Donkey Trouble Volume 4: The Prodigal Son of the Capital 57, the red-faced man and the fragrant child
Calling a stinky bag is not necessarily really smelly, calling a sachet is not necessarily really fragrant, and the nickname is often the other way around.
As the saying goes, it's not your fingers that don't connect your heart. Zhao Kuangyin is the top meat of Zhao Hongyin and Du Shi, but in the eyes of the girls, Xiao Kuangyin is just a job they have to do. What's more, working for the master, following the rules, and completing the task, it is excellent, anxious about what the master is anxious about, thinks about what the master thinks, and serves the master wholeheartedly!
The difference in boiling time is still secondary, and the key is to master the water temperature. Babies have delicate skin, weak resistance, and high requirements for water temperature, which must be lukewarm and just right, generally slightly lower than that of adults. Boil the water, try it with your fingers, and consciously not get hot, without considering that the degree of heat on your fingers is much higher than that of other places on your body, so she peeled off Xiao Kuangyin's clothes and put them in the water.
The baby has tender skin, and Xiao Kuangyin has ichthyosis again, and he is scalded when he is exposed to water, and his hands and feet are kicked indiscriminately, and his straight neck howls like killing a pig.
The girls felt that the water was not hot, so they thought that Xiao Kuangyin was not obedient and noisy. Some pull their legs, some pull their arms, just force the potion to soak, soak for a while, and then start to rub and scratch.
The scales on the body were hot and soft, and the maids rubbed them off with their hands, revealing bloody tender meat. The ointment is very irritating, and when applied upward, it is like smearing salt on a wound, and the pain makes Xiao Kuangyin twitch all over, and his throat is hoarse.
Du Shi heard Xiao Kuangyin crying very much at the beginning, and he couldn't bear it, so he always stepped forward to ask, and when the girls saw her coming, they were more careful than the other, and asked her rhetorically: "Crying so much, can you still wipe the medicine?" She had no words to answer correctly, so she could only hide far away, comforting herself with not being able to see or hear.
In this way, three soaks a day, three wipes a day, tortured Xiao Kuangyin for more than three months.
Xiao Kuangyin's armor-like thick layer of scale armor did fall off, but the generalized flushing that appeared when the scales were peeled off turned into a scald scar and would never fade again.
In fact, the ointment prepared by Chen Chuan is nothing more than a moisturizing and dryness ointment made by grinding several kinds of herbs such as realgar, alum, baibu, camphor, and Qingdai into powder, and boiling them together with sesame oil and yellow wax;
If these medicines are prepared by a pharmacy on the market, they don't want half a tael of silver, but Chen took advantage of the reputation of "immortals", added the "elixir", and injected "true qi", not only received two hundred taels of silver when he saw a doctor, but Zhao Hongyin thanked him many times afterwards, and he got money and goods worth hundreds of taels of silver.
It can be seen that no matter what kind of "fame" you make, it will be a book of great profits! It is not surprising that later generations will throw away money and take off their pants in order to become famous.
Chen Jian only thinks about soaking, washing and applying three times a day, which is equivalent to three peeling a day, and no matter how stubborn the ringworm is gone, how can he think that the child's skin is tender, soaked in hot water three times a day, corroded by drugs, and left the sequelae of red and red like fried shrimp skin?
This is the origin of Zhao Kuangyin's yellow-skinned baby becoming a "red-faced man".
Zhao Hongyin admired Chen Kuangyin so much that he only thought that after the ichthyosis was cured, the skin should be red like fried shrimp skin, and he regarded Chen Kuangyin as Xiao Kuangyin's life-saving benefactor, and brought money and goods to thank him many times, of course, he would not fight a medical lawsuit with him for Zhao Kuangyin's sequelae of red skin.
Chen Kuanyin earned favors at both ends and became Zhao Kuangyin's life-saving benefactor, thus establishing a deep personal relationship. Many years later, Zhao Kuangyin seized the throne of the son of the righteous brother Zhou Shizong Chai Rong, and used Chen Kuang's public opinion that he was the "true dragon son of heaven" and "the destiny of heaven" to fool the people of the world. This story of laughing at the dead will be told later.
Zhao Hongyin spared a lot of money to treat his son's ichthyosis, and spared no effort to treat his son's jaundice.
Jaundice is often simply thought of as yellowing of the skin, but that's only half true, yellowing is just an outward phenomenon. Normal human blood contains a certain amount of pigment substance, called bilirubin, if the bilirubin in the blood increases due to physiological and pathological reasons, the skin, the whites of the eyes and other places will be yellow.
According to later medical research, there are many causes of neonatal jaundice. Skin problems are all related to liver, spleen, and kidney dysfunction. For example, the liver directly affects the blood vessels, and the liver is hot or the liver qi is stagnant, which is easy to form qi and blood blockage, affecting the blood circulation of the face, and the skin is naturally dull and dull; if the spleen is weak, the absorption of nutrients in food and the transformation of energy are affected, and the skin is yellow and spots will follow; ancient medicine says that "the kidney is mainly black" also means that kidney deficiency will cause the skin color to be black or yellow.
In order to treat Zhao Kuangyin's jaundice, Zhao Hongyin not only asked Chen Qian to prescribe medicine, but also asked Luoyang famous doctors and palace doctors to make a diagnosis. Unfortunately, at that time, science was not developed, and the gentlemen did not have instruments, nor did they understand all kinds of laboratory tests, according to the patient's own cause of the disease, the right medicine, regulate the endocrine, so as to cure the disease, can only rely on the "look, smell, ask, cut" four diagnoses, vague judgment, prescribe mostly the treatment of the surface of the universal insurance prescription, and all emphasize the strengthening of nutrition, to add a dietary therapy prescription.
Chen Tsuan focuses on clearing away dampness and heat, and prescribes traditional Chinese medicine such as Yin Chen, Gardenia, Rhubarb, Skullcap, Psyllium, Zhuru, and Tangerine Peel;
The imperial physician believed that Zhao Kuangyin's jaundice was mainly due to the deep penetration of heat evil, which injured the spleen and stomach, and blocked blood stasis, so the treatment should invigorate blood and dispel blood stasis, nourish the liver and strengthen the spleen; the prescription was Bupleurum, red peony, white peony, angelica, peach kernel, safflower, Chuanxiong, bergamot, tangerine peel, poria cocos, yam, chicken blood vine and other medicines; the dietary formula was "sea cucumber porridge": japonica rice and sea cucumber were boiled together into porridge.
Zhou Banxian, the ancestral doctor of Luoyang East Street, believes that Zhao Kuangyin's skin is yellow, and it does not go away for a long time, his color is dull, his complexion is unpretentious, his physique is emaciated, his stool is weak, and his limbs are not warm. The prescription is: Yin Chen, Atractylodes, Dried Ginger, Codonopsis, Yam, Poria Cocos, Bergamot, Calamus, Tulip, Jiao Hawthorn, etc.;
Luoyang Xicheng ancestral famous doctor "Yi Ti Xu" believes that Zhao Kuangyin is accompanied by high fever, irritability and shortness of breath, frequent convulsions, and vomiting and diarrhea and other gastrointestinal symptoms, and the prescription is: buffalo horn, raw gypsum, fried gardenia, Coptis chinensis, Yin Chen, calamus, rhubarb, hook vine and other medicines;
The four are all famous doctors, and the prescriptions they prescribe have their own emphasis, and Zhao Hongyin has a hard time choosing between them, so he can only use them all.
Zhao Hongyin is rich, I heard that the child lacks nutrition, ginseng, deer antler, yam, honey and other nutrients are piled up into a small mountain, Zhao Kuangyin is not hungry and stuffs it into his mouth, and now he has added medicinal soup three times a day, and multiple meals for dietary therapy, how can he stand it?
In order to treat ichthyosis, Zhao Kuangyin was soaked and wiped three times a day, and he was already in pain, and now he was constantly pouring medicine and food into his stomach, and his small stomach was like a watermelon all day long, and he could be beaten as a drum.
"Eating and drinking, stomach and intestines hurt". Improper feeding, partial eating, excessive satiety, omnivorous throwing, raw and cold uncontrolled, food does not melt, stop the stomach and intestines, spleen loss of luck, abdominal distension and belching, which leads to more farts, more feces, and sour and unpleasant smell. This disease is called food accumulation in traditional Chinese medicine, also known as stagnation, and in Western medicine it is called dyspepsia.
Children eat and fart, and they smell very bad. Zhao Kuangyin not only has a lot of farts, but also smells like rotten eggs. According to later scientific explanations, it is due to eating too much protein food, which causes food retention in the intestines. When the retained protein food is broken down in the digestive tract, amines are produced, which have this foul smell.
Farts are, drink less and eat more, strengthen activities, and naturally have less farts and less. But at that time, the maids didn't understand this medical principle, they only knew how to treat the symptoms but didn't know the root cause, and they couldn't stand the smoke, so they collected all kinds of spices and applied them to him, made some sachets to hang on him, and even soaked diapers in spices.
Even so, Xiao Kuangyin farted or pulled up, or almost smoked the rings around him.
The maids secretly called him "stinky bag", but Zhao Hongyin and his wife and the guests who came to pat the horse called him "fragrant boy".
Zhao Kuangyin's nickname "Xiang Child" comes from this.
Chinese children's nicknames are generally pinned on some wishes of their parents, which is the opposite of reality. For example, if the parents have no money, they call their children "come to wealth"; if the parents are low, they will give their children the nickname "Gui'er"; if they have many parents and daughters, they will take the nicknames "Zhaodi" and "Sainan"; if they want girls, they will give their sons the nicknames "Sanni" and "Wuni" -- calling them "sachets" is not necessarily really fragrant, and calling them "stinky bags" is not necessarily really smelly; calling them "dog babies" may also grow up to be prime ministers, and calling them "dragons" may also grow up to become robbers and thieves -- this is a common thing and a simple truth that everyone knows well.
But Zhao Kuangyin later became the emperor, which is terrible! The smell has to be said to be incense, and the fake incense has to be made into real incense. Therefore, when Zhao Kuangyin was born, "the red light surrounds the room, the house is full of strange fragrances, the night is not dispersed, the whole body is golden, the fish scales are faintly visible, and the three months remain unchanged", which has become the official historical record; the celebrities of the literary circles of later generations have expanded from this, spread the wings of imagination, and compiled many absurd and bizarre articles about whether "Zhao Kuangyin the Great" is a dragon, a god, not a human being, and so on. Until a thousand years later, almost everyone had "Ten Thousand Miles Eyes" and "Ears to the Wind", "Heaven and Cloud" instead of feet and legs, and artificial "beef" and "eggs" were everywhere in the scientific and technological society, and there were still people who talked about it, monographs and research, lectures everywhere, wrote novels, and filmed television, and they looked like dogs and were "authoritative"; Whoever breaks down superstition and tells the truth in line with science will be a great rebel and blaspheme the emperor, and he will be rectified by light and darkness, and it will be difficult to gain a foothold; this stupidity is bottomless, arbitrary, and servile, and it really makes people cry and laugh, and the heart of death is gone!
Therefore, according to the phenomenon recorded in the historical books, I broke the superstition, conducted in-depth scientific research, and came to the above conclusions, and in order to maintain the sacred dignity of the Long Live Lord, refute the untruths that slandered the Long Live Lord, and worked overtime without overtime pay, and stayed up late with the lamp to interpret the above story. I think it should be more in line with science, it is the original face of history, and it does not damage Xiao Kuangyin's lively and lovely childhood image at all, not like those bodyguards and courtyard-type "senior black" literati think that it is deliberately fabricated, wantonly slandered, and disrespectful to the outstanding emperors in history!
Probably because Zhao Hongyin went to the front line many times when Du's pregnancy, the pregnant woman was very uneasy, which affected the fetus in the womb, or when treating ichthyosis and jaundice, the baby was forcibly frightened, and Zhao Kuangyin's personality became more and more extreme and weird with the growth of the year.
Zhao Kuangyin can speak, and if he doesn't learn foul language, he will scold Yahuan as "his"; when he starts to walk, he often beats Yahuan with a small stick, and the servants run around the house and yard. This is probably because the girls forced him in feeding, pouring medicine, and smearing medicine, and there is a reason for it, and there is a willingness, if the parents actively guide and educate him appropriately, there will not be much problem with his growth. But Zhao Hongyin and Du Shi regarded him as more precious than their own eyeballs, and they were afraid that they would fall off when they held him in their hands, and they were afraid that they would melt in their mouths, so how could they be willing to reprimand him and nod their little fingers?
After Zhao Kuangyin recovered from his illness, Zhao Hongyin and Du Shi probably suffered a lot of grievances during their son's treatment, and they wanted to make up for it.
In this way, when the girls saw Zhao Kuangyin, they were like seeing the little emperor, for fear that he would be a little unsatisfactory. Whoever Zhao Kuangyin asked him to be a horse would quickly lie on the ground and let him ride; Whoever Zhao Kuangyin wanted to kill, he would quickly stretch his neck and let him wipe it with a small stick as a knife; Whoever Zhao Kuangyin asked him to die would have to lie on the ground and pretend to be dead without moving; Whoever Zhao Kuangyin wanted to beat, he had to let him practice boxing motionless like a sandbag——
As the years grew, Zhao Kuangyin became more and more stubborn and arrogant. He said that what is right is how it is right, and what he says is wrong is not right, and what he says is not right, and what he says is not right. He had to do whatever he wanted, and if he didn't, he rolled around crying and smashed things.
If you want to know the future generations, please see the next time: the wisdom of the little master.