lingyun, who had a faint expression, until this time, a sneer sneered in the depths of his eyes.

At this time, everyone's eyes were on the door of the temple, waiting for the last medicine to be delivered, and the sound of dripping and ticking seemed to become much faster.

These old pharmacists, who have been tempered a lot and whose nerves are already like dead wood, unconsciously tense their bodies, and the two who are a few years younger are almost a little out of breath.

"It's coming," Kang Lao said suddenly, his voice slightly raised.

A man hurried in with a plate, seemingly surprised by the warm gaze that suddenly greeted him in the hall.

"This is the last medicine." He was a little confused in front of the old man who put the medicine first.

Your turn.... Ten people sounded this sentence in their hearts at the same time, and for the first time, they focused their eyes on the medicine at the same time.

Under the gaze of the first old man, his hand unconsciously trembled slightly, lifted the black cloth covering it, and looked seriously.

Although he didn't look at it for a long time, everyone felt that a long time had passed, and when the old man behind him couldn't help but urge him, the old man finally raised his head, slowly picked up his pen and wrote a score, stuffed it into an envelope and handed it to the person waiting to transcribe the score.

Several people endured it and didn't ask how many points it was, and the medicine slowly passed down, and after waiting again and again, it finally reached Gu Lingyun's hands.

After just looking at it, his face changed slightly, then he closed his eyes, and when he opened them again, he didn't look again but picked up a pen to write down the score.

The ten people finally finished the score, but the hall was more quiet.

"How much?" It seemed that after a long time, President Qi asked this sentence.

"One hundred." A trembling voice rang out in the hall.

Although they knew that this was the result, when they really heard it, everyone couldn't help but exhale.

Kang Lao, who was slightly leaning on the back of the chair, couldn't help but have a thought in his heart, did this girl deliberately drag it to the end? Deliberately tuned them to play in one go, right? No mistakes in many words

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