Chapter 12 Chapter Eleven

In the early years of Yongzheng's reign, there was a long-standing and well-known Taoist priest in Jiangxi, Zhang Zhenren, who was able to understand astronomy and observe geography.Also because of his young age and great ability, he always doesn't take his peers seriously, so he secretly offended many skilled people, but he still doesn't know it.At a certain age, this real man went down the river, intending to go to Qiantang to watch the tide. Unexpectedly, his enemy bribed the sailors on board and fed him with medicine bait.When people disembark from the boat and go ashore, they have already started to have five-color stools—from blue to red to ocher to black. People say: when the stool reaches white, people will be unable to recover.Fortunately, the local people knew that Zhenren was good at alchemy and asked him for it, so they quickly invited the famous doctor Ye Gui to treat him. After taking the medicine, the abdominal distension disappeared and the black stool stopped.Zhang Zhenren was preparing to give it generously, but Ye Gui said: "I am not short of money. If Zhenren wants to repay, he just needs to stop the sedan chair for a while when crossing the Wannian Bridge at a certain time at a certain day and say:" Let the Tianyi star under the bridge go first. "This is my reward." Zhang Zhenren agreed, and then he will do as promised - just after he finished speaking, he saw a small boat swinging under the bridge, and the one sitting at the bow was that Ye Gui.

Ye Gui, the word Tianshi, the small word Qiupu.Since then, it has become famous, and finally became famous in the capital.One night, the medical star was drinking wine and admiring flowers in the hospital, when suddenly he fell from the sky, and a slender figure floated down.This person was dressed in nocturnal clothes, and covered his head and face, making it impossible to distinguish his appearance.At that moment, the wives and concubines ran away in panic, and Du Yegui smiled and said, "It's a good match for a heavenly man to match a heavenly woman; why not come from heaven?" The man said in astonishment, "How do you know I'm a woman?" Said: "Not only do I know that you are a woman, but I also know that you are seriously injured, your heart and lungs have been hit hard, and you will die within seven days."

It turns out that this woman is the second of the Jiangnan Eight Heroes, and so is Lu Siniang.A few days ago, she sneaked into the forbidden area and cut off the head of Yongzheng, but was injured by four lamas in Lama Temple. She bravely broke through the siege and snatched the horse from the imperial horse circle.After inquiring along the way, Lv Siniang heard people say that the heavenly doctor Ye Gui was as skilled as a fairy, with the miracle of life and death, so she went to Qiantang.But how can the matter of assassinating the emperor be announced casually?Therefore, when he saw Ye Gui, he didn't tell the truth, but only said that he encountered a broken path and a strong beam on the way, which hurt his bones.Unexpectedly, Ye Gui snorted coldly, and said: "The person who made the move is obviously a foreign monk from the Western Regions, and the place where he made the move is clearly in the Forbidden City. Since you came to seek medical treatment, why don't you tell the truth?" Lu Siniang was startled again when she heard the words, and said "How do you know, sir?" Ye Gui said: "You fell from the sky. When you landed, your waist and abdomen trembled twice, and then you took a few steps forward. I think you can jump such a high courtyard wall, and your steps are also very impressive. Still stable, but the trembling of the waist and abdomen is very suspicious, it is definitely not caused by external force that hurts the lungs, and it cannot be caused; only Yinshi hurts the lungs, and it can allow you to live for half a month, and it is nothing during the period, it is just a muscular and broken bone .Furthermore, looking at your ability to breathe freely, it can be seen that your internal strength is extremely profound, and you cannot easily be hit so hard by others. I am afraid that only those lamas in Lama Temple can make you so badly. "Thunder Palm", "Splitting Thunder Palm", "Flash Lightning Palm" and "Cracking Frost Palm" - they are all the leaders of the guards at night. If you hurt your lungs at Yin time, you must be in Hai, Zi, Chou, and Yin. In class 4, I met an expert named "Cracking Frost Palm". Besides, it is July, and there is no place in the world where sweet-scented osmanthus can bloom in July except for the forbidden ones. Its fragrance is overwhelming, touching If you don’t go, it won’t disperse after a month; it’s called "Long Nian Gui", also known as "Shou Gui". You came down from the sky just now, and you still carry the fragrance of Shou Gui, which is another proof of your entry and exit. ——Forgive me for boldly asking: Is the great event really accomplished?" When asked this way, Lu Siniang felt that he was more like a friend than an enemy, and besides, he had fallen into the hands of a star doctor, so even if he didn't tell the truth, what could he do? ?

In fact, this Ye Gui is also a person who has the idea of ​​​​anti-Qing and restoring the Ming. At that time, and so on, although all the words are right, they can't help leaving tongues: they say that they are too reserved, and their behavior is not honest and simple. However, since Ye Gui and Lu Siniang had anti-Manchu thoughts, they naturally became friends with "high talents who escape fame and fortune, and ambitions rival Yun Conglong".Not long after, the news of Yongzheng's "severe illness and funeral" finally came out, and Ye Gui was overjoyed; not only did he heal Lv Siniang's internal injuries, but also passed on her medical skills.

However, the Central Plains medicine has a history of thousands of years since Shennong. It is profound and profound.Ye Gui wanted to pass on Lv Siniang's medical skills, but he didn't know where to start.Then when her injury was gradually recovering, I asked her: "If you want to learn a medical theory, I will give it to you all I can. It's just that it's important to learn, and it's not a mess; you just choose one and learn it." .” Lu Siniang didn’t understand this way at first, but how did she teach her to think about it?I had no choice but to reply: "When I first came to see a doctor, I heard from my husband that "yinshi hurts the lungs". If "ugly time hurts the lungs", how should I treat it?" "Zishi hurts the liver"? "Haishi hurts the spleen" How to cure it?"

"Great question!" Ye Gui was amused when he heard the words, and then said: "Then I will pass on to you a picture of "Shaolin Twelve Hours of Qi and Blood Passing the Palace"!" Since then, Ye Gui's medical skills have evolved from Lu's. one.Since the tricks inherited by this branch are mostly in the arrangement of the qi and blood circulation in the human body at the twelve o'clock, the medical anecdotes spread and scattered from this branch are mostly related to the concept of time, and there are no prophetic ones. A few—but there are many actual cases and treatments are due to the modesty and self-restraint of the Lu family, which are often described as Ye Gui's own experience. The book "Medical Skills, Medicine and Medical Way of Tiandihui" is a detailed differentiation of syndromes, so that those who came from Ye's hands can still be attributed to Ye; those who came from Lu's hands can also be restored to Lu's.

Lv Siniang was never married and had no heirs, but she passed on 28 disciples.Among them, Wang Hongzhi and Wang Xinkuan are called the "two kings of Huaisi", and Wang Shuomin and Wang Longze are called "two kings of Heluo". What these four people learned is the medical skills recorded in the "Twelve Hours of Shaolin Qi and Blood Passing the Palace".As for the two kings and one Wang, they are only of the same clan, but have no kinship relationship. It is only a coincidence that the same clan is famous.Wang Shuomin was a famous doctor in Henan during the Qianlong period, and one of his medical affairs was once mistakenly recorded in Ye Gui's name.

One year, the river was overflowing, and it was raining again. Wang Shuomin had just returned from practicing medicine, and blocked a pavilion in the middle of the road to take shelter. It happened that a woman from the same village came rashly, so Wang asked his bearer to come forward and hug her.The bearer was originally a humble man, but he didn't expect such a good job, so he immediately disturbed him.During the entanglement, the husband of the village woman also came, how could this matter be tolerated?Immediately jumped into the pavilion and wrestled with the bearer.Wang Min waited until the two of them were exhausted from the beating before persuading them from the sidelines, saying: "This woman's acne has been cured, so you can stop."

One or two people were still not at peace with each other, and they were finally pulled away by all the hands. Wang Shuomin murmured to the villager: "Why don't you thank this strong man soon? If he hadn't acted in time, he would have accumulated this woman's anger in her liver and kidneys." Come out, tonight between Xu and Hai, the qi will sink to the bone, and the pox will enter the marrow, and it will not be cured." The villager still refused to believe it, and Wang Shuomin continued: "I see that you also have an old one on the back of your head and on your waist. Injured, is it not?" The village man wondered: "That's right." Wang said again: "Go to the medicine shop and get Angelica, Sichuan Chrysanthemum, Jiangdu, Sumu, Chishao, Rumei, Liuhan, and Tiger Bone. Eucommia , safflower, Zelan, and Shengdi are two coins each; drink tender wine, otherwise people will die in one or two days."

The villager only said that he ran into a pedant and a madman, he called it unlucky and left with his wife, so naturally he didn't take Wang Shuomin's diagnosis and prescription seriously.Three days later, the villager really had a carbuncle on his forehead and a tumor on his waist, and died at home at the beginning of noon. According to the introduction of "Tiandihui: Medical Skills, Medicine and Medical Dao", "That is to say, starting from Wang Shuomin's generation, the "Shaolin Twelve Hours of Qi and Blood Passing the Palace Map" that originated from Ye Tianshi (Gui) has had an important development. A On the one hand, Wang Shuomin made this set of medical skills according to the atlas and oral instruction have a written description; on the other hand, he also established the inheritance of the Lu family. The book is named "Lu Shi Bronze Book", In order to show respect for Lu Siniang, it also shows that this branch has its origin in the inheritance of Shaolin Temple. It also started from Wang Shuomin, and this branch was passed down through two paths: hereditary and disciples; one is called Wang Jiayi, and the other is called Lu Family doctors. Although the names are different, the content is similar. Only when it evolved into the Daoguang era, the branch of Lumen doctors was mostly combined with the Tiandihui party, and because of the Christian belief, it was mixed with medical skills introduced from the West. There is a difference from Wang Family Physician, and the difference is clear. It’s just that the Tiandihui party members tried to push the background of this diversion farther, and there was a false rumor that "Lv Siniang is a senior of the Tiandihui". This is not in line with historical facts of."

The author of this "Tiandihui Medical Skills, Medicine and Medicine" is Wang Xunru - he is also the tenth grandson of Wang Shuomin - in this book, the origin of the toad knot is recorded in detail. It was after the great prosperity of the Tiandihui, and the branch of Lumen doctors gradually spread by disciples was mostly active in the bottom society, which is very different from Wang's family doctors, who were mostly rich and wealthy through high-ranking officials and dignitaries. Big differences.This disagreement is not only economic, but also clearly has political significance.Thanks to the support of dignitaries and aristocrats, the Wang Family Physician has a very solid financial foundation, which enables him to have more opportunities and energy to visit remote mountains, deep valleys, dangerous peaks and cliffs, collect rare medicinal materials, and refine unique pills and ointments. ; and often accumulated more research and thinking on many difficult and miscellaneous diseases.As for Lu Men's medicine, it has always been the priority to help the world and the living. The doctors, who come from the children of the common people, are wise, wise, and kind-hearted, so naturally they often sacrifice their own money and give needles and medicines;But from another point of view: most of the doctors in this branch do not have enough time and energy to study medical theories; if it is said to diagnose and treat some common headaches, brain fever, and bruises, it is more than enough, but it is really necessary to deal with stubborn illnesses. Chronic disease often takes a lot of hands and feet, and it is not necessarily effective.It is precisely because of this difference in professional skills that Lumen doctors often feel ashamed that Wang family doctors are willing to be the hawks of the royal family, and Wang family doctors are often ashamed that Lumen doctors do not try to improve their duties. The fact that they are different from each other gives up the feeling of the same origin, and they even become enemies who do not communicate with each other. It is said that He Guiqing, the governor who was sent to Jiangning in the eighth or ninth year of Xianfeng, unexpectedly got a strange disease-he could eat a bucket of rice for every meal, but he became thinner and thinner, and his shape was like a bone.General doctors all diagnosed it as "eliminating disease", that is, diabetes.This disease is a chronic disease, and it takes time to figure it out.But He Guiqing was a quick-tempered person, and he declared that if he was not cured within half a month, the doctor would be imprisoned and punished.As a result, famous doctors from Jiangning to Suzhou and Hangzhou have closed their doors and cannot hide; who dares to end up in jail and lose their own brand name?But at this time, a descendant of the Wang Family Physician came from Luoyang, named Mr. Mu Yuan with a single name of Fu;He is already in his fifties, but his lips are red and his teeth are white. If a woman is a good girl, he can only see about twenty people.He came to the door himself to ask to see the governor. As soon as Wang Fu saw He Guiqing's face, without saying a word, he took out a small bottle made of enamel inlaid with gold, which looked like a snuff bottle, from his sleeve, and tore off a piece of silk rope from the front of the belt around his waist. It is knotted, pointed at the front and round at the back, and there is a bulging thing on the left and right at the bottom of the two sides. It looks like a prostrate toad, and the tip of the toad's snout is still holding a three-foot-long A piece of silk rope.Such a shot is only between a few breaths.He Guiqing didn't know what was going on, but Wang Fu said urgently: "It's been three quarters now, if this idiot is not brought down within an hour, the army may have to suffer another ten days and a half months. Come on. , please let the army sit down, and get rid of idlers and others." He Guiqing thought he was bold, strong and brave, so he wouldn't care about being at the mercy of a medical practitioner, and he was quite proud of Guan Yunchang's typical demeanor of being able to play chess with others while he was scraping the bones to cure the poison.So with a wave of his hand, all the ostentation in the hall was withdrawn.He admonished Wang Fu loudly: "What you are holding in your hand is the commander-in-chief, not someone else; be careful to serve you." As he spoke, he stepped forward from his seat, still with a mighty air.Wang Fu asked him to sit cross-legged, and then turned his face to the sky, which was extremely indecent.He Guiqing had no choice but to follow suit.But look at that Wang Fu held one end of the silk rope in one hand, sprinkled the powder in the small bottle on the toad knot with the other, and shouted at the same time: "Please open your mouth!" After an inch or so, Wang Fu had already put the toad knot into his mouth; He Guiqing felt a burst of coolness and refreshment, and inadvertently swallowed a mouthful of foam, and Wang Fu said, "Here!" Send out a soft internal force, and push the toad knot down more than a foot.Since He Guiqing was ill, he has never felt so relieved and his viscera light. Of course, he is happy for it. Just as he was about to cry out, he heard Wang Fu say in his ear: "Please close your eyes and focus on this. It's just this little toad just now—no matter what happens, please don't open your eyes." He Guiqing said yes, and thought of the toad according to his words.After another cup of tea, suddenly there was a commotion in the abdomen, like hundreds of feet of waves, pushing of peaks, or like a thousand drums swelling, crowing and contending.But the toad knot in He Guiqing's stomach seemed to come alive, jumping from side to side, jumping around in the stomach sac very happily.Then, the intestines underneath seemed to teach people to pull out from both ends with great force, He Guiqing couldn't bear it anymore, screamed "Wow", and opened the eyes that shouldn't be opened at the same time ——Looking at it, it was terrible—but I saw a snake head about the size of a rice spoon jumped out of his mouth, and underneath it was a snake body that was not red, not black, and covered in bright, greasy blood. .He Guiqing didn't even make a sound, and passed out on the spot. When he woke up leisurely, his soul was still in the country of Java, but his pants were full of shit, while Wang Fu sat cross-legged beside him calmly, with the snake wrapped around his left sleeve—obviously. Already dead. But for He Guiqing, the gratitude at that moment was far less strong and burning than the humiliation.Just imagine: a majestic governor was so frightened by a strange snake that he vomited out that he feces and pissed. If it was publicized, how would the dignity and majesty of the military commander be dealt with?But Wang Fu couldn't see this, and still smugly recounted the snake's origin: "I think that Zhijun must have drunk water from a mountain spring to allow this stupid thing to enter his belly. Fortunately, this little red-threaded toad led the snake out of the hole; otherwise All the grains of rice and oil that it eats and drinks are consumed on its body, even if the army is invincible, it is afraid that it will not survive the Mid-Autumn Festival this year." Sure enough, He Guiqing did not let Wang Fu survive the Mid-Autumn Festival.He set up a bureau, asked Wang Fu to treat a scribe, and then secretly poisoned the scribe, so he asked Wang Fu for the crime of murder by a quack doctor, and was sentenced to thousands of miles.Then, send a few cronies to kill the arrogant and rebellious Wang Fu on the way. He Guiqing's own fate was not good either.The Taiping Heavenly Kingdom was established and was protected by the He family. Xu Youren, who was promoted from Hunan chief envoy to Jiangsu governor, was brave enough to do things.Not long after, He Guiqing confronted the Taiping Army, Changzhou fell, and Xu Youren died in a fierce battle; he left a letter impeaching He Guiqing for his arrogance and arrogance; It's a pity that Wang's family doctor and Wang Fu's body can hardly be passed on. His sons only learned a little or two from their father.However, in order not to forget the grievances and resentments of the sudden fall of the family and the severance of academics, the successors who passed on this technique tied a toad knot on the door list every time they hung the pot, as a commemorative reminder. severe.There is a false rumor that the reason why the toad is tied to the lintel is to take the inlay of "the lingering sickness will be cured after the medicine arrives". And the toad knot has another special point: because the doctors in Wang's family have always liked to "visit the doctor", he thinks that he travels abroad and sees the doctor according to the situation.In fact, it can be said that this habit started from Lu Siniang and Wang Shuomin, and it has never stopped.Therefore, those who come to see a doctor often need to detect the doctor's lower position according to the position and method of placing or hanging the knot, so as not to lose contact when there is an emergency call.Wang Xunru recorded the method in detail in his book: "The tone of the toad's knot is the direction of the doctor's visit. The number of hanging ropes on the knot is the number of miles. One mile and one knot, two miles and two knots, ten miles A big knot. Basically no more than fifty miles." Wan Defu has followed Mr. Wan for a long time, and has also known Wang Xunru, a genius doctor who can be called an idiot, for more than 20 years. Naturally, he knows the allusion and intention of his ancestor's signboard, so he went closer to the toad and took a closer look. Look at it—the muzzle of the toad is facing down, but there is not even a knot on the hanging rope.Wan Defu couldn't help feeling cold, followed the toad's tone, and bowed his head towards the toe of his shoe, only to find a hidden weapon in his own treasure bag — the sleeve arrow — stuck in the cement crack on the ground. —Because the arrow did not reach the feather, only the feather awn like chicken feather and pheasant feather was exposed on the ground, and it can be seen that it penetrated the ground as deep as four inches.From this point of view, without Sun Xiaoxu's profound inner strength, it may be difficult to reach this state.But why did he stick his sleeve arrow in such a secret crack in the ground?While thinking about it, Wan Defu squatted down, stretched out his second and middle fingers, and pulled out from the place where the sleeve arrow had been inserted, almost staggering.Immediately, I didn’t feel suspicious, and thought to myself: Bury my sleeve arrows in the ground, without revealing the size on the outside, if it’s for the sake of not teaching outsiders to notice, it’s fine, but inserting it so deep, is it to test my internal strength? ?Thinking of this, Wan Defu unconsciously had the idea of ​​a showdown to win, and then he used all his finger strength, stepped back and crossed the sinking bridge of the iron horse, firmly sucked his two fingers on the arrow body of the sleeve arrow in the seam in the ground, and fought hard again He pulled it out; unexpectedly, what he pulled out along with the arrow body was a two-foot-square concrete slab, with six or seven earthwork steps below it, and it was too dark to see anything at a distance.Needless to say: Sun Xiaoxu regarded his sleeve arrow as a hidden door bolt, and the opening of the door was either a secret room or a tunnel.Wan Defu was still pondering whether he should go down, and if so, how to light the fire with his palm, when he suddenly saw the flint and fire book in his treasure bag on the second earth step.Wandefu suddenly realized that these six old ghosts were not just playing tricks on him, but posed a few problems bit by bit, branch by branch, and he would not let them go easily , and only he can discover the mystery—in other words, since the six elders have set up a maze so far, they shouldn't continue to make things difficult for him. Unexpectedly, the fire was lit and the walls were brightly lit. Wandefu jumped down the earth steps with a "Zhang Xu's cornice", only to suddenly realize that the bottom was just a seven-foot-square hollow, and the upper and lower six sides except for the several layers of earth steps from the way. Nothing else.The more Wandefu thought about it, the more uncomfortable it became, and he cursed loudly: "Old poison! You have to tell me what you have to say, and don't make a fuss about it - Wandefu is the leader!" These few words are enough, It is said to be full of energy and internal strength, which is simply the majestic momentum of "empty urn, empty urn, and voice from the old man" when the storyteller Shi Yukun talked about Wu Song's shop. Gallop away.Wan Defu himself did not expect it at all: with just such a roar, he actually roared out a mechanism of a whispering gallery - oops!If these six old poisonous things intend to harm me, with the power of the mechanism of the echo wall, are they afraid that there will be a landslide?Wan Defu couldn't help but feel a sigh: Am I going to be buried alive here on the spot?