Chapter 22: The Ghost Doctor's Handbook

  Qin Zhong seemed to be very familiar with this name, as he often saw it in the second half of his grandfather's notes. Since the second half was written by Qin Zhong's father, he knew that Han Jun should be his father's close friend and a master of Qimen Dunjia, Guiyin Shu, and an invaluable multi-talented doctor. However, it was such a coincidence to meet this person here, and it seemed that he would be useful in the future.

  "Is he a Korean military uncle?" Qin Zhong looked at the man, and from his facial expression, he couldn't see anything out of the ordinary. Moreover, from his understanding of Da Ya's injuries, and being able to say that he had been to similar Unit 731 places, it proved that this person was very familiar with this aspect.

  Qin Zhong wanted to prove that the person in front of him was really his father's close friend, so he thought of a passage from his notes: "I remember my dad had also experienced something like this before."

  "Right, it was me who cured him with eggs at first, but that time it was because your dad was with me, and this friend of yours, I think he's been like this for at least a week now, looks like it won't be easy to cure."

  Qin Zhong listened carefully, and what the Korean soldier in front of him said was indeed true, and it didn't differ much from what his father's notes said. He finally put his mind at ease: "Then, Uncle Han, do you have any solution?"

  "Yes, but it's a bit of trouble because the treatment medication needed for each person who contracted this disease may not be the same. I need to go back and do some thorough testing, but don't worry, it's not contagious, so you don't have to be afraid. Follow me, I'll take you to my place." Han Jun took off his protective suit, opened the door and called a doctor on duty to replace him, then led Qin Zhong and others out of the hospital.

  The Korean military had a car of its own, a business vehicle that could easily accommodate Qin Zhong and several others. On the way, he told Qin Zhong many things about his dealings with Qin's father.

  Qin Zhong listened to what Han Jun said, which was no different from what his father had told him. There were even some things that he hadn't seen in his notes. However, when it came to the cause of his father's death, Han Jun seemed unable to say anything either. In the end, he only said that after Qin Zhong's father entered the Changbai Mountain primeval forest again, he disappeared. When they found his body, Han Jun hadn't been able to determine the cause of death, which he still regretted.

  Qin Zhong was also very interested in his father's death, after all, he had never seen his own father, and with what Han Jun said, his father died unjustly, which was very unsettling. He was about to ask Han Jun again when he saw Han Jun's car slowly entering a villa area.

  "Does Uncle Han live here?" Qin Zhong asked as he looked at the luxurious villa complex.

  The Korean military smiled benevolently: "Your uncle lives here thanks to the care of his elders, and the inheritance left by his ancestors is still quite abundant, so he also bought a villa here. It's pretty comfortable living here."

  "Haha, so my friend's injury will be treated at your home?"

  "Of course, everything in my house is intact. With injuries like his, it's been a week now. Why didn't you come earlier?" Han Jun asked Qin Zhong.

  "Alas, never mind, I'll tell you in detail later."

  The car was parked in front of a detached villa at the foot of a mountain behind a residential area. The whole villa had an ancient charm, as if it had been renovated later. The entire courtyard was filled with plants, all kinds of rare flowers and grasses, and several trees that Qin Zhong had never seen before. The whole courtyard was like a botanical garden.

  Several people quickly supported Da Ya into the villa, Han Jun first let Da Ya sit in the hall, he immediately entered a room on the second floor, after a while, he came out of the room with an old small wooden box on his back, and there was also a cloth bag wrapped around his waist.

  "Come on, let him lie down on the sofa first and leave his head and shoulders to me." Han Jun said, opening a small wooden box.

  Qin Zhong was curious about his small wooden box, which was filled with all sorts of instruments. There were several things that Qin Zhong could still recognize, such as cinnabar and realgar, which were used to ward off evil spirits, as well as some plant fruits and various powders.

  "What's all this?"

  "I've told you the same thing before, but you didn't know. I remember when I saved your father back then, it was him who helped me out. In the end, it was my egg that played a crucial role." Han Jun emphasized the egg once again.

  "This time Qin Zhong was curious: 'What kind of egg is this, why is it so powerful?'"

  "Haha, that's the egg laid by my hen at the door. This chicken is a descendant of the Snow Rhinoceros bird that grew up in Changbai Mountain Tianchi. From its appearance, it looks like an ordinary black chicken, but the eggs it lays are red, which is called the yin-yang balanced egg. Come on, help me take off his jacket."

  At this moment, Da Ya's lips had turned purple and his face was pale. Since the moment he lay down, he closed his eyes. From a normal perspective, this guy had fainted, but Qin Zhong understood that this was called "losing one's soul", which meant that the soul temporarily left the body, but hadn't yet departed from it.

  Qin Zhong saw Da Ya and immediately said: "Uncle Han, aren't we supposed to be clearing out evil spirits outside the door? If at this time something unclean comes in, won't his soul be lost, wouldn't that be troublesome?"

  "Well, well, well! You've really inherited the true tradition of your family, but you can rest assured that in this courtyard, not to mention ghosts or evil spirits, even a vengeful spirit wearing red would have to expend some effort to get past the plant array at my gate."

  Mark and Mona were bewildered by the conversation between Han Jun and Qin Zhong, staring blankly at the small wooden box, not daring to ask any more questions, after all, they didn't understand these things.

  The Korean army turned over a old book made of oil paper and hemp rope from the side of a small wooden box, with four big characters written in regular script on it.

  "Ghost Doctor's Handbook?" Qin Zhong seemed to understand this name very well, because the origin of this book was not unfamiliar to him. This was obtained by Qin Zhong's grandfather from a cave in an anti-Japanese base area, and since the Qin family had no talent for medicine, they gave the book to Han Jun's father. Later, Han Jun also learned medicine, and this became a tool book that he couldn't leave behind at any moment.

  Qin Zhong asked in a soft voice: "May I take a look at this book?"

  "Of course, he originally belonged to your Qin family." Han Jun didn't hesitate and handed the manual over to Qin Zhong.

  Qin Zhong opened the Ghost Doctor's Handbook and scanned it from cover to cover. He seemed very interested in what was said inside, and he even memorized some of the content. However, due to his lack of medical knowledge, many terms were not understood by him. But after reading through it several times, he seemed to understand quite a bit.

  "Now are we going to use this manual?" Qin Zhong saw that the Korean army, after studying traditional medicine and then researching this ghost doctor's manual, found many places to be very difficult.

  "Turn it over to page 74," said the Korean army, "that page is specifically about treating symptoms like his."

  Qin Zhong didn't flip through the book, but instead recited the contents of seventy-four pages from memory. This move shocked Han Jun so much that he jumped up, his admiration and astonishment mixed together, and suddenly his expression became somewhat agitated as he stared at Qin Zhong: "You can memorize everything at a glance?"

  "Oh, it's because I'm a liberal arts student, so my memory is a bit better." Qin Zhong wanted to say that he had eaten a certain big brand of brain-boosting pills at the beginning, and accidentally took a fake pill, but unexpectedly really improved his memory.

  The Korean army said it was good, and then started treating the big tooth. He first cut open a 3cm long small mouth on the wound of the big tooth with a surgical knife, and then squeezed out all the pus and rotten meat in the small mouth with both hands.

  Then Qin Zhong happened to recite the part about using needles, and he sealed several major acupoints with needles. He then drained the patient's wound of its diseased blood, applied a mixture of realgar, cinnabar, and xuanwu egg, along with over ten other medicinal substances, to the affected area, and had the patient take Wudan orally. After three days, the patient was still able to recover.

  By the time Qin Zhong finished speaking, Han Jun's work was also done. A mouthful of yellow water flowed from the corner of his big toothed mouth, and suddenly both Qin Zhong and Han Jun were stunned.