Chapter 62: Fiction Comes True
Su Che has been personally involved for more than a month, and has barely gotten started in Taoism. Although he cannot fly or hide in the ground, he can still perform some tricks without any problem.
The paper figure was not an evil spirit, but just a simple paper figure. Su Che used his magic power to drive it into the stomach of the witch. It did not cause much harm to the body. At most, it ate too much turmeric, causing inflammation and bad breath.
But the witch obviously didn't think so. She had no ability and couldn't see this. She really thought that evil spirits had entered her stomach. In anxiety, she was suspicious and worried all day long, and couldn't sit or sleep well. Over time, she would most likely die of depression .
This was her own fault, and Su Che did not intend to point it out. The Chi family was also afraid of evil spirits and did not dare to keep the witch. Anyway, the evil spirit had already entered her stomach, and it would be bad if it ran out again. So they pushed and shoved and hurriedly "invited" the witch to leave.
After being sent to the door, the fortune-teller sat on the ground in a daze, touching her belly in confusion.
After a while, there was a gurgling sound in her stomach. The witch turned pale with fear and was about to cry: "Please don't stay in my stomach anymore. Please come out quickly. I will do whatever you want. If you want me to be your slave, I will be your slave. If you want me to be your maid, I will be your maid. Please be magnanimous and let me go..."
When passers-by saw the witch talking to their stomachs, they all walked away as if they had seen a monster.
And at this moment, inside the mansion.
Zhang Bozu walked quickly to the patient, and Su Che followed behind him.
Zhang Bozu looked at her complexion and felt her pulse for a while before he stood up and said, "You can't stop taking the medicine!"
"Doctor Zhang..." The owner of the mansion looked at Zhang Bozu, hesitant and not knowing what to say.
"It's getting better, but it still needs to be nursed back to health. This is typhoid fever, which is not so easy to cure. It will be useless even if you invite more shamans and witches." Zhang Bozu shook his head and said.
Su Che, who was standing nearby, couldn't help but frown when he heard the word "typhoid fever".
The disease of typhoid fever did not have a clear and covered a wide range.
Generally speaking, colds, influenza, pneumonia, and other diseases with symptoms such as cough and fever that are "caused by external cold evil" are all considered typhoid fever.
Generally speaking, all exogenous febrile diseases are classified as typhoid fever, including severe diseases and infectious diseases known as "plague".
In addition to those mentioned above, symptoms may also include thirst, sweating, etc., and external indicators may include red tip and edges of the tongue, floating and rapid pulse, etc.
"Huangdi Neijing - Suwen - Heat Theory" says: "Nowadays, fevers are all types of colds."
The reason why Zhang Zhongjing wrote "Treatise on Febrile and Miscellaneous Diseases" was largely because he witnessed with his own eyes the devastating damage that typhoid fever caused to his family.
In the preface to Treatise on Febrile Diseases, it is written: "My clan has always been large, with more than 200 people. Since the Jian'an era, there have been fewer than 10 people, and two-thirds of them have died, and seven out of ten were from typhoid fever."
Thinking of this, Su Che was thoughtful.
If he could really eradicate typhoid fever completely, he would most likely be recognized by the heroic spirit Zhang Zhongjing.
This is certainly difficult, but it seems to be the only way out.
With a direction and a goal, no matter how difficult it is, all you have to do is work hard and keep moving in that direction.
"Let's go!" After a brief follow-up consultation, Zhang Bozu took Su Che away from the Chi family.
Because he was angry, Zhang Bozu did not collect the medical fees from the Chi family and just left.
On the way back, Zhang Bozu sighed: "People in this world are so ignorant that they believe in these witchcrafts. These witches are really harming people."
Su Che said: "They believe these things because they can't see the effect in a short period of time. If they can cure them almost completely and then slowly recuperate, they may change their attitude."
Zhang Bozu shook his head: "It's not that easy. This is not a story in a novel or a book. After drinking a bowl of medicine, you will be 70% to 80% better immediately."
Su Che remained silent.
Time is passing by and seasons are changing.
Two years passed in the blink of an eye.
Zhang Ying was a twelve-year-old girl the moment before, and a grown-up young girl the next. Her every frown and smile was extremely charming. She still followed Su Che like she did two years ago, clamoring for him to continue telling the story of the monkey.
In the past two years, Su Che has been following Zhang Bozu's side and has grown very fast. However, within just one year, Zhang Bozu lamented that there was not much left for him to teach Su Che.
He was almost ready to go out and become a qualified doctor - however, in the profession of doctor, the older the doctor, the more trusted he was. Su Che was very young, and in the eyes of others, he looked like he hadn't even fully grown yet. He was not trusted at all, and no matter how many skills he had, he couldn't use them.
So while Su Che was studying medicine, he also began to try to write a book. What he wrote was not "Treatise on Febrile Diseases and Miscellaneous Diseases". Even if this book was written, it would be difficult to publish and circulate, and few people would read it. It would not be of much help in eliminating typhoid fever.
So Su Che changed his mindset and started writing some popular novels, sending them to official newspapers and earning some royalties by serializing them.
Although Su Che has enough money to live on, it is difficult for him to do other things. He needs some start-up capital, and he doesn't have much time on weekdays. He can't do anything extraordinary because of his status. Even burning glass is difficult, and it's hard to sell it. Writing storybook novels is his only way to make money.
Su Che wrote a story about a monkey, which is "Journey to the West". Many children were addicted to this story. Even Zhang Ying was fascinated by it and kept asking Su Che to tell her what would happen next.
Su Che's pen name is Wu Cheng'en, which is actually very intriguing. Wu Cheng'en is also called Wu Cheng'en. What is the grace of Wu Cheng? Naturally, it is the grace of the emperor.
The book "Journey to the West" may seem like a myth, but in fact it contains too many political metaphors. The person who wrote this book was most likely a senior official in the imperial court with a long history of officialdom. He combined decades of experience in officialdom struggles with folk myths and wrote an easy-to-understand myth.
For example, in the fifth chapter at the beginning, the Monkey King stole the elixir from the Peach Garden and rebelled against the gods in Heaven to catch monsters. Monkey King then took the blame for all the gods in Heaven. There were 3,600 peach trees in the Peach Garden. How could the monkey eat so many peaches alone?
Recorded in the original book.
But see that:
The trees are full of flowers, and the branches are weighed down with fruits. The branches are weighed down with fruits, and the trees are full of red flowers.
It also wrote: The monkey king took off his crown and put on his clothes, climbed up the tree, picked the ripe peaches, picked a lot, and enjoyed them on the branches. After eating his fill, he jumped down, put on his crown and clothes, and called everyone to return to the palace. After three or two days, he tried to steal peaches again and enjoyed them all.
He only steals peaches once every two or three days. Can he really eat all of them?
It's nothing more than a trick of . If we trace it further, we will definitely find holes as big as the sky that can never be filled.
However, Monkey King also knew that there was a powerful person inside, so he took all the blame on himself and would never betray anyone else.
So in the end, which god in heaven would not give Monkey King some face?
Of course, this is just one interpretation.
Another interpretation is that it was the Jade Emperor's method.
No matter which one, there are simply too many political metaphors in "Journey to the West", all of which are the kind that can be studied in depth - this is definitely not an over-interpretation. It is impossible for it to be one of the four great classics.
It is precisely this connotation that makes "Journey to the West" suitable for all ages. No matter whether they are noble scholars or humble craftsmen and merchants, they all love to read the story of the monkey's journey to the West.
In just one year, "Journey to the West" became popular throughout the Han Dynasty through publication in official gazettes and sale as a separate book. For a time, everyone knew about it.
Whenever the court bulletin published the latest episode of Journey to the West, it would be in great demand.
Even the storytellers in the teahouse changed their stories from love between men and women to stories about monkeys, and they even wrote a lot of spin-offs.
Su Che also made tens of thousands of silver taels with this copy of "Journey to the West", which gave him a lot of extra funds for his activities.
However, he didn't know what kind of consequences his casually written book would lead to...
Xuzhou, Donghai County, Dongwan Township, there is a mountain by the sea, the mountain is called Cangwu Mountain, also known as Qingfengding.
There stands a huge rock on the seashore.
The stone is thirty-six feet and five inches high, and twenty-four feet in circumference.
There are nine orifices and eight holes on it, arranged according to the Nine Palaces and Eight Trigrams.
The huge rock here receives the essence of the sun and the moon, as well as the wishes of millions of people. Over time, it accelerates the changes.
One day, a huge rock burst open and produced a stone egg as big as a ball.
When he saw the wind, he turned into a stone monkey with all the facial features and limbs intact.
As soon as he landed, he learned to crawl and walk, and bowed to all directions.
Then he sent two golden lights out from his eyes, which shot towards Doufu, directly alarming the depths of the Netherworld and the seven immortal mountains!
