A small courtyard with a mixed structure of civil engineering. Due to the age, the wood used to build the house is old and cracked, exposing the brown wood inside. The tiles on the roof are also partially incomplete and have not been repaired. They are just used.
Covered it with some thatch.
Huang Zhong and Huang Hansheng sat on a stone bench in the small courtyard, silent.
There were bursts of coughing sounds coming from the house, and the coughing was heartbreaking and uncomfortable.
Every year when the weather starts to get cold, Huang Zhong and Huang Hansheng's children start to cough. The cough lasts for almost four to five months. The colder the weather, the worse the cough. Then it gets better in the summer, and then gets worse again in late autumn, and the cycle starts over and over again.
It's been quite a few years.
Huang Zhong and Huang Hansheng were fine at first. He could go up to the mountains to hunt some prey, sometimes hunt some good furs, and save some money. However, since his son started to get the cough a few years ago, there were not many at home.
All my savings were spent on these coughs.
I saw a lot of doctors and took a lot of medicine, but it just didn't feel better.
Every time the doctor comes to see him, he always says something that Huang Zhong and Huang Hansheng can hear but don't understand at all, such as "deficiency of Wei Yang, loss of ascending and descending," "yin does not restrain Yang, loss of Xuansu" and so on.
The medicinal ingredients in the prescriptions are also strange and weird. Sometimes they can be found by chance, and sometimes there is no other way at all, so they have to make do by decoction of the medicine without the medicinal ingredients and let them take it.
Therefore, the condition waxes and wanes and cannot be eradicated.
As the old saying goes, men are afraid of coughing and women are afraid of diarrhea. Huang Zhong and Huang Hansheng’s son has been coughing for so many years, and his physical condition is getting worse and worse. Logically speaking, he is already a teenager, but because of this disease, he is still very thin.
Just like an ordinary ten-year-old person...
The coughing in the room became violent, and it seemed that he finally coughed up some phlegm, then wheezed and slowly calmed down.
The door curtain of the house was gently lifted, and a woman walked out of the house. Her face was also a little sallow. She was holding a wooden tray. She turned around and looked at Huang Zhong. A silent tear fell down her cheek and fell to the ground.
Huang Zhong gritted his teeth and remained silent. The veins on his forehead twitched twice. He turned around and entered the house. He quickly came out again. He held a bow and arrow wrapped in cloth and whispered: "...I'll go up the mountain to see again."
Look..." Huang Zhong was going to go up the mountain to see if he could hunt some living animals.
The woman opened and closed her mouth a few times, as if she wanted to say something, but in the end she just said: "...be careful..."
In fact, both of them knew that the weather had not warmed up yet, and most of the animals were still hiding and would not easily come out to move around. What's more, Huang Zhong had basically collected all the mountains in this area before, and he didn't hunt anything.
nice one.
Just go out and take a look, there is still some slim hope.
Huang Zhong nodded, walked to the door of the small courtyard, opened the door, and saw two horses walking over in a hurry from a distance. The person in front saw Huang Zhong on horseback and waved repeatedly.
Huang Zhong took a look and saw that it was Huang Chengyan, the head of the Huang family, and his son-in-law Fei Qian.
Before Huang Chengyan arrived, the voice came through first: "Haha, Han Sheng is going hunting again?"
Fei Qian, who was following behind, thought to himself that it was a good thing he came a step early. It looked like Huang Hansheng was about to go out. If he had been later, he would not have been able to catch up.
Huang Zhong and Huang Hansheng greeted Huang Chengyan into the courtyard first.
Fei Qian first tied up the horse, took out some fried beans from the backpack on one side, fed some to the two horses respectively, patted the two big heads, and then untied him from the horse.
He picked up a bag and a wine gourd and entered the yard.
Huang Chengyan had obviously been here before, but it had been a while. Looking back now, he found that there seemed to be fewer objects in the yard, and he couldn't help but feel a little regretful.
Seeing Fei Qian coming in with the bag, Huang Chengyan said with a smile: "When I came here this time, I happened to bump into a rabbit on the road. I happened to know that Han Sheng had a good way of preparing wild animals, so I used it to bother Han Sheng."
Fei Qian also handed over the bag and said, "Thank you very much!"
Huang Zhong and Huang Hansheng were silent for a while, then crossed their arms and saluted Huang Chengyan, and said, "That's all right. You two sit down for a while, and I'll pack it up before I come back." After saying that, he took the bag from Fei Qian's hand and turned around and entered the house.
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Fei Qian took a brief look around and found that Huang Zhong's home was so dilapidated. He couldn't help but feel filled with emotion. If he hadn't told him, who would have known that this was the place where a strong martial artist lived!
Look at the fence, which has some gaps due to rain, and look at the roof of the house, whose tiles are damaged and can only be replaced with some thatch, the word distress is written all over it.
Why did Huang Zhong never become an official?
In addition to the reason for Huang Zhong's son, Huang Zhong's personal character may also have a certain influence. Fei Qian made some guesses because Huang Chengyan told him not to bring other items before he came, but only brought a rabbit.
Not long after, Huang Zhong came out with a pottery pot of rabbit meat. The three of them sat around on the stone table and benches at the edge of the small courtyard, took some bowls and chopsticks, poured some wine, and started eating.
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After moving his chopsticks a little, Huang Chengyan put them down and said with a smile: "Han Sheng, I have something to ask of you..." Huang Chengyan talked about Fei Qian's mission, and then said, "...although this journey is
There are some soldiers and armor to protect us, but it is not very peaceful after all, so I asked Han Sheng to come here and hope that I can help take care of him along the way."
Fei Qian stood up, bowed deeply, and said, "I knew before that Han Sheng was very skilled in martial arts. It would be Qian's blessing if he could be cared for!"
Huang Zhong quickly stretched out his hand to help Fei Qian up, hesitated for a moment, and then said: "It's not that Zhong doesn't appreciate it, it's just that it's hard to get away from trivial matters in this family..." Huang Zhong sighed and shook his head silently.
Huang Chengyan was about to say something when suddenly Huang Zhong's son in the room started coughing again, so he sighed and stopped trying to persuade him.
How to persuade? It's not easy to persuade. Let Huang Zhong leave his sick son and go to another place alone. If his son's condition is relieved when he comes back, it will be okay. If something happens to him, where will Huang Zhong be left?
Fei Qian quietly listened to the coughing sound of the people in the room, and suddenly asked: "I wonder if you have a fever?"
Although the question was confusing, Huang Zhong still understood what Fei Qian meant. His eyes lit up and he said, "I have fever from time to time, but not in recent days."
Although Fei Qian is not a doctor and has not learned any medical skills, thanks to the blessing of a large amount of information from later generations, especially the virus incident that inexplicably swept the world and shocked everyone with a cough, he still understood a little about the cause of the cough.
There are many, the most feared one is pneumonia.
Pneumonia is contagious, and will develop into tuberculosis in the later stages. Because there are no anti-inflammatory drugs, it was almost a fatal disease in ancient times. However, pneumonia is often accompanied by high fever. So since Huang Zhong said that there is no constant fever, then it may not be pneumonia, but
It may be chronic bronchitis or asthma.
But there was no such thing as tracheitis in ancient times, and there was no way for Fei Qian to prescribe his own prescription, but Fei Qian felt that this was an opportunity to persuade Huang Zhong...
