Huaiyu stood in front of the Wutou gate of Su Guogong's mansion and looked at it carefully. This gate was actually quite simple, but not simple at all. It was simple in that it was not complicated. It looked similar to the gates of various houses in Chang'an.
It's just a tall pillar with a door leaf installed under the crossbar.
However, ordinary people are not qualified to use Wutoumen. Wutoumen are commonly used in the Tang Dynasty and above the fifth rank, but the grades are different, and the heights of the doorposts on both sides are different.
Fatty Wu Junya saw Huaiyu staring at the Wutou Gate, so he explained to the brother who had just come down the mountain, "This Wutou Gate is just two wooden pillars and a crossbar matched to form a grass-shaped head, but it is also very distinctive.
Pay attention to the fact that the pillar on the left is called Valve, which means meritorious service, and the title on the right symbolizes long history, that is, officials occupying high positions for generations.
Look at the carvings on the two pillars on the protruding beam. They are very exquisite. They are both painted black, so it is named Wutoumen."
There are five levels of merit for people and ministers, and they are designated as nobles. After accumulating days, they will be reviewed.
"These two doorposts are very particular. The fifth-grade one can only use eight feet, while the first-grade one can use two feet. You see, the Cheng family's doorposts must be at least one foot and eighty, and I think it won't be long before they need to be replaced again.
It’s the goalpost.”
The Wutou Gate is a symbol of rank, and the pillars are not ordinary wood, they mean Jingbiao, so they are also called Biao Zhu or Huabiao.
"Erlang, you know how to look at your anger. How do you think the Cheng family's anger is?"
Huaiyu looked at the Wutou gate and the two rows of halberds inside the door, "The spirit of the Cheng family is red and purple, which is beyond words."
This maid who can make tea can actually outshine the 20 Wuling barbarian maids. However, she came from the Cui family in Qinghe. Maybe she not only has the blessing of skills, but also the blessing of brand?
"I found another death row prisoner and stabbed him several times on his hands and feet. The same depth and the same heavy flow of blood were used. Even with ordinary gold sore medicine, the bleeding could not be completely stopped for a quarter of an hour."
Huaiyu smiled slightly. He was not afraid of Lao Cheng's examination. Even if an experienced doctor could detect the ingredients, it was impossible to detect the specific compatibility of ingredients. The most important thing about a medicine is its compatibility, and then prescribing the right medicine.
, otherwise, if the ingredients are right or the ingredients are wrong, the effect will be completely different, and it may even turn from saving lives to killing lives.
This tea is baked with tea cakes, then mashed, boiled with salt, and several other ingredients such as ginger, green onions, and orange peels are added. Finally, some expensive imported spices, cinnamon, pepper, and...
Order fresh milk and frosting sugar imported from Tianzhu.
"I have a prescription called Feilong Life-Sustaining Pill, but there is no ready-made pill now. The main reason is that the medicine is relatively precious, and the preparation time is very long, so it is not easy to make."
Lao Cheng filled Huaiyu's cup of tea and said, "I can ask someone to buy whatever medicine Erlang needs. This Flying Dragon Life-Sustaining Pill is very good upon hearing it. When paired with your Thousand Gold Treasure Pill, it will be the holy medicine for healing wounds and saving lives on the battlefield."
"And the next day, the wound that was simply bandaged by the death row prisoner who used your medicine was not red, swollen or ulcerated at all, but the other guy got a fever that night, started talking nonsense the next night, and the wound was already very serious on the third day."
He has the back of a tiger and the waist of a bear, an eagle nose and big eyes, and his voice is like that of a bear.
Lao Cheng came up and slapped Huaiyu hard on the shoulder. The slap was like a bear's paw, and he almost knocked him to the ground. Fortunately, he had been practicing in Zhongnan Mountain for five years, otherwise most young people would not be able to stand it.
Huaiyu picked up the tea cup and took a sip, not liking it very much.
Huaiyu felt that it was very appropriate to describe Cheng Yaojin directly. He was fat, so he should be called strong. He was very strong, and one person would definitely not be able to carry him with that belly.
Wu Junya whispered to Huaiyu, "It seems that you have a lot of face. Mr. Su Guo just invited us to come in."
"There are many prescriptions to treat this kind of symptoms. As for the symptoms of death row prisoners, what is needed is to clear away heat and detoxify, eliminate carbuncles and dissipate stagnation. The main medicines used are to clear away heat and activate blood circulation."
Cheng Yaojin didn't care about the life or death of the death row prisoner. Anyway, Qiuhou Wenzhan's short-lived ghosts died early and were reborn. What he cared about was whether Wu Huaiyu had medical skills.
Huaiyu didn't understand these etiquettes, and he didn't know about those high-ranking families. He only welcomed guests with similar or higher status to himself through the main door, usually through the side door or the back door. For example, in a mansion like Su Guogong's,
There are several doors.
The ancients liked to use many girths to describe the majesty of military commanders. For example, Wang Shiji of the Sui Dynasty wore a belt with ten girths.
"This recipe requires bezoar, musk body, bear bile, frankincense, myrrh, agarwood and other fragrant herbs, plus pearls, toad venom and other multi-flavor medicinal materials, and then using plum blossoms as a guide, finally it is made into pills, one pill for each
Qian Zhong, take one or two tablets for oral administration, once or twice a day, dissolve with warm water and take it. For external use, dissolve with strong tea juice and apply to the affected area. Remember that this prescription is poisonous and should not be taken by pregnant women. Do not take it in excessive amounts for other patients.
Too big for too long.”
Lao Cheng pretended to be very elegant while holding the tea cup, but Huaiyu felt that this was a bit unharmonious. After all, a strong man with a 10-inch belt and a full beard sat on the couch with his silk shirt half-unbuttoned.
A large amount of chest hair was exposed, but he was holding an extremely exquisite Xing kiln white porcelain teacup, half-closing his eyes as if he was intoxicated.
Huaiyu didn't think it was strange. His medicine was not a panacea. A good medicine should be symptomatic. The most precious pill passed down to him by the Taoist priest was actually somewhat similar to Yunnan Baiyao. It was said that Yunnan Baiyao was formerly called Qu Huanzhang Baibao Dan.
"I took a death row prisoner and stabbed him several times on his hands and feet with a knife. The wounds were very deep and the blood flowed profusely. I crushed your precious elixir into pieces, applied half of it externally to the wound, and gave him the other half internally.
My dear, the bleeding stopped in less than ten minutes after a cup of tea."
Lao Cheng was quite happy to drink it, "The tea made by the tea maid bought for one hundred thousand dollars is different. This good tea and good ingredients are not wasted. The ingredients for this cup of tea cost more than a thousand dollars. It is delicious."
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His eyebrows are one foot wide, his eyes are like lightning, his face is full of beard, and his thick chest hair can even be clearly seen in his silk shirt.
Lao Cheng pulled him into the house and ignored Wu Junya.
The fifth grade is the most valuable, while the third grade is the most valuable.
Even those specialized prescription drugs are not very effective. If we can find an effective and cheap medicine for treating sores and carbuncles, it will be really precious and can save countless lives.
Cinnamon was imported from Ceylon, the lion country, and pepper was also sold from the Western Regions. Its origin is the Nanyang Islands. After being changed hands by Arabs and Indian merchants, it was then sold to the Western Regions and transported thousands of miles by the Sogdians. Compared with the original
The place of origin has not only increased the price by hundreds of times.
Lao Cheng listened very carefully, but felt that he couldn't understand what he heard and couldn't remember clearly. "Aren't all bezoars the same? Is there any difference?"
This tea reminded him of Gansu canned tea. He had drunk it before and it gave him a headache.
Lao Cheng was quite unkind. Not only did he test Huaiyu's medicine, but he also used it to be tested by military doctors. However, he was quite happy to say it.
Aconite doorposts, red lacquer door.
"It is true that a lot of precious medicinal materials are used. The better the medicinal materials are, the better the efficacy will be." Huaiyu said with a smile.
Seeing him, Huaiyu even thought of sumo wrestlers. Most of the ancient famous generals did not have the kind of toned bodies with low body fat and high muscles, but more similar to wrestling and sumo wrestling.
But he didn't expect that the medicinal bezoar would be so exquisite and expensive.
Blue bricks, gray tiles, and cornices.
After hearing the explanation, Lao Cheng couldn't help but take a deep breath. He was also from a powerful family, and his ancestors had been officials for generations. He also had many farm servants in his family. Now he is the founding lord, a duke, and a meritorious official of the Xuanwu Sect. , even the Cui family of Qinghe deliberately came to win over him and sold half of their tea maids and gave half to Cheng Yaojin.
As soon as Huaiyu saw him, he recognized him as Cheng Yaojin, who looked very much like Cheng Chumo, but a little fatter. It was summer, so he was quite cool in what he wore at home.
"Is there any ready-made elixir?"
A circle made between the index fingers and thumbs of both hands is called a circumference, five inches is called a circumference, and a tenth circumference of a belt is more than one meter.
I would say it was milk tea, but it was a bit too complex, and the taste was hard to describe, so I put it down after one sip.
There are halberds inside the door and a screen wall.
"If you want to get good results, it is best to use high-grade slow-bezoar bezoar."
Use it before redness, swelling, sores, and poisons are broken. After trauma, the abscess has been broken, so it is no longer suitable.
"Oh, you are the Taoist priest Wu Erlang who just came down from the mountain. The elixir you made is really sharp. Chu Mo brought back two pills last time. I didn't believe the miraculous elixir he said, so I went to Yongzhou first. The prison found a death row inmate to try it out."
There are also doctors in the army who have methods to treat these conditions, but they are simple, crude and not very effective. Most of them are to directly cut out the rotten flesh, clean it with some medicine, or even directly brand it with a red-hot brand when there is no medicine, or Scald with boiling oil.
This medicine is called the holy medicine for injuries.
"If Mr. Su Guogong had given the death row prisoner medicine when he was first injured, he would have been as alive and kicking as the other one. But after three days, the medicine was no longer suitable."
"Two gentlemen of the Wu family, my family Alang invites you." A steward of the Cheng family went out to greet them personally and led them in directly through the gate.
Enter the house and pull him directly onto the bed.
The steward led them all the way to the front courtyard, where Cheng Yaojin stood on the porch to greet them.
Old Cheng's current official name is Cheng Zhijie, and Yaojin is his previous name. Although his name has become a bit more refined, he is still straightforward and straightforward, and he is very familiar with the juniors who come to visit him for the first time.
Huaiyu looked at the woman who was bowing her head and concentrating on making tea. She didn't expect that it was actually worth one hundred thousand yuan. Fan Mu had previously said that the mountain slaves sold from Wuling were only worth ten thousand yuan, and the Ding maids were only worth seven or eight thousand yuan. If it's a middle- or lower-class one, it's one to two thousand cheaper.
"Is there any other alternative recipe with cheaper materials?" Cheng Yaojin asked. There were too many red, swollen and ulcerated wounds in the army. Most of the soldiers did not even die on the battlefield, but the vast majority died on the battlefield. The wound was infected after the war.
He is eight feet tall, has broad shoulders, can run a horse with his arms, and can lift people with his fists. He is such a strong man.
"Does Erlang have other medicines that can cure his symptoms?"
Even the yellowing frost candy is produced in Tianzhu and trafficked to Chang'an from India. It is a particularly rare imported product.
Even if it were made into a Flying Dragon Life-Sustaining Pill, it would be really unaffordable for a powerful person who is not a prince, noble or aristocratic family.
Wu Junya took a breath, "It's so enviable."
But even if it is the complete version of the ancient prescription Zhibao Dan, its main functions are to remove blood stasis and stop bleeding, activate blood circulation to relieve pain, detoxify and reduce swelling. It has the effect of inhibiting the release of inflammatory mediators and reducing post-traumatic swelling and pain, but it is not an anti-inflammatory drug and has no anti-infection and anti-inflammatory properties.
function.
Huaiyu felt that Lao Cheng was a little inhumane for doing such an experiment on other people's prisoners.
"It's true that good medicinal materials make good medicine," Lao Cheng put down his tea cup and leaned over, "Three days later, the first death row prisoner was fine and his wounds were scabbed, but the other death row prisoner, we were there
After the wound became red, swollen and ulcerated, I started using your elixir on him, but it didn't have much effect.
I found this morning that I was already stiff."
Lao Tao's Supreme Treasure Pill is similar to it. I haven't compared who is stronger and who is weaker than Huai Jade. Anyway, the effects are relatively similar. Lao Tao's prescriptions have complete versions and simplified versions. Many medicinal materials in the full version are too precious and difficult to find, such as
Natural bezoars, such as natural musk, etc., became too rare in the future, so other drugs were gradually used instead, so the efficacy of the drugs was also different.
Everything is a luxury that only the nobles can enjoy.
"Drink a cup of tea first. This is the new good tea given to me by the King of Qin. It is the Mengding stone tea that comes from Jiannan. I am the tea maid who is the best at this. I spent 100,000 yuan to get it from the Cui family in Qinghe.
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Huaiyu introduced to Lao Cheng the quality and grade of bezoar in detail.
"Your medicine is indeed very good. I showed it to the military doctor of traditional Chinese medicine. He said that your medicine contains notoginseng, thistle, bezoar, musk and other precious medicinal materials?"
Huaiyu remembers a very famous sumo wrestler who was 1.83 meters tall and weighed 252 kilograms. According to the slogan, he was eight feet long and had a belt of nine circumferences. He had a majestic face and extraordinary physical strength.
Huaiyu almost shuddered.
The Duke is extremely noble.
At the level of science and technology of later generations, those national confidential prescriptions cannot be broken, let alone now.
The body length is one foot, eight feet, and the belt has nine or ten circumferences. This is even the best evaluation of a man's majestic figure by the people of the Tang Dynasty.
"Yes, but the effect is not that good. Of course, the most important thing is to treat it promptly and treat the symptoms. It is best not to cause the wound to become red, swollen and ulcerated."
Cheng Yaojin sighed. On the battlefield, sometimes it is not that easy. "I have something to ask Erlang for help."
"Mr. Su Guo has something to do, but please give me your instructions."
