Chapter 35 Professor Zhong
Sure enough, Qin Ju's prediction was correct. When the sun set, the Long family came back, but their faces looked strange.
It wasn't pain, nor was it embarrassment, but it looked even more depressed.
Qin Ju and Lao Qian watched them return home, and hurried to the store, spending a high price to buy two kilograms of soft and glutinous pastries suitable for the elderly, and then went to the store pretending to be unaware of the situation.
After knocking for a long time, the sound from the door became quieter, and it seemed that someone was asking "Who is it?" Lao Qian gritted his teeth and said that he was looking for Director Long to do some business during the day.
Long Wen came to open the door and was quite surprised to see the two of them. Lao Qiangan smiled and said that he was here for some business nearby and when he saw Manager Long's car, he thought of stopping by to pay them a visit.
Long Wen suppressed his worries and let them in.
Inside the house, the Long family looked glum, but they were still polite and poured them some water. Long Jiaojiao was not in the living room, and her bedroom door was closed.
Lao Qian's psychological quality was not as thick-skinned as Qin Ju, and he was so embarrassed that he couldn't say anything. He could only drink water. Qin Ju had rich experience in getting along with middle-aged and elderly women, and soon he made the old lady of the Long family and Long Wen's lover happy.
Seeing that the time was ripe, she suddenly said: "Just now we went downstairs and heard some bad rumors..." I'm sorry, ladies, you have to take the blame for this.
Sure enough, this look of wanting to say something but not being able to, and the unspeakable scruples, immediately made the Long family members' faces change, "They are talking nonsense, my granddaughter (youngest daughter) is not pregnant at all!"
In a hurry, he denied it and revealed the truth that he had been hiding. Lao Qian admired Qin Ju's courage. He dared to deceive others at such a time.
Of course, he approved of Xiao Qin's approach. As she herself said, even though she had selfish motives and wanted to get Long Wen's help, her sense of responsibility as a doctor would not allow her to sit by and watch a young girl being gossiped about.
Qin Ju pretended to be very curious, "I don't think so either. Although I have never met your daughter, Director Long is such an upright and selfless leader, so there must be no problem with the daughter he teaches."
By the way, he praised the Long family's family traditions, and the old lady of the Long family was very pleased to hear it.
"But, strangely enough, when I was studying medicine with my master, he told me a strange story. He said that during the Republic of China, he was practicing medicine in Zhejiang. One time, he encountered a girl from a girls' school who was expelled because she was pregnant. The school suspected that she was not a woman of virtue and had violated school rules. The girl was only about 15 or 16 years old."
The Long family members looked unhappy. Isn’t this the “end” that will happen to their daughter Jiaojiao?
Although Mrs. Long was worried about her granddaughter, she couldn't help but be a little curious, "Oh? What happened next?"
"Everyone in the school said that the girl couldn't eat and felt sick all day long. She vomited everything she ate and her belly became bigger within a few days. So the school didn't suspect she was pregnant. But the student's parents found my master, who took her pulse and insisted that she was not pregnant."
Everyone in the Long family sat up straight, "Really?"
"Really? My master told them that if they didn't believe it, they could go to the church hospital in Haicheng to have a look. Sure enough, the machine there checked and found that it was not pregnancy at all, but pure rumor."
Old Lady Long showed a look of joy. Wasn't their Jiaojiao like this? Everyone said she was pregnant and must be immoral, but Jiaojiao slept in the same bed with her every night, how could she be immoral? Her granddaughter was the most well-behaved and obedient, and she would never believe it even if she was beaten to death.
So, she went to the hospital for a check-up this afternoon, and the doctor said she was not pregnant and her granddaughter was in good health. But no one could explain why her belly was so big, why she couldn't eat and was vomiting.
It would be fine if the problem could be found out and the right medicine could be prescribed. The worst thing is that we don't know what the problem is, but my granddaughter just feels uncomfortable. What if the belly gets bigger and bigger? That would be like the yellow mud in my □□. It would be shit if it's not shit!
"My master was amazing. He only gave the girl a drink and the next day, her belly was smaller."
All the Dragon family members, their eyes lit up, drinks? That's not bad to eat.
The worst possible outcome would be an upset stomach or diarrhea.
Long Wen hesitated for a moment. He was no fool. He could tell from just a brief encounter that Comrade Qin was not a person who spoke without purpose. It was impossible for him to bring up this "story" for no reason.
"Doctor Qin, please follow me."
He brought her directly into the lady's room, with the intention of giving it a try.
Long Jiaojiao was sitting at the desk at this time, sobbing softly, her whole face pale. When she saw Qin Jue, a stranger, she paused, stood up and greeted her, "Sister."
Very cute indeed.
"I, Long Wenming, am a man who doesn't beat around the bush. My daughter has recently developed a strange disease, which happens to be similar to the example Doctor Qin just mentioned. So I would like to ask Doctor Qin to take a look. If you can cure the disease, I, Long, will definitely thank you handsomely." As he spoke, he bowed, with a bit of the heroic spirit of a man of the world.
Qin Ju was not polite and directly took Long Jiaojiao's hand and took her pulse.
As he held it, his brows wrinkled.
From the beginning, she knew that Long Jiaojiao was probably not pregnant, and the good upbringing of the Long family and Jiaojiao's own well-behaved nature indirectly proved her guess. However, such a big belly could not have grown out of thin air, so she wondered if it was some gynecological or digestive system tumor, or stool retention, malnutrition and edema.
But the pulse doesn't look like that.
During the consultation, she did not suffer from constipation for a long time. In addition, Long Wen and his wife both had formal jobs, and she was the only child in the family. Her living conditions were far above the average level of the time, so it was impossible for her to be malnourished.
"What's wrong?" Long Wen was always paying attention to her expression and was sweating at this moment.
Qin Jue paused and asked, "What did the hospital examination say?"
"She's not pregnant, and she doesn't have a tumor." The gynecologist told his wife privately, the hymen is intact, and it's still a child.
They regretted blaming Jiaojiao wrongly.
Qin Ju nodded, it seems that he was right. Then, following the pulse, he will definitely find a breakthrough point. "In the past two months, has your daughter been to the south, a place with heavy humidity and hot weather?"
Long Wen paused and said, "Yes, I went to Minnan Province two months ago."
"Did you catch a heat stroke in Minnan Province?"
Heat cold is also known as heat flu.
Long Wen continued to nod, "Excuse me, how did Doctor Qin know about it?" Jiaojiao went to Minnan Province with him on a business trip. The little girl said she wanted to go traveling, but he didn't want to make a big fuss about it, so he didn't tell anyone else. Even in the pharmaceutical company, only his two confidants knew about it, and they couldn't announce it to anyone, and Qin Ju was even less likely to know about it.
"I can tell from your pulse." Qin Ju continued to ask, "Since you came back, has your daughter been feeling thirsty more often and drinking more water?"
"right!"
"yes!"
The father and daughter said in unison that Jiaojiao didn't like drinking water much before. She would basically drink when she felt thirsty, and at most one cup of 500 milliliters a day. But since returning from Minnan Province, she always feels thirsty and has to drink water in big gulps, otherwise her mouth will feel uncomfortable. She can drink two to three thousand milliliters a day.
The look in Long Wen's eyes when he looked at Qin Ju was a little more convinced and cautious. At first, he just wanted to give it a try with the mentality of "try everything possible". After all, she said that there was no need to take medicine, just drink the beverage, and it wouldn't do any harm.
But now, it seems that she is not just bragging. Because of his work, he has been able to come into contact with many Chinese medicine practitioners, but he has never met such a "miraculous" pulse-taking doctor. He thinks that this young Chinese medicine doctor may really have something.
"Besides being thirsty, you also feel hot, right?"
Long Jiaojiao nodded repeatedly. Finally someone knew how miserable she was!
At first she said she was hot and couldn't wear outer clothes, so her grandmother and mother scolded her. When they took her temperature and found she didn't have a fever at all, she was speechless. Her mother said she was disappointed in her and didn't know who she learned to tell lies from.
"I feel hot, but my limbs feel cold, especially my palms and soles. I sweat coldly, is that right?"
Long Jiaojiao jumped up suddenly, her face flushed with excitement, "Hmm!"
She also told her family about this feeling of being hot in the body but having cold limbs, but they thought she was talking nonsense at first. How could the human body have two completely opposite symptoms at the same time?
Later, unable to bear her crying and begging, even when she threatened to stop going to school, her family took her to the hospital, but the examination revealed nothing.
She said she felt hot, but her temperature was measured several times and it was normal.
She said her limbs were cold, but her skin temperature and complexion were normal, and her flexion and extension movements were not restricted.
After some investigation, her parents began to suspect that she was lying and pretending to be sick because she didn't want to go to school. Her father even got angry with her several times. She really couldn't explain it to anyone!
At this time, Long Wen looked at the lady's expression and knew that her behavior meant that Qin Ju had done everything right. The child had actually told him about this strange symptom, and his mother and wife had been worried for a while. He had taken the child to see a doctor, but nothing was found. He was busy with work, so it was inevitable that he would think, like his wife, that the lady was ignorant and pretending to be sick.
Because they thought it was a family shame, they never told anyone about it, so Qin Jue couldn't have known about it from anyone else.
This further proves that all of Qin Jue's descriptions of Jiao Jiao's symptoms came from pulse diagnosis!
What a profound and mysterious pulse diagnosis technique this must be! Long Wen was shocked and felt ashamed for his initial contempt for her.
There are many masters among the people, and the ancients did not deceive me.
Qin Ju didn't notice the change in his expression, but the change in his attitude was quite obvious. She was now certain that the so-called "pregnancy" was actually the result of the summer heat and humidity in the south, which was stuck in her body and could not be discharged.
"Can I buy water chestnuts, watermelons, lotus roots, and white radishes?"
"I just bought some water chestnuts and watermelons yesterday, and we still have some at home." Old Lady Long jumped out and said, she had been peeking at the door and had witnessed Qin Jue's "divine prediction" throughout the whole process. She usually liked to see a Chinese doctor whenever she had a headache or a fever, and now she was even more convinced and arranged for her daughter-in-law to go out and buy lotus roots and white radishes, "Doctor Qin, do you think you need anything else? Let's buy some together?"
Qin Jue thought for a moment, "Does it have betel nut?"
"What is an ice wolf?" The old lady was confused.
As a native of Shilan, it was normal for him to have never heard of this kind of thing. Qin Ju was about to ask if he could use something else as a substitute, but Long Wen suddenly said, "Yes."
Last time he went on a business trip to Guangdong Province, the sales manager there gave him a bag of medicine, saying it was produced on the island and had some insecticidal and itchy-relieving properties. He didn't think of using it when he got it back, so he just put it away.
Qin Ju nodded, "Okay, that's enough."
Old Lady Long circled around her twice and asked, "Are these few medicines enough?"
"That's enough. The quality of medicine is more valuable than the quantity." Qin Ju smiled and comforted Long Jiaojiao, "Your disease is not a strange one. It's just the dampness in your body that can't be dissipated. As long as you release this evil energy, your stomach will slowly calm down, and the nausea and vomiting symptoms will be completely cured."
"Is it...complete?" She asked blankly, stroking her belly.
Not to mention, on the way back, seeing her family members with sad faces and her grandmother and mother in tears, it seemed as if her life was ruined... For a moment, the thought of committing suicide came into her mind. She might as well just die. As long as she died, she would be innocent!
But she is just a little girl in her teens after all, how could she not be afraid of death?
Now, a sister who was only a few years older than her told her that she didn't have to die, didn't have to lose her reputation, and could even return to her former self. She couldn't believe her ears.
Soon, Mrs. Long bought back white radish and lotus root. Qin Jiao instructed them to peel and mash the water chestnuts, watermelons, lotus roots and white radish, squeeze out the juice, and take it with the betel nut shells that had just been crushed into powder.
The smell was definitely unpleasant, and the taste was not pleasant either, but Long Jiaojiao didn't care about that at the moment. She finished eating the betel nut powder and drank two bowls of various "juices" in a row until she burped. Of course, she was nauseous and vomiting the whole time, just like a pregnant woman.
Qin Ju stopped her and said, "Don't drink anymore. If you drink too much, you might not be able to bear it later..."
As soon as she finished speaking, there was a thunderous sound coming from Long Jiaojiao's belly. Her face turned red, and she pinched the corner of her clothes, not daring to raise her head.
However, the next second, her expression changed, "I have diarrhea."
"Go." Qin Ju patted her shoulder. The heat and dampness in the body must find an outlet, and diarrhea is the best outlet.
She has always firmly believed that the effectiveness of a medicine can be quickly reflected in the body. Some people will sneeze after taking the medicine, some will have diarrhea, some will urinate more frequently, and some will have an increased appetite... These are all the body's feedback under the stimulation of the medicine.
There is no need to avoid it like a snake or scorpion.
Long Wen invited her and Lao Qian to sit in the living room and made him a cup of Longjing tea, which he usually didn't want to drink. The old lady also served them some crispy pastries made with lard. "You guys eat first. You can stay at home tonight. I'll ask Jiaojiao's mother to buy some food."
Qin Ju and Lao Qian looked at each other. They shouldn't stay for long as Doudou was still at home. Qin Ju just wanted to end the battle quickly and it would be best if they could take action right away.
But Mrs. Long left immediately, and they couldn't stop her. Lao Qian could only sigh: "Thank you for your kindness, Manager Long. We are really in a hurry."
Long Wen followed up the conversation and asked what was going on. Lao Qian immediately burst into tears and told the institute about its current predicament. The main reason was that there was no one to guide them. They had to rely on themselves to cross the river by feeling the stones. They didn’t know when they could find the rules. He also said that they had been waiting for the Chinese medicinal seedlings for such a long time and could not continue to plant them. Blah blah blah…
I said those things this morning, but the dragon text this time sounded and felt different.
What does it have to do with him in the morning? Now, this small health center in Lenghe Town has produced many talents.
Whether out of appreciation for talent or gratitude, he planned to return the favor: "Here's how, I know a friend, you wait a moment."
He got up, went to the other end of the sofa, and picked up the white phone.
Qin Ju tilted his ears. He exchanged a few pleasantries first, then told her about her predicament. The person on the other end hesitated for two seconds and said something. Long Wen nodded repeatedly, and finally said that he would come to her house another day and let his sister-in-law cook for him, and then he hung up the phone.
It can be seen that the two have a good personal relationship.
"Okay, Lao Zhong will go and help."
"I wonder who this person is..."
"An old friend of mine used to be a professor of Chinese medicine at the Shilan Provincial College of Traditional Chinese Medicine. Later, he was displaced... He is now transferred to the Institute of Botany. His research area is the cultivation of traditional Chinese medicines in our province, which is a good match for you."
"That's great!" Qin Ju jumped up with joy. If she had professional guidance, her 30 mu of medicinal field would be no problem.
However, Long Wen's surprises did not stop there. "By the way, he has seeds and seedlings of those Chinese medicinal herbs you mentioned. You can first determine the time and price, and make sure the medicinal fields are ready for transplanting, and then he can bring them over."
Qin Ju was overjoyed, "Thank you, Manager Long, thank you."
"I should be the one thanking you."
Qin Ju also understood the meaning of the music, and immediately prescribed two more conditioning prescriptions for Long Jiaojiao, "Continue to take betel nut with the four kinds of mixed juice for the next two days, until tomorrow night, and you can drink some white porridge. From the day after tomorrow, take the medicine according to the prescription on the left, and switch to the prescription on the right after half a month. Call me if you have any questions."
Leave the health center's phone number.
Long Wen was reluctant to let her go at first, as he was worried that if she left, the young lady would have another attack. But seeing how thoughtful she was, he decided not to try to keep her. He thought that at the worst, they could just go to Lenghe Town themselves.
As long as Jiaojiao's illness can be cured, he can go anywhere.
"Manager Long, you are such a good person. I want to thank you on behalf of the people of Lenghe Town."
After dinner, they said goodbye to the Long family. Seeing that the sun was about to set, the three of them did not dare to waste even a second and immediately headed straight for the Botanical Research Institute.
*
The current Provincial Botanical Institute is not what Qin Jue remembered. There is no tall lintel, only an iron gate. There is a security uncle at the door. Qian Fusheng got out of the car, took out the cigarettes that he himself was reluctant to smoke and bought specifically to build relationships, and soon started chatting with the uncle.
The Institute of Botany is not a lucrative department, and it is difficult for the uncle to get such treatment. He was so happy that he answered whatever Qian Fusheng asked and quickly "investigated" Professor Zhong's background.
Professor Zhong's name is Zhong Weimin. He is now 50 years old. He was married but divorced. In 1966, his wife cut off all ties with him and posted a big-character poster to avoid being implicated. She took her children back to her parents' home. Now he is the only one living in the single dormitory assigned by the Institute of Botany. The most important thing is that he is hardworking and never complains about the dirt or tiredness of work. He can get along well with everyone and has the best popularity in the institute.
A few people felt more at ease now. After all, in a place like Lenghe Town, if you were delicate and couldn't endure hardship, you might go in in the morning and leave in a rage in the afternoon.
After a while, three men walked towards the door. The security guard pointed at one of them wearing glasses and said, "This is Professor Zhong you are looking for."
Zhong Weimin was also a little surprised when he heard this. He waved goodbye to his two colleagues and asked, "Were you introduced by Comrade Long Wen?"
"Oh, yes, we are. You are Professor Zhong, right?" Qian Fusheng immediately went up to her, held her hands, and shook them vigorously.
The two middle-aged men quickly started chatting, and Qin Ju and the driver went to help him pack his luggage. This trip would take at least ten days or half a month, and the most important thing was to bring the seedlings with them. The land reclamation had been completely completed, and all the land that needed to be dried had been dried, so they could be planted directly.
"Wait a moment before planting the seedlings. Make sure they can be planted before you go out. Don't forget my equipment... Wait a moment, let me do it myself." Qin Ju and the driver suddenly didn't dare to touch his treasures.
After packing, Professor Zhong rejected the suggestion of going to the state-owned hotel for dinner. Hearing that they had already eaten, he went to the company cafeteria and bought a few steamed buns. He ate them while getting in the car and rushed to Lenghe Town without stopping, without wasting a single minute.
Qin Ju really liked this style of doing things, and talked and laughed with them along the way. By the time he returned to Lenghe Town, he had become quite familiar with Zhong Weimin, who had been holding on to the equipment and was reluctant to let go.
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