ask sword 2

Chapter 2 Acquisition
"Face, face, face."

As Li Ang closed and locked the wooden box containing all the money, Chai Cuiqiao also came out of the kitchen holding two bowls of hot egg noodles.

The two master and servant were eating dried noodles, probably because they were afraid of being poor when they were young. Chai Cuiqiao had a very good appetite, even if it was light noodles without oil, she was very excited and squeaked.

"Eat slowly and don't choke."

Li Ang reminded with a smile, and Chai Cuiqiao said "um" and continued to drown out the noodles, one bite at a time. At the end of the bowl, there was only a whole poached egg and a small amount of soup, and then he reluctantly bit it off. The crispy edge of the poached egg is finished with the soup.

"Boom, boom."

The knock on the door interrupted the silence at the moment, Li Ang frowned slightly and looked at the door of the Security Hall.

The period of filial piety has just passed, who will come to visit?
He turned his head and glanced at Chai Cuiqiao, who immediately understood, wiped the corner of his mouth with a handkerchief, stood up, lifted the wooden box full of coins from the ground, and walked to the backyard.

After Chai Cuiqiao left, Li Ang cleared his throat, walked to the door, and asked, "Who is it?"

"Is Mr. Li Jialang here? The next one is Yu Jie, a guy from Qing'an Tang in the east of the city. Li Xiaoge can just call me at Liu."

A voice outside the door said, "My family's lord sent me here to bring you the gift box that was distributed at the regular meeting of the Xinglin meeting a few days ago."

"Your husband? Qing'an Hall?"

Li Ang narrowed his eyes. Qing'an Hall in the east of the city, like Bao'an Hall, was a pharmacy hospital.The owner's surname is Yu, and his name is Miaoshui.

Fu doctor does not mean that he is from Fuzhou, or a person who is blessed, but refers to a doctor with "blessing".

Li Ang grew up in a medical center and has a deep understanding of the medical system of this era.

On the whole, medical resources in Yuguo can be divided into two categories: official and private.

Officially, it is headed by the Chang'an Imperial Physician Office, the Dianzhong Provincial Shang Pharmacy Bureau, and the Drug Collection Bureau.The Shang Pharmacy Bureau and the Drug Collection Bureau served the emperor and the prince respectively, and sometimes obeyed the emperor's arrangement to treat diseases for princes, ministers, and concubines in the harem.

The Imperial Medical Service is responsible for national medical administration and medical education.

These three central institutions are well-organized and gather medical elites. The medical level is second to none in the world, but the corresponding level of local medical care in Yu country is backward.

In the previous Sui's "Yan's Family Instructions", Volume [-], "Saving Trouble" described a person who was "broad but not skilled" - ". among people"

Sun Simiao, the medical saint of this dynasty, also stated bluntly in "Preparing Qianjin Prescriptions: The Original Preface": "Today's medical practitioners know the pulse diagnosis and prescription, and do not choose the season of medicine collection. It is because of this that it is impossible to treat ten or five or six.”

The cure rate for most doctors is less than 50%.

You must know that the medical system of this era lacks sufficient and detailed data for reference, such as the patient's physique, age, physical condition, specific disease type, the severity of the disease before seeking medical treatment, and the length of the disease course.

For many diseases, patients can heal themselves by virtue of their physical resistance, and this part of the population is also counted among the successful cases of cure. That is to say, the true cure rate of most doctors will continue to be underestimated.

The mediocrity of the overall level of doctors has seriously dampened the enthusiasm of the people to seek medical treatment, so that a large number of classics have criticized and ridiculed it.

"Hanshu·Yiwenzhi": "And those who fail to do so, use heat to benefit heat, and cold to increase cold, and the internal damage of essence and qi cannot be seen outside, which is the only thing that is lost. Therefore, there is a saying, 'If there is a disease that cannot be cured, one often obtains traditional Chinese medicine. .'"

This long-standing folk proverb refers to the fact that if you have a disease without treatment, you can get a moderate level of treatment. No matter what, it is better than being misdiagnosed by a quack doctor.

"Although it can't eliminate minor illnesses, it is wise to take bad medicine by mistake."

In essence, it is out of distrust and ridicule for quack doctors - as for the so-called "advising people not to take medicine indiscriminately, pay attention to the harmony between nature and man, and heal naturally", but it is a misinterpretation of this sarcastic remark, and the scolding is regarded as a compliment. people.

In short, the overall level of medical care in Yuguo is backward, which has spawned all kinds of chaos. Many civilians are sick, so they copy the "New Bodhisattva Sutra" and "Sutra of Persuading Goodness" at home, hoping to get rid of diseases by copying Buddhist scriptures, doing good deeds and accumulating virtue.

Copying Buddhist scriptures without going to a doctor is naturally an act of waiting for death, but believing in medical books is not that good. The medical books of this era are of mixed quality, often conflicting with themselves, ambiguous semantic sentences, and even curious. Folk medicine.

For example, the "Compendium of Materia Medica" compiled in the early period of this dynasty claimed that "human flesh can cure diseases (possibly referring to tuberculosis)", which led to "people who suffer from parental diseases and shave more flesh to advance", killing an unknown number of filial sons and daughters, Kind mother benevolent father.

All of the above situations gave birth to the emergence of "blessed doctors", that is, "blessed doctors".

This type of doctor has no medical skills at all, but just by chance, he "cured" a few patients (most likely due to the patient's own constitution). There are thousands of people snapping up, regardless of whether it is symptomatic or not.

If the patient takes medicine and the disease heals, it is the doctor's blessing, and it is transmitted to the patient through the medicine, so that the patient can be cured.

And if the patient takes medicine and the condition fails to improve, it is also destiny.

Even if the patient dies, no one can blame others.

On the contrary, Fuyi is invincible.

Yu Miaoshui is a typical blessing doctor.

Six years ago, he was just a wandering doctor who was so poor that he couldn't even afford twenty pennies. Hundreds of patients have been cured, and since then, he has become famous and earns gold every day.

And his so-called magic medicine is mung bean soup.

That's right, at the beginning, Yu Miaoshui only prescribed one prescription, mung bean soup.

Abdominal pain in children?Drink mung bean soup.

Headache and brain fever?Drink mung bean soup.

Uneven blood?Drink mung bean soup.

Gynecological diseases?Drink mung bean soup.

Yu Miaoshui let patients who came to ask for medicine drink it in the morning, in the evening, before meals, after meals, boiled into thick porridge, boiled into thin porridge, drink it hot, drink it cold, let the price of mung bean in the city All turned up.

In the city of Illinois, there is the Xinglin Association (a guild formed spontaneously by folk physicians).

In the face of Yu Miaoshui, who came from out of town and was unruly and deceived the foolish husband and the foolish woman, the doctors of the Xinglin Society were naturally resentful at first and wanted to teach him a lesson.

However, as time goes by, there are more and more people who claim to drink mung bean soup all day and feel that their physique is getting better and better.The doctors of the Xinglin Society couldn't help but murmured.

Low-level doctors are skeptical, thinking that Yu Miaoshui may be a really blessed "blessed doctor".

And doctors with a higher level, although they know that Yu Miaoshui is deceiving the world and stealing his name, have no way to stop the fanaticism of the foolish husband and the foolish woman - the patient will provide evidence for Yu Miaoshui to prove it. It is said in ancient books that mung beans are sweet and cool Cooking, clearing gallbladder and nourishing stomach, relieving summer heat and quenching thirst, facilitating urination, dysentery, thickening stomach, improving eyesight, treating head, wind and headache, eliminating vomiting, treating acne and swelling, and benefiting swelling
If eating mung bean soup is not good, it means that you are not eating enough.

Yu Miaoshui knew how to seize the opportunity. After he became a "blessing doctor" by selling mung bean soup, he took it as soon as he saw it. With the first pot of gold, he bought a store in Kuangzhou City, opened a pharmacy and a medical store, and really hired him. Dr. Langzhong is in the clinic, but he himself is not usually there, or he talks about the theory of "mung bean soup cures all diseases".

Li Ang quickly went through the background of Yu Miaoshui in his mind, and with a silent "tsk" in his heart, he reached out to lift the door bolt and opened the door.

He had no sympathy for this kind of charlatan who deceived the world, but it was beyond his expectation that the Xinglin Club would let Yu Miaoshui join him.

What happened outside during the four months of the mourning period?
"Yuriro, right?"

Li Ang nodded to the gray-clothed servant outside the door, "Something from the Xinglin Club."

"At this."

Yu Liu smiled and offered a wooden box inlaid with copper in the corner with both hands.

Li Ang took the wooden box, opened it, and glanced at it. It was the same as the gift box that the Xinglin Association gave out at every regular meeting. It contained small gifts such as saltpeter and Codonopsis ginseng.

"Thank you."

Li Ang closed the wooden box, glanced at Yu Liu who was standing still, and frowned, "Is there anything else?"

"Cough, that's it."

Yu Liu bowed his hands and pretended hesitantly said, "My husband wants me to ask you if there is any intention to sell Bao'an Tang's shop in the near future."

"what?"

Li Ang narrowed his eyes, stretched out his hand to hold the door frame, and said coldly, "No, walk slowly, no delivery."

Seeing that Li Ang was about to close the door, Yu Liu hurriedly said: "My husband is willing to pay 18 yuan to buy the Baoantang!"

18, or 180 guan, is enough to buy [-] to [-] acres of medium-sized farmland outside the city, or to buy two houses of the same size in a slightly remote location in Weizhou City.

boom!
The door was directly closed, and Yu Liu gritted his teeth and stomped outside the door, "18 yuan, plus a house in the city."

"I won't sell it for any amount,"

Li Ang said indifferently, "Go back."

"you"

Yu Liu took a deep breath, calmed down, cupped his hands outside the door, and said, "Then my husband will visit later today and let him interview you in person."

After saying that, he pursed his lips tightly, flung his sleeves and left, and threw a cold "let's see" in the wind.

Listening to the sound of footsteps gradually receding outside, Li Ang turned around with a cold expression and placed the gift box on the counter.

"gone?"

Chai Cuiqiao's little head emerged from behind the bead curtain, "What's the matter, Yu Miaoshui wants to buy our house?"

"I guess it's because of this facade."

Li Ang waved his hand and said, "This street along the river is near the Kuangshui Bridge and is very popular. If Yu Miaoshui wants to go further, he has to move here from the east of the city."

"That"

"Of course you can't sell it to him."

Li Ang sneered: "As soon as the mourning period was over, I sent a servant to the door to inquire about the price. It was clear that I had not yet reached the crown and had no ability to make a living.

They all open medical stores and pharmacies, and you can know the turnover and net income by calculating the traffic flow.

I'm afraid he thinks we don't have much savings, and is afraid of sitting on the mountain, and will sell it to him without hesitation?
Hmph, Yu Miaoshui, who has business brains but no medical ethics, so letting him pick up good land will only help the tyrants. "

"Hmm. This guy is too bad."

Chai Chai nodded in agreement, clenched his small fist and swiped at the air a few times, as if to hammer Yu Miao to death from the air.

'not to mention'

Li Ang walked to the table, picked up the cold tea, stared at it for a moment, drank it, and said silently in his heart: 'There is still a secret in this security hall. '

Li Ang remembers very clearly that the first time he awakened his memory of another world a few months ago was after drinking the water from the backyard well.

Although it is not clear whether there is really any connection between the two, it is the biggest secret that concerns him, and he cannot take this risk in any case.

(End of this chapter)