I remember when I was in elementary school, our family had a respected grandmother, who was in her seventies at the time, kind and kind, especially for our children, at that time the living conditions were very poor, it was difficult for children to have a piece of candy to eat, the grandmother's son was a doctor in the town hospital, often bought some biscuits, brown sugar or something for his mother, she was reluctant to eat, often kept it, and when we went to her house, we gave it to us to eat. The reason why we children love to go to her house to play, not all of them are delicious, mainly because grandma can tell stories, there are always some strange stories to tell us, sometimes I hear ghost stories at night and I am afraid to go home, but I still listen to it like a drunk.
The story she told about an eccentric doctor is still hard to forget.
Before my grandmother got married, she lived in a village more than 20 miles away from us, called Litang Village, and the story of the strange doctor she told happened in Litang Village.
It was probably in the twenties of the last century (grandma said that it was **eleven years) that a foreigner came to Litang Village, and his accent was completely different from that of the locals, but he could understand it if he listened carefully, he was in his fifties, with a goatee, and he was called Mr. Three. Mr. Three will see people, but the way of seeing a doctor is very strange, generally do not prescribe medicine, even if he prescribes medicine, he does not sell medicine, he has to go to the pharmacy to catch it, most of the people who look for him to see a doctor will see the effect quickly, and some will be fine on the spot, and people are very strange. Later, the private school in the village said that Mr. San was using Zhu Yushu to treat people, but everyone didn't know what Zhu Yushu was.
Due to the increasing number of people looking for Mr. San's medical treatment, he couldn't get out of the way when he wanted to leave, so he found a spare house in the village and stayed.
Grandma had seen him at that time, and she was.
Ten. One or two years old, yellow and thin, eat very little, the whole body is tired, but the stomach is surprisingly big, often in pain rolling in bed, her parents took her to find several Chinese medicine, the medicine also took a lot, but there is no effect, and then even the strength to go out and walk is gone, most of the time lying in bed. Grandma remembers very well that his father told people several times that Sanni was afraid that she would not live long, and she was so afraid that she would cry in the bed.
The news of Mr. San's treatment soon spread in the village, and people from other villages in Wuli and Eight Towns also came to look for him, and Grandma's parents thought that he would let him show Grandma, so they helped her out of bed, and found a wheelbarrow to push her to find Mr. San.
When it came time to see his grandmother, Mr. San first gave his grandmother a pulse, then rolled her eyelids, and through his clothes, he pressed his grandmother's big and hard belly hard, and asked while pressing, does it hurt? Grandma burst into tears in pain, nodding her head and saying it hurts. Mr. Three sighed and said that the child had been delayed for too long and had been delayed, but he had suffered a sin.
Mr. Three asked people to help his grandmother lie down, he found a few pieces of yellow table paper and glued them together with batter one by one, glued them into a large piece of paper, and when it was almost dry, he spread it on the table, cut it into a human shape more than three feet high with scissors, and used a cinnabar pen to draw his eyebrows, eyes, nose, and mouth, and then put the paper man next to his grandmother, and told everyone not to make a sound, while he sat on the side and closed his eyes, not knowing what to say in his mouth, and his right hand kept rubbing on the stomach of the paper man. After about half a bag of cigarettes, Mr. Three found a needle, pricked the paper man's abdomen more than ten times, and quickly made the paper man into a ball, and burned a fire, and when the green smoke dissipated, he said, Okay, hurry up, and prepare a big toilet when you get home. The people in the house were stunned, I don't know why to prepare the toilet, and I don't want to ask much, grandma's father pushed her home, just entered the house, before she had time to get off the wheelbarrow, grandma made a loud flattery, and then the stool poured out, pulled a pants, and the house stinked. For a few days in a row, my grandmother said that she couldn't stop pulling at that time, as if she had pulled out all the that had been accumulated for a year.
Strange to say, as the stomach became empty, the grandmother became refreshed, and the belly became smaller and smaller, and it returned to its original state in less than ten days, and she was willing to eat, and she was no longer uncomfortable after eating, and she slowly got better. Grandma said that when his father sent money to Mr. San, he didn't confiscate it, so he sent him a handful of sweet potatoes.
We were amazed and didn't know how it worked, and my grandmother said she didn't know either, and the surprise was still to come.
There is a girl in the village more than five miles away from Litang Village, who is about to get married, I don't know when, she has an abscess on the inner thigh on her right side, because of the special location, the girl has not been embarrassed to tell the adult, until the abscess is getting bigger and bigger, the pain is unbearable, and then she told her mother, the mother is very worried, and wants to take her to the doctor to see, but the girl is shy and says nothing to go. Later, I heard about Mr. San's treatment, so I took the girl to find it without a choice.
Mr. Three listened to the girl tell the girl about the location of the abscess, how long it was, and how it hurt, but did not look at it, but drew a circle on a piece of yellow table paper for the girl to see, and asked her, is it so big? The girl nodded, and Mr. Three pasted the paper to the trunk of a large tree in the yard, and then stared at the paper intently, and after a while he made a few strokes with his knife in the circle on the paper, and took the paper off and burned it. He said to the girl's mother, "The abscess will fester" in a day, and I will prescribe a prescription for you, go to the pharmacy and take the medicine according to the prescription, and when you come back, cut the herbs into small pieces, mash them with a stone mortar, add some water to make a paste, apply them to the festering wounds, wrap them in a clean cloth, and take them off after five days.
Later, the girl's mother came to thank Mr. Three with a small bag of grain, and soon after saying that the abscess was rotten, and a lot of red and yellow concentrated water flowed out, and it did not hurt when the medicine was applied, and now five days have passed, and the wound has scabbed over.
Grandma said that Mr. San had been in Litang Village for more than a year, and then he left, not knowing where he was going. After a long time, it came out that Mr. San was a southerner, and he came to Litang Village because he had a lawsuit in his hometown because of his treatment.