"It's gone up the mountain again. I asked it to catch two rabbits."
Now that everyone knew the cheetah was saved, they no longer felt the heaviness they had just experienced when they first arrived, and were now in a mood to focus on other things. When they heard that the lynx was going up the mountain to catch rabbits, the eyes of several people in the yard lit up, and they couldn't help swallowing. One of the braver ones asked, "Doctor Tian, are there many rabbits in the mountains?"
Tian Cai looked over and saw another man with a dark face. She swept her eyes over the faces of the other men. Well, they were all so dark.
"Quite a few, including pheasants and roe deer. There are many more things to hunt in the inner area."
Their eyes lit up and they looked at Commander Yu expectantly.
Commander Yu was helpless and waved his hand, "Go, go, just leave two people behind!"
Mimi came back not long after the few people left. I don’t know how it did it, but it was holding two rabbits in its mouth, and the rabbits were not dead yet.
Tian Cai touched its head and praised it, saying "great!". The guy happily spit the rabbits on the ground, and even used his paws to hold them down for fear that they would run away.
Tian Cai took one of them into the house to test the medicine. After making sure that it was still healthy, she pried open the rabbit's mouth and poured in some of the poisonous blood that had just been released from the cheetah. She then placed it under a bamboo basket to observe the situation.
After a while, the rabbit showed symptoms that were completely different from the man on the bed. His body temperature rose, but he did not fall into a coma.
"That shouldn't be the case," Tian Cai was surprised. "Why do you have a fever?"
Commander Yu and Old Man Jiang had followed in from the beginning and had been watching from the side. They didn't know why, but the dark-faced man who had been silent all this time suddenly realized, "Cheetah did have a low-grade fever before, but our mission wasn't completed yet. He recovered soon after, and we didn't take it seriously. He only fell into a coma after we came back."
Old Master Jiang felt a little unnatural, he hadn't noticed this before.
After hearing this, Tian Cai had some other ideas in her mind. She carefully inquired about the early symptoms of poisoning, the cheetah's physical condition at the time, and even asked a lot of questions about the person's behavior that was different from the past. Gradually, she came to a conclusion in her mind.
If this person had a fever before and then fell into a coma after his temperature dropped, then she would have a suspect. This situation was a bit like the Ma Tou that Cai Ping had told her about before.
Her father came across that thing by chance, and there was no introduction to it in the pharmacopoeia. However, at that time, Mr. Cai visited the villagers in several nearby villages, and everyone knew that the thing was poisonous. When they saw it when they went up the mountain, they would avoid it. The locals gave it a name based on its shape, called Ma Tou, because it has dense black spots on it and its leaves are turned inward, shaped like a child's head.
This thing grew in a valley in the local mountains. Later, a local family's son was harmed by someone using the juice of this grass. In a fit of rage, the family ran to the valley and burned all the hemp heads there.
At that time, Mr. Cai felt very regretful and only drew the general appearance and symptoms of poisoning in his medical booklet, as well as the detoxification method figured out by the locals.
Because he had not studied this thing himself, the detoxification method could only be used as a reference.
Tian Cai brought out a bamboo basket, waved to Mimi, and said to the teacher, "I'm going up the mountain, and I'm still short of a few herbs."
"Do you want me to transfer from the county?" Commander Yu was worried.
"There are several types you can ask Nanfang about. I've written them down and put them on the table. See if you can get some back from someone."
After she finished explaining, she looked up at the sky and made sure there was enough time. Then she quickly walked towards the small door in the backyard, with Mimi following closely behind.
The climate difference between the north and the south leads to different species of plants and animals. Even the same poisonous things may have different toxicities when grown in different places. Tian Cai does not have any herbs from there to study, so he can only try some detoxifying medicines from the mountains.
Although she said she was just trying it, she was already 70% to 80% confident.
She had seen those herbs before when she went up the mountain. She didn't waste any time and looked for them according to her memory. Soon she dug a full basket.
When Tian Cai went down the mountain, those people had not returned yet. She put down the herbs and went to check on the rabbit that had been drugged and locked up. The rabbit's body temperature was no different from before, it did not continue to rise or fall. The rabbit looked a little lethargic, but was definitely not unconscious.
Tian Cai looked at the rabbit and pursed her lips in thought, suspecting that the toxin entered the man's body through the blood. She took out a second rabbit, injected the poisonous blood into its body with a syringe, and continued to observe.
This time the symptoms appeared much faster, with fever and weakness. The rabbit was conscious at first, but fell into a coma within an hour.
Tian Cai did not give the rabbit an acupuncture or bloodletting, but instead fed it the detoxification soup he had just prepared. However, after waiting for a long time, the rabbit showed no reaction.
She frowned. This shouldn't be the case. According to her method, the rabbit should be awake for at least a short period of time. However, the rabbit's behavior now told her that this method was wrong.
Tian Cai was clueless for a moment and could only overturn all previous conclusions and start over.
She locked herself in the pharmacy, with only Mimi and the black-faced man who had no presence beside her. She had a simple dinner and then went back to the pharmacy. She was busy all the way until the next morning.
"I figured it out!" Tian Cai's eyes were wide open with bloodshot. She excitedly held up the prescription in her hand and suddenly spoke.
It was just dawn at this time, and the dark-faced man was still resting with his eyes closed. When he heard the sound, he suddenly opened his eyes and looked around vigilantly.
After confirming that there were still only the three of them and the cat in the house, and that there was nothing unusual outside, he breathed a sigh of relief and turned his attention back to Tian Cai.
Tian Cai was filled with excitement and did not feel sleepy at all even after staying up all night. She prepared the medicine according to the prescription, went over the order in her mind, carefully put it into the ceramic pot, added a little dew, and began to boil it.
During the cooking process, the medicine had to be added again until dawn, and Tian Cai's medicine was finally cooked. After it was cooled to a level that was edible, it was fed to the unconscious rabbit.
Knowing that the medicine would not take effect so quickly, Tian Cai stretched, got up and went out to wash up and cook.
This is the most basic potion formula she researched in one night. It certainly cannot be considered the final version, but it is already a great improvement. All she needs to do next is to continue to verify and improve it.
Tian Cai stood beside the bamboo basket with a toothbrush in his mouth, looking at the unconscious gray rabbit inside.
If this little thing died like this, she would have to bury it far away to prevent it from being dug up and eaten by the villagers and then poisoned.
She went to the door to pour some water and saw Commander Yu, Old Man Jiang, and a few men who had come with her yesterday walking towards her house.
It was obvious that they were here to find him.
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