After picking up the daughter of the lucky star, the whole village prospered

Chapter 75 Internal Classics
The incident of stealing children from the Chen family in Xicun has come to an end for the time being.

But the people of the East Village are becoming more and more displeased with the people of the West Village.

Some women were even more exaggerated, taking advantage of people not paying attention, they pried all the laundry stones near Chen Laoshuan's house on the west bank of the Chuan River into the river to express their dissatisfaction and contempt.

The West Village has become a den of thieves who steal children, and everyone is not a good thing!They are not worthy to wash rice and wash clothes in the same river as the people of the East Village!
And the Jiang family picked all the cotton seeds day and night, and the three Jiang family brothers started to play cotton with their longbows.

Not to mention, this method is really good, the cotton that has been stretched is softer, and it is better to make cotton-padded jackets and quilts.

So, the sister-in-law of the Jiang family and her mother-in-law Jiang Liu were busy making new cotton clothes for the family, all of which were made of soft ramie cloth.

These ramie cloths are all starch-dyed, and the colors are very beautiful.

In the past, poor families could not afford to wear starched and dyed cloth, and most of them directly made clothes from white ramie cloth.

Now that the Jiang family is rich, they can make every family member wear colorful and patterned dresses.

Dozens of bedding were also made to ensure that everyone's bedding was covered with cotton-filled quilts, which were soft and warm, just like the treatment of aristocratic families.

After Jiang Sanlang finished picking cotton, he went to Beishan with his two elder brothers to dig out the kudzu root that hadn't been dug for four years.

This thing has grown thicker than an adult's thigh, and it will break when knocked on, and the powder content is not bad.

Scrape off the outer skin, clean it, cut it into small pieces, and pound it in a stone mortar.

Soak these kudzu root powder in water and hang the pulp, and the snow-white starch will be precipitated in the future.

Pueraria powder is easy to store after drying. Grab a little and dissolve it in water to cook. It has the same effect as lotus root powder. It tastes better if you add some malt sugar.

This thing is the food of the common people. It has existed since ancient times, but it is not common.

Only when the kudzu root grows to three or four years can it be dug for powder, and most of the kudzu root have a very low powder yield. One hundred and ten catties of kudzu root can only be scoured for two catties of kudzu powder. Not to mention time-consuming and laborious, it is not worthwhile.

But kudzu vines can be harvested every year. Like retting, the process of peeling and beating silk is quite cumbersome.

The woven Gebu is people's favorite material for summer clothes, it is cool and does not stick to the body.

Aristocratic families even regard fine Gebu as a holy product for enjoying the cool air in midsummer.

Often the Zhiniang sells the woven Gebu to the cloth shop, and as soon as the front foot leaves, the back foot is bought.

Yingbao watched the whole process of the old man pounding kudzu root, hanging kudzu pulp, and straining starch, thinking it was very interesting.

Making tofu is almost the same process, only one less step is to cook the paste and lightly marinate.

According to Shennong’s Materia Medica, Pueraria lobata is sweet in taste and calm in nature, and it is mainly used to cure thirst, severe fever, vomiting, numbness, yin qi, and detoxification.

Mrs. Ke Wen said that kudzu root is cool in nature, people with weak spleen and stomach, pregnant women and children should not eat more.

Speaking of Mrs. Wen, I think of Mr. Wen.

Yingbao hasn't seen Mr. Wen for a long time, so Mrs. Wen is not very happy recently.

She was too busy to teach the students in two classrooms by herself, so she arranged for Yingbao and Wenshu to have classes in the morning, and assigned homework for them to go home to study in the afternoon, so that she could teach Huzi Erni and the others again.

However, Mrs. Wen still bought Yingbao's fine golden and snow fungus.

For five catties of gold ears, Yingbao got more than 60 taels of silver.

With the previous silver ingots, she is already a real little rich woman.

Parents also made a lot of money this time, probably more than 100 taels.

Even Dani and Erni earned more than seven taels of silver each, but they were so happy that they kept urging the hall brother to take them to the market.

Yingbao didn't have anything to buy, so she didn't join in the fun and concentrated on studying medical classics at home.

The medical classics, also known as the book of prescriptions and techniques, are divided into four parts: meridians, pulses, prescriptions, and medicines.

Scholars said: The scriptures explain the way, the arteries are transported, the formula achieves its merits, and the medicine distinguishes its nature. The four are prepared, and the prescription is prepared.

It means that as long as you learn to use the four skills of "meridians", "pulse", "prescription" and "medicine", you can be a doctor.

The "classics" here are divided into 23 categories such as "Internal Canon", "Nanjing", five internal organs, acupuncture, gynecology, pediatrics, surgery, health preservation, classic prescriptions, herbal medicine, and food classics.

Yingbao has only learned Neijing, and she is far away from becoming a doctor.

The Canon of Internal Medicine is also called "The Yellow Emperor's Canon of Internal Medicine", including "Su Wen" and "Lingshu".

Plain questions are mainly questions and answers between the Yellow Emperor and the teachers, telling the deduction of the human body and viscera and the relationship between heaven and man, which is somewhat illusory.

Lingshu is a science of acupuncture and moxibustion, which focuses on the practical operation of meridians and acupuncture.

Yingbao has finished studying basic questions, and recently learned human acupuncture points and acupuncture from Mrs. Wen.

But Mrs. Wen did not emphasize that she must learn acupuncture and moxibustion well, she only asked her to understand a little bit.

Because acupuncture and moxibustion can't really cure the disease, it can only relieve some symptoms.

Just like a witch doctor bleeding people to cure diseases, it is just a medical technique.

Next, Yingbao will have to learn the difficult scriptures.

"The Book of Difficulties" is also known as "81 Questions" and "The Yellow Emperor's 81 Books of Difficulties".Based on the basic theory, taking into account the analysis of a variety of related diseases.

The content includes meridians, viscera, yin and yang, five elements, disease syndrome, camp and health, acupoints, acupuncture, etc., involving normal physiology, anatomy, diseases, diagnosis and treatment of the human body.

Studying medicine takes a lot of brainpower, and many things have to be memorized by rote, Yingbao only feels miserable.

In her spare time, she recruited her two younger brothers and asked them to recite the book to herself.

The two twins are very smart and have learned to recite the Three Character Classic and Hundred Family Names.

So Yingbao taught them how to read and write by the way.

And encouraged them, whoever learns ten characters first every day, she will take him out to ride a deer, and take him to visit Wen Hengyin's little piglet.

The twins really worked hard and competed with each other who could learn more and faster.

"Look at what words you wrote. One word takes up a piece of paper. How do you write next?"

If you don't teach, you don't know. Once you teach, you will be shocked.

When Yingbao saw the two children's crab claws, she was so angry that she vomited blood.

Not only are the characters crooked and crooked like crabs crawling, but the writing is also big.

If it weren't for the fear of dampening the enthusiasm of the two younger brothers to study, she would have wanted to hit their little paws with a ruler.

Alas, in order to enjoy the blessing of my younger brothers being officials in the future, I should bear it.

The days passed and the weather became colder.

The Jiang family was very lively at home, so they bought a sheep and killed it, and the whole family gathered around the stove to roast the lamb.

But not long after the good times, the township beat the gong and went door to door to inform the Shanghe workers, that is, to do hard labor.

This river worker is not in his hometown, but is dispatched to other places by the county magistrate.

This visit may last for ten or twenty days or even a month. If they are sick or hungry during this period, no one will take care of them, because the county government will not manage the food of the laborers, or even where the laborers live.

So Chunniang hurriedly prepared bedding and dry food for her husband, as well as bamboo hats and coir raincoats, and sewed a small tent for him out of sheepskin.

In case of rain and snow, the husband and two brothers can also have a place to hide from the rain and snow.

Originally, their family could spend money to buy slave labor, but Xiang Ding said that even if a big family like theirs spends money to buy slave labor, the three brothers must go to a slave labor, otherwise it will be difficult to do business.

That is to say, you can buy up to two places, but the other must go to work.

The three Jiang family brothers thought together, let's all go, it's not easy to be outside alone, if something happens, no one will know.

(End of this chapter)