After a long time, Xianzhi raised her hand and slowly stood up. She walked a few steps back and forth in the room, her head bowed and thinking about something, her pretty brows furrowing more and more.

"Lady of the Stars! May I ask my father...... What is my father's condition? Mitsushige Yoshida asked in a trembling voice. Looking at his expression, he seemed eager to deny his speculation.

"On the surface, it's just a general stroke, but ......" Senshiba is more like talking to himself than answering Mitsushige's question." Long-term accumulation, yin qi into the marrow, cold poison stagnation of the pulse...... This is already a disease that has been accumulated for many years! ”

"You're right!" Mitsushige Yoshida nodded repeatedly. "We have also invited many famous doctors, and their judgment is basically the same as what you said! I also opened a few pairs of prescriptions, but ...... Either the medicine is shallow and difficult to work, or the medicine is too strong for fear that my father can't stand it and doesn't dare to use it! ”

"You have given the patient three kinds of medicine for the scorching sun and heat, there is borax, and there should be salmerg! Another ...... What's the lightest portion? Xianzhi suddenly asked.

"Miracle Doctor! You're a miracle doctor! Before Yoshida could speak, his brother screamed loudly. I also studied medicine, and I have been to Mingguo! Yoshida Sogui said excitedly: "All the prescriptions were taken after repeated consultations with the doctor!" All the work of boiling medicine and delivering it was all done by myself. After giving my father borax and salmerocel, it didn't work, so I discussed it with other doctors and used a small amount of arsenic, which was used after neutralizing the medicinal properties! ”

"Is there anything wrong?" Mitsushige Yoshida asked worriedly.

"Nope! It's a good fit! Xianzhi said softly: "Controlling yin with yang, driving away cold with heat, and fighting poison with poison are completely right from pharmacologically, and the dosage is also good!" If it weren't for these medicines, the patient would not have survived today, and his condition would not continue to deteriorate. But...... Ay! She sighed again. Although there is a difference in the medicinal properties of the medicine road! These herbs are all minerals and lack activity, and it is difficult for the medicinal power to reach the bone marrow. Using them again will have no effect, but will cause an explosion of toxicity! ”

"That'...... So what to do? Yoshida asked anxiously.

"It's been too long......" Xianzhi shook his head slightly. With each shake of her head, Brother Yoshida's heart gradually sank. “…… That kind of medicine is really ...... Didn't hope to find it. Ay! ”

"What?! There is medicine?! The Yoshida brothers shouted together.

"Lady of the Stars! Please save your father no matter what! As for...... Medicine ......" Mitsushige Yoshida was so excited that he took it. "Although the Yoshida family does not dare to say that it is rich and rivals the country, it also has few assets! As long as Japan has it, we ......."

"But Japan doesn't have one!" Xianzhi said helplessly.

"No !!" The Yoshida brothers looked at each other.

"Tell me about it! We have a lot of friends in the Nanban business, maybe ...... Maybe there's a way. At the end of the day, Yoshida didn't have much confidence in himself.

"Okay!" Xianzhi recalled, "This medicine is a scorpion called 'Red Flame Divine Scorpion'!" It lives in a desert in the Nanban region, has a large body, and feeds on insects, rats, and small lizards. This kind of scorpion is violently poisonous, and it is an active attribute of the Great Yang Heat, which is facing Ling Zun's illness! It's just that...... It must be used live, and Ling Zun can't afford to delay it for a few months! ”

There was silence in the room. "May I ask Lady Zhuxing, don't the scorpions of the Southern Barbarians love death here?" Yoshida Munegui remembered something.

"Probably not!" Xianzhi replied, "The Red Flame Scorpion has extremely strong vitality, as long as it is fed properly, it will not die easily!" ”

"Please wait for me!" Yoshida Sogui left such a sentence and ran out without a clue. After a while, he was holding a bucket-sized glass bottle (which was very rare at the time!). Walked in. "Lady Stars, please take a look at this!" I saw a scorpion the size of an adult's palm lying in the bottle. It has a long hooked tail and two large claws covered with tiny fluff, and three pairs of compound eyes on its head glow a strange red light. The scorpion's body is pale yellow, darker at the rear, and the stinger at the tip of the tail is purple-black. The most peculiar thing is that on its back, there is a dark red flame-shaped pattern. For some reason, it seems a little listless.

"That's it!" Xianzhi's eyes lit up and said, "I really didn't expect me to see it again!" You've got it here! ”

"It was given to me by someone else!" Sokatsura Yoshida replied. "Once upon a time, there was a Nanban monk named Floyce who came to Kyoto and was a naturalist. I have been in contact with him for a while, and I have discussed some medical and Western issues. Later, the temples in Kyoto were very anti-Western, and I helped him escape. He gave me all the collections that he couldn't take with him when we parted, and this is one of them......"

"I don't think it has much energy, can it still be used?" Mitsushige Yoshida suddenly interjected and asked. Hearing him say this, Yoshida Sokatsu also became nervous.

"It's okay!" Xianzhi replied. "It's just not quite adapted to the environment here and has fallen into hibernation! You can use it, but you need to adjust it! ”

"Is it going to take a long time?" Yoshida looked at his father who was lying on the bed, but said heartily.

"It's fine in two days, don't worry!" Xianzhi replied easily.

"That's great!" Mitsushige Yoshida opened his brow, which had been locked. "Please tell me what else you need, and I'll call someone to prepare it right away!"

Xianzhi came to the table, picked up the brush, and began to write. "It's just some ordinary medicines, please catch them in two days!" She handed the written prescription to Yoshida Munekatsu. "Also, please bring these things to our hotel......"

"What? Don't you live in the house? Brother Yoshida was a little surprised. Please don't shirk it......" They then began to keep them back and forth, and I can understand their feelings.

Xianzhi turned her face to look at me.

"Alright! Then we'll bother for a few days. "I called Katsutakeshi Irijima and Hayato and told them to go back to the inn to check out and pick up their luggage. It's not that I'm greedy for their hospitality, but when I go back, it's Xianzhi who raises the ghost scorpion herself. Instead of that, it's better to live here and give them a "technical guide"! At least I don't have to do it myself, it makes me scared.

After we settled in, Xianzhi asked for a large wooden basin. The washed and dried fine sand was evenly spread on the bottom of the basin, and a charcoal brazier was placed underneath, and then the Red Flame Scorpion was put in. Finally, a sarong was put on to prevent it from escaping.

"That's pretty much it!" Xianzhi nodded in satisfaction. "Please feed once in the morning and once in the evening! Now that it's just over the sting, go dig up some bugs that have broken out of the cocoon but haven't come out yet. ”

"Yes!" Yoshida Sokkai, who had been listening to the orders beside him, asked the servant to prepare, and asked with some restraint: "Mrs. Zhuxing, if you can...... Can you tell me why? ”

"Oh! It's nothing. Xianzhi said without concealment: "After the Red Flame Scorpion enters dormancy, it hardly eats or moves, and its metabolism slows down, so that although the yang heat toxicity in its body is not active, it becomes more and more intense. Imitating its original living environment will revive it, and feeding it warm but peaceful food can not only stimulate its activity, but also neutralize some of its yang poison! ”

"Oh...... So that's it! Yoshida Sokatsu suddenly realized, and immediately found a piece of paper and wrote it down.

As if to prove Xianzhi's words, on the third day, the Red Flame Scorpion became vigorous, and its whole body radiated a slight golden color, only the flame pattern on its back became lighter, becoming a bright fiery red.