Chapter 45: Searching for someone thousands of miles away

The Spring Festival of 1942,

Wu Daxiong and his family spent their time in the newly purchased mansion.

Lu Wenhui and Chen Zhi are responsible for the internal and external arrangements.

Chen Zhi took the recovered Wang Ziwei around to eat and drink.

The euphemistic name is, nourishing the body.

Worshiping ancestors and paying New Year greetings. It was so lively.

It's a pity that Qingmei still hasn't come back.

Only when Wu Daxiong traveled through time did he realize that he was also from the Republic of China.

The rules for New Year greetings are quite different.

From the first day to the fifth day of the first lunar month,

Almost all the people wearing long robes and mandarin jackets bowing and bowing in the street are men.

After the fifth day of the Lunar New Year, you can see women visiting the seventh aunt and eighth aunt's house to pay New Year greetings.

The traditional way of greeting the New Year is to bow and kowtow. People of the same generation bow to each other.

The younger generation pays New Year greetings to their elders, and of course the elders also have to give lucky money to the younger generation.

The new way to greet the New Year is to give out business cards.

Make a list and give it to your servant,

Ask the servant to deliver it door to door according to the address on the list.

This way of paying New Year greetings is called "flying cakes" locally.

But you can’t just pick up a business card and say New Year greetings.

It is necessary to "hang red" to symbolize another prosperous year.

It's best to put "mouth color" on your business card.

Blessings such as "Congratulations on the New Year" and "Congratulations on getting rich" are naturally indispensable.

It's a bit like how modern people use their mobile phones to send New Year greetings messages, it's simple and fast.

On this day, Wu Daxiong had just returned from having dinner with his father-in-law.

I heard from Chen Yi that someone was visiting.

What Wu Daxiong didn’t expect was that,

This person turned out to be Mrs. Lu.

Mrs. Lu got straight to the point and explained her purpose.

But it was definitely not what Wu Daxiong thought.

"This time I came to Mr. Wu for help, for a book and a person."

"A book, a person?"

Mrs. Lu took out an ancient book bound with thread from the package.

The cover of the book has turned yellow, and it looks like it is very old.

Just listen to Mrs. Lu say:

"This manuscript "Essentials of Bone-Setting" was written by Lu Shikui, a folk Chinese medicine doctor in the late Qing Dynasty who spent his whole life.

My husband has always regarded it as a treasure."

"Then, the person Mrs. Lu mentioned...?"

"Mr. Wu doesn't know that I still have a daughter alive.

"Oh, I didn't hear Madam talk about it last time."

It was my fault for hiding it from you last time, please forgive me."

"It's okay, it's okay. I can understand Mrs. Lu's mood."

"One person is naturally my little girl Lu Zhenyun. She should be nineteen years old this year. Unfortunately, we are so far apart.

As a mother, I couldn't celebrate her birthday even once."

Alas! Mrs. Lu sighed, and then said:

A few years ago, she received some information and told me that she was very good and was now working as a doctor in the Eighth Route Army.

Tell me not to worry about my son traveling thousands of miles away. How can I relax and worry about my mother?

After much thought, I thought of you, Mr. Wu.

"This book is a secret manual for traumatology. It is very useful in saving lives and healing the wounded.

I accidentally discovered it when I was sorting out my late husband's belongings a few days ago."

That's why I took the liberty to ask Mr. Wu to see if he could find Lu Zhenyun and hand it over to her."

"Oh? How can Mrs. Lu be so sure that I am not a bad person?"

"Mr. Wu was joking, I have been practicing medicine with my husband for many years, and I have seen countless people.

Mr. Wu was able to send Wu Sibao's treasures here for a special trip. He was very benevolent and righteous. How can I still not believe you?

Wu Daxiong secretly felt ashamed, it seemed that he had been worrying too much.

Since ancient times, many doctors have been chivalrous, and Mrs. Lu is just such a person.

When Wu Sibao was mentioned, Mrs. Lu sighed again.

Said: "A doctor has the heart of a parent,

He only knows how to save people and doesn't care about worldly affairs.

Lu Zhenyun's father practiced medicine throughout his life and saved countless lives.

Once he rescued a man who was covered with injuries in Suzhou.

This person was Wu Sibao, the traitor No. 76 who later became infamous.

His father has always been worried about this matter.

Unexpectedly, a year later, a traitorous spy somehow found out that my husband had the book "The Art of Bone Setting".

So they came to ask for credit and tried to dedicate it to the Japanese, but when they failed to rob me, they beat my husband seriously and injured him.

Lu Zhenyun and her father coughed up blood and died in anger.

Later, it was learned that the traitorous agent was Wu Sibao's subordinate.

Wu Sibao didn't know about this and sent someone to kill the dog agent. But everything was irreversible.

The child Lu Zhenyun was severely hit mentally and had the idea of ​​​​revenge against the Japanese.

She defected to the Eighth Route Army. I couldn't stop her, so I let her go.

This is also the reason why I refuse to accept the treasure you gave me.

If her father was still alive, I think it would be the same."

"I didn't expect that there would be such twists and turns." Wu Daxiong said with emotion.

"My husband and I have no children, except this one daughter.

Despite her young age, Lu Zhenyun is already the seventh generation descendant of our Lu Family Traumatology Department.

Speaking of Lu's Traumatology Department, many old Ningbo people must have heard of it.

As early as 1658 in the late Ming Dynasty and early Qing Dynasty, Lu Shikui, who was proficient in martial arts and traditional Chinese medicine classics.

Established "Lu's Traumatology Department" in Baizhang Street,

Known as the "No. 1 Traumatology Department in Eastern Zhejiang", it has been in operation for more than 300 years.

"Oh, it turns out that Miss Lu is so powerful." Wu Daxiong said.

"In order to better inherit the technology of Lu's Traumatology Department and carry it forward.

Lu Zhenyun learned Lu's small splint technique when she was very young. She suffered a lot.

"Lu's small splint" bone setting technology, also known as fir bark splint,

Take the second layer of bark from the cedar tree and use it as a tool to fix fractures.

It is one of the inherited characteristics of Lu’s Traumatology Department.

"Because cedar is not only easy to obtain, but also light, breathable, cheap, and easy to make.

It can be customized according to the fracture site. This is a secret of the Lu family.

We also need the essence of Lu’s Traumatology Department,” Mrs. Lu introduced.
To be continued...