Chapter 1010 The Elephant Is Invisible
On the day off, according to Bian Mu's original intention, he just asked Liu Xiangyang out for a meal, and the two of them communicated and adjusted their technology, hoping to promote the development progress of the "Digital Medicine" project.
Coincidentally, Qi Yuewei specially helped to borrow a very cutting-edge "AI-level stethoscope". With the concrete object, Bian Mu's communication with Liu Xiangyang was naturally more concrete, and many logical nodes were easier to connect.
Bian Mu gradually realized that Liu Xiangyang looked ordinary on the surface, but he had a strong understanding of cross-border concepts, ideas, and specific operations. Ji Xiaofang really couldn't compare with this. It seems that before, I underestimated his strength a little bit.
To this day, Bian Mu has never met Nie Yixiong, but... through Nie Yawen, the precious granddaughter of the Nie family, Bian Mu has more or less understood the actual level of medical skills, treatment concepts, and temperament of the old senior Nie.
Today, when Liu Xiangyang mentioned the first impression Nie Yixiong left on him, Bian Mu suddenly realized that Nie Yixiong seemed to be a little short of being a top-notch medical master.
Traditional Chinese medicine, also known as national medicine, is an indispensable part of traditional Chinese studies. From a certain logical point of view... many laws unique to Chinese studies also apply to traditional Chinese medicine.
For example, the great image is invisible!
There is such a passage in the 41st chapter of "Tao Te Ching": "... Therefore, there is a saying: the way of enlightenment is like darkness; the way of advancement is like retreat; the way of flatness is like a cliff; the highest virtue is like a valley, the greatest whiteness is like humiliation, the broad virtue is like insufficiency, the building virtue is like stealing, the quality is like change; the great square has no corners; the great vessel is late to complete; the great sound is rare; the great image is invisible. The Tao is hidden and nameless. Only the Tao is good at beginning and good at completion."
Among them: the great sound is rare, the great image is invisible, the two sentences, Bian Mu understood quite deeply, the so-called great meaning is rare, the great image is invisible means: the grand music often sounds thin, and the grand momentum seems to have no definite shape.
Bian Mu has always believed that there may be many ways to describe the highest realm of Chinese medicine. At least, a great master of Chinese medicine should look invisible and unnoticeable.
In Bian Mu's mind, Nie Yixiong is the most advanced predecessor in medical skills that he may have come into contact with. In his imagination, the old man should look like that: white hair and youthful face, Taoist style, kind eyes, eyes like the sea and fluorescent... a reserved and profound aura of a great man.
Listening to Liu Xiangyang's description today, it is still a little different from what he usually imagines.
Bian Mu guessed that the medical skills mastered by Nie Yixiong seemed to be still at the realm of "the highest way is tangible", and it seemed to be a little short of the higher realm!
Bian Mu speculated that in terms of the six skills and the eight external skills of Chinese medicine, Nie Yixiong should still be at the stage of having edges and corners, treating diseases, and curing them.
In Liu Xiangyang's eyes, Bian Mu himself showed a "gentle eyes, warm and kind" appearance. Liu Xiangyang had limited education and very average verbal expression skills. There were some things he could not describe accurately. That... compared with Senior Nie, his current medical state seemed to be more likely to touch the ceiling of contemporary Chinese medicine and pharmacy.
Thinking of this, a faint and warm air of confidence slowly emerged from the bottom of my heart, which was very comfortable!
"Since entering the city, this meal has been the most valuable. It seems... Whenever I have time in the future, I have to ask Liu Xiangyang out for a good chat. This guy looks plain on the surface, but he actually has some connotation..." Thinking of this, Bian Mu was happy for a while. He asked a young waitress to bring two more bottles of red wine and a large fruit platter. The red wine did not need to be opened. He and Liu Xiangyang each took a bottle and took it back to drink slowly.
After the meal, Liu Xiangyang insisted on packing up the leftovers and the fruit platter to take back. Bian Mu smiled and let him do it.
After paying the bill, the two said goodbye to each other. Liu Xiangyang went back to the apartment to continue studying and digesting the learning tasks "assigned" by Bian Mu, while Bian Mu crossed the road, slung his backpack across the road, stopped a taxi and went to the Ningguo Temple Medicinal Materials Wholesale Market.
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It was only about an hour after lunch time. Although some shops and stalls were open and there were people guarding them, most people were half-lying and resting. For a while, the Ningguo Temple Medicinal Materials Wholesale Market seemed much quieter than usual.
Bian Mu liked quietness, and seeing this scene was just what he wanted. Anyway, he didn't have any trivial things to do. He put his hands behind his back and gently supported the bottom of his backpack, and strolled slowly for a while.
"Xinyu Herbal Medicine Store" is a rather appropriate name, which caused Bian Mu to take a few special glances. Although the storefront is not very big, it is very tidy inside and out. Looking through the large floor-to-ceiling glass window, in addition to wholesale and retail of various Chinese herbal medicines, it also sells medical equipment such as casseroles, cupping jars, acupuncture instruments, etc.
There are only two customers in the store, a man and a woman. The man looks to be in his sixties or seventies, dressed neatly in a Chinese Tang suit, with a jade cigarette holder in his hand, on which a cigarette is stuck, and he has smoked about one-third of it. The old man has rings and bracelets on his hands, and his whole body is full of the style of Chinese studies.
At this moment, the old man is sitting with the owner of the store in the corner, drinking tea, laughing and feasting, and seems to be in a good mood.
The owner of the store is in her thirties, a lady, tall, dressed a little fashionably, with big eyes, double eyelids, and fair skin. No matter how you look at it, she looks like an employee engaged in education, not a businessman.
Not far away, a short lady in her early forties was bending over and picking out medicinal herbs from several sacks.
Bian Mu walked over the high threshold and went straight to the medical equipment shelf to take a look.
After wandering around for a long time, he didn't find what he wanted, so he turned around and prepared to leave.
"Sir, what are you going to buy? If I don't have it here, I can help you get it from my friends, and... the price is definitely better than if you go directly to their store." The female owner is very good at doing business. She stood up and walked to Bian Mu to solicit some business tips.
"The old-fashioned kind of earthenware jar, with a wide mouth and a medium belly, specially used for making porridge. Gray or black are fine, but it must be old-fashioned sand-made. I don't want pottery jars, porcelain jars, or enamel ones." Bian Mu replied with a smile.
"Oh... that thing has been out of demand for more than a decade, especially for young people nowadays, who wants that thing? Sorry, I can't help you. There are some good herbs over there, why don't you take a look?"
"Really? What I want is indeed a little scarce, I'm just asking casually, if you don't have it, forget it, sorry to bother you!" After saying that, Bian Mu was about to leave.
At this time, the old man stopped Bian Mu.
"Young man! Don't be in a hurry to leave! Maybe I can get you a few." The smoking old man said with a smile.