Chapter 87 – Medical Skills

Updated: 2013-03-07

Within a certain villa in Haitian City.

Old man Han looked at Jiang Nan Yan who was standing in front of him and said, “Speak, what’s the matter, is your grandfather critically ill?”

“Old man Han, my grandfather’s old injuries have returned, I would like to ask you to make a trip to the capital.” Jiang Nan Yan collected all her previous pride in front of him, and softly said, “You are the best Chinese medicine practitioner in all of China, my grandfather and I as well as my family all believe that only you can save him.”

Old man Han was silent for a while, and in a few moments, he said, “Old General Jiang has twenty-four injuries all over his body, twenty-one of which are secret injuries, coupled with decades of overwork and over-consumption of the spirit, the five elements in his body are upside down, and his yin and yang are depleted, so there is nothing more that can be done, even if I go there.”

“Could it be that you can’t save my grandfather either?” Jiang Nan Yan asked anxiously.

Old man Han waved his hand, “It’s not that I won’t save him, it’s just that I can’t do anything about it either, if you can find some of the lost prescriptions, it might be able to help him, and it’s not impossible for him to even be cured.”

“But where to look for it?” Jiang Nan Yan helplessly said, “I have visited all over the country this year, visited countless famous doctors, but all of them are unable to seek a party, and even most of them are quacks who are selling their names, my grandfather’s condition has aggravated, and he is possessed by the demon of the disease is in agony every day, Elder Han, I also implore you to be able to come out to the mountain.”

“You go back first.” Old man Han pinched his brow and said, “I will leave for the capital tomorrow, just that everything will also depend on the will of heaven.”

Jiang Nan Yan silently nodded and left.

Only after he left, old man Han suddenly burst into tears like a child crying, his whimpering cries of grief drawing out Han Dongxue inside the house.

“Grandpa.” Han Dongxue hurriedly ran up, picking up the old man Han who was trembling all over and anxiously asked, “Grandpa what’s wrong with you, what’s wrong with you?”

“Dongxue.” Old man Han held Han Dongxue’s hands like it was his last hope, wiped his tears, got up and pulled Han Dongxue to the study, saying, “Dongxue, grandpa doesn’t owe anyone anything in this life, but only owes you and a deceased person. My late man, had been seriously injured for saving my life, plus the rest of the injury, has been very sick, I have repeatedly dispensed medicine to save him, but no avail, I know that my medical skills are afraid of really can’t save him, so I left a few chiefs, came to the south has been in pursuit of your whereabouts, now grandpa found you, this regret is considered to make up for, I’ll get up tomorrow and go to the capital, to fight to the death to save the late man if he unfortunately passes away, grandpa must kill himself in front of his grave, otherwise grandpa will not have the face to see some old friends.”

“Ah?”

Han Dongxue was shocked, and was about to stop him, old man Han shook his head and said, “Grandpa feels that he still owes you, so he has been doing his best to make up for it all these times, if grandpa really can’t return once he is gone, you will stay by Qin Yang’s side in the future, although that kid is eccentric, grandpa can see that he really cares about you, Dongxue, listen to grandpa, okay? ”

“I, I.” Han Dongxue’s tears flowed out, during these times, old man Han’s goodness to her she had seen in her eyes and remembered in her heart, how could she not know that this old man truly hoped that he could live a happy, happy life, today when she heard that he might have to go away for good, her heart was suddenly saddened. Gritting his teeth, he said, “Grandpa, what kind of disease is the collapse? So serious?”

“Alas, when he was young, he participated in too many wars, resulting in damage to many tendons and veins in his body, and because of the torment of the disease, many years of labor, the five elements of yin and yang in the body are in chaos, the essence of the body is overly depleted, before the age of sixty, his body shape like a cow, at that time there were also doctors who proposed that his life would not soon be over, but they were all cursed by him, after the age of sixty, the condition of these many years of accumulation began to slowly spread to the After sixty years, these years of accumulated disease began to slowly spread to the whole body deep bone marrow, as if a dying oil lamp, has reached the point of exhaustion, if only the essence of the spirit of the exhaustion of excessive, I am also sure to let him adjusted over, but the physical trauma I can not begin, even with the world’s top body repair equipment, but also just treat the symptoms not to treat the root cause of my moxibustion attack can not be, and can not reach the needles, the soup medicine there are even less, simply can not be cured. ” Old man Han said helplessly: “I think this time, his condition has been extremely dangerous, I’m afraid there are no days to live. I also concluded at first that he couldn’t live through this year, I didn’t expect, he still.”

“Grandpa, our Han family was founded on martial arts, and we also have quite a few sacred medicines for healing.” Han Dongxue pulled old man Han to one of his rooms, and pulled out a few pieces of yellowed paper in a small, somewhat worn-out bag, saying, “These have surprising effects on traumas where the body has been struck by an external force, so take a look and see if they’re useful.”

Upon hearing this, old man Han’s spirit was suddenly shaken, and he hurriedly turned out a few prescriptions, but he nodded his head repeatedly, but in the end, he came down gloomily: “Indeed, there is a miraculous effect, but at most, it can only be prolonged for more than half a month. Want to save his life, need to find can mediate the five elements of yin and yang, can repair tendons and blood, white bones and muscle of the holy prescription, but this holy prescription are lost, where can find.”

“Grandpa, the ancients can create it, why can’t we modern people?” Han Dongxue said anxiously, “Qin Yang always said that creativity is infinite, it is the saddest thing to only know how to find lost things but not know how to recreate them, you are a medical sage, can’t you surpass the ancients and create a holy formula?”

Old man Han smiled bitterly, “Where have I not known to improve the prescription all these years? But there have been bitter results, and Elder Jiang’s condition can’t wait any longer.”

“Until the end, one should never give up.” Han Dongxue said again.

Seeing his granddaughter hold such great confidence in herself, old man Han’s whole body had a witticism, sweeping away his previous disheveledness, saying, “Not bad, I can’t give up until the end, Dongxue, you temporarily return to Qin Yang’s home to reside, and I’ll rush back to the capital right now, so that if I can salvage one day, I’ll have a point of certainty.”

This side of the crowd is busy.

In Fengyang County, Qin Yang was taking Yuwen Fei around, when he passed by a school, Yuwen Fei didn’t hide her desire for the school at all: “In the past, I used to secretly look at my younger brother’s textbooks to recognize words, and I thought that the essays they wrote, the poems were really beautiful. You know what, when I was very young I heard my grandfather say that our family’s ancestor used to be friends with the great writer Su Dongpo, so at that time I loved to read Su Dongpo’s poetry, it was so beautiful, but unfortunately as far as I was concerned I didn’t know the meaning of it a lot of the time.”

“What’s so beautiful about that stuff.” Qin Yang said with amusement, “The times are progressing, the poems written by contemporary literati are not much worse than the ancient poems, it’s just that a lot of people would rather memorize those ancient texts than carefully experience the concepts in the modern texts.”

“Then according to you, modern things must be better than ancient ones?” Yuwen Fei asked with a bit of a raised eyebrow.

“That’s not necessarily true, for example, the environment, ah, it’s definitely far worse than ancient times.” Qin Yang thought for a moment and said, “There are also many aspects, in for example Chinese medicine, Chinese medicine has always been developing without any breaks before the end of the Qing Dynasty, during this period, even though there were wars going on and the medical skills were lost, they were barely able to pass down some of them, however, in recent times, the western medicine that relied on high technology to start up has taken over the vast majority of the market, which has caused Chinese medicine to start to gradually decline, and there has been a huge break, which has led to contemporary Chinese medicine being far worse than the ancient times. Resulting in contemporary Chinese medicine is far less than the ancient medical skills, to know that some of the ancient lost medical skills can be through countless generations of uninterrupted efforts to research out, modern people want to be in the development, even if there are a number of medical skills as the basic theory, but not a hundred years of more effort is not possible.”

“Then you must be very good at medicine, right? I feel like my wrist is starting to gradually recover, when I changed the medicine just now I could see that the scars are starting to fall off, the flesh inside looks like new growth.” Yuwen Fei asked curiously.

“Not impressive, I just have a few medicinal prescriptions, I’m counting on this to eat, don’t leak it out for me.” Qin Yang said jokingly.

But Yuwen Fei silently memorized it in her heart.