Chapter 13: Speculation

"Well, I've been." I replied, "But the information we got was not what we had expected. ”

Then I told him roughly what I had just sorted out on the road, and when he listened, his mouth opened wide in astonishment, and his eyes widened as if he had heard the Arabian Nights.

In the end, I said apologetically: "You were also injured by me this time, and I can't help it, brother." ”

As soon as he heard this, he came back to his senses, smiled indifferently and said, "What is this, it's just a trivial matter." ”

Then he said as if remembering something: "Actually, I should be the one who said I'm sorry, and there are some things I should have told you earlier." ”

"What's the matter?"

He sat up, lowered his head and said contemplatively: "About a month ago, once when I went to Tian Ge's house, I found that the courtyard door was not closed, so I walked in directly, and when I was about to knock on the door, I heard someone talking inside.

First, Mr. Tian's voice said, "This experiment is really necessary for him." ’

I was startled when I heard this, so I didn't rush in, but stood by the door and continued to listen.

Then another voice said, 'Without him, there would never have been a fundamental breakthrough in this research.' ’

Teacher Tian said 'um' and said, "It's not okay to fight without taking people's lives." ’

Another voice said, 'Then this is the best opportunity for him to come to Beijing for training, so let me do it.' ’

Because there had been rumors of such experiments on living people before, I couldn't help but be frightened when I heard this, and quickly turned around and walked away. It's only now that I think about it, and I realize that they were referring to your family's business. ”

I see, no wonder he always looked like he wanted to talk and stopped before. Sure enough, there are still some things that have not been directly spoken.

He groaned for a moment and then asked me, "So what are you going to do now?" ”

"What if you were me?" I asked.

He thought for a long time and said, "Maybe I will really continue to do research as they say and find a solution." ”

"Well, that's pretty much what I thought, but ......," I said with a smile, "I'm not going to listen to them, I need to know everything they know, but it's up to me to decide what to do when I do." ”

Wang Jianguo also smiled when he heard this: "Well, it's really your style!" ”

I patted him on the shoulder again and said, "Get better, maybe there is something to help me with!" ”

He nodded, and was about to say something, but I pinched my throat and deliberately imitated the nurse and said softly: "Brother, let's beat tetanus first!" ”

"Haha!" We were laughing when a genuine nurse came in from outside with a tetanus shot!

When it was almost noon, Wang Jianguo was finally approved to leave the hospital, and we went to Tian Ge's house together to continue to discuss problems and eat.

Tian Ge saw that Wang Jianguo's hand wrapped like a dumpling was really frightened, so he not only made a table of good dishes, but also helped Wang Jianguo, who was not used to chopsticks, with his left hand from time to time, to feed it to his mouth, looking at this guy's expression, this hand is indeed painful, but his heart is very beautiful!

After eating and drinking, I first carefully read the translation of the silk book and asked them no less than a hundred questions. In the end, I was still unsatisfied, and I mustered up the courage to run to the basement to see what kind of blood rock furnace it was. Strange as it may seem, no matter how much I touched it again this time, no illusion reappeared.

In fact, although Uncle Zhao and Mr. Tian have been studying this matter for many years, they are not particularly clear about many of the details. Even the old man of my family, who is an insider, must have started from ignorance back then.

But anyway, I finally understood why he was so busy back then. If it were me, I would have been burdened with the fate of a family, and I probably wouldn't have time to take care of my wife and children.

To be honest, even though they have said so much, and there are silk books and blood furnaces as physical evidence, I still have half a doubt about it subconsciously. But if I really have to see evidence, I guess my deadline is almost here.

And, even if they do, where do they find a solution? The old man is a first-class medical expert, and Uncle Tian is a master of physics, and the two of them have spent so many years without finding any practical way to solve this curse.

Could it be that I can only go with the flow and wait for the time of death?

Thinking about it like this, I fell asleep unconsciously, and the night was fine, and as always, I didn't have a dream.

When I woke up the next morning, the morning sun just shone into the room, and when I looked at my watch, it was only past six o'clock. I've always been a snooze, but never before has I felt that time has become precious.

Mr. Tian originally invited me to live at his house so that I could take care of him, and probably for safety reasons, he also advised me not to go to class for the time being. But I politely refused.

Since you're still alive, you have to live like that. After working in the hospital for so many years, I have seen a lot of birth, old age, sickness and death, and some people are not actually sick to death, but are tortured to death by their own cranky thoughts, worries and fears all day long. I don't want that!

So I packed up my things as usual and ran to the classroom.

This morning I will talk about a brief history of Western medicine, the lecturer is a middle-aged man who looks a little decadent, his hair is a little messy, an angular face with vicissitudes of life, he walks with great strides, and the biggest feature is that his eyes are bright and deep, and I can be impressed at a glance.

As soon as he walked into the classroom, he threw the lesson plan in his hand on the podium and said loudly: "Question, why do you want to learn a brief history of Western medicine in the training of Chinese medicine pharmacists?" ”

Everyone was stunned when they heard this, isn't this what you should explain to us!

When I first saw the class schedule, I was honestly surprised. However, considering the rapid development of Western medicine in China in recent years, it has a great tendency to replace traditional Chinese medicine, and formal medical schools will also use Western medicine as the mainstay, supplemented by traditional Chinese medicine, and even more, develop some so-called integrated Chinese and Western medicine subjects, and use Western medicine names for traditional Chinese medicine diagnosis. I estimate that in another ten or twenty years, there will not be many Chinese medicine practitioners who will use "looking, hearing, asking, and cutting" to see a doctor.

It is not surprising that such a course was designed in this context.

Seeing that everyone was just muttering at the bottom, no one answered positively. The teacher asked again: "Then let me change the question, what is the difference between Western medicine and Chinese medicine?" ”

This time, some people began to give their own answers.

He replied: "Western medicine is more interested in data and less on human judgment. ”

The teacher commented: "Wrong! Data is used to make judgments. ”

He replied: "Western medicine looks at the division of organs, while Chinese medicine looks at the whole. ”

The teacher commented: "Wrong! The consultation system is a typical example of multi-organ comprehensive judgment. ”

Answer: "Western medicine tends to study the external causes of diseases, while Chinese medicine is more focused on studying the internal causes. ”

The teacher commented: "Wrong! Both sides take into account both internal and external factors. ”

……

He replied: "Western medicine is toxic, while Chinese medicine is milder. ”

The teacher commented: "Do you try to eat a pound of aconite?" ”

Everyone burst into laughter, probably thinking in their hearts that this teacher is here to find fault.

I think it's kind of funny. In fact, his question is too open-ended, and if he answers too generally, he will definitely be caught by him.

And I soon realized that he was refuting everyone on the surface, but in fact he was already enlightening everyone on how to look at Western medicine. It doesn't seem like a lecture is being given, and the purpose of the lecture has been achieved. Master! I couldn't help but give a thumbs up in my heart.

In the end, the students were finally speechless by him, and no one could give any answer for a long time, but the teacher still looked around everyone with great interest, and his bright eyes were full of challenges.

I was momentarily interested, and threw a loud answer from the back row: "Western medicine was invented by Westerners, and Chinese medicine was invented by Chinese!" ”

"Haha......" everyone laughed when they heard it.

The teacher was stunned when he heard this, and then smiled and said, "Well, that's right! ”

The first time I heard this sharp teacher give an affirmative answer, the atmosphere suddenly became warm, and everyone was puzzled that the answer to the second sentence could be praised.

The teacher was obviously not satisfied with this kind of wordplay, and then asked me: "Can you tell us why as Chinese we should learn about Western medicine?" ”

I had already thought of a rhetoric: "Actually, what we need to learn is not the specific knowledge of Western medicine, but what we need to study in medical school for many years." What we need to learn and understand is the Western way of thinking. Chinese have always been subtle, like to use some profound words to describe things, the people who say it do not understand much, and the people who listen are even more confused. Western medicine pays attention to clarity, one is one and two is two, which makes it clear at a glance. In my opinion, it is better to separate specific knowledge, but the way of thinking is indeed the best way to neutralize it. Don't they all say that mixed-race children are beautiful, that's the truth. ”

Judging from the teacher's relieved expression, what I said was exactly what he wanted to express "implicitly".

At the end of the discussion, he finally stepped up to the podium to open the lecture notes and began to officially introduce the history of Western medicine. And what I just said made my mind drift to something else.

Chinese have a habit of thinking about things very much, and in this problem I am encountering at the moment, will we just make too subjective mistakes?

The so-called blood curse, maybe it's just a hereditary virus implanted in the blood of our ancestors, before the attack, everyone is just a carrier but will not attack, when certain conditions are met, such as a certain age, or because of some external reasons, the virus will attack, making people produce some kind of abnormality, and eventually die!

Did the ancestors hope that future generations could find a way to fight this virus under the pressure of threatening their lives?

Or maybe there is no ancestral curse at all, and the invasion of the virus is just an accident, because it has been spread more and more gods for too long?

And what my father is researching, maybe it's some kind of disease that can wipe out the virus, let us get rid of the identity of carriers, and feel like we have been reborn, so it's a "time reversal"?

Now, more than ten years have passed since his breakthrough was made, and if it is really just a virus, maybe there are some advanced methods to overcome it? Even if Western medicine can't overcome it, as long as I make sure that it's not a curse, there are many ways to control the disease in Chinese medicine, so I don't have to die?

The more I think about it, the more it makes sense, and I really want to step out now and run to the hospital to draw some blood and investigate it properly!

But after all, you still have to be patient until the end of class...... I took the time to ask my buddy in the front seat what the teacher's name was, and he looked at me in surprise and said, "Isn't it written in the class schedule?" See for yourself! "I threw a piece of paper to me.

I took it over and took a closer look, oh, it turned out that his name was Yan Lizhong. This class and anatomy are co-class, on a rotational basis, so it's no wonder I haven't seen him last week.

Looking down again, I couldn't help but laugh in my heart: God help me!