A few days later, Mrs. Zhao's condition improved greatly. She was able to go to the ground for some exercise and eat normally.
Zhao Qu was overjoyed and immediately took out one hundred taels of silver, together with the one hundred taels promised in the previous notice, a total of two hundred taels of silver, and sent it to the Yongzhou Prefecture Nursing Home to thank Mrs. Tong for treating his mother.
On the day he went to the nursing home to deliver the money, Shen Zhonglei specially found someone to promote it with gongs and drums.
As a result, Lady Tong's reputation for her superb medical skills spread almost throughout the entire Yongzhou Prefecture. However, unfortunately, no one knew where Lady Tong came from and could not find her.
At this time, Shen Tianshu had asked Qiu Jun to help find a courtyard in the city and planned to buy it as a place for his future medical treatment.
Qiu Jun was very efficient and quickly selected three houses that met Shen Tianshu's requirements.
Shen Tianshu took the time to go out and look at them one by one, and finally selected the Sanjin Courtyard in the east of the city. He also paid a high price to buy the house next door, which was separated by a wall and opened to another street, leaving himself an escape route.
The house was ready, but Shen Tianshu did not rush to start seeing patients, but took the time to go to the almshouse first.
Zhao Qu's enthusiasm for donating 200 taels of silver to the Alms House had not subsided before everyone learned that Mrs. Tong was coming to the Alms House to treat the refugees.
Early that morning, the gate of the Yongzhou Prefecture’s official nursing home was crowded with people who came to watch the excitement.
Although Shen Zhonglei did not come in person, he sent officers to help maintain order.
When Shen Tianshu came over in a sedan, he actually saw Gong Lihua in the crowd.
When Gong Lihua saw Shen Tianshu getting off the sedan, he hurriedly got out of the crowd and came forward and said: "Ms. Tong, Mr. Gong has closed the medical clinic today and sent everyone here alone, relying solely on Mrs. Tong's dispatch. The ones used today are All the medicinal materials are also borne by our Hua'antang. As long as you prescribe the medicine, we will immediately send someone back to get the medicine."
He is able to open such a large medical clinic in Yongzhou Prefecture, and he does have some business skills.
The nursing home in Yongzhou Prefecture is run by the government, and squires and businessmen usually come to donate money or send food and things.
The nursing home is the former site of an academy in the former dynasty. It covers a large area and once housed more than a thousand refugees at its peak.
Due to the snowstorm this year, some people were displaced or found it difficult to make ends meet, so now there are more than 200 people living in the almshouse, old and young.
At this time, most of the people who fell ill were suffering from wind and cold. Shen Tianshu checked their pulses one by one and prescribed medicine.
Gong Lihua kept his word and kept sending people to send the prescriptions back to the medical clinic. After a while, he came back with the medicine, and the bitter fragrance of the medicine soon wafted from the Yangji Hall.
Shen Tianshu saw more than a dozen patients in one go and stood up to take a rest. Suddenly he saw someone in the crowd of people watching outside who was wearing a strange dress.
Now that it is approaching the twelfth lunar month, this man is only wearing a single piece of clothing on his upper body and seems to be a little hot. The lower body is extremely bloated.
Shen Tianshu walked out of the hall of the nursing home, approached the man and asked, "Uncle, how long have you been having fever and cold?"
The uncle who was asked didn't react for a moment and was still stunned.
"Uncle Guo has been having this problem for more than two years." The person next to him had already excitedly asked, "Ms. Tong, can you cure this problem?"
Shen Tianshu said: "Uncle, please come in and sit down for a while, and I will check your pulse."
This Uncle Guo lives not far from the nursing home. Many of the people who came to see the excitement today are his neighbors. They are also very aware of his problems in the past two years. At this time, I met Shen Tianshu saw his question at a glance and was all excited.
"Lao Guo, you are in great luck. Why don't you go in quickly and let Madam Tong show you!"
"Yeah, don't always think that it's not a problem if it doesn't affect your food, drink and work. We are old neighbors. Seeing that your problem is getting worse and worse, it's better to have it checked by a doctor as soon as possible."
In fact, Uncle Guo didn't know who Mrs. Tong was. Today, he came to watch the fun and came with his neighbors.
It’s not like he’s never seen a doctor for this problem. He’s taken a lot of medicine, but it hasn’t had any effect, and now he’s basically given up.
Not even the well-known doctor could do anything about it, and he had no confidence in Mrs. Tong, but he couldn't stand the neighbors' encouragement, and finally followed Shen Tianshu back to the house.
Shen Tianshu checked and found that Uncle Guo had a swollen pulse, was weak when pressed hard, had a light red tongue, and had a thin and white coating, which was exactly what she expected.
"Uncle Guo, what's wrong with you is that you have an aversion to cold from the waist down, but your chest and back are always hot and sweaty?"
Uncle Guo did not expect that Mrs. Tong would actually hit the point with her words, and said hurriedly: "That's right. In the past two years, even in the hot weather, you have to wear pants on your legs and cover yourself with a quilt at night. It's even worse in winter. You Look at me now. I have a waist protector wrapped around my waist, roe deer leather knee pads tied around my legs, and cotton trousers. But I only wear a single shirt on my upper body. If I add another layer, I feel hot and uncomfortable. What the hell am I doing? What's wrong? Is there any cure?"
"Uncle, don't worry. You are suffering from heart and kidney yin deficiency and water and fire deficiency. Although it has been delayed for a long time, it is not a serious problem. One dose of medicine will take effect."
While the pulse diagnosis and syndrome differentiation was taking place, Minghui, who had accompanied Shen Tianshu here today, had already come over curiously. She happened to see Shen Tianshu taking a pen and paper and writing down the original recipe of Shiwei Dihuang Decoction.
Although Minghui knew some medical science since she was a child, she was not as expert as Shen Tianshu, and she couldn't see the key to it for a while.
Shen Tianshu said: "In ordinary people, the heart fire descends to the kidneys, making the kidney water not cold, and the kidney water helps the heart, making the heart fire not excessive. You should know this, right? Nowadays, the patient's heart and kidneys are both deficient, and the heart fire does not go down. When it is hot, the kidney water does not rise but becomes cold. This prescription nourishes the kidneys with water and leads the fire back to the original source, which is just right for the disease."
After Shen Tianshu finished speaking, he called a medicine boy over and said, "This uncle is not from the nursing home. Take him back to the hospital to get some medicine!"
Uncle Guo is not from the Sanatorium, so Hua Antang will not provide him with medicinal materials for free.
"Do you have to spend your own money?" Uncle Guo couldn't help but hesitate when he heard this. He saw that the people who took medicine before didn't pay for it, so he just came in. If he had to spend money, he might as well go directly to Gong Lihua for medical treatment.
Shen Tianshu explained warmly: "Uncle must have been troubled by this disease for a long time. I don't dare to say that this medicine will cure the disease in one dose, but it is enough to see the effect. You can give it a try. I will still be here in the afternoon. If there is any If you have any questions, you can come to me at any time."
She said this, and she couldn't force the other party to believe it or not.
At this time, a man who had been watching outside finally left the crowd, walked to a secluded place, wrote the words "The person has been found" on a note, and then stuffed the rolled up note into the pigeon's feet. Seal the bamboo tube on the top and throw the homing pigeon into the air.
The homing pigeon circled in the sky, and after identifying its direction, it flapped its wings and flew in the direction of north-east.
