Chapter 224

Xu Yi and Adhuoer want to observe his subsequent symptoms and let him stay in the room to rest.

The young man in the gorge swallowed in fear. The seven-foot-old man huddled up and squatted on the small mat pitifully and helplessly.

On the contrary, Xu Yi and Adhuoer were not so worried.

They sat cross-legged on the table casually, drinking Ajin's chrysanthemum oolong tea and chatting.

"Will someone come to find you?" Adhuo'er asked thoughtfully with his eyes outside the door.

Xu Yi frowned, his vision stopped at the ripples in the tea cup: "Yes."

Adhuo'er looked at him: "What should I do next, let them all hurt like this?"

"It won't hurt for long." Xu Yi Yi smiled faintly, looked at the somewhat panicked Qingzhuang Gorge resident, and asked him, "Do you feel like there is something in your stomach?"

"I...I..." Qingzhuang hesitated, "I think I want to go to the hut..."

Xu Yi motioned for him to go ahead.

Then, he turned sideways to Adhuo'er and said to him coldly: "Follow him and see if he can pull him out."

"Me?" Adhuo'er opened his eyes wide.

Xu Yi raised his lips: "Don't you want to see if he has diarrhea?"

Adhuoer: "..."

He never expected that this would be the case.

In other words, he only thought about the scene where the bugs came out of the mouth, but he never imagined that some people would suffer from diarrhea instead of vomiting after taking Thunder Pill Powder.

After being stunned for a moment, Adhuoer couldn't help but get up from the table. He really wanted to know.

...Have the tribesmen expelled worms?

Seeing him heading towards the clan toilet, A Xu and A Jin were frightened.

They both looked at Xu Yi: "Lang Jun, are we going too?"

Xu Yi raised his eyebrows: "You want to go?"

As soon as these words came out, the brothers and sisters shook their heads like rattles.

Mr. Lang, don’t be joking! ! !

They really don't want to see that scene.

The last time Xu Sheng spit out a three-foot-long worm from his mouth, it caused them to think of the worm when they saw the soup cakes for several days. They didn't eat the soup cakes for two months.

If I still go to see it this time, wouldn’t I be able to give up soup cakes?

Xu Yi said calmly: "If a patient's disease symptoms need to be examined from feces, you will not treat the patient because of the smell of feces?"

Due to the limitations of the times, people nowadays are more likely to eat food that is not good for them. Clean food and water sources, and thus a higher chance of being infected with parasites.

There is no need to force A Xu and A Jin to look at the diarrhea worms.

But they need to know what the bug looks like and what kind of anthelmintic medicine should be taken for what kind of bug.

After being scolded, the two of them bowed their heads obediently and made up their minds to follow Adhuoer to see if the young gorge man had shed any insects.

Who would have expected -

before they even walked out of Adhuo'er's house, they saw Adhuoer holding something in his hand and ran back quickly.

"It's coming out!" Adhuoer rushed over excitedly.

As they got closer, everyone saw clearly that the thing he was holding in his hand was not anything else, but a living insect that was still twisting.

The surrounding gorge people all screamed.

Xu Yi: "..."

He pinched the center of his eyebrows and sighed: "Since Adhuo'er has brought the bug over, A Xu and A Jin, you guys should take a good look at it."

A Xu and A Jin were stunned . , and honestly went up to see it.

Not only the two of them, the surrounding canyon residents were surprised and curious, and they all followed up to see what the insect looked like.

Xiwa'er and several other younger children screamed when they saw the moving insects.

"It's so long..."

"Don't Zhuo Mu feel uncomfortable with such a long worm in his stomach?"

The surrounding gorge people discussed among themselves in whispers. The young gorge man named Zhuo Mu came out of the toilet. When I came out, I couldn't help but blush even more.

Fortunately, A Xu said: "This insect only grows to one foot, not very long."

"Is there a longer one?" Zhuo Mu asked in surprise.

The brother and sister nodded and vividly described the three-foot-long worm they saw.

That's scary.

Seeing such a weird thing, the gorge residents were shocked and began to worry that they too had such long worms.

Ah Jin said: "Don't be afraid, don't be afraid. Lang Jun said that this three-foot-long insect is not a big deal. This insect can grow to more than ten or twenty feet in length."

The gorge people said: "!!!"

At this time, an unknown child suddenly let out a cry and shouted: "Why does this bug look like the soup cake made by grandma?"

A Xu and A Jin looked at the child who said this.

Seeing that it was Xiwa'er from the patriarch's family, the child saw that the insect had stopped moving, so he squeezed into the crowd of adults and remembered the mutton bone soup cake he had eaten for breakfast.

Xu Yi smiled lowly at the side. These words really touched the vulnerability of the brother and sister.

"Xi Wa'er, come here quickly, this is not soup cake." The woman behind pulled her back nervously, "If you want to eat soup cake, my mother will make it for you, but don't eat the bug."

Xi Wa'er He blinked and said with a smile: "If you don't want to eat, I want to eat grandma's soup cake."

Xu Yi glanced at her unexpectedly, recalling the past when he and his brother were digging for worms in the mountains, and they were so fearless. . The worms that were dug up were brought back to be raised, but later my brother couldn't stand it and threw the worms away.

He cried for several days because of this and said that he wanted to build a tombstone for the insect.

Adhuo'er wasn't afraid either. He had been dealing with many bugs since he was a child. He squeezed out of the crowd with the bug corpse and came over to Xu Yi.

He said: "Brother Zhuo Mu not only shed this bug, but also others. Some were too small, so I didn't take them."

He even washed the bug specially, and it didn't smell bad.

But knowing where it came from, it’s hard not to feel weird holding it in your hands. Adzhuoer put it in an earthen pot that was broken into two halves and asked Xu Yi what to do next.

Xu Yi said: "Go to the toilet separately, and burn the feces with fire to kill the insect eggs inside."

Adhuoer nodded repeatedly when he heard this. He was also afraid that the eggs would come back again and again, and the tribe would be infected with the insect again. sick.

...

This insect was so honorable that it didn't come out of Zhuo Mu's mouth.

It just made him run to the toilet four times. When he came out for the last time, his legs were weak and weak, and he was holding on to the wall.

He was covered in cold sweat and his face was pale, which made people tremble with fear.

They all worry that they are the next him.

In just half a day, several gorge residents began to suffer from abdominal pain and diarrhea, and they queued up in confusion to go to the toilet.

After the clan leader knew that the insects and eggs needed to be burned, he came to ask Xu Yi for advice.

Xu Yi taught a simple method, asking the gorge people to bring mats and plant ash, first pour the plant ash into the toilet, then spread the mat, and then pour a layer of plant ash.

The gorge residents who squatted in thatched huts also had to clean their hands with plant ash and drink a can of boiled water with salt added.

As dusk falls, torches are lit in the canyon, with the hut being the brightest.

Xu Yi went to the old clan leader and asked him for two strong gorge people: "The worms can be eliminated in one or two days after taking the medicine. Judging from the current situation, there are still worms in the stomachs of the gorge people. They should pay attention to them in these two days." "

Therefore, this latrine cannot be empty. Someone must guard it. If anything goes wrong, report it immediately."

"Yeah." The old clan leader nodded heavily. He didn't expect that so many clan members would have worms in their stomachs.

If Xu Yi hadn't mentioned the anthelmintics this time, if an insect epidemic broke out in the future, the consequences would be disastrous.

The patriarch said: "Doctor Xu, thank you for your trouble. It's getting late. Dr. Xu will go back to the house to rest first, and I will arrange the rest."

Xu Yi nodded slightly, did not refuse his kindness, came out of the patriarch's house, and walked back to the house with steady steps. Old witch doctor house.

The summer wind was hot and hot. When Yan Quyue saw Xu Yi come back, she shook her fan but did not get up from her chair. She just smiled and said to him: "You have been busy all day and your body smells. A Xu boiled bath water for you." "Hurry up and change your clothes."

Xu Yi smiled and said, "Okay."

He entered the back room, filled the bathtub with water at a suitable temperature, closed the door, disinfected, took a bath, changed clothes, and came out again with a nice wash. .

Yan Quyue was still asleep when she came out. She wiped his hair and told Xu Yi, "Tomorrow Ajin Erqing and I will go to the city with the clansmen. Then you and Axu will stay here." It will take us two days to come back."

"What are we going to do?" Xu Yi looked at her in confusion.

Yan Quyue also had her own opinions in the canyon. When he asked, she said: "I also accidentally discovered that the gray beads worn by the tribesmen here can be ground into powder. The color is very similar to fire sand ash. I thought Can it be made into pigment? I didn't expect that I tried it today and it actually worked."

Xu Yi raised his eyebrows. The fire sand ash Yan Quyue said was actually a pigment made from lead ore, which was smelted through multiple processes. , worth a lot of money.

"Do you have that bead in your hand?" Xu Yi asked her.

Yan Quyue got up and went to the box to get a bunch of gray beads with glitter. She smiled and said, "A grandma gave this to me. It looks pretty."

Xu Yi was stunned for a moment when he saw the string of beads in her hand, and then he was surprised to find that this was selenium ore.

He couldn't help but his heart beat faster. He took the bead and looked

at it carefully, "Have you ever asked where this selenium... gray bead comes from?" Yan Quyue said, "They said it was dug from the mountain. It looks good. Grind it into beads and wear them."

Seeing that something was wrong with Xu Yi's expression, she narrowed her eyes and asked in a low voice, "What? Does this bead have another origin?"

Xu Yi took a deep breath and said, "It does have a lot of origins. This thing can be called Selenium is good for people."

He realized that the selenium mine had not been discovered at this time, so maybe the people here would not give it such a name.

Shizhou is indeed the first high-selenium area discovered in China in later generations. It seems not surprising that a thousand years ago, some people in the gorge used them as ornaments to grind and wear them.

But if it is smelted into pigment now, this selenium ore may undergo new changes in history. This change might be good or bad. Xu Yi didn't dare to judge or draw conclusions easily.

The only thing that can be clearly known is that if the selenium ore is turned into pigment, then this place may no longer be a place for the gorge people to live.

Xu Yi said with dark eyes: "Those who know this thing know very little. If it is taken out rashly, it may be detrimental to the people of the gorge."

"I also told them that this thing may be sold for money in exchange for food." Yan Qu Yue bit her lip, a little annoyed that she didn't discuss it with Xu Yi in time.

"It's good now. Now we are in trouble. You said this thing is so rare, so you can't sell it."

Xu Yi frowned and thought, and said seriously: "It's not easy to use this selenium, why not just exchange it for something Money's way."

"Huh?" Yan Quyue didn't react for a moment.

Xu Yi said with a smile: "Backed by mountains, backed by water, there are mountains and water here, so why don't we have no way to make money."

Why the ancestors of the gorge people chose this place to settle and reproduce is because of its favorable geographical location and beautiful scenery. It can support people, and it can also be used offensively and defensively.

If it weren't for Xidong Man's use of force to harass them, the life of the gorge people here wouldn't be so difficult.

Now that Xidongman has been persuaded by the prefect to surrender and be settled, their lives are getting better and they have more choices.

In addition to this selenium mine, you can make money by picking out the best things in the valley and selling them.

After listening to him analyze the advantages of the canyon, Yan Quyue was not so worried.

She breathed a sigh of relief, smiled and said to Xu Yi, "I'll go find grandma tomorrow and tell her about this."

"Can I go with you?" Xu Yi squeezed her fingers.

Yan Quyue smiled grimly and said, "Why do I need you? I can handle it myself."

"I trust you, madam." Xu Yi took her hand and stood up, leading her to the bed and patting the brocade soft couch. "It's getting late. , let’s go to sleep first, and we’ll talk about this tomorrow.”

…

The next day, Xu Yi and Yan Quyue got up, one went to find Adhuo’er, and the other went to find the grandma in the clan.

The two of them were busy with their own affairs and did not interfere with each other.

Xu Yi came to ask Adhuoer and showed him the booklet that registered those who had responded yesterday.

"Where are they?" He said to Adhuo'er while watching, "Let them do a pulse check to see if they still need to take medicine."

"I asked them to come." Adhuo'er said.

After a while, more than a dozen people, old and young, gathered in Adhuoer's wooden house, making the already narrow house even more crowded.

Adhuo'er poured salt water for them to drink. He watched them finish the salt water and said, "Doctor Xu said that if any of you have problems, you must take medicine."

"Don't we all have diarrhea?" Some tribesmen asked. Xie Di asked.

Yesterday, I had a bunch of bugs and eggs, and it took a while to burn them all.

A Zhuoer said: "It's just diarrhea, it doesn't mean whether there are still bugs in the stomach."

If there are still bugs and eggs in the stomach, they will still grow into big bugs.

Compared to vomiting and diarrhea, the bug eating their flesh and blood in the stomach is even more terrifying.

Adzhuo'er had no better way to deal with the tribe's fear. He hoped that Xu Yi could cure the tribe's insect disease.

These dozen people took another round of medicine powder.

As time went by, some people in the clan began to vomit and diarrhea insects.

After taking Lei Wan Powder for three days, Xu Yi finally asked Adhuoer to stop giving the medicine to the gorge residents.

...

At the same time, Yan Quyue led several strong women to the mountains.

The women in the canyon are stronger and more agile than the women in the city. They never get tired while climbing mountains and wading in rivers with Yan Quyue. They have cheerful temperaments and roll up their sleeves as they work and talk along the way.

Yan Quyue saw something different in them.

Even her sassy temperament became harmonious here.

Yan Quyue liked this place very much. She waded through a stream and washed her hands in it. She saw a flower snake hanging on a branch and cut it in two with a knife.

Seeing this, the woman next to her picked up the snake's body with bright eyes: "We have meat to eat tonight."

"Ms. Yan is very good at killing this snake. Can you teach us how to kill this snake?" Several young people The women gathered around excitedly.

Yan Quyue was not stingy and demonstrated it on the spot.

Then, they chattered and discussed to see who was qualified to be Lady Yan's apprentice.

Yan Quyue raised her eyebrows and puffed out her chest and said: "If you want to learn, I can teach you. If you come into the mountains in the future, you will have a way to get close to me."

She then looked at the young woman holding the snake . , said: "You are the most agile. If you want to practice, I will not only teach you the boxing skills near the body, but also the sword skills. Do

you want to learn?" The woman's eyes were slightly stunned, and she immediately shouted: "I want to learn!"

The women who followed him into the mountains all wanted to learn it. Yan Quyue checked their bones and they all followed it.

Although the Yan Family Boxing and Yan Family Sword Techniques were not taught to outsiders, Yan Quyue did not really teach them the entire set of boxing techniques and sword techniques. I only selected a few tricks that were easy to remember and could protect themselves and taught them to them.

Soon, things changed drastically in the canyon.

Women who usually only farmed and did needlework in the canyon, as long as they were healthy, followed behind Yan Quyue, punching one stroke after another.

Later, even the children joined in and learned in style.

Xu Yi originally was worried that Yan Quyue would be unhappy in the canyon all day just to accommodate him. Now that she has something to do, she is happier than anyone else.

With the pest problem solved, Adhuoer also had time to go into the mountains to collect herbs.

In the early morning, the sun shone in the canyon. Xu Yi carried the bamboo basket on his back and entered the mountain with Adhuoer.