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

Chapter 9
When Jiang Muxue was invited by Fan Anping to enter the temporary command post of the Japanese army set up by Motoji Ozaki in the county government, she walked calmly and calmly, with no special expression on her face, as if he was not walking in the three steps, one post, five steps and one sentry The Japanese military is an important place, but it's like going to an ordinary family for a doctor's visit.

Ozaki Motoji sat on the bed half-lying and half-reclining, fidgeting with a dark short gun in his hand upside down, with an unsteady expression on his face, as if he might shoot at your head at any time one shot.Just as Jiang Muxue lifted up her gown and stepped over the threshold, Motoji Ozaki stared like a frightened bird, raised his gun and aimed at him: "Stop, who are you?"

Fan Anping hurried up from behind, stood next to Ozaki Genji, and explained with a smile on his face: "Captain Ozaki, he is the doctor I invited for you. His surname is Jiang and his name is Jiang Muxue. He is a famous Chinese medicine practitioner here."

"Oh?" Motoji Ozaki, who was very suspicious, still didn't put down his pistol. He looked at Jiang Muxue and then at Fan Anping, his eyes were full of guard.Wei Wei winked, and a Japanese soldier with live ammunition next to him immediately stepped forward to search Jiang Muxue.

Fan Anping bowed his waist, flatteringly said: "Captain Ozaki, don't worry, I've already searched him, and he doesn't even have a single needle."

Ozaki Motoji looked Jiang Muxue up and down, full of doubts about this unattractive Chinese doctor: "You, can you really cure my illness?"

Jiang Muxue said coldly: "I can't draw any conclusions without making a diagnosis myself."

Ozaki Motoji said: "Okay, please check me quickly, these two days are killing me."

Jiang Muxue said: "I never treat patients who point a gun at me."

Motoji Ozaki was stunned for a moment, with a slightly embarrassed expression, and said: "Okay, you Chinese have a saying that 'you don't doubt when you employ someone, but don't use someone who doubts'. From the patient's point of view, I believe you are a good doctor." Throw the gun under the pillow.

Jiang Muxue said to the translator: "Please ask the orderly to bring me a basin of water."

The young translator wearing glasses said something to the orderly at the side, and after a while, he went out and brought in a basin of clear water.Jiang Muxue rolled up her sleeves a little, washed her hands in the basin, took two steps forward, and signaled Ozaki Motoji to extend her hand.

Ozaki Motoji stretched out his left hand, and Jiang Muxue felt the pulse for him, with a dignified expression.Ozaki Motoji looked at the expression on his face, but his other hand involuntarily reached under the pillow and gripped the short gun tightly.Without squinting, Jiang Muxue said calmly, "Pick up your clothes and let me see your back."

Ozaki Motoji hesitated, and lifted the clothes on his back as he said.Jiang Muxue walked behind him, saw a bruise on his back, touched it with her hand, it seemed that there was a hard bone protruding, pressed it a little harder, Ozaki Motoji let out an "Ouch", grinned in pain, wanted to turn his face and curse, but had no choice but to Forbearance.

Jiang Muxue nodded her head secretly, she already had the bottom line in her heart, and asked the Japanese military doctor at the side for another needle, and lightly stabbed Motoji Ozaki's leg twice, but there was no response, until the third stab was made hard, Only then did Ozaki Genji's feet tremble slightly, as if he finally felt the pain.

Jiang Muxue finished the examination, washed her hands, put down her sleeves and said, "It's a back injury, a fractured thoracic spine, weakness in both legs, and dull sensation. If you don't get a timely diagnosis and treatment, you may be in danger of paralysis, but fortunately, you don't have any injuries." Injuries to the spinal cord and meridians in the spinal canal are not difficult to treat."

Ozaki Motoji seemed to understand but didn't understand, until the translator translated Jiang Muxue's original words to him, then he looked happy and asked, "Can it really be cured?"

Jiang Muxue nodded and said: "As long as you do what I ask, you can walk on the ground in three days, but if you want to fully recover, you have to recuperate for at least half a month, and..."

"And what?"

"And you can't touch women for half a year, so as not to overstress the spine and relapse the old injury."

"Baga." Motoji Ozaki's face changed, he pulled out his pistol from under the pillow, pointed at Jiang Muxue's chest, panted heavily and cursed in half-baked Chinese, "Are you trying to make things difficult for me?"

Jiang Muxue stared coldly at the pistol in his hand, and did not answer.The Japanese military doctor on the side was an expert after all, knowing what the Chinese doctor said was true, he hurried forward to dissuade Ozaki Genji.

Motoji Ozaki lowered his gun hand weakly, called a Japanese soldier, and ordered in Japanese: "Go and release the dozen or so flower girls you caught two days ago. It's bad luck if you can see or not eat."

Fan Anping stared at Jiang Muxue and asked, "Can you really cure Captain Ozaki within three days?"

Jiang Muxue said: "As long as he cooperates with the treatment, there should be no serious problems within three days."

Fan Anping took a step closer, took out his pistol and said, "There is no joke in the army, if you fail to heal Captain Ozaki within three days, I will shoot you dead."

Jiang Muxue didn't bother to pay attention to this arrogant traitor, she turned around, looked around the room, and finally set her eyes on the flat wooden door at the entrance.He asked the translator to find someone to remove the wooden door.

The interpreter was confused, so he found two Japanese soldiers, took off the door panel, and followed Jiang Muxue's gesture, and put the door panel flat on the ground.

Jiang Muxue pointed to Ozaki Motoji and said, "Lift him to the door."

The two Japanese soldiers showed embarrassment, and Ai Ai dared not do anything.Ozaki Motoji said: "What are you dawdling in, do as he says."

Only then did the two Japanese soldiers dare to lift Ozaki Genji off the bed and put him on the wooden door.Jiang Muxue fiddled with Ozaki Genji's body, then supported his head with one hand, and took a cotton pillow with the other hand, and placed it on the fractured part of his back.

Jiang Muxue adjusted the position and height of the pillow, and finally said: "Lie down like this first, let the thoracic spine gradually reset, I will go back and get two tiger bone plasters to stick on your back, first promote blood circulation and relieve pain, and then acupuncture Stimulate your feet to regain feeling."

Ozaki Motoji saw that he was about to leave, his expression changed slightly, and he asked anxiously: "Then, how long will I lie on the door panel?"

Jiang Muxue said indifferently: "If you recover well, three days is enough. But if you move around and cause the damage to the thoracic spine to deepen, 30 days may not be enough."

Motoji Ozaki's face turned pale, murderous intent flashed in his eyes, but he couldn't attack. Seeing that Jiang Muxue was about to leave, he hurriedly pouted and signaled Fan Anping to follow.

6
The fire started in the afternoon when the license was applied for. The fire was not too big, and it happened to burn the large medicine cabinet behind the counter of Jiang's plaster shop where various secret plasters were stored by category.

Jiang Muxue returned to the shop with Fan Anping's "accompaniment", and saw the clerk Xiao Zhou sitting on the threshold with a disgraced face, crying, and seeing the smoky mess in the room, she couldn't help being surprised, and quickly called Xiao Zhou Ask: "What happened?"

Xiao Zhou looked like he was in trouble, he didn't even dare to lift his head, and said: "Mr. Jiang, not long after you left, there was a fight on the street in front of you. I heard that the fight was very lively, so I couldn't help but run out I watched it for a while. I didn’t know that before I finished reading, I heard someone call out the water. I looked back, and it turned out that our shop was on fire. I hurriedly took a wooden bucket to fetch water to put out the fire, and several neighbors also came Help, the fire was finally put out, but the cabinet was burned, Mr. Jiang, I, I..."

Jiang Muxue's expression changed, and she hurried into the room to have a look. As expected, the walls were smoky, and other utensils were not damaged much. A mahogany medicine cabinet was burnt into a pile of black charcoal, and the plasters stored in it were naturally burned. Not one left.He was originally a generous person, but after this sudden change, he couldn't help stomping his feet and complaining: "Xiao Zhou, you are too careless, I was about to use the tiger bone plaster in the cabinet, but now... oh, you, you How can you light a fire in a shop?"

Xiao Zhou said aggrievedly, "I didn't light a fire in the shop."

Jiang Muxue asked: "If there is no fire, how can it burn?"

Xiao Zhou was also a little puzzled. He scratched the back of his head and said, "I don't know either." He was only fourteen or fifteen years old, and he was still a timid boy. burst into tears.

Fan Anping poked his head into the room to have a look, and said in a strange way: "Mr. Jiang, if you're not sure about curing Captain Ozaki's illness, just say it, and there's no need to play tricks and set fire to your own shop." .Don’t tell me that all your plasters have burned out and you can’t treat Captain Ozaki.”

Jiang Muxue's face gradually calmed down, and in turn comforted Xiao Zhou a few words, then turned to Fan Anping and said, "Go back and tell Ozaki, I promise to cure him within three days, and I will never break my promise. Tell him to lie on the door panel Don't move, within three days, I will bring tiger bone plaster to the door to treat him. If he leaves the door panel, all consequences will be at your own risk."

Fan Anping said: "Okay, with your words, then I can rest assured. Fan will go back and wait for Mr. Jiang. Anyway, the four gates are guarded by the imperial army, so I am not afraid that you will run away at night." He clasped his fist at him, Humming a ditty, he walked away shaking his hands and feet.

As soon as Fan Anping left, Jiang Muxue immediately wrote a prescription: four liang of tiger bone, two liang of dendrobium, one liang of red peony root, one liang of bletilla striata, one liang of Chuanxiong, one liang of notopterygium, and two ounces of cinnamon twigs. Two, Chuanwu 28 liang, Eucommia 41 qian, Rehmannia glutinosa [-] liang, Shanjia [-] liang, Duhuo [-] qian... A total of [-] medicines were prescribed, weighing [-] taels, [-] qian, and [-] fen.

This is exactly the formula of Jiang's Tiger Bone Paste. This prescription is derived from the addition and subtraction of the prescription of Xiongyou Tiger Bone Paste contained in "Qing Nei Ting Fa Zhi Wan San Gao Dan Various Medicines". more pronounced than the original.

Jiang Muxue finished prescribing the prescription, checked it, and handed it to Xiao Zhou, telling him to go to Zhou Ji Pharmacy to get all the medicines according to the order, and repeatedly told him not to delay, and to go back quickly.Xiao Zhou agreed and trotted all the way.

Jiang Muxue turned around and tidied up the store, but within a cup of tea, Xiao Zhou came back panting with a pack of herbs. Jiang Muxue saw that the other 27 herbs were all in place, except for the tiger bone. Main drug.

Xiao Zhou told him that boss Zhou of Zhou Ji Pharmacy said that the tiger bones in the store had been rounded up yesterday.

"Oh, there is such a thing?" Jiang Muxue was surprised, there was only one decent medicine store in Xiulin City, Zhou Ji Pharmacy, if you couldn't find tiger bones here, you had to go to the neighboring county to buy them.He was suspicious, so he went to Zhou Ji Pharmacy in person, just as Boss Zhou was standing by the counter, and when he asked, Boss Zhou told him that the tiger bones in the store were indeed sold out, and according to several guys who purchased medicinal materials, they came back this morning. It is said that almost all the tiger bones in drugstores in neighboring counties and cities were bought the day before yesterday and yesterday.

Jiang Muxue frowned and asked, "Then do you know who bought the tiger bones?"

Boss Zhou said: "I don't know who bought the tiger bones in pharmacies in other counties and cities. The tiger bones in Zhouji pharmacies seem to have been bought by the clerk of Huichuntang. I happened to be drinking Gongfu tea at the counter yesterday, so I saw them. .”

The guy from Rejuvenation Hall?

Jiang Muxue's heart sank, and she vaguely understood something.

"It's unreasonable, it's really deceitful." The next morning, Du Qi heard about the fire in the plaster shop, so he came here early to see what happened. He said angrily, "This is obviously a conspiracy set up by the Fan family father and son, and they want to use the hand of Ozaki Genji to put you to death."

Jiang Muxue said: "I think it's the same."

Du Qi was impatient, glared at him and said, "Then why are you still sitting here, hurry up and find a way to buy tiger bones."

Jiang Muxue shook her head and smiled wryly: "It's useless, I asked Boss Zhou of Zhou Ji Pharmacy, and he said that the tiger bones in the drugstores in the two lakes and lakes are all supplied by a large northeastern medicinal material company, and a batch of medicinal materials delivered recently was blocked by the Japanese army. If it is on the road, it will take more than ten days at the earliest to arrive here."

Du Qi was anxious, and said: "Then what should we do? You have promised Ozaki Genji to cure him within three days. If there is no tiger bone, what do you use to refine tiger bone plaster and cure his hemiplegia? Little Japan kills Don't blink, you're not kidding about pissing him off."

Jiang Muxue saw that he was running around the room anxiously because of her own affairs, she was very moved, she smiled slightly and said, "Brother Du, don't worry, my younger brother is not talented, but it's not that Fan's father and son want to use Ozaki Genji's hand to plot against me." It’s easy. As the saying goes, Daomo is one foot tall and Dao is ten feet tall. Although tiger bones are hard to buy, it’s not impossible to think about it.”

Du Qi said happily after hearing the words: "Brother Jiang, you mean you can find a way to get tiger bones?"

Jiang Muxue nodded with confidence and said, "When the time comes, the problem will naturally be solved."

Du Qi said anxiously: "Brother Jiang, don't make charades for me, tell me what's going on quickly? Seeing how calm you are, is it possible that someone will send you a tiger bone?"

Jiang Muxue pretended to be profound with a smile and said: "The secrets of the heavens must not be leaked, and it is not the time to reveal the answers. In short, brother Du, don't worry, Shanren has his own tricks. Come, I invite you to drink tea. I asked someone to come from Yueyang a few days ago. I brought some Junshan silver needles over, but I don’t know if they are authentic, and I’m going to ask you to have a taste.”

Du Qi was unwilling, and wanted to ask again, but Jiang Muxue refused to reveal a word, lit the stove, boiled water and tea, and got busy.After a while, the water boiled and the tea was fragrant, and Jiang Muxue handed the first bowl of tea to Du Qi.

Du Qi took a sip for the first time, but felt the aroma was tender, fresh and sweet, so he couldn't help nodding and said: "Good tea." Looking at the bottom of the bowl filled with water, he continued, "Silver needles are produced in Junshan, Yueyang, Hunan. Made from buds, the buds are fat, straight, even, and covered with fluff. You can see that after the tea is brewed, the bud tip rushes to the water surface, hangs upright, like a silver needle, and it is really the best Junshan silver needle.”

Jiang Muxue smacked again and again, nodded and said: "Silver Needle is known as one of the top ten famous teas, and it really has its own characteristics."

The two chatted while commemorating, and before they knew it, it was past noon, and Du Qi raised his head and said: "Brother Jiang, it's getting late, why hasn't the person who gave you the tiger bones arrived yet? If it doesn't come, it will be too late. "

Jiang Muxue laughed, pulled him back to sit down again, and said: "No hurry, no hurry, it's already past noon, Brother Du stay for lunch."

Du Qi said: "It's fine, I don't sit here and see you get the tiger bone, I don't feel relieved."

Jiang Muxue cooks in person and cooks four side dishes, which are light in taste but attractive in fragrance and exquisite in taste.After Du Qi tasted it, he suddenly sighed and said, "Brother Jiang, I regret it."

Jiang Muxue asked: "What do you regret?"

Du Qi said: "I regret why I didn't keep you in my shop as a chef, otherwise my business must be much more prosperous than it is now."

Jiang Muxue chuckled, her face full of complacency, which seemed to make him more happy than praising his medical skills.

After lunch and drinking a cup of light tea, Jiang Muxue suddenly came to Yaxing, spread out paper and dipped in ink, and slapped a picture of "Welcoming Friends with Tea".Du Qi saw that there were far mountains and near water in the picture, with several rafters in the thatched eaves. There was a tall and tall person in the house, wearing a long gown and a square scarf. His eyebrows looked like Jiang Muxue herself. like him.In the back of the room, there is a boy who cooks tea in a Fu stove.The painting is soft and full of interest, which can be said to be a portrayal of the tea tasting scene of two people today.It's just that the sky outside the window is low and dark, which seems to be a sign of the coming rain.Du Qi said: "The painting is a good painting, but the situation is a bit negative."

Jiang Muxue said, "How do you see it?"

Du Qi pointed at the painting and said: "Just cook tea and welcome friends by yourself, ignore the rain coming outside the window, and be single and enjoy yourself, which is not the ultimate state of perfection."

Jiang Muxue said movedly: "It's good to be single and feel good about yourself, but it's not the best state." Before she finished her sentence, she suddenly threw the painting into the furnace, spread a piece of raw rice paper, and said, "Brother Du, please look at this painting again." One picture.” Suddenly picked up a large brush like a rafter, dipped it in enough paint, and slammed it heavily on the drawing paper, then leaned forward, clinging to the brush, and fully concentrated on drawing and sketching on the paper. Wearing a clean white gown, following the body It keeps undulating and swinging, like a luthier facing the bowstring, completely intoxicated in the charming movement he played, and the surrounding world is gradually fading until it ceases to exist...

Du Qi watched, admired, and felt a little crazy.

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(End of this chapter)