Although more than two months have passed since the earthquake, the hardest-hit county still retains the tragic state of the earth, the city walls have completely collapsed, there are ruins everywhere, and there is not a single intact house in sight.

People lived in plank-made huts, sitting or lying, indifferently looking at the intruders, curious as to what they were coming for.

The silence is also strange, it is already the spring equinox, and it is said that it is the time of busy farming, why does no one work in the fields?

But it was still important to get down to business, so he asked a clever guard named Chang Sanchi next to him to inquire about Li Shizhen's whereabouts.

Chang Sanchi used a small bag of fried noodles to complete the task and came back to report: "My lord, Dr. Li has gone to a neighboring county." ”

"Let's go." Shen Mo verified the news again, and then headed for the neighboring county, this time Li Shizhen did not leave again, and it was said that he was in the teaching field to see everyone's illness.

Silence breathed a sigh of relief, and then surrounded by guards, went to the county's teaching field. When he arrived at the ground, he saw a shocking scene, only to see that on the huge school field, there were at least a thousand injured people lying or sitting, either missing arms and legs, or wailing with wounds, which made him very puzzled. There is a saying that it takes a hundred days to break the muscles and bones, how can such a long time pass, and there are so many new fractures?

But seeing that these wounds were lying in an orderly manner, there was enough passage between each line, and every ten zhang or so in the middle, there was a huge iron pot, in which it was not boiling herbs, but some willow bark and the like, which was also very strange.

Shen Mo walked around a few times, but he didn't find the legendary Doctor Li, so he had to find someone to ask, and the man pointed not far away and said, "His old man is there, and he is giving people bones." ”

Looking in the direction he was pointing, Shen Mo saw a man dressed in coarse cloth with his back to him, crouching there, tending to a patient's injured leg...... He was so inconspicuous that when Shen Mo walked past him, he thought he was a barefoot doctor, treating a patient.

This is not to complain about silence, from Shaoxing to Yanjing, how can he see hundreds of doctors, which one is not sanctimonious and full of posture, but he never thought of the famous medical saint Li Shizhen, who was like this...... Ordinary.

Walking over lightly, stopping his subordinates from making a sound, he stood silently behind Li Shizhen and witnessed an absolutely shocking operation...... After examining the man's deformed and healed bone wounds because he had not been treated, Li Shizhen instructed several men to hold it firmly, then stuffed a wooden stick in his mouth, tied it with a strip of cloth, and then used a sharp knife to expose the bone wound of the man Bai Sensen along the texture of the muscles. I didn't see how he did it, so he cut off the crooked bone.

Li Shizhen measured the part taken off again, and made the peeled willow branch into a bone shape, and the middle of the willow branch was opened into a bone cavity, and then placed it in the middle of the cut surface of the patient's two broken bones. Then join them together while they are hot, sprinkle a kind of 'stone blue powder' that can grow muscles on the muscles, sew the muscles with gut, apply blood paste to the joints, and clamp a wooden board to fix the bones, and it is done...... His movements were extremely fast, less than two quarters of an hour before and after.

Seeing this miraculous scene, Shen Mo couldn't help but say, "Can willow branches also be used as bone makers?" ”

Li Shizhen, who was squatting on the ground, did not answer. An apprentice-like on the side brought a basin of hot water and asked the master to wash off the blood stains on his hands in the copper basin, and he couldn't help but show off: "Outsider, right?" This is a good thing rewarded by God, after the implantation of fresh willow branches, it will become bones and restore its original function; And there will be no necrosis or decay in bone grafting, which can avoid amputation. What is even more valuable is that it is inexhaustible and inexhaustible...... Master, I'm right? ”

The doctor nodded and said, "Next." Then he stood up on his legs, hunched over to a patient beside him...... Fortunately, not every one of them requires bone reconstruction, and most of the surgeries are relatively simple and do not take so much time.

Shen Mo followed behind, and wanted to open his mouth several times, but he couldn't speak, so he had to stand aside first and wait for Li Shizhen to finish talking.

But not everyone is as patient as him, about an hour later, a few men who looked like family members hurriedly came over, and after finding Li Shizhen, he bowed down and said: "Doctor Li, my old lady is invited again, you have to come with us this time no matter what." ”

Li Shizhen didn't listen to his hand, didn't look back, and said hoarsely: "I don't have so much spare time to go to the doctor, if I am sick, come here to line up, it is your young master's turn, I will naturally treat him." ”

"Aren't you a strong man?" A housekeeper looked unacceptable and said: "My lord is a political envoy and a provincial official, how can my young master come to such a place?" ”

"Is your young master a human?" Li Shizhen asked lightly, the movements in his hands were still precise and fast, and it seemed that he had repeated them thousands of times.

"What are these words? Of course it's people. The butler said in a muffled voice.

"It's all people lying here," Li Shizhen said while bandaging the wound: "If someone else comes, he can come." ”

"Doctor Li, don't force us to be rude......" A strong man behind him was usually arrogant, and he didn't choose what to say.

As soon as he heard him say this, Shen Mo immediately couldn't bear to close his eyes...... Dare to threaten Dr. Li, who is worshiped by patients and their families, and the consequences can be imagined.

Sure enough, as soon as the man's voice fell, he was hit by countless dirt and rotten soles like raindrops, and several people had to hug their heads and run away...... This is also the reason why Shen Mo has not spoken for a long time.

Shen Mo waited for another two hours, until it was dark and he couldn't see clearly. In this short period of time, three or five more people came to ask him to see a doctor, threatening to let him not leave the county, and naturally he was driven away by the angry masses; The money for the lure even came out with five hundred taels of silver, but Li Shizhen just laughed in return and continued to busy him.

When it came to the evening, he silently thought that he could finally rest, but who knew that Li Shizhen asked his apprentice to pick up Songming, and then continued to be busy. At this time, the group of people who had been beaten away earlier came back and sneakily carried a sedan chair over, as if they were afraid that others would see it.

The housekeeper begged softly, and Li Shizhen moved the back of his sore neck and said, "Okay, let's line up." ”

"How much longer?" The butler asked cautiously, lest he annoy the ancestor who was bigger than the governor.

"Two or three hundred." Li Shizhen's apprentice replied.

The housekeeper looked back at the young master who was moaning in the sedan chair, so he had to grit his teeth and said: "If the divine doctor shows my young master first, the Han family is willing to donate five hundred pairs of anti-epidemic medicine...... This is what his old lady taught.

Li Shizhen's body paused, and said in a deep voice: "A thousand pairs." ”

"Okay." This is exactly the price offered by his old lady.

After dealing with the injury, Li Shizhen finally stood up slowly, rubbed his soreness and numb waist and said, "Take me to see the patient." ”

Through the light of the fire, Shen Mo saw clearly that Li Shizhen was not tall, dark and thin, and his face was full of fatigue, and he even had to hold on to his apprentice's shoulders to straighten his waist...... Li Shizhen's medical skills are really amazing, that is, in about a quarter of an hour, he came out of the sedan chair, wrote a prescription and said to the housekeeper: "Go back, take the medicine according to the prescription, and it will be fine in seven days." ”

The housekeeper thanked him and wanted to pick up the recipe, but Li Shizhen stopped and didn't let him take it.

The housekeeper was stunned, and hurriedly ordered someone to carry four large bags of medicine, and after Li Shizhen checked it, he gave him the prescription.

When the group carried the sedan chair away, it was already the fourth watch, Li Shizhen stretched his waist, and finally looked at Shen Mo and said, "What advice do you have?" ”

Shen Mo bowed to the end and said: "Although it is selfish to say this, I still have to say that there is a patient in the student's family, and only you can save it." ”

Li Shizhen put down his rolled up sleeves and said, "You also saw it, I don't have time to go to the doctor." He looked at the stars in the sky and said, "If you have nothing else to do, please go back, I will sleep for two hours and get up again to be busy." ”

Shen Mo saluted again: "I know that my wife's life is not more expensive than anyone else's, if at this time, the villagers are also hanging by a thread and are in urgent need of treatment, I will definitely turn around and leave." But I have watched and listened to it for half a day, and I know that the villagers are all bone healing deformities, and this disease cannot be cured, but it is not as dangerous as my wife, and it will not be ...... a little later."

As soon as Li Shizhen raised his hand, he interrupted him and said, "Go out!" ”

Silent but unmoved, he continued: "I also heard your apprentice say that seeing that the weather is getting warmer, there will definitely be an epidemic in the earthquake area, and there will be ten times more people who will die by then than before, I am willing to donate 100,000 taels of silver to let my husband buy medicinal materials to get rid of the epidemic, which can be regarded as helping my wife accumulate yin virtue." ”

Li Shizhen's fingers finally let go of the dejected heart, and he sighed infinitely desolate and said: "150,000 taels, all of them are bought into plague medicine......

"Yes." He bowed silently and said, "I'll give you a note." ”

(To be continued)