Chapter 95

The boy had been waiting outside the carriage for a while. His limbs were stiff due to the cold. When he saw Xu Yi, he ran over with his eyes shining.

"Doctor Xu, Doctor Xu, you are finally back."

Xu Yi looked at him and said with a slight frown: "What are you doing here?"

The young man hurriedly bowed in a low voice and said: "Last time, I was a little girl. I have offended Dr. Xu. I hope Mr. Xu will ignore the fault of others and spare Xiao Xiao this time."

As soon as he finished speaking, the curtain of the carriage behind was lifted, and a middle-aged man emerged from inside.

The middle-aged man looked in the direction of Xu Yi. He saw that he was about forty years old, wearing a fifty-percent-new green corrugated brocade robe. When Xu Yi raised his eyes and met his gaze, a smile appeared on his face.

"This must be Dr. Xu." He got out of the car.

Then he introduced himself to Xu Yi and said that he was the housekeeper of Wang Yuan's family in Yanting County.

"My surname is Lu. I heard that Doctor Xu can cure blindness a month ago, so I asked the servant below to come and find out. Unexpectedly, the person below did not handle the matter properly and made rude remarks to Doctor Xu." He finished explaining. The purpose of my visit was to ask this young boy to make a good apology to Xu Yi.

Not only that, he came here with an apology.

It was a wooden box, and it contained nothing valuable. It was Sicai fruits bought from a famous pastry shop on East Street.

Xu Yi frowned and did not pick up the wooden box. He just said truthfully: "I have never been cured of 'eye blindness'. This must be a misinformation."

Butler Lu said: "It's okay, it's just that my mother's eye disease has been for many years and it's getting worse now. As a son, I can't help but feel unbearable..."

Butler Lu didn't know Xu Yi at first. He only sent a boy to ask about it last time, and he only heard what others said about him.

A few days ago, he and his friends were drinking in a wine shop to relieve their worries, and they heard from their friends that Dr. Xu from South Street was the little Dr. Xu who had been rumored recently. After repeated inquiries, he accidentally learned that Doctor Xu was the doctor he had asked the boy to find to treat "blindness".

He sensed something was wrong and immediately called the boy for questioning after returning home.

After asking, I found out that the boy didn't treat him politely at all because he was young. Instead, he looked down upon spitting... He was so confused that he almost wanted to beat the boy.

So, without saying a word, he took the boy to apologize.

In Xu's house.

Xu Yi listened to his explanation and his eyes fell on the boy with his shoulders hunched. He didn't look as arrogant as when they first met him.

"In that case, Butler Lu would like to ask me to make a medical visit?" Xu Yi looked away and asked the middle-aged man sitting opposite.

Butler Lu quickly responded: "Please ask Dr. Xu."

Xu Yi did not agree and frowned and said, "I don't know much about eye diseases, so Butler Lu would be better off asking someone else to do it."

The so-called eye diseases are not just one or two. , but it is caused by many kinds of diseases, such as the "blindness disease" commonly known among the people nowadays, which is not really a blindness disease.

But because he had been sick for too long, his eyes became damaged over time, so he was called blindness by the people.

But in Chinese medicine, there is no disease called "blindness disease".

Of course, learning Chinese medicine requires you to face a variety of patients. Since ancient times, there have been medical disputes and distrust of doctors.

Xu Yi would not refuse to treat his father-in-law because of this young man, but not all patients would do so.

For example, Butler Lu's mother is old and has suffered from eye diseases for many years, so she must have seen many doctors. If those doctors were not optimistic, he, a young doctor with insufficient clinical experience, might not be able to cure the disease even if he thought about it.

Butler Lu: "..."

He didn't expect that Xu Yi would reject him.

Butler Lu opened his mouth, feeling a little annoyed that the young man had taken matters into his own hands last time. If not for this, how could Doctor Xu refuse to visit him?

He sincerely asked twice more.

Now in his mind, if Dr. Xu was invited by the Xing family to be the doctor at the free clinic, he had some real ability. A capable person's temper is unpredictable, but as long as he sincerely requests, he will surely impress the other person.

Thinking this way, he asked Xu Yi to visit him again.

Seeing his perseverance, and thinking that the other party had not given up looking for him for so long, Xu Yi hesitated for a moment and finally agreed: "In that case, I will let you go to see him, but you must make it clear to Butler Lu in advance that your father's eye disease is I'm not sure it can be cured."

"You should understand," Butler Lu said happily, and immediately handed over his hand.

...

Not long after, Xu Yi carried the medicine box on his back and sat in the other party's donkey cart.

After a while, the handlebar drove the donkey cart to a courtyard in the city.

This courtyard is not big. It is located in a small alley not far from the northern suburbs of the city. It is surrounded by similar houses and is very similar to Shijing Lane.

After Butler Lu got out of the car, he invited Xu Yi into the courtyard. He shouted inside, and a middle-aged woman about his age came out.

The middle-aged woman wears a cyan headscarf, a narrow-sleeved skirt and a ginger-colored bellyband. This person is Butler Lu's wife.

Because she had to take care of the elderly at home, Butler Lu's wife did not go to the master's house to find a job on duty.

However, his monthly salary as a housekeeper at Wang Yuanwai's house was enough for the whole family.

When the woman heard that Xu Yi was here to see her old mother, she hesitated before pulling Butler Lu away.

After a while, Butler Lu came back with a strange expression and whispered to Xu Yi: "I haven't been home for a few days. My wife said that my mother hasn't left the house these days, so I'm afraid there will be some strange smell in the house."

Xu Yi raised his eyebrows, they Behind where you stand, there is a room with closed doors and windows.

If nothing else, this old lady should be living there.

Xu Yi has no idea whether patients have odor. As a doctor, he always encounters all kinds of patients. But since Butler Lu said so, Xu Yi still made some preparations in his mind.

When the door of the house opened and he smelled a strong smell of urine as soon as he entered...

Xu Yi fell silent.

Butler Lu showed a hint of embarrassment when he smelled the strange smell in the room.

But thinking that his old mother lived in the house, he couldn't dislike it, and he suddenly felt complicated emotions in his heart.

His mood has nothing to do with Xu Yi.

After Xu Yi entered the room, his eyes fell on the dim surroundings. The windows on both sides were covered with heavy curtains. There was a charcoal basin burning in the room and an overnight toilet. The old lady's daily life and food were all in the room. solved here.

The various remaining smells, mixed with the smell of burning charcoal, these urinals, etc., formed a disgusting smell.

As they entered the house, Butler Lu's wife lit the lamp in the house.

She explained with some embarrassment: "The old lady doesn't let us clean up her house on weekdays..."

"Okay, I'm going to wake mother up." Housekeeper Lu couldn't help but interrupted his wife.

He went inside and called for someone. The old lady sitting on the bed in the back room had already known that they had entered.

But she didn't speak. She stared at the small door of the back room with a pair of cloudy eyes that couldn't see clearly, and didn't move for a long time.

Butler Lu sighed inwardly and shouted: "Mom, why haven't you left the house for several days?"

After a while, the old woman's voice came faintly: "I can't see, so what if I go out."

Butler Lu She comforted, "I'll ask a new doctor to come over and see you. Maybe he can cure your eye disease."

The old woman moved her shoulders, but didn't stand up: "This disease... can it be cured?"

"Can it be cured?" , I can definitely do it." Butler Lu knelt on the bedside, grabbed the old mother's hand, and whispered who the doctor was.

"Mother, do you remember that the Xing family set up a free clinic a while ago? This doctor Xu was the doctor in charge of the free clinic at that time. He cured many patients in those days, and those who treated him said that his medical skills were good."

Hearing this, the old woman became numb. Finally there was an emotional change on his face.

She grabbed her son's hand and let him help her stand up.

"Okay, okay. I just want to listen to you and give Dr. Xu a good look."

...

Outside, Xu Yi listened to the intermittent words in the room, but he was thinking in his heart, what exactly did this old woman get? Eye disease.

On the other hand, the woman next to her was absentmindedly twisting her belly, listening to the words inside. Before the people inside could come out, she had already run in, and helped the old woman out with Butler Lu.

Only then did Xu Yi see the condition of the old woman's eyes.

The appearance of the old woman's eyes was normal, but the pupil crystals inside were slightly turbid, without the slightest sparkle. As she moved around, her eyes were also moving, but anyone with a clear eye could see that her eyesight was not good, and she could hardly see. Something is missing.

"Where is Doctor Xu?" The old woman walked over, looking around, and finally landed on a vague black shadow in front of her.

Xu Yi took a step forward, raised his hand without showing any disdain, and said, "That's it."

The old woman asked, "Can you cure my eye disease?"

"We still don't know." Xu Yi shook his head, "I need to give him some treatment first. Old lady, you can only know whether it can be cured by seeing the doctor."

"Okay, okay," the old lady shouted again.

She asked Butler Lu to help her sit on a chair in the room, and then asked her daughter-in-law to close the curtain: "The doctor is coming, why don't you help me clean it up, so that the doctor can laugh at it."

The woman Her expression was ugly: "..."

But she was the daughter-in-law, so she couldn't say anything in front of outsiders, so she could only endure her anger, quickly raised the curtain and hung it on the hook, and cleared a clean area on the table. Let Xu Yi sit down and treat the old woman.

Xu Yi watched all this silently, what else could he say, this was someone else's family matter and he had no right to interfere.

He just looked at the woman's busy appearance, and then looked at the old woman sitting on the chair who looked like she was taking it for granted.

Xu Yi thought about it for a while, then returned his thoughts to the old woman's eye disease.

He asked the old woman if she had any discomfort in her daily life, and learned that she didn't have any discomfort except that her eyes were getting blurry.

Then, Xu Yi asked her if she had tinnitus.

The old woman nodded. Sometimes she couldn't hear clearly when she heard mixed sounds, and others thought she was deaf.

As time goes by, the old woman's temper becomes more and more weird, let alone the daughter-in-law. Sometimes her son rarely gets back home, but he doesn't get a good look.

After asking what she wanted to ask, Xu Yi asked her to reach out and he wanted to check her pulse.

Judging from the symptoms, the old woman is most likely to suffer from "round nebula cataract", which is called "cataract" in modern medicine. In traditional Chinese medicine, "round nebula cataract" has many causes, among which the elderly Weakness, gradual decline of qi and blood, loss of nourishment for the eyes, loss of liver and kidneys, exhaustion of mind and body, deficiency of yin and excess of fire, etc. [Note 1]

After examining her pulse, Xu Yi could basically conclude dialectically that this old woman suffered from senile round pannus and cataract caused by liver and kidney deficiency and lack of essence and blood.

But she has been ill for too long, and it is almost impossible to rely on the current medicinal soup to restore her eyesight.

Furthermore, in addition to taking medicine for this disease, you also need to apply ointment to your eyes, and you must keep a calm mind.

I saw that the house where the old woman lived was filled with all kinds of debris, and the smell lingered for a long time.

Staying in such an environment for a long time may accelerate blindness, let alone cure.

Xu Yi said bluntly: "Steward Lu, your father's eye disease is round nebula and cataracts. This disease is caused by damage to the liver and kidneys. Moreover, your father is old and his energy cannot rise up to the eyes. If you want to cure it, you are afraid of it." It's even more difficult."

Upon hearing this, Butler Lu quickly asked Xu Yi if there was any way to cure it.

"I will first prescribe a dose of nourishing yin and improving eyesight soup for your daughter. This soup needs to be taken for a long time to be effective, and the effect of the soup varies from person to person. It is not guaranteed that you can fully recover after drinking it." After Xu Yi finished speaking, he looked at Lu housekeeper.

Butler Lu struggled for a moment and couldn't help asking worriedly: "What if the medicine is not effective?"

Xu Yi replied quietly: "I can see 20 to 30% of things clearly."

Upon hearing his words, Butler Lu's heart trembled. , if you can restore 20 to 30% of your vision, that would be great.

The woman next to her was also moved. If the old lady's eye disease got better, would it be easier to serve her than before?

Everyone has their own concerns, but they have reached a unanimous request, which is to prescribe medicine and treat the disease.

Especially the old woman couldn't wait to ask her son to get pen and paper.

Xu Yi did not use the Lu family's paper and pen. He took out the pen, ink, paper and inkstone from the medicine box. After grinding the ink, he took up the pen and wrote down the prescription.

Ziyin Mingmu Decoction is composed of twelve medicinal materials including wolfberry, dodder, rehmannia glutinosa, dogwood, poria, polygonum multiflorum, yam, dense flower, white peony root, angelica, ligustrum, and mulberry. [Note 2]

In ordinary prescriptions, a few herbs are enough, but this Ziyin and Eyesight Decoction uses a lot of herbs. Even after the decoction is cooked, it is very difficult to swallow.

Xu Yi did not tell them that the medicinal soup was unpleasant to drink. He just told the old woman not to eat candied fruits while drinking the medicinal soup.

"Take this decoction with water, one dose and two doses a day. After taking 30 doses, you can stop taking the medicine for a few days and wait for my second consultation."

Butler Lu was stunned when he heard that he had to take 30 doses, but he still agreed. .

Seeing this, Xu Yi said nothing more.

After handing him the prescription, he explained that the consultation fee for this visit would be fifty cents.

Butler Lu was not short of the fifty cents. As soon as the auscultation fee was this amount, he immediately counted out fifty cents from his purse and handed it to Xu Yi.

...

Xu Yi got the money, and when he came back to South Street, he bought a few mutton sesame cakes in front of Granny Li's stall. Granny Li recognized him and gave him a bowl of mutton offal soup.

When he returned home with sesame seed cakes and mutton offal soup, Yu Qiulin also returned home after a while carrying a small package.

As soon as Yu Qiulin got home, he happily pulled Mrs. He into the house.

He closed the door and whispered to her: "Mom, all the Xiaoshi pills I bought from Brother Yi have been sold!"

"Sold?" Mrs. He was surprised.

It's only been a few days.

Have all those Xiaoshi pills been sold?

Yu Qiulin sighed and said with a smile: "No, I didn't expect it to happen so soon. The market outside the temple was very lively. There were several companies selling pills, all selling Brother Yi's Chen's Xiaoshi Pills." They are selling them under the name, but I think the ones they are selling are fake and the prices are more affordable than mine, so I am worried."

He thought that with so many fake Xiaoshi pills coming out, the Xiaoshi pills he had in hand would be more expensive. It will be sold out in a day.

Who would have thought that Yu Qiulin had just arrived at the market today, and before he had set up his stall, several government officials with knives came to the market and arrested all the stall owners selling fake Xiaoshi pills.