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Chapter 15 Picking Herbs

Before I knew it, I had been studying medicine with Mr. Fang for a month, and Liu Zhiyi gradually got used to it.

After all, he is a senior candidate who has experienced countless big and small exams. He quickly learned the method and found the learning rhythm.

Liu Zhiyi found a trick. Whether it is to identify medicinal materials, memorize pill prescriptions, or diagnose pulses, as long as he silently uses the doctor's true qi, he can quickly remember that it will be twice the result with half the effort. The doctor's true qi is worthy of being the skill that the doctor's predecessors understand in diagnosis and treatment. Liu Zhiyi is now using true qi to reverse, similar to using theory to guide practice, so he will naturally achieve twice the result with half the effort. Every morning, distinguish medicinal materials from his senior sister, and recite pill prescriptions by himself in the afternoon. When there are patients, seize the opportunity to learn to see, listen, ask and touch, and learn the rhythm of the study is tense without being confused.

After being in contact for a long time, Liu Zhiyi lamented that Mr. Fang is such a good person. He treats people, but never asks for the medical treatment. He will charge as much as the patient gives, and he will not ask him. Senior sister Fang Rongnu often complains about this, despising some patients for taking advantage of the situation. His father is reluctant to wear new clothes. In addition to not being surprised by the medical treatment, almost all the medicinal materials are sold at cost prices, and if they can use cheap prescriptions, they will not be expensive.

He was also very good to Liu Zhiyi, and taught him without reservation. At first, Liu Zhiyi thought it was due to Mr. Fang's good-looking character, but later Fang Rongnu told him that his husband wanted to train him to enter the Imperial Academy. He also said that his husband also wanted to take the Imperial Academy, but unfortunately he failed to understand the true qi of the medical school and was not qualified to take the exam.

Liu Zhiyi felt that Mr. Fang had given all his gifts, and in addition to being honest, he also had a sustenance in him. Liu Zhiyi felt that he could help the husband fulfill his wish.

In one month, Liu Zhiyi successfully mastered the identification methods of 100 medicinal herbs, remembered more than 300 elixir recipes, and learned to see more than a dozen common diseases. Liu Zhiyi felt that he might also try to take the Enke three months later.

After the empress dowager came down to the curtain, she issued an edict to open a tribute, which was to fill a large number of vacancies for officials, and on the other hand it also won the hearts of the people. Although the Imperial Academy Medical Examination was not an imperial examination, there was always a practice of conducting the imperial examination at the same time, and this time was no exception.

Liu Zhiyi thought to himself, carried a box and walked out of the medicine shop.

"Junior brother, hurry up, it's time to leave."

Fang Rongnu was urging ahead, with excitement in her eyes.

Today the two are going to go to the mountains to collect herbs. In the backyard of Francistang Pharmacy, various medicinal materials are dried all year round. Many of them are not bought, but picked by themselves. Fang Rongnu said that the reason why Francistang’s medicine is cheap is that most of the medicinal materials are collected from the mountains and prepared by themselves.

"Senior sister, don't you ride a horse?"

Liu Zhiyi said a little worried.

The place they were going to be fifteen miles away from Chunfeng Pavilion was a small mountain called Longzhao Mountain. Behind Longzhao Mountain is a larger mountain range, called Huanglong Mountain. Longzhao Mountain is actually just a remnant of Huanglong Mountain. Huanglong Mountain lies 70 miles north of Xiajing, and is sandwiched with Qinglong Mountain 60 miles south of Xiajing, one south and one north to the center of Xiajing. The Xia River flows through the center, forming a vast Xiayuan that is more than 100 miles wide from north to south and eight hundred miles long from east to west.

Dragon Claw Mountain runs north and south, and the mountain is not high, only about a hundred feet long, divided into five mountains, which look like a claw. Legend has it that Huanglong Mountain is transformed by a giant dragon. Dragon Claw Mountain is a dragon claw that the giant dragon protrudes out, so it is called Dragon Claw Mountain. In addition to being the southernmost end of the Huanglong Mountain Range extending towards Xiajing, Dragon Claw Mountain is also a must-pass place to go south through the Huanglong Mountain Range. The official road from Xiajing goes straight to the bottom of Dragon Claw Mountain, which brings great convenience to Liu Zhiyi.

Even so, the two of them carried the cages and walked all day before they arrived at the foot of the mountain.

There is a small town at the foot of the mountain, and there are several small inns in the town for visitors, merchants and travelers to rest.

Liu Zhiyi asked for two houses and they wanted to live here for three days.

"Junior brother. If your master is not in front of you, don't read books. Look there, that man is carrying a knife. Is he a swordsman?"

Fang Rongnu lay on the window of the room on the second floor, staring at the crowd walking around the street, and shouting.

Liu Zhiyi gave her a blank look, huh? She has a very good figure. She is only fourteen years old and looks 1.7 meters tall. Compared with Liu Zhiyi, he felt a little ashamed. He felt that this woman would definitely be taller than him in the future. She was wearing a coarse cloth and could not be seen normally. As soon as she lay on the window, people suddenly felt that her legs were so long!

"Senior sister, didn't you open a room for you? Don't you go back and rest?"

Liu Zhiyi continued to read the book, and read the "Collection of Hundred Grasses", a very thick book, divided into sixteen volumes, each volume is three inches thick. It mainly introduces herbs, with pictures and texts. Liu Zhiyi followed Fang Rongnu to collect herbs, so he naturally had to read the "Collection of Hundred Grasses" in order to combine theory with practice.

"I'm so bored alone, you shouldn't have two rooms."

Fang Rongnu complained.

Hey! Who is the girl?

Liu Zhiyi said, "Open a room? Do you don't want to get married in the future?"

Fang Rongnu was distracted: "Marry? I can't get married."

OK. Poor senior sister. Liu Zhiyi wanted to say, this is not your fault, it is because people in small places have no knowledge. People's aesthetics are based on the average faces in memory. People in Chunfeng Pavilion rarely see Rong people, so naturally they will not think Rong people are beautiful. In fact, after watching for a long time, Fang Rong women are very attractive, with delicate facial features and strong three-dimensional faces. This is the characteristic of Rong people. Although they are Rong people, they grow up in the Central Plains, and they are not as rough as Rong people's skin, and they do not have the body odor of eating meat, drinking milk but not taking a bath all year round.

Liu Zhiyi smiled and said, "Don't worry, senior sister. There are Hu Ji in Xiajing City. I heard that Xiajing people like it very much. You may be able to marry into the city in the future."

Fang Rongnu turned around, frowned, and looked disbelief: "Are you lying to me? You dare to lie to me, if I can't get married in the future, I will marry you!"

"hehe."

Liu Zhiyi laughed awkwardly, then glanced at the outline of his legs that protruded his skirt, and couldn't help swallowing.

"OK!"

He said in his heart.

Fang Rongnu continued to lie on the window and look outside. After she became silent, she would show a completely different temperament, with a faint sadness, completely different from the slightly rough and lively she usually had.

When she was noisy, Liu Zhiyi reads books patiently, but she became quiet, but Liu Zhiyi couldn't read them anymore.

He raised his head and wondered: "Senior sister. Haven't you come out to collect medicine before?"

Fang Rongnu didn't look back: "I've been here. I've always followed your master. He has too many rules, so it's boring to come out with him."

Mr. Fang is very ruling, but Liu Zhiyi didn't think so. Others took the apprentice, and the apprentice was serving him. While serving the master, he had to serve his family, pour urinals for his master and his wife, wash and cook for the family, and even took his master's children to play. He really served him like a servant for a few years before the master could call his apprentice to teach a move. Although Liu Zhiyi also worked, Mr. Fang did not think of using him now and teaching him when he could teach him, and he did not follow the industry rules at all.

Liu Zhiyi put down the book and came to the window, half of the senior sister, standing outside the window and looking out.

Outside is a very lively street, with Di people leading cattle, sheep and horses back and forth. At the foot of Longzhao Mountain is a horse market in the Daxia Kingdom. There are many Di people who drive animals here to sell from the northern grasslands. Many small tribes near the border, and even the entire tribe survives on this kind of business, which are business tribes on the grasslands. There are also some Daxia merchants from the south who exchange silk, cotton cloth, iron tools and other things for animal animals on the grasslands. They can get a hundred times more power when transporting them back to the south. There are also some rangers walking on the streets, mostly some of the Jianghu Heroes from the northern border counties.

"Junior brother, I'm back to my room."

The two of them looked silent for a long time. Fang Rongnu was tired of seeing it, so she greeted her and left Liu Zhiyi's room.

Girls’ feelings are always poetry, and they are hard to guess. Just now, they were very excited, but suddenly they became silent.

Could it be that looking at the Di people on the street, thinking about his identity as a Rong people?

After the senior sister left, Liu Zhiyi stopped studying, switched his identities, and meditated for several weeks. He never stopped practicing the true qi. Both the true qi of the Fa-family and the true qi of the doctors had increased significantly, and the increase of the true qi of the doctors was particularly obvious. If the true qi after the system initiation was calculated as a drop of water, the true qi of the Fa-family has increased to a cup of water, while the true qi of the doctors has increased as much as a pot of water.

After breathing, I go to bed, every day.

The next morning, my senior sister pulled me out, carrying a medicine basket, and preparing to collect herbs.

Longzhao Town is located at the foot of the southeastern mountain of Longzhao Mountain. To the northwest is Longzhao Mountain. There is a small river called Beihe River in the northeast. It flows from Huanglong Mountain and turns southeastward after passing Longzhao Mountain. The official road from Xiajing is built along the valley to Huanglong Mountain.

There are two roads to go to Longzhao Mountain to collect herbs. One is to continue to walk along the official road around the north slope of Longzhao Mountain. The other is to climb the mountain directly from Longzhao Town, climb the mountain from the south slope and enter the north slope. The advantage of the first road is that it is easy to walk, but it is far away. It takes thirty miles to walk around the five hills. The second road is difficult to walk, but it is close, so it only takes five miles to climb over the mountain.

Liu Zhiyi and Fang Rongnu naturally chose to cross the mountain. When they walked out of the town, there were still many pedestrians on the road. The more they walked up the mountain, the fewer pedestrians were. On both sides of the mountain road, the trees became taller and taller, and fewer woodcutters were cutting wood in the town. Halfway up the mountain, only Liu Zhiyi and Fang Rongnu were left with their senior brothers. The mountain wind blew through the dense forest, as if the mountain was singing.

As he was about to reach the top of the mountain, there was no ready-made road. The road was winding directly in the woods. Liu Zhiyi held the "Collection of Herbs" in one hand. Whenever he found a suspected herb, he would read the book and check it. Fang Rongnu didn't speak, but laughed aside. Whenever he saw such an expression, Liu Zhiyi knew that he had admitted his mistake.

"Don't look for it. Those who can't find medicine in the south are all growing on the north slope."

Liu Zhiyi asked back, "Why?"

Fang Rongnn said, "Because trees grow in the south and medicine grow in the north."

The illogical answer was answered, and when he reached the top of the mountain, Liu Zhiyi felt something was right.

Standing on Longzhu Mountain Changya Ridge, looking around, there are dense forests behind you, and there is boundless grassland in front of you. At the foot of the mountain at the edge of the grassland, a group of war horses were eating grass and playing. The court set up a military camp in Longzhu Mountain. My father and brother had been hiding here for a while.

It turns out that trees grow in the south and medicine grow in the north. Various herbs are mixed with wild grass and flowers all over the mountains. Liu Zhi thought for a moment and guessed that it was probably because the cold air in the north blew the hillside in the north, so the rain was less and the trees could not grow. In addition, the north of the mountain was shady, and the insufficient sunshine time was also an important reason; the south of the mountain was sunny, not only was the sunshine abundant, but the warm and humid air flow from the south also brought enough precipitation, meeting the conditions for tree growth. The big trees covered the sky and the sun had no space for herbs to grow. Except for a few shade-loving plants, there was no vegetation among the trees, only dead branches and leaves.

"Let's go, junior brother!"

The young senior sister stepped on her long legs, carried the medicine basket and walked out of the bushes on the edge of the hillside, and ran down the hillside.

Liu Zhiyi shook his head and could only follow him.

"Here is, there is, and there, there!"

The young senior sister ran and pointed at her. There was a bush of herbs or herbs wherever she pointed.

As a coolie, Liu Zhiyi beat him wherever his senior sister pointed, but the senior sister was still not satisfied.

"Don't be right, you shovel down first, and turn around and slowly, right?"

While Liu Zhiyi was holding a medicine hoe and shoveling medicine, he also opened the "Hundred Grass Collection" to compare. The slow speed made Fang Rongnu impatient.

Liu Zhiyi ignored her. His main purpose was to learn, not to collect herbs. If it weren't for this purpose, he would rather spend money to buy some herbs, which are not expensive.

Seeing that his junior brother ignored him, Fang Rongnu groaned and squatted and started to pick him up.

After not hearing Fang Rongnu's voice for a long time, Liu Zhiyi looked up and saw no one.

He was shocked: "Senior Sister, where are you?"

There was no response in the wild mountains and wild ridges, and the distant mountains echoed back.

"There are no beasts here, right?"

Liu Zhiyi was panicked and didn't bother to collect herbs. He ran back and forth, shouting as he walked: "Senior Sister, where are you? You're coming out soon!"

He ran with sweat, gasping heavily, and looked panicked, but he didn't dare to stop.

After running through a bush of dense grass, my senior sister suddenly jumped out of it. Liu Zhiyi was shocked, and his feet tilted and fell to the ground, feeling very embarrassed.

The senior sister smiled like a flower.

Liu Zhiyi got angry and got up and looked at her, watching her laugh loudly, unable to get angry, and she really couldn't get angry, so she suddenly squatted down with her neck covering her neck.

"Senior sister?"

"Senior Sister!"

"You don't have to act anymore, I won't be fooled."

Liu Zhiyi stood there coldly, watching the "performance" of the junior sister.

After a long time, the young senior sister suddenly lay on the ground. He realized something was wrong. He ran over in three or two steps and saw that the senior sister's face was pale. She frowned and covered her chest, unable to speak.

"Senior sister, what's wrong with you?"

"Senior sister, you are talking."

He held the senior sister with one hand and put the other hand on the pulse. His pulse was weak and weak. He didn't understand the symptoms, but the master had never taught him.

"Help!"

Liu Zhiyi shouted loudly.

"Senior sister, don't sleep. I'll take you down the mountain, you can hold on."

Fang Rongnu gradually closed her eyes and lay half-lying in Liu Zhiyi's arms weakly. Her pulse was very weak, and Liu Zhiyi was completely panicked.

He turned around and put one arm on his shoulder, intending to carry her to his back.

"Don't move!"

A rapid sound came from a distance, and I turned to see a young man carrying a medicine basket.

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