On the evening of the fourth day, Yuan Er finally opened his eyes, drank some water and gruel and fell asleep again.

The doctor rushed to check the wound, and gave Yuan Zhi a pulse, admonishing: "The injured person has lost too much blood and is still very weak. For the next two days, he was mainly fed a light liquid diet, and after three days, he resumed his normal diet. Give him more supplements to replenish the lost vitality. ”

"Thank you, Doctor, for saving my life." Yuan Gang was grateful.

When Wang Yuan was digging tunnels in his previous life, a worker had an accident and had to amputate his leg because he was treated too late. He worried: "Will there be a problem with Yuan Er's leg, if he hurts the major artery, he doesn't need to amputate it, right?" ”

"Arteries I know, what are great arteries?" The doctor was puzzled.

For TCM, arteries have two meanings.

The place where the pulse is usually pressed is one of the arteries. There are also pulses that jump like beans and have an uneven rhythm, which are also called arteries.

Wang Yuan had no choice but to change his words and ask again: "I mean, Yuan Er injured the big blood vessels in his legs, will there be sequelae?" ”

"Great vessels?" The doctor was even more confused.

"Uh," Wang Yuan didn't know how to describe it, and asked, "Don't you know blood vessels?" ”

The doctor thought for a moment and asked, "You want to talk about meridians?" ”

"Your doctor calls the place where the blood circulates the meridians?" Wang Yuan felt that it was not clear.

For the sake of Wang Yuan being a distinguished guest of the Song family, the doctor patiently explained: "There is a cloud in the "Yellow Emperor's Neijing": 'If the husband is an eight-foot man...... His death can be dissected...... The twelve meridians, between the lines and the flesh, are deep and invisible. The floating and common veins are all veins. Look at the back of your hand, whether you can faintly see the green tendons, those are the human veins. The blood in the flesh runs, and those who are not visible in the depths are the meridians. ”

“？？？”

Wang Yuan had a black question mark on his face.

Those veins on the back of the hand are good or not, I know that an engineering dog who repairs bridges and makes holes, how did it become the veins in traditional Chinese medicine?

Also, aren't the meridians used to practice internal strength?

How did it become a deep and invisible large blood vessel in the mouth of this trauma doctor?

Wang Yuan pointed to his thighs and gestured: "What kind of meridian is here, it will spurt blood when injured." ”

"You're talking about the Chong Pulse," the doctor immediately laughed: "The Chong Pulse does not belong to the Twelve Righteous Meridians, but is one of the Eight Strange Meridians." The pulse originates in the cell, which is the sea of the twelve meridians, also known as the 'sea of blood', and the blood of the main body runs and gathers. ”

The doctor pointed to his body and explained again, and Wang Yuan probably understood.

In this doctor's understanding, the pulse is a large artery that extends from the head to the feet. And the twelve canons on the body, that is, the twelve major blood vessels, are like the twelve rivers, all of which must be gathered and distributed in the sea of blood of the Chongmai. As for the capillaries and the vein network on the body surface, they are regarded as the veins by the "Yellow Emperor's Neijing".

Doesn't it mean that the meridians have nothing to do with blood vessels?

Wang Yuan asked, "So, the blood of the whole body is circulating along the meridians?" ”

"Not really, the blood follows the meridians, but it does not coincide completely," the doctor shook his head and explained, "The meridians run not only blood, but also qi and marrow, involving the five internal organs. The pulse is the sea of blood, the middle of the body is the sea of qi, the brain is the sea of marrow, and the stomach is the sea of water valleys, which are collectively called the four seas. The network is a trickle, the meridian is a river, and the communication is all over the world, and the qi and blood are endless. ”

Wang Yuan was confused again, according to this doctor, sometimes blood flows along the meridians, and sometimes it doesn't flow along the meridians, so is it blood vessels? It's even more incomprehensible to what kind of hell is involved.

Anyway, he is not a doctor, so he is too lazy to ask the bottom of it, Wang Yuan said: "Then my companion's leg will not leave any sequelae?" ”

"Are you afraid that he will hurt Chong Mai?" The doctor smiled, "If the pulse is really injured, and the incense will bleed to death, how can I have the opportunity to carry it back to the city for treatment." Is the sea of blood just talking? Even if he barely survives, his qi and blood will be blocked, and his entire leg will be black and necrotic. It's been a few days, do you see his legs turn black? ”

As long as it didn't hurt the major arteries, Wang Yuan was finally relieved.

As the doctor said, if it was a hemorrhage in the aorta, the medical conditions at that time would have been thoroughly dead. It may have injured the femoral vein, causing massive bleeding in the femoral vein, and it can only be said that this guy is lucky.

The doctor picked up his wooden box and instructed: "The prescription I prescribed before has the effect of invigorating blood and removing blood stasis. There is still some bruising in his affected area, which will cause the meridians to be blocked, remember to continue decoction for a few days. If you want to remove stasis quickly, you can find another doctor for acupuncture. I mainly treat trauma and am not very good at acupuncture, so I can't help. ”

According to Yuan Er's symptoms at the moment, the so-called congestion of the affected area leads to poor meridians, which is translated into modern medical terms: congestion forms venous thrombosis, blocks the lumen of the veins, and leads to venous return disorders.

If the venous thrombosis is not eliminated, it is also possible to become lame and disabled, and even cause lesions of internal organs.

Yuan Gang asked Song Gongzi to invite a doctor who is proficient in acupuncture and moxibustion to apply needles and desilts to Yuan Zhi twice a day, morning and evening.

Even an honest person who is pedantic has his own personality charm. As Yuan Er got better day by day, Yuan Gang was grateful to Song Gongzi, and he was willing to risk his life to repay him.

As for Wang Yuan, he swore that he would never be injured again in this life, and the treatment of trauma by traditional Chinese medicine was so evil that he didn't even have an accurate concept of blood vessels.

However, after staying in the Song family for a few days, Wang Yuan also made a huge unexpected discovery.

The Song family actually wiped their butts with straw paper!

It's so cool, finally getting back a little bit of the feeling of modern life.

Master Shen was accustomed to this, and said: "In the land south of the Yangtze River, at least ten pieces of straw paper can be bought for a penny, and one piece of straw paper can be cut into several pieces of toilet paper. ”

Wang Yuan was puzzled: "Paper is used for writing, isn't it insulting to use paper to go to the toilet?" ”

Master Shen smiled: "Why are you so pedantic? When Sage Kong was alive, there was no paper in the world. The ancients used bamboo slips to write characters, and also used bamboo slips to go to the toilet, which is called 'toilet slips'. Today's people use paper to write and use paper to go to the toilet, which is really an act of remembrance of the ancestors! ”

This Nima's crooked reasoning can still make sense.

The Chinese wiped their butts with paper, at least from the Northern and Southern Dynasties.

Yan Zhitui of the Northern Qi Dynasty said in "Yan's Family Motto": "Therefore, the paper has the meaning of the Five Classics and the names of virtuous people, and I dare not use it!" This shows that there were people who wiped their buttocks with paper at that time, but it was not accepted by mainstream readers.

At the end of the Tang Dynasty, a big cannibal came to China to do business, and he expressed surprise in his travelogue: the Chinese actually did not wash with water, but wiped things with paper.

But it was really extended after the Yuan Dynasty.

Mongolian nobles don't care about insulting sages, isn't it just papyrus, Lao Tzu can afford to use it!

This kind of barbarian thinking was inherited to the Ming Dynasty, and the emperor wiped his buttocks with straw paper, and there was a special institution called the paper room of the internal official supervisor. As for the straw paper used by the eunuchs and palace maids, it was made by the Treasure Banknote Division - this treasure banknote division only made straw paper, including writing paper, and was responsible for printing the Ming treasure banknotes under the Treasure Banknote Lifting Division under the Ministry of Households.

No matter what, Wang Yuan finally said goodbye to the days of wiping his butt with leaves. He even stole a stack of papyrus from the Song family and hid it in case of emergency...... Well, it's taking, not stealing.

Another half a month passed, and Yuan Zhi was already able to walk on the ground.

Yuan Gang and Wang Meng returned to the cottage and brought several other children who were willing to study to the Song clan together.

On the occasion of enrollment, Song Gongzi gave Wang Yuan a bookcase.

This box is a reborn lacquerware, that is, with silk cloth and lacquer, mounted layer by layer on the embryo, after drying the original tire, and then ash, polishing, grinding paint, and painted with a layer of colored paint. Not only that, but the surface is also inlaid with gold and silver, and various decorative items are attached.

Only this bookbox is estimated to be worth a ploughing cow, and I heard that it is the examination box used by Song Gongzi for the second township examination. Because he fainted because he was sick in the examination room, Song Gongzi felt unlucky, so he kept throwing it in the study to cover the dust, and simply used the waste to send it to Wang Yuan to study.

Liu Yaozu also brought a bookcase, which was made by Carpenter Liu himself. The material is Qinggang wood, which is quite heavy when put into books, and Liu Yaozu can only carry it to school.

The other children wore sacks in burlap bags, or shoulder bags, in much the same style as they did hundreds of years later.

Song Gongzi sent people to send them to Beiya, and even arranged accommodation.

With Song Ji's honesty and honesty, it is inevitable to treat him differently. Wang Yuan was arranged in a serious guest room, and the other children in the village all lived with the Song family.

Soon it was the first day of school, and a maid brought a meal early: "Prince Wang, please have breakfast!" ”

Wang Yuan listened to her Guizhou official dialect with an accent and asked, "Which tribe are you from?" ”

"Hui Gongzi, I am Dong Jiamiao." The maid said.

As soon as Wang Yuan heard her claim herself, he knew that she had been brainwashed.

There is a chain of racial contempt hidden here, and ethnic groups other than the Han people in Guizhou are regarded as Miao people indiscriminately, such as Dong family Miao, Shui Jia Miao, Qi Miao, etc., and the people who wear green are often regarded as black Miao by Han officials.

Even the Zhong family of the Song clan was called "Zhong Family Miao" by the Han people.

Influenced by this, the Shuidong Song clan also added the word "Miao" to each ethnic group, which is a contemptuous term for non-Miao ethnic groups.

When the maid introduced herself, she used a disparaging term for her own people. Then she should have come to the Song family as a slave at a very young age, or even simply a slave, and she already had a sense of identity with the Song family, but she looked down on her own clan.

Wang Yuan asked again, "What's your name?" ”

"Acai." The maid replied.

Wang Yuan inquired: "You also came to deliver food last night, and you also sent hot water to wash my feet." Do you have anything else to do? ”

The maid Ah Cai said: "The master asked me to serve the son. ”

Wang Yuan understood that this maid was sent by Song Jian.

It can't be regarded as surveillance, it's equivalent to inspection, if Wang Yuan's academic performance is too poor, it is estimated that he will not be able to enjoy all kinds of preferential treatment in the future. If Wang Yuan showed an amazing talent for the imperial examination, Song Jian would definitely increase funding, and the maid could be regarded as a resource used to invest and win over.

There was no shortage of slaves in the Song family, and even most of the slaves did not need to be paid, but were recruited in the form of village servitude.

Ah Cai, who was raised from a young age, has a lower status, and most of them belong to slaves. But he is more trusted, he is already a domestic slave, and he may be married in the future, and the family will continue to work for the Song family.

Like the more than ten guards around Song Ling'er, all of them are born to the family, they have been carefully cultivated since childhood, and they are even sent to read and write. As long as you give a little preferential treatment, you will be loyal, and you can block the sword and arrow for the master at any time.

Wang Yuan ate a piece of meatloaf and thought it tasted good, so he said, "These are not enough for me to fill my stomach, can you bring some more?" ”

Ah Cai immediately stepped back, and soon brought another plate of meatloaf.

Wang Yuan ate some by himself, put the rest of the meatloaf into the bookcase, and planned to go to the school to distribute it to his partners in the village.

Ah Cai took the initiative to help Wang Yuan carry the bookcase, took him dozens of steps away from the clan study, and said: "Childe, according to the rules of the Song clan, no one is allowed to bring his entourage in, not even a scholar, and the slave can only be sent here." ”

"Thank you!" Wang Yuan took the bookcase.

Before Ah Cai had gone far, Song Ling'er came with a reluctant face.

She was escorted by her own bodyguards, with a rope tied to her wrist. The horse was not ridden, because it was not allowed to ride a horse when it entered the northern ya, and even the weapons on his body were confiscated.

In her depression, Song Ling'er suddenly saw an acquaintance, and hurriedly waved her hand and shouted, "Hey...... That blue-clad barbarian, you're also here to study? Is that companion of yours dead? ”