Chapter 374 – All Have Stories
Seeing the old man’s gluttony, Watercress laughed in her heart.
She said proudly, “It’s Dongpo Pork, we made it ourselves. Fragrant, right?”
The guard outside the door pushed the door open, Watercress walked in, and the old Divine Doctor followed him in.
The guard stopped him and droned, “Old Abbot, this is not a place for you to enter.”
If they didn’t see how old he was, the guards would have pushed him away unceremoniously.
The door opened wide, and Jiang Yishi saw the old abbot rise violently, mumbling, “Master.”
The old abbot outside the door was in his sixties, his eyes were deep, his wrinkled round face was kind, a white beard on his chin, his gray hair tied haphazardly on top of his head, and his blue linen clothes were dirty and wrinkled. There were also shoes hidden in the robes that must have shown one or two small holes.
The old Divine Doctor’s family was in Shuzhong, and had been together for four generations, with late disciples and subordinates taking care of everything for him. The family ran a medical center, where he and his direct heirs could not see officials of the Jin and Dynasty, but other clansmen and disciples could.
People knew that there was a divine doctor surnamed Shen in the Jinhe Dynasty, but they didn’t know it was him. Occasionally, he would go out to collect medicines and treat people with difficult illnesses, and the reputation of Shen Shen’s ability to cure all kinds of illnesses became louder and louder. When he went out to see patients, he would speak with a southern Fujian accent, making people think that his hometown was in southern Fujian.
Just because of a bite of food, the old man sneaks to the outskirts of the capital, where he has never set foot before.
After Jiang Yishi worshiped his master, he helped him comb his hair and wash his clothes, and his human material was sharp again.
When the guards saw their master calling the old man “master”, they didn’t dare to close the door.
Jiang Yishi hurriedly walked to the door and called out again, “Master.”
The old divine doctor was stunned by her address, and when he looked at the small tiger head pendant she wore on her chest, his eyes went straight. Stuttering, he said, “You, you, you you ……”
The old divine doctor stuttered a bit when he was in a hurry.
Jiang Yishi didn’t wait for him to say the words that followed, and laughed again, “Four years after the incident, master has forgotten? My surname is Jiang, it’s Shishi, remember?”
She pulled the old divine doctor in and said to Shui Ling and Shui Cao, “You guys go downstairs to eat by yourselves, I’ll eat with Master.”
Both girls were reluctant, and Jiang Yishi sank her face before they reluctantly walked out. Instead of going downstairs, they joined the two guards as door gods.
Jiang Yishi closed the door tightly and pointed at the table, “There’s Master’s favorite Dongpo Pork and Xuemei Niang, Master try it.”
The old Divine Doctor’s attention was drawn to the aroma on the table again, and he walked over to the table and sat down.
He first ate a piece of Dongpo Pork, smashing his mouth and savoring it. Then he ate a second, third, and fourth piece. He wanted to eat more, but was stopped by Jiang Yishi, “Master, you can’t eat too much fatty meat. Taste the Xue Mei Niang again, is there any difference from the food.”
Only yesterday, the old divine doctor ate the Xuemeiniang on the food, he picked up the Xuemeiniang and ate it again. After taking two bites, he savored it and said, “Strange, strange, strange, it’s actually tastier than the food.” He also asked, “How do you know how to cook food?”
Jiang Yishi laughed, “I’m the second proprietor of the food, of course I know how.”
Old Divine Doctor ate three Xue Mei Niang and his stomach was half full before he had the heart to ask anything else.
His eyes flicked around Jiang Yishi’s body, and his eyes snapped shut, why did this little daughter-in-law seem like she had seen it before? But he clearly hadn’t seen it before.
He suppressed his thoughts and asked, “Are you Shen Hao’s descendant?”
“Yes, my name is Jiang Yishi, Shen Hao is my high ancestor. This pendant has been passed down, and in my generation, it was passed down to my younger brother Jiang Xun. Since I’m coming to see you today, I borrowed it for a while.”
Jiang Yishi spoke truthfully, his voice small.
The old Divine Doctor wondered, “How do you know who I am and where I live?”
Influenced by Jiang Yishi, his voice was also small.
Jiang Yishi whispered, “I had a dream the other day, dreaming that Old Divine Doctor Shen lived here, and because of this pendant took me as a disciple and taught me to cure my eye …… disease.”
She recited a few lines of the Shen family medical training. Adding, “It’s incredible, isn’t it? But I did dream about it, and used the method in my dream to really cure four people’s eye diseases.”
The old divine doctor gazed at Jiang Yishi for a few moments and laughed, “The little girl should have other chances, but she used her dream as a cover. Some things are unbelievable and do exist in the world.”
Jiang Yishi looked at the fat old man with slight surprise. He wasn’t a senior monk, he wouldn’t be able to count like Master Yu He. Then, it was likely that he was someone with a story just like himself or Li Zhenbao. Because of the memory of one more life, he is that capable ……
The two of them glanced at each other and both had a heartfelt understanding.
The old Divine Doctor added, ”My grandmother was indeed saved by Old General Shen, and only then did she have the descendants of the Shen family. I heard that because of saving the Shen family, the original Duke of State was demoted to a Burr. What is it that you came here to find me? Again, I don’t save Jin and dynasty officials and their families.”
Consort Qu De was a consort, and this status was even more unlikely to be saved by the old divine doctor.
Jiang Yishi said, “One of my relatives is gravely ill, and the doctor is no longer able to save her. I won’t force you to personally diagnose her, nor will I tell you who she is. Simply listen to my explanation of the disease, look at the prescription that the doctor has prescribed, and re-prescribe the medicine. The person you’re dealing with is me, following your grandmother’s legacy of helping the descendants of the Jiang family.”
Seeing that Jiang Yixi didn’t say the person’s true identity, the old divine doctor guessed that the person was a royal person or an important minister.
He was unwilling to help such a person in any situation. Saying, “Since you’ve learned to diagnose diseases from me, you should know that diagnosis requires looking, smelling, questioning, and cutting; you can tell me the first three things, but you can’t do the latter.”
Jiang Yishi laughed, “Others definitely can’t do it, but you’re Divine Doctor Shen, you can do it. If you help me, I can let you eat the freshly baked delicacies on the food without going into the capital. It takes nearly two hours to ride a fast horse from Food Shang to here, and the dishes have already lost their original deliciousness.”
Old Divine Doctor Shen knew this reasoning, but he vowed not to enter the capital. Hearing Jiang Yishi’s words, he hesitated.
Jiang Yishi picked up the Dongpo pork again and waved it under his nose, causing the old man’s nose to follow the plate.
She put down the plate and laughed, ”My cooking skills are no worse than the cooks on the food, and I also have a female cook whose skills are even better. If you don’t even like it, I can still have the cook on the food come out to cook and serve you alone. This way, you’ve helped the Jiang family descendants without breaking your oath, and you’ll still be able to eat gourmet food every day.”
These few conditions were too tempting, and the old man nodded in agreement.
Jiang Yishi kowtowed to him again and honored him with tea, considered this life’s worship.
The two of them sat down to eat, discussing the matter of going to live in Huzhuang.
Go to the food to buy Dongpo elbows on the small two Fa Cai only came back. The old man had already eaten his fill, and smelling the elbow, it really didn’t smell as good as Jiang Yishi’s Dongpo meat.
Jiang Yishi let a guard ride a fast horse into the capital to find Meng Zhimo, but also in time to get out of the capital before the closing of the city gates. She also had one of the guards ride a fast horse to the Huzhuang, asked Wu Youfu and his wife to prepare a guest room, prepared the ingredients according to the paper, and then called Shui Zhu, who was in Meng’s house, to go to the Huzhuang.
Only then did she leave the inn with the Old Divine Doctor and the others.