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"This combination is great. It removes fishy smells, stimulates appetite, and also enhances gastrointestinal motility and speeds up absorption."
"Further adjustments, um, good, replenishing trace elements..."
He always prepared a lot of medicines for recuperation and martial arts training. He also went around the surrounding mountains and forests to collect natural plants. It didn't take long for him to make a barbecue ingredient.
……
"Let's do it!"
Sprinkle with seasoning powder, and the rich aroma will spread with the sizzling of oil.
Before it was fully cooked, a figure appeared in front of the cabin.
Chen Mu glanced at the scorpion that was staring at the roasted rabbit, and was not surprised.
The day after he moved in, Jiejia came here for dinner.
If it wasn’t far away, I would have eaten all three meals.
Stingy old man!
"It smells so good!" Chen Mu tore off a rabbit leg and tasted it slowly.
Jiejia usually ate slowly and elegantly, but today he couldn't help but eat a little faster.
Chen Mu was also surprised.
There is also a chemical reaction between pharmacy and cooking.
"Maybe we can make some medicinal food."
Chen Mu subconsciously looked at the gray wall.
An unexpected discovery was made that my proficiency in pharmacy increased by more than ten points?
“This is a real surprise!”
I just figured out some barbecue ingredients, and it actually improved my proficiency!
He was still thinking about which prescription to choose for practice.
Isn’t that what we have?
There are so many places where you can practice your skills, such as deodorizing and flavoring ingredients, medicinal food recipes, and preserved fruits and meat preservatives!
And it doesn't require many precious medicinal materials.
Chen Mu glanced at Jie Jia with a smile.
This time, I probably won't need the old man's help in buying medicine.
Want to blackmail me again?
Just wait and see, haha...
(End of this chapter)
Chapter 43 Baby
"It still doesn't work." Chen Mu looked at a brown meatball the size of a duck egg.
It contains fish, white rice, nuts, oil, salt, honey, as well as tonic and preservative medicines.
Chen Mu wanted to make a kind of dry food that was high in calories, rich in nutrition and durable in storage in preparation for the upcoming long journey.
Inspired by compressed biscuits from previous life.
Unfortunately, after many attempts, I still failed.
It's edible, but the taste is not so good, the preservation property is not very good, and the medicinal tonic effect is minimal.
"Fortunately, I can brush up my proficiency."
Figuring out a new recipe can improve your proficiency by 50 or 60 percent, which is comparable to reading a medical book.
After working hard for more than half a month, his medicine making skills have reached more than 9,000 and he is about to break through to the third level.
"Take a day off tomorrow." Chen Mu turned his head and looked at the bamboo basket of failed products.
“We need to get rid of this stuff.”
……
The market in the Dongshanxia gathering area.
Chen Mu wore a bamboo hat, a face mask, and put on Yang Zhi's vest again.
Walk to a familiar location, set up the stall, and put the failed rice balls on the table.
Then he sat down on the ground, quietly waiting for customers to come.
"Brother Yang, you're here to sell rice balls again. Two cents each, right? Pack me ten."
As soon as I sat down, a skinny old man with a goatee came over.
The other person's surname was Liu, and everyone called him Old Liu. He was a local doctor and a traveling practitioner.
He sold medicine for bruises and sprains and Dali pills at the market, and often went into the mountains to collect herbs, also from the laborers.
Chen Mu set up a stall here, 50% of the time it was for his medicinal herbs.
"Yeah." Chen Mu nodded mutely, looking taciturn.
Combined with the birthmark on the face, it looks quite cold.
Old Liu was already familiar with Chen Mu, so he didn't take it seriously and handed Chen Mu an oil-paper bag: "Take a look, is this the medicinal herb you mentioned?"
Chen Mu opened it and took a glance, his brows slightly raised.
He put down the oil paper bag and quickly wrapped ten rice balls. He paused for a moment and gave two more.
He took out thirty copper coins and handed them to the other party along with the rice ball.
Old Liu immediately nodded with satisfaction.
As I was watching, there was a sudden commotion at the other end of the street.
Several yamen runners quickly left with a stretcher.
A crowd gathered at the street corner, chattering and discussing.
"What's going on?" Chen Mu asked, pointing his chin at the stretcher in the distance.
"It's a wild beast hurting people." Old Liu is used to it: "It's a bit tragic. It is said that the heart, liver, spleen, lungs and other things were all taken out by the beast."
"It's normal to encounter wild animals when you're reclaiming land in the mountains. Fortunately, there's Qingfeng Temple, otherwise it would be bad luck to run into evil spirits."
Chen Mu couldn't help but nodded.
Qingfeng Temple does have the means.
Thousands of workers gathered in the wilderness, and several months passed without any evil incidents occurring.
The two of them chatted one after another.
Chen Mu looked around the street out of the corner of his eye.
Thousands of people worked in the mountains, and game, herbs, minerals and all kinds of natural raw materials were discovered in an endless stream.
There are no precious ones here, but there are many common ones, which makes it convenient for him to find the recipe materials.
"Are there wild boars today?" Chen Mu looked around for a while and suddenly asked.
"It's gone now. Zhang Laoliu sold them out long ago." Old Liu is a seasoned man, well-informed: "You want it?"
"Yeah." Chen Mu nodded.
"The brothers from the Zhang family used distiller's grains and knockout drugs to take down a wild boar den. There will definitely be more tomorrow."
"Where is his home?" Chen Mu thought for a while and asked.
"Go to his house? That's right, the butcher must leave some for himself." Old Liu suddenly realized, then shook his head: "It will definitely cost more money."
Chen Mu shook his head calmly: "No problem."
He needs to take a test, and that's going to cost money.
"Go east. His house is at the easternmost end of the shantytown."
"It's close to the Xiaobailang River, which makes it convenient for slaughtering and washing livestock."
"Just go over there and ask around and you'll find out."
Chen Mu nodded to express his gratitude, and then quietly sold rice balls.
The rice balls are filled with plenty of ingredients, sweet and filling. Once you’ve bought them, you’ll know they’re good stuff.
There were many old customers and the products were sold out in a short time.
Chen Mu said hello to Old Liu, packed up his stall, stuffed the goods into the bamboo basket, carried it on his back and walked east.
……
East of the gathering area.
Following the instructions of passers-by, Chen Mu found the home of butcher Zhang Laoliu.
A wooden house with a fence around it made of wood as thick as a forearm.
A pigpen was separated on the east side of the yard. The ground was covered with black mud and the stench was terrible.
A few black wild boars were grunting and struggling in the room.
There is a stone platform on the west side, with three tall and thin men gathered around it, eating pig ears, peanuts and drinking wine.
"Zhang Laoliu?" Chen Mu pretended to be Yang Zhi and spoke in a cold tone.
"Who are you?" The three men put down their wine glasses, stood up and looked at Chen Mu with unfriendly faces.
"Are you selling pigs?" Chen Mu asked calmly.
The three people's expressions suddenly softened.
"We've sold all of them today. There are only a few ears left, not enough for the three of us to eat. Let's eat tomorrow."
"I want a live pig." Chen Mu pointed to the pigpen.