Wu Pen's work Perfect Son-in-law Perfect Son-in-law Episode 12 Long illness becomes a doctor

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  He raised his head and said, "I've read books that I don't forget once I've read them, and can recite them backwards. As for medical books, I've only read one or two, so strictly speaking, I haven't studied medicine, but it's not like I don't understand medicine either, it's just that I've never treated anyone before."

  Never forget what you've read, but I heard it from a mountain bandit. It seems that this is the skill that everyone acknowledges as belonging to a scholar.

  He finished speaking and turned his head to look at Cheng Yaojin, do you believe it or not?

  Cheng Yaojin stretched out his hand to block Zhong Qing and said: "Please stop, Mrs. Zhong."

  This is to leave a message for Ao Wu. Zhong Qing turned around, her white clothes fluttering, and looked at Cheng Yaojin with a clear and cold voice: "Cheng Yuanwai, my father is a master of the medical world, still listen to my father's diagnosis! I have some nonsense, don't believe it."

  Kao Wu pretended to be angry, his neck swelling up with rage, and said: "What nonsense! I'm saving a life here, saving a life is better than building a seven-story pagoda!"

  "Lives are at stake, please don't be impulsive, Mr. Lang. Don't gamble with a moment's anger." Zhong Qing turned her face away, and it was even colder than before. She was clearly furious, but she could still maintain a calm demeanor and speak to Ao Wu.

  Just as the two were about to continue arguing, Cheng Yaojin hastily stretched out his hand to intervene: "Don't argue for now, if Ao Wu brothers have a good plan, speak up first. If it makes sense, then please ask Ao Wu brothers to save my mother's life. There is Zhong Shenyi here, and if not, Zhong Shenyi will know."

  Zhong Shenyi hesitated for a moment and nodded: "Alright."

  "Will it delay the time for feeding medicine?" Zhong Qing asked with some concern.

  "No." Zhong Shen Yi waved his hand.

  Kao Wu got the opportunity and requested: "I want to take a look at where the old lady was injured, see if it's the same as what the book says."

  After obtaining the consent of Cheng Yaojin and Zhong Shenyi, he walked over and found a bruise on the back of Mrs. Cheng's head. He fabricated a lie and said: "It should be that after falling here, the meridians were blocked, causing the blood gas in the old lady's head to not circulate, and she fainted. Use a needle to puncture this place, let the stagnant blood flow out, the meridians are unblocked, the blood gas is naturally unblocked, and the person wakes up."

  He wanted to wait a while and use the needle to prick two needles on the back of Cheng's mother's head, which were two life-saving needles that could wake her up.

  He looked at Zhong Shenyi and said, "Sir, clearing the stagnant blood should be able to wake up the old lady, at least it can make the old lady's bruise disappear. I said it was right, but Qingniang actually said that I didn't understand anything, obviously she was talking nonsense."

  If that's the case, then it shows that I'm just pricking a little blood, which is harmless. Even if you think I won't be able to practice medicine, pricking a little skin won't hurt your wife much either. What's important is that your daughter looks down on her son-in-law too much, shouldn't you give your son-in-law an opportunity?

  Zhong Shenyi also understood the implication, he only had this one daughter, of course, he hoped the young couple would be loving. Now there was an opportunity to help his son-in-law, so what if it meant cheating a bit?

  "En, good!" Zhong Shenyi nodded in agreement.

  "Isn't this the divine doctor Zhong Hua from Liangfu County?" A voice suddenly sounded outside the door, "Cough cough, as a divine doctor, you actually speak like that, it's truly absurd and unworthy of the title 'divine doctor'!"

  Just then, someone refuted, and everyone looked out the door. They saw Cheng Erde rush in from outside and say to Cheng Yaoguang, "A'lang, A'lang, Xu Daifu from Xu's pharmacy has arrived!"

  Behind him was an old man wearing a green long gown, with a long face and a beard. There was a small mole on his right cheek, about the size of a fingernail, with three hairs growing out of it. He had a wooden box slung over his shoulder and walked in with the air of a doctor.

  Zhong Shenyi recognized him and greeted with a fist: "So it's Brother Xu."

  Xu Sanmao looked up with disdain and said, "Hmph, I, Xu Cheng, am ashamed to be acquainted with Master Zhong. He actually allowed a son-in-law who has never studied medicine to treat the illness, which is not taking Old Lady Cheng's life seriously. Moreover, he even agreed to let him administer acupuncture on her head. If there's any mistake in the acupoints on this head, it can be fatal, and yet he lets him try?"

  Just now, Zhong Shenyi agreed to treat him under Ao Wu's small calculation. Now that a fellow doctor has exposed him, as a doctor, his face is somewhat hot with shame.

  He stood up with a guilty conscience and wanted to apologize to Xu Sanmao and Cheng Yaowen.

  Zhong Qing had always admired his father, the divine doctor, and was proud of him. Now, seeing that he actually looked ashamed because of Ao Wu and even wanted to apologize, made him even angrier at Ao Wu.

  "Who says I don't understand medicine!" Ao Wu stood in front of Xu San Mao and asked.

  Xu Sanmao sneered at him, saying disdainfully: "A stinky little brat like you is worthy of talking to me? In the past, even Zhong Shenyi could be mentioned in the same breath as me, but now Zhong Hualian is already a shame to be compared with me... a useless and unrefined son-in-law... humph!"

  This remark is a slap in the face of Zhong Sheng, and now it's a slap in the face of Ao Wu!

  Zhong Qing looked at Ao Wu with an icy gaze, it was all his fault that her respected father's reputation was tarnished! Ao Wu was psychologically strong, but he couldn't help feeling a chill run down his spine under her piercing stare. This woman was really terrifying!

  "Uncle Xu, I've already brought back the old Liao medicine from home to save Old Madam, please don't worry!" Zhong Qing said with a hint of meaning.

  Although Ao Wu was making a fuss, the Zhong family brought out the most precious Liaoren, which could cure Mrs. Cheng even if it was bad again.

  Perhaps even now, Zhong Qing still thinks that Liao Can can save Cheng Mu.

  Xu Sanmao was taken aback and asked: "Ah, is it the Liaoren that was bought from the Khitan years ago?"

  "That's right." Zhong Qing replied with some pride.

  Zhong's family had a treasured ginseng, which Xu Sanmao had heard of before. The Zhong family only brought it out in times of danger to save people, and in the past few years, they had only brought it out twice, each time saving someone's life, making Xu Sanmao extremely envious. He didn't expect that this time, the Zhong family would bring it out again.

  He rolled his eyes and said with a hint of sarcasm, "What a joke! With Liao Can around, you can't just do whatever you want, is this the medical ethics of Zhong Sheng? Haha, what a great doctor indeed!"

  "Junior nephew has met Dr. Xu!" The rich second generation stepped out to greet, "Just now was only You Bin brother's eagerness to save people, impulsiveness, and had nothing to do with Uncle Zhong. Now that Dr. Xu is here, why not also diagnose Old Lady Cheng's illness?"

  "It turned out to be Fu Xian's nephew. Since you've said so, I'll take a look." He walked up to Zhong Shen Yi and said, "Brother Zhong, please step aside."

  Zhong Shenyi smiled kindly at him and made way for him to take the pulse. Xu Sanmao sat down on a four-legged stool, placed his hand on Madame Cheng's wrist and took her pulse for three or four minutes, then pried open Madame Cheng's eyes to take a look, and pried open her mouth to take a look.

  After finishing, he looked at Cheng Yaojin and said the diagnosis result: "Cough, old lady's throat has evil phlegm that cannot be dissolved, one breath can't lift it up, so she can't wake up. Cough, need to stretch hand into her throat to hook out the evil phlegm, then use Fritillaria cirrhosa and Trichosanthes to take for three days and three nights, it will be fine."

  "Not so!" Zhong Shenyi immediately refuted upon hearing the diagnosis, "The old lady does not have a pulse indicating phlegm production, how can we use medicine to dissolve phlegm?"

  As a renowned doctor with many years of medical practice, he wouldn't be unable to diagnose even phlegm. If he were to drink Xu Sanmao's medicine, that would be treating the wrong condition and might delay the treatment of the real illness.

  Xu San Mao's head tilted slightly, as if he was really embarrassed by Zhong Shen Yi's words.

  "Hahaha..." Ao Wu burst out laughing and said to Xu Sanmao: "I think Nian is just messing around with medicine, Nian doesn't understand medicine at all!"

  "Hmph." Xu Sanmao didn't even give it a glance.

  Kao Wu asked: "If you can cure illnesses, why haven't you cured your own cough?"

  As soon as this was said, everyone was stunned. Xu Sanmao's tone choked, his breathing became more labored, and he coughed even louder, which only confirmed what Ao Wu had just said.

  Chen Yijin, who had just begun to trust Xu Sanmao a little, hesitated again in his eyes.

  Xu Sanmao coughed for a while, heavily patting his chest several times before calming down. He glared at Ao Wu and said, "I've rescued too many people, gone against the will of heaven, this is the heavens' punishment on me."

  This old man is really good at fabricating things and even tries to make himself look better than he actually is.

  "Tender mouth with black phlegm, insufficient lung energy, accumulated over the years into a serious illness, if not treated, there will be no more than a few years to live!" Ao Wu looked at him disdainfully, "Dare or not dare to make a bet, I can now make Nen stop coughing, and completely cure it within a month."

  As soon as Xu San Mao coughed, it was clear that he had phlegm in his mouth and wasn't good for his lungs. So Xu San Mao laughed: "Cough, haha, truly a big talker! Alright, what if I lose?"

  "Kneel down and admit defeat, three days later, I'll personally deliver the 'Divine Doctor is in this World' plaque to your doorstep." Ao Wu said with a smile.

  If he wins against Zhong's son-in-law, it would be equivalent to winning against Zhong Hua himself, and then he can rise to prominence by stepping on the reputation of the divine doctor Zhong.

  "Alright!" Xu Sanmao replied.

  "If I win, you'll have to treat me," Ao Wu said calmly.

  Xu Sanmao had actually forgotten, but he never thought he would lose. His cough had been treated for over a decade, and countless doctors had failed to cure it, including the great doctor Zhong; if even Doctor Zhong couldn't cure it, how could some useless member of the Zhong family? It was laughable. Since he wouldn't lose, why not agree?

  "It should be so."

  "Stretch out your left hand." Ao Wu took a step forward, "Lend me the silver needle for a moment. Officer Cheng, please ask someone to bring a basin over."

  Soon the silver needle and copper basin were in hand, the copper basin was placed in front of Xu San Mao, Ao Wu held a silver needle and quickly stabbed it into Xu San Mao's outstretched left hand. Onlookers were shocked, is this treating an illness or taking a life? It was so ferocious.

  However, Ao Wu's killings were all accurate and precise, and saving people was no exception.

  His needle accurately pierced Xu Sanmao's left palm, one centimeter below his middle finger.

  Watching the silver needle enter his hand, Xu Sanmao didn't feel any pain. The way of acupuncture is to accurately hit the acupoint, and it won't let the person receiving the treatment feel any pain. Thinking of this, Xu Sanmao's expression changed involuntarily.

  Kao Wu's hand pinched the silver needle, lifted it up and stabbed it again, three lifts and three entries. Xu San Mao suddenly felt his throat extremely itchy, and immediately started coughing violently, coughing so hard that his waist bent.

  Suddenly his eyes bulged, and he hastily stretched out his head to align with the copper basin. With a "whoosh" sound, he spat out a mouthful of black stuff from his mouth!

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