Merchant and doctor

Chapter 1362: Growth is ultimately a matter of multiplication and exponentiation
The test results were quickly compared and came out. The "Sangong Lake" was alkaline as a whole, and the other test indicators were qualified. At least 60% of the indicators met the high-quality water quality standards. The water quality of the "Sangong Lake" was much better than Bian Mu had imagined.

Slightly different from other Chinese medicine practitioners, Bian Mu always pays more attention to pH matching when treating patients.

Perhaps, that relative of Mr. Tong suffered a great loss due to "acid-base imbalance".

The research work was half completed, so Bian Mu was naturally very happy.

"There's a kind of 'lake horse shrimp' in this lake, which is considered a very precious ingredient. From time to time, you'll come across a diner who specifically asks for a dish of it. My brother has to drive over here from time to time to ask nearby farmers to get some. However, those are semi-finished products that are half-artificial and half-wild, and they definitely don't taste as good as wild ones. I wonder if we can catch a few here." The young female chef said with a smile.

"Oh! You are talking about the 'horsetail shrimp', the shrimp tail looks like a horse's head. It usually swims at the bottom of the lake. It is quite big, and it seems to usually walk with its head down and its tail up, right?" Bian Mu responded with a smile.

“You’ve eaten it!”

"I've eaten it several times in restaurants with friends. Most of the time, the cooking wine was not added properly, and the taste was average. What's more, they didn't control the heat well, and the good prawns were overcooked! Look at the calm water here, I should be able to catch a few, let's try!" As he spoke, Bian Mu took out a set of homemade fishing tools from a travel bag.

"Made it yourself? This is not fishing line! It's colorful and specially made?" asked the young female chef.

"I asked a friend for it. They call it 'fish rope'. It's specially made for this kind of deep lake and dangerous pool. It's mixed with a lot of metal wires, and it's quite heavy when coiled up! You try it!" As he spoke, Bian Mu took out a roll of mixed goldfish rope and handed it to the female chef.

"It's quite heavy, and it's made of mixed gold! It takes real skill to mix all the materials together and make it so thin!" said the young female chef with a smile.

"Of course not! One meter is very expensive! Come! Give me a hand, let's connect these ropes. Just press that small clip and it will open. Yes! There are screws inside, just connect them and screw them on." As he spoke, Bian Mu estimated that he had connected 120 meters of fishing rope.

Every few meters, Bian Mu hung a small lead weight on the fishing line. The lake was too deep, and if he didn't pull the weight on the fishing line, who knows where it would drift to.

Everything was settled, Bian Mu said with a smile: "I'll go over and ask. If they forbid fishing, we can just turn back!"

"They don't care! Is everything alright?" "You better ask! This is someone else's territory, you should at least say hello out of courtesy. There's a folding stool over there, you take a rest first, I'll be back soon!"

"Okay then! I'll take some short videos. The scenery here is so beautiful!" As she spoke, the young female chef took out her mobile phone and started taking short videos from different angles. At this time, there were more and more water birds, and there were at least five or six kinds of them. Some of the brave ones almost flew over the head of the young female chef, making her dodge while taking a few photos of the flying birds.

In the cockpit, after hearing Bian Mu politely asking for the opinions of the three people, the captain smiled and responded, "You are too polite, Doctor Bian! There are not so many rules here, as you have just experienced. People without courage cannot come here. First of all, the quality of the boat is not up to standard, haha... Besides, even if there are regulations in the lake area, how much can you two catch for fun! Go fishing with confidence! It's okay! However, the current below is quite strong, and I guess the bait you put down will be directly washed away."

"Then I'll go over and try my luck." Bian Mu responded with a smile.

"No hurry! Please take a seat, Doctor Bian! I heard that you are very famous. Can you ask me something?" The captain said with a smile.

"No! No! I opened a small clinic in the city and I can barely make a living. If you have anything to say, please tell me. Is anyone at home feeling unwell?" As he spoke, Bian Mu found a place to sit and sat down.

"No one else! Just my head. Look, I've been bald for many years! To be honest, I'm not doing very well myself, but I have a few capable relatives in my family. Through their introduction, I have actually seen famous doctors like Cen Songxue and Nie Yixiong. It's quite interesting to say that the prescriptions they prescribed are almost exactly the same. The difference is that the subsequent hair care is slightly different. At the beginning, when I was in my thirties, my hair grew really well, but later it didn't work. The hair loss was not very obvious, but it was very sparse, and it was uncomfortable no matter how I looked at it. Later, it annoyed me, so I just shaved my head bald, which saved me trouble! Doctor Bian! Is there a cure for my condition?" The captain of the ship asked a few questions with a smile.

"Hehe... you have an extraordinary alcohol tolerance and your kidney energy is very strong. Logically... it should be a good thing, but... due to various objective reasons, the alcohol you drink... plus your long-term habit of drinking with meals, eventually some tissues on the inner wall of the stomach were damaged, thus laying the root cause of hair loss. You are born with strong kidney energy, and your gastrointestinal digestion function is much stronger than most people. Over time, it is easy to create the illusion that your hair only looks sparse, but your body is much healthier than ordinary people. So... as long as you don't quit drinking completely, no matter how good the prescription is, I'm afraid it will be twice as effective with half the result." Bian Mu explained with a smile.

"Doctor Bian is really amazing! What you said is almost the same as what Cen Songxue, Nie Yixiong and others said, but... a few years ago, I also gritted my teeth and abstained from hair growth for about ten years, why didn't my hair grow much?" The captain asked with a smile.

"This... may have something to do with the concept of medical practice. You should have heard that it was not until the 15th century AD that humans first formally and systematically used mathematical symbols for multiplication and division. At that time, our ancestors had not yet formed a multiplication system in the full sense. Although we probably had a relatively complete multiplication table in the Qin and Han dynasties, it was also a relatively simple one. As a result, for a long time, due to the high illiteracy rate, multiplication awareness, square awareness, and arithmetic awareness... have actually been difficult to popularize among the people. What I mean by popularization here is that ordinary people naturally use multiplication thinking in their minds when doing things. For example, when you get the prescriptions from Mr. Nie and Mr. Cen, there is actually a lot of knowledge in how to operate them. Why am I talking about multiplication today? Because for us, the prosperity and decline of hair, and the increase or decrease in hair volume are actually a multiplication and square process. If we always deal with it with the thinking habit of addition and subtraction, it will be difficult to grow a head of beautiful hair. Do you think my explanation is okay?" Bian Mu asked with a smile.

The three shipping staff looked at each other, but they didn't understand.

"Doctor Bian! At first glance, you speak plain language. We have all been to high school. One of them went to college and the other went to technical secondary school. They are not uneducated people. But... when we hear this guy together, we are a little dizzy. So... let me put it this way, if I go to you for treatment, at my age, can my hair still grow?"

Hearing this, Bian Mu couldn't help but smile slightly, and for a moment he didn't know what to agree to.