Chapter 36

"Dong dong dong——"

The next morning, Xu Yi woke up in a moist vapor.

Outside, patrolling government officials were beating gongs and drums. Different from the previous mornings filled with fireworks, bursts of noise filled South Street.

Xu Yi went out dressed neatly and saw his neighbors busy anxiously.

Mrs. He next door saw him coming out and hurriedly came over and shouted: "Brother Yi."

"Ms. He." Xu Yi responded and listened to her hurriedly saying, "It rained so hard last night that many houses were damaged." It collapsed. I see that the kitchen here has also collapsed. Is anyone okay?"

Xu Yi shook his head and said it was okay. Although it was a pity to lose the medicinal materials, everyone is safe.

He asked: "Where are the other people on South Street? How are they doing?"

Mrs. He said: "Some government officials came here to beat the gong, saying they came to remember the collapsed houses, but I don't know."

The two said a few words, Then a wailing sound was heard.

They looked at each other and followed the crowd. When Xu Yi arrived, many people had gathered around the house where the accident occurred.

The people around were talking quietly.

"It's pitiful. This family's house collapsed last night, hitting the pillars of the house. Both legs are gone."

"I stayed up half the night and said I had a high fever. Everyone was in a state of confusion."

"The government said they would send a doctor over . , are you here?"

Xu Yi heard someone ask, looked over, and heard another person whisper: "I don't know, I said a doctor would come last time, did any of us see anyone later?"

"Stop talking nonsense and be careful with your skin."

"Then I won't say anything."

The man curled his lips. The people watching the excitement seemed to be used to it and did not have high expectations for the Yanting County government.

Xu Yi watched silently, and his sleeves were pulled.

He lowered his eyes and looked down, and saw a carrot head with a boy's bun. He was the son of Yang Guan's family.

Xu Yi glanced at the people next to him and did not see the adults of the Yang family: "Brother Rong, why are you here? Where is your father?"

"I ran out alone. My father is not at home. My mother is working at home. "Yang Rong raised his head, his eyes widened, and asked, "Doctor Xu, why don't you see Xiao Huang?"

Xu Yi smiled: "It's guarding the house."

The child heard this. He asked hopefully: "Can I go to Dr. Xu's house to play with Xiao Huang? I have something to eat, so I can give it to Xiao Huang."

He took out a piece of honey, the size of a peanut, from the small cloth pocket he carried with him. It seems like something adults usually buy to comfort children.

Xu Yi knew that the Yang family loved their children, but this would be chaotic, and there were many kidnappers nowadays. Xu Yi was worried that a child would join in the fun here, so he agreed to it.

He took the child to find Mrs. He. After asking, he found out that Mrs. He had entered the house to help.

"It looks like I want to move to the medical clinic to see a doctor. There are more people and strength, but some of the brothers can come over and help me to carry him to Xinglin Pavilion."

I don't know who shouted, and after a while there was someone there . Two or three neighbors came out in response.

Some of you know each other and some don't. Many people were affected by the rain last night. Some of them just leaked and were flooded, and they could get by with just a few washes, while others had one or two caves that required a lot of money to be repaired. Like this house, there were also houses that directly hit people. .

Not long after Xu Yi stayed, he heard that another family member, an old man in his fifties, had been destroyed.

Soon, the patrolling street department officials came to question and register the injured one by one, saying that they would arrange a place to go.

Xu Yi stepped forward, bowed, and asked the yamen official responsible for registration: "How do you do, sir? I would like to ask how many people were injured in this disaster?"

The yamen official who registered looked at him displeased: "Are you Who is he?"

Xu Yi said, "I live in South Street. I am a doctor."

When the officer heard this, he looked at Xu Yi with eyes that he had never seen like this. Elderly doctor.

"Why haven't I heard about another doctor coming to South Street? Are you some kind of deceitful kidnapper?"

"Master, Brother Yi is indeed a doctor."

The residents of South Street all recognize Xu. Yi, when he saw that the official didn't believe him, he came out to testify.

"Yes, yes, my child's bloated belly was cured by taking Brother Yi's pills."

Xu Yi bowed to them. With their testimony, the Yamen no longer doubted his identity, so he asked The child following Xu Yi is Xu Yi.

"He is Brother Rong, the son of an official from the Yang family in Pinglu Lane. He recognized me and wanted to come to my house to play with the puppy." Xu Yi did not hide anything and answered honestly.

The official went to ask Yang Rong and got the same answer.

Then, he softened his attitude a lot and told Xu Yi what he had registered: "It rained hard and hard last night. Twenty-three households were affected, four of them were injured, and one household was injured." "I 'm an old man."

When they go back to the street department, they have to face criticism. They don't get good food and don't get benefits. They are the ones doing the hard work.

It was not easy to be a low-level government clerk in the Northern Song Dynasty. Although he was employed and had good benefits, the county town could not compare with Kaifeng, Tokyo, and the monthly payment was often in arrears. Occasionally, cloth, silk, and silk are used to pay for the monthly payment, and firewood, oil, salt, etc. can be used as monthly allowances. It is often necessary to add some by yourself to maintain daily expenses.

Of course, they would be reluctant to just run away.

When Xu Yi heard that four people were injured, he asked the government official what the arrangements were.

The Yamen official said that there was no money issued from above, and the disaster was not only in South Street, but also in several places on the outskirts of the city.

There was a moment of silence.

Suddenly, the official said: "Aren't you a doctor?"

The higher-ups said they would send someone over, but they were just flattering words. After the official document was approved, they asked the official doctor to come over. I don't know when he will arrive.

I also thought that among the injured people this time, there was one who was in crisis and could die at any time. Why not...

The Yamen turned his attention to Xu Yi. This young doctor was concerned and asked. He must be kind-hearted and willing to help the world and save people. of.

The officer then asked, "I don't know if the doctors sent from above were delayed on the way. They haven't seen anyone for a long time. You are a doctor, why don't you come and see their injuries?"

Xu Yi narrowed his eyes slightly: "Were you delayed on the road?"

The Yamen looked a little guilty when he saw it, and opened his eyes and said: "If not, what could be the reason..."

After a pause, he said to Xu Yi again, okay Send a slave to help him.

Xu Yi: "..."

He came to ask because he wanted to know if there were doctors from the free clinic. Now that there are no doctors, it would be very difficult for these injured people. Thinking about the financial situation of the families affected by the disaster, Xu Yi did not refuse. He just said that he needed to go home to get the medicine box.

It was a mistake for the government official to capture him as a young man, but when he saw his willingness to agree, he became even more polite and ordered another slave to do the same.

Xu Yi took the child and found Mrs. He. He saw Mrs. Chen and several other ladies there. The people at the bottom are not so particular about women not being visible. They are helping those affected by the disaster to sort out the soaked items.

Seeing that Xu Yi had come over and was going to be a temporary doctor, he said that he would take good care of Yang Rong.

"I'll ask someone to go to Yang's house and ask Madam Yang to come over. If Brother Rong isn't suitable to stay at your house right now, it would be better to follow us." Madam He gave an idea.

"Okay." Xu Yi nodded and agreed with the idea. It was not a wise move to let a child stay at home.

"Brother Rong, can you come and find me when I'm done?"

he asked Yang Rong softly.

Yang Rong knew that he was going to work, so he nodded obediently and said in a clear child's voice: "Doctor Xu, I'll stay here, you go quickly."

After the instructions were given, Xu Yi hurried home.

He went into the house, took some medicinal materials to stop bleeding and bruises, took the Huiyi trough with him, took out the money and put it in his sleeve pocket, and came out carrying the medicine box.

A slave was waiting outside the yard. Watching him come out, he was about to take him to the place where the injured were treated.

In the courtyard of a house on South Street, his family was not seriously affected by the disaster, and he loved to do good deeds. When he knew someone was injured, he took the initiative to clear an open space to accommodate these injured people.

When Xu Yi arrived, he saw that the yard was in a mess. The injured were groaning in pain, the families of the injured were wailing, and two servants of the master's family were running around without touching the ground. One place.

With a serious look on his face and a frown on his face, he handed the Huiyi trough to Zaoli next to him and asked in a deep voice, "Where is the most seriously injured person?"

Zaoli suddenly caught the Huiyi trough, which weighed more than ten kilograms, and almost died. He fell, his heart skipped a beat, and he said slightly surprised, "It's over there."

Xu Yi said, "Lead the way."

Zaoli nodded hurriedly, not daring to neglect the young doctor.

The most seriously injured person was the pillar of the family whom I heard about in the morning. Looking at a man in his thirties, there is an old mother at home, a wife and children, and two sisters who are about to get married. Their clothes are all patched, miserable and helpless.

Seeing Xu Yi coming, the old mother who was guarding her son cried out: "Xu Xiaolang, save my son, my son can't die."

"Old lady, get up quickly, I will save my uncle." Xu Yi said After that, he had a sullen face and knelt down to explore his forehead.

His body temperature was very high, and he felt 39 degrees. Then he looked at his two broken legs. The broken parts were bloody and bloody. Fortunately, he received first aid properly and stopped the bleeding with clothes. Xu Yi opened it for inspection and found that the aorta was not damaged, but the bones were severely broken. The broken bones shifted and deformed the legs, which looked horrifying.

Xu Yi immediately ordered Zaoli, who was following him, and said to him: "Go to the medical clinic and buy some Bupleurum, Forsythia, Danbark and Scutellaria baicalensis. I will give you a prescription and fry it immediately after you buy it."

After that, he took out a pen and paper from the medicine box and wrote a prescription at a very fast speed.

When he handed it to Zaoli, he thought that time was urgent and the families of these injured patients might not be able to afford the money to buy medicine, so he took out a couple of silver coins from his sleeve pocket, gave it to Zaoli and said, "I hope I can buy some more." Su Bu is back for bandaging.

"Don't worry, Doctor Xu, I will do my best." Zaoli took the order and left quickly.

In order not to worry the family, Xu Yi explained that the wound needed to be cleaned, and he took out the hemostatic medicine and crushed it into powder with a Huiyi trough. During this period, he also asked another servant to accompany his servants to boil water.

When boiling water, Xu Yi asked them to add honeysuckle, independent life and windproof, and then asked them to pour the boiled medicine into water.

"Wipe the blood from the wound with a clean cloth. If you don't know how, come and ask me first." Xu Yi was afraid that the people in the yard could not hear clearly, so he shouted in a higher voice.

"Doctor Xu, what is this used for?"

At some point, the owner of the courtyard stood next to Xu Yi and asked in confusion.

Xu Yi did not raise his head and continued to grind the medicinal powder in his hand while saying: "These medicines have the effect of detoxifying and reducing swelling. They are used to scrub the affected area to wash away the blood and dirt and prevent the wound from becoming ulcerated."

"That's it. "The master sighed softly and took the initiative to ask if there was anyone he could help.

After hearing this, Xu Yi looked up at him and found an old man wearing a plain long-sleeved robe and a gray beard. Although his head was full of white hair, he was very dignified and energetic.

"Old sir, if you don't mind being dirty and tired, you can clean up the injured area with me," Xu Yi said.

The troublesome part of this injury is that the fracture is displaced, and the bones need to be straightened back, then wrapped with healing ointment, and fixed and tied with a wooden board.

He had trauma medicine, but it was not enough to make a bone-healing ointment, and Zaoli still needed to make another trip to the hospital.

Of the four people injured today, two suffered fractures, one was hit on the head, and one was hit in the back by a wooden beam while trying to save items at home, causing him to vomit blood.

Some of them were light and some were serious. Xu Yi only had two hands and couldn't take care of them personally. It didn't matter if someone took the initiative to help, even if he was older.

When the old man heard that he was coming to clean the wound, he picked up his wide sleeves and tied them around his neck.

When the servant saw that his master was like this and had no complaints, he immediately called the servants and brought the boiled potion quickly.

The hot potion was distributed one basin after another. The family members did not dare to neglect. They followed the method Xu Yi taught them and carefully scrubbed off the outer layer of blood.

Suddenly, the courtyard was filled with mournful sounds.

The scalps of people passing by were numb after hearing this, and they thought something had happened inside.

Zaoli ran back with a pile of medicinal materials. When he heard the screams, he staggered and almost fell.

He came in in a hurry and saw Xu Yi rolling up his sleeves and chopping firewood with an ax in his hand?

"Doctor Xu?" He stepped forward hesitantly and asked without knowing why.

When Xu Yi saw him coming back with the medicine, he handed the ax in his hand to the person next to him, wiped the sweat from his forehead and said, "You came just in time, I'm waiting for your medicine."

He took the medicine bag, opened it, divided it into three parts and fried it.

One of them was a medicinal soup for treating fractures. It used the Shengmui and Blood Decoction, which contained Chuanqiong, peony, angelica and astragalus. Xu Yi had it in his medicine box. He asked Zaoli to buy some more Dipsacus, Achyranthes root, Five Add skin and other medicinal materials, and if two people have broken bones, then make two portions of soup.

It has remarkable effects, replenishing qi and blood, replenishing marrow and strengthening bones. After Xu Yi improved the prescription, it can promote blood circulation, remove blood stasis, and heal muscles and bones. [Note 1]

In traditional Chinese medicine, internal injuries are called blood stasis syndrome, and there are many medicinal decoctions to treat blood stasis syndrome. Internal injuries to the internal organs and brain injuries require different medicinal decoctions, so Xu Yi could only boil the two people's medicinal decoctions separately.

In the basic prescription, Xu Yi added menstruation-inducing drugs. For the patient with brain injuries, he added mugwort. For those with injuries to the chest and waist, platycodon and eucommia were added.

After he divided it, he asked Zaoli to fry the decoction as soon as possible.

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As soon as the decoction was cooked, Xu Yi asked his family members to feed it to the injured. The young man with a fever took the decoction in his stomach. Half an hour later, the medicine took effect and the high fever finally subsided.

Xu Yi flattened the chopped wooden boards and used them as splints to fix the fractures.

At this time, the old man adjusted the healing ointment and healed.

There was some trouble when repairing the bones. Time was tight and Xu Yi didn't have time to make Ma Feishan. He had to ask the family members to hold the injured person while he restored the displaced bones.

"It will hurt a little, please use a little more force." Xu Yi reminded.

The family members responded, but when they heard the patient's grief and struggle, they were frightened and let go.

The scene was chaotic for a moment, causing the wound to bleed. Fortunately, Xu Yi had quick eyesight and quick hands. He suppressed the person and took advantage of the opportunity to break back the dislocated bones.

His hands were covered in blood, and his expression was so stern that people dared not look directly at him.

The scene of breaking the bones was really scary, and it made my back feel cold even on a hot summer day.

Xu Yi didn't have time to pay attention to what they were thinking. He went to the well to scoop water and wash himself. When he came back, seeing that it was getting late, he asked someone to apply ointment on them and tie them up with cloth strips.

"Don't remove the board until the wound has healed. Change the ointment once a day. The decoction you drank today will have to be taken for another five days." Xu Yi told his family, "I have been at home these days. If there are any problems, I will Come find me at home."

The old lady burst into tears and cried, "Thank you, Doctor Xu. Thank you, Doctor Xu."

"It doesn't matter." He smiled and finally felt that he had done a good thing.

The rest of the injured were treated and their condition improved a lot. Some families still had to go back to the affected areas. Xu Yi also told them to rest for two days.

Xu Yi asked the man who hurt his head to pay attention to vomiting, dizziness and other problems and to come look for him.

As for those with internal injuries, they will be prescribed another pill and taken with the medicinal soup.

The man's wife hesitated, covered her face and asked in a low voice: "Doctor Xu, does the medicinal soup we take today cost money? My family really can't afford much money for medicine."

Xu Yi was stunned.

He had forgotten about this incident. The government said that they would send an official doctor over, but there was no sign of him after a long time. I'm afraid he might not come. As for the medical expenses for today’s diagnosis and treatment, no one knows the details.

The one tael of silver he gave Zaoli was all spent on the medicinal materials used today, and he couldn't find a few medicines for them to take back.

Xu Yi made a calculation in his mind and found that he still needed ten more silver coins.

Sure enough, not everyone can do good deeds.

"I'll pay for the money. Dr. Xu, you can take care of the doctor with peace of mind. I'll take care of everything."

The old man came over and asked his servant to get twenty pieces of money. He used the money to buy medicine and divided the remaining money between them. Give it to those poor families.

When the family members heard that someone was paying for their medicine, they almost knelt down in gratitude, but were stopped by the old man.

He smiled and said: "I only lost some wealth, it's nothing. It's Dr. Xu who has the kindness to help the world. You should be more grateful to him."

Xu Yi did not dare to take credit and said: "I just learned a few lessons. I know some medical knowledge and can only treat the injured. The old man has a generous heart and helps the weak."

The two exchanged compliments and exchanged some pleasantries.

It was getting late, so Xu Yi wrote a few prescriptions for the old man's servant. At noon, the old man arranged for someone to prepare food.

It's simple sesame cakes and thick porridge that still make the people affected by the disaster grateful today.

Xu Yi didn't have time to let the idle man buy food, so he stayed to eat cakes and porridge. Seeing that Zaoli hadn't left, he asked him why he didn't go back.

Zaoli scratched his head in embarrassment: "The white flour sesame cakes made here are very fragrant. I couldn't help it just now. I asked the maid to order two to eat. It's better than eating at home."

Xu Yi: "..."

Look Come on, grassroots civil servants are difficult to get along with in any dynasty.