Chapter 13 Codex

Fennel said: "Go out to the right, cross two streets, and there is a cool well by the river, pick ...... there"

Liang continued: "Don't go tonight, it's dark and you can't see, beware of falling, and go again tomorrow morning." - God, I forgot to carry water, what can I do? ”

"Mother, brother, he has already remembered a lot of things, and he will remember it slowly. Don't worry. ”

Zuo Shaoyang agreed, picked up the footbasin and came to the hall, found a small bench to sit down, took off his shoes and socks and washed his feet. The water was very hot, and I didn't dare to put it in my feet at once, and while watching Liang and Fennel wash the dishes, he said: "I passed by Huimin Hall just now, and I saw that there are many people who are sick in them, and if we also have so many patients to see the disease, we won't worry about not being able to pay the rent." ”

Liang said: "How can we compare with Huimin Hall, the big shopkeeper, I heard that the previous dynasty worked as a medical officer in the capital, and he also gave the prince and prime minister a doctor!" ”

"Being famous doesn't necessarily mean having the ability!"

Fennel said: "That's the way it is, but the patients are all going to fame, and my father has no fame, even if he cures people's diseases, people are not rare." ”

Zuo Shaoyang said: "That's not necessarily, if my father can really cure the third aunt's illness, I will look at her rarely!" Her illness was incessantly painful and uncomfortable, but as long as she was cured, she would be happy. ”

"Yes, I hope she is so happy that she can delay the rent for us a little later, and after the New Year, there may be more sick people, so how can I save some money to pay part of the rent first. I'm afraid that if I don't see it well, the third aunt will be angry, and if we can't Chinese New Year's Eve, we will have to drive us away......! ”

As soon as Fennel said this, she heard Zuo Gui's cold voice from the wing room on the left: "How long is this going to be?" Don't sleep yet, are you mothers full of food? ”

Fennel glanced at Zuo Shaoyang and stuck out her tongue.

Liang said in a low voice: "Don't say it! After washing, you should go back quickly, Hou Pu and the child are still waiting for you to go back, you are tired for a day, and you can rest early! ”

"Oh!" Fennel helped clean up the house after washing the dishes, Zuo Shaoyang had already washed his feet, got up and took the footwashing water, but he didn't know where to pour it, Fennel came over and took the footbasin, walked into the kitchen, poured the water with a bang, came out and straightened his clothes, and said in a low voice: "Mother, I'm going back, brother, you sleep in the side room outside on the right, so rest, if someone comes to the emergency department at night, you remember to say hello first, don't let your dad get up, beware of your dad getting cold." ”

"Okay."

Zuo Shaoyang knew that his sister Fennel's house was next to the county government, not far from here. After a few words, he opened the door to Fennel and watched her go away. Only then did he close the door again.

Liang told Zuo Shaoyang to go to bed early, so he went into the house to sleep, and Zuo Shaoyang took the oil lamp into the outer wing on the right. The inner room is relatively large, and it can be divided into two parts: inside and outside. Outside, most of the room is a room for concocting medicinal materials. On one side are several pots and stoves for concocting medicinal materials, and on the other side are guillotines, water basins, copper bowls, hammers and other concoction tools. There is a small room in the back, and this small room contains all kinds of medicinal herbs, all of which are very cheap and have not been concocted. Zuo Shaoyang was very puzzled, my sister said to let me sleep here, but there is no bed here, how can I sleep?

Zuo Shaoyang held the oil lamp and looked around, the light of the oil lamp was very dim, and he finally saw that there was a small horizontal partition above the small half of the medicinal herb warehouse in the middle, maybe that was the place to sleep, but how to go up?

Looking left and right, I finally found a wooden ladder next to the medicinal herb warehouse, took it to the shelf, and slowly climbed the stairs with an oil lamp to take a look. The cover was a mattress made of kudzu cloth, and a thin quilt was placed next to it. I touched the mattress, opened it again, and found that it was laid with straw. The man climbed up and heard the sound of the rope.

Zuo Shaoyang found that there was a long shelf at the head of the bed, and there were a few books, so he put the oil lamp on the shelf and took those books to look at them. Seeing that they are all manuscripts, the handwriting is neat, upright and vigorous, and the plaque on the door of his own pharmacy, the peach rune couplet on both sides and the handwriting on the prescription written by Daddy Zuogui is the same, it should be Daddy Zuogui's handwriting. Presumably it was copied from where the father Zuogui came from, and gave it to his son to study medicine. Before the Tang Dynasty, due to the restrictions of printing and other conditions, the dissemination of medical books basically relied on hand-copied transcripts or even oral transmission, and books of modern meaning were rare.

Some of these prescriptions are prescriptions in pre-Tang Dynasty medical books such as "Famous Doctors' Records" and "Treatise on Typhoid Fever", which are mixed with some medical books before the Tang Dynasty, such as "Su Wen", "Shennong's Materia Medica", "Yellow Emperor's Neijing", "Treatise on Typhoid Fever" and other medical books before the Tang Dynasty. These are all medical classics, among which the main provisions Zuo Shaoyang is familiar with the chest, and after a closer look, it is found that not only are they incomplete, but also the provisions in many places are wrong.

In addition to some prescriptions that Zuo Shaoyang was familiar with, there were also some prescriptions that looked at the eyes, which may be some empirical prescriptions in the early Tang Dynasty, which were lost later. He was secretly happy that he might be able to learn the lost ancient recipe from this booklet, so he carefully flipped through several hand-copied medical books.

However, after carefully looking at the indications and the compatibility of the composition of the formula, he was very disappointed, from the perspective of the composition and indications of the prescription, the indications are some common typhoid fever miscellaneous diseases, and the prescriptions are some commonly used drugs, the compatibility is mediocre, some are still debatable, and some are even obviously problematic. It is not difficult to understand that these are all manuscripts, which may have been falsely disseminated, and more importantly, they have not been reviewed and identified by the authority of the official organization, and the fallacies are inevitable.

After reading it, he found that there were many fallacies on it, and he couldn't help but shake his head secretly, thinking to himself that Zuo Gui's father used such a medical book to treat diseases, no wonder the pharmacy business was not good, and he couldn't even pay the rent. Seeing that some of these pamphlets are mutilated, it is obvious that they have been read for a long time, if it is Zuo Gui's father who has read it himself and passed it to his son Zuo Zhong, that is, the person who fell to death who possessed himself, then it is easy to understand, if it is Zuo Zhong who was given after a new copy, Zuo Zhong studied hard and looked like this, then this Zuo Zhong studied hard enough. It's just that with this kind of medical science, no matter how hard you work, it is difficult to achieve anything.

It was freezing, the jacket he was wearing was not warm, and his fingers were frozen stiff, but he still insisted on reading these hand-copied pamphlets. After some sighing, he put a few hand-copied pamphlets on the shelf, knelt on the bed and laid out the quilt. The quilt is very thin, and the whole surface is sewn into a tic-tac-toe horizontal partition like a modern down jacket with a needle, and when I touch it, the middle layer is also hard, and I feel the unevenness, as if it is some crumpled strips of cloth. He couldn't believe it kept him warm.

Listening to the sound of beating the watch from afar outside, he secretly asked his sister Fennel, and knew how to listen to the sound of the watch, and heard that it was only one watch, that is, the modern ** o'clock. He was a night owl, he had never been in the habit of going to bed so early, he had just traveled to ancient times, and he was also very novel, and he had no sleepiness at the moment, so he wanted to go to the neighborhood for a walk. He had already heard Fennel say that there would be a curfew after the second watch in the evening, but he just walked around his home, and he would go home as soon as the second watch arrived, so it was fine.

Zuo Shaoyang went down the stairs with an oil lamp, first looked at his room, especially the tools for concocting medicinal materials, felt very simple, couldn't help but sigh, quietly went out to the lobby, and came to the kitchen with an oil lamp, the kitchen was even more simple, a large earthen stove, two iron pots on it, one large and one small, covered with wooden pot lids, uncovered and looked, the pot was empty. There were two bamboo cages on the stove, and they were opened, and there was nothing in them. There is a bamboo sieve next to the cage drawer, and there are things in it, which are the mulberry trees and the white mulberry skin that he and his sister dug up from the mountains in the afternoon, which have been washed and cut into shreds.

Next to the stove is a large tank of water with a lid and a pair of buckets next to it. There was a low wooden cabinet on the side, and when I opened it, there was a small cloth bag inside, pinched it, it was soft, and when I pulled it out, there was a small black surface inside. In the corner of the kitchen, there is some firewood.

Zuo Shaoyang looked around with an oil lamp and found that there was a small door in the back with a latch. Holding the oil lamp over, gently pulling out the latch of the door, pulling the door open a crack, a cold wind blew in, and the oil lamp went out with a pop. The room was dark.