Chapter 38 The Path to Prodigy
At that time, every winter, every family had to work hard to dig rivers or build cities, which was usually called labor service. Each household had indicators. If they didn’t want to go to or had no labor, they could use money instead and didn’t have to work.
Given the financial situation of Wang Tiedan's family, he had to work. It took more than two months for Wang Tiedan to leave, and his work caused different reactions in the hearts of different people. Some were ecstatic and some were worried. Of course, the one who was ecstatic was my great-grandfather or Wang Tiedan's cousin; and the one who was worried might be the teacher.
On the first night of Wang Tiedan's departure, the teacher went to bed early, but in the middle of the night, he got up, put on a wool coat that he had never worn before, and quietly hid in the darkness, at the door of his house, listening to the movement outside. He wanted to see if the scene he expected would happen.
Until the middle of the night, he suddenly heard the gate of Wang Tiedan's house gently open. He quickly lowered his body and observed carefully in the dark. Because it was relatively close, even in the dark night, a figure could still be seen flashing out of Wang Tiedan's house's yard. Moreover, although he was wearing thick clothes, from his walking posture and body strips, he could still see that he was Wang Tiedan's cousin.
In the dim night, she walked gently towards the door of my great-grandfather's clinic. Then, the door of my great-grandfather's courtyard opened and Wang Tiedan's cousin quickly flashed in.
When the teacher saw this scene in the dark, he couldn't help but close his eyes in pain. Yes, everything was as he expected. Everything he didn't want to see was about to happen.
The Wang Tiedan, who he grew up, could have lived a happy and ordinary life, but he didn't expect that he could not escape the fateful misfortune. He wanted to help the once kind and simple child, but he was powerless. I think at that moment, the teacher must have wanted to kill my great-grandfather - the culprit of all this tragedy.
Every night in the next two months, the teacher would wake up. He knew that something was happening in the two households next to him. He seemed to be able to hear the sound of women and the breath of men. He hoped that Wang Tiedan would come back early, but he was afraid that he would come back.
There is no airtight wall, and the fire cannot be contained in the paper. No matter how secretly an affair is done, it will inevitably be exposed in the end. Soon, the affairs of my great-grandfather and Wang Tiedan's cousin were rumored to be in the village.
Such things are often the ones around the affair, but they know the latest. Wang Tiedan may always feel that his cousin is still the same as before, and he is definitely the kind of chaste woman. Although my great-grandfather is notorious for attracting bees and butterflies, maybe Wang Tiedan subconsciously believes that with his cousin's determination and character, nothing will happen.
"There was a woman who had never stolen love, but no woman who had only stolen love once." A young woman who had tried the joy of fish and water had no sex for a long time, long-term suppressed lust, and the temptation of affair on her can be imagined. Moreover, my great-grandfather is a first-class expert in this field. It would be strange if the firewood was not burning when it was burning.
But Wang Tiedan didn't know about this, maybe it was better, because if he learned that his wife had cheated, no matter what he did, he would be the one who would hurt the most. Because my great-grandfather was in our area at that time, and he was a very powerful person, even when he went to the county, he was very generous in all aspects, and most people dared not mess with him.
Why is he so powerful? Nothing else, just because of his superb medical skills. Putting aside his character, he is indeed very talented in medicine. There are many stories about his superb medical skills, including one of them.
A high-ranking official in our county went to the toilet after drinking and drinking, but accidentally fell into the septic tank in the thatched cottage, and choked and almost drowned. Fortunately, the servant was guarding outside. He heard that the movement was wrong, so he rushed in and took out the high-ranking official.
After several days of bathing and fumigation, the foul smell on his body gradually disappeared. But there was a very serious sequelae - bad breath. It turned out that when he fell into the septic tank, he also had shit in his mouth. Since then, he has experienced very serious bad breath, which may be the special bacteria in the shit and the bacteria in the mouth. This bad breath is very different from ordinary bad breath, and it smells worse than the common bad breath and has a stronger smell.
This senior official hired countless famous doctors and took countless medicines, but still did not work at all. Not only did the bad breath not be eliminated, but there was no sign of relief, which made him extremely distressed.
Later, he found my great-grandfather by name. Unexpectedly, my great-grandfather didn't prescribe any secret recipe, but brought a kind of grass to the high-ranking official and let the high-ranking official chew it every day. After a few days, it was completely cured. This time, my great-ranking grandfather became famous in the capital. The high-ranking official admired my great-ranking grandfather and told everyone that my great-ranking master's medical skills were superb.
It was also that time that the teacher looked at my great-grandfather's medical skills and looked at him differently - although he still despised my great-grandfather's behavior very much - the teacher once told his wife that my great-grandfather's method of treating the bad breath of that high-ranking official was used by Fan Li, the minister under King Goujian of Yue more than two thousand years ago.
At that time, Goujian was captured by King Fuchai of Wu. He kept a low profile. In order to please King Fuchai of Wu, he tasted Fuchai's stool with his mouth, but since then, he suffered from severe bad breath. So, his minister Fan Li found a special grass called "博", also called "Houttuynia cordata", and asked Goujian to chew this grass every day. Not long after, Goujian's bad breath was almost cured.
What surprised the teacher was that he had never seen my great-grandfather read medical books or even other books. Why did he have such insights? Did he understand them by himself or learned from some Taoist priest?
Our family is not a medical family, but we only started to study medicine since the great-grandfather's generation. He became a famous doctor when he was very young, but no one in the following generations had studied medicine. So my great-grandfather should be a genius type, not an academic type. What is that originating and embarking on the road of studying medicine?
It is said that my great-grandfather is the only child, so he is raised as a treasure at home. But he has not been very good since childhood and his behavior is sometimes strange. Compared with other children, it seems that he is not very "normal".
When he was **, he neither liked to play with other children nor read. The adults bought him pen, ink, paper and inkstones and sent him to a private school. However, he was not interested in the Four Books and Five Classics at all. He just often took a brush and dipped it in ink to draw some strange lines on his skin. Therefore, at the beginning, he was often beaten by a private school teacher's ruler, and his hands were often swollen. But he "did not change after repeated teaching."
After returning home, the father saw that his baby son was swollen and felt so distressed that he wanted to cry. Later, he simply refused to let his son go to a private school and let him do whatever he wanted at home.
My great-grandfather was able to do whatever he wanted to do without restraint. He often took off all of himself and then used a brush to draw various lines on his body. Everyone in his family was very worried about my great-grandfather's strange behavior and thought that this child must be possessed by some devil. So he invited many gods and witches to do it, but none of them worked.
My great-grandfather also has something that is shocking. My great-grandfather's father found that every summer, when his back hurts, for some reason, his son always pointed to his sore places and said, "Dad, you are blocked, I'll pat you." My great-grandfather's father's hair was standing up.
Everyone in the family thought that this child must have had some evil spirits, and that they were too deep. They all knew that a blind man was a little bit crazy about fortune telling and medical treatment, but later, for some reason, he traveled elsewhere. So there were no more famous doctors nearby.
But there is no way out. One day, they heard that a Taoist priest opened a clinic in the county town. This Taoist priest was very skilled in medical skills, cured many difficult and complicated diseases, and was also proficient in spells and talisman drawing.
My great-grandfather's father quickly took my great-grandfather to the county to find the Taoist priest.
After arriving at the county town, I soon found out the location of the clinic run by the Taoist priest - because almost everyone in the county knew that there was a "half immortal" who opened in the county.
When the father and the two arrived at the clinic, they found that the people waiting in line to see the doctor were like a long dragon at the entrance of the clinic. I don’t know when it would be their turn. But there was no other way, so they could only wait slowly. So the father and the father and the father and the father and the doctor were lined up in front of the clinic during the day and found an inn nearby to stay at night. It was their turn to know that the third day.
This Taoist priest is very fairy-like, white, white, and a goatee under his jaw. His clothes are neat and spotless. Although he is sitting, he can tell that he is very tall. When he gets close, he can smell a pleasant smell of medicine on his body, which makes people feel awe-inspiring at first glance.
When it comes to medical treatment, he always speaks softly, calm and calm, not impatient, and is polite. When talking to him, people will feel particularly peaceful and peaceful. No matter how anxious, melancholy, uneasy, or fearful, as long as they hear him speak, they will immediately feel calm like a pool of autumn water.
When it was my grandfather and his son's turn, the old man politely asked them to sit down, and then my grandfather's father began to tell my grandfather's extraordinary strange behavior.
Unexpectedly, the more the Taoist priest heard, his eyes wider and his expression was very strange - as if he was both surprised and happy. After listening, he seemed a little excited. He called the little Taoist priests around him and whispered a few words to them. The little Taoist priests politely said to other patients as he told him: "The master has something special today, so he will suspend the medical treatment for the afternoon and continue tomorrow. I am very embarrassed. Please go back first."
After the patients dispersed, the Taoist priest ordered people to close the door, and only the Taoist priests were left in the room, my great-grandfather's father and my great-grandfather.
The Taoist priest took a brush, then rolled up his sleeves, exposed his arms, and said to my great-grandfather kindly: "Come here, child, draw what you see on my arm." My great-grandfather looked at the Taoist priest timidly, and then looked at his father. His father nodded to him with encouragement. Then he took the brush and drew it on the Taoist priest's arm mountain.
After a while, the Taoist priest's arms were covered with various brush-painted lines. The Taoist priest raised his arms, looked carefully for a while, then laughed out loud, and kept saying: "Wizard, Wizard!"
Chapter completed!