Chapter 153: First win

Chapter One Hundred and Fifty Three
This is a spacious hall, and there is no ordinary hall with tables, chairs, benches and other furnishings. At this time, the room is already full of people, mostly men, but also women.
Gathering in twos and threes to talk, there was a buzzing sound in the hall.
Gu Shiba Niang glanced over, mostly strange faces.
Hearing the sound of the door opening, everyone in the hall also cast their sights. When they saw them, their expressions were a little respectful. These are the senior pharmacists they admire for a long time, but wait to see the seniors walking in their admiration. When the front was a young girl, her expression became a little confused.
"Old Qi, when will it start?"
After walking along a road that everyone voluntarily gave up, there are many people asking.
Qi Lao, the president of the medicine shop walking beside Gu Shiba’s mother, said with a smile: "It's about to start, when everyone goes to the prince to give medicine and incense..."
The group of people who said this had already passed through the noisy hall, bypassing the screen and heading towards the Palace of Medicine King.
When they left, the clamor in the hall became more vigorous.
"Who is that person?"
"They actually walked in front of Elder Kang."
"Why didn't you see Gong Liu?"
"Ah, I see, she is Liu Gong's apprentice"
Soon the news spread. Although it was known that Liu Gong had accepted a female apprentice, it was still surprisingly young.
"It turns out that it was Gong Liu's apprentice..." Unconcealed eagerness suddenly appeared on many faces.
Even though Liu Gong is instructed, she is too young after all, and her craftsmanship is like wine, which requires vintages to brew.
"Don't think about beautiful things, people's status is not necessarily whether they participate in the competition or not." Naturally some people sneered.
"Yes, after all, she is a little girl. If she loses, wouldn't it be that she would lose the face of Gong Liu and his old man..." There were also yin and yang. Accompanied by a long bell ringing, everyone's expressions lifted, and the big medicine meeting began.
After the incense ceremony, everyone gathered outside the Medicine King Hall. Under everyone’s attention, the president of the medicine shop and several respected pharmacists, because Liu Gong did not come, Gu Shiba Niang replaced Liu Gong and took out this time. The name of the drug in the big drug competition.
Accompanied by the four papers withdrawing, the scene was also quiet and nervous.
After some humility, it was finally read by Qi Lao, president of the Pharmaceutical Trade Association.
"Competitive drugs, the first game, cantharidin, Morinda officinalis, myrrh, and purple river cart."
After he finished reading, someone had written in large characters hanging high in the eye-catching places inside and outside the Yaowang Temple.
There is no threshold for this big medicine. As long as you are a pharmacist, you can prepare and submit it according to the extracted medicine to determine the grade.
Gu Shiba Niang followed more than a dozen people on the steps and looked at the crowd. Faced with various gazes, there was no change in her application. With a quiet smile, she listened to the conversations of the pharmacists next to her.
".. The first game is the basic skills, repair, water, fire..." President Qi, who is always smiling, said in a low voice, explaining the rules of the game to her in detail, "So it's simple..... "
Someone snorted, obviously not very satisfied with what he said.
"Simple? Don't underestimate the simple basic skills. This is a pharmacist who can find more than half of them..." the older pharmacist said, looking at Gu Shiba Niang with a smile on her face, "Gu Niangzi, you are interested. Try?"
Regarding Liu Gong’s selection of himself as his disciple, many pharmacists didn’t say anything about it, but they were really uncomfortable. Other than that, the identity of this woman alone was enough to disappoint everyone. Although it is a lowly industry in the eyes of the world, In the eyes of these pharmacists, their skills are extremely precious and comparable to their lives, so they are naturally very solemn in the choice of heirs. Even in their own family, they choose men and not women, let alone accept disciples.
Women, no matter from which aspect, how can they be responsible for inheritance.
Although Liu Gong chose his heir, given his supreme status in the pharmacist world, this move will inevitably arouse many doubts.
Gu Shiba Niang raised her gaze and looked at the old man next to him. He was about the same age as Gong Liu, with a smile on his wrinkled face, and looked amiable, no doubt like ordinary old people.
But from the news Xin Chaoyang told her, this old man surnamed Kang, as long as he wanted to, nodded his head to make a large-scale medicine store collapse overnight, and he had done this more than once.
Among the surviving pharmacists today, he ranks in the top ten.
Following his words, the other old pharmacists who had originally looked down at the people in the field hustle and busily scattered, all of them suddenly looked over, and their eyes swept muddy, and they were all Shuoshao.
"Okay." Gu Shiba Niang nodded with a smile.
She promised to be too refreshing, and everyone was stunned. Before she could say anything, Gu Shiba Niang had already stepped out.
Just walked down the steps and stopped.
The eyes of the old pharmacists jumped, look, they are looking for excuses...
"Mr. Qi, did you go to the side hall to get the medicine?" Gu Shiba Niang asked with a bright smile of the girl, turning her head.
President Qi almost breathed a sigh of relief, "Yes, yeah," he stretched out his hand to call out, "Come on, take Lady Gu.."
There is a long queue of people waiting to choose the medicine. For the sake of fairness, all medicines are provided by the Pharmaceutical Association. Since participating in the competition, you must abide by the regulations. Of course, Gu Shiba Niang does not have to line up by herself. All the accessories are handed over to the young man, who will collect them one by one.
"Miss Gu must be the leader alone," Xin Chaoling said triumphantly.
"At least I won't be scoured." Gu Shiba Niang said with a smile.
"Lady Gu is humble." Xin Chaoyang smiled.
With that said, Xiaosi Asi and Deng Er came back with the crude drugs, and they also had the assigned pharmacy room number.
"Then I wish Lady Gu a victory." Xin Chaoyang grabbed Xin Chaoling who was still chattering, and said with a smile.
"What if you lose?" Gu Shiba Niang smiled and glanced at Xin Chaoyang.
This ordinary glance made Xin Chaoyang's heart jump, but his expression remained unchanged.
"Lady Gu said and laughed." He said with a smile.
"It's good to win, and it's good to lose." Gu Shiba Niang seemed to mutter to herself, and then said goodbye to the brothers in the family.
These four medicines were prescribed for a short period of time. At this time, many pharmacists had begun to concoct them, and the brothers of the Xin family also knew the truth. Once again, I wish her victory and watched Gu Shi Shiran take the young man away.
"Brother, isn't Lady Gu unsure?" Xin Chaoling asked just now.
"How do you say?" Xin Chaoyang turned and walked out.
There are a lot of people here, full of medicinal smell, and the faint medicinal fragrance smells fragrant. The medicinal fragrance of nearly a thousand people converges, and the smell is not so pleasing.
This medicine takes a long time, and there is nothing to see for them, pharmacies, just stay in a comfortable guest room and wait for the moment the results of the evaluation of the medicine come out.
"Now the casino is not looking forward to losing. Sometimes I feel like I'm going to lose. I will say some about winning or losing and making friends. Listen to what she said just now. Okay, isn't that also self-comfort..." Xin Chaoling said after following him.
Xin Chaoyang smiled upon hearing this, "You listened carefully."
Xin Chaoling was praised once in a while, grinning happily, "That's, that's, Gu Niangzi's winning or losing can have a lot of vitality on our face..."
Xin Chaoyang laughed and patted him on the shoulder, "Wrong, it is Liu Gong's face that is related to winning or losing, with us..." He shook his head lightly and said softly, " Victory is good, and defeat is good."
"Hey?" Xin Chaoling didn't understand even more now, why did his brother say this too? What is so good about this defeat?
"Miss, our number plate is three hundred and ninety-eight..." Ah Si was squeezing through the crowd while holding the medicine, standing tiptoe at the rows of makeshift wooden houses in front of him.
Said it is a house, in fact, it is simply built with wooden boards, which can barely cover the sun and rain, but it is impossible to block the visits of other people next door.
"It's auspicious and auspicious, it's the same name as the lady..." Deng Er replied with a smile, carrying the medicine pot, carrying a knife, shovel, dustpan and other things.
People are all around, or they are squeezing to find their own location, finding a location and busy placing various tools, the tools have been placed in the initial clean system, although the news of Liu Gongzhi’s participation in this pharmaceutical competition has been spread. , But not many people pay attention to this woman walking by.
"Eighteen mother..." There was a familiar voice behind her in a low voice, as if she could be lowered for fear of being heard, so that she was drowned in the noise, and she patted her shoulder with one hand.
Gu Shiba Niang turned her head back in shock.
"Mr. Wang..." She smiled, "Why are you here?"
"You come with me." Wang Yizhang whispered, motioning her to come out.
Gu Shiba Niang looked at Ah Si, who was already standing in front of her number plate, "It's better to talk here."
Wang Yizhang looked at both sides, and the two pharmacists who had already sat in looked at them.
"Still come out and talk..." Wang Yizhang whispered.
"What's the matter?" Gu Shiba Niang looked at him with a solemn face and asked with a smile, but instead of following him out, she entered her wooden house.
Wang Yizhang couldn't, so he had to follow in.
"You don't need to participate in this kind of competition..." He suppressed his voice to the lowest level, "After all, you are Liu Gong's only disciple, and you can enter the second competition directly..."
These old guys are playing tricks on me. . . . . Gu Shiba Niang couldn't help cursing in her heart, but she smiled lightly on her face.
Seeing her face indifferently, Wang Yizhang felt relieved. It seems that Lady Gu made her own decision, and it must be a shock to those people.
"That's good, that's good, just insulting Lady Gu's identity..." He laughed.
Gu Shiba Niang smiled and said politely, Wang Yizhang didn't dare to bother her to stand up and leave.
Watching Wang Yizhang leave, the smile on Gu Shiba Niang's face suddenly collapsed. In this first game, she not only had to pass the level but also had to win the first place, otherwise it would be too shameful.
It’s not so easy for these old guys to see their own jokes
"You all get back." She waved.
Ah Si and Deng Er had already placed the medicinal materials and tools, and they hesitated when they heard her words.
"Miss, although we don't understand this, we'll beat you up, serve tea and pour water..." Ah Si said, "What's more, it takes one day and one night, you are alone..."
Gu Shiba Niang shook her head and refused, "I'm just meditating on my own. You can go down and come and deliver me the medicine on time tomorrow."
Seeing that her expression could not be rejected, Ah Si and Deng Er had to retreat.
Seeing Gu Shiba-niang sitting alone in the wooden house, two pharmacists on both sides could not help but cast stunned eyes. It was not easy to make four medicines in less than one day and one night. .
"Master, I've picked it up." The voice that can be lowered by the starter sounded, interrupting the visit of the two pharmacists, and hurriedly focused their attention on the medicine they wanted to concoct.
For these four medicines, the first choice for everyone is to make cantharidin, which can be fried and dried.
There is no requirement to remove the head, feet, and wings. Just leave it to the starter. The two pharmacists nodded, tried the temperature of the test pot, and took out the moistened rice flat stick. They moved smoothly and skillfully. At that time, I can look around in distraction.
Although it is a cantharidin, each family also has their own actions, and the steps are the same when the eyes are scanned.
"Master, master..." a whispered voice suddenly started.
The pharmacist's concocting ingredients are most forbidden to be disturbed by others, and he can't help but stare at it.
"Master, that..." The twenty-something-year-old started with a strange expression, and pointed aside with his hand under his sleeve.
The direction is Gu Shiba Niang.
"What do you do? She wants to let her see it, and it's not concocting pills, so there is no need to keep it secret..." Pharmacist said indifferently.
"No..." started in a low voice, "she didn't even remove the head, feet, and wings of the beetle..."
The pharmacist couldn’t help but look at it, and saw that the girl had already stir-fried the beetle in the pot, because the smoke diffused, and I couldn’t see the shape of the beetle, but he couldn’t talk nonsense when he wanted to come and he couldn’t help but ridicule. Smiled and shook his head.
It seems that a child with half a bottle of water came out and wandered. . . . .
"Don't worry about it, you will soon soak the Morinda citrifolia..." He ignored the side, and watched the white smoke coming out of the pot, then poured the cantharidin into it and concentrated on frying.
After so many years, this pharmacist remembered that day and night, he still regretted vomiting blood because he didn't look twice. He had known that Gu Shiba Niang was next to him. He would rather give up the competition and not let go of Gu Niangzi's actions. A move.
The darkness gradually swallowed the afterglow of the setting sun, and the surrounding lights and the stars in the sky stared together at the busy and tense main square of the apse of the Yaowang Temple, waiting for the arrival of a new day.
When the daylight enveloped the earth again, ten people, including Kang Lao and Gu Lingyun, were already sitting in the side hall next to the Yaowang Palace. They squinted slightly, as if they were closing their eyes, and some of them tapped the handrails.
"How many patent medicines have you handed in?" Kang Lao asked suddenly.
A man standing by with his hands down immediately replied respectfully: "A hundred people have already handed in..."
"It's just so..." An old man opened his eyes when he heard the words, with some regrets on the face, "More than half of the last big medicine meeting has been handed in at this time... It is really not as good as one generation..."
"Slow work leads to meticulous work. This Chinese medicine is more effective than speed..." Kang Lao said lightly.
Mr. Zhong smiled, swallowing the sentence, I don’t know if Ms. Gu’s delivered it. In fact, even if I ask, I don’t know if the medicine submitted is like a classmate’s scientific research. , No one knows who is who.
The room was quiet again, and only the monotonous sound of dripping reverberated.
When the daylight was in the middle, the door of the house was pushed open.
"Everyone, more than half of the medicines have been submitted, please start tasting." Qi Lao, president of the drug store, said with a smile.
"If this is the case, please, please." Gu Lingyun stood up and said.
So everyone got up and walked towards the main hall of the King of Medicine. Although the four kinds of medicines with more than a hundred people in front of them looked sad, it was a piece of cake for these old pharmacists who could tell the quality of medicines with their eyes closed. It passes in front of ten people like flowing water, each attached to a rank, which is divided into from one to ten, each is evaluated first, and finally added, and ranked from high to low.
As time went by, more and more medicines were delivered, and the speed of appraisal became faster. Everything seemed orderly and smoothly.
"Huh?" An old man frowned suddenly, looked at the shadow of the sun outside the window, and couldn't help asking, "Why, the medicine for Lady Gu hasn't been delivered yet?"
Although the name is confused, this does not prevent these old pharmacists from recognizing certain famous pharmacy genres... and Liu Gong’s medicine is naturally better known.
They have seen more than 800 medicines, and there is no Liu Gong's craftsmanship among them. So, Gu Niangzi has not handed in the medicine.
"What anxious, this is called a master style." The old man named Zhong smiled.
The demeanor of this master is really extraordinary. Until 998 copies of the medicine were presented, there was still no pharmaceutical that demonstrated Liu Gong's craftsmanship, including Kang Lao, and his complexion was a bit strange.
A total of 1,000 people participated in this drug competition, and one of them gave up halfway, that is to say, there is only the last one, if the last one is not. . . .
"What is the highest score now?" Gu Lingyun asked.
On the other side, the person in charge of transcribing scores opened the densely packed paper, looked at it for a moment, and replied, "Ninety."
This means that this medicine is equivalent to a nine-point rating for everyone.
Even if she worked slowly and carefully, she wouldn't be slow to this point, not to mention that she was still Liu Gong's apprentice.
"If this is Gong Liu's presence..." an old man couldn't help but said, his face was a little weird, thinking of Gong Liu's temper.
Must have swearing. . . . Everyone thought at the same time.
Gu Lingyun with a faint expression, until this moment, a sneer sneered from the depths of his eyes.
At this time, everyone’s sights were on the outside of the hall, waiting for the delivery of the last medicine. The sound of the dripping ticking seemed to have become much faster. If you don’t come, even the best medicine can only get out of the game. Up.
These old pharmacists, who have gone through thousands of tempers and whose nerves are as dead as dead trees, have unknowingly tightened their bodies, and the two who are a few years younger are almost out of breath.
"Come" said Kang Lao suddenly, his voice raised slightly.
A man hurried in with a plate, seeming a little surprised by the enthusiastic gaze suddenly met in the hall.
"This is the last medicine." He put the medicine in front of the old man who was a little unsure.
It's your turn. . . . These words sounded in the hearts of ten people at the same time, and for the first time they aimed their sights at the medicine at the same time.
Under this gaze, the first old man shook his hand slightly unconsciously, and lifted the black cloth covering it, looking seriously.
Although he didn't read it for a long time, UU read www. uukanshu.com But everyone felt that time had passed for a long time, and when the old man behind couldn’t help urging him, the old man finally raised his head, slowly picked up a pen and wrote a score, stuffed it into the envelope and handed it to the waiting person. The person who transcribe the score.
Several people forcibly resisted without asking how much the sentence was. The medicine slowly passed down, and after an arduous wait time and time again, it finally passed to Gu Lingyun's hands.
He just glanced, his face changed slightly, then he closed his eyes, and when he opened them again, instead of looking again, he wrote down the score with a pen.
Ten people finally finished scoring, but the hall became more peaceful.
"How much?" It seemed that after a long time, President Qi asked this sentence.
"One hundred points." A trembling voice sounded in the hall.
Although they knew this was the result, everyone couldn't help but exhale when they heard it.
Elder Kang, who was slightly leaning on the back of the chair, couldn't help but think about it, did this girl deliberately drag it to the end? Deliberately tuned them to play in one breath