Chapter 269 Manuscript
Zhang An took the book handed over by Zhang Yixin, opened it one by one, and read it roughly.
At the end of the page, a booklet caught Zhang An’s attention.
The soft book cover, Zhang An could only feel that it was made of silk when he touched it with his fingers.
It is not like other books, with a hard cover framed by wooden boards.
Opening the book cover, the yellowed paper inside can still give people a sense of history.
But compared with several other ancient books, it is obviously not old enough.
In the booklet, small square characters in regular script appeared on the paper. Zhang An could feel that the person who wrote them at that time must have a profound foundation in calligraphy.
After reading a few pages carefully, Zhang An could roughly tell that this booklet was not an ancient book recording some theory, but a manuscript of human records.
Because Zhang An opened the inside, it was obvious that it was a manuscript, because it contained prescriptions and disease lesions.
After flipping through a few more pages, you can see that the recorded content on each page is not neatly typed, but has been added or deleted many times.
The most modified areas can be seen as having been revised many times.
The prescriptions on every page are like this. Zhang An guessed that after this manuscript was recorded, it went through many arguments.
Some prescriptions even add different levels of lesions next to them, and how to control the dosage of the medicine.
But even so, the places that have been modified the most don’t look confusing at all.
On the contrary, because the neat fonts are arranged together, it feels like a pleasure to look at.
The further back the page goes, the more surprised Zhang An becomes.
Although most of the prescriptions recorded in this manuscript have no names.
But after this period of study, Zhang An has some foundation.
There are many prescriptions, and you can tell what the prescription is based on the medicine.
For example, Zhang An recognized Xiaobuihu Tang and Xiaoqinglong Tang, which are the most commonly used soups by Zhang and his party from the past to the present.
When he turned to the middle of the manuscript, Zhang An was stunned.
On this page, there are two lines of slightly larger block letters.
"Angong Niuhuang Pills—Rescue emergencies in an instant, save critical situations in an instant"
Although this prescription was written down by hand, regardless of the dosage of the medicinal materials or the preparation method, Pan Wan's technique was recorded in great detail until the very end.
This is what Zhang An has been thinking about day and night, and has always been asking for but not getting.
Even though I heard that the old man from the Chinese Medicine Hall had prescriptions passed down from his ancestors at home.
But Zhang An has never seen part of Fang Zi, and there is no way to confirm whether it is true or false.
Even though Zhang An proposed many times that he wanted to buy a copy at a high price, he was rejected with a smile.
At this moment, something that Zhang An had always felt was far away from him actually appeared in front of him. For a moment, Zhang An felt a little unreal.
From beginning to end, Zhang An found many key life-saving prescriptions in it.
He still couldn't believe that such a thing would fall into his hands.
If everything recorded in the manuscript is true, what a fortune it would be.
Zhang An, who has the experience of later generations, naturally knows that in many years' time, both famous and unknown pharmaceutical companies on the market, big and small, will not be exiled anymore as long as they can acquire the pharmaceutical formula.
So even those traditional Chinese medicine hospitals in later generations are rarely able to prepare good prescriptions for treating diseases.
On the contrary, there are still many elderly local doctors in the countryside who can rely on their own experience to prescribe some prescriptions that can cure diseases.
Even though Zhang An did not meet Zhang and his entourage back in the previous life, Zhang An was still somewhat aware of this aspect because of the presence of Mr. Zhang.
When Mr. Zhang often gives medicine to the villagers, he will tell Zhang An that generally minor illnesses do not require large prescriptions, and a small prescription of two to three herbs is enough.
For more severe symptoms, small prescriptions are of no use, and a Chinese prescription of seven to nine herbs may be needed.
The most serious diseases Zhang Erye has ever seen were tuberculosis and other serious diseases he saw when he followed his master.
At that time, the largest prescription Mr. Zhang had ever seen contained only eleven to thirteen medicinal ingredients.
Chinese medicine is different from Western medicine. The more medicine you use, the better the effect.
Traditional Chinese medicine pays attention to the combination of medicinal properties, so the more medicinal materials, the more complicated the principles are.
And no matter how many medicinal materials you grab, it will only be a bowl of medicinal soup in the end.
That’s why the truly experienced traditional Chinese medicine doctors are very taboo about prescribing generous prescriptions to people unless they encounter serious diseases.
But generally even serious illnesses will not require more than thirteen medicinal herbs.
When Zhang An was in the city, he went to the hospital quite often.
One of the times, when he went to the provincial Chinese medicine doctor for a minor illness, the doctor prescribed him a side medicine, which included twenty-three kinds of medicinal materials.
Because he kept in mind what his second grandfather told him when he was a child, he did not dare to take the medicine, and directly refused the doctor's order to prescribe the medicine and take it home.
Now that Zhang An thinks about this, he feels funny.
Holding the manuscript in hand, I couldn't help but look through it again. Sure enough, there were many prescriptions in it, and the most did not exceed thirteen medicinal herbs.
"Godfather, are all the prescriptions in this manuscript true?"
The more he thought about the end, the more Zhang An felt that the originally light manuscript was actually in his hands. It becomes heavy.
"This manuscript was handed down from my master's master, and he also recorded the recipe in it."
Looking at Zhang An's question, Zhang Yixin smiled and explained the origin of the manuscript.
“Most of the prescriptions recorded here, my master and I have personally used them, and they have been demonstrated many times.”
“Look at the different fonts inside. , part of it was modified by my master before, and was later passed to me. I also changed it slightly after using the medicine.”
“But I haven’t touched much of the generous prescriptions in it. Because I haven’t encountered a suitable disease in these years.”
“There are some ancient prescriptions in it. Although I have not used them myself, I have seen the master use them on others.”
As Zhang Yixing spoke, he pointed out to Zhang An the points he had not demonstrated.
The remaining parts that have not been demonstrated by him include a small number of rarely used prescriptions, and the majority of them are ancient prescriptions that have been circulated for a long time.
Dafangzi cannot prove it. After all, in the past era when transportation was inconvenient, information exchange was more difficult and the number of people it came into contact with was indeed not that many.
But although Zhang Yixing had never used most of the ancient prescriptions recorded in the manuscript, he had seen Taoist Master Zhang use them before.
These include Liuwei Dihuang Wan, Angong Niuhuang Wan and a series of general pill prescriptions.
These recipes are all handwritten and recorded in manuscripts. Logically speaking, they should all have been used.
But this is medicine after all, and it is prepared for people to take, so it took a long time. Zhang An couldn't be sure, and he definitely didn't dare to use it directly.
“I have copied the contents of this notebook. Now you are in the process of learning. There are many places to modify the arguments in the manuscript, which is very suitable for learning, so I will leave it to you in the future. ”
Listening to Zhang Yixing’s words, Zhang An didn’t say anything else.
As Zhang Yixing said, he was in his sixties, had no children, no daughters, no disciples, and only had an adopted son like Zhang An. Whether it is now or later, whatever he leaves behind will be given to Zhang An.
Before I knew it, half a month had passed.
The Taoist temple that needed to be re-covered was finally completed.
The biggest difficulty in building a house on the hill behind Zizhu Forest is not the speed of building walls, but the transportation of building materials.
But because it is a Taoist temple, and also because of the help Master Zhang Yixing and his disciples have given to everyone in the past.
Whenever materials need to be transported, everyone in the village who has no livelihood or work in the fields will take the initiative to help.
Although animals are rarely used for transport, everyone comes to help with baskets on their backs.
But I couldn’t bear the large number of people coming, so I took one trip and carried all the necessary things in half a day.
On the other hand, Uncle Zhang and the rest of the engineering team had nothing to do at the end of the year, so they got started very quickly.
So in less than half a month, the reconstruction of the Taoist temple was completed.
It is said to be a Taoist temple, but it actually looks like three large private houses.
Although it is not as good as those famous grand temples, it is enough in this mountain wilderness.
Today is a good day, it is the time for the Taoist temple to go up.
Everyone knew the time for beaming very early, and came from the village carrying several beams and pillars prepared by Zhang An early in the morning.
After Zhou Yang lit up the firecrackers, everyone worked together to lift several beams to the roof and move them to the reserved place.
It didn’t take much time to complete all the finishing work of roof tiles, and finally invited the Sanqing Patriarch back to the temple.
There are few major events in the village, so the reopening of the Taoist temple brought a lot of excitement to everyone.
This day is also the time when incense is most popular. Both adults and children go to burn incense.
From this day on, Zhang and his party did not continue to live in Zhang An's house, but moved into the Taoist temple.
Zhang An's family originally wanted to keep him living there, but Zhang and his party had already built the Taoist temple and needed to offer incense and clean it every day.
Seeing Zhang An's reluctance, Zhang Yixing smiled and said that he would never go out again and would always live in the village, so there was no need for this.
In the past, it took at least forty minutes to get to the Taoist temple from the village.
But a few days ago, after the Taoist temple was built, the old village chief asked everyone to help build a road through the village.
Even the bamboo forest has been cut down, and now the roads are all paved with bluestones. It only takes about twenty minutes at most to get there from the village.
In fact, the old village chief also had other thoughts when building this road.
On the one hand, I am thinking of Zhang Yixing’s help to everyone in the past.
On the other hand, I am thinking that people often come to play in the village now, whether it is farm entertainment or playing in the river to escape the heat.
But there are too few places for everyone to visit in the village. Now that the Taoist temple has been rebuilt, and the road is repaired, people will have more places to go when they come back in the future. It is also good to go and burn incense. At least it can Let there be more incense in the Taoist temple.
Time flew by, and soon the winter moon bottomed out.
On the twenty-sixth day of the winter lunar month, Zhou Yang’s family got busy.
Just after lunch, Zhou Yang and his father and son came to the door with wine to invite someone.
Because on the twenty-eighth day of the winter lunar month, it was the day when he would bring his wife in.
Although the formal banquet is considered to be at twenty-eight, usually guests will start arriving at twenty-seven.
So the day before, the host will start to get busy.
Although Zhang An was not very busy when he got married, before the wedding, Zhang Jianguo and Zhang An went from house to house to invite people.
When setting up a banquet in the village, the first thing you need to hire is the chef in charge of the kitchen. After all, it is no small matter to be responsible for feeding so many people.
After you invite someone, you still have to discuss with them how to organize it, what they have at home, and what they need to buy.
Originally Zhou Yang was a cook himself, but this time he was getting married, so he couldn't let him copy it for him.
So this time their family hired Zhang Jianzhong to be in charge of the kitchen, and they would be responsible for hiring other people who were lacking.
In addition, the village elder is indispensable. No matter whose family holds a banquet in the village, the old village elder is indispensable.
Because he is needed to help manage things. After all, the whole village sells his face, and nothing unpleasant will happen in the middle.
In addition, you should also focus on inviting the people at the ceremony desk and welcoming the bride.
The village accountant usually comes to help at the reception desk. This is an unwritten rule.
The key point is the team to welcome the bride. The host family needs to consider who to invite and how many people to invite.
This time Zhou Yang got married, it was not like Zhang An did last time. A few people drove over and followed the rules at the woman's side, and then they could easily pick up the new daughter-in-law.
Because Chen Wenwen’s family is not Han Chinese, the groom’s family needs to respect other people’s customs when they go to welcome brides.
When the Miao family marries a daughter, after the new daughter-in-law goes out, her uncle needs to carry her all the way home.
Because the wedding reception usually has to start before dawn, so the golden boy and the beautiful girl are needed to help illuminate the wedding.
The torch used for lighting is the sunflower pole at home, tied with a red thread. After it is lit, the golden boy and girl who has found it hold it in front and light it up.
Everyone in the back will also light a torch to illuminate the way behind.
When receiving a bride, the more people who help light up the ceremony, the more impressive the family is.
That being said, the groom usually pushes the cart himself. If conditions permit, a carriage is sent from home to take the young couple back home.
After arriving at the entrance of the village, the man will carry the new wife back to his home.
If they are too far apart, there must be a minibus in the middle.
There is no need to rush to pick up the bride at Zhou Yang's house. After all, the two families are not far apart and they will arrive in a short walk.
Because Zhang Angang got married not long ago, and now many people are resting at home.
So it didn’t take much time for Zhou Yang and his son to hire everyone.
In the afternoon, Zhou Yang and Zhang Jianzhong quickly decided what vegetables they needed to buy.
Zhou Yang's father doesn't need to worry about these things, because Zhou Yang often helps others copy these things.
It is also easy to find someone to buy food. Huang Ming and Zhang Ping are in charge. After all, they were the two in charge when Zhang An got married last time.
For them, it is not a problem to do this easily.
After everything was arranged, the rest had nothing to do with Zhou Yang.
It looks like everyone else is busy, but he looks like a person who has nothing to do. He walks here and there from time to time, and finally waits for time to take someone to the woman's home to pick up the bride.
I haven’t coded for a long time, and my condition is ridiculously bad. Please bear with me.
(End of this chapter)