kvmb Chapter 184 Quack doctors harm people
Chapter 184 Quack doctors harm people
White Dew, the festival in August, is the color of gold in autumn. Gold is white, the yin energy gradually becomes heavier, the air starts to get cold, moisture in the water and soil condenses into dew, and the dew condenses into white.
On the night of White Dew and Autumnal Equinox, it gets cooler each night.
White Dew, White Dew, dewdrops are all over the road.
The white dew covers the ground in red, yellow and white, and the cotton fields are crowded with people.
Don’t say it’s too early to plant wheat in Bailu, it would be just right if it were in Hetao.
In the cotton fields outside Mucheng, farmers were picking cotton, and children playing nearby were singing songs of the White Dew season in their baby voices.
"Mid-Autumn Festival is coming again." Si Yao and Xiaolu came back from the mountain after picking herbs. Passing by the cotton field, Xiaolu couldn't help but sigh when he heard the children singing. Time flies, and before he knew it, he had been in Sanxiu Pharmacy for almost two years.
Si Yao said nothing, remembering that Master's birthday was on the Mid-Autumn Festival. But she heard from her senior brother that Master no longer celebrated his birthday after the eldest senior sister passed away. Looking at the moon on Mid-Autumn Festival makes one miss old friends and feel sad. Why should she force herself to smile?
Sanxiu Pharmacy was about to close, and Mr. Sanxiu was about to get up after seeing the last patient when a young man dressed in fine silk and jade, waving a paper fan, and looking elegant and romantic, sat down in front of Sanxiu with a fawning smile.
"Why are you here again? Why do you keep coming to my pharmacy if you're not sick?" Sanxiu looked at the person in front of him with disgust. He gave him a sidelong glance and then stood up.
"Mr. Sanxiu, you know best why I am here..." But the young man refused to give in and continued to follow Sanxiu and talk with a smile.
"Bah, you think you can marry my disciple? You are so weak that you can't even tie a chicken. You are a scholar but you can't even pass the exam to become a scholar. You use a broken fan to pretend to be cultured all day long. You are uneducated and incompetent!" Sanxiu was impatient to listen to what the man said, turned around, pointed at the other person's nose and cursed.
His beloved disciple Si Yao, somehow, was so unlucky that he saved the young master Zhou who was bitten by a snake on the road. He did not ask him to be grateful, but he did not expect that this guy was a wolf in the mountains, repaying kindness with hatred, and even came to harass him every now and then. Fortunately, when he came every day, Si Yao was either reading in the study or collecting herbs in the mountains. He was rejected again and again for half a month, but he still did not give up. If this scoundrel could put this perseverance in studying, why would he worry about not being able to pass the exam?
"Mr. Sanxiu, why do you look down on me so much? My father, Mr. Zhou, is one of the top merchants in Mucheng, and I... just failed the exam once. I may be able to take the exam again in three years..." Mr. Zhou felt guilty as he spoke, and he was deeply shocked to see the contempt on Sanxiu's face, so he hung his head in grievance.
Sanxiu ignored him and was about to ask the medicine boy to send him away when he suddenly saw a middle-aged man running in holding a white-haired old woman:
"Sir, please save my mother!" The middle-aged man cried and put the old woman in his arms in front of Sanxiu, his tearful eyes showing panic and helplessness.
Afterwards, two servants came in, bringing in an old man who looked pale and obviously extremely frightened.
Although Sanxiu didn't understand why, he didn't ask any more questions because saving people was the most important thing.
"What's wrong with your mother?" Sanxiu asked and found that the old woman's whole body except her limbs was hot.
"My mother suddenly felt cold and painful in her waist and knees these past few days, and she was tired and irritable, but she liked cold drinks. I thought it was because she was accidentally infected with the autumn air in this clear and cool season, so I asked the doctor from Baohe Pharmacy to see her. Who knew that my mother's condition became worse not long after she took his medicine. On the way here, my mother...my mother became unconscious..." The middle-aged man pointed at the shivering old man beside him, and he was sobbing when he finished his accusation, and he just focused on holding his mother's hand tightly.
"The limbs are cold, the head and body are hot, the pulse is deep but the fingers are strong, and the patient likes cold drinks. These are all abnormal symptoms of excessive yang suppressing yin, and extreme heat that acts like cold." After giving the patient a few needles on his hands and feet, Sanxiu said as he wrote a prescription.
However, Sanxiu's words were as if they were reading a foreign language to all the listeners. Even the doctor at Baohe Pharmacy was puzzled.
After passing the prescription to the pharmacist, Sanxiu looked up at the doctor at the Baohe Pharmacy and asked seriously, "What is your diagnosis and treatment result?"
The doctor didn't dare to say a word at this time. He just lowered his head in silence. In the cool autumn weather, beads of sweat appeared on his face.
"Sir, this is the prescription written by that quack doctor." Seeing that the doctor was guilty and dared not speak, the middle-aged man glared at him angrily, took out a prescription from his sleeve and handed it to Sanxiu.
"Yang is strong and suppresses Yin, which means that evil heat is strong inside the body and the Yang Qi is suppressed. It hides deep inside and cannot reach the limbs, causing the Yin and Yang Qi to be unable to communicate and reject each other, resulting in the symptoms of true heat inside and false cold outside. How can you directly conclude that it is real cold? And why use hot medicine?" Sanxiu frowned when he saw the prescription and questioned the doctor from Baohe Pharmacy.
"The patient's limbs are cold, and his waist and knees are cold and painful. I just think it's the heat caused by the stagnation of cold..."
"Nonsense, just take it as a sign? You practice medicine and save lives, but you rashly decide a life just based on just taking it as a sign?" Without waiting for the doctor to finish his words, Sanxiu slammed the table and said angrily.
Whenever he met such half-knowledgeable mediocre doctors, he felt heartbroken. These people dared to practice medicine and make money everywhere after learning only the basics. Not only did they regard the lives of patients as worthless, they also insulted the medical profession and corrupted medical ethics.
Seeing Mr. Sanxiu so angry, the middle-aged man was so angry that he kicked the doctor in the stomach and cursed: "You are a quack doctor who has caused so much harm to people. If anything happens to my mother, I will never forgive you!"
The doctor was kicked to the ground, curled up and screamed, but no one sympathized with him. In the end, Sanxiu, who was tough on the outside but soft on the inside, asked the two servants to help the doctor up. He was here to treat patients and save lives, not to randomly lynch people.
When the two servants saw their master nodded, they pulled up the quack doctor who was still tied up.
After Sanxiu removed the needles from the old woman's body, Guoying also came with the boiled medicine soup. The old woman woke up soon after Sanxiu fed her the medicine soup. She said that she felt much better and was no longer upset.
The middle-aged man burst into tears again when he saw that his mother had improved. After being comforted by his mother, he thanked Sanxiu profusely. Sanxiu was already used to such scenes. He said a few perfunctory words and asked the medicine boy to prepare a few more prescriptions for the patient to take home and boil, and told her to come back for a follow-up visit after the medicine was finished.
The mother and son expressed their gratitude and praised Mr. Sanxiu for his miraculous healing skills. Afterwards, the middle-aged man ordered his servant to take the quack doctor to the government office.
"What are you still doing here?" After sending the patient away, Sanxiu turned around and found that Master Zhou had not left yet. He couldn't help but get angry again. Seeing that Si Yao was about to go back, he didn't want his apprentice to be bothered by this scoundrel after a busy day outside.
"Mr. Sanxiu, please pity me. I haven't seen Miss Siyao for half a month. You are an experienced person, so you should understand my pain of missing her..."
"Shut up!" The other party's shaking head and begging for mercy made Sanxiu feel sick. How could a real man be so shameless.
"Master, what's wrong?" At this time, Si Yao and Xiao Lu had returned to the pharmacy. Hearing Sanxiu's scolding from afar, they hurried to the front hall.
"Miss Si Yao, I finally get to see you! Do you know how tormented I have been in the past half month..." When Mr. Zhou saw Si Yao, his eyes suddenly lit up and he stared at Si Yao with a silly smile. Seeing this, Xiaolu immediately protected Si Yao behind him. His cold eyes made the guy feel cold on his back and he quickly shut up.
Si Yao did not think of this person, and felt disgusted with such a frivolous young man. Following her master's eye signal, she went back to the backyard.
"Miss Siyao? Miss Siyao?"
"Xiaolu, it's getting late, please ask Master Zhou to leave the village."
As soon as Sanxiu finished speaking, Xiaolu couldn't wait to throw this ignorant guy out of the pharmacy.
Sanxiu was unaware of the strength in Xiaolu's hand. Only Master Zhou, who was being held by the neck, knew it. He was easily thrown out of the village and fell flat on his face.
Since Si Yao became Sanxiu's apprentice, she often went out for follow-up consultations and to collect herbs, which naturally attracted the admiration and covetousness of many people. However, her cold and aloofness discouraged people from approaching her. In addition, Xiaolu followed her, so whenever someone brave enough to step forward would be scared away by Xiaolu's eyes.
Xiaolu had already learned from Guoying that this Zhou had come to Si Yao's house several times to ask for her hand in marriage. If he hadn't had to hide his identity, he would have given him a leg up long ago.