Midsummer night, the moon stands in the sky like a slim girl, she emits a bright soft light through the clouds and dust, looking at it from afar, like a big lamp, illuminating the entire Chang'an City very brightly.

At this time, an old man and a young man helped each other into the medical hall. Gongsun Yu was busy writing the medical record and was about to close the door, when he saw that it was Sima Qian and his grandson Yang Yun.

Gongsun Yu knew Sima Qian's intention, so he hurriedly closed the door and invited him into the inner room.

The summer night breeze dissipated the residual heat of the day, and the courtyard of the medical hall seemed even quieter, and Gongsun Yu was telling Sima Qian the story of finding the secret room according to the scripture map, and Sima Qian nodded his head in praise.

At this time, Yi Susu brought a bamboo ladder over, Gongsun Yu skillfully opened the mechanism of the octagonal well, after the door of the cave opened, put the bamboo ladder down, picked up the torch, led Sima Qian and Yang Yun into the secret passage together, until the secret room.

Sima Qian entered the secret room and was stunned by the scene in front of him, only to see that the walls around him were densely packed with slips. Gongsun Yu hurriedly introduced that the slips on the southeast and southeast walls are Canggong's medical books, and the northwest two sides are ancient medical books, that is, the legendary "Bian Que Medical Scripture".

Sima Qian saw the ancient medical scriptures in this room and exclaimed: "If I had seen these medical slips earlier, they would have been written into the "Taishi Gongji". ”

Gongsun Yu knew that there was "The Biography of Bian Que Cang Gonglie" in the "Historical Records", but the content in it was honestly that he hadn't read it seriously, of course, he had heard some strange things about Bian Que, so he asked: "My lord, do you introduce the deeds of the two people in detail in "The Biography of Bian Que Cang Gonglie", and now I see that the medical slips left by them are the same as what you recorded. ”

Sima Qian picked up the slips and looked at them, and said, "When I saw these medical slips, I felt that I had recorded too little. ”

Gongsun Yu hurriedly picked up the tung oil lamp and approached Sima Qian's side, and said jokingly: "Your Excellency, you can rewrite it." ”

Sima Qian smiled bitterly and said: "There is no need to rewrite, now even the copy has been copied, I think this secret room is very good, without further ado, I will transport the copy over tomorrow night and hide it in this secret room." ”

Gongsun Yu nodded and said, "I brought you in tonight with this intention, first, to let you see if this secret room can contain books, and secondly, to ask you how to repair and organize these medical slips." ”

Sima Qian carefully inspected the slips stacked on the four walls, and finally pointed to the pile of slips placed in the north corner of the wall and said: "This pile of slips should be collected by Bian Que's predecessors, and they are some years old and need to be repaired; The bottom few volumes have been broken, you have to repair it first, and the broken bamboo slips must be conjugated first, that is, the scattered and broken bamboo slips are assembled according to the ballast, texture, residual pen, font, shape, and context; Then there is the remote embellished, that is, those who are missing in the middle, but the upper and lower parts originally belong to a Jane together; If there is a missing text where only the residual pen remains, it can be restored by using the context and text comparison, but the fewer the residual strokes, the more difficult it is to recover; And those words are completely erased and mutilated, which cannot be filled, only a gap can be left to indicate that there are words here. ”

Sima Qian explained and demonstrated, and Gongsun Yu and Yi Susu also remembered it.

"For these bamboo slips that are broken and scattered, you can use new ropes to cross along the grooves on both sides of the bamboo slips." Dede

Sima Qian took the slips that had been scattered due to broken threads and continued to teach Gongsun Yu how to repair them. After Sima Qian's guidance, Gongsun Yu and Yi Susu also generally knew how to repair them, but how to sort out and classify these medical slips?

Gongsun Yu looked at some of the slips, which included "Six Sections of Tibetan Elephant Theory", "Linglan Secret Classics", "Five Tibetan Generation", "Five Tibetan Separate Theory", etc., as well as about the Yin and Yang Five Elements Theory, the pulse theory, with his memory, these are all included in the "Yellow Emperor's Neijing. Su Wen", and the "Yellow Emperor's Neijing" that we see in modern times was compiled by Wang Bing in the Tang Dynasty according to the Han Dynasty version, and the content is already lacking, that is to say, the original version of the "Yellow Emperor's Neijing" is also a biography.

With these questions, I thought that Sima Qian, one of the best talents in China for thousands of years, was in front of me, so I might as well ask him, so I asked: "My lord, these medical slips are rumored to be "Bian Que Medical Scripture", you have seen it and think it is not this medical scripture, I have asked you before have you read a medical scripture called "The Yellow Emperor's Neijing", you said that you have not heard of this medical scripture, but I took a look at it, and there are many articles in it that are included in this medical scripture. ”

Sima Qian has been reading these medical scriptures carefully, and then heard Gongsun Yu mention the medical scriptures of the Yellow Emperor's Neijing, and hurriedly said: "The so-called "Bian Que Medical Classics" are all because the descendants have not read them, and I thought that there is this medical scripture, just now I took a rough look, some of these medical scriptures are included in the "Su Wen", and some are included in the "Needle Sutra", I mentioned it in the "Bian Que Canggong Biography", these two medical scriptures I thought were lost, and they were originally here; There are also some of Bian Que's "Treatise on Medicine in the Past", "Pulse Death", "Sixty Prescriptions", "Upper and Lower Classics" and "Eyes", etc., and there are some that I have not heard of; I suggest that you combine these medical scriptures into a comprehensive medical scripture that explains the physiology, pathology, diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of the human body, which is generally called the Neijing. ”

Gongsun Yu felt that Sima Qian's suggestion was very good, but the name of "Neijing" seemed to be monotonous, at least it was not domineering, so he said: "Then organize it into an "Neijing", what is the good name?" ”

Sima Qian smiled faintly and said: "Haven't you been saying that there is a "Yellow Emperor's Inner Canon", then call it "The Yellow Emperor's Inner Canon", as pointed out in "Huainanzi Xiu Wu Xun", the name of the Yellow Emperor is intended to trace back to the source, so as to show that this medical scripture became famous early. ”

"The Yellow Emperor's Neijing, a nice name."

Yi Susu and Yang Yun on the side both clapped their hands, of course Gongsun Yu knew that there would be a medical scripture called "The Yellow Emperor's Neijing" in the future, but was it this one? I heard that the original copy of the "Yellow Emperor's Neijing" was later burned by Wang Mang, and the "Yellow Emperor's Neijing" circulated in modern society was compiled by Wang Bing of the Tang Dynasty in the part that was circulated among the people at that time. If this is the case, then it will be necessary to sort out another set when sorting out, so he said: "If you have time, you should also follow the example of Master Sima and make another copy, and then one will be destroyed, and the other will still be there." ”

Sima Qian also nodded in agreement: "This proposal is good, these medical slips are all treasures, and they should be used well; If the level of treatment is better, the emperor will not be diagnosed as someone cursing him, let alone bury Gu in the palace to exorcise ghosts and cure diseases; In the final analysis, the level of treatment is not high, and all families and factions have put their medical skills on the shelf and refuse to pass them on, so if you finish sorting out, don't hide in this secret room all the time, you should find some virtuous and capable people to pass it on, this is the task you have to do. ”

After listening to Sima Qian's words, Gongsun Yu really felt his heart surging, and he also felt his own burden, and he couldn't imagine that the inheritance of traditional Chinese medicine, one of the essences of Chinese civilization, also fell on my shoulders.

Sima Qian also skimmed the two piles of "Canggong Diagnosis Books" at the beginning, and he couldn't put it down, nodding while reading: "I wrote about 25 cases of Canggong's diagnosis books in "Taishi Gongji", which was lent to him by my father's friend Gao Lin, and his father copied it down, Gao Lin's father Gao Period was a disciple of Canggong, and Canggong once gave him some medical records. If it reaches those villains, they put it on the shelf, and then it can't be passed on. ”

"My lord, you have a point, just like the previous imperial physician Ling Wang Shuo and his son Wang Mao, they are this kind of villains, and they have always wanted to use unscrupulous means to get these medical scriptures and medical records, but fortunately, God has eyes and did not let their tricks succeed."

As soon as he heard that it was Wang Shuo and Wang Mao, Sima Qian also shook his head: "I once looked for Wang Shuo, and wanted to borrow a canggong medical certificate from him, and I could also enrich my "Taishi Gongji", but who knew that he made up a lie and refused, saying that the family had long been lost, and at a glance, he knew that there was a villain, and I heard that Wang Mao was cursed by witch Gu and burned to death with Su Wen because he lied to the emperor. ”

Sima Qian stayed in the secret room and didn't want to come out of these slips, but when it was almost dawn, he reluctantly walked out. In the evening of the next day, a carriage stopped at the entrance of the medical hall, and Gongsun Yu knew that it was Sima Qian who had brought his copy of "The Records of the Taishi Gongji", so they were busy for another night before moving this huge work into the secret room.

In this way, the copy of "Historical Records" was hidden in the secret room of the Boji Medical Center, which allowed this ancient masterpiece to be preserved, and it seems that Gongsun Yu still has merit.