The Fishing Doctor

This doctor fishes almost every day.

His house is next to a river. Go out the door and walk a few steps to the river. This river is not wide. This river is silted up downstream, the water is almost not flowing. There are no boats in the river. Few children come here to swim, because the river has drowned, they say there are water ghosts. The river is of little use. Because the water does not flow, and no one picks to eat. Only the south bank of the planted vegetable garden every day picked to water the vegetables. Then there are people who drive the ducks to the river to put. The south bank of the river is full of big willow trees. Some interjection, willow leaves are dragged into the water. There were quite a few fish in the river, and it was a good place to fish.

You probably haven't seen fishing like this.

He moved a small bamboo chair and sat down. With a small white clay stove, a small pot, mention the box of onions and ginger ingredients, and a bottle of wine. He was very experienced in fishing. The fishing rod was short, the line was not long, and there was no need to drift, so he just threw the line in the water, and when he saw the line moving, he picked it up. All of them were 3-4 inch long carp. --The fish in this river are mostly white fish and carp. He doesn't fish for white stripe, but he fishes for carp in this way. When he caught one, he scraped the scales and put it into the pot. In a short time, the fish was cooked. He eats the fish and drinks while he shakes the hook and fishes again. This kind of fish cooked out of the water is delicious, called "fresh from the water". When he heard his daughter shouting at the door, "Dad...!" Knowing that someone had come to see him, he covered the fire, stuck the fishing rod in the wet mud on the shore, and got up to go home. In a short time, there was a steel blue dragonfly landed on his fishing rod.

This man's surname is Wang, the word talker. China seems to have a particularly large number of people with the word Tanren, and most of them have the surname Wang. Most of them are born in the ninth month of the lunar calendar, and their first names must also carry the word chrysanthemum. Ancient people's poem "people are like chrysanthemums" has created many people's names.

Wang Tanren's house is very recognizable. There is no special sign at the door. The door is always open, and when you look inside, you can see several large plaques hanging in the passage. On the plaques are written: "Kung Fu with the good phase", "help the world to save people", "benevolent heart and benevolent art", "the art of Shao Man Huang". "Apricot forest spring warmth", "orange and flow of fame", "wonderful hands to return to spring", "rise my sickness" The plaques in Dr. ......'s house are all from this set. These were given to Wang Tanren's grandfather and father by friends, relatives or sick family members. The plaques are old and the gold letters on them are darkened. When it came to Wang Tanren's time, it was not very popular to give plaques. Only one plaque was given to Wang Tanren, and it was new, with shiny paint and glowing letters, and it was given last year. This plaque has nothing to do with medicine, or not much to do with it, the plaque is written "urgent public righteousness", the character is Yan style.

After entering the aisle, there is a small courtyard. The courtyard is planted with chickweed, okra, anemone, and other grasses and flowers that are neither expensive nor troublesome. There is a rack of lentils. There is also a bed of lady's mantle. This place does not eat lady's mantle, and no one grows it. This bed of lady's mantle is Wang Tanren's seeds from abroad, specially planted to pair with lentils. In Wang Tanren's doctor's room, there is a couplet written by Zheng Banqiao (engraved on a wooden board): "A garden of lady's mantle in spring rain, a shelf full of lentil flowers in autumn." He liked this couplet very much. This bit of indifferent elegance, and a humble man who does not seek to achieve is very worthy. In fact, what? Why does it have to be lady's mantle, what other vegetables are also the same? Wang Tanren took the trouble to find the vegetable seeds of lady's mantle to plant, which can also be seen in its naivety. Since he planted the lady's mantle, some of his poor friends in the drink, in addition to eating Wang Tanren's own fish, you can still taste this bitter and bitter vegetables.

After the small courtyard, there are three main rooms, the middle is the hall, one side is the bedroom, and the other side is his medical room.

His medical room was different from other doctors', like a small pharmacy. On the shelves were many small porcelain jars with blue and white flowers, the mouths of the jars were stuffed with cotton paper rolled tightly with plugs, and the stomachs of the jars were labeled with sticks of light yellow wax paper, which read "Jiuyi Dan", "Pearl San", "Ice Tablet San" ...... everywhere and some large and small milk bowl, medicine mill, medicine mortar, mouth knife, scissors, tweezers, pliers, brazier, blowing medicine into the ears and throat with a copper drum ...... he doctor is "men and women inside and outside the size of the prescription pulse "The company's main business is to provide a wide range of products and services to the public. The Wang family has been doing this for three generations. The medicine used in surgery is mostly "loose" - the medicine face. "The immortals can hardly know the pills and pills", more experienced doctors and pharmacies can not identify the true color of the pills, are some pink or snow-white powder. Although every pharmacy is hung with a small plaque "Xiuhe Cunxin", but Wang Tanren still do not believe. There are many valuable drugs in the surgical dispensary: musk, pearl, ice chips ...... which pharmacy can use enough? Therefore, he concocted it himself. His wife, children, are his assistants, often see them holding a milk bowl, holding a milk hammer, slowly grinding and researching in a circle (the powder to research extremely fine, are added to the water "milk"). In addition, more than half of those who came to him were from the countryside, and even for internal medicine, they did not want to go to the pharmacy to get medicine, hoping that Mr. prescribed a prescription for a pair, so he also had to prepare some common internal medicine.

There are not many surgeons in the city, - I do not know why, people do not look up to surgeons, think they are a bit "jianghu", not as noble as the internal medicine, so Wang Tanren see more time for surgery. Most of the cases were sores and boils, and most of them were half-grown boys who were seven or eight years old and were too old for dogs. I often saw an adult with a skinny kid with a dysentery head or a fat kid with long, tired cheeks walk into the door of Wang Tan's house; not long after that, I saw him leading the way out again. The one with dysentery had a head painted blue and a bald head painted blue, while the one with a long cheek had a big round black cake painted on his cheek, which was made with old ink mixed with ice chips.

It was too embarrassing to charge more for these small sores and boils, because there was no registration fee at that time. And the local rules, acquaintances rarely pay the money right away, they have to wait for the "three festivals", - Dragon Boat Festival, Mid-Autumn Festival. New Year. Forget not to forget, how much can be "each according to conscience". Some may be for elegance, in fact, to save money, not to send cash, but to send some flashy gifts: batch of handle, fan, moon cakes, lotus, Tianzhu fruit, wax plum flowers. When people come from the countryside to see a doctor, they are usually paid at the time, but often not in cash, or 20 eggs, or a liter of sesame, or a chicken, or half a bag of quail! In case of real difficulties, nothing can be taken out, the patient's son or daughter will fall down and kowtow a head. Wang Tan people look at the patient covered with a broken quilt, a sour nose, not only the consultation fee is free, even the medicine money also sent free. Wang Tan family meals do not break, - eat lentils. The lady's mantle, small fish, brown rice - and fried quail! Clothes can be very tight. Mr. and Mrs. Teman, more than ten years did not buy clothes. Only the son and daughter grew taller every year, and had to give them a change of season. Some people say: Wang Tanren is silly.

Wang Tanren is a bit silly. Last year and this year, two silly things were done.

Last year, there was a big flood. The topography of the county, high on all sides, low in the middle, like a kettle, alias is called Yu Cheng. The bottom of the canal in the west of the city is higher than the street level of the north and south streets of the city. Standing on the canal embankment, you can overlook the roofs of the tiled houses lining up in the city; the kites flown by children in the city are floating under the feet of the visitors on the embankment. As a result, the place is often flooded. The floods seem to have a cycle, once every ten years. Last year, there was a big flood. Wang Tanren was fishing by the river, and in the evening he heard toads climbing on the top of the willow trees, screaming his heart, he knew it was an ominous sign. Toad has a special inspiration, how high the water rises, he called at more heights. Ten years ago the great flood was like this. Sure enough, days of heavy rain, a night of west winds, the canal broke the mouth, the turbid yellow flood poured down, the water on the flat two feet deep, the street became a big river. In the river flowed boxes, cabinets, dead cows, dead people. This year, tens of thousands of people died in the flood. The water did not recede for more than ten days, and many people were trapped on the roofs of houses, tree tops and isolated islands like high posts to starve; many others were sick; vomiting and diarrhea, dysentery and typhoid. Wang Tanren used a strong boat with a long bamboo pole to lean on, in the chest of the water to run to and fro, to treat people. He can water, in the water is very deep place, will hold the bamboo pole, swim across. He heard that there was an isolated village surrounded by water to the north of Taishan Temple, and a village of people were sick. But the temple is the exit of the flood, the current is very fast, can not accommodate the boat, can not pass! He and four very good water in the lifeboat rescue sailors to discuss, made a boat, in his waist tied four chains, each one and in a sailor's waist, so that, even if the boat capsized, one of them may also save him up. The boat sailed, watching the people's eyes are covered with a layer of tears. Seeing the boat bobbing and weaving in the waves, finally docked to the lonely village, everyone let out a thunderous cheer. This is a real game!

After the water receded, the people of that village together gave him a plaque, that is, the piece of "eager justice".

It was a silly thing to exchange a life for a plaque.

Another silly thing is to give Wang Bing a back hitch, this year.

Wang Bing was a friend of his when he was a kid who pulled out crickets and flew kites. This man was originally very broad. The old people in this street still often talk about his wedding, the bride's flower shoes decorated with eight pearls, each one as big as the top of the finger! Good guys, eating, drinking, gambling and smoking, the family business was lost, not even a tile, and finally had to live in a few relatives to host food. This family lived for three months and that family lived for two months. Even so, he smoked opium! He gave people cigarettes and was paid with ashes and a little paste. One night he felt pain in his back and had a fever, and in the morning he came to Wang Tanren crookedly.

Wang Tanren took a look, this is a famous external disease: hitchback. He said, "You don't have to go!"

Wang Tanren kept Jiang Bing at home, taking care of his food and drink, and also taking care of him to smoke opium - he took away half of the piece of cloudy soil that Wang Tanren kept to prepare medicine. Wang Tanren's ancestral musk and ice chips were also used by him for a third. After a month or so, Wang Bing's back was healed.

Someone asked Wang Tanren, "Why did you cure him?" Wang Tanren was a bit puzzled by this and said, "If I don't treat him, he will die."

Wang Bing did not have a penny. Eat for nothing, drink for nothing, autonomous disease. After he got well, he could only write a lot of thank you posts, posted in the streets of the city, for Wang Tanren spread the name. The words on the post were really dripping with emotion.

Wang Tanren's wife is very virtuous and has not said a word against what Wang Tanren has done. But she couldn't help but ask Tanren: "How much is the musk and ice chips you used up for Wang Bing worth?" Wang Tanren smiled and said, "Not much money. --I still have it." His wife also had to smile and shake her head.

Wang Tanren was like this, seeing people, looking at "men and women's internal and external pulses," doing silly things, and fishing every day. A garden of spring rain, full of autumn wind.

Hello, Mr. Wang Tanren.