Ancient Sword II Xie Lelianxin

Chapter 3

In the autumn when he was ten years old, Le Wuyi learned several volumes of herbal formulas and basic medical principles of meridians and vital gates from Fu Qingjiao.

There is no shortage of medical books in the study at home, and Le Wuyi reads and learns while recuperating from his illness. It is already winter when he recovers.Every few days, he would go to the dormitory wrapped up like a ball, watching the doctor's consultation with great interest, and once Xie Yi was free, he would pester him for advice.

Le Wuyu is quite talented in medicine, he knows a little bit, and he is also pleasing to the eye. Not only Xie Yi, but other doctors are also very willing to teach him, and will specially prepare candied fruit for him.It's just that Mr. Le is extremely dedicated, and it didn't take long for the whole hall to recognize this little follower who was sticking to Xie Yi. Even Xi Miaohua joked that according to the schedule of previous years, Xie Yi will leave Chang'an to travel around after the first month. "Little Doctor Le" should cry.

However, that year Xie Yi did not leave as scheduled.Ye Hai, who made an appointment with him in Chang'an, lost his way. By the time that friend came to the appointment, it was already the spring when the grass was growing and the warbler was flying.

Alas, I really don't know how credible the "Mountain and River Illustrated Record" he drew?Xie Yi thought to himself.

On the day of departure, Xie Yi met Yuefu servants waiting outside the door of the clinic.That human sent Le Wuyi over early in the morning, but Xie Yi hadn't seen anyone for half a day, so he was busy searching separately with his servants.After walking half of Chang'an City, Xie Yi finally found Le Wuyi at a street corner next to Yuefu. The small figure hid in the corner, his thin shoulders twitched and twitched, but there was no cry at all.

He felt a sudden pain in his heart, hurried forward, hugged the child's shoulder lightly and turned around.Her normally pink and jade-carved face was flushed with suffocation, and teardrops were streaming down her lips, sticking to her lips with snot, like a crying tiger-striped kitten.Xie Yi knelt down to wipe his face for him, said "Young Master Le" and twirled a few times between his teeth, and finally changed to a more intimate name——

No difference.

"Xie, Mr. Xie? Why are you here?" Le Wuyi hurriedly wiped away tears with his sleeve.The peach blossoms leaning against the blue tiles and white wall bloomed enchantingly and proudly, making that crying face even more pitiful.

"Won't you come see me off?"

Le Wuyi stopped crying: "Mr. Xie, can I, can I... go to the place where you live to see you in the future?"

The child's voice was like sweet-scented osmanthus cake, and it took a lot of effort for Xie Yi to reply with a sullen face: "Forgive me, Young Master Le, Xie is a hermit, and the residence does not accept outsiders."

"What is a foreigner... can't I go?" Le Wuyi's cheeks were flushed with anxiety, and he held Xie Yi's sleeves tightly, his eyes were so red that he was about to drop golden beans, "If, if...not What about foreigners?"

Xie Yi smiled and patted his head: "It's no different to answer me first. Xie gave you medical skills, why did you wait for several months, but you can't even hear 'Master'?"

"...What?" Le Wuyi's eyes widened, and the man's figure was reflected in the amber pupils.

Xie Yi sighed, and couldn't help touching the child's head again.He picked off a pink petal that fell on the top of his head, and looked gently at the pair of eyes that were not stained with haze.

"If you are Xie's disciple, you are naturally...not a foreigner." Xie Yi raised his eyebrows and whispered in his ear, "If you call Master when you have no other wishes, let's come someday...Stupid Son."

Jingshui Lake is hidden in the countryside, empty and boundless, untouched by the world of mortals. Xie Yi's residence is built on one of the islands in the middle of the lake.In the thin morning light, a young man in white with wide sleeves stood at the stern of the boat, holding a slender penny in his hand, opening a winding waterway, and the boat swayed forward in the brisk sound of water.The little guest at the bow tore off a piece of cattail grass that brushed across the side of the boat, and yawned in the faint fragrance of lotus.

"Ah!" He called again suddenly, "Master, Master!"

The sleepy child was splashed with water by the tail of the fish, jumped up, and leaned over the side of the boat to look at the fish.

"It turns out that fish can grow so big, let's be jealous of fish at night!"

"Don't fall into the water." Xie Yi amusedly raised the penny and tapped on the side of the boat, motioning for Le Wuyi to sit back in the boat. After thinking about it, he said, "Tomorrow, I'll go to the town to buy a cookbook. Make it for you to eat."

Afterwards, he led Le Wuyi to wander around the neighboring town for a few days. Xie Yi remembered that he often went out, and this place might not be interesting for an 11-year-old child.Unexpectedly, when urging him to go home, the little apprentice shook his head again and again——

"Master said that apprentices are used for work. They can help organize books and herbs. They don't feel bored at all... Besides, it's too hot in Chang'an, so master can let me escape the summer heat!"

Xie Yiben didn't really want to chase him away, and not long after that, he even gave him the most important study key.A few days later, Le Wuyi came to ask again: "I saw an unfinished pharmacopoeia in the rest hall... There are already so many medical books in this world, why do you need to recompile the pharmacopoeia?"

Xie Yi explained that the records of medicinal materials in most medical books are very confusing, and that set of pharmacopoeia can re-analyze more than a thousand kinds of medicinal materials into ethnic groups, and at the same time add the years of medical practice experience of the doctors in the rest hall.Xi Miaohua intends to use this as a standard to unify the branch libraries in various places.

"So it's like this..." Le Wuyi tilted his head, "But I searched the Pharmacopoeia for a long time and couldn't find the name of the editor... Did you make it up?"

"...How did Wuyi see it?" Xie Yi was a little surprised.

Le Wuyi took out the notebook from behind and showed it to Xie Yi: "This notebook is written according to the method of Zhengang sub-objective, and it is a bit similar to that pharmacopoeia...Master, why didn't you write the name of the book you worked so hard to compile? ?”

Xie Yi didn't go into details, he only said that he had secrets all along and had to keep his name anonymized on weekdays, and he also told anyone to ask in the future, just to say that he was a hermit under his tutelage.

Although Le Wuyi was puzzled, he still complied.

Winter goes, and then spring comes.When the summer solstice arrives, the overwhelming blue lotus leaves cover most of the lake.The young Le Wuyi has grown rapidly during this year, and when they saw each other again, the top of their heads could touch Xie Yi's shoulders, and even the appearance of writing prescriptions with a calm face was quite a bit of a family teacher's demeanor.

"I'm afraid my son will be taught to be an old master by you." Fu Qingjiao almost sighed and complained, Xie Yi laughed it off, but when he went to the neighboring county for a free clinic, he took this little tail named Wuyi with him.

After all, the young doctor was young, and he accidentally mixed up two medicinal materials with similar shapes when he was grabbing the medicine. Although he was discovered in time, he still couldn't help but feel scared on the way back.After returning to Huxin Island, without waiting for Xie Yi to speak, Le Wuyi went into the study to copy the Pharmacopoeia for three days.

Speaking of it, Master Xie's culinary skills are very "wonderful", and Le Wuyi didn't dare to pretend to him again, but since he "closed the door" and thought about his mistakes, the person in charge had to switch back to Xie Yi.

The past two days have been uneventful.

On the third day, a strange visitor came to the island in the middle of the lake.The man's name was Ye Hai, and he knocked on the door of the study with a smile and said to Le Wuyi, "I am your teacher's friend, and your teacher sent me to buy spices to repay the debt, so I will drop by this time."

Xie Yi stayed with Ye Hai to share lunch, but he took a sip and pointed at Le Wuyi and sighed loudly: "Let's not bother with the self-punishment of my apprentice, but just saying that I can swallow your handicraft, such a mind is rare in the world... ..."

Le Wuyi was so frightened that he quickly covered Ye Hai's mouth and pulled him out of the dining room.

"I'm not right?" Ye Hai raised his pipe and took two puffs before his face calmed down, "Your master and apprentice live together, and you don't realize that your master's sense of taste is different from ordinary people? I have eaten all over the world, and I have never seen it. Someone mixed Tang Xinzi into sweet crispy cheese for seasoning...Ru Zhennao...you have a big heart."

Le Wuyi bowed his head and smiled, and said, "Master has a strong taste, I just drink more tea to relieve the spicy food."

That afternoon, when Xie Yi sent Ye Hai out, Le Wuyi was sitting by the study window, the sliced ​​meat pulled from ginger, fennel, and star anise happily churned in his stomach.The young man rubbed his belly and shook his cattail fan, raised his head and exhaled, trying to get rid of the strange smell in his mouth.There was sparkling light on the beam, and occasionally there was a reflection of a small fish swimming by. He stared blankly for a while, and when he picked up the book again, he read a paragraph about the medicinal use of lotus.

"Lotus root, lotus seed, lotus leaf, lotus pod, mosaic fruit are all in the same family, but their medicinal effects are different... well, this one is easy to remember, the lotus root is crispy in the mouth, the cold vinegared root is delicious, and the glutinous rice sugared root is also good; Freshly peeled, it is sweet and fragrant, and the core is a bit bitter, which is just right to clear the mouth; the tender lotus leaves are dried and mashed to make tea, and can also be used to make lotus-flavored steamed chicken; The wine that I sucked out with the handle in my mouth has the fragrance of lotus, the taste is really unique, I will ask Master for some wine to try next time..." Le Wuyi swallowed, and flipped through the book at a glance, "Oh, the lotus seeds and water chestnuts will grow old Lah, Master leaves early and returns late every day, so he doesn’t have time to take me to pick them.”

He lay on the window sill, looking at the clear lake through the shade of the trees, finally threw the book away, kicked open the door, and went down the lake happily.

"Master, is he back?"

Le Wuyi pretended to be full of lotus seeds, and didn't think about going home until the sun went down, but he bumped into Xie Yi who was waiting for him on the trestle bridge.

"You..." Xie Yi leaned on a half-broken railing, leaned over and picked off the upside-down lotus leaf on Le Wuyi's head, and slowly rubbed the petiole. Tell me about the effect of this lotus leaf, is it to invigorate the spleen and stop diarrhea, or to open up yang and dispel blood stasis?"

"Master, master, I picked a lot... Would you like some?" Le Wuyi, covered in mud, climbed up the trestle and handed the newly picked lotus to Xie Yi, but the other party refused to take it.

The young man didn't dare to look at him directly, but seeing the man's half-smile, he couldn't help but take half a step back guiltily, and was burned from the soles of his feet to his cheeks by the bamboo board that had been exposed to the sun for a day.The water drops slid down his back and landed on the trestle bridge, and rolled into the gaps in the green bamboo boards. He stretched out his bare feet to wipe off the muddy water, dawdling for a long while, but Xie Yi still waited unmoved.Le Wuyi had no choice but to bite the bullet and said, "That, that, the lotus leaf, it should be for nourishing the spleen and stopping diarrhea... right?"

Xie Yi sighed, and reached out to pick up the lotus pod that Le Wuyi had picked: "Go take a shower, change your clothes, and wait for me in the study."

The afterglow of red gold overflowed the threshold of the study, stretching obliquely the figure kneeling on the ground.

"It's the same. The thing that invigorates the spleen and relieves diarrhea is lotus seeds, not lotus leaves. Although the flowers, leaves, stems, and fruits are from the same source, they each have their own effects. The lotus heart stops bleeding, and the lotus pod removes blood stasis. Don't confuse them." Xie Yi Sighing slightly, "You are lively and active at this age, and this place is poor, if you don't go home as soon as possible, Qing Jiao can teach you these things..."

"I won't go back!" Le Wuyi hurriedly spread his palms and raised them above his head, his face turned pale, "I promised Master to work hard, but I broke my promise. I know my mistake, Master punish me, just don't drive me away... "

"Oh, that's not what it means to be a teacher." Xie Yi shook his head, saw that Le Wuyi was holding back tears, and said in a slow tone, "Forget it, you can kneel for an hour, it's not an example."

Le Wuyi breathed a sigh of relief.Xie Yi leaned over to straighten his neckline for him: "The day you came into my school, you swore that the medical skills you learned would only be used to save people. The teacher punished you not because you went to the lake to have fun, but because you were clearly not sure. But because of the fear of punishment, he made a rash judgment. A doctor can judge life and death with a single thought, and if there is a slight mistake, it will be harmful... Do you remember today's punishment?"

"Remember, I will always listen to Master in the future."

"No need." Xie Yi patted him on the shoulder, "If Wuyi finds that the teacher's diagnosis is wrong, remember to put the patient's life first, and tell the truth without hesitation."

Le Wuyi bowed his head and nodded, Xie Yi picked off the weeds in his hair, and slowly said: "You were rough when you were young, I saved you, I hope you will have a smooth life, no worries and regrets. Medicine is not easy, I I didn't want to accept you as an apprentice before, but you seem to be... destined to become a doctor. As a doctor, you must remember that life is precious and never come back. Only by revering and cherishing can you be a doctor source, to prove the way with medicine."

"Master, don't worry, this disciple will remember." Le Wuyi raised his head and watched Xie Yi leave the study, and asked suddenly, "Master knows about my childhood, so have you... met my mother?"

"I have seen it, but..." Xie Yi stood by the door, paused for a while before saying, "In a few years, my teacher will tell you all about the past in detail, and then...you will be able to remember her appearance. "

The autumn wind blew Fu Qingjiao's family letters to Jingshui Lake one after another, and finally urged the reluctant young master Le back to Chang'an.

"Stinky boy, I'll forget my old lady when I have Master! How comfortable is it there?" Fu Qingjiao frowned as she looked at her son who was much thinner and darker.

"It's the same as missing my mother. Having my mother take care of me, my home is much more comfortable." The little boy held his mother's hand and shook it, no matter how angry Fu Qingjiao was, it was shaken away.

"Then why don't you come back?"

"Master raises a lot of beautiful butterflies, there is a big lake around his house, he can eat fresh lotus seeds, and... cough cough." Le Wuyi stopped talking with embarrassment, rolled his eyes, and took off his neck. Fu Qingjiao handed the pendant to Fu Qingjiao and said, "Mother once said that it was left by Wuyi's mother. Master took it apart and looked at it, and said that there are reeds embedded in it. It is a flute made in the Western Regions, and you can play music."

"Put it away carefully, don't lose it. Can you play then?" Fu Qingjiao stroked Le Wuyi's soft hair, and put the flute back on for him.

"I only learned a piece called "On the Water Side". The tune is nice. But the master said that I was out of breath and I was out of breath, so I only taught half of the piece." Le Wuyi said seriously, "Master, he still has a lot of things. It's no different that he has already made an appointment with Master, and he will go next year."

The slits of the steamer were opened, and the warm and sweet water vapor scrambled to surround Le Wuyi.He took a deep breath of the aroma of sweet-scented osmanthus, and saw the steamed rice cakes tremblingly arranged on the bamboo mat, the delicate and soft snow-white dotted with light yellow.He took a piece of pastry and cooled it and put it in his mouth, the soft and silky sweetness immediately overflowed his cheeks, he nodded in satisfaction, and sealed the rest of the pastries into the ice cellar, waiting to take them away tomorrow.

After dinner, Le Wuyi went back to his study, and when he took off his coat, he saw a dripping red pill rolling out.Remembering what happened during the day, he hurriedly picked up the pill and brought it closer to the candlelight. The round pill was dense and smooth, with a small blue dot the size of a sesame seed embedded in the vermillion color, and the technique was very meticulous.

Having practiced medicine for many years, Le Wuyi knows that the preparation of medicinal materials is not an easy task.Compared with cooking ingredients, the process of pharmacy is more cumbersome and complicated than picking and pounding, frying, roasting, simmering, steaming and quenching.The craftsmanship of the pharmacist in the Xiguan is the best in the world, but the person who made this pill is actually the same.Not only that, it was this doctor who rescued him, and the man Bairi Nalangde was able to recover from his illness without knowing it, and traveled thousands of miles to reach Chang'an.

What kind of medicine did she use, the effect is really good...

Le Wuyi approached the tip of his nose, only to feel that the strong scent of Huoyu masked the rest of the medicinal smell. He couldn't help being puzzled, so he cut open the pill and licked some powder, but he still couldn't distinguish the key medicinal ingredient for curing the plague.

Forget it, let Master take a look.Le Wuyi yawned, thinking of the daily limited supply of Zuixianlou's signature beef sauce, and tomorrow he would have to get up early to buy it and take it to Jingshui Lake. Then he remembered that Xie Yi's pharmaceutical skills were superb, but he hadn't improved for many years But his culinary skills can be called an eternal mystery.Fortunately, I have a good understanding, not only learned how to make medicine, but also deeply understand the essence of the same origin of medicine and food, so I became a good cook without a teacher.

Early the next morning, there was a long queue at the gate of Zuixianlou as usual, but people also gathered in front of the alley a few steps away.

The waiter in the shop returned to the shopkeeper and said: "There is a beggar lying in the alley, I don't know if he is dead or alive... An Min's notice said that if someone faints by the roadside, he has to report it. Shall I go to the Yamen?"

The voices of the two were extremely low, but they were still heard by those who cared.A brown-haired boy in the team ran towards there, and someone among the onlookers recognized him: "It's Doctor Le! Come on, everyone, get out of the way and let Doctor Le come over!"

The crowd cheered and dodged a way, but the boy stared blankly at the man on the ground with his eyes wide open.

Was it wrong yesterday?No, I have read it carefully, it is impossible to make a mistake, why today...

"Doctor Le, Doctor Le, quickly show me what's wrong with this man?!"

Le Wuyi was called back to his senses, and touched the man's breath and pulse with two fingers, then knelt down beside him, opened his eyelids and checked his pupils.

The young doctor's face was slightly childish, and everyone secretly sweated for him, but seeing his skillful technique and calm expression, they couldn't help but calm down.After the young doctor checked, he took out a long and narrow wooden box from the small medicine box at his waist, and took out several silver needles in succession.Everyone was waiting to take a closer look, but they felt a silver light flashing in front of their eyes, the young man moved the needle up and down, and had already injected seven or eight needles in the middle of the crowd and on the ten fingertips.When the last needle fell, the unconscious man opened his eyes.

"Wake up! Wake up!" Everyone cheered, and someone pointed to the Xiguan coat of arms on Le Wuyi's medicine box and sighed: "This beggar has a lot of life. If he can meet the doctor of Xidian, he must be saved."

Le Wuyi breathed a sigh of relief, but his face was pale - this person was none other than the Langde man he had personally diagnosed yesterday.He fed the man with sage pills, and his complexion improved a little, but he was still as angry as before, a different person from yesterday.

"Doctor Le, what happened to him... Could it be a plague?!" As soon as the words fell, someone stepped back.

"Everyone, don't be afraid." The young doctor said loudly, "My name is Le Wuyi, and I am the doctor of Xiguan. I saw him yesterday, and he has no plague. This matter can be guaranteed in the name of Xiguan." He said The decision was decisive, and the crowd quickly calmed down.

"I have an urgent matter right now and I have to go away for a while. Which chivalrous man is willing to send him to the rest hall, I will be there soon."

After a while, several people stood up and stepped forward to help the beggar.

Le Wuyi thanked the kind-hearted people, and when they were far away, he flashed into a secluded corner, took off the sachet on his belt, and muttered: "Master, master, Mr. Xi has not returned from a long journey, so I can only ask you, old man, to come and rescue him quickly." I'm dead. The disciple is incompetent, and I will apologize to you after the master saves the person."

The sachet was originally handmade by Xie Yi, and a rare processed wood was sealed inside.Beside Xie Yi is a butterfly named Yaodie, who loves the woody fragrance and will fly towards it tirelessly even thousands of miles away.Xie Yi used the sachet as a message, which was much faster than flying pigeons to send letters—if Le Wuyi unsealed the sachet, Xie Yi could follow Yaodie to know his whereabouts.

When the sealed stitches are opened, the smell of vegetation will spread out. Le Wuyi remembers that it is the smell of a green lotus leaf that covers the top of the head in midsummer. It is fresh and emerald green with a little water vapor that is about to fall. .

He hung the sachet back on his waist and walked quickly towards the rest hall.