Chapter 18

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Zheng Yuming was a bit confused as he was holding the sub-division of the sheepskin order issued by the Ulsan Jun. He and Chu Chao Hui had been appointed by the Ulsan Jun as the governors of Nambu, and Nambu and the valley, and the two hills to the east and south of the valley belonged to the two of them, and the two to three hundred farmers on the village of Nambu came under the jurisdiction of him and Chu Chao Hui as well.

Wei Shen is very satisfied with Zheng Yuming flattered look, that small village of Nambu even if the yearly harvest, a year can not collect 20 cloth tax, 10,000 gold is 500 cotton cloth, to collect more than 20 years of taxes to receive 10,000 gold, if like last year's drought, the Prince of Mercy to reduce the half, it will be more than 30 years to receive 10,000 gold this amount. A small village and an uninhabited valley is a much better way to thank a stranger for saving one's life than to use 10,000 gold to pay for it. As for the valley and the south and east mountains that surround it, they are just two small mountains that do not produce anything, nor do they have any specialties; an uninhabited place like that is only good for chopping some firewood and felling some trees to make beds and chairs.

Zheng Yuming and Chu Chaohui received the order of the book, and then again and again to Wei Shen to pay tribute to Wei Shen, Zheng Yuming in Wei Shen's earnest gaze, knowingly offered all the remaining quinine western medicine.

"Governor Jung! Governor Chu! Do you still have such good medicine in your residence?" Wei Shen carefully put these western medicines into his arms, the climate around Dacheng was warm and humid, and at the height of summer mosquitoes and insects bit, it was very easy to get infected with malaria, so it was best to always have good medicines for treating malaria by your side.

"No more, our brothers drifted with the ship, if these good medicines were not stored close to us, they would have been washed away by the sea long ago." Zheng Yuming answered very carefully.

In this world where medical conditions are extremely backward, the drugs brought from the original time and space are just maneuverable and have to be kept in case of emergency, no one's life is as big as their own.

"No more? Will those two be able to prepare it?" Wei Shen's face is obviously a little disappointed, this time, in addition to the Ulsan Jun's residence, Ulsan Jun was infected with malaria, there are also a few close service Ulsan Jun's attendants also infected with the disease, one of them is very much in Wei Shen's trust, Zheng Yuming and Chu Chaohui with malaria medicine surplus, Wei Shen would like to save this attendant also, after all, cultivate a useful person is not very easy.

"This..." As far as Jung Yuming knew, apart from Cinchona Cream that could cure malaria, an Asteraceae plant called Artemisia could as well, but the few species of Artemisia that Jung Yuming recognized didn't seem to contain artemisinin.

"Mrs. Wei Sherman! We can prepare malaria medicine, but it's very time-consuming and exhausting." Chu Chaohui, who was standing next to him, suddenly spoke, his current Wu local language was stiffly spoken but he was at least able to communicate with people.

"Oh! No matter how time-consuming and labor-intensive it is, I ask you two to please be able to formulate more of it. Well, as long as you guys formulate this kind of good medicine, you won't need to pay the tribute from your Nambu in the future." Joy appeared on Wei Shen's face.

"Thank you, Sheriff Wei."

When Zheng Yuming heard Sheriff Wei say that he could substitute medicine for tribute, he couldn't help but look at Chu Chao Hui one more time.

Zheng Yuming and Chu Chaohui bid farewell to Wei Shen out, once out of Wei Shen's residence, Zheng Yuming a hand tugged Chu Chaohui, whispered to ask him.

"You know about Artemisia?"

"Well, the people in that area of Kokang often get malaria, basically they are treated with artemisinin, I recognize the Artemisia annua that contains artemisinin, and we have it everywhere in the valley now." Chu Chao Hui whispered to Zheng Yuming.

"When can it be formulated into a medicine?" Zheng Yuming's eyes glowed upon hearing this.

"Artemisia annua sprouts in the spring, and the best time to pick it is in the fall." If it were not for the unusual weather of this time of year, the present-day Artemisia would have already begun to sprout.

"This kind of artemisia is the whole grass can be used as medicine, right?" Zheng Yuming settled down, now not afraid of quinine western medicine out of stock, in the future with malaria is also a method to think.

"Yes, it can be used whole for medicine, this Artemisia can grow everywhere, just like weeds, it can make its home anywhere." Mountain slopes, forest edges, wasteland and field edges, the swaying figure of Artemisia annua can be seen everywhere.

When Wu Da saw his two sworn brothers coming out of the inner courtyard in the outer courtyard, he immediately rushed to welcome them, his face wide open in a smile.

"Congratulations to the two wise brothers, no, congratulations to the two lords!" Wu Da made a big salute towards Zheng Yuming and Chu Chaohui, he had already gotten the news in the outer courtyard that the two overseas brothers he had married had become the masters of Nambu Village, and were already the governors of Ulsanjun, a governor is a kind of idle position, as good as an advisor in the former time.

"Big brother, why are you meeting with us!" Zheng Yuming held Wu Da before he bent over.

"Haha, for brother is too happy." Now Wu Da is really happy, the ancient times of the different brothers is not casually worship, recognized is a lifetime, Wu Da just now a little intentionally called the two people for adults, is to Zheng Yuming and Chu Chaohui to personally confirm once again, they are different surnames brothers. Different surnamed brother is the master of the village of Nambu, he did this big brother, of course, can not be serfs, can not be sharecroppers, in the future in Nambu, is the number three figure. In fact, Wu Da was number one in the hearts of the villagers of Nambu, but Wu Da obviously preferred the officially recognized status of number three.

Wu Da in the outer courtyard only know Zheng Yuming, Chu Chaohui get Azure Mountain Jun's reward, but the rescue of the Azure Mountain Jun did not know, in leading the two to the stables, along the way with the two to ask about the rescue situation, and constantly inquire about the Azure Mountain Jun face and demeanor, the Azure Mountain Jun at the age of twelve years old by the king of the Wu was enshrined to the city of Dacheng, nine years of Dacheng City Lord, but Wu Da did not have the honor to see a side.

The three of them went to the stables and received the mule cart out of the Ulsanjun Residence, and just a few steps after the mule cart left the door of the Ulsanjun Residence, a middle-aged man in his thirties stopped in front of the mule cart.

"Healer Xu, what are you stopping us for?"

Wu Da sat in front of the carriage, mule whip flung, pointing at the Xu healer and loudly shouted, there are two governor righteous brother, very up his courage.

"Three of you, please lend a hand." Healer Xu had a respectful attitude.

As soon as Chu Chao Hui saw Healer Xu, he attached himself to Zheng Yuming's ear and laughed lowly, "I see that the one who can exchange favors has come, you have to sharpen your knife." Initially brought to the Ulsanjun mansion, Chu Chaohui saw a group of healers standing shivering in the inner courtyard, and with his unforgettable eyesight, he instantly recognized Healer Seo as one of the shivering group.

Yesterday morning, Ulsanjun's health is very good, the city's doctors in the evening, by Wei Shen warned some, were released to go home, this doctor Xu went home to rest for the night, the next day early in the morning cat in the vicinity of Ulsanjun's mansion to wait, he will wait for Zheng Yuming and Chu Chaohui.

"Doctor Xu get on the car and come and talk." Zheng Yuming's Wu language is better than Chu Chaohui's, and he knows that Dr. Xu will be waiting here for the good medicine in their hands, and he and Chu Chaohui guess pretty much the same thing, thinking that Dr. Xu wants to buy the good medicine from them or wants to buy the formula of the good medicine.

Dr. Xu found that the two overseas people treated him kindly and felt a few degrees of certainty about what he wanted to do.

Unsurprisingly for the two men, Doctor Xu climbed into the mule cart and sat down, then gulped down an offer to buy cooling western medicine and quinine medicine for malaria.

"Healer Xu, there are very few medicines to reduce fever left in our hands, and not many medicines to treat malaria either." Zheng Yuming's answer was very disappointing to Healer Xu.

"Can you share some good medicine for malaria with my family, my family will surely thank you." Doctor Xu has a malaria patient in his hands, this malaria patient's condition is not as serious as Ulsanjun, and his status is not as honorable as Ulsanjun's, but this patient is Doctor Xu's biggest customer, and Doctor Xu doesn't want to lose his bread and butter.

"Heavy thanks! We saved Ulsan-kun's life and Ulsan-kun rewarded us with ten thousand gold, I wonder how Healer Seo will thank us heavily." Zheng Yuming was kind of talking business with Hanamu at this point.

"Ten thousand gold?" Healer Xu couldn't help but be dumbfounded as he listened, he didn't know what the Azure Mountain Monarch had rewarded the two of them with, nor did he realize that the reward of ten thousand gold had been turned into a small village, two small mountains and a small valley.

"Healer Xu, how much can you offer?" Zheng Yuming asked after him.

"This ...." Healer Xu was sweating profusely, not to mention ten thousand gold, he couldn't afford even a thousand gold, that patron was willing to pay five hundred gold at most.

"Healer Xu, this saving people's lives can't be talked about how much money is involved, can it?" As soon as Zheng Yuming saw that Doctor Xu was almost too scared to quote, he hurriedly turned his words around, and his face was even more colorful.

"Yes, yes, how can we talk about money when saving someone's life." Healer Xu heard hope.

"Our brothers would have to rebuild everything if we hadn't drifted here, and this malaria medicine is something we'd really like to offer to our patients."

"The two foreigners are truly chivalrous and benevolent people." Healer Xu heard Zheng Yuming's implication that he wouldn't ask him for a sky-high price, but he couldn't sell it to him too cheaply either, because now these two overseas people needed to place their family belongings.

Originally, Healer Xu wanted to buy the malaria medicine with three hundred gold, but now that Zheng Yuming said so, the price of the medicine was hastily raised by one hundred and fifty, and he only earned fifty gold.

Because he had lied in front of Wei Shen, Zheng Yuming took care of Dr. Xu's confidentiality and promised to continue providing this medicine in the future.

Before the mule cart left the city gates, Healer Xu got off the mule cart, and Zheng Yuming made an appointment with him that he would pick up the medicine tomorrow and have Wu Da deliver it to Dacheng.

Wu Da heard Zheng Yuming made another business, tomorrow a hard trip to run a sub-da city, you can have two pairs of cloth errand income, the heart is not to mention how happy, while the mule whip flicked to the snapping sound, while the excitement of the open mouth sang a mountain song.

"Mountain to mountain come! Cliff to cliff!

Sister to brother come, Lang to Lang!..."

Chu Chao Hui sat with his back against the side of the carriage, Zheng Yuming is lying crookedly next to Chu Chao Hui, the mule car to run for three hours to Nambu, consciously made a fortune Zheng Yuming, has been taut heart in today's land and some people have money, and finally comfortable, in the Wu Da's song, fell asleep in a daze.

Chu Zhaohui smoking a cigarette, squinting at the body with the mule car swaying Zheng Yuming, face slightly smile, not bad, the world is really good, the original not only sister to brother, there is also Lang to Lang!

The author has something to say: true or false Artemisia [Artemisia]: also known as Artemisia carvifolia. For the Asteraceae plant Artemisia ( Artemisia apiacea = Artemisia carvifolia) of the whole grass. Mainly produced in Anhui, Henan, Jiangsu, Hebei, Shaanxi, Shanxi, Shandong and other places. Does not contain artemisinin. Artemisia carvifolia]: Also known as Artemisia odorata, Artemisia bitterna, Artemisia aromatica, Artemisia annua. Artemisia annua is the whole grass of Artemisia annua, family Asteraceae. Commodities are to color green, dry, tender, non-flowering, strong smell is good. Contains artemisinin. Artemisia annua is the whole grass of Artemisia japonica, family Asteraceae. In Jiangsu, Shanghai, Sichuan and other places in the herbal market as "artemisia" use. Artemisia capillaris is the whole grass of Artemisia capillaris (Artemisia capillaris), family Asteraceae. Northeast region is often used as "Artemisia capillaris" medicine. Does not contain artemisinin. Artemisia parviflora]: Asteraceae plant Artemisia parviflora (Artemisia parviflora) of the whole grass. Artemisia parviflora, the whole grass of Asteraceae (Artemisia parviflora). It is included in the Yunnan Materia Medica, and is also known as Artemisia parviflora in Kunming, Yunnan Province. In the above mentioned five species of Artemisia, only Artemisia annua contains artemisinin. In the Chinese version of Chinese medicine books published before the 1970s, there was only one medicinal "Artemisia annua", i.e. Artemisia apiacea Hance. After the discovery of artemisinin, Chinese medicine books published after the 1970s changed the name of Artemisia annua to Artemisia apiacea Hance. After the discovery of artemisinin, books on traditional Chinese medicine published after the 1970s changed the name "Artemisia" to "including Artemisia (Artemisia apiacea Hance) and Artemisia annua L., both of which can be used as medicine". The Ministry of Health of the People's Republic of China compiled the "Pharmacopoeia of the People's Republic of China Chinese medicine color atlas" (1990 edition) when the medicinal "Artemisia" as: "the product for the Asteraceae plant Artemisia annua L. Artemisia annua L. dry above ground parts ", no longer mention Artemisia apiacea Hance. from this traditional Chinese medicine 'Artemisia annua' became 'Artemisia annua'. But at present, in addition to the extraction of artemisinin in the use of Artemisia annua, traditional Chinese medicine is still along the use of Artemisia (Artemisia apiacea Hance) into medicine.