Chapter 225

Adhuoer crushed the herbs, squeezed out the juice, and applied it on his exposed skin.

He looked back and saw that Xu Yi had tied his cuffs and trouser legs tightly, and his exposed hands were not smeared with anything.

"Doctor Xu." Adhuoer called hesitantly, holding his homemade concoction and asked him, "Don't you need to protect yourself against poisonous insects and snakes?"

Xu Yi looked at the concoction in his hand and recognized it as The duck grass he used when he rescued Zhang Tiegou. The duck grass likes to grow in moist places. It can detoxify snake venom and prevent mosquito bites.

It is not unusual to see it in the valley.

Applying its juice to the skin can indeed block some mosquitoes.

Take it with you when climbing mountains. If you are bitten by a poisonous snake, it is a very good life-saving medicine.

"Yes." Xu Yi nodded, "This concoction is very good, give me some."

Although he was carrying snake repellent medicine, Adhuo'er was willing to share the concoction he prepared, which was a worthy thing for him to accept. thing.

As he spoke, he took the small jar, poured some into his hands, and slowly rubbed it between his hands.

As they often go into the mountains to collect medicinal materials, without saying anything, they chose the same direction tacitly and climbed to a place with less footprints.

Under your feet is a thick layer of rotten leaves and black and yellow soil mixed with coarse sand. If you push aside the dense branches and leaves, your eyes will always be on the surroundings. If you encounter a poisonous snake hanging above the treetops, just go around it and continue moving forward. .

After climbing for half an hour, they stopped at a slope.

Down the slope is a stream.

The stream is clear, and you can see all kinds of stones in the river bed. Some of the silicified sedimentary stones are exposed, and there are also some quartz jade pebbles.

Of course, Xu Yi and Adhuoer's goals were not these stones.

A Zhuoer said: "There are toad holes next to the grass in this stream. Let's make some traps and put them at the entrance of the holes to lure them. We will come back tomorrow to see if we can catch them."

During the day, toads will hide in holes and grass. Shili, it’s not easy to catch it. They come out to look for food at dusk. If they don't want to spend the night in the mountains, they can only set traps.

Xu Yi was silent for a moment and then said: "I don't know how to make traps."

"Didn't you catch toads before?" Adhuoer was stunned for a moment, as if it was hard to imagine.

Xu Yi chuckled and said: "If the prescription contains toad, I will ask the patient to go to the medical clinic to get the medicine."

Adhuoer: "..." This can still be done.

Except for the tribesmen in the canyon, he had never treated anyone else, so he had never thought of this.

As the topic came together, Adhuoer aroused his curiosity about the outside world: "Doctor Xu, what should I do with the medicinal materials that are not available in medical clinics outside?"

Xu Yi said: "Instead, everything can be used as medicine, and there are many medicinal materials with the same medicinal properties. This can be used to transform the situation."

As he said this, he asked Adhuo'er: "Can the old witch doctor teach you "Treatise on Febrile Diseases?"

"The teacher has never taught you." Adhuo'er shook his head and asked in confusion. "Treatise on Febrile Diseases"?

""Treatise on Febrile Diseases" was written by Zhang Zhongjing, a famous doctor in the Eastern Han Dynasty. It was originally recorded in Sui Shu Jing Ji Zhi. It discusses many prescriptions for miscellaneous diseases. It is an ancient medical book worth reading. Xu Yi

saw that he knew little about medical books, so he patiently talked to him about classic medical works, "A few years ago, the Medical Bookstore of the Central Medical College re-edited this book, and many bookstores have its popular version. If you want to read it, you can ask the tribesmen to bring you a copy when they go to the county town to sell fish."

He had "Treatise on Febrile Diseases" in his hand, but he re-edited it after understanding and using it, and took it out to Adhuo'er. , but inappropriate.

It is a good choice to go to a bookstore to buy current popular books.

After hearing this, Adhuo'er's heart skipped a beat, and when he decided to go back, he went to find Brother Wuha.

While the two were talking, they did not delay their work. Adhuoer stepped on the slope and found a wattle tree. He told Xu Yi that the wattle tree could be used to make traps.

Xu Yi naturally knew Vitex. The whole plant can be used as medicine and has very good medicinal value.

Looking at Adhuo Er picking, he picked a lot of them.

At first, Adhuo'er thought Xu Yi was going to make up a trap. Seeing that he had folded a lot, he said, "There's no need to make so many. We'll just make two."

"Yeah." Xu Yi responded, but didn't stop. Next action.

He rolled the broken wattle branches into a bundle and stuffed them into the bamboo basket behind his back: "It is also a medicinal herb. It would be a pity if you only use it to make baskets."

Adhuoer was stunned, and quickly realized what he had done. Xu Yi told him how useful the vitex was.

...After knowing that this wattle can cure diseases, Adhuoer was reluctant to use it to build a cage for catching toads.

He went to find another soft vine plant and used it to make two small baskets that looked like lanterns.

Then, Adhuoer stepped on the loose river soil by the stream, waded into the water, bent down and touched the river bed.

The next moment, he straightened up happily and turned towards Xu Yi: "I caught it."

Suddenly a brown river crab appeared in his hand.

River crab shells have little hard meat, and there are parasites on them. People in the gorge don't know what the parasites are, but they don't think they are a good thing.

Therefore, if they catch river crabs in mountain streams, they crush them and use them as bait to catch toads.

Adhuo'er was no exception. He caught four large and small river crabs with his bare hands, smashed them with quartz stones, and put them into a basket.

I picked two locations that looked good and buried the baskets in the grass outside the cave.

The young man's movements of making the trap were very familiar and fast. Xu Yi couldn't help but smile as he watched.

"Where are we going next?" he asked with a smile.

Adhuoer came back after washing his hands and said with a serious face: "I have a place I want to take you to."

Xu Yi didn't ask anything: "Okay."

The two set off in another direction, bypassing two mountains. Go up the higher canyon slope.

Cross several shallow streams and continue walking south.

Unknowingly, the midday sun was hanging in the middle, and Adhuoer looked towards Xu Yi from time to time.

There was not much expression on the young man's profile, but he could feel that Xu Yi was not impatient because he had climbed the mountain for so long.

"Doctor Xu, why don't you ask me where I want to take you?" Adhuoer couldn't help but ask.

Xu Yi smiled lightly and said: "Then where will you take me?"

Adhuoer pursed his lips slightly and organized his words: "Last time you talked about making a gentleman, I remembered a medicine powder that the teacher once used. "

Xu Yi: "Powder that can make people spit out bugs?"

After speaking, he glanced at Adhuo'er and said slowly, "It makes Junzi bloom in early summer and bear fruit in autumn. The color of the flowers turns pink at first and then turns to pink. The fruit is bright red, brown and black, and has a sweet taste. It is very easy to recognize."

At this point, Adhuoer's eyes became brighter and brighter.

That day, he saw the teacher take the brown-black fruits and grind them into powder for the tribesmen to eat.

But there is a difference. Xu Yi once said that this makes the gentleman more effective against roundworms. The roundworms are diarrhea from the stomach, but the tribesmen spit them out from the mouth.

There was a mutual understanding here, which made him still unsure.

Xu Yi raised his eyebrows slightly and said calmly: "The efficacy of the medicine varies from person to person."

Only by finding the tree that Adhuoer mentioned can they know the answer.

Before that, the two planned to find a place to stay for lunch.

There were many obstacles in the forest. After a while, they found the back of a big stone that could block the sun. There was a ditch more than half a meter deep at the bottom of the back, and there were some small stones randomly falling.

The two of them sat casually on the small stone and took out the lunch that A Xu had prepared early in the morning from the bamboo basket.

A Xu makes bean rice balls, wrapped in a layer of banana leaves. After tearing them open, there are rice, beans, mushrooms and minced meat inside.

Chewing the glutinous rice was delicious and filling, and Adhuoer had never eaten anything like this before. He couldn't help but eat all the three bean rice balls that A Xu had prepared for him.

"Uh-"

The next second, he couldn't help but burp.

Xu Yi heard this and looked over.

Adhuoer covered his mouth in embarrassment: "I, I didn't mean it."

Xu Yi smiled: "It's okay."

The sun gradually moved to the west, and they had to climb another mountain.

Not long after, Xu Yi looked at Adhuo'er: "We have to hurry up, otherwise we might have to spend the night in the forest."

Adhuo'er nodded. The last time he came back was a year ago. The vegetation in the mountains was long and the road was difficult to recognize. .

As a result...

the further inside, the slower I walked.

Adjou always stopped to determine his bearings.

Xu Yi frowned and asked him: "Do you know where the specific direction is?"

Adhuoer shook his head and said thoughtfully: "I followed the teacher over three mountains, turned right at the bend of a stream, and walked for a while You can see the tree along the way."

Xu Yi listened silently. After a moment, he said firmly: "I will take you the rest of the way."

Adhuoer opened his mouth and looked at Xu Yi in disbelief. He looked serious and was not joking.

"You haven't been here before..."

Xu Yi said calmly: "Although I have never been here, I know the direction."

He has been to many mountains, and every one of them goes from unfamiliar to familiar. Touch and rub it over.

The deep mountains in the canyon are actually somewhat similar to their miasma forest on the border of Fuzhou.

The difference is that there is no miasma here, but there are many streams. Following the stream, you can find where they are going.

Xu Yi followed Adhuo'er into the mountain and silently marked the place. As long as he didn't get lost in the forest, he would be able to get out of it quickly.

Xu Yi was leading him the rest of the way.

On the way, Xu Yi taught Adhuoer how to identify the direction of the mountain.

The gorge people have their own set of survival rules in the mountains. They are naturally integrated into the mountains and can walk freely in them without relying on directions.

You can have many skills but don’t overwhelm yourself. Watching the sun, stars, and trees are all very useful skills for identifying directions.

Xu Yi said: "There is a word for 'immediate effect'. You take a tree and stand it on the ground. In the morning, the shadow points to the northwest, and in the afternoon, the shadow points to the northeast. Now it is just after noon, and the shadow is in the east by north. According to what you said, The tree is to the north and south, we need to go in this direction."

Adhuoer followed the direction he pointed, which was indeed the direction they were going.

If you judge based on the growth of the tree, you can also quickly determine the direction.

In the deep mountains, all they could see with the naked eye were dense trees. As long as they looked up at the sky, they could tell the difference from the tree crowns.

It was daytime, and there were no stars in the sky. Xu Yi didn't teach him how to gaze at the stars, so his pace kept accelerating.

Cross the mountain and follow the stream at the foot of the mountain.

Soon, they came across a corner of the stream, and they had to follow the old witch doctor's instructions and go right.

Sure enough, when Xu Yi arrived at the place, he saw a tree that was several meters tall, with clusters of red flowers blooming in the branches.

In this hot summer, the colors of these flowers are so dazzling and beautiful that people can't take their eyes away.

Without Xu Yi's need to answer, Adhuoer rushed towards the gentleman. He raised his head and exclaimed: "Doctor Xu, it's it, it really is the gentleman!"