Mr. Ren spoke out the five secret recipes in one breath, panting heavily from exhaustion, and Pan Ye was so distressed that he burst into tears:
"Master Ren, please take your time. Sanqi is not in a hurry anyway. You can take a rest first."
Old Master Ren smiled and said, "It's rare to be happy today, so it's good to talk about it. Liver disease requires a lot of guidance, and being in a good mood is also a kind of guidance."
Mr. Shi also offered some advice at this time:
“We can provide some medical books and secret recipes, but if you want to extract the effective ingredients from a single Chinese herbal medicine, you have to distinguish them.
For example, Chinese herbal medicines for liver nourishment and protection can be roughly divided into four categories: liver-clearing and gallbladder-promoting type, liver-soothing and qi-promoting type, liver-tonifying and yin-tonifying type, and liver-clearing and eyesight-improving type.
The Chinese herbal medicines for clearing the liver and promoting bile secretion include creeping vine, wormwood, gardenia, and scutellaria baicalensis; the Chinese herbal medicines for soothing the liver and promoting qi circulation include citron, spikenard, and nine-scented worm.
Chinese herbal medicines that nourish liver yin include Ophiopogon japonicus, Asparagus cochinchinensis, Rehmannia glutinosa, Dendrobium candidum, Polygonatum sibiricum, Polygonatum odoratum, etc.; Chinese herbal medicines that clear the liver and improve eyesight include chrysanthemum, Cassia tora, mulberry leaves, burdock seeds, etc.
If you ask me to explain these Chinese herbal medicines using traditional Chinese medicine theory, I can talk for three days and three nights, but if you want to study these Chinese herbal medicines using Western medicine standards, this is a path that no one has taken before, so it depends on your ability."
That night, Lin Sanqi and Pan Ye recorded various materials in several books.
When leaving the family area of the infectious disease hospital in the middle of the night, Lin Sanqi was extremely excited.
With these 12 national treasure-level Chinese medicine practitioners who personally selected out-of-print ancient Chinese medical books and secret recipes, Lin Sanqi felt that he was much luckier than Teacher Tu Youyou.
Tu Youyou's team searched for inspiration in the vast literature of traditional Chinese medicine, and once they found the inspiration they had to conduct research in a simple laboratory.
Especially since she lived in the 1950s and 1960s, the conditions were the most difficult and people could not even get enough food to eat, not to mention that there were almost no equipment, instruments and consumables needed for the experiments.
On the other hand, Lin Sanqi had a lot of cash in his hands, and he could buy all the equipment he needed for the laboratory. He also had ancient books and secret recipes personally instructed by famous masters.
We have the right time, place and people, but if we still can't come up with something useful, then we might as well buy a piece of tofu and kill ourselves.
When they returned to their home in Dongmianhua Hutong, Pan's father and mother had already gone to bed.
Pan Cen was still waiting in the living room, reading some martial arts novels that Lin Sanqi brought back from Hong Kong.
The house was warm. Lin Sanqi specially bought a boiler and installed radiators in every room, so the room temperature was kept at around 24 degrees, which was very comfortable.
After Lin Sanqi entered the house, he quickly swept the snow off Pan Ye's body. Even though it was just a short walk from the alley to home, there was already obvious snow on his head and clothes.
Pan Cen stood up and quickly took two clean towels, handing one to Lin Sanqi and one to Pan Ye:
"Brother-in-law, sister, here, wipe it with a towel. Wow, it's snowing so heavily outside? It hasn't snowed in several years, right?"
Lin Sanqi glanced at his brother-in-law's half-butt sister-in-law, and felt happy in his heart:
"Auspicious snow indicates a good harvest. Natural disasters have been going on for three years, and it finally snowed this year. This is great! Next year will definitely be a bumper harvest, and we won't have to go hungry anymore."
A row of question marks flashed through Pan Cen's mind. He thought of the east wing, which was filled with chickens, ducks, fish, meat, eggs, rice and flour piled up like a mountain, and the green greenhouse vegetables that were rarely seen in the north in winter.
There are also foreign milk powder, boxes of foreign cola, and boxes of cream candies that the whole family can drink every day.
That's it, starving?
Lin Sanqi changed into her home clothes and came out of the inner room. She found her sister-in-law still sitting in the living room and felt a little strange:
"Second sister, do you have something to say to your sister?"
Pan Cen stood up again: "Brother-in-law, I'm looking for you."
While Lin Sanqi was heating milk for Pan Ye, he said casually:
"What's the matter? Why are you being so polite to your brother-in-law?"
"Brother-in-law, after the Chinese New Year, are you going to Hong Kong with my eldest sister as a visiting scholar?"
"Yes, I will bring a team with me, and your sister will go too. We are going to start a tuberculosis project at the Prince of Wales Hospital in Hong Kong. I think we will be there for about half a year."
At this time, Pan Cen tapped the table with his fingers, wanting to say something but stopping himself.
Lin Sanqi wondered what was wrong with this little girl? Was she having a crush on someone? Was she reluctant to part with her brother-in-law? Ugh, his thoughts were so filthy. Wasn't having a little Liu Yifei and a little Mao Xiaotong enough?
"Brother-in-law, can you take me to Xiangjiang too?"
"ah?"
Just when Lin Sanqi was surprised, Pan Ye came out from the inner room after hearing his sister's words:
"Second sister, what kind of difficulties have you encountered? Why did you think of going to Hong Kong?"
Lin Sanqi also felt that this was a serious matter, so he advised earnestly:
"Second sister, going to Hong Kong is not necessarily a good thing. Hong Kong is very prosperous and has abundant material goods. As long as you have money, you can buy anything. It is indeed not as hard as living in China.
But as you know, Hong Kong is in the south, and people there either speak Cantonese or English, so the language barrier is difficult. Also, Hong Kong people tend to look down on mainland Chinese, so they're easily bullied.
Mainland girls used to be called "Bei Gu" or "Feng Jie Er" by them, neither of which was a nice thing to say. "Over there and here are two completely different worlds. There are indeed many opportunities, but there are also many difficulties."
Pan Ye knew that his sister was not the kind of unstable person, so he pulled her to sit down:
"What's wrong with you? Tell us and we can help you with some advice."
Pan Cen mustered up the courage to say:
"Brother-in-law, sister, I have graduated from high school and just received a notice that my job assignment is to work as a textile worker in a textile factory. But...but I don't want to be a textile worker. I want to continue my studies."
Lin Sanqi took the report card, which read, "This is to introduce Comrade Pan Cen, who will report to the State-owned No. 25 Cotton Mill before February 1962."
If it were the daughter of an ordinary family, she would definitely be extremely happy to receive this assignment, because textile factories are currently the most popular enterprises in the country, and female textile workers have a very high status.
The five-cent banknote in the third set of RMB issued in 1962 featured a female worker named Jiang Dinggui working in a textile factory.
Well, of course Jiang Dinggui’s ability to become a typical RMB figure has nothing to do with her father being the Minister of the Textile Industry.
If Pan Cen was a farmer at that time and could become a textile worker, it would be a great thing that the whole family would celebrate, as it meant that she had made a leap forward and crossed the social class barrier.
But Pan Cen happened to be Professor Pan's daughter, Dr. Pan Ye's younger sister, and the sister-in-law of Lin Sanqi, the director of the Infectious Diseases Hospital.
Her father was a professor, her sister and brother-in-law were senior intellectuals, and she was a textile worker. For an 18-year-old girl, the gap was too big to accept.
Pan Ye asked, "Don't you want to be a textile worker? Don't you want to be a member of the glorious working class?"
Lin Sanqi frowned, thinking that his wife's head was indeed full of red ideas. She believed that there was no distinction between high and low jobs, only different divisions of labor.
If everyone is truly equal, why don't those children of wealthy families and those senior officials arrange for their own children to shovel manure?
If the children of the compound can be taken care of openly, join the army, work as secretaries in any ministry, and have free access to Moscow restaurants, then why can't Lin Sanqi's sister-in-law be taken care of?
Lin Sanqi is a very protective person. Thinking about how he was persuaded to drop out of even a simple internship before he had the golden finger, and almost didn't get his graduation certificate and was suffocated to death, he felt that the world was too unfair.
I didn't have the ability before, but now that I have the ability, why don't I use my privileges? That would be a waste of time traveling.
So Lin Sanqi was already standing on the side of his sister-in-law at this time.
Pan Cen lowered her head upon hearing this and asked weakly, "I am... Oh, forget it, then I'll go work as a textile worker..."
Seeing that his sister-in-law was about to leave, Lin Sanqi waved his hand:
"Second sister, sit down. Don't listen to your sister, listen to your brother-in-law. I know your family used to be well-off. When your father was a professor, it was enough for you three sisters to live a rich life.
But when your family encountered difficulties, your sister had already gone to college and your younger brother was still in elementary school, so both the older and younger ones insisted on continuing their studies, which wronged you and you chose to drop out of school in order to reduce the burden on the family.
Your eldest sister graduated from university and became a doctor, but you dropped out to work as a factory worker. This is unfair to you, and your brother-in-law knows it. It's not that your father or your sister owe you anything, but the fact is that you have become a victim of the family.
When Pan Cen heard this, tears immediately fell. (End of this chapter)
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