Lin Wanwan finished her circle around the countryside and returned to the manor to begin organizing the box of books she brought back from Empress Xiao yesterday.
Most of them were bamboo slips, with a few written on silk; none were on paper.
This was not surprising, given it was only the fifth year of the Zhenguan era, and paper books were not yet widespread. Empress Xiao's box of books must have been a long-standing collection.
Lin Wanwan inspected them one by one. There were the "Treatise on Cold Pathogenic and Warm Pathogenic Diseases," "Essential Prescriptions of the Golden Cabinet," "Vein Classics," "Shennong's Materia Medica," "Inner Canon of Huangdi," "Emergency Formulas at the Elbow," and others, all complete sets, totaling dozens of volumes.
Besides medical classics, there was also the original version of Jia Sixie's "Essential Techniques for the People."
