When I arrived at Pei Guoqiao, Hua Tuo happened to go out to see a doctor, and the child said that he had been gone for two days and would probably be able to return today, so I was waiting in Hua Tuo's pharmacy. At noon, the boy prepared a medicinal meal, saying that Hua Tuo had given him that if Hua Tuo was not there and there were rare guests visiting, he would prepare medicinal food to entertain the guests.

I ate Hua Tuo's medicinal food, and my spirit seemed to be better, and the old lady's body was refrigerated in a cabinet with nitrogen in it.

At about two o'clock in the afternoon, Hua Tuo finally returned, carrying a cloth bag on his back, looking tired enough.

Hua Tuo was born with a fairy-like appearance, his forehead was like a big fairy peach, his body was thin, but he had the spiritual strength of an immortal. When he saw me, he clapped his hands and said, "This morning, when the old man saw the magpie circling the tree three times, he knew that there was a distinguished guest coming to the door. ”

"Mr. Hua Tuo, I have something urgent to ask for." I'm straight to the point.

"Why are you so anxious?"

"Please come and see Mr. Hua Tuo." I said as I took Hua Tuo outside and opened the refrigerator.

"Please." I pointed to the body of the old lady of the landlady and said.

Hua Tuo looked at me, he didn't know what kind of medicine I was selling in my gourd, he looked at the landlady from head to toe, then touched the landlady's pulse, opened the old lady's eyes and looked at it again, and said: "Childe, forgive the old man for not having the art of returning to heaven, and he can't resurrect the dead." ”

"Old gentleman, I have to ask the old gentleman to heal the old lady, but please diagnose the cause of death."

"Well, the old man also felt abnormal just now, the deceased's veins were closed, and his eyes were chaotic, not like a normal death, and the old man would examine it carefully to make a final conclusion." Hua Tuo put on gloves, and the gloves he wore were completely different from the rubber gloves used in our modern medicine.

Hua Tuo checked back and forth on the old lady's body, using Chinese medicine to check the cause of death for the first time, generally speaking, only the autopsy can detect the cause of death of the deceased, once the person died, there is no pulse, how to check, I am a little suspicious of Hua Tuo.

An hour passed, Hua Tuo's forehead was gradually covered with beads of sweat, he looked at me, his facial expression was very strange, and then he picked up a cloth to wipe his face and said, "Acupuncture, a very vicious acupuncture technique." ”

"Murderous acupuncture?"

"Yes, but ordinary doctors don't know this kind of acupuncture, which originated in southern Xinjiang."

"Southern Xinjiang?"

"That's right, it's southern Xinjiang, it is rumored that there is acupuncture in southern Xinjiang, which can kill people, acupuncture acts on the dead points of the human body, and it must be pierced on more than three acupuncture points to cause death, and these three acupuncture points or even multiple acupuncture points can interact with each other, causing people's meridians to be chaotic and die."

It is powerful, it is not a miracle doctor, and the cause of death is known without using a knife or an instrument.

"The old gentleman is right, when I found the old lady, she did have a few silver needles on her back and neck."

In this way, the deceased was murdered, because the average doctor had no knowledge of the acupuncture points that could kill people, and she herself could not have put a needle in her back. In fact, there are three acupuncture points that can put people to death, and these three acupuncture points are not regular acupuncture points, that is to say, on the human body acupuncture point map, there are no three acupuncture points at all, and these three acupuncture points belong to the hidden acupuncture points of the human body, unless the world's most advanced doctors know. Hua Tuo analyzed.

"Just now the old gentleman said that there is this kind of acupuncture in southern Xinjiang, what is going on?"

"Southern Xinjiang, which is the so-called Nanzhong, Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty in the second year of Yuanfeng (109 BC), began to develop the southwest Yi, the King of Dian surrendered, set up Yizhou County, and later the King of Dian to Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty dedicated twelve female acupuncture doctors, these twelve female acupuncture doctors are all beautiful, Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty was addicted to women all his life, these twelve South Americans were sent to the palace to serve Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, because their female doctors are proficient in acupuncture, acupuncture for Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty every day to relieve fatigue, in addition, these female doctors use acupuncture to double the yang energy of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, Thus becoming more obsessed with women. In fact, these twelve female physicians were deliberately arranged by the King of Dian to be next to Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, he wanted to assassinate Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty through a mysterious acupuncture technique in southern Xinjiang, and no one could find out a kind of murder, these twelve female doctors studied secret acupuncture in the harem every day, because there were twelve beauties, so it was called the Twelve Needles of Nanjiang or the Twelve Needles of Nanzhong, and they secretly told the King of Dian that the twelve needles of Nanzhong had been successful, but the King of Dian told them not to let Emperor Wu of Han die for the time being, but to let Emperor Wu of Han continue to be depressed, so that the dynasty was corrupted, and the court was in chaos. When the time comes, Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty will be killed, and then he will rebel. In the later years of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, the King of Dian sent twelve acupuncture beauties to Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, but at this time, there was a famous witch curse in the court. When the witch Gu incident appeared, the monks and all kinds of gods and witches gathered in Chang'an, the capital division, and most of them used the fantasy and evil magic of the left side door to confuse everyone, and did everything. Some witches came to the palace and taught the beauties how to avoid disasters, burying wooden figures in each room and performing sacrifices. When they quarrel because of mutual jealousy, they take turns to accuse each other of cursing the emperor and rebelling. Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty was furious and executed the accused, killing hundreds of harem concubines, palace maids, and implicated ministers. Because witchcraft has always been prevalent in southern Xinjiang, Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty suspected that this witch Gu was brought by the twenty-four female doctors in southern Xinjiang, and wanted to burn them all to death. Hua Tuo said in one breath the detailed source of Miao Jiang's twelve needles. That is to say, the origin time of the twelve needles in Miaojiang is the Western Han Dynasty, which has been handed down to the present, but for more than 2,000 years, why has it not appeared, and it has not appeared on the rivers and lakes until recently.

We all know that Zhuge Liang captured Meng Huo seven times, Meng Huo was the leader of the ethnic minorities in the southern and central regions of China during the Three Kingdoms period, and rebelled against Shu Han in 225 AD, and was surrendered after Zhuge Liang led the army to capture seven columns, and then no longer rebelled. According to the "Spring and Autumn Period of the Han Dynasty", before and after the death of Liu Bei, the first lord of Shu, Meng Shu (Yi nationality) followed the Yizhou County surnamed Yonghong to raise troops against the Shu Han and induced the Yi people to rebel. Zhuge Liang, the prime minister of Shu, went to Nanzhong to personally conquer and won a hundred battles. Hearing that there was a man named Meng Huo, who had always been admired by the local Yi and Han people, he sent troops to attack Meng Huo and captured him in Pandong. Zhuge Liang adopted the suggestion of Ma Jian to join the army and pardoned Meng Yulai in exchange for the hearts of the people in the south of Shu. Later, Nanzhong was pacified, and Meng Shu returned to CD with Zhuge Liang and served as the imperial historian. After that, until Zhuge Liang's death, no one in the south of Shu dared to rebel again.

Zhuge Liang once went deep into Nanzhong, according to Ge Liang's wisdom, it is impossible not to understand Miao Jiang's acupuncture and moxibustion skills, so, will the sudden appearance of the twelve needles in Miao Jiang have a certain relationship with the god table, such a clever killing technique, it is impossible for a Miao Xiaoxi to come to murder me and the old lady, Thirty Mile Town is a small place, and it is in a poor mountainous area, how can this organization be in Thirty Mile Town, what is there in Thirty Mile Town that is worthy of them to come? There must be a huge conspiracy behind them.

"I understand, can this kind of acupuncture be mastered by the old gentleman?" I asked.

Hua Tuo touched his beard and said, "I know a little bit about it." ”

Since the divine doctor said that he knows a little bit about it, he must be very proficient, the more master, the more humble he is, the more he doesn't understand anything, and the more he can pretend to be forced. "Is there a way to solve it?"

"If you have been hit by this kind of acupuncture, the old man can save him within an hour, but there is no help outside an hour." Hua Tuo said slowly.

I patted my head vigorously, why didn't I think of coming to Hua Tuo at that time, if I and Gou Er had just found the old lady and come over immediately, maybe the old lady would still be saved, and it would be too late to say anything now.

"Is there any way to prevent it?" I know that Hua Tuo's acupuncture and moxibustion skills are world-famous, and his research on the meridians of the human body is extremely deep, and there must be a way to deal with this crooked acupuncture technique.

Hua Tuo closed the lid of the refrigerator, "We said in the hall. ”

The ancient hall is equivalent to our modern living room, Hua Tuo's living room is very simple, and there is a painting hanging in the center, which reads: Jishi hangs. When I entered the living room, I brought in two boxes of tea leaves. I put the tea on the table, "Mr. Su Wen saves all living beings, has excellent medical skills, and has made extraordinary achievements in human medical contributions, and two boxes of tea talk about his heart." ”

Hua Tuo sat down on the chair and said with a smile: "For the doctor, the doctor is benevolent, and the medical technology is used to help all sentient beings. ”

As soon as I entered the door, I saw many gourds hanging outside the door of Hua Tuo's clinic, which was a medicinal gourd, which corresponded to the hanging pot above the lobby. There is a certain legend about the medicine gourd.

Many people may not understand why some Chinese medicine stores have a gourd hanging in front of the door, but when you mention the saying "I don't know what medicine is sold in the gourd", you will know that the gourd must be related to medicine.

The gourd, known as the "pot" in ancient times, is commonly known as the gourd gourd, one of the symbols of ancient Taoism. The "broken pot in August" in "Poetry, Fengfeng, July" specifically refers to the gourd that holds medicine, that is, "medicine gourd".

Many mythological stories in ancient and modern times almost involve medicine and gourds. One of the legendary "Eight Immortals", Tie Guan Li, often carries a gourd containing a "panacea" to travel around the rivers and lakes to cure diseases and save people. In the fifth chapter of the mythological novel "Journey to the West", it is said: "The great sage went to the Dan room and did not meet (Lao Jun), but he saw that next to the Dan stove, there was a fire in the furnace. There are five gourds placed on the left and right sides of the furnace, and the gourds are all refined gold pills...... And he poured out all the gourds, and ate them all, as if they were fried beans. ”

Ge Hong of the Jin Dynasty (261-341 AD) "The Legend of the Immortals" and some ancient historical miscellaneous theories. It is probably said that in the summer of the Han Dynasty, there was a plague in Henan, which killed many people and could not be cured. One day, a miraculous old man came here, and he opened a small Chinese medicine shop in an alley, and hung a medicine gourd in front of the door, which contained pills to cure this plague. Whenever someone came to seek medical treatment, the old man took out a pill from the medicine gourd and asked the patient to take it with warm boiled water. In this way, the people who drank this "kettle" medicine got better one by one. From time to time, there was a long room for Runan, and when he saw that the old man jumped into the pot after the people dispersed, he felt very strange, so he brought wine and food to visit, and the old man invited him to enter the pot with him. Fei Changfang has since followed him to learn the Tao, and the pot Weng has taught him the technique of "hanging the pot to help the world".

It stands to reason that the general pharmacy only hangs one gourd, which means that the pharmacy hangs the pot to help the world, but Hua Tuo's pharmacy hangs dozens of gourds. It seems that these gourds were hung by the people who were saved by Hua Tuo's doctors.