Chapter 196 – Competition (4)
The humungous table in the conference room was packed with different kinds of medical herbs. Ten types of herbs were already quite a number, but each one had many different kinds of other herbs that looked identical. Unfortunately, with just a glance, you could not tell which one was real and which one was fake.
He had not recovered from Jing Yun Zhao’s swift performance from the last round and was already stunned silly by all these.
Don’t talk about all the nurses and the patients’ family members outside who knew nothing, even Director Liu’s heart trembled.
He could accept choosing the correct one out of two and would even have some confidence, but this? Isn’t this ridiculous?Just as an example, Tian Ma had seven options! Who the heck could differentiate them in such a short time?!
“Is there a problem?” Xu Jing Zhi was, as usual, unamendable to reason, as if he could not see the shocked expressions of the surrounding people. To him, differentiating between real and fake herbs was indisputably a basic knowledge. If this guy did not even know something like this, then he had better stay as far away from medical herbs as possible lest he harmed someone with imitations.
“That… Senior Xu, can’t you please remove a few options from each type of herb?” Director Liu pouted in dissatisfaction as he asked the question.
He was only willing to do this because he wanted Jing Yun Zhao and Gan Song Bai to lose face, but now that Xu Jing Zhi came up with such a difficult question, wouldn’t he make a loss too?
Wouldn’t his agreement to this competition be meaningless?
“Remove a few options?” Old Xu harrumphed. His gaze was deadly as he stared at Director Liu. “Then you might as well ask me to help you pick out the real goods myself! Can you complete it or not? If you can’t then admit defeat and get lost!”
Director Liu choked so hard he panicked.He knew that this old man’s temper was bad, but he didn’t know he would not give him any face, criticizing him in front of so many people.
“Jing Yun Zhao, still not starting? If you make a mistake, you also won’t need to see me anymore in the future. This old man doesn’t want to be related to failures,” Old Xu was similarly unfriendly towards Jing Yun Zhao.
(T/N: “Don’t look for me if you fail your class, I don’t want to be connected to failures” — My Ethics lecturer; I just feel like I had to share that www)
But even though that was what he said, Gan Song Bai could obviously see the pride in Xu Jing Zhi’s eyes. This made him feel that Xu Jing Zhi not only didn’t see Jing Yun Zhao as a failure, in fact, he was also clear on her ability. That was why he would be so unbridled.
This was strange.
Unless the mysterious master behind Jing Yun Zhao was this Xu Jing Zhi?
If this is true, then I need to say that this gal’s luck is simply too great. Putting aside Xu Jing Zhi’s eccentricity, he is a truly capable person!
Jing Yun Zhao’s expression remained unchanged as she went up to the table to observe everything carefully.
Tian Ma’s colour is a yellowish-white or pale yellowish-orange, with irregular wrinkles, is translucent, tough, difficult to break when bent and the keratin structure of the cross-section is flat. Normally, merchants would use Dahlia roots, Jasmine roots, Tian Hua Fen, yam, potatoes, sweet potatoes, etcetera, then process them to imitate it.
It looked very difficult, but the smell and colour were totally different.
Jing Yun Zhao smoothly chose one of each amongst the whole pile. Meanwhile, Director Liu had brought over some reagents which left her very much amused.
As a doctor that studied eastern medicine, Director Liu’s methods looked like one of a doctor that practised western medicine.
What’s more, it was not that hard to differentiate, yet he still needed to rely on liquid iodine and such. It was obvious that he only knew what could be learned from texts and did not really have much understanding of medicinal herbs.
Director Liu’s actions not only made Jing Yun Zhao look down on him, even the other doctors shook their heads.
Even though that was a viable method, in front of traditional doctors, this was inappropriate.
Her heart was at peace and she continued to watch.
Imitations of Shan Yao are usually made using vegetable starch, sweet potato, tapioca, purple yam, or Jiao Ban Shao, etc., processed and replaced. The scent would also be different.
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Hong Hua is mostly dyed corn silk…
The methods to replicate Ginseng is also very commonly seen. Those on the table were respectively Hua Shan Shen, Xiao Shang Lu, Jie Geng, Bai Zhi, wild cowpea, lettuce…The variety could go up to very interesting things.
The crafts of these imitations made Jing Yun Zhao really admire them. After all, if someone like Director Liu came across them, they would very likely be easily muddled by it.
