In traditional Chinese medicine, He Shou Wu is divided into raw and processed forms. Different processing methods make the same original material of He Shou Wu have different effects.
The processing of raw Shouwu requires picking out impurities from fresh Heishouwu, washing it clean, soaking it in water until 80% transparent, then taking it out and making the moisture inside and outside even, slicing or cutting into square pieces, and finally drying it in the sun.
Lin Luo Ran needed to process He Shou Wu this time. She washed the He Shou Wu clean, then mixed it with black bean juice and yellow rice wine, as well as cow's milk, and put it into a ceramic pot for steaming over boiling water until all the liquid had been absorbed by the He Shou Wu. Only after being dried in the sun was the processing considered complete.
It's said that Lin Luoran is going to give herself a gift, which is the medicinal pill she refined by herself. Wang Miaoe was curious and came to take a look several times, but got confused by Lin Luoran's nine-times steamed and sunned He Shou Wu.
Although she couldn't understand what kind of pill Wang Miao was refining, seeing the complicated process, before even receiving the gift, her heart was already filled with gratitude.
It so happened that Lin Luoran, who had hitched a ride with the Liu family's car, also arrived at Yuanshi. Wang Miaoe then bought all the necessary tools for processing Yuanshi and gave them to Lin Luoran as a return gift for the medicinal pills.
Under the embroidered building, there was originally a basement. Wang Miao knew it when she was young, and it seemed that the Jia family used to store gold and silver in the past. Later, Mr. Jia changed it into a practice room.
As the current master of the house, Lin Luoran was ashamed that he didn't understand Wang Miao's intentions clearly. He directed people to move all the tools into the underground room, so that in case of any inconvenience later on, they could also hide inside to dissolve the stone and cultivate.
He Shou Wu's nine steaming and nine drying, use black beans to cover the bottom of a clay pot, steam with traditional Chinese cooking tool wooden steamer until the black beans are cooked through, then remove the cooked beans, dry He Shou Wu in the sun, and repeat this process again.
Fortunately, the backyard still retains a traditional stove, otherwise we would have to build another fire pit.
Steam for the seventh time, take out the previously wine-soaked and drained He Shou Wu and steam it again. After nine times of steaming and drying, surprisingly, the He Shou Wu powder is evenly granulated without needing to be pounded.
After all the medicinal materials were ready, Lin Luoran found a stone mortar and crushed various medicinal materials into powder. It wasn't that she was being pretentious, but the prescription clearly stated that ironware should be avoided during processing... Traditional Chinese medicine is indeed wonderful.
Mr. and Mrs. Lin were watching the commotion, and Lin Luodong was staring at Lin Luoran's movements without blinking. When Lin Luoran used honey to condense the medicinal powder into a honey pill, Lin Luodong stared at the brown honey pill and swallowed his saliva, his eyes shining brightly:
"Chocolate?"
These round, fragrant brown honey balls really look like chocolate beans. If it weren't for Lin Luo's clear eyes, seeing the various medicinal powder condensed into honey balls, the spiritual energy was cleverly merged together, and the medicinal properties were stable and harmonious, without any conflict, but instead emitting a spirituality that ordinary Chinese medicine would not have, she suspected that what she had spent a lot of effort to refine was actually chocolate beans.
"Miss, what kind of pill is this? Is it really edible?" Lin's mother picked up a honey pill, and apart from having a special medicinal fragrance, nothing else could be seen.
Lin Luoran took the customized porcelain bottles and filled them one by one with honey pills, each about the size of a soybean. This time, she had refined four small bottles, with approximately 100 pills in each bottle.
After finishing the honey pills, he said to Lin's mother: "Of course it works, isn't this made according to that book in our house? Right, Dad, where is that medical book of ours?"
Lin Luoran's family was so poor that they were almost out of money, but they also had two family heirlooms. One was a pair of earrings and the other was a tattered old medical book, only half of which remained intact. Many characters had been eaten away by insects. When Lin Luoran was young, she followed Li Shifu to learn calligraphy, but since they couldn't afford any practice sheets, she would open up the medical book and repeatedly practice writing out one prescription after another, resulting in her memorizing every single character - including the recipe for the honey pills she made today.
The name of the honey ball is very common and earthy, called "Jade Skin Ball", as the name suggests, it is mainly used for women's beauty. Lin Luoran dared to use the precious He Shou Wu grown in the space to refine this medicine, naturally she firmly believed in the prescription in the medicine book - or rather, she became more convinced after getting the Pearl Space, after all, the medicine book was also passed down from generation to generation by Lin Luoran's ancestors.
The tattered medical book in Lin Luo Ran's home, only the first half of which remained, was still able to teach Lin Dad, a simple and honest farmer, how to identify many medicinal herbs. When he fell ill as a child, he would follow the instructions in the book, dig up some random herbs, brew them into medicine, and drink it. Generally, one dose would be effective, and it was very effective in treating minor illnesses.
Now that I think about it, maybe that was a treasure too? It's just a pity that the lower part is missing...
Mr. Lin heard his daughter's inquiry, scratched his head and said, "I didn't mention it earlier, I was in a hurry that day and left the medical book at home, I'll have to go back and get it another day, this is a treasure passed down from our ancestors."
I heard that we are going back to Li's village, Lin Luo Ran couldn't help but frown, and didn't want to let Dad and Mom Lin go back alone, so he smiled and said: "It's too tiring for you to take the bus to go back, why don't I drive there another day to pick you up instead?"
"This "Yu Fu Wan" is full of spiritual energy and fragrant, the water used throughout is taken from the space spring, and most of the medicinal materials are also planted in space. Lin Luo Ran felt that the effect may not be just what was said on the prescription, looking at his parents who were originally gray-haired but had slightly reduced their old age under the influence of space vegetables and spring water, Lin Luo Ran pushed both bottles of Yu Fu Wan to Lin Dad and Lin Mom."
Lin's mother was skeptical and didn't quite believe that eating this thing could make people younger, while Lin's father was hesitant and unwilling to eat something like a woman.
Lin Luoran was speechless. Her parents still had old-fashioned ideas, and although she had told them about the space, it was something that only she could enter, and she couldn't take them in to see for themselves. When Lin Luoran first started cultivating, she hadn't achieved much, so her parents couldn't help but stick to their preconceptions, thinking that their daughter was still the ordinary girl who used to sit on their knees, completely failing to understand that Lin Luoran was actually a pretty skilled cultivator.
Lin Luo Ran was unable to, fortunately a few days ago he could finally control the spiritual energy that was running wildly inside his body. He immediately mobilized a strand of spiritual energy and condensed it into a thin spiritual rope, which he used to coax out the object from his body. With a light touch, he plucked off a leaf that had fallen onto his mother's head.
Looking at the leaves spinning around them in an orderly manner without any wind, Lin Mama and Lin Papa finally came to their senses. Their own daughter had already laid a good foundation for being a fairy - conjuring up a large pile of delicious vegetables out of thin air, changing her appearance, refining medicine, and commanding leaves to dance. What kind of skill was this if not the methods of a fairy family?
Watching the two old men finally put away the Jade Skin Pills, Lin Luo Ran let out a sigh of relief and casually stored the remaining two bottles in her space, turned around to see Xiao Luo Dong staring at her curiously with a thoughtful expression.
Looking at Lin Luodong's serious appearance, Lin Luoran smiled slightly, guessing that in the eyes of a child, it was quite interesting to suddenly make things disappear like this.
Luo Dong is also considered a member of the Lin family. Isn't it time for him to receive some enlightenment education as well?
Thinking of his own family being half-hearted as well, Lin Luoran hesitated again.