The Resplendent Farming Apothecary - Chapter 45

[Chapter 45: The Biography of Flying Pigeons]

Gu Yeqiang endured the reluctance in his heart and waved his paws at his grandfather: “Grandpa, come back early. My brother and I will wait for you to come back obediently at home.”

Looking at the cute and cute smile of the granddaughter, and the reluctance in the eyes of the grandson, Gu Xiao finally realized that parting was inseparable. He is also a person with relatives, so he can’t let everything depend on his own temperament like before. No matter what happens, he will cherish himself well and can’t let the two children cry for him.

After Gu Xiao left, Gu Ming’s mood was a little down. However, according to the plan given by his grandfather, he would get up before dawn every day to learn basic skills, then help his sister cook, go up the mountain to chop firewood and hunt…

Gu Ye still followed his master to learn pharmacy. Her greatest achievement is to integrate the two pharmaceutical methods of this world and the previous life, and to be able to make pills that are not inferior to the effect of medicine. The heart-saving pills she made made Yao Shengdu feel inferior, laughing that he would have nothing to teach her within a year. However, Gu Ye knew that Master was being self-effacing. His own pharmaceutical skills were extensive and profound, enough for her to study for ten or eight years.

In addition to learning concoction and medicine from the master, Gu Ye also spares an hour every day to guide and supervise Zhang Lihu’s rehabilitation. Forty days after the operation, she planned to help him with functional rehabilitation.

The process of rehabilitation is painful and monotonous. Whenever Zhang Lihu couldn’t hold on, Gu Ye would scare him: “If you don’t exercise well, the stitched hamstrings will stick together, and you will still become lame! Supported by the belief of ”

don’t become a lame”, Zhang Lihu endured the pain and persisted in the rehabilitation torture again and again. Every time he finished rehab, he would be in a cold sweat. Aunt Zhang secretly shed many tears behind her back, but she still smiled and encouraged him when she faced her son, and tried every means to cook his son’s favorite meals as a reward.

On this day, the weather was fine, and the warm sun shone all over the small courtyard on the mountainside. A slender little girl in a coarse cotton coat was sitting in the yard, cutting the medicinal herbs diligently. Her knives are exquisite, and the tablets are evenly cut, as if they were cut by a machine.

“Cuckoo…Cuckoo…” Suddenly, the sound of pigeons broke the tranquility of the courtyard. Gu Ye looked up and saw a fat gray pigeon parked on the courtyard wall. She exclaimed in surprise: “Wild pigeon! Just worried that there is no meat to eat at noon today, and ‘Angelica Pigeon Soup’ will be delivered to your door!”

A slingshot suddenly appeared in her hand, she quickly pulled the leather rope and aimed at the pigeon, Ready to launch. Yao Sheng, who also heard the voice, broke out in cold sweat when he saw his disciple’s movements, and hurriedly said to stop: “Don’t shoot, don’t shoot!”

Gu Ye maintained the movement of pulling the slingshot and turned his head, full of doubts. look at the master. Yaosheng waved his hand gently, and the pigeon flew up and landed lightly on his hand.

“Wow! Carrier pigeon!!” Gu Ye threw down his slingshot and approached Yaosheng excitedly, “Master, did you raise this carrier pigeon? Is it good for training? Can I catch a few wild pigeons for training?”

“Go, go and go!” Yao Sheng couldn’t help rolling his eyes to this apprentice, who seemed to be calm at ordinary times, but sometimes very out of touch, and said angrily, “Do you think carrier pigeons are so good at training? And catch wild pigeons…why don’t you catch a sparrow and let it send you a message?”

“Hehe…” Gu Ye also knew that he was in a whim. She saw the small bamboo tube tied to the leg of the carrier pigeon, and curiously stretched out her hand to get it, but was photographed back by the master.

“Personal letters, idlers don’t need to read them!” Yao Sheng took a note from the bamboo tube, instructed his disciples to feed the pigeons some grain and water, and went into the house to read the letters.

“Che… It’s mysterious, could it be that Master’s old friend gave him a book passed on by flying pigeons?” Gu Ye’s face showed a wretched smile, crookedly about what Master and her confidante had to say.

Yao Sheng looked at the few words on the note, and said to himself: “Let the old man only discipline him, don’t ask or investigate the strange things about the girl? What are you talking about? The old man’s precious disciple will naturally help her. Keeping her little secrets, you have to cover her up. My good disciple, you have to be filial to Master and me in the future.”

Then, he muttered to himself in a very gossip tone: “This 10,000-year-old iceberg-like temple will also care about people? If it wasn’t for my disciple who was too young, the old man would have thought that he was doing something wrong. However, how could our little Ye Ye get into the eyes of that guy in the hall and make him take so much pains. First, let the old man come over to accept the apprentice, and he does not allow the old man to explore the girl’s secret… um- There’s an inside story!”

“Since he’s so nervous about our little leaf, it shouldn’t be an exaggeration for this old man to use him for a little benefit?” Yao Sheng showed a treacherous smile, wrote a reply letter, and tied it to the carrier pigeon. On his feet, a carrier pigeon was released.

“Master, if the carrier pigeon was shot down by the hunter halfway, wouldn’t your letter be written in vain?” Gu Ye looked at the distant pigeon shadow with some worry, and muttered.

Yaosheng knocked a chestnut on her head, and said angrily: “Can’t you say something nice? Crow’s mouth!”

“Actually, you can train the hawk to be a messenger. It can fly high and fly even faster. Far away!” Gu Ye suggested that, remembering that he had read a novel in a previous life, there was a story about a falcon sending a letter.

Yaosheng glared at her and said, “How easy is it to raise and tame eagles? If there are carrier pigeons, just snicker, don’t think about eagles!”

Some people really trained eagles. It was the current general Wang of the Yan Kingdom who took the lead in trying to succeed and applied it to emergency military information transmission. Among the three major countries, he is the only one who has mastered the method of taming eagles and falcons, and most people can only think about it!

Gu Ye pouted and said, “People are just making a suggestion. Not good training doesn’t mean they can’t be trained. Ideals and wishes are necessary, what if they come true?”

“Stop daydreaming! Serious things are important. Come, let’s see if your master and I have the right formula and steps to make Jiuxin Pills.” Yaosheng walked towards the pharmacy with his hands behind his back.

Gu Ye followed closely behind him, and said in a low voice, “How can you be stubborn and want to learn their own secret medicines? Who is the master and who is the apprentice?”

“What are you talking about, come in quickly!” Although Yaosheng was over seventy years old and neither deaf nor blind, he naturally didn’t let her small gestures go.

What Yaosheng pursues in his life is nothing more than the level of a pharmaceutical master. Although the outside world praised him and called him a generation of pharmaceutical masters, he knew that he was still a long way from being a master. This is also the reason why he has been wandering around for nearly 20 years. He wants to break through barriers and make breakthroughs, but unfortunately he has achieved nothing for so many years.

But this young apprentice who was forced to accept, he has learned a lot, especially her unique and novel pharmaceutical methods, which gave him a lot of inspiration. Intuition tells him that the opportunity for his breakthrough lies in his disciple.

Therefore, when Gu Ye was making medicines, he no longer avoided taboos, and he would ask a few questions if he did not understand. Of course, if Gu Ye had a secret that he didn’t share, he wouldn’t force it. However, so far, his precious Tuer Pharmaceutical has never let him avoid it.

This moved Yaosheng very much, and he secretly made up his mind that he would bury the secrets of these medicines deeply in his heart. When he understands higher pharmaceutical skills, he will only pass it on to this closed disciple.

The name of Yaosheng is not for nothing. He can make Chinese patent medicines like Jiuxin Pills after seeing it once, and the dosage of the formula is exactly the same. Without precise instruments and accurate weighing tools, this can be achieved, which makes Gu Ye secretly admire.

In order to practice, Yaosheng made a dozen bottles of heart-saving pills in one go. Gu Ye was overjoyed—the medicines from Ding’s family don’t have to be made by her own hands.

When Yaosheng was addicted to making heart-saving pills, Gu Ye, who was free, turned his attention to the depths of the mountain. On weekdays, her grandfather and brother were staring at her, so she didn’t have a chance to look in the deep mountains. Now that Grandpa is not here, and my brother is stocking up firewood from morning to night to prepare for winter, can she go to the mountains?

Just do it! The next day, just as Gu Ming went out with a hatchet, she carried a bamboo basket on her back, put on a purse full of veterinary medicine, and went straight from the back mountain into the deep mountain.

About 20 miles past the back mountain is the Wild Boar Ridge. In the distance, she saw a sturdy mother wild boar, with a few half-sized young wild boars, foraging in the pine forest. Hazelnuts, mushrooms and mountain mice in the forest are their food.

Today, wild boars are not her target. Gu Ye bypassed the place where the wild boars were active and went deeper into the forest. The further inward, the taller and taller the trees were, and the trees that had lost their leaves stood upright like strong guards.

The machete in Gu Ye’s hand was turned out from the space. Although it can’t be said to cut iron like mud, it is still good to use it to open the road. Climbing the rocks, passing through the dense forest, and climbing over the hills, Gu Ye came to an empty valley.

Because it is surrounded by mountains, the cold air can’t get in, the temperature in the valley is much higher than outside, the trees are still green, the green grass is still green, and a clear stream flows through the valley and makes a gurgling sound. The birds chanted crisply, the deer walked in the grass, and even the hare slowed down and skipped past her gently and skillfully.

Gu Ye took a deep breath, and the faint scent of flowers and herbs hit his nostrils. In this valley, she found a lot of precious herbs, and she couldn’t help but lean over to pick them. Unconsciously, when she came to the side of the mountain wall, she found a thick vine, winding and twisting on the mountain wall.

From the leaves and vines, Gu Ye recognized that it was a Polygonum multiflorum. The vine as thick as a child’s arm is enough to show that this Polygonum multiflorum has a long age. She dug carefully with a spatula.

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It’s the end of the year again, so busy, so tired…