Chapter 128

Tianmen Town is named a "Town," but it is actually a large city, with city walls built relying on the mountain terrain and waterways, and the city walls are ten zhang high.

Under the shadow cast by the northwest city wall, there is an open space the size of a football field.

Even at the foot of the city wall, rather than the main thoroughfare of the city, the ground was still paved with neat blue stone slabs.

This was the morning of the second day after Dou Gengyan gained her freedom, and the blue stone road was crowded with people.

Xiao Yu stood on the outermost edge, somewhat at a loss, "What's going on today, why are there so many people?"

She came to visit Aunt Liu, and by the way, talk about Sister Hong Qu.

She didn't expect the main entrance of Bao'an Hall to be blocked tightly; the number of people was definitely over a thousand.

That night she sent Aunt Liu to find Divine Physician Min to save her life; Bao'an Hall couldn't be said to be deserted, except for the night-duty medicine boy grabbing medicine for two patients, Divine Physician Min was even standing on the city wall quite leisurely, looking at Hongxiu Pavilion in the south with a crowd of neighbors.

Uh, at that time, Divine Physician Min joined the melon-eating crowd, commenting on the astonishing blood-red fiend clouds above Hongxiu Pavilion.

He even wrote a prescription in public, telling the neighbors near Qingshui Bay to boil medicinal soup to drive away the fiends these few days.

"Sister Fengxian, today is the fifteenth of the sixth month!" said Lu Lao from the side.

Lu Lao is the son of Lu Lao who guards the gate of Hongxiu Pavilion, the older brother of Little Lu (Lu Xiaosan), the servant of Jin Lian, and also one of Aunt Liu's followers.

Entering the Teaching Pavilion, they became slaves and prostitutes themselves, and their descendants also became turtle-men for the men and prostitutes for the women.

The Lu Lao family had occupied Hongxiu Pavilion for a hundred years, and their qualifications were older than Aunt Liu's.

Lu Lao was twenty-four or twenty-five this year, tall and sturdy, practiced martial arts with his father since childhood, broad-shouldered and thick-waisted, with fists like bowls, full of essence and energy, and divine light in his eyes.

Also because of practicing martial arts, he knew Xiao Yu's power and was willing to call her "Sister."

"What about the fifteenth of the sixth month?" Xiao Yu asked, puzzled.

"Sister Fengxian, do you know about 'rushing to the big market'? Our Tianmen Town is at its most prosperous every day, so there's no need to rush to the big market, but it's not easy for villagers living ten miles outside the city to come to Tianmen Town once.

They usually come to the city to rush to the big market on the fifth, fifteenth, and twenty-fifth of every month.

If Sister Fengxian goes for a walk around the market outside the city, you will understand.

When it comes to wealth and glory, of course, it's inside our Tianmen Town.

The closer to the 'Xianyang Main Street' in the center of the city, the more prosperous it is.

But when it comes to the crowd and liveliness, it's still the market outside the city.

For dozens of miles around, villagers from hundreds of villages and towns, and small vendors who can't afford the city entrance fee, set up markets stretching for dozens of miles in the open space outside, which is truly lively from morning till night."

Lu Lao spoke with great enthusiasm, as if he were already in the market outside the city.

Xiao Yu frowned and said, "What does this have to do with Bao'an Hall?"

Lu Lao laughed, "It has a lot to do with it! Divine Physician Min specifically chooses to see patients and administer medicine outside Bao'an Hall when the villagers rush to the big market, and he doesn't take a single penny.

Villagers come to rush to the big market to sell agricultural goods, and by the way, they can also see a doctor, killing two birds with one stone."

Xiao Yu looked around, thoughtful.

These people crowded outside Bao'an Hall, judging from their spirit and clothing, were more "ordinary commoners" than Mother Zhang and Old Man Li from Soy Sauce Alley.

Lu Lao sighed again, "Divine Physician Min is truly a benevolent heart and wonderful hands; even if he meets someone who is short of money on weekdays and comes to get medicine without money to pay, he doesn't argue or refuse."

"Here he comes, here he comes, Divine Physician Min is out!"

A burst of excited shouting suddenly came from the front, and then the crowd boiled over like boiling water on a stove.

Xiao Yu found a high place to stand and saw the main entrance of Bao'an Hall open, and seven or eight servants carried out wooden fences with mottled red lacquer.

Everyone already knew Divine Physician Min's habits; although the crowd was noisy and surging, they didn't crowd forward, but instead began to retreat, letting the servants set up the wooden fences under the steps and gradually line up in long queues.

There was not just one queue, but seventeen or eighteen queues side by side.

The people at the very front even rolled up their sleeves directly and stretched their arms, whether fair or dark, into the fence openings.

The fence was very high, over two meters, but the gaps were very wide, and people could almost drill through directly.

The villagers waiting in line to see a doctor didn't drill through, but just held onto the fence and stretched their arms in.

Just as they lined up, Divine Physician Min, who was thin, short, and dark-skinned, walked out.

He wore a green headscarf and a deep green jacket that never changed for ten thousand years, with narrow cuffs and a short hem, dressed more capable than the old farmers working in the fields at the head of the village.

He first stood on the steps and bowed to everyone, and everyone also bent down to return the salute.

Afterward, Divine Physician Min walked down the steps briskly, and in front of the wooden fence, with one finger, he tapped three times lightly on the wrist stretched over.

Only three times, and then he quickly recited a prescription.

The medicine boy beside him nodded and turned to run into the main hall.

Divine Physician Min used his finger to tap the wrist of another patient again, only three times, and then recited the symptoms and prescription.

Another medicine boy wrote it down and ran back to the main hall quickly.

There were about thirty-six medicine boys at his disposal.

By the time the fifteenth medicine boy started recording the prescription, the medicine boy who had run into the main hall first had already prepared the medicine and ran back carrying two medicine packets.

Handing the medicine packets to the first patient and giving a few instructions, he followed behind Divine Physician Min, ready to record the next prescription.

This efficiency, like an assembly line screwing bolts, stunned Xiao Yu.

She knew Divine Physician Min was very powerful; she herself had been one of the patients.

The night before last, Divine Physician Min even continued Aunt Liu's liver.

But this method of seeing a doctor had already exceeded the scope of a "Divine Physician."

"With Divine Physician Min seeing a doctor like this, have there been any accidents?"

"You yellow-haired girl, don't talk nonsense here!"

"At such a young age, accumulate some virtue; even Divine Physician Min dares to slander."

"She looks quite beautiful, but her heart is black; she dares to insult Divine Physician Min."

Lu Lao hadn't spoken yet, but the villagers who were still rushing over one after another were unhappy and launched a denunciation against her one after another.

As if she wasn't asking about the accident rate, but cursing them all to encounter medical accidents.

Xiao Yu wouldn't indulge them just because they were villagers.

She immediately glared, unfolded the Fierce Tiger Divine Intent, and crushed them with the momentum of a tiger's roar!

"Roar~~~"

Everyone who looked at her saw darkness before their eyes, the surrounding time and space disappeared, and a fierce tiger a zhang high roared at them above a dark red sea of blood.

"Thump, thump, thump," their faces turned pale, filled with panic, and they retreated repeatedly.

Xiao Yu was like a tiger clearing the street, and a large area cleared around her.

"Hahahaha!" She dispersed the Fierce Tiger Divine Intent and laughed with her hands on her hips.

The villagers were angry and afraid, not daring to shout abuse, and not daring to look at her, turning their heads and whispering resentfully to the people beside them—it was whispering, but the sound wasn't small.

Someone muttered about what kind of evil magic she used, wanting to splash her with black dog blood and feces.

Someone with extraordinary knowledge knew she was a martial arts expert and quietly scolded her for having no martial virtue, using divine skills to deal with ordinary commoners.

Others discussed whether to go to Divine Physician Min to complain.

Lu Lao was a bit embarrassed and uncomfortable, and said sheepishly: "Sister Fengxian, Divine Physician Min 'taps the pulse three times, cures the disease with one dose,' everyone knows."

"Before everyone knew, they must have not known; if they didn't know, they must ask; I didn't know, I asked, what's the problem?" Xiao Yu said.

Her voice wasn't small, and the nearby villagers also heard it, their eyes softening a bit, and they stopped muttering.

Lu Lao whispered: "Or, let's go in from the back door of Bao'an Hall. Anyway, we are here to find Aunt Liu, not to see a doctor."

Xiao Yu said: "I haven't seen clearly yet, I want to watch for a while longer."

The "Heart Xin Hai Jue," which targets the "Great Movement Escape Technique" of the Thousand-Hand Saint Thief, can not only be used to perceive "invisible hands."

The Heart Xin Hai Jue is essentially a technique to develop spiritual perception and enhance perceptual power.

At this moment, she calmed her heart, and the street the size of a football field, and the people on the street, were all projected into her heart sea; every person's movements and words rippled with fine waves on the dark seabed.

She "saw" many villagers carrying sacks or baskets.

The baskets and baskets were filled with dried herbs.

At the bottom of some herbs, there were also hens, big white geese, or chicken eggs and duck eggs hidden.

When it was their turn to have their pulse taken, they would first have a respectful smile on their faces, salute Divine Physician Min, and hand the sacks and baskets through the fence gaps.

Divine Physician Min smiled and nodded, and the medicine boy took the baskets and sacks.

After grabbing the medicine packets, the medicine boy would return the empty baskets and sacks to the villagers.

In the baskets or sacks, there would be a handful of copper coins or a few pieces of broken silver.

The villagers' faces flushed red, with an intention to decline, but were waved away by the medicine boy.

What made Xiao Yu feel strange was that among the people seeing a doctor, many were strong and healthy, with rosy complexions, looking very healthy. Yet Divine Physician Min still took their pulse, and the medicine boy also prepared medicine packets for them.

After getting a little closer, Xiao Yu heard Divine Physician Min say to a strong middle-aged man: "Your father's illness is a minor ailment, no need to take medicine, just boil a bowl of thick chrysanthemum tea, take it while hot, and after sweating at the third watch, you will feel refreshed the next day.

As for your wife, she will have the celebration of giving birth to a boy in the near future, but when she gives birth next year, I'm afraid there will be the disaster of dystocia."

"Divine Physician Min, my brother Zhang Laoshi really died in the first half of this year, and his wife also hanged herself. Now the Zhang family depends on me to carry on the family line. I am also thirty-two this year, and it's not easy to have hope for offspring; you can't let my wife have dystocia!" The middle-aged man was so anxious that tears burst out.

"Sigh, I warned his wife about your brother's affairs last year, telling them to move south and not get close to the Lianghe Beach..."

Divine Physician Min sighed, pinched his small goat beard, and said: "I will write you a prescription; starting from mid-October this year, take one pill every morning. After taking the pill, you must walk in the courtyard for half an hour; you must support her and don't let her fall."

The medicine packets prepared by the medicine boy for patients were various, including decoctions, pills, powders, plasters, and both internal and external use.

The Zhang man couldn't get the medicine packets immediately; he sat on the steps at the entrance and waited for more than an hour before the medicine boy boiled the decoction into a thick medicinal paste and rubbed the paste into dozens of pills the size of soybeans.

Putting the pills into a large blue porcelain bottle, he handed it to the Zhang man.

Xiao Yu also waited for more than an hour.

The Zhang man was not an exception; she heard twenty or thirty "strange cases": the people whose pulses were diagnosed were not sick, but Divine Physician Min wrote prescriptions for their family members.

"This is not strange." Lu Lao heard her question, his expression very natural, only with a bit of pride, saying: "Divine Physician Min is not an ordinary 'Divine Physician.'

A better physician is proficient in the pulse theory of Tai Su and can check the 'disease energy' of the patient themselves.

If one can infer fortune and misfortune, nobility and lowliness, and even longevity and premature death through pulse diagnosis, that counts as a Divine Physician.

But Divine Physician Min only needs to tap three times with his finger, and the whole family, parents, children, and even distant relatives and close neighbors, whether they have disasters or not, whether they are sick or not, can all be diagnosed."

"Even fortune tellers aren't this powerful, right?" Xiao Yu said in surprise.

Old Man Lu muttered: "I think the Daoist priest fortune-telling in front of the temple should call Divine Physician Min 'Old Ancestor.'

I heard Aunt Liu say that it is only because he is afraid of leaking heavenly secrets and causing disasters that Divine Physician Min is unwilling to easily talk about things other than the illness."

Xiao Yu stood on tiptoe, took a deep look at Divine Physician Min, and said: "It's getting late, let's go in from the back door of the courtyard and find Aunt Liu."