The Shocking and Extraordinary Romance of the Great Sage

*Sun Simiao, the king of medicine in the Tang Dynasty, famously said: If you are not a good minister, you must be a good doctor.

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Ah Xiang said:"Master, don't embarrass Brother Shangguan. He has already been sent to your door, so you should accept it. This is the reward you deserve."

Li Shizhen changed the subject and said,"Where is the other one hundred taels of silver? Who sent them?"

Shangguan Jian was unambiguous and said neatly:"The hunter Shi Shan, the farmer Lin Zifu, the woodcutter Da Niu, the merchant Yue Jinfa, the gardener Lin Yan."

Li Shizhen did not take it seriously and said:"Them? Well, didn't I tell you before? I pulled out a few handfuls of grass and the pain was relieved immediately. How can I charge more than a hundred taels of silver?"

Shangguan Jian said:"Oh, yo, that's how it is. Shishan and Lin Zifu , Da Niu each gave me twenty taels of silver, and asked me to pay it back to you with my own hands. The rest of the silver was all given by the gardener Lin Yan. They said, they gave it to you, but you won’t accept it, so you insist on asking me Just help with the delivery."

Axiang asked in shock:"Hey, these days, blind people are blinded by money. They all believe in you Shangguan brother, I have never seen it before."

Shangguan Jian said:"I'm not bragging, I have clean hands and feet, and I do things well. It's neat, it doesn't cost anyone a penny, no one in the world knows it, no one knows it, hum!"

Li Shizhen stroked his mustache and thought to himself:"It's strange, it's strange. I used the alias Yue Shan and treated a few people. Someone discovered it. They all came to my door with gifts. Alas! You missed my study time. What should I do?"

Shangguan Jian thought he had tacitly agreed to accept it, so he said happily:"Okay, I will send the silver to the benefactor's medicine hall. , it's a breeze on my sleeves."

Ah Xiang said:"Brother Shangguan, have you heard that there is a folk legend in the countryside that there is a doctor named Yue Shan who cures people's diseases and often disappears without charging a penny... It must be...……"Shangguan Jian said bluntly:"I have heard about it in the Jianghu. There are so many words like this, so many more...who else could it be? Height, appearance, tone of voice, clothes...you will know who it could be as soon as you hear it!"

Li Shizhen was silent, thinking about the pharmacological instructions he had read and written down today. That Axiang asked Shangguan Jiandao:"Who is it?"

Shangguan said sharply:"Far away in the sky, close to me."

What Axiang and Shangguan said, Li Shizhen walked in front, hurriedly memorizing the medicine book If you want to write something, why don't you listen?

First he sent Ah Xiang home, and then Shangguan Jian sent Li Shizhen. Back at the medicine hall, Li Shizhen gave a stern explanation, almost giving a strict order, and asked Shangguan Jian to return the money intact without taking any of it. Helpless, Shangguan Jian had no choice but to bite the bullet and obey. It's just that: giving good deeds will be rewarded by good intentions, not doing it for money and being humane.

Kindness, benevolence and justice are the laws of nature. Returning the money adds to the smile

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Li Shizhen wrote"Compendium of Materia Medica" not only at home, but also in the morning and evening. When he remembered important pharmacology in the middle of the night, he got up and lit the lamp at his desk to write. Most of them are written at the medicine making site, sitting on rocks or ridges. When it rains heavily, I hide under a tree to write. When it rains heavily, I hide under the eaves of a house to write. Exactly: writing a book is like climbing a dangerous cliff, and hundreds of people have fallen to their death.

Herbal medicine is an extraordinary work, and its outline spreads the medicine all over the world.

Once, I wrote for a long time outside Lingyin Temple. In the hot summer, my mouth was dry and my tongue was rough, my throat was like smoke, and I was a little hungry, but I continued to write with my heart.

Outside Lingyin Temple, there are tall trees and forests, and it is very quiet. But he was hungry, hot and sweaty, and his mouth was so dry that it was burning. Just when he was feeling extremely uncomfortable, a young monk came over, bowed, handed half a small watermelon with both hands, and said,"Almsgiver, the abbot ordered his disciples to bring this. Please use it.""

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*Zhang Zhongjing, a medical sage in the late Eastern Han Dynasty, famously said: All typhoid fever diseases are mostly caused by wind and cold. Wind-cold appears on the outside at first, but does not go away when it goes inside.