Da Zaojun

Chapter 16 Testing Medicine
After two hours of practicing the Kitchen God's Heart Technique, Song Wuji finally increased his Divine Attribute by 0.1. Through direct and manual adjustments, he finally achieved the state of "Three Elements in Peace."

Now Song Wuji's energy and spirit are both 0.9.

According to the state of an ordinary person's energy, spirit and vitality being in perfect condition, without the blessing of "Three Talents at Peace", his physical condition may not be as good as Song Wuji's.

Until three quarters past three in the morning, when Aunt Liu came to open the kitchen door, Song Wuji, who was practicing the Kitchen God's mental method, was still energetic and not sleepy at all. He was refreshed, with a rosy complexion, and his complexion was much better than yesterday.

So much so that when Aunt Liu saw Song Wuji, she was shocked. The young man looked like he had taken an aphrodisiac, with rosy cheeks and watery eyes.

Aunt Liu almost thought that the young man didn't want to work hard anymore.

Fortunately, Song Wuji said with a serious face: "Aunt Liu, should I help light the fire today?"

"I used to do everything at home, killing fish and chickens, washing vegetables and pounding rice..."

"Then help me kill the fish. Yesterday, the mayor sent a fish to my deputy, and he said he wanted to eat fish soup."

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It just so happened that among the five types of food ingredients that Song Wuji had to handle as a "Nine-Rank Heavenly Kitchen Handyman" in the job grade he checked, one of them was "scales", which probably meant snakes, fish, and the like.

Ninth-rank handyman in the Heavenly Kitchen Courtyard (can be awakened): The Heavenly Kitchen Courtyard is in charge of the affairs of the kitchens of the three realms. It was established by the Kitchen God and is divided into nine ranks. Handyman: As the saying goes, three years as a handyman, three years as a waiter, three years as a cutter, and ten years to enter the industry, the same applies to learning skills in the Heavenly Kitchen Courtyard.

Awakening Stage 1: Master the skills of cleaning and processing food ingredients.

Awakening materials: three each of locusts, fur, feathers, scales, and insects.

Awakening Obtained: Basic Plating, Unlock Stage 2.

Thinking of this, Song Wuji went to kill the fish with great interest. Although he had never handled it much in his previous life, he had seen pigs run even if he had not eaten pork.

Killing a fish is nothing more than knocking it unconscious, removing the scales, picking out the gills, cutting open the belly, taking out the internal organs, scraping off the black film on the belly, and being careful not to break the gallbladder.

But when Song Wuji wanted to throw away the fish offal, Aunt Liu quickly stopped him: "You kid, you can't throw this away, you can eat it!"

Let’s not talk about how to deal with these fish offal for now. Even if they are processed, it will be difficult to make them delicious without heavy oil and ingredients, and they will definitely have a fishy smell. But since Aunt Liu said so, Song Wuji kept them and carefully processed these internal organs.

This fish is a grass carp, weighing about three or four pounds. The fish meat is easy to handle, but the fish offal is troublesome to deal with.

Especially the fish intestines need to be strung together with a fragrant stick and washed inside out. The fishy smell of the internal organs is stronger than other parts.

Seeing that Song Wuji had no regrets, killing fish in cold water in such cold weather, and hadn't eaten anything yet, and with a serious look on his face, Aunt Liu couldn't help but nod: "He seems to be an honest and decent man."

After processing the fish offal, Song Wuji took the time to look at the kitchen book and found that the degree of completion had indeed increased a little.

So he asked, "Aunt, is there anything else?"

Aunt Liu checked the fish offal and found it clean. She was very satisfied. "Not bad. There's also a job of slaughtering chickens, also sent by the mayor. Hey, Xiao Song, we ordinary people are almost out of food after the city was sealed off. But here we have meat to eat every day!"

Aunt Zou also rushed over from her own courtyard at this time and whispered, "I heard that the county magistrate took over the grain of the wealthy families and asked the mayor to count it. The mayor must have accepted bribes. Our medical department has also taken over the medicinal materials of various pharmacies in the county!"

Song Wuji recognized the phrase as "materials control" and wondered, "I wonder if this is temporary, or will it always be like this?" If he couldn't defeat the demons, reclaim the land, and resume agricultural production before spring plowing, he was afraid they would suck blood from his arteries and bring about his own destruction.

After eating some throat-roasting coarse flour buns and multi-grain porridge, Song Wuji took the initiative to kill a chicken.

Killing a chicken is more complicated than killing a fish. The feathers need to be plucked, and similarly, none of the chicken offal can be thrown away.

It turned out that this was not what Shu Zheng was going to eat, but what his two aunts wanted to take back. Now that the city was under lockdown, it was good to be able to eat some meat, and there was no possibility of being picky.

But now, they made Song Wuji a bowl of stir-fried sour vegetables. Although it didn't have a lot of oil or salt, it did have a sour broth from pickled cabbage, which helped to remove the fishy smell. They also added some diced pickled cabbage from years ago as seasoning, and the taste was just right. Although it was only a small bowl, it was also the first bowl of meat Song Wuji had ever eaten.

A temporary state of "carnivores are brave and fierce" emerged.

At three quarters past the hour of Mao, several runners came to the medical office, called out the names of the craftsmen who had entered the city, and took them away.

At five minutes past the hour of Mao, another group of people arrived. They were from the City God Temple and were looking for someone who could write to copy the City God's Edict.

At 2:02 PM, several doctors from the medical office arrived again. "The medical office has made some new medicines and needs people to test them. Is anyone willing to try them? We need to observe them for two days."

Song Wuji saw that these doctors were in high spirits and had an extraordinary temperament, similar to the knife-wielding butcher he saw when he entered the city that day. He seemed to be thinking about something, and it seemed that this was also the power brought by the City God.

Song Wuji is in need of a breakthrough. Although staying in the small kitchen is nice, his growth is too slow.

It would be better to try new medicine. I have the ability to take medicine. I have tried eating soil and chewing wood, and I can refine them. I have also eaten a bag of herbs.

Moreover, if we talk about "蠃, 毛, 羽, SCALES, 虫", it seems that it was also a classification of medicine at the earliest time. The Compendium of Materia Medica classified animal medicines according to this.

As for the awakening materials, "three each" is fine if it's three each, but if it's three types each, then it really can only be found in the medical department.

Another thing is that medicine and food have the same origin. As a person with the destiny of fire and stove, making food with beneficial properties can also play a good role.

He immediately raised his hand and said, "I'll do it!"

Aunt Liu quickly pulled him aside: "What are you doing?" She smiled apologetically and said: "My Lords, this is our kitchen helper..."

Song Wuji stood up again and said seriously: "Aunt, I still have revenge to take!"

Aunt Liu thought of Song Wuji's life story and hesitated to speak. She wondered why bother testing the medicine. What if someone died after taking it?
The medical officer looked at Song Wuji and thought he had a good appearance.

The most important thing is that the victims all have some health problems. They can tell the general condition of the person's body just by looking at him, and basically they are all seriously deficient.

But when he saw Song Wuji, he clearly saw a person who was extremely healthy and full of energy, and he did not have the temperament of a disaster victim at all.

One of the oldest doctors squinted his eyes to examine his expression, and suddenly his fingers, like dry branches, grabbed Song Wuji's wrist pulse.

Then a wisp of hot air drilled in through the Taiyuan acupoint, swam around for a while, and then retracted.

"How strange." The old doctor stroked his beard. "The pulse is steady and the breathing is long and strong. Have you practiced any guiding techniques before?"

Song Wuji didn't hide it and nodded: "I once studied with a wandering Taoist for a while."

Now that all my family members are gone, I have to make up my own story about my identity and experience.

The old doctor nodded and said, "I see."

Then he said, "If we talk about revenge, everyone has a grudge. That person is a demon. Keep a calm mind. Only by saving your life can you have a chance to seek revenge."

"But you're lucky. The medicine you tried wasn't poison. You won't die. It might even be beneficial. There's something else to try for the poison."

"Let me introduce myself. We were originally doctors at various clinics and drugstores in the city. Now we've joined the City God's Medical Bureau. This department specializes in medicine, diseases, poisonous insects, and so on. It's also the most important department for studying demons and monsters."

(End of this chapter)