Chapter 218: The Black Toad Stone of Changshou Town
"Are you mentally ill?" Tang Bushi was shocked. That would be destroying a military marriage. Doesn't he want to live anymore?
"But that girl is quite good-looking." Tang Buci muttered to himself.
"How about trying to impress her with pure friendship? I think Miss Ye looks particularly innocent, she should be easy to impress." Li Yao said confidently.
Take yesterday's invitation for example, the slightest movement scared her like a quail.
Pure friendship? Although Tang Buci made friends with many prominent people, he never felt that he had any friends, nor did he ever think about making friends.
"Simple?" Tang Buci snorted evilly, "Do you think a girl who was admitted by Professor Qin of a top-notch medical university so many years in advance would be simple?"
Tang Bushi, who has read countless people, would never believe that she was simple-minded.
"Professor Qin is..." Li Yao thought hard for a moment, then suddenly realized, "That Nun Miejue?"
"Hmm." Tang Buci stroked his chin and asked with interest, "Li Yao, who do you think is more complicated, Qin Rong or Ye Xiaomei?"
"That must be Qin Rong, a smiling tiger. When he gets ruthless, he can be as cruel as Nun Miejue." Li Yao told the truth.
Tang Bu Ci shook his head slowly. He didn't think so. "By the way, take a few more people with you to go around the city."
Zhuangyuan Dumpling Shop.
Heizi arrived in a military uniform and carrying a bag. He saluted solemnly as soon as he entered the store:
"Auntie, sister-in-law, I'm back."
Ye Xiaomei looked at the dark face that was full of bright light and said, "Quick, I'll make you some dumplings."
Zhao Heihu was already very happy. He ran to the military reception station without even drinking water because he thought there was nothing to wait for as long as he could eat dumplings.
"Okay, thank you sister-in-law, I want to eat three bowls."
"Okay!" Ye Xiaomei said without hesitation, and Zhao Mei quickly served the dumplings.
Ye Xiaomei placed three bowls of dumplings in front of Heizi and sat down to ask about the military affairs:
"Where is your boss? Is he very powerful in the army?"
Ye Xiaomei held her chin, her grape-like eyes twinkling. To be honest, she hadn't seen him for a month and missed him terribly.
Fortunately, she was busy, otherwise she would have wanted to go find him.
"Of course, sister-in-law, don't you know that even the top boss has to give our boss some face? What does he rely on? It relies on our boss's desperate achievements."
When Heizi said this, the smile on Ye Xiaomei's face disappeared, and her heart skipped a beat:
“Is every mission dangerous?”
Heizi ate the dumplings noisily, and when they were hot, he took a big sip of cold tea:
"That's definitely dangerous, it's just a shot in the arm... Sister-in-law, it's actually not dangerous. The risk factor depends on how our boss arranges the battle plan."
Seeing this, Heizi quickly changed his words: "By the way, sister-in-law, I haven't seen the boss for a long time. Among the new recruits this time is a fellow villager of mine. I just remembered that the boss had a leg disease, so I want to give this to you."
As he spoke, Heizi began to rummage through his bag, took out a large black lump and placed it on the table.
Ye Xiaomei was slightly startled, she took it and took a look. There were many black bumps of different sizes on the surface, about the size of a palm. Looking closely, she could make out four curled legs, eyes and a nose, but they were a little blurry. How to describe it?
It was like a big black stone-shaped toad:
"What is this? Can it cure leg disease?"
"I don't know what the scientific name is, we call it lazy eggs."
A slacker? Ye Xiaomei looked at it over and over again, then put it to her nose and sniffed it. A fishy smell rushed straight to her head through her nasal cavity, and her head was almost blown off.
"It stinks so much?" Ye Xiaomei quickly put it down and smelled her hands. The stench could probably only be washed away with the fragrant soap that Brother Ma gave her.
"Well, it just stinks a bit. There are a lot of these things in the mountains of our hometown, but they can only be dug up from the roots of a large maple tree that is hundreds of years old. Anyway, they are very helpful for bone diseases."
Zhao Heihu was eating as he talked. His fellow villager had heard that soldiers would have to fight at any time, so he brought with him two healing eggs that had been passed down from his family. Now, he asked for one.
Ye Xiaomei grinned, how can it be used as medicine if it stinks so much?
Ye Xiaomei was obviously a little disgusted, but the next second a flash of light flashed through her mind:
"I know, this is the Black Toad Stone." Ye Xiaomei quickly collected all the memories about the Black Toad Stone in her mind.
In the previous life, there was a very famous Chinese medicine called Snake Swallowing Toad. This kind of thing is hard to come by. It must be a wild snake swallowing a toad. It must be caught and sealed before the snake is digested. After that, it becomes something like a dried specimen.
If you soak the snake-swallowed toad in wine, the wine will become an excellent medicinal wine.
However, this is a rare item that can only be found by chance, but this kind of black toad stone is even rarer. It is the petrified stone left behind by the black toad that died naturally after laying eggs and entering the cave. To put it simply, it is similar to a fossil.
Why does it smell so bad? This is also a characteristic of black toad stone.
According to ancient records, black toads can be resurrected after hundreds of years after being petrified, so they have evolved an extremely disgusting stench to prevent themselves from being eaten by snakes, insects, rats and ants during the entire process of death and resurrection.
In her previous life, Ye Xiaomei had only seen it once at a rare herbal medicine exhibition, where it was auctioned for as much as 60 billion.
Finally, this item was bought by a wealthy foreign man who was studying traditional Chinese medicine.
This thing is fun.
Ye Xiaomei plans to visit Teacher Xie in the afternoon.
Because her memories of her past life were like fragments, sometimes she could remember some of them, and sometimes she couldn't remember them at all.
"Heizi, take your time eating. I'm going to the Military General Hospital. You should take a rest first since we just arrived in the city."
After saying that, Ye Xiaomei rushed out the door without stopping.
Heizi knew exactly what he was sent to do, and he stuffed five of them into his stomach in one go:
"Wait sister-in-law, I'll go with you."
The sound was not right, and dumpling juice was leaking out as he spoke.
When Ye Xiaomei jumped into the taxi, Heizi realized it was too late, so he jumped in through the car window like a sword and sat down next to Ye Xiaomei.
Ye Xiaomei stared in amazement, what great skills!
Before I could be surprised, the driver opened the door and spat outside: "What's that smell, girl? Why is it so smelly?"
Ye Xiaomei was suddenly brought back to reality: "Ah, this..." She stammered while rummaging around.
Fortunately, Heizi was quick-witted and took out a plastic bag to put the things in and tied it up. The smell in the car was then much lighter.
"Sister-in-law, please don't dislike it. It may smell a bit, but it can really cure all kinds of strange bone diseases in our area. I heard that it can also cure neurological diseases if soaked in wine."
Ye Xiaomei knew that after soaking the needles in wine for 49 days, they could be taken out and used for acupuncture.
It is also great for treating mental illnesses because it directly affects the nervous system.
Thinking of this, Ye Xiaomei stuffed the black toad stone into a cloth bag and protected it well.
You know, this thing will be worth a fortune in the future, but it may be out of stock in this era.
"When my great-grandmother was still alive, she broke her leg while walking outside at the age of 108. This was used to cure her."
Heizi talked eloquently, trying his best to highlight the value of this stinking thing, for he was afraid that his sister-in-law would dislike it.
"One hundred and eight years old?" Ye Xiaomei thought:
"Is your hometown Changshou Town in Miaojiang?" Ye Xiaomei had some memories. She remembered that after the auction ended, she had joined an expedition team in order to go to that place to look for other black toad stones.
However, in that era, the hundreds-year-old red maple tree mentioned by Zhao Heihu had become a second-level protected tree due to the development of a scenic spot. It became a wishing tree and was not allowed to be dug up.
Heizi was stunned: "Sister-in-law, how did you know?"
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