Chapter 49

There is no shortage of herbs to stop bleeding in the mountains, but it is not easy to use them quickly. When Zhang Tiegou met Xu Yi, he met the right person.

Xu Yi turned the removed bear trap over and looked at it. It was made of wood and iron. The overall structure was made of iron wood with good toughness and hardness. The gear teeth on both sides were made of iron. , are all sharp iron teeth over one centimeter long.

I don't know how many years of use it was, and it was covered in rust.

Zhang Tiegou yelled "Ouch, ouch" several times, and looked at Xu Yi with a sigh, with a hint of resentment in his voice: "Little brother, why didn't you tell me?"

Xu Yi dropped the animal trap. , looking down at the bloody mouth pressed by the iron teeth, blood was flowing out again, and there was no time to pay attention to him.

The conditions in the field were poor, but Xu Yi was well prepared, including medicine to prevent snakes and insect bites, as well as medicine for treating golden sores.

Last time he had nothing to do, he made a lot of trauma medicine powder, including Panax notoginseng powder, which is used to stop bleeding.

Panax notoginseng powder is one of the very famous hemostatic and sore medicines in ancient times. It can stop bleeding and relieve pain caused by knife and ax cuts, and can also prevent infection of the injured area.

The wound that the animal trap pierced into the flesh was extremely deep, and it stayed in the flesh for a while. The surrounding flesh and blood were at risk of being infected by bacteria. To be on the safe side, it needed to be disinfected first, and then the dirty blood and bad meat were removed before applying it. medicine.

But when Xu Yi saw that he was in pain and started to sweat again, he had no choice but to take out Panax notoginseng powder and first stop the bleeding and pain from the wound.

At this time, he said: "Please bear with it."

Zhang Tiegou's head was buzzing with pain. Hearing Xu Yi's voice, he was stunned for a moment: "Huh?"

Soon, he knew why Xu Yi was like this Said.

Xu Yi first used Panax notoginseng powder to stop the bleeding, and the wound was no longer so painful. Next, he saw Xu Yi roll up his trouser legs to expose the skin above the wound, then pull out a long strip of cloth from his pocket, press it three inches above the wound, and then, forcefully move towards Press there.

"Ah——"

An unprepared scream of pain suddenly sounded in the deep forest.

The wild dog that was still reluctant to leave not far away heard the terrifying sound, and changed its direction with its hesitant paws and ran away...

The human looked so frightened.

Xu Yi, who was so frightened, had no expression on his face, and flexibly compared the dimensions with his fingers, and pressed hard again on the acupuncture points of the major blood vessels.

"Ah, it hurts, it hurts, it hurts -"

Zhang Tiegou, a dignified man of seven feet, could no longer care about face. He had never been in such pain.

There is no way to hunt without getting injured. He had been injured numerous times before, but none had been as painful as this.

It hurt so much that he wondered if he had offended the young doctor in some way, which was why he suffered such a crime.

Xu Yi didn't let go when he saw him like this. Instead, he used the remaining strips of cloth to tie up the wound area tightly.

After fastening it, Xu Yi raised his eyebrows slightly and said, "Okay, let's see if it still hurts."

"Hiss, it hurts me to death..." Zhang Tiegou grinned and stretched his arms to stay away from Xu Yi.

After moving less than half a step, he suddenly felt that the unbearable pain just now disappeared and turned into a slight numbness and pain.

"This?" Zhang Tiegou was surprised and asked quickly, "What did you do? Why doesn't it hurt?"

Xu Yi said, "This is a compression method to stop bleeding. You didn't use the golden sore medicine. But your wound is deep, The iron teeth press the blood vessels to prevent too much blood from flowing out. When the trap is removed from behind, the semi-coagulated blood stains at the bleeding site remain inside. If it is not squeezed out, the back will become suppurative and rotten, and amputation may be necessary."

Zhang Tiegou: "! ! "

"So scary?"

Xu Yi smiled: "You are not afraid of death, are you afraid of this?"

Zhang Tiegou scratched his head embarrassedly: "I didn't die because I was saved by you."

He said with a smile. Feeling like he was surviving the disaster, he asked, "Little brother, how do you know so much? I see that your appearance and behavior are extraordinary. Could it be that you are a good man from some family who specializes in treating people?"

This question asked, I just want to know if Xu Yi is a child of any medical family.

Xu Yi smiled faintly and said without answering directly: "I have learned some medical skills since elementary school. I have treated some patients. I am lucky enough to have cured a few people."

Zhang Tiegou said: "That little brother really admires me, I won't It’s the same. I only know how to hunt.”

Xu Yi said, “Well, I also only know how to treat patients.”

After saying this, the two of them seemed to be in the same boat, and Zhang Tiegou almost believed it.

Not long after, Xu Yi asked him: "Can you still stand up and walk around?"

Zhang Tiegou nodded and said he would give it a try and asked Xu Yi to chop a stick for him. He stood up with the stick and moved the injured part. If you have only one leg and can walk on it, then there will be no problem.

"Thank you so much, little brother." Zhang Tiegou has a bold and easy-going temperament. He was born in Orion. He is not as careless as a scholar. He is like a young man in every word.

Xu Yi shook his head: "You can't just die without saving him."

Zhang Tiegou chuckled: "My life should not be taken away. I don't know the name of my little brother."

Xu Yi said calmly: "My surname is Xu Mingyi, from Yanting County. "

"Good name." Zhang Tiegou finished his praise and said that he was from Baili Village and lived by the river. The one with the wolf head hanging on it was his family. After a few seconds after finishing speaking, he couldn't help but ask, "Which Yi is this?"

Xu Yi: "..."

"It means ebony, one side is black and the other side is many."

The word "黟" is used by many people . When you see this word, the first thing you notice is that it is a place name. For example, the famous "Yixian County" is named after this word.

But it also has other meanings, such as ebony and black wood. In "Shuowen", there is a sentence: "Yi, black wood."

Of course, Xu Yi's parents did not name him after "ebony" This meaning is just for the convenience of Xu Yi to let Zhang Tiegou understand which word it is.

But the word "黟" has another meaning, which is black.

Xu Yi was born at night. According to what his parents described to him, it was dark and windy that day, and Xu Yi was born in the middle of the night. At the moment of birth, the sky outside was pitch black, without even starlight.

They thought of using Hei as a name, but "Xu Hei" didn't sound good, so they used the synonym "Xu Yi".

Zhang Tiegou was injured near the halfway point of the mountain. The two of them were walking one behind the other, one of them was still carrying a wooden stick, and they were going down the mountain a little slowly.

After walking for a while, Xu Yi saw that the cloth tied at the wound was overflowing with blood, so he asked Zhang Tiegou to take a rest, and he came over to open it for him and add some gold sore medicine.

Zhang Tiegou was a little embarrassed, but thinking that if the injury on his leg was not taken care of, he would be in big trouble later, he joked and said thank you for the hard work, Xu Yi.

He said seriously: "When we go down the mountain later, I still need to let you come with me. I said I would give you the eight pieces of money, not just talk."

Xu Yi was silent for a while.

He opened the strip of cloth and saw that the Panax notoginseng powder on the deeper hole was blurred by the fresh spilled blood, so he wiped it off with a handkerchief and reapplied the medicine.

After doing this, Xu Yi stood up, looked at him without words and said: "Your injury is not worth eight dollars. With this money, you can replace it with a new animal trap when the injury is healed. That animal trap is too old. Zhang Tiegou said angrily: "

That's not mine. I don't use a bear trap for hunting. I don't know who put it there. It's very hidden. I happened to be chasing a pheasant, and unfortunately it was stepped on." "

Speaking of these, he had a lot to say.

He said that this place was not deep enough and it would be very bad to put animal traps. If someone like Xu Yi went up the mountain to collect herbs, wouldn't it hurt others.

He was lucky today and met Xu Yi, who was skilled in medicine. If he had met a man who went up the mountain to chop wood, his life would have been in vain.

Xu Yi listened to his ramble and saw that his condition had improved a lot, so he knew that he should be fine.

Only the wound was a bit deep, so I had to clean it after I returned home. I first used panax notoginseng powder to prevent the wound from becoming inflamed and swollen, and then I made some anti-swelling and muscle-promoting ointment and applied it to the wound. It would be healed within half a month.

...

Half an hour later, the two finally went down the mountain.

At the foot of the mountain, Handlebar Style was still waiting for Xu Yi. Seeing that Xu Yi had finally come back, he breathed a sigh of relief, but also looked forward to whether Xu Yi had hunted something good in the mountain.

Finally, when I took a look, I saw a stout man following Xu Yi. The man was walking behind with a cane and was lame. He looked injured at first glance.

"What's going on..." Handlebar asked in confusion.

Xu Yi briefly told him about his encounter with Zhang Tiegou, and then asked if he could hire a car to go to Baili Village.

Baili Village is more than ten miles away from here. If I walk back with my lame leg, that leg will probably become useless.

The handlebar type agreed without saying a word.

He specifically wanted to wait for Xu Yi today, so there was no one else in the car. The two of them got on the bullock cart. Amidst the "yo yo" shouts from the handlebars, the bullock cart started to move swayingly.

On the way.

Chezizi boasted to Zhang Tiegou about Xu Yi's previous achievements, saying that he had killed a wild boar weighing more than 200 kilograms by himself, and that his body was almost unscathed, which was really heroic.

"Xu Xiaolang is still a great doctor. You didn't see that the man's leg was bitten by an insect last time. It was swollen like a pig's hoof soaked in water. Xu Xiaolang cured him with some medicine..."

He also said that it can also cure various other diseases. He knows several people.

They were dubious about Xu Yi at first, but Xu Yi treated them and charged very little for medical treatment.

That’s it, why don’t you give it a try. One or two... As long as they really listen to Xu Yi's words, those people will be cured of their illnesses.

Xu Yi: "..."

Xu Yi has heard of this kind of thing many times.

The handlebar type is the best support. With his words, some people specially ride his ox cart just to meet Xu Yi and have Xu Yi treat him.

Over the past few months, Xu Yi's reputation as a "doctor" has gradually spread.

Although there are more people who don't believe it, there are already some people who have stubborn illnesses that are not getting better and don't have money for medical treatment to try their luck.

Zhang Tiegou seemed shocked when he heard these words. How could he compare this man with himself.

"Can you kill a male wild boar weighing more than 200 kilograms?"

Xu Yi said unhurriedly: "It's a fluke."

Zhang Tiegou couldn't help but twitch the corners of his mouth. Why didn't he have such a good luck? No, he could Don't run into any wild boars.

"Are you talented? Otherwise I wouldn't be able to figure out how you killed that wild boar. That wild boar was so strong. When a wild boar broke into our village, the village chief called him four times. Only one person beat that wild boar to death."

Chaozizi said first: "Xu Xiaolang is so powerful, he must have some skills. Even though you are strong, there is no guarantee that Xu Xiaolang can kill you with one punch. Knock him down."

Xu Yi: "..." I am angry.

Zhang Tiegou: "..."

When he arrived at Baili Village, Chaozi stopped talking and asked Xu Yi if he wanted him to wait here.

Xu Yi nodded, readily took out the money and handed it to him and said, "If you want it, you have to wait a moment."

The two of them said goodbye on the handlebars and arrived at Zhang Tiegou's house one after another.

Sure enough, when Xu Yi arrived, he saw the wolf's head hanging carelessly at the door.

The wolf's head was dried, and there was still a layer of wolf hair on the outside. It looked ferocious and terrifying, and there were no other neighbors around.

Zhang Tiegou was talking to Xu Yi: "Brother Xu, do you want to eat meat? I don't have anything good here, but there is a lot of meat. Look at the dried meat hanging there."

He raised his finger and pointed to the wood under the eaves . A beam with dozens of dried meat hanging on it.

"The dried meat I make tastes good. Many people in the village come to buy it from me. Brother Xu, if you want to eat it, I will give it to you for free." Zhang Tiegou patted his chest, obviously treating Xu Yi as a good friend.

He opened the door and let Xu Yi come in to talk.

Then he limped and started to pour water for Xu Yi.

Xu Yi stopped him and said silently: "You should rest honestly."

Seeing that the water in the tank was not clean, he asked Zhang Tiegou to change the water in the tank later, and told him that if he wanted the wound to heal quickly, You can't drink raw water.

Zhang Tiegou pouted: "What a troublesome thing."

Xu Yi glanced at him, and Zhang Tiegou immediately shut his mouth. Xu Yi didn't say anything to him, and just explained to him the benefits of boiling water and letting it cool before drinking.

At that time, people did not have the consciousness to boil water for drinking, so Xu Yi felt that he could correct it one by one.

Zhang Tiegou did not dare to say that he was in trouble this time. He only said that he would drink hot water well.

Xu Yi said calmly: "I will leave the medicine for the golden sore. You change the medicine every two hours. Before changing the medicine, clean the wound. I will give you some medicine. You boil it into water and let it cool down. Wash the wound. As for the ointment, I will make it and bring it to your door tomorrow. "

There are not many medicinal herbs collected today, and he still has some at home, which will come in handy."

Xu Yi kept all the Panax notoginseng powder he took out, checked his pulse again, and then took his hand back after making sure there was no major problem.

Then, it’s the question of drug money.

Of course, you can't accept eight guan of money. With this much money, you can buy wild ginseng that is twenty or twenty years old.

Xu Yi collected money fairly. He only needed the consultation fee, medicine fee, and material fee (cloth strips), and he was charged a total of 210 cash.

This includes the money for the ointment that will be brought to your door tomorrow.

Zhang Tiegou saw that Xu Yi really didn't want his eight pieces of money. After suffering for a while, he said that he would give Xu Yi dried meat.

"It's okay if you don't take the money, but I gave this jerky to you as a brother. If you don't take it, you won't give me face."

Xu Yi: "..."

I have never seen forced buying or selling. I've seen people stuffing dried meat into them.

The dried meat Zhang Tiegou dried was mostly rabbit meat. It is difficult to store meat in summer. When he caught prey, he took some to sell in the county town and kept some for himself.

There was a lot of rain in spring this year, and there were a lot more wild animals in the mountains than usual in summer. Zhang Tiegou is good at hunting with a bow. Most of the prey he catches are in good condition and can be sold at a good price.

If he hadn't been able to save money, he wouldn't have had much money on hand.

He picked out a few meaty ones and gave them to Xu Yi, and he still remembered what the driver said on the road: "Brother Xu, can you really kill a wild boar with one punch?"

"..." Xu Yi blinked innocently. , said, "I don't have that kind of magical power. It was the wild boar that attacked me first. I couldn't escape, so I tried my best to resist. I was lucky enough to be beaten to death."

Xu Yi said "lucky" several times on the way, and Zhang Tiegou had already said This word expresses deep suspicion.

"How about we wait for my injury to heal and let's do some wrestling?" Zhang Tiegou invited, "Although I haven't practiced it before, I know some three-legged cat kung fu. I learned it from the old Orion."

Xu Yi felt curious: "You know how to use a bow, but are you also an old hunter?"

Zhang Tiegou said: "I learned it from a veteran who returned home. He wanted to make some money and teach people to learn archery, but no one else wanted to learn archery, so I went there. I

learned it. I didn’t expect this man to be really capable. After half a year of learning, I was able to hit the target. Although I didn’t have the ability to hit the target with 100 shots, I could hit five out of ten arrows, so I didn’t have to worry about being eaten.” As he said this, he felt a little moved. He knew martial arts, but he couldn't ride and shoot. If he could learn to ride and shoot, he would have another way to save his life.

"Is the old man still here?" he asked.

Zhang Tiegou shook his head: "He died of illness a few years ago, and I collected the body."

Seeing Xu Yi looking over, he quickly explained, "The veteran was penniless and didn't even have money for medical treatment. I didn't. " Take his corpse collection money."

Xu Yi: "..." That's not what he meant.

He just had some regrets.

But looking at Zhang Tiegou standing in front of him, he felt that he still had a chance to learn archery.

So, Xu Yi said: "You want me to compete with you, but if you lose, teach me archery."

Zhang Tiegou said without thinking: "If you want to learn, I will teach you. It's okay. " You have to make bets with gestures."

Xu Yi smiled: "It's interesting to have bets."

When

we got home, it was half dark.

Xu Yi came back later than usual. As soon as he reached Shijing Lane, he saw A Xu and A Jin waiting outside the door for his return, holding small kerosene lamps.

He quickened his pace, walked out of the darkness, and said to them: "Why are you here? Come in quickly."

Ah Jin nervously grabbed Xu Yi's robe: "Lang Jun, you came back very late today. My brother and I I'm a little scared when I can't wait for you to come back at home."

Xu Yi patted her head and said, "It's not mine. If I come back late in the future, you don't have to wait for me outside."

Then he asked them if they had eaten late . Eat.

The two of them said in unison: "We will wait for the husband to come back before eating."

Xu Yi frowned and said: "Next time if I come back so late, you don't have to wait for me to come back before eating dinner. You are still growing, and you are hungry. It's easy for the belly to grow short."

Thinking that the two of them would become dwarfs because of their lack of height, Xu Yi immediately shook this thought away.

Because he came back too late, Xu Yi didn't have time to wash up first. He only took off his dirty clothes, washed his hands, and called the two children to eat together.

There is no rule in the Xu family about eating without speaking. After Xu Yi gave the two a piece of meat, he asked them how they did their homework today.

A Xu put down the bowl and chopsticks and replied obediently: "To answer my husband's question, I cleaned the house today and then went to write the big characters, but I didn't write well and wasted three pieces of paper."

They are using cheap yellow paper now . Bamboo paper is cut into a square piece with a knife, and twenty large characters can be written on one piece.

Xu Yi told them that they had to write two big characters a day and they could not make any mistakes. If they made a mistake in one word, they would have to start over and write it again.

Therefore, the paper consumption has been a bit fast recently, and it seems that I will have to buy a few more papers tomorrow.

After Xu Yi heard what he said, he turned his attention to Ah Jin.

Ah Jin's face instantly turned red, and he hesitated: "Mr. I, I wasted eight pieces of paper. I won't dare to do it next time."

Xu Yi curled his lips and smiled: "If I can write out the words, I will waste a few more useless pieces of paper." No."

When Ah Jin heard what he said, she immediately nodded heavily and winked secretly at her brother. She said that Lang Jun was a good person and would not scold her!

However, when Ah Jin wrote big characters the next day, he was still more serious than before.

She is not talented in boxing, and her strength is not enough. The fists she makes are soft and cute, like a cute little doll.

Xu Yi discovered that A Jin's talent for reading was higher than that of A Xu. After reading the annotations of the Three Character Classic several times, A Jin understood the annotations faster and remembered them easier than A Xu.

It's just that both of them are still young and can't see the written words. They can only see whether the strokes are right or wrong.

After checking their homework, Xu Yi taught them new sentences from the Three Character Classic, two sentences at a time, and waited until they understood it before continuing.

After class, Xu Yi came to the kitchen and planned to make a bottle of muscle-building ointment for Zhang Tiegou.

The muscle-strengthening ointment is mainly composed of six herbs: angelica, angelica, licorice, lithospermum, unicorn root and light powder.

It is necessary to first grind the Kirin dried powder and light powder into fine powder with Huiyi groove, then sieve and keep it for later use.

Then break the remaining four medicinal herbs into small pieces, put them in a pot and soak them in clear oil. After soaking, fry them until they are burnt, then remove the residue and filter them.

At this time, Xu Yi sent A Xu to the medical clinic to buy a pound of beeswax.

A Xu went out quickly. Xu Yi spent this time refining the fried oil until it was so sticky that it dripped into beads. state.

At this time, A Xu also came back.

The quality of purchased beeswax contains impurities, which need to be melted and filtered out before use.

When everything is ready, Xu Yi can mix the refined oil and medicinal powder and stir them evenly, turning them into a brown-red ointment.

The reason why the paste is brown-red is because of the use of Kirin.

This Qilinjie is also called Xuejie, and its color resembles a clotted red blood clot. It can treat bruises and injuries, and it can also treat traumatic bleeding. It has the effect of astringing sores and promoting muscle growth.

With this swelling-reducing and muscle-building ointment, Zhang Tiegou's wounds are no longer a big problem.

This muscle-growing ointment is expensive because of the cumbersome production process. It is a prescription recorded in the "Taiping Shenghui Prescription" compiled by Wang Huaiyin and Wang You of the Northern Song Dynasty for fourteen years.

It is now the third year of Chunhua, the year this book was written.

Xu Yi knew that this book was now compiled only for official books and was not accessible to civilians.

Since he had used it, he couldn't use it in the name of "swelling-reducing and muscle-building ointment" and just told Zhang Tiegou that it was the ointment he made himself, so that he could not use it in front of outsiders.

Although Zhang Tiegou acted careless, he was much more attentive in his heart. When he heard this, he knew that this ointment was unusual. If someone with a heart heard about it, it might be detrimental to Xu Yi.

Naturally, he won't say much.