(ps: Many book friends in the book review area are talking about the unreasonable setting of the rent of 9,000 Wen in the book, and also talked about the price problem in the early Tang Dynasty, Lao Mu checked some information and felt that the book friends said it was very reasonable, so he revised the 9,000 Wen into rent plus the money borrowed by Zuo Gui's family from Zhao Sanniang to buy medicinal materials and marry his daughter fennel and other debts, a total of 9,000 Wen, so it is more reasonable.) Lao Mu also wrote a short article on the price problem in the early Tang Dynasty and posted it in the work. If you are interested, you can take a look and give your opinions. )

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"Really?" This is the first time that the girl has said so many things to him, and she gave him this little squirrel, Zuo Shaoyang was very happy, and said happily: "Don't worry." Thank you, I'll cure it right away! Zuo Shaoyang put down the medicine box on his back, took out the knife wound medicine, first cleaned the wound of the little squirrel, and then applied the wound medicine. After looking at it, he said, "The wound is not too deep, it shouldn't be a big deal." Just change the medicine a few more times! ”

The girl smiled and nodded.

Zuo Shaoyang put his finger on the little squirrel's mouth to tease it, the little squirrel stuck out his tongue and licked his fingers, itchy, Zuo Shaoyang smiled: "It's hungry, what to feed it?" ”

"Walnuts, chestnuts, pine cones."

"Oh, got it."

The girl shook the firewood picket on her shoulder, smiled at him, twisted her waist and walked up the mountain road again.

After walking far, the crisp mountain song lingers in the mountains again:

Brother Xinxi,

Look at the footprints of my brother on the hillside.

It's sunny and rainy,

Seeing footprints is like seeing a brother.

Listening to this song, Zuo Shaoyang's heart fluttered, as if a bowl of honey was poured from head to foot, the whole body was sweet, and he had the heart to put on a mountain song, but he couldn't find a tune and couldn't even form a sentence. Seeing that the firewood girl was carrying the firewood away, and seeing that the father and the fat rich man had already gone down the mountain, they couldn't wait any longer, so they had to shout at the girl's back: "Thank you, girl! In the future, when you have time to enter the city, you will come to our Guizhi Hall to rest and drink some water! ”

Having said that, I didn't have any bottom in my heart, and I didn't know that after Chinese New Year's Eve, this Guizhitang was still not his own family.

He carefully put the little squirrel into his arms, and then quickly caught up with Daddy and the others. On the way, he picked a lot of pine cones and prepared to go back to feed the little squirrel.

All the way down the mountain, the child still kept coughing. Because the spasmodic convulsions are not completely relieved, the laryngeal paralysis is not resolved, and the phlegm is weak, but the phlegm is not coughed out. Before reaching the foot of the mountain, a small face had turned the color of pig liver, and his eyes began to roll up, and he had severe symptoms of suffocation.

The fat rich man and his wife panicked, hurriedly ordered to stop, and begged Zuo Gui: "Old Langzhong, my son doesn't seem to be able to do it, you can save my son quickly!" ”

Zuo Shaoyang also panicked, he really couldn't do it, he could only cut the throat from the front of his neck and use the tube to suck phlegm, but where to find the tube? Plastic pipes are impossible, and what can be used to replace them? Neither the tube nor the knife are sterilized, what happens if it is infected? What should I do if I have a painful shock without infiltrating anesthetic? Now I have no choice, I can only look at the immediate situation and find a way to suck the phlegm!

When Zuo Shaoyang was looking around and preparing to find a pumpkin vine to make a tube and prepare for surgery, Zuo Gui asked the young woman in a deep voice: "Do you have needles and threads?" ”

The woman always carried a sewing kit with her, and the young woman was busy taking it out, and she didn't know what Zuo Gui wanted the sewing kit to do at this time, so she hurriedly handed it to him.

Zuo Gui took it, squatted down and took out a croton from the medicine box, pricked a few needles on the croton with a needle, then passed the needle and thread through the croton, tied a knot and hung it, came to the child, and stuffed the hanging croton into the child's mouth: "Little master, quickly, swallow this thing!" ”

The child tried hard to swallow the croton, Zuo Gui pinched the child's cheeks with his hand, grabbed the thread and pulled it back, and pulled the croton out again. The child's cough immediately intensified, mixed with retching. But he couldn't spit out.

Zuo Gui asked the child to swallow the croton again, and then pulled the thread out, and after repeating it a few times, he listened to a few coughs, and the child finally spit out a mouthful of thick phlegm, and then listened to his coughing sound, which was suddenly much brighter. The phlegm sound in his throat was almost inaudible, and he was panting in his mother's arms, and his face looked much better.

The young woman asked urgently, "Son, what do you think?" Is it better? ”

"Hmm......" the child gasped and nodded, "spitting, don't hold your breath......"

"My poor son......" the young woman wept with joy as she put her arms around her son.

Zuo Shaoyang also breathed a sigh of relief, he felt very strange about the mechanism of this method used by Daddy Zuo Gui to help cough up phlegm, which is estimated to be related to the irritation of the throat by the croton oil contained in the croton, but the specific reason is not clear, and asked Zuo Gui: "Dad, you just used croton to let him swallow and pull it out, and he can cough up phlegm, why is this?" ”

Zuo Gui smiled, whispered to Zuo Shaoyang's ear and said: "I used to see your grandfather for my father, that is, your ancestor, he used this method to treat people who couldn't cough up phlegm, so I learned, to be honest, I don't know why I can cough up phlegm like this." ”

Zuo Shaoyang secretly admired in his heart, ancient doctors had a lot of very useful clinical skills of traditional Chinese medicine, such as this simple and easy method, he couldn't do it, and he was still thinking about surgery just now, it's ridiculous to think about it. It can be seen that ancient healers still have a lot to learn from themselves. Although they may not be able to say the medical theory, these methods do work.

Seeing that his son vomited out phlegm, the fever on his forehead had subsided a lot, his hands and feet had slowly stopped twitching, his mind was much clearer, and he was already able to talk to his parents.

Zuo Gui stroked his white beard a little proudly and humbly said a few words, although he couldn't figure out this smugness, although the later method of using croton to stimulate his throat to help cough up phlegm was something he was sure of, and it was indeed effective, but how could the three things white pills used indiscriminately in front of him wake up and open his mind, reduce fever and stop spasms? He couldn't figure it out, especially when he was cured of stillbirth with laxatives on the first day, which surprised him even more.

He thought to himself that with two cases of emergency illness in a row, he could easily be cured with the prescription he used. Of course, these two prescriptions are not harmful to the patient's disease, but they should not have obvious effects, how can they cure the disease? His son Zuo Shaoyang's medical skills were taught by himself himself, and it was very bad, so he couldn't have imagined that it was actually his son Zuo Shaoyang who was secretly helping. I have always wondered in my heart, is this a blind cat encountering a dead mouse, or is God really opening his eyes and patronizing himself?

Half an hour later, they finally went down to the foot of the mountain, and went forward for a while, and when they fell on the West Mountain, they came to Shijing County, Hezhou. By this time, the child was already able to lean on the soft couch and cough while talking to his mother. Children don't lie, they can tell at a glance whether they are sick or not, whether they are mild or not, whether they are mild or severe.

Hearing that the fat rich man said that he would send the child to Huimin Hall to see Dr. Ni for treatment, Zuo Gui and the others said goodbye to them. The fat rich man thanked them again and again, asked them where Guizhi Hall was, and said that once the child was cured, he would come to the door to thank him.

Seeing them go away, Zuo Shaoyang took out the money bag in his arms and handed it to his father Zuo Gui: "I don't know how much money they gave us, but I hope it will be enough to pay the rent." ”

Zuo Gui pinched it and shook his head: "I'm afraid it's not that good." Although he said this, he also hoped that he had misjudged in his heart, so he hurriedly opened the money bag and looked left and right to see that no one was peeping, so he poured the money inside into Zuo Shaoyang's palm.

There was a string of ropes, which should be a hanging coin, that is, a hundred wen, and the rest were scattered copper coins.

is only more than 100 yuan, although this has exceeded Zuo Gui's single diagnosis income record since he opened the pharmacy (not counting the bracelet last time), but he is still somewhat disappointed, after all, it is far from enough to pay Zhao Sanniang's debts.

When he was about to put the copper coin into the money bag, Zuo Shaoyang's eyes were sharp, and he found that there was a mezzanine on the inner wall of the money bag, and he hurriedly said: "There are still things in here!" ”

Zuo Gui also saw it, and hurriedly reached into the mezzanine, and took out a look: "Ouch, it's silver!" ”

Zuo Shaoyang hurriedly leaned his head to take a closer look, and sure enough, it was a few small pieces of silver the size of soybeans, this was the first time he had seen silver in circulation in ancient times.

Now that he needs money so much, Zuo Shaoyang couldn't help but swallow his saliva: "How much does it weigh?" ”

Zuo Gui checked: "There are probably one or two." ”

Zuo Shaoyang is happy, the Chinese New Year's Eve is the day after tomorrow to pay 3,500 wen, with this more than 1,000 wen, it is a big step closer to this goal.