Tianzhu: The Record of Foreign Stories in the Republic of China

Chapter 8
Du Qidao: "To be honest, I can be regarded as a scholar. I read poetry and books when I was young, and I learned less about Danqing. It's just that I encountered troubled times, my family was in trouble, and reading was useless. I built a hotel with a little real estate left by my ancestors. To make a living, in order to get enough food and clothing."

Jiang Muxue cupped her fists and said, "So that's the case, my little brother is disrespectful."

Du Qi smiled and said, "It's hard to find a good painting. Please stamp this "Picture of Eight Tigers" and give it to me as a gift?"

Jiang Muxue said: "Brother Du is laughing. My little brother's painting is purely for self-entertainment. It's hard to get into the Fang family's eyes. How dare you give it to others with the cheek?" After saying that, he waved the "Eight Tigers Picture" and threw it into the tea-making stove beside the table. A wonderful painting suddenly reduced to ashes.

Du Qi was slightly taken aback, his face full of regret.

Jiang Muxue enthusiastically said: "Come, please brother Du taste the Maojian tea I brought from my hometown, it is the authentic Duyun Maojian tea."

There is a saying that Lu Yao knows the horsepower, and sees people's hearts over time. As long as there is a compassionate heart, as long as there is a superb medical skill to rejuvenate, the business of Jiang's plaster shop will not last long.

Three or four months passed in a blink of an eye, winter went to spring, the business of the plaster shop gradually improved, and more people came to see the doctor, not only the poor, but also some rich gentry and wealthy households. Pass through the gate of Huichun Hall, and invite Jiang Muxue to go to see a doctor.

Jiang Muxue still treats illnesses and saves lives with the ointment that she carefully refined, supplemented by acupuncture. Occasionally, if there are difficult diseases, she will prescribe prescriptions and prescribe additional medicines.Because of his excellent medical skills and reasonable fees, he also warmly welcomes poor patients who have no money to pay for consultation fees, and treats them equally.Gradually, in the huge Xiulin City, the reputation of the foreign doctor Jiang Muxue surpassed that of the local doctor Fan Qidao, and the business of Jiang's plaster shop also surpassed that of Huichuntang.

All this made Fan Qidao, who had monopolized the business of the Xiulin City Medical Center for several years, very uncomfortable. He even regretted why he let Jiang Muxue, a foreigner, open a plaster shop in Xiulin City.

"It's not easy." Fan Anping, his son who is the head of the police station, said to him, "Father, look, I want that guy named Jiang Xuexue to pack up and leave tomorrow."

At noon the next day, Jiang Muxue asked Xiao Zhou to watch the store, and she made the ointment in the back yard.

The so-called ointments include ointment, ointment, and plaster.Ointment, also known as decoction, is mainly for internal use. It is a product that boils the medicine in water, concentrates it with honey or sugar after removing the dregs, and forms a thick and semi-fluid product; ointment, also known as ointment, is mostly used for external application. Mainly use vegetable oil, beeswax or other suitable substances as the base, add drugs, extract the active ingredients of the drugs after heating, or grind the drugs into fine powder or very fine powder without heating; the plaster is semi-solid at room temperature Or solid, heating during application, so that the paste slightly melts, mainly for external application.There are many kinds of plasters, and the most commonly used one is black plaster, also known as lead plaster, which is made by combining the medicinal ingredients with vegetable oil and lead red.Boiling ointment is suitable for two seasons of spring and autumn, winter is cold, and summer is cloudy and rainy, oily smoke is difficult to dissipate, influences medicinal effect, is all inconvenient to handle.

A masonry stove was built in the yard, with two fire holes in the front and back, and two large pots on the stove, one for frying materials and the other for making pills.After the pill was made into ointment, Jiang Muxue began to spread the ointment. The so-called ointment spread means to spread the ointment on paper, cloth or leather. About two-fifths of the plaster.After spreading, let it dry slightly, fold it inward, and wrap it tightly with the instruction sheet for later use.

Just spread a few plasters of Huanglianbaihuo ointment, when I heard a loud noise from the shop in front, I was about to put down the spoon in my hand and go out to check, when suddenly, like a gust of wind, the four young men passed through the plaster shop in front and ran straight to the backyard Come.Xiao Zhou called them "Hey", and ran into the yard behind him. When he saw the boss, he said aggrievedly, "Mr. Jiang, they said they wanted to see you for medical treatment, but they didn't allow me to stop them, so they came straight to the backyard."

Jiang Muxue looked at the people who came, they were all bare shoulders and bare elbows, with seven dissatisfied and eight dissatisfied expressions on their faces, knowing that the people who came were not kind, she waved her hand and told Xiao Zhou to go outside to look at the store.He washed his hands and asked the four young men, "Are you seeing a doctor, or..."

"Nonsense, I didn't come to see a doctor in this poor place of yours, did I come to visit a brothel?" A young man spat thick phlegm on the ground, cursing and making several companions laugh.

"What's wrong with you all?" Jiang Muxue asked.

The first boy patted his stomach and said, "I have a stomachache."

"I have a pain in my chest," said the second.

The third said, "I have a toothache."

The fourth one said: "I fucked a woman yesterday, and I can't pee today. Show us what's going on."

"It's easy to say, please show me your hand." Jiang Muxue nodded and stretched out her hand to feel the pulse of the four people. Seeing that the pulse of the four people was normal and there was no abnormal sign, her heart suddenly became clear.

When the last young man was caught, the young man suddenly turned the back of his hand and made a move to grab the "golden thread wrapped wrist" in his hand. He clasped Jiang Muxue's arm backwards, and his jaws tightened like iron tongs Clamping Jiang Muxue's wrist, he squinted at him and said, "Doctor Jiang, everyone said that you have surpassed Hua Tuo in rejuvenation. If you can't cure the four of us today, your golden signboard will be destroyed. You Immediately pack up your bed and get out of Xiulin City."

Looking at the whereabouts of these four people, Jiang Muxue knew that seeing a doctor was fake and making trouble was real, so she frowned immediately, not being polite to them, clasped her index finger with her right thumb, and lightly flicked the Shenmen acupoint on the young man's wrist .The young man let out an "ouch", like an electric shock, his jaw went numb, and his whole arm hung down limply.

Jiang Muxue took the opportunity to let go, and said: "I see that the four of you are angry and hot-headed, and you are indeed seriously ill. I happen to have four sticks of Huanglianbaihuo ointment here. Give it to everyone for free." He picked up a few freshly spread plasters and stuck them on the other person's face.

The four young men are all kung fu people, but they didn't see what was going on, they just felt their eyes go blurry, and there was a crisp sound of "beep", and a piece of plaster was stuck on their mouths.These plasters had just been picked up from the pot and spread out before they had cooled down. The four of them felt a burning pain in their mouths. They stretched out their hands to pull the plaster. The plaster was so sticky that it almost hurt the skin of their mouths. peeled off.

The few guys had seen Jiang Muxue's tricks, screamed in pain, didn't dare to mess around anymore, and walked away despondently, covering their mouths with plaster.

Fan Anping was waiting in his father's hall of rejuvenation when he saw four of his subordinates return in a state of embarrassment with "seals" on their mouths.When it was over, he took out a pistol from the pocket on his waist and said, "I really can't see that Lao Jiang is still a connoisseur. It seems that I have to personally handle this matter."

4
When the country is in crisis, there is no paradise in the world.

On a dark and windy night, a group of Japanese soldiers approached Xiulin City by water and land in two groups. The Kuomintang defenders in the county fled without firing a single shot.Squadron leader Ozaki Motoji led hundreds of Japanese soldiers carrying a plaster flag, and successfully entered Xiulin City without any resistance and occupied the county government building.When the county magistrate Li Chenglong was captured, he was sleeping with his third aunt in his arms. Two days later, Li Chenglong was shot by Motoji Ozaki at the North Gate Wharf.

The shrewd and cunning police chief, Fan Anping, took advantage of the wind, bribed the Japanese army translator, and transformed himself into the chairman of the "Maintenance Association" of Xiulin City. ", bite anyone you see, so prestige.

Under the high-handed policy of the Japanese devils, the people's anti-Japanese activities in Xiulin gradually turned from above ground to underground, and Xiulin City seemed to have calmed down on the surface.

Fan Anping took the time to go back home, and only then did he remember about Jiang Muxue after hearing his father mention it.Just about to find an opportunity to sue him in front of Genji Ozaki, frame him as an "anti-Japanese element", and clean him up completely. Even his plaster shop will be snatched and turned into a branch of Huichuntang. At this time, a major event happened.

It was also a dark and windy night, a elusive anti-Japanese guerrilla team swam from the Yangtze River and sneaked into Xiulin City, killed more than a dozen Japanese patrols, and quietly touched the county where Motoji Ozaki was stationed In the government compound, more than [-] rifles and several boxes of ammunition were confiscated, and the ammunition depot of the Japanese army was also set ablaze.

Ozaki Motoji was sleeping with Li Chenglong's third aunt in his arms. When he woke up, he saw the flames outside. He thought that the Eighth Route Army troops were coming. He didn't even have time to put on his clothes, so he hung them on the bed with his bare feet. The pistol ran out.

All the Japanese soldiers in charge of the martial law ran to put out the fire. When he rushed to the door, he couldn't see a single soldier. He panicked and shouted in Japanese, "Come here, come here!"As soon as he yelled twice, two black figures suddenly jumped out from the corner of the wall, and a blunderbuss pointed at the back of his head: "Don't move."

Ozaki Motoji trembled, and the pistol fell to the ground.The guerrilla with the blunderbuss was about to shoot when another guerrilla stopped him and said, "No, it's too cheap to kill him now, take him back and treat him well, maybe you can even take him out of his mouth." Some information."

"Okay." The guerrilla nodded, turned the head of the gun, and aimed at the butt of the gun on Motoji Ozaki's back.Motoji Ozaki threw himself on the ground with a "plop", his chin just hit a stone, and a thought came to his mind: "It's over." His head buzzed, and he passed out.

Two guerrillas took out a hemp cloth bag, and were about to put the dead pig-like Motoji Ozaki in it, when suddenly a flashlight came over: "Who are you? What are you doing?" They spoke Chinese, and then shot "Ba Ba" Come here for two shots.One of the guerrillas was shaken and injured, and the other shot a guy with a bird gun at the place where the flashlight was lit. The flashlight went dark, and he didn't care about Motoji Ozaki, so he carried his injured companion on his back and quickly disappeared into the darkness.

The person who rescued Ozaki Genji by mistake was Fan Anping, the president of the "Maintenance Association" of Xiulin City.

Ozaki Motoji woke up from the coma and found that his back was in severe pain, as if the backbone had been interrupted by the gun stock, and he couldn't control himself when he pooped and urinated, and he couldn't feel anything below the waist. It's not my own, and I can't even stand up.

The military doctor checked and said that the spine was damaged.

Motoji Ozaki asked, "What will happen then?"

The military doctor said: "It is very likely that the lower body will be paralyzed and hemiplegia."

Motoji Ozaki became anxious, grabbed his lapel and asked, "Can it be cured?"

The military doctor hesitated and said, "According to the current situation, it is difficult to fully recover."

"Baga." Ozaki Motoji slapped the military doctor in a rage, because his feet were numb due to too much force, and he almost fell off the chair.

Fan Anping originally thought that he had saved Ozaki Genji, made a great contribution, and would be rewarded by the Japanese squadron leader, but who knew that Ozaki Genji was plotted by the guerrillas, and he suffered from hemiplegia. He stood beside him nodding and bowing, and poured all his anger on him. Instead of rewarding him, he even scolded him, pointed at his nose and asked him why he had gone early and why he came to rescue him so late.If he had to come earlier, he would not have been plotted against by the guerrillas.Motoji Ozaki had studied Chinese, and he could be considered a half-hand of China. Without an interpreter by his side, he still scolded Fan Anping frightenedly.

Fan Anping was afraid that Genji Ozaki would pull out a pistol and kill himself in a fit of rage, and he was so frightened that cold sweat dripped down his spine.Ozaki Motoji's scolding made his head spin, and when he rolled his eyes, an idea of ​​committing crimes and doing meritorious service came to him.Although he did not study medicine with his father, he also saw with his own eyes that his father had cured several patients with paralysis of the lower body due to spinal damage. He wanted to recommend his father to Motoji Ozaki, but he was afraid that his father would not be sure, so when he arrived Shiyu didn't eat it and it made his whole body smelly, so he decided not to tell Ozaki Genji first, but to go back and ask his father.

Fan Qidao heard his son talk about Ozaki Genji's condition, pondered for a while and said: "He can still sit up, which means that his spine is only partially damaged and not broken. From the perspective of Chinese medicine, it can be cured completely."

When Fan Anping heard this, he was more excited than his father marrying him a wife, and said: "Father, if you can really cure Captain Ozaki, you will be of great help to me, and you will be a part of the delicious food and spicy food in the future. I'm going to recommend you, the divine doctor, to Captain Ozaki."

Fan Qidao waved his hands, and said solemnly: "No, you can't recommend me to Ozaki Genji just yet."

Fan Anping wondered, "Why?"

Fan Qidao said: "You should recommend that Jiang to Ozaki Genji first."

Fan Anping was stunned, unable to react for a moment, and asked, "You mean Jiang Muxue?"

Fan Qidao nodded and said, "Yes, that's him."

Fan Anping said: "Father, you are crazy. Since you can cure Captain Ozaki, with Jiang Muxue's medical skills, you can definitely cure him as well."

Fan Qidao smiled coldly and said, "I just know that he can also cure Ozaki Motoji, so I asked you to ask Ozaki Motoji to see a doctor first."

Fan Anping was completely confused by his father and asked, "Why?"

Fan Qidao put on a scheming look, and said: "If you recommend Jiang Muxue to Ozaki Motoji, Ozaki Motoji must be impatient and tell you to invite him to treat the illness immediately. When you go to invite Jiang Muxue, to protect Ozaki For the sake of Yuanji's safety, ask him to go with you empty-handed, and don't let him bring anything on his body, including a piece of plaster and a silver needle. Jiang Muxue has always relied on his ancestral plaster for treatment. As far as I know, in the treatment of Among the plasters for numbness of the lower limbs and hemiplegia, Xiongyouhugupao is the most effective. If I estimate correctly, he will definitely use Xiongyouhugupao as the main treatment for Ozaki Motoji, supplemented by acupuncture."

Fan Anping became anxious, and said, "If he cured Captain Ozaki, what face do you have?"

Fan Qidao smiled and said: "Silly boy, of course we can't let him take our credit for curing Ozaki Genji. When he comes back to get plasters and needles after boasting in front of Ozaki Genji, you can ask someone to put it away." The fire burned his shop, and burned all the plasters in his shop."

Fan Anping curled his lips and said, "He has no tiger bone plaster, so he can still refine it."

Fan Qidao said: "Of course I know this, but to refine tiger bone plaster, tiger bone is an indispensable main medicine, and tiger bone is a rare medicinal material. When he wants to buy tiger bone to refine plaster, he will find that not only the original The city medicine shop, even the tiger bones in the neighboring counties and cities have been sold out first. Now that there is a lot of chaos, traffic is inconvenient and information is not available, he will have at least ten days and a half months to get the tiger bones. How can Ozaki Motoji have the patience to wait? For such a long time, plus you blowing the wind and lighting the fire, Ozaki Motoji didn't kill Jiang Muxue in a fit of rage? When he died, your father and I would take action again. Not only would it be easy to remove this thorn in his side, but also I have fulfilled your wish to perform meritorious service in front of Ozaki Genji."

Fan Anping finally understood, and said: "Father, you made such a big circle, didn't you just want Jiang Muxue to get out of here? Is it necessary to be so troublesome? After you cure Captain Ozaki, I will find someone As an excuse, you can shoot him dead."

Fan Qidao glared at him, and said: "Stinky boy, what do you know, your father will get up wherever he fell down. In the past, this kid surnamed Jiang was lucky, and he cured a few poor patients that I didn't cure. If you follow your father's plan, he failed to cure Ozaki Genji, but your father cured this Japanese guy, it means that your father's medical skills are better than He is tall, we have recovered the face we lost from him, and the business of Huichun Hall will be much easier in the future. If you shoot him, it will be clean, but what is the use?"

Fan Anping opened his mouth wide and let out a long "oh", only then did he understand his father's "good intentions".

5
"Mr. Jiang, this way please."

(End of this chapter)