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Chapter 724 No one knows mercury better than me

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    Haisha Town, in the inner residence of Chen Huaixiu¡¯s family.

    "Mercury poisoning?!" The thick-browed couple heard this and exclaimed in unison: "How is that possible?"

    Li Shizhen snorted displeasedly and said, "What, do you doubt my diagnosis?"

    "Don't dare," the thick-browed woman hurriedly waved her hands and kept saying, "But sir, can you give Master Teng a closer look? Our island is full of people who run boats, and there are no people who make alchemy and gilding. How can there be mercury?"  Toy?"

    "Yes, sir, there is no such thing on the island." The thick-browed man confirmed.

    Mrs. Shen bit her lip tightly, nodded and said, "Xiao Teng has never been exposed to this thing since he was a child."

    "Whether you have been exposed to it or not, you don't have the final say, the disease has the final say." Li Shizhen, however, remained unwavering and snorted: "No one understands mercury poisoning better than me."

    Zhao Hao nodded, thinking that this was true.  Li Shizhen worked as a health care doctor for Emperor Jiajing, who was a serious mercury lover

    Jiajing not only takes heavy metals for a long time, but also often goes out to make elixirs himself.  Moreover, he rewarded the refined elixirs to his ministers.

    This way you can save money, and you can also have someone test the poison first.  See if it's okay and then eat it yourself.

    At that time, the emperor and his ministers were all exposed to rain and dew, and none of them took drugs.

    For example, Emperor Jiajing¡¯s nursing brother Lu Bing was the late emperor¡¯s most trusted man, so he naturally took the most medicine.

    He has been practicing martial arts since he was a child and is strong and strong. No matter how cold the weather is, he can climb up a wall more than ten feet high with only a single coat.

    Even such a strong man could not resist the heavy metal training for many years. He died suddenly at the age of fifty, and the Lu family was also beaten away by wind and rain.

    It¡¯s even worse for those with weak bones.  Academician Yuan Wei fell seriously ill within a few years of taking drugs, and died on his way home from begging for leave.

    Another great scholar, Yan Na, was getting worse every day. When he saw Yuan Wei's fate, he was so frightened that he quickly begged for his bones. When he returned home, he asked Li Shizhen to help him detoxify and recuperate, and he managed to survive.

    As for Mr. Yan Ge and Mr. Xu Ge, I don¡¯t know whether they are gifted or just cheating.  I took a lot of medicine, but nothing serious happened.

    "However, in the last few years of his reign, Mr. Yan Ge acted recklessly and repeatedly offended the emperor with his words. Mr. Xu Ge has been ill in the past two years, and I am afraid that Mercury's contribution is indispensable.

    It is said that when Xu Jie returned to his hometown after becoming an official, when he passed by Changshu, he specifically asked Yan Na for a detoxification prescription. I don¡¯t know if it is true or not.

    But Li Shizhen angrily resigned from the Imperial Hospital and returned to his hometown to write his "Compendium of Materia Medica" because he tried to persuade Jiajing to "cherish life and stay away from elixirs" to no avail.

    ¡°So he knows so much about mercury poisoning that it¡¯s not an exaggeration to say that no one knows it better than him.

    ??~~

    Li Shizhen took out a pair of gold needles from the medicine box and inserted a needle into the child's head.

    He also asked Mrs. Shen to use moxa sticks to moxibustion Xiao Teng¡¯s Hegu point to calm the nerves, regulate Qi and relieve pain.

    After some acupuncture, the child finally regained consciousness and stopped screaming.  He lay motionless in Chen Huaixiu's arms.

    "A miraculous doctor, what a miraculous doctor." The thick-browed couple were completely convinced.

    ¡°Don¡¯t brag, I¡¯m just trying to calm him down, but I haven¡¯t treated him yet.¡± Li Shizhen didn¡¯t buy it.

    "Let's first take a look at the environment where the children live." Mr. Zhao suggested in a deep voice.

    "That's right." Li Shizhen nodded and said, "Looking at his condition, it's probably caused by long-term exposure to mercury."

    "Oh, okay, sir and sir, please come this way." Mrs. Shen woke up from a dream and quickly invited the two of them into the east wing.

    Before entering the house, Zhao Hao reminded: "Sir, you'd better take precautions first."

    Li Shizhen said with a look of admiration: "I didn't expect the young master to understand it very well."

    The two of them stood still and asked Gao Wu to go to the boat to get the equipment.

    While waiting for the equipment to be ready, Li Shizhen asked Chen Huaixiu: "He must have been sick for some time, right?"

    "Yes, half a month ago, this child suddenly changed his temperament and started yelling. He even had hallucinations and delusions." Chen Huaixiu sighed and recalled:

    ¡°At first I thought I was being possessed by a nightmare, so I asked the gods and goddesses to exorcise the evil spirits. I also went to Tanah Lot Temple to burn incense and worship at Thean Hou Temple, but it still didn¡¯t work.¡±

    "Now do you think of seeing a doctor?" Li Shizhen snorted in displeasure and said, "Then he should have been abnormal a month ago."

    "It's true." The thick-browed woman exclaimed: "About a month ago, Master Teng started complaining of a headache. He couldn't sleep at night, had no energy during the day, couldn't read, and didn't want to eat. Madam asked a doctor to give him  He prescribed medicine to calm the mind and transform food, but it had no effect.¡±

    As she spoke, she added in a low voice:?: ¡°That¡¯s why I asked God to see it later.¡±

    "What kind of quack doctors are you hiring?!" Li Shizhen can always find an angle to curse people.  "The whites of this child's eyes are red and the bags under his eyes are blue. Can't they see it?"

    "They said it was caused by long-term insomnia" the thick-browed woman muttered.

    "How can such a big kid still suffer from insomnia?" Li Shizhen snorted: "Then the mercury lines on his teeth are so obvious, can't they even see it?!"

    "Mercury line?" Chen Huaixiu and the other three all looked puzzled.

    "There is a thin blue-black line at the junction of his teeth and gums." Li Shizhen pointed to the child's mouth.

    The child bared his teeth and tried to bite, just in time for everyone to see the blue line at the junction of his gums.

    "Hiss" Everyone gasped, no longer daring to doubt Doctor Li's conclusion.

    "Does he usually live alone?" Li Shizhen asked.

    "No, there is a nanny staying with him." Chen Huaixiu replied.

    "Where are the people?"

    ¡°I haven¡¯t been feeling well these past few days, so I took leave and went home to rest.¡±

    ¡°Bring her to me and take a look.¡± Li Shizhen said in a deep voice.

    "Okay." Chen Huaixiu told the thick-browed woman to call someone.

    ??~~

    After a cup of tea, Gao Wu came back with a wooden box.

    Chen Huaixiu and others watched in stunned silence as Mr. Zhao and Dr. Li put on double-layer masks, protective goggles, and rubber gloves.  Wear a protective coverall.

    "What are you doing?" The man with thick eyebrows looked at him with fury.

    "Don't talk nonsense, go out and guard." Chen Huaixiu ordered in a low voice: "No one is allowed in."

    "Yes." The thick-browed man responded in a deep voice.

    "Mrs. Shen had better protect yourself." Zhao Hao pointed to the remaining set of protective equipment and said: "If there is only mercury left in the house, it will also damage your health."

    Chen Huaixiu secretly smiled bitterly, thinking that I stayed in the room for a long time today.  But she couldn't bear to brush off the other party's good intentions, so with the help of Zhao Hao, she also became fully armed.

    The three of them then entered the east wing.

    Seeing that it is divided into two rooms, the inner and outer rooms. The outer room is where the young man studies and lives. It is fully equipped with desks, bookshelves and the four treasures of the study room.

    The inner room is his bedroom.

    Li Shizhen looked through it carefully.

    Zhao Hao pretended to help look for it for a while, then lost his patience, turned over the pages on the table with tweezers, and asked Mrs. Shen, "Is it Madam who teaches this child to read?"

    Mrs. Shen shook her head and said: "It's the gang leader. Although I know two words, how dare I compete with other scholars for students?"

    "Oh?" Zhao Hao couldn't help but laugh: "If you are in charge of such a big gang, you still have time to teach students?"

    "When my deceased husband was here, I asked Xiao Teng to become his disciple. I also mentioned this year that it would be better to find another husband for Xiao Teng, so as not to delay the official business of the gang." Then I heard Mrs. Shen reply: "But he will wait for Xiao Teng.  When Teng grows up, he wants to be the leader of the gang. Don¡¯t let those rotten Confucians teach him into a nerd. It¡¯s better for him to teach him himself.¡±

    "What a good man." Mr. Zhao smiled and closed the book.

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