Chapter 213 Freaks
In the Taoism, the five kinds of fortune-telling by mountain doctors are collectively called the five metaphysics.

Traditional Chinese medicine refers to the use of prescriptions, acupuncture, massage, spiritual therapy and other methods to maintain health and treat diseases.

Recipes, acupuncture, moxibustion and massage can be understood and experienced by ordinary people, but spiritual therapy may be relatively unfamiliar.

The so-called spiritual healing, probably the most common one is "Zhu Youke", and many small folk arts scattered among the people can be included in the scope of Zhu You.

Such as shock, bones and so on.

Viewed from the viewpoint of modern medicine, it belongs to the part of psychological suggestion and hypnosis in psychology.

If you start from the perspective of metaphysics, it is a folk product that gradually merged with ancient witchcraft and Taoism in later generations.

Those who "wish" are curses, and those who "by" are the cause of the disease.

The concept of "Zhu You" is very broad, including forbidden methods, mantras, wish methods, talisman methods, as well as suggestion therapy, psychotherapy, hypnotherapy, music therapy, etc. It is not just wishing for the cure of the disease.

The cause of some diseases is already known, but wishes do not heal, which means that blessings do not work, and it is necessary to use forbidden methods, or talisman methods, or cooperate with drug treatment.

As for authenticity...

Of course, Chen Jingle didn't believe it. After all, Chinese medicine did not treat the dead, not to mention Zhu Youshu's harmful superstition and ignorance.He only believes in the Dharma, and the Dharma can really cure diseases and eliminate disasters. (manual dog head)

The above is a joke.

As an adult, you should have the ability to think independently and distinguish right from wrong, remember to hearsay and draw conclusions without practice.

The logic of normal ordinary people should be whatever is useful, and whatever is easy to use.

……

Haicheng, Tai Po Village.

Zeng Sanmei is 80 years old this year.

In ordinary families at that time, the status of women was low, and many people did not have formal names, and most of them had surnames plus ranks, such as Sanjie, Ermei, and Wuniang.

After marriage, the birthplace and surname are added, such as Gaopo Li and Pingtang Chen.

Everyone she knew called her Grandma Zeng.Many people called her, but no one knew what her real name was.

Old ladies like her can be seen everywhere in the countryside.

He is not tall, with wrinkled face, calluses on his hands, and double flower sleeves. Most of the time, he sits under the eaves or in the corner and chats with people.

But what makes her different from others is that she can help people see a doctor.

There is a difference between seeing a doctor and seeing a doctor.

Grandma Zeng is not a retired doctor or professor, she is not even a barefoot doctor, to put it bluntly, an illiterate peasant woman who cannot read a single word.

As for how she learned medical skills, it can only be said that it was a gift from heaven.

Do you believe it?

One day, a person suddenly appeared in her mind and told her that she was suitable to be a doctor, and hoped that she could treat more poor people.

Since then, she will.

Of course, she never talked about how she acquired this skill.

This is the old lady's philosophy of life.

For some things, it’s good to know it yourself, there is no need to yell around, the higher the profile, the faster you will die.

She has lived to be 80 years old and has seen too many people and things.

When she first learned this skill, it was the time when mountains were being cut down and temples destroyed. I don't know how many god statues were smashed and burned, and how many temples were demolished and flattened.

The eminent and eminent monk who was once glorious has become a street rat.

She was a little girl, she didn't know how she died after being involved, so from the beginning to the end, she didn't dare to say anything, but silently went up the mountain to collect herbs, dried them, and put them away for later use.

At the beginning, no one knew that she had this ability. After helping the neighbors to see it a few times later, more people helped, and then it gradually spread.

In fact, this situation is not uncommon.

Many inheritors related to metaphysics, like Grandma Zeng, suddenly "opened up" and then began to help the world and save people.

The most famous one is Chumatang in the northeast.

Grandma Zeng's ability to see a doctor is so amazing that she doesn't need to feel her pulse at all, she can tell what illness the person is suffering from and what medicine she should take with just one glance.

If there is any scientific basis to insist on, it is to look at a person's complexion to judge where the other person is uncomfortable.

Look, hear and ask, but it already existed in the pre-Qin period.

And Grandma Zeng's method of treating people's diseases is usually to grab medicine and wish you, especially Zhu You, because the patients she encounters have difficult and miscellaneous diseases, and there are more people who encounter evil and evil spirits.

There is no use for regular doctors nowadays, they all check and give injections and prescribe medicines, so it is inevitable that she will give people a nagging feeling.

Therefore, many people secretly call her a witch.

Including the family members, there are no small opinions on this.

For example, her eldest grandson, who had finished college and stayed in a big city to work, every time he came back, saw someone coming to her for medical treatment. Although he didn't tell her face to face, he would inevitably complain a few words after the person left.

It is nothing more than superstitious and ignorant words.

"If you are sick, you should let them go to the hospital. For things that doctors and professors can't solve, you can expect folk remedies to solve it. Isn't this a joke? Grandma, you don't have a medical license. If people take your medicine and have problems, our family will go bankrupt." Not enough compensation."

The old lady always smiled at this: "No, no, no."

The eldest grandson was angry and helpless about this.

This person is old, but he doesn't listen to what he says, and he can't really scold when he scolds. Forget it, let her do it. If something goes wrong, you'll know it's wrong.

……

In fact, Grandma Zeng's heart is open.

Nowadays, many people look down on barefoot doctors, but they don’t know that in those days, when the poor couldn’t even afford to go to the health center in the town, it was a great blessing to have a barefoot doctor in the village.

In many villages and even towns, there is not even a barefoot doctor, and they all rely on some folk prescriptions passed down by word of mouth.Not to mention a serious illness, just a small cold, at that time, could kill you.

Grandma Zeng has saved many lives in the past poor years by virtue of her ability to see a doctor.

It is no exaggeration to say that in a radius of hundreds of miles, many people in the older generation have heard of her rumors, know her fame and ability, and her character is the most praised.

At the beginning, Grandma Zeng didn't even think that she would be so popular. The word spread, and there was an endless stream of people who came to see her.

From the villagers of this village to the nearby ten miles and eight towns, and even people from other state capitals came here.

You must know that it was an era when communication was backward and everything depended on roaring, and many people traveled purely on their legs.

Although she told everyone that there is no need to publicize it, after all, the medicinal materials she can pick are limited, but the news spread quite far.

In the 80s, a middle-aged man was pulling a wooden cart with his half-paralyzed wife lying on the cart. He walked more than 150 kilometers to find Grandma Zeng.

Grandma Zeng took pity on him for his filial piety, so she didn't have to go back and forth for hundreds of kilometers every time, so she taught him some of the medicines she knew to treat hemiplegia. Although she couldn't bring his old mother back to normal, she could still stand up and walk with crutches of.

Later, the family would ask people to send some special gifts from time to time, which lasted for many years.

And Grandma Zeng's habit of seeing a doctor has continued to this day.

……

There are mainly two types of people who come to Grandma Zeng for medical treatment, one is poor, and the other is really desperate and desperate.

In fact, the two overlap most of the time.

After all, there is only one disease in this world, and that is the disease of poverty!

Some people say, how much does it cost to see a doctor?

They may not even know what the concept of rural poverty is.

Grandma Zeng clearly remembered that before she received the gift of heaven, there was an uncle in the family who died of stomach bleeding because he had no money to see stomach problems.

Obviously, as long as 27 yuan and 5 yuan, it can save his life.

At the end of the 50s, the monthly salary of a first-level worker was more than 27 yuan 5. Today, it is less than 3000 yuan.

But the uncle couldn't get it out at home.

Can't even borrow it.

This is not an isolated case, but a common phenomenon in rural areas at that time.

Even today, the pensions of many elderly people in rural areas are only around [-] yuan a month.

An 80-year-old like Grandma Zeng is barely better, 240 a month.

Among other things, the county hospital costs three or four hundred for a CT scan, and a bottle for a cold, and then some medicine, and one or two hundred is gone.

Although Grandma Zeng is illiterate, she still understands how much money there is.

Therefore, those who came to her for medical treatment would help if they could, and never charged money.

If the other party insists on giving it, they can donate a little sesame oil money to the Jingzhu Temple in the village, ten yuan or 20 yuan, if there is too much, the master will be embarrassed to accept it.

Some people laughed at her as a fool, saying that so many opportunities to make a fortune were wasted in vain.

One must know that the one who runs a clinic in the town only cares about minor illnesses such as colds and fevers, and has bought several apartments in the city. It's not like her, who stays in Baoshan without knowing it.

Grandma Zeng didn't care, she just regarded it as a good deed.

After all, this medical skill was not originally hers, it was Da Daogong who borrowed her hand to save the world.

……

Yes, Lord Daoist.

Even though so many years have passed, Grandma Zeng still feels that the one who taught her medical skills must be Dao Gong, who is often called Baosheng Emperor by outsiders.

Daodaogong is an old fairy known to everyone in Haicheng, with superb medical skills and has saved countless lives.

The Jingzhu Temple rebuilt in the village is dedicated to Da Dagong.

Grandma Zeng would go to offer incense every morning, and tell Daoist all about the events of the previous day, such as whether anyone came to see her yesterday, how many people there were, what problems they had, etc., and so on.

Maybe Da Daogong has noticed it a long time ago, but she just has such a habit.

Thanks to her presence, the incense in Jingzhu Temple has not been cut off.

In recent years, Grandma Zeng has rarely seen a doctor.

One is that now that the medical conditions are better, colds, fevers, and even bone fractures can be resolved quickly by the town's health center.If you have any problems, you will gradually get used to going to the hospital.

The second is that the younger generation is now in charge of their own affairs, and they are not sensitive to traditional Chinese medicine.Even if there is no resistance, compared with the convenience and quickness of western medicine, few people will choose Chinese medicine that is unpleasant and troublesome.

Grandma Zeng was also very happy.

Although she is uneducated, she also knows that the fewer sick people in this world, the better. It doesn't matter if her dried herbs are moldy and rotten.

Maybe someone is looking forward to a big epidemic, so as to make a fortune, but that person will definitely not be Grandma Zeng.

If she wanted to make a fortune, she wouldn't be living in a mud-brick house until today.

……

Many people think that Grandma Zeng's being a "witch" will not only kill off her children and grandchildren, but at least it will have some influence.

Actually not.

Not only did they not exist, but their descendants prospered.

The five children she gave birth to all survived in the era of lack of medical treatment, and all of them were in good health.

Coincidentally, after these five children got married, they gave birth to a son and a daughter. They had both sons and daughters, they were smart and well-behaved, and they envied others.

Gradually there were rumors that this was the blessing that Grandma Zeng deserved for her good deeds for most of her life.

Regarding this statement, Grandma Zeng was noncommittal.

Although she doesn't know fortune-telling, she also knows that doing more good deeds is beneficial and harmless.

There is an old saying: "One is fate, two is luck, three is geomantic omen, four is accumulation of yin and virtue, and five is reading."

She felt that she was lucky, to be favored by Lord Daoist, and to teach the skills of miraculous medicine, she should have accumulated so much virtue, so that she could bless future generations.

As for myself, I didn't think about it that much.

This is the traditional and simple value of Daxia people.

Among the many grandchildren of Grandma Zeng, there is a granddaughter named Li Xinlan.

She is the daughter of the second son.

The little girl was very competitive. She was admitted to Mindu University in the province as an undergraduate, and was admitted to Shanghai Jiaotong University as a graduate student. She just graduated last year and then joined a state-owned pharmaceutical company in Fujian.

Among so many children and grandchildren, Li Xinlan is the one who is most interested in medicine, probably influenced by Grandma Zeng since childhood.

She was sincerely curious about Zhu Youshu, as if she could peek into another world from it.

It's not that I never thought about learning some skills from grandma, but Grandma Zeng never let go.

One is not knowing that the Dao is fair and not allowed,

The second is that her personal knowledge is limited and she cannot teach it systematically.

The third is to learn this high probability to be poor for a lifetime.

After all, Grandma Zeng had a bit of selfishness in her heart. She felt that her hard work didn't matter, and her children and grandchildren should try their best to live a better life. She never thought of passing on this medicinal skill and preparing to take it into the coffin a hundred years later.

But this time, Li Xinlan encountered an unusual thing, which made her feel that something was wrong, and subconsciously found her grandmother.

……

Here's the thing.

Li Xinlan has a female college classmate named Zhao Ruyu, who comes from a rural village in a remote province. The family conditions are very poor, even worse than Li Xinlan's family who is also from the countryside.

Fortunately, she has been working very hard. Although she did not continue to take the postgraduate entrance examination like her, but directly graduated to work, the two had a good relationship before and kept in touch after graduation.

This time, it started when this classmate Zhao Ruyu sent a selfie to Li Xinlan.

A selfie of a pregnant woman in the mirror.

It was Zhao Ruyu himself.

Judging by the degree of abdominal bulge, it feels more than six months old.

At that time, Li Xinlan was stunned, and hurriedly asked: "What's the situation? Are you pregnant? When did you talk to someone? I haven't heard you mention it before!"

Although the two of them don't have conversations and chats every day, they still chat a few words every now and then and share their daily routines.

I didn't expect the other party to be so tight-lipped. As a good friend, I didn't even know she was pregnant!

This is almost in production!

Li Xinlan couldn't believe it, but at the same time, her mood was complicated, and she felt as if she had been "green".

The person on the other side didn't speak, but immediately sent another photo, which was still a selfie of Zhao Ruyu herself.

What the other party said made Li Xinlan confused again.

"This is what I looked like a month ago."

Zhao Ruyu in the photo is wearing a white T-shirt, blue jeans and small white shoes. She is full of youthful attire. Although she does not show her belly, it is obvious that her belly is flat and there is no sign of pregnancy at all.

Li Xinlan was dumbfounded: "What do you mean? You want to say that your stomach bulged like this within a month?!"

Zhao Ruyu: "Although I don't know what's going on, it's true. To be precise, it just happened this week."

"Don't scare me!!"

Li Xinlan wondered if the other party was playing a prank.

Please, this is not a fun thing, if it is a real prank, she will be angry.

So she dialed the phone number.

Connect soon.

"Hey……"

On the other end of the phone, Zhao Ruyu's voice revealed exhaustion: "I'm so confused now, I don't know what to do. I went to the hospital for an examination, and the doctor told me that the fetus is developing normally... This is the most terrifying. I even have a boyfriend. No, she is still a big girl until now.

I wondered if I was pregnant with a freak, my stomach was really bulging at a speed visible to the naked eye.My intuition told me that if I was born, the consequences would be very serious.Xinlan, help me..."

OMG!

After listening to Li Xinlan, she felt that her whole body was not well, her heart was terrified, and she shuddered.

However, as a child who was influenced by the witchcraft culture in southern Fujian and had a "witch" grandmother at home, she recovered and immediately noticed something was wrong.

Obviously, this matter is beyond the scope of normal people's understanding.

First appease Zhao Ruyu's emotions, then quickly called home and told grandma about it.

Among the people she knew, only grandma probably knew what to do.

When Grandma Zeng heard about it, her heart tightened.

If it was true as what my granddaughter said, then the matter might not be so easy to solve.

"If possible, you'd better bring her over to have a look. Some things are not easy to judge in person."

It was this sentence that made Li Xinlan determined to help her classmate.

 Recently, I eat and drink well, go to bed early and get up early, and my mental state has improved, so don't worry.Start resuming the update.

 
(End of this chapter)

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