Chapter 3: Studying Medicine, and when Liu Chang woke up, it was already noon on the third day. After sitting up, I found that my whole body was not in pain, only the fracture of my right arm was dull and painful, and the triangular wound on the heart of my right hand had scabbed. "Mother?" Liu Chang shouted, but no one answered. With a rumbling stomach, Liu Chang walked to the kitchen, saw two baked cakes on the table, grabbed them with his left hand and devoured them. "Slow down, my mother will still stew chicken soup for you, don't worry!" Sister-in-law Liu came back with the medicine in her hand, and when she entered the kitchen, she saw Liu Chang gobbling up and hurriedly stopped it, and pressed Liu Chang to the stool, "Wait, my mother will serve you soup." ”

"I'll take a look at my dad first, and I'll drink it later. Liu Chang said vaguely with a cake in his mouth and ran towards his father's room. Gently pushed open his father's door, and saw that his father was still asleep, Liu Chang gently closed the door again and returned to the kitchen. "Mother, is my father better?" what did Lang Zhong say?" asked Liu Chang. "It's much better, sometimes I wake up in pain at night, and I can't sleep well, but Lang Zhong said that with the oil of this blue-eyed clam, it will be at least almost a month, Changzi is thanks to you!" Sister-in-law Liu touched her son's head lovingly, "My son has grown up! "Mother, don't cry, I'm not good, your son and I are blessed with a great life, God bless! By the way, mother, I want to go to Langzhong for a while, thank him." ”

"Okay, let's go after drinking the chicken soup, and by the way, send the two chickens at the door to Langzhong. Sister-in-law Liu instructed. "Got it, mother, I'll go after drinking. Liu Chang picked up the chicken soup on the table, drank it in a few sips, wiped his mouth with water, picked up the chicken tied at the door and walked out of the door, and walked towards Langzhong's house. Seeing the two chickens in his hand, he remembered the thrilling things of that day, the talking monster? "If I say it, others will think that I am scared stupid, become crazy, and talk nonsense," Liu Chang smiled bitterly, and thought to himself, "It's better to treat it as my own secret, rotten in my stomach." ”

Lang Zhong's real name is Liu Dequan, in his fifties, the family is only one person, living alone in a willow forest house near the end of the village, quiet and there is a small garden where medicinal herbs can be grown. When Liu Chang came to Lang Zhong's house, he was picking medicinal herbs in the yard. Liu Chang handed the chicken in his hand to Lang Zhong and expressed his gratitude to Sister-in-law Liu and the family.

Lang Zhong put down the medicinal herbs in his hand, took the two chickens, and looked at Liu Chang fixedly, "You kid is so bold, you dare to go to such a dangerous place, it's really a newborn calf who is not afraid of tigers, you are not afraid that you won't be able to come back?" To be honest, I really admire you." ”

Liu Chang scratched his head and said curtly: "I didn't think about it so much at the time, so I rushed up, and now I think about it, I'm really scared, and I won't dare next time!" "By the way, how did you go up and find the blue-eyed clams and how did you get down the mountain?" Hearing Lang Zhong's inquiry, Liu Chang immediately explained in detail how to climb up the mountain, how to catch blue-eyed clams, how to see monsters, fall halfway up the mountain, and how to run down the mountain along the stream.

Lang Zhong listened to it and exclaimed, "You are really blessed with a great life, brave and smart and calm, not bad, very good!" Looking at the young and not tall but very shrewd and dexterous child in front of him, Lang Zhong's mind flashed, "I am in my fifties, and no one has inherited the art of Qihuang so far. Thinking of this, Lang Zhong looked at Liu Chang's eyes more and more kindly.

"Changzi, are you interested in learning from me how to save people and see a doctor?" Lang Zhong discussed while examining Liu Chang. "Well, learn to treat people, and when the injury is healed, you have to go to school. Liu Chang glanced at Lang Zhong and said. "You don't have to come all day, just come down to the school, how about it?"

"Then I have to go home and talk to my parents. "Okay, I hope you come, your injury is fine, but this right arm still needs to recuperate, at least more than a month to struggle, don't move." Okay, let's go back, come over these days. Lang Zhong patted Liu Chang's shoulder and said.

Liu Chang returned home and told his father and mother that Lang Zhong wanted to accept him as an apprentice to teach him to see a doctor and save people, and the tofu maker and Liu's sister-in-law felt very happy, and discussed it, thinking that being a doctor is also a craft, which is very good, so they agreed, so that Liu Chang could study and study when he had time. Liu Chang himself also thinks it's very good, at least in the future, if his father and mother are sick, he will need to find Lang Zhong again, and he can deal with his own injuries, which is good, and he decided to start studying tomorrow. Liu Chang helped his mother put clam oil on his father, talked to his father and mother again, and then went back to the house.

The next day, Liu Chang came to Lang Zhong's house after breakfast and told his father what his mother meant. Lang Zhong's house has two rooms, one is a bedroom, and the other is full of rows of medicine cabinets, and the front of the medicine cabinet is labeled, indicating what is in it, date, year and other matters. Next to the medicine cabinet stood two sets of bookcases, which were filled with books on pharmacology and pathology. Lang Zhong took out a book from the book on pharmacology and handed it to Liu Chang. Liu Chang took it and saw that the three big characters "Baicaolu" on the cover did not use signatures. "This is a book that introduces all kinds of medicinal materials, which are just some commonly used medicinal materials, some wild and some planted, which is why Langzhong must take basic homework. You look at it first, get familiar with it, and then I'll teach you how to use medicine and dispense medicine, if you don't understand, just ask me, I'll go to the medicine first. After Lang Zhong finished speaking, he went to the yard to sort out the dried medicinal materials, leaving Liu Chang alone.

Liu Chang smiled bitterly, "Is this just "the master leads the door and cultivates in the individual"?", so he sat on the stool, opened the "Baicaolu", and looked at it seriously. "Baicaolu" is a book that introduces a variety of medicinal materials such as skullcap, ginseng, poria cocos, etc., each page has pictures, accompanied by text descriptions, briefly explaining the efficacy and function of each medicinal material, which is used by Lang middle school apprentices to identify and understand various medicinal materials. After familiarity, you can basically identify more than 100 kinds of medicinal materials, which lays the foundation for future dispensing and grasping medicine. But for those herbs and those herbs that are offended, taboos, which herbs are suitable for which groups of people, and diseases are not used to elaborate on examples.

"Master, can Dongling grass be available in winter?"

"Master, is it better to be wild or planted?"

"Master, is Cordyceps sinensis from the seed?" ......

"Master, what do you pronounce this word?"??

"Why are there so many problems?

"Didn't you ask me a question for you?"

“......”

Although he got the title of "master", Ke Langzhong made Liu Chang's dozen questions dizzy, picked up the medicine box and fled, leaving a sentence: You will take the door out of the door if you see it yourself. Liu Chang had no choice but to look alone, from time to time he took the book and compared the medicinal materials dried in the courtyard according to the patterns in the book, carefully identified and identified, and read it with relish. Lang Zhong didn't come back until the evening, and he drove him home without waiting for Liu Chang to speak. Because I watched "Baicaolu" all day, all kinds of pictures shook in front of me, and the explanatory text went in and out of my head one by one. When I got home, I didn't eat anything when I was tired, and I snored loudly when I lay down on the bed.

In this way, for three days, Lang Zhong asked him to read this "Baicaolu". By the evening of the third day, Liu Chang had read "Baicaolu" so well that he had almost memorized it backwards.

"Come early tomorrow, you and I will go up the mountain to collect medicine, and by the way, test how well you remember this "Baicaolu", it is not important to memorize it, the important thing is to know how to use it flexibly!" Lang Zhong said to Liu Chang.

"Oh! great!" Liu Chang jumped up, and immediately squatted down with a loud sound, and it turned out that he jumped and stretched his right arm, which had not yet recovered. The child in the mountain village is Pi Shi, it has only been six or seven days of work, Liu Chang's fracture is no longer very painful, but it can't be suddenly forced, and it hurts without jumping. "Go back, you kid, come early tomorrow. Sometimes there will be miasma in the mountains, and it will be even more powerful when the sun comes out, otherwise it will be very dangerous!" Lang Zhong drove Liu Chang away again.

The next day, Liu Chang came to Lang Zhong's house early to meet Lang Zhong. Because Liu Chang's right arm was injured, the master had to do the work of carrying the medicine basket. Before leaving, Lang Zhong gave Liu Chang a pill, "Miasma Avoiding Pill", which was put into his mouth and pressed under the base of his tongue, which could greatly alleviate the damage of miasma to the human body and keep his mind clear. Lang Zhong led the way in front with a medicine basket on his back, and Liu Chang followed him towards the mountains with a stick in his left hand.

The place where the medicine is collected is also Niutou Mountain, but it is located in the southwest direction of Niutou Mountain, and from a distance, it looks like the place where the right front leg of the green cow lies on its stomach, the terrain is relatively gentle, and most of it is low bushes, unlike the mountain spring where it is straight and steep.

After more than half an hour, the master and apprentice entered the dense mountain forest. The plan of the day lies in the morning, and in the morning everything revives, birds chirp and frogs chirp, and dripping dew drip down the leaves, wetting the trouser legs of the master and apprentice. "Liu Chang, look at what this is?" asked Lang Zhong, pointing to a cluster of yellow-brown plants. Liu Chang stepped forward to take a closer look: the taproot of this plant is thick and short, with two or three branches, and it is yellow-brown. The stems are hollow, deeply furrowed, smooth or pubescent at the base, branched and spread. The petiole of the basal leaf is seven or eight centimeters long, the base is swollen into a sheath that hugs the stem; the basal leaves and the stem leaves are two to three trips and three pinnate divisions; the leaf outline is triangular, twelve or three centimeters long, the terminal lobes are rhomboid-ovate to ovate-lanceolate, four or five centimeters long, about three centimeters wide, acute to acute, the edge has five pairs of inwardly curved round obtuse teeth or missing notched teeth, usually the tooth end has a sharp tip, the base is truncated, the surface is dark green, the back is grayish-white; the leaves at the top of the stem are simplified to the leaf sheaths of leafless leaves. Liu Chang looked through it carefully, broke the root again, put it under his nose and smelled it, and replied, "It's a wild celery, right?" "Well, yes! In the future, if you have pain and swelling there, you can mash the celery and apply it to the sore area, which can reduce swelling and detoxify." Lang Zhong nodded with satisfaction and further explained the medicinal effects of mountain celery.

In this way, stop and go, whenever he saw the medicinal materials, Lang Zhong asked Liu Chang to identify them, there were already more than a dozen kinds of medicinal materials in the medicine basket, of which only two or three Liu Chang did not recognize, Lang Zhong was still quite satisfied with Liu Chang's performance.

"Master, let's take a break, it's been almost an hour," Liu Chang wiped the sweat from his head, "I'll sit under the big tree for a while." So saying, he got under a big tree and rode to the bare roots. Lang Zhong also followed, found a dry branch, sat down on the ground and leaned against the tree, closed his eyes, took a deep breath, breathed in the fresh air of the deep mountain, and penetrated his heart and lungs. The bulging roots are as thick as an adult's thigh, about half a meter high from the ground, like a natural wooden arch bridge, Liu Chang sits on it with his legs shaking, leisurely and leisurely, and the child's heart is undoubtedly revealed.

"Master, come and see, what is this?" Liu Chang suddenly found that there were several green seedlings under the roots of the tree, with long oval leaves, and a small cluster of red fruits on top of the pole sticking out in the middle, which was very bright. "This is wild ginseng, yes, you can touch it! Dig it out and take a look first!" Lang Zhong said happily, squatting down, first tied a red rope in the ginseng, and then drew a big circle around it, took out the medicine shovel and dug it up.

"Master, why do you tie a red rope and draw such a big circle?" asked Liu Chang puzzled.

"Tie a red rope to prevent the ginseng from running away, this is the custom of digging ginseng, and you should do the same in the future. As for digging from such a large circle, it is because the roots of ginseng are huge, and the most important thing to dig ginseng is to ensure the integrity of ginseng, so as to effectively ensure the value of ginseng. Lang Zhong explained as he digged.

After a while, Lang Zhong dug up the mountain ginseng. I saw that this ginseng taproot was fleshy, spindle-shaped, fibrous roots were slender, and there were slightly thick branches on the left and right, like two human legs, and the whole appearance was quite similar to a human head, hands, feet and limbs. "This ginseng has been around for more than 40 years, and it's good, it's good. Lang Zhong nodded vigorously. This forest often comes to collect medicines, and it is rare to encounter forty or fifty years of medicinal materials, but I didn't expect to come across it for the first time when I brought an apprentice, it seems that this apprentice is a lucky star. The more Lang Zhong looked at it, the more satisfied he became.

"Liu Chang, you found this ginseng, and the teacher helped you dig it out, and it is the first time you have gone up the mountain to collect medicine, and it is also a little successful for "Baicaolu", so you can take it back. Today's harvest is quite fruitful, let's go home!" Lang Zhong said. Liu Chang was overjoyed. The master and apprentice returned the same way, and when they arrived home, it was already noon.