Chapter 216: Grass and Human Life
Aunt Li pushed the door in with a tray, the fragrance of green vegetable porridge spread faintly in the small room, and Gu Langzhong's stomach screamed again.
"Gu Langzhong, are you really awake? It's great. Aunt Li put down the tray and saw that Gu Langzhong on the bed had really opened her eyes, and her face showed joy.
"It's great that you woke up in Gulangzhong! The way you had a seizure before was really terrifying. Thinking that she was almost choked by Gu Langzhong's neck before, Aunt Li was still palpitating, but now she only felt relieved when she saw Gu Langzhong who had recovered his senses.
"I've offended a lot before, I'm sorry, Li family lady." There are still some memories of Gu Lang at the time of the onset, and he quickly got up to make amends to Aunt Li.
Aunt Li smiled and waved her hand, and stuffed a pillow into Gu Langzhong's lower back, making him sit more comfortably.
"Then Aunt Li, you take care of Gu Langzhong here, I'll go to the hospital to see if there is anyone who needs my help." Song Lingyue explained two sentences, turned around and left.
Aunt Li reached out and touched the porridge bowl, the tentacles were already warm, and she put it to her mouth to blow cold, "I still remember that you liked the green vegetable porridge I made the most, and it's really good to wake up now." ”
"Li family lady, I'll come by myself, come by myself!" Gu Langzhong reached out to take it, but pulled the wound on his shoulder that had not yet healed.
"Beware! The wound on the shoulder is bandaged, and if you move it, it will burst again. Aunt Li hurriedly stopped and helped Gu Langzhong blow cold green vegetable porridge to his mouth.
"It's really troublesome for the Li family." Gu Langzhong couldn't stop thanking him.
Aunt Li smiled embarrassedly, and didn't dare to take credit at all:
"There, if Gu Langzhong wants to thank him, he should still thank Lingyue! For your illness, Lingyue has been unable to sleep and eat these days, and she has worked hard every day to help you treat your illness.
"Ling Yue really deserves to be your apprentice, her medical skills are really good, you are so sick, she can help you heal, it is really better than blue."
"My apprentice?" Gu Langzhong raised his eyebrows, and his pale face could not see the emotion at this time, but the corners of his lips outlined a trace of interest.
"Yes! You don't know, Lingyue is really amazing! Not to mention the excellent medical skills, the medical ethics are also top-notch, who doesn't say that Lingyue is a miracle doctor and a famous doctor! Aunt Li talked about Song Lingyue's tone with pride and pride, "Gu Langzhong, you must be proud that you can have such an outstanding female disciple, right?" ”
Gu Lang's eyes moved slightly, and he pretended to be relaxed and asked:
"Lady of the Li family, you should tell me, how good my 'apprentice's medical skills are, and I am very interested in letting you praise you like this."
When Aunt Li heard this, she immediately told Gu Langzhong about the process of her first encounter with Song Lingyue, and how Song Lingyue succeeded in becoming the first female doctor in Jizhou Mansion through the difficulties of time-consuming and other medical officials.
Of course, Song Lingyue's feat of disemboweling her child was not missed.
"Disembowelment?" Gu Lang was startled in the center, and his face sank, "Isn't this a matter of careless human life!" ”
He had indeed seen cases of disembowelment in ancient medical texts, and he had tried it himself, but the women had not survived three and died due to wound infection.
Since then, Gu Langzhong has been convinced that it should be impossible to artificially disembowel, at least not under the current conditions.
"Grass and human life?" Aunt Li glanced back at Gu Langzhong in confusion.
Seeing that Aunt Li was puzzled, Gu Langzhong became even more anxious: "The caesarean section is extremely dangerous, and the damage to the mother is almost unavoidable, and it is very likely that the mother will die after the caesarean section." Isn't this a careless disregard for human life? ”
"At that time, the situation was dangerous, if Lingyue didn't disembowel, I was afraid that Chun'er's mother and daughter would not survive now." Aunt Li recalled the danger at that time, and she was afraid for a while.
"Mother and daughter are alive?" Gu Langzhong grasped the point of Aunt Li's words, "You said that she successfully survived the mother and daughter after disemboweling her child?" How is this possible! ”
Aunt Li glanced at Gu Langzhong with a 'rare and strange' look: "What's impossible?" Chun'er is out of confinement, and now she is still selling jewelry in the market as before! If you don't believe it, you can go to the market to see it yourself! ”
"W-How is this possible!" Gu Langzhong's face was full of disbelief, "I couldn't even do it back then, why can she do it?" ”
"You're going to ask Lingyue about this! Isn't she your apprentice? Aunt Li smiled and picked up the porridge bowl that Gu Langzhong had drunk, cleaned it up, and comforted Gu Langzhong to lie down again.
"It seems that Gu Langzhong is recovering well, and he has drunk such a big bowl of porridge." Song Lingyue glanced at the empty bowl on the tray, her appetite recovered, and the person was half better.
"Yes! Gu Langzhong just talked to me about you! It's just that for some reason, when I said that you were his apprentice, his face was a little weird. Aunt Li said absently.
Song Lingyue's heart chuckled: "Did you tell him anything?" ”
"No, I just casually said the things you helped treat before, don't worry, it's all praise for you!" Aunt Li took out her hand and patted the back of Song Lingyue's hand, as if to comfort her.
"Really?" Song Lingyue twitched the corner of her mouth and squeezed out a somewhat embarrassing arc.
Aunt Li didn't pay attention to it at all, and while walking towards the kitchen, she thought of something and shouted:
"Ouch, I almost forgot, Chun'er and I are getting better, I'm going to the market today, saying that Lijia Buzhuang has a new fabric, and it's cool to wear it in summer, so I've been thinking about buying some back and making some summer clothes for you."
"Then go quickly, I'll help you clean up these dishes and chopsticks." Song Lingyue hurriedly stepped forward and snatched the tray in Aunt Li's hand.
Aunt Li wiped her greasy hands on her apron, "That's troublesome Lingyue, I'll go first, otherwise Chun'er and they should be in a hurry, maybe they won't be able to come back at noon, you can cook some food yourself." ”
"I know, Aunt Li, go quickly, don't you say that the new fabric is difficult to buy?" Song Lingyue urged with a smile.
Aunt Li almost trotted out of the house, and it seemed that she was really bound to get the new fabric this time.
Song Lingyue cleaned the kitchen, remembering that Gu Langzhong's medicine had not been drunk today, so she hurriedly moved out of the small clay stove to boil medicine for Gu Langzhong.
It wasn't until five bowls of water boiled into a bowl of water that Song Lingyue removed the medicine residue, leaving the medicine juice to go to the wing room of Gulangzhong.
"Drink the medicine." Song Lingyue put the still hot medicine bowl on the low table at the head of the bed.
Gu Langzhong, who was lying on the bed and pretending to sleep, opened his eyes, his gaze was like a sword, and he slashed sharply across Song Lingyue's face.
"Took the medicine." Song Lingyue repeated it again, raised the medicine bowl to her mouth, blew the cold, and brought it to Gu Langzhong.
Gu Langzhong didn't drink it, but just put his nose in front of the medicine bowl and sniffed:
"Sichuan Qiong, Parsnip, Cicada Moult, Horsetail, Prunella Grass, Andrographis, Crane Grass Buds, you use these herbs in this decoction, right?"
Song Lingyue's eyes lit up, and she exclaimed: "Gu Langzhong really deserves to be a master of the apricot forest, just by smelling it, you can smell most of the medicinal materials in this decoction." ”
"It's just a small insect carving skill." After Gu Langzhong finished speaking, he took a sip of the medicine bowl, he closed his eyes and tasted slowly: "White grass root, cockscomb, white aconite, red stone grease ......"
Song Lingyue just smiled silently.
Gu Langzhong opened his eyes, took a few more sips, and saw that the medicine in the medicine bowl was about to bottom out, and he muttered: "It seems that there is still a medicine, why can't I taste it." ”
"Gu Langzhong, you are really amazing, you have already tasted my prescription, if you show you the dregs, I am afraid that my house has been cracked by you." Song Lingyue had admiration and vigilance in her eyes, such a master of medicine and Taoism would be heavy with strange poisons, or palace drugs, which had to make people doubt his identity.
"You're not bad enough to come up with such a mysterious recipe." Gu Langzhong's eyes flashed, his eyes showed sharpness, and his words changed: "However, why do you want to pretend to be my disciple?" What is your purpose? ”
Song Lingyue was not afraid of danger, neither humble nor arrogant: "The little woman has just arrived in Jizhou to practice medicine, and the situation is compelled to use your name in Gulangzhong, if you are offended, please ask Gulang Zhonghaihan." ”
However, instead of being relieved by Song Lingyue's explanation, Gu Langzhong raised his eyebrows, made a cold face, and said viciously:
"I've never accepted apprentices, let alone any female disciples, isn't it a swagger for you to practice medicine in my name like this? I haven't been in Jizhou Mansion all these years, and I don't know how many people have been deceived by you! Who did you learn medicine from? That person is so ignorant of the rules, teaching medical skills to women, it is simply breaking the rules of medicine! ”
The curvature of the corners of Song Lingyue's lips stiffened on her face, and Gu Langzhong was saying that women should not practice medicine, belittling women everywhere, and she was very unhappy.
"Gu Langzhong, what you said is too much, right? Does accepting a woman as an apprentice mean that the medical skills are not perfect? The corners of Song Lingyue's lips hooked up a sneer, and the bottom of her eyes was full of cold light.
"Medicine is a neutral academic, so why can't men learn it instead of women? If everyone is like you, maintaining prejudice and following tradition, not only medical skills, but also many skills will be annihilated in the long river of history. ”
Think about the history of these 5,000 years, how many stunts have been born, but they are all bound by the rule that only men can be passed on to women, and finally watch these skills be buried and annihilated.
Are those rules and traditions more important than the death of skills?
Gu Langzhong snorted coldly, "This medical skill is originally a rule that is not passed on to women, and breaking the rules will only make everyone disdainful." ”
"Rules? If I had followed the rules, I shouldn't have saved you, and you would have been a corpse by now. Song Lingyue glanced at Gu Langzhong, secretly annoyed that she was in trouble, so she shouldn't have saved Gu Langzhong.