Chapter 61: Aoki Pharmacopoeia

Returning to Zhuangzi, he took out a book about half an inch thick from his arms, and Shen Yun pinched himself on his thigh hard, so that he really believed that he was not dreaming - Mr. said, as long as you memorize this pharmacopoeia, you will accept me as a registered disciple!

On the yellowed cover of the thread-bound book are written the first four large black characters, namely: Aoki Pharmacopoeia.

He turned the first page excitedly.

It's similar to the medicine books he read before, and there are also words and diagrams. The difference is that the book is densely packed with annotations.

These annotations are written in very small characters, stroke by stroke, and are very neat.

Shen Yun looked closely, it was Mr.'s handwriting. And the ink is new; The words circled out were all new words he didn't recognize. Each of these words is accompanied by a note that reads "Yin Tong XX", and there are many fields in the text that are underlined next to them. There is also a note on the side, but it is a detailed explanation.

He flipped through the book again. This is true for every subsequent page.

Needless to say, these annotations were all newly added by Mr. Temporary!

Good intentions, sir!

Shen Yun gently stroked the yellowed cover, and a warm current rose in his heart: I can't let my husband down, I must memorize the "Aoki Pharmacopoeia" in four months!

Sir's registered disciple, I, Shen Yun, are decided!

In winter, everything is slumped, and hunting becomes difficult. In addition, the dried meat prepared earlier was enough to eat the spring famine of the next year, so next, Shen Yun did not go up to the mountains to hunt again, and devoted almost all his energy to memorizing the "Aoki Pharmacopoeia".

Since studying three medicine books, Shen Yun felt that his memory had obviously improved a lot. For example, in the past, when Fu Lei and the owner taught him to read, he could only barely learn ten words in half an hour, but now, every time he taught him to read, he could easily remember thirty words.

Therefore, he is very confident in memorizing the "Aoki Pharmacopoeia".

No, endorsement is not the same thing as literacy at all. For new words, he only needs to memorize sounds, shapes, and meanings. However, if you endorse it, it is useless to just remember those words. He had to memorize all the words in their original form, word for word.

However, the words in the pharmacopoeia were completely different from the three medicine books he had read before. For example, if the first three books of medicine were Humbers, then the pharmacopoeia would be like the owner or the master. The former speaks straightforwardly and concisely, and understands it as soon as he understands it; the latter is written in crepe and cherishes words like gold. It is often just a few words, and if you want to replace it with Humb, it will become a long paragraph.

Therefore, when reciting a text, he often has to understand the meaning word by word in front of the gentleman's annotations.

Without face-to-face guidance, it was a brain-consuming and time-consuming process.

The first paragraph he memorized was only twenty-six words. It looked like a very short paragraph, but it took him more than a quarter of an hour to understand its meaning.

Before he knew it, his hair was scratched into a chicken nest.

What made him even more devastated was that this text was not written by him, his mother, or at all, but that there was a mountain in the world, and the gods lived on it. More than half of the 26 words describe how majestic and abundant the mountain is!

Shen Yun couldn't believe his eyes.

I must have seen a fake medicine book!

He couldn't help but flip back to the cover - yes, it was indeed written on the cover "Aoki Pharmacopoeia".

Looking at the first page again, the only illustration is indeed a flower and plant that he does not recognize.

There is no need for me to coax me, sir...... He stubbornly read on.

In the second paragraph, there are forty-three words. It's easier to understand than the first paragraph, and he only knows three words in the whole paragraph. So, in the face of the commentary, it took him less than a quarter of an hour to read the passage.

"Whew-" Shen Yun let out a long breath of turbidity.

Although this paragraph does not write about medicinal herbs, it is finally touched.

The article said that there are thousands of plants and trees in the mountains, and there are thousands of people who can be used for medicine. These herbs are divided into three types according to their ranks: immortals, spirits, and mortals. There are also three corresponding medicinal books that record these herbs. The Aoki Pharmacopoeia records all the medicines in it.

In this regard, Shen Yun was very contented - it is rumored that if you can see the immortal medicine spirit grass, you must have an immortal fate. And he's just a mortal...... Hehe, don't overthink it.

Look at the third paragraph again. The number of words is slightly less, only 27 words, of which 5 are new words. It took him nearly a quarter of an hour to decipher its meaning.

This paragraph says that the pharmacopoeia contains more than 1,300 kinds of medicines. The full text introduces in detail the name, medicinal properties, principles of medicine and preparation method of each herb, with illustrations.

Reading this, Shen Yun was completely relieved - that's right, this is a real medicine book!

If he memorized this book to the fullest, then he would have memorized more than 1,300 kinds of medicinal herbs!

As far as he knew, there were no more than 1,300 kinds of herbs in the largest hundred-year-old pharmacy in Shixiu County!

Thinking that he would know more about medicinal herbs than Lang Zhong who sat in the pharmacy, Shen Yun thought in his heart how beautiful it was.

"Come on, carry it well!" he said to himself, clenching his fists excitedly.

I don't know if it's because I understand the meaning of the text, but because the prospect is wonderful and the spirit is high. He only had to read it three times before he could stutter out the first three paragraphs. I read it again, and I already memorized it more fluently.

Stroking the thick book, Shen Yun was suddenly full of confidence in himself again: "Well done! Shen Yun, just follow this method." You will be able to memorize the pharmacopoeia in four months!"

The fourth paragraph is still about medicinal herbs: the more than 1,300 kinds of medicinal herbs in the book are divided into nine grades, namely the first, second, and third...... to the ninth grade. Among them, the highest grade is the ninth grade. The book is an introduction to herbs in order from lowest to highest.

In the fifth paragraph, the specific name of the herb is finally mentioned - golden plum.

"It turns out that this illustration is of a golden plum. Shen Yun suddenly realized.

In this way, before going to bed on the first day, he was finally able to memorize the first page and know the taste of golden plum, including its shape, nature, rationality and use.

If it is true, as written at the beginning of the book, that the whole book contains more than 1,300 medicines, then, at this rate, he could not memorize the complete pharmacopoeia in four months.

However, Shen Yun was not worried at all. As the saying goes, everything is difficult at the beginning. He believes that he will be able to memorize more every day in the future. It's like he learned to read. Think that at the beginning, when Brother Fu first taught him to read, he worked so hard that he could remember a few words every day?

In fact, the same is true.

Because each herb is introduced in the following texts from the four aspects of form, sexuality, reason, and use, Shen Yun became completely accustomed to it after reading four or five more pages, and the time spent was greatly shortened. From the sixth day, he barely managed to memorize two pages in one day.

After another ten days, there were fewer and fewer words in the back, and he became more accustomed to the crepe style of the pharmacopoeia, and he could memorize four or five pages a day!

Interestingly, he suddenly had a new understanding of the ten words that the Pavilion Master had taught him - oh, it turns out that he had been doing it wrong!

All along, when he memorized those ten sentences, he only did what he said in the first sentence, calm his mind and relax himself, and what he did wrong was not to lie down, but to sit cross-legged and turn his heart upward, as the third sentence said!

But that's not all. In the second sentence, and from the fourth sentence onwards, he did not understand it again. The dantian, meridians, veins, and qi mentioned in it, he didn't know what it was.

Well, no matter what it is, let's fix the wrong place first. In the future, when I really understand it, I will correct them one by one.

Shen Yun didn't bother too much.

The effect of correcting the mistake was very good: before, he could only memorize it silently five times a night. After that, he found that he could read silently seven times a night. This is one of them;

Second, whether it is a five-step fight or a King Kong boxing, the boxing style he plays has strengthened a lot. Of course, it still can't be compared with Brother Fu;

The most obvious thing is that his strength has grown a lot. There is a bluestone in the bamboo forest, which is larger than the grinding plate. In the past, he had to do his best, but he could only barely hold the stone off the ground. However, after the change, within half a month, he was able to take five steps with this stone in his arms.

Tasting the sweetness, Shen Yun memorized the pharmacopoeia, and became more energetic. A month later, he was able to memorize a dozen or twenty pages a day.

Counting the remaining pages, he planned to memorize only fifteen pages a day. After memorizing the day's work, turn back and memorize the twenty pages you memorized before. Because he found that if he didn't read and memorize the text that he had memorized quite smoothly before, it would not take him three days to remember only the general meaning, and he would not be able to memorize the original text again.

In addition, he made a sand table to practice new words.

Practicing words for half an hour every day is another task he has set for himself.

In addition, he was interested in the "use" mentioned in the book, that is, the method of preparing herbs. He didn't know it before, but after reading the "Pharmacopoeia", he realized that his husband had taught him to concoct the four herbs for a purpose. Because almost all the basic techniques used to concoct these four herbs are used.

It's a pity that in winter, I can't find fresh medicinal materials to practice. So, he came up with a method, that is, to replace herbs with bamboo leaves next to the hut, and practice the technique every day.

It works. After practicing like this for more than a month, at least one of his hands is much more flexible.