mesbooks Chapter 125 Meng Shen
Chapter 125 Meng Shen
After dealing with this matter, Mu Sheng turned around and went to the Imperial Medical Bureau to borrow out the apprentice from yesterday.
The apprentice's name was Meng Shen. He was a little bit nervous, not knowing why the general wanted to see him. Moreover, today was different from yesterday. There were many imperial doctors on duty in the Imperial Medical Bureau, so it was possible to ask an imperial doctor to go to the general's mansion.
Although the imperial physician serves the emperor, empress, and clan members, it is also acceptable for the emperor's close ministers to use him.
Why are you looking for him?
It was natural that Mu Sheng looked for him for a reason. Although as a first-rank general protecting the country, he could have called for an imperial physician, but, firstly, what he wanted to do did not really require an imperial physician; secondly, it was a little unreasonable; thirdly, he believed in the medical skills of this apprentice.
In a situation like yesterday, facing so many ministers who were staring at him with eager eyes, even though the pulse diagnosis result was a bit outrageous, he still spoke out firmly. This shows that this person is confident in his medical skills, and even though the result was outrageous, he believed that his conclusion was correct.
"I'm not looking for you to see a doctor. My family is all very well. I just need your help in identifying whether some medical books are legitimate."
Meng Shen: “?”
Mu Sheng explained, "My wife got a few medical books by chance a few years ago, and she has been reading them recently. I don't know if what she wrote in these books is correct, and I'm worried that she might have misunderstood them. So, I asked you to help take a look. If there is no problem, that would be the best. If there is a problem, then she can't read it anymore."
Meng Shen: “…”
I'm speechless and don't know what to say.
After thinking it over for a while, Meng Shen spoke up: "There are medical books for sale in the bookstore. They are compiled by the Imperial Medical Bureau under the order of the emperor. In the early years, His Majesty also ordered all places to publicly post prescriptions for the convenience of the people. If your wife is reading the medical books compiled by the Imperial Medical Bureau sold in the bookstore, there will definitely be no problem."
Mu Sheng said: "How could I not know this? The problem is that the medical books my wife read were not those compiled by the Imperial Medical Bureau. I also took a look at them before, and my intuition is fine, but learning medicine cannot be based on intuition."
Meng Shen: "Then why don't you just suggest that Madam abandon the current medical books and read those compiled by the Imperial Medical Bureau?"
Mu Sheng: “…”
Before he could answer, Apprentice Xiao Meng continued, "But I really want to see if there are any medical books that I haven't read yet!"
He has studied medicine since he was a child and considers himself to be well-read, having read all kinds of medical books. He is confident that he can tell whether a medical book is true or false just by taking a glance at it.
Mu Sheng took his apprentice Xiao Meng and went straight back home.
Yun Xi is embroidering her purse.
Her embroidery skills were already quite good, so she decided not to take the pieces apart after finishing them and just make them into purses. In fact, she had already ruined two pieces of fabric, and the fabrics were all in a mess after she had embroidered and taken apart again.
Chunmei and Qiuye are watering the fruit seedlings according to her instructions. The apples, blueberries and strawberries she planted are growing very well.
"Uncle is back."
Seeing Mu Sheng, the two maids put down their gourds and knelt in greeting.
"Yeah. You guys continue."
After hearing what he said, the two maids continued to work.
Mu Sheng came alone, and Xiao Meng was left in the outer courtyard by him.
Xiao Meng is a doctor, but Yun Xi is not a patient, so there is no need for them to meet. He just needs to take the book out and let Xiao Meng take a look.
In fact, he could have taken the book directly to the Imperial Medical Bureau and asked an imperial physician to look at it, but he was worried that Yun Xi would not agree, so he brought the person home.
Yun Xi placed an embroidery frame near the window, took an embroidery cushion and sat there, concentrating on embroidering a purse. She was embroidering so attentively that she didn't even notice Mu Sheng standing behind her.
Seeing her pause, Mu Sheng said, "Take a break. Don't strain your eyes."
Yun Xi raised her head, rubbed her neck with her hand, and asked, "Why did you come back at this time?"
Mu Sheng began to massage her cervical spine and replied, "I went to the palace and brought someone back with me. Ask him to help you identify the medical books you read before and see if they are reliable. After all, you are studying medicine, so don't learn the wrong things."
Yun Xi didn't expect his ideas to be so unique, but thinking that he had good intentions, and she herself wanted to spread those medical books, she readily agreed.
So, Mu Sheng took the Compendium of Materia Medica and the Supplement to Compendium of Materia Medica to the front yard. These books were found in the bamboo building in the space. It was unknown whether they were collected by the previous owner of the space. Anyway, they were not inconsistent with the current era.
In the outer courtyard, Mu Sheng handed the book to Meng Shen.
When the confident apprentice Xiao Meng saw the title of the book, the confidence on his face froze.
This is indeed a book he has never read!
He sat there, opened the book and started reading, having already forgotten what he was doing there.
Some of the contents in the book were familiar to him, but there were many that he didn't know, and there were many medicines that he had never even heard of!
Impossible, how could it be possible? He came from Yaowang Mountain!
Seeing that he was so absorbed in reading and was reluctant to speak, Mu Sheng took the initiative to ask, "How is it? Is this book still readable?"
Meng Chen suddenly raised his head, looked at Mu Sheng eagerly, and said, "Where did these books come from? There are many medicines recorded in them, with pictures, but I have never seen them. Who is Li Shizhen? Who is Zhao Xuemin?"
Mu Sheng: "...I'm not too sure about this. My wife just got these books by chance and read them for fun."
"Can you let me go see your wife and ask her myself?"
Mu Sheng: “…”
After thinking for a while, he said, "Then wait a moment. I'll ask my wife to ask if it's convenient for her to meet the guest."