Dr. Luo was also drawn out of the house by the aroma of mutton.
He had just washed the resurrection herb in the kitchen, and his hands were still wet.
When Dr. Luo saw Lu Qiqi standing at the door, he stepped over the threshold and walked to her side.
But his gaze unconsciously drifted toward the large pot emitting a delicious aroma.
The thick, white mutton soup bubbled and simmered under the intense heat of the fire.
Lu Qiqi noticed someone approaching her and, out of the corner of her eye, saw it was Doctor Luo, so she remained silent.
On the contrary, Dr. Luo remarked, "If you add some white radish, it will taste even better."
There are plenty of white radishes in the space, but Lu Qiqi doesn't plan to take them out.
Because she has something more nourishing.
Lu Qiqi silently peered into the large pot. Doctor Luo looked down and saw the cloth bag in her hand. A hint of unease flashed across his face, and he said with a touch of annoyance, "You've been carrying this cloth bag the whole time, are you trying to prevent me from stealing it?"
"Such a good thing, and you're going to ruin it by hoarding it! It's such a waste!"
Doctor Luo looked at Lu Qiqi, who seemed indifferent, but his face was full of heartache.
Hearing the commotion, many villagers turned their attention to the scene.
This was exactly the effect Lu Qiqi wanted. She called out, "On Monday, wash this herb and put it into the mutton soup to stew. It will be even more nourishing."
On Monday, standing at the bottom of the steps, he looked up at Dr. Luo, who was standing there in a daze, before turning to look at the cloth bag in Lu Qiqi's hand.
Doctor Luo was furious. This girl had taken most of the Resurrection Grass and was actually going to use it to make soup!
This is like burying meat in the ground.
Boil the crane and burn the zither.
What's the difference?
Doctor Luo made a move to snatch it, but Lu Qiqi had no chance to give him that opportunity.
With a parabolic arc, the cloth bag landed steadily in Zhou Yi's hands.
Dr. Luo tried to snatch it from Zhou Yi's hand, but Lu Qiqi stood at attention and called out, "Dr. Luo."
Dr. Luo stopped in his tracks and turned to look at her.
Lu Qiqi said, "Let's go inside and talk."
Dr. Luo looked deeply at the cloth bag in Zhou Yi's hand, as if she were cutting off a piece of her own flesh, and then followed Lu Qiqi into the house.
The two walked to the kitchen. Lu Qiqi looked around to make sure no one was eavesdropping.
He then said, "This resurrection herb must be cooked in front of the villagers; it absolutely must be cooked!"
"Why?!"
The thought that the thing that had almost cost him his life was actually used to make soup filled Dr. Luo with anguish!
“What do you think the villagers will do if they find out there are valuable medicinal herbs at the foot of the cliff?” Lu Qiqi asked.
Undoubtedly, there are people who would risk their lives to pick the resurrection herb for high rewards.
"I did this to let the villagers know that what you find when you go down the cliff is just ordinary medicinal herbs, and it doesn't matter if you use them to make soup."
"That way, they won't doubt how expensive the medicine really is."
After hearing Lu Qiqi's words, Doctor Luo looked at her as if she were a fool, "If you use ordinary medicinal herbs, how would they know? Do you have to use real ones to make soup?"
Lu Qiqi said, "Tianxin Village has been treating the plague for so long, the villagers are very familiar with common herbs, how could we possibly deceive them?"
"Besides, do you really think anyone would believe that you and Zhou Yi risked going down the cliff just to find common herbs?"
Doctor Luo remained silent, even considering refuting Lu Qiqi's words.
Then Lu Qiqi said, "If the resurrection grass under the cliff is harvested by someone with ulterior motives, it will not be easy to find it in the future."
Her reason for doing this was partly to prevent villagers from making a living on the cliffs.
If villagers are coerced or lured by wicked people to go to the cliffs to collect herbs, death and injury are inevitable.
Then her fiefdom will hardly have a day of peace.
Things that benefit others but not oneself should be nipped in the bud to avoid causing trouble for oneself.
Lu Qiqi's words completely enlightened Doctor Luo.
He had once met high-ranking officials and nobles, and in order to win a smile from a beautiful woman, he ordered people to search for white foxes in the mountains, skin them, and make fox fur coats.
Upon hearing this news, hunters, merchants, and farmers in the vicinity, driven by the high profits, flocked to the mountains to hunt and kill white foxes.
As a result, more than a decade later, no white foxes were ever seen in that mountain area again.
They were probably all captured and killed.
After thinking it through, Doctor Luo still looked unwell. Lu Qiqi took out a gray cloth bag and said, "I only used 40%, and I'm saving the remaining 20% for you."
Lu Qiqi took Doctor Luo's hand and handed him the resurrection herb, which is dendrobium.
Looking at the resurrection herb in his hand, Doctor Luo said awkwardly, "You're the smartest one, but I don't care about this."
As he spoke, he returned the cloth bag to Lu Qiqi.
Lu Qiqi smiled and said, "This amount of resurrection grass is not much, and it's troublesome to process. You should accept it."
Doctor Luo stopped refusing and accepted 20% of the Resurrection Grass.
In his heart, Lu Qiqi possessed a strong sense of righteousness and would surely become an invaluable doctor in the future.
But Lu Qiqi was thinking that she still had a small piece of dendrobium in her space.
Once she has planted and nurtured them properly in her space, she can have as many as she wants in the future.
Doctor Luo obtained 20% of the Resurrection Herb, which he planned to clean and then dry together with the previous 40% before processing it.
Because the resurrection plant was extremely rare, Doctor Luo carefully removed all the leaves, leaving only the rootstock.
After picking the leaves, I filled a small basin with water and gently rinsed the roots and stems of the resurrection plant.
Looking at the resurrection herb placed on the bamboo sieve, Lu Qiqi said thoughtfully, "Doctor Luo, if this resurrection herb could be mass-produced and then made into tea, it would fetch a thousand or two taels of gold. Wouldn't people be eager to buy it?"
Dr. Luo scoffed and said, "Mass production? That's wishful thinking!"
He spread the resurrection plant out flat, preventing excess water from sticking to the roots and stems, thus avoiding water accumulation and the plant becoming moldy and rotten.
It also allows it to dry quickly, making it easier to process into medicine.
It wasn't until Li Changlong called for dinner to be served that Doctor Luo reluctantly stood up and left the kitchen with Lu Qiqi.
As soon as she stepped outside, Lu Qiqi smelled a strong aroma of meat.
There were three tables outside: two low round tables and one square table.
On each table was a large pot of mutton soup and a large jar of wine.
The aroma alone is enough to make one's mouth water, making it hard not to crave its flavor.
Lu Qiqi walked to the square table, and all the villagers' eyes were on her.
So she smiled and said, "Thank you all for your help last night. This meal is not for anything else, but because it is my birthday on Monday. After all that happened yesterday, I'm going to shed some blood to shake off the evil spirits."
Zhou Yi suddenly looked up at Lu Qiqi. Besides his own parents, the only birthday he remembered was his grandmother's.
Lu Qiqi remembered his birth date simply because she helped him register his household in the veterans' village.
Suddenly, his eyes stung with tears. He finally understood why the third brother always liked to hang around Lu Qiqi.
She truly considered them as family.
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