Medical Immortals come from the future

Chapter 281 Make friends
Upon hearing this, Sima Qing quickly waved her hands and said, "No way, no way, this is no way!"

Ling Ruyin also echoed: "That's right, how can we be the lady boss's distinguished guests?"

"Why are you being polite? This girl helped me solve a problem in the restaurant today. What's the matter if I thank you? You don't want to take money, so why not treat you to a meal?" The proprietress said angrily, "If you don't even If you don't give me any face, you won't treat me, Du Yueniang, as a friend!"

It turns out that the proprietress in red is called Du Yueniang, which fits her image quite well.

Although it was the first time they met, Sima Qing liked this woman's character very much, she was a little careless and blah, but she had a real temperament, as could be seen from the clarity of her eyes, she was a simple and sincere person.

Therefore, her kind invitation at this moment is absolutely not false or scheming.

"Madam Boss, we had a big meal at your place just now. It's not that we don't treat you as a friend, but that we really can't eat any more." Sima Qing exaggeratedly rubbed her stomach.

"It's okay. I can't eat it right now. You can wait until evening. Seafood is quite easy to digest." Du Yueniang was very determined.

Sima Qing exchanged opinions with several senior brothers and sisters, and everyone expressed helplessness.

"How many... I don't know how to address you?" Du Yueniang asked again.

"Oh, my name is Sima Qing."

"My name is Yang Zi'er!"

"Just call me Ruyin."

"Liu Yu."

The four brothers and sisters reported their names one after another.

Soon, Du Yueniang brought them into a box on the third floor, and greeted them with the best pastries and tea in the restaurant.

Du Yueniang is a person who can chat very well, and Sima Qing hit it off like old friends!
Yang Zi'er could chat with them occasionally, while Ling Ruyin and Liu Yu, who were quieter, simply couldn't get in the way, so they could only sit by and drink tea and snacks, but they listened to Du Yueniang talking a lot. Regarding the customs and anecdotes of Xiaoyan Dynasty, he didn't feel impatient, but listened with gusto.

When Du Yueniang learned that Sima Qing and the others were actually members of the mission sent by the Jinlong Kingdom to participate in the "Medical Skills Exchange Conference", she was overwhelmed with admiration.

"Is that an exaggeration?" Seeing Du Yueniang's attitude, Sima Qing couldn't help laughing.

"No exaggeration, no exaggeration at all! I, Du Yueniang, admire the doctor the most all my life. You guys are all medical doctors from elementary school, and you even run a pharmacy. It's really amazing! If I didn't see you with my own eyes today, I would I can't believe that women can also study medicine and practice medicine!"

"Of course, it's okay. Women don't lose to men. Why can't they study medicine? Medicine is sacred and equal, and it is by no means a low-level art! Women's minds are more delicate than men's. When it comes to being a doctor, it is not necessarily true. Just lose to the man, okay?" A certain girl's feminist thoughts were aroused to the point of overflowing.

"Well said! Who said we women are not as good as men? We women can do what men can do, and we can do better than them. Why do we always rely on them to survive?!" Du Yueniang was not caught by her The words were startling, but it seemed that he had found a serious resonance, and he slammed the table and became impassioned.

Uh……

Sima Qing's temples twitched, feeling that she seemed too excited just now.

"I really didn't expect that the doctors and medicinal materials here are so scarce." She couldn't continue talking about that topic, so she had to change the topic, "I hope that through this trade policy this time, the common people in your country Solve the problem of difficult medication."

"Miss Qing'er, just now you said that you also run a pharmacy, so this time, do you also want to find a cooperative pharmacy?" When this topic was mentioned, Du Yueniang suddenly showed a serious look, " I don’t know how you found it? But what’s the clue?”

Sima Qing, who didn't think her question was abrupt, replied truthfully: "Actually, to tell you the truth, our Sacred Heart Hall is just here to join in the fun this time, and we don't want to expand any overseas markets." After speaking, I realized that the term "overseas market" was too novel, and immediately added an explanation, "I just don't want to develop in other countries, it's very tiring."

"You guys are not very ambitious."

"We are indifferent to fame and wealth, and treat money like dung!"

"Haha, come here!" Du Yueniang smiled, but suddenly looked at Sima Qing and asked, "What if you are not a businessman, but a doctor?"

"What do you mean?"

"Miss Qing'er, although we met for the first time today, Yueniang can tell from your words and deeds just now that you are all doctors with that kind of 'benevolence and benevolence'. You must have understood the entire medical environment, it will not happen overnight to change, in addition to the influx of a large number of medicinal materials, doctors with medical skills who can treat diseases are needed..."

After hearing about the medical conditions in Jinlong Kingdom and the Sacred Heart Academy run by Sima Qing, Du Yueniang had a faint thought in her mind.

"You don't want to do the medicine business because you are not interested in money, but from the perspective of doctors, if your own medicine is really better than others, why can't you use it to benefit the common people in the world? Isn't it said that healing has no borders? Then Wouldn't it be a good thing if a lot of patients recovered from your good medicine?"

Unexpectedly, Du Yueniang could say such a thing, Sima Qing and the others looked surprised.

However, the meaning of her words is not difficult to understand at all.

Sima Qing pondered for a while, then raised her eyebrows and asked, "What does Yueniang mean, do you think we still need to find opportunities to open up this market?"

Du Yueniang smiled and said: "Why not? Letting someone make money is not making money? I believe that those colleagues in your country will definitely not appreciate you because you don't compete with them for the market, but will think you are really stupid. A big piece of fat can't even touch the scraps of meat."

Rough words are not rough.

Sima Qing suddenly felt that her previous thoughts were really naive.

"However, it is not so easy to find this market. To be honest, our Sacred Heart Hall is the smallest and most inconspicuous among those colleagues who came together this time. They will try their best this time. , and our number of people here is pitifully small, our brothers and sisters...in fact, we are not good at such things as business negotiation and relationship building." Sima Qing frowned and said with some distress.

Liu Yu and the others also nodded in agreement.

"Hey, what's so difficult?" Du Yueniang put the teacup on the table, and smiled happily, "If you believe me, Du Yueniang, go with me to a place and keep it for you to get the first customer." !"

Sima Qing was even more surprised: "Where are you going?"

"You will know when you go, don't worry, I, Du Yueniang, sincerely want to make friends with you, and I will never harm you!"

"No, no, we didn't mean that."

"Okay, I understand, I really don't need to be so polite with me. I, Du Yueniang, am a straightforward person, straight-hearted, and I don't understand those who are twisted and twisted, and I also like friends who speak directly. Today we had a good conversation. For you and me I like it from the bottom of my heart, so I want to help you... Hehehe, okay, I also have selfish intentions, and you will know when I get to the place with me later."

The senior brothers and sisters discussed it, and finally decided to trust Du Yueniang and go with her.

But before leaving the restaurant, Du Yueniang asked Sima Qing to write down some of the "food incompatibility" combinations she knew. Although she didn't need to pay too much attention to it, she could try to avoid it, right?

Naturally, Sima Qing would not refuse to agree.

Celery and clams, clams, cockles, and crabs (eating together will destroy nutrition)

Celery and soft-shelled turtle (eating together will cause poisoning, you can use olive juice to detoxify)

Carrots and wine (together can cause liver poisoning)

Eggplant and hairy crab (eating together will cause poisoning, can be treated with lotus root)

Mustard greens and crucian carp (crucian carp food is sweet and warm, and one of its functions is to reduce edema and detoxify, but eating together with mustard greens will cause edema instead. This is because the food medicinal properties of mustard greens are spicy. In addition, people generally like Pickle the mustard greens and eat them. The pickled vegetables are salty and salty, and patients with edema and renal insufficiency will easily aggravate their condition if they overeat.)
Peanuts and cucumbers (cucumbers are sweet and cold in nature and are mostly eaten raw. Peanut kernels are rich in oil. When cold things meet oil, it will increase its smoothness. Eating too much at the same time can easily cause diarrhea)

Pumpkin and shrimp (eating together can cause dysentery, black beans and licorice can be used to detoxify)
Tomatoes and hairy crabs (eating together will cause diarrhea, you can use lotus root joints to stop diarrhea)

Pumpkin and bonito (bonito is black fish, "Compendium of Materia Medica" called snakehead fish, commonly known as matchhead fish. This fish has a sweet and cold taste, which has the effect of lowering Qi and promoting water, while pumpkin is sweet and cold in nature. Both belong to cold sex, should not be eaten together, otherwise it will hurt the stomach and damage the righteousness. In addition, pumpkin and skipjack both contain complex biologically active substances and enzymes. If the two are eaten together, they may produce biochemical reactions that are not conducive to human health)
Pumpkin and eel (eel warms the middle and nourishes qi, pumpkin sweetens and lowers qi, the functions of the two are quite different, and if eaten together, the functions will cancel each other out, which is not good for health)
Pumpkin and crab (crab meat tastes salty and cold, slightly poisonous; while pumpkin is sweet and cold in nature, both of which are cold and cool things, if eaten together, it will damage the gastrointestinal function of the human body, and even cause symptoms such as diarrhea and stomach pain. harmful to the human body)

Meat and red bayberry (serious cases can cause death, you can eat human milk for treatment)

Pork liver and crucian carp (crucian carp is sweet and warm in nature, has the effects of nourishing qi and strengthening the spleen, clearing away heat and detoxification, diuresis, reducing swelling, and promoting milk. Pork liver and crucian carp are not compatible. If the two are mixed or fried, some Unfavorable factors, there will be adverse reactions after eating, such as easy to produce carbuncle, etc.)
Eggs and carp (pregnant women should pay special attention to this. As early as in the "Compendium of Materia Medica", it is recorded: "Pregnant women eat chicken and carp together, causing sores in their children.")
Eel and vinegar (eating together will cause poisoning, black beans and licorice can be used for treatment)
Escargot and broad beans (same food will cause colic)

Black fish and eggplant (eating together for stomach pain and diarrhea)
……

Considering that Deyuelou is a restaurant specializing in seafood, most of what Sima Qing wrote was about taboos about seafood. Even so, she wrote a total of fifty articles in about a cup of tea.

As if Du Yueniang had found a treasure, she pulled Sima Qing to thank her.

After that, she led them out of the restaurant, boarded a carriage, and ran towards the west of the city.

After walking for about a stick of incense, we arrived at our destination.

After getting off the carriage, they found that this was a not very lively street, and their carriage was parked in front of a shop called "Dekang Medicine Store".

The scale of this medicine shop is average, and it is even deserted inside at this time, except for two young apprentices who are picking up medicine, there are only a few flies left.

"This is my family's pharmacy." Du Yueniang dragged Sima Qing into the store, and introduced it with some embarrassment.

"Ah, your family still runs a medicine store?" Yang Zi'er was surprised.

"Yes, in fact, my natal family has always been in the medicinal material business." Du Yueniang replied.

"My mother's family?" They invariably caught the word from her words.

It turned out that Du Yueniang was already married.

That year she married into a family of officials surnamed Zhang. Although it is said that her natal family was in a medicine shop, her background was not of the noble type, and she was not of that kind because of her hot temper. This kind of virtuous and virtuous woman can stay at home with peace of mind and care for her husband and children, so she is despised in her husband's house, and she is even more incompatible with her mother-in-law. Moreover, she and her husband are originally ordered by their parents. The couple is fine. The so-called feelings are at all, so life will soon be difficult.

However, although Du Yueniang was free and easy, she still couldn't avoid the pressure of the world. She didn't want to receive a letter of divorce from her husband's family, and wanted to reconcile, but her husband's family disagreed, so it dragged on for four or five years.

Now she just bears the empty name of being the wife of the eldest son of the Zhang family, but in fact she doesn't care about the family affairs at all, and she has been "separated" from that husband for several years. One after another went in.

It can be said that their marriage has existed in name only.

But Du Yueniang doesn't care about these things, she likes a free life. In the past few years, she has wandered alone, starting from a small seafood stall, step by step to the scale of the best seafood restaurant in Bianjing, which is also famous in the local area. It can be regarded as a well-known "strong woman".

"The reason why I didn't tell you this in the restaurant before was because I felt...it was embarrassing. I, Du Yueniang, said that I was such a free and easy person, but I put myself in such an embarrassing situation because of a divorce letter. I It's because I'm afraid that you will laugh at me if I say it." Du Yueniang explained sincerely.

Although Sima Qing, Ling Ruyin, and Yang Zi'er were a little surprised by her experience, they all said that it was nothing to be ashamed of, and on the contrary, they admired her even more.

In this era where men are superior to women, it is really not an easy task for a woman to be able to do this.

No wonder Du Yueniang was so excited when the topic of "feminist rights" was mentioned before, because she has found a resonance in life.Sima Qing couldn't help but sigh, it seems that this era is the same everywhere, women don't have human rights, and the phenomenon of patriarchy in Xiaoyan Dynasty seems to be more serious than in Jinlong Kingdom.

Confessing her identity, Du Yueniang was completely relaxed, and talked about this "Dekang Medicine Store" again.

This family started from her great-grandfather's generation, and it has been passed down for more than [-] years. At the time of its heyday, three or four branches were opened, and the whole Bianjing is considered a household name.It is a pity that due to various reasons, it gradually declined, and several branches were closed. The only remaining one was also cold because it could not find the source of medicinal materials. If it does not change, it will not be able to survive.

Before the promulgation of this "policy" in Xiaoyan Dynasty, all the medicinal material vendors had three channels for the source of medicinal materials:

The first one, through the imperial court.

The medicinal materials imported by the courts of other countries are all received by the Xiaoyan court, and then the imperial court divides the medicinal materials received each time into dozens of batches, and let dozens of medicinal material dealers across the country compete to obtain them through bidding evaluation.After these big medicinal material merchants get these medicinal materials, the pharmacy halls, pharmacies, and pharmacies below go to buy from the medicinal material merchants.

There are many monks and few meat, so it is not so easy to buy goods. In addition to fighting the price, contacts and relationships are also necessary. Everything can only be done according to their own ability.

Of course, the final result is that each family can get some goods, but the price difference and the quantity are unknown.

What?You said that since it is so difficult, why are there still so many people trying to do the medicine business?

Silly, the profit margins in this industry are beyond the imagination of outsiders.In this country, everything related to medical treatment is extremely popular, not to mention doctors, their status is quite high, and things like medicine shops and medicine shops are something that the common people have to "provide", to put it bluntly , Just like the "Overlord" enterprises like Telecom and PetroChina in later generations, the nature is monopoly.

In Xiaoyan Dynasty, there are only more than 50 large and small medicine halls and medicine stores in the whole country, which is not even as good as the combined medicine halls in the two relatively prosperous cities of Jinlong Kingdom. It can be seen how scarce this line is, which means It is not difficult to explain why those people have to open a drug store even if they squeeze their heads.

And the second channel is to go to the mountains to collect medicines at home, or to reclaim land as medicine fields.

Naturally, some people have done these methods. Going up the mountain to collect herbs, not to mention that the resources of medicinal materials on the mountain are pitifully scarce, and it will cost a lot of manpower and material resources. This method will only be activated in tense situations. It is completely a drop in the bucket, just drinking poison to quench thirst.

What about reclaiming medicine fields?

Speaking of which, Xiaoyanchao is really a strange place.Not only the medicinal resources in the mountains are scarce here, but even the reclaimed arable land is difficult to plant and cultivate medicinal materials.

The imperial court has several farms dedicated to planting medicinal materials, which add up to nearly a thousand acres of land. Over the years, countless talents have been gathered to research and cultivate them, but the survival rate of medicinal materials hardly exceeds 30.00% every year, and these surviving medicinal materials , the quality is not very good, not to mention those high-end medicinal materials like ginseng.

(End of this chapter)