Quick Wear: True and False Life

When Miao Nannan and Fang Jinghao left, it was the hottest summer day, so after sending their two younger brothers to school, they set out for the provincial capital while it was still early.

Since Fang Jinghao had never learned to ride a horse, he could only choose to ride a horse. They went to the horse market and looked at more than a dozen horsemen. Miao Nannan chose someone who had a friendly face and good deeds.

After they made their choice, they drove directly out of the town. As it was very hot after noon, Miao Nannan looked at the surroundings and chose a place with dense shade and open water to stop and rest.

"Nannan, drink some water!" Fang Jinghao picked up a flat stone and sat down, handing over the water bag and said.

Miao Nannan took the water bag and drank a few sips. When she heard the cicadas chirping, she felt even more hot and uneasy. She couldn't sit still for a moment, so she got up and went to the river to take a look.

"Uncle Fang, my wife and I are going to sit by the river. You eat first." Fang Jinghao handed two scallion pancakes he had just taken out to the driver.

"Hey! Be careful, someone drowned over there not long ago..." Uncle Fang took the cake and wanted to remind the two of them to move forward, but he didn't expect that the two of them walked too fast and soon disappeared.

Miao Nannan came to the river. The wind blowing towards her was a little cool, and it seemed as if her heart suddenly became clear.

"The river is quite wide." Miao Nannan found a relatively clean place to sit down, looking at the river and sighed.

"Well! It is quite wide, but some people are washed away during the flood season every year, so I heard that this river is also called the Mingxi River." After hearing this, Fang Jinghao told Miao Nannan what he had heard.

"What a power of nature! But it is also breathtakingly beautiful when it is calm." Miao Nannan picked some wild flowers and sniffed them, sighing in her heart. No wonder people say that one needs eyes that can discover beauty to experience spiritual peace.

"Hmm! Look at that butterfly, it's so beautiful!" Fang Jinghao said, and then he saw a butterfly with a kite tail flying among the wild flowers in front of him. He pointed at it and said to Miao Nannan.

Miao Nannan has always liked this kind of creature with beautiful wings, so when she saw it, she would chase after it and catch it as quickly as possible.

Then a few drops of spiritual river water appeared in the palm of her hand. The butterfly was attracted and landed on her hand to drink the water without being caught.

"It's so beautiful, I decided to keep it!" Miao Nannan stretched out her other hand and flicked its wings, announcing happily.

Its wings are very sensitive to movement and will tremble if touched, but it can't bear it because of the water of Dingling River.

"Can this little thing be kept alive?" Fang Jinghao asked hesitantly after hearing this.

I have never heard of keeping butterflies as pets, so how do you keep them? What do they eat?

"It should be possible. How do you know if you don't try?" Miao Nannan teased the butterfly.

"Okay! It's up to you." Fang Jinghao said, indicating that he had no objection.

The animal was very sensitive. After drinking the spiritual water, the butterfly circled around Miao Nan and never left. When it got tired, it would stop in her hair, looking like a chic decoration.

"I didn't expect it to have the ability to do hairdressing!" Fang Jinghao said after observing for a while.

After the two men had laid by the river for long enough, they went back, ate some dry food, and then asked Uncle Fang to set off.

After walking and stopping along the way, they arrived at Dezhuang City six days later. This is the city closest to the capital.

As soon as they entered the city, they said goodbye to the coachman and stayed at the Xianlai Restaurant. After resting for a day, Miao Nannan and Fang Jinghao separately went to find out how the head of the city's pharmacy behaved.

After comparison, I finally chose Changchuntang. It is quite famous here, and according to inquiries, it is very fair and all the doctors in the store are kind-hearted and rare.

"This is the one, let's go and take a look!" After listening to Fang Jinghao's introduction, Miao Nannan found that it was not much different from what she had asked on the street, so she made the decision.

After the two made their decision, they returned to the restaurant to pick up the herbs and headed straight to Changchun Hall.

As soon as I arrived at Changchun Hall, I was greeted by a strong smell of medicine. There was a horizontal banner on the door that read "Peace in the World". The upper couplet read "I hope people in the world are free of illness", and the lower couplet read "Why not let the medicine on the shelf gather dust?"

At first glance, this sentence has profound enlightenment significance.

First of all, in life, people tend to ignore their physical condition. This sentence reminds us to always pay attention to our health and take precautions before it happens.

Secondly, doctors take it as their responsibility to cure diseases and save lives, even if their own medicine shops are not doing well and the medicines are covered with dust. This spirit is worth learning and inheriting for each of us.

Finally, this sentence also tells us to be responsible for the things around us.

Miao Nannan thought that this couplet alone would be enough to move her heart. As long as the doctors here were kind-hearted, she would rather sell this place at a low price.

As the two entered, a medicine boy came to greet them. "Do you want to see a doctor or get medicine?" The medicine boy asked as he led them.

"Are you buying medicinal herbs?" Miao Nannan asked when she saw the medicine boy in the store had a good attitude.

"I'm collecting it. Please follow me!"

Because the medicine had to be identified, it was processed in the back garden. After passing through the back door of the large medicine shop, I entered a small courtyard.

"Please wait a moment!" The medicine boy saluted after Miao Nannan and the other person sat down in the living room.

Not long after the medicine boy went out, a white-haired old man came in again.

"You want to sell medicinal herbs? Where are they?" the white-haired old man asked kindly.

"Here!" Fang Jinghao pushed the cloth-wrapped medicinal herbs into a pile.

When the white-haired old man saw the gray cloth bag, he thought it was just ordinary medicinal herbs, so he was not in a hurry. He found a place to sit down before letting the medicine boy open it.

You don’t know the result until you open it. You’ll be shocked when you open it. It’s ginseng!

The white-haired old man found something wrong, walked down a few steps quickly, and directly opened the cloth bag. Two plump and big ginsengs appeared in front of him.

"It really is ginseng, and it's incredibly big." The white-haired old man exclaimed after taking a glance at it.

Seeing the doctor's amazement, Fang Jinghao remembered his wife's introduction when he first dug up the ginseng.

Ginseng is a perennial herb of the Araliaceae family and the genus Panax. It usually grows in deciduous broad-leaved forests or mixed coniferous broad-leaved forests at an altitude of hundreds of meters.

It likes loose, well-ventilated, well-drained, fertile sandy loam. It is suitable for growing in a cool, humid climate, is resistant to low temperatures, and avoids strong direct sunlight.

Its root is spindle-shaped, and the palmate compound leaves are usually arranged in whorls of 3 to 6 at the top of the stem. The flowers are light yellow-green, and the fruits are oblate and bright red.

The fleshy root of ginseng is widely used as a tonic, suitable for regulating blood pressure, restoring heart function, treating symptoms such as neurasthenia and physical weakness, and also has the effects of expectorant, stomachic, diuretic and stimulant.

In addition, ginseng's stems, leaves, and flowers can be made into products such as tobacco, alcohol, and tea containing ginseng ingredients.

In terms of medicinal use, ginseng is warm in nature, sweet and slightly bitter in taste, and enters the spleen and lung meridians.

Its main effects include replenishing vital energy, restoring the pulse and strengthening the body, nourishing the spleen and lungs, promoting fluid production and quenching thirst, calming the mind and improving intelligence, etc.

It is suitable for treating symptoms such as fatigue due to overwork, lack of appetite, nausea and vomiting, asthenia and shortness of breath. However, patients with excess and heat syndromes should avoid taking ginseng, and it should not be taken with radish and tea at the same time.