Chapter 2518 You Must Believe Me
The Lan family finally chose a date and chose the 21st day of the twelfth lunar month from the three dates reported by the Zhou family.
There were not many guests invited to the house this time, just a few nearby families and some people that the Zhou family knew in the capital.
On Manbao's side, they basically only invited doctors from Jishidiang and a few of Yin Huo.
As the Chinese New Year approaches, many families are getting married and going home to celebrate the New Year. Manager Zheng has attended eight weddings in the past three months. This time, when he came and saw Zhou Man's nephews and nieces in their prime, he felt a little pain in his wallet.
Looking at his son who had just returned to Beijing, Zheng Da, the shopkeeper, felt more balanced and walked over to Zhou Man. "Doctor Zhou, it's me."
Manbao was watching the guests pouring wine into Zhou Liwei (Ertou) with his hands clasped together. Hearing this, he turned his head, his eyes slightly brightening. "Manager Zheng, I was just looking for you. My niece said she's sold out of the Poria cocos she bought from you."
Shopkeeper Zheng curled his lips and said, "What do you mean by out of stock? Your niece bought them all."
He said, "Pharmacies in the capital always have to keep some supplies on hand. The workshop your niece built has taken away a lot of medicinal materials from me in the past two months."
There are only a few medicinal ingredients needed for ointments and creams, so the prices of several medicinal ingredients that Zhou Lijun in Beijing purchased in large quantities recently have increased. Even the shopkeeper Zheng is worried about this. The prescriptions using those ingredients are more expensive than before, and some patients who use the prescriptions are secretly complaining.
Manbao sighed upon hearing this and said, "First, transportation is really inconvenient nowadays. Second, most of the medicinal herbs are wild nowadays, and there are few that are cultivated by ourselves, so medicinal herbs are expensive."
Manager Zheng was stunned for a moment and asked, "Doctor Zhou means that the medicinal herbs can be planted?"
Manbao said, "Aren't medicinal herbs like red dates and old ginger always cultivated?"
Of course, there are also those collected from the wild, but at present, these two medicinal herbs are mostly cultivated.
"But this is not only a medicinal herb, it's also a food ingredient. Food ingredients can naturally be grown."
Manbao then said, "My family also grows yam."
Shopkeeper Zheng laughed, "Yam can also be used as food."
However, few people eat it. Most of them are used to make medicine or medicinal food. However, as Manager Zheng knows, except for some places in Shandong, yam is mostly harvested wild in other places.
To be honest, the fact that Zhou Man’s village would grow yam was something that was beyond the expectations of Manager Zheng.
Manbao said calmly, "There is also Ligustrum lucidum. My family has now planted an entire mountain with it. Ligustrum lucidum now occupies almost half of the mountain in our village."
This was what her second and third brothers told her, so now Qili Village is no longer the poorest village under Dali Village. Last year, their village joined forces with Mr. Bai to pay for the careful repair of the road to the county town. Now it is very spacious. Although it is still not as good as the official road, it is not much worse.
So now it is difficult to find workers in autumn every year. In the past, when the Zhou family was too busy with the fields, they could hire temporary workers in the village, but now they have to go to other villages or the county to hire them.
Even Mr. Bai privately complained about the difficulty in finding temporary jobs.
Manager Zheng opened his mouth and pondered for a moment before saying, "So, medicinal herbs can be grown. I wonder how many kinds of herbs Imperial Doctor Zhou can grow now?"
Manbao's eyes turned slightly. Over the years, all the medicinal herbs she had seen, as long as they were alive, were basically included in the encyclopedia.
And all hosts know that the things included in the encyclopedia can be purchased from the encyclopedia in return, if it has it.
The genes of species cultivated through the encyclopedia may be unstable or better.
Ever since he guessed that the biggest problem in the world over there was genetic instability, Manbao had been paying attention to books and information on the subject.
Occasionally ask about the research progress of the species listed in the encyclopedia and Dr. D.
Many of the things she gave to the Encyclopedia and Dr. D have now been cultivated in that world. Except for a few, the genes of most of them are still stable.
She felt that the genetic abnormality was an environmental problem there, and perhaps also due to the mutation and spread of the most primitive species. Now that they had obtained the original species, there was a high probability that the genes could be kept unchanged.
Koko once said that the plants she collected are the easiest to cultivate, as they can maintain their own genetic stability to a large extent and can also be optimized; animals are second, and the most difficult should be humans.
Manbao guessed that it was because there were no new primitive humans joining that world, so they had no specimens for either continuation or research.
Well, thanks to Koko for what he said, the alliance laws stipulate that intelligent creatures are not included in the transactions, and her world is too far away from that world, so even if there are bad guys who disregard the law, they can't be found.
Manbao was delighted and said to the shopkeeper Zheng: "I have been growing all kinds of medicinal herbs dug from the wild at home. I even plant some in my garden. Do you want to go and have a look?"
Shopkeeper Zheng was overjoyed and immediately said, "Okay."
Manager Zheng and Zhou Man ignored the people enjoying the feast and walked towards the back garden, saying, "Among the medicinal herbs, besides jade, insects and animals, the rest are herbs. Generally speaking, any plant can be planted, but firstly, growing herbs requires farmland, and the herbs scattered in the mountains and fields are basically enough. Secondly, herbs are not easy to grow, especially herbs like ginseng and Ganoderma lucidum, which simply cannot be grown. Even other herbs usually require more than two years to grow."
"So, I know that there are only about a dozen herbs that can be grown, and they are all plants like red dates, safflower, ginger, pomegranates, garlic, and lotus seeds." Zheng Da, the shopkeeper, shook his head slightly and said, "But the 'Shennong Bencao Jing' records 239 kinds of herbs, and the 'Bencao Jing Jizhu' collected by our Zheng family contains 730 kinds of herbs. With so many medicinal herbs, only a few are currently cultivated on a large scale."
But Manbao knew that these herbs had not yet collected all the usable medicines in the world. Although many herbs were missing in the world of Teacher Mo and the others, she knew that they had existed, otherwise there would be no records of them in the encyclopedia.
Her world does not have the crises that their world has, which means that those herbs still exist here, or at least most of them do.
Manbao was cheered up and thought to himself: If all these herbs can be discovered and used, how many diseases can they cure?
It can also avoid the consequences of a shortage of a certain drug.
Arriving at the garden, Manbao had specially cleared a plot of land next to his sister-in-law's vegetable patch. He took a look around, then turned to the silent shopkeeper Zheng and said, "Shopkeeper, you have to believe me, medicinal herbs can really be grown. It's just that these herbs may have been dug up from the wild, so they may not be acclimatized to the climate and soil. Besides, it's winter now. Come back in spring and you'll see that they'll look completely different..."
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