Three Kingdoms

  Chapter 148 The Troubled Warrior

  A small courtyard with a civil-engineering mixed structure. Because of the age, the wood used to build the house is so old that it has cracked, exposing the brown wood inside. The tiles on the roof are also a little incomplete, and they haven't been repaired, just covered with some thatch.

  Huang Zhong Huang Hansheng sat on a stone bench in the small yard, silent.

   There were bursts of coughing sounds in the room, and the heart-piercing cough made people uncomfortable.

Every year when the weather starts to be cold, Huang Zhong and Huang Hansheng's children start to cough, and the cough lasts for about four to five months. The colder the weather, the worse the cough, and then it gets better in summer, and then it gets worse after late autumn, and it goes on and on again. Many years.

Huang Zhong and Huang Hansheng were fine at first, he could go up the mountain to hunt some prey, sometimes he could hunt some good furs, and save some money, but since his son started to get this cough a few years ago, there were not many people in his family. All my savings were spent on this coughing sound.

  I saw a lot of doctors and took some medicine, but it just didn’t improve.

Every time the doctor came to see him, he always said some words that Huang Zhong and Huang Hansheng could listen to but couldn't understand at all, such as "Wei Yang is deficient, ascending and descending loses division", "Yin does not restrain Yang, and Xuan Su loses again", etc. The medicines in the prescriptions are also weird, sometimes they can be found by chance, sometimes there is no way at all, so I have to make do with decocting the medicines without medicines and let them take it.

   Therefore, the condition is also good and bad, and cannot be eradicated.

   There is an old saying that men are afraid of coughing and women are afraid of pulling. Huang Zhong and Huang Hansheng's son has been coughing for so many years, and his physical condition is getting worse and worse. It is reasonable to say that he is a half-teen-year-old boy, but because of this disease, he is so thin that he looks like a normal ten-year-old...

  The coughing in the room became violent, and it seemed that some phlegm was finally coughed up, and then panting, slowly calmed down.

  The door curtain of the house was lifted slightly, and a woman walked out of the house, her face was also a little sallow, holding a wooden tray, she turned around and looked at Huang Zhong, a tear silently dripped down her cheek to the ground.

Huang Zhong gritted his teeth and remained silent. The veins on his forehead twitched twice. He turned around and went into the house, and came out quickly again. With a bow and arrow wrapped in cloth in his hand, he said in a low voice: "...I'll go up the mountain to have a look. Go..." Huang Zhong was about to go up the mountain to see if he could hunt some live animals.

  The woman opened and closed her mouth a few times, as if she wanted to say something, but in the end she just said: "...be careful..."

In fact, both of them know that the weather has not turned warm yet, and most of the animals are still hiding, and they will not come out to move around easily. What's more, Huang Zhong has basically collected this area of ​​mountains before, and he has not hunted anything. nice one.

   Just go out and have a look, there are still some meager hopes.

  Huang Zhong nodded, walked to the gate of the small courtyard, opened the door, and saw two riders approaching unhurriedly from afar. The person in front saw Huang Zhong on horseback and waved repeatedly.

   Huang Zhong saw that it was Huang Chengyan, the head of the Huang family, and his son-in-law Fei Qian.

  Before Huang Chengyan arrived, his voice came through first: "Hehe, Han Sheng is going hunting again?"

  Fei Qian, who was following behind, thought in his heart that it was fortunate that he had come a step earlier. It seemed that Huang Hansheng was going to go out. If he was later, he would not be able to catch up.

  Huang Zhong, Huang Hansheng first greeted Huang Chengyan and entered the yard.

Fei Qian **** the horse first, took out some fried beans from one side of the rucksack, fed some to the two horses respectively, patted the two big heads, and then untied them from the horse's back. He took a bag and a wine gourd and went into the yard.

  Huang Chengyan had obviously been here before, but it was a while ago. Looking at it now, he found that there seemed to be fewer objects in the yard, and he felt a little regretful.

  Seeing Fei Qian coming in with a bag, Huang Chengyan said with a smile: "This time I came across a rabbit on the road. I happened to know that Han Sheng has a good way of preparing wild animals, so I used it to trouble Han Sheng."

   Fei Qian also handed over the bag and said, "Thank you, thank you!"

Huang Zhong and Huang Hansheng were silent for a while, then crossed their hands and saluted Huang Chengyan, and said, "That's fine, you two sit down for a while, and I'll come after I tidy up." After speaking, he took the bag in Fei Qian's hand and turned into the house .

  Fei Qian looked around for a while, and found that Huang Zhong's house was so dilapidated, he couldn't help but feel a lot of emotion in his heart. If he didn't say it, who would know that this is the place where a martial arts expert lives!

  Look at the fence that has been exposed to some gaps by the rain, and then look at the roof of the house whose tiles are damaged and can only be replaced with thatch, all of which are embarrassing.

  Why did Huang Zhong never become an official?

  In addition to the reason of Huang Zhong's son, Huang Zhong's personal character may also have a certain influence. Before Fei Qian came from Huang Chengyan, he told him not to bring other items, but he only brought a rabbit, and he guessed a little bit.

Not long after, Huang Zhong came out with a clay pot of rabbit meat, and the three of them sat around on the stone table and bench by the side of the small courtyard, took some bowls and chopsticks, poured wine and water, and began to eat .

After moving his chopsticks a little, Huang Chengyan put them down, and said with a smile: "Han Sheng, I have something to ask..." Huang Chengyan talked about Fei Qian's mission, and then said, "...although there are some soldiers along the way. A guard, but it is not very peaceful after all, so I asked Han Sheng here, hoping to help take care of him along the way."

   Feiqian stood up, bowed deeply, and said: "I knew beforehand that Han Sheng's martial arts skills are strong, if he can be taken care of, it will be Qian's blessing!"

  Huang Zhong quickly stretched out his hand to help Fei Qian up, hesitated for a moment, and said: "It's not that he is loyal, but it's just a trivial matter in this family, and it's hard to get away..." Huang Zhong sighed, shook his head and remained silent.

  Huang Chengyan was about to say something when suddenly Huang Zhong's son started coughing again in the room, so he also sighed and stopped persuading him.

   How can I persuade you? It's hard to persuade Huang Zhong to leave his sick son and go to another place alone. If his son's condition improves after returning, it's okay. If something goes wrong, where will Huang Zhong be placed?

   Fei Qian quietly listened to the coughing of the people in the room, and suddenly asked, "I wonder if you have a fever?"

  Although the question was endless, Huang Zhong still understood what Fei Qian meant, his eyes lit up, and he said, "I have a fever from time to time, but not in the past few days."

Although Fei Qian is not a doctor and has never learned any medical skills, thanks to the blessings of a large amount of information from later generations, especially the virus incident that swept the world inexplicably and caused everyone to cough when he heard a cough, he somehow understood the cause of cough There are many, the most feared is pneumonia.

  Pneumonia is contagious, and it will become tuberculosis in the later stage. Because there are no anti-inflammatory drugs, it was almost a fatal disease in ancient times. However, pneumonia is often accompanied by high fever. Since Huang Zhong said that he did not have a constant fever, it may not be pneumonia, but chronic bronchitis or asthma.

  But there was no such thing as tracheitis in ancient times, and there was no way to ask Fei Qian to prescribe prescriptions by himself, but Fei Qian felt that this was an opportunity to convince Huang Zhong...

   In ancient times, many diseases had only one name—wind-cold. The early stage of pneumonia is also called wind-cold, and the late stage is called tuberculosis. In ancient people's conception, wind and cold are epidemics and contagious. Therefore, Huang Zhong did not invite people to sit in the house. It is not impolite, but a helpless act. In addition, Huang Zhong's son should have died before the age of 16, so there is no word. Combined with the time when Huang Zhong became an official should be 192 years ago, it can be inferred that Huang Zhong is now about 30-35 years old, just in his prime...

  (end of this chapter)