Tang Dynasty: The poisonous scholar in the Eastern Palace, please abdicate and let the wise one take

Chapter 131 Sun Simiao's Visit, Theory of Bacteria and Viruses
"Sir, it's so hot, how about we go to a brothel to listen to music? Nishanglou still owes us five hundred taels of gold!"

"Stop it. You're too lazy to move in this kind of weather. Are you going to see a group of girls with beads of sweat all over their bodies and emitting strange smells, twisting and turning in front of you?"

"Or do you want to curl up with this sweaty cute girl and blend into her body without letting each other go?"

"Uh……"

In front of Sun Qiang, there appeared a group of graceful girls, with beads of sweat all over their bodies. Because of the sweat, the smell of rouge and powder on their bodies became stronger...

Sun Qiang was disgusted, "Sir, if you are like this, how can I look at a cute girl in the future?"

"It doesn't matter."

Su Chen waved the folding fan in his hand lazily and said, "When the weather turns cooler, go find Meng Niang, and the two of you can mate together like pigs and dogs."

"...?"

Sun Qiang's eyes widened, "Sir, this... this is not elegant!"

Su Chen didn't care: "Humans are animals after all. Whether they are elegant or vulgar, it's just the same."

Sun Qiang was defeated and speechless.

At this time.

A servant came over hurriedly and said, "Sir, there is an old man outside the door who claims to be from Suzhou and wants to see you."

"Who?"

Sun Qiang turned his head to look.

Su Chen stood up suddenly, "The person I'm waiting for is here."

"???"

Sun Qiang followed Su Chen with a strange look on his face. When he arrived at the door, Sun Qiang immediately smiled, "It turned out to be Dr. Sun!"

"Su Chen, we meet again."

"Please come in, Mr. Sun."

Su Chen smiled and bowed to invite him.

Before leaving Suzhou, he left some things for Sun Simiao, including the bone-setting method that Sun Simiao was interested in, and of course some more novel bacteria and viruses.

Su Chen believed that a master of medicine like Sun Simiao would definitely feel itchy after seeing these things.

No matter where others were, Sun Simiao would take the initiative to visit them.

as predicted.

Sun Simiao came to Chang'an City.

"You are dishonest!"

Sun Simiao looked at Su Chen, took out a watermelon from the medicine cage behind him and threw it over.

Seeing this, Sun Qiang quickly raised his hand to catch it.

"Mr. Sun, you are here, why did you bring a gift?"

"It was given to me by someone else."

Sun Simiao glanced at Sun Qiang and said, "Go cut the melon."

Sun Qiang: “…”

Su Chen smiled and nodded, and ordered: "By the way, bring some cold drinks."

"Please come in, Mr. Sun."

Both parties took their seats.

Sun Simiao took out the letter that Su Chen had left for him from the medicine cage. "You said in the letter that there are bacteria and viruses in this world that are invisible to the naked eye. These are the main causes of human illness..."

"Then, let me ask you, if there are so many bacteria and viruses around us, why are there only a few people who get sick, while most people are healthy?"

Su Chen smiled and put away his folding fan, pointing to the cut fruits and vegetables on the side, "Mr. Sun, please have a look."

Sun Simiao frowned and looked at it. It was just a plate of ordinary fruits.

These fruits and vegetables must have been cut before he came, and now they seem to have lost some moisture.

"This is a plate of fruit that was cut only an hour ago."

Su Chen picked up a melon, pointed at the shrunken part and said, "Mr. Sun, please look here."

Sun Simiao said calmly: "It's hot, and the fruit loses moisture. Isn't that normal?"

Su Chen nodded, and seeing Sun Qiang coming back, he smiled and put it aside, "Put it here for now, let's have a drink first."

"This is a drink I carefully made after returning to Chang'an City. It can clear away heat and relieve summer heat. Elder Sun may want to try it."

"Oh?"

Looking at the black sugar water in the teacup that Sun Qiang put down, Sun Simiao sniffed it and said, "Sour plum soup?"

“It’s not just sour plums.”

Sun Simiao nodded, picked it up and took a sip. There was a little more light in his cloudy eyes.

Sweet and refreshing.

After entering the throat, it is like a clear spring flowing through dry land, very nourishing.

"Not bad."

Sun Simiao nodded repeatedly, "It's sweet and refreshing, and extremely cool. It's indeed a rare drink in this midsummer season."

"It seems... there are still ice chips?"

As the drink went down his throat, Sun Simiao smacked his lips, looking puzzled: "Is your ice cube clean?"

"nature."

Su Chen grinned.

When he was dealing with floods in Suzhou, he suggested that people drink more boiled water to avoid water pollution, which coincided with Sun Simiao's idea.

This shows that Sun Simiao had some contact with water sources and the bacteria hidden in them.

In addition, most of the ice available in midsummer was collected from rivers during the cold winter of the previous year and stored in cellars.

After being stored for a long time, even the cleanest ice cubes will show signs of decay.

Rancidity does not mean that the ice cubes stink, but that when the ice cubes melt, the humidity in the cellar where they are stored is too high, resulting in residual odor.

It was reasonable to ask such a question now. Sun Simiao became interested, stared at the teacup for a while and said, "I'm afraid there may not be many such clean ice cubes left in the palace!"

Su Chen smiled slightly, "However much Elder Sun wants, I will have as much as he wants."

Sun Simiao thought thoughtfully, "Boy, I find you more and more interesting."

"If you are determined to practice Taoism, just by turning stones into gold, you can open a Taoist temple in Chang'an City and receive incense from people."

Su Chen shook his head and laughed. He had never thought about practicing Taoism, let alone Buddhism.

He couldn't live that kind of secluded life.

Sun Qiang held the teacup and laughed, "What do you mean by turning stone into gold? This is just the secret of the young master, turning water into ice."

Sun Simiao glanced at him and shook his head.

"At this time of year, ice is in short supply. It's not wrong to say that it can turn stone into gold."

After briefly explaining it to Sun Qiang, Su Chen looked at Sun Simiao with a smile and mentioned his idea again, "Mr. Sun, have you ever thought about opening a medical school?"

Sun Simiao rolled his eyes, "I knew it. You avoided me but left these things behind. You definitely have bad intentions!"

Su Chen smiled but said nothing.

Sun Simiao sighed, "But what you said is not wrong. A person's energy is too limited after all."

"If we can train ten, a hundred, or a thousand doctors with superb medical skills within the limited energy and time, we can save hundreds or even thousands of patients."

"So, you agreed?"

Su Chen's eyes lit up.

Sun Simiao smiled, stroked his beard, and pointed at a piece of melon on the table, "Tell me about your theory of bacteria and viruses."

Su Chen shook his head, "It will take some time."

Sun Simiao: "You kid, don't you want me to see how this melon rots bit by bit?"

Su Chen: “Not bad.”

"Why?"

"Bacteria and viruses are too tiny to be seen clearly by human eyes, but looking at the essence through phenomena may help Mr. Sun understand something."

See the essence through the phenomenon?
Sun Simiao pulled his beard and remained silent, his eyes scanning the melon and other fruits.

"When a melon is peeled and cut open, it is like a wounded person. His wound is exposed to the air, and tiny bacteria and viruses are eating away at his body bit by bit."

"As time goes by, without any medicine to treat it, the fruits and vegetables will rot under the influence of bacteria and viruses, just like a wound that will swell and ulcerate?"

Su Chen gave a thumbs up in surprise, "Mr. Sun is wise."

"so……"

Sun Simiao's eyes became brighter and brighter. "Humans are surrounded by bacteria and viruses, but because human bodies are strong and have a certain self-healing ability, they can avoid bacteria and viruses very well."

"But these fruits are different, because they fall off when ripe and cannot be repaired... No, their life force is too short, not as strong as humans'. So human wounds can be repaired and healed, but they can only rot and die?"

"Mr. Sun is awesome!"

"wrong!"

Sun Simiao shook his head in confusion again, "If that's the case, wouldn't it be possible to reattach the head after it's chopped off, bringing the dead back to life?"

Sun Qiang: "Dr. Sun, do you have this method?"

Snapped!
Su Chen knocked over with the folding fan in his hand, then pointed at the cut watermelon and said, "The melon vines have been pulled out, how many days can it survive?"

Sun Simiao nodded. "According to your theory, anyone who suffers a fatal injury can be rescued as long as the bacteria and viruses cannot invade the body?"

"Indeed."

Su Chen said calmly, "In the past, the great doctor Hua Tuo scraped the bones to treat poison for General Guan and opened the skull to treat brain disease for Prime Minister Cao. This is my guess."

Sun Simiao looked at Su Chen strangely, "If you say so, I am a little suspicious."

Su Chen: "Why?"

Sun Simiao knocked on the table and said, "First, there was someone else who scraped General Guan's bones and cured the poison. This person was a military doctor under General Guan's command, but his name is unknown."

"Secondly, although Hua Tuo was a master in the medical field, and together with Dong Feng and Zhang Zhongjing, they were known as the three great doctors of the Jian'an period, Hua Tuo said after meeting Cao Cao that this was a difficult situation to cure, and that permanent treatment could prolong his life, so he did not open his skull to treat him."

Su Chen: “Huh?”

"But that's not what the book says..."

"Read more official history and less unofficial history."

Sun Simiao shook his head and laughed, feeling that Su Chen was like a young man who was fooled by unofficial history. "It is said that official history is based on the heart, and unofficial history is based on the form. Don't be fooled by unofficial history."

"Is this so..."

Su Chen hesitated for a moment, then grinned and said, "It's okay."

“Wild history may not be authentic, but it is certainly wild enough.”

"I read for fun."

Sun Qiang nodded repeatedly and came forward, "Me too."

Su Chen: "Those who read Spring and Autumn leave, and the books stay."

Sun Qiang: “……?”

Sun Simiao stroked his beard and laughed, "I find you more and more interesting. Is there any vacant room in your house?"

"Have!"

Su Chen didn't hesitate at all.

Sun Simiao wants to live in Taizi Residence, so even if there are no rooms available, they must vacate a room for Sun Simiao!

"Sun Qiang, have someone clean up a room, light some incense, and put some ice in it..."

"Almost, almost."

Sun Simiao stopped talking immediately.

Su Chen laughed, "It is a great honor for Elder Sun to live in the Prince Residence. It is what he deserves."

"I see that Mr. Sun is very tired. Why don't you wash yourself first? I'll ask someone to prepare some wine and food, and we can talk while we eat?"

"So good."

(End of this chapter)