When Chen Hongliang heard this, he was filled with admiration. He couldn't help but think of what his master Yanzi Li San said to him.
At that time, he wanted to follow his master to Tianjin to make a living, but his master kept saying that he was sincere and would suffer losses if he followed him, so Li San insisted on not taking Chen Hongliang with him.
Today, I saw that although I had no good skills, I fell into trouble with Bao Guowei, a literate scholar.
He actually believed what his master said at that time, and at the same time he admired the clever and intelligent Bao Guowei greatly.
Bao Guowei noticed Chen Hongliang's micro-expression and knew that he had already caught him.
"We're almost there if we walk."
After turning a few more corners, Bao Guowei and Chen Hongliang came to a dilapidated shack. There was a smelly ditch outside the house. The surrounding houses were probably hundreds of years old.
Bao Guowei guessed that this was Li Gouzi's family.
After some thinking last night, the solution to Yuan Pingxu's mission has roughly taken shape in his mind, but he still lacks a key person to be his mouthpiece.
This person must be eloquent, have no stage fright, and be courageous.
Just when Bao Guowei was looking for someone to handle this matter, Dai Laosan accidentally sent Li Gouzi to him.
Li Gouzi often interacts with the customers in Dai Laosan's barber shop, and has developed an all-round heart and a sharp tongue, and he is sincere and filial.
So when he came this time, he promised Uncle Dai that he would catch this kid back.
Secondly, he felt that Li Gouzi was not bad in nature, and he was smart, eloquent and good at dealing with others.
Maybe he is just the person he is looking for, who can be used by him and become a key part of his strategy to defeat Yuan Pingxu!
Bao Guowei pushed the door open and went in.
Suddenly, in the middle of the shack, he saw a haggard middle-aged woman lying on a rotten wooden bed covered with a layer of straw. Next to her, a child of seventeen or eighteen years old was brewing medicine.
And this child is none other than Li Gouzi.
When Li Gouzi saw Bao Guowei, he suddenly trembled all over.
He had just escaped from Dai Laosan's store and collided with Bao Guowei. Naturally, he knew that Bao Guowei was going to Dai Laosan's store, so he expected that Bao Guowei was here to arrest him.
Li Gouzi hurriedly grabbed a cloth bag on the ground, which contained the money he had stolen, and then ran away.
Bao Guowei did not pursue her, but said loudly: "Li Gouzi, are you cruel enough to leave your mother in this shabby shack?"
Li Gouzi was stunned immediately and stopped running away, as if he had been hit by a thunderbolt.
"Gouzi." The mother on the hospital bed called softly.
"Mom!" Li Gouzi threw himself beside the bed.
Li Gouzi had never shed a tear since his mother became seriously ill. Today, being yelled at by Bao Guowei, he was so excited that he burst into tears.
Aunt Li started to cry when she saw Li Gouzi. When she saw Bao Guowei's fair and fair appearance, with Chen Hongliang accompanying him, she thought that Li Gouzi had stolen someone's property and they had sent someone to take it from him.
"Dog...dog." Aunt Li breathed heavily, unable to speak clearly. She felt anxious, coughed twice, and fainted.
"Mother!" This mother's cry was so real that Bao Guowei felt a little distressed.
Bao Guowei was frightened and couldn't bear it. He came up to check Aunt Li's breathing and look at her face.
"What are you doing!?" Li Gouzi guarded Aunt Li vigilantly.
"Don't worry! Your mother just fainted. She just suffered from the cold."
Then, Bao Guowei opened the earthen pot where Li Gouzi had boiled the medicine, and saw that it was all useless medicinal materials stewed together indiscriminately.
"Where did you get the medicine?" Bao Guowei asked.
"The Chengdong Family's Hesheng Hall."
Bao Guowei shook his head helplessly, "Quack doctors harm people!"
Although Bao Guowei was not a doctor, he once carefully read the "Barefoot Doctor's Handbook", which recorded the diagnosis and treatment methods of various common diseases.
Therefore, he can also treat minor injuries and illnesses.
"This is just a common cold. It's just because Aunt Li has been malnourished and in poor health all year round that she fell ill." Bao Guowei murmured in his heart.
Bao Guowei used a medicine spoon to pick up the pebbles in the earthen pot, pointed at it and asked Li Gouzi: "You are confused! Why can pebbles be used as medicine?"
"The doctor asked me to bring it. He said it was a prescription made by the famous doctor Fu Qingzhu. It uses pebbles as a medicine. The doctor gave me a pebble and said it was made from medicinal soup. He told me to put the pebble in a pot and boil it until it becomes soft. Later it was used as a medicine."
Li Gouzi answered clearly.
Bao Guowei found it funny, but then he felt sad.
He couldn't help but think of Lu Xun's "Father's Disease", in which quack doctors harm people, and Lu Xun's father eventually delayed treatment and left the world.
To be honest, in the troubled times of the Republic of China, without a complete medical system, it was always possible for those charlatans to get in and make money, but at the expense of bloody human lives!
"There is indeed an allusion in ancient times that the famous doctor Fu Qingzhu used pebbles as medicine, which was called 'boil the stones to calm the grudges'." What is healed is not the physical illness, but the mental illness! "
It turns out that "boil the stone to calm the grudges" refers to a man who once sought medical treatment from Master Fu Qing.
The man said that he and his wife used to love each other, but they occasionally had quarrels over trivial matters, and his wife felt aggrieved and unhappy. She went without eating or drinking for several days, and finally fell ill and became bedridden.
After hearing the report, Fu Qingzhu asked the man to pick up a pebble on the river beach and told him to boil the pebble in a pot until soft and use it as a medicine. He also asked him to keep adding water when boiling the stone, and not to leave people alone.
At this time, the husband kept boiling the pebbles day and night. After several days in a row, he became tired and thin, and his eyes became red. However, he remembered the famous doctor's instructions and continued to boil the pebbles.
When the wife saw this scene, she couldn't help but turn resentment into love, anger into joy, and her illness was cured.
Originally this was a good traditional cultural allusion, but unexpectedly it became the talk of quack doctors who harmed people. When that person turned the book, he must have only seen the words "pebbles can be used as medicine".
Bao Guowei told Li Gouzi the allusion. Li Gouzi suddenly stared angrily, clenched his hands tightly into a fist, and said that he was going to smash the Heshengtang!
Fortunately, he was stopped by Chen Hongliang who was standing at the door.
However, as this allusion says, although the medicine is false, its sincerity is true.
After all, Li Gouzi still has filial piety.
Bao Guowei shook his head, then took out a pen from his arms, pulled off a piece of rag, wrote down a prescription for treating colds and colds, and handed it to Chen Hongliang.
"You have quick legs and feet. Follow this recipe and grab all these medicines."
