There was a stone table and chairs in Dr. Jones' yard. The eunuch came over menacingly and put his bloody donkey whip on the table and said, "Foreigner, what excuse do you have now?"
Dr. Jones nodded to Liu Ziguang in a gentlemanly manner, saying that he would deal with the matter at hand first before discussing the consultation fee. Liu Ziguang, who was in a good mood, smiled and made a gesture of please. He also hated the eunuch transplanting the donkey whip.
I'm so interested, I just want to watch the excitement.
Nowadays, eunuchs are people who cannot be offended in the capital. They are either Dongchang's spies or armed eunuchs working inside. Whether it is the people from the Queen Mother's side or the people from Jiuqiansui, they are much more arrogant than ordinary officials outside. It's really
To kill a Western doctor with no backing is not as simple as squeezing an ant to death.
Dr. Jones obviously didn't know the danger he was facing. He turned the donkey whip over and over again, and then said to the eunuch seriously: "Eunuch Bai, personally, I am very willing to help you transplant this disease."
It’s a donkey’s genitals, but human and animal organs are not interchangeable. Just like the proverb in your country says, if you put a donkey’s head against a horse’s mouth, it won’t match.”
"We don't care about that. I've got the fresh goods you asked for, and now you say they can't be exchanged. Aren't you just kidding us?" The eunuch, known as Eunuch Bai, patted the stone table and stood up.
When I got up, several eunuchs in brocade clothes carrying knives outside heard the sound and stretched their heads in to take a look. When they saw that the father-in-law did not call them, they all shrank back and went back.
"Dear Eunuch Bai, you still don't understand what I mean. It's not that I don't want to perform this operation for you. It's just that I lack the appropriate raw materials. The organ that you originally kept for many years has been soaked in medicine for many years and has become completely necrotic.
Although this donkey's genitals is fresh now, it will not survive even if it is installed on your body. It will gradually wither, become necrotic, fall off, emit a foul smell and ooze pus. I think as a palace service member, you definitely don't want this.
A situation will arise." After all, Dr. Jones is a man of culture, who understands things rationally and is moved by emotion. After saying this, Eunuch Bai remained silent, lowering his head and thinking about something.
"Wouldn't it be nice to get a human whip and mount it on it? It's hard for others to find it. Father-in-law, why don't you have it at your fingertips? Wouldn't it be nice to have the cleansing room choose a thicker one from the newly castrated human whips and mount it on it?"
Liu Ziguang couldn't help but help them come up with an idea.
"Who are you?" Eunuch Bai was so focused on his donkey whip that he didn't notice that there were still several people standing in the yard. He looked at Liu Ziguang and the others and asked warily: "Plain clothes armed with knives, from the Criminal Department.
Yamen or Jinyiwei?"
"We are also here to seek medical treatment, and we are considered fellow patients. Of course, my eye disease is different from my father-in-law's. Haha, we are considered destined to be together after all. Don't worry, father-in-law. We won't care about anyone after leaving this courtyard.
Who do you know?" Liu Ziguang replied with a smile, moved a stone bench and sat down.
Eunuch Bai waved his hand: "Our family has nothing to worry about. We are serving as servants in the palace for nothing. We just want to keep our bodies intact and be able to enter our ancestors' graves with dignity. This man has a great idea. What a saying.
To wake up the dreamer, let’s leave our house here and come back after we have picked out something suitable. Everyone, please stay.” After saying that, he stood up and left.
"Eunuch Bai, you forgot your genitals." Dr. Jones reminded kindly.
"I'll leave it to you to stew the soup, we don't want it any more." Eunuch Bai walked away without looking back.
"Mr. Liu, thank you for rescuing me. If this man lets his entourage threaten me with a knife to do this surgery of transplanting donkey genitals, there will be big trouble." Dr. Jones put his hand on his heart and said gracefully to Liu Ziguang
Bowed.
"It's easy to talk, now we can calculate the cost of our operation." Liu Ziguang stretched out his hand to make a gesture of support and said politely. In fact, he secretly thought that if the eunuch from outside came in with a knife, he might not be able to get a bargain. Just now
I clearly saw Dr. Jones reaching under his heavy leather apron and pulling out a sharp scalpel. There must be some mystery underneath. Coupled with the sharp eyes and extremely steady technique of this Englishman, I believe it is not that kind of thing.
A weak doctor who has no power to restrain a chicken.
For the cost of your operation, you only need to pay me one gold coin from Song Dynasty. Of course, silver of the same value is also acceptable. You must know that this is the minimum standard for my medical treatment. Although the operation is very simple, I don't want to break the rules. I hope you can understand.
"Dr. Jones is a brother who settles the accounts clearly. A gold coin from Song Dynasty can be exchanged for twenty taels of silver in the market. If he makes any move, he will charge twenty taels of silver. Even Sun Gang, who put the usury money, couldn't help but curse in a low voice.
He said: "It's so dark."
"No problem. This is a one-hundred-tael silver note. You can keep it first. Your medical skills are well-known in the capital. Can you let me take a look?" Liu Ziguang doesn't care about a little money. He can compete with this mysterious Dr. Jones.
The important thing is to have a relationship.
"Of course, if you don't believe those scary rumors." Dr. Jones walked to the door of the wing and made an inviting gesture.
Liu Ziguang followed Dr. Jones into the side room, which is the operating room and specimen showroom. In the middle of the room is a rectangular shallow pool made of bricks, about half a person high, with tiles covering it, and a disemboweled corpse lying on it.
In the pool, the blood drains into the ditch underground through the small holes on the edge of the pool. The air is filled with a strange smell of potion. There are a row of wide-mouth glass bottles in the cabinets on the wall, in which the heart, liver, spleen, lungs and kidneys are soaked.
Such internal organs, and a complete skeleton fixed on the chair in the corner of the room, "Oh, that is my friend William. I always take him with me wherever I go. The one on the operating table was brought here in the morning.
Those prisoners on death row have been sent to me by the jailers recently, perhaps because the price I offer is too satisfying to them. Sometimes I even suspect that these money-grubbing guys deliberately kill people and send them to me in exchange for money.
"Dr. Jones said casually, paying attention to Liu Ziguang's expression.
Of course Liu Ziguang, who came down from the bloody battlefield, would not be intimidated by these. He admired it with interest and asked casually: "Dr. Jones collected these corpses at high prices not just for research, right? It stands to reason that you, as a person,
A doctor of medicine is already very familiar with the bones and meridians of the human body, so there is no need to do these basic homework. I think there must be some secret in this."
"God has given you a smart mind. It is true that my medical skills are no longer comparable to those of the interns at the Royal Medical College. These corpses are collected for a great initiative. Please forgive me for not telling you the specific situation yet. As compensation.
, I invite you to visit a more interesting place." It was the first time that Dr. Jones met Liu Ziguang, a bold and careful man who could speak a few words in English, so he naturally wanted to chat more.
The floor of the wing room is made of blue bricks. After lifting a few bricks, a gloomy cave is revealed, and bursts of cold air gush out, making people shiver.
"This is one of the reasons why I chose to live here. Don't be afraid of Mr. Liu. This is just an ancient tomb, which is equivalent to a natural cold storage. Let's go down and have a look." Dr. Jones said, picking up an oil lamp and walking along.
Climb the wooden ladder into the cave.
Liu Ziguang also followed, and after walking down a foot deep, he entered an ancient tomb made of stones. He didn't know what era it was. The tomb was not very big, and the original objects in the tomb were missing. They were replaced by
There were more human organs sealed with ice, bottles filled with blood, and several corpses with lifelike faces. Even a brave man like Liu Ziguang couldn't help but feel a little creepy. Dr. Jones's face was under the shadow of the oil lamp.
Looking particularly ferocious, "Welcome to my storage room, Mr. Liu, I hope you are not scared."
"Very good, a very powerful storage room. Are these organs the raw materials for your surgery?" Liu Ziguang asked.
"They are my collection, but they are not raw materials for surgery. At present, I can only perform organ transplants. These are organs with necrotic tissues. I keep them for other purposes." Dr. Jones was clearly seen with his baby.
Very excited, he took out a glass bottle filled with light-colored liquid from a wooden bucket filled with ice cubes, and took out two tall glasses, and motioned to Liu Ziguang: "Want some champagne?"
"Thank you, no need. The air here is not very good. I think it's better to go out and get some sunshine." Liu Ziguang didn't dare to drink the champagne of unknown origin. In addition to ice cubes, there seemed to be two pale champagne in the barrel.
Where's the palm?
"This is Bordeaux champagne. A bottle of it costs hundreds of taels of silver on the Shanghai black market." Dr. Jones put down the bottle and glass and shook his head regretfully.
"It seems that the world full of sunshine is suitable for you. Oh, please go first." Dr. Jones followed Liu Ziguang to the ladder and asked the guest to go up first in a gentlemanly manner.
Liu Ziguang returned to the yard for the first time and felt that the summer sun in Nanjing was so kind. He wiped the cold sweat from his head and said to Dr. Jones: "I don't know if you need an assistant. I can recommend a few good young men."
, they can also act as your bodyguards."
Jones smiled and said: "If I guess correctly, you are a general leading troops. As for the assistant you mentioned, you want to learn surgery from me and then serve as a battlefield medic. What I can't figure out is,
Should you pay the tuition for these apprentices? Or should I pay the wages for these assistants and bodyguards?”
"It's great to talk to smart people like Dr. Jones. Let's cancel each other out. It's called a win-win, two win.
Do you understand? In addition, I will help you provide more customers and security guarantees. For example, if the eunuch who came today dares to threaten you again, I can make him disappear forever. "
"That said, I'm really tempted. So, dear Liu, please give me some time to think about it, okay?"
Dr. Jones was obviously impressed by Liu Ziguang. The presence of several assistants with military backgrounds meant that he could leave trivial matters such as shopping for food, cooking, stealing, and buying corpses to others in the future. Moreover, these assistants might as well be talking about this proposal everywhere.
He really couldn't refuse.
Liu Ziguang hurried back to his residence happily, his eyesight restored, and he met Dr. Jones again. Good things come in pairs. When he walked to the door of the room, he saw Peng Jingrong waiting anxiously for him. She stood up as soon as she saw him coming.
He came over and said, "Come on, your face can be saved. Miss Hu introduced a plastic surgeon from North Korea. Come and have a look with me."
Liu Ziguang suddenly took off his glasses, looked at Peng Jingrong with two shining eyes, and said with a smile: "You look really good today."
Peng Jingrong was stunned immediately. She didn't notice when the small flower fan fell to the ground, "You...are your eyes healed?"