100 However, for Chen Jie, the effect of this blood-replenishing soup is obviously greater than that of the bone-strengthening pills.
Doctor Bai then continued, "By the way, you don't need to remove the scales of the ox-horn pomfret. The scales are also very nutritious, but when making the blood-tonifying soup, the fish heart must be removed. The ox-horn pomfret prefers yin and dislikes yang, so its heart is also yin in nature. It can nourish yin but hurt yang, so it is not suitable for men to eat. However, if eaten by women, it has a very good effect of beautifying the skin and regulating the body."
"I noticed that Yunjin looked a little dull recently, as if she has damaged her liver qi due to staying up late. You can use this fish heart and add a little cassia seed and dodder seed to make a bowl of liver-nourishing and qi-protecting soup to nourish her. Men should not only focus on their careers, but also look back at their loved ones from time to time. Don't end up with a career but no family..."
After hearing this, Chen Jie humbly accepted the advice.
The older people get, the more they understand. Doctor Bai is one of them. Sometimes he doesn't like to talk much, but he often shares some experiences he has summarized from life.
For example, when he was young, he was also competitive and obsessed with medicine, but he ignored the people around him.
Looking back, the people around him are no longer there, and things have changed. For so many years, he has always felt that he owes Bai's mother. She was by his side when he was suffering, but when it was time to enjoy himself, she was gone in the blink of an eye.
No matter how much you want to redeem it, you can't do it and can only regret it for the rest of your life.
Doctor Bai said this and went back to the house. As he was old, he didn't like staying up late.
But Chen Jie couldn't sleep at this time. He looked at the ox-horned pomfret and waited for midnight to come.
Finally, midnight arrived and the familiar system prompt sounded.
[Today's intelligence has been updated (level 2)]
[1. Today you met Yu Biao and got information. Yu Biao confirmed that you were the murderer of Yu Sanliu during his test and has the intention to kill you! ]
[2. Today you met Li Sanding and got information that Li Sanding spent years of savings to buy a Blood and Flesh Pill on the black market. This pill is made from a poisonous insect called a bloodworm. It can forcibly improve a warrior's realm to the Flesh Training Realm, but from then on, the warrior's path to the martial arts will be cut off and he will not be able to make any progress.]
[3. Today you talked about the Baozheng Competition and got information that the Fishing Gang and the Cao Gang took this Baozheng Competition very seriously, and the leaders of both gangs asked about it.]
[4. Today you practiced the Water Control Palm and got information. Your hard work has made the Water Control Palm more proficient and you are now very close to the mastery level.]
[5. Due to your strong belief, you have obtained relevant information about the blood-replenishing soup. The blood-replenishing soup is an old soup recipe, mainly made of ox-horn pomfret blood and flesh, supplemented with 16 kinds of Chinese medicinal herbs such as wild ginseng, astragalus, cassia seed, etc. It is a very complete recipe and there is not much room for improvement. However, when stewing the soup, do not use a clay pot, but an iron pot instead, the effect will be better! ]
Chen Jie looked at the information and began to analyze it one by one.
First, needless to say, Chen Jie also knew that Yu Biao and he had become mortal enemies. If given the chance, both Yu Biao would spare no effort to kill each other. He did it for revenge, and he did it to eliminate future troubles.
The second piece of information is very interesting.
The second captain, Li Sanding, actually went to the black market and bought a poisonous blood and flesh pill, paying such a cruel price of severing his path to martial arts in exchange for the ability to upgrade his cultivation to the Flesh Training Realm.
Thus getting the opportunity to compete with Yu Biao.
I have to say that Li Sanding really works hard and he really needs this opportunity.
He really wanted to improve.
Chen Jie discovered that there were many medicines in the world that could assist in cultivation, including some elixirs with special effects.
If a warrior wants to make progress, he needs to constantly obtain powerful medicines in order to improve his realm. However, if he wants to rely on practicing step by step, it is very likely that he will only improve one or two realms in half a lifetime.
For example, if others want to go from an ordinary person to the skin-grinding realm, they may need to practice for three to five years, but I only spent more than one hundred taels of silver and three doses of skin-grinding soup to succeed.
In other words, three doses of skin-strengthening soup took five years of study for others.
Why are the poor in literature and the rich in martial arts? Isn't it obvious?
If you want to go from grinding your skin to toning your flesh, it may take you more than ten years of practice on your own, and you may only need a blood-replenishing soup.
A blood-replenishing soup is the result of ten years of hard work!
It can be seen that the decoction has an effect, but there is another very important point, that is talent.
Talent can sometimes determine the lower limit. Even if taking the same elixir, a genius may absorb it better than an ordinary person.
Another very important thing is the practice method.
The improvement brought by the strengthening of martial arts is also huge, such as the comparison between Taizu Changquan and Yu Shui Zhang.
Even if you practice Taizu Changquan for ten days, it may not be as good as the Water Control Palm practiced in one day.
Therefore, Chen Jie summarized that the importance of cultivation is as follows: elixir>=technique>talent.
Unfortunately, this kind of elixir that can improve one's realm requires some special natural treasures, and natural treasures cannot be purchased with ordinary silver.
If you want to get it, you need opportunity.
In addition, the second piece of information also mentioned the black market. What is this black market? Why have I never heard of it?
It seems that I should ask Uncle Zhong or Brother Hong when I have time.
I always feel that this black market is not simple.
In addition to these, there is the third piece of information. For some reason, the position of Xiantao Town Baozheng seems to be particularly valued by these two gangs. Even the leaders of the two gangs have personally inquired about it.
Although it was just a question, the meaning it represents is completely different.
However, Chen Jie did not understand the inside story and could not guess it. He just became more certain that this competition was very important and would most likely catch the attention of these high-level officials.
This is an opportunity to take off.
Then the last piece of information is that regarding this blood-replenishing soup, the intelligence says that there is not much room for improvement, which means there really is not much room for improvement.
However, intelligence suggests that the medicine should be cooked in an iron pot instead of a special clay pot. How much effect will this have?
However, since the intelligence mentioned this, there must be a reason for it. If that's the case, I should improve myself accordingly.
Although Chen Jie did not understand the medical theory here, according to the medical theory of later generations, the iron pot contains iron ions, which are the main component of synthesizing hemoglobin.
People with anemia in later generations will need to drink some iron supplements for treatment.
According to this theory, there is indeed a difference between decocting medicine in an iron pot and decocting medicine in a clay pot.
Chen Jie was ready to start cooking and making a blood-replenishing soup.
However, the blood-replenishing soup requires a large iron pot, so Chen Jie went to the kitchen.
Not long after Chen Jie entered the kitchen, Su Yunjin followed in.
"Husband, are you hungry? I'll give you something to eat..."
"Forehead?"
After hearing this very ambiguous statement, Chen Jie really wanted to say, "My husband also wants to let you eat my vagina, but now is not the time."
Chen Jie explained that he wanted to use an iron pan to decoct the medicine.
Su Yunjin immediately said, "Then I will light the fire for my husband."
"Um."
Chen Jie really couldn't handle it all by himself, and he didn't want to disturb the Bai family.
However, as soon as the fire was started, Doctor Bai woke up. By then, Chen Jie had already cleaned the ox-horn pomfret. Except for the fish heart, all parts were washed and thrown into the iron pot. As for the fish heart, Chen Jie used a casserole pot, added Cassia seed and Cuscuta seed, and began to stew a pot of liver-nourishing and qi-protecting soup!
After all the herbs were put into the pot, Doctor Bai came.
Looking at Chen Jie using an iron pot to cook this bowl of blood-replenishing soup, he was stunned.
"Jiu Si, what are you doing?"
"How can this iron pot be used to make a blood-replenishing soup? Isn't this nonsense?"
Doctor Bai frowned. It was recorded in the Materia Medica that medicine should be decocted mainly in clay pots, and purple clay is best, so as to maintain the stability of the medicinal effect.
However, iron pots are not allowed because they will destroy the yin and yang balance in the medicine and may even reduce its efficacy. In severe cases, it may even produce toxins.
For example, if you fry gallnut, pomegranate peel and other related medicinal materials in an iron pan, they will lose their effectiveness and even become poisonous.
Chen Jie also understood this truth. According to current scientific evidence, the iron pot is rich in iron ions, which are unstable in nature. Medicinal materials such as gallnut and pomegranate peel contain tannic acid, which chemically reacts to form tannic acid iron, and most of the medicinal effects are lost.
However, the intelligence system recommends that you use an iron pan to fry it, so there must be a reason for it.
Through countless verifications, this intelligence system has never made any mistakes.
Chen Jie looked at Doctor Bai's frowning face and knew that his "mistake" was very serious in Doctor Bai's eyes. If he didn't give a reasonable explanation, it would be difficult for him to get away with it.
Chen Jie thought for a moment, and then said, "Master, actually this is the case. I once saw a prescription similar to the blood-replenishing soup in my grandfather's medicine book. There was a chapter called "Theory of Blood-Qi Iron Replenishment" in it.
"Blood Qi Iron Supplement?"
Doctor Bai frowned. He didn't quite agree with what this meant, but he recognized Chen Yongwang's medical skills. When Chen Yongwang was at the peak of his career, he was able to defeat him head-on in medical skills. This was not something an ordinary person could do.
Chen Jie then began to make up a story: "Iron supplements blood and qi, which is a theory discovered by my grandfather. The theory is that iron is produced by yang, and qi and blood are supplemented by yang. Often cooking with an iron pot will not lack iron, so it can supplement qi and blood."
"Therefore, in his blood-replenishing recipe, he emphasized that when boiling this blood-replenishing medicine, an iron pot can be used, which may have miraculous effects."
"I thought my grandpa wouldn't lie to me, so I gave it a try. Please punish me, Master!"
Doctor Bai frowned deeply after hearing this, and slowly said, "Jiu Si, maybe your grandfather's prescription is indeed useful, but you have to use this prescription to prepare for the impact of the flesh training realm, which is a big deal."
"In the face of such a major event, we should focus on safety. If you prepare my prescription normally, there will definitely be no problem. I am sure of that."
"But if you act so recklessly and it turns out to be useless, how will you cope with it?"
Doctor Bai spoke with great sincerity.
Chen Jie also fell silent. Although he knew that the intelligence system would not make mistakes, what Doctor Bai said was correct. At such a critical moment, it was really risky to use an iron pot to decoct medicine.
Chen Jie humbly said, "Then Master, stop the fire now and fry it again?"
Doctor Bai said, "No, a big change at this time would do more harm than good. Let's wait and see."
Doctor Bai said this very seriously. After hearing this, Chen Jie and Su Yunjin both concentrated on making the medicine.
Doctor Bai was watching the color of the medicine.
I saw this pot of blood-replenishing soup change from milky white to dark red, and the ox-horn pomfret also became boneless.
Doctor Bai murmured, "The color looks fine."
Immediately afterwards, Doctor Bai said, "Nine four, bone building."
As he spoke, Chen Jie grabbed the fish head with chopsticks and pulled it. The whole fish was deboned, the fish meat fell into the soup, and the fish bones were taken out.
Doctor Bai said, "Put it away carefully, don't let wild cats take it away. Expose it to the sun tomorrow. After it is dried, you can grind it into powder and store it in a jade bottle."
"yes."
Chen Jie responded, and then said to Doctor Bai: "Master, how about I give you this fish bone? I don't know how to cook it."
Doctor Bai heard this and said, "Why give me such a valuable thing? This Zhuanggu Pill is a good medicine. If you can find the auxiliary medicines of Zhuanggu Pill, you will save a lot of trouble."
After hearing this, Chen Jie nodded.
Doctor Bai then said, "It's OK. This blood-replenishing soup should be ready. Drink it while it's hot."
Upon hearing this, Su Yunjin immediately served out the bowl of blood-replenishing soup with meat in a white porcelain bowl.