Practicing Medicine in the Tang Dynasty

"Master Rong, it's me." It was the servant Wang Xi who was reprimanded by Li Jingye today who pushed the door and entered. Shun is also poisoned!"

Xu Rong's heart tightened immediately: "Is Li Shun the one who feeds the black cat?"

Wang Xi didn't know about their suspicions yet, and he was afraid that it would harm Chi Yu: "That's right, that thief not only wanted to harm the master, but even us servants!"

"Go and bring that cat here."

Xu Rong quickly calmed down, and ordered word by word: "Be careful, don't pinch its fur, just put it in a big cloth bag, let's go and see Li Shun first."

By the time Xu Rong and Wu Yi hurried to the servant's room, Li Shun's body had already been covered by a straw mat, half-cooled.

Li Jingye stood with his hands behind his back, his deeply frowned brows formed a knife-like ravine.

Xu Rong lifted the cushion and took a look, and sure enough, he saw the corpse was bleeding from the seven orifices, and the eye circles were black, obviously poisoned.

The gazes of both of them fell on the hands with white fingertips. The blisters on Li Shun's palms had already ruptured, and the smelly pus oozed out, making one unable to help covering his nose.

"It's heart-broken grass." It was exactly as Xu Rong expected, "When the heart-broken grass is applied to the skin, it will blister within half an hour. I didn't even notice that his hands have already been stained with heart-broken grass. poison!"

The rest of the servants were still in the fog, when they heard a sound of sticks beating slowly approaching, they moved slowly through the night.

Zhang Qiren stepped into the doorway wearing a large crane cloak, he was obviously awakened by the movement, but he was still not in a hurry, taking advantage of Xu Rong's gesture to lift the curtain to take a closer look inside, he was always calm A trace of surprise flashed in his eyes.

Xu Rong hurriedly said: "Master Zhang, be careful, he might have heartbroken grass on the palm of his hand." He said and handed over a folded handkerchief.

Zhang Qiren raised Li Shun's hand through a handkerchief, confirmed it again and again, and nodded: "Yes, the heartbroken grass can be used on the skin, although it can treat rheumatism and scabies, but it should not last longer than a moment, otherwise it will invade the skin. The poison goes deeper."

Xu Rong loosened his fingers, and the cushion fell limply, covering Li Shun's pickled corpse again.

"If he just happened to encounter it by accident, he would never die of poison so quickly. What's more, the lord has already demonstrated the method of detoxification during the day. If he is innocently involved, he will definitely beg the lord to save him, instead of just waiting to die."

He clapped his hands in disgust, with clear meaning behind his words.

"That said." Li Jingye didn't understand medicine, and he hadn't read the deep meaning of the two masters and apprentices, "Li Shun didn't even touch Grandpa's bed today, so how could he put poison into his mouth?"

"He can't touch the bed, but there are things crawling on it every day." Xu Rong sneered, "Some things that humans can't do are much more convenient for some animals."

"Brother Rong means..."

Before Xu Rong could explain, there was a rustling sound at the door, and a black shadow pierced into the corner like a small arrow, and the people who were chasing behind had no time to stop their footsteps, and there was a loud bang, The forehead and the wall kowtowed in love.

Wu Yi touched his forehead subconsciously, feeling a headache for him.

Wang Xi stood up in a daze, and handed the iron chain in his hand to Xu Rong: "Master Rong, this cat master is too wild, you have to clean it up."

Xu Rong half-smiled, pitying him for the injury from head to buttocks, but didn't say anything, took the iron chain with one hand, and wrapped it around his wrist deftly, with a force on his arm, he caught the proud black cat like a fish. The cat picked it up from the corner.

The other hand quickly rolled up a layer of sleeves, and pinched the back of the black cat's neck precisely.

The black cat strangled on the back of its neck seemed to have been immobilized. It could only stare at its big copper-green eyes with bravado, and let out two short-sufficient meows with a trembling beard.

That fierce and cowardly look made Wu Yi laugh from the bottom of his heart. This cat master has been in power for too long, so he is probably still wondering why his obedient subjects suddenly rebelled so boldly.

Xu Rong pinched the nape of the black cat's neck with one hand, and picked up a few cat hairs through a rag with the other hand, threw them into the half-full water bowl, and then tried it with a silver needle.

The silver needles immediately turned black.

Looking at the coal-like black cat and the silver needle in Xu Rong's hand, Li Jingye couldn't laugh: "Brother Rong means that someone trained this cat to poison Grandpa?"

After thinking about it carefully, I realized something was wrong: "But cats like to lick themselves. If the cat had poison on it, wouldn't it be the case that the cat would have died of the poison long ago?"

Xu Rong shook his head and gave Wu Yi a wink.

Wu Yi understood, took out the ancient book they had just found, and pointed it out to this young master who is both civil and martial arts, but who doesn't know medical skills——

Although Tripterygium wilfordii is highly poisonous, cats, rats, sheep, and fish eat it without any harm, because of its feeding habits.

Li Jingye's fingertips trembled, and he immediately turned pale with shock: "The thief who can use the cat to poison him must be someone from the mansion, and he has to be proficient in pharmacology to know that this heartbroken grass is poisonous to people and not to cats."

"This cat nests on the master's quilt every day. As long as you put the poison on the black cat's fur, when the master touches it, it will stick the poison on your hands and eat it in your mouth."

Xu Rong gritted his teeth and smiled, his eyes fell on Li Shun's cold corpse: "This kind of trick is definitely beyond the imagination of Li Shun's subordinates, but it's a pity that the other party has already murdered him, and it seems that his treacherous plan has been expected will be exposed."

"Fortunately, Grandpa Doctor Zhang is here today, so grandpa survived this calamity." Li Jingye's brows and eyes were filled with lingering fear, "... If that thief picked a day when Doctor Zhang didn't come, I'm afraid he would have succeeded a long time ago. .”

He sighed and stroked his heart, as if he couldn't bear to imagine it.

Perhaps it was cold in the middle of the night, Zhang Qiren was wrapped tightly under the crane cloak, it looked more like the luxurious and heavy clothes were weighing heavily on his shoulders.

He leaned on his stick with squinting eyes, and after a while, it was like waking up from a dream: "Fortunately, Xu Rong found out about what happened today, otherwise the consequences would be really unimaginable... The old man's body is useless, so I can only watch." Let's see the future of young people."

Xu Rong handed the black cat to his servants to take it out, half-holding Zhang Qiren's hand on the stick: "The students really dare not take credit for this, and it was the fault that Junior Brother Wu Yi noticed just now, otherwise the thief's ambition may not be caught by us." Know!"

Wu Yizheng huddled in the corner neatly, eating melons with vigor and vigor, but Xu Rong suddenly mentioned himself, with a high-spirited face full of reluctance to take credit for himself.

The murderer behind the scenes may be standing in this yard watching the show with him, and the one who takes credit at this time is a living target in the eyes of the other party. A dead fellow is not a poor fellow, and Xu Rong's skills in throwing blame are simply top-notch.

Wu Yi resignedly scolded "Slick boy" in his heart, he really shouldn't stay up late with him to read books, this is obviously jumping into the bandit boat!

Xu Rong was looking at Wu Yi with a smile on his face, and saw that his expression darkened and his face was full of fear.

"Brother is too humble. In fact, the students are only lighting lamps and candles for the brother. They are still ignorant in discussing talents and learning, and they don't understand the medical classics. It is still the brother who can give some advice."

Wu Yi wiped his forehead sincerely, and wiped two drops of sweat beside his eyes.

Isn't it just throwing the pot away, I will rebound.

Xu Rong's smile suddenly froze on his face. During the day, the little junior was taciturn and like a little puppy who couldn't bark. When it came to the critical moment, he was still baring his teeth fiercely.

He had heard about Wu Yi's arsenic cure in his letters, but he hadn't connected with the thin and introverted young man in front of him. It wasn't until now that he realized that there was a lot of heart under his thin skin.

Dr. Zhang's vision of seeing people is indeed very poisonous.

After tossing and tossing for a long time, everyone really didn't care about Xu Rong and Wu Yi's petty thoughts. Now that the culprit has committed suicide and the tools of the crime have been confiscated, it is almost time to pack up and go back to their respective homes.

Zhang Qiren stayed in the British government for a few more days, until Li Ji sat up from the bed tremblingly, and then he put his hanging heart back to his chest.

Li Ji is a tough guy who crawled out of the sea of ​​corpses, and it is his daily routine to deal with such matters as death and life. This time he went back to the gate of hell, and he only thought that his soul had left again.

"This old man has crossed the underworld for several times, but you forced him back, Mr. Zhang." He grinned weakly, and the bald trough that had lost all his teeth seemed capable of biting people, "Don't worry, it's just a cat. Can you still scare the old man to death? You are also such an ignorant woman when you are an old man?"

They all regained the spirit of fighting against Empress Wu, which shows that they are very good.

Regardless of the dissuasion of his sons and grandchildren, Li Ji took a big gulp of Xungufeng wine and smashed the wine bowl on the ground boldly, as if he was the young general who was as powerful as he was back then.

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The east wind blows the willows, and it is already March in Yangchun in a blink of an eye.

Following the footsteps of history, the reign title of Xianheng gradually replaced the stable general chapter, opening another era full of legends.

For Wu Yi, this is also a new beginning.

Imperial physicians from all over the country have returned to Chang'an one after another, and Taichang Temple quickly posted a bulletin, announcing that all students will arrive in the Chang'an Official Journal in three days.

Now in charge of the Chang'an official school is the Deputy Imperial Physician Sun Qili, Dr. Sun, I heard that he is an upright and strict old man, Xu Rong often travels between the Duke's Mansion and the Zhang Mansion, and whenever he mentions this Dr. A weeping expression like the rest of the life after a catastrophe.

"He has the weirdest temper among the doctors. There was a brother who memorized a wrong prescription and was punished by kneeling in the ice and snow for an hour. His legs turned into pig's legs!"

Xu Rong relished talking about what he had learned in the past few years, and finally, he patted his junior brother on the shoulder with infinite sympathy: "Wu Yi, you must hold on."

In the eyes of these older students, this Dr. Sun is not a kind and amiable teacher, but a monster who is about to eat people with his mouth open.

The author has something to say:

Regarding the toxicity of Tripterygium wilfordii, Du Niang said, "Triptory wigowii has different toxicity to various animals. It is highly toxic to humans, dogs, pigs and insects, and can cause poisoning and even death, but it is not toxic to sheep, rabbits, cats, mice, fish non-toxic”