Portable space

After leaving the seed shop, Zhang Taiping bought all the items listed by Cai Yazhi on the street, and then walked towards the pet area in a corner of Daji, which is actually called the livestock area in the countryside.From time to time, some interesting animals will appear there. Although it is not possible to buy them with money, it is good to see them as novelties in the past.

The place where the animals gather is naturally smelly, and you can smell it before you go far.Zhang Taiping is not a precious daughter, and he is not intolerable to this smell.

The first thing you hear when you walk in is the sound of pigs. Piggy is the most sold animal here, followed by big dogs and goats.

There are very few big pigs sold here, and the piglets who have been born for at most two months are completely white and pink, which is not annoying.

But now these guys are held in their hands and watched, and while they are struggling hard, their mouths are hissing, which is extremely ear-piercing. No wonder there is a saying "worse than killing a pig".

Zhang Taiping has no interest in raising pigs, but there is a pig farm in the village, but this matter is not something he can decide on himself, so he didn't stay in front of these piggies.

Beyond the shriek of pigs, there are either dull or immature dog barks.

Dogs are different from pigs. Dogs and people can easily develop feelings. Even if they don’t want to keep them, most people don’t have the heart to kill them. At most, they sell them.Therefore, the dog market is not limited to small dogs, and there are also many big dogs.

Zhang Taiping was walking slowly in the dog market. There were already enough big and small dogs at home. Although he didn't plan to buy any more, it was always okay to keep in mind that he might meet some good dogs.

But from the beginning to the end, he didn't meet any dogs that made his heart flutter, but those newborn puppies looked very cute with watery eyes.

Next came the sheep market and the bull market. Zhang Taiping didn't stop, and walked quickly to the innermost corner.

This is not a small place, and there is no fixed number of animals in it, and there may be any weird animals.

On the far side, I met a rabbit seller. The domestic white rabbit was placed in a cage, eating vegetable leaves, and looked cute with its ears shaking.Fan Ming also raised a white rabbit at home, and named it "Xiaoyu", but he didn't know where it went.Zhang Taiping couldn't help but take a second look at these rabbits.

The stall owner thought he was interested, and greeted him warmly: "Look, this rabbit can be raised for slaughtered meat, or for children to play with."

Zhang Taiping shrugged his shoulders to express his lack of interest.

Going further inside, there are many selling mice and various birds.Zhang Taiping always walked by to have a look, but he was not interested in buying it.

He didn't stop until he came to a stall surrounded by a group of people. Looking inside, it turned out that a quack doctor set up a stall here to treat rheumatism with cupping.

Cupping is indeed a medical skill, which is recorded in "Compendium of Materia Medica", but most of it is spread among the people, and it has been systematically used in hospital treatment in recent years.

Authentic cupping can dredge meridians, adjust qi and blood, and balance yin and yang. It does have some therapeutic effects on rheumatism.

There are many strange people among the people, and not all people who set up street stalls and sell medicine to cure diseases are charlatans. Zhang Taiping dare not say whether this person's cupping can really cure diseases or is just used to deceive people.So I stood outside the crowd and looked around.

The practitioner is a Taoist priest who looks to be about 50 years old, dressed in a simple Taoist robe, with antique long hair on his head, which is worn into a bun with wooden hairpins.Leaving aside whether medical skills are real or not, this attire alone is three points convincing.

Sitting on a small bench, there is a small stall in front of it. There are some plasters and some gold sore medicines on it, all of which are made by myself.There is also a flag behind him, on which there are only the words "heal the wounded" instead of "save the dying".

A middle-aged woman was sitting in front and rolled up her trouser legs, and the Taoist priest took a ceramic pot and heated it up, and then buckled it up, and combined with many patting techniques.

After a while, the Taoist pulled the pot off the middle-aged woman's lap, making the sound of air blasting, which was quite miraculous.

"Is that all right?" the woman asked.

"Okay." The Taoist nodded.

"The woman put down her trouser legs, stood up and took two steps, and then shouted in surprise: "It really relieved a lot, it really relieved a lot!" "It looks quite excited.

"You don't need to be so excited if it's relieved?" A person next to him murmured.

Unexpectedly, this woman had very sensitive ears, so he listened and explained: "My leg is hurting, but it has been like this for seven or eight years. I have spent a lot of money on seeing a doctor and taking medicine everywhere, but it hasn't improved. Now it's finally gone. It got better."

"Is it really that miraculous?" The man still couldn't believe it.

"It's absolutely true. The doctor's medical skills are amazing." The woman said to the people next to her.

"What she said is true." Someone who knew the woman next to her said.

Hearing this, Zhang Taiping understood that this woman had been cured for a long time, and she went to the street doctor to try her luck when she was too tortured, but she did not expect her pain to be relieved, no wonder she was surprised and inexplicable.

Although he was encouraged and praised by the middle-aged woman, the old Taoist priest did not have any complacent expression on his face.

After the middle-aged woman's excitement cooled down, she said slowly: "This is just a temporary solution, not the root cause."

Probably knowing that the illness that has tortured her for seven or eight years is not so easy to treat, the middle-aged woman did not feel disappointed, but asked hopefully, "I don't know how to cure it?"

The old Taoist said: "Cupping can only temporarily pull out the sickness on the surface, but it cannot treat the root of the sickness. If you want to cure it, you need to do it both internally and externally. While pulling out the cupping outside, you need to use traditional Chinese medicine to cure the root cause. "

"Are these the medicines?" The middle-aged woman asked, pointing to the medicines on the stall.

The old Taoist shook his head and said, "No, I don't have traditional Chinese medicine for treating other diseases here. These are just trauma medicines for promoting blood circulation, removing blood stasis or stopping bleeding, and cannot treat your disease."

"Then what should I do?" The middle-aged woman was a little anxious. After finally meeting someone who might cure her disease, she really didn't want to lose this opportunity.

The old Taoist thought for a while and said: "I don't have any medicinal materials here, so I can't help you, but I can give you a prescription. You can go to the pharmacy to get the medicine yourself." After speaking, he took it out of the box A piece of hemp paper, and then took out a fountain pen, and wrote a prescription with rustle.

Zhang Taiping was a head taller than the others, but he could clearly see what the old Taoist wrote when he stood at the back, not to mention whether the pharmacy was useful or not, just the vigorous and powerful running script was amazing.

The middle-aged woman took the prescription, carefully put it away after looking at it, and then asked, "I don't know where the Taoist priest lives. If there is a cure by then, I'd better go over and thank you."

The old Taoist shook his head and said: "The whole world is home, and there is no fixed place to live."

The middle-aged woman was a little disappointed, but she didn't force anything. Perhaps in her eyes, the old Taoist priest really became some kind of supernatural being.Asked: "I don't know how much it is in total?"

"Cupping is 70 yuan a time, and prescriptions are [-] yuan. The total is [-] yuan."

Cupping once relieved the pain and was worth twenty indeed.As for the prescription, if it can really cure the disease, let alone 50 yuan, even 3000 yuan is worth it.The middle-aged woman took out 100 yuan without hesitation, but then said: "I believe in the doctor's medical skills. The medicine here must also have miraculous effects. I don't know how to sell it?"

The old Taoist said: "The plasters are [-] a piece, and the hemostatic medicine in the bottle is also [-]."

The middle-aged woman said: "Don't look for it, I'll just take another plaster."

The old Taoist nodded, but gave the middle-aged woman a plaster and a bottle of hemostatic medicine.

The middle-aged woman retreated to the back after arriving at the thing, but she did not leave, she still stood by and watched.

At this time, a man in his 30s next to him said, "Is the Daoist's recipe sold too cheap?"

"How do you say that?" the old Taoist asked.

"If the prescription can really cure the disease, it will not only be worth 50 yuan. Isn't the Taoist priest afraid that the prescription will be leaked?" The man asked with doubts in his heart.

The old Taoist stroked the beard under his chin with his hand and said: "In fact, some diseases look similar, but they are different. You must know that the difference is a thousand miles away, especially in the aspect of seeing a doctor and treating others. It can cure all diseases. Even if it is the same disease, it is possible that one person can be treated with this prescription, but some people cannot be treated with this prescription.”

"Why is that?" The middle-aged man was puzzled.

The old Taoist didn't show any impatient expression, and explained carefully: "The treatment of diseases varies from person to person, and the prescription of medicine also varies from person to person."

The middle-aged man seemed to understand and nodded, but the question returned to the original topic: "If it can really cure the disease, why does the priest only charge 50 yuan?"

The old Taoist priest was quite open-minded: "In the eyes of the old Taoist, this prescription is only worth this price, and even though the old Taoist came up with the prescription, he didn't lose anything."

The middle-aged man opened his mouth in surprise, said nothing, stepped aside, but did not leave either.

Then several people asked the old Taoist priest to perform cupping on the spot, and their illnesses were all relieved.

Zhang Taiping has been watching quietly from the side, and saw some doorway.The old Taoist priests don't just use one method for all diseases, but they will check the pulse first and then act. The method seems to have no change, but the effect of subtle changes may be completely different.

Until now Zhang Taiping believed that this was indeed a strange person among the people.

More and more people gathered outside, and some people came after hearing the news. Most of them didn't come to see the doctor, but to watch the excitement.

"Cough cough." A sickly middle-aged man walked in from the crowd, and the surrounding crowd automatically gave way to a passage, all startled by his heart-piercing cough.

"Daozhang, cough cough. Let's see if my disease can be cured?"

The old Taoist first asked him to sit down, then felt his pulse, and after carefully looking at it, he shook his head and said: "The old Taoist is incompetent, there is no way to treat it."

The middle-aged man may not hold the hope of being cured, so he said second best: "That can. Cough cough. Can't you pull out a cupping pot to relieve the pain?"

The old Taoist still shook his head and said: "The disease has been accumulating in the lungs for many years, and it is really on the verge of eruption. If there is no hole, it can last for a while. If you pull out a cupping pot, the disease may be drawn out, leading to an early outbreak. ,as a result."

Although the old Taoist didn't finish his words, the middle-aged man still understood the meaning. If he didn't treat him, he might linger for a while. If he treated him, the likely result would be sudden death on the spot.

With a sad face, he asked, "Is there no other way?"

The old Taoist shook his head and said nothing.

The middle-aged man stood up, coughed violently again and left, the heart-piercing coughing sound was really shocking.

"Ah!" A group of people around exclaimed.

It turned out that it was the coughing person who had coughed up blood on the white silk.

The old Taoist priest behind could only shake his head and sigh.

Then a few more people came up to cupping, and when no one came forward, the old Taoist was ready to close the stall.

At this moment, three young people squeezed in from the crowd. Their hair was dyed a strange color, and they were not a good thing at first glance.

Sure enough, before he came in and said anything, he kicked towards the medicine stall on the ground.The inside shouted: "Old man, who told you to set up a stall here? This place. Ah!"

It's just that he fell to the ground before he could finish his sentence.

It was the old Taoist who stretched out his hand and patted his knee lightly when he kicked the stall, and he immediately fell limp to the ground as if he had been electrocuted.

"What's wrong with my leg?" The young man on the ground wanted to get up, but found that his entire leg was numb, and he couldn't use his strength at all, so he yelled out in fear.

The other two were clever. Seeing that their companion fell down for no reason and couldn't get up for a long time, they immediately retreated a little.

Zhang Taiping can naturally see the way, this old Taoist priest is really a strange person, although the force of his attack just now was not strong, it happened to hit the young man's numbness.Not only knows kung fu, but also knows the human body very well.

The people around began to condemn the three young people one after another. One sentence and one sentence immediately made the three of them a little unbearable. You must know that there are nearly a hundred people around, and the two of them helped the young man who was on the ground to escape. sent out the crowd.

Now most of the people around could see that the length of the path was extraordinary, and came forward one after another, even if they didn't come for cupping, they would buy a few plasters or hemostatic medicine.Like a gust of wind, the medicine on the old Taoist stall was sold out.

When no one came forward anymore, the old Taoist stood up and cupped his hands towards the surroundings and said, "Thank you for your support, I'm here today, and the old Taoist should go."

"Yes, Taoist priest, let's go quickly. Those three people just now are not good guys, and they may come to trouble the Taoist priest later."

"Yes."

People who knew the three young people nearby said one after another.

From Zhang Taiping's point of view, with the skill of this Taoist priest, he is naturally not afraid of the three young men, but the Taoist priest didn't say anything, he packed his things and cupped his hands towards the surrounding people and left.