Denghuaxiao

Chapter 237 Notes

　　It was so quiet that there was no sound at all.

 Medicine person?

 What kind of medicine man?

Lin Danqing looked at Pei Yunying and asked blankly: "What does Commander Pei mean by this?"

Ji Xun also frowned and looked at him.

“Do you still remember that on the day of the Renxin Medical Center’s celebration party, Miao Liangfang once mentioned Mo Ruyun, the daughter of the Mo family in Shengjing?”

 He raised his eyes, looked at everyone in the room, and said slowly: "She worked as Mo Ruyun's medicine man."

These words were so shocking that everyone in the room looked at each other and did not understand them for a moment.

 After a moment, Lin Danqing asked in confusion: "Isn't Mo Ruyun dead? How could Sister Lu be her medicine person?"

Everyone was present at the celebration banquet at Renxin Medical Center. Miao Liangfang said that Mo Ruyun had already died in the fire in Shengjing when the medicine boy she was feeding was discovered. When she died, Lu Chen was still young and in southern Jiangsu. In any case, there was no reason for the two of them to be tied together.

"She is still alive," Pei Yunying said after a moment of silence, her voice rough, "she is on Luomei Peak."

Miss Lu San from Changwu County disappeared during the great epidemic nine years ago. Lu Huo, who appeared in Shengjing two years ago, avenged the Lu family all the way with fierce and decisive methods.

 It is conceivable that a person's temperament changes drastically between childhood and adulthood. The intervening seven years can be imagined.

 When he first learned about Lu Zhuo's identity, he was already suspicious.

Lu Zhen said that he was taken away by a passing master, but since he went to study medicine, why didn't he tell his family? What's more, Lu Zhen was just a weak boy nine years ago, and the Lu family had no medical heritage, so why did they value talent.

I'm afraid that Mo Ruyun didn't give her a chance to say goodbye to her family at first. As for taking her away, it wasn't to teach the disciples, but to use it as a test tool.

 Medicine testing tools.

 He closed his eyes, his heart feeling suffocated for a moment.

Ji Xun took two steps forward and took Lu Zhuo's hand. Before Chang Jin could stop him, he saw him lifting up Lu Zhuo's sleeve.

 "Medical Officer Ji..." Lin Danqing shouted.

Ji Xun didn’t notice it and just stared in front of him.

There is no trace of rash from the rolled up sleeves to the elbows. The woman's arm is very thin, like a lonely plum tree branch, with a long scar on it, showing it ferociously.

Ji Xun’s pupils narrowed.

 “The scar is still there…” he murmured.

At the Huangmaogang hunting ground, the scars still remain from Lu Zhen’s bite by Qi Yutai’s vicious dog.

 In an instant, Ji Xun understood.

 Ever since Lu Zhen was bitten, he gave Lu Zhen a lot of immortal jade skin ointment.

  Shenxian Jade Skin Cream was made by himself. I can’t say that there will be no trace of scars after using it, at least it will fade a lot. At the medical hospital, he saw that Lu Zhuo's scar was not getting better and asked him a few more questions. Lu Zhuo replied that he was reluctant to use the ointment because it was expensive, so he made a few more bottles and gave them to her.

So much medicine was enough for her to fade away the scars. It's not as obvious now as it was before.

Now it seems that she is not reluctant to use it. But those ordinary plasters were no longer useful to her body.

She used to be a medicine person, so when Ding Yong tried new medicines, she was uncharacteristically and fiercely opposed to them.

 Turns out, this is the crux.

 There was silence in the room.

 As a medical officer, he could see that there was something wrong with her wounds. Lin Danqing spoke in a trembling voice: "She... how long has she been a medicine practitioner?"

Pei Yunying looked at the person on the bed: "I don't know."

Chang Jin walked up to Lu Zhuo and took a closer look at her pulse, and his expression changed a little.

“There is nothing wrong with her pulse. If she has been experimenting with medicine for many years, her body will have become accustomed to various medicines and poisons, and it will be difficult to find the root cause of the disease.”

Like a tree that is intact on the surface, but has been corroded by ants on the inside, and only the final decay can still be discovered.

“Chang Yizheng.” Pei Yunying suddenly spoke.

 Chang Jin looked at the person in front of him.

 “Save her,” he said.

Chang Jin was startled for a moment.

 He had seen Pei Yunying many times in the imperial city.

 No matter how funny, approachable and approachable the conductor looks on the outside, Chang Jin always feels a little frightened every time he sees him. Pei Yunying's reputation has always been at two extremes. People who are not familiar with him always say that he is young and kind, but those who are familiar with him say that he is surly and scary.

It seems that no one has ever seen Pei Yunying really bending down to others. Even the salute in the imperial city was a bit arrogant, not to mention such a pleading tone.

 He is always at ease.

Now, this calmness was broken because of Lu Huo.

It seems that the rumors in the imperial city are not false.

 Concern leads to chaos.

"Even if you don't say it, we can't leave her alone." Chang Jin raised his head, "She is a medical officer at Hanlin Medical Academy. She used to be a medical officer who saved people. When a medical officer is sick, he is a patient."

"Medical Officer Lin," he called Lin Danqing, "in addition to the medical officer on duty, ask all the medical officers to come over immediately. Medical Officer Lu's condition is unusual. This problem cannot be solved by one person, so everyone must work together to find a solution. Hanlin Medical Officer Academy has received With such a huge salary, even my colleagues can’t look down upon me, so I don’t want to be a errand. From today on, Medical Officer Lu will be our patient, and all the medical officers will work together to treat him!”

"Yes, doctor." Lin Danqing hurried out of the door and went to call the others.

Chang Jin called Ji Xun and came forward to see Lu Xu again. Pei Yunying said: "Chang Yi Zheng."

“Before Lu Zhu went down the mountain, he asked me to take the gold in the medicine basket back to the hospital.”

Chang Jin and Ji Xun were startled, and then they noticed that the medicine basket brought back by Pei Yunying was filled with a basket of medicinal herbs, the most numerous of which were fluffy golden flowers, which welcomed the spring, delicate and bright.

Pei Yunying's voice was calm: "She said that this flower can detoxify fever. If the redwood vine is useless, Medical Officer Ji might as well try to use this flower in a new recipe, replacing the two herbs, which may be useful against the Jiangsu plague virus."

 Both of them were stunned.

Lu Zhen has become ill and seems extremely weak, but he is still thinking about the Jiangsu Nan epidemic.

It seems that the reason why she braved the wind and snow to go up the mountain was for this flower.

　　It often feels astringent in the throat.

Lu Zhen has always been reticent, and she was cold and indifferent to others when she was in the Medical Officer's Hospital. The medical officers believed that her temperament was just like this, more than calm but not very human. As a doctor, she always lacked two warmth and kindness.

It seems that she didn't say it was because she could bear it. She was clearly suffering from illness, but she still went into the mountains regardless of the danger.

What a stupid boy...

 …

The scent of medicine outside the fushuo door wafts up again.

The redwood vines in Pingzhou are still on the way, but the golden tan brought back by Lu Zhu has solved an urgent need.

The medical officers gathered in one place and stayed up all night to make new prescriptions. The medicinal properties of Golden Tan were not as strong as those of Redwood Vine, but they did not have much impact on the weakened bodies of the patients who contracted the epidemic.

Cuicui also drank the new medicine.

 Since her father's death, she has been much silent and not as lively as before.

Lin Danqing packed up the empty medicine bowl and was about to go out when Cuicui stopped him.

"Medical Officer Lin," the little girl hesitated before speaking, "How are you, Medical Officer Lu?"

People in the hospital said that Lu Zhuo went to the mountain to pick herbs for the patients. Because of this, the patients were given new prescriptions. But Lu Zhuo himself suddenly fell ill and was bedridden, and he hadn't shown up in the past few days.

Lin Danqing was silent for a moment and said: "It's okay."

“Medical Officer Lin, can I ask you something?”

 “What’s the matter?”

Cuicui looked at her: "Can you apologize for me and Medical Officer Lu?"

Lin Danqing was stunned.

 Cuicui lowered her head, twisted the corners of her clothes, and whispered: "When something happened to my father before, I blamed Medical Officer Lu... I know it's not her fault, it's that I was too sad..."

"Grandma Hong from the hospital said that Medical Officer Lu went to Luomei Peak to collect medicine for us. The snowy Luomei Peak is very dangerous. Everyone in southern Jiangsu knows that. I want to go and apologize to her. Doctor Chang is saying that Medical Officer Lu is not awake yet. …When will she wake up?”

This little girl who lost her father and mother timidly placed a grasshopper in Lin Danqing's palm.

Lin Danqing looked at the grasshopper in his hand. After a moment, he knelt down and touched Cuicui's head: "She was never angry with you."

“Medical Officer Lu is the most generous and carefree person,” she said. “She will wake up soon. When she wakes up, she will come to you to make grasshoppers together.”

Cuicui nodded, but Lin Danqing felt so sad that she didn't dare to look anymore, got up and walked out of the hospital quickly.

It snows every day in southern Jiangsu, and the north wind makes people's faces hurt. Lin Danqing packs up the medicine bowl and goes back to the medical officer's dormitory, looking a little confused.

 Lu Zong's situation is very bad.

At first, they thought that Lu Chen was weak and had a recurrence of her old illness. Later, all the medical officers worked together to diagnose her. Ji Xun and Lin Danqing asked Pei Yunying about the signs of Lu Chen's illness before. They gradually became certain that Lu Chen was not only in physical decline, but also in her body. poisonous.

However, her long-term experience as a medicine practitioner has made the symptoms of various poisons in her body no longer obvious. They have no way of knowing which poisons Lu has tried, and naturally they cannot prescribe the right medicine.

Lu Chen's pulse is getting weaker day by day. She used to be awake occasionally, but now her waking hours are getting shorter and shorter. Compared with the patients in the hospital, she is more dangerous, like a candle in an oil lamp that is about to be extinguished. I don't know where. It will be annihilated in an instant.

 Shocking. When she was a child, she studied at the Imperial Medical Bureau and ranked among the best in all medical and science subjects. Even though she failed to win the first place in the spring examination, she was still confident and proud. She felt that her medical skills were endless. Young people have a lot of time to study one by one in the future. But now, she hates her own medical skills. If you're not smart, you can't save your friend.

 “Creak—” the door was pushed open.

Lin Danqing walked into the dormitory.

 She was now the only one in the dormitory where she and Lu Zhen were staying.

She entered the room and wanted to discuss some new medical treatment cases she had thought of yesterday with Ji Xun Changjin. She glanced at Lu Xun's medical box on the table in the room.

After coming down the mountain, Lu Zhuo was unconscious and the medical box was left in the room for safekeeping. Lin Danqing looked at it and suddenly felt something in his heart and walked to the table.

 The doctor’s medical box is like the examination basket for the emperor, and the weapons of the soldiers are precious and private. The medical officers of Hanlin Medical Academy always take good care of their medical boxes. Lin Danqing hesitated and reached out to pick up Lu Zhuo's medical box.

Lu Zhen has been a medicine man for many years. Although he won’t say it, as a doctor, he should be aware of his own body. There might be medicines for daily use in the medical box. Although this possibility is very small, but the situation is critical, he can't care about anything else.

Lin Danqing opened the medical box.

This medical box is very old. Even the straps of the medical box have signs of excessive wear and have been repaired layer by layer. It seemed that it had been dropped a few times, so it was a little deformed and not quite square. When the lid was opened, there were only a few things inside.

　　Morus white thread, gold medicine, coal pen, and several medical books.

The medical books Lin Danqing picked up were all related to the treatment of epidemics. They should have been brought by Lu Zhu himself in Shengjing before setting off to southern Jiangsu.

Lin Danqing checked and saw a manual under several medical books. This album has no title, so it should be written by herself. After thinking about it, she sat down at the table and opened the album in her hand. When she saw the words on the album clearly, she couldn't help but be startled.

 “‘Which is better than a thousand cups’: Angelica dahurica, Duhuo, spikenard, clove, Anxiom…”

“Burn this incense, the aroma will enter your nose, your body will be stiff, your mouth will be numb, you will be unable to move, your mind will be clear, and you will feel like you are drunk. It is better than drinking a thousand goblets of strong wine and being drunk without a trace.”

This is…

 Prescription?

Lin Danqing was confused.

She had never heard of this recipe that was 'more than a thousand cups of wine'. The ingredients and medicinal effects were clearly written, and it looked more like Lu Zhu developed a new recipe himself.

She stared and thought for a while, then lowered her head and continued to read.

 The second page is still a prescription.

“‘Zizaiying’: Indigo Naturalis, Polygonum cuspidatum, Haijinsha, Xusuizi, Yunshi…”

“The powder is odorless. If inhaled in small amounts, the throat will be sore and itchy, like being stung by thousands of ants. The toxicity will resolve itself after four hours, and there is no need to worry about life.”

Lin Danqing’s hand holding the booklet tightened, and his eyes gradually became serious.

“‘Hanshenyu: Impatiens, Gelsemium, Cuscuta, Convolvulus, White Bean…”

“Red in color and sour in taste, the cold poison penetrates into the bones within seven days of taking it. Do not go near water. After half a month, the remaining poison gradually becomes lighter..."

 “Children’s worries…”

 “Crossing the ant formation…”

Lin Danqing turned over page after page, feeling shocked in his heart.

This booklet, which is mostly written, is densely packed and filled with unheard-of prescriptions!

  No, it’s not a prescription, it should be said to be a poison.

None of these prescriptions are used to save people. On the contrary, they all contain serious poisons, but they will not kill people immediately. However, looking at the details and changes recorded in the reaction after taking the poison, the medical records in the library of Hanlin Medical Academy cannot describe such a situation.

　　It's just... it's like someone who took the poison recorded it himself!

Lin Danqing’s brain exploded with a buzz.

 For a moment, she suddenly remembered a summer afternoon in the medical hospital. She and Lu Chen were sitting in the pharmacy making soup.

The sun was warm and shining on both of them through the grove. At that time, the poison of the aunt's "shooting eyes" had gradually dissipated. She lazily leaned against the wall, looked at the person in front of her, and complained half gratefully and half jealously: "Sister Lu, you are a genius, how come you have so many recipes?"

Lu Tong was sitting in front of the medicine stove, holding a fan to flicker the fire under the stove. Hearing this, he smiled slightly and said, "Just try it a few more times and it will be fine."

 Just try it a few more times.

I see.

 It’s no wonder that Lu Chen has so many prescriptions that are constantly emerging. No wonder that her medical experience is better than the students who have been studying in the Imperial Medical Bureau for many years.

 Just because of those unexpected recipes, she had tried every one of them herself.

 Sheng Qianzhang, Zizaiyingying, Hansiyuyu, crossing the ant formation...

She experienced every pain personally, and then wrote down the source of these pains in a book without mentioning it to anyone.

 The booklet is only half written, maybe she has experienced more.

Lin Danqing covered his mouth and his eyes suddenly turned red.

 A piece of paper floated out from the album. She bent down to pick it up, her eyes passing over the paper.

 When he saw it clearly, his eyes suddenly froze.

The next moment, Lin Danqing stood up suddenly, took away the album and the pages inside it, and quickly walked out the door.

 She opened the door and ran out, straight to the next room.

In the room, Ji Xun was picking up herbs from the medicine jar, and Pei Yunying was sitting by the couch. He had been staying in front of Lu Zhuo's bed these days, and Duan Xiaoyan refused to leave despite being persuaded several times.

Hearing the movement, the two of them raised their heads.

Lin Danqing walked into the room.

Lu Zhen was still lying on the bed, with her eyes closed. She looked very thin, like a small animal in a cave in Sunan City, unable to survive the harsh winter.

 “I know what kind of poison Lu Huo has been poisoned by.”

Ji Xun and Pei Yunying looked at her at the same time.

Lin Danqing handed the brochure to Ji Xun: "I found this in Sister Lu's medical box. The poisonous prescriptions recorded on it should be the ones she has tried in the past. Doctor Ji, with this, at least now we Knowing that Sister Lu has been involved in medical treatment, I have a clue, so it won’t be without purpose. "

Ji Xun took the book and flipped through a few pages, his usually calm expression suddenly turned pale.

Lin Danqing handed the paper to Pei Yunying again.

“Sister Lu has been sick for a long time, and it’s not the first time in southern Jiangsu, but no one knows about it. The time I saw her nosebleed before was also a toxic attack, but she pushed it away and didn’t notice it.”

Pei Yunying took the page.

The page is very thin, only one. The writing on it was scrawled and simple.

“On the tenth day of February, I had abdominal pain and vomiting, sweating and palpitations, my legs were weak and I couldn’t walk. I recovered after half an hour.”

“On the ninth day of the sixth lunar month, my limbs felt cold, chills, dull pain, and chest and diaphragm discomfort, which relieved itself after an hour.”

“On September 17th, I felt dizzy and fainted all night.”

 “November 24th…”

　　　…”

“On the third day of December, he vomited blood.”

The hand holding the page tightened, and the blood on Pei Yunying's face instantly faded.

 Here, the records of the illness are recorded one by one.

Who is sick and who is in pain is clear and clear.

The intervals between her attacks became shorter and shorter, while the pain lasted longer and longer. It lasted for half an hour at first, and then became a whole night. At first it was sweating and palpitations, but the latest time, it was vomiting blood.

Pei Yunying's eyes fell on the thin piece of paper. The hands that once held the knife but remained motionless in the face of danger were trembling slightly at this moment, as if they could not hold the thin piece of paper.

 There is a line of words written at the top of the page.

“On August 12, the forty-second year of Yongchang, I suffered from chest numbness and heartache that lasted all night.”

Yongchang forty-two years, August 12th...

 He suddenly remembered.

It was the day he received a report from the military patrol about the murder and burial of corpses at Renxin Medical Center.

 He knew the other party's disguise and trump card, and wanted to see how she would survive this desperate situation. So he came uninvited with the token and watched her calmness and counterattack with interest. He was surprised by her courage and admired her scheming. She faced him in the shade of the fragrant osmanthus flowers, with a sarcastic smile, and won a beautiful and wonderful game.

He thought to himself at that time, what a powerful woman.

Little did she know that after he left, she was alone in pain all night.

 He knows nothing.

It was as if a hand suddenly grabbed his heart. For a moment, he felt the same as her. It was as if he was looking at the lonely and huddled woman in the room after a long time.

 It goes deep into the bone marrow and hurts the heart.

Lin Danqing saw that he had a different look on his face and whispered: "The Commander-in-Chief..."

Pei Yunying lowered his eyes and his finger bones gradually turned white.

 After a long time, he spoke.

 “It’s me who deserves to die.”