ancient female doctor

Chapter 346 Cordyceps ([-])

"Don't call yourself a god grass, it's no wonder people think you're a liar. What kind of god grass is there? It's called Cordyceps sinensis, or Cordyceps for short." Qingzhu stopped, motioned the guards to get out of the way, and then Then he asked again: "However, what you meant just now is that you still have caterpillar fungus at home, right?"

"Yes, yes, I still have this god in my family... No, there is also Cordyceps, do you still buy it?" The man squeezed forward, and asked Qingzhu and the others, bowing to each other.

"If there is, I will buy it, as long as the quality is decent, if the quality is too bad, I don't want it." Qingzhu looked at the man and said.

"Don't worry about the appearance, they are all top-quality, almost the same as the ones I brought out." The man nodded repeatedly and assured him.

Hearing such a guarantee, Qing Zhu also nodded, and said: "Well, you can bring it later, but I don't know when you can get it?"

"My house is not far from here, and I can get it back in about half an hour." The man said quickly.

"That's fine, you can go back and get it." Qingzhu nodded, looked around, pointed to a teahouse in front and said: "I'll wait in the teahouse over there, when the time comes, you can come and find me there. "

"Okay, then I'll go back and get it right away." The man said, apologetically laughing a few times, saying that he was rude, and then ran out of Dongshi with a speed as if there was a mad dog chasing him behind him.

"Let's go, let's go to the front teahouse and sit down." Qing Zhu said, patted herself, looked at Princess An Le with a smile: "Hey, no, I don't have any money, how much money do you have? "

After hearing the words, Princess Anle looked at his bodyguard again, and the bodyguard said, "Return to Medical Officer Xia, when we came out today, we didn't count scattered money, but we also brought 3000 taels of money."

"So many? That should be enough." Qingzhu felt relieved after hearing this.

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Qingzhu and the others waited for less than half an hour at the teahouse, when a small oilcloth carriage stopped hurriedly at the entrance of the teahouse, and the man who sold the caterpillar fungus got out of the cart, carrying a big burden on his back.After getting out of the car, he turned around and helped the white-haired old men get off one by one, and then took out a dime to pay for the rental car.

The white-haired old man got out of the car and walked into the teahouse, but his steps were difficult and he was short of breath. He looked seriously ill.

While paying the fare, the man said: "Father, please slow down."

However, the white-haired old man didn't seem to hear the man's yelling, and just walked to the teahouse. The man was in a hurry, and he didn't care about waiting for the driver to change the money, so he walked up in two or three steps and helped the old man. He was still the driver. After chasing for a few steps, I gave back the change.

"Quick, take me there..." The old man said without thinking, and when he spoke, there was a weak short cough.

"Father, I told you to wait, don't worry." The man said, helping the old man into the shop, and looked around a few times.

Previously, Qingzhu and the others had seen the man get off the car on the second floor of the tea house, and had sent a guard of Princess Anle down to pick him up, so the man quickly saw the person of Princess Anle, and hurriedly said to the old man beside him: " Father, they are upstairs, I will help you up."

With that said, the man helped the old man upstairs.

The old man's body seemed to be extremely weak. Every time he took three or two steps of stairs, he had to stop and catch his breath for a while before continuing to go up. After walking for a while, he finally reached the second floor.

On the second floor, there were only Qingzhu and a few people sitting by the window. As soon as the old man went upstairs, he saw Qingzhu and the others. A faint light flashed in his cloudy old eyes. He quickened his pace and walked over, but he didn't get close. Then he turned around again, coughed for a while, took a few breaths, then turned around again, after a few steps, bowed to the green bamboo and the others, and asked: "My lord, do you really know the god grass?" ?"

"Father, everyone has said that it's called Cordyceps, not God's Grass." The man whispered to the old man, and after he finished speaking, he saluted the green bamboo apologetically.

"Yes, yes, when my old man got excited, he made a mistake, it was Cordyceps, Cordyceps." The old man followed the man's words and said.

"Old man, please come and sit down." The old man panted like a bellows, and his words were accompanied by that voice.Qingzhu heard it from a long distance away, and knew that the old man was probably suffering from lung failure. This kind of person is most physically weak. Let alone walking, even speaking loudly, he would be short of breath, so he quickly stood up and called the old man to sit down. Take a rest.

The old man covered his mouth and coughed a few times, shook his head, and said: "No, the little old man can just stay here, so as not to overwhelm the nobleman."

Seeing that the old man was stubbornly refusing to come and sit down, Qing Zhu didn't force it, but just motioned to a personal guard and asked her to help move a stool for the old man, asking him to sit down.

Maybe it was because standing was really tiring. After thanking the old man, he sat down. The man who sold the caterpillar fungus did not sit down, but also thanked the green bamboo, and then said: "Your honor, this is me. Father, I heard that the nobleman recognizes this Cordyceps sinensis, so I insisted on coming over to ask the nobleman in person, and please don't be offended by the nobleman."

Qingzhu had heard the man who sells medicine say more than once that the Cordyceps sinensis was brought back from Tubo by his father, there must be some story behind it, and he knew the source of the old man's obsession, so he just smiled and said: " It's okay, but I don't know what the old gentleman wants to ask?"

Panting for breath, the old man cupped his hands again towards the green bamboo, and said: "Please also tell me, this divine grass, no, the origin of this caterpillar fungus."

Qingzhu avoided it slightly, knowing that the old man probably still didn't believe it, so he wanted to inquire with words first, and he didn't feel annoyed in his heart, he just opened his mouth and said slowly: "So that the old man can know, the full name of this caterpillar fungus is Cordyceps sinensis, as the name implies , This Cordyceps is a worm in winter and a grass in summer. The shape of the worm is like a silkworm, the color is yellowish, the shape of the grass is like a leek, and the leaves are thin."

"At the beginning of summer, the insects enter the ground with their heads, and the tails of the insects naturally turn into grass, interspersed among the weeds, so that people can't see that they are insects. In winter, the grass gradually turns yellow, and the insects crawl out of the ground. After seeing it, Wormtail is still like grass, it looks like it is walking with grass."

Qingzhu's explanation is naturally not the real source of Cordyceps, but just cites the description of Cordyceps in the novels written in the Ming and Qing Dynasties.For the ancients, such an explanation is naturally easier to understand. If she were to explain it according to modern research, ten people would listen to it, and eleven people would be confused.

The more the old man listened to Qingzhu's words, the more excited he became on his face. After hearing all Qingzhu's explanations, he suddenly stood up, knelt on the ground with a plop, and said with tears in his eyes: "You really know, you really know... …God has eyes, and finally told me to live until someone who knows this divine grass, God has eyes..."

(End of this chapter)