Chapter 20 Digging He Shou Wu
Shen Nanxing put the medicine basket on his back and left. He originally wanted to go up the mountain, but now he could kill two birds with one stone!
The two people walked up the mountain one after the other. Uncle Cheng walked in front without saying a word.
It just rained the day before yesterday, so the fresh medicinal materials will retain moisture. After yesterday's exposure to the sun, it is the best to go to the mountain to collect herbs today, and the medicinal materials will be easier to prepare after they are collected.
Shen Nanxing admired in his heart that today is indeed the best time.
Uncle Cheng is proficient and skilled in everything from his grasp of the medicinal properties of medicinal materials to his accurate pulse and judgment of illness.
It can be seen from this that Uncle Cheng is not an ordinary doctor, he is even a hidden master. My decision to become a disciple was right. There must be something about Uncle Cheng that I am not proficient in, although I don’t know what it is now.
After all, his own system is illusory and is somewhat different from the medical skills of this world. He must first understand it with an open mind! Shen Nanxing secretly made up his mind to be more modest.
All the medicinal materials had to be hiked up from the mountainside. After walking for so long, I still haven’t seen anything useful.
"001, scan for any medicinal materials nearby." Shen Nanxing didn't want to discover the medicinal materials by himself, so he had to cheat when he had to.
It didn't take long for the system to give the answer. There was no need to continue going up.
Shen Nanxing raised his head and looked up the mountain. It seemed that he had to continue walking into the mountain for the rare medicinal materials he wanted.
It's just that my body is really struggling. As soon as I walk a little further, I'm out of breath.
"Nan Xing, have you memorized the book?" After walking for a while, Uncle Cheng sat down on a stone to rest.
When I lifted my feet to continue walking, I asked about the endorsement.
"Uncle Cheng, can I recite it to you now?"
"Okay! Can you still keep up? If possible, let's talk while walking." Uncle Cheng continued to walk up the mountain. Shen Nanxing could only complain in his heart and hurried up with a basket on his back.
"The beginning of medicine was written by Ben Qihuang. The Lingshu was written, and Su asked for details. The difficult classics came out, and they were more foreign. In the Han Dynasty, there was Nanyang. The six classics were differentiated, and the holy way was clear. The book on febrile diseases was hidden in the golden cupboard. The method of hanging down was established in Jinliang. After Li Tang, he had a daughter. He was succeeded by Waitai and focused on medical treatment..."
Shen Nanxing started to recite it, without any pause in the middle, without even stumbling, and he recited it to the end in one breath.
At first, Uncle Cheng walked very fast. Then the more Shen Nanxing carried him, the more surprised he became, and finally he stopped.
"The secret of the ages, the profound truth, is acne. This message is just a comrade's, a golden needle!" Shen Nanxing was a little tired after reciting the last word!
Shen Nanxing complained about his body in his heart, leaning on the stone and gasping for air.
Uncle Cheng felt that he had underestimated this girl before. When he started studying medicine, it took him half a month to fully memorize this book.
Although this book has a small number of words, for those who have never been exposed to it, it will be a rote memorization.
This word-by-word combination is very difficult to remember when the word has no special meaning in their minds.
It would be much easier if someone could explain it to you word for word.
So he directly threw a book to Shen Nanxing with the intention of making things difficult. If he couldn't remember this book, there would be no future.
"Not bad!" Uncle Cheng was a little surprised, even surprised. He hadn't thought about what to do next.
For Shen Nanxing, he doesn't want to think about the results now, he is exhausted! Let himself take a breath first! He will definitely be able to become a disciple, but it will only be a matter of time.
The more important thing now is that the system prompts that there is a century-old Polygonum multiflorum tree not far ahead.
At this time, Uncle Cheng put down his backpack, obviously going to collect medicine. Shen Nanxing took a look and saw that this area was full of motherwort, and Polygonum multiflorum was still a little further away.
"Nan Xing, this is motherwort. Just take the stem, remove the leaves and put them in a basket. The ones that haven't bloomed yet can be used as medicine."
Seeing that Uncle Cheng has started to cut with a sickle, after cutting it only needs the pole, not the leaves. This way, the space in the medicine basket can be reduced, and more can be collected.
"Okay, I'll go over there and cut it." Now that he had what he wanted, Shen Nanxing took a few steps towards the location of Polygonum multiflorum.
Shen Nanxing saw the right direction and began to follow Uncle Cheng's example of using a sickle to cut motherwort. However, it gradually moved further away.
Uncle Cheng didn't pay attention to Shen Nanxing's actions. There was a lot of motherwort in this patch and he hadn't used it for a long time. He would cut more today.
Shen Nanxing didn't take a few steps before she determined the location of the Polygonum multiflorum plant. She looked around and saw that this place was halfway up the mountain. No one had discovered such a large Polygonum multiflorum plant before?
I guess no one knows about it, so aren’t the mountains full of rare medicinal materials giving me an advantage? Before my own medicine field is established, all the medicinal materials in this mountain are at my disposal.
With oval leaves and several vines intertwined together, this Polygonum multiflorum may be bigger than 001 said.
Thinking of this, Shen Nan Xingruo said "Huh?" unintentionally. Then he lowered his body and started digging.
Uncle Cheng heard the sound and turned around to find Shen Nanxing. He called twice and found Shen Nanxing raising his head from a pile of leaves.
"Uncle Cheng, what do you think this is?"
Cheng Guangbai couldn't see clearly even though he was far away. He put down the medicine basket and walked over. Oh wow! It looked like the leaves were Polygonum multiflorum. Looking at the site, I was afraid it was quite old.
"This should be a Polygonum multiflorum plant. It's not old yet. Don't dig it yet. This thing is very thief, and sometimes the roots will travel very far. Let's clean up the surrounding area first."
As he said that, he started to clean up the vines around him. There were some motherwort around, and there were a few vines of Polygonum multiflorum here and there, which seemed to be a little small.
It took two people a long time to clear the weeds next to the Polygonum multiflorum, revealing its true appearance.
“This one looks like it’s very old!”
He glanced at Shen Nanxing. This girl was a bit lucky. I heard that the Shen family was divided. The medicinal materials were sold enough to afford a house!
Uncle Cheng explained the key points of digging to Shen Nanxing, and the two started digging from different directions. It didn't take long before they dug out the huge rhizome, which even looked like a child in shape.
"Uncle Cheng, how many years have you been like this?" Shen Nanxing asked, holding Polygonum multiflorum in his hands.
"According to the records in "Compendium of Materia Medica", Polygonum multiflorum is the real immortal grass. The one that is fifty years old is as big as a fist, the one that is one hundred years old is as big as a bowl, and the one that is two hundred years old is as big as a douhu tree."
Uncle Cheng touched his chin and measured it with his hand. It was about the same size as a bowl and it must be a hundred years old.
"Then this tree is a hundred years old." Looking at Shen Nanxing's face, which was a little excited but more confused, Uncle Cheng finally made a conclusion.
"Let's go back and collect the motherwort." Uncle Cheng had a plan in mind and had to go back and tell Shen Nanxing.
"Okay, Uncle Cheng. Put the Polygonum multiflorum in your basket, and I'll collect the motherwort."
As the two of them walked along, the medicine basket was also full of motherwort. The medicinal materials were very luxuriant this season. It seemed that they would go to the mountains to collect medicine every day in the past few days.
Chapter completed!