Medicine Girl Jingjing

Chapter 16 Jingjing Gets Pharmaceutical Equipment

He and his cousin Qu Yi had eaten the jelly beans given by Li Jingjing.

Li Jingjing pointed at a group of ants "running for their lives" on the ground with a hoe, and said with a smile, "I'm looking for the biggest ant nest."

Qu Zheng squatted down and took a look, and said: "This ant nest is not big, and there are no ants with wings. I know where there is a big ant nest, and I will take you there."

Qu Zheng helped Li Jingjing hold the hoe and held her right hand, while Qu Yi shyly took her left hand.

The three of them walked towards the village, the big yellow dog followed with a shake of its head and tail, and a few children and girls joined the team on the way.

"Want to see the flying ant king with wings?"

"Let's dig the ant nest to find the ant king."

A group of children talked and laughed and came to the village under the 200-year-old locust tree, and began to dig ant nests with hoes and branches.

The big locust tree has dense branches and leaves. Every early summer, it is full of snow-white sophora japonica flowers, and adults and children come to pick the flowers, wash them, and steam them with rice.

In winter, as long as it is sunny, the old people in the village will come here to chat and bask in the sun.

There were actually five super-large ant nests within a radius of five feet under the tree, all of which were dug up by the children, exposing the top layer. Countless ants came out from under the nest. Sure enough, more than a dozen of them were twice the size of ordinary ants. Ant with transparent wings.

The children killed a few ants with big wings and wanted to fill the ditch with leaves to flood the ant nests. Li Jingjing blushed and smiled and proposed to catch grasshoppers to play.

A little boy shouted: "There are many grasshoppers in the field at the end of the village."

Qu Zheng gestured with his palm Li Jingjing: "I've been to that field. When the sun is high, there are many green grasshoppers that are longer than my palm and fly around in the grass."

After finishing torturing the ants, the child happily went to the end of the village.

Li Jingjing deliberately went to the end, and took all the ants who had escaped from the ant nest into the Rejuvenation Medicine House.

Ants, like earthworms, are very common little bugs, but the medicinal effect is very high.

"Book of Medicine and Animals" records the effects of ants: tonifying the kidney and replenishing essence; dredging the meridian and activating collaterals; (Excerpt from Baidu)

Qu Zheng calmly pushed away the snotty little boy who came to Li Jingjing's side, and asked, "Sister Jing, you used to like weeds and vegetables, but now you don't?"

Li Jingjing said: "I don't like those I know, but I still like those I don't know."

Qu Zhengdao: "My grandfather's house is in the mountains, and there are many weeds and vegetables that I don't even know. I'll bring you some next time."

Li Jingjing smiled and said, "Okay, but you must remember to bring Lian Liangen with you."

A five-year-old girl said: "Sister Jing, there are also a lot of wild vegetables at my grandfather's house. I'll bring you some next time."

Li Jingjing said gratefully: "You are so kind to me. Thank you."

She has been collecting herbs since last year, and has received unrequited help from many children in the village who are a little older than her.

In order to thank these children, she bought jelly beans from the shopkeeper with the money given by her elders and shared them with them.

Qu Zheng lowered his head and kissed Li Jingjing's cheek, and said with a smile, "You're welcome. Sister Jing, you are also very kind to me."

Qu Yi blushed shyly and walked forward, kissing Li Jingjing.

Seeing that several children were kissing each other, the young girls went to kiss her one by one.

In autumn, the sky is cloudless and the sun is shining brightly. In the quiet sky of Qujia Village, a group of young and clear singing sounds.

The little sisters made fun of the little boys and sang loudly: "There is a little boy on the ground, a skinny duck in the water, the little duck goes into the water to chase the skinny duck, and the skinny duck hides the little boy on the ground. Is it really the little boy?" Chasing skinny ducks, or skinny ducks hiding from pussies."

Not to be outdone, a few children fought back against the little girl, and sang loudly: "There is a lazy girl sitting on the bed, and a dirty sock is lying on the stool. The lazy girl went down to look for the dirty sock. I don't know which broken cabinet the dirty sock is hiding in. The lazy girl is so angry that she will smash it!" broke the cabinet."

The field at the end of the village is empty, and the weeds are three feet high, which is a good place for insects to make their homes.

With the help of her friends, Li Jingjing easily collected hundreds of grasshoppers here, and accidentally got three unlucky geckos.

Grasshoppers are locusts, which can not only be roasted and eaten, but also have medicinal value.

Geckos are also animals that can be seen everywhere in the south, and their whole body can be used as medicine.

"Book of Medicine and Beasts" records the efficacy of geckos: treating stroke paralysis, immobility, or chronic wind pain, wind convulsions, epilepsy, malnutrition and dysentery in children, blood accumulation into pimples, severe wind and scrofula; treatment of scorpion stings. (Extracted from "Compendium of Materia Medica")
Gathering medicine beasts is much harder than gathering herbs.

Medicine beasts are living animals that can run, crawl, and fly. Small medicine beasts are easy to collect, while big medicine beasts are found in deep mountains, old forests, rivers, oceans, and endless skies.

Medicine beasts are also divided into male and female, only very small medicine beasts are hermaphrodites, and most medicine beasts are hermaphrodites.Medicine animals have to be perfunctory in the Rejuvenation Medicine Mansion, so that they can have both males and females.

All beginnings are hard.Li Jingjing thought that when she was young, she would be able to sell the medicine for money when she grew up, and directly use the money to buy rare medicine beasts.

Li Qubing came from the direction of Li's house and called, "Sister Jing, go home for dinner."

Qu Zheng lowered his head and said, "Sister Jing, you should go home quickly."

Qu Yi said: "Let's play for a while and go home before we can eat."

The children all waved goodbye to Li Jingjing, "Sister Jing, let's play together tomorrow!"

There are only a handful of families in Qujia Village who are able to eat breakfast.Quzheng and Quyi's family backgrounds are average.Before the adults went to grow vegetables in the field this morning, they said that the oil and water were heavy during the Mid-Autumn Festival yesterday, and today they were asked to go home for the first meal after noon.

When the Li family was taking a lunch break, Li Laoshi came back pushing a wheelbarrow that wafted a strong smell of blood.

Qu Shi got up, put on his clothes and opened the door, seeing Li Laoshi parked his wheelbarrow covered in black cloth in front of the kitchen door, and said happily, "I'm all right in the temple, why did you come back so early?"

In the past, there were still pilgrims in Taiqing before noon on the second day of Mid-Autumn Festival, and Li Laoshi did not get home until the evening.

Li Laoshi was sweating profusely, and said happily: "Mother, it rained heavily yesterday, and a farm cow in the temple was frightened by lightning and rolled down halfway up the mountain and fell to death. Our steward sent someone to the county government to sell the cattle to the county government yesterday afternoon." Name, sold the beef at a low price this morning, at three cents a catty. I bought a beef leg and a beef head, and got a set of cattle for nothing."

Both the previous and current dynasties attached great importance to agriculture. Every cattle had been registered in the government since birth, and had to be canceled by the government after natural death.

According to the law, stealing or killing a farm ox is punished with a fine of one hundred taels of silver and ten rods with a stick; stealing or killing three or more farm cattle is fined with a fine of 500 taels of silver and a punishment of fifty sticks with a rod.

In the former dynasty, from the emperor to the common people, almost everyone loves to eat beef, especially the law strictly prohibits stealing and killing cattle, so beef has become a rare product, sometimes even the rich and powerful cannot eat it.

Taiqingguan has thousands of acres of land, all of which are rented out to farmers.Fifteen cattle were gifts from pilgrims, and all of them had their names registered in the government. Every time they died of natural causes, they had to go to the government to cancel their names.

(End of this chapter)