Practicing Medicine in Three Kingdoms

"Bangdang."

At the moment when Sun Shangxiang was speaking, the lamp wrapped in his sleeve had already been lifted up, and a photo was taken of the solemn and gloomy tall case, and the little guy who was rustling in the low shadow appeared immediately.

The "little mouse" who was caught upright stood still for a moment, and accidentally dropped the half bowl of meat porridge in his heart and smashed it on the ground.The wooden bowl spun around in full view, and finally stopped tremblingly at Lu Yan's feet.

Without blinking, Lu Yan stared straight at the slender figure hunched over and covering his face under the light.

Is it a... child?

The little thing who was stealing food also stared out through the gaps between his fingers, and saw a man and a woman holding a lamp and looking over, and there stood a young master in a black padded jacket in the middle, looking at him with shining eyes, his eyes were full of confusion.

The two little ones who were half a person tall looked at each other through the bright lights, and they could probably guess each other's identity and purpose.Although Lu Yan was young, he immediately reacted, raised his hand and called out, "Who are you?"

The poor and dilapidated child was not so polite, he rolled his eyes and ran away.

While running, he secretly twisted his neck back to see if anyone was chasing him, but he didn't notice that there was someone standing in front of the door, so he bumped his head in sullenly.

The child raised his eyes in horror, but before he yelled out, his neck tightened, and he was picked up by the jumpsuit.

Lu Yan blinked his eyes, then his eyes fell on the face of the visitor, and his arms raised in surprise: "Gu Gong."

It was Gu Shao who came.

Xu Shi had just left the banquet. He was dressed in soap-colored court clothes that still smelled of alcohol. At this moment, he neatly held the child in his hand with one hand. The corners of his lips curled up, and he said with a smile: "So it's you, a little mouse, from Du Du's family. Do you dare to steal porridge?"

Seeing that he couldn't break free, the child drooped his head, pursed his mouth and said nothing.

Although he didn't say a word, Li Yinzhou could see the reason from his ragged clothes, leaned over to meet those eyes that were evading hurriedly, and asked him: "Is your family okay?"

When the child heard the word "home", the stubborn eyelids turned red, and he gritted his teeth and said in a low voice: "Last year, the rat problem was severe, and all the silkworms I raised at home were ruined. This year, this year... we really don't have any." Food."

As he spoke, he raised his head and saw that the man was dressed in plain white clothes. He was obviously an ordinary citizen, so he begged with a glimmer of hope: "I still have a mother and younger sister at home. Please do me a favor and let me go back."

Sun Shangxiang took the lamp to shine close to the bony little face, wiped the dust off his face with his sleeve, and asked softly, "What about your father?"

The child twisted his neck and turned his face away, but did not answer.

Sun Shangxiang frowned slightly, and the corners of his clothes were blown in the cool night wind. He only smiled for a moment, and said to Gu Shao: "You are ignorant, send him back."

Gu Shao nodded.

If it had changed his temper when he was a child, he would really have to ask this little thief to make a fuss. The sharpness of his early years has been tempered in the warmth and coldness of human relationships, and the sharp edges and corners have also been shaved off, making them more rounded and more mature. .

Lu Yan followed the three adults down the stairs. The steps were extremely high. He stepped down tentatively, glanced at the child under Gu Shao's arms, then looked up at Gu Shao, and finally couldn't help asking : "Aren't we going to report to the officials?"

Gu Shao lowered his eyes, his casual eyes paused on his serious face, and he became a little more serious.

He asked back: "Why do you want to report to the official?"

Lu Yan lowered his head and looked at the road again: "A gentleman doesn't take ill-gotten gains, even if he eats a meal, and taking something from someone else's house, isn't it stealing?"

Gu Gong's behavior today is very different from the etiquette and moral norms taught by the master.

Little Lu Yan was very confused.

Sun Shangxiang followed behind with a lamp, and instead of supporting him, she only carefully illuminated the turning stairs for him.Hearing this question, he followed up with interest: "Do you think he is wrong?"

Lu Yan glanced at the miserably thin child, and saw himself in a neatly ironed brocade dress, and seemed to feel that it was too much.

He took a step down abruptly, looked back at Gu Shao who was on the high place, and humbly asked for advice: "Sir, Confucius said that Confucius didn't drink the water from the Thief Spring because of his noble character, but if a person is about to starve to death, he will not drink water from the spring." Can you steal it?"

After all, he is a child brought up by the Lu family, so it is impossible for future generations to ask stupid questions like "why not eat minced meat", but this question from little Lu Yan still made the well-informed Gu Xiaoze choke.

Sun Shangxiang also glanced at Li Yinzhou behind him out of the corner of his eye, motioning for him to say something.

Li Yinzhou walked silently at the end, feeling that the young master of the Lu family still had the rebellious and stubbornness that Lu Xun had hidden behind when he was a child, and he was full of doubts about the teachings of all saints and teachers.

Whether it is possible to steal in order to survive is really an eternal problem.

He strolled down the stairs, and said seriously: "I don't know if he can steal, but he didn't steal, so we don't need to report to the authorities."

Lu Yan opened his mouth in surprise, he didn't dare to question him, but he didn't want to be fooled casually, so he said dully for a while: "But I have seen it all."

Li Yinzhou asked: "What did you see?"

Without hesitation, Lu Yan pointed at the child: "He stole the meat porridge we sacrifice to the God of Five Grains."

The child blushed and turned his head away, huddled behind Gu Shao and said nothing, he didn't know how to refute the testimony that seeing is believing.

Li Yinzhou asked again: "How is your guard?"

Lu Yan replied without thinking: "There are so many guards."

When he wanted to sneak out, he planned for several days, and got the acquiescence of the old housekeeper who turned a blind eye, so that he could enjoy the excitement for half a day.

Li Yinzhou then said: "That's it. The Governor's Mansion is heavily guarded, how can ordinary people break in casually? Your father offered porridge here, and it was taken by others, so how can it be considered stealing?"

The villain in Gu Shao's hands turned his head and looked over in amazement, wondering if he should be honest, he actually crawled in through a dog hole, no matter how powerful Dudu Lu was, how could he know that there was an extra person in his backyard? Humble dog hole?

Lu Yan stepped into the air and almost didn't fall. He grabbed the handrail in time and looked at him suspiciously.

Li Yinzhou coughed lightly, and said persuasively: "Did your father ever say that the family is raised by the people, and should feed back to the people?"

Lu Yan nodded suspiciously.

It is true to say so, but his father...isn't he still commanding the camp in Wuchang?

Seeing that the little guy had already started to frown and think deeply, Li Yinzhou leaned close to him, pretending to be serious and said: "You are the young master of the Lu family, your words and deeds represent the words and deeds of the Lu family, even if your father is not here, you can still do it for him The Lord's fault, isn't it?"

Before Lu Yan got out of the last bend, he was suddenly put on such a big hat, and his heart was beating inexplicably nervously.

He is the young master of the Lu family.

Can he also protect the people like a father...?

Seeing that his little face was slowly turning red, Sun Shangxiang added in a timely manner: "Yes, when the governor was seven years old, he persuaded Lu Kanggong to abolish the fire ban, and was loved by the people. Ayan is the eldest son of Lu. As it should be."

Being teased by the two half-seriously, Lu Yan's face became more and more red. As he walked, his footsteps suddenly became fixed. He turned his head, looked at the child with bright eyes, and said very seriously: "Don't worry, I will never I won’t let the officers and soldiers catch you.”

The child was confused when he heard it, and only knew that his life was saved, and he looked gratefully at Li Yinzhou who had fooled Xiao Luyan for a long time.

Children from poor families are used to seeing the world, and they know how cold or warm they are.

After taking the person downstairs and sending him out of the mansion, the moon was already in the sky, and the thin gauze covered the sky and the earth like a gauze.Just as Gu Shao opened his mouth to say something, Lu Yan withdrew his fixed eyes, raised his head suddenly, and asked again: "Gu Gong and father both said that the family should treat the common people well, but why would we rather give meat porridge to the mice than to the common people?" Woolen cloth?"

This question is more to the point than the previous one.

These traditional sacrifices have been passed down for generations, and the ceremony itself has surpassed the original intention of making a wish. The old scriptures handed down from the age of the philosophers seem so absurd in this troubled world, and this outdated custom was actually pointed out by a five-year-old child. Gu Shao’s There is also some unbearable on the face.

He pretended to cough calmly, his eyes swept away, and he said calmly: "Who said that? Not only do we not feed the rats, but we also want to get rid of the rat plague!"

Lu Yanben was just asking, never expecting Mr. Gu to be so serious, his eyes widened for a moment.

"Why, how do you get rid of rats?"

……

""Huainan Wanbishu" says: "The eyes of a fox are vicious, and the mouse goes to its lair."

With the faint candlelight leaping in front of him, Gu Shao spread out a roll of bamboo slips in his hand, and placed his fingertips flat on the middle sentence.

Sweating slightly on his forehead, he finally found a way to control rats in an ancient book, and then he let out a breath, his face still calm, and said: "We caught raccoons, foxes, and cats, and crushed their eyes and bones. Brains, painted on places where rats are infested, can scare away rats by smell."

Before he finished speaking, the other three looked at him with condemning eyes.

Lu Yan couldn't help being filled with righteous indignation: "Rivers, foxes, and cats help us catch mice, but we kill them. Isn't this repaying kindness?"

Gu Shao withdrew his hand embarrassingly.

This method was indeed too cruel, if it wasn't because of his face, he would have dropped the book a long time ago.

Sun Shangxiang lightly gouged him out, closed the scroll, tapped it in the palm of his hand, and said confidently: "It doesn't need to be so troublesome, there are common plants in the folk, and the common people call it 'the bowl of flowers'. Then they will not be able to hold the bowl, hence the name. But they don’t know, they mash it and mix it into the food, and the mice will die if they eat it.”

Lu Yan heard it interestingly: "I also heard from Auntie that if you pick it up, will it really destroy the bowl?"

Unconvinced, Gu Shao secretly pushed Li Yinzhou with his elbow, staring at him from the corner of his eyes: "Is that okay?"

He is already in his forties, but he is still naive than the five-year-old Lu Yan.

Li Yinzhou raised his lips slightly, shook his head, and said in a serious manner: "No, the medicinal properties of Dawanwanhua are similar to Pulsatilla, its nature is not as good as that of Pulsatilla, and if you crush it to get the liquid, it is easy to be disgusted by children and old people If it comes into contact with eyes and ears, it is prone to ulcers and even poisoning."

Although pulsatilla can be used to exterminate rats, its strong stimulating effect can also affect people, especially in such a year of food shortage, if you can't keep it, it will be eaten by hungry children, which will implicate people's lives.

After vetoing two cases in a row, Lu Yan also showed frustration on his face. His slender brows were furrowed, his eyes were immersed, and he became more serious.

Gu Shao half-truthfully said: "I'm afraid I have to ask Ziyu for advice on this matter. I'll invite him in the post tomorrow, okay?"

Lu Yan didn't hear what he said at all.

The delicate and round eyes suddenly flashed, and the child in deep thought let out a soft cry, looked up at the three adults, and said neither humble nor overbearing: "I have a solution!"

Sun Shangxiang looked down at him in disbelief: "Oh?"

Gu Shao also had doubts in his eyes: "Let's listen to it."

Lu Yan straightened his waist, with his hands behind his back, and his demeanor was like a little Lu Boyan. His slightly childish eyebrows and eyes were flat and stretched, and his expression was serious.

He recalled: "Rats have caves and become a plague of rats. Since we can't deal with it itself, we might as well start from the source, prepare a net at the entrance of its cave, and then roast it with fireworks. All the income is in the net!"

At a young age, he is quite good at tactics and art of war.This trick is used together to scare the snake and close the door to catch the thief, it sounds really reasonable.

Gu Shao raised his brows and was about to refute, but seeing Li Yinzhou smiling, he shook his head slightly, signaling him not to say more.

Sun Shangxiang glanced at the meeting of the two people's eyes, and immediately understood, evoked a faint smile, stroked his hands and said: "This method is good, just listen to Ah Yan."

The night sky on the fifteenth day was extremely clear, with the lone moon hanging high, and the cold stars scattered, all covered with frost and white.In the silence of the brilliance, only the sound of the sleeping waves of the great river can be heard in the distance, which makes the mountains and rivers more and more quiet, and the heaven and the earth are silent.

In the quiet and clear night, there were sudden exclamations one after another.

"It's not good, it's out of water!"

"There's black smoke rising from the east, let the Yamen know soon, and get water to put out the fire."

"The lantern festival hasn't even started yet. Why did it suddenly go out? Whose family has something happened?"

……

The hustle and bustle swept through the streets and alleys quickly, and the neighbors who had been resting poked their heads out one after another, looking at the corner where the thick smoke started.

How do you look at it, like...

Governor Lu Mansion?

"Cough...cough..."

At this moment, the Lu Mansion that everyone is looking at is covered with black smoke and dust, and the whole mansion is running around in a panic. The housekeeper is planning to invite the wife who is a guest in the old house of the Sun Mansion to signal, and accidentally catches a few pictures at the corner of the wall. A dark and familiar face.

He could hardly believe his eyes.

"Miss, Gu Gong... Mr. Li... Young Master, Young Master?!"

The old butler's eyes darkened.

With a smoky little dirty face on his face, Lu Yan wiped the back of his hand guiltily, and then stretched out his hand to pat his messy hair, proving that he was really himself.

"Don't tell Aniang." He grabbed the old butler who was staggering, and said in a small voice, "I wanted to try it at home to see if I could get rid of the rat problem, but I didn't expect that rats, like rabbits, have a lot of holes. ,At once……"

Almost set my house on fire.

Fortunately, Li Yinzhou and his party had already guessed the result, the mud, sand and wet soil were all prepared, and before the flames sprang out, they were suppressed by a pile of soil, and only billowing smoke rose up, which shocked the whole house .

After such a toss, little Lu Yan also knew that this clever plan would not work if it was not combined with reality.

Seeing that the night was getting darker and they were still helpless against the rat plague, Lu Yan wiped his dirty little face, puffed up his cheeks in despair, and lowered his eyes.

Gu Shao stretched out his hand to poke the little guy's bulging cheeks, and smiled sincerely: "Victory and defeat are commonplace in military affairs, so you just admit defeat?"

Lu Yan shook his head: "No."

It’s just that his father was able to persuade Lu Kanggong to abolish the fire ban when he was seven years old, but he couldn’t even deal with a small mouse. Broken.

My mother said that Yan is a continuation.

But how can a person like him continue the glory of the Lu family?

Xiao Luyan's throat choked, and he restrained himself from crying, sobbing and talking to himself: "If it was a father, what would he do."

"Bo Yan?" Sun Shangxiang squatted down, thinking of the ancient city of Lujiang, a nostalgic smile appeared on his lips.

She closed her eyes, looked at the dejected little guy, and said softly: "Ayan, maybe you are not as smart as your father, but there is one thing, you are much better than him when he was a child - you know that you are not capable enough alone, Willing to ask others for help."

Lu Yan's chest twitched, and he lowered his head and wiped his tears in disbelief.

This oblique meaning means that his father's skills are too strong, everything can be done properly, and no one else needs to take action.

What a shortcoming.

Gu Shao patted him on the shoulder and said with a smile: "Your father would be very lonely, and he would only take care of everything by himself. For this, he was beaten."

Lu Yan raised his eyes in astonishment, his tear-dropped eyes were full of disbelief.

Gu Shao coughed lightly, but he didn't pull down his old face to tell his little nephew that he was the one who did it.

He pushed Li Yinzhou's elbow, and threw the blame away: "If you don't believe me, ask Mr. Li."

Lu Yan cautiously looked up at the gentleman who was leaning against the wall, and saw that his body was surrounded by fireworks, but his brows were still clear and clear, just like that, bathed in the pure moonlight, his eyes were calm, dusty and not tiresome.

Li Yinzhou was looked at eagerly by him, stretched out his hand to squeeze his head, and added another ink mark like a cat's beard on his dark face, then nodded with satisfaction, and said to him: "Everyone in this world Talents are not the same, as long as you can do things well, you are capable, your Majesty is not good at leading troops to fight, but is good at using talents, isn't it the same decisive victory?"

Lu Yan leaned on his hand and stood obediently, still a little discouraged: "But I still can't do anything."

Seeing this, Li Yinzhou couldn't bear to tease him anymore, so he stood up straight and walked straight away: "Who says it can't be done?"

Lu Yan turned around and followed.

After taking two steps, Li Yinzhou squatted down, took out a thumb-sized clay pellet from his sleeve, put it in the hole where the rats were running around, and gently fanned it with his hand.

At the entrance of the cave, there were two dim eyes flashing faintly. When he heard the smell coming from the entrance of the cave, he screamed and rushed into the depths of the mud cave.

Lu Yan was amazed: "Why did the mouse scare away?"

Li Yinzhou spread out his palm and shook it lightly on the tip of his nose, and when he reached out to take it, he retracted it into his sleeve.

So Lu Yan squatted down obediently, looked at the pill on the ground with his face in his hands, and stopped stretching out his hands randomly.

Seeing that he was smart and sensible, Li Yinzhou said, "I didn't scare you away. This is a mouse-repelling pill. It contains cnidium, neem bark, perilla oil, and camphor. Mice fear and hate this smell, so they naturally run away."

He got up and patted the dust off his body, put the mouse-avoiding pill sleeve into his hand, and said: "The rats are a plague, but they steal their lives. They are no different from poor people who take porridge. If they are driven out for people's selfish thoughts, it will destroy everything and nature." The law of operation, so killing it is worse than driving it away."

Lu Yan was ignorant of what he heard, but he carefully recorded these words word by word in his heart.After hesitating for a while, I finally remembered the first thing. I couldn't bear it anymore, and said cautiously: "Sir, you are amazing, you know more than your master, sir, you can..."

Snapped--

Before he could finish speaking, a firecracker sounded suddenly.

Not far away, on the pitch-black sky, flames flickered brightly, rising instantly from a corner of the ancient city, and quickly exploded a bright red flame.

Xiao Lu Yan stared blankly at Hua Guang for a moment, and forgot to continue talking for a moment.

Gu Shao walked over triumphantly, and raised his finger to show them: "This is the start of the 'Lamp Burning to Show Buddha' lantern festival, you see."

Looking along his line of sight, he saw countless lights glowing in the dark sky amidst the crackling sound of firecrackers, one after another, lighting up the blue stone slabs, the gray-black eaves and the gurgling eaves. The gurgling water is all illuminated.The light spots all over the city are reflected on the eye mask one after another, and with the gentle breeze of Xiaofeng, they are shining and flickering, illuminating the ups and downs of the heart in the depths of the eyes.

For more than [-] years, it was the first time in Wu County that such a grand lantern festival was held. All the people in the city took to the streets amidst the sound of firecrackers in surprise.

Li Yinzhou looked back at the young child in front of him, his eyes were bright and warm in the light: "Long time no see, there is something I forgot to tell you."

Lu Yan hurriedly approached him, tiptoed to put his ear up, for fear of missing something, but heard Mr. Li softly say to him:

"Congratulations on being a year older, Ayan."

The sound of firecrackers is endless.

The lights and candles shining all over the city cast a faint glow on Li Yinzhou's calm cheeks, but Lu Yan saw a small smile flowing deep in his pupils, so he also put aside his previous thoughts, and looked up at the brightly illuminated face. Sky, only gently answered: "Sir, sir, you also want to be happy and healthy."