Warring States Survival Guide

Chapter 23 Let’s cure the person first

Aman did what he said. The next day, he carried a dozen rice balls on his back, took Aqing with him as a bodyguard, and went out of the village to look for Shuiyan Shang.

Yuanye was not idle either. Although the money on hand was enough for the time being, he still wanted to save as much as possible. He simply took two of his companions with him to go out and collect herbs in order to save as much cost as possible.

Yayoi also wanted to help very actively, but she was too young and her physical condition was not very good, so she could not do much work in the wild. Most of the time, she was responsible for preparing meals and taking care of Meng Ziqi on behalf of Yuanye.

Wild resources have hardly suffered any damage these days, and there was not much habit of picking medicine in medieval Japan. After a few days, several people worked together and harvested a lot. It was just because of the season that most of the things they found were roots, stems, branches and barks, such as asparagus, ground screw, yellow dog head, green cow gall, bitter cypress branches, cypress bark, white pine needles, etc., but fortunately there were enough quantities and the quality seemed good.

At this time, A'man and A'qing finally came back. Everything went smoothly. They just had to wait a few days to receive the goods. A'man also boasted about her own contributions, saying that she had helped Yuanye negotiate the price to the lowest freight. She also brought up her grandfather's name to ensure that those flooded merchants would not dare to cheat. Otherwise, it would not be as simple as ripping off the customers. They would have to face revenge from their Koga clan. Her grandfather could pierce their assholes with one hand, and those scammers did not have that courage.

All in all, thanks to her, things went so smoothly and we were able to save so much money. Yuanye should thank her very much.

Then she lay...

Well, Yuanye originally thought that she would just lie down like this, using the excuse of "the injury recurred due to the hard journey" to avoid physical labor. After all, she looked like a lazy person.

But to his surprise, she did not lie down even though she had important things to do. Instead, she was more hardworking than he had imagined. She did not even rest for a whole day. After eating three bowls of rice and wiping her mouth, she naturally began to help him prepare the picked medicinal herbs and prepare for the trivial matters related to the opening of the black clinic. She had no intention of being lazy at all.

If she was given food, she would really work. Even if she was actually very lazy, she would at most be a little cunning and find excuses to stay in the warmer house and yard, and send her unlucky sister Aqing out into the wild to blow in the cold wind.

Maybe this is the characteristic of this era. People who are truly lazy and like to eat and do nothing may not survive at all.

Yuan Ye marveled in his heart, so he took her along to work. According to the requirements of the "Barefoot Doctor's Manual", they set up water and fire, roasted and smoked with sulfur, and in a few days they had a batch of real pure natural wild handmade Chinese medicinal materials. In the future, they would be sold on Taobao at a premium of at least 200%. As for the efficacy...

He had no experience with this, so he couldn't tell for sure. He could only learn through practice. If the working people of medieval Japan were killed by this, then it would be their fate.

After all, poor medical care is better than no medical care, so this is already very good.

When the hand-picked herbs were almost processed, the merchants from Shuiyan also came back with their purchases. They were surprisingly friendly and delivered the goods to his door, to Hibitsu Village. It seems that Grandpa Aman, who can anally perform anal sex with one hand, is still quite intimidating.

Yuanye took a rough look at it and compared it with the book. He felt that the quality was not very good but it was usable. After Aman complained and bargained for it again, he paid for it happily.

At this point, he had all the medical skills and medicinal materials, and everything was ready. His black clinic could officially open for business.

He politely invited Jikuro and Bald Jubei to come over, and told them that "all people in the world suffer, and he is kind and benevolent by nature, and his character is extremely noble. He is ready to save all living beings and cure their illnesses and relieve their sufferings." He sincerely invited them to join this great plan and asked them to help him advertise in Hibizu and several nearby villages. This immediately caused a small sensation, and then there was no movement.

No one can avoid getting sick if they eat grains and cereals. Anyone who has suffered from illness knows how painful it is. It is not something that can be overcome by willpower.

For example, Sebaide Doug, a relatively unknown wine taster with a strong mental quality, almost went blind due to a recurrence of an old injury caused by excessive drinking, but he did not give in and fought the disease with extraordinary willpower. The disease did not allow him to drink, but he insisted on drinking, and he drank a lot, never giving in to the disease. As a result, he was hospitalized for emergency treatment three times, underwent two operations, and almost died. From then on, he understood this truth.

You can't defeat the disease by drinking alcohol, and you can't defeat the disease by relying on strong willpower. You still have to believe in science!

The Japanese working people are also human beings. In the countryside in the Middle Ages, you could not usually see a proper doctor. There must be many people who have been suffering from illness for a long time. Why didn't they come to see a doctor?
Yuanye suspected that the villagers thought this was a "new type of fraud". Although he promised low fees and credit, the villagers had never dealt with him before and might not believe him. What if they received a sky-high bill after seeing him for treatment?

This is indeed the case. The villagers have their own survival wisdom and they really think so.

If Yuanye goes back on his word and enriches himself by confiscating all the food from a villager's home, taking away all the chickens, and tying up the daughters to abuse them day and night, they, as the lower class, will be helpless, especially since they can "pay off the debt with work in the future" if the money for medicine is not enough. The conditions are too generous, and it looks more and more like a trap.

After all, how could the samurai masters be so kind? It would be good enough if they didn't kill a few passers-by on a whim to test their swords. How could they be so merciful and kind?

Anyone who believes it is an idiot!
This is really the case of the previous generation cutting down trees and the next generation being exposed to the sun. Japanese samurai do not do their job on a daily basis, and they make up all sorts of reasons. In addition to the normal annual tribute and direct military service, they also have "duanqian", "dongbieqian", "jiadizi", "bingliangliao", "mayiqian", and all kinds of levies and extortions, sucking the villagers dry, squeezing out all the money, and making their reputation so bad that it cannot be any worse. As a result, Yuanye, the time traveler, came and was inexplicably implicated. No one dared to believe him even though he wanted to do something good to gain some popularity.

The "Mongolian Doctor Plan" was awkward at the very beginning. Aman laughed so hard that he fell down, and kept persuading him to just give up. He told him that it would be better for everyone to continue playing music and dancing, eating and drinking well, and having a good winter. Yuanye also had no good solution for the time being. He couldn't force others to see a doctor, right?
What's more, he doesn't have the money to force others to see a doctor.

After two days of waiting quietly, he was pounding medicine in the yard, already thinking about whether or not to find a "stooge" to eat crabs for the first time, to set an example, to prove that there was indeed no trap, and that he had no evil idea of ruining all the girls in the village.

He was lost in thought when he suddenly heard a burst of rapid horse hoofbeats. He looked up and saw a green-clad warrior galloping along the road. He scared the villagers and didn't slow down when he reached the fence. He suddenly kicked the horse's belly and jumped over the fence. He landed in the yard with a bang and then pulled the reins hard, shouting anxiously: "Where is the doctor? Didn't they say there was a doctor here? Who is the doctor? Doctor, come out quickly!"

Because the reins were pulled too hard, the horse was extremely uncomfortable. It did stop, but then it kept shaking its head, neighing, and kicking its hooves, circling wildly in the spot. Not only did it kick and trample the medicinal herbs that were drying in the yard, making a mess, it also forced Yuanye to retreat to a corner of the yard to hide, and his face instantly turned black.

He was so scared that he thought someone was coming to rob him again and had been upgraded from a river pirate to a cavalryman!
Ah Man, who was watching over the fire stove in the house and was drooling from dozing off, was awakened by the shock. He rolled out with dishevelled hair, still in a daze, and lay on the ground and yelled without thinking: "What's the noise? Is it an earthquake? Ouch! Hiss~ Ah Qing, come quickly, come here, my calf seems to be cramped, come and help me run!"

Ah Qing was not at home, as he had gone out to help collect herbs with the Taojing brothers and the Jijilang couple. Ah Man called out a few times but didn't see anyone. Her mind finally cleared up and she looked carefully to see that the herbs in the yard were trampled into a mess. She instantly became furious - these were the results of her labor (actually mainly the results of Yuanye's labor) that she had spent several days to prepare, and they turned into this without her even noticing it?

In addition, the other party was only one person, and he was not wearing armor. Even if he had a horse, he would not be a threat. She immediately turned around and limped back into the house. Then she rushed out again with her short-handled hatchet, pointing at the knight and cursing: "Asshole, what do you want to do, you dung beetle? How dare you run here and act wild, you almost scared me... almost scared my donkey to pee his pants, have you had enough of living?! Get down here now, kneel down, apologize and pay money. If you pay less than a penny, I will chop you to death!"

The green-clad warrior looked about fifteen or sixteen years old, but he was nearly 1.7 meters tall, with thick eyebrows, big eyes, broad shoulders and a wide body. He wore a plain gray jacket with a dark green feather robe with white stripes on the outside. His hair was tied into a tea whisk (a kind of hard-bristled brush in Japanese matcha). Moreover, he was clearly just going out for a daily trip and not going to the battlefield, but he had arrow-proof armor tied on his arms like a curtain, and a blue cotton towel inexplicably tied around his neck... This was also a warrior with a "light and frivolous style". This kind of person was fearless, disregarded traditional etiquette, and had a very bad temper.

The green-clad warrior in front of him was naturally the same. He had just managed to pacify his horse when he saw A-man pointing a sharp short-handled axe at him and cursing in a very ugly tone. He immediately flew into a rage, protecting his chest with one hand and drawing his sword with the other, and began to curse back in a hoarse voice: "Asshole, who are you scolding, you lowly person? You...this..."

He seemed to be not good at speaking and his vocabulary was limited. He could not find a creature that could compete with the "dung beetle" for a while. Ah Man had already started to circle to his side, still shouting, and the more he cursed, the more he cursed: "I'm calling you a dung beetle! What, you don't accept it? You are a dung beetle, your whole family is dung beetles, your whole family is dung ball thieves!"

"Asshole, you...you, asshole!"

The green warrior stuttered more and more, his face turned red with rage, he simply shut up, reined in his horse and turned around, with a fierce light in his eyes, preparing to attack on his thigh with an axe, and to fight with A-man's men in a fierce fight, in which one of them might die.

Yuanye's face became increasingly darker. What a mess! This era was simply like a madhouse. No one took life seriously. It was really unacceptable for a modern man like him!

It was not worth dying for such a trivial matter. He quickly stepped forward to stop the farce and shouted in a corner of the yard: "Enough, stop it!"

A'man was calmer now. She also saw through the other party's identity and was afraid of cheating her sponsor Yuanye, so she didn't continue to shout. However, she still looked at the green-clad warrior with hatred. She was already quite unhappy with the warriors, and now she looked at the green-clad warrior more and more displeased. She was probably holding a grudge against him and was going to make up dirty rumors about him.

The green-clad warrior finally remembered what he was doing. He saw that Yuanye was tall, handsome, well-dressed, and had a noble temperament. He knew that he was definitely not an ignorant villager. He immediately sheathed his sword, dismounted, and showed the little girl in his arms. He shouted excitedly, "You are the foreign warrior who can heal diseases that they talked about, right? Come on, help me see how Asong is doing!"

Asong?

Yuanye's eyes fell on the little girl. She was about four or five years old, with long black hair, wearing a dark blue coarse cotton short-sleeved shirt with broken snow flakes, and a large grey old quilt wrapped around her body. She was curled up into a ball, her hands tightly covering her abdomen, her eyes slightly closed, her face sallow, with flashes of pain from time to time, and white foam at the corners of her mouth that had not been wiped away.

Saving lives was the most important thing, so Yuanye no longer cared about the mess the green warrior had made in the yard. He immediately went forward to check on the little girl's condition, paying special attention to the white foam at the corners of her mouth. If it was foamy sputum caused by pulmonary congestion or edema, then the disease would not need to be treated as it could not be cured in this era. But fortunately it was not the case. It was more like the secretion of the digestive organs, which came up after dry retching or shaking.

Yuan Ye's time reading books was not in vain. He already had basic diagnostic skills and immediately asked the green warrior, "Has she vomited? How long ago did she vomit? What did she eat before she vomited?"

"I ate half a rice ball and a few pieces of candy, and vomited soon after I finished eating." The green-clad warrior said this, and immediately took out a small glass bottle. Inside was half a bottle of light yellow candy with spikes and the shape of sea urchins, which looked quite beautiful in the sun.

Ah Man, who was originally indignant and staring at the green warrior's back, wondering what dark thoughts he might be thinking, was immediately attracted by the bottle. He could not help but stand in awe and murmured, "Is this the Konpeito that is worth more than gold? There's actually half a bottle..."

She instinctively estimated the price and felt that this small half bottle of sugar might be worth about two taels, and not counting the bottle itself, it could be worth two or three strings of Yongle coins. She really wanted to snatch it away, but considering that the other party was quite skilled and had a good background, she did not dare to rob him.

In Yuanye's eyes, this candy made from raw white sugar mixed with wheat flour was nothing special. He took it, opened the bottle, smelled it, and tasted one, and immediately detected a hint of moldy and sour smell.

He spit the candy directly onto the ground and asked, "How long has it been there?"

The green warrior was stunned for a moment, then hesitantly looked at the candy and said, "Is it already bad? My master just gave it to me as a reward half a year ago. I ate one before and didn't feel any discomfort..."

Yuan Ye glanced at him silently. You are a strong man who is close to adulthood. Are you going to compare the gastrointestinal ability of a four or five-year-old child? Why don't you compete with a wild boar?

However, he did not explain much. He returned the candy to the green warrior and said calmly, "At present, it looks like acute gastroenteritis caused by spoiled candy... Well, it is a kind of heat-toxic cholera caused by external evil and filth. Do you want to treat it here?"

The green warrior was holding the candy with his hand on the hilt of the sword, stunned for a moment, not understanding anything at all. It seemed that not only his vocabulary was not good enough, but his cultural level was also lacking.

Yuan Ye waited patiently for a moment before he responded, and said repeatedly: "Heal her, no matter how much it costs! Please, please make sure to cure her!"

"I'll do my best!" Yuanye nodded, and called Yayoi, who was hiding and watching with a worried look on her face, over to ask her to help accommodate the patient and his family. He then looked through the pinyin version of the "Barefoot Doctor's Manual" and picked a prescription - acute gastroenteritis is a very common disease in rural areas and is not difficult to treat. He has memorized the prescription, but it was his first time practicing medicine, so he would like to take another look to feel more at ease, in case he gave the wrong medicine or the wrong dosage, and killed the patient on his first try.

After all, this is the first customer after opening. It would be better not to kill him if possible!

Ah Man followed behind him, glanced at the green-clad warrior from a distance, and whispered to him, "Are you sure? He seems to be from Oda Danjotada's family, and is probably the nickname of the big fool Oda. Those guys have some problems with their brains, and they are not easy to mess with. You have to be careful!"

If she hadn't seen that the other party was the little brother of the big fool Oda, and that Owari Province was the territory of the Oda family, and that Oda Nobunaga was a crazy lunatic who was not easy to mess with, and if she really killed or injured the person, it would easily bring disaster to her financial sponsor Yuanye, she would have taken action long ago, and would not just plan to make up some dirty rumors - she just looked a little funny, but she was by no means a naive child, and she had seen many lives and deaths, and she would really dare to kill if they had a disagreement. At worst, she would run away at night after killing the person, and she was not afraid at all.

It's the same now. She doesn't understand Yuanye's medical skills, so who knows if he's effective. If she accidentally kills Asong, it will probably cause trouble. She has eaten Yuanye's food, and Yuanye is very kind and respectful to her. She doesn't want to see him get into trouble, so she reminded him.

There is a family crest on the green haori, which is the five papaya patterns unique to Oda Nobunaga. Yuan Ye also noticed it and nodded slightly: "I know, the disease is also safe, you don't have to worry."

Not only did he know that the other party was Oda Nobunaga's man, he also guessed that the other party was most likely Maeda Toshiie. He just didn't expect to meet the future "Kaga Millionaire Daimyo" by chance. However, Hibizun Village was originally the territory of the Arako Maeda family, so it was not strange to meet him here. It was both unexpected and reasonable.

What's more, since he has traveled to this era, dealing with these feudal warriors is inevitable. He is mentally prepared. It's just a little bit advanced now. He has a plan in mind and it doesn't matter at all.

In short, let’s cure the patient first!

(End of this chapter)