Chapter 237 The gentleman cooks because of benevolence

In the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River in May, the weather is already very hot, although the water network is dense, but this does not make people feel cool, but makes the air more stuffy.

Zhao Jingyun carried the basket on his back, stopped, leaned on the ground and took a long breath, wiped the sweat from his forehead, and then said to the front: "Mr. Hanyun, please rest for a while." ”

The man he called Mr. was a man about forty years old, who was also carrying a basket on his back like him, and at the same time pinned a small hoe, hearing him talk like this, he turned around with a smile: "Zhao Manqing, didn't you say that you want to test your foot strength with me?" ”

"The student took ......"

Zhao Jingyun smiled bitterly and shook his head, no wonder, after he got acquainted with this Li Hanyun, he said that he wanted to test his foot strength with him, but he only walked for half an hour, and he felt unbearable, Li Hanyun not only walked fast, but also stopped and stopped, which made him a little confused. Sometimes, this Li Hanyun would deviate from the road and climb over the hills along the ridges and river valleys, looking for those useful medicinal herbs along the way.

"You're good, the scholars I know...... are all heroes and heroes with mouths, let them catch a chicken and push it up. Li Hanyun looked around as he spoke, and when he found a flower on the steep slope of the road, his eyes lit up, and he immediately put down the basket and climbed towards the flower, and only half of his words were spoken, so he no longer cared about Zhao Jingyun. Zhao Jingyun looked at his back and was stunned for a while.

This Li Hanyun is a nearby You Fang Langzhong, and he is not very famous in the apricot forest, but five days ago at the Yueyang Tower, Zhao Jingyun has been following him since he got acquainted with him. Unlike the rest of Langzhong, who like to set up a hall to practice medicine in the traffic rush, Li Hanyun likes to go to the countryside, so he has not married yet. His medical skills are only average, but for the ordinary people in the inconvenient places of the ravines and water corners, he is already a rare miracle doctor.

Li Hanyun almost does not charge any fees for practicing medicine, and he wants whatever the people want. Three or two handfuls of rice or an egg, he doesn't mind. This also made it impossible for him to go to the pharmacy to buy the expensive medicines, and when he crossed the mountains, whenever he saw scarce medicines, he would always pick them for emergencies.

Such a doctor's benevolence made Zhao Jingyun very respectful, and he was called by his name from the beginning to the current Mr. Han Yun. However, this Mr. Han Yun is an interesting person, with witty words along the way, and obviously read a lot of books during conversation, and Zhao Jingyun likes to listen to him talk about the customs and anecdotes of various places.

"Good guys!" Just thinking about it, he heard Li Hanyun suddenly scream, then pounced forward, planted in the grass, and then stood up again, holding a colorful poisonous snake in his hand and said with a smile: "You can make up today, Zhao Manqing, count you as a mouthful!" ”

"There are soju and cans in the student basket, and I can take them out and share them with Mr. Han Yun." Zhao Jingyun also quipped: "How about knowing that Mr. Han Yun is poor, and the students promise not to eat in vain?" ”

"You kid...... I heard that Wei Liaoweng is very square and old-fashioned, but he taught you such an elf and eccentric student! ”

Li Hanyun pulled out a short knife as he spoke, skillfully disposed of the snake, and after dealing with it, he picked the flower he had been looking at: "This thing has to be bought in the pharmacy, and there is no one who can't take it." ”

With his medical skills, although he is not very proficient, he can be regarded as a good doctor. When Zhao Jingyun thought of this, he admired him more and more, there are many people in the world who are full of benevolence, righteousness and morality, but there are very few who can practice them.

Seeing that it was noon and there was no one nearby, the two of them found a mountain stream to erect stones, and Li Hanyun turned out a small iron pot and began to wash rice and cook rice. Zhao Jingyun couldn't help with these things at all, so he could only watch from the sidelines, feeling a little ashamed in his heart. Nai laughed and laughed at himself: "A gentleman is far away from cooking, and the student doesn't know how to cook, so he should be regarded as a gentleman." ”

"A gentleman is far away from cooking, but he can't bear it." Li Hanyun said with a smile while cleaning up: "This is Zhong Ni's benevolence, not Zhong Ni's underestimation of cooking, Zhao Manqing, do you know about this?" ”

"Oh?" Zhao Jingyun replied.

"The place where the cook, the place where the animals are killed, the birds that are slaughtered, and Zhong Ni can't bear to see the birds and animals crying, so he is far away. But if it weren't for Shaole, the gentleman wouldn't be far from the taste of meat. Li Hanyun took Confucius and quipped: "It can be seen that Zhong Ni is telling the truth when he says that men and women have great desires for food." ”

Zhao Jingyun smiled and said nothing, if it was three years ago, he would definitely jump up and debate with Li Hanyun, thinking that he was insulting the saint. But now it is different, whether it is his experience or state of mind, he is not as naïve as three years ago, and some of the questions he thinks about have even surpassed his teachers and beyond the scope of Confucianism. He was now thinking about how he could integrate these things with Confucianism.

Li Hanyun looked at him with admiration, and then his smile retracted: "Manqing, the place we are going to this time is very dangerous, there are many Gu diseases, and there are many patients, do you really want to go with me?" ”

"That's nature, it's all halfway through, how can you give up halfway!" Zhao Jingyun said.

"Remember, then, that the one who causes this sickness is evil water, so when you get there, you must not touch the water, whether it be the water of a pond, or the water of a brook, or the water of a well, so that it may not be attacked by evil waters." Li Hanyun sighed: "I only hate my low medical skills, I have seen the spread of this disease over the years, but there is nothing I can do about it!" ”

This is the reason why Zhao Jingyun came with him, I heard Li Hanyun say that there is an epidemic of Gu disease in the township near Yueyangzuo, and there are many patients, and once the disease is infected, the entire Zhuangzi and the entire Zhuangzi will be stained, and after the onset of the disease, it will not take long for the whole village to die. Some people say that it was the plague god who descended to the world to bring disaster to the world, and some people say that it was the Miao natives who retreated into the deep mountains to cast spells and perform Gu, Zhao Jingyun was very shocked when he heard about this, so he followed Li Hanyun to the place where the epidemic was most serious to check.

After they had eaten, they continued to move on, and the more they walked, the more difficult it became, until there was no road at all. Li Hanyun's expression became more and more serious, he stopped, tied all over his body with a cloth, and helped Zhao Jingyun tie it well, only to prevent epidemics.

"Mr. Han Yun, is there really a village here?"

When the two of them walked forward for another half an hour, walked out of the hills and came to a flat land, Zhao Jingyun couldn't help but ask.

The reason why he asked this was because he saw that there used to be fields in the vicinity, but now the fields were lush and sparse, and it was obvious that no one had dealt with them for a long time, and they had been deserted. And there were traces of the road before, but now the grass has covered the road, and I don't know how many months no one has walked it.

"When I came here a year ago, there were still 37 families in this village, more than 150 people, and more than 50 of them were suffering from Gu disease." Li Hanyun said in a low voice: "I prescribed some medicine for them at that time, and I came here this time to see the situation." ”

There was irrepressible grief in his voice, and it was already obvious that he didn't have to go to the village to see it.

After a while, he perked up again: "No matter what, you have to go and see, Manqing, you be careful." ”

The two walked around a forest again, and finally saw the village that Li Hanyun had mentioned. The village, once surrounded by ponds and streams, is now crawling with weeds, and wild flowers are blooming on the walls and roofs. As soon as I entered the village, I felt an eerie cold air coming, and I couldn't hear the slightest sound of a living person.

Zhao Jingyun was very bold, whether it was facing the waves in the sea or facing the soldiers in the Huating Rebellion, he had never been afraid, but at this time, he felt that his heart was beating suddenly, and he wanted to turn around and flee.

"Anyone?" Li Hanyun's voice was a little dry.

There was no response for a long time, not even the usual house dogs in the village barking and coming out to greet strangers.

"Anyone!" Li Hanyun shouted again.

There was still a dead silence, Li Hanyun grabbed the small hoe used to dig herbs in his hand, and said to Zhao Jingyun: "You stay here, I'll go and see, if the situation is not right, you can run." ”

"Mr. Han Yun also underestimates me Zhao Jingyun too much." Zhao Jingyun smiled and pulled out the sword he was wearing at his waist. Since the Son of Heaven conquered the territory, the young scholars of the Great Song Dynasty replaced the folding fan originally used for decoration with a sword, and Zhao Jingyun's sword was a Liuqiu standard sword given by Zheng Guanqun.

The two walked slowly, and came to the door of a house, the door of the family was wide open, the house was pitch black, and several pieces of furniture were also in tatters, Li Hanyun walked in, and the whole room smelled of dust.

"There are so many cobwebs that no one has been in or out for a month." Zhao Jingyun said.

The two exited the house and walked to another house, the door of this house was closed, but it was only a cover-up, Li Hanyun used his toes to tiptoe, and the door "creaked" open. Li Hanyun walked into the room slowly, and suddenly a scream came at his face, and as soon as he turned his head, a bat flew past his ear, and after going around the room, he hung upside down on the roof beam, and rested silently.

"No one either."

The third and fourth were still unoccupied, and the village was in the middle of the valley, with a pond and a river on one side and a mountain on the other, and the houses were scattered together, and by the time they had passed the fifth, they had reached the center of the village.

"Let's take a look at each other?" Zhao Jingyun suggested.

"No." Li Hanyun shook his head: "The people in this village may have moved away......"

Neither of them believed this statement, why did the good village move away, and they did not pack any belongings.

There is only one answer that can be explained, and that is that the entire village has died, but neither Li Hanyun nor Zhao Jingyun wants to explain like this.

"Come with me." Li Hanyun was silent for a while, and then said.

Zhao Jingyun followed him, passing through the middle of the village and towards the hill behind the village, where there was originally a path, but now it was buried in the weeds and shrubs. The two of them walked for about ten minutes before they could see a large area of mounds, because there was no one to hoe and sweep the graves, these mounds were covered with green, and if they were not careful, they could not be noticed.

Faced with so many graves, Zhao Jingyun paused for a moment to breathe.

"When I came last time, I happened to see them in the village for a funeral." Li Hanyun said: "I also came to see it at that time, and there are no graves in this area. ”

He walked forward as he spoke, walking over one by one, as he pointed, Zhao Jingyun looked at the tomb, the first few tombs they passed through also piled up high sealed soil, set up a stone tablet, but after more than ten that the sealed soil was obviously low, the stone tablet was gone, only replaced by a wooden tablet, and after this tomb, the next grave mound can only be said to be like a small soil bag.

The last grave wasn't even completely sealed, an arm that had rotted to the point of bones sticking out of the thin soil, and the skull was tilted to one side, but it wasn't covered. Li Hanyun squatted down, stared at the skeleton, and said after a long time: "This person should be the last person in the village, he is seriously ill and has no strength to escape, so he dug a grave for himself here, wanting to bury himself with soil so as not to expose his bones...... But halfway through the game, he was sick, and he died a painful death. ”

He said it plainly, but Zhao Jingyun felt a thrilling pain.

"Judging by the extent of the decay of the bones, he must have been dead for more than three months." Li Hanyun took off his medicine hoe, dug some soil from the surrounding area, and covered the man's exposed arms and skulls. At the moment when the earth was about to bury the skull, the skull suddenly turned over, and the empty eye circles were facing Zhao Jingyun, and Zhao Jingyun was so frightened that he took a step back.

"Zhao Manqing, do you want to go with me to see, there are four villages around here, and these villages have been married to each other for generations." Li Hanyun raised his head and smiled bitterly.

Generations of marriages, but there are still tragedies of the dead burying themselves themselves, so the situation in the rest of the villages can be imagined.

"Yes." Zhao Jingyun gritted his teeth, and the two words were almost squeezed out of his teeth.

In addition to fear, there was a kind of anger in his heart, this kind of epidemic was so powerful that it could kill all the people in a village in a peaceful year!

"Twenty years ago, I began to think about how to cure this Gu disease, I also read poetry books, and I took the exam in Fucheng. But later, my family passed away one by one due to this Gu disease, so I gave up my fame and concentrated on studying medicine, hoping that one day I could cure this Gu disease. The bulging recorded in the "Yellow Emperor's Neijing", the bulging in the "Jin Kui Yaolu", the water Gu mentioned in the "Treatise on the Origin and Syndrome of Diseases", and the abdominal distension in the contemporary Liu Hejian's "Six Books of the River" all refer to this disease. ”

"This disease, for thousands of years, has killed tens of millions of people, if this disease can be cured, I, Li Hanyun, will die willingly!"

Zhao Jingyun was silent, and the two left this village, and then went to the next village.

Halfway through, Zhao Jingyun said: "One person is short, everyone is wise, when today's son is benevolent, the most important medical skills, so the poor children are recruited for it, in order to learn medical Tao in the future." This matter is not a matter of one family, but it involves thousands of households, why didn't Mr. Han Yun report it to the government and ask him to turn on the Son of Heaven, with the power of the world, and gather the wisdom of the world, how can there be an incurable disease? ”

"This disease has been going on for a long time, and the government regards it as an epidemic, which official dares to come and check it? I have also studied for many years and read countless ancient medical books before I realized that this disease is related to water. Li Hanyun sighed: "Son of Heaven...... The Son of Heaven is far away in Lin'an, how can he know the suffering of the people? ”

"Mr. Han Yun is bad, I, Zhao Jingyun, am not talented, but I can play the Son of Heaven for Mr. Han Yun." Zhao Jingyun couldn't help but defend the emperor and said: "Although the Son of Heaven is in the deep palace, he has Li Shu in his heart, and the people's suffering, he is very concerned, just to let him know." ”

"I know, you said that Wei Hua's father, the current Hubu Shangshu, is your teacher." Li Hanyun still shook his head: "For such things, it is better to ask for others than for yourself." ”

Since the establishment of the government, the government has been actively doing things when collecting money, and this has been the case throughout the ages, and Li Hanyun's statement is not without ground. It is this water Gu matter, the whole village and the whole village are dead, how can the local government not know, but the newspaper of the imperial court does not know about it, and the new newspapers in the past few years have also avoided talking about it.

"Mr. Han Yun, if I can say that the Son of Heaven can mobilize the strength of the country to cure this disease, Mr. would be willing to help?" Zhao Jingyun didn't argue with him much, took his hand and asked.

"If you can...... I'll kowtow to you, not to mention that curing this disease has been my ambition for 20 years! ”

Note 1: Needless to say, the author of "The Yellow Emperor's Neijing" is Zhang Zhongjing, the author of "The Origin of All Diseases" is Sui Shichao Yuanfang, and the author of "Six Books of Hejian" Liu Yuanyuan is a native of Jin and died in 1200.