Chapter 16: The Butterfly Valley (2)
Within a few days, Su Mu was familiar with life in Butterfly Valley.
Most of the time, the butterfly fairy is either collecting medicine in the valley or tinkering with medicinal materials and pharmacopoeia in the inner room, and is responsible for Su Mu's three meals, and has to help Su Mu use silver needles to activate blood and remove blood stasis every day, and boil prescriptions to nourish qi and concentrate the mind, and repair organs and other superficial veins that have not fully recovered. The schedule is full.
Su Mu, who had been eating for nothing and being taken care of, was also a little embarrassed, so he began to go out to collect medicine with the butterfly fairy, and took the initiative to take on housework such as cleaning. The butterfly fairy didn't stop it, but just watched the child be more and more happy. Sometimes he will also teach Su Mu some basic medical skills and pharmacy.
Su Mu's heavenly capital is not limited to swordsmanship. With amazing memory, deep understanding, fast thinking and a love of reading, he soon understood what the butterfly fairy taught, which surprised the butterfly fairy very much, and bluntly said that if it weren't for the fact that it was not a child of Lingxi, he would not be able to make decisions casually, and he would definitely accept Su Mu as a disciple. Su Mu was a little embarrassed.
Since the butterfly fairy didn't care about it herself, Su Mu no longer shied away from it, absorbing and absorbing medicine-related knowledge like a sponge. I quickly learned the diagnosis, and I was familiar with the combination of basic medicinal materials. Butterfly said that he would be a good little doctor in a few months.
Su Mu was very happy to hear this, thinking that if the master and the little sister were in need in the future, he could also help them heal, so he was more motivated to learn and ask for advice from the butterfly fairy more actively.
And in the dead of night, Su Mu still didn't forget to practice the sword, although he didn't have the true qi now, but the basic posture of the sword move had never forgotten, he didn't want his body to forget the feeling of swinging the sword, and he didn't have to be lazy for a day. Such diligence also made the butterfly fairy watching in the house a little emotional.
In the end, it is the child of Lingxi, and even the stubbornness and refusal to give up are exactly the same. The butterfly fairy kept trying to reconcile the impression of the spirit rhino with the child in front of her. Although the faces of the two do not look very similar, they have something in common in terms of personality and eyes. Thinking of the past between himself and Lingxi, the butterfly fairy's heart was both happy and wronged.
I usually don't contact each other for a few years, but I only find me when I have something, obviously my children have such a big thing, and I don't come by the way to take a look, Liu Lingxi, you are too ruthless. The butterfly fairy was a little uneasy. Thinking that when Mr. Wang, the personal guard next to Lingxi, handed over Lingxi's handwritten letter and talisman jade to herself, she was still very novel, and she didn't know who was worthy of Lingxi's help in this way. Now that I know that it is the child of Lingxi, I am a little relieved and a little worried in my heart.
The child couldn't come over in person if he had an accident, and he had to ask Mr. Wang, the only master around him, to come, what kind of thing did Lingxi encounter at this time?
The location of Butterfly Valley is remote, the news is blocked, and Butterfly Town is far away from the nearest city, so it is really annoying to ask for any news.
Winter goes to spring, late summer and early autumn, in the blink of an eye, Su Mu has been living in Butterfly Valley for more than half a year, and in the past half a year, the head of the family, Gao Yuanshan, has come to write several times, and he has also come to the door once, but he has been told by the butterfly fairy that the materials needed have not been found. Gao Yuanshan really wanted to inquire about what kind of materials he needed, and if he needed them, he could find them himself. But now the Butterfly Fairy, who is so happy with Su Mu, is obviously even more unlikely to let Su Mu go back like this, and in the end, the Butterfly Fairy refuses to go back.
Although he was reluctant to Su Mu in his heart, the Butterfly Fairy said that he could not practice high-level swordsmanship without true qi, and if it was an ordinary swordsmanship, he could also practice it in this Butterfly Valley. At the same time, Gao Yuanshan himself was a little anxious at this time because of some things in the sect, and he really couldn't leave the sect again and again to come to see Su Mu, so he had to give up.
In the past half a year, Su Mu has learned a lot of things with the butterfly fairy. In addition to medical knowledge and common sense of life, the butterfly fairy also taught Su Mu many things about interacting with people.
In the eyes of the Butterfly Fairy, Su Mu, who grew up in the Hanshan Sword Sect since he was a child, was like a blank piece of paper. Perhaps he is indeed extremely talented in kendo, but he lacks the common sense to interact with people at all.
To put it simply, Su Mu lacks basic precautions and vigilance against people.
This was the conclusion that the Butterfly Fairy had come to after listening to Su Mu's injury. Butterfly Fairy was keenly aware that this might be a danger that Su Mu might encounter when walking the rivers and lakes in the future.
At this time, the butterfly fairy had already regarded Su Mu as his own nephew, so he naturally had to do his best to educate him about the sinister rivers and lakes. Butterfly Fairy told Su Mu a lot of evil things about the wicked people in the rivers and lakes, and told Su Mu about the dangers and persecution that he might encounter at any time in the rivers and lakes. These unheard of events in Su Mugen really had a great impact on his young worldview.
When he heard that the extremely talented Divine Retention Realm Grandmaster was killed by the Tongmai Realm, Su Mu gasped. It wasn't until I was taught by the butterfly fairy that I knew that the original point-to-point swordsmanship competition was only a very rare situation in the rivers and lakes, and most of the duels were life-and-death battles. There is no fairness in this kind of fighting, only survival is everything.
This is also the first time that Xiao Su Mu's impression of the rivers and lakes has been infected with the breath of killing, and he has also been slowly instilled by the butterfly fairy to understand the principle of the supremacy of prudence. This has had a great impact on Xiao Sumu's character.
In the eyes of the butterfly fairy, any kindness and mercy towards the enemy is the greatest irresponsibility for oneself. And this is obviously different from the kendo education that Su Mu has always received.
Su Mu noticed that the Butterfly Fairy's tone became very cold when she said these things, and she even gritted her teeth a little.
The day before the beginning of winter, a middle-aged man who had brought a little girl to seek medical treatment a long time ago came to seek medical treatment again after a long time. This time the man didn't say much, and as soon as he came, he knelt in front of the door of the butterfly fairy, which made the butterfly fairy very bored and kept the door closed. Su Mu could tell that this man's complexion was worse than a year ago.
Su Mu couldn't help but feel a little worried when he looked at it. The little girl next to the middle-aged man did not sleep in the man's arms this time, but stood quietly beside the man, just looking at him silently. The little girl is a year older, and although her facial features and body have changed slightly, the kindness that Su Mu has no reason to do has not changed in the slightest. The long braid dragged down to the waist. Although his complexion is not much better than that of a middle-aged man, it is still relatively white. She sometimes blinked at Su Mu who was helping in the room with big eyes, probably wondering why Su Mu, who was originally a patient, became the assistant of the butterfly fairy. That clean and pure look made Su Mu a little embarrassed to look directly.
According to the man, it took them another year, and they still ran into walls everywhere, and they really had no choice but to come back again and ask the butterfly fairy for help. He and the little girl both regarded the butterfly fairy as the last straw, if the butterfly fairy still refused this time, then the father and daughter would have nowhere to go.
The butterfly fairy looked very disgusted, but Su Mu had some sympathy in his heart.
Because of the relationship between the suspected mother, he was taken care of by the butterfly fairy very carefully, and at this moment, this little girl obviously did not have such good luck.
After hesitating for a long time, Su Mu finally couldn't help but ask the butterfly fairy about the condition of the man and the little girl.
Butterfly Fairy was not very surprised, she sighed and said to Su Mu, "Mu'er, you don't know, it's not that Aunt Yue doesn't want to heal them, it's just that she really can't be cured." If it is natural to treat this man, it is simple, but there are only internal injuries in the body that have accumulated for many years and internal breath imbalance caused by overwork, and it can be cured long ago by prescribing a few prescriptions of medicine and resting for a while. But he didn't come to me to heal himself, but to heal his daughter. I can't do that. ”
"Is there any disease in this world that Aunt Yue can't cure?" Su Mu has been following the Butterfly Fairy these days, reading a lot of Butterfly Fairy's notes, and he has long been convinced of this aunt's medical skills, but she is a peerless miracle doctor. Even Aunt Yue couldn't do anything about the illness? Su Mu was very curious.
"Strictly speaking, it's not that it can't be cured, it's that there is no rule of law. The butterfly fairy replied, "This little girl was born with an extremely cold constitution, so she has always been weak and sickly, with internal heat and external deficiency. If you only treat the symptoms and not the root cause, it really doesn't make much sense. And if you want to forcibly change your physique, let alone whether you can do it, even if you can do it, it will cause irreversible damage to the little girl's body. It is likely that he will die directly in the course of treatment. The stakes are just too great. ”
"What will happen if it is not cured?" Su Mu asked after thinking for a while.
"At the moment, these little hairy illnesses are not enough to kill her, but this kind of natural physique Yin and cold cannot be reconciled by ordinary medicinal power, and over time, it will naturally lose her yang longevity. I'm afraid I won't live to adulthood. ”
It turned out that this was the case, and Su Mu finally sorted it out. The man himself was not seriously ill, but he only wanted the butterfly fairy to treat his daughter, and he dragged himself down if he delayed it again and again. And this little girl really can't be saved, not that the butterfly fairy intends to make things difficult.
It can only be said that it is her own life.
As if to see Su Mu's thoughts, Butterfly Fairy patted his head and said, "Mu'er, you don't have to think about it, Aunt Yue is a doctor, and the first thing you need to do is to know what to do and not to do." Sometimes you will encounter some patients who are helpless, and the need to do this is not to blame and blame yourself, but to motivate yourself to keep improving and acquiring new knowledge. Knowing that you can't save everyone is the first step to having the heart of a true healer. ”
Butterfly Fairy knew that the smart Su Mu would definitely be able to figure this out.
Su Mu pondered for a long time, and suddenly seemed to remember something, and asked, "Aunt Yue, what are the materials you said before to reshape the meridians?"
The butterfly fairy was stunned for a moment, and didn't keep up with Su Mu's thinking jump, "It's the snake tendon of the six-flower python and the elixir in the hundred-leaf fruit, didn't Aunt Yue tell you?"
"Well, Baiye Guo Mu'er and Aunt Yue have already found it in the depths of Butterfly Valley before, just wait for it to bloom. If you want to get the snake tendon of the six-flowered python, you have to kill a live six-flowered python, right?" Su Mu said, "Aunt Yue once said that the six-flowered python is a treasure, in addition to the snake tendon, the snake's inner tank is also an extremely hot tonic, which has the effect of driving away cold and dampness. Then if you add some Ganoderma lucidum grass, ice clear leaves, and mirror water lotus to make a decoction of the six-flowered python gallbladder and boil it many times, will it have some effect on such a physique?"
"Snake gall," the Butterfly Fairy muttered, "Indeed, as a high-level beast, the Six-Flower Python does contain true qi that can be used many times in the fresh snake gall, and with some mild cool things, it will not be too violent and hurt the body... It's worthy of Mu'er, it's only been a few days since she came into contact with medicine, and she can already innovate and prescribe her own prescriptions!
"Hehe" Su Mu was a little embarrassed, indeed, he has been praised for his innovation since he was born, whether it is kendo or medicine. It was a flash of inspiration before, and I thought of a recipe like this, but I didn't expect to really get the approval of the butterfly fairy.
"But while this is possible, there is one biggest problem. The butterfly fairy continued.
"Question, what is the problem, Aunt Yue?" Su Mu said puzzled.
"Actually, I've been thinking about your idea of this kind of collocation for a long time. But this six-flowered python gall is better to say, I was planning to find one in the valley to help you shape your veins. However, your Ganoderma lucidum grass, Bingqing leaves, and mirror water lotus are all very precious cold medicinal materials, even if it is autumn now, but I am afraid that they will not be found in our butterfly valley, which has always been humid and hot. I could have bartered with a reputable chamber of commerce in the town to find it, but not to mention its high price and scarce stock, it would take a long time to find it and transport it here, and the father and daughter would have already left. And Aunt Yue, although I don't know how to sit on the ground and raise the price of the patient, the most basic medicinal materials still have to be paid according to the rules. Otherwise, if I sell my hut, I'm afraid I won't be able to make up a medicinal herb like a mirror water lotus. ”
Su Mu was very annoyed when he heard this, yes, Aunt Yue's handbook had clearly written that the mirror water lotus was born in the garden of the Tunan Palace, and it was an extremely valuable royal medicinal material, he obviously didn't think of this problem, he thought that everything would be complete if he prescribed a prescription that could be used, but he didn't expect that the medicinal materials he chose were all treasures among the treasures, even if they could find the medicinal materials now, the father and daughter might not be able to pay for the medicinal materials.
Is there really no way to save the father and daughter, Su Mu couldn't help but glance out the window. The little girl was taking out a handkerchief to wipe the sweat on the middle-aged man's cheeks. As late autumn approached, not only was it not hot but there was also a hint of chill in the valley, but the sweat on the man's head was still pouring out, and his lips were as pale as paper, and all signs indicated that he might not last long.
Su Mu really wanted to help the father and daughter, not to mention that he had an indescribable affection for this little girl since the first sight, and he really couldn't tolerate that he would not save himself when he saw death.