Lin Tian's house had not been renovated yet, but time went by in the blink of an eye and it was April 1st. During this period, Lin Tian had been living at home, only returning to the compound every two or three days to check on the progress of the project. The craftsmanship of the old master at that time was really good, and was in no way inferior to the mechanical operations of later generations.
In fact, Lin Tian returned to the courtyard to look at the house and to see if the people in the courtyard were causing any trouble. After all, Master Jin was the brother-in-law of his second senior brother, and it would be bad if he caused any trouble.
Then Lin Tian went to Master Zhang's house again, looked at the furniture he was making for him, and proposed some ideas, such as turning the space under the bed into storage space, and not using screws and wood blocks to make the handles on the medicine cabinet like buckles. Anyway, these were all small suggestions that Lin Tian thought would bring convenience to him, and Master Zhang adopted them. Now he just had to wait for the final decoration to be completed and the goods to be delivered.
It will take a few more days to complete the renovation of the house, and it will take a few more days to be left there after it is completed, so it will take more than 10 days for Lin Tian to return to the compound to live, but Wang Wujiu's studies officially begin today.
Because there was news from above recently that Lin Tian’s grocery store would be converted into a non-staple food store, that is, they would change from selling various things sporadically to specializing in purchasing various condiments and non-staple foods. So people in the store were unsettled. The main reason was that the benefits of state-owned non-staple food stores were much better than they are now. Apart from anything else, any little bit left in the store would be enough for the family.
Director Xin has not been seen recently, mainly because the higher-ups are discussing which stores to change, and Director Xin is busy running around to get approval. Lin Tian doesn't really want to change, because after changing to a grocery store, he won't be as busy as he is now. However, there is one advantage to the change, which is that Lin Tian may no longer need to go to the countryside, after all, most of the things will be rationed by the higher-ups by then. This is also Lin Tian's own guess.
Now Lin Tian uses the mornings and working hours to study medical cases. In the evening, he rides the company's bicycle to Wang Wujiu's place after work. Originally, Li Mancang had some opinions about Lin Tiantian monopolizing the store's bicycle, but after seeing that he successfully completed the purchasing task, he didn't say anything. In addition, his mind has recently been on the reform of the grocery store.
Lin Tian only found out recently after more contact with him that Wang Wujiu was not only a master of traditional Chinese medicine, but also a master of pharmaceutical manufacturing, and his level of pharmaceutical manufacturing was even higher than his medical skills. Wang Wujiu's medical skills could only be considered half-inherited from his family, learned from his grandfather, and also because of his many years of contact with dignitaries, the medical skills had been improved by several generations and were a small faction. It did not belong to the eight traditional schools of traditional Chinese medicine, but seemed to be a fusion of the advantages of several factions.
The first lesson he learned when he got home from work that day was to learn about pharmaceutical equipment. In recent years, Wujiu no longer handles medicinal materials at home. The store has arranged special employees to handle them, so the medicinal materials were specially transported from the store by him. As for the pile of equipment, they were moved out by Lin Tian from the Wang family's warehouse.
Although I learned a lot, it was all on paper. Not everything was recorded, such as the medicine. There are more than 10 kinds of pharmaceutical guillotines, and there are many kinds of materials. According to the principles of Chinese medicine compatibility, Chinese medicinal materials of different textures should be cut into different shapes such as shreds, dices, strips, and blocks, so as to maximize the efficacy of the medicine in the later decoction process.
There were also mortars and pestles of various sizes, punches, and mortars of different sizes used as tools for grinding powder and measuring, balance scales, and the most common grinding plate, medicine jars of different materials, mostly made of ceramic and copper, juicers, small incinerators, medicine drying plates, planers, and so many other things that filled half the room.
"In fact, there are thousands of completely ancient pharmaceutical preparation instruments. With the development of industry, many of them have been eliminated, but there are also some that are not irreplaceable by industry. Some pharmaceutical industries will never be able to make handmade medicines." Wang Wujiu explained to Lin Tian which medicines were needed in which prescriptions, which instruments were used, and why they were used in this way.
Lin Tian wrote down the words while taking notes. Wang Wujiu spent more than two hours explaining most of the common uses. "There are still many things I haven't mentioned. You have to understand it yourself. What role does it play in this prescription and how to treat it best."
After that, Lin Tian was allowed to go home. He recalled today's content and thought about why he handled it this way until he fell into a deep sleep. Lin Tian was still very excited on the first day of class, but it was obvious that he was too happy too early.
The next day, as soon as he arrived at Wang Wujiu's house in the evening, Lin Tian was asked a question: What is the largest type of medicine that needs to be crushed with a medicine grinder?
"Of course it's fruit seeds." Lin Tian answered without thinking.
"Okay, go ahead." Wang Wujiu seemed to have thought of the hardships he had suffered too. He smiled with some gloating expression and pointed at Lin Tian and looked over there. Today, Wang Wujiu had specially brought back several hundred kilograms of unprocessed medicinal materials from the store, including Amomum villosum, Apricot kernel, Peach kernel, Cassia seed, Corydalis yanhusuo, Cornus officinalis, Ziziphus jujuba seed, Torreya grandis seed, etc., and was waiting for Lin Tian to come and process them in the evening.
"Go ahead. Why are you wasting time? I'll give you three days to complete each of these. Otherwise, the penalty will be doubled." Wang Wujiu showed his strict teacher side. Lin Tian had no choice but to sit on the stool and start his grinding work.
Two hours later, when he came out of Wang Wujiu's house and was about to ride his bike, he found that his arm was numb. During this time, Wang Wujiu asked questions, such as how to process this kind of medicinal material and why? He also gave some tips, which saved Lin Tian a lot of effort.
After Lin Tian returned home, he went back to the space and took a hot bath to relieve his fatigue. But when he woke up the next morning, he found that his arms seemed to be swollen.
Lin Tian, who had never exerted so much effort before, almost hit someone on the way to the store because his arms hurt when he moved his bike, so he was not very agile in turning.
During the day when he was at work, Lin Tian got things for customers and grimaced in pain while looking for them.
"What did you do yesterday? How did you become like this?" Li Mancang asked with a bit of gloating when he saw Lin Tian's expression.
"Let's study at Master's house tonight." Lin Tian was in so much pain that he felt a little annoyed.
"Why are you doing hard labor as a medical student?" The more Li Mancang looked at Lin Tian's condition, the more he wanted to laugh.
"If you don't work hard, where do you get the medicine?" Lin Tian asked, and then continued, "I spent the whole night grinding medicine. Today, I can't even lift my arms. I have to continue grinding tonight."
Li Mancang laughed out loud when he heard this. Lin Tian rolled his eyes at him and kept silent. In fact, he had been getting along pretty well with him recently and they usually just joked around.
Lin Tian thought to himself, if you laugh at me, I will sit here and read. However, Li Mancang did not mind. He was the only one who was busy with the guests who came in the afternoon.
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