The Four Great Cases of Wu Zetian

Chapter 4

Setting up an entry-level medical department to treat diseases and see a young girl who is dumb and suspicious
But Mr. Di saw that the woman believed in his medical theory, and wanted to explain her tone, and asked, "Since you have been sick for several years, don't you have a husband and son who ask someone to heal you for you, so that you will stay sick for a long time? When the woman asked, she sighed and said: "It's sad to say, my husband passed away long ago, leaving behind a son, who is 28 years old this year, and he came to open a small woolen shop in this town. Daughter-in-law, it has been eight years. Last May on the Dragon Boat Festival, I enjoyed lunch at home. In the afternoon, I took my daughter-in-law and my granddaughter out to watch the dragon boat. In the evening, my son was still the same as usual. After dinner, he suddenly felt pain in his abdomen. I thought He was caused by heat, so I asked my daughter-in-law to wait for him to sleep. Unexpectedly, at the second drum, when I heard him yelling, my daughter-in-law burst into tears, saying that he was dead. Pity me, mother-in-law and daughter-in-law, like stepping on the sky. It's like coming down, seeing that the clan is dead. Although I opened a small shop, I don't have a lot of capital, so I don't have cash to do things. It's so easy to move around and owe my son. But when he was about to die, his eyes were like It's the size of a lamp bead, and it's exposed outside. Pity me, I'm sad, I cry day and night, I got this heartache." Hearing what he said, Di Gong wondered: "Although May is a warm season or not, why do you cry when you are dying? It's revealed, is there something else in it? I'm here today to visit the case, or the surname Qiu has never visited, and instead he has redressed his grievances, I don't know." Nai said: "According to this, you The disease is getting worse."

If it is only caused by stagnation, even though it is the original disease, it can still be cured easily. This is a heartache, and it comes from the bitterness in the heart. How can it be cured temporarily?Although I have medicine to cure it at this time, I need to decoct the medicine and mix it with water, and take it with you, so that it will be effective.Now on this street, how can it be so troublesome.I don't know if you want to be healed?If you want to get rid of the root of this disease, you have to decoct this medicine at your home. Hearing what he said, the woman hesitated for a while, and said, "Sir, if you are so willing to go, should you answer my illness and want to leave?"But there is one thing that I want to explain to Mr.Since my son's death, my daughter-in-law has worked hard to keep the festival, and she doesn't see outsiders easily. In the afternoon, she closes the door tightly.Whenever outsiders come in, she makes a lot of noise.She said: "Young women, why did the mother-in-law let these people come home?" 'So those relatives in my family know her reason, and no man has ever come to the door.Recently, even the female relatives have stopped coming. There are only my mother-in-law and daughter-in-law at home. They stay together in the morning and stay in their own rooms in the afternoon.If you want to go, sir, you can only decoct the medicine in the main room. After decocting the medicine, please go out immediately.Otherwise she will quarrel with me again. "

After listening to Mr. Di, he was even more puzzled, thinking: "There are people who are virtuous in the world, but she is too much - it is right for men to come here and not talk to her, why don't even the female relatives come to her door, and what's more... Close the door in the afternoon? This is a suspicious case, and I promise her to go and see what her daughter-in-law does." Xiang Bi said: "It's rare for your daughter-in-law to be so respectful. I'm only going here for you To cure a disease, as long as the medicine is decocted, it will come out immediately." Seeing that he agreed, the woman was very happy, and said: "I will go back, let me tell you first, and then I will invite you." Stopped, and hurriedly said: "This matter is unnecessary. I finished the decoction early, and I have to rush to the city to do some business. Forgive you, poor man, and you don't have much money to reward me. It's just to make your name famous. Let's go with you." Then he packed up the medicine bag, said goodbye to everyone, and followed the woman.

After passing through three or four narrow alleys, there is a small house in front of it, with a low door facing north, and a girl standing in front of the door, about six or seven years old, saw the woman coming from a distance, she was very happy, and rushed to come meet.When he arrived in front of him, he grabbed the woman's sleeve, screaming, and couldn't say a word.That finger flicked here and there, not knowing why.

Seeing that she was dumb, Di Gong said, "Who are you, this little child? Why can't he speak? Is he born like this?" Having reached the door, the woman pushed in the door first, as if she had arrived. Report inside.Fearing that her daughter-in-law would hide away, Mr. Di rushed into the gate too, and it turned out that there were three houses.As soon as the door of the next room slammed, I saw a half body of a woman looking out, but happened to be opposite Duke Di, and Duke Di also took a look.But seeing that daughter-in-law, who is also under [-] years old, although she is dressed in plain clothes, but her lewd eyes are shining, it really makes people's soul dissipate.His eyebrows are raised slightly, his snow-white face has a slight blush on his cheeks - but it is born naturally.Seeing a stranger coming in, he was about to shrink back and shut the door tightly with a bang.I could only hear the scolding inside: "Old bitch, even the doctor who sells medicine has come to the door. It took a few days to be clean, and today it will be noisy all night. I don't know where the bad luck is!"

Seeing this expression, Di Gong guessed eight points: "This woman must not be a good person, there must be a reason for it. Since I am here, no matter how much I slander, I have to find a reason." Sitting down at that time, he said "This is the first time I've come to the mansion, and I don't know the name of the mansion. This girl just now must be Ling's granddaughter." When the woman saw the question, she had to answer: "My family name is Bi, and my son's formal name is Bi Shun. It's a pity that after his death, only this eight-year-old granddaughter is left behind." As he spoke, he dragged the girl to him, and couldn't help but tears rolled down his eyes.

Di Gong said: "It's getting late now, you can turn on the stove and prepare the decoction. But your granddaughter is dumb, how did you get this idea?" Old lady Bi said: "It's all unfortunate family, she was born since childhood, He was really clever in every way. When he was five or six years old, he was very eloquent. It was not two months after his father died, but he became like this in the morning. No matter what important matters, although he knew it in his heart, I just can't say it out of my mouth. Isn't it unfortunate for a good child to become a waste?" Di Gong said: "Who did she sleep with at that time? Could it be that someone wanted medicine to be dumb? You don't care about it. If someone takes medicine Dumb, but I can try."

Before the woman could answer, she heard her daughter-in-law scolding in the room: "In the blue sky, you talk nonsense without a shadow or form. That's not how you cheat people's money. My daughter stays with me all day long. Who cured her? From ancient times to the present, I have only heard of people treating veterinarians, but I have never seen anyone who can cure a dumb person. This old bitch, just for the moment, brought this person to heal her illness, and did not ask who he was, and listened to him like this Talking nonsense. My son died, but I’m not sad, and I don’t want the widow and daughter-in-law to be quiet, nagging and talking.” The woman heard his daughter-in-law yelling and scolding in the room, but she didn’t dare to speak.Di Gong thought: "This woman must have a way out. It's because the old woman can't know people and thinks she is sincerely chaste. In my opinion, she must have killed her son. There is no chaste woman in the world who is not a filial woman. Since the husband is the most important thing, and the husband's mother is sick, is there any reason not to allow her to heal? Since this girl was raised by her own body, even though she has become dumb, there is no reason not to want her to recover from her illness. Hearing that someone can heal, Just pretend to be very happy, come out and ask, why don’t you care at all, but scold people more than ever? That is, the two ends are obviously a flaw. I don’t need to be alarmed, I will go back to the street and make a detailed interview.” At that time, I got up and said, “I Even if you are a friend who travels around the rivers and lakes, you need to be convinced by others so that you can heal them. This woman of yours hurts people for no reason, and I don't want you to pay a lot of money for medical treatment. Why should you be so sullen, and you can ask others to treat you." Saying this, she got up and left. door.

The woman didn't dare to keep him, so she had to go with him.

When Di Gong arrived in the town, he saw that it was getting late, and it was too late to enter the city. "I might as well stay here tonight and understand the case so that I can go back to the government office tomorrow."

"Thinking about it, I saw a big inn in front of me, so I walked in. A little waiter came to ask: "Mr. Doctor, do you want to stay in a thatched shop for a night, or rent an inn to live in?" Seeing that there are many houses and vehicles loaded with passengers inside, Mr. Di said, "I'm a single passer-by. If I want to do business in this town for two days, I have to order Panchuan."It is best if you have a single room. "Xiaoer saw that he was going to do business, so he promised to do so, and then took him into Zhongjin, walked to the first room, and arranged for him to stay. Knowing that he had no luggage, he rented a bedding from the shopkeeper. The layout has been completed. After that, I asked about wine and rice. Di Gong said: "You can bring two of the best side dishes to accompany the wine. " Xiao Er responded, first went to make a pot of hot tea, and then brought in one by one. Di Gong finished eating in the room, thinking, there are many customers in this shop, why should the murderer also be in it? There is nothing wrong at this time, why not go out and check. I went out of the room by myself, passed Zhongjin, and went outside the store first, and looked for a while. It was time to hand in the lights, but there was still an endless stream of merchants coming and going.

When he was in a trance, he suddenly saw a person coming from the opposite side. Seeing Di Gong here, he hurriedly stopped and wanted to come to greet him, but seeing two or three idlers beside him, he dared not go up to ask.

Di Gong had already seen it, and before he could open his mouth, he said, "Uncle Hong, where did you come here? Today is really a coincidence, let's rest in this shop, and the two of you will also have a companion." Seeing him like this, the man walked up to him .I don't know who this person is, let's see the breakdown in the next chapter.

(End of this chapter)