Chapter Seventy-Five: The Inner Classic

The incident of stealing children from the Chen family in the West Village has come to an end for the time being.

But the people of the East Village are more and more unpleasant to the people of the West Village, and they are friendly when they encounter it.

Some women were even more exaggerated, and even took advantage of people's inattention to pry all the laundry stones close to Chen Laoshui's house on the west bank of the Sichuan River into the river to express their dissatisfaction and contempt.

The West Village has become a den of thieves who steal children, and none of them are good things! They don't deserve to wash rice and laundry in the same river with the Dongcun people!

And the Jiang family picked out all the cotton seeds day and night, and the three brothers of the Jiang family began to play cotton with a well-made longbow.

Not to mention, this method is really good, the elastic cotton is softer, and it is better to make a cotton jacket and quilt.

So, the sister-in-law of the Jiang family and her mother-in-law Jiang Liu were busy making new cotton clothes for their families, using fine and soft ramie cloth.

These ramie cloths are all starched and dyed, and the color is very beautiful.

In the past, poor families could not afford to wear pulp-dyed cloth, and most of them made clothes directly from white ramie cloth.

Now that the Jiang family is rich, they can let every family member wear a dress with colors and patterns.

More than a dozen beds were also made to ensure that each person's bed was covered with cotton-filled bedding, which was soft and warm, which was simply the treatment of an aristocratic family.

After Jiang Saburo finished playing cotton, he went to Beishan with his two brothers and dug out the kudzu that had not been sown for four years.

This thing has grown thicker than an adult's thigh, and it will break when you knock it, and the powder content is okay.

Scrape off the outer skin and clean it, then cut it into small pieces and crush it in a stone mortar.

These kudzu crumbs are soaked in water and slurry, and the snow-white starch will be precipitated in the coming day.

Kudzu powder is easy to store after drying, grab a little and dissolve it in water and cook it in your spare time, it has the same effect as lotus root powder, and it tastes better if you put some caramel on it.

This thing is the food of the people, which has been available since ancient times, but it is not common.

Only because the kudzu grows to three or four years can be dug and panned, and most of the kudzu powder rate is very low, 100 catties of kudzu can only dig out two catties of kudzu powder, not to mention the time and effort, and it is not cost-effective.

However, kudzu vines can be harvested every year, and like hemp, peeling and pounding silk, the process is quite cumbersome.

The spun kudzu cloth is people's favorite clothing material in summer, which is cool and does not stick to the body.

The aristocratic family even regarded the fine arrowroot cloth as a holy product for enjoying the cool in midsummer.

Often the weaver will weave the woven kudzu cloth to the cloth village, the front foot just left, the back foot was bought.

Yingbao watched the whole process of the father's pueraria root, hanging kudzu pulp, and filtering starch, which was very interesting.

Making tofu is also a similar process, only one less boiling pulp is marinated.

Shennong's Materia Medica Sutra says that the kudzu is sweet, the sex is flat, the main treatment is thirst, body heat, vomiting, paralysis, yin qi, and detoxification.

Mrs. Kewen said that kudzu is cold, and people with weak spleen and stomach and pregnant women and children should not eat more.

Speaking of Mrs. Wen, I think of Mr. Wen.

Sakura hadn't seen Mr. Wen for a long time, so much so that Mrs. Wen hadn't been very happy lately.

She was a little too busy teaching the students in the two classrooms by herself, so she arranged for Ying Bao and Wen Shu to attend classes in the morning, and assign homework for them to study by themselves in the afternoon, so that she could give Huzi Erni and them another class.

However, Mrs. Wen still bought Sakura's fine gold fungus and snow fungus.

Five catties of golden ears, and Yingbao got more than sixty taels of silver.

Coupled with the previous silver ingots, she is already a real little rich woman.

Daddy and mother also made a lot of money this time, and it is estimated that there will be more than 100 taels.

Even Dani and Erni each earned more than seven taels of silver, but they were so happy that they urged Brother Datang to take them to the market.

Sakura didn't have anything to buy, so he didn't go to join in the excitement and concentrated on studying medicine at home.

The Book of Medicine, also known as the Book of Prescriptions, is divided into four parts: meridians, pulses, prescriptions, and medicines.

Shizhiyun: After expounding its way, the pulse of its technique, the party causes its work, the medicine distinguishes its nature, the four are prepared, and the party is prepared.

It means that as long as you learn to use the four skills of "meridians", "pulses", "prescriptions" and "medicines", then you can become a healer.

The "classics" here are divided into 23 categories, such as "Neijing", "Difficult Classics", "Five Organs", "Acupuncture", Gynecology, Pediatrics, Surgery, Health Maintenance, Jing Fang, Materia Medica, and Food Classics.

Sakura Bao has only learned the inner scriptures, and he is far from being a doctor.

Neijing, also known as the "Yellow Emperor's Neijing", includes "Suwen" and "Lingshu".

Su Wen is mainly a question and answer between the Yellow Emperor and the teachers, talking about the deduction of the human body and the viscera and the relationship between heaven and man, which is somewhat illusory.

Lingshu is an acupuncture science that focuses on the practice of meridians and acupuncture.

Ying Bao has finished learning Su Wen, and recently learned human acupuncture points and acupuncture techniques with Mrs. Wen.

But Mrs. Wen did not emphasize that she must learn acupuncture well, but only asked her to understand a little.

Because acupuncture does not really cure diseases, it can only relieve some symptoms.

It's like a witch doctor who heals people by bloodletting, it's just a medical method.

Next, Sakura is going to learn the difficult scriptures.

"The Book of Difficulty" is also known as "Eighty-one Questions" and "The Yellow Emperor's Eighty-one Difficult Scripture". It focuses on basic theories and analyzes a variety of related diseases.

The content includes meridians, viscera, yin and yang, five elements, disease syndromes, camp and health, acupuncture, acupuncture, etc., involving the normal physiology, anatomy, disease, diagnosis and treatment of the human body.

Studying medicine costs brains, and many things have to be memorized by rote, and Sakura only feels miserable.

In her spare time, she summoned her two younger brothers and asked them to endorse them.

The two twins are very clever and have now learned to recite the three-character scripture and the surnames of the hundred families.

So Sakura taught them to read and write.

And encouraged them that whoever learns ten words first every day, she will take whoever goes out to ride a deer to play, and also takes him to visit the little piglets raised by Wen Hengyin.

The twins were really diligent, competing with each other to see who could learn more and faster.

"Look at what you wrote, a word occupies a piece of paper, how do you write it below?"

I don't know if I don't teach, and I'm shocked when I teach.

When Sakura looked at the crab claw characters of these two children, she was so angry that she vomited blood.

Not only are the words crooked like crab crawling, but the writing is also big.

If it weren't for the fear of dampening her two younger brothers' enthusiasm for learning, she would have wanted to knock their little paws with a ring ruler.

Alas, in order to enjoy the blessings of his younger brothers as officials in the future, I still have to endure it.

As the days passed, the weather grew colder and colder.

The Jiang family was lively at home, so they bought a sheep to kill, and a large family roasted mutton around the stove to eat.

But not long after the good days, the villagers rang the gong and went door to door to announce the river workers, that is, to serve as laborers.

This river worker is not in his own township, but is dispatched to other places by the county order.

This may be more than ten or twenty days or even a month, and if you are sick or hungry, no one will take care of it, because the county government will not take care of the food of the servants, and they don't even care where the servants live.

So Chun Niang hurriedly prepared bedding and dry food for her husband, and also prepared a hat and a coat, and sewed a small tent for him with sheepskin.

In case of rain and snow, my husband and two brothers will have a place to hide from the rain and snow.

Originally, their family could spend money to buy labor laborers, but the villagers said that even if a big family like theirs paid money to buy labor laborers, the three brothers had to go to one labor service, otherwise it would be difficult to make a difference.

That is, you can buy up to two places, but the other must go to work.

As soon as the three brothers of the Jiang family are combined, let's all go, it's not easy to be alone outside, and no one will know if something happens.

(End of chapter)