Chapter 2. Healing Twigs
When Zhao Laogen was preparing food to enter the house, Zhao Xiaozhi was talking to Hua Chen with an excited look on his face. It was very difficult, but he had no intention of stopping. Seeing Zhao Laogen coming in, Zhao Xiaozhi quickly told his father the good news that Hua Chen could cure him. Zhao Laogen didn't believe it at first, but later he heard Zhao Xiaozhi saying the result of Hua Chen's diagnosis and treatment. The more he listened, the more he became confused, but the more he listened, the more he believed it. After listening, Zhao Laogen stared at Hua Chen tightly and asked in a trembling voice: "Can you really cure Xiaozhi's disease?"
"Uncle Gen, I'm not talking nonsense. Xiaozhi's disease can really be cured."
Plop! Zhao Laogen knelt in front of Hua Chen.
Uncle Gen! Father! The voices of Hua Chen and Zhao Xiaozhi sounded at the same time. Zhao Laogen's kneeling came too suddenly. Hua Chen didn't have time to help him up, and Zhao Xiaozhi~he didn't have the strength to help him.
"Hua Chen If you can cure the small branches, you will be unable to repay the great kindness!" Zhao Laogen, who was kneeling on the ground, trembled all over because of excitement.
"Uncle Gen, get up quickly, I am a doctor, uh~ no, I am a doctor, it is my duty to treat and save patients. You don't need to do this." Hua Chen hurried to help Zhao Laogen and explained.
"No, this kneeling is not only for Xiaozhi, but also for apologizing to you." Zhao Laogen insisted on refusing to get up and said guiltily: "I promised you to stay for a while, so I wanted to keep you there and have other plans, so I tried to let you join the army instead of Xiaozhi. Alas~ Hua Chen, you are chivalrous, but I want to repay you with kindness and revenge, and I am simply a waste of my life!"
Hua Chen used brute force to pull Zhao Laogen up. He really didn't care much about what Zhao Laogen said. From the perspective of his father, it was appropriate to consider these for his son. Being a soldier was nothing more than suffering, suffering some fatigue, bleeding, and suffering a little bit of pain. Of course, Hua Chen ignored the serious issue that he could lose his head at any time when he was a soldier in this turbulent era.
After dinner, Zhao Laogen went out to deal with some things, and only Hua Chen and Zhao Xiaozhi were left in the room again, and the atmosphere was peaceful. Zhao Xiaozhi made a sound to break the tranquility. He hesitated and said: "Hua Chen, in fact, my father was not like this before. He would not care about small gains and losses, and would often help the neighbors.
Until my mother passed away, my neighbors ignored it and no one helped me deal with my mother's funeral. When I was alone at home and needed care, my father begged, and no one would take care of my neighbors who had received the favor of my family.
Alas~After all, every family has farm work, I have no objection, but my father's temperament has changed drastically since then, and he still wants to put you in danger this time. I know he doesn't want this, but he is just forced to do so."
"It turns out that Uncle Gen and you have experienced so much, and the world is in a cold state. This kind of helplessness happens every moment in the vast world, right?" Hua Chen was immersed in the sadness of being in a strange world at this time, and the answer to Xiaozhi was a little desolate.
It was a little cool at night, but Hua Chen didn't feel any chill. Compared with the previous wind and sleeping in the open, this was a long-lost warmth. The moon sent lovesickness. Through the raised wooden window, the bright moonlight shone on his face, and his thoughts fluctuated. "Dad, mom, and grandpa, are you okay?" Hua Chen murmured to himself, and fell asleep unknowingly.
Early in the morning, the rising sun is rising, and it is another brand new day.
Hua Chen got up early and breathed the fresh air, which made him feel refreshed. "Aicheng's pm
It is said that "people have short hands and people eat short mouths." Hua Chen believes in this. So he started to treat Zhao Xiaozhi after dinner.
Since there were no needles, Hua Chen could only use medicine and massage to gradually promote blood circulation and remove blood stasis. After taking care of Zhao Xiaozhi, Hua Chen took Zhao Laogen to the mountain to collect medicine. Hua Chen meant that he could go by himself, and marked it along the way, so he would not get lost, but Zhao Laogen did not dare to let him go by himself. Just kidding, what if he got lost and couldn't come back, wouldn't his son suffer a lot?
The sun sets, and the two of them who have been busy for a day have brought half a basket of "weeds" back to their residence. Although they are tired, the work for the day has not been completed. Zhao Laogen boils water, Hua Chen cooks medicine, and pours Panax notoginseng, Wei Lingxian and Mulberry Branch into the pottery jar on the fire, Hua Chen finally took a breath.
In the evening, Hua Chen asked Zhao Xiaozhi to take medicine and lay on his back, using his unique massage technique to speed up the dissipation of the blood clot. Zhao Laogen stood beside him, not daring to breathe, for fear of clamoring Hua Chen to treat his son. After some massage, a layer of fine beads of sweat oozing out of Hua Chen's forehead, and his breathing was slightly heavy. After all, it was a physical job. Zhao Laogen looked at his son's back and muttered: "Why don't you think the blood clot has become smaller at all?"
Hua Chen was speechless when he asked Comrade Lao Gen's question. If he could be cured in one go, he would not be a doctor, but God. Zhao Xiaogen, as a personal experience, had a completely different idea from Zhao Lao Gen. He could clearly feel that his waist and back were not as swollen as before, and there was a slight itchy feeling, as if the stream slowly flowed through the field and moistened silently.
Half a month later
"Uncle Gen, treating diseases, especially treating a chronic disease like Xiaozhi, cannot be cured in a short time, and it needs to be treated slowly. You see, he can sit up now? Let's put it this way, as long as three months, as long as half a year, the small branches can walk down the ground, and their health can recover as before in one year." Hua Chen explained to Zhao Laogen. Now he decocted medicine for Xiaozhi and massaged it for more than half a month, and Xiaozhi has not yet recovered. He doesn't want Zhao Laogen to be considered a quack doctor.
"That's good, that's good. No, what! At least three months? But Li Zheng will come to the village to recruit soldiers in the past few days, and every household will have a young and middle-aged man. What should I do?" After getting the affirmative result that his son could recover from Hua Chen, Zhao Laogen was relieved, but suddenly remembered that the conscription was imminent. Now he had already given up his plan to let his benefactor Hua Chen join the army instead of Xiaozhi. Should he let Xiaozhi lie down and enter the military camp? That's certain that Xiaozhi will lie down soon and will never get up.
"Uncle Gen, I have been wandering around the village for a while, and I haven't heard of war anymore. Why do I suddenly have to recruit so many soldiers?" Hua Chen was a little puzzled. Why did he recruit so many soldiers for a long time? Is it not to spend money to raise them?
"I have always had few wars in the defense of our country, and now King Wei borrowed Aicheng from Prince Qingji of Wu. The prince was borne by the revenge of killing his father and seizing the country. Naturally, he had to have enough military courage to take revenge." Zhao Laogen explained to Huachen: "The prince is a good man. In the more than a year in charge of Aicheng, he has done many good deeds for the people. If Xiaozhi is not in trouble, I am willing to let him serve the prince."
After more than half a month of coming here, Huachen learned through chatting with the villagers that it was the Spring and Autumn Period. After all, he heard that many small countries were not among the "Seven Heroes".
Hua Chen had only a few impressions of the Wu Kingdom, the great King Fuchai, the doctor Wu Zixu, and the great beauty Xi Shi. As for Qingji, I'm sorry, as a science student, I don't understand these things. However, seeing Zhao Laogen's reverence, Hua Chen was also interested in this Qingji. After all, from ancient times to the present, there were very few kings who could truly be loved by the common people.
Chapter completed!