Chapter 2753 Yew
The bark of the yew, a long-extinct tree, can be used to extract anti-cancer drugs.
Manbao stroked his chin and thought, "How do you extract this? Do you boil the medicine?"
Koko: "What does the host think?"
Manbao: "I've never heard that yew can cure diseases, but since the encyclopedia says so, let's give it a try."
Manbao and Teacher Mo have learned about cancer. They don’t know how to treat it, but they have a basic understanding of it.
She checked the medical books she could find and found that the ancestors had different names for cancers in various parts of the body. Whether it was called accumulation, kidney rock, or syndrome, they all had one common characteristic, which was "swelling".
Manbao wondered, "Could it be that its skin has the effect of reducing swelling?"
Koko ignored her, how did it know?
In the future, this thing has long been extinct. The few records about it are found in various ancient books and recorded in the encyclopedia. If you want more information, you have to wait for the laboratory tests in the encyclopedia to find out.
Whether it is accumulation, kidney stone, tumor or other tumors, it is difficult to treat at present, so Manbao thinks this is a treasure.
More precious than ginseng.
But ginseng is also very good. She has dug a lot of ginseng during this period. If some places in the forest were not too deep and difficult to enter, she would go deeper.
Manbao collected all the ginseng that needed to be collected, and then opened the ginseng in the cloth bag. The quality of her ginseng was no worse than Bai Erlang's. She cleaned off the dirt on it, carefully placed it on a winnowing basket to dry in the shade, and was very happy.
Bai Shan came back with something wrapped in dry leaves in his hand.
Manbao seemed to smell a fragrance, "What is this?"
Bai Shan opened it and showed it to her, "Deer meat."
He said, "During a break in the siege, General Qibi went into the mountains to scout the enemy and hunted a deer. He sent your Majesty a leg and roasted the rest. I'll cut a piece for you."
The venison was a little cold, but there was a charcoal fire in the house, so we could roast it briefly.
Manbao asked curiously, "Is there no movement in the city?"
Bai Shan said, "It's not like there's been no movement at all. The people on the tower have been in a bad mood these past two days, with all the scolding and persuasion. Today, everyone exchanged greetings with each other's ancestors for eighteen generations. The other side specifically brought up the story of General Ashina's surrender, and even tried to instigate that Duke Zhao relied on nepotism to rise to power."
"But these are nothing to the Duke of Zhao and his men."
This level of verbal battle was not worth mentioning in the eyes of the battle-hardened Duke Zhao and others, and even General Ashina did not take it to heart.
When verbal battles occasionally break out in the court, these are considered minor, because at least they are true stories that can be verified. Some are completely fabricated, and that is when people really have no place to vent their anger.
Manbao tilted his head and thought for a moment before saying, "Doctor Zheng will be on duty tomorrow, and I still have a day free. Why don't I go and take a look?"
Bai Shan immediately said, "Lord Fang should be going tomorrow. You can wait for me. After I finish my official duties, I will exchange places with Lord Fang at noon, and then go with you."
Manbao nodded repeatedly, as she also happened to have to check on patients in the morning.
The venison was just roasted when the door curtain was lifted and a head popped in. "It smells so good! What are you doing?"
Bai Shan: "...Why didn't you knock on the door?"
Bai Erlang immediately came in with a cloth bag. He squatted in front of the charcoal fire, staring at the piece of meat on the skewer. He said, "I knocked and called out, but no one answered. Daji and Xibing are nowhere to be found. Where did this venison come from? You actually have venison here."
Bai Shan picked up the heated venison, looked at it, and placed it on a plate. He found a dagger to cut it open and gave some to Bai Erlang. "General Qibi hunted this, eat it."
Bai Erlang immediately handed the ginseng to Zhou Man and sat at the table to eat with Manbao. "I heard everything. I want to go tomorrow too."
He had been here for several days, but he had only been wandering around the city and the nearby woods, and had not yet been to the city gate of the domestic city.
The next day, everyone spent the morning handling official business, and before noon they started riding towards the domestic city.
When leaving the city gate, he saw porridge stalls set up on both sides of the city, both outside and inside. Many people came with their families, holding bowls, to get relief porridge. He slowed down his horse and only ran quickly after leaving the city.
It was so cold that the wind blew into people's necks and mouths as the horses galloped. As a result, no one spoke. It wasn't until they reached the outskirts of the city that Bai Erlang asked, "I've noticed that the food allocated to our medical staff has been significantly reduced these past two days. They say it was diverted by your Secretariat."
Bai Shan said, "A lot of food in the city was burned before, even the food in the grain shops was burned. The people were already short of food, and Minister Feng forced some out to raise food for the army. Now there are only a few people in the city who have enough food to survive the winter."
He said, "We can't just watch them starve to death. If they're really starving, they'll do anything."
So after they counted the population in the city, they started distributing porridge. Today is the second day.
Bai Shan said, "His Majesty has already sent several men with troops to other cities to collect military supplies and negotiate with grain merchants. We'll have news in a month at most, so everyone should be patient for the next month."
They have to feed so many more people this month, and the army definitely doesn't have enough food and fodder, so they can only reduce the share.
Manbao said, "Now I only get one steamed bun and a bowl of porridge for each meal, which only makes me 60% full."
Bai Erlang sighed, "Well, it's just a pity for Doctor Zheng and the others. They only had two days of good life."
Manbao also felt a little sympathy for Doctor Zheng and the others in his heart, and then everyone quickly put the matter behind them. It didn't matter, as long as they had something to eat and didn't starve to death, it was fine.
Today the one besieging the city is Qibi Heli.
In other army, it was the deputy general who went up to call the battle, but it was not like that for their army. Qibi Heli disliked Xue Bei for being not good at talking, so he went up himself.
He took the lead, standing at the foot of the city, his breath sinking into his dantian, and shouted towards the city gate: "Grandsons, your grandfather is here again--"
"What a bunch of cowards! How could I, your grandfather, give birth to such a bunch of cowards? It's ok that you don't dare to leave the city, but you don't even dare to answer. Did rats eat your courage when you were born?"
Manbao was watching the excitement from a distance on his horse. Seeing that Qibi Heli had evolved from being their grandfather to being their king, his eyes widened. "How can they tolerate this?"
Bai Shan said, "What can we do? General Qibi is out of range of arrows, and they can't leave the city. We can't argue back, so this is the only way."
But the people in the city were obviously not calm at all. Anyone would be unhappy after being scolded for several days. One of them wanted to open the city gate to fight, but was held back.
He turned around and shouted at Noosa, who had come to supervise the battle, "Gao Noosa, are we going to keep enduring like this? Please allow me to go out of the city to fight. I will chop off Qibi Heli's head and use it as a wine cup for you. Let's see how he can continue to act arrogantly!"
See you at 10pm
(End of this chapter)
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