Hunting High School

On Thursday morning, there was a Potions class.

Because the Dragon Boat Festival needs to worship the dragon ancestor and pray for Bixie, Zheng Qing and his companions went out a little later than usual. On the way to the teaching building, many students who know or don't know will suddenly come over and tie a five-color silk thread on the stranger's wrist. This is an ancient blessing that no one will refuse.

So, it took everyone longer than usual to get to the classroom today.

Kankan before the class bell rang.

The stick figure behind the door unexpectedly didn't say anything to sarcasm everyone, Zheng Qing took a closer look and found that some kind person had wiped Realgar on the stick figure's forehead.

The orange color is very conspicuous on the whole stick figure, as if glowing.

This made it roll around happily all the time.

Zheng Qing stopped, hesitated for a few seconds, and took out a "Noon Time Talisman" from the gray cloth bag, hung it on the drawing paper of the stick figure, and tied it with colorful silk threads.

The noon time talisman is not a talisman for telling the time, but is similar to smearing yellow and five-color silk threads, which have the effect of expelling evil spirits and praying for blessings. In the dormitory in the morning, Xiao Xiao asked Zheng Qing to draw a few more pictures.

"For you, this blessing to other people couldn't be more appropriate." Dr. Xiao Da suggested so.

that's the truth.

On the way to class, whenever someone tied five-color silk on Zheng Qing's wrist, he would give back a noon time talisman. It works great. The talisman hanging on the drawing paper of the stick figure at the moment has failed in imbuing spirits, and it would be a little impolite to give it to others. It is only appropriate to compliment the stick figure.

Sure enough, his actions won the great favor of Stick Figure.

"Merlin bless you, late late public fee student!" The stick figure rolled up from the ground, stroked a few sparse hairs on his head, and bowed to Zheng Qing decently: "...Professor Li still You'll be in the door in twenty-seven seconds!"

Zheng Qing didn't have time to thank the stick figures, so he ran to own seat.

He didn't want to have class points deducted for lateness or style in the last few classes at the end of the semester.

When passing by the first row of the classroom, Li Meng excitedly stretched out her arms to him and spread her hands, as if she also wanted a noon time talisman. Zheng Qing slapped her with a 'slap', and rushed past the little witch like a gust of wind.

Behind him came Li Meng's angry cursing, and Jiang Yu's persuasive persuasion.

With a smile on the corner of the wizard's mouth, he sat in the own position.

He had just taken out "Standard Pharmacy: Freshman Year" from the gray cloth bag and placed it on the desk, when Professor Li pushed open the door and walked in with great strides.

The classroom was immediately quiet.

Zheng Qing quietly breathed a sigh of relief, and wiped the thin beads of sweat from his forehead.

"You should bring a few Cooling Talismans with you, and change them whenever you use them." Xin Fatty poked Zheng Qing's arm with the pen, and suggested: "Anyway, it won't cost a few coppers...for you."

Zheng Qing narrowed his eyes, vaguely agreed to Fatty's suggestion, and his eyes fell on a copper basin on Professor Li's desk.

The professor came in with the copper basin in his arms.

Most of the students in the classroom focused their eyes on the copper basin.

Professor Li looked around with a smile, raised his head, and said in a cadenced tone: "Today is a good day. It coincides with the Dragon Boat Festival and the fifth day of the fifth lunar month. We worship gods and ancestors. According to the almanac, it is forbidden to break ground today, so we will follow the traditional guidance. Let’s not go to the medicine garden to break ground...Everyone will have a theory class.”

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There was echoing laughter in the classroom.

The professor patted the edge of the copper basin, and there was a slight hum, and the laughter in the classroom stopped abruptly.

"...This is Mulan Decoction. It is said in "Sui Shi Guang Ji" that on the fifth day of May, there is a competition to collect miscellaneous medicines, which can cure all diseases." The professor said, shaking the slender pointer in his hand: "Of course, we We all know that most rumored potions that can cure all diseases do not exist in this world... Like snake oil, is it useful for many diseases? It seems a little bit. But using it to cure diseases? It is no better than placebo The effect is stronger."

"Also, according to the tradition, you should use Mulan Tang to take a bath... Right now, the conditions are limited, so everyone washes their hands with it, so it's fine if you mean it."

There was joyful laughter in the classroom again.

Few professors face a serious festival with such a witty attitude, let alone the serious Professor Li on weekdays. This made the study atmosphere, which had been dreary due to the coming of the final exam, suddenly a lot easier, and the haze that weighed on everyone's hearts dissipated a lot unknowingly.

More than a dozen elves in gray uniforms dragged the nets woven with colorful silk threads and dragged the copper basins from the podium, stopping in front of each desk for a while.

A white towel was placed on the edge of the copper basin, and there was a small piece of medicinal soap.

Everyone reached in and washed their hands reverently. The difference is that the girls seem to only wash their fingers, while the boys are careless and want to wash their entire arms.

During this process, Professor Li kept smiling and chatting with everyone about the knowledge of Potions that was mentioned in the previous course and involved in today's Dragon Boat Festival.

For example, the raw materials for making Mulan soup are not limited to mugwort leaves, cattail grass, white magnolia, and impatiens. Some wizards will add peach leaves to exorcise ghosts, cypress leaves to dispel evil spirits, and some people use wind root instead of mugwort leaves. The effect is the same.

Another example is the similarities and differences between noon water and rootless water.

Noontime water is the water drawn from the well at noon on the Dragon Boat Festival. It is also called "extremely yang water" and "Longmu water". Cold air is the first choice for many prescriptions to reconcile medicinal properties.

The source of rootless water is just the opposite of the noon water that gushes from the ground. It generally refers to all the water that falls from the sky, including rain, snow, frost, dew and other forms, each of which has its own magical effect. Different from Wushi water, which itself contains yang energy, rootless water does not contain any 'characteristics' and can keep the medicinal properties of herbs intact to the greatest extent. It is known as the most 'clean' water.

In addition, the professor also talked about the compatibility and effectiveness of different medicinal wines such as Realgar wine, cattail wine, and cinnabar wine.

"Because there is too much Potions knowledge involved today, I once suggested to the school to change the Dragon Boat Festival into a Potions Festival...Of course, this suggestion was rejected by the professors' joint meeting."

Professor Li smiled with everyone, and then continued:

"The reason why there is so much potion science knowledge related to the Dragon Boat Festival is because the Dragon Boat Festival is full of yang energy, and it is the most powerful day for many herbs in a year, so collecting herbs is the most important job for many wizards today."

"I didn't take everyone to the Baicao Garden today. The other reason is that the school work committee is organizing people to carry out protective picking in the garden...You first-year students have gone, and you will add to the chaos. So just stay here It is most appropriate to memorize two prescriptions in the classroom."