The Lan family finally chose a date, and chose the 21st of the twelfth lunar month among the three days reported by the old Zhou family.
This time, there were not many guests at home, only a few close ones, as well as people the old Zhou family knew in the capital.
On Manbao's side, basically only the doctors from Jishitang and Yin or a few were invited.
The Chinese New Year is approaching, and there are a lot of people who have a wedding and marry a daughter-in-law to go home for the New Year. The shopkeeper Zheng Da has had eight weddings in the past three months. It hurts a little.
Looking at his son who has not been back to Beijing for a long time, shopkeeper Zheng Da made a balance, and wandered over to find Zhou Man, "Doctor Zhou."
Man Bao was clasping his hands to watch the guests pouring Zhou Liwei (two heads) to drink. He turned his head and his eyes lit up slightly, "Master Zheng, I was just looking for you. My niece said that the poria cocos I bought with you is gone?"
Shopkeeper Zheng Da curled his lips and said, "What do you mean it's gone? It's because your niece bought it."
He said: "The pharmacy here in the capital always keeps some spares. The workshop that your niece built has robbed me of a lot of medicinal materials in the past two months."
The medicinal materials needed for ointments and creams are just the same, so the prices of several medicinal materials purchased by Zhou Lijun in the capital have increased recently, and the shopkeeper Zheng Da is still distressed. The prescriptions that use those medicinal materials are more expensive than before Some, some patients who used the prescription complained secretly.
Man Bao sighed and said, "One is that the transportation is really inconvenient now, and the other is that the medicinal materials are wild now, and few are grown by ourselves, so the medicinal materials are expensive."
Shopkeeper Zheng Da was stunned for a moment and asked, "Doctor Zhou mean that medicinal materials can be planted?"
Man Bao said: "Didn't medicinal materials like jujube and ginger be planted mostly?"
Of course, there are also those that are collected in the wild, but at present, these two kinds of medicinal materials still account for the majority of cultivation.
"But these are not only medicinal materials, but also food materials. Food materials can naturally be planted."
Man Bao said: "My family also grows yams."
Shopkeeper Zheng Da smiled, "Yams can also be used as ingredients."
However, few people just use it for food, and most of them are still used as medicine or medicinal food. However, as Master Zheng knows, except for some places in Ludi where yams are grown, most of the rest of the place are harvested and wild.
To be honest, Zhou Man's village planted yams, which was unexpected by shopkeeper Zheng Da.
Man Bao said indifferently: "There are also Ligustrum lucidum, my house is now full of a mountain, and the Ligustrum lucidum in our village now accounts for almost half of the mountain."
This is what the second and third brothers told her, so Qili Village is no longer the poorest village under Dali Village. Last year, their village joined hands with Master Bai to pay for the repair of the road to the county seat. Now It is very spacious, although it is not as good as the official road, but it is not much worse.
Therefore, it is difficult to find labor every year in autumn. In the past, the old Zhou's family was too busy to hire part-time labor in the village, but now they are hired by other villages or the county.
Even Master Bai complained in private that it was hard to find short-term workers.
Shopkeeper Zheng Da opened his mouth, and pondered after a long while: "In this way, the medicinal materials can be planted. I wonder how many kinds of medicinal materials can be grown by Imperial Physician Zhou?"
Man Bao turned her eyes slightly. Over the years, all the medicinal materials she has seen, as long as she can get them alive, are basically included in the encyclopedia.
And all the hosts know that what is included in the encyclopedia can be purchased from the encyclopedia in turn, um, if it has it.
And the species cultivated through the encyclopedia may have unstable genes, or they may be better.
Ever since he guessed that the biggest problem in the world over there is genetic instability, Man Bao has been paying attention to books and information on this.
Occasionally ask about the research progress of the species included 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, most of them are still genetically stable.
She thinks that the genetic abnormality is an environmental problem over there, and it may also be the reason for the spread of the most primitive species mutation. Now that they get the original species, there is a high probability that they can keep the gene unchanged.
Keke once said that the cultivation of plants in her collection is the easiest, which can maintain the stability of its own genes to a large extent and can be optimized; animals are next, and the most difficult should be humans.
Man Bao guessed that it was because there were no new hominids joining in that world, no matter whether it was continuous or research, they didn't have specimens.
Well, thanks to Koko for saying that the alliance law stipulates that intelligent creatures are not included in the transaction, and her world is too far away from that world, even if there are bad guys who ignore the law, they can't find them.
Man Bao was happy from the bottom of his heart, and said to the shopkeeper Zheng Da: "My family has always grown various medicinal materials dug from the wild, that is, I have some grown in my garden. Would you like to go and have a look?"
Shopkeeper Zheng Da was overjoyed, and immediately said: "Okay."
Shopkeeper Zheng Da and Zhou Man didn't care about the people who were eating the banquet, and went to the back garden while saying: "Among the medicinal materials, except for jade, insects and beasts, the rest are herbal medicines, and it is said that all plants and trees can be planted." , but firstly, planting herbs needs to consume fields, and the medicinal materials scattered in the mountains are basically enough; secondly, it is not easy to grow herbs, especially herbs like ginseng and ganoderma, which are not viable at all, even other herbs, most of them need two years The above time is enough."
"So as far as I know, the herbs that can be planted are only double ten, and they are all herbs such as red dates, safflowers, ginger, pomegranates, garlic, and lotus seeds." The shopkeeper Zheng Da shook his head slightly: "But "Shen Nong's Herbal Classic" There are 239 kinds of herbal medicines recorded in the book, and there are 730 kinds of herbal medicines included in the "Book of Materia Medica" collected by our Zheng family, and so many medicinal materials are currently planted on a large scale, very few."
But Man Bao knows that these herbal medicines have not yet collected all the medicines that can be used in the world. Although Teacher Mo and his world also lack a lot of herbal medicines, she knows that they have existed, otherwise there will be no records in the encyclopedia.
Her world does not have the crisis of their world, that is to say, those herbal medicines exist in their place, at least most of them exist.
Man Bao cheered up, and thought to himself: If these herbs can be discovered and used, how many diseases can be cured
It can also avoid the consequences of a certain drug shortage.
Arriving at a piece of land in the garden that Man Bao specially split out beside his sister-in-law's vegetable field, Man Bao looked at it, turned his head and said to the silent shopkeeper Zheng Da, "Treasurer Zheng, you have to believe me, the medicinal materials are really good. They are planted because these medicinal materials may have been dug from the wild, and the soil and water are a bit unacceptable, and it is winter now, so when you come back in spring, it will definitely look different... "