There was no one selling pipes in the market town, so we had to go to the county town to buy pipes for chimneys.
Pretending to lock the casserole in the trunk of the car, he put it into the space.
After waiting for a few days, they got the small stove and bought a few hundred pieces of coal briquettes. Then the two were about to leave. Zhou's mother said a few words and let them go.
I bought the thickest plastic pipe in the county town and asked the store owner to cut it into two pieces.
The two of them set out to look for the wilderness. It was already November, the crops in the fields had been harvested, the winter wheat had been planted, and the fields were empty everywhere.
Just find a large piece of farmland that is not close to the village. Such a place is not easy to find.
The two finally saw a patch of wetland reeds at the junction of Huai County and Gu County. The reeds had begun to turn yellow, and the reed flowers on the top were swaying in the wind.
Such a natural hiding place naturally became the place chosen by the two.
He put away the cart, took out three small stoves, cut some dry reeds, and chopped the sticks Zhou Xiang had collected into small wooden strips about two inches long, and lit the stoves.
After the coal balls were completely burned and no more black smoke was emitted, Zhou Xiang brought the three stoves into the edge of the space, and "installed" a section of plastic pipe before leaving the space again.
Ling Ran looked at the smoke slowly rising from the foot-long pipe and said to Zhou Xiang who suddenly appeared, "Look, it should be OK. Now let's go in and boil the herbs!"
Seeing the smoke coming out, Zhou Xiang felt relieved. The stove was in the space and was not extinguished.
Pulling Ling Ran into the space, he began to dig three kinds of medicinal herbs that were growing wildly behind the thatched hut.
The casserole was filled with well water. The three medicinal herbs were cut into parts according to the prescription and then washed. Zhou Xiang was extravagant and even used well water to wash the herbs. He put them into the casserole, cooked them on high heat for half an hour, left the furnace door a crack, and began the slow cooking process.
Zhou Xiang was pacing back and forth in front of the stove when Ling Ran chased him away. "Go check if those fruits are ripe. Don't hang around here. It's ten hours! How long are you going to hang around? I'll just watch from here."
Zhou Xiang nodded. She should leave! It was too urgent, especially under the "acceleration" mode, when space and time slowed down and she had nothing to do.
This made me even more anxious. It was clearly cooked a few days ago, so why is it still like that?
Bored Zhou Xiang flashed out of the space again to look at the chimney. The chimney was fine, nothing wrong with it, so she flashed back into the space.
Squatting beside the fruits, she sighed, thinking that she was too impatient. All the herbs were ready, except for refining.
Now that she was trying to refine it, she was really anxious to know whether this method was feasible.
Suppressing her anxiety, she simply went to look at Doctor Cao's medical book to see if there was anything in it that was worth others' coveting.
The first half is all prescriptions, which are easy to understand, followed by textual explanations. The two pages after the textual explanations are about the methods of practicing qi and moving qi through acupuncture.
After reading this method of circulating qi and acupuncture, even Zhou Xiang, a layman, understood it. It is to coordinate the qi cultivated during acupuncture to circulate on the needle tip, and at the same time let the needle inserted into the patient's body form a circulation on its own.
The theory is simple, but the practice is not. Furthermore, a doctor not only needs to learn medical skills but also cultivate qi. Not only can one cultivate qi, but will they even have enough time? Isn't it said that studying medicine is the most difficult? From a young age, they memorize the names and effects of medicinal herbs.
The last page was about the method of practicing Qi. Zhou Xiang took a look at it and found it very mysterious, something that seemed invisible and intangible.
Perhaps, what makes people covet this medical book is the final method of practicing Qi, or perhaps, this is also the initial method of cultivating immortals.
It's better to throw the medical book back on the bookshelf and keep it away from the sun. If anyone can absorb waste gases such as carbon dioxide as resources for cultivation, she will give the book to him.
Back at the edge, Ling Ran saw that she had calmed down, so he asked her to watch over a stove.
I estimated that the medicinal materials had been boiled for about three hours before pouring the juice into the bowl.
Zhou Xiang waved his hand and said, "Go home and show the three kinds of medicine to Doctor Cao."
"Um!"
After collecting the chimney pipe, the two of them left the space, and only a few dozen minutes had passed in the outside world.
The two drove directly to the clinic and went to see Dr. Cao with three bowls.
When Doctor Cao heard that he was asked to check the efficacy of the medicine, he looked at the three bowls suspiciously. Each bowl was half filled with liquid that exuded a medicinal aroma.
"What are these? If I didn't know, I wouldn't dare taste them!"
"They are ginseng, Polygonatum multiflorum, and Polygonatum sibiricum. I boiled them for several hours to get this much. I just wanted you to check to see if the efficacy has doubled."
When Doctor Cao heard this, he immediately criticized the two men, saying, "You're wasting medicinal herbs."
"You try it. I only do this because I need it." Zhou Xiang explained.
Doctor Cao took a medicine spoon, scooped a little from the bowl, tasted it on the tip of his tongue, and then immediately spat it out. He picked up the water cup and rinsed his mouth. "How old is this herb?"
"About three hundred years?" Zhou Xiang calculated the method of accelerating space.
Doctor Cao clutched his chest and said, "You prodigal son! You've ruined three hundred years of ginseng. Why did you concentrate the medicinal juice into this?"
"Don't worry about it. Just tell me, has the medicinal effect been lost or purified?"
"It has been purified," Doctor Cao said unwillingly, "The medicinal effect is now at least four hundred years old."
"You can try those two as well!"
Doctor Cao tried two other ones, and they both had the same medicinal effect of nearly four hundred years.
Zhou Xiang felt relieved, as this method proved to be feasible. Unfortunately, he could not ask Doctor Cao to try to boil the magical herbs in the future.
The two were about to leave, but Doctor Cao seized the three bowls and said, "It's useless for you to take them back. The medicinal properties will quickly disappear if they are left open like this. Leave them with me!"
As he spoke, Doctor Cao held a bowl in his left hand, picked up a book on the table with his right hand, pressed down another bowl, and then grabbed the last bowl.
Zhou Xiang laughed. Doctor Cao was always quick and agile in grabbing the fine herbs. "Okay! I'll give it to you."
Doctor Cao smiled and waved his hand, "You guys can go! I won't see you off."
Zhou Xiang and his wife drove back to the family compound. Seeing that they came back so quickly, Zhou's mother felt relieved and went to stew soup.
The next day, Zhou wanted to urge Ling Ran to buy a chemical sealed bottle with a lid. It was indeed inappropriate to use a bowl to hold the medicine juice. Although the time flow rate in the space was slow, after it was boiled, it still had to be proportioned.
Moreover, my brother will definitely not be able to use up all the medicinal juice boiled in one go, so it is safer to store it in a sealed bottle.
After hearing this, Ling Ran decided to buy small medicine bottles as well, each containing one dose.
Zhou Xiang nodded, "Okay! Buy the 5ml or 10ml ones."
"Then I'm going to the city."
"Well! Go ahead! I'll wait for you at home."
As a result, after waiting for three days, the person still didn't come back. Zhou became anxious and planned to go to the city to look for him the next day. But the next morning, Ling Ran came back.
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