Start with a photographic memory and build a memory palace

Chapter 2 Associative Composition, Logical Connection
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In the small courtyard.

In addition to Master Zhu Jiu, there was also a haggard-looking village woman who was hugging a little boy who was covered in mud and looking around curiously.

Wu Wen recognized the mother and son at a glance. They were Aunt Li from Zhujia Village and her naughty son Gou Wa.

"Brother Awen!"

When he saw Wu Wen, Gou Wa waved and greeted him happily.

"Gouzi, what's wrong with you?" Wu Wen asked with a smile.

"My hand is injured." Gou Wa raised his arm, revealing a small, somewhat eroded wound.

"What happened?" Wu Wen asked.

"I was scalded by the pot." Gou Wa answered in a low voice with a guilty look on his face.

"Awen, go get the phoenix oil." Master Zhu Jiu ordered.

"Okay, Master Jiu." Wu Wen responded, turned around and walked quickly towards the pharmacy.

At the same time, the knowledge about Phoenix Oil came to mind.

Phoenix oil is egg yolk oil obtained by high-temperature refining of steamed egg yolks. It has the effects of reducing swelling, relieving pain, healing sores and promoting tissue regeneration.

Soon, he found the phoenix oil in a porcelain bottle.

Return to the courtyard.

"Master Jiu, Phoenix Oil." Wu Wen handed the porcelain bottle to Master Zhu Jiu.

Taking the porcelain bottle, Master Zhu Jiu gently opened the lid, and instantly a fragrance filled the air. He applied the Phoenix Oil evenly on the ulcerated area on Gou Wa's arm.

Although Gou Wa gritted his teeth in pain, he didn't say a word and seemed very strong.

"Remember not to touch water when you go back." Mr. Zhu Jiu warned.

"Gouzi, quickly kowtow to Master Jiu." The woman pulled her son and urged him.

"Thank you Master Jiu."

Gou Wa knelt on the ground obediently and kowtowed several times to Master Zhu Jiu.

"Oh, go back and be careful next time."

Master Zhu Jiu waved his hand, indicating that they could leave, without mentioning the cost of the medicine.

The mother and son got up and left gratefully.

Looking at their departing backs, Wu Wen couldn't help but sigh inwardly.

He has seen many cases of people seeing a doctor but not paying for it.

Therefore, although Master Zhu Jiu was the only doctor in Zhujia Village, and even in several surrounding villages, his life was extremely hard. He ate plain soup every day and rarely had any meat.

This also made Wu Wen's life equally difficult.

"Master Jiu, this is all the Phoenix Oil left." Wu Wen said softly.

He wanted to use this subtle, tactful, and ambiguous expression to make Jiu Ye realize that if he didn't collect some medical fees, he might not even be able to collect enough money for the materials to make the medicine.

Upon hearing this, Master Zhu Jiu's eyes flashed with helplessness, and he sighed softly: "Alas, these days, the war has just subsided, and everyone can barely fill their stomachs. How can they have money to see a doctor? We are all miserable people~"

A doctor is like a loving parent. Wu Wen once again sincerely admired Master Zhu Jiu's kindness.

If this happened in a hospital in the future, they would just say sorry if they don't have money, and they would give out eggs as a reward for buying medicine, or even hand out defective free toilet paper on the street. They don't have the spirit of "I wish there was no illness and suffering in the world, and I would rather let the medicine gather dust on the shelf" at all.

"Awen, how many eggs are left in the cabinet?" Master Zhu Jiu suddenly asked.

"what?"

Wu Wen was stunned for a moment, then replied, "Eight."

There is a hen in the yard, and he has been taking care of it these days.

In order to make it lay more eggs, he put a lot of thought into it and caught various small insects, earthworms and the like to supplement them with protein.

These eggs were his main source of nutrition, so he took extra good care of them.

"Eight is enough."

As soon as Wu Wen heard what Master Zhu Jiu said, he knew that something was wrong. The eggs he had saved might be lost.

Master Zhu Jiu asked Wu Wen to bring the eggs and started cooking them in the yard.

Eggs are indeed a treasure. From the inside to the outside, the eggshell, egg white membrane (phoenix coat), egg white, and egg yolk, every part can be made into medicinal material.

Wu Wen looked at Master Zhu Jiu's skillful movements and felt a little distressed. These were his food rations, and now they have all become medicinal herbs. However, even though he felt distressed, he couldn't delay his studies.

Wu Wen watched carefully and learned attentively, writing down every detail of how Master Zhu Jiu handled the eggs and connecting them with what he knew.

A picture emerged in his mind, with an egg in the center that could be broken down into its various useful parts.

Then, there is a line of logic extending outward and connecting to a chicken.

This chicken can also be broken down: Chicken liver is sweet, bitter and warm in nature, and has the effects of nourishing the liver and kidneys, treating heart and abdominal pain, and calming the fetus and stopping bleeding;
Chicken gallbladder is bitter and cold in nature, and has the effects of clearing away heat and detoxifying, resolving phlegm and relieving cough;

Chicken gizzard lining is sweet and flat in nature, and has the effects of strengthening the spleen and stomach, eliminating food stagnation, stopping enuresis, and dissolving stones.
Chicken blood is salty and neutral in nature, and has the effects of calming the mind, detoxifying, etc.

Chicken brain has the effects of stopping spasms and extinguishing wind, and can be used to treat sleep terrors, infantile epilepsy, etc.

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In a word, in traditional Chinese medicine, there is almost nothing that cannot be used as medicine.

On this chicken, there is also a logical line extending outward, constantly connecting with other knowledge points.

In this way, a complex and exquisite pattern gradually emerged in Wu Wen's mind.

"Awen, pack up everything!"

An hour later, Master Zhu Jiu had already processed all eight eggs into medicinal herbs.

"Ok."

Wu Wen responded and carefully delivered the prepared herbs to the pharmacy for storage.

Then he began to prepare dinner.

In the kitchen, Wu Wen lit the stove, added a handful of corn and four spoons of water into the pot, and cooked rice porridge.

This simple rice porridge is all they have for today's meal.

There was originally one egg, but the eight accumulated eggs were used by Master Jiu to prepare medicinal materials, so we have to make do with this today.

Wu Wen sighed softly, turned to look at the hen in the yard, and prayed silently in his heart: "Can you lay one more egg tomorrow? Don't just lay one a day like usual."

"Master Jiu, it's time to eat."

After the rice porridge was cooked, Wu Wensheng put it into a bowl, brought it to the table, and called Zhu Jiuye to come and eat.

The two of them sat down at the table. Master Zhu Jiu picked up the bowl and, without using chopsticks, slurped the rice porridge along the edge of the bowl, making a "slurp, slurp" sound.

After a few mouthfuls, half a bowl of rice porridge was gone.

"You stay at home tomorrow while I go to Nanshan to pick some herbs." Master Zhu Jiu suddenly said.

Hearing this, Wu Wen's expression changed slightly, and he looked at Jiu Ye worriedly.

Jiu Ye’s health was not good and his legs and feet were not convenient, so it took him two or three days to go out to collect herbs.

Every time Wu Wen was left alone at home, he was always worried about him.

"Master Jiu, how about I go with you this time! I have to learn how to collect herbs in the future. Why don't I go with you this time? Once I learn it, I can share the burden with you in the future, and you won't have to run to Nanshan so hard." Wu Wen said sincerely.

Master Zhu Jiu raised his head, glanced at Wu Wen slightly, and a smile of relief appeared at the corner of his mouth.

After thinking for a while, he said, "Okay, you go with me tomorrow."

After dinner, Wu Wen cleaned up the pots and pans, and put all the dried medicinal herbs in order.

By the time all this was done, the sky had gradually darkened.

Without any other entertainment activities, Wu Wen returned to his room early and lay on the bed to rest.

He opened his eyes and looked at the bright moonlight outside the window, and couldn't help wondering: Is the moon today the same as the moon in the future? Are I looking at the same night sky today and modern people a thousand years from now?
As he thought about it, Wu Wen slowly closed his eyes.

A bright moon appears in my mind.

Under the moonlight was the courtyard where he lived.

He pushed the door open and entered the courtyard. Wherever he looked, various familiar objects slowly emerged.

Taking a step forward, a bamboo rack appeared in front of him, with some medicinal herbs drying in a winnowing basket.

Snakeberry: It has white hair all over its body, slender stems, creeping growth, roots at each node, alternate leaves, palmate compound leaves. It is sweet, bitter and cold in nature, and can clear away heat, detoxify, and disperse knots...

In this way, Wu Wen walked around the entire courtyard in his mind, and all the familiar objects emerged one by one, almost exactly the same as the courtyard in reality.

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(End of this chapter)