Merchant and doctor

Chapter 1106: Medicine Table
When Bian Mu goes out, he usually carries a pair of ox horn finger gloves with him. This is a special Chinese medicine instrument used by a certain school of traditional Chinese medicine. He got it by accident when he was in college.

During the summer vacation one year, he was entrusted by his class counselor to accompany several cadres of the department student union to Pingliangpu to visit a female classmate. The female classmate had been absent from school for a semester due to illness and had almost recovered by then. Bian Mu was very skilled in martial arts, and the counselor had known about it for a long time. With him accompanying them, the teachers in the department would feel safer.

While strolling around the town, Bian Mu discovered that a pair of ox horn knuckles displayed on a street stall was unusual. After some bargaining, Bian Mu bought it for 50 yuan.

At that time, he thought it was quite simple. "Finger acupuncture" would consume the practitioner's energy and spirit. Over time, it would be very disadvantageous to the practitioner. Therefore, over the years, "Finger acupuncture" has basically disappeared. Bian Mu kept it basically for self-defense.

At first, Bian Mu thought that the finger sleeve was made of just the best cow horn. But after getting to know the herbal farmer Lao Pei, he realized that the thing was actually made of rhinoceros horn. What a good thing!
The fingertips Sima Kui brought were all made of top-grade soft jade, and their shapes were similar to the one on Bian Mu's hand, but the workmanship was more sophisticated. Preliminary estimates showed that the three jade fingertips in front of him must have cost a lot of money.

"It's acceptable to borrow it temporarily, but I don't deserve such a generous gift for nothing!" As he spoke, Bian Mu placed the small wooden box on the bedside table, picked up the green jade fingertip and put it on the tip of his left middle finger. He passed the white jade fingertip and picked up the black fingertip and put it on his right index finger.

Turning around, Bian Mu stretched out his hands and fiddled with Chen Yueqing's head a few times, trying to make him lie flat on the bed without moving his head around.

Using his left hand as a supplement and his right index finger as the main one, Bian Mu found the acupuncture points and performed "finger acupuncture" treatment on Chen Yueqing again. With the help of this magical finger sleeve, Bian Mu saved a lot of effort.

“Swords are given to heroes, and cosmetics are given to beauties! I got this stuff by chance, and it’s of no use to keep it with me. No matter what, I’m grateful to you for this. Whenever I think of it, my heart... Now, you are in your prime, and it can be used when you meet a special patient. We have been quietly eliminated by the times, and we are old and frail. It’s useless to keep it. Keep it! Maybe it can really help you create a new world in the new Chinese medicine in the future!” Suddenly, Sima Kui seemed like a different person. He spoke in a very reasonable and logical way, and the strong sense of chivalry he had before was much less.

Bian Mu was somewhat puzzled, and for a moment he couldn't figure out what was wrong with old man Sima...

"I've only heard of this kind of nephrite before, but now I have it in my hands and it is really useful. If it were taken to a legitimate auction house, it would be worth a lot of money, right?" Bian Mu responded with a smile.

"You're wrong! I know a little bit about the antique business. Jade should not be made too functional. Good jade is worth some money, but... once it is made into medical equipment used in traditional Chinese medicine, the spirit of the jade will be "killed" in an instant. To make an inappropriate analogy, no matter how good the ivory is, if you make it into a comb, it may only be worth 10 yuan. But if you make it artistic and make it into an art piece that is not too functional, the starting price may immediately reach millions!" Sima Kui found a chair and sat down, smiling as he explained some unwritten rules and regulations of the antique business.

"So... there are so many things to say here! You are really knowledgeable, I admire you!" Bian Mu took the opportunity to flatter Sima Kui. "Tsk! Here we go again! You must be curious, how can a wandering doctor like me become friends with Boss Chen, haha... It's a coincidence, more than 20 years ago, I went to Bianbei to purchase a batch of medicinal materials with complete procedures, just to make some money and buy a house to settle my family down. In a remote town, I happened to run into Chen Yueqing being chased for debts. It seems that the amount he owed was quite large at that time. Many people from the other party came and blocked him in a small hotel. Those people used泔水桶 to punish him, TMD! Debtor Why not just pay back the money? Why do you have to insult others? I got angry and beat those guys up. That's how we became friends. When Lao Wei said he was dying, I had to come and see him. As a result, they told me that you were Lao Chen's attending physician. I thought I would definitely run into you here, so I picked up this little thing for you to play with. Don't offend me!" I don't know how Sima Kui suddenly changed his temperament, and he became a completely different person in his words.

"Then... I will borrow it for a while, and I will return it one day!"

"What are you talking about? Ha! You are a good person in every way, except for that... Oh, right! You have gone through so much trouble, so you should just let him go to paradise in a dignified manner, right? You don't really intend to let him walk and recover gradually, do you?!" Sima Kui was sometimes quite direct in his words.

"It's hard to say right now. I'm sure you've checked his pulse. He has lost all six Qi. If we want to rebuild the Qi system in his body, it will be a medical project of considerable scale! If I operate alone... I can only do my best. I will do my best, but God will do his best!"

"That's what I told you! No matter how great your medical skills are, you are still old, right?! So...what tricks do you have for the next phase? Can you tell me about them?"

"Look at what you said. The contemporary Chinese medicine community is extremely transparent. There is no such thing as something that can be concealed from the public, right? Recently, I plan to take some time to visit the Ningguo Temple market. If I'm lucky, I plan to pay a high price to hire someone to make two medicine mats. As for whether it works, I really can't think about it that much." Bian Mu told the truth.

"Paying a high price to hire someone to weave mats out of herbs, then soaking them in medicinal liquid, steaming and drying them several times, and finally drying them in the shade for use by patients?! Then... do you want to install an electric blanket underneath?" Although Sima Kui was born with a bit of evil in his nature, his medical skills were there for all to see.

What's more, the strange method used by Bian Mu was exactly the treatment method commonly used by traditional Chinese medicine decades ago, but... with the evolution of the times, many special treatment methods have gradually been lost. As a special representative of traditional Chinese medicine, Sima Kui is not an outsider in many things.

"The Chen family is rich! Who among ordinary families would be willing to spend a lot of money to hire someone to weave a medicinal mat? Actually, I'm not very sure, so let's give it a try first! In the middle of summer, it seems that the electric blanket will not be needed for a while. According to my current estimation, Mr. Chen's own body temperature is almost enough." Bian Mu told the truth.

"I see... Well... Times have changed, why didn't I think of that? It seems that you study very hard! How about this, I'm quite curious about the medicine banquet, how about... I'll pay the price and make a set for me!" Sima Kui's mind worked quickly.