In September of the second year of Wanli, two nuns, Tongzhen and Miaozhen, who lived in the remaining mountains of Taihe Mountain, were going down the mountain to seek alms. Not far from the mountain gate, they met two travelers who were in trouble.
One of them was an old man, with gray beard and hair, wearing a corrugated hat and a green cloth coat. He was lying on a big rock on the side of the mountain, humming, and there were beads of sweat the size of soybeans on his head.
Next to him was a handsome man in his thirties who looked like the old man's nephew. He was wearing a silk coat and was tall and strong. At this time, he had yellow-green herbal juice around his mouth and was applying it to the old man's swollen ankles.
medicine.
Tongzhen is young, has a pair of peach blossom eyes, and has some good looks. Miaozhen is even younger, and he practices Buddhism with his hair on, and his monk's robe cannot hide his elegant figure.
Although the two of them engaged in romantic activities on weekdays, they still had compassion for monks. Upon seeing this, they performed a Buddhist salute with one hand raised, and Wen Yan asked what happened.
The old man hummed and did not answer, and the young man clasped his hands and saluted: "Two nuns are polite. My surname is Pang, this is my master, and my surname is Li. We are both doctors. We came to Taihe Mountain to collect medicine.
, Master sprained his leg and his muscles and bones were swollen, that’s why it’s like this.”
Tongzhen heard that he didn't have a local accent, so he smiled and said: "It turns out that it's two Mr. Xinglin who are in front of each other. My father-in-law is not young, but he is running around like this for some medicinal materials. How pitiful!"
"The poor nun's residence is not far ahead. If I can walk around, I can go to the nunnery to rest for a few days. You can give me some of the room and food. If you don't have it, forget it. My parents don't want you to be spared."
A few fast meals for two.”
After hearing this, the man surnamed Pang did not dare to make the decision on his own. He looked at the old man lying there with his eyes. At this time, the medicine may have taken effect, and the old man stopped shouting. He looked at the two of them and smiled at Tongzhen and said: "Thank you two.
Little Master is kind-hearted, we are staying in a hotel at the foot of the mountain, and there is a boy looking after our luggage there. If we don’t go back, I’m afraid he will be panicked.”
After hearing this, Tongzhen didn't feel sorry for himself. He put his hands together and said, "You guys can rest here while we go down the mountain. When we get to the town at the foot of the mountain, can we hire a sliding pole for my father-in-law?"
Hearing this, the old man named Li said: "Thank you so much, masters. If it's convenient, please bother me. I can't move my feet. Well - if you two feel unwell, you can use chamomile seedlings to pound and make soup."
Fumigate first and then wash.”
When the young man surnamed Pang heard this, his mouth twitched as if he was suffering from epilepsy. Tongzhen, Miaozhen heard this? He didn't understand why? He thought the old man was out of his mind and talking nonsense.
Seeing that the old man had no intention of explaining, the two nuns said goodbye to the two of them and went down the mountain on their own. After turning half a circle on the mountain road, they saw four men? Two empty-handed? Two running with an empty slide pole, wheezing and panting.
, meet them head-on.
When they met Tongzhen and the other two, a strong man in the lead greeted him, saluted, and asked, "Master, please come. Have you ever seen an injured old man when you came down from the mountain?"
Tongzhen and Miaozhen saw that they were dressed like men walking in the rivers and lakes. They hurriedly clasped their hands and said: "Exactly. It's not far from here. You can see it when you turn around this mountain road."
The man took a deep breath after hearing this, thanked him quickly, and urged the others to go up the mountain. Miaozhen saw them running up the mountain panting, but he moved quickly. He whispered to Tongzhen: "Senior sister is gone.
That old man must be a rich man? But he missed a good deal."
Did Tongzhen listen? He hit her and said: "You girl? Ever since you broke the precept, you haven't thought about that kind of thing every day! If these people are servants, then the status of the old man is beyond our reach. Let's
The two of you should go to the town, find a businessman who works there, hook one of them up the mountain, and hang around for a few days!"
Not to mention the two men who came down the mountain to ask for alms. The four big men had already run to the two old men. The leading man smiled bitterly and said, "Why did Dr. Li come here? I have been wandering around for several months before I found you.
How come you didn't listen to the emperor's summons and went to Beijing to enjoy the blessings, but instead went to this mountain to get hurt!"
The old man surnamed Li was Li Shizhen, the judge of the imperial hospital in the Jiajing Dynasty. The young man beside him was his disciple Pang Lumen.
Li Shizhen, whose courtesy name was Dongbi and nicknamed Binghushanren, is a "sage of medicine". It goes without saying that he is a "sage of medicine". He "proved the present through archaeology and studied physics exhaustively". It took him 27 years to write the magnificent work "Compendium of Materia Medica", which is one of the most famous works in China.
Cultural treasure.
Zhu Yijun traveled through time, how could he not use such a great scientist? Not very useful? After asking a few people, I heard that Li Shizhen was a strong-willed person. In the thirty-eighth year of Jiajing, he advised Emperor Jiajing not to use elixirs, but the emperor refused to listen.
, he resigned and returned home after less than a year as a judge in the Taiyuan Hospital.
Because Li Shizhen traveled around in order to write "Compendium of Materia Medica", Zhu Yijun was afraid that he could not be found, so he specifically ordered Jin Yiwei to find him and ask him to return to Beijing. Li Shizhen had long been heartbroken by Emperor Jiajing, and indeed he had no time to go there.
Jing was entangled with the royal family, and during this period he had been traveling around, gathering herbs and hiding from the royal guards.
At this time, he had basically completed the writing of "Compendium of Materia Medica" and was revising it repeatedly. This time he came to Taihe Mountain mainly for the herbal medicine here, Aesculus aesculata, also known as Caoheche.
Because the main producing areas of this medicine are in Yunnan, Guizhou and Sichuan, which are too far away from Li Shizhen's home, he has never observed the flower and fruit forms of this herb. Later, he heard that it existed in Taihe Mountain, so he came here with his apprentice.
Listening to what the man said, Li Shizhen said: "You are so ignorant! Why didn't you tell me that the emperor summoned me earlier? If I had known that the emperor was looking for me, could I still have run out? I would have arrived in the capital earlier!"
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The man's surname was Lin, and he was from a household in Jinyiwei Huguang Bureau. Hearing what Li Shizhen said, he almost burst out of anger. Pang Lumen next to Li Shizhen showed symptoms of epilepsy again.
Lin Baihu said in his heart that the first time I met you, I told you that the emperor had summoned you, but you always said the same thing every time you met me, without changing the words. If there hadn't been a strict order from the top, I would have
I've already pulled out all the muscles in this old thing like you.
He was angry, but looking for Li Shizhen was Lin Baihu's highest-level mission this year, and he really couldn't afford the emperor's attention to Li Shizhen. The old man was injured. If he saw him and said he was the one who hit him when he went to the peak, Lin Baihu would
Baihu estimated that his head was in danger - based on Lin Baihu's judgment, this old man was too damaged to do anything.
At this time, seeing Li Shizhen lying on the ground, Lin Baihu didn't waste any time and arranged for someone to lift him onto the sliding pole and walk down the mountain.
Li Shizhen had no place to run at this time, so he could only accept his fate. He rolled his eyes and came up with a bad idea: "Lin Baihu, I broke the bones of my ankle. When I get to the foot of the mountain, I have to rest for a hundred days. If you move it at will,
If you move, you may become lame easily."
Lin Baihu sneered in his heart: "Do you think a certain family has never sprained their feet?" But he said: "Don't worry, Doctor Li, we will leave when you say we will leave. We will not rush you at all."
After a pause, he said: "I have reported to the superior about the matter that you have repeatedly failed to summon. Our superior told me to tell you, sir, that the emperor said, 'Someone in the capital has proposed a method of preventing and treating smallpox with cowpox, but the emperor is not sure.
, I hope Dr. Li can return to Tai Hospital to take charge of this matter.'"
After hearing this, Li Shizhen was really furious this time. He picked up the crutch in his hand, hit the sliding pole hard and said: "What did you say?! Why didn't you tell me earlier? If you had told me earlier, I would have arrived in the capital long ago!"