Chapter 7: Unpleasant Chat
In fact, Doctor Liu is indeed right. Plague is not an ordinary disease. Although some medicines can relieve the symptoms of the plague, they cannot cure them. This is what is often said to treat the symptoms but not the root cause. If they report the good news, but fail to cure the plague in the end, they will not be called Tian Khan in great joy and sorrow. Under great joy and sorrow, Li Shimin did not chop off their heads to suppress their shock, then he would not be called Tian Khan.
After saying that, Doctor Liu said, "Although it is not certain whether this medicine can cure the plague, the situation is gratifying at the moment, and there is still a lot of hope. It is necessary for the person who presented the prescription to meet him."
Dr. Cao nodded and smiled: "You are right, I really want to see who this person is."
"Let's go, go back to the medical account first." After Doctor Liu said that, he took them back to the medical account, and then called soldiers to inform Wang Yuantai and bring the prescriptions to see him.
Li Hao was sleeping in and was awakened by a fierce sound of smashing the door. He heard Wang Yuantai shouting anxiously outside the door: "Li Hao, Li Hao, open the door! Open the door quickly!"
Li Hao stood up, rubbed his sleepy eyes and opened the door, and saw Wang Yuantai standing outside the door with an anxious look on his face.
As soon as Wang Yuantai saw him, he asked anxiously: "There will be no problem with your medicine, Doctor Liu wants to see you."
Li Hao said dissatisfiedly: "If you don't curse me, I'll die, right? There's something wrong with your medicine!"
Wang Yuantai widened his eyes: "Then why does Doctor Liu want to see you?"
"Maybe my medicine has taken effect!"
"Stop making trouble, this is a plague! Do you think your medicine is an immortal prescription? It will take effect so soon..."
"Stop talking nonsense." Li Hao interrupted him impatiently, "Lead the way, I'll meet that Doctor Liu."
"It's Doctor Liu!"
"Why are you so serious? Don't care about these details."
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Li Hao was led by Wang Yuantai to the outside of the medical tent, and Wang Yuantai whispered in his ear: "Doctor Liu and the other two doctors are inside. They are both old medical seniors. You should be kind to the point after you go in..."
Li Hao nodded perfunctorily, stepped forward, lifted the curtain, and walked into the tent. He saw three old men sitting in the tent in a triangle, drinking water and chatting. The one sitting in the middle was Doctor Liu, who was gray-bearded and bearded. Although Li Hao did not know him, he knew that only Doctor Liu was qualified to sit in that position. He took two steps forward and bowed: "Li Hao, a junior student, paid homage to the three seniors."
The three old men did not expect that the prescription was actually a young child. From the moment Li Hao walked into the tent, they looked at him in surprise until Li Hao bowed to them and asked them to heal. Doctor Liu coughed awkwardly and spread his hands and said, "Don't be detained, please sit down with me, Li Xiaoyou."
Sure enough, there was a small seat cushion on the ground. Li Hao went over and sat cross-legged. The Tang Dynasty's sitting ceremony was to kneel, but Li Hao was not used to kneeling. His legs became numb after sitting for a while, so he usually sat cross-legged. Fortunately, he was wearing Taoist clothes now, and there was nothing wrong with sitting cross-legged.
When Doctor Liu saw him wearing Taoist clothes, he asked, "I wonder which Taoist temple Li Xiaoyou is practicing, and who is his master?"
Li Hao had long guessed that they would ask about their identity, and designed their identity for him in advance, and said, "You are not a Taoist sect, and your hometown is Wende County, Cangzhou, Hebei."
"A native of Cangzhou?" Doctor Liu looked at him in confusion, "Why are you from Cangzhou, when you get here, you are dressed in a Taoist priest?"
Li Hao began to explain: "Actually, my grandfather was from Xuzhou. At that time, the war was in chaos and fled to Cangzhou. He settled down there until three years ago, a plague occurred in Wende County, Cangzhou. Although the plague was not big and did not spread, Wende County suffered heavy losses, nine out of ten families were empty, and my family was not spared. Both of my parents died of that plague."
Doctor Liu thought about it carefully and then remembered that there was indeed a plague in Wende County three years ago, and the scale was quite large. Fortunately, the imperial court controlled it well and did not spread out. However, many people died in Wende County, and many people were missing. It seemed that Li Hao was one of the missing people, so he continued to ask: "It was you who escaped from Cangzhou and came to Xuzhou at that time?"
"It's almost done." Li Hao replied according to the script he set, "At that time, I was also infected with the plague and fled to a deep mountain. When I saw a devastating Taoist temple, I went in. I met an old Taoist priest who was traveling around. The old Taoist priest was a good person. Seeing that I was seriously ill, I cooked a bowl of soup and medicine for me to drink. After I finished drinking it, I felt that the symptoms of the plague had been greatly reduced. The old Taoist priest seemed to have something urgent to leave, so he gave me the prescription and left me the medicinal materials and a medical scripture for me to decoct the medicine myself. I said that it would be cured in a few days, and then I left. I took the medicine according to the prescription and it was cured. After the illness was cured, I thought that my home was gone. Why not go back to Xuzhou to take a look. Maybe I could find some relatives from afar and fled here all the way. The clothes on my body were picked up from the Taoist temple."
Doctor Liu and Hong Cao were both shocked when they heard this and asked almost at the same time: "Who is the old Taoist priest's name?"
Li Hao: "He only told me that his surname was Sun."
"The old Taoist surnamed Sun?" Dr. Hong frowned and pondered for a moment, and suddenly exclaimed, "Is it! Is it the King of Medicine?"
"Sun Simiao?" Doctor Liu also stared at him and screamed.
Doctor Cao frowned and tilted his beard: "Well, it should be him. Looking around the world, if anyone can cure the plague, I'm afraid the only one is the Medicine King Sun Simiao."
Three old men were talking about it, Li Hao was secretly happy alone, and the medicine king Sun Simiao was famous all over the world. As long as he was brought out, his prescription would be convincing and he was not afraid that they would not believe it.
Sure enough, the three old men discussed for a while, and Doctor Liu said to Li Hao: "Little Li is indeed blessed and can meet Senior Medicine King. I wonder what the medical scripture Mr. Sun left for Xiaoyou is the name of the medical scripture?"
Li Hao pretended to think about it: "It seems to be called "Qianjin Fang".
"Qianjin Fang!" The three of them screamed in unison, their eyes widening, and their appearance was even more excited than seeing three peerless beauties stripped naked.
Sun Simiao's "Qianjin Prescription" can be said to be the medical skills of this era. Every doctor will go crazy when he hears the name of "Qianjin Prescription", even an imperial physician is no exception.
Doctor Liu was extremely determined. After screaming, he quickly covered up his excitement, coughed and returned to his hypocritical elder appearance, and asked Li Hao slowly: "Where is "Qianjin Fang" now? Can you bring it with you?" As long as Li Hao said he would take it with him, he would make a decision and not ask him for a look.
Li Hao was upset when he saw his old age, so he blinked his eyes a few times and said, "It's burned."
"It's burned?" The three of them exclaimed in unison again. Doctor Liu asked in anger, "Why did you burn it!"
"Here you," Li Hao said indifferently, "When I fled to the famine, I happened to encounter heavy snow. I hid in a temple with broken land. I was almost frozen to death. There was no fireworks beside me. I could only tear off the medical scriptures one by one and burn them to keep warm. Don't say that, although this "Qianjin Fang" is not thick, it is quite resistant to burning. I burned them one by one, and it took two incense sticks..."
Li Hao was just talking vigorously, but Doctor Liu suddenly covered his chest with his hands, shaking. His sad appearance was like this even if his own son died.
"You...you..." Doctor Liu pointed at Li Hao with his hand tremblingly, and was out of breath. Li Hao blinked his big eyes and looked at him innocently, "Old sir, what's wrong with me?"
"Puff..." Doctor Liu finally couldn't help but spit out an old blood. The picture was so beautiful that Li Hao couldn't help but scream in surprise. He suddenly admired himself. Throughout history, it seemed that few people could vomit blood from the popularity. Zhuge Liang was one. He didn't expect that he would do it today, but this was a bit cruel to the poor Doctor Liu.
Seeing this, Dr. Cao and Dr. Hong exclaimed and rushed forward. One of them took the pulse for Dr. Liu, and the other kept massaged his chest to relieve his anger. The two were so busy that they were busy. Li Hao made jokes and asked, "What are you going to do?"
When he heard this, Doctor Liu, who seemed dying, suddenly glared at him, pointed at him with his teeth and shouted angrily: "You - go out!"
It seems that Doctor Liu is a gentleman, at least he did not say the word "get out".
Doctor Cao and Doctor Hong also said to him with disgust: "Oh, you go back first, we are enough here, so don't make things difficult for Doctor Liu."
Li Hao also knew that he had made enough trouble. Judging from their previous performance, his medicine seemed to have worked and his purpose had been achieved. He bowed away at will and left the tent.
Outside the medical tent, Wang Yuantai was waiting seven or eight feet away. When he saw him coming out, he hurriedly trotted up to him and asked, "How is it, what did Doctor Liu and the others say?"
Li Hao blinked quickly: "Uh... they told me not to make any more trouble."
Wang Yuantai looked at him in confusion and asked with a curiosity on his face: "What does this mean? Your medicine doesn't work?"
"The medicine should be working." Li Hao said leisurely, "But Doctor Liu's condition seems to be not very good."
Wang Yuantai exclaimed when he heard this: "Doctor Liu is also infected with the plague?"
"That's not." Li Hao waved his hand calmly, "Let's start having a very pleasant play first, talk about life and ideals."
Seeing that he said halfway, Wang Yuantai asked anxiously: "What about?"
Li Hao raised his eyebrows and shrugged: "Then I was unhappy. My soap slipped on the ground. He asked me to pick it up, but I refused. He asked the other two doctors to pick it up, but the other two doctors refused, and then he vomited blood."
Wang Yuantai looked at him in a daze, not knowing what this mess was saying. He wanted to ask, but he didn't know where to ask what soap was. He guessed that it might be a medicinal material. Why did the soap not pick up when it fell off? Why did he vomit blood when it was unwilling to pick up soap?
Li Hao didn't give him any chance to ask questions, so he rushed back, went to bed when he returned to the village yamen, and asked Wang Yuantai for something to eat when he woke up. Wang Yuantai was worried about Li Hao's prescription. Fortunately, a soldier came back to tell him that the epidemic of the two sons of the Hucun Zheng family had subsided a lot, so he offered Li Hao and his ancestors.
Another day later, the plaques on Hu Dashan's body completely disappeared. There were no plaques on Hu Xiaohai's arms and face, only a little bit on his abdomen and back. Doctor Liu personally took the pulse of the two of them. Hu Dashan was cured and Hu Xiaohai was not far from being cured. This news made him very happy and he secretly laughed and scolded: "Li Hao's prescription given by the bastard is indeed magical. It can really cure the plague. It's time to report it."
The magistrate Liu and his friends had just returned to the medical account. The magistrate of Linbei County actually came in person because he also heard that the plague patients were cured here. The magistrate of Linbei County was surnamed Yao. He was a middle-aged man in his early thirties. He looked gentle and had a white face and long beard. He looked like a scholar who was studying. He asked Doctor Liu about the specific situation and decided to report the memorial with Doctor Liu and the others. At the same time, he added the prescription to the memorial, and then sent 800 miles to the court. After writing the memorial, the magistrate Yao and Doctor Liu jointly wrote a memorial to send it to the governor of Xuzhou. Of course, the prescription given by Li Hao was also sent together.
Chapter completed!