There are precedents in the history of the Red Chamber

"When I was young, I heard the righteousness of Boyi and Shuqi, and now I am in Yongping, and I am happy to go there. I have visited Shouyang, the indeterminate holy land, and thousands of caves. I really look at it. I suddenly saw a cave in Nanshan, with millet grains in it. Yu Yin. The old man passed by herding the sheep, and said with a smile, the sheepfold too!"

"Pfft..." The saint spit out the tea in his mouth with laughter.Gao Wei, Eunuch Gao, tidied up in a hurry, and asked, "What good news did Captain Shi say, why is the saint so happy?"

"That kid, let's see." The sage handed the letter of invitation written by Shi Zhongzhu to Gao Wei, and Eunuch Gao took it, and smiled happily after reading it.

Shi Zhongzhu’s travel notes are about visiting the holy land with admiration, and remembering that the old sheepherding man told the tragedy of the sheepfold at that time, but it is actually a joke sketch, laughing at himself.

"Lieutenant Shi Du still plans to write a travel journal. I heard that he has started writing on the way. When he returns, the sage will see another masterpiece." Eunuch Gao Wei joked.

"If he writes everything like this, Shi Ding will have to break his legs. Gao Wei, tell me, how could Shi Ding give birth to such a cramped kid because he is so square?"

"Master Shi Hou was probably like this when he was young."

"Yes, like a son, like a father." After speaking, he couldn't help laughing again.

Shi Zhongzhu wrote while walking, recording what he saw and heard along the way. He remembered that it was not a serious local chronicle or borrowing scenery to express his ambition, but similar to a travel column. appreciated.

Shi Zhongzhu wrote a lot of travel sketches and prose essays like a diary in this way. He also wrote about one thing and one thing, and also had occasional impressions, and even some scattered essays about folk customs, anecdotes, architecture, food, tea, wine, piano and chess.Later, it was assembled into a volume and handed over to Jingcheng Bookstore for sale. Even the stupid nerds had to praise the word "interesting" and admit that it was an elegant pastime, not to mention those real literati who were not nerds in the first place. Bring a more generous embellisher, this is not to be mentioned later.

After passing the Yongping Mansion, further north is the base of the foreign race. The nomadic Tatars in the grasslands and the Jurchens in the high mountains for fishing and hunting. Master Dong and Nanshan all persuaded Shi Zhongzhu not to go any further.

Shi Zhongzhu also understood that at this time the famous black land was still a big forest, and the climate was a bit cold, so it was unlikely to find wild rice, so he didn't insist, so he went west.

By way of Datong and through Hetao, Shi Zhongzhu saw a way of life he had never seen before.Listening to "the wind blows the grass and sees the cattle and sheep" a thousand times, and no matter how many travel notes and local chronicles, it is not as shocking as seeing it with your own eyes.That's why it is said that traveling thousands of miles is worse than reading thousands of books.

Even Nanshan felt that he had gained a lot of knowledge, and his words and deeds were more restrained and thoughtful, and he had worn away a lot of the arrogance and vulgarity of the servants of the wealthy family.

Along the way, because of Shi Zhongzhu's status as a scholar, he didn't suffer much, but he was not good at one or two things. Shi Zhongzhu still carried his identity seal of Captain Qingche.

Guangyuan County, Baoning Prefecture, which they had just entered Sichuan, encountered an epidemic.

Guangyuan County originally belonged to Guangyuan Prefecture, which was the capital of the province. It was first reduced to Guangyuan Prefecture in the last four years, and then to Guangyuan County in ten years. Now it is just a county under Baoning Prefecture.Due to historical reasons, there are many wealthy families in the city, and the power of the aristocratic families is intricate.

Shi Zhongzhu witnessed a quarrel at the city gate. An old man quarreled with the yamen servants guarding the city gate. After the patrol came, it was useless, and the quarrel became louder.

Due to the epidemic, the people who love to watch the excitement in Qiangu did not watch, so Nanshan had no choice but to inquire with the yamen servants next to him.The yamen servant saw that they were not poor people, so he politely explained the reason.

The person who quarreled with Wu Zhuang, the inspector, was Ji Jing, the medical training department. The medical training department was equivalent to the director of the county hospital. Looking at it, it seems that Ji Jing's ability is not small.

This Jijing was born in a poor family, failed in the imperial examination, only had an honorary title, and was not proficient in criminal names, money and food. He only loved medical skills, so he found a position in the local medical training department.Ji Jing has excellent medical skills and good medical ethics. He is a well-known doctor in Baoning Prefecture. Who dares to say that he will never be able to find a doctor in his life, especially for the high-risk job of inspection, so he inspected Mr. Wu Zhuangwu and endured it again and again. , did not let the yamen servants arrest Ji Jing.

Now that there is an epidemic in Guangyuan County, the governor of Baoning Prefecture also attaches great importance to this Guangyuan, which was once at the same level as Baoning Prefecture. He sent soldiers to maintain order and medical officers to help the epidemic, but Guangyuan County is more important than the whole Boryeong Province?Therefore, Guangyuan County is currently implementing a city closure measure. People in the county who are sure that there is no disease have moved out. Of course, those who are able to move out are rich and wealthy households. Those who are sick are locked up in the city, and some are sent outside the city from time to time. Eat and resign yourself to fate.

Jijing has excellent professional skills in medicine, and told the county magistrate that this epidemic is not serious and can be cured!The current situation is that the governor has already made an arrangement, and the county magistrate will just follow it. It is not worth taking a risk for a medical teaching, and he and Ji Jing don't have much friendship. Zhi, Ji Jing died in the city, but she sacrificed her life for benevolence, and her wealth and life would be hard to protect.

Therefore, Ji Jing said that he would come for inspection without informing the county magistrate, and wanted to go in by himself.

Shi Zhongzhu listened to the cause and effect, and went to talk to Ji Jing who was dejected because he couldn't explain.

"Master Ji, the students are being polite." Shi Zhongzhu bowed.

"What kind of adult am I?" Ji Jing laughed at himself, looked Shi Zhongzhu and his party up and down, and said, "You came from a foreign country to study, Guangyuan has an epidemic, let's go."

"Master Ji, the students have heard that the adults are arguing with the inspectors. Is it true that there is a cure for the disease?" Shi Zhongzhu is obsessed with Taoism. He has read most of the existing medical books in the world.

"Yes, this epidemic is not plague or leprosy, but typhoid fever. It is recorded in "Qianjin Yifang". Zixue Dan and Zhibao Dan are good medicines, but the county magistrate won't let me go in for treatment."

"Purple Snow Pill and Supreme Treasure Pill use precious medicinal materials such as agarwood and rhino horn. How can the people of a county have enough?"

Ji Jing's eyes lit up, and she listened to the sound when she spoke. It seemed that when she met someone who was knowledgeable, Ji Jing became more interested, and she wasn't as perfunctory as before. "It is extremely, it is extremely, so, after 30 years of research, I obtained Angong Niuhuang Wan, which is cheap and affordable for poor families!"

"Students are also quite interested in medical treatment. May Master Ji talk about it in detail?"

Ji Jing met someone who was interested, and naturally agreed, and in the shade of a tree by the side of the road, he talked endlessly about how he thought of Angong Niuhuang Pills, how he tried the medicine, and how he made it, except for the core formula. Said, even the approximate dosage is clearly introduced.

"Master Naji, do you have stock?"

"If the stock in my own pharmacy is used by people in a county, it won't be a problem to last for half a month. However, the big households in the city are closed, and the caravan refuses to take any more medicinal materials. I am powerless." Ji Jing said about the current situation I understand, I have never heard of anyone who cured the disease, it is normal to take care of myself and my family first.

"Master Ji is benevolent, I wonder if I can experience this Angong Niuhuang Pill?" Shi Zhongzhu is also quite interested in Chinese medicine.

Ji Jing took out a small porcelain bottle from her purse on the spot, poured out small brown pellets and handed them to Shi Zhongzhu. Shi Zhongzhu took them with both hands, first smelled them, looked closely, tasted them with his tongue, and finally swallowed them.

"Master, why are you swallowing, quick, quick, spit it out, spit it out!" As he said that, he was about to slap his back to induce vomiting, the master was too reckless, a stranger who didn't know him for a quarter of an hour, took whatever medicine he was given, and came out. What should I do?

"Don't panic, Master Ji will not harm me." Shi Zhongzhu stopped Nanshan, he also understands medical principles, after careful inspection, it is indeed Niuhuang Wan.

"You scholar is quite courageous. In the current situation, you should go to my shop to rest for a night, and leave here quickly tomorrow morning." Ji Jing was originally restless, but seeing Shi Zhongzhu so confident in his medical skills and character, Also very happy.

"It's what you want." Shi Zhongzhu didn't talk nonsense, and lived in Mr. Ji Jingji's pharmacy together with Master Dong and Nan Shan.

Mr. Ji's pharmacy is still open. It looks like a warehouse has been remodeled. Yes, the county seat is now closed. This is probably the original warehouse.

The pharmacy opened a small door, but no one came to buy medicine.

Ji Jing explained, "Those who have money to buy medicines have already bought all the medicines, and those who have no money will not come." Later, the clerk told Shi Zhongzhu that if anyone came to ask for medicines, his adults would not be stingy, but those who needed medicines were there. The city is closed, and a few people come to ask for it, so what's the use?

Shi Zhongzhu observed Mr. Jijing’s pharmacy carefully. The medicines were arranged in an orderly manner, the environment was clean and hygienic, and the apprentice pharmacists in the shop were not in a hurry. Nanshan chatted with Master Dong and the apprentices, and asked people who occasionally came to buy medicines, and he was sure that Mr. Jijing was a good person. doctor.

"Second young master, I have inquired about it. The current county magistrate is Liu An, a top-ranked Jinshi in the past 12 years. This Mr. Liu is from Bazhou, and he was also born in a poor family. Because of taboos, he was changed to Guangyuan, not far from Bazhou, as the county magistrate. , and now I have sent my children to Bazhou, and now there are only old wives and concubines left at home. I have been an official for so many years, and I have been a county magistrate from the county magistrate, and I am still a seven-rank county magistrate, which shows that he is not capable. Rich, in the place where the epidemic occurred, a foreigner also quickly inquired about the news.

"Do you know his temperament?"

"Guangyuan's parental official is not a cruel official of the fish and meat people, but he has no backbone and likes to listen to the ideas of the local big family. His wife is the concubine daughter of a big family in Baoning with the surname Chen."

"Well, I see, Master Dong has worked hard. Pack it up, and I will visit Master Liu tomorrow." Shi Zhongzhu made up his mind.After understanding the situation clearly, Shi Zhongzhu can't watch the people of a county just wait to die like this, alas, so the more places he travels and the more he sees, the heavier Shi Zhongzhu's heart becomes.

When he first entered and exited the court and was admitted to Juren, Shi Zhongzhu felt that the officials were idiots. If he had moved to another place, he would have done things neatly; when he came out to see the real world, although he did not support the officials' actions. But I can also understand; now that I have traveled half of the country, I know that the world is helpless, and I may not be able to do better if I change myself.

If he can't do better, he still has to do it, at least now he clearly knows that the disease is better cured than not cured.

Early the next morning, after a simple breakfast, Master Ji Jing will send them away.

Shi Zhongzhu said, "Master Ji, if you don't dislike it, can you lead me to meet the magistrate, maybe I can persuade him."

"Hey, I've won your heart. If you can come to study abroad, you must be an official. Don't cause trouble for your father." Ji Jing saw that they didn't look like they were dressed like a noble family, and advised them not to go into this muddy water, " It's useless to ask Mr. Liu for this matter, the governor has decided."

"Master Ji is not in a hurry, just take a look at this." Shi Zhongzhu showed him the seal of Captain Qingche from his arms.

"I'm rude, I'm rude." Ji Jing saw it clearly, and hurriedly saluted.

"Why do you have so many adults? It's just a vassal. How can you experience people's livelihood better than an adult?" Shi Zhongzhu quickly helped Ji Jing up, and he didn't rely on this to gain a sense of superiority. "Since that's the case, can Master Ji lead me to meet Master Liu?"

"Yes, yes, of course." Ji Jing repeatedly agreed, seeing Shi Zhongzhu's attitude, whether he can heal the people in this county, hope is on him.

Shi Zhongzhu and Ji Jing went together to visit Mr. Liu, the county magistrate. Mr. Liu lived in a villa outside the city. The gatekeeper probably knew Ji Jing very well.Seeing someone coming, he trotted over to say hello, and said, "Master Ji, our master is not here, we went out to inspect, went to inspect."

"I didn't know that your lord went on inspection, go and report!"

"Master Ji, our master is really not here, really not here!" The concierge said with a bitter face, he said that you also know that the master is avoiding you, and you come to pester him every day, the master has already ordered to disappear, what can I do as a concierge, alas, Ji My lord is a good official, it's a pity ~ Ji Jing stopped messing around this time, and said directly, "You go and report, I brought the nobleman here."

Seeing that there were three other people accompanying him, the porter was not sure, so he ran in to report.

Mr. Liu also has a headache, don't you love people's livelihood?Can't you do it yourself?Hearing that Ji Jing came again, and brought a so-called nobleman, he said helplessly, "Forget it, I'll see you again, it's all for the 'noble person'".