The Shocking and Extraordinary Romance of the Great Sage

Li Shizhen's famous saying: Wherever you find it, don't take advantage of your neighbors, go where you want and start the spring.

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Three days to fish and two days to dry the nets. On this day, Shui Guizi and A Xiang talked while mending the fishing net. Shui Guizi asked directly:"Axiangye, have you learned how to pick herbs?"

Axiangniu, who was wearing a plain skirt, smiled kindly at you and said,"It's still too early to learn, I am only half a pot." Shui Guizi smiled and said:" It's not easy to make half a jar. Haha, slowly ask Dr. Li for help. He is a miracle doctor and can teach you how to use your hands. In the future, I will not be as good as you."

Axiang smiled happily and said:"Dr. Li and I are here There is a man and a woman collecting herbs in the deep mountains and old forests. Aren't you afraid that I will have something to do with him?"

Shui Guizi said calmly:"Li Shizhen is an old doctor with high moral standards and is well-read in the world. My wife is both virtuous and intelligent. She is a symbol of chastity. Girl. You are two generations apart. How can I be jealous of my husband?"

Ah Xiang asked:"Well, Shui Gui, I collected herbs with him, but Master Li only talked about herbs... He never said a word of gossip. I don't know Li Shizhen at all, little husband, how do you know how much he has?"

Shui Guizi stood opposite her on both sides of the net. While mending the net, he said:"Madam, I love to make up oral songs, you know. Therefore, some scholars have discussed with me, and I also know a lot from the doctors. Master Li Shizhen's courtesy name is Dongbi, his name is Binghu, and he is a native of Qizhou City. When he was thirteen or fourteen years old, he was admitted as a scholar and played there. From then on, I made up my mind to give up the scientific examination and focus on medicine."

Ah Xiang said:"No wonder Dr. Li never leaves his book, concentrates on it, and works tirelessly. He is so diligent, he is often hungry, and even forgets to eat and drink.."

Shui Guizi said:"He is admirable, and the people all respect him. They don't praise him in person, but behind his back they call him Miracle Doctor Li. Madam, you know that his family has been a doctor for three generations. I heard that his grandfather is an expert in treating diseases, and his father His medical skills are even more brilliant."

Axiang kept asking,"Have you met his father?"

Shui Guizi smiled happily and said,"I met him when I was a child. At that time, Li Shizhen often went to the mountains with his father to collect medicine and passed by here.. After that, Li Shizhen often asked about mountain roads and became familiar with me. Later, his father Li Yanwen and his mother passed away successively."

Ah Xiang said:"Well, that's it. The doctor knows herbal medicine well. It turns out that he and his father often used it in the early years. Going up the mountain to collect herbs. It has become a natural habit since he was a child, and he is so proficient in medicinal herbs. He kept reading, holding herbs in his hands, and comparing them. I don't understand what he is comparing?"

Shui Guizi said seriously:"Comparing. What? Hey, that’s mysterious. I heard that Li Shizhen is writing books, and they are all medicinal books. But my eyes are dark, I don’t know a few Chinese characters, a layman, a frog jumps into the weir. : I don't understand."

Ah Xiang said:"I admire you, I admire you a lot. Master, in order to save an old woman, he walked a long way to collect herbs, and his legs were swollen. That's it, he didn't delay collecting herbs. He limped up a high mountain with a stick."

Shui Guizi said:"That's not true, he is like an iron doctor, no one can praise him. In that year of famine, an old man fell hungry by the roadside. Li Shizhen saw it, So he gave the dry food he brought to the old man to eat, but he went up the mountain hungry to collect medicine. Hey, I have never seen a doctor like him."

Ah Xiang was deeply moved and said:"God's will is rare. Meeting Dr. Li was a matter of luck and destiny. Oh, what's your name...Dawei?"

Shui Guizi corrected:"It's called Greatness, not Dawei."

Axiang smiled ashamedly and said,"That's right. , is great, is he a saint, right?"

Shui Guizi smiled and said:"Holier than a saint. It's the lady who met the gods. Otherwise, your life would have passed away to the west a long time ago... If the lady is no longer alive, my little husband, I... will follow you. Once you die, you will become a pair! Two lives were saved by Li Shizhen. Thank God and the miracle doctor."

Axiang said deliberately:"Hmph! Once I die, I'm afraid you will have two new brides. Is it also a man’s nature to like the new and dislike the old? ? Shui

Guizi kicked his eyes and swore:"Madam, I dare to swear to God: I am willing to die on the same year, the same month and the same day as A Xiang!" Like the mandarin ducks in the river, they will never be separated!"

Axiang graceful twisted and said deliberately:"You have a mouth! Beautifully said. Can you be as upright as Master Li Shizhen? I'm afraid that when you see a beautiful woman, you will be smitten and get into trouble with the pink head. Shui

Guizi really picked up the rope-cutting knife next to his feet and said,"If you don't believe me, I will cut off this finger and swear it with a drop of blood!""

It's too late to say, but it's fast then. Axiang rushed forward and grabbed the wrist holding the knife, trying to seize the knife, saying:"You are crazy! If your finger is broken and you can’t put it on your head, how can you fish and make a living? Believe, believe, believe. Madam, I trust my little husband. I am just joking, but you should also take it seriously."

Axiang never expected that she was going up so fast, and Shui Guizi was going up even faster. Half of her little finger had rolled to the ground, dripping with blood, and tears welled up, and she cried:"Why, why are you doing this? I believe you...but you swear such a blood oath. Ah

Xiang stopped crying and said,"Come here, I'll connect it for you... Oh, I don't know how to connect it, what should I do?" I'll go ask Master. Shui

Guizi didn't take it seriously. He pulled a piece of rag, wrapped his fingers together, and gritted his teeth and said,"No need to take it. This is the ironclad proof that I rely on you." Swearing a blood oath is worth more than taking the half-cut finger."

Axiang didn't. She rushed out of the yard holding half of her fingers and hurried to Li Shizhen's house. She was thinking:"Master is going up the mountain to collect medicine and will be here soon.""Just when I was thinking about it, the old master Yuan Yuan came over.

When Axiang saw Li Shizhen, he told the story of Shui Guizi's severed finger, but he did not dare to tell the cause of the twists and turns. He just said sadly:"……Oh, he accidentally cut off his little finger."

Li Shizhen went to Shui Guizi's house. She brought bone-setting and hemostatic powder with her and quickly tied him up. Three days after the incident, Shui Guizi's broken ring finger no longer felt pain. Ten days later, Axiang saw her husband's broken finger. fully recovered

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Li Shizhen's famous saying: How dare you think of yourself as a medical expert? You only sell ancient elixirs.