Song Yi

Chapter 287 Gastrodia
Du Wenhao handed the stool to Lin Qingdai, and sat on the edge of the bed beside him.The man was very embarrassed when he saw this: "Doctor, this... I have been ill for several months, and I can't get out of bed. The feces and urine are all on the bed, so the bed is very dirty, you..."

Du Wenhao smiled: "It's okay, if the doctor thinks the patient is dirty, then don't be a doctor. ——Why are you uncomfortable?"

"It's uncomfortable everywhere!" The man sighed, and slowly raised his hand: "For example, this hand is numb all over, neither painful nor itchy, but it feels like there are bugs crawling inside. .Especially the two pairs of feet, they are like wood, you pinch them! I have no feeling at all. Even if I prick with a needle, I don’t feel any pain, and if I pinch the soles of my feet, I don’t feel itching! I can’t get out of bed, and I can’t do farm work. , like a useless person! Woooooo..."

A big man covered his face with his sleeve when he was sad, sobbing and crying.

Du Wenhao waited for his mood to stabilize, and then asked again: "How do the other parts feel?"

The man sobbed twice, and said, "I feel numbness on my face, tongue, shoulders, chest and abdomen, but it's not as severe as my feet and hands."

"let me see!"

Du Wenhao first grabbed his hand and rubbed it, and lifted the quilt, a foul smell came to his nostrils, the man carefully raised his eyes to look at Du Wenhao, he didn't frown when he saw him, but carefully rolled up his trousers , The man's heart felt hot, and tears flowed down again.

Du Wenhao first observed the shape of his feet, and found that there was no obvious atrophy. After massaging, rubbing or even pulling, the other party did not feel anything.

Du Wenhao said: "Move your toes!"

The man struggled hard, and sure enough, his toes moved.

"You shrink and straighten your thighs!"

The man did the same again, and both legs could be straightened and bent, but it was very difficult.

Du Wenhao nodded: "How did you develop this disease?"

"Well... After winter last year, the farm work in the fields was over, so I went to Dongming County to find some work to do. Who would have thought that around the beginning of winter, I would feel unwell, numb and nothing. I was in a hurry, but in the city I didn't make much money, bought some New Year's food for my father and children, and there was nothing left to write. I didn't have any money to see a doctor. I just thought about carrying it. After another month, it became heavier and heavier. Not to mention heavy work, even walking was difficult, and I couldn’t find work, so I came back.”

Du Wenhao looked at his pulse for him, pondered for a moment, and then said: "Your legs are not necrotic. The reason for the numbness of your limbs is that wind evil enters the collaterals, and you feel the wind evil. Not smooth, this kind of disease is not difficult to treat, just dispel the wind and dredge the collaterals, this prescription, it stands to reason that the best prescription is to use the Tianma Decoction of Qin Gentiana, but Tianma is too expensive, I'm afraid your family can't afford it..."

The old man and his son next to each other glanced at each other, and then looked at Du Wenhao suspiciously: "Mister also thinks that my son's disease is caused by wind evil entering the network, feeling wind evil?"

"Yes what's the matter?"

"To tell you the truth, after my son got sick, we also raised money to go to Dongming County to see a pharmacist. good!"

"Oh? What kind of medicine did the doctor prescribe?" Du Wenhao felt strange and asked suspiciously.

"The old man doesn't understand the prescription, but the prescription has been copied back. The old man brought it to the husband, so you can take a look."

After a while, the old man dug out a prescription from a broken cabinet, which was already a little tattered, and handed it to Du Wenhao: "Here, this is it. It was prescribed years ago, and I thought it would be good after it was cured. It's a good year, in order to cure this disease, I spent a lot of money and sold all the pigs for the New Year. My son is the main laborer in the family, thinking that he can make money if he is cured as soon as possible, so he didn't go to the bell doctor, so he saved the money and went directly. The doctor in the pharmacy in the county town I found prescribed a prescription for the disease, but it didn't work."

Du Wenhao took the prescription, leaned closer to the oil lamp to take a closer look, and said, "The prescription doesn't work, so you can go to him again. In this case, you don't need to pay for the follow-up visit."

"Yeah, we went and found the doctor. The doctor also gave a follow-up consultation for free. After the follow-up visit, he said that his disease can only be treated with gastrodia elata! If it doesn't work, it should be because the dose is not enough. Take it for a while and see."

"Is there no effect at all?"

The man said angrily: "Not only did it not work, but it got heavier and heavier! At the beginning, I was able to walk slowly with a cane. After taking the medicine for a month or two, I couldn't even walk. I could only walk on the bed. !"

"Go find him again!"

"I found it! The doctor was also very strange. It took about half an hour to follow up the doctor carefully, but it was still the same. The doctor said that the prescription he used was very effective in treating the numbness of the limbs caused by the wind evil. It worked, but he didn’t know what was going on this time. He also said that if the prescription didn’t work for this disease, then there was nothing he could do. After discussing it at home, he said that maybe the doctor didn’t see the disease correctly. Wrong, I have to find another doctor to take a look."

Du Wenhao smiled wryly: "You are just messing around. This kind of disease is relatively easy to diagnose. There is no difficulty. The average doctor can spot it. Your family doesn't have much money, so you should spend money on medical treatment, and instead It’s not like looking for a doctor everywhere, it’s not the same when you look around!”

The old man was stunned, and after a long while, he paused and said, "Doctor! You can't be more right! We tried our best to raise money, and found two more doctors, one of whom was a well-known miracle doctor in the county. One sickness costs five hundred yuan! The daughter-in-law collects firewood, and a load of firewood sells for ten yuan at most, and it takes about two months to earn enough. The daughter-in-law pawns her jacket without telling the child's father, and sells the firewood and goes back In the city, I do laundry and do odd jobs for people. I did all kinds of dirty and tiresome work. I earned enough money to go see a doctor. The magic doctor only spent a cup of tea to see a doctor. A few words almost drove us to death. What I said was the same as before. The doctor is exactly the same as what you just said! —— Fengxie enters the network, Qin Gentiana Tianma soup!"

Du Wenhao shook his head: "The charges of this genius doctor are indeed too expensive, but you can't blame that genius doctor, because your son has this disease, so you can't let him talk nonsense, right? He spent a cup of tea to diagnose your disease, already It’s more careful.”

The old man cried and said with a mournful face: "I understand now, but I didn't know at the time. I always thought he didn't take a good look at it, so I begged him to show it again. The genius doctor was kind, and patiently told us what the disease was. What's going on, why this prescription is used, and even explained the effect of each medicine in this prescription, if you convince this medicine, it will definitely be fine."

"This genius doctor's medical ethics are not bad. Although the fees are too expensive, he didn't get into the money's eyes. This prescription is indeed the most suitable for your disease. In fact, it's the same sentence. This disease is not difficult to cure, and even a doctor can prescribe it. Come out with a prescription, there is no other better choice. Your money is wasted."

The old man was so regretful that he repeatedly slapped himself on the forehead, and said to Du Wenhao: "Doctor, you are really an honest person! I heard that no doctor would say such heartfelt words, and I hope that patients will come to them for more treatment. What about money! Oh! If we had heard what you said earlier, doctor, we wouldn’t have spent so much money! But at that time, I couldn’t figure it out. The whole family saved up the money from the cold and hunger. Just a few words just like this disappeared? I knelt down and begged him to take a good look again. The miracle doctor said repeatedly that it was the same. My granddaughter and daughter-in-law also knelt down and begged him to take a good look again. I read it again while having a cup of tea, it’s still the same!”

Du Wenhao sighed: "Originally! It's the result of a hundred follow-up visits for the disease I'm sure about."

"Yeah! We heard him say that, and we were also in despair. The genius doctor ordered us to buy medicines in his pharmacy, but seeing the doctor has already spent all the money in the family, and all the relatives, friends and neighbors who can borrow money are also borrowed." Now, creditors come here every now and then to press for debts, so where is the money to buy medicine?"

The man also said sadly: "Yes, my family was already very poor. In order to treat my illness, I sold everything I could sell and borrowed everything I could borrow. My father went to the mountains to collect firewood in the winter, and ended up falling from the cliff. I fell down, and my face was broken! My eyes were hurt too, woo woo woo..."

The old man also sighed and said, "It's all my fault. I didn't hold it firmly, and I stepped on the ground and fell. I was saving money to treat the child, but it ended up being spent on me! Sigh!"

Du Wenhao peeked at the ferocious face of the old man, and then realized that it was to earn money for his son, he went up the mountain to collect firewood and fell down. He thought it was scalded before. It seems that this family is really suffering. It's really simple enough to suffer so much, but not willing to accept the small piece of silver that I give for drinking water.

The man on the bed cried and said: "My father and my daughter-in-law have worked so hard to save money for my medical treatment, but my disease has not recovered at all! The child's mother is still talking about selling the land and exchanging money for my medical treatment. She was so angry that she took the rope and forced her to say that if she sold the land, I would immediately hang her with a rope! She didn’t dare to sell it. I thought about it, if I can’t cure it, I can only divorce my wife, I can’t It made her suffer with me."

Du Wenhao patted him on the shoulder: "Don't be so discouraged, your disease is actually relatively easy to treat. I'll help you treat it, it should be fine."

The man made a sad face, waved his hands, and said: "Doctor, you are a kind person, but you also said that my disease cannot be cured by our family. Now this family has nothing, and a woman is supporting me. It’s not as clean as hitting your head against a wall.”

Seeing what his father said, Zao'er on the side rushed forward and hugged the man's unfeeling leg tightly, crying, "Don't ignore Zao'er, Daddy, Zao'er can light a fire or serve it to Daddy." water."

Seeing the sadness, Lin Qingdai thought of her own fate, felt sore, held Zao'er in her arms, choked with sobs and didn't know what to say to comfort the poor little child.

Here, the old man also said to Du Wenhao with snot and tears: "It's not the old man, I don't believe you, doctor, but, since you have said it just now, the diseases and medicines are exactly the same as theirs. It can’t be cured, but you can be cured if you are stumped?”

Du Wenhao nodded, thinking about this matter in his heart, what is the problem.He slowly read the prescription in his hand. The compatibility, dosage, and decoction method were all impeccable. He frowned and asked, "What's the name of that miracle doctor in Dongming County?"

"The complex surname is Zhuge, and the individual name is Song. I heard that he calls himself 'Shouzhu' because he likes bamboo so much that he grows bamboo in front of and behind his house."

"Thin bamboo? Interesting! Where's his prescription?"

"He didn't drive!"

"What?"

"Because we showed him the prescription prescribed by the doctor in front of him. He said that the prescription is very good and there is no need to cut it down. The same is true for him. Let us choose the medicine according to the prescription."

"Then did you pick up the medicine later?"

"No! The medicines in Zhuge's pharmacy are very expensive. Even if you have money, you don't buy medicines from him. The streets are full of drug dealers, and they are cheap and affordable. Aren't they all medicinal materials? It's not the same wherever you buy them. .”

Du Wenhao's heart skipped a beat: "Where's the medicine? Is there any medicine that hasn't been decocted?"

The old man shook his head and said, "It's gone, I don't have money to buy it, I've used up all the previous medicines."

"What about the dregs?"

"It fell down early."

"Where is it?"

"In the ditch behind the house. Every time my granddaughter Zao'er poured it out. It was before the beginning of spring. At that time, there was still water in the ditch, and the medicine residue should have been washed away by the water. After that, there was no money to buy it." The medicine is gone, just carry it like this. ——What? Is there something wrong with this medicine?”

"It's hard to say, the dialectics of several doctors are the same, and the prescriptions are the same, but there is no effect at all. Perhaps, the problem lies in the medicine."

The man on the bed and his father glanced at each other, and the man said, "No way! The medicine should be fine!"

"Where did you buy your medicine? Did you buy it from Lingyi, a street drug dealer?"

"No!" The old man shook his head again and again, "This disease is related to the livelihood of the whole family. How can we buy it from those people? They buy fake medicines. We know that. Therefore, the medicines for children are from I bought it from the pharmacy where the first doctor was seen in Dongming County."

Du Wenhao asked, "What's the name of this pharmacy?"

"Huimin Pharmacy! The shopkeeper's surname is Luo."

Du Wenhao pondered for a moment, and said: "Tomorrow we are going into the city, and we will know when we go to the pharmacy to see his medicine."

The little girl, Zao'er, had been lying on the bed of the kang quietly, lying on her father's feet, listening to them with wide eyes. At this moment, she suddenly slipped out of bed and ran out. No one noticed her. After a while, Zao'er came back , holding a broken sand jar in his hand, and handed it to Du Wenhao silently.

"What is this?" Du Wenhao took it over, smelling a faint scent of medicine.

"It's my father's medicine dregs!"

"Pharmaceutical dregs?" The old man was very surprised, "Didn't you be dumped into the small river ditch?"

Zao'er said: "The previous ones were poured into the river ditch. Later, I went to the old man with white beard to see a doctor. Grandpa said that he had no money to buy medicine, so I put the leftover medicine dregs behind the house to break the sand. It's in the jar."

"What are you doing with this medicine residue?"

"Give it to dad! But dad refuses to take the medicine dregs, and even scolds Zao'er for being naughty, blah..." Zao'er began to sob, wiping her tears.

Lin Qingdai's heart ached, she knelt down and picked up Zao'er, and gently wiped her tears away: "Zao'er is a sensible child who knows how to love Daddy, Zao'er doesn't cry!"

Zao'er choked and nodded.Lying on Lin Qingdai's shoulders, a pair of big clear eyes looked at Du Wenhao with tears in their eyes.

Du Wenhao poured all the medicinal residues in the sand pot on the ground, and took the qi death wind lamp to check the medicinal residues carefully.

When he raised his head, his eyes had brightened.Holding a small piece of dry drink in his finger, he said to Lin Qingdai: "Look, what is this?"

Lin Qingdai was in the business of medicinal materials, so this naturally did not bother her, so she took it and took a closer look: "Gastrodia elata...!"

"Is it really Tianma?" Du Wenhao asked back.

Lin Qingdai was slightly taken aback when she heard something in his words, put down the jujube, took the drink piece and checked it repeatedly, put it in her mouth and bit it lightly, smacked her lips, let out a cry, and looked at Du Fu in surprise. Wen Hao took a look.

Du Wenhao nodded with a smile, and pouted at the medicine dregs.

Lin Qingdai squatted down, carefully rummaged through the medicine dregs, and found more than a dozen pieces of Gastrodia elata decoction slices, examined each piece carefully, with an extremely angry expression on her face: "Fake! These Gastrodia elata are all fake! No wonder the diagnosis is right, and the prescription is right. If it’s gone, it won’t cure it, so the medicine is fake!”

The old man and the man on the bed were all taken aback. The old man grabbed a few pieces of fake Gastrodia elata on the ground, and put them in front of the wind lantern to look carefully. The man also stretched out his hand to Lin Qingdai with difficulty: "Show me!"

Lin Qingdai handed Tianma to him.However, these two people didn't understand the medicinal materials, so they held them in their hands and looked at them for a long time, but they didn't see any tricks. They looked at Lin Qingdai suspiciously.

Lin Qingdai picked up a piece of fake Gastrodia elata, pointed at it and said, "There is a formula for identifying fake Gastrodia elata. It is called 'parrot mouth, concave belly button, and rings of dried ginger skin on the outside. Keep in mind the section of rosin." After such a long time, the appearance is not easy to identify, but the fake is fake, chew it in your mouth, and the filling will be revealed immediately. The taste of real gastrodia is bitter and sweet, and it is crunchy when chewed, soaking in the saliva Sticky afterward."

When the old man heard this, he immediately stood up from the stool and roared: "Damn it! How dare you deceive people! I will fight with them!" He grabbed a hoe from the corner of the wall and was about to rush out, frightened Zao'er burst into tears.

Du Wenhao hastily pulled the old man back: "Don't be impulsive, old man! Listen to me!"

The old man panted heavily: "Doctor, thank you for reminding! The old man's son is like this, they are still cheating and harming others, and the old man's family can't live anymore, so I have to find them to reason! If you don't reason, you will do your best! Let go!" Let me go!"

Du Wenhao said loudly: "Old man, listen to me first! You still have to go after listening, I will never stop you!"

The old man suddenly felt a numbness in his wrist, and turned his head to see that the hoe was already in Du Wenhao's hand. He couldn't help but be extremely astonished. He looked at this gentle-looking young man eagerly, thinking how could he have such great strength, and he had been doing it all his life. There are not many people who can snatch it from their own hands so easily.

Du Wenhao used Lin Qingdai's tricks, took his hoe, put it in the corner, and signaled the old man to sit down, Zao'er saw his grandfather came back, Lin Qingdai tried to coax him, and soon he stopped crying up.

The old man was still very annoyed, let Du Wenhao press on the stool and was panting heavily, staring at the ground with glaring eyes, clenched his fists tightly, as if looking for someone desperately at any time: "Say what you have to say!"

Du Wenhao said: "You go to the pharmacy now, it has been several months, there is no proof, why do you say that what he sold you is fake Gastrodia elata?"

The old man was stunned, and patted his chest: "Why? With the conscience of heaven and earth! Does he want to admit that he sold fake medicine? No way! If he refuses to admit it, my old man will fight him to the death! — Give me the hoe!"

"You are going to die, what about this family? What about your son and granddaughter's family?"

The old man was dumbfounded, squatting on the ground, panting heavily with his head in his arms, and said in grief and indignation, "Is it just so bearable?"

"I can't bear it!" The man on the bed struggled to sit up, waving his hands as hard as he could, "Go to the Yamen to beat the drums and complain! I don't believe that there is no place in the world to speak for us poor people? If it doesn't work, just hang him with a rope." At the door of his pharmacy! Anyway, I am a burden to live like this!"

The old man stood up loudly: "That's right! Let's go, fight with them!"

Du Wenhao said loudly: "Don't worry! I have a plan for this matter! Don't be desperate, not only can you get back the money you paid for the medicine, but also let them compensate you for the loss!"

The old man and his son stopped shouting immediately, and looked at him together: "What can I do?"

Du Wenhao glanced at both of them, and then smiled and said: "Don't worry, leave this matter to me. Tomorrow morning, old man, you come to the city with me, do as I say, I will guarantee you to get compensation, there is With this money, you can cure your son's illness, and his illness is treated now, and there is still time..."

Before he finished speaking, he heard shouts from outside the door, followed by the sound of footsteps from far to near: "Old man is not well, your Magnolia fainted in the ground."

Everyone in the room rushed out the door except for the man lying on the bed.

It was already dark, and under the moonlight, I saw a middle-aged woman standing in the yard with her trouser legs rolled up, her eyebrows were long and thin, her eyes were small, her mouth was thin, and she was holding a whip in her hand, probably to drive her away. Animals are standing there panting, with mud on their feet.

The old man stumbled and almost jumped in front of the woman, and asked in a trembling voice, "Sister-in-law of the Wang family, what did you say?"

"Aunt Wang, what's the matter with my mother?" Poor Zao'er cried all night, and she was finally coaxed by Lin Qingdai, but when she heard this woman's words, she started to cry again.

The woman saw so many people rushing out of the room, and there were two people she had never seen before, dressed in silk and satin, which were different from those of the countrymen. She wondered, when did this neighbor have two rich relatives? ?
The old man saw the woman staring at Du Wenhao and Lin Qingdai. Through the dim light coming from the room, he could see that her eyes were brighter than fireflies.He asked again anxiously: "Sister-in-law of the Wang family, I'm asking you!"

Only then did the woman come to her senses, but instead of answering the old man's words, she pointed at Du Wenhao and Lin Qingdai with a smile on her face and said, "Your relatives?"

The old man didn't know how to answer, so he muttered, Du Wenhao said: "You should tell us what happened to his daughter-in-law first?"

"Oh, oh," the woman said to the old man happily, "when I was driving the cattle home just now, I found a dark shadow in the field. I thought it was someone's sheep before, but then I took a closer look and scared me." I jumped, it turned out that your magnolia fell in the field, so I hurried back and called you. Oh, I was so scared, my heart is still beating violently this time!"

(End of this chapter)