The season soon came to Bailu.

Now, the most intense and busiest harvest season of the year has passed, and country people are gradually appearing on the streets of Fangzhou City. These people generally wear black hats, colorful silk shirts, and low leather boots on their feet, and deliberately make a solemn and calm appearance when they walk, and occasionally pop out one or two ancient words when they speak, but the real city people can see at a glance that they are the rich people of the country. These self-righteous countrymen drove horse-drawn carts or ox-carts, pulled cartloads of surplus grain that could not be eaten and exchanged them for more or less money at the yamen or grain merchants, and then wore dirty coats on their shoulders and went in and out of large and small wine shops and restaurants, eating and drinking one by one with red faces; After eating a mouth, he pulled a few feet of silk and satin fabric for the adult dolls in the family, weighed a few catties of sesame candy sticking to the sesame seeds, and shouted in groups of three to pull the cart home with livestock. Many people drank too much Huo's liquor, and before the car left the city, they lay on their backs and fell asleep on the car, snoring and pulling as loud as thunder......

After the white dew, it rained for several days. The rain not only takes away the hot heat, but also washes away the dust in the air; The weather suddenly became cooler.

An autumn rain in the night continued to fall until the next morning.

It was almost noon when the rain stopped. But the sky did not clear immediately, and thick gray clouds still covered the whole sky. The sun is obscured by the clouds, and a pale spot of light is reflected on the clouds. Clusters of golden osmanthus flowers hung everywhere on the osmanthus tree in the courtyard, and the air was filled with an intoxicating fragrance of flowers. A flock of grass finches jumped up and down in the mud under the trees; They swooped and pecked at the rain-beaten osmanthus flowers, and they chattered non-stop.

Shang Cheng wore a long-sleeved cloth shirt, sat on a stool under the dripping eaves with his waist straight, and asked the divine doctor to put a silver needle on his head. The two imperial doctors who had come all the way from the capital to treat him arrived yesterday evening. Because Shang Cheng only believed in the medical skills of the Zhu Divine Doctor, there was nothing for them here for the time being, so he helped the Zhu Divine Doctor on the side, and by the way, he also watched his needles. As for the two local doctors in Fangzhou before, on the day Zhu Daichun arrived, Shang Cheng gave ten taels of silver gifts and sent them away.

Zhu Shen Doctor gave Shang Cheng's forehead angle next to the temple and placed another needle, released the left hand that tightened the skin of the forehead, twisted the needle tail with his right hand and turned it a few times, and said to the two peers: "When my father taught me the method of using needles, I repeatedly told me that the needle used here should not be too deep by three, and the shallow should not be less than seven centimeters. The general has a headache and dizziness, and his ears are ringing like drums, so I will take one of them, and everyone thinks the two are right? ”

Two imperial doctors from Beijing, one is proficient in surgical blue and red injuries, and the other is good at regulating yin and yang, but they are all general in the use of acupuncture, and they are not proficient. They all know the truth that Zhu Daichun said on his lips that "the needle is taken slowly and slowly", but he can't see the way he moves the needle in any way, not to mention that Zhu Daichun doesn't use his palms and fingers to measure and take acupoints, one end talks to them, and the other ends are still needles on the forehead, eye sockets, cheeks and neck of Admiral Yanshan...... The two of them squeezed a little smile on their faces. Alas, this country wild man is too daring! You must know that his current patient is not a hard-working man, but the fourth general of Yanshan Admiral, if he doesn't pay attention to a good person, will it be his or the two of them? I'm afraid I won't even be able to find a place to reason at that time!

Taking advantage of the time when Zhu Daichun turned around to take the needle, the two of them quietly glanced at each other, both pouting and shaking their heads and sighing silently. No way, who made Shang Yanshan believe in this person the most?

Zhu Daichun took out a silver needle from the cotton handkerchief in the small silver box, and first took a wet handkerchief that had been soaked in white wine and carefully wiped the silver needle. A physician hurriedly poured Huo's liquor from the newly opened gourd into a belly dish, and when he burned it with an open flame, a cluster of blue-white flames immediately rose on the edge of the dish. Zhu Daichun shook the needle back and forth in the flame a few times, wiped it with a handkerchief dipped in wine, and then wiped it with a clean raw cloth, and then pierced the silver needle under Shang Cheng's left ear.

After the needle was pierced, he washed his hands in the copper basin brought by the maid, sat down at the small table by the door, and took a sip of tea and soup.

The two imperial doctors were puzzled. They can see it clearly, the place where the last needle falls is neither an acupuncture point, nor a place where qi and blood coagulation cannot penetrate, but the wild lang who is plugged here just prick a needle here, what is the mystery in it?

Despite their suspicions, they did not speak. This kind of thing cannot be asked, let alone inquired. Whether it's a sincere or a fake one, it's a very faux pas. Some of the doctors who have been handed down from generation to generation are skilled in surgery, some are good at treating children, some are good at gynecology, some can make all kinds of wound medicines, in short, each family has its own secret recipes, and some things will not even be told or known except for the eldest son and grandson of the eldest son of the long house; Therefore, doctors never say anything that is self-cherishing, and indiscriminate inquiry is the biggest taboo.

The two imperial doctors also washed their hands, stood aside to check Shang Cheng's expression, looked at it for a moment, and saw that there seemed to be nothing wrong, so they also relieved themselves and sat down at the table to drink water.

They sat down, but Zhu Daichun stood up again.

He paced to Shang Cheng's side, twisted the silver needles gently one by one, and took a small wooden box from his medicine bag, opened the lid, and took out some charred and dried things with his thumb and index finger, dipped some saliva and twisted them into a ball, and carefully grouped them on the tail of a silver needle on the top of Shang Cheng's forehead.

At this moment, the two imperial doctors couldn't understand what he was doing. A Tai Doctor had a lot of eyes and eyes, and by observing the condition of the two parts behind Shang Cheng's ear after using needles, he leaned down and quietly sniffed the yellow grass-like medicinal herbs; But the medicinal herbs were breathless and tasteless, and they couldn't tell what kind of medicine Zhu Daichun added to the end of the needle.

Zhu Daichun added medicine to the silver needle, and not every needle was added. Shang Cheng used more than 20 stitches on his head, face, shoulders, back, and two arms, and he only added new medicine to seven or eight of them. When he had finished adding the medicine, he made a paper twist with paper, and he took a fire from an oil lamp, and then he lit all the new medicines in turn. The two imperial doctors didn't even have time to stop it, and the ball of medicinal materials that were a few points smaller than the little fingernails and didn't know what rare medicinal materials were carefully refined from them only floated up a wisp of green smoke, and it turned black in an instant.

What kind of awesome medicine is this?!

The imperial doctor was shocked and suspicious, but he couldn't ask, and stared at the elixir embers at the end of the needles in a daze.

Zhu Daichun said with a smile: "This is not medicine, it is dried and crushed rush grass." He gently flicked away a few clumps of lamp grass ash, and said, "In the summer and autumn of last year, I went to Yanzhou to give him ...... went to see the general, and at that time he also used this silver needle method to dispel evil spirits and relieve pain. After applying the needle to see a doctor, he talked to the general about this silver needle technique. Or what the general said, since there is a word for 'acupuncture' in "Su Wen", why can't silver acupuncture and moxibustion be combined? At the time, I laughed at him for not understanding medical theory and talking nonsense. Later, when I got home, I thought about it carefully, and it really made sense. However, when moxa is done moxibustion, the fire is blazing, the patient will inevitably have muscle and flesh contractures, and the silver needle when we use the needle is too fine, and the slightest mistake will inevitably have the risk of breaking the needle. ”

When the two imperial doctors saw Zhu Daichun talking eloquently and did not hide their selfishness, they had a good impression of him when they arrived. A physician twisted a handful of lamp grass in the wooden box next to him, sniffed it, and asked, "It's just rush grass, and no other medicine has been added?" ”

Zhu Daichun shook his head and said: "Just take the slight heat when it burns, and it can go straight to the acupuncture points and penetrate the blood veins, and there is no need to use any medicine." ”

The two imperial doctors nodded. That's just as well; No matter how many rare and precious medicinal materials are added, it is impossible to send them into the patient's stomach through a small silver needle. Moreover, listening to Zhu Daichun's tone, and seeing that he dared to apply needles on Shang Cheng's head, he was obviously very sure of the method of using needles for heat in this lamp grass. Yes, after seeing such a needle, this trip to Fangzhou is not worth it!