025: Twilight
After Ji Hongxuan left, Nalan Jinxiu didn't know what he could do for a long time. It's not because of anything else, but because there are no people to move around in the huge Ji Mansion. Fortunately, she found a way to pass the time, and every day when it was dark, she asked Ruyi to dress up as herself to sleep, and then dressed up as a man, and walked out of the house over the wall.
Jinling City is the capital of Ningguo, but also the economic core, has always been a family of families, there are quite a lot of wealthy families, famous literati and scholars and high-ranking officials of the court abound.
The northern suburbs are the most complicated places in Jinling City, and are home to ordinary people and peddlers. Some shady markets open here after dark, known as the "night market".
There are many shops in the night market, and these shops have closed doors and windows during the day, and there are no pedestrians on the whole street, but at night they are bustling. Everyone seems to acquiesce to this rule, as soon as it gets dark, there will be no official business in and out of the northern suburbs, and even if they want to come, they will disguise themselves as ordinary people to trade.
Nalan Jinxiu opened a medical clinic here, called "Green Capsule Medical Hall". There is an unwritten rule in the clinic that the person seeking the treatment is not allowed to ask questions, and the person who treats the death is not responsible.
At first, people saw that she was still young, and the rules were so strange, and that practicing medicine to save people was the right way, and she didn't need to open it when the night market was open, and they were so frightened that no one dared to come to the doctor.
On this day, there was an old man, a poor man, suffering from a strange disease, and no one was treated, so he came to her in desperation. The old man's name is Liu Hai, and the whole family barely lives on a few acres of thin fields. One day, Bang Hai came back from the field, with a painful look between his eyebrows and eyes, and grabbed the chickens in the chicken coop and tore them raw food.
The whole family was frightened, thinking that he had run into an evil spirit, and invited the goddess to come, but to no avail. After eating the chickens at home, they went to steal from other people's houses, and the amount of food was amazing, eating more and more every day, and the neighbors were also unbearable.
When Liu Hai came running, he was followed by a group of people, most of which meant that the dead horse was regarded as a live horse doctor, and it would be better if Liu Hai was cured to death, so as to save the strange disease and the scourge of the neighbors.
Nalan Jinxiu glanced at his bangs, and his expression was faint: "What new things have you eaten recently?"
"No!" the young man in a coarse cloth shirt cried: "My family is poor, and I can't eat a full meal, where is there anything new? My father is not evil, but he is just sick with a strange disease, son, you can save him." ”
Nalan Jinxiu's eyes never left his bangs, "What I said fresh is strange, something I haven't eaten before." ”
Bangs, who originally looked painful, seemed to suddenly remember something, his hands trembled, and his speech was slurred: "When I came back from the field that day, I washed my hands by the river, and saw a black fish, which happened to be very hungry, so I roasted it and ate it." ”
"Do you remember the shape of the fish, is it jet-black, with a giant pointed tail?"
Bangs nodded repeatedly.
Nalan Jinxiu nodded, "You wait here, I'll prepare a few herbs to draw out the things in your body." ”
When everyone heard her words, they panicked even more, and their bangs became clear in a hurry: "What's it? what's in my body?"
Nalan Jinxiu replied while dispensing medicine: "The black fish you eat, called Dry Dead, is a fish that lives by sucking carrion. This kind of fish has an extremely long lifespan because they have a parasitic Gu in their body, and if you eat the dry underworld, presumably that Gu has already arrived in your body. ”
The crowd began to gossip, most of them thinking that the young man was talking nonsense. How could there be fish in this world that eat carrion for a living? How could there be Gu in the body of a fish? Is it that Gu is crazy to eat when it comes to human bodies?
Nalan Jinxiu didn't explain much, only mashed the prepared medicinal materials into minced pieces, and put them in the incense burner to burn. There was a smell of medicinal herbs in the house, and everyone didn't react, except for bangs, which kept approaching the incense burner, and there was a greedy light in their eyes.
"Do you want to eat?" asked Nalan Jinxiu, bangs nodding frantically.
"Then go ahead!"
Bangs obediently threw himself in front of the incense burner and inhaled sharply. Soon after, a cloud of turbidity was spit out, accompanied by an unpleasant fishy smell.
Nalan Jinxiu held her breath, took the white jade porcelain bottle, introduced a translucent pink insect in the turbidity into the bottle, and sealed the mouth of the bottle.
The bangs over there were weak legs and fell to the ground.
"Are you dead?" someone asked.
Bangs' son threw himself at his father's side and cried.
Nalan Jinxiu put away the bottle, was in a very good mood, and couldn't help but smile: "Don't worry, he's just malnourished, you go back and make something warm for him to eat, and in less than seven days, he will be back to normal." ”
At this time, Liu Hai had fully sobered up, kneeling on the ground and worshipping her like a Bodhisattva, chanting words in his mouth, saying that he was much more comfortable now, and he really met a living Bodhisattva.
Nalan Jinxiu took out the money bag, handed it to Liu Hai's son, and said, "I only brought so much with me when I went out today, and I gave it to you, go back and buy some supplements for your father to condition his body." ”
Liu Hai's son was born tall and big, and immediately knelt on the ground, snot and tears, saying something like gratitude for great kindness.
Nalan Jinxiu couldn't hear these words the most, and waved his hand to signal them all to withdraw, holding the white jade bottle himself, overjoyed.
It is rare to have a dry underworld, and it is even more rare to have Gu in the body. This Gu is called "Twilight", and it has an extremely long lifespan, as long as there are parasites, it can stay alive forever. Because of this, it has the effect of prolonging life, but it also needs to be refined and processed, and fused with thousand-year-old turtle blood to make a longevity pill.
Taking the longevity pill, although it cannot maintain the appearance and immortality forever, it can indeed prolong life and buy time for the doctor. How can she not be happy that such a rare medicine primer has arrived in her hands?
When the master taught her before, he said that doctors are benevolent, and those who study medicine should take it as their responsibility to treat diseases and save people, and should not covet gold and silver and other things outside the body. She opened this shop in the night market and paid 600 taels for rent alone. She is a boudoir girl who is raised in someone else's house, where did she get so much cash and sold a lot of jewelry.
At this time, she felt that it was worth it, this night market was really not in vain, and there were surprises everywhere! She didn't rejoice for long, and someone entered the door, an old man in a black robe. Nalan Jinxiu recognized it at a glance, it was Lin Qingyang, the head of the Tai Hospital.
"Old man, I came looking for the smell of medicine, it turned out to be you again, a little girl!"
Nalan Jinxiu put away the small porcelain vase and pretended to be confused: "What are you talking about? I don't know you." ”
"Haha, the little girl pretended to be confused, aren't you Huaizhen's cousin? The last time I pulled out the arrow, the old man still remembers it vividly. ”
Huai Jin is Ji Hongye's character, this old man's eyes are really poisonous, he can recognize her just by seeing her in a hurry, and she is still dressed as a man. Nalan Jinxiu couldn't pretend to be confused, so she had to ask: "You are an official of the imperial court, what are you doing here?"