How do I open the box I picked up from that cemetery? Since Grandpa said in his dream that there was danger, we should be more cautious. Sister Li and I both guessed that the danger of the box should be some poison or germs, or there was a hidden weapon device such as a crossbow arrow.

Because Sister Li's father is the director of our county hospital, Sister Li and I used the X-ray of the hospital to carefully check the internal structure of the box, and probably ruled out the possibility that there was a lethal hidden weapon inside.

The next thing is to see if there are any bacteria and poisons in the box.

In fact, this is more terrifying than mechanical hidden weapons. At first, the two of us were going to find a doctor in the county hospital to help prescribe it, but in the end we decided to abandon this plan, thinking that ordinary doctors have very limited knowledge about bacteria and poisons, so we decided to find a more professional person.

Who to look for? After thinking about it, one of the best candidates came into our field of vision, Sister Li's cousin Yang Hui.

He graduated from Yale University with a degree in microbiology and is a fellow of the American Society for Microbiology. Later, he was specially hired as an expert by relevant national agencies, so he spent about half a year in China and half a year in the United States.

Sister Li sent him an email first, and said nothing else, except that she had picked up a rusty iron box in the cemetery, which was probably stolen from the grave and then lost in the cemetery. I want to open it and take a look, but I'm afraid that there are some deadly germs or something in it, so I want to ask him to help and use relevant instruments to check and analyze it.

To our delight, Yang Hui readily agreed, and jokingly said that if there was anything valuable in the box, he would divide it in half.

Fortunately, the provincial capital city where Yang Hui was located was not too far from us, so Sister Li and I chose a weekend, carefully took the box, and took the train to ask him for help.

Yang Hui may have been in the United States for a long time, so his personality has become very Westernized, so lively, humorous, and cheerful. This made the communication between the three of us very pleasant.

After meeting and greeting, Sister Li talked to him about trivial matters for a while, and then we quickly cut to the chase.

Sister Li put on rubber gloves and carefully took out the box and put it on the table. Yang Hui held a magnifying glass and observed the box extremely carefully.

When he observed, he seemed to be a different person, changing his lively and cheerful attitude just now, and his expression became extremely focused, and he fell into contemplation from time to time.

After about twenty minutes of this, he suddenly asked Sister Li and me, "Do you know what this layer of yellow-green crystals is on the outside of the box?" ”

Sister Li and I looked at each other for a moment, and then guessed, "It should be the oxide after the oxidation of the iron box." I felt that my explanation was quite reasonable, and after finishing speaking, I stared at Yang Hui, hoping to get his affirmation and praise as an expert.

Unexpectedly, Yang Hui smiled and shook his head.

"And what do you think it should be?" I asked a little eagerly.

Yang Hui put down the magnifying glass in his hand, then leaned on the sofa very relaxed, and said leisurely: "In the past, it was used for burial, and people were put into coffins and buried in the soil after death, so that the corpse would quickly decay, and when the corpse decomposed, the corpse liquid would flow to the bottom plate of the coffin, and rot together with the bottom plate, and the crystals on this iron box were formed under the combined action of corpse liquid and rotten wood." ”

After listening to Yang Hui's explanation, Sister Li couldn't help but say, "Brother, I'm a little disgusting when you say it, ha."

In fact, my stomach was churning.

Yang Hui responded with a smile: "Ha, you are still not professional enough, like me, I don't feel much anymore, you can eat while dissecting corpses, it doesn't affect your appetite at all, haha."

"Brother, don't say any more, I'm going to throw up if I say anything else." Sister Li's expression showed that she really didn't feel comfortable with this topic.

Yang Hui was suddenly a little excited, like an artist suddenly coming to inspiration, speaking quickly, and we explained: "This crystallization that is disgusting when I hear it is actually very useful!" Why? I tell you a wonderful experience about me, and you will understand.

When I was studying in the United States, I was very unimpressed with the theory of Chinese medicine and felt that it was very unscientific. It wasn't until one day, after I encountered this wonderful incident, that I learned a lot of things, and although it cannot be explained from the existing science, it does not mean that it is not effective.

Here's the thing, one of my mentors had bone cancer, and you know, of all cancers, bone cancer is the most painful because it causes the most pain, the most intense of all cancers. In the advanced stage, even the pain-relieving effect of various anesthetics is not obvious. So that mentor of mine was so painful that he even thought of euthanasia.

But it also happened that at that time, there happened to be a national treasure level of old Chinese medicine doctor visiting the United States, he prescribed a few doses of Chinese medicine to my tutor, and asked my tutor to scrub the affected area according to the Chinese medicine he configured. Of course, this method can only be used to relieve pain, not to fundamentally slow down the progression of cancer. But it's a miracle.

When I saw such a miraculous curative effect, I pestered the old Chinese medicine doctor and asked him what the formula of this external Chinese medicine was. When the old Chinese medicine doctor saw that I was so pious, he told me his secret Although there are several Chinese herbal ingredients in this medicine, one of them is essential, because without this, the effect is not at all. What is the ingredient? , which is the crystallization of this corpse fluid and coffin after decay. ”

Sister Li and I were a little dumbfounded. I felt that what Yang Hui said was amazing, but I also felt unbelievable.

Yang Hui saw that we were listening very carefully, so he continued with great interest: "That old Chinese medicine doctor also told me that in the past, when Jianghu Langzhong treated snake wounds, in order to make more money for the injured, he would play tricks. What kind of tricks?

When Lang Zhong treats you for snake wounds, he can quickly cure the snake venom, which ensures that your life is not in danger, and many symptoms will be eliminated. But it's not good if there is a little wound that doesn't grow old. After using the medicine prescribed by Langzhong, the wound will heal first, but after a while, the medicine is used up, and the wound begins to rot again. In this way, you have to continue to go to Langzhong to buy medicine, and so on, and some even drag on for a year and a half, or longer.

On the rivers and lakes, this is called "fishing for patients in Langzhong". In fact, if the patient is asked to avoid salt for a few days, and then take a few doses of antidote and muscle-building drugs, the wound will soon heal and no longer decay. So the key is to "avoid salt", just such a little mystery, but if you don't know, you will be tossed enough. ”