Chapter 32 Suffering the loss of no culture
"My fish! This damn wildcat! ”
There was a heart-rending cry from a courtyard in Chang'an, and when I woke up early in the morning, I found that there was a group of small fish fry still shivering in the pond in the backyard, and fish heads and fish bones were placed in a disorderly manner on the lawn on the shore.
Wang Shuwen pointed to the scales on the ground, trembling with anger.
As the prince's attendant, he always had the idea of reform, but unfortunately it was unsuccessful. Finally, under the guidance of the master, he tried to use the way of feng shui to change his fortune, but he never expected that the feng shui koi he had raised for several years would be eaten by a wild cat within a few days!
"Liu Yuan, what's going on?" Wang Shuwen is almost dark, doesn't God allow him to push the reform of administrative affairs?
The housekeeper who was called by name hurriedly knelt down, "Back to my lord, the servant woman who cleaned the yard this morning found rhubarb lying on the ground, so we quickly searched the yard and found this pile of debris. ”
"Yesterday we bought a hound, is it better than a wild cat?"
Wang Shuwen has a ridiculous feeling, a hunting dog was bitten to death by a cat, and no one dares to believe it!
"Master, this shouldn't be an ordinary cat, maybe it's a demon cat." Liu Yuan replied cautiously, "Do you think this has something to do with the demon cat that is rumored in Chang'an City?" Only the demon cat can kill rhubarb quietly in the middle of the night, without making a single movement. ”
The demon cat's killing of Chen Yunqiao is not a secret in the whole city, and it has been listed as the two major unsolved cases in Dali Temple along with the murder of Jin Wuwei on Zhuque Street, and it has been spread all over the Pingtou people and the courtyard of the mansion.
As an important member of the imperial court, Wang Shuwen had heard of rumors about demon cats, but he didn't expect it to make trouble in his own house!
"Don't sleep any of you tonight, keep my eyes open and keep an eye on it, and if that demon cat dares to show up again, I will definitely catch it." I want to see who the monsters dare to be demons in Chang'an! ”
As soon as he finished speaking, a middle-aged lady hurriedly came over with a skirt, "Master, go back to the side room and have a look." ”
"What's the matter, ma'am? Wait a moment. ”
Mrs. Wang leaned over to him and whispered, "I was robbed, the lock of the box was opened, and I don't know if I lost anything." ”
"Liu Yuan, you think about how to catch that demon cat." After Wang Shuwen finished speaking, he walked quickly towards the room with his wife.
As an attendant to the prince, he is deeply appreciated and trusted by the prince, and although his official position is not high, his influence is not small.
Over the years, he has been relatively clear as an official, but he is not really a two-sleeved breeze, and he can receive some gifts during festivals or birthday banquets.
Wang Shuwen looked at the tooth marks on the big iron lock, and his back suddenly broke out in a cold sweat!
"The teeth of this evil beast are too good, and they even bite this lock directly!"
Even a knife may not be able to cut it.
If the demon cat didn't eat fish last night and came to eat people, who would be able to resist himself and his family?
He breathed a sigh of relief after opening the box, the gold and silver were still there, all kinds of calligraphy, paintings and jewelry were not missing, and the messy thing was that the boxes containing medicinal herbs were empty.
"How's it going, what's missing?" Mrs. Wang anxiously asked, she didn't want to go back to a poor life.
"The money is there, the demon just stole the ginseng, and there is no loss!"
Compared to money, the value of these medicinal herbs is much smaller on the surface, and there is no distress after losing it.
But Wang Shuwen gritted his gums, and when he went to court later, he must put pressure on the Dali Temple side, catch this ghostly demon cat, and can't let it go unpunished!
Compared with Wang Shuwen, there are traces to follow, and the rest of the dignitaries are much more confused.
I don't know who stole it when I lost it, and I couldn't find anyone who suspected it.
And he didn't steal gold, silver and jewelry, but looted those ginseng, Ganoderma lucidum, He Shou Wu and other medicinal materials!
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At this time, Su Cheng was trying to adapt to his body, and after a night of rapid improvement, his control of the physical body declined, and he was a little unclear.
For example, when climbing a tree, it is clear that the claws are deliberately retracting, but the claws are still directly embedded in the bark.
He wanted to accumulate strength in peace, but time waited for no one.
If there is a body refining method, the herb swallowed last night will not waste nearly half of the medicinal effect!
"Speaking of which, I still have a loss of no culture, today I went to the pharmacy to see if I could find any medical books and herbal illustrated books, etc., and I can't put anything in my stomach."
In his previous life, he was just an ordinary person, and his understanding of Chinese medicine was almost none, and he knew that ginseng and Ganoderma lucidum were still famous because of their fame and conspicuous appearance, and the rest of the medicinal materials could not recognize what was at all.
This time I was lucky, and what those nobles had hidden privately was supplements, and swallowing them would not do any harm to the body.
But if the matter of stealing medicinal herbs by himself spreads now, then maybe someone will mix poisonous weeds such as broken intestine grass into it, and they can't distinguish it, and they may be in trouble after eating it!
Although Su Cheng's current physique is extraordinary, and ordinary poisons can't have much effect, he still has to be on guard.
It's always good to learn a little more knowledge, he never thought of picking medicine himself, but he still has to recognize the medicinal materials he steals from other people's homes, otherwise it's useless to steal a bunch of poisons.
"In my previous life, if I flipped through the compendium of materia medica, where would I find the right medical book now! Sun Simiao should have gone a long time ago, right? ”
Su Cheng also knew the name of the book Compendium of Materia Medica, and the content in it stayed on various TV commercials.
He decided to try his luck at the city's infirmary.
Most of the doctors in this era were passed down by word of mouth, led by the master, and the apprentices followed behind to learn slowly.
Except for the Imperial Physician's Office in the Imperial Palace, the rest of the private doctors are basically general practitioners.
Decoction, acupuncture, guided massage, incantation, and sigil were the five main methods of treating diseases in the Tang Dynasty!
The first three are medical treatments, while the last two are witchcraft treatments.
Moxibustion was particularly popular in the Tang Dynasty, and where the body hurts, the skin will be burned directly until the bag is burned. This method is simple to operate, wormwood is inexpensive, and it is very suitable for ordinary people.
Su Cheng had never been in contact with wormwood in his previous life, and he had to hang wormwood every year during the Dragon Boat Festival, so now he quietly came to a big tree from the flowers and brought his nose sense of smell to the extreme.
Sniff hard in the air, and the scent of wormwood stands out from the thousands of smells.
Following this smell all the way, a small pharmacy appeared in front of Su Cheng.
This pharmacy is located on the edge of the market, and the signboard looks a little old, but there are many patients who come to grab medicine!
There is no hair on the mouth, and the old Chinese medicine is more trustworthy.
The doctor who checked the pulse put his finger on the patient's wrist, and the man in charge of grasping the medicine used a small scale to wrap the ground herbs in the wooden box according to the amount.
The smell of various herbs was very strong, and Su Cheng was so choked that he sneezed directly!
He hid in the dark and scanned the pharmacy with his divine sense, but he didn't find any medical books or pharmacopoeia at all.
"Hell, aren't there any apprentices in the pharmacy?"