Lingshi is the narrowest county in Shanxi, in the place of two mountains and one water, both sides are high mountains, in the middle is the Fen River, the whole county can not find a few flat land.

Today they are going to a village in the very middle, the two of them passed by bicycle, all the way up and down, Xu Yang's buttocks were shaking and swollen, and finally reached the foot of the mountain.

The two found a place to hide their bikes and began to hike up the mountain. At this time, Li Lao was already a middle-aged man, but when he walked up the mountain road, it was fast and fast, and Xu Yang, a young man, couldn't catch up with him at all.

After a while, Xu Yang was out of breath.

But Li Lao still walked very easily, Li Lao teased: "Young people should exercise more." ”

Xu Yang gasped: "Yes, do you often walk mountain roads?"

Li Lao walked in front and said, "Yes, the entire Lingshi is a mountain, and now that I work in the county hospital, I have to walk a lot." When I used to be a barefoot doctor, I was on a mountain road every day. ”

"I often get up in the middle of the night, and I go over the mountains and mountains to see a doctor in the starry sky. At that time, I couldn't see the mountain road, so over time, I practiced the ability to walk the mountain road with my eyes closed. ”

"But ah, it's easy to walk in this kind of weather. The most feared thing is the heavy rain, the mountain road is too slippery, and if you are not careful, you will fall down the mountain. There are also heavy snowy days, and the mountains are full of snow, and walking on the mountain road is like ice skating. ”

Xu Yang gasped behind and asked, "Then don't you have to wrestle all the time?"

Li Lao smiled and said, "Fall, of course I fell, but I have fallen many times." I often came back from seeing a doctor, my clothes and pants were torn, my body was bruised and purple, and I was scolded by my wife when I went home. ”

Li Lao shook his head: "There's no way, since people are looking for you in the middle of the night, it must be a very serious illness." The peasants were too poor to see a doctor for minor illnesses, so they were critically ill from the start. If I come to you in the middle of the night to go over the mountains and mountains to see a doctor, it must be very serious. I just fell a few times, but people waited for help. ”

Xu Yang suddenly admired that Li Lao had been climbing mountains and mountains in the vast countryside all year round to save people's lives, and the hardships were unknown to outsiders.

In these years, those who were willing to go to the doctor were reimbursed by the unit for medical expenses, and the peasants could not even eat enough, and they stayed up when they were sick, and in the end they couldn't stand it until they thought of going to a doctor.

So as soon as these doctors took over, they were critically ill.

This is different from the city, where the critical and serious cases in the city are directly taken to the hospital by ambulance, and it is not the turn of Chinese medicine to treat them at all.

In rural areas, many traditional Chinese medicine practitioners are exposed to critical and serious cases all day long. They have no other choice but to use the methods of traditional Chinese medicine to treat them.

In this treatment, there are really a group of Chinese medicine masters who are good at critical and severe diseases, and Li Lao is one of them, and he is also the most famous one.

Li Lao climbed the mountain in front of him, and suddenly asked, "Xu Yang, do you really want to study medicine with me?"

Xu Yang, who was following behind, was stunned for a moment, and then immediately responded: "Of course it's true!"

Li Lao didn't look back, and continued: "I have had a rough life, I have been imprisoned twice, and I have not been rehabilitated. ”

"I haven't worshipped my teacher, and in those years, when everyone heard Li Ke's name, it was like hearing a plague god, so they couldn't avoid it. I have always taught myself Chinese medicine, and many Chinese medicine colleagues say that I am a wild man, and you are willing to learn from me?"

Xu Yang nodded very seriously: "I am willing!"

Li Lao said again: "My medication often exceeds the pharmacopoeia by more than ten or even dozens of times, do you know what this means?"

Xu Yang said: "If you save your life, your license will be revoked, and if you don't save you, you will be imprisoned." ”

Li Lao suddenly stopped, turned around, stared at Xu Yang with burning eyes, and asked, "Aren't you afraid?"

Xu Yang was stunned for a moment, and then he said firmly: "Of course I'm afraid, but I know that you are right!"

Li Lao also showed a stunned look: "Do you think I'm right?"

Xu Yang nodded.

Li Lao smiled and said: "Everyone in the world says that I am deviant and dangerous in medicine, but you think I am right?"

Xu Yang said: "Because I know that you are the one who really understands Zhongjing's prescription." ”

Li Lao was really surprised this time, he looked Xu Yang up and down several times, his lips squirmed a few times, and he wanted to say something, but in the end he swallowed it again, he only said: "Let's go." ”

Xu Yang nodded.

The two men hurried again, and walked all the way until after noon. After crossing the mountains, I came to the village hidden in the mountains.

Li Lao greeted the villagers very familiarly.

The patient's family led Mr. Li to the patient's room.

At first sight, it was another critical illness!

Xu Yang exhaled heavily, it was rare to encounter an acute illness in the city before. But in the countryside in the early 80s, he was critically ill at both ends for three days, and he could be regarded as a long-term insight.

The two entered the room.

A middle-aged woman was lying on her side of the bed, vomiting frequently.

Li Lao said: "Xu Yang, go up and diagnose it." ”

"Yes. Xu Yang stepped forward in response, and saw that the patient frequently vomited, smelly, salivated, and had feces.

Xu Yang saw the patient lying on the bed moaning in pain, an uncontrollable cold sweat fell from his head, and his right leg was bent and he didn't dare to straighten it slightly.

Xu Yang lifted the patient's clothes and found that there was a bulge of the size of a steamed bun in the appendix of the patient's lower abdomen, which was red and swollen in appearance.

Xu Yang covered it with his own hand, there was a burning sensation, and there was a wave feeling, it was the kind of burning sensation that hit wave after wave. And the patient's abdomen is swollen like an urn, and there are bouts of cramping.

Xu Yang's brows furrowed, he touched the patient's forehead, and found that the other party was obviously feverish, but under such a high fever, the patient was shivering all the time, and his teeth were always cold.

Xu Yang opened the patient's mouth and looked at it, the patient's breath was foul, his tongue was black and prickly, and it was dry.

Xu Yang could judge from his appearance that the patient was severely ill with appendicitis, and the intestinal carbuncle was already very serious. Xu Yang had also been treated for appendicitis before, but compared with the stubborn old man's condition in front of him, it was like a joke, after all, the stubborn old man still had the heart and energy to quarrel!

Mr. Li was also asking the patient's family.

"Oh, it's been hurting for five days, I can't vomit anymore, I can't even vomit my stool, and the whole person can't do it! We can't help it, so we called you to help, Brother Li Ke, you must help your sister-in-law." ”

The family begged.

There was also an old man with gray hair next to him, standing in the room, walking over with his hands behind his back, he said a little irritably: "Your family just can't make sense, this is obviously an appendicitis abscess and intestinal obstruction, I haven't had a bowel movement for three days, I haven't even farted, and I have a high fever of forty degrees." ”

"I gave her penicillin, but it didn't work. This must be operated, but they just don't listen, and if it drags on with perforated peritonitis, the person will be gone. ”

"This disease can only be sent to the county hospital for surgery, and our township clinic can't cure it. But you just didn't listen, and called Li Ke, it's useless to call him, you have to have surgery!"

This man was the barefoot doctor in their village.

Li Lao also asked, "Why hasn't it been sent for surgery?"

The family member was a middle-aged farmer, with rough skin and a tanned face, and he was a hearty person, but he couldn't help but blush his dark face at this time, he grabbed the corner of his tattered clothes, and said, "Your sister-in-law, she ...... Don't dare to go for surgery...... And...... And ......"

Li Lao sighed slightly, he had seen such a situation many times.

The barefoot doctor said, "It's not a question of daring or not, it's in vain for you to call Li Ke." This is an acute abdomen, appendicitis abscess plus intestinal obstruction, and if there is one, it will have to be operated, let alone two. ”

"It's useless for you to find Chinese medicine, I have also studied Chinese medicine, and I will also go to the mountains to dig herbs, but Chinese medicine can't cure acute abdomen!"

After Xu Yang finished the diagnosis, he stood up and said, "Who said that Chinese medicine can't cure acute abdomen?"

The barefoot doctor was relatively old and a prestigious person in the village, and when he saw that this young man dared to stand up to him, he was immediately unhappy, and said, "Can you cure me?

Xu Yang smiled angrily: "Don't cheat the old man, okay?"