Medical Immortals come from the future

Chapter 117 Three Hundred Rounds of War
Mei Ruotian was so amused by her seriousness that she couldn't help but cry. On the one hand, she was moved by her innocence and kindness, but on the other hand, she felt that a woman had such a flamboyant and aggressive personality, which was a bit disobedient.

You must know that although Mei Ruotian is considered a free and easy person by nature, he is still a traditional ancient man in his bones. When he identifies a good girl, he is low-key and restrained, elegant and intelligent.So to a large extent, a woman like Ling Ruyin is the one he has always dreamed of as a good wife.

However, he felt more and more that he couldn't hate a girl like Sima Qing.

"You, just like the song you just sang, there is a girl who is a little willful and a little arrogant,
There's a girl who's a bit rebellious and a bit crazy... Is it just you? "

"Uh, you actually heard this song? You even memorized the words..." Sima Qing was extremely embarrassed, such a divine comedy, it doesn't need to be heard by everyone, right?Don't spread too much, hey~~!

"Oh, I have the ability to remember what I have heard, not to mention, your song is really catchy."

"Catchy? Okay, Mr. Mei, you can sing a part."

"...Forget it, I'm not good at rhythm!"

Seeing a certain man being tricked by her again, Sima Qing was very happy, clapped her hands and smiled: "Okay, I won't tell you anymore, go to work! Xi'er, don't dawdle, be careful of overheating the pot!"

Xi'er groaned, stuck out her tongue and slipped away.

Mei Ruotian naturally didn't leave, she just stood aside and looked at Sima Qing quietly.

She picked up a piece of glue from the pot with a wooden shovel, and slowly dropped it. Seeing that the glue had formed into pieces intermittently, she picked up a bucket of sesame oil from the other side, slowly poured some of it in, and finished adding it. Sesame oil, holding a large wooden shovel in both hands and continuing to stir vigorously.

"What is this for?" Mei Ruotian asked.

Although he knew that donkey-hide gelatin was not easy to make, he hadn't seriously studied how to make it and boiled it. This was the first time he watched the production process live, and he didn't expect it to be this girl again.

When Sima Qing heard his question, she answered truthfully: "This is adding sesame oil half an hour before the glue is released, in order to reduce the stickiness of the glue."

"Then to what extent can the glue be released?"

"Look, when you use a shovel to pick it up and stick it into a ball and don't fall into the pot, you can get the glue out."

While speaking, Sima Qing took an extra-large iron spoon, scooped the glue boiled in the pot into a lead-lined wooden plate that had been smeared with sesame oil in advance, and spread it into a finger-thick layer.

"This one has to wait for the glue to solidify, then take it out, cut it into small pieces, put it on our special wooden rack over there to dry, turn it over every two to three days to avoid unevenness on both sides, and then wait six to seven days later , can be neatly arranged into the wooden box, use the airtight stuffy box and flatten it, wait for the outer skin to soften, then take it out and spread it out to dry, then dry it, then stuff it, and then dry it. Only in this way can the finished product be produced!"

Mei Ruotian was stunned when she heard this, she knew it was complicated, but she didn't expect it to be so complicated!

"You...how can you even make donkey-hide gelatin?"

After seeing the complexity of this thing, Mei Ruotian was even more incredulous about her. How many surprising secrets are hidden in this small body?
"Well, I learned it from a book." Sima Qing could only adopt a vague policy, "I saw someone brewing it in the valley before, because I am smarter than ice and snow, so I learned it."

It was not very convincing at first, but it was successfully diverted by another sentence of her queen's mother-in-law selling melons and boasting.

Mei Ruotian didn't know whether to laugh or cry, she shook her head and said, "You just dare to challenge the century-old brand like this, it really is 'hey and laugh all day long, when the wind blows, there are waves, and you have also been in a daze to make big and small disasters together, and Zeng Shan Mountains, rivers, rivers, dare to love, dare to hate, go everywhere..."

"puff!"

Sima Qing sprayed it again, I'll go, Mei Miracle Doctor, Mei Da Da!Don't be too fond of the Divine Comedy, okay?You are not fifth elder brother, and I am not Little Swallow Gege either! ! !

"Hehehehe, by the way, why are you free today?" Changing the subject is the best way to solve the dilemma.

"Oh, because I'm done with my work, I asked Long...Xiang Sheng for leave, and I can rest at home from today on." Mei Ruotian said a little absent-mindedly.

Sima Qing didn't notice any strangeness in him either, but said happily: "The old man is really a good boss, you are also an imperial order after all, right? You have been on vacation for more than two months, and now you have only been busy for half a month when you come back. You can ask for leave again, it's really easy to be an official of the court!"

Now it's Mei Ruotian's turn to roll his eyes, he's an imperial doctor, what kind of court official?Guys like Prime Minister Shangshu are the real court officials, okay?They have to go to court every day and take two months off?That is the rhythm of retiring from old age and returning home!
"By the way, Doctor Ah Qing, did the old man mention you, and said that he wanted to see you." Mei Ruotian deliberately said it a little bit weirdly.

This successfully aroused Sima Qing's pimples all over her body, and she automatically recalled some bad pictures in her mind... Holy old man, please let the little girl go, the little girl has no Electra complex!

"Hehehe, please thank the old man Ron En for me, but I am timid and come from deep mountains and wild forests. If I can't make it to the stage, you can tell others that I am unworthy!"

Seeing her so nervous, Mei Ruotian felt a little more comfortable... But she could only hide her smile, pretending to be apologetic: "The old man seems to be very determined... Sigh, but since you don't want to, then I will Talk to him again, but I'm not sure, you know, the king's life is hard to break."

"All right, as long as you try your best to persuade me, I believe that the old man will not be too attached to such an insignificant person like me." The Yasha girl who has always been a cheater was decisively fooled this time.

Mei Ruotian really wanted to laugh a few times, but she decisively pretended to be stupid: "Okay, I will try my best to help you. Places like palaces and harems are really not fun, and you probably won't like them either."

At this time, a certain "sage old man" who was having a harmonious meeting with the envoys of the Dawa Kingdom and enjoying the song and dance program in the imperial garden always felt that his temples were protruding, as if something unknown and strange had happened.

"Yes, yes, Mr. Mei, you are really a good person! I am relieved that my seventh senior sister can marry you!" Inadvertently, Sima Qing started another inappropriate topic.

Of course she didn't realize it, and Mei Ruotian... was inexplicably irritable.

"You guys, how many kilograms of finished product have you boiled out?" Not only Sima Qing can change the subject, but Mei Ruotian can too!
"Not even one kilogram..." Sima Qing rubbed his nose, "It only took five days from the start of production to today, and it will take at least seven days to produce the finished product. Our first batch boiled about five kilograms. It is estimated that The finished product will weigh about three kilograms, the second batch was made the day before yesterday, and what you saw today is the third batch being cooked!"

Mei Ruotian scanned the surroundings, and asked again: "It seems that you plan to do a lot today?"

"Today we have to brew all the rest, and there are still seven or eight days before the delivery. If we don't make it today, it won't be enough."

"So you girl brought all the people in my house to work for you as coolies?"

"Ahem, what can this be called a coolie? Anyway, everyone is idle when they are idle, and playing the pipa is also awake anyway..."

Nonsence!What is it about being possessed by the Divine Comedy today!
Sima Qing had black lines all over his head.

"Master, this is what we want!"

"That's right, Miss Qing'er is doing a good deed out of righteousness, we all admire it!"

"That's right, Mrs. Wang and their mother and son are really pitiful, and we can't do anything for them, so we can only help Miss Qing'er to make donkey-hide gelatin. Although it's a bit tiring, we still make money, that's all I learned the skill of making donkey-hide gelatin for nothing, but you must know that if you want to learn this skill, you must go to a teacher."

"Where, you may not be able to learn from a teacher! Now, the best donkey-hide gelatin is in great demand in the market. With this skill, if the young master can't pay the big guy a monthly salary in the future, the big guy can go out with the donkey-hide gelatin." Sell ​​it, and life will pass!"

Several servant girls came over one after another and helped Sima Qing to speak, which made everyone laugh.

Mei Ruotian also couldn't laugh or cry, she shook her head and said: "Okay, you little money lovers, your courage is getting bigger and bigger, I've only been away for a few days, and each one of you has learned to speak eloquently, not only making excuses for being lazy, but also making up masterminds." It seems that Steward Sun and Mama Lian have not been strict with you these days..."

Although it could be seen that his young master was not really angry, but just teasing them, the little maids still kept begging for mercy.

A few people laughed for a while, and dispersed in a tacit understanding.

Seeing that Sima Qing took out half of the pot of glue with some difficulty, put it on the iron frame, and added two ladles of water to soak the pot, Mei Ruotian felt a little distressed, and immediately walked over to snatch the things from her hands .

Sima Qing didn't react, she stared at him blankly.

"I'm here to work too, I'm idle anyway." Mei Ruotian said leisurely.

Sima Qing pursed her lips, and smiled brightly: "That's a good thing, since the Imperial Doctor Mei has come out, is there any reason why this Ejiao can't win?"

Mei Ruotian felt a little embarrassed: "Ahem, I don't really understand..."

Sima Qing laughed loudly, and patted him on the shoulder boldly: "It's okay, it's okay, I'll teach you, it's free."

Mei Ruotian rolled her eyes, and the two of them officially started working.

"Why do you use donkey skin for your donkey-hide gelatin?"

During the process, Mei Ruotian's incarnation was Curious Baby.

"What kind of skin do you use instead of donkey skin?" Sima Qing just asked back, then remembered why he asked such a question.

Ejiao has a history of more than 2000 years in Chinese medicine in China, but the earliest recorded raw materials for making Ejiao are not just donkey skin.

The medical book "Shen Nong Wooden Classic" recorded in the Qin and Han Dynasties: "Boil cowhide to make it."

"Compendium of Materia Medica" states: "For all glues, from October to February and March, the skins of cows, buffaloes, and donkeys are the best, followed by those of pigs, horses, mules, and camels. The old skins, Shoes, footwear, etc. are the next ones. All raw hides are taken, soaked in water for four or five days, washed and scraped extremely clean."

"Ben Cao Tu Jing" said: "Everyone can make it in Yunzhou today. It is true to cook with the water from the northern well of A County. To make it, the donkey skin is fried in A well water, as usual. ...Mostly donkey hides are used to get Ajingshui, but now people use yellow gelatin, which is mostly cowhide. "Shen Nong's Materia Medica" also uses cowhide for donkey-hide gelatin, and the second skin is also common."

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It can be seen from this that the raw materials of ancient donkey-hide gelatin can be boiled from cowhide, donkey skin and other animal skins.

Hide glue is a traditional Chinese medicine, which has the functions of nourishing yin and blood, and preventing miscarriage; it can treat blood deficiency, consumptive cough, vomiting blood, blood in the stool, irregular menstruation, etc. Have good curative effect.At first, donkey-hide gelatin was boiled from cowhide, but in the Tang Dynasty, people found that donkey-hide-boiled donkey-hide gelatin had better medicinal efficacy, so they switched to donkey-hide skin and continued to use it to later generations.

In the era of Sima Qing’s previous life, almost all the donkey-hide gelatin known to everyone was made from donkey skin, and there was a regulation that the donkey-hide gelatin was the authentic donkey-hide gelatin.

The reason why Mei Ruotian had that problem was because donkey-hide gelatin in this era was not all made of donkey hide, and most of them even used cowhide.

Sima Qing didn't know how to answer his question, so she had to vaguely say: "Wang's donkey-hide gelatin is made of donkey skin. She told me that donkey skin is better than cowhide or other skins!"

"Oh, so that's the case." Mei Ruotian naturally believed it.

"Hey, let me test your Baimei Imperial Physician." Sima Qing said with a smile while adding firewood to the stove while looking at him.

The red light from the flames illuminated her little face brightly, Mei Ruotian felt that there really was no girl who could look so good-looking when doing this kind of rough work.

"Hehe, you take the test. Who am I afraid of?"

"Okay, please listen to the question!" Sima Qing rolled her eyes, and the question came, "In "Qian Jin Yi Fang", how do you describe the efficacy of donkey-hide gelatin?"

"To cure vomiting, coughing, saliva and blood loss, fatigue and timidity, it is compatible with ginseng, baiji, etc." Mei Ruotian still thought for a while before answering, "Huh? Why are you testing me again? Last time you asked questions one by one. Yes, there are not many exams? No, how about being fair this time, one question for each person?"

"Okay, okay, for the sake of helping me with my work today, this girl will play with you!" Sima Qing rolled up her sleeves carelessly, "The theme is donkey-hide gelatin, don't ask anything else."

"Okay!" Mei Ruotian said while vigorously stirring the glue in the pot, "You asked me just now, now it's my turn. Listen, what kinds of diseases can donkey-hide gelatin be used for?"

Sima Qing chuckled, and replied calmly: "First, it is used for blood deficiency, chlorosis, dizziness, palpitation, etc. It is a good product for nourishing blood, and it is often used together with rehmannia glutinosa, angelica, and astragalus, etc.; It has a good hemostatic effect for bleeding syndromes, and is especially suitable for bleeding with Yin deficiency and blood deficiency syndromes; third, it is used for Yin deficiency syndrome and dryness syndrome, it can nourish yin and moisten dryness. It can treat warm dryness that hurts the lungs, dry cough without phlegm , compatible with Ophiopogon japonicus, almonds, etc., such as Qingzao Jiufei Decoction, to treat fever and injury to yin, deficiency and insomnia, with white peony root, chicken yellow, etc., such as Coptis Ejiao Decoction;瘈疭, with tortoise shell, oyster, white peony root, rehmannia, etc., such as Dading Fengzhu... Hey, do you dare to make your question more difficult? Don't underestimate this girl, okay?"

The imperial doctor Mei was despised and was very unconvinced.

"The problem you have is not so bad. It's not good to laugh at a hundred steps at fifty steps, girl."

"Think it's too simple? Hmph, we'll see! That's because I'm being merciful!" Sima Qing curled her lips, "Yes, listen! What's the main substance in donkey-hide gelatin?"

"Substance?" Mei Ruotian was confused by this, "Isn't donkey-hide gelatin made of animal skin? What else is it besides animal skin?"

"Hey." Sima Qing smirked, "Can't you answer?"

She would never admit that her question was deliberately tricked him. In traditional Chinese medicine, there is no record about the substances contained in donkey-hide gelatin. She asked this question after the "chemical composition" identification of later generations.Mei Ruotian is an indigenous doctor, so naturally she doesn't understand.

Mei Ruotian actually thought about it seriously for a while, and muttered to herself,
Sima Qing looked at him, holding back her laughter and almost hurting her internally. This guy is so serious, isn't it a bit unkind to trick him like this?

"This... I really can't think of it." Sure enough, Mei Ruotian was a little depressed, "What's the answer? You just say it, I admit defeat."

Sima Qing was already laughing in her heart, but on the surface she pretended to be deep, cleared her throat and said: "Since you have asked for advice so sincerely, then the girl will tell you... the main substance contained in donkey-hide gelatin is It's something called 'gelatin'."

"Gelatin protein?" Mei Ruotian was even more dizzy, but for him, because of the experience of treating the plague last time, the strange words or opinions that he had never heard before came out of Sima Qing's mouth. It will be accepted soon.

"Well, that is a fat-free, high-protein, and cholesterol-free, natural and nutritious food thickener. After eating, it will neither make people fat nor cause physical decline. Gelatin is also a kind of It is a powerful protective colloid with strong emulsifying power. After entering the stomach, it can inhibit the coagulation of proteins such as milk and soy milk due to the action of gastric acid, thus facilitating food digestion..." Regardless of whether he could understand it, Sima Qing thought about it poured out.

This is also a strategy to confuse the "enemy"!Try to make your words incomprehensible, appear profound and unpredictable, but make people unable to find any flaws, if you want to refute, you just don't know where to start to expose you!
Mei Da, are you okay?

Mei Ruotian took a deep breath and smiled stiffly: "Continue...to the next question."

A certain girl was so proud, she waved her hand and said, "It's your turn! Make it harder, please, please!"

A man: "..."

In this way, the two "fighted" back and forth for more than ten rounds. Although the movements of their hands did not stop, they still asked and answered questions very seriously.Sima Qing is very cunning, and she tries her best to drag Mei Da into the pit again and again. Of course, Mei Da Da is definitely a soft-hearted but dark-hearted person. After being tricked a few times at the beginning, she learned to be smart and began to change her strategy!
"You really want to fight with me for three hundred rounds?"

"If you still have so many questions... I will accompany you!"

(End of this chapter)