Chapter 22: A Doctor's Life

  Fu Sanlang burst out laughing: "Fifteen, what's the hurry? The sun has just risen, it's possible that those monkey players haven't even arrived yet!"

  But then again, where can Fu Shiwu, this half-grown boy who is full of curiosity about the outside world, be so easily stopped?

  In just a few minutes, he began urging his several brothers to get up.

  Life in the countryside is very dull and boring. Being able to come to this county town to watch a monkey show is already a rare privilege.

  Fu's brothers, even the older ones, were only in their early twenties. In fact, they had been itching to go see the monkey show for a long time, and although they were advising their younger brother not to be impatient, they couldn't help but quicken their pace as well.

  The city gate has been opened, but today is different from the past. At the city gate, there are yamen runners beating gongs and drums, shouting: "The magistrate of this county is specially going to Wudang Mountain. Please ask Liu Zhenren to come down the mountain to diagnose and treat illnesses for the people of this county..."

  At this moment, the city gate was already surrounded by three layers of people inside and out, with no one knowing how many more were gathered.

  Upon hearing this news, everyone was eager to squeeze in and have that true man, Master Lao, take a look at their illness.

  Today, Liu was very composed. With the yamen's attendants maintaining order, he sat cross-legged on a cushion, giving each of the crowded commoners a cursory glance and pretending to take their pulse. He casually handed out a piece of candy, the cheapest kind, a three-hundred-coin contribution point watermelon-flavored hard candy.

  Liu couldn't help but remember when he was a kid, one yuan could buy a big handful of them. Now, with one contribution point, you can only buy 300 grains, which is almost one yuan per grain! The price at Shenxiao Tiangong is still so rip-off!

  An old woman took the candy as a magic medicine and was about to leave with gratitude.

  But was stopped by the bailiff: "How can you just leave like this!"

  That old woman didn't have any illness to begin with, she just came to join in the fun and take advantage of the situation. Don't think this kind of thing is absurd, Liu had already seen it all in his original world where material wealth was abundant.

  She blinked her eyes and said dazedly: "Didn't you say you wouldn't take money?"

  The yamen runner's eyes rolled up: "Who told you to give money? A real doctor treats your illness, and you just leave like that? Don't you dare kowtow a few times in front of the idol before leaving? Aren't you afraid the gods will blame you?"

  The old woman suddenly realized and exclaimed: "It should be! It must be!"

  He came to the portrait on one side, piously knocked his head several times, then knelt beside it and mumbled unclearly for half a day before leaving.

  "Next!" The bailiffs maintained order.

  The next guy was a man with a dark red face, full of dense wrinkles. At first glance, he almost looked like he was over 50 years old, but upon closer inspection, he was only in his thirties.

  He stretched out his hand, and Liu couldn't help but take a fright at the sight of it. The entire palm was red and swollen, with many places even festering.

  "I'm a fisherman, this winter I got my hands wet and they froze like this..."

  Liu Buji originally thought it was some kind of complicated illness, but after hearing the man's explanation, he finally realized that it was frostbite. This made things much simpler.

  Just take out a bottle of green ointment, this thing is just right for the symptoms, it will be fine after a few times.

  Just as he was about to get rid of the guy, he saw the man kneel down in front of the statue and kowtow honestly.

  He came to Liu Bu's front and knocked three loud heads, then went with a silly smile. Letting Liu Bu stunned, thinking for a moment: "You take this medicine back, apply it several times and it will be fine!"

  He slightly hesitated, the so-called divine image was painted with Shen Xiao Tian Zun's. However, it had not been consecrated, and even worshiping would be useless. These incense and wishes had unknowingly poured into the Qingyang Divine Lamp.

  The fisherman just now was exceptionally devout, even causing the Qingyang divine lamp to shine brighter for a moment.

  Liu is not serious about treating illnesses, and only prescribes medicine for minor ailments that can be easily cured. For more serious conditions, he simply gives people some random medicine or a piece of candy to shut them up!

  A faint fragrance of incense and a surge of mysterious, invisible energy poured into the Qingyang Divine Lamp within Liu Bu's Heavenly Heart Sea.

  The original divine lamp was only as big as a bean, shining in the heart of the sky and sea of consciousness, illuminating the entire sea of consciousness with its light.

  It is even more so that behind the Divine Sky Palace, it emits a dazzling and resplendent light.

  However, at this moment, the magic lamp began to accumulate lamp oil. Countless incense and wishes, like a thick white mist, poured into it.

  The Qingyang divine lamp burned for a moment, but it didn't burn out completely, and all the remaining oil accumulated and transformed into lamp oil. In just over an hour, a thin layer of lamp oil had accumulated in the Qingyang divine lamp. Under the illumination of the flame, the colors were dazzling, with five colors and ten colors shining brightly.

  But unknowingly, Liu had already treated more than 100 people.

  But at this time, Liu Buji's mind was absent-minded and immersed in the sea of knowledge. Suddenly, the crowd queuing up made a loud noise.

  There were four or five men, carrying a corpse, pushing through the crowd, and arriving in front of Liu Bu-yi. They shouted loudly: "You wicked Taoist, you've killed my brother! What are you going to do about it?"

  Liu was somewhat astonished, really recognizing it, that corpse seemed like he had seen it before.

  It was just Liu who didn't know where to cure the disease. After watching for half a day, none of them could see what was wrong with this guy's body. He casually gave him an antipyretic pill, but unexpectedly, within an hour, the guy died.

  "You quack, you're simply killing people!" The man angrily shouted: "You compensate me for my brother's life!"

  Upon hearing this commotion, the crowd also became chaotic, and many people in the back of the line who were waiting to be treated also became restless and began discussing it among themselves.

  The situation suddenly took a turn for the worse, and even a peasant who was being treated by Liu Bei began to suspect and fear.

  Liu was rapidly turning his brain, he is a mediocre doctor. In fact, both Chinese and Western medicine are not understood. Relying on various special medicines of later generations to treat people's diseases, but the problem is that there are too many people's illnesses, and he can't diagnose them at all.

  But Liu Bu-yi was not worried. At that time, medicine was not advanced, although there were doctors who were ahead of their time. However, the overall level was not high.

  Most of the time, these ordinary people can only see doctors who prescribe medicine that has a placebo effect...

  This is a common phenomenon, most doctors, apart from some common minor illnesses, other various diseases are basically just blind cats hitting dead mice. If they save lives, it's naturally the doctor's credit, if they can't cure it, then it's just fate, and medicine can't kill people!