Man Bao also took the opportunity to promote himself, "I can recognize many other medicines."
"Oh, what medicine do you know?"
Man Bao jumped off the chair, ran out and brought in a dirty yam to show him, "Look!"
The shopkeeper looked at the long piece of yam in surprise, then at Man Bao, and asked, "Did you dig this?"
"No, it was my elder brother who dug it!"
Not what are you proud of
The shopkeeper asked, "Do you know yam?"
Man Bao said: "I recognize it."
Many beautiful pictures were drawn in the medicine book that Man Bao read recently, and she memorized them one by one, so she counted with her fingers and the shopkeeper, "I have seen astragalus, licorice, and ginseng, but I I like red dates the most."
The shopkeeper simply chatted with her and asked, "Why?"
"Because it is said in the book that red dates are sweet and crisp, and I like to eat sweet fruits."
"Do you have medicine books at home?"
"My family doesn't have it, but my classmate's has it," Man Bao said, "My classmate's house has a lot of books."
The shopkeeper's attitude became more serious, "Little lady is studying? I don't know which gentleman she is studying with."
"My teacher's surname is Zhuang, and he is amazing."
The shopkeeper found this little girl a bit interesting, she seemed to think that everyone around her was very good, including herself.
Her husband is very good because he knows a lot; her classmates are very good because they read more books than she does, and they have a lot of books at home; The few nephews and nieces who only dare to look around the door are very fierce in her mouth, because they will always do things that she can't do.
The shopkeeper felt that she was also very good at realizing this.
Of course, she herself thinks she's great because she's smart!
Man Bao is a very talkative child, she didn't even need to ask the shopkeeper, she took the initiative to explain everything about her family.
Of course, she doesn't recognize her life, so she also asked a lot during the talk. The shopkeeper had a good chat with her, and he told you all about the situation at home. If you ask a question, he will answer. Ten sentences, when someone asks you a question, you have to answer at least one sentence, right
So Man Bao knew that the shopkeeper's surname was Zheng, and he was also a doctor. There were only two doctors in Jishi Hall in Luojiang County, except for one sitting doctor, Doctor Qin, and he was the one.
Although he also sees patients, he does more work such as dispensing medicine, purchasing medicinal materials, and keeping accounts. In his words, he is in charge of this shop, so what he does is management.
Dr. Zheng's family is here, and he has been here for three or four years, and he is familiar with the herb collectors in this area.
Man Bao would ask curiously, "What is a herbal picker?"
"It's people who collect medicines for a living, but there are not many families like this in Luojiang County, only two families, so most of the medicinal materials are imported from other places." Since Dr. Zheng is willing to accept medicines from the Zhou family, he is naturally not afraid Tell them, "The medicinal materials in our area include Araceae, Trichosanthes, Galla, Peucedanum, Akebia, Spatholobus, Uncaria, Ophiopogon japonicus, Aster, and Pueraria. , can also be processed, and the medicines that are sent to our pharmacy are basically prepared medicinal materials."
He laughed and said: "A person like your family who only sends one or two kinds of medicinal materials at a time can't even be called a herb collector, but since the sent ones are all used frequently, we also accept them."
Man Bao was amazed, "Then don't they make a lot of money?"
Dr. Zheng shook his head and said, "How much money can a herb collector earn? They don't have land, and they have to sell medicine for food, clothing and housing. There are so many snakes and insects in the mountains, how can it be so easy to gather medicine? It's still the days when you farmed the land. Better."
"Why don't they have land?" Man Bao said: "Every family in our village has land. The village chief said that if the family land is not enough, you can open up wasteland and manage enough."
Doctor Zheng: "..."
He hesitated and said, "Maybe it's because you don't know how to farm?"
"If you don't know how to learn," Man Bao said, "We didn't know medicinal materials before, but we know them now, and we will know more in the future."
Dr. Zheng took the opportunity to ask, "Your family will still sell medicinal materials in the future?"
"Sell as long as you meet it," Man Bao also took the opportunity to ask him, "Does your pharmacy still accept it? Do you accept all medicines?"
Doctor Zheng said that as long as it is medicine, he will buy it when it is delivered.
Man Bao was happy, and asked him, "Then do you have any medicine books? Many of the medicine books in my classmate's house are not well-drawn. I couldn't recognize them after reading them for a long time. If you have a better one here, let me have a look." , next time I meet a medicinal material, I will be able to recognize it."
Doctor Zheng looked at Man Bao's small face, and after a moment of silence, he went back to the backyard and found a book for her, "After reading it, bring it back to me, don't break it."
Zhou Dalang and Zhou Zhoulang, who were just sweating profusely to calculate the two sums of money, turned around and saw their younger sister taking a book from the shopkeeper.
Brothers: "..."
Man Bao happily took it, and carefully wrapped the school in oiled paper, and then gave him the yam they dug up, "Uncle shopkeeper, you can take it back and stew it, the yam root can be stewed with chicken, it can nourish Qi and nourish the spleen." , very good."
Doctor Zheng raised his eyebrows and asked with a smile, "You even know this?"
Man Bao is proud: "Of course, yam can also be made into yam cake."
Of course, Keke told her all these just now, because she took other people's books and always gave something in return.
Koko said yam is good.
Dr. Zheng didn't ask for her yams in vain, he still had to weigh them and buy them from her. He also said: "Next time you find yams, don't bring them raw. Cut them into slices and dry them and bring them to the pharmacy. I will still be 20." You can also get the raw ones sold in the market, and some rich and sophisticated families will buy them back to make medicinal meals."
Man Bao didn't want his money, but insisted on treating him to dinner.
Doctor Zheng thought about it for a while, and then he didn't refuse, but he didn't want all of them, only two were left, "Take the rest back."
Zhou Dalang and Zhou Zhoulang glanced at the book in Yaomei's hand, and bowed to say goodbye to Dr. Zheng repeatedly.
Doctor Zheng smiled and waved, "Don't break my book, remember to return it to me."
Man Bao patted his small chest in response, climbed onto the cart with the books in his arms, and said to his eldest brother and second brother, "We have to buy chicken."
Knowing that Yaomei wanted to eat chicken again, Zhou Dalang thought of his mother, and couldn't help but said: "Man Bao, our family has eaten four chickens. My mother said that if I buy chicken again, she will drive me and your second brother away." Go out, there is no such a waste of money."
"Okay, then we don't buy chicken, we buy lamb!"
Zhou Dalang continued to persuade, and Man Bao stretched out his hand to him, "Brother, give me the money we earned, and we will take it ourselves."
Zhou Dalang immediately shut up and did not speak.
Zhou Zhou Lang coaxed her, "Man Bao, it's not safe for you to carry so much money, it's better for the elder brother and the second brother to help you, ah."
"Then you give me fifty yuan to buy meat, or I will cry."
Zhou Dalang and Zhou Zhoulang were entangled. Man Bao seldom cried, but they were very afraid of her crying, because the child was easily out of breath when he cried, and would vomit when he cried hard. She might be fine in the end. But most of them would be scared to death, so they hesitated and gave her fifty coins.