Chapter 118 Raw Materials
Su Tong couldn't help laughing and said to Qin Yi:
"Why don't you go over first! I'll be there in a minute."
Qin Yi glanced at the doctor unfriendlyly, but the doctor pushed his glasses and gave him a bright smile.
Qin Yi turned around expressionlessly and went out first.
Su Tong took the pen and prescription paper in front of the doctor and started drawing on them.
"Okay! In order to let you sleep, I can tell you that this wound is not an accident. I stabbed it myself. The reason is inconvenient to tell you. Of course, you will definitely ask me why it was so coincidental..."
Although the doctor's face was full of surprise, he couldn't help nodding vigorously.
“The answer is right here.”
Su Tong quickly drew the last few strokes, then put down the pen and handed him the prescription paper. He waved goodbye to the curious doctor and turned to leave.
The doctor looked at the prescription paper over and over for a long time. It was covered with irregular lines, messy and disorderly, without a single word written on it...
Is this little girl teasing him?
Suddenly, he turned the paper in his hand, stopped, and widened his eyes.
He finally realized that these were not just some messy lines. What the little girl had casually drawn was actually a map of the main blood vessels and nerves in the human arm...
He was stunned for a moment, then frantically searched through the bookcase at the back, finally found a thick medical book, opened the large drawing in the interleaf, and began to compare...
Apart from the fact that the drawing was not very standard due to its haste, the main blood vessels and nerves that this little girl drew casually on the paper were all in good positions!
What a talent!
The doctor took a long time to retract his chin, thinking of the disappointing interns under his command. He silently took out the pointer that had not been used for a long time, and went to the inpatient department with his hands behind his back.
When Qin Yi and Su Tong entered the canteen's operation room, the canteen staff had already started preparing lunch.
Those washing vegetables, picking vegetables, washing pots and carrying water were all busy.
The hospital leader who brought them here called out the master chef and asked him to cooperate with the comrades from "above" in the investigation.
When the chef came out, his hands were still covered with flour. Su Tong didn't want to keep him too long, so he didn't say anything and just said that he was interested in the hot and sour soup and wanted to know how it was made and what the ingredients were.
The chef was a little puzzled that the leader had brought two people to learn how to cook so seriously, but it was the simplest hot and sour soup that every household could make...
But he was not vague. He explained the method again and then took them into the warehouse in the backyard and pointed to a row of large vats in the backyard to show them.
Su Tong went forward to take a look and saw that there were some pickled cabbages in the jar and some were filled with bean dregs, which were still very fresh. He could smell the strong bean fragrance before he got close.
"Are these for hot and sour soup?"
The master nodded and said:
"These two are the main ingredients, and you can just add whatever seasonal vegetables you have."
"Aren't there also tofu skin and black fungus?"
"Oh! You are right, but this is a canteen, and the amount used is large. How can we add those bean curd skin and black fungus? We can't afford it! Our soup is served with steamed buns, two cents a bowl. If it's more expensive, the patients can't afford it.
Don’t be afraid of you laughing at us, but not only does our canteen make hot and sour soup this way, most people also use it themselves. Only the rich families add fungus, eggs, shrimp skins, etc...."
Su Tong nodded to show her understanding. She carefully looked at the sauerkraut in the big jar. In this season, the main pickles were radishes and cabbages, which gave off a strong sour smell!
Bean curd dregs are delivered from outside every day. Although they don’t have the taste of dried tofu and tofu, they still have the bean flavor. In fact, there are many people who use bean curd dregs to cook dishes nowadays, and it is considered a healthy food.
The fresh vegetables placed next to the big jar are still mainly cabbage and radish, and there is also a small pile of Chinese cabbage and spinach next to it, probably for stir-frying.
Looking at the shelf where seasonings are placed, except for oil, salt, peppercorns and dried chilies, which are more conspicuous, all other items are packed in large jars.
The rest are a few sparsely packed small jars, each containing not much seasoning. They are probably only used for stir-frying and are not enough for making a big pot dish.
Finally, Su Tong saw a large glass jar, about a foot high, which was half filled with a dark liquid. It looked like soy sauce, but it didn’t smell like soy sauce.
The chef explained that this is a local homemade condiment called bean shred water, which is made by fermenting soybeans with several other ingredients. It is the main condiment for cooking here and has a similar function to soy sauce.
It's just that soy sauce costs money, but every household can make it themselves. It is cheap and practical. When some people don't want to cook, they can just pour a spoonful of this on the rice to finish a bowl of rice.
Su Tong smelled it carefully and tasted it with a small spoon. It was very salty, a little spicy and had a unique sour taste from fermentation.
After coming out of the cafeteria, Su Tong carefully recalled what he had just seen. He vaguely felt that he had grasped something, but his mind was a little confused and he couldn't find a clue for a while.
Qin Yi followed her silently all the way without saying a word to interrupt her thoughts. Since she showed great interest in the hot and sour soup, she must have noticed something.
Until Su Tong turned around and said to him:
"Can you find me a quiet place and some paper? I have an idea that needs to be verified."
Qin Yi quickly helped her find an empty office, handed her paper and pen, and then stood quietly by with his arms folded.
Su Tong quickly wrote a few lines on the paper, which were the raw materials and seasonings needed to make hot and sour soup.
Then she listed a string of letters and numbers under several of the items.
Qin Yi felt strange and after a while, he was very surprised to find that what she listed were the chemical formulas corresponding to each raw material.
He knew that this girl had secrets, she had extraordinary medical skills, and she had a wide range of knowledge, so she should have some other special abilities.
But now it seems that she is also very proficient in chemistry. Although medicine and pharmacy are inseparable, there is still a high threshold between understanding medicine and understanding pharmacy...
He promised to keep the secret for her and never asked any questions, but this girl always refreshed his cognition again and again, and made him more certain of one thing.
When he was investigating the situation of Wu Tong and Yunshan Village, he was surprised by the identities of the four "stinky old nines" who were demoted to Yunshan Village.
I was just suspicious at the time, but today when I saw her write the molecular formula, I was sure that I had glimpsed the truth.
The four of them each had their own strengths. Although two of them are no longer alive, she grew up in the village, so it is possible that she had interacted with them before.
If she had four teachers who were devoted to teaching her, it would explain why she had such great abilities!
Not to mention the two people currently living in her yard, one of whom is a former big shot in the chemical world.
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