Chapter Seventy-Four: The Legacy of the Green Capsule
(Note: The medicinal materials and medical methods mentioned in this chapter are based on the theories of Chinese medicine, and readers should not believe them as true.) )
After Lieutenant Bard lay down, Qin Zhihong was about to give him a needle, although this foreigner was tall and a soldier, but when he saw the needle in Qin Zhihong's hand, he couldn't help but tremble a little. Qin Zhihong hurriedly explained to him with a smile, and after Bard explained through the translation, he heard that what Qin Zhihong said was no different from his usual symptoms, so he was a little more relieved, so he settled down and was willing to accept treatment.
Qin Zhihong first burned the needle on the candle for a while to sterilize, and then wrapped the needle handle with moxa, respectively, in the main acupoints such as Kidney Yu, Guan Yuan, Dazhu, Fengmen, etc., into the needle ranging from one and a half to three inches, with acupoints to take the knee eye, Liangqiu, Kunlun, Waiguan acupoints into the needle, and then ignited the moxa wool, in this way, acupuncture and moxibustion are applied together, called "warm needle".
At this time, Bud felt that his knees, ankles, and various needles were burning, but it was very comfortable, and the smell of wormwood in the room was tangy, and he couldn't help but look at Qin Zhihong with admiration, and when the acupuncture was completed, Bud got up and gave a thumbs up to praise Qin Zhihong's cleverness, and even the translator was dumbfounded.
Qin Zhihong also told Sù Bad that as for the injuries suffered during the battle, he needed medicine to invigorate blood and dispel blood stasis, at this time, Qin Zhihong didn't care whether the little medicine and wine in his medicine gourd could make money, anyway, in order to survive at this time, and to save Lian'er's life, he could only use all his might. So he used a cotton ball to stand on the potional wine and wiped it on the wound on Bud's right knee, and let Bard take out all the remaining medicinal wine and take it in three parts.
Bard has always been helpless about his rheumatism for many years, and every autumn and winter, he has a terrible attack, which is really unbearable, Qin Zhihong took a moment, a few stitches, the pain stopped, and he moved freely, and he couldn't help but admire. Then Bard ordered Lian'er to be untied, and she was released, and thanked her repeatedly. Before leaving with Qin Zhihong's medicinal wine, Bud also hugged Qin Zhihong personally, which made Qin Zhihong feel very uncomfortable, but foreigner etiquette has always been like this, and he didn't dare to resist.
In the past few days, Bard has come to Boss Wang every day to find Qin Zhihong for needles, but he didn't bring a translator to come, and the expression of meaning after the two got acquainted with each other was basically fine. On this day, he finished acupuncture, and said that he would invite Qin Zhihong to dinner, but before Qin Zhihong could speak, he took Qin Zhihong to the tavern. Boss Wang was only on the side, and he didn't dare to interject, but Lian'er muttered in a low voice:
"Foreigners are also strange and interesting......"
In the middle of the banquet, Qin Zhihong learned that Bard was an Englishman and a descendant of a nobleman, but later failed in business and owed a lot of debts, although he had a knighthood, he did not have the capital to be in the social world, so he joined the army and became a lieutenant in British India, and this time he came from India to participate in the coalition battle.
Bud likes the roast duck in Beijing very much, but he doesn't like toads and abalone, he thinks those things can't be eaten at all, and as for the coriander popping sandan, when he heard that it was a cow shutter, he just waved his hand and didn't eat it. And when it comes to Bud's favorite is Lao Baigan, he gave a thumbs up after a few sips.
However, Bud seems to feel that there are so many good things in China, and he can't be too cold, so he took out the PocketFlask he brought with him, unscrewed the lid and let Qin Zhihong taste it, Qin Zhihong drank foreign wine for the first time, thinking it would be very strong, in fact, Bud didn't like to drink spirits, but liked to take two sips of wine, so Qin Zhihong didn't drink much in the first sip, only felt a little sour when he entered and exited, but the aftertaste was also extremely mellow.
However, when Bud took out his cigarette and asked Qin Zhihong to taste it, Qin Zhihong thought it was nothing, so he took a sip, and suddenly the world spun around, causing Bud to laugh.
After three rounds of wine and five flavors of food, Bard didn't know Lao Baigan's stamina, and he was already a little staggered at this time, so Qin Zhihong also carried him back to Boss Wang's pharmacy and arranged for him to sleep.
The next day, Bud woke up and thought back to yesterday's events, only to realize that he had spent the night at the pharmacy drunk, so he got up to say goodbye.
At this time, Qin Zhihong came to the store early to help Boss Wang get up, and Xiao Danzi also felt that it was safer to be here with Boss Wang, so he begged to stay as a buddy. Qin Zhihong saw that Bud was leaving, so he hurriedly put down the work in his hand to send it, but Bud suddenly remembered something, so he turned around and motioned for Qin Zhihong to come over.
Qin Zhihong didn't know what was going on, so he walked over, only to see Bard take out a book from his clothes, hand it to Qin Zhihong, and say:
"I ...... Inside your palace, now...... To you. ”
Qin Zhihong took the book, didn't read it, and couldn't help but be startled when he saw it, it turned out to be a volume of "Siku Quanshu", which was written "King James Siku Quanshu, Sub-department, Qingbao Testament".
Qin Zhihong had long heard his grandfather and father say that the "Book of Green Capsules" was the work of Hua Tuo, a famous doctor in the late Eastern Han Dynasty. Hua Tuo can be said to be a figure who has a unique way in traditional Chinese medicine and surgery, but due to the war, his book "Green Capsule Book" has long been lost, and according to legend, there are only a very few prescriptions and medical skills handed down, but the Qing Dynasty has been nearly two thousand years away from the Eastern Han Dynasty, and many things are deceived by the fake Hua Tuo, and how many are credible?
So Qin Zhihong flipped through it, but he couldn't think about it carefully in a hurry, thinking that it was better to stay and go back and read it carefully, and Bard also told Qin Zhihong that he couldn't understand these things in the book, so he gave them to Qin Zhihong, thinking that he would be useful.
After Qin Zhihong sent Bud away, he hurriedly hid the book in his arms, and at this time Lian'er also came over and asked him what Bud had just told him, Qin Zhihong just said something inconsequential, but did not mention the book, for fear of being known by others.
During the day, Qin Zhihong and Lian'er were both helping in Boss Wang's store, and Boss Wang was also happy that Qin Zhihong was here, at least those foreigners would not grab their own store, so Boss Wang felt that Qin Zhihong was a talisman, so he treated him and Lian'er as if they were guests. Qin Zhihong naturally wanted to avoid this catastrophe and stop being considered a boxer and causing a disaster, so he was willing to temporarily stay with Boss Wang.
When the two returned to the house in the evening, Qin Zhihong told Lian'er about the book that Bard gave him during the day, and asked him to keep quiet. Qin Zhihong lit a night candle and looked at this book carefully, although he had never used many recipes, but with experience, there were many recipes in this "Green Capsule Testament" that were the most ordinary, and there was nothing unusual, which showed that many of Hua Tuo's secret recipes handed down in later generations were actually fake. Qin Zhihong couldn't help but feel a little lost, thinking to himself, it seems that even if it is an officially revised book, there is no shortage of clichés.
But when Qin Zhihong saw the last formula, he fell into distressed thoughts. This recipe is called "Seven Spirits Flower Powder", which is a kind of internal and external powder for the treatment of trauma, at the beginning of the period, he felt that the recipe composed of seven flavor medicines, how big the spring and autumn period can be, but carefully speculated, in which the medicine cooperates with each other to suppress each other in harmony and order. In the process of making zuò, although there are few written records, but the requirements are extremely high, such as when it comes to the strychnine medicine, the color needs to be "brown and yellowish, such as the soil of the pickaxe", which is obviously extremely troublesome and difficult to master.
At this time, the seven medicinal materials of the Seven Spirits Flower Scatter Qin Zhihong's house happened to have the medicine, so he hurriedly made the seven Spirits Flower Scatter according to the recipe overnight, and the next day he asked Lian'er to go to Boss Wang's, and told him that Qin Zhihong felt the wind and cold, and he would go to help in a few days, but Qin Zhihong was busy at home and rushed to make the Seven Spirit Flower Scatter, so he had to try out how effective this recipe was.
After two days of busyness, Qin Zhihong finally cured the first dose of Qiling Huasan's powder, but in view of the toxicity of the medicinal materials in the formula, especially the internal prescription, if it is not prepared properly, it will kill people, so he first went to the market to buy a few live chickens, and when feeding, he put two of them into the prescription he prepared, but in less than a day, the two chickens for the prescription were poisoned and died.
Qin Zhihong opened the book at this time to figure out the preparation method of the recipe, and felt that it must be something that was not operated properly and did not achieve the effect, so he tried step by step, and finally when he tried the medicine for the third time, the live chickens used to test the medicine were safe and sound, but he also lost the lives of six chickens for this.
At this time, Qin Zhihong had already mastered the preparation method, so he wanted to try the effect of the medicine, although the poison he prepared was not dead, but it had to be effective, and if it didn't work, it would be in vain. At this time, Qin Zhihong suddenly thought of Bud, didn't he just have a traumatic injury? It's best to give him a try.
So he brought his own medicine powder to Boss Wang's pharmacy again, Qin Zhihong is not here these days, Bud has come to look for him twice, but he didn't find him, but today it also happened that Bud actually came to Qin Zhihong again.
Bard was very happy to see Qin Zhihong, Qin Zhihong still gave him warm acupuncture therapy, and told him to pay attention to heat preservation and not to be too tired, especially in the autumn and winter season. After that, Qin Zhihong said that he wanted to give medicine to Bud's wound, and Bud naturally had no doubts about Qin Zhihong at this time, so he gladly accepted it, Qin Zhihong gave the internal powder to Bud's water, and then applied the external powder to the wound, and instructed him to change the dressing on time for three days.
Sure enough, after Bud used Qin Zhihong's medicine, the palm-sized wound did not need to be wrapped in bandages at once, and it quickly scabbed, and the redness and swelling faded after two days, obviously just waiting for it to heal. Qin Zhihong couldn't help but be surprised by the miraculous effect of this recipe, and thought, with this recipe, will he still be worried in this life? He couldn't help but flutter in his heart, but he didn't dare to say anything, and how could Bard know that it was the mystery in the book he gave him, if this foreigner knew that he gave Qin Zhihong such a magical and powerful recipe, the intestines might really regret it as "Coriander Burst Pill".
In fact, this "Green Capsule Testament" is a volume of the sub-section of the Siku Quanshu, and there is no number, Qin Zhihong was also worried that the court would recover it afterwards, so he quickly copied a copy of the Ming Fang in the book, but he didn't know that although the "Siku Quanshu" had an outline, it was destroyed by foreigners a lot at that time, and where to chase it.
Moreover, there is one more important point, and what Qin Zhihong does not know, is that there are not many parts of the "Siku Quanshu", which can complement each other. In fact, the whole set of "Siku Quanshu" is only collected in the "North Fourth Pavilion" and "South Third Pavilion", the North Fourth Pavilion includes the Forbidden City Wenyuan Pavilion, Liaoning Shenyang Wensu Pavilion, Yuanmingyuan Wenyuan Pavilion, Hebei Chengde Wenjin Pavilion, and the South Three Pavilions are Yangzhou Wenhui Pavilion, Zhenjiang Wenzong Pavilion and Hangzhou Wenlan Pavilion. In the chaotic years of the late Qing Dynasty, these collections were destroyed, and now a complete "Complete Book" can no longer be found.
Moreover, the "Siku Quanshu" in each pavilion is different, and this "Qing Bao Legacy" was obviously stolen or snatched by Bud from the Wenyuan Pavilion in the Forbidden City, as the first royal library pavilion, it will obviously be more comprehensive than the "Siku Quanshu" in other places. Moreover, not everyone can read the "Siku Quanshu", only the emperor and some ministers can read it, and only some of the ministers can read it.
Thinking that year, Qianlong was very prosperous, but he was anxious for almost all the students of the country to repair this "Quanshu", which seems to be contradictory, but in fact, it is a purpose, that is, to unify speech. When Qianlong was revising the "Siku Quanshu", it can be said that he had undergone major surgery on the ancient books:
The first is burning. The "Siku Quanshu" contains more than 3,000 kinds (one says 3,161 kinds), but the ones that are abandoned and burned are comparable to him, which is also about 3,000 kinds. The second is deletion. Many ancient books have been deleted in a bad way, and some have even been cut by more than half, just to conform to the Manchu rule. The third is to change. The most famous are the two famous sentences, Yue Fei's "Man Jianghong" in "Zhuang Zhi hungry for Hulu meat, laughing and thirsty for Xiongnu blood" was changed to "Zhuang Zhi hungry for eating meat, laughing and thirsty for Xiongnu blood", Xin Qiji's "Yongyule" in "The sun grass and trees, ordinary alleys, humane slaves once lived" The "slave" was changed to "Song Lord", because the Manchu Qing Dynasty was a foreigner, and it was very taboo to "Hulu" and other derogatory terms, and although the slave was the nickname of Liu Yu of the Southern Song Dynasty, his parents did not consider it when they named him. I didn't think that more than 1,500 years later, there would be a dynasty that would also want to live in the Central Plains, so Xin Jiaxuan was very helpless. The fourth is wrong, that is, some managers deliberately write mistakes when copying, in order to let Qianlong see the imperial approval of Hou Zhuzi, satisfy the emperor's vanity, and make him feel that his knowledge is not bad, but you write ten books full of mistakes, the emperor will read ten pages, and he can't find all of them, this is like playing minesweeper, how can there be so much thought and energy, and finally the emperor read a few pages, upset, and Zhu Pitong guò, the director saw that the emperor had changed, who dared to change it, so it was just that, plate making and printing.
No wonder Mr. Lu Xun said in "Essays on Jieting: Miscellaneous Talks After Illness": The Qing people usurped the "Siku Quanshu" and the ancient books died.
Gossip is aside, but no matter what, even Qin Zhihong doesn't know that the volume of "The Legacy of the Green Bag" in his hand turned out to be the original copy of Wenyuan Pavilion, if he knew this, he might be even more excited.