Chapter 3 Going up the mountain to collect herbs
The beginning of the Mao period.

It was still dark, but Qin Feng had already climbed out of bed.

You have to get up early to go up the mountain to collect herbs. In the past, when Qin Feng went up the mountain with Qin He, he would get up at this time.

After a quick wash, Qin Feng carried a backpack and a hiking stick in his hand and walked towards Qin He's house.

There were two things in his backpack, a small medicine hoe and some dry food.

As for water, there are streams on the mountain, so you don’t need to bring your own.

"Let's go!"

Qin He had been waiting at the door of his house. After seeing Qin Feng, he greeted him and walked straight towards the mountain behind.

There are small hills near Qinjia Village, and they are all connected together, but if divided in detail, they can be divided into five areas.

When Qin He goes up the mountain to collect herbs, he also pays attention to sustainable development and will not just pick them from one place.

So they took turns to go to the five places in order, and this time it happened to be the place at the back of the village.

The road here is not easy to walk on, and it is also the place least visited by villagers.

Because of this, this is also the place where the chance of finding good medicinal materials is the highest.

Not long after we climbed the mountain, the sun rose.

When they were halfway up the mountain, Qin He pointed to a patch of dark red fruits in front of them and said, "Eat them. These fruits are ripe."

At this time of year, many wild fruits on the mountain were ripe, and the two of them ate them directly for breakfast.

Myrtle is very sweet, but you can't eat too much of it, as it will cause constipation.

In fact, this thing is also a medicinal material, but it is cheap, so there is no need to collect it nowadays.

Not long after eating, the two got up and continued on their journey.

There were already mushrooms on the mountain at this season. When the two reached the top of the mountain, most of the things in the backpack were mushrooms except for a few herbs.

While picking, Qin He taught Qin Feng, explaining in detail the characteristics of the herbs, the diseases they are suitable for, etc.

Of course, Qin He would also give a few words about non-toxic mushrooms, at least to let Qin Feng know about them.

In fact, Qin Feng already knew all these things.

It was not only because Qin He had taught him before, but also because his medical skills had improved rapidly.

With every increase in proficiency, a lot of knowledge will be stored in his mind.

His medical skills are now almost the same as Qin He's.

But Qin Feng always listened attentively to his master's teachings, without any impatience.

Because his proficiency in this talent can be improved not only through his own practice, but also through the guidance of others, and the speed of improvement is extremely fast!

In the early days, Qin He could increase his proficiency by two points per day of teaching, but later it became less, and it would take two days to increase one point.

The reason is very simple, Qin He's level is just right. Now there is not much Qin Feng can learn from Qin He, so his proficiency increases very slowly.

However, Qin He's explanation was effective after all. Qin Feng listened carefully all the way and became a little more proficient on the way up the mountain.

At this point, as long as he improves his proficiency a little more, his medical skills can reach the minor success level.

After achieving minor success in Taihe Fist, he understood a lot of things all at once, so he was very much looking forward to the improvement of his medical skills.

"Master, there is a Polygonum multiflorum over there." Qin Feng had sharp eyes and found a medicinal herb where Qin He walked by.

Polygonum multiflorum is a medicinal herb with many uses, and its effects vary depending on how it is used.

Generally speaking, it can calm the mind, nourish blood, activate blood circulation, promote hair growth, strengthen muscles and bones, detoxify, eliminate carbuncle, stop malaria, moisten the intestines and promote bowel movements, etc.

Because of its many uses, the price it sells for is not low.

Qin He looked back and didn't come over, just said something.

"It depends on the year."

"About five years."

After observing for a while, Qin Feng came to a conclusion. "Let's start digging."

Qin He reminded: "Dig along the edge, don't use too much force, or the roots will be damaged and you won't be able to sell them at a good price."

About ten minutes later, Qin Feng finally dug it out.

"It's quite big, it should be able to be sold for around one tael and fifty cents, you're lucky!" Qin He exclaimed.

"It's all because of Master's good command." Qin Feng smiled.

[Medical Skills Proficiency +1]

At this time, Qin Feng's medical skills had reached a minor level of success, and a lot of knowledge suddenly appeared in his mind.

It was as if he had known this knowledge for a long time, and there was no sense of unfamiliarity with it.

Qin Feng was not too surprised by this. He had had this experience before when he had mastered Taihe Fist. What he cared more about was what kind of medical skills he had mastered.

As the thought came to his mind, Qin Feng knew his current abilities.

Acupuncture, meridians, prescriptions, drug identification, pulse diagnosis, etc., Qin Feng actually knows a little bit about everything that Chinese medicine knows.

There are four levels: looking, smelling, asking and palpating. At this time, Qin Feng had just reached the level of palpating. Before that, he couldn't even take a person's pulse.

Because Qin He's medical skills were only mediocre, he had been treating patients in the village for more than ten years before he acquired the ability to identify medicines and treat minor illnesses.

According to Qin Feng's estimation, Qin He's medical skills are estimated to be: Medical skills [Proficient] (Proficiency 19/20)

Even though he was only a little bit away from achieving minor success in proficiency, this small gap was like an insurmountable chasm for Qin He, and it would be difficult for him to achieve it in his lifetime.

Because he has not received systematic training and does not have enough cases for him to improve, this is his ceiling.

Because of this, these are all Qin He can teach Qin Feng.

Fortunately, Qin Feng has a plug-in and is completely unreasonable.

Not to mention that the disciple is better than the master, even the rainbow is better than the blue.

"You kid!" Qin He scolded with a smile, but didn't say much. He continued to search for herbs forward.

In the following period of time, Qin Feng seemed a little absent-minded.

Because he was thinking about one thing, which was the speed at which skill proficiency increased.

Through observations over the past few days, and with his increased proficiency just now, he summed up some rules.

At present, there are four factors that affect proficiency: one's own practice, teaching by others, one's own memory, and the difficulty of skills.

Self-practice, as the name suggests, means that you can increase your proficiency by practicing on your own.

There are many ways to practice and the growth rates are also different, but he knows that practice is definitely the fastest way to grow.

If he studied the theory of Taihe Quan, it would probably take him one or two days a day to improve his proficiency, but if he practiced it himself, he could probably improve more than five points in an afternoon.

The same goes for my medical skills. They were improving slowly before, but today when I went up the mountain to collect herbs, they increased by two points at once.

He had long realized that others were teaching him. When his master first taught him medicine and Taihe boxing, his proficiency increased rapidly. Later, because their levels were similar, the growth rate gradually slowed down.

Your own memory is your own cognition.

Because of his memories of his previous life, Qin Feng has some unique insights into his skills. If this insight is useful for the skills, he can quickly gain proficiency.

How do you describe this feeling? It feels like double experience being stored?
The difficulty of the final skill is even easier to understand.

Between medical skills and Taihe boxing, the former is much more difficult than the latter, so the proficiency in medical skills increases more slowly, while that in Taihe boxing increases much faster.

There is also a skill stage. Compared with entry-level skills and minor success stages, it is obvious that the proficiency of entry-level skills increases faster.

These things may seem unimportant, but they actually have a huge impact.

At least in the future, if there is something he wants to learn, Qin Feng will know how to quickly reach a minor level of success.

But now is not the time to think about these things. Qin Feng soon turned his attention to finding herbs.

With his medical skills at a minor level, his understanding of herbs has become much deeper and more complete than before.

In this way, the chance of finding herbs is greatly increased!
(End of this chapter)