Chapter 5 It’s nice to go home and try the effect of the medicine
Shen Jiang was really worried about how to get home.
After all, she didn't have a cell phone or money with her, only a bunch of fresh herbs in her arms.
Given her speed and the equipment she had, it was hard to say whether she could get out of these mountains.
As the saying goes, "A horse will die if it runs too fast." Although these mountains are close to each other, Shen Jiang walked for almost an hour and still hadn't reached the mountainside.
However, when the golden sunset just stayed briefly at the end of the sky, thick clouds surrounded the setting sun, and the afterglow dyed the clouds in the sky into a large area of magnificent golden red, the golden gate engraved with exquisite dark patterns appeared in front of her so vividly.
The familiar soft light enveloped her again, and before Shen Jiang was mentally prepared, she was spit back into Mingxin Hall.
Even with only a tiny bit of light in the room, she could still recognize where she was with her eyes closed. The Chinese medicine cabinets were covered with white labels written by her hand. The familiar outline of the transparent glass counter held the ginseng and other precious medicinal herbs that she and her grandmother had selected together...
Shen Jiang stood there in a daze, as if he couldn't believe that he had come back like this.
The screen of the mobile phone on the table lit up. Shen Jiang reached out to take the phone, only to find that he was still holding the pile of medicinal herbs in his arms.
The time on the cell phone showed 5:00 a.m. on May 16, 2135. Shen Jiang remembered that she returned home in the evening of the 15th, which means that during the time she was in the other world, only a few hours had passed here at most.
That's great! Shen Jiang breathed a sigh of relief. Her biggest worry was returning to find everything and everyone had changed. Fortunately, life here was normal; she'd only been gone for a few hours.
If she couldn't come back normally, Shen Jiang couldn't imagine what would happen to her grandmother who was forced to stop paying for her medical expenses.
To an outsider, it's impossible for them to have only a few hundred thousand yuan in savings running a traditional Chinese medicine clinic. They didn't spend much on a daily basis, but their savings were almost entirely tied up in medicinal herbs. Whenever Grandma came across a good herb, she wouldn't hesitate to stockpile it for her clinic.
As time went by, the money in their cards became less and less, but the variety of medicinal herbs in the clinic became more and more abundant.
The phone interface is filled with missed calls and various messages.
Shen Jiang unlocked the interface and first looked at the missed calls. There was a long string of unfamiliar calls, but one of them called at 22:45, and it was Officer Zhang from the police station.
Could it be that the middle-aged man who caused trouble at the hospital was found by the police?
Officer Zhang called her so late, something important must have happened. Shen Jiang thought about it and sent a message.
It's neither too late nor too late, so Officer Zhang must have fallen asleep. However, when he sees the message, he will definitely call back as soon as possible.
Shen Jiang looked at the clinic in front of her. She had just cleaned a small part yesterday, and the clinic was still a mess.
Her original plan was to clean up the place and hand it over to someone else, but her hands were now swollen like pig's trotters and stung when touched, so she couldn't finish the cleaning work in a short time.
Shen Jiang thought of the buyer and felt a headache for some reason.
To use the agent's words to describe this buyer, he is a fool with a lot of money. If you miss this big fish in the location and market of Mingxintang, you will never be able to sell it at such a high price again.
He was called a fool with a lot of money by the agent. He had a bad temper and always spoke with an inexplicable sense of superiority.
Shen Jiang could imagine how the other person would pinch his nose and frown when he saw the scene after stepping into Mingxin Hall, and how he would complain about the place where she had lived since she was a child.
That was a scene Shen Jiang never wanted to see.
But if the contract signing is postponed for one day, given the other party's temper on the phone, they will most likely turn around and find another company. After all, there are many businesses on this street that want to sell houses.
The structure of their street is quite unique. Renovated from old houses from the previous century, the buildings are all built in the traditional Jiangnan courtyard style. Each house has its own entrance and a separate building. In addition to the storefront in the front, there is also a courtyard and a separate house in the back. Some people choose to use the back house as an extension of their storefront, like them, for their own residence.
In the past, this was a popular location in the old city, with a one-stop service for dining and shopping, and even street vendors would fight for their stalls.
But that was before Shen Jiang was ten years old.
The market value of this street is no longer the same as before. With the city's eastward development in recent years, this street has gradually fallen to the edge of the entire city.
Not only have most of the old residents moved out, but many businesses have also kept pace with the times and decisively moved to the new city with its high traffic flow. In fact, more and more migrant workers are choosing to rent in this area. Although it is a bit far from the city center, it is cheaper.
Many shops are idle, and many stores not only have signs saying "For Rent" but also "For Sale."
Now almost all the shops on the street are new faces.
The only exception is Mingxin Hall. Grandma has never considered moving away because it is too troublesome for her.
She said, "It doesn't matter where we open the shop." "So that elderly patients won't be unable to find a place to stay."
If there weren't a famous person's former residence with hundreds of years of history nearby, I'm afraid the prices of shops on this street would have to drop even further.
Although it is said to be the former residence of a celebrity, there are actually not many tourists coming here normally.
Shen Jiang hadn't worried about money in recent years. She didn't have many hobbies, and collecting ancient medical books was the most expensive of them, but that wasn't a big expense. Compared to the money her classmates spent on idols, clothes, and jewelry, her spending was incredibly modest.
During the years when Shen Jiang studied in other places, she could not spend all the living expenses given by her grandmother. In addition to the scholarships issued by the school, she actually saved some money in her card.
It’s not like now, Shen Jiang smiled bitterly, she only had more than 30,000 yuan left in her hand.
Shen Jiang had thought about selling the medicinal herbs in the store to get some emergency money.
The man who caused trouble wasted most of the expensive medicinal herbs in the store. Those herbs were mixed with broken glass and were completely unusable. A lot of good herbs were wasted.
This is exactly why grandma was so anxious to stop the troublemaker... Thinking of this, Shen Jiang's eyes darkened.
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According to the original agreement, the agent will bring the buyer to sign the contract today.
Shen Jiang now has only two choices: either clean up the place before the buyer arrives, or be mentally prepared for the buyer's picky ridicule of the place.
She was now too exhausted to clean up, but she also didn't want to miss out on this generous buyer.
Out of the corner of his eye, he caught a glimpse of the medicinal herbs that had been picked from outside Longxue. They were now lying quietly on the large, rustic wooden table in the clinic, without any special marks on them.
You know, these treasures are the spoils of her bizarre encounter.
But even if they had not had that encounter, they were special enough in themselves. Shen Jiang had not seen medicinal materials of this quality for a long time. Even compared with those standard authentic medicinal materials, they were not inferior at all. It could even be said that these were the most outstanding medicinal materials Shen Jiang had ever seen since he started dealing with Chinese medicine.
Shen Jiang thought to himself, what are the medicinal effects of these herbs?
It just so happened that her hands were swollen like pig's trotters and needed some treatment, and there were some medicinal herbs here that could come in handy.
Let's relieve the condition of our hands first before cleaning.
Shen Jiang did it right away and picked out a complete-shaped Panax notoginseng from a pile of medicinal herbs.
Panax notoginseng can be taken orally or applied externally. Applying powder directly to wounds can stop bleeding, disperse blood stasis, reduce swelling, and relieve pain. The Panax notoginseng on her hands hadn't dried yet, so she couldn't directly powder it, but Shen Jiang didn't care.
In fact, people all believe that Chinese medicinal materials need to be processed before they can be used. However, Shen Jiang has read many ancient medical books and knows that the original purpose of processing was to facilitate storage. However, after a long period of use and evolution, ancient Chinese medicine practitioners discovered that different processing methods can make the pharmacology of medicinal materials play different roles.
Fresh Panax notoginseng produces certain ingredients within a short period of time after being picked, which are not present in Panax notoginseng that has been dried.
Panax notoginseng is a treasure from head to toe. In addition to the rhizome which has the strongest medicinal effect, its flowers and leaves also have medicinal value. Now the cost of medicinal materials in the market is high. Shen Jiang followed her grandmother's habit of making the best use of everything and brought the whole plant back directly.
Shen Jiang grinned and first gave his hands a simple disinfection and cleaning, then put on gloves and crushed the washed Panax notoginseng rhizomes directly with a grinder. There is a lot of water in Panax notoginseng, so the residue does not need to be mixed with water and can be applied directly to the wound.
When the medicinal herbs were applied to the palm of his hand, a cool sensation came over him, and Shen Jiang sighed in comfort.
Shen Jiang couldn't help but squint as sleep set in. She hadn't slept at all yesterday and had spent most of the day working outside Longxue. She was finally able to relax and immediately felt exhausted.
Shen Jiang called Siri and set an alarm for seven in the morning. He fell asleep on the bed without taking off his clothes. He applied a thick layer of cream on the palms of both hands, placed them on his belly with his hands facing up, and slept until dawn.
When the alarm clock rang, Shen Jiang was pulled back to reality from his dream.
Shen Jiang opened her eyes, still hazy and still recovering from the dream. She had just had a very bizarre dream, and the ending between her and her grandmother was so tragic that she was completely immersed in an abnormal state of sadness and anger.
Perhaps she dreamed about the future after her grandmother fell into a coma.
In the dream, their endings could not be described as bad. To be precise, they could be described as tragic.
Shen Jiang wanted to rub his eyes and pull himself out of that messy nightmare.
Dreams and reality are opposites, Shen Jiang consoled herself. Perhaps grandma could be transferred from the ICU to a regular ward tomorrow and recover smoothly.
As he raised his hand, a dry mass fell onto his chest.
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