Chapter 96: The Promise of the Apricot Grove
Zhou Yuanwai originally didn't have any hope for his sick body, but he didn't expect that this young Lang Zhong's several massages and acupuncture could bring him back to life. My whole body became relaxed as if I had taken off my heavy armor, and I felt hungry even after several days of rice without touching it. Lang Zhong took out a few small packets of medicine powder from his backpack, and instructed Zhou Yuanwai's family to boil a bowl of porridge with medicine powder, and watched Zhou Yuanwai drink it.
Lang Zhong looked at Zhou Yuanwai, who had eased his complexion, and breathed a sigh of relief, and told Zhou Yuanwai that his illness was no longer serious: "As long as you take medicine for a few more days, you can be cured." However, there are still a few herbs that must be freshly picked and used, and the herbs are not rare, as long as I find someone who knows the situation of local herbs to take me into the mountains. ”
Miss Xing thanked Lang Zhong with her knees and said, "I can lead the way to find it." ”
Lang Zhong looked at the apricot girl, there were some doubts in his eyes, and the apricot girl looked at Lang Zhong's skeptical expression and explained: "I have some understanding of local medicinal materials, and I happen to have a copy of "Chinese Medicine Baicao" at hand, which was compiled by a local famous doctor in the Song Dynasty. It describes in detail the medicinal properties and growth of more than 100 kinds of local Chinese herbs, which can be found in the map when needed. And because my father has been ill for a long time and there is no one to treat, I want to find hope in this book on medicinal materials, so I also know some of the medicinal materials and medicinal properties written in the book, and I also know where to find them. ”
Lang Zhong was a little surprised, took the lithographic "Chinese Medicine Baicao", and saw that there were not only written records in the book, but also detailed illustrations and maps of mountains and rivers, and couldn't help but praise: "It's really a good book, we will go to the map early tomorrow morning." ”
The next day, Xun Zhong and the apricot girl took a few maids, went up the mountain early in the morning, and under the guidance of the book "Chinese Medicine Herbs", they successfully found dozens of herbs, picked them with dew, wrapped them one by one with the mint leaves prepared in advance, and put them into the special cortical medicine bag in Xunzhong.
After taking Chinese medicine for more than ten days, Zhou Yuanwai seems to have changed as a person, and he is more energetic and healthy than before he got sick. The amount of food has also returned to the state before the illness, seeing that Zhou Yuanwai has recovered as before, the family is full of joy, and when they see the young Langzhong, they are also respectful, and regard him as Zhou Yuanwai's life-saving benefactor.
The young Lang Zhong didn't care, packed his bags and prepared to leave. Zhou Yuanwai repeatedly retained, but Lang Zhong insisted on leaving: "Zhou Yuanwai forgive me, I am You Fang Langzhong, the four seas are home, the original intention is only to relieve the pain of the patient, if you are fortunate to be able to cure the patient's body, it is also the patient's own creation." I am a person in the rivers and lakes, and it is really difficult to follow the kindness of outsiders. ”
Seeing that she couldn't keep Lang Zhong and couldn't take care of the girl's family, she stopped in front of Lang Zhong and said, "I have publicly promised that whoever can cure my father's illness will be willing to serve him with a broom and follow him for the rest of my life." Since my husband insisted on leaving, I will now say goodbye to my father and make my husband my home all over the world. ”
Lang Zhong hurriedly waved his hand and said: "I know about your recruitment of talents, but I didn't come to covet Miss's beauty, I was really moved by Miss's sincere filial piety, and I also heard that Mr. Zhou is a kind person and virtuous in the township." Practitioners, benevolence is paramount, treating diseases and saving people is the first righteousness handed down by the predecessors of the past generations, I can do my best for Zhou Yuanwai, Miss don't care. ”
Miss Xing didn't care whether Lang Zhong wanted to or not, packed her bags and insisted on following Lang Zhong. The young Xun Zhong hesitated, thought for a while and said, "In this way, I see that the young lady is very interested in Chinese medicine, and she also has unusual knowledge. If I want, Miss, I can take you as an apprentice. ”
Miss Xing thought to herself: "This is also a feasible method, anyway, I am with you, whether you want to or not, I can't break my word." ”
Zhou Yuanwai was also very happy, and after he stayed again, Lang Zhong decided to stay first to do some medical help for the local people. So, Zhou Yuanwai set aside a few houses to set up a pharmacy for Langzhong, so that Langzhong could sit in the hall for consultation, and the local people heard about Langzhong's miraculous medical skills, and they came to seek medical treatment. Lang Zhong also does not charge money, and those who are optimistic can voluntarily plant a few apricot trees near the mountain medicine garden he has opened.
The apricot girl followed Lang Zhong to distinguish and collect medicine in the mountains in this area, and a few years later, with her wisdom and blue quality, she quickly became a famous doctor in this area. Xun Zhong sat in the Zhou Mansion every day for consultation, and relieved the suffering of many local people. He sometimes goes to the village with the apricot girl, sending doctors and medicines to the poor families who are trapped in diseases, and his footprints are all over the four towns and eight neighbors, where the mountains and streams and rivers still have their stories.
One day, Lang Zhong started to get busy as usual. Outside the door of the Zhou Mansion, the people who came to seek medical advice had already lined up in a long line. There are such long queues every day, ranging from hundreds to thousands. Lang Zhong never shirked, and checked the pulse one by one until he saw the last patient of the day.
Suddenly, there was a rush of running from far and near, and a middle-aged woman hurried with a child on her back. The woman wept incessantly, and the head of the child on her back lay on her shoulder, unconscious. The queue automatically moved to the side, making way for the grief-stricken woman.
Someone recognized the woman as Widow Qiao from a neighboring village, and knew that her husband had died of illness a few years earlier, and that only this son, who was less than ten years old, was with her.
The woman ran to Lang Zhong, put down the child on her back, and knelt down with a "plop" and bowed: "Divine doctor, save the child, save the child, save the child." Xing Gu helped the woman up, and Lang Zhong had already carried the child onto the wooden couch. He glanced at the child with a purple face, reached out and probed, and was barely breathing, and his pulse was faint.
Lang Zhong probed his whole body again, and then he took out a silver needle unhurriedly, piercing the soles of the child's feet, and after a stream of black blood flowed out, the child's complexion began to change. Then Lang Zhong touched the acupuncture points on the child's back again, slapped it three times, and the child woke up. Xun Zhong took out a red pill from the medicine bag and put it into the child's mouth, and Xinggu fed the child two mouthfuls of water. After a few moments, the child burst into tears.
Widow Jo knelt on the ground and kept kowtowing, and refused to get up until she was broken. Lang Zhong looked at Widow Qiao, who was still kneeling on the ground, and said, "Okay, it's okay, he was bitten by a poisonous snake." Thankfully, you came in time, and if you were a little late, I wouldn't be able to do anything. Don't kowtow to me, but thank yourself. I really don't know where you got the strength of this woman, you yourself saved your child. ”
After Widow Qiao got up, she bowed and bowed to the husband and wife and said: "The divine doctor saved my child and saved me, I can't hide it, this child is a single transmission of three generations, and the child's father has also passed away, if he has three long and two short, I can't live." Thank you for saving your life. ”
The crowd waiting in line for medical treatment was even more embarrassed: "Widow Qiao and his wife are also kind-hearted people, if this child has an accident, she will definitely not survive......"
Lang Zhong was originally a legendary person who traveled all over the world and hung pots to help the world, and it was impossible for him to live in a village for a long time. When he promised Zhou Yuanwai to stay and practice medicine, he also had a five-year contract with Zhou Yuanwai. Five years later, Lang Zhong truthfully told Zhou Yuanwai: "This doctor also has parents, brothers and sisters, relatives and friends, and more concerned people in the apricot forest and people who are waiting for me to continue to send medicine to the hospital." Although I have become a husband and wife with Aunt Xing, I can't live in your mansion for a long time, forgive my doctor's heart, and I hope your old man can understand. ”
Zhou Yuanwai has long regarded Xun Zhong as his savior, although Xun Zhong is already his son-in-law, he still respects him as before, never does what Xun Zhong is unwilling to do, and does not do anything that makes Xun Zhong feel embarrassed. He listened to Xun Zhong's words, and knew that Xun Zhong's heart had made up his mind, so he no longer kept it, but wanted to take out the gold and silver obtained from the sale of his wealth and give it away, but Xun Zhong refused to accept it.
He said: "For me, gold and silver cannot cure diseases, and cannot be eaten. I have a medicine pot with me and a silver needle in my hand, which is enough to make a living and save the world, and I don't need anything else, otherwise I will become a burden. The heart of the father-in-law, the son-in-law will take care of it, and the wealth of the father-in-law will be good at the township as much as possible, accumulate virtue and benevolence, and help the people of the world. ”
Zhou Yuanwai knew that it was useless to persuade again, Lang Zhong had his own rivers and lakes, and his own way of doing the world, so he could only give up, but he insisted on setting up a banquet to see him off, saying that he was doing his best on behalf of the villagers, but Lang Zhong still refused to accept it: "It's just a trivial matter, and it is not enough for the villagers to remember, and there is no need to spend a lot of time." The son-in-law appreciates the affection, but he can't receive the order, and he is ashamed. ”
Lang Zhong turned to Xinggu and persuaded him: "Although you and I have become husband and wife, but you are the daughter of great filial piety, and your father is almost old, you can stay in the house, and your husband can't bear to leave your relatives and travel with me." The people of the rivers and lakes of the husband still hope to forgive, so don't pass it away. ”
When Lang Zhong and Xinggu were leaving, the couple knelt down on their knees, bowed to the ground, and after giving Zhou Yuanwai a big gift, Lang Zhong put on the medicine bag on his back and said goodbye to Zhou Yuanwai overnight with Xinggu. By the time the villagers from all over the country heard the news and rushed to see them off, the fairy couple had already disappeared. Just as there was no trace when he came five years ago, there is no trace of him five years later, leaving only a good story that has been sung for a hundred years.
When Lang Zhong and Xinggu were leaving, the couple knelt down on their knees, bowed to the ground, and after giving Zhou Yuanwai a big gift, Lang Zhong put on the medicine bag on his back and said goodbye to Zhou Yuanwai overnight with Xinggu. By the time the villagers from all over the country heard the news and rushed to see them off, the fairy couple had already disappeared. Just as there was no trace when he came five years ago, there is no trace of him five years later, leaving only a good story that has been sung for a hundred years.
Zhongqin said with emotion: "It is rumored that they finally chose Zhongnan Mountain, although they still hang the pot to help the world, and after they are old, they live a reclusive life. Thousands of people have received their favors, although they have been gone for an unknown number of years, every year there will be people to their former medicine garden to plant a few apricot trees, so that it has become a magnificent large apricot forest, the common people are moved by their story, so this apricot forest is called the fairy forest. ”
"It turns out that there is such a beautiful and touching story." Xu Ming looked at the lush apricot grove in front of him, although it had been a hundred years, it was still full of vigor and full of fruits.
In the past, Zhongqin liked to come to this apricot forest with his girlfriends, and after going to the emergency department, leisure became a luxury, and there were naturally fewer opportunities to come, Zhongqin found that Xu Ming could always find something deeper from ordinary phenomena and events: "You are right, this is the relationship between the small self and the big self that people often say now." There is a perception that our generation of young people is more materialistic and more ego-oriented, and I think this is a misconception. ”
In the past, Zhongqin liked to come to this apricot forest with his girlfriends, and after going to the emergency department, leisure became a luxury, and there were naturally fewer opportunities to come, Zhongqin found that Xu Ming could always find something deeper from ordinary phenomena and events: "You are right, this is the relationship between the small self and the big self that people often say now." There is a perception that our generation of young people is more materialistic and more ego-oriented, and I think this is a misconception. ”
Xu Ming agreed: "We live in an era of more and more material abundance, and there are too many material options for us, we just need to find a lifestyle that suits us according to our ability." Spiritual life is relatively poor, our generation does not reject and deny the value of traditional culture, nor should we exclude and deny, if we lose the value of traditional culture, our family concept, love concept, marriage concept will lose the core of the criterion, will fall into real doubt and confusion, we are also the natural inheritors of traditional culture, but we pay more attention to the value of the individual, and hope that this value can be positively evaluated by the society. In fact, this has not changed the avenue taken by our predecessors, but this avenue is wider than the original, and the direction of the mainstream has not changed at all. ”
"Marriage is not only responsible for the family, the society, but also for oneself, it is a common home that two people strive to create." Zhong Qin looked at Xu Ming, and there was a longing in his eyes: "The two people I am talking about are not just two people, I am talking about both sides of the marriage." ”
"I think the same as you, marriage is to create your own beautiful home. In our homeland, we must have shelter from the wind and rain, a beautiful garden that accompanies the years, the fruits of life, and a spiritual shelter that we can rely on in times of crisis. Therefore, there is no such home without materiality, and there is no such home without spirit. ”
Xu Ming looked at the carillon, took her hand, and asked solemnly, "Are you willing to create our happy home with me?" ”
Carillon smiled and said, "I want to be the mistress of this home." ”
Xu Ming promised: "I will do my best to help you, the hostess, and we will create our own happiness together." ”
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