Food starts with Mapo Tofu

Chapter 270
Obviously Guishouqi is a person who is very good at dealing with emergencies. Chen Nian looked at it and saw that there was only a shallow streak on his head. Guishouqi wiped it with a warm wet towel. Blow gently with your mouth.

Although Chen Nian's scalp became cold for a while, the bleeding soon stopped.

Afterwards, Guishou Qi carefully shaved off all the hair in other places, and now a bald old man appeared in the mirror.

The aging feels a lot more refreshing in an instant.

Although the top of my head was bare before, with only braids on the back of my head, I wore a hat at that time, and now I don’t wear a hat when I’m old, and I just finished washing my hair. In this era, there is no such thing as a hair dryer.

But with a hair dryer, Chen Nian's bald head can't use it.

Others use a hair dryer to dry their hair, and to blow it in the direction they want it to go, but if you don't have hair, isn't it purely roasting your scalp?

In the end, Guishouqi did not accept Chen Nian's money as he said before, and even thoughtfully gave Chen Nian a small box of hair gel.

"I managed to get this before, and it's very beautiful on the head. In the past, only people with status came to me to shave their hair, so I put some on them. This time, I'm sorry for you, brother. I'll give it all to you." is you!"

Chen Nian looked at the pained look on the other side's face, and thought to himself, is there such a thing in this era?
But it's useless to take this thing by myself, now I don't even have hair.

But since the other party took it out, Chen Nian would accept it, probably because Guishou Qi was afraid that he would cause trouble for him.

Then Chen Nian put the melon skin hat on his head again.

After all, the temperature here in California is not too high this month, and it is windy outside.

Just walking on the street like this, Chen Nian felt that all the things that had been restraining him were gone, and it was quite refreshing to get rid of three thousand traces of troubles, but he was not used to looking in the mirror.

In the barber shop just now, Chen Nian looked at himself in the mirror who was bald and without a hair on his head, and suddenly felt like a monk.

But if he brought him in as a monk, Chen Nian looked at it carefully again, and felt that even if he was a monk, he would be a handsome monk.

Once he accepted this setting, Chen Nian felt indifferent.

Before going out, Mr. Qiao asked himself to go to the pharmacy to grab some medicine when he went back, but it was not that Mr. Qiao was sick, but that he wanted to use these things to make soup.

Medicinal ingredients are widely used in soups on Laoguangren's menu.

What's more, they are very particular about their different recipes throughout the year. For example, in summer, they need to clear away heat, dispel fire, and relieve summer heat, while in winter, they need to warm up and replenish their bodies.

This is called following the seasons.

The pharmacy that Mr. Qiao mentioned is not very far from the Guangrong Hotel, about 30 meters away, and there are only four shops and an alley in the middle.

And the alley in the middle is also very familiar to Chen Nian, where A Cai's fireworks shop is located.

Arriving at the door of the pharmacy, the owner of the pharmacy is an elder who looks younger than Mr. Qiao, and he is grinding the medicine with a traditional Chinese medicine roller at the door...

When someone comes to a pharmacy to buy medicine, they can't sell the whole medicinal material directly to the customer. They have to crush the medicine so that the customer can take it home and cook it.

And just standing at the door of the pharmacy, bursts of medicinal smells kept rushing towards the tip of Chen Nian's nose, but smelling this smell, Chen Nian would not feel too strong like smelling the disinfectant in a modern hospital, On the contrary, I feel that the taste is quite refreshing.

Just by smelling it like this, I feel that my whole body is much healthier again.

But Chen Nian also knows that many of these traditional Chinese medicines actually smell good, but they don’t taste very good when they are drunk. Chen Nian once fell ill when he was a child. At that time, Feng Honghong took Chen Nian to see a doctor, and later took some Chinese medicine return.

But Chen Nian didn't know it at the beginning, but when he smelled the traditional Chinese medicine, he felt that it smelled sweet and a little like honey, so out of curiosity, he took a little and put it in his mouth.

In an instant, the mask of pain hung on his face.

And the one who was doing the calculations on the counter inside was the son of the owner of the pharmacy, so it can be regarded as a family business, and he has been practicing medicine for generations.

"Doctor Huang, our old man Qiao asked me to grab some medicine and said that he wanted to make soup. He also said that after telling you the name of the medicine, you will know how much to take."

Doctor Huang is naturally the owner of the pharmacy here. His name is Huang Shouren. I heard that he used to run a pharmacy when he was in China, and he often used ocean freighters to deliver some medicinal materials to Mr. Qiao, who opened a restaurant in San Francisco's Chinatown. In the United States, it is really not easy to get those traditional Chinese medicines.

And they have not been here for too long.

Before they came, the Qing Dynasty was still there, but even so, there were frequent wars, which made people's lives difficult, so they sold all their ancestral properties, and then moved their family here. They got a frontage in a good location to open a drugstore.

As for the source of those medicines, Mr. Qiao and Yong's sons got them from China.

But Doctor Huang immediately stopped what he was doing when he heard what Chen Nian said.

"Ah Nian, just tell me what you want."

After Chen Nian mentioned the names of the medicinal materials that Mr. Qiao wanted, Doctor Huang immediately understood, turned around and asked his son to bring these medicinal materials, some were half a catty, some were two or three taels.

After bringing it, Doctor Huang went to the table just now, put the medicine twister aside, and brought over a small switch knife for cutting medicine.

Some are cut into slices, others are cut into small pieces.

Finally, they were separated and wrapped in different papers.

After confirming that the bag was tight, it was handed over to Chen Nian.

Old age gave money, but the sum of these medicinal materials was only two or three cents. The purchasing power of the dollar in this period was still very strong, and it cost about ten cents to buy about 7 catties of beef.

After paying the money, Chen Nian was just about to leave, but Doctor Huang stopped him again: "Ah Nian, wait a minute, I still have some horseshoes here. I don't have them here, but last time someone brought them on the boat from China. , I’ll take it back and prepare to raise it myself, these are leftovers, you can also take them back to Old Qiao, it’s not bad to use this to make soup in summer.”

"Okay, thank you Doctor Huang, Mr. Qiao must be very happy to go back." Chen Nian left after finishing speaking.

With both hands full of medicine bags, he planned to return to Qiao and Yong, but he had just taken two steps. When he reached the alley, he glanced inside and saw a car parked inside. , while some big and three rough people pulled a woman from the car.

(End of this chapter)