choke element

The visitors in the distance were discussing quietly, but the queue that was training suddenly broke out in noise.

"It's raining!" Chen Zixin raised his head suddenly. First, his face felt cool, and then the sea breeze blew past, and the chill slowly invaded his body.

The weather in midsummer can change at any time, especially at sea.

The wind suddenly appeared, then roared immediately, and the sky quickly darkened. Large dark clouds that seemed to be hidden among the waves in the distance suddenly rose up and pressed on the island. The strong wind on the sea surface was even more violent, causing the waves to roll and hit the rocks on the edge of the island one after another, making bursts of roar.

Chen Zixin stood in the rain, his clothes quickly got soaked, and he shivered violently.

"Damn..." Next to Chen Zixin, another doctor, Lao Ding, scolded: "It rains on a hot day, which is a good thing. Why is the wind so cold that it feels like a knife? Last winter, the roads in Zhejiang Province dripped water and turned into ice. It felt like It’s not like this! This hellish place!”

Behind Old Ding, someone sneered. That's still a doctor, his surname is Dai. Because of his short stature, he was completely blocked by Old Ding. Only the sound of the rain came out: "The dripping water on the two Zhejiang roads turns to ice, what does it matter? When the training is over, we people will be assigned to various places." I was unlucky, and I didn’t know what cold meant until I went to the Northeast!”

Chen Zixin sneezed violently and asked: "Last year and the year before last, the weather in the Song Dynasty was not right and it was terribly cold. I heard that when the cold wave came, the West Lake was frozen. Of course I know that it is cold in the north, but is it still possible? Can it be worse than freezing a large lake overnight?”

Doctor Dai laughed loudly: "You guys, you really have never seen what it means to be cold. Well... let me put it this way, you went to the Northeast, braved the cold wind in the twelfth lunar month, and went out to pee. The urine has not yet fallen. On the ground, the whole thing was frozen into a crooked stick, with one end touching the ground and the other end penetrating..."

"This..." Chen Zixin shuddered violently and felt that his legs were weak.

At this time, Xu Zhuer came over and waved to them: "You doctors, please don't be too insistent. Go and take shelter from the rain."

Chen Zixin staggered a few steps before following the others and running to the empty space under the corner tower of the barracks.

The cohort they were in were all doctors from all over the world.

According to the system of the Great Zhou Dynasty, whether in the army, in the military farming areas or in the caravans, there were a large number of doctors, and their status and treatment were higher than those of clerks and accountants. The training requirements for them are much lower than others.

There are twenty people in the queue, most of them are good at stab wounds, metal wounds and bone injuries, and some are good at maintaining health and preventing diseases. For example, Lao Ding is a famous doctor in Yixian County and is proficient in many prescriptions for replenishing qi and conditioning. However, he almost died after offending a nobleman last year. In anger, blood stasis entered his brain, his hands and feet trembled. Even though he drank medicine at home every day, he has not been able to recover.

With a physique like Dr. Ding's, he couldn't withstand too much training. When he learned that everyone was going to participate in the training, he turned pale with fright and complained with a cry that he was afraid that he would die on the island and his body would be thrown into the sea. Feed the fish.

Most of the Song people who would respond to the Zhou Dynasty's recruitment could not survive in the local area, and had to do so because of insurmountable difficulties. And the choice he made when he was desperate was so terrible, it really hit him hard.

At that time, Chen Zixin had the courage to come forward. On the first day he came to the island, he went to beg Xu Zhuer, the instructor who led the team. He said that the people who came here were all good doctors, but good doctors may not be able to heal themselves. In fact, everyone's physique was not very strong. If something happened during training, it would be difficult to end.

It was the first time that Xu Zhuer took on such a responsibility, and he was afraid that something would go wrong, and medical officers did have a special status in the military and commercial systems of the Great Zhou Dynasty. He was quickly persuaded by Chen Zixin and immediately raised his hand. Therefore, most of the time after that, the entire team of doctors was just faking the story and coping with the situation.

The reason why Chen Zixin took such initiative was not because he had become bolder, but because he saw that Dr. Ding had a generous personality and was a man who would repay kindness. Sure enough, because of this move, Dr. Ding had always cared about Chen Zixin and reminded him several times in private about the common sense of asking for medicine, so as to prevent this layman who had practiced family medicine for less than two months from revealing his secrets.

Although Chen Zixin is not good at studying literature or medicine, he usually follows his cousin and has a good foundation. He is also smart. The medical profession itself also has a comprehensive context. After receiving advice from famous teachers, he memorized the medical skills every night and learned quickly. By now, everyone regarded him as a peer, and no one noticed that he was a dabbler. They only thought that he was weak in surgery and preferred pediatrics and gynecology.

The reason why I chose pediatrics and gynecology was that when I came to Sichuan, Chen's family medical tradition was indeed based on these two items. Secondly, it was also due to Chen Zixin's little calculation. Warriors on the battlefield use swords, guns, swords and halberds to talk about things, and doctors mainly treat Jin Chuang. Since Chen Zixin can't use his skills, he can't be put into the army. Most likely, he will choose a caravan to stay like his brother. Several doctors are envious of this. Some people privately complained about themselves several times, saying that they were too expressive and impatient to show off their abilities, and as a result, they were about to be involved in a dangerous battle.

Dr. Dai is one of them.

He laughed at Chen Zixin's short-sightedness, and then thought that he was more likely to be sent to the northern army than Chen Zixin, and he became frustrated. He stood under the eaves and looked at the others who continued to practice despite the heavy rain through the thousands of rain lines. He couldn't help but whisper:

"These warriors in the north are really ruthless. They have to practice when the sun is scorching hot, they have to practice when it rains heavily, they have to fight if they don't practice well, and they have to practice after the fight is over! Look at the two teams at the back, they are all scholars, when Have you ever endured such hardship? Are there so many officials in the Zhou Dynasty who have been trained in this way? How gentle and polite!"

Perhaps it was because the rain was so loud that it blocked the voices and prevented them from reaching the ears of the soldiers on duty nearby. Everyone became bolder and all agreed.

Chen Zixin didn't bother chatting.

He listened to the drumbeats that prompted the rhythm of his footsteps and kept pace with the sound of rain. He saw many of his companions who had come to the island in the same batch, stepping forward and left and right in the rain in accordance with the drumbeats. The soldiers responsible for commanding and supervising the training also stood in the rain, shouting and commanding.

A little further away, the highest-ranking person in charge on the island, Zhao Bin, who had gray hair on his temples and an iron hook in his left hand, was also standing in the rain with his subordinates. Zhao Bin and his subordinates were all high-status warriors. They were not as noisy as ordinary soldiers, but they watched the training and from time to time issued instructions to Xu Zhuer, who was responsible for the specific command, and Xu Zhuer led his subordinates to execute them. .

In the heavy rain, the queue marched, stopped, spread, gathered, marched, and then retreated. The flat land on the island is not large, so the formation cannot fully display its performance. It cannot go very far before it has to stop and change direction, which is not impressive. Many people in the queue had rain and mud mixed on their bodies, making them a little embarrassed.

But Chen Zixin kept watching, and gradually felt a strange feeling in his heart.

Facing military training, he once felt it was humiliating, and he once felt it was vulgar and ridiculous, but now he thought of something else.

After all, a regime needs people who know how to obey and be loyal. Whether it was military training in the Northern Dynasty or reading and literacy in the Southern Dynasty, they were all for this purpose. Of course, there is a difference between the two paths. Chen Zixin still feels that the mere fighting skills of warriors are absolutely impossible to compare with the flourishing culture and education of the Song Dynasty; but if we consider the specific results of employing people to do things, there may not be an essential difference.

It was obvious that a loose group of runaways and scholars would never accomplish anything. But after they have gone through a period of training, if nothing else, being able to stay tidy in the rain is enough to show great obedience and execution. If they use such energy to do things, they will definitely achieve considerable results.

When Chen Zixin thought of this, he felt ridiculous.

Fortunately, he is a doctor. Doctors have immediate things to do, so they don't have to invest their energy in such illusory measurements.

He shook his head, walked to the other side of the eaves, and said to a soldier standing with a gun: "Mr. Xu brought some extra ginger when he was delivering food the day before yesterday. I remember that it was placed in the southeast corner of the warehouse. We are training in the rain today. It is inevitable that some soldiers, civilians and officials watching will catch cold. You might as well boil a few pots of ginger soup and drink it in a while to avoid illness."

The soldiers reported it quickly and came back after a while to send a message: "General Xu said, your idea is very good, please go and implement it."

"it is good."

Chen Zixin responded and went to summon his fellow doctors.

He was not active in training, so he didn't realize it. In just one month, he had adapted to a strict and orderly life. His will and body have become tougher, he is bolder, he is far more active than before, and he is more willing to take responsibility.