Practicing business and practicing medicine

Bian Mu usually carries a cow horn finger sleeve with him when he goes out. It is a special Chinese medicine instrument for a certain school of traditional Chinese medicine. He got it by accident when he was in college.

One summer vacation, he was entrusted by his class counselor to accompany several cadres of the department student union to Pingliangpu to visit a female classmate. The female classmate had been absent from school for a semester due to illness. At that time, she had almost recovered. Bian Mu was very skilled, and the counselor knew it long ago. With him accompanying, the teachers in the department would feel safer.

Wandering around the town, Bian Mu found that the cow horn finger sleeve displayed on a street stall was unusual. After bargaining, Bian Mu bought it for 50 yuan.

At that time, he thought it was simple. "Finger acupuncture" would consume the spirit of the practitioner. Over time, it would be very disadvantageous to the practitioner. Therefore, for many years, "Finger acupuncture" has basically disappeared. Bian Mu kept it basically for self-defense.

At first, Bian Mu thought that the finger sleeve was made of only the best ox horn, but after meeting the herbal farmer Lao Pei, he realized that the thing was made of rhino horn. What a good thing!

The finger sleeves Sima Kui brought were all made of high-quality nephrite. The shape was similar to the one in Bian Mu's hand, but the workmanship was more exquisite. Preliminary estimates show that the cost of these three jade finger sleeves must be very high.

"It's reasonable to borrow them temporarily, but I don't deserve such a generous gift for nothing!" As he spoke, Bian Mu put the small wooden box on the bedside table, picked up the green jade finger sleeve and put it on the tip of his left middle finger, let go of the white jade finger sleeve, and Bian Mu picked up the black finger sleeve and put it on his right index finger.

Turning around, Bian Mu stretched out his hands and fiddled with Chen Yueqing's head for a few times, trying to make it lie flat on the bed without moving his head.

Using the left hand as a supplement and the right index finger as the main one, Bian Mu found the acupuncture points and performed "finger acupuncture" treatment on Chen Yueqing again. With the help of this magical finger sleeve, Bian Mu saved a lot of effort.

"Swords are given to heroes, and cosmetics are given to beauties! I got this thing by chance, and it is of no use to keep it with me. Anyway, I am grateful to you. When I think of it, my heart is... Now, you are in your prime, and you can use it when you meet special patients. We have been quietly eliminated by the times. We are old and weak, and it is useless to keep it. Keep it! Maybe it can really help you break a new world in the new Chinese medicine in the future!" Suddenly, Sima Kui seemed to have changed into a different person. He spoke quite reasonably, and the strong sense of the rivers and lakes before was dissipated a lot.

Bian Mu was somewhat puzzled, and for a moment he couldn't figure out what was wrong with old Sima...

"I had only heard of this soft jade before, but now I have it in my hands and it is really useful. If it is taken to a proper auction house, it will be worth a lot of money, right?" Bian Mu responded with a smile.

"Then you are wrong! I know a little bit about the antique business. Jade can't be too functional. Jade is good jade and can be worth a few dollars, but... once it is made into a medical device used by our traditional Chinese medicine, the spirit of the jade will be "killed" in an instant. To make an inappropriate analogy, no matter how good the ivory is, if you make it into a comb, it may only be worth 100,000 yuan. If it is artistically made into an artistic ornament with not too strong functionality, the starting price may immediately be over a million!" Sima Kui found a chair and sat down, smiling and explaining some unwritten rules and regulations of the antique business.

"So... there are so many things to say here! You are really knowledgeable, I admire you!" Bian Mu took the opportunity to flatter Sima Kui.

"Tsk! Here we go again! You must be curious, how can a wandering doctor like me become friends with Boss Chen, haha... It's a coincidence, more than 20 years ago, I went to Bianbei to purchase a batch of medicinal materials, with complete procedures, just thinking of making a little difference, buying a house and settling my family down, in a remote town, I happened to run into Chen Yueqing being chased for debt, it seems that the amount he owed was quite large at that time, the other party came with a lot of people, blocked him in a small hotel, and the gang used swill buckets to punish him, damn! Debts are not paid back! Why do you want money? Why do you want to insult others? I got angry and beat those guys up. That's how we became friends. When Lao Wei said he was dying, I had to come over to see him. As a result, they told me that you were Lao Chen's attending physician. I thought I would definitely run into you here, so I took this little thing and gave it to you. Don't offend me!" I don't know what happened, Sima Kui suddenly changed his temperament, and he was a completely different person in his words.

"Then... I will borrow it for a while, and I will return it one day!"

"What are you going to return? Ha! You are good at everything, but you have that... By the way! You have worked so hard to let him go to the Western Paradise with dignity, right? You don't really plan to let him walk and recover gradually, right? ! " Sometimes, Sima Kui speaks quite directly.

"It's hard to say right now. I'm sure you've checked his pulse. He's lost all six Qi. If we want to rebuild the Qi system in his body, it's a medical project of considerable scale! If I operate alone... I can only do my best. We can only do our best, but God will do his best!"

"That's what I said! No matter how great your medical skills are, you're still old, right?! So... what tricks do you have for the next stage? Can you tell me about it?"

"Look at what you said. The contemporary Chinese medicine world is extremely transparent. There is nothing that can be hidden, right? Recently, I plan to take some time to go to the Ningguo Temple market. If I am lucky, I plan to pay a high price to hire someone to make two "medicine mats". As for whether it works, I really don't think so much." Bian Mu told the truth.

"Pay a high price to hire someone to weave mats with medicinal herbs, soak them in medicine, steam them several times, and finally dry them in the shade for patients?! Then... do you want to install an electric blanket at the bottom?" Although Sima Kui was born with a bit of evil nature, his medical skills are there.

What's more, the strange method used by Bian Mu is exactly the treatment method commonly used by traditional Chinese medicine decades ago, but... with the evolution of the times, many special treatment methods have gradually been lost. As a special representative of traditional Chinese medicine, Sima Kui is not an outsider in many things.

"Old Chen's family is rich! Who would be willing to spend a lot of money to hire someone to weave a medicinal mat? Actually, I'm not sure, let's try it first! In the middle of summer, the electric blanket doesn't seem to be needed for a while. According to my current estimation, Mr. Chen's body temperature is enough." Bian Mu told the truth.

"I see... Well... Times have changed, why didn't I think of that! It seems that you are very diligent in studying! How about this, I'm quite curious about the medicinal mat, otherwise... I'll pay the price, and make a set for me!" Sima Kui's mind was quick.