On the evening of the fourth day, Yuan Er finally opened his eyes, drank some water and gruel and fell asleep again.
The doctor rushed to check the wound, took Yuan Zhi's pulse, and warned: "The injured person lost too much blood and is still very weak. In the next two days, he will mainly be fed a light liquid diet, and after three days he will resume his normal diet. Give him more food."
Take some supplements to make up for the lost vitality."
"Thank you doctor for saving my life." Yuan Gang burst into tears of gratitude.
When Wang Yuan was building a tunnel in his previous life, a worker had an accident and had to have his leg amputated because the treatment was too late. He worried: "Is there something wrong with Yuan Er's leg? The aorta was damaged, so there is no need for amputation?"
"I know the arteries, but what is the aorta?" The doctor was a little confused.
In traditional Chinese medicine, arteries have two meanings.
The place where the pulse is usually pressed is one of the arteries. A pulse that jumps like beans and has an uneven rhythm is also called an artery.
Wang Yuan had no choice but to change his words and ask again: "I mean, Yuan Er injured the large blood vessel in his leg, will there be any sequelae?"
"Large blood vessels?" The doctor was even more confused.
"Uh," Wang Yuan didn't know how to describe it, so he asked, "Don't you know about blood vessels?"
The doctor thought for a while and asked: "Do you want to talk about the meridians?"
"Your doctor calls the places where blood circulates meridians?" Wang Yuan felt unclear.
Seeing that Wang Yuan was an honored guest of the Song family, the doctor patiently explained: "The Yellow Emperor's Internal Canon says: 'If a man is eight feet tall... his death can be seen through anatomy... Those with twelve meridians are divided into Fu Xing.
Between the flesh, they are deep but not visible. All the veins that are floating and common are called collaterals. Look at the back of your hand and see if you can see faint veins. Those are the collaterals of the human body. If the blood runs in the flesh but is not visible,
Those are the meridians."
"???"
Wang Yuan had a black question mark on his face.
Are those superficial veins on the back of the hand? As an engineering dog who builds bridges and makes holes, I know how they became collaterals in Chinese medicine.
Also, aren’t the meridians used to practice internal strength?
Why did this trauma doctor say it was a large blood vessel that was hidden and invisible?
Wang Yuan pointed to his thigh and gestured: "There is some kind of meridian here. If it is injured, it will spurt blood."
"You are talking about the Chongmai," the doctor immediately laughed: "The Chongmai does not belong to the twelve regular meridians, but is one of the eight extraordinary meridians. The Chongmai starts from the center of the cell and is the sea of the twelve meridians.
'Sea of blood' refers to the gathering and dispersion of blood all over the body."
The doctor pointed at the body and explained for a while, and Wang Yuan probably understood.
In this doctor's understanding, the Chongmai is a large artery extending from the head to the feet. The twelve main meridians in the body, that is, the twelve large blood vessels, are like twelve rivers, all gathering and dispersing in the blood sea of the Chongmai.
.As for the capillaries and surface vein network, they are regarded as collaterals in the "Huangdi Neijing".
Doesn’t it mean that meridians have nothing to do with blood vessels?
Wang Yuan asked: "So, the blood all over the body flows along the meridians?"
"Not necessarily, the blood flows along the meridians, but they are not completely coincident," the doctor shook his head and explained, "The meridians run not only blood, but also Qi and marrow, involving the five internal organs. The Chongmai is the sea of blood, and the Tanzhong is Qi.
The sea, the brain is the sea of marrow, and the stomach is the sea of water and valleys, collectively called the four seas. The meridians are the trickles, and the meridians are the rivers. They connect the four seas, and the qi and blood are endless."
Wang Yuan was confused again. According to the doctor, blood sometimes flows along the meridians, and sometimes it doesn't. Is it a blood vessel? What the hell is Qi and marrow involved? It's even more confusing.
It's hard for people to understand.
Since he was not a doctor anyway, he was too lazy to ask further questions. Wang Yuan said: "Then my companion's leg will not leave any sequelae?"
"Are you afraid that he has injured the Chongmai?" The doctor smiled. "If the Chongmai is really injured, he will bleed to death within a stick of incense. There will be no chance of carrying him back to the city for treatment. Is the sea of blood just a joke?"
Even if he barely survives, his energy and blood will be blocked, and his entire leg will turn black and necrotic. It has been several days, do you see his leg turning black?"
As long as the aorta was not injured, Wang Yuan finally felt relieved.
Just like what the doctor said, if it was a large artery bleeding, given the medical conditions at this time, he would have been dead long ago. It may have been an injury to the femoral vein, causing massive bleeding from the femoral vein. I can only say that this guy was lucky.
The doctor carried his wooden box and said: "The prescription I prescribed before has the effect of promoting blood circulation and removing blood stasis. There is still some congestion in the affected area, which will cause the meridians to be blocked. Remember to continue to decoct and take it for a few days. If you want to get better quickly
If you want to remove some stasis, you can find another doctor for acupuncture. I specialize in treating trauma and am not very good at acupuncture, so I can't help."
The so-called congestion in the affected area leads to blocked meridians. According to Yuan Er's symptoms at this moment, translated into modern medical terms: congestion forms venous thrombosis, blocks the venous lumen, and causes venous reflux obstruction.
If venous thrombosis is not eliminated, it may also cause lameness and disability, or even cause internal diseases.
Yuan Gang also asked Mr. Song to hire a doctor who was proficient in acupuncture to administer acupuncture to Yuan Zhi twice a day, morning and evening.
Even a pedantic and honest man has his own personality charm. As Yuan Er got better day by day, Yuan Gang burst into tears of gratitude to Mr. Song, and was willing to let him risk his life to repay him.
As for Wang Yuan, he swore that he would never be injured again in this life. Traditional Chinese medicine's treatment of trauma is so weird that he doesn't even have an accurate concept of blood vessels.
However, after staying at the Song family for a few days, Wang Yuan also made a huge unexpected discovery.
The Song family actually wiped their butts with straw paper!
It's so cool, I finally get back a little bit of the feeling of modern life.
Master Shen was accustomed to this and said: "In the land of Jiangnan, one penny can buy at least ten pieces of toilet paper, and one piece of toilet paper can be cut into several pieces of toilet paper. Who in a wealthy family can't afford it?"
Wang Yuan asked doubtfully: "Paper is used for writing. Wouldn't it be insulting to the sages to use paper to go to the toilet?"
Master Shen laughed and said, "Why are you so pedantic? When Confucius was alive, there was no paper in the world. The ancients used bamboo slips to write and go to the toilet, which is called 'toilet slips'. Nowadays, people use paper to write,
Using paper to go to the toilet is really an act of remembering our ancestors!”
This ridiculous logic actually makes sense.
The Chinese use paper to wipe their buttocks, at least since the Northern and Southern Dynasties.
Yan Zhitui of the Northern Qi Dynasty said in "The Family Instructions of the Yan Family": "Therefore, paper contains the meanings of the Five Classics words and the names of virtuous people, so you don't dare to use it filthy!" This shows that at that time, some people were using paper to wipe their butts, but it was not accepted by mainstream scholars.
At the end of the Tang Dynasty, a big cannibal came to China for business and expressed his surprise in his travel notes: The Chinese did not wash with water, but wiped it with paper.
But it was really extended after the Yuan Dynasty.
The Mongolian aristocrats don't care about insulting the saints. Isn't it just papyrus? I can afford it!
This kind of barbaric thinking was carried over to the Ming Dynasty. The emperor wiped his buttocks with straw paper, and there was a special institution called the Imperial Paper Room. As for the straw paper used by eunuchs and maids, it was made by the Baochao Department - this Baochao Department only made
Papyrus, including writing paper, is responsible for printing Ming Dynasty treasure banknotes from the Bao Banknote Collection Department under the Ministry of Household Affairs.
No matter what, Wang Yuan finally said goodbye to the days of wiping his butt with leaves. He even stole a pile of papyrus from the Song family and hid it for emergencies... Well, he took it, not stole it.
Another half month passed and Yuan Zhi was able to walk.
Yuan Gang and Wang Meng returned to the village and picked up several other children who were willing to study. They went to the Song clan to study together.
When he entered school, Mr. Song gave Wang Yuan a book box.
This box is a bodiless lacquerware, that is, silk cloth and raw lacquer are used to mount the embryo layer by layer. After drying in the shade, the original body is taken off, then dusted, polished, polished, and then coated with a layer of colored paint. Not only that, the surface is also embedded with
It is embroidered with gold and silver and decorated with various decorative items.
This book box alone is estimated to be worth an ox. I heard that it was the test box used by Mr. Song for his second provincial examination. Because he fell ill and fainted in the examination room, Mr. Song felt unlucky, so he kept it in the study to gather dust and simply reused it and gave it to the king.
Reading.
Liu Yaozu also brought a book box, which was made by Carpenter Liu himself. The material was Qinggang wood, and it was quite heavy to put books in. Liu Yaozu could only carry it to school.
Several other children wear linen schoolbags, that is, shoulder bags, the style of which is similar to that of hundreds of years later.
Mr. Song sent someone to send them to Beiya and even arranged accommodation.
Given Song Ji's honest and honest nature, it was inevitable that he would be treated differently. Wang Yuan was placed in a formal guest room, and the other children in the village all lived with the servants of the Song family.
Soon the first day of school came, and a maid brought the meal early: "Your Majesty, please have breakfast!"
Wang Yuan heard her accent in Guizhou Mandarin and asked, "Which tribe are you from?"
"Sir, I am a Dong family member," the maid said.
As soon as Wang Yuan heard her calling herself, he knew that she had been brainwashed.
There is a chain of racial contempt hidden here. All ethnic groups other than the Han people in Guizhou are regarded as Miao people indiscriminately, such as Dong Miao, Shui Jia Miao, Haoji Miao, etc. People who wear green are often regarded as black Miao by Han officials.
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Even the Zhong family of the Song family was called "Zhongjia Miao" by the Han people.
Influenced by this, the Shuidong Song family also added the word "Miao" to each ethnic group, which was a contemptuous name for non-Miao ethnic groups.
When this maid introduced herself, she used a derogatory name for her own ethnic group. Then she should have come to the Song family as a slave at a very young age, or even as a slave. She already has a sense of identity with the Song family, and instead looks down on her own clan.
Wang Yuan asked again: "What is your name?"
"Acai." The maid replied.
Wang Yuan inquired: "You came here last night to bring food, and you also brought hot water to wash my feet. Do you have anything else to do?"
The maid A Cai said: "The master asked me to serve the young master specially."
Wang Yuan finally understood that this maid was sent by Song Jian.
It can't be regarded as surveillance, it's equivalent to an inspection. If Wang Yuan's academic performance is too poor, he probably won't be able to enjoy various preferential treatment in the future. If Wang Yuan shows amazing talent for the imperial examination, Song Jian will definitely increase his funding, and the maid can also be considered
A resource used for investment and wooing.
The Song family has no shortage of slaves, and even most of the slaves do not need to be paid, but are recruited in the form of village corvee.
People like A Cai, who were raised since childhood, have a lower status and are mostly slaves. But they are more trusted and are already considered domestic slaves. They may get married in the future and have children in the family who will continue to work for the Song family.
For example, the more than ten guards around Song Ling'er were all born in the same family. They had been carefully raised since childhood and were even sent to study and learn to read. As long as they were given a little preferential treatment, they would be extremely loyal and could defend their master at any time.
Wang Yuan ate a piece of meat pie and thought it tasted good, so he said, "These are not enough to fill my stomach. Can you get some more?"
A Cai immediately withdrew and soon brought another plate of meatloaf.
Wang Yuan ate some of the meat pie himself, put the remaining meat pie in the bookcase, and planned to go to the school to distribute it to his friends in the village.
A Cai took the initiative to help Wang Yuan carry the book box, took him dozens of steps outside the clan school, and said: "Sir, the rules of the Song clan academy are that no one is allowed to bring an entourage in, not even book boys, and slaves can only send
It’s here.”
"Thank you!" Wang Yuan took the book box.
Before A Cai could go far, Song Ling'er came with a face full of reluctance.
She was escorted by her own bodyguards, with a rope tied to her wrist. She did not ride a horse, because riding was not allowed after entering Beiya, and even the weapons on her body were confiscated.
While she was feeling depressed, Song Ling'er suddenly saw an acquaintance, waved her hand and shouted: "Hey... that barbarian in green, are you here to study too? Is your companion dead?"