Zuo Shaoyang hurriedly arched his hand and said: "This ......, thank you so much!" But I don't know a painter, and I don't know how to paint myself. ”

Zhu medicine cabinet said: "This is easy to do, I know that there is a literary ink shop next to the yamen, called 'Xiangyunxuan', the shopkeeper surnamed Wen, is a very good painter, the yamen has a sea fishing proclamation to paint, and often asks him to paint." However, what he is best at is painting flowers and birds, that is, flowers and plants, and he survived this famine by eating wild vegetables, but his family is almost dead, and the shop has just reopened, please help you paint. ”

"Great!" Zuo Shaoyang said happily.

"You don't have to be polite, I still have a family in this old life, and your family saved it, and besides, you also have a part in our medicine shop. Your business is also the medicine business. Besides, there is such a thing as curing diseases and saving people, accumulating yin and virtue. Leave it to me and you can rest assured! ”

Zuo Shaoyang hurriedly thanked him. The two went out together and went straight to the yamen of the state capital.

Came to Xiangyunxuan, I wish the medicine cabinet is very familiar with the shopkeeper, I wish the medicine cabinet introduced Zuo Shaoyang, said his requirements, the shopkeeper knows Zuo Shaoyang, two months ago when the official army escorted the street, I knew that it was a model for supporting the army, and after learning that he was going to draw some herbal medicine diagrams, he happily agreed. Look at the medicine cabinet, a painting only charges Zuo Shaoyang ten yuan.

Zuo Shaoyang was very happy, and decided to go up the mountain to collect medicine the next day, first pick up the medicine nearby, draw it for the shopkeeper Wen, and then hand it over to the medicine cabinet to buy it in a unified manner, and then sell it to his own pharmacy. In the future, if this medicine can be pushed away, it will be operated by Hengchang Pharmaceutical Company. On the one hand, a cycle of good surnames is formed. For other medicinal materials that are not produced locally, the shopkeeper drew them according to Zuo Shaoyang's depiction, and Zuo Shaoyang proposed to revise them until they were accurate.

After the agreement, Zuo Shaoyang returned to Guizhi Hall.

The next day, after Zuo Shaoyang re-examined the patients, he found that the symptomatic medication still had a certain effect, and most of the edema had subsided to a certain extent, and the itching had also been reduced, but the chest was still stuffy. However, patients with severe symptoms of toxic fever did not improve significantly. In some cases, it was even further aggravated, and convulsive symptoms appeared. After Zuo Shaoyang hurriedly used heat-clearing and antispasmodic drugs, he woke up.

Zuo Shaoyang asked the patient and his family to wait patiently, saying that the medicine for the treatment of this disease had been sent to buy it, and it would take about four or five days, and when the medicine arrived, it would be cured quickly. The patients could only wait anxiously and patiently.

Then, Zuo Shaoyang carried the basket on his back and took Miao Peilan and Bai Zhihan up the mountain to collect medicine, and of course took the little squirrel as a bodyguard. Now I am soaking in the field, and I don't need to plow the field, so I took Miao Peilan to collect medicine together.

This time, his purpose of collecting medicine was very clear, in addition to treating the red peony of the big head plague, he wanted to find medicinal materials that were not available in the Tang Dynasty as much as possible, and dig up the whole plant and bring it back.

Since the barren slope where Zuo Shaoyang leased to plant medicinal materials was not within the scope of the soldiers' cultivation and had not yet been plowed out, the medicinal materials that were dug up could not be directly planted on the barren slope, so Zuo Shaoyang set aside two acres of land to plant these transplanted medicinal materials.

For two or three days in a row, Zuo Shaoyang revisited the patient early in the morning, and then took Bai Zhihan and the little squirrel up the mountain to collect medicine. The medicine that was dug up and planted was transplanted into the two acres of fields.

In the past few days, many patients with big head plague have come to Guizhitang for medical treatment. Zuo Shaoyang asked Ding Xiaosan to go to other pharmacies in the city to see, and there were also many patients with big head plague. Some mild symptoms were cured, but the effect of severe cases was not obvious.

Chinese medicine has long noticed the skin diseases caused by light, and there are some scattered symptoms recorded. However, until the Ming Dynasty's "Surgical Qixuan", the real cause was not revealed. As for dermatitis of the plant Yueguang, it was not until modern times that the cause was truly recognized, and the appropriate treatment plan was summarized in combination with the Ming and Qing dynasties.

Therefore, Zuo Shaoyang's Guizhitang's treatment of this disease is better than that of other pharmacies, the medicine he uses is symptomatic, and most of the medicines are available, the missing two-flavor medicine has not yet arrived, and can only be temporarily replaced with other medicinal materials, the effect is definitely not as good as the original prescription, but it is also much better than the blind treatment effect of other pharmacies. In particular, some seriously ill patients, since most of their conditions did not improve significantly, and some continued to worsen, they were transferred to Guizhitang for treatment.

After Zuo Shaoyang determined that these were plant light dermatitis, he told the families of these patients and asked them to tell the people who ate gray cabbage at home that they would not get sick if they were exposed to the sun, and that they would not have an attack after a few days.

This method soon spread, and the hungry people almost all ate gray cabbage, of course, most of them will not get sick, only a few people with allergies will get sick in the sun. After deliberately avoiding sun exposure, the number of people suffering from big-headed plague has decreased significantly. These people even admired Guizhitang's medical skills.

Four days later, Zhu medicine cabinet came to tell Zuo Shaoyang that the medicine sent by the Yamen Post Station 400 miles urgently had arrived, Zuo Shaoyang and Zhu Medicine Cabinet went to the post station to pick up the goods, immediately dispensed medicine, and gave it to the seriously ill patients, that night, all the serious patients in Guizhitang had a significant improvement, and the next day, the swelling basically recovered, and the itching stopped, but the chest tightness was not completely cured. After another day of continuous medication, I fully recovered.

At this moment, after the patients of other pharmacies learned about it, they transferred to Guizhitang one after another. Guizhitang's ward, which has only a dozen beds, can't live at all, and sleeps in the lobby with bunks, as well as the lobby rented by the Miao family, which is full of dozens of them. Accompanying family members are all exempted, and three women, Miao's mother, Aunt Li and Aunt Long, are responsible for taking care of them.

One by one, these patients recovered. After Zuo Shaoyang's correct way of eating gray cabbage and the method of avoiding big-headed plague spread, there were few newly infected patients. Therefore, the patients with big-head plague in Guizhitang were finally cured and gone, because they stayed for observation and found that the problem was treated in time, so there were no deaths due to complications caused by big-head plague.

After the treatment of this disease, Guizhitang's fame has increased greatly, and many people in the four towns know about it. There has also been a significant increase in the number of people coming to Guizhitang for treatment.

These days, the 20 acres of land rented by Mrs. Li's family are ploughed and sown by soldiers, and they don't have to work for more than half a month when the seedlings grow. So Tohoupu helped them buy a homestead for 500 yuan in Hetan Village, and the brothers spent a few days demolishing the house in Laohuai Village and transporting it to Hetan Village to build a house.

The Miao family's house in Laohuai Village did not move, because the people in the village had fled the famine, and they could not sell it if they wanted to, so they still left it empty.

The field is finally soaked and can be ploughed, the big-headed plague has been almost cured, and Zuo Shaoyang can spare his hands to farm.

This morning, just after dawn, Zuo Shaoyang changed his clothes, took Bai Zhihan, led the ploughing cow, and came to the oil and salt shop next to Guizhitang, that is, in front of the house rented by Miao Peilan's family, and knocked on the door to ask Miao Peilan to go to the ground.

As soon as he slapped twice, the door opened, as if Miao Peilan was hiding behind the door, carrying a plow on one shoulder, two hoes in the other, and a basket behind his back, loaded with dry food and water, he saw that Zuo Shaoyang and Bai Zhihan were both wearing short shirts of kudzu linen, hats on their heads, straw sandals under their feet, pulling up their trousers, and leading a ploughing ox behind them, and laughed.

Zuo Shaoyang looked down at his outfit: "What are you laughing at?" Is there something wrong? ”

"It's good. It's just that I'm used to seeing you wearing a long shirt, and now I suddenly wear a short shirt, which feels weird. ”

"Hehe, you can't go down to the ground in a long shirt."

"Why do you only bring one cow out and the other?"

"One cow is enough to plow the land."

"How do you plow a cow?"

"Could it be that you plough the land with two oxen?" Zuo Shaoyang said strangely.

"yes, how do you carry a yoke on your shoulders if you want a cow?"

"Why carry it -- what's on your shoulder? Is it a plow? Zuo Shaoyang glared at the plow that Miao Peilan was carrying on her shoulder.

"Well, what's wrong?" Miao Peilan saw him looking strangely at the plow on his shoulder, thinking that there was something on the plow, so he hurriedly put it down and looked at it, but found nothing wrong.

Zuo Shaoyang walked over and squatted down to look at the plow back and forth, left and right, and said with a wry smile: "You use such a plow, no wonder a person can only plant five acres of land, and two oxen need to plow." ”

Almost the entire Tang Dynasty, the peasants used a kind of straight plow, and only at the end of the Tang Dynasty did the Quyuan plow, also called the Jiangdong plow, appear. This is a major leap forward in the farming tools of paddy fields. It is now the beginning of the Tang Dynasty, so the plow carried by Miao Peilan is still a very backward straight plough before the leap.

This kind of straight plough is carried by two oxen, and the two oxen carry a long shoulder yoke side by side, without a plow plate, and the plough wheel is directly connected to the yoke, which is very cumbersome and difficult to turn. Moreover, there are no plough evaluations, plough arrows, and plough building components, and the plough is not deep, and the bottom of the plough and the plow tip are also combined and not separated, and the work cannot be kept stable, and the depth is not the same. In addition, the plough and plough wall are not well designed, and cannot meet the requirements of turning over the soil, covering the soil and crushing the soil.

Miao Peilan said: "You need two oxen to plow the field." How do you plow a cow? ”

"Hey, I have a way." Zuo Shaoyang said, "I knew that you cultivated the land like this, and I had already improved it, so the twenty acres of land would have been cultivated a long time ago." -- Okay, I won't go to the ground for the time being, I'm going to design a new plough, which is much easier to use than the current one, and that I can plow a single ox, so that I can not only plough the field twice as fast, but also plough it deeper, and at the same time turn the soil, cover the soil, and break the soil. It may take a morning, so you can rest at home for a morning. After lunch, we will go again. I'm going to go to Brother Li and the blacksmith to make a plow now. ”

"I'd better go down to the field and plough first, right? I couldn't stay at home, watching the ground move, and my heart felt like a cat scratching. ”

"No, after ploughing the field, some of them are busy, and they have to use a rake to open all the mud, and there are still many things."

(To be continued)