Farmer’s Little Girl

  Chapter 2807 Inquiry (updated on April 30)

  Zheng Gu thought for a while and then said: "It was too chaotic that day, and the time when the yakuza broke in happened to be resting at noon."

He said helplessly: "I was in the backyard, not in the front medical department, but I had to take people when I heard them breaking in. At that time, I vaguely heard two doctors going to stop him, and the official was going to go ahead. But standing at the small door, I heard the servants pushing and pushing the patient and the patient’s family members that I was using fake drugs in the medical office, killing people."

He paused for a while, leaving Master Yu and Master Xia time to react, and then continued: "I didn't feel right, so I went back, closed the small door, and wrote a letter, and then the two This account book is handed over to the next person to take away and send it to the capital for Master."

  Master Yu glanced at Zhou Man and asked, "Why are the medical department's account books in the backyard?"

  Zheng Gu said: “Actually, there were account books for the whole year in my backyard study, including every purchase order.”

He said: "As the Chinese New Year is approaching, the Medical Department needs to check the accounts, and the general ledger must be reported back to the Imperial Medical Office for review. If it is cold today, I hardly have time to do these things in the daytime. I do it at night, so I brought back the account books. Do it in the backyard study."

  The front is empty, and the brazier needs to have an extra pot. Where can I have my own home study?

  Besides, there was a wall between the front and back, so Zheng Gu took the things home and made them without distinction between public and private.

  Looking back at this time, I don’t know if it was fortunate or unfortunate.

  "In other words, when it happened, you didn't know where the classic medicine was?"

   "Yes." Zheng Gu paused and said, "The four of our families, including the subordinates, were arrested that day. On the second day, I found out that there were no classic medicines in the prison. They meant that they ran away."

  This is in line with the words of the county magistrate Luo. The county magistrate Luo also said that he ran a classic medicine. The classic medicine was not in the mansion on the day of the arrest. It is suspected that Zheng Gu sent him out.

  Master Yu came back to his senses and moved on to the next question, "Master Xiao Zheng, let’s talk about the killing of fake medicines."

Zheng Gu sighed: "On the third day of November, I bought another batch of medicinal materials, and they were put into the warehouse after the inspection was correct. Since the beginning of winter, the number of people who are sick has increased due to the cold weather, and people from other counties have come to ask for medicine. , But such patients are a minority after all."

  He said: "Although the medical department is located in Luoyang, it is the Luozhou Medical Department. You have responsibilities to the other eight counties. Therefore, every once in a while, I will take medicinal materials to go to other counties for free consultations for poor and cold people."

"I remember those five patients, three of them were tenant households outside Luoyang City, and two of them were long-term workers in the east of the city. Their families were not wealthy," Zheng Gu said, "Several children in their family were ten years old. I got sick from month to month, all due to lack of diet, physical weakness and cold symptoms caused by wind. Because they have seen more doctors and have a large population, so I remember."

  Zheng Gu said in detail, more detailed than what is recorded in the dossier, at least Master Yu and Master Xia didn't know that he even treated their children.

Zheng Gu continued: "By November, about the middle of this year, the elderly in their family may have caught the wind and cold because of the cold weather, physical weakness, and another patient at home. I showed them that they can get a needle. After getting the needle, only the Mu family and the Huang family were old ladies because they were sick. They didn't want to get the needle, so they only took the medicine."

Zheng Gu was still a little regretful when he said this, and said: "I always prescribe three sets of medicines, one a day. When I was prescribed the medicine, I went out to other counties. When I came back, they came to see a doctor again, but his condition did not improve. , On the contrary, it became more serious. I touched their pulse and felt that the cold was more severe. At that time, I suspected that their home environment was not good, so they could not keep warm, or for other reasons, so the condition worsened, and I gave them Three drugs were prescribed."

Zheng Gu paused when he said that, and his voice became low. "But they didn't use the medicine, so they came to the door two days later, saying that the old man at home was too sick to get out of bed. I beg me to take a look. . I just went here."

"When they got to the place, their home was indeed poor, but the old man’s bedding was barely able to keep warm, and it wouldn’t deteriorate like this after taking medicine. I felt their pulses didn’t seem to have taken the right medicine, on the contrary they seemed to have taken it. The cold medicine looks like, so I have to check the medicine residue and the medicine they grabbed back."

  Zheng Gu took a moment to say: "Nepeta in the medicine has been replaced with mint, and Fuling has become Pueraria lobata."

  Master Yu asked if he didn’t understand, and directly asked Zhou Man on the opposite side, "Very serious?"

   Zhou Man nodded and said: "Nepeta relieving the surface and expelling the wind, while the peppermint evacuates the wind and heat and clears the boss. It is a pungent and cool thing."

  She said: "Nepeta, peppermint, and Su stems are all similar in appearance. If he changes to Su stems, it will be enough. If he replaces it with peppermint, the medicinal properties are just the opposite."

  I have never heard of using mint to treat wind and cold, but...

   Zhou Man frowned slightly, "Although the scents of nepeta and mint are both fragrant, there is a difference in fragrance. They cover up the smell of mint?"

  Otherwise, how could the drug boy who grabbed the medicine couldn't see it?

  Zheng Gu nodded, “They smoked with sulfur, the taste is much weaker, if you don’t smell it carefully, the taste is almost the same as Nepeta.”

  As for Fuling and Pueraria lobata, it is more similar. The folks in the drugstore who handle medicinal materials for many years are sometimes fooled.

  If someone makes them more alike, it will be even more indistinguishable.

  Master Yu asked: "What about then?"

  Zheng Gu took a deep breath and said, “Five patients, three survived after I changed the dressing and added acupuncture, and two more...they were too sick and the medicine was ineffective.”

  He said: "I knew that there was a problem with the pharmacy, so I went back and checked it. I found out the fake medicine from it. I checked it. If I was wrong, it must be the batch of medicinal materials that came in on October 15th."

   "Why not the batch on the third day of November?" Isn't the latest batch of medicinal materials on the third day of November?

   "Because the batch of medicinal materials are basically used in other counties, I checked and the batch of medicinal materials is fine.

  There are not many people who go to Zheng Gu in other counties. Usually, he is both a doctor and a medicine boy grabbing medicine. After passing the medicinal materials in his hands, he is sure that there will be no fakes.

  But this batch in the medical department...

  Because there are not only two doctors in the medical department, but also classic medicines, and five apprentices of medicine boy to help, basically he can't be used for this kind of medicine.

   "What did you find out?"

  Zheng Gu said with a serious face: “The next official can be sure that I will never mistake Nepeta and Poria, so this batch of counterfeit medicines were not purchased by me. Someone must have brought them in and replaced them.”

  "The amount of counterfeit medicines we found was not large. It was sealed in the pharmacy at the time. The fake nepeta was only fifteen catties and six taels, and the fake Fuling was only 28 catties and nine taels."

  "Could it be that your pharmacy caught the medicine by mistake, mistakenly used peppermint for nepeta, and mistakenly used Pueraria lobata root for Poria?"

See you tomorrow

  (End of this chapter)