Record of Yin and Yang

This person didn't believe that a poorly dressed young boy could produce good ginseng, and was about to continue to question and sarcasm, when Gu Jiu casually took out a wooden box from a cloth bag at his waist, opened it and put it in front of his eyes.

The man's eyes widened immediately, and he saw a ginseng quietly placed in the box.

Gu Jiu and the others put their luggage in the room, but these luggage are just ordinary clothes, and if they are lost, they will be lost. The magic tools and other precious cloth bags they often use are carried on their backs at all times as long as they are not sleeping. Put it on the bedside.

Gu Jiu looked at this man with a surprised face, his face turned from mocking to embarrassing red, and said with a smile, "How about this ginseng?"

The man's face changed for a few moments, his throat moved, and finally he forced a smile and said: "This ginseng is naturally very good, I wonder how you can sell it?"

Gu Jiudao: "What are you buying this ginseng for? Is there a sick person at home?"

"Otherwise, what would I buy it for?" This person probably seldom gets wronged, and his words are not polite at all, but he is not too stupid. He said: "I offended you a lot just now, don't blame the two of you, it's really my elder sister who is relying on ginseng to suspend her anger. Before the city gate was closed, I couldn't find medicine these days, so I was so reckless."

Gu Jiu nodded, expressing in a good-tempered manner that the situation is excusable and understandable.

Gu Jiu's nod made this person feel a lot less embarrassing immediately. He looked at Gu Jiu very pleasingly, and even the bad-tempered black cat was so cute in his eyes.

As if he had met someone close to him, he uttered his depression during the past few days while eating vegetables, and in the middle of it, he picked up a big braised chicken drumstick for the younger brother and put it on the table for him to eat, but the younger brother didn't appreciate it. .

From this person's Xu Shu, Gu Jiu and Shao Yi learned that this person was called Xue Rong, and he was from Xuejiazhuang outside the city.

According to Xue Rong's bragging, all the people living in the Xuejiazhuang are members of the Xue family. Their ancestors planted mulberry and raised silkworms. Now almost every household has their own dyeing and cloth workshops. Therefore, the town's commerce is prosperous, and there are many small towns in Shangyang County. In the town, the level of affluence can be ranked first.

Xue Rong's family is in a small town, and his wealth ranks among the top three.He has an elder sister, Xue Ya, who married the Zheng family, a big sericulture family in the village below, when she was 16 years old. It has been four years now.Three years ago, Xue Ya, who was newly married for half a year, was pregnant with a child, but within a few months, the road was slippery on a rainy day, Xue Ya fell in her yard, dropped the child, and never got pregnant again.

It was also because this child damaged the foundation of Xue Ya's healthy body, causing her physical condition to deteriorate year after year. In the past six months, she was completely weak and unable to walk. She either slept on the bed or sat in a wheelchair every day. .But this is the result of the Xue family and the Zheng family's dedicated care.

Xue Ya needed precious ginseng as an introduction to the main prescriptions for body maintenance, but unfortunately, good ginseng was always hard to find, even if the two families were rich, they might not always be able to buy it.

The ginseng that Xue Ya needs has always been purchased from the designated pharmacy in the city. Once there is a good ginseng, the people in the pharmacy will send someone to bring the news.Unexpectedly, more than 20 days ago, the Zheng family who received the news entered the city according to the day, but the city gate was suddenly closed due to the epidemic, and it was not known when it would open.

Xue and Zheng had no choice but to find a solution elsewhere, but good ginseng was hard to buy. The two families could not buy the desired ginseng during the period, so they could only use lower quality ginseng first, and follow the doctor's instructions to increase the dosage for trial.But it’s shoddy, no matter how big the dose is, it won’t work. Xue Ya’s body became weaker and worse. Xue and Zheng’s families sent people to guard the city gate every day, and went straight to the pharmacy as soon as the city gate opened. To ask if there is any good ginseng.

But because of the previous epidemic, the medicinal materials stored in several pharmacies in the city were almost used up, and the good ginseng that the Zheng family had ordered before was also used up.

This can be very anxious Xue, Zheng two.Today it was Xue Rong who refused to give up and came to the city to inquire again. After working for a long time, he found nothing, and under the boredom and anxiety, his stomach began to sing empty city tricks. After that, he went into the store to share tables.

Gu Jiu didn't understand, what kind of disease must be cured in order to be cured.

Xue Rong ate the last bite of food, put down his chopsticks, and said depressedly: "I have seen many doctors, and they all said that it is a disease of weak blood and qi. At first, the doctors said that this disease only needs to be recuperated and it will be cured. The body is not getting better. Later, the doctors said that it might just be the same on the surface, and there is some disease that they haven't diagnosed in secret. Before that, we can only take care of it according to the weakness of blood. "

Xue Rong hadn't finished talking about his sister's depression and worry, another person ran in outside the inn, panting and holding his knees, looking at Xue Rong while panting: "Young master, it's not good, my aunt is about to die, madam and The master tells you to go back quickly and see my aunt for the last time."

With a "bang", the stool fell to the ground, and Xue Rong stood up in shock, "How could this be so? I just went to see her when I left this morning. She didn't look like her at that time, and she didn't look like..." Xue Rong couldn't say the words.He suddenly looked at Gu Jiu, "Friend, you're betraying me."

After finishing speaking, he quickly took out a stack of banknotes, and patted them all in front of Gu Jiu without looking at them. After grabbing the wooden box, he wanted to take someone away, and was dragged by the waiter to pay for the meal.

Gu Jiu looked at the banknotes on the table, and saw several one-hundred-dollar bills, more than enough to buy his ginseng.He felt that although this kid lacked a little etiquette and was a little arrogant, he was not without merit.

Gu Jiu picked up the banknote and asked Shao Yi: "Brother, I remember that our next cleaning point is near Xuejiazhuang?"

"Yes." Shao Yi said.

Gu Jiudao: "Then let's take a look at Xuejiazhuang along the way."

Gu Jiu will not let go of anything that can save people's merits.

Carrying their things on their backs, the two paid for the meal and followed behind Xue Rong, saying: "Your sister's disease is very rare to us, and we want to see it too."

Xue Rong hurriedly walked, and looked at them strangely, "Do you still treat people?"

Gu Jiudao: "We can not only see a doctor, but also catch ghosts, believe it or not."

Xue Rong was so worried that he wanted to say something sarcastic, but he pinched the wooden box in his hand, and realized that these two people were not as poor as they appeared, and they might have some skills, so he said: "Well, you and I Go, if you really know how to see a doctor, I, Xue Rong, can bring my sister back from the gate of hell."

Xue Rong took Gu Jiu and the others directly to Zheng's house, which was more than an hour away from Shangyang County and not far from Xue's Village.Although Zheng's family is slightly lower than Xue's family, they are the first-class wealthy households in their own village.

The carriage arrived at the village, passed through mulberry forests one after another, and finally stopped in front of a big house.

Gu Jiu and Shao Yi followed Xue Rong out of the carriage. There were servants of the Zheng family waiting in front of the door, and they came up to them with sad faces.

As Xue Rong walked, he asked about his sister's situation, and Gu Jiu and the others followed along.

In the past few years, Xue Ya had narrowly escaped death several times. She had been critically ill before, but she recovered in the end. This time, the situation was particularly dangerous, and several doctors who were on call at the same time all said to be ready.

Entering Xue Ya's room, because it is winter, in order to prevent the cold wind from entering, the doors and windows of the room are almost closed, only a small opening is left for ventilation, and charcoal is burned, the room is warm, but the air does not circulate, and it is rather stuffy .

After Gu Jiu and Shao Yi came in, they stood quietly in the corner, looked at the bed through the gap of people in the room, and vaguely saw a woman with pale lips and bloodless face lying there without making a sound. There were several women sitting beside her, crying over her.

Xue Rong squeezed in to look at his sister, then looked around, frowned and said, "Where is my brother-in-law?"

A rich old man looked sad, and said: "Shortly after you left in the morning, Wenxuan also left non-stop in order to find medicinal materials for Xiaoya. The servant has already gone out to search, and he should be back soon."

Seeing Xue Rong's eyes sinking, Gu Jiu immediately looked at him, and then pushed him and Shao Yi to the bedside, grabbing the last straw, "Didn't you say you would see a doctor? Hurry up!" Help my sister."

Judging people by their appearance is a common problem of most people, not to mention Xue Rong, who only asked Gu Jiu to see a doctor with the idea of ​​treating a dead horse as a living horse doctor. In fact, he didn't really believe them.Seeing that Gu Jiu and Shao Yi were so young, the others couldn't believe that they could cure diseases and save lives, especially the few doctors present, most of the apprentices under them were older than them, and they were still in the apprenticeship stage, and they hadn't dared to treat diseases and save lives by themselves.

Some people have been accusing them of nonsense.

Gu Jiu ignored these questioning voices, Shao Yi stood behind him, and he concentrated on taking Xue Ya's pulse.

During his pulse diagnosis, the younger brother jumped onto the head of the bed amidst the exclamation of everyone, flaring his nostrils, and sniffing around Xue Ya.

"The black cat is unlucky, throw this beast out!" Mother Xue snapped.

Gu Jiu let go of Xue Ya's hand, glanced at her lightly, resisted the unhappiness in his heart, hugged the little brother from the bedside, took out a small jade bottle, poured out a blood-red pill the size of a little finger, and when others couldn't stop him, , fed it into Xue Ya's mouth, tapped Xue Ya's throat and chin with his fingertips, and Xue Ya's throat moved, and it seemed that he swallowed the pill dry.

"What did you feed her!" Xue Rong said angrily.

"You dare to feed her whatever you want. If something happens to her, I, Xue and Zheng, will demand your life!"

"It's just nonsense!"

Gu Jiu turned a deaf ear to the accusations of the group of people. He twirled his fingertips and said to Xue Rong: "From the pulse condition, Lingjie's illness is indeed a common deficiency of blood and qi. This pill was made by my master. Take it I can save her life for the time being, but in the future, I have to find another way to save her life." Then he looked at the other people in the room, "Don't get excited, everyone, I'm here, I can't run away, why don't you just wait for a while In an hour, how about the situation?"

Everyone stared angrily, and Gu Jiu winked at Xue Rong.Xue Rong frowned suspiciously, seeing that Gu Jiu seemed to have something to tell him that it was inconvenient to say, he said, "Forget it, you go out with me first, since you have entered here, you will not be able to escape even if you are measured."

Then he took Gu Jiu and Shao Yi out the door.

In a secluded corner, Gu Jiu took out a piece of talisman paper, and under Xue Rong's amazed gaze, he made a formula with one hand, and introduced the trace of aura he touched when he was taking Xue Ya's pulse just now into the talisman paper, and asked Xue Rong to come again. With a bowl of clean water, the talisman paper was burned in the bowl.

A smell of rotten meat penetrated into Xue Rong's nostrils in an instant, making him almost vomit, who was unprepared and accidentally smelled it.

"What did you burn!" Xue Rong felt like he was going to faint from the smell.

Gu Jiuweng, who was about to pinch his nose, said in a low voice, "This is the unique smell of rotting corpses, which is drawn from your sister."