Volume 1 The Philosopher's Stone Chapter 23 Rancidity

The girl's eyes narrowed in pain as Martin slammed and squeezed hard, and she opened her mouth wide as if she were about to cough, making a louder and louder sound.

"What kind of way is this... I've never seen it before..."

"Miss Anne seems to be cooperating with him, trying to spit out something..."

The onlookers let out a burst of amazement, they had never seen such a treatment before.

Mei Turner didn't see it either, he only saw this black-robed man who appeared out of nowhere, holding his prey, and instead of resisting, his prey was very obedient.

He was about to come and pull Martin away, but as soon as he got closer, the blonde girl screamed and spat out a brown pill.

The wet pill had just been spat on the left side of Sir Myturner's face, and then slowly slid down, leaving a wet mark on his face.

"He's right, Miss Anne is really stuck in the pill!"

There were shocking voices around and even a few applause.

The maiden began to cough violently after spitting out the pill, and Martin let go of her, then walked up to her and said to her:

"I'll take a look when I open my mouth."

The girl knew that it was the strangely dressed man in front of her who saved her, so she obediently opened her mouth.

Martin gently pinched the maiden's chin, and when he was sure that there was no foreign body in her trachea, he let go of her and said to her:

"No problem, remember to drink more water when you go back."

With that, he walked through the crowd towards the [Mercury Spring], leaving the girl with a hooded back.

"It's amazing! What kind of treatment is this person using? ”

"I heard a friend say that in the Royal Society of Medicine, there is a category of recipients of the [Golden Sunflower] Order, each of them has their own unique medical skills, do you think this person is .....?"

"Holy Light bless, isn't that even more powerful than Dr. Bugosen......"

"Didn't you see what Bu Gosen said just now? He doesn't know how to cure ......."

The surrounding crowd discussed, and a noisy voice arose.

And both of them still had shocked expressions on their faces, and Bu Gaosen was more ashamed.

Martin didn't pay attention to the men's words, he just wanted to get out of here as quickly as possible, so as not to get involved in unnecessary things, whether they seemed good or bad on the surface.

It's just that when passing by Sir Myturner, who was slapped in the face by pills, the corners of Martin's mouth behind the mask couldn't help but hook.

"Please wait a minute."

Martin was just about to go far when he heard the girl's voice coming from behind:

The maiden ran up to him, and she had put on her coat with the help of the maid, covering her untied corset.

"Thank you for the rescue, if it weren't for you, I'm afraid I'd have ......"

"I don't know how to repay you... Can I know your name? ”

Martin thought about it for a moment, then replied calmly:

"No need."

"In my hometown, anyone who sees something like this will help."

After saying that, he will bypass the girl and leave.

He remembered that when he had been first aiding the girl, the girl was struggling with pain and had some other physical contact with Martin, and he was worried that the girl would notice something strange about his body.

"But..."

The girl was about to insist when she heard an old man's voice coming from the [Mercury Spring].

"Martin, you're back."

"I just heard the commotion here, and I thought something was wrong."

"How did you come back on your own, Juncker? This kid is lazy again! ”

The old man was none other than Belisarius, who was standing at the door of the Mercury Fountain and began to nag when he saw Martin.

"Hey, Annie, aren't you going back?"

Belisarius saw the girl beside Martin, and asked suspiciously, that he seemed to know the girl better.

"Monsieur Belisarius, do you know this gentleman in black?"

The maiden was also a little happy to see Belisarius, and asked him about Martin.

Belisarius and the maiden began to talk about him in the presence of Martin, and the maiden, after making sure that Martin was living in the Fountain of Mercury, stopped pestering them, thanked Martin again, and turned back.

She walked up to Sir Meturner and Bugosen, who had bearded beards, and seemed to thank them, and then departed with the two maids.

Before leaving, he did not forget to wave goodbye to Martin and Belisarius in the distance.

After the girl had gone, Martin was about to go back to the shop with Belisarius, when he saw in the distance that Meturna was talking to Bugosen, and they looked at him and Belisarius with gloomy faces and unfriendly eyes.

"Funny girl."

Belisarius didn't seem to notice this, and he walked into the shop on his own.

Martin followed quickly.

......

"That Dr. Bugosen, who is said to be a member of the Royal Society of Medicine, specializes in a new type of 'bloodletting'. He opened a new barber shop called Tom's Cottage on the west side of Flower House Street, not far from here. ”

Juncker was pouring some powder into a droplet-shaped glass bottle filled with water, which turned a beautiful purple after a little stirring.

"And now there is phlebotomy? Isn't the mortality rate of this therapy very high? ”

Martin stood next to him and gave him a hand, asking him suspiciously.

Juncker had returned from the service at Capernaum Cathedral, and he seemed a little tired, so Martin recounted what had happened while working with him in the foyer of the Fountain of Mercury.

The main body of the "Mercury Spring" is a two-story yellow brick building, located at the corner of the intersection of Axe Avenue and Huafang Street, and there are many pedestrians coming and going in front of the door.

It has black door frames, windows, and signage that complement the yellow-gray wall tiles, and the name of the store is written in large silver letters on the sign, which is very retro and understated.

And in the glass windows on either side of the door, there are four huge teardrop-shaped glass bottles, all of which are clear liquids, and Juncker is pouring different powders into them one by one.

"It used to be like this, but this Dr. Bugosen claimed to have mastered a new method, and people came to see him, and it is said that many wealthy people from the south came to see him."

Juncker mixed another bottle of black solution and turned to speak.

Martin had an understanding of the level of medical care in the Middle Ages, when doctors considered blood on their hands to be a blasphemy, so many surgical procedures in the Middle Ages were done in barbershops.

This is where the common tricolor column at the entrance of the barbershop in the previous life comes from, the red on the column represents the artery, the blue represents the vein, and the white represents the gauze.

So he wasn't very surprised by the doctor who ran the barbershop.

"[Tom's Hut] has stolen a lot of our business, and I was thinking of going to Johnny's in [Baggage Cafeteria] to buy some spicy soy sauce recipes to attract customers, but he suddenly disappeared yesterday."

Juncker sighed, and quickly mixed the last bottle of yellow solution and closed the lid.

Martin learns that the four bottles of solution Juncker has concocted demonstrate the pharmaceutical capabilities of a pharmacy, which comes from the 'four-humor doctrine'.

Previously, it was believed that the human body was made up of four body fluids: black bile, blood, mucus and yellow bile, and the imbalance of these four fluids led to disease.

Few people believe this statement now, but there is still a certain residue in life, just like these four bottles of solution, all to attract guests.

In order to attract customers, there were many other means for pharmacies in this era, and sauces were one of the more attractive items.

Like Martin, people may be tired of existing food and like to add a different flavor to various sauces, so pharmacies will also collect recipes and recipes through various channels.

Martin digested the information, wondering if there was any recipe in his previous life that would attract guests. After all, the disappearance of Johnny [Baggage Canteen] has a direct connection with him.

But in his previous life, he used ready-made condiments and sauces, and he didn't know their recipes at all, so he didn't have a clue for the time being.

"When you find Xixian, you can check that cookbook, there should be some magical recipes in it that can be used." Martin thought to himself.

The day after he settled in the Mercury Fountain, the Savage Creature Cookbook reappeared at his bedside when he woke up in the morning, just as he had been at the Plantagenet Palace.

And he was anxious to find Xixian, so he put the large book under the bed of his single bed, and did not have time to read it.

He thought that with his sense of smell as a giant dog, it should not be difficult to find this girl, after all, they were in the same city. Who knew that it was thanks to a [stargazer] that he had a clue to Hihian.

While Juncker was on his way to entertain a handsome young man in a long trench coat, Martin arrived alone in the Red House warehouse.

Belisarius and Juncker were busy entertaining guests in the antechamber and probably wouldn't be here. Martin closed the door and took out the [Time Slice] given by Hines.

He looked at the old-fashioned round glasses, which were large in size, and the lenses were not completely transparent but slightly blue, reflecting a cyan sheen in the light, and Martin observed them for a moment before putting them on.

The frames of these glasses are made of unknown materials, and they are malleable, and they are not at all hasty when wearing the mask, but they fit well with the mask painted with oil paint.

Martin wondered what the glasses and mask would look like, and he imagined it to be a clown wearing glasses and pretending to be a bachelor, and he wanted to go to the mirror in the house.

He was just about to walk towards the mirror when he smelled a rotting stench in the air.

He looked up slightly, sniffed it a few times, and found that the source of the smell was the bottom of his single bed.

In addition to the huge cookbook, there was also the apron of Johnny the Meat Eater that he had brought back yesterday.

He suddenly had a bad feeling.