Chapter 228 Drug Testing

"Miss Song, can these wild herbs really cure diseases?" Several soldiers brought over two large baskets of wild vegetables according to the instructions on the picture.

Except for a few things that they are sure they can eat, they don’t recognize anything else.

It sounds too far-fetched to rely solely on these things to treat deadly epidemics.

Song Yanxi picked at the wild vegetables and said, "We'll know if it can cure the disease after we try it."

When they heard she wanted to test the medicine, one of them hurriedly asked, "What kind of person do you need, young lady? Is it a man or a woman? Height, height, weight, and age?"

"What?"

He was about to speak, but was bumped by the person next to him and suddenly realized it. He scratched his head embarrassedly and said, "I'm sorry, Miss Song. I was confused just now and mistook you for Princess Shihan."

Song Yanxi paused, her brows furrowed slightly, "Zhuang Shihan actually tested drugs on living people before?"

The two soldiers exchanged glances and quickly changed their tone, "Miss Song, you misunderstood. It was us two brothers who acted on our own initiative. We thought you were looking for someone to test the medicine on."

Song Yanxi's face darkened, her voice cold, "Testing medicine on living people is against the will of heaven and is despised by doctors."

The so-called drug testing does not mean adjusting the dosage using existing prescriptions, but rather using folk remedies recorded in ancient books or herbal medicines that are not included in medical books and whose specific medicinal properties are unknown.

She had heard from her master that the slave trade was prevalent in the previous dynasty, and a very small number of medical clinics would buy slaves and raise them secretly for the purpose of testing medicines.

They called these people drug slaves.

All drug slaves have their bodies eroded by various drugs and will not live long. Moreover, because they live in dark and small houses for a long time, they are unable to speak or see. Even if they are free one day, they will not be able to live a normal life.

A disciple from the Divine Doctor Valley once rescued several medicine men, but before he could help them find their families, one of them died suddenly because he had tried too many drugs and could not wait for the antidote to be prepared.

The other two, one who could not see and the other who could not speak, were suddenly rescued and thought they were about to die. However, after one night, they both went crazy with fear.

As soon as the news came back, the then head of the Divine Doctor Valley issued a death order, prohibiting all disciples in the valley from testing the medicine on other people.

On the first day she was coaxed to the mountain, her master threatened her with not having dinner if she couldn't memorize these things, so she had to memorize them by heart.

Who is the master that Zhuang Shihan mentioned?

Since he had passed on what he had learned in the Valley of Divine Doctors to her, he had acknowledged her as his disciple and should have told her the rules. There was no such thing as inner or outer sects in their valley.

She acted like this, not knowing whether it was because the man only accepted her as a disciple without teaching her the rules, or because she was used to doing her own thing and didn't take him seriously.

But no matter what the reason is, as long as she is there, she will never allow Zhuang Shihan to do whatever she wants under the name of the Valley of Divine Doctors.

Otherwise, if he causes a catastrophe one day, it will surely affect everyone in the valley.

Seeing Song Yanxi frowning and not saying anything, the two of them were both very nervous and said weakly, "Miss Song, why don't you use us two brothers to test the medicine? We are in good health and we are not afraid."

"Don't you understand what people are saying?"

An took a big step forward and said in a cold voice: "Miss Song has already said that she doesn't need anyone to test the medicine. Why don't you get out of here now?"

The two of them nodded repeatedly, not daring to even look at each other for another second before turning around and running away.

An Yi frowned as he watched, and could not help but snort coldly, "Coward, you are obviously not a soldier led by the prince."

If they were on the battlefield, wouldn't their calves cramp if the enemy stomped their feet?

He got angry when he saw how cowardly they were.

Seeing that there was no one else around, An Yi went over to help Song Yanxi sort the wild vegetables in the box and quickly divided them into several categories.

From left to right, they are highly toxic, slightly toxic, and non-toxic.

"What about these?" Song Yanxi asked, pointing at two types that were specially picked out on the ground.

An Yi said, "These two kinds of food taste very good and are not poisonous to humans, but generally speaking, soldiers in the army don't eat them."

He pointed at one of them and said, "This kind of medicine will easily make you sleepwalk if you take it. Most sleepwalkers laugh while walking, and when they wake up the next day, they only feel tired and don't remember anything else.

As for this type, the patient will faint within half an hour after taking it, and will not wake up for at least half a day or at most three days.

The soldiers were afraid of delaying their work, so they didn't dare touch it on weekdays. They only dared to dig a little and take it back to make soup on their days off."

Catching a glimpse of An Yi swallowing his saliva, Song Yanxi raised an eyebrow and asked, "Commander An has also eaten it?"

"It's natural."

An Yi coughed lightly and explained, "The border town is located in a remote area, and the road from the capital is not easy to travel. If there is heavy snow and the road is blocked, it is common for food supplies to be delayed for ten days or half a month.

When there is no fighting, the army will send a team of soldiers to dig vegetables, add snow water and cook them into a meal, which is better than delicacies from land and sea.

For some reason, when Song Yanxi heard him say that, she blurted out, "Does the prince usually eat and sleep with the soldiers?"

"The prince and the soldiers have always lived and eaten together. When the army's food was low, it was common for several of them to drink a bowl of porridge together."

As the last few words came out of his mouth, An Yi caught a glimpse of the heartache that flashed across Song Yanxi's eyes, and he wished he could bite off his tongue.

Why do you have to bring up these things for no reason?

Too much talk!

An Yi pinched himself and quickly said, "That's all old news. Ever since the prince ordered the soldiers to reclaim wasteland and cultivate the land in their spare time a few years ago, the soldiers have rarely gone hungry."

"Clearing land? But outside the city?" Song Yanxi frowned. She didn't remember seeing any divided fields outside the city when she came here. The weeds grew more lushly than in other towns.

Hearing this, An's face turned cold in an instant, and he gritted his teeth and said, "The border town has no food to eat now, and we have to thank General Lin for this."

"Your Majesty values ​​farmland and agricultural products. How dare he deliberately destroy them?"

"Of course he wouldn't dare, but as the city's defender, it would be easy for him to do something secretly with the power he holds."

An Yi didn't rush to explain. Instead, he asked, "If you don't want your soldiers to follow the previous general's instructions, but you don't want to give people a chance to criticize you, what would you do?"

Song Yanxi said coldly: "Of course it's a dirty trick."

This is also what Lin Tingfeng is best at.

She could guess the general idea without An Yi giving any specific examples.

As the commander-in-chief of an army, he doesn't even need to give orders personally. Just a glance can make his subordinates do things according to his wishes and do things beautifully.

Jiang Jinzhong played such a role in this case.

But he was afraid that even until his death, he would never figure out how he suddenly became a discarded pawn, or a fatal move.

An Yi looked at the various wild vegetables on the ground and said in a low voice, "I know that the young lady is unwilling to test the medicine on the common people because she is worried about something going wrong. If you need me, I can do it for you."

Song Yanxi picked up a plant and examined its veins and roots. Without even looking up, she said, "If you don't want to see me expelled from the sect for violating the sect's rules, don't mention this matter again."

"Princess Ke Shihan..."

"She is she, and I am me."

Coldly interrupting An Yi, Song Yanxi looked up at him, anger tinged in her cold eyes. "I forgot to tell you that Zhuang Shihan is not a disciple of the Divine Doctor Valley. If you hear her using the name of the Divine Doctor Valley again, don't give her any face."

As soon as he finished speaking, a question with suppressed anger rang out from behind him: "With a powerful enemy at hand, what personal grudges can't be put aside for the time being? Why do you have to be so aggressive?"