This is an excellent book. Gu Shiba Niang had heard of it before.
The Shen family has a unique and unique book of medicinal herbs, which was accidentally obtained by the ancestor of the Shen family who first founded the medicine shop. However, since they are an official family, they only treat this book as an isolated book and do not make full use of the knowledge contained in it. After generations, no one paid much attention to it, but they didn't know that this was the sacred code in the hearts of the masters of prepared medicines all over the world.
When she gave this book to the old master of the Shen family medicine shop, the old master was willing to sign a contract to sell himself, and not only himself but also his descendants became slaves of the Shen family.
A book has such a great temptation, but it was from the mouth of this old master that I learned that there is another book that is even more powerful than the Shen family's book.
That is "Liu Gong's Seventeen Methods of Cannon-burning".
Since the early days of the Yellow Emperor's Internal Medicine, it was recorded that medicinal materials need to be purified into medicine. For thousands of years, the processing of medicinal materials has been progressing slowly. The common method is to simply wash away the soil and remove the non-medicinal parts. There is no strict standard of slicing, cutting into segments, and crushing. It was not until the Tang Dynasty that a master appeared who was profound in the processing of medicinal materials. He summarized the experience of his predecessors and his own life's practice and wrote a monograph on the processing of medicinal materials.
The master's surname was Liu, so this book was called Liu Gong Pao Zhi, and because the book summarized seventeen methods of preparing medicinal materials, it was commonly known as Liu Gong's Seventeen Methods of Pao Zhi.
Almost no one has seen the original copy of this book since it came out. It is said that it only exists in the hands of Liu Gong's descendants, and Liu Gong's skills are passed down alone. Over the past dynasties and generations, Liu Gong's descendants have become fewer and fewer, and this book No one had ever seen the book, and it became a legend over time. Later, a pharmacist wrote a book on medicinal materials, which was the book hidden by the Shen family, and it was in that book that this book was mentioned. book, let everyone know that the book Liu Gong's Seventeen Methods of Pao Zhi really appeared in the world.
When Gu Shiba Niang gave the book to the master, she was deeply impressed by the master's ecstatic expression, so the conversation at that time was also very deep in her memory.
At this moment, the title of the book jumped into her eyes, and she remembered it immediately.
"Do you know your book?" The old man raised his eyebrows when he saw her expression, a little surprised.
"Are you real or fake?" Gu Shiba Niang asked in a hoarse voice.
The old man curled his lips and threw the book to her casually, "Look, look, it's written in black and white, and there are also fakes!"
Before Gu Shiba Niang stretched out her hand, the old man came to his senses and grabbed it back again. Because he moved too hard, he tore a corner of the book.
Gu Shiba Niang's eyelids twitched with distress. If it were true, this book would be a priceless treasure...
"Hey, little girl, look at my medicine... If you recognize it, how about I give you this book?" The old man said with a smile while shaking the book.
"Okay." Gu Shiba Niang agreed without hesitation.
"Don't say it in such a hurry," the old man said with a smile, while he looked at the book again, shook it, and was a little puzzled, "Isn't it just a book? What's so strange... Young people are impulsive... Impulsiveness is not It’s easy to suffer losses…”
The donkey cart was swaying out of Hezhong County. The young man was attracted by their words and looked back from time to time.
"What do you know? Our eldest sister is a scholar. She loves reading the most. What do you, a commoner, know?" the boy said with his nose raised.
"The child of a scholar..." The old man looked at Gu Shiba Niang with small eyes after hearing this.
"My father-in-law, do you have any other requests?" Gu Shiba Niang asked.
The old man nodded and rolled his eyes, "If you can't tell, tell me who you studied under."
Gu Shiba Niang was stunned, a little amused, "You want to ask me who I studied under?"
The old man gave her a profound look, as if you couldn't fool me, wrinkled his dry nose and hummed: "Old man, this is the first time someone has recognized my medicine so quickly, so naturally I want to ask for advice... .”
Gu Shiba Niang covered her mouth and smiled, "Old man, don't you think I'm too smart? Why do you think I have a master to teach me now? I don't have a master to teach me..."
The old man sneered and said seriously: "Young man, being smart is a good thing, but lying to others is wrong..."
Gu Shiba Niang wanted to roll her eyes, is it wrong to lie? He also had the nerve to say….
"How's it going? Do you dare to bet?" the old man said, shaking his head.
Is this the condition? Gu Shiba Niang covered her mouth and smiled. Of course she bet. If she won the bet, she would get a treasure book. If she lost...haha, if she lost, she would just introduce herself to this old man. Didn't they already know each other
"Bet!" Gu Shiba Niang said with a smile.
"Little girl," the old man was also very happy, with the pride of looking at a loser, but also thought that the atmosphere in the world today is not good, and all the pharmacists who are more or less capable have weird tempers. This little girl refused to tell her inheritance, for fear of being Her master told her not to say anything. If she forced this girl to say it, who knows how the weird master would scold her.
He would feel bad if he got such a smart disciple and was really scolded.
"Little girl, don't be afraid..." The old man thought for a while and comforted him with a somewhat senior attitude, "You lost in fighting, your master will not blame you..."
Gu Shiba Niang laughed out loud, this old man thought too much...
She nodded, that was for sure. If she couldn't recognize these fake medicines, she wouldn't blame herself. After all, she was still a beginner, so there was no reason to blame herself.
"Okay, let's take a look at my medicine first." The old man couldn't wait. With a shake of his hand, he overturned the sack and a large amount of medicinal materials fell on the cart.
Gu Shiba Niang looked away.
"Little girl, don't be unconvinced. You are smart and have been taught so well by the master. Otherwise, you can see my medicine at a glance? Hum, but you can't be so arrogant. I'm not bragging, if my master is still alive, I can't guarantee that he can tell what my medicine is at a glance..." The old man squinted his eyes, scratched his knees with his hands, and muttered.
Before he finished speaking, he saw Gu Shiba Niang reaching out to pick up the scattered medicinal materials one by one.
"This is cowpea root..."
"This is dead silkworms... bah bah... dead silkworms plus lime..."
"This is bayberry bark..."
"This is... a stone... I think it would be better for you to use white alum to make Tianzhu yellow..."
As she spoke one word after another, the old man became sluggish.