18. Chapter 18
Many years later, when Zhou De was so old that his teeth almost fell out, his speech leaked, and he no longer sat in the hall to diagnose diseases, the only time in his life that he served Gu Chaoge as a deputy was still the most talked about story with his children and grandchildren.
It was an era of war and chaos, but a good doctor would never suffer, whether it was a thief or an official, as long as a person would get sick, he needed a doctor. Zhou De recognized this, he was calm when the Red Turban Army entered the city, and later he was recruited to treat the people of the Red Turban Army, and he was not in a hurry.
Originally, if it weren't for the appearance of that little girl, Zhou De, who was mixed with a group of old acquaintances and peers, might never know how far away his medical skills were from a real master.
He couldn't even answer what kind of medicine the bamboo leaf soup and bezoar paste were used in the menstrual period. It's like a pocket full of air, full of vigor and might, but in front of a truly hard and indestructible gem, it will break with a single blow, leaving only a shriveled and broken bag.
However, Zhou De was smarter than other peers, he did not stupidly boycott Gu Chaoge, but actively invited her to the court for a consultation, and respectfully gave up the throne that he had sat on for half his life to that delicate and weak little girl.
He has his own plans. People who have the ability can eat anywhere, instead of stupidly relying on the advantages of the land to suppress others, it is better to learn from others with an open mind, and they can also gain a good reputation for themselves.
The benefits of inviting Gu Chaoge are greater than Zhou De imagined, this little girl is indeed very accurate, ordinary patients, a pair of medicines, and the results are immediate. She made his hospital famous, and patients flocked to him, and the peers who were jealous of him, led by Liu Fuqing, not only failed to threaten him, but were also attacked by the Red Turban Army, and Liu Fuqing was also imprisoned.
Thirty years in Hedong, thirty years in Hexi, when Gu Chaoge leaves, the position of the first doctor in Chuzhou City, it should be his turn to sit Zhou De! Zhou De twisted his beard, sat in the inner hall of the medical hall, flipped through the account book with one hand, and fiddled with Gu Chaoge's prescriptions for many days with the other, happily imagining the future.
Unexpectedly, a thunderbolt fell on a sunny day, and the people of the Red Turban Army came to the door, and Gu Chaoge invited him to go to Liu's Mansion.
Liu's house? That Liu Fuqing's home?
What are you doing there?
Zhou De was inexplicable, but it was obviously unwise to reason with these rebellious soldiers. So he went, and when he went, he immediately regretted it......
Disemboweling a person? Cut off a piece of intestine and sew it up? My good girl, this little girl thinks she is being a female celebrity, or is she playing a house?
Even though he was very confident in Gu Chaoge's medical skills, when he heard that he was going to use a knife, Zhou De's head shook like a rattle. When she learned from the Liu family, she actually made a note, if she killed the patient's name because of the knife, she was willing to die, and Zhou De was even more dumbfounded.
Is it worth putting your life on the line for an old man who is dying?
Zhou De, who has lived for half his life, can also be regarded as a medical family, he recited the soup song under his father's knee when he was very young, and he had to distinguish what kind of medicine it was when he grabbed a handful of herbs in his dream.
If you can't learn the craft, you won't have anything to eat.
That's what his father told him.
Doctors, like other craftsmen, rely on skill to eat, but doctors hold silver in one hand and human life in the other, so they should be extra cautious and never accept dying patients.
These are all the cognitions and experiences that Zhou De has gained for half his life, and Gu Chaoge's approach is obviously beyond his cognition. If he hadn't spent many days with this little girl and knew her level, he might have thought she was a madman like everyone else.
Watching the excitement? Yes, since she made the note, the eldest lady of the Liu family was afraid that she would regret it, and she took the note to publicize it everywhere, and most of the people in Chuzhou City knew about it.
"Doctor Zhou, your handling of trauma is very good, I believe in your ability, and you really need a deputy to help, so that you can have greater certainty."
The delicate and weak little girl, who was as high as his chin, with a pair of big black and white eyes, looked at him sincerely and begged him: "Doctor Zhou, if something happens, I, Gu Chaoge, will bear it alone, and it will never affect you." ”
Alas, when it comes to this, if he doesn't help, is he still a person?
Zhou De sighed: "You say, what does the old man need to do." ”
Many years later, when Zhou De recalled the operation that disemboweled, he still felt thrilled. For most of his life, it was the first and only time he had seen the inner structure of a living person, and although he only had a glimpse of it, he still felt frightened and mysterious.
Unlike dealing with trauma, he always thought that no Chinese medicine doctor could tell what the human body looked like.
But this little girl, who tripped over the threshold at the first meeting, cried and cried, holding sharp scissors and knives, wearing specially treated sheep intestines, and her hands were as dexterous as a snake and as steady as a rock. He gave her a hand beside him, doing some simple things as she asked, and looked at her with a calm face, and her eyes were amazingly bright when he moved the knife, as if they would glow, and he suddenly felt a little frightened.
This girl really doesn't look like a little girl.
It can't be a goblin from somewhere, right? Don't the old people often say that the world is chaotic and monsters are rampant?
How can there be a young girl with excellent medical skills who can cut open people's stomachs to cure diseases? Zhou De muttered while assisting her to complete this extraordinary treatment under Gu Chaoge's instructions, watching her finally apply a strange plaster to the patient's wound that he couldn't name, Zhou De felt that the plaster might also be a magic weapon for monsters.
The little girl is very sensitive. When she inadvertently looked up and saw Zhou De's inquiring and defensive gaze, she seemed to quickly understand what Zhou De was thinking, perhaps because every time she did something like this before, she would see the same gaze around her.
"We can cure many diseases, but we are also helpless against many diseases, what are the mysteries buried in the human body, as a doctor, we must not turn a blind eye and rest on our laurels."
She suddenly said something full of exclamation, and this was obviously for Zhou De.
"This is what my master said." She smiled at Zhou De, turned the bright knife in her hand in a beautiful circle, and threw it into the boiling water. Looking down at the pot of boiling water, the little girl's voice sounded very melancholy: "Because of this, he was regarded as a heretic, expelled from the house, and wandered for half his life, but he always insisted on his choice. ”
"Doctor Zhou, I also think I did the right thing."
The little girl turned her back to him, the same, meticulously cleaning up the instruments that ordinary doctors would not use at all, and her back looked very stubborn, stubborn and aggrieved.
Is this sad to see people not understanding themselves?
Alas, he was thinking about something, he was just a delicate little girl, and the style of the master he followed was strange, so he was just crooked, how could it be a monster?
Zhou De stepped forward humbly to help Gu Chaoge clean up together. With his ideological awareness, he couldn't understand how much Gu Chaoge's high-end master cared about the common people, but the effect after moving the knife was really good, seeing is believing, and this immediate miraculous curative effect made him admire it very much.
After the mouth was stitched up, Doctor Gu said that she was not out of danger, and she personally guarded the old man Zheng Lin's house for several days, and food, medicine, water, everything had to be carefully prepared. It wasn't until the old man woke up and could defecate and eat normally that she announced that Mr. Zheng was fine, and now he only needed to drink some Chinese medicine to recuperate.
She happily packed up her things and prepared to leave, saving herself from staying in Liu's Mansion to be suspicious, but Zhou De found that the disappointed eyes of the eldest lady of Liu's Mansion seemed to be very unwilling not to kill Gu Chaoge.
The people of this Liu Mansion are really not good things. Zhou De frowned, remembering that Gu Chaoge had been in Liu's Mansion these days, Miss Liu had not been less publicized outside that Gu Chaoge was a monster who would disembowel, and many foolish women saw that she was dressed like a person, and they all believed her, and when they went back, they would spread it to ten, ten, ten, and hundred, so that everyone in the street knew that Gu Chaoge would disembowel the patient's stomach.
Alas, these stupid people don't know the truth of the matter, let alone witness it with their own eyes, how do they know that her move can be called an immortal who saved people from the hands of Hades?
Zhou De lamented in his heart how pitiful these people who don't read, don't read newspapers, and don't like to study, as if he forgot that he almost thought that Gu Chaoge was a monster.
"Little Doctor Gu, the old man thinks that when Zheng Lin is fully recovered, you can go again." I don't know what kind of moth will come out of Miss Liu, after all, Zhou De has a lot of social experience, so he whispered a reminder beside Gu Chaoge. In order to kill the enemy, he sent his father-in-law to the Yellow Spring, this kind of thing is not uncommon.
It's a pity that the little girl didn't open her mind, she looked at him strangely: "Why? Isn't it obvious that he would be able to take more medicine and be alive, and I would save him with a knife? "Could it be that the people of the Liu Mansion can still deny it?
Zhou De was stunned, and suddenly a flash of inspiration flashed, yes! As long as the people in the Liu Mansion can't deny it and admit that she did cure Zheng Lin, that note will be invalid, and if Miss Liu wants to frame Gu Chaoge again, it will be difficult for her to go to heaven!
"The old man will gather all the famous doctors in Chuzhou City!" Zhou De stroked his baby beard, his face was full of red, and he looked very excited: "Let your peers come to the clinic in person to see if you really used the knife to cure Zheng Lin, if this is the case, no one wants to splash the dirty water!" ”
Many years later, every time Zhou De recalled his brilliant idea, he felt that he was extremely witty. Every time I tell this story to my children and grandchildren, in addition to describing how Mr. Gu, who later became famous all over the world, used excellent techniques when he used the knife, he emphasized his own contribution to the aftermath of this incident.
"If it weren't for the old man asking all the doctors in the city to come and guarantee Mr. Gu, Liu Fuqing's femme fatale daughter would have framed her, and if that time comes, I'm afraid there will be no her now!" At the end of the story, Zhou De, an old man with a long white beard, raised his head and chest, proud.
"Great-grandpa, what about Lord Yi, I heard that Lord Yi was in our Chuzhou City at that time, he will definitely support Mr. Gu!" The innocent great-granddaughter held her cheeks and thought: "As long as someone wants to harm Mr. Gu, Master Yi will teach them all a lesson, ruthlessly!" ”
I-sama? Zhou De pulled out a tall and thin figure from his distant memories, in the few days that Gu Chaoge was squatting in Liu's Mansion to take care of the patient, the adult did seem to have appeared once for a short time, but he didn't even get off the carriage, as if he was just passing by to have a look.
And after seeing that adult, Dr. Gu Xiao's face was gloomy and puffed up, looking for things everywhere, saying that he was going to paste someone's birthday to tie the villain.
Hehe, this kind of cruel truth, it's better not to tell it as a story to your great-granddaughter, Zhou De thought.