Practicing Medicine in Three Kingdoms

According to the calculation of modern geographical regions, Wu County is located in the Suzhou area, with abundant water sources and suitable climate.Its prefect, Sheng Xian, is well-known for being indifferent and peaceful under his rule. Therefore, this paradise-like pure land has attracted many hermits from all over the world to take refuge here.

Li Yinzhou went to look for Sun Ce in Qu'a, and Wu County built the city in Wu County.

The old lady Ji is a native of Wu County, and lives in a dilapidated gate in the corner of Wu County.Li Yinzhou followed the master to send the grandparents and grandchildren into the door. Floating dust smelt his nostrils, and waved away the dark cobwebs, facing a bare wall.

The old lady Ji put her arms around Ji Yan, showing shame on her face: "In order to treat this child, there should be nothing left in the house, and I will make my husband laugh."

Zhang Ji frowned: "You are a widowed old lady, how will you make a living in the future?"

The old lady put her grandson down: "Hey, sir, I don't know something. Our prefect Sheng is a great sage. He ordered the children of the family to help us widows and lonely people, so we can barely survive."

A virtuous person is a virtuous one, but such a move will inevitably offend the family. Although Jiangdong is rich, years of turmoil have already drained the granary. The small family is still too busy to take care of itself. It is like cutting flesh from the legs if it wants to distribute food to the people. , how can I not feel heartbroken.

In short, the landlord's family has no food left.

The old lady Ji bowed her waist and picked up the dust balls that had formed on the ground, while smiling: "The young master of the Lu family also gave the old man a lot of money, sir, don't worry about our grandchildren."

Zhang Ji snorted: "I'm afraid you can't afford the medicinal materials. Now that he has stopped leaking, he doesn't need to eat honey mixed with croton charcoal, and he has to drink Pulsatilla soup for another three months."

"Yes." The old lady Ji did not pierce the hard skin wrapped around his tofu heart, and smiled apologetically, "Sir, it is a miracle that he can stop diarrhea with croton."

In common people's understanding, croton is equivalent to a laxative, and it is an unheard of miracle to use croton to stop diarrhea.

Zhang Ji said: "Your words show ignorance, everything has two sexes, water can boil and freeze, ginseng is tonic in winter, and poison in summer, although croton is a laxative, but roasted into charcoal, it can also dispel abdomen Cold, so it can stop diarrhea."

Li Yinzhou listened attentively to this old lady who could not read half a word, although it was different from modern scientific explanations, but in this age when witch doctors were not separated from each other, it was already considered a scientific way of thinking .

The cum old lady is old and smart, and she can tell at a glance that this gentleman is pointing out his apprentice, so she doesn't dare to say much

, only took Jiyan's hand and asked him to thank Mr.

Jiyan stuttered and learned to speak: "Mr. Xiexie!"

Li Yinzhou couldn't help laughing, and patted his head: "It's time to rest."

The master and apprentice found another wine house to live in.

When Zhang Ji left, he only took Xiruan with him, and he had to struggle for several days to reopen the store. Fortunately, his reputation is getting better and better. Before the pharmacy opened, many patients have already come here.

He sees a doctor impartially, the rich and the rich have a lot of pennies, and poor people rely on credit. He is not in a hurry to collect debts. Sprinkle the money in the water.

Li Yinzhou touched his wallet, which was getting thinner and thinner, and felt that it was not an option to sit and eat, and he had to actively collect some wool.

He chewed the seasonal greens in bites, and looked at the opportunity to knock sideways on the dining table: "Master, I heard that there is a captain named Xu Gong here, and there are often wounded in his family, and even the witch doctors here don't know how to use charcoal to stop bleeding. Should we come and tell?"

Zhang Ji squinted at him: "Do you want to pluck a few hairs off the tiger's head?"

Li Yinzhou wrapped a mouthful of green vegetables, swallowed them with embarrassment, and told the master with actions: the child wants to eat meat.

"He colluded with the bandit Yan Baihu, he is not a good official." Zhang Ji threw the only two pieces of meat in the bowl to his apprentice, chewing the air dully.

Li Yinzhou nodded to show that he knew: "He scavenged people's fat and people's ointment, and we collected another layer from him and used it to cure diseases and save lives. Isn't it considered a heroic act?"

"What nonsense." Zhang Ji had already seen through his small thoughts, "If you want to eat something fishy, ​​go fishing outside the city, the yellow croaker is fat."

Fishing is just a joke. The hungry people are like locusts passing through the border. Even nepeta has been emptied outside the city, and only inch-long fish fry survive in the rivers and rivers.

Those who can eat vegetables and still think about meat like the two masters and apprentices are already considered a small number of wealthy families.

Li Yinzhou rubbed his half-full stomach, tossed and turned on the cold and hard wooden board, and fell into a light sleep with sincere thoughts of Grandpa Yuan Longping.

The next day happened to be the day to deliver medicine to Jiyan.Although Zhang Ji tried to be brave with his tongue, he didn't think about the account in his heart. He let the old lady delay for three full months and lost an unknown amount of medicinal materials, and he didn't want to ask the orphans and widows for money.

Fortunately, Jiyan is a very well-behaved child. At the age of three, she is babbling, and she opens her mouth to be her elder brother. Li Yinzhou is free to tease the children, so she can probably understand why Sun Ce likes to joke with Gu Shao.

early autumn day

The weather is humid and cold, and the dim sunlight slanting into the house in the afternoon dyes the leaves with withered yellow color. In the floating wind, there are occasional falling trees, and the old life will return to the dust along the natural track, and will be transformed in the next spring. for new leaves.

Li Yinzhou walked in carrying the medicinal materials, while Ji Yan was pointing her fingers at the door, facing the sunlight, with a thick copy of "Shuowen Jiezi" spread out in front of her.

They have not yet learned how to speak, and have already begun to soak in books. Students of this era remember words much earlier than words.

He squatted down to see what was confusing the little guy.

Ji Yan counted with her small fist: "Si, Wu, Lu... Jiu, Si!"

After struggling to count from one to ten, the child raised his face excitedly, and drool smeared his neck.

For children from the south, the difference between four and ten is probably the first challenge in language learning.

Li Yinzhou looked at the child's self-satisfied appearance, and suddenly had a small evil thought.

He put down the medicinal materials, casually moved the boring dictionary and books, and said to Xiao Jiyan: "It's not enough for you to learn how to count, adults don't talk like that."

The little guy blinked, and the bright and moist eyes reflected the other party's gentle and amiable smile. He quickly believed the other party's words, and expressed his appeal intermittently: "Brother, teach me, word by word."

Li Yinzhou cleared his throat with a solemn expression: "Listen well—four is four, ten is ten, fourteen is fourteen, and forty is forty."

The sixteen characters were like a curse on Jiyan's head.

The native southern child tried hard to digest this tongue twister that sounded like one word at all, his lips fluttered, and he couldn't break through the first six words after repeated attempts, gradually showing a mournful expression.

"If you learn this sentence, you are not a child but an adult." Li Yinzhou smiled, and then took out a small piece of honey and stuffed it for him to make him happy, "I brought you the quarrel you had before, but Don't tell Mr.

Little cum Yan opened the honey, and immediately burst into tears.

After tossing the little guy recklessly, Li Yinzhou got down to business, picked up the medicinal materials that were put aside, and shouted into the empty room: "Grandma, I brought the medicine, put it on the table for you!"

His answer was empty.

Li Yinzhou didn't think too much, stepped into the door, and put the white cake stuffed with medicinal materials under the bowl and chopsticks on the table.

There was still a mouthful of fish soup left in the bowl.

This is strange, although the old lady is from a poor family, she is not a sloppy person. She accumulated dust because she was away from home for a few days, and now she doesn't even clean up the dishes.

Suspicion suddenly arises in his heart

, Looking around, I saw an old man curled up on the ground in the corner.

Li Yinzhou fixed his expression, walked over slowly, called the old lady probingly, stretched out his hand, and turned her body over from a distance——

There was a bead of blood hanging from the corner of the old lady's mouth, as if it was extremely cold, her ten fingers were tightly digging at her body, scratching out deep bloodstains.

Li Yinzhou probed her neck.

Under the cold skin, there is no longer the pulse of life.

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"You said, this old man died alone at home?"

The person who asked the question was a middle-aged official in his early forties, with the vulgarity of a man and the cruelty of a beast in his gray eyes.His well-manicured beard was long and drooping, and his fingers were cherishingly stroking through the beard, and his eyes were downcast and focused on monitoring his movements.

As if the old lady's life was not as important as her grooming.

All the officials that Li Yinzhou met on a daily basis were Lu Kang who was diligent, thrifty and caring for the people. Even though his city was rich, he never treated the people badly. Even his subordinates knew how to be considerate of the people's livelihood, and never played such a frivolous and casual role.

He suppressed his unhappiness, took Ji Yan who knew nothing about tragedies behind him, and recounted what he had seen and observed.

"Okay, okay." The other party put down his beard impatiently, rolling his eyes like a tiger sizing up its prey, "You should know my name, you can call me Captain Xu, or Mr. Xu."

Li Yinzhou really wanted to retaliate with Sun Quan's old saying "Also worthy of a public title".

Xu Gong saw that he was calm when things happened, unlike ordinary children who would only cry and fuss, with a thought, he suddenly smiled: "Child, I think this old lady died of poisoning, do you know what she ate?"

Li Yinzhou was cautious and didn't intend to be led away by him: "It may be too early to draw conclusions now, and it won't be too late to draw conclusions after Ling Shi examines the body."

Ling Shi is the name given to Wu Zuo in the Qin and Han Dynasties. Although the forensic medicine at this time is almost at the embryonic stage of accumulating experience, just like the backward medical level, it is still more fair than the man in front of him who obviously has plans.

Xu Gong turned his eyes slightly, looked left and right, there was no one else in the remote courtyard, and his people were waiting outside the gate, blocking the courtyard door tightly.

He smiled and patted Li Yinzhou's head: "I heard that Governor Sheng missed her recently and praised her grandson for being young and eager to learn, so he specially gave her the fish soup made at home."

"Tell me, could it be that the fish soup is poisonous?"

The author has something to say: Make up for the second update owed on Wednesday.Let's try to type more on the keyboard tomorrow, maybe it will become sensible after two beatings, and it will be able to code by itself!

Wu Jun is an excessive chapter, and the next chapter will end, but the characters will meet again in the future.