Chapter 38: The Path to Genius Formation
At that time, every winter, each family had to send young and middle-aged labor to dig rivers or repair cities, which was usually called forced labor. Every household has an index, and those who don't want to go or really don't have labor can take money instead, and they don't have to work.
With the economic situation of Wang Tiedan's family, he can only labor. It will take more than two months for Wang Tiedan to leave, and his work has caused different reactions in the hearts of different people, some are ecstatic, and some are worried and ecstatic, of course, my grandfather, or Wang Tiedan's cousin; And the one who is worried may be the teacher who is worried.
On the first night of Wang Tiedan's departure, Mr. Jiaoshu went to bed early, but in the middle of the night, he got up, put on a woolen coat that he didn't usually wear, and quietly hid in the dark, at the door of his house, listening to the movement outside. I wanted to see if the scene he had expected would happen.
Until the second half of the night, he suddenly heard the courtyard door of Wang Tiedan's house, which opened gently, he hurriedly lowered his body and carefully observed in the dark, because it was relatively close, so even in the dark night, he could still see a figure flashing out of the courtyard of Wang Tiedan's house. And, although he was wearing thick clothes, he could still see from the walking posture and figure that it was Wang Tiedan's cousin.
In the dim night, she walked lightly towards the door of my grandfather's medical hall. Then, the door of my grandfather's courtyard opened, and Wang Tiedan's cousin quickly flashed in.
Seeing this scene in the dark, Mr. Jiaoshu couldn't help but close his eyes in pain, yes, everything was as he expected. And the qiē he doesn't want to see is about to be staged.
The Wang Tiedan, who he watched grow up since he was a child, could have lived a happy and ordinary life, but he didn't expect that he couldn't escape the fateful doom. How he wanted to help that once kind, simple child, but he couldn't do anything about it. I felt that at that moment, Mr. Teaching must have wanted to kill my grandfather, the culprit of all the tragedies.
Every day in the middle of the night for the next two months, Mr. Teach-in would wake up, and he knew what was happening in the two houses next to him, and he could hear the screams of women and the wheezing of men. He looked forward to Wang Tiedan's early return, but he was afraid that he would come back.
There is no impermeable wall, and the paper cannot contain fire. Cheating is such a thing, no matter how secretive it is, it will inevitably be revealed in the end. Soon, the matter of my grandfather and Wang Tiedan's cousin was rumored in the village.
And this kind of thing is often the person around the cheater, but the latest to know. Wang Tiedan may always feel that his cousin, as before, definitely belongs to the kind of chaste martyr type, although my grandfather has a notoriety for attracting bees and butterflies, but maybe Wang Tiedan subconsciously thinks that with his cousin's determination and character, nothing will happen.
"A woman who has never stolen love, but there is no woman who has only stolen love", a young woman who has tried the joy of fish and water, has not had sex for a long time, and has been suppressed for a long time, the temptation of cheating on her can be imagined, not to mention that my grandfather is a first-class master in this area. When dry firewood meets a blazing fire, it is strange that it does not burn.
But Wang Tiedan doesn't know about it, maybe it's better, because if he learns that his wife is cheating, no matter what he does, he will be hurt the most. Because my grandfather was in our area at the time, he was a very powerful person, but when he arrived in the county, he was very good at eating in all aspects, and ordinary people didn't dare to provoke him.
Why does he have so much energy, if not for anything else, but because of his superb medical skills. His morals aside, he was indeed very gifted in medicine. There are many stories about his superb medical skills, and there is such one.
A high-ranking official in our county, after drinking and getting drunk, went to the toilet by himself, but accidentally fell into the manure pit in the thatched house, choked and smoked, and almost drowned alive.
After several days of bathing and fumigation, the stench on my body gradually disappeared. But left a very strict zhòng sequelae of bad breath. It turned out that when he fell into the manure tank, he also got into the feces in his mouth, and since then, there has been a very strict bad breath, which may be a special bacteria in the feces, and the fungi in the mouth have reacted, this bad breath is very different from the general bad breath, it is more unpleasant and smells stronger than the common kind of bad breath.
This high-ranking official invited countless famous doctors and took countless medicines, but it still had no effect, and not only did the bad breath not disappear, but there was no sign of alleviation, which made him extremely distressed.
Later, he found my grandfather, but he didn't expect that my grandfather didn't prescribe any secret recipes, but just brought a kind of grass and asked the senior officials to put it in their mouths and chew it for a while every day, and within a few days, it was completely cured. Only this time, my grandfather moved to the capital. The high-ranking official admired my grandfather's five-body throw, and when he met people, he said how superb my grandfather's medical skills were also that time, Mr. Teaching only treated my grandfather's medical skills, and looked at him differently, although he was still very contemptuous, my grandfather was a teacher, Mr. once said to his wife, my grandfather's method of treating the bad breath of that high-ranking official was used by Fan Li, the minister of King Goujian of Yue, more than 2,000 years ago.
At that time, Gou Jian was captured by Wu Wangfucha, he Taoguang was obscure, in order to please Wu Wangfucha, he used his mouth to taste Fucha's stool, and since then, he has suffered from Yan zhòng's bad breath. So, his minister Fan Li found a special grass called "Houttuynia", also called "Houttuynia cordata", and let Gou Jian chew this grass every day, and it didn't take long for Gou Jian's bad breath to get better.
What surprised Mr. Jiaoshu was that he had never seen my grandfather read medical books or even other books, why did he have such insight, did he realize it himself, or did he learn it from some Taoist priest?
Our family is not a medical family, but I only started practicing medicine from my grandfather's generation, and he became a famous doctor at a very young age, and in the next few generations, no one practiced medicine, so my grandfather should be a genius, not an academic type. What was the origin of studying medicine?
It is said that my grandfather was an only child, so he kept it like a baby at home. But he was not in good health since he was a child, and his behavior was sometimes strange, and it didn't seem to be "normal" compared to other children.
When I was eight or nine years old, I didn't like to play with other children or read. The adults bought him pen, ink, paper, and inkstone, and sent him to a private school, but he was not interested in the Four Books and Five Classics at all, but often held a brush alone, dipped in ink, and drew some strange lines on his skin. Therefore, at the beginning, I was not less beaten by Mr. Private School's ring ruler, and my hands were often swollen. But he "kept teaching."
After returning home, the father saw that his baby son was swollen and his hands were swollen, and he wanted to cry in distress, so he simply didn't let his son go to private school, and let him do whatever he wanted at home.
My grandfather was able to do what he wanted to do freely, he often stripped himself naked, and then used a brush to draw all kinds of lines on his body, and the family was very worried about my grandfather's strange behavior, thinking that this child must be some kind of demon. So I invited a lot of gods and witches to do it, but it didn't work.
My grandfather still has a point, the expression is very shocking, my grandfather's father found that every summer, when he has back pain, for some reason, his son always points to his sore places and says: "Dad, you are blocked in these places, I will pat you on the back", listening to my grandfather's father's hairy eyes stand up.
Everyone in the family thinks that this child must be evil and too deep. They all knew that a few decades ago, there was a blind man nearby who was very magical in fortune-telling and medical treatment, but then for some reason, he traveled elsewhere. So there are no more famous doctors in the vicinity.
One day, they heard that there was a Taoist priest in the county town who opened a medical hall, and this Taoist priest had very superb medical skills, cured many incurable diseases, and was also proficient in spells and drawing talismans.
My grandfather's father hurriedly took my grandfather to the county to find the Taoist priest.
After arriving in the county seat, I quickly found out the location of the medical hall opened by the Taoist priest, because almost everyone in the county knew that there was a "half-immortal" who opened the medical hall in the county.
When the two came to the medical center, they found that at the entrance of the medical center, the people waiting in line to see a doctor were like a long queue, and they didn't know when it would be their turn. But there was no other way but to wait slowly, so the two of them lined up in front of the hospital during the day, and found an inn nearby to stay at night, knowing that on the third day, it was their turn.
This Taoist priest is very fairy-like, white and clean, with white beard and hair, a goatee under his chin, and neat and spotless clothes. When I got closer, I could smell a good smell of medicine on his body, which made people awe at first sight.
To the people who see the doctor, he is always soft-spoken, calm, not impatient, polite, as soon as he talks, it will make people feel particularly quiet and serene, no matter how anxious, melancholy, uneasy, fearful, as long as you listen to him, you will immediately feel calm like a pool of autumn water.
When it was my grandfather's turn to be father and son, the old man politely invited them to sit down, and then my grandfather's father began to tell about my grandfather's unusual and strange behavior.
Unexpectedly, the more the Taoist priest listened, the wider his eyes opened, and his expression was very strange, as if he was both surprised and happy. After listening, he seemed to be a little excited, called a few little Taoist priests around him, and whispered a few words to them, and the little Taoist priests politely said to other patients according to his instructions: "The master has something special today, so I will suspend the consultation for an afternoon and continue tomorrow, I am very embarrassed, please go back first."
After the patients had dispersed, the Taoist priest ordered the door to be closed, and only three people were left in the room: the Taoist priest, my grandfather's father, and my grandfather.
The Taoist priest took a brush, then rolled up his sleeve, exposed his arm, and said to my grandfather kindly, "Come here, child, draw what you see on my arm." My grandfather looked at the Taoist priest timidly, and then at his father, who nodded to him encouragingly, and then he took the brush and drew on the Taoist priest's arm.
After a while, the Taoist priest's arm was covered with various brush lines, and the Taoist priest raised his arm, looked at it carefully for a while, and then laughed out loud, and said in a loud voice: "Wizard, genius!" ”