Chapter 75： Nei Jing

Chapter 75 Nei Jing

The incident of stealing children from the Chen family in Xicun has come to an end for the time being.

However, the people from the East Village are becoming more and more displeased with the people from the West Village, and they are considered friendly if they don't sneer when they meet them.

Some women were even more exaggerated. They pried all the washing stones on the west bank of the Chuan River near Chen Laoshuan's house into the river when no one was paying attention to express their dissatisfaction and contempt.

The West Village has become a den of child thieves, and not one of them is a good person! They don't deserve to wash rice and wash clothes in the same river as the East Village people!

The Jiang family worked day and night to pick out all the cotton seeds, and the three Jiang family brothers started to play cotton with their long bows.

Not to mention, this method is really good. The elastic cotton is softer and better made into cotton jackets and quilts.

So, the Jiang family’s eldest sister-in-law and her mother-in-law Jiang Liu were busy making new cotton-padded clothes for the family, using soft ramie cloth.

These ramie cloths have been starched and dyed, and the colors are very beautiful.

In the past, poor families could not afford to wear starched and dyed cloth, so most of them made clothes directly from white ramie cloth.

Now that the Jiang family is rich, they can wear colorful and patterned clothes for everyone in the family.

More than a dozen beds were made, ensuring that each person’s bed had cotton-filled bedding, which was soft and warm. It was the treatment of an aristocratic family.

After finishing playing cotton, Jiang Sanlang went to Beishan with his two brothers to dig out the kudzu roots that had not been dug out for four years.

This thing has grown thicker than an adult's thigh. It can break with just a knock. The powder content is okay.

Scrape off the outer skin and clean it, then cut it into small pieces and grind it in a stone mortar.

Soak these pieces of kudzu root in water and slurry, and then white starch will precipitate.

The Pueraria powder is easy to store after drying it. Grasp a little in leisurely and cook it with water. It is the same as that of the lotus powder.

This thing is the food of the common people and has existed since ancient times, but it is not common.

Just because the kudzu roots need to be dug for powder when they are three or four years old, and the powder extraction rate of most kudzu roots is extremely low, only two kilograms of kudzu powder can be obtained from one hundred kilograms of kudzu root, which is time-consuming and labor-intensive, and not cost-effective.

But kudzu can be harvested every year. Just like retting hemp, it requires peeling and beating, which is a very cumbersome process.

The woven Gebu is people's favorite clothing material in summer. It is cool and does not stick to the body.

Aristocratic families even regarded fine grass cloth as a holy product for keeping cool in midsummer.

 Often the weaver girl sells the knitted Gebu to the cloth shop, and as soon as the front legs are gone, the back legs are bought.

Ying Bao watched the entire process while her father was pounding kudzu root, hanging kudzu pulp, and filtering starch. She found it quite interesting.

Making tofu is also a similar process, only missing the step of boiling the paste and stewing it.

Shennong's Materia Medica says that Pueraria lobata is sweet in taste and neutral in nature. It mainly treats thirst, severe body heat, vomiting, and various paralysis, arouses yin qi, and resolves various poisons.

Mrs. Ke Wen said that Pueraria lobata is cold in nature, so people with weak spleen and stomach, pregnant women and children should not eat too much.

Speaking of Mrs. Wen, I think of Mr. Wen.

Yingbao hasn't seen Mr. Wen for a long time, so Mrs. Wen has not been very happy recently.

She was a little overwhelmed teaching students in two classrooms by herself, so she arranged for Ying Bao and Wen Shu to attend class in the morning, and assign homework in the afternoon for them to go home and study by themselves, so that she could teach Hu Zi Erni and the others again.

However, Mrs. Wen still purchased Yingbao’s fine gold and snow fungus.

Five kilograms of golden ears, and Yingbao got more than sixty taels of silver.

Including the previous silver ingot, she is already a real little rich woman.

Mom and dad also made a lot of money this time, probably more than a hundred taels.

Even Dani and Ni Ni earned more than seven taels of silver each, but they were so happy that they kept urging their eldest cousin to take them to the market.

Ying Bao didn’t have anything to buy, so he didn’t join in the fun and concentrated on studying medicine at home.

The Medical Classics, also known as the Book of Prescriptions and Techniques, is divided into four parts: meridians, pulses, prescriptions, and medicines.

Scholars say: The scriptures explain the way, the pulse guides the technique, then the effect can be achieved, the medicine distinguishes its nature, these four are prepared, and then the technique is ready.

It means that as long as you learn to use the four skills of "meridians", "pulsations", "prescriptions" and "medicines", you can become a doctor. The "jing" here is divided into 23 categories: "Nei Jing", "Difficult Jing", five internal organs, acupuncture, gynecology, pediatrics, surgery, health preservation, Jingfang, Materia Medica, and Food Classic.

Ying Bao has only learned the Nei Jing, and is far from becoming a doctor.

The Neijing, also known as the "Huangdi Neijing", includes "Suwen" and "Lingshu".

Su Wen is mainly a question and answer between the Yellow Emperor and his teachers. It talks about the deduction of the human body and internal organs and the relationship between heaven and man, which is somewhat illusory.

Lingshu is a science of acupuncture, focusing on the practical operation of meridians and acupuncture.

Yingbao has finished studying Suwen and recently learned acupoints and acupuncture on the human body from Mrs. Wen.

But Mrs. Wen did not emphasize that she must learn the art of acupuncture well, and only required her to have a basic understanding of it.

Because acupuncture cannot really cure diseases, it can only relieve some symptoms.

Just like a witch doctor bleeding people to cure diseases, it is just a medical technique.

Next, Yingbao will have to learn difficult lessons.

"Difficult Sutra" is also known as "Eighty-one Questions" and "Eighty-one Difficult Sutras of the Yellow Emperor". It focuses on basic theories and takes into account the analysis of a variety of related diseases.

Contents include meridians, internal organs, yin and yang, five elements, diseases and syndromes, health and wellness, acupoints, acupuncture, etc., involving normal human physiology, anatomy, diseases, diagnosis and treatment.

Studying medicine requires a lot of brainpower, and many things have to be memorized by rote. Yingbao feels miserable.

In her spare time, she summoned her two younger brothers and asked them to endorse it to her.

The two twins are very smart and have now learned to recite the Three Character Classic and the Hundreds of Family Surnames.

So Yingbao also taught them how to read and write.

And encouraged them, whoever learned ten words first every day, she would take him out to ride a deer, and also take him to see the piglets raised by Wen Hengyin.

The twins really worked hard and competed with each other to see who could learn more and faster.

“Look at what you wrote. One word occupies a piece of paper. How can you write below?”

You won’t know if you don’t teach, but you will be shocked if you teach.

Yingbao was so angry that she vomited blood when she saw the two children's crab claw characters.

Not only are the characters crooked like crawling crabs, but they are also very large.

If she were not afraid of dampening the enthusiasm of her two younger brothers to learn, she would have wanted to hit their little paws with a ruler.

Alas, in order to enjoy the blessing of my younger brothers becoming officials in the future, I might as well endure it.

As the days passed, the weather became colder and colder.

The Jiang family was having a lot of fun at home. For this reason, they bought a sheep and killed it. The whole family gathered around the stove to roast the mutton and eat it.

But not long after the good days, the villagers beat gongs and went from door to door to announce people working on the river, that is, doing hard labor.

This river worker is not in his hometown, but is dispatched to other places by the county magistrate.

This visit may last for ten to twenty days or even a month. During this period, no one will care if you are sick or hungry, because the county government does not care about the food of the laborers, or even where they live.

So Chun Niang quickly prepared bedding and dry food for her husband, as well as bamboo hats and raincoats. She also sewed a small tent for him out of sheepskin.

In case it rains or snows, the husband and two brothers can have a place to hide from the rain or snow.

Originally, their family could spend money to buy laborers, but the countryman said that for a big family like theirs, even if they spend money to buy laborers, the three brothers must work together, otherwise it will be difficult to communicate.

In other words, you can buy up to two places, but the other one must go to work.

The three Jiang brothers together should all go. It's not easy to be alone outside. If something happens, no one will know.

(End of this chapter)