Chapter 3 Chapter Two

In the evening of this day, as usual, I went to fetch water from the stream at the entrance of the village. As soon as I carried a load of water to the door of my house, I saw an Aunt Wang rushing over from the village next door—— "Doctor Xu!" Aunt Wang called out to me panting. "Oh!" I put down the bucket and asked, "Aunt Wang, what's the matter?" "My boy is dead, I beg Dr. Xu to go and have a look!" Aunt Wang was panting anxiously, with tears all over her face, as she spoke, she quickly took the bucket load from my hand and walked quickly to my house. While walking, he said, "It was fine when I had lunch at noon today. I don't know why at this time, my whole body is cold..." Saving people is like putting out a fire. I didn't wait for Aunt Wang to finish, I ran back to the back room to get the medicine box , and followed Aunt Wang to the neighboring village. Although there was a village across, the road was not far away, just across a small stream.

There is not much difference between the rich and the poor in the mountain village. Aunt Wang's house is just like ordinary people's house, but it is just three extremely ordinary tile-roofed houses, one of which is not built with bricks, but with clods of dirt. It wasn't completely dry, so it must have been recently built. "Here we come, Dr. Xu is here!" As soon as I reached the door, I heard a loud voice shout, "Now Er Gouzi can be saved." Immediately, a stout woman about the age of Aunt Wang walked away. It was probably the neighbor next door who came to help take care of the child.

When I heard this, I sighed secretly, I hope it's just a common emergency, otherwise I'm not a god, I don't have the ability to live the dead, flesh and bones, and these people are too flattering on me. Aunt Wang hastily let me go to the back room. A ten-year-old boy was lying on a dilapidated wooden bed. I glanced at the boy's face and was immediately taken aback.Now it's early spring, the cold winter has passed, and although the sun is setting outside, it is still warm outside, but the child's face is blue from the cold, even his lips are purple, and he is still tightly wrapped in a quilt... ...I stretched out my hand to touch it, and the child's hands were cold and cold. I felt as if I had touched ice cubes all of a sudden. I was busy and looked at his eyelids again. Fortunately, the pupils did not dilate, and the eyelids The color inside is still bright red, and there are no horrible purple spots, otherwise, this child will have to wait for death.

"How long has it been?" I asked bluntly without being polite, "What did you have for lunch?" "At noon, I ate rice and mustard greens, and my father and I ate too." Aunt Wang said anxiously, "It was fine at noon, and I went to work in the field after eating. Unexpectedly, when I came back, the child lay in the corner trembling." ..." I stretched out two fingers and pressed on the child's pulse. After a long time, I couldn't help frowning. This child must have a cold poison in his body.This kind of strange disease mostly occurs in the deep winter, and it is actually frozen.But under normal circumstances, external cold only hurts the skin and flesh. For example, frostbite is caused by the severe cold on the epidermis, which leads to disharmony of blood vessels.

As for the internal cold, there are many factors that cause it, and most of them don't know the reason. The most common situation is that it is caused by eating some cold food by mistake.But according to what Aunt Wang said just now, the child ate rice and mustard greens at noon, both of which are common things and will definitely not cause internal cold. For a while, I naturally couldn't find out what caused the child's cold poison.But one thing I do know is that the internal cold is no better than the external cold, and it hurts the internal organs.Once it accumulates in it, it can't be excreted, and it can range from disability to death, and this child's symptoms are violent, which is really not good.If he doesn't seek medical treatment immediately, I'm afraid the child won't be able to survive tonight.

I asked Aunt Wang to take off the child's clothes and let me have a look. After hearing this, Aunt Wang quickly took off the child's clothes. So obvious, but this symptom is really not good. In an instant, several ways to get rid of the cold poison appeared in my mind. The most common and common way is to cover the child with heat, and let the cold poison come out with the sweat, so that the cold poison in the body can be dispelled.However, that can only deal with common cold poison, and for this child, I'm afraid it can only treat the symptoms but not the root cause. People in the mountain village, if they get such a medicine jar to raise their children, I'm afraid it will drag the whole family to death.To save people to the end, to send Buddha to the west, there are several ways to get rid of cold poison recorded in the Qingsang Sutra, you can try it.The most concise and effective way is to fight poison with fire!

I thought about it, although there are some safe prescriptions in such a strange book as the Green Sac Sutra, but the medicinal materials are hard to find, this prescription of fighting poison with poison just happens to have all the medicinal materials at hand, and the only thing missing is the introduction of medicine. , and although the primer is a bit weird, it is not difficult to find. I thought in my heart, without stopping, I stretched out my hand and patted the child's acupuncture points several times, then took out the silver needle and applied it again and again. Next to me, Aunt Wang didn't dare to disturb me, she didn't even dare to say a word, it was related to the life and death of her son.While I was busy administering the needles, Er Gouzi's father and some old men from the village also came to watch.Villagers are like this. Once someone is seriously ill, the neighbors will come to have a look.

After I finished the injection, the child sweated a little. He opened his eyes, saw Aunt Wang, and said with trembling lips, "Mom, I'm cold..." When Aunt Wang saw it, she was greatly relieved, she rubbed her hands and looked at me with a smile. I nodded and said with a smile: "Put the quilt on him, it's fine for now!" "Yes, yes, thank you, Doctor Xu! Thank you, Doctor Xu!" Aunt Wang thanked repeatedly. "Let's come out and talk," I said. "Okay!" Aunt Wang agreed, quickly covered the child with a quilt, and whispered a few words of comfort before coming out. I opened the medicine box and started dispensing the medicine in the main room outside.In the mountain village, I always keep a lot of self-made herbal medicines, not all of which are used to cure diseases and save people, but I am also a medicine jar. If I didn’t rely on medicines to suppress the poison of corpses, I would have died long ago, for the benefit of others and myself.Naturally, I always keep all kinds of medicinal materials.

"Auntie, this child must be suffering from cold poison!" I said while dispensing the medicine. "Cold poison?" Aunt obviously didn't know what cold poison was. "Although I don't know where he got this kind of cold poison, but the symptoms are severe, but they can still be cured." I smiled and comforted Aunt Wang. Aunt Wang rubbed her hands together and looked at me with a smirk. I also smiled embarrassingly: "Auntie, don't worry about anything, I have all the common medicines, but I am short of a prescription." When Aunt Wang heard this, she was dumbfounded, and asked anxiously: "Mr. Xu, if you do your best to the end, just give me the primer. Look, my husband gave birth to a girl, and finally got a second son." , I just hope that he will grow up in peace, our family is poorer, we really can't afford a thank you gift..."

I know that patriarchal thinking is very strong in the village, and if a family has no boys, it will be ridiculed.I fully understand Aunt Wang's mentality, and she obviously misunderstood what I meant, thinking that I was refusing to give the medicine and wanted to ask for the consultation fee, so she immediately smiled and said: "Aunt, you misunderstood, I am not asking for thank you. Li, but I really don’t have this medicine, but don’t worry, this medicine primer is not a rare thing, it’s just..." As I said that, my face was a little hot, I was a young man who was nearly twenty years old, The middle-aged aunt is a little embarrassed to say such things.

Aunt Wang didn't care about what I was thinking at all, and asked anxiously: "Doctor Xu, what is it, tell me quickly!" "Look around your neighbors, you should be able to find it!" I smiled wryly. "Yeah, tell me quickly!" Aunt Wang nodded repeatedly. I put the two packs of prepared medicines on the table, and instructed: "Decoct three bowls of water into one bowl of water, and give it to the child. There will be some diarrhea. Take one time in the morning and one time in the evening. As for the medicine primer..." As we spoke, I He hesitated again. "Doctor Xu, hurry up!" Aunt Wang said anxiously, "Where can I find the medicine primer?" "It's two cents for unmarried women's hair that doesn't see the sun, burn it to ashes, mix it with medicine, and give it to the child!" I hesitated, and it took me a long time to say it. As soon as I finished speaking, I felt a hot burn on my back. Aunt Wang stared at me blankly. Human life was at stake. Although I felt extremely embarrassed, she still took good care of me and said: "A package of medicine costs a penny. It must be the hair of an unmarried woman who has never seen the sun. If it is a married woman, Then you'll be in big trouble!" Aunt Wang seemed to have suddenly realized, she nodded and said, "Understood!" I nodded and smiled, it’s good that she understands, if she doesn’t understand, let me explain carefully, then it’s troublesome: “You go to the next door to look for this, it’s not a rare thing, I’m a big man, but I don’t care about it.” convenient." "Of course, of course, why bother Dr. Xu!" Aunt Wang laughed again and again. I smiled, if I went to ask someone to ask for such things, the girl wouldn't be the boss to slap me?However, Aunt Wang was different, she explained that it was to cure diseases and save lives, and girls would be willing to come if they wanted to. Besides, most of the people in the mountain village were simple in nature, so they definitely wouldn't say no to it. I picked up the medicine box and got up to say goodbye. Aunt Wang invited me to have tea again. I smiled and said, "It's important for you to take care of the child." As I said that, I wanted to leave. Suddenly, my eyes were attracted by something on the table, and I was stunned. Dazed, he immediately took it over, put it on the tip of his nose and smelled it, a strange fragrance rushed into his nostrils. Seeing me paying attention to that thing, Aunt Wang hurriedly said: "Doctor Xu, this is wild honey. I got it back at noon today to satisfy the child's hunger?" Of course I know it’s honey, it’s just ordinary honey, it’s all golden yellow, or it’s light yellow because of the different species of bees, etc.It's just that this honey is dark yellow with strange black streaks. I can't help but think of the name of this honey—skeleton honey! I almost didn't cry out, God, how can there be such a thing in this place, this is a deadly poison!No wonder the child was suffering from the evil cold, so it turned out that he ate skeleton honey by mistake? "Auntie, where did you pick the honey?" I asked hastily. Aunt Wang was making medicines for decoction, and she replied, "It's in the grove of the ancestral hall in the back mountain." "Who told you to go where?" Before I could speak, an old man who came to visit the sick man cursed while leaning on a cane, "I'm so impatient to live, how many times have I told you that this place is evil, please don't Go to the back mountain, don't go to the back mountain, none of you will listen, you have to kill people, are you willing?" "Village Chief Wang, why are you here?" Er Gouzi's father, Wang Limin, rushed up to meet him and asked with an apologetic smile. "I heard that the child is sick, let me take a look!" Village head Wang, who was already in his seventies, came in with a cane and hurriedly greeted me when he saw me, "Hello, Doctor Xu!" "Grandpa Wang is good, the child is fine, it may be caused by eating this honey by mistake." I said hastily. "Is there anything wrong with this honey?" Wang Limin asked me hastily. "This is a kind of honey made by poisonous bees, so it is very poisonous. If it is not handled well, it will kill people. In the future, please don't feed your children indiscriminately." I hurriedly instructed.In fact, this honey is not only poisonous, but also extremely weird. The world only knows that bees gather flowers to make honey, but they don't know that there is a kind of bee that specializes in collecting ghost marrow to make honey. Where there is this kind of skeleton honey, there must be a ghost flower, so there will be a gathering of monster bees - we must find a way to eradicate this ghost flower.Otherwise, over time, the climate in the mountains will gradually produce poisonous barriers, and I am afraid that people in the nearby villages will not be spared.Ghost marrow and demon flowers are all dependent on rotting corpses to survive, and they are extremely evil in themselves. I'm afraid there are weird things on the back mountain! Village Chief Wang frowned and asked, "Is there any harm to this poisonous bee?" I frowned and said: "If you eat honey by mistake, you will be like this child. After the poisonous bee stings people, if the treatment is not timely, it will also cause death." "What should I do?" Village Chief Wang became anxious immediately, leaning on a cane, and asked, tapping on the floor. "Grandpa Wang, don't worry!" I hurriedly said, "I know that the poisonous bee must attach to a strange flower to survive, but this flower is a bit weird, it contains strange poison, and it blooms in the middle of the night, so you can't see it during the day. What do you understand. So I want to go back and put my grandma to sleep, and then Grandpa Wang will find a few bold brothers to accompany me to the back mountain to see and eradicate all the flowers. The poisonous bee has no pollen, so naturally die." "This method is good, but the back mountain..." Village Chief Wang said, and the two old birthday stars frowned deeply. "What happened to the back mountain?" I asked hurriedly. "Doctor Xu didn't know that there was an ancestral hall built on the back mountain. Our Wang family also had some foundations in the early years, so the elders built such an ancestral hall without knowing what to do. Later... later, anyway, it was Not long after the ancestral hall was built, there were some strange things. As time went by, the ancestral hall naturally became deserted, and the back mountain became a cemetery. Passing by during the day, it is dark and dark, let alone at night." Village head Wang said . I heard his vague words, and I knew in my heart that there must be something weird about this ancestral hall of the royal family. I'm afraid it's really an ominous place, otherwise, it wouldn't have attracted such evil things as ghost marrow and demon flowers. "Grandpa Wang, this demon flower is extremely harmful. If it cannot be eradicated early, once it becomes a climate, there will be endless troubles." I said seriously. Village Chief Wang sighed, pinching the few sparse beards under his chin and sighing, nodded and said: "Mr. Very evil." I agreed, and then left. I'm not too worried about the child, but he ate skull honey by mistake. Although the evil poison is strong, but my prescription plus medicine, as long as he takes it, it will not take three days. , you can look alive again. When I got home, I took care of my grandma for dinner and boiled some water for the old man to soak his feet.In early spring, the cold air is particularly severe, and the cold starts from the feet. Soaking feet in hot water can dredge blood vessels, enhance immunity, and effectively avoid common diseases such as colds and coughs caused by spring cold. Grandma is getting old, so she really can't have a cold and cough, otherwise, once an attack occurs, the old man may not be able to hold it.Of course, in the hot water for grandma's feet, I often add some herbs with different ingredients according to the season. I soaked my grandma's feet, took care of her to sleep, and suddenly heard the door being slammed, and not only frowned, who else is looking for me at this time? "Xiaoran, what's the matter?" Grandma had already fallen asleep, but was suddenly woken up and asked me. "It is estimated that someone in someone's family is sick. Go to sleep, grandma, and I will go and have a look." I said, and walked outside. "Xiao Ran, put on more clothes and go out. It's still quite cold at night this day. Come back early!" Grandma instructed. "Got it, grandma, go to sleep!" I took my coat, put it on my body, and went out to open the door. The door opened, and I saw that it was Aunt Wang who knocked on the door. Her face was full of anger, and there were tears on her face. Her face was red and swollen for a long time, and her hair was messy.When I saw me, I burst into tears immediately. I panicked all of a sudden, how much effort is needed, why do I look like this?Immediately asked anxiously: "Auntie, what's wrong with you?" He asked, but he was suspicious in his heart.Logically, if the children of Aunt Wang's family take the medicine I gave according to the prescription, they should expel some of the evil cold at this time, will there be nothing wrong? "My kid... that kid... can't make it..." Aunt Wang said, crying loudly in a hoarse voice, "I'm almost dying!" As soon as I heard it, I was stunned, no way?Is there any problem with my medicine?But Aunt Wang said so, there must be something wrong, and I didn’t have time to think about it immediately, saving people is the most important thing, and secondly, I was also afraid that Aunt Wang would make noise here and disturb my grandma, so I immediately turned around and went in. The medicine box, greeted Aunt Wang and said, "Take me to see it!" Besides, I had agreed to go there again, find a few people to help, and eradicate the ghost flower. After hearing this, Aunt Wang touched her tears, and left in a hurry, regardless of what to say. As soon as I arrived at Aunt Wang's house, I saw a lot of people around, and two of them were holding the thick Wang Limin desperately. Wang Limin held an old kitchen knife in his hand, and roared like a wolf: "Don't you! Stop me, I'm going to kill that bastard!"