Searching for Treasures in the Clouds

outside the house,

Ling Sihai was chatting casually with Yu Ru.

"Xiao Ru, what do you do for a living? Are you stressed out? Are there any weird bosses or mean colleagues that bother you?"

Yu Ru typed on her phone: Grandpa Ling, I am a freelancer, doing handicrafts and typing on the computer. I don’t have any boss or colleagues. I do it if I want to, and I don’t do it if I don’t want to.

After entering the text, she adjusted the font size to the largest version for Ling Sihai to see.

Ling Sihai squinted his eyes and read the text in her phone carefully. After reading it, he asked again: "Xiaoru, what are your hobbies? What do you do all day?"

Yu Ru pulled out the photos of her handicrafts on her mobile phone and handed the phone to Ling Sihai again.

Ling Sihai looked at it and exclaimed: "Oh, these are really well done, Xiaoru, did you make all these?"

Yu Ru nodded.

"Hmm..." Ling Sihai put his two index fingers on the phone and tried to enlarge the photo. He pointed at a jewelry box in the picture and said, "Hey, this jewelry box is really well made. My old lady wanted a jewelry box before, but she couldn't find a suitable one after looking at many. She should like the one you made. Xiaoru, do you want to sell it? Grandpa will buy one from you."

Yu Ru took the phone back and typed on it: Grandpa, I gave this to someone else as a favor. If grandma likes it, I can customize one according to her preferences. If you have something you like, I can also make it for you. I want to marry Shan Yuan, then we will be a family. A family is not about money. Whatever you and grandma want, as long as I can do it, I can make it to honor you.

"Hey, okay." Ling Sihai smiled and nodded repeatedly, "Good boy, good boy, my old woman is a doctor in another rich man's house, and she can only get away on weekends. When you are free on weekends, please come back and I will introduce her to you."

Yu Ru nodded.

"Okay, okay." Ling Sihai stroked his beard again, "Xiao Ru, being a craftsman is not that easy. You can make so many things, and you do them so well, so you must be busy studying all day long, right?"

Yu Ru nodded.

"That's strange. Generally speaking, people tend to think too much when they are not busy. You work all day long, so why do you still have so many thoughts in your mind? Xiaoru, do you have any unfulfilled wishes? Any revenge that has not been taken?"

Yu Ru nodded, then immediately shook her head.

Ling Sihai observed her face carefully and continued, "Xiao Ru, you look very noble, a good face, but you are noble in the second half of your life. The first half of your life was full of ups and downs, and there were bloody disasters. Do you have any unfulfilled wishes? You have a knot in your heart since childhood, and there has always been hatred in your heart, and you have not been able to let it go until now."

Yu Ru did not respond. She looked hesitant. After a while, she typed on her mobile phone: Yes, Grandpa Ling, I do have hatred in my heart, just like the hatred I have for the Japanese devils. I can never forget it and I can't let it go.

After reading the words on her phone, Ling Sihai shook his head regretfully, "Is it such a big deal? A family feud... It's something that can't be forgotten from generation to generation, so it's really hard to deal with. Xiaoru, there's nothing much for Grandpa to say to you. I'll let my wife talk to you some other day. When she was young, she also had a blood feud that could not be avenged. She kept it in her heart every day, but now it's okay and she's happy every day. I hope you can relax a little after talking to her."

Yu Ru looked at Ling Sihai quietly, with an indelible sadness all over her body. She typed on her phone: Grandpa, you don't need to persuade me, and you don't need grandma to enlighten me. I understand the truth, but I can't do it. I am a stingy person. I like revenge and don't like to let go.

Perhaps she was born fragile, and could be easily defeated by a few words from others. But she was also indestructible, like a fossil in the ground, not a relic that had been buried for a long time, but a life that had been active for billions of years, almost immortal. As long as she remembered something, she would remember it forever, including hatred. The thing she remembered the most was hatred, and she would make every effort to take revenge.

She had done a lot for herself in terms of psychological construction and ideological guidance, but when something really happened, it all seemed to be in vain.

Ling Sihai showed a helpless smile, "Kid... I can only tell you this, whether you are rich or poor, just take care of yourself, do what you can and want to do, and don't care what others say. If you always like to talk about others, here..."

He nodded his head gently with his hand, "There is a problem."

Yu Ru smiled and nodded.

"Also, judging from your pulse, you should be often sulking, like to smash things, and have wild thoughts. This person has a grudge that can't be released, which is very uncomfortable. Why don't you practice martial arts and get rid of this grudge in the right place? It's just the right way to exercise your body."

Ling Sihai looked at Yu Ru's hands and feet, and then said, "You can ask Xiao Yuan to practice. You will be a couple in the future and will spend more time together. It would be best to let him teach you. He has practiced martial arts since he was a child, and his hands and feet have been broken many times. I was the one who reconnected them. After so many breaks, he has reached a certain level. You can ask him to teach you."

After saying that, he felt something was wrong and changed his words, "It's still not possible. Practicing martial arts is too hard, and your spirit is not strong enough, so you'd better save your energy. Xiaoru, if you want to, you can come to me to learn how to prepare medicinal materials. This is also a good way to calm your mind. However, it will take more than ten years to learn Chinese medicine. I think you are a good seedling and a predestined person, so you should be able to learn. What do you think? Do you want to learn? After learning Chinese medicine, I guarantee that your mind will be open and nothing will be difficult for you."

Yu Ru typed a reply on her phone: Thank you, Grandpa. Although I don’t have any leaders or colleagues, I have a lot of clients right now, so I’m afraid I can’t get away to learn anything else.

After reading the content on her phone, Ling Sihai sighed regretfully, "There's nothing I can do about it, Xiaoru. If you're free, come anytime. I really want to find a few good apprentices to learn from me. Now a lot of things have been lost. Those who have the conditions to learn don't want to learn, and those who don't have the conditions and want to learn can't learn. If I really take in an apprentice, I'm afraid he'll be a traitor and sell the knowledge to foreigners. It's too difficult..."

Yu Ru nodded and typed on her phone: I will, Grandpa.

She glanced at the busy crowd not far away, and typed on her phone: Grandpa, what medicinal herbs are being burned? Lotus leaf charcoal?

Ling Sihai was obviously surprised to see her words, and his eyes lit up. "Xiaoru, do you know this?"

Yu Ru typed on her phone: I like watching TV, it’s said on TV.

Ling Sihai slapped his thigh and said excitedly: "It's even better if you know. I'm going to cook two pots today. How about you learn from me for the second pot? There's no harm in learning a skill with more people..."

………………I am the dividing line………………

Lotus leaf charcoal, the "black gold" in Chinese traditional medicine, is made by calcining lotus leaves. Take dry lotus leaves, put them in a large pot, cover it with a round pot with a slightly smaller diameter, stick white paper on it, and seal the junction of the two pots with yellow mud (block the air outlet, make the space inside the pot completely airtight and isolated from the air). After three hours, sprinkle a proper amount of water on the surface of the calcining pot. If the water evaporates instantly, the fire is ready. At the same time, the white paper on the surface of the pot turns burnt yellow, and the fire is stopped immediately. When the calcining pot is completely cooled and taken out, observe that the fired lotus leaves are charcoal-like, black as ink, and shiny as silk, which is a success.

In addition to the extremely rigorous calcination technique, the raw materials for calcination are also very particular. The lotus leaves to be calcined are required to be large and complete, and the picking season and growing environment must be at a specific time and place. If there are any mistakes, the effectiveness of the lotus leaf carbon will be greatly reduced.

In short, this is an ancient craft that combines the right time, right place and right people. There are very few people in the world who can burn real lotus leaf charcoal, almost none.

(The processing of traditional Chinese medicine basically pays attention to this, so the medicinal properties of traditional Chinese medicine are rarely truly brought into play, because the orthodox processing cost is too high and too troublesome, so some processing steps and methods can only be simplified, and the efficacy is weakened along with it)

Lotus leaf tastes bitter and is neutral in nature. It enters the liver, spleen, and stomach meridians. It has the functions of clearing away heat and dampness, promoting the clear yang, cooling blood and stopping bleeding. It is used for summer heat and thirst, summer dampness diarrhea, spleen deficiency diarrhea, blood heat vomiting and bleeding, and metrorrhagia. Lotus leaf charcoal has the function of astringing, removing blood stasis and stopping bleeding, and is mainly used for hemorrhage and postpartum blood fainting.