Chapter 472 - The Fourth Episode: Process Herbs (1/2)
Chapter 472 The Fourth Episode: Process Herbs
On the Wulin forum, the messages were delivered fast.
After a short while, this battle had been settled.
Everyone couldn’t help but exclaim that things happened so fast.
Meawhile, all the people in Wulin began to look forward to this Friday.
Many people had already booked the plane tickets and train tickets to go to Jiangjing City on Thursday and Friday.
Over here, after Fang Qiu finished packing, he had breakfast with Jiang Miaoyu, and then they took the high-speed train to Bozhou City in Huizhou Province.
When they arrived at Bozhou, Fang Qiu and Jiang Miaoyu didn’t directly go to the hotel prepared by the crew. Instead, they went to the Chinese herbal medicine market in Bozhou, which was the largest Chinese herbal medicine market in the country.
After strolling in the market for a while, Jiang Miaoyu asked, “Do you think that the reason why the crew asked us to come here is that this round is related to these herbs?”
“Yeah, I think so.” Fang Qiu nodded and said, “The most famous thing here is medicinal herbs.”
Jiang Miaoyu asked, “Can you guess what the rules of this round are?”
Fang Qiu said, “There’s not much competition related to Chinese medicinal herbs except for dividing, decocting, and processing.”
“Yeah, that’s what I think too,” Jiang Miaoyu nodded and said. “But I don’t think there would be processing. It’s a dealer’s business. It has nothing to do with traditional Chinese Medicine.”
The next day, everything was the same as usual.
At seven o’clock in the morning, everyone was summoned by the crew to a large conference room in the hotel.
Everyone was seated.
The staff of the crew also arrived on time.
“Everyone is here.” When Director Li Huawen entered the door, he glanced at all the contestants, smiling.
In his eyes, these contestants were equal to the ratings, especially Fang Qiu.
Not to mention Director Li Huawen, even the eyes of the rest of the crew would light up when they saw Fang Qiu.
Fang Qiu was not used to it.
But there was nothing he could do about it. After all, he did have the potential for shooting a variety show.
When Director Li Huawen walked to the host seat, he said directly, “This is not the first time that we gather together, so I’ll just cut to the chase. Let me just announce what we need to do in the fourth episode.”
Upon hearing that, everyone was looking forward to it.
Li Huawen then continued, “We’re going to test your ability to process and identify herbs in the fourth episode!”
As they heard that, all the participants were dumbfounded.
Jiang Miaoyu, who was sitting next to Fang Qiu, suddenly widened her eyes and looked at Fang Qiu in surprise.
She didn’t expect that Fang Qiu was right.
Although he was just right about processing herbs and didn’t mention to identify herbs, it was also quite impressive.
At the same time, there was a lot of noise in the conference room.
“What is processing herbs? What the hell is that?”
“We don’t know how to do it at all!”
“Isn’t it too difficult?”
“That’s right. It takes decades to achieve a minor achievement even in medical skills. Who has time to learn to process medicinal herbs?”
Obviously, the participants were very dissatisfied and upset about it.
At this time, one of the contestants stood up and said, “Director, I don’t deny that Chinese herbs are indeed a very important part of Chinese Medicine. If you want to test our medicine identification ability, we wouldn’t have any objection. But processing herbs is a bit irrelevant. Not to mention today’s modern society, even when the technology was underdeveloped in ancient times, it was very difficult to find doctors that could process herbs by themselves. And nowadays, there are ready-made medicinal herbs everywhere. Even if we learn how to process, we have no chance to put it into practice by ourselves. Then why do we have to learn it? And why do we have to waste our time processing medicine by ourselves?”
The moment he finished, the rest of the participants nodded in agreement.
“Yes, this round doesn’t have any practical meaning at all.”
“We won’t need it at all even if we learn it.”
“When you make your own medicine, the patient will be dead already!”
All kinds of questions came one after another.
At this moment. “Silence!”
Next to the host seat, Yang Juanyong, who was a highly-skilled doctor, stood up and shouted. Then he glanced at all the participants present and said, “That you don’t know how to do it doesn’t mean you shouldn’t learn about it. Processing Chinese medicinal herb is the most basic part of learning Chinese Medicine. Otherwise, how do you think Chinese Medicine comes? Did the great doctor, Shennong, have to wait for people to process the medicine first before he treated a patient?”
As that came out, everyone was speechless.
They were thinking that Yang Juanyong was making it complicated. Now that there were ready-made medicines, it was really meaningless to make medicine by themselves.
“As Chinese Medicine doctors, do you really think that you don’t need to know how to process medicinal herbs?”
Yang Junyong snorted coldly and said, “Don’t you need to understand in what kind of way can you process medicine that has a better property? The medicine processed by different methods is suitable for different diseases, shouldn’t you understand?”
As they heard that, all the contestants were silent.
It was true that different processing methods would lead to different uses of medicinal herbs.
For example, the use of medicine pills and the powder was different, so the final effect would be somewhat different.
Yang Juanyong questioned once again, “Have you ever read a famous medical book like Master Lei’s Book on Processing?”
This time, everyone had nothing to say.
However, there were still many people who were not convinced.
In their opinion, even if they learned how to make it, they might never have a chance to process herbs in their lives. What was the point?
Since they had time to study processing, it would be better to spend the time practicing medical skills.
Yang Juanyong then shouted, “Anyone who doesn’t know how to process medicinal herbs, raise your hand!”
Upon hearing that, people raised their hands at once.
At a glance, so many palms were raised high.
After looking around, Yang Juanyong couldn’t help but curl his lips. “Well, someone knows how to do it!”