Song Yi

Chapter 45 Ephedra and Trouble

Du Wenhao said: "'Ephedra' is also called 'trouble'.

There is an interesting legend here.

In ancient times, the medicine ephedra was called "leafless grass" because it did not grow leaves.

There was an old doctor with an apprentice. After studying for a few years, the apprentice felt great and ignored the old doctor.

Before parting, the old doctor was worried, and told him a word: "Leafless grass should not be used indiscriminately. The stem is used for sweating, and the root is used for stopping sweat. If you make a mistake, you will die!" The apprentice left without a care.

Not long after, when the apprentice was practicing medicine, he misused leafless grass and put people to death.

He was turned over to the government office.When the magistrate of the county was promoted to the hall and asked, he learned that he was the apprentice of the old man, so he sent the old man to ask him how to teach his apprentice. "

Yingzi said: "The apprentice of a quack doctor has caused trouble to the master by treating people to death. This ephedra is really troublesome!
"That's right, after hearing about this case, the old doctor said that he once taught his apprentice a formula, and asked the apprentice if he still remembered it.

The apprentice memorized the mantra with a bitter face, "the stem is used to produce sweat, and the root is used to stop sweat. If you make a mistake, you will die." '

The county magistrate asked: "Is the patient sweating or not?" '

The disciple said, "I'm sweating all over."

The county magistrate asked again: "What medicine did you prescribe?" '

The apprentice replied with a dead face: "The stem of the leafless grass." '

The county magistrate was furious: "It's a quack doctor!"The patient is already sweating due to debility and still takes the medicine for sweating, can he not die?Your master taught you and you still mess up? '

The apprentice kowtowed and said, "I was wrong, I didn't pay attention to the formulas taught by the master." '

The magistrate of the county wants to convict this apprentice of homicide on account of a quack doctor and exile him for three thousand miles.

Thanks to the old man's intercession and the loss of a lot of silver to the sufferer, he was beaten and his sentence was reduced to imprisonment. "

"It deserves it!" Yingzi applauded, "This kind of disrespectful person deserves it!"

"Yes, after this incident, this apprentice realized his own shortcomings, returned to his master to study medicine, and eventually became a famous doctor of his generation. After that, because the leafless grass brought him such a big trouble, he kept This leafless grass was called 'trouble grass', and it was called "ephedra grass" because of the yellow root of this medicine.

Yingzi smiled and said: "This is a good allusion, I have to tell Miss Yuqin and Fei'er this little girl in the morning, and tell them not to play tricks without learning medicine, and harm others and themselves."

Lin Qingdai hesitated to speak, but Du Wenhao was a little surprised and asked, "What do you want to say?"

"Well, the disciple of the divine doctor is talking too much, it's just..., the divine doctor doesn't charge money for the master and apprentice, it's good for the patients, and people from all over the world respect them very much. If anyone offends them, those who have received his favor , I'm afraid..."

"I understand. You mean that I'm too rude to speak to the divine doctor apprentices. I'm afraid that others will hate me, say bad things about me, put on little shoes for me, or even make trouble for me? Will it also affect our Wuweitang business?"

"Probably not," Lin Qingdai smiled apologetically, "However, apprentices of divine physicians are actually pretty good."

"I see. I must pay attention to what I say in the future, and be more polite to his master and apprentice, as long as they are not too excessive."

Seeing that Du Wenhao understood what she meant, Lin Qingdai smiled sweetly and offered him a glass of wine.

Lin Qingdai wanted to flip through the book again, but Du Wenhao pressed down on his medical book, shook his head and said, "If this goes on, you will win or lose. I don't think you can drink anymore. We have to change the drinking order."

"Okay, what to change?"

Du Wenhao thought for a while and said:
"Let me guess the herbal riddle for you. If you guess it, I will drink. If you can't, you will drink!"

"Okay, do you want to drink? There are only a few hundred herbs, and it's hard for me to find the answer from here!"

"Don't brag, just wait and see!" Du Wenhao looked up at the moon in the sky, clapped his hands, and said, "Yes! ——'Moon God Tree'!"

"Heh! What's so difficult about this, the only trees in the moon are osmanthus flowers, and naturally they are 'osmanthus twigs'! Drink!"

Du Wenhao laughed and drank a cup:
"This one is too simple, I have to think of something more complicated. Hmm..., um, I have it! - Eight Thousand Miles Lu Yun and Yue, don't wait for the boy's head to turn white, Kong is sad!"

"Good word!" Lin Qingdai applauded, "Mr. made this word?"

This is Yue Fei's Man Jianghong, Yue Fei was from the Southern Song Dynasty, Lin Qingdai naturally didn't know, Du Wenhao smiled and said:

"No, it was written by someone else, you guess it quickly!"

"It's not difficult. Eight thousand miles, Yunheyue, have already named Aspirations in Yuanfang, so the answer is 'Yuanzhi', right?"

Du Wenhao had no choice but to drink another cup, thinking that Lin Qingdai, who runs a pharmacy, is very familiar with the names of the medicines, so he must think of a more difficult one.

While he was thinking, Lin Qingdai asked:

"Mr. has just recited two poems. I have heard Su Dongpo's Qing Dai, but I have never heard of this song 'Eight Thousand Miles of Clouds and Moon'. Can you recite it completely and let Qing Dai appreciate it? ?”

"Okay," Du Wenhao stood up, with his hands behind his back, walked to the railing, looked up at the bright moon, and chanted:

'bristle,

at the railing,
Xiaoxiao Yuxi..."

When he finished reading Shangyu and was about to read "Jingkang is ashamed, it is still not snowed", he suddenly remembered that this happened decades later when the Northern Song Dynasty perished, and it hadn't happened yet. , then paused, and smiled embarrassedly:

"After drinking, I forgot next time..."

Even though there was only Shangyu, the two women couldn't help applauding: "Good words! Good words! It's a pity that I didn't finish listening."

Lin Qingdai said: "This poem is extremely heroic, completely opposite to Su Shi's graceful and graceful style of poetry just now, and it makes people's blood boil after listening to it!"

When Lin Qingdai mentioned Su Dongpo, it reminded Du Wenhao of a Chinese medicine story about Su Shi’s sister. There was a Chinese medicine riddle in it, which was very difficult. You might as well use it to embarrass Lin Qingdai, saying:
"I'll solve another riddle. If you can guess it, I'll drink three cups in a row! If you can't guess it, you'll drink three cups in a row!"

Lin Qingdai smiled and said, "Okay, give it a try!"

"This time the riddle is a bit difficult. You have to guess the twelve flavors of medicine, and each sentence has three flavors!"

"Ok!"

"The riddle is very simple, and it is the four great pleasures in life——

Long drought meets sweet rain,
Meet old friends in a foreign land.

wedding night,
When the title of the gold list. "

Lin Qingdai smiled and said: "This mystery is really unique, let me think about it. ——When there is a long drought and sweet rain, manna is one, Didijin (scientific name Inula inula) is one flavor, and there is another flavor..."

Yingzi didn't know much about medicinal materials, so she couldn't help her. Seeing Lin Qingdai's embarrassment, she was anxious.

Du Wenhao said with a smile: "This mystery is a bit difficult. If you don't think about it, think about it slowly. You can think about the latter first."

Lin Qingdai got up, and walked slowly in the corridor with her hands behind her back and her head lowered, thinking: "Meeting an old friend in a foreign country—the place of birth counts as one taste, what are the other two flavors...? Wedding night in the bridal chamber—"

Lin Qingdai turned her head and glanced at Du Wenhao, she couldn't see her face clearly in the dark, but her words were a little shy: "The wedding night in the bridal chamber - I only guessed the two flavors of 'he, huan' and 'privet'! Another guess out."

"It's already very good, let's guess the next sentence."

"When it comes to titles on the gold list—Shangjia (i.e. turtle shell) counts as one taste, Yijianxi (scientific name Andrographis paniculata) counts as one taste,... the remaining one can't be guessed. Let's admit defeat and ask Mr. for advice!"

Du Wenhao said with a smile: "It's hard to guess the seven flavors of the twelve flavors of medicine in such a short time! How about this, if I guess more than half of it, I'll drink two cups, and if I don't guess half of it, you have a drink!"

"It's only counting if you can guess it all. How about this, you and I have a drink together, and you teach the remaining five flavors, and I'll have another drink!"

"Alright!"

After the two drank the wine in the glass, Du Wenhao said:
"When there is sweet rain during a long drought, besides the nectar and Didi Jin you guessed, there is also Alisma. When you meet an old friend in a foreign land, in addition to the raw land you guessed, the other two flavors are Jianfengqing and Sanfandi. .In the wedding night, besides the two flavors you mentioned, there are gentlemen, and the worst flavor when you were nominated on the gold list is ginger."

Lin Qingdai frowned: "Alisma is more appropriate. Seeing Fengqing, Sanfandi, Junzi and Shengjiang here, but they are all puzzling. How to hit the mystery?"

Du Wenhao said with a smile: "To be honest, I heard this riddle, not myself. According to legend, Su Shi's sister Su Xiaomei posed a difficult problem for the poet Qin Guan. So, the answer to this riddle is like this, and I also It doesn't feel right."

"Hmph, you don't even think it's right, and you still let me guess. It's clear that you deliberately made things difficult, and you will be punished with alcohol!"

Yingzi also clamored, "That's right, sir!"

"Okay, I accept the punishment!" Du Wenhao drank the wine glass in one gulp.

As the two came and looked, the jug of rice wine had already been drained. Yingzi held the wine cup and said, "I'll get some wine!"

Turning around to leave, he saw something moving in front of the threshold of Du Wenhao's room, and two bright things.

Very curious, he took two steps forward to take a look, and with a yell, the flagon in his hand fell to the ground and shattered, then turned around and ran behind Du Wenhao:

"Old... tiger...! There are tigers...!"

That thing was the little tiger cub that Du Wenhao brought home.

Just now I was full and no one cared, I climbed the threshold and turned out, crouched in the dark and looked around, but didn't dare to walk around.

Just when Yingzi came over to see it, Yingzi screamed, and the flagon was smashed, which scared a little tiger cub to his buttocks on the ground, screamed, got up and ran into the house.

He bumped his head against the threshold, and with a bang, he sat down on the ground again.

Shaking his little head, he got up and jumped, with his front feet resting on the high threshold, and his two rear feet kicked and scratched, trying to climb up the threshold.

But the threshold was too high, and he couldn't climb it for a while, and he hung there and couldn't get up or down, so he screamed in anxiety.

(End of this chapter)