Doctor Ni comforted a few words, then left, returned to the front hall to open the white tiger soup, and told his wife to feed the child in person after frying, lest this kid let the maid lie and say that he drank it again, and he would not be well.

That night, Dr. Ni prepared a generous gift, and he didn't dare to bring large items, so as not to make people suspicious. He brought only a small box of gold, silver and jewelry, and no one else, and came to visit the medical officer's house in a carriage alone before the curfew at night.

Medical Officer An began to speak officially, and when he saw Dr. Ni open the small box, revealing a small box full of silver ingots, the light emitted from his eyes was stronger than the white light of the silver ingots. He swallowed hard in his mouth. Only then did he retract his gaze with satisfaction, sighed, and said: "Doctor Ni, it's not that the little brother doesn't help you, it's true, this case was personally approved by Lord Shi, and when the time comes, he will return to his old man to know, no one dares to cheat, besides, even the county magistrate can't help, I am humble and can't help!" ”

Doctor Ni said sadly: "I also know this, I don't dare to beg you to risk death to help, I just ask you to tell the truth of the matter, and I can find a way." ”

As soon as he heard this, Medical Officer An immediately breathed a sigh of relief: "This is easy, anyway, if you are promoted to the court in two days, these are all to be confronted in the court." According to Brother Ling, Mother Sui had a cold hernia at that time, and Brother Ling's prescription was fried with big aconitum head. The old lady took the medicine and died without a meal. The Sui family suspected that the medicine was poisonous, and they didn't suspect that it was Ling Di's poison at that time, so they immediately reported it to the official. Qian County Ling knew the relationship between the Sui family and Lord Ouyang, so he didn't dare to slack off, and personally took me and the people to investigate. After a joint autopsy by the official and the servant, it was determined that he had indeed died of poisoning......"

Dr. Ni's heart moved, and he hurriedly asked, "What are the symptoms of poisoning?" Is it aconitum poisoning? ”

If it is not aconitum poisoning, then it can be concluded that someone else poisoned it, so as to rule out the suspicion that his brother used the wrong medicine.

Medical Officer An smiled coldly: "Doctor Ni, if it weren't for the poisoning of Aconite, who would have troubled Brother Ling for no reason?" -- The old lady took the medicine, and after a while, she cried out that her limbs were crawling like ants, and then her limbs were numb, she could not speak, she was dizzy, she vomited and salivated, her lips were cyanotic, she had difficulty breathing, and her limbs convulsed and died. Before and after the old lady took the medicine, there were many people such as sons, daughters-in-law, maids and servants present, and they all witnessed the whole process, and no one framed Brother Ling! ”

"However, this can't be said to be inappropriate for my brother's medication. Maybe the old lady was seriously ill and dying, and her life was at that moment, no wonder others. ”

"To tell the truth, Lord Assassin Shi is not an unreasonable person, including the Sui shopkeeper's family, nor is he a person who frames others at will, if there is no real evidence to conclude that Brother Ling is 'not as good as his own side', he will never be like this."

"Really? What credentials? ”

"Dregs!"

"What's wrong with the dregs?"

"What's wrong? Hehe" Medical Officer An sneered a few times and said, "Let me ask you, how many pieces of aconitum are used for 'big aconitum fried'?" ”

Although the book was written in the Song Dynasty, it was found and sorted out because it was the discovery and sorting of the miscellaneous part of Zhang Zhongjing's "Treatise on Typhoid Fever and Miscellaneous Diseases" in the Han Dynasty, and "Treatise on Typhoid Fever and Miscellaneous Diseases" was a summary of medical achievements at that time, and many of the prescriptions had been circulated at that time, so the Da Aconitum decoction had actually been circulated among the people as early as the Han Dynasty and was already a well-known prescription in the Tang Dynasty.

Doctor Ni naturally knew and blurted out: "Five pieces of big aconitum are used for frying big aconitum with big ones." ”

"Hehe, that's right, do you know how many your brother used?"

"How many?"

"Eight of them!" Medical Officer An gestured with his hands and sneered: "It's all such a big one!" ”

"Huh?" Dr. Ni was startled and almost fell from his chair to the ground.

Large aconitum is up to 56 grams each. According to 50 grams, five aconitum is 250 grams! That's already an astonishing dose, and eight pieces, even more up to 400 grams! That's nearly a pound in weight!

(Note: about the weight of aconitum aconitum, the statement is different, very different, the above weight is the use of the special study of "Typhoid Fever" Professor Hao Wanshan's point of view, and many book friends like to use the "Baidu Encyclopedia" in the statement, the weight of the aconitum is too far away, Baidu 100 grams of the word Aconitum is explained that each piece of big aconitum weighs only ten grams, and the five pieces of the big aconitum fried weigh 50 grams, only one-fifth of Professor Hao Wanshan's point of view.) The reason why this book adopts Professor Hao Wanshan's viewpoint is because he is, after all, an authoritative scholar who has studied "Treatise on Typhoid Fever", and his viewpoint should have sufficient basis. ）

Aconitum is highly poisonous, its poisonous surname is higher than aconite, and the amount of aconitum in the big aconitum fried is larger than that of aconite, this is not unreasonable, the main reason is that Zhang Zhongjing Fangzhong's frying method of big aconite is special, first of all, the aconitum should be concocted by simmering and roasting, and a considerable part of the poisonous surname can be removed at high temperature, do not break the aconite, put the whole into a pot and boil it with water, boil three liters of water into one liter, take out the aconite, add two liters of honey and then fry, after these procedures, the poisonous surname of aconitum is greatly weakened, and it is relatively safe to use.

However, after all, aconitum is a highly toxic drug, and once the concoction does not meet the requirements and the poisoning is not complete, it is easy to be poisoned. Therefore, doctors did not dare to use such a large dose in Zhang Zhongjing's prescription, let alone increase the dose.

Dr. Ni thought to himself, he is also a well-known doctor, every time he uses aconitum he is also very cautious, he gave the old shopkeeper of Hengchang Pharmacy to the medicine cabinet to treat rheumatism, because he is cold and damp and the evil lingers in the meridians, and it does not heal for a long time, in order to drive away the cold of the meridians, he has to use five aconitum as a last resort, and the dose has reached the limit of the prescription book, which is already very risky, and he didn't expect his brother to use eight aconite, far more than Zhang Zhongjing's prescription. I really don't know what he thinks.

Dr. Ni didn't believe that his younger brother would use medicine like this, so he opened his mouth and said, "No, my brother can't use medicine like this......!" ”

"Won't? Hehe, at that time, Brother Ling prescribed a prescription to catch medicine, Sui's mother had some words about this disease, and she had eaten big aconitum fried before, and when she saw that the prescription was actually eight aconitum fried, she thought it was written wrong, and asked Brother Ling, and Brother Ling said yes, it was eight, and patted her chest and said that Sui's mother's illness must be treated with such a heavy dose, it is absolutely fine, he can use his head to pack a ticket. So Sui's mother ate it, and she died. After receiving the report, Qian County Commander took me to Sui's house to investigate, and found that Sui's mother had indeed died of poisoning, and immediately ordered the medicine jar of the decoction, together with the medicine residue and the remaining decoction, as well as the soup bowl for taking the medicine, all sealed for investigation. When I asked everyone who was there at the time, they said the same thing. After arresting Brother Ling, he didn't even use torture, just asked like this, and Brother Ling admitted all the above facts! ”

"Impossible!" Dr. Ni felt that he had no confidence in saying this, but he subconsciously argued to himself: "My brother has been practicing medicine for more than 30 years, and I have used the big aconitum decoction recipe many times, and I have never used as many as eight pieces!" There must be a reason for it! ”

"No, I'm afraid that only Brother Ling knows about this reason. It is precisely because he deliberately misused the prescription that the dosage was too large, and he insisted, so Master Tang decided that he was 'deliberately inferior to his own prescription' and murdered the old lady Sui! ”

Doctor Ni was stunned for a moment, then hung his head and said, "Can I see my brother?" ”

"I can't help with this, I don't care about prison, you have to talk to the cell boss, but I heard that he has been put on death row. Outsiders are not allowed to meet with each other. If you think about such a big case, I'm afraid that the cell boss won't dare to let you in to see him. ”

"But, I have to figure out why, why did he use eight aconitum for no reason? There's always a point, right? ”

"Then you can think of a way, I can only help so much."

Dr. Ni could only get up and say goodbye, and when he returned home to tell the matter, Ni Er's wives and children heard that Ni Er really overdosed and treated the patient, and they also confessed, knowing that this matter was probably over, they immediately cried. begged Dr. Ni to find a way to meet Ni Er and find out what happened.

Since the curfew was imminent, I didn't have time to visit, so I had to give up. The family spent the night crying and crying.

Early the next morning, Dr. Ni prepared another bag of gold and silver for dotting, and took a carriage to the Yamen prison. The cell boss really refused to be accommodating, and refused to let him meet. Dr. Ni gave the bag of gold and silver, and promised to send another box of ginseng back, and the cell boss reluctantly agreed to visit him in the evening, but told him that he had to see the ginseng.

Dr. Ni sat in the car back to the pharmacy in frustration, but was blocked on the way. -- To be precise, it was the crowd that blocked the streets, making it impossible to cross.

Dr. Ni lifted the curtain probe and looked at it, and heard the crowd in front of him laughing from time to time, and he was still hiding in the province, and was about to ask the people next to him, when the people in front of him scattered and fled, and saw a woman wearing red ribbons, as if she was a bride, but her hair was scattered, her mouth was foaming, her throat was shirring, her eyes were red, and she was holding two red bricks in her hand, and rushed towards his carriage. But it turned out to be a female madman. I saw her hand raised, and the brick in her hand slammed on the beam of Dr. Ni's car, and the horse pulling the cart was frightened, and the person stood up, and the carriage was crooked, and Dr. Ni was lifted off.

Dr. Ni's hat also fell off, his shoes also took off, he fell to the ground and only hummed, and when he looked up, he saw the woman's red eyes staring, the corners of her mouth spitting, her face distorted and deformed, her mouth screaming, the bricks in her hands were raised high, and she slapped Dr. Ni's head!

"Damn, it's over!" Dr. Ni was so frightened that he hugged his head and screamed, unexpectedly that he would die at the hands of a female madman.

Unexpectedly, as soon as the soles of the woman's feet slipped, the brick slapped crookedly, slashed diagonally in front of his head, flew out of his hand, and smashed on the ground beside him with a snap, breaking into several pieces, and the woman's body immediately weakened, and she collapsed on the ground, her eyes rolled up, her mouth foamed, and her hands and feet twitched.

(To be continued)