Ming Dynasty 1566

Chapter 59

Just when the huge political changes took place in Beijing, the anti-Japanese war in the southeast was at a stalemate.Hai Rui sent more than 1000 righteous people who volunteered to join the army to Qi Jiguang's barracks and rushed back to Chun'an.

As soon as Hai Rui came in through the back door of the second hall, he saw the door of the back yard slammed shut, and then he saw a man bent down from the ground outside the back yard door to pick up a large piece of pork, and stood up awkwardly——this man was the king. cell head.

Hai Rui walked over, and the head of prison Wang immediately knelt down when he saw him: "Tai Zun is back. Tai Zun has had a hard journey!"

Hai Rui looked at him, then at the dusty pork he was still holding in his hand, and asked, "What are you doing here?"

Laotou Wang stood up and smiled obsequiously: "There is no other meaning. I bought some meat to honor Mrs. Tai, but I didn't expect..."

Hai Rui looked at him seriously: "I'll tell you two things, remember them, and pass them on to all the officials in the yamen. First, no one is allowed to send anything to my family. Second, my surname is Hai, and my ancestor's full name is Hai." Dar, a Muslim, never eats pork."

Wang Lao was stunned for a moment, and then slapped his own face with his empty hand: "The villain really doesn't know that Taizun's family believes in Islam, and he has no other thoughts."

Hai Rui: "It's fine if you know it now. Go work hard."

"Yes, yes." Prisoner Wang kept bowing his waist and backed out with the piece of pork.

Hai Rui went to the door of the backyard and knocked.The stern voice of Haimu immediately came from inside: "Take a stick and beat it out!"

At this moment, the door opened again, and a small stick was lifted up from below, and stopped there suddenly.At this moment, Hai Rui's daughter saw her father standing at the door, and immediately threw the stick away: "Daddy! Daddy is back!" shouted and rushed over.

"Mother, the baby is back!" Hai Rui greeted his daughter loudly before reaching the hall door.

Immediately came the voice of Haimu: "Come in."

Hai Rui went to the door and put his daughter down, then took off his shoes, and the daughter immediately scooped up a ladle of water from the bucket next to her to shower her father's feet.Hai Rui raised his left foot to let the water pour down, scrubbed it with his hands and stepped in, then raised his right foot and stretched it outside the threshold for his daughter to shower, and then walked towards his mother.

The brick floor of the whole house has been washed very clean.Haimu sat on a bamboo chair in the middle of the room. The ground in front of the bamboo chair was covered with a coconut shell that was cut in half, and the old man stepped on the two halves of the coconut shell with his bare feet.

Hai Rui knelt down in front of the chair: "My boy visited his mother. My boy has sent more than 1000 civilians to General Qi's barracks, and they have all been resettled. It took six days to come and go."

Haimu: "I'm tired. Get up and sit down, and eat something first."

Hai Rui stood up and said, "The baby has already eaten dry food on the way." Then he went to the wall of the house, picked up a basin of clear water, turned back and put it down in front of his mother.

Haimu: "Your mother-in-law just washed it for me, you should rest first."

Hai Rui still held his mother's feet and put them into the basin: "The doctor said that it is good to wash mother's feet more often." Then he began to scrub his mother.

"Is the doctor Li you mentioned still here?" Mother Hai asked her son, who bowed his head and washed his feet.

Hai Rui: "When I go back to my mother, Dr. Li is still there. Most of the sick victims have recovered after taking his medicine, and there are more than a dozen patients who will recover in a few days. My son sent him away."

The mother of the sea stepped on the water basin and did not move: "You and your mother-in-law won't ask him to prescribe the prescription?"

Hai Rui raised his head: "My son is busy with official duties these days. Respecting my mother's life, today my son and his daughter-in-law will ask him for a pulse diagnosis and prescription."

Haimu: "Invite him here. I want to see it with my own eyes."

Hai Rui lowered his eyes and stood there silently.

Haimu: "What? Is there something you want to hide from me?"

Hai Rui: "Mother, there is one thing my son really can't say."

Haimu: "Say."

Hai Rui: "Emperor Li is too hot-tempered, and my son is afraid that he will offend his mother."

Haimu smiled: "You just say that I have too much temper, and two people with such a temper will quarrel when they get together."

Hai Rui: "My son doesn't mean that."

Haimu: "The buyer is the biggest when selling things, and the doctor is the biggest when it comes to seeing a doctor. Your mother understands this courtesy. Invite him to come, I will not offend him."

Hai Rui: "Yes."

The pergolas in the entire yard have been dismantled, and there are only a few large rooms where there are still some beds framed by door panels, lying or sitting, and there are not many patients.

Li Shizhen was sitting by the patio of the side courtyard of the county government office, with a large table in front of him, on which were many medicinal herbs, and he was sorting the medicinal herbs.

The patio was the coolest place, but Tian Youlu was still standing behind Li Shizhen with a big cattail fan and fanned it gently.

Hai Rui came in through the side door. Looking at the scene, a trace of laughter flickered across his mouth, and he immediately restrained himself and strode over: "Thank you, Mr. Li."

Tian Youlu was the one who reacted the fastest, and quickly turned his head: "Tai Zun is back! This subordinate has seen Tai Zun." He moved a chair beside him while saluting.

"Don't be too polite." Hai Rui didn't look at him, but approached Li Shizhen, "I knew it along the way, and many of the hundreds of patients have gone to work in the fields. Mr. Li has done a lot of good deeds."

Li Shizhen looked him up and down: "Just returned from the military camp?"

Hai Rui: "Yes. I met my mother first, so I'm here."

Li Shizhen: "How is the battle ahead?"

Hai Rui: "I've been waiting for backup for the past few days, and there is no fighting for now."

Li Shizhen: "It's good that you come back. The dozen or so patients are all fine. I'll show you that disease, and I'll hurry back."

Hai Rui: "My business is not important. I have an unkind request, and I hope Mr. Li will forgive me."

Li Shizhen: "Are you asking me to see Mrs. Tai?"

Hai Rui: "Exactly."

Li Shizhen: "Then I'll stay with you for two more days. Let's go."

Hai Rui: "Go now?"

Li Shizhen stared at him: "When are you going?"

Hai Rui: "Then sir."

Li Shizhen immediately picked up the medicine box, and Hai Rui led the way to the courtyard.

Tian Youlu also followed closely: "Emperor Li, Taizun, just tell your subordinates what medicine you want, and I will send someone to pick it up immediately!"

Hai Rui didn't look back: "Go and do business first."

Leading Li Shizhen into the yard, Hai Rui stopped and looked at Li Shizhen with some embarrassment.

Li Shizhen also stopped there, looking at him.

Hai Rui said in a low voice, "There are two things that I really don't want to talk about."

Li Shizhen: "Speak."

Hai Rui: "My mother has a habit of taking off her shoes when entering her house."

Li Shizhen: "What else?"

Hai Rui: "My mother has a bit of a temper."

Li Shizhen: "Is there any more?"

Hai Rui: "Please forgive me, sir."

Li Shizhen ignored him and strode towards the living room with the medicine box in hand.

Hai Rui hurriedly followed Li Shizhen to the door, and his eyes couldn't help looking at his pair of shoes approaching the threshold.

Li Shizhen walked to the threshold and slowly took off her shoes.Hai Rui was agitated, and quickly scooped up the water in the bucket beside him: "Please lift your feet up, sir."

Li Shizhen lifted one foot to make Hai Rui drenched, stepped into that foot and lifted the other foot to make Hai Rui drenched.Go straight to Haimother.

Hai Rui at the door was about to take off his shoes when he suddenly saw Li Shizhen knelt down facing his mother: "Junior Li Shizhen pays homage to Mrs. Haitai!"

Hai Rui was stunned at the door.

According to the history of the Ming Dynasty, the three people who are going to meet now are extremely staunch and stubborn people.Needless to say, Hai Rui's King Kong nature, Li Shizhen blatantly opposed Jiajing's superstitious alchemists in the palace, and opposed all people who catered to Jiajing and touted elixir, so he left angrily.Hai Mu spends her whole life in poverty and chastity to teach her son the right way, but she has not been awarded by the imperial court. Hai Rui's political opponents criticize her for being eccentric, cruel to her daughter-in-law, and unkind.Although his words are radical, his personality is visible.Now the three meet at such a time.What a golden sound the iron plate and bronze pipa will play, Hai Rui is most worried.

Li Shizhen saw that the princes and governors were all equally courteous, and when she was a little displeased, she repeatedly walked away, but at this time she actually knelt down respectfully to Haimu.When he knelt down, he saw a pair of big bare feet stepping on the two halves of the coconut shell, and was startled for a moment.Seeing this, Hai Rui hurriedly didn't even wash his feet, took off his shoes, ran into the house, walked up to his mother, and knelt down facing Li Shizhen.

Li Shizhen bowed to Haimu once, and Hai Rui bowed to him once, so three bows were completed.Hai Rui hurriedly stood up and helped Li Shizhen up.

At this time, Haimu put her feet on the brick floor from the coconut shell she was stepping on, stood up, looked at Li Shizhen curiously, and then looked at Hai Rui: "Is this Doctor Li?"

Hai Rui: "Mother, Mr. Li doesn't like being called a doctor."

Haimu: "What's that called?"

Hai Rui looked at Li Shizhen.

Li Shizhen: "Mrs. Tai calls me Li Shizhen."

Haimu: "If it's an imperial physician, then it's an imperial physician. I'll call you an imperial physician."

Hai Rui was worried that Li Shizhen would be displeased, and immediately answered, "Mother, Mr. Li resigned from the position of Imperial Physician just because he advised the emperor not to trust alchemists and offended those people in the Imperial Hospital. Therefore, he doesn't like being called an Imperial Physician."

Haimu still stubbornly said: "After all, I still worked as an imperial physician after I resigned."

Li Shizhen glanced at Hai Rui: "Forget it. Others are not allowed to call. Mrs. Tai can call if she wants to."

"Thank you, Mr. Li, for your understanding." Hai Rui immediately bowed to Li Shizhen, then ran to the table and moved a chair, and placed it next to Mother Hai, "Mr. Li, please check my mother's pulse."

Li Shizhen sat down on the chair beside Haimu, and Hai Rui stood beside her and urged, "Mother, let Mr. Li take a pulse."

Mother Hai: "Physician Li is here to treat you and your daughter-in-law. What kind of pulse can you diagnose for me?"

Hai Rui: "My mother's feet are sweating and hot even in the severe cold weather. I'm afraid it's a heat syndrome such as anger in the heart. My son can rest assured that Mr. Li will give him a diagnosis."

Haimu: "I have been sweating and having fever for 70 years. If I got sick, wouldn't I die early?"

Hai Rui was held there by his mother's words, so he could only look to Li Shizhen for help.

After a brief contact, Li Shizhen already knew that Haimu was an extremely stubborn person, and that a famous doctor was a famous doctor because of the different opinions of different patients, so she immediately asked, "Mrs. Tai, are you always from Hainan? "

Haimu: "Yes."

Li Shizhen: "There is a saying in Hainan, if it rains or not, listen to the Lord Dragon. Isn't it?"

Mother Hai: "Physician Li also knows my Hainanese sayings?"

Li Shizhen: "There is one more sentence below, please enlighten Madam Tai."

Haimu immediately understood, and said with a smile, "You are testing me. Don't take the test, I will listen to you." She said and stretched her right wrist over.

Hai Rui looked at Li Shizhen with a look of astonishment and admiration.

But Li Shizhen didn't look at him, put three fingers on Haimu's right wrist, touched it for a while, then took it away, and said with a smile: "Madam Tai is right, this is not a hot certificate."

Hai Mu immediately looked at Hai Rui: "I said it's not a disease, but you are meddlesome."

"Yes." Hai Rui responded, looked at Li Shizhen but asked, "Excuse me, sir, what is the next sentence of the common saying you just said?"

Li Shizhen laughed out loud.

Mother Hai also laughed: "Fortunately, you are from Hainan. Doctor Li knows it, but you don't. Let me tell you so that you won't be laughed at by outsiders in the future. Listen to Lord Dragon if it rains or not, and listen to the doctor if you are sick or not." brother."

It was so simple, Hai Rui couldn't help laughing in embarrassment: "The reason why the mother is sweating and feverish, please tell Mr. Li."

Li Shizhen: "Everything is born, man is a primate, and each has its own endowment. And endowments are often passed down from parents or grandparents. Brother Gangfeng, there must be one of your grandparents who is like this. He sweats and heats up, and is not afraid of the cold."

Hai Rui looked at his mother.

Mother Hai: "Princess Li is very knowledgeable. Hai Rui's grandfather was born with a fire body. He wore a single coat in frosty weather and went to work in the fields with bare feet. He never caught a cold or coughed."

Li Shizhen looked at Hai Rui's feet again: "Brother Gangfeng is also like this?"

Hai Rui replied, "I'm better than my mother. But my feet are sweaty even in cold weather, so I'm afraid of the heat."

Li Shizhen: "That's it. In medical theory, this is called the body of extreme yang. The cause is mostly due to the hard work of the past dynasties, and the family was poor and had no clothes and shoes to keep out the cold. After several generations, the yang energy in the body accumulates, the yin energy fades, and it gradually becomes resistant. The cold body. The shape is in the body, especially the feet. Because the feet are the place where all the meridians converge, the heat and yang flow around the body and return to the feet. Mrs. Tai, Brother Gangfeng, if you say this is a disease, who gets it This disease is really a blessing."

Mother Hai was happy: "Mr. Li is the real famous doctor! Ru Xian, do you hear me, this is not a disease, mother, and you are not a disease, it is the blessing of our ancestors."

Hai Rui: "Yes. Thank you, Mr. Li, for clarifying the doubt."

Mother Hai looked at Li Shizhen: "Emperor Li has such means, Ru Xian and his wife will give me a grandson, it's all up to you."

Li Shizhen: "You can't rely on me, you have to rely on them."

Hai Mu immediately stared at Li Shizhen, and Hai Rui's heart sank.

Li Shizhen looked stern, but Haimu herself was a little embarrassed, and shouted out the door: "Anan, call your mother!"

Hai Rui's daughter had been lying on the door quietly watching the adults inside, and immediately responded crisply: "Understood!" and ran away.

At this time, Li Shizhen deliberately stopped looking at the mother and son, but slowly looked at the room, and couldn't help being startled.

It turns out that the house Haimu lives in is so simple and simple, except for a bamboo recliner in the middle where Haimu often sits, and a low table next to the recliner, there is only a wooden table left empty on all sides. The wooden chair next to it was the chair that Hai Rui moved for Li Shizhen to sit on.This is the rule of the Hai family, if Hai Mu sits at the table, Hai Rui and his wife will stand by, so there are no chairs and stools.At this time, I have to check the pulse of the two people, and there is no place to sit.

Li Shizhen turned to Hai Rui: "Brother Gangfeng, do you want to move two more chairs?"

Hai Rui: "Mr. Li, don't worry, Zhuo Jing will move in."

At this moment, Hai Rui's wife appeared at the door with a stool in one hand. After entering the door, she immediately put down the stool and blessed Li Shizhen from a distance: "I have met Mr. Li."

Li Shizhen stood up and turned her body to one side: "Sister-in-law, don't be too polite."

Hai Rui moved up the chair that Li Shizhen was sitting on and said, "Please, Mr. Li." He moved the chair to the table and put it down.

Li Shizhen went to the table and sat down on the chair.Hai Rui stood on the left side of the table: "Bring the stool over here, and let the master take a pulse." These words were obviously addressed to Mrs. Hai, but Hai Rui didn't look at her.

Mrs. Hai picked up the stool by the door and was about to walk to the table when Mrs. Hai suddenly said, "Slow down."

Mrs. Hai immediately stopped in place: "What orders does mother-in-law have?"

Mother Hai didn't speak to her daughter-in-law but looked at Hai Rui: "Ru Xian, it's time to teach your daughter-in-law too. When I went to the hall, I just said 'I have seen Mr. Li', my mother-in-law and husband didn't even look at me, and the guests came back. There are no rules in our Hai family. Also, look, when you come to see guests, you don’t even wash up.”

Mrs. Hai's face turned red immediately, and she froze by the door.

Hai Rui was very embarrassed, but he didn't know how to answer, so he stood there with his head bowed.

Li Shizhen couldn't help looking at Mrs. Hai, and immediately felt a slight wave of emotion in her heart.No matter what Hai Rui said, she was also a seventh-rank official of the imperial court, but the seventh-rank lady in front of her was wearing a coarse cloth dress and a coarse cloth skirt, her face was still stained with sweat, and her hair was a little messy, obviously she was working Came here in a hurry.Then he looked at Hai Rui again.Hai Rui stood there with lowered eyes, silent.He immediately understood Hai Rui's situation at home. The widowed mother had a strange temperament, his wife had been suppressed for a long time, and Hai Rui was an extremely pure and filial person. In order to obey his mother's wishes, the relationship between husband and wife was naturally weak.Thinking of this, he couldn't help but feel sympathy for Hai Ruilai who was so prominent outside but walked on thin ice at home.

After Mrs. Hai's words were scolded, she saw that her son didn't respond, and she became even more angry. She stood up and looked at Mrs. Hai: "I'm not going to wash up anymore, do you want me to serve you?"

Mrs. Hai hurriedly blessed: "Daughter-in-law is going now." After answering, she quickly lifted the stool to the table and set it up, then hurriedly turned and walked out the door.

Haimu turned to Li Shizhen: "Mr. Li."

Li Shizhen had no choice but to stand up again: "Mrs. Tai."

Mother Hai: "Daughter-in-law doesn't understand etiquette, so Doctor Li laughed at her."

Li Shizhen: "Sister-in-law, as a seventh-rank wife, can still work so frugally. Li Shizhen admires it, so how can she laugh at it?"

(End of this chapter)