Lin Tianci asked curiously: "What is nerves?"
Lin Silang shook his head, opened the page and looked at it twice more, and barely recognized a few words in it, but they were all broken and could not form a complete sentence.
"Brother-in-law, are you okay? Didn't you study in a school for three years? Why can't you even recognize the words?"
Lin Silang was irritated by his nephew, and suddenly lost his temper, pointing to the words in the book to defend himself.
"I did very well in the calligraphy school. My master praised me for my talent in taking exams. Not to mention calligraphy, I can also read "The Analects of Confucius" and "The Great Learning"."
Lin Tianci looked disbelieving: "Then why don't you recognize the words above? Aren't these words?"
"It's a character, but it's definitely not the character I learned in the calligraphy school." Lin Silang pointed to one of the sentences and told his nephew, "Look at these two characters, the latter one looks like a deformed character for 'cai', and the front one looks like a deformed character 'cai'. The word "," has a straw head, and next to a twisted wire, there is a spoon. It looks like the word "medicine" that is not written in full. I guess it should be the word "medicine"."
The small fire in Lin Tianci's eyes ignited again. He stood on tiptoe and looked at the position pointed by his uncle. He raised his neck and said, "Don't they mean 'medicine' together? This is indeed a medical book. I want to take it." Go back and show the milk."
"My mother doesn't know as many words as I do."
Lin Silang snorted twice, feeling quite proud. He was the most knowledgeable in his family. If he hadn't moved to his hometown due to the drought, he would have taken the child examination long ago, and he might have been born as a child.
Lin Tianci didn't care. In his heart, Mrs. Lin was a god-like existence, and there was nothing that grandma couldn't do.
But when Mrs. Lin held the "Shen Nong's Materia Medica" and read it for a long time without saying anything, her God-given warm heart suddenly felt like a basin of cold water had been poured on it.
"Miscellaneous, don't you know what's written in the book?"
Mrs. Lin looked at her grandson's wilted look and comforted her when she learned that the book was dug out of the ground.
"The characters above don't look like they were made by us. The layout of this book is also very strange. They are arranged horizontally. They may be left by foreigners, or they may be old characters left behind when the imperial court did not unify the script many years ago. .”
Lin Tianci refused to give up and pointed to the white peony root on the book and said, "Nai, is this white peony root? I remember you just taught me the lesson the day before yesterday."
With that said, he ran to the yard, grabbed a handful of white peony roots that were drying, went into the house, and put them on the pages of the book for comparison.
"Yes, it's Bai Shao, they look exactly the same!"
He immediately became excited again and looked at the other pictures in the book with bright eyes. He flipped through the pages and quickly recognized three or four more medicinal materials. He became more and more sure that this was a medical book or a medical book specifically recording medicinal materials.
It would be great if he could memorize so many medicinal materials.
By then, he will definitely become a world-famous miracle doctor, earn a lot of money, and share the hard work with his family.
That night, in his dream, Lin Tianci was flipping through books and digging for herbs. Every time he found a new one, he would laugh for a long time.
Mr. Lin and Mrs. Zhang were woken up several times during the night. They looked across the simple screen made of wooden boards and saw their son holding a book in his arms, having fun. They looked at each other and thought that their eldest son had enlightened and understood the benefits of reading.
Early the next morning, I saw my son boiling medicine on the porch again, not forgetting to flip through the old book. I was even more happy. I was already thinking about sending my eldest son to school when the family gets rich.
Poor Lin Tianci didn't know that his hard work was seen by his parents as a sign of his love for reading, otherwise he would have hugged Mr. Zhang's legs and cry.
The thing he usually hates the most is reading. Those poems and lyrics make him want to doze off as soon as he listens to them.
There were days when he couldn't sleep well at night, so he would go to his uncle's room and listen to the sound of his uncle reading aloud. Within a few minutes, he fell asleep, unable to wake up even with thunder, just like a little pig.
Xiangyun was also watching his elder brother's every move in the cradle. He was very happy to see that "Shen Nong's Materia Medica" was treated like a treasure by his elder brother.
It doesn't matter if she can't read all the characters. Once she learns the characters of this era, the worst she can do is teach her elder brother. With her adult brain, learning a new language is not just a matter of holding it in hand.
Her mind was full of beautiful ideas, but her body couldn't resist the sleepiness. Xiangyun spent most of the twelve hours a day sleeping. She couldn't help but sigh with worry. When will she learn to walk and talk...
In the next four or five days, the Lin family men and women had breakfast and ran to the wasteland on the mountain. Zheng came back at noon to cook, and then carried everyone's lunch in a bamboo basket before going up the mountain.
Originally, this job belonged to Zhao Ruoxia. She volunteered to take the job of cooking and delivering meals at noon. Everyone knew that she didn't want to open up wasteland, so instead of letting her idle under the tree with nothing to do, it was better to go home and cook.
Unexpectedly, on the first day, Mrs. Lin caught her cooking a small stove.
A whole crucian carp was stabbed to pieces and stewed in a pot. Zhao Ruoxia picked out the fattest part and stuffed it into her and Tianji's mouths secretly. Mrs. Lin was so angry that she shook the wheelchair with one hand, took out a firewood stick with the other, and chased after him. Zhao Ruoxia fought from behind.
In the end, I had no choice but to trouble Zheng to run back and forth.
Ms. Zheng didn't feel it was hard, but was happy because she could see her daughter at noon.
Since all the work she does is physical work, she replaces the sweet potatoes she usually eats with steamed buns and steamed buns with higher calories. Sometimes she stews pheasant and mushroom soup, or crucian carp, tofu and radish soup. One chicken or one fish can be stewed. One pot.
Although they could only taste a slight meaty taste, the Lin family was still very happy to eat.
As long as it is stained with meat and fish, there will be hope for the day's work.
When the sun goes down, the family carries their hoes and goes down the mountain together.
Not everyone is clearing up wasteland throughout the whole day.
Boss Lin sometimes goes to collect firewood.
Lin Tianci continued to dig his herbs, but encountered a little trouble during the process.
Following the pattern in the medical book, he found a stick-shaped herb. After peeling off the skin, the flesh was white and tender, with mucus.
Lin Silang pointed to the word "edible" written on the book and determined that this was a plant that could be used as food.
Tianci was so happy that he immediately went home and asked Zheng to cook it. As soon as Zheng peeled the skin, she felt that her palms were extremely itchy, red and painful, and she felt extremely uncomfortable.
Fortunately, after Mrs. Lin was busy talking to herself in the medical clinic, the Lin family learned that this medicinal material is called yam and should not be in direct contact with the skin. Once it comes into contact with the skin, it can be washed with vinegar and water.
After that day, Lin Silang went up the mountain to dig herbs and started wearing gloves. He carried a bunch of yams back and hid in a deserted place after dinner every day. He took a knife and did not know what he was doing.
Lin Laosan always carries a bow and arrow when he goes up the mountain. Every time at dusk, when the small animals in the forest become active, Lin Laosan will go deeper into the forest.
If you are lucky, you can catch a pheasant and duck, but if you are not lucky, you can catch two wild rabbits that have not grown up.
Normally in this situation, he would release the rabbits. Since the little rabbits had no meat, it was better to let them return to the forest and wait until they were fattened up next year before catching them. Lin Silang said that he was just playing hard to get.
Sometimes, he would catch two and give them to Lin Tianfu to play with. Anyway, Tianfu had to feed the chickens every day. It would not be difficult to pick some green leaves to feed the rabbits.
On this day, the Lin family had just returned home from the mountains. The women were busy going to the kitchen to light a fire to cook. The men were looking after the children in the yard, or going to the bamboo forest behind the house to cut bamboo and carry it home, splitting it into thin strips bit by bit. He planned to make bamboo baskets and send them to the town to sell them for money.
Cao Tongguang happened to come to the house and asked Lin's family to go to the town to attend the temple fair three days later.
