I wish the shopkeeper to take Zuo Shaoyang and them to an old pedant who had a stroke.

Zhu Yao Cabinet knows that the advantage of Zuo Shaoyang in the treatment of stroke is that it is much cheaper than other Langzhong drugs for stroke treatment, because in the early Tang Dynasty, ginseng was an indispensable main medicine when Langzhong treated stroke, and ginseng was very expensive, and ordinary families could not afford it, let alone ordinary people. Zuo Shaoyang's medicine for the treatment of stroke does not use ginseng, so it is very cheap.

Therefore, the Zhu shopkeeper who told the semicolon of the medicine cabinet to help Zuo Shaoyang find a stroke patient was not a rich family, but a poor family but somewhat influential in the local area. The main purpose is not to make Zuo Shaoyang make money, but to make a name for himself.

The first patient that the shopkeeper took Zuo Shaoyang to was such an old pedant.

This old pedant's surname is Dong, and he was a senior scholar in the Sui Dynasty at a young age. It is a pity that after waiting for more than ten years and not waiting to become an official, he encountered the war at the end of the Sui Dynasty, and his career was hopeless, so he returned to his hometown and opened a private school to teach. For decades, it can be described as a garden full of peaches and plums.

Dong Xuezhu saw that his 70th birthday was approaching, and he suddenly suffered a stroke, his right upper limb was paralyzed, he could not lift a pen, and his tongue was strong, and he stammered when he spoke. Seeking medical advice everywhere, Dong Xuexue is rich and rich, but his family is poor, because the students he accepts are almost all children of poor families. Teachers and students have no money and cannot maintain the cost of expensive ginseng that needs to be taken for a long time, so Dong Xuexuan's stroke has not been cured.

This time, I wish the shopkeeper to visit the door and recommend a Lang Zhong to Dong Xueyu and his proud disciples, who is good at treating strokes, and the medicine is very cheap, and he will not charge a penny if he can't cure it. Dong Xuexue's students were extremely happy, and repeatedly told Lang Zhong to come for treatment as soon as he arrived. Therefore, the first person to lead the shopkeeper is this Dong scholar.

Dong Xuexue's home is under the city of Nancheng, and the poor people generally live in Nancheng. And the rich families all live in the North City. Pay attention to sitting in the north and facing south.

His family is very simple, but the place is very large, in ancient times, it is estimated that no one speculated on the land, every household is a single courtyard, the place is large, and the same is true of this Dong scholar's family.

There is only a door frame in the courtyard, and I asked the shopkeeper to know that this is what Dong Xuexue deliberately did, in order to show that he opened the door to teach, regardless of the rich or poor, the old and the young, those who came did not refuse.

There was no one in the courtyard empty at the moment. Looking at it, there is some desolation.

They did not dare to make a loud noise, and first came to the central lobby, which was very spacious like the Great Hall, and there were many rows of long tables and round benches neatly arranged in it. The long case was nothing more than a plank and four legs, and so was the round stool, which couldn't have been more shabby.

This should be a private school opened by an old scholar, but there is no blackboard on the wall in the middle, instead of a peach board, on which the dragon flying and phoenix dance are inscribed with four big characters - "erudite and ambitious".

Standing under the eaves and looking back, the shopkeeper Zhu introduced that a long and simple wooden room on the west side of the lobby was the dormitory for the disciples who entered the room with Dong Xuezhu and the students who came from afar to study. Dong Xuejiu has been sick in bed for more than two months, and he has not been cured after looking for a lot of Langzhong, the key is that he has no money to buy ginseng, so it is estimated that he will not get better. The students dispersed and studied at home to prepare for the state exam to be held in a little more than a month. Therefore, in the huge school, there are only a few disciples left now.

The east row is divided into two parts, the outside is the kitchen and the dining hall, and the three wooden houses near the school are the residences of Dong Xueyu's family.

Since there is no one in the lobby, it must be in the house. A few more people walked to the three wooden houses.

At this time, someone in the house heard the sound of footsteps outside, opened the door and came out, and when he saw the shopkeeper, he was immediately overjoyed, greeted him, and bowed his hand.

Only after the introduction of the shopkeeper did he know that this person was the eldest disciple of Dong Xuexue. He was a middle-aged man in his forties, thin and small.

The big disciple said to the shopkeeper Zhu: "I wish the shopkeeper is here......" His gaze swept over Zuo Shaoyang and Bai Zhihan behind him, and then looked back: "What about Langzhong who was invited?" Haven't arrived yet? The words were full of anxiety.

Zhu shopkeeper smiled with a smile on his face, turned around and introduced: "This is it, the young shopkeeper of Hezhou Guizhitang, Zuo Zhong Zuo Shaoyang." He's amazing......"

Without waiting for the shopkeeper to finish speaking, the eldest disciple smiled wryly, shook his head and said, "Zhu shopkeeper, the family teacher is seriously ill, so don't joke!" ”

"No kidding......"

Zuo Shaoyang waved his hand, signaled to the shopkeeper not to speak, looked the big disciple up and down, clenched his fists, and said lightly: "Why does Brother Tai think that I came to see the respected master is a joke?" ”

The eldest disciple arched his hand and said: "It's no wonder that you are offended, you are too young, so many old men can't look good, can you see it well?" ”

"Hehe, if Zunjia is the monarch of Qin back then, then at the age of ten years old Ganluo, he will not be the prime minister!"

During the Warring States period of Ganluo, a native of Qin, only ten years old, with sharp teeth and wisdom, served as an envoy of Qin to Zhao State, and persuaded King Zhao to sacrifice five cities with sharp teeth. After returning to China, the king of Qin greatly appreciated his wisdom and talent, and worshiped him as the secretary, which was equivalent to the prime minister. This is the allusion to Ganluo's visit to the prime minister at the age of ten.

The eldest disciple looked Zuo Shaoyang up and down again, and arched his hand: "Your Excellency is from Ganluo? ”

"Don't dare, the so-called ambition is not in old age, and there is no ambition to live a hundred years old."

This famous sentence first appeared in the novel "Fengshen Bang" in the Ming Dynasty, and the eldest disciple naturally heard it for the first time, and felt that this sentence was full of confidence and heroic spirit, so he was taken aback, looked Zuo Shaoyang up and down, and arched his hand: "It seems that it is a contemptible person." Lang Zhong turned out to be a capable person. No wonder offended. Here, please, the tutor is waiting for you to come in the house. ”

This big disciple led Zuo Shaoyang and them to Dong Xuexue's house.

This house is so old that the two door gods attached to the two doors are yellow. Half of one of them was hung up by the wind. On both sides of the gate hung two pieces of peach wood for writing couplets, but they were empty and unwritten. Although couplets in the modern sense only appeared in the Song Dynasty, in the Sui and Tang dynasties, some literati and elegant guests had already begun to write couplets on peach symbols to relieve their minds. Unexpectedly, this famous Da Hongru of Dong Pedant, the peach charm at the door was actually empty.

Zuo Shaoyang said casually: "This peach talisman does not write couplets, which shows that the erudition of the teacher can no longer be described with pen and paper, which is really appropriate." ”

This gentle sentence of the horse made the eldest disciple very comfortable, and a smile bloomed on his face: "Where, the peach charm of the family teacher, before the Spring Festival every year, each disciple should write a couplet, which will be selected by the family teacher, and the selected one will be inscribed by his own hand and hung at the door of the family teacher to show praise." This year, the family teacher fell ill a few years ago, and it lasted for half a year, so this peach charm was empty. ――Please come in! ”

Zuo Shaoyang stepped into Dong Xuexue's guest hall. There is a pair of central halls hanging on the front of this living room, and the four big characters of "Tranquility and Zhiyuan" are written in Lishu, which is full of elegance.

One of the tables under the middle hall, although the workmanship is still relatively fine, can be regarded as a decent table, but it is too old to see its true color, and the two matching chairs next to it also have no true color.

The left side is divided into two bedrooms, where Dong Xueji's son and daughter-in-law live, and the one on the right is Dong Xuexue's house. Dong Xuexue's wife has been dead for many years. In addition to the room full of books, there was only a long case, a pen holder on which hung brushes of different thicknesses, and an antique inkstone with ink on which had dried up and had obviously not been used for a long time.

The eldest disciple bowed down and said, "Sir, Lang Zhong, who was introduced by the Hengchang Pharmacy Branch, has arrived, and he has come to see you." ”

Dong Xuezhi reluctantly opened his old and faint eyes, looked at the ceiling first, and then slowly moved to the door, and saw Zuo Shaoyang, with a few ho-ho sounds in his mouth, but he didn't know what to say.

Dong Xuexue's son hurriedly brought a round stool and put it on the side of the bed, Zuo Shaoyang sat down, did not have an emergency pulse, and asked, "Old man, can you hear me?" ”

Dong Xuezhu nodded slightly, and hiss a few more times in his mouth, but he still doesn't know what to say.

The eldest disciple said sadly on the side: "My father had a stroke last year, and he was teaching that day, when his body suddenly shook, and he slowly fell to the ground, so frightened that we hurriedly stepped forward to help him up, and went to the hospital with his hands and feet. As a result, the doctor Lang Zhong said that at least 50 yuan should be paid, otherwise the disease could not be cured. Mr. is poor, and he runs a private school for students from poor families, and they are exempt from tuition, so the income is very meager, and the family basically has no savings. Where can I find fifty dollars? ”

Dong Xuexue's son burst into tears: "We searched all over the city's medical halls and pharmacies, and although some of them offered a little less, they were more than 40 yuan, and the high ones were more than 60 yuan. I had no choice but to raise money. My father originally still had a few inkstones and a few folding fans from the previous dynasty, and they were also sold for treatment. Everything that can be sold at home has been sold, and the disciples of the school have also tried their best to raise money to help, but all the money added up is less than ten yuan, which is far from enough for the cost of medicine. After discussing it, everyone decided to take the medicine for a period of time with the money, see the effect, and then find a way if it is better. ”

"Does the medicine have any effect?"

"Nope! Alas! My father took all the medicine for ten yuan, and although his condition improved somewhat, he was still paralyzed in bed and couldn't speak, and after the medicine stopped, his condition became serious again. From that time to now, I've fainted seven or eight times! Because there is no money for treatment, and the previous treatment effect is not good, so now, there is no medicine. ”

Zuo Shaoyang nodded, asked for sleep again, and then checked the pulse and looked at the tongue, and found that the tongue was red, the pulse was thin and the ulnar was weak, and the left guan was slightly stringy.

Zuo Shaoyang pondered for a moment, and said to Dong Xueyu's son: "Ling Zun's disease is a deficiency of yin in the liver and kidneys, the internal movement of wind evil, and the obstruction of veins......

Dong Xueyu's son said: "We don't know how to treat this, so we don't need to explain, Mr., please prescribe medicine directly." ”

(To be continued)