The most important thing is that you have been away for half your life, but others are still just teenagers.
Sitting at the dining table, Gan Congshi raised his head and looked up at the sky outside at a 45-degree angle through the window of the wooden house.
The sun is just right and the air is bright.
The sound of water gurgling in the gaps in the valley and the chirping of birds in the treetops of the forest formed a set of cheerful sounds.
This joy belongs to the melon boy opposite.
And he...
Already old!
I am so old that the wind in the mountains can no longer blow into my heart and body covered by the smoke and dust of the years.
There is a kind of smoke and dust that is on your body, from head to toe. You can't see it, you can't touch it, you can't remove it, and you can't drive it away, but you can feel it all the time.
In the past, even when faced with Xu Yishan, the "son of Annan" who was at the height of his power, Gan Congshi was only slightly envious, but that envy soon passed, and his heart regained its peace of mind.
It still looks like it's peaceful over the years.
Now, Gan Congshi is really jealous, and seems to be a little late.
How could he not be jealous!
So then, today’s teaching suddenly changed from one kind of herb yesterday and two days ago to five kinds!
Little guy, aren't you smart? Aren't you attentive?
Then use your intelligence and study hard!
Hey.
Five kinds a day!
From memorizing the shape of the herb, to digging, cleaning, dividing and processing, to the efficacy and use of this herb, to some combinations of this herb and other herbs.
Is that enough?
no!
You still want to try it!
How can you learn about herbal medicine without tasting it yourself?
Why didn’t you taste it a few days ago?
Isn’t that just the beginning? It’s just to let your child get used to it a little bit. Today is the official start!
…
Gan Congshi imagined various possible situations.
For example, the little guy dug trees and his back hurt and his hands cramped.
For example, the little guy's memory is really good, but after memorizing so many irrelevant and messy things, he finally got confused, his mind became dizzy, and even stars appeared randomly.
For example, the little guy was so bitter that his whole face wrinkled up and his tongue was numb all day long. Then he drank water desperately and turned his stomach into a ball.
…
None of these happened!
The little guy has great strength. He hasn't practiced yet and doesn't know where his strength comes from. Although he has a small body, he seems to be born with great strength.
The little guy's memory is really good, so good that it completely exceeded Gan Congshi's expectations.
Five kinds?
Even if there are fifty types, Gan Cong Shi is "worried" that the little one can still cope with it.
Look at how relaxed he is!
Easier than drinking water!
Gan Congshi taught me a non-toxic but bitter medicine today. He was really determined to grind the medicine into powder and let the little guy taste it.
Just taste it sparingly, but it is actually good for the body. It can clear the mind, refresh the mind, remove fire, and relieve dryness.
At this time of year, it is most appropriate to use this medicine to cook a pot of "soothing soup" to clear the heart and moisten the lungs, remove fire and calm the nerves.
It just needs to be paired with other things.
If you simply taste this medicine, hehe, it is wonderful!
Then……
The little guy didn't stick out his tongue, didn't wrinkle his face, and didn't guzzle water.
He felt like he had eaten a sweet red heart nut, and even had a little bit of joy on his face?
This is really like seeing the undead!
Could it be that this herb underwent some kind of mutation under some special circumstances, causing the bitter taste to disappear?
Gan Congshi himself also dipped a little powder into his fingers and flicked it onto his tongue.
Immediately, his old face wrinkled into a work of art that was at least five thousand years old.
#@#$%amp;^amp;**(((*amp;^%!!!
Luck! Luck! Luck!
Qi moves throughout the body!
After all, he was a cultivator at the lower level. Even though he was moving his Qi and drinking a lot of water, the Gan Cong pose successfully eliminated the great discomfort on the tip of his tongue and the entire mouth. Then he became sad and melancholy again.
.
Gan Congshi stared at the little guy's face with extremely suspicious eyes.
He tried to see the discomfort that was suppressed and hidden from the little face opposite.
He tried to see a mischievous mockery in the eyes on the other side.
but.
No!
Neither!
That face was really relaxed and happy, and there was only confusion about his strange gaze in his eyes.
The water was only a finger deep, extremely clear to the bottom, and nothing was hidden! Gan Congshi firmly believed that what he saw at this moment was the little guy's real performance, and it was definitely not a pretense!
So Gan Congshi was also puzzled. He was extremely puzzled and said: "My child, don't you taste the bitterness of this herb?"
"It's bitter!" Xu Guangling said.
"That……"
Then why doesn't your face wrinkle?
But it seems inappropriate to ask this?
"Then how do you feel?" Gan Congshi asked.
"It feels good! I just tasted this herb and I just felt a coolness spreading from the tip of my tongue to my whole body. Wow, it's like taking a cold bath after sweating profusely on a hot day. My whole body feels refreshed and refreshing.
It’s cold!”
"Senior Gan, I feel that this medicine is just like your last name. It tastes bitter, but its medicinal properties are sweet, very sweet!"
"This is good medicine!"
Xu Guangling answered a lot of questions as soon as he answered.
Gan Congshi's whole body was in chaos when he heard the wind. Well, it would be chaos even if there is no wind.
"Please go away, I want to be quiet."
He almost said such words.
But after all, he was a person in the earthly realm, and his state of mind was still very strong. Gan Congshi breathed out slightly, and then said to Xu Guangling with a very calm mind: "My child, you are going to make dinner today, and use this herb.
How about trying it with some other things? You can think of it as a medicine."
You can't blame me for the soup and rice you made yourself, right?
You can't taste the bitterness at all, but I wonder how "sweet" you can be with one meal!
"Okay!" Xu Guangling responded eagerly.
Pick blue grass from the south mountain, pick purple branches from the north slope, catch white fish from the west stream, and pick green clothes from the east stream.
Xu Guangling sat on Gan Congshi's shoulders, commanding the humanoid self-propelled Scud, walking from east to west, and from south to north in Yaowang Valley.
The required medicinal materials and ingredients were collected.
Then.
At the foot of the hill, in the shadow of the setting sun.
Boil live water with good charcoal, and put in all the ingredients one by one.
Different ingredients and medicinal materials, some are put in cold water, some are put in warm water, some are put in boiling water, and some are put in the pot just before serving.
Gan Congshi's face was not wrinkled this time, but his nose was "wrinkled".
Before the water boiled, he couldn't help but keep sniffing.
Why is it so...
Smells good?
It's neither fragrant nor sweet.
It was a smell that couldn't be described specifically, but smelling this smell, Gan Congshi suddenly remembered what the little guy had said before.
"A coolness spreads from the tip of the tongue to the whole body."
"It's like taking a cold shower after sweating profusely on a hot day."
“My whole body feels great!”
“It feels cool!”
This is how Gan Cong Shi feels at this moment.
In the steaming heat, the rising steam seemed to bring a cool rain falling from the sky. This rain drenched Gan Cong Shi's body from head to toe, from the outside to the inside.
He felt something he had never experienced before...