Meng Tian followed the man into the courtyard, which was three steps and one post, five steps and one sentry, which looked stricter than the palace of the Qin State. The courtyard is not very large, and when you enter the door, there is a main hall, and there is a wing room on each side, and at the same time, there is a small door on each side of the main hall leading to the backyard. However, the gate to the backyard was locked, and there were several people guarding it, not knowing what was guarding.

The man walked into the main hall with Meng Tian, and there was only a middle-aged man in the main hall, sitting in the middle of the hall looking at a roll of bamboo slips. Hearing that someone had come in, he put down the bamboo slip, stood up and looked at Meng Tian, and said, "When you come to the door, you are disrespectful and disrespectful. After finishing speaking, he made a bow to Meng Tian to show his welcome.

Meng Tian returned the salute and said, "My father is unwell, so he went out to find medicine. In the past few days, I went to the town by the river at the foot of the mountain, and I heard that there is a strange medicine here, which can relieve the pain when people take it, so I inquired about your place in the next place, hoping that Mr. can sell me some elixir, and I will do my filial piety when I go home. ”

"I see. The middle-aged man walked to Meng Tian and stood not far away, "I don't know where the distinguished guest came from, what is the name?"

Meng Tian said: "The younger brother's surname is Tian, and his single name is a Mongolian character, and he is in the Xia Qi country. ”

The middle-aged man smiled and said, "The surname Tian is a big surname in the Qi Kingdom, I don't know what Xiaoyou's identity is in the Qi Kingdom?

It seems that the other party is still doubting himself, Meng Tian replied: "Although the surname Tian is a national surname in the Qi country, it has nothing to do with the family in the next country, my grandfather used to be a captain in the Qi country, and my father also joined the army as a general, so the family under the lower is running quite well now." A few years ago, my grandfather had a recurrence of an old illness and a terrible headache, so I spent the past few years wandering around, hoping to find a panacea that would relieve my grandfather's pain. ”

The middle-aged man sighed and nodded to the man who led Meng Tian in, and the man turned around and left the lobby, and now there were only two people left in the lobby, Meng Tian and the middle-aged man.

The middle-aged man returned to his seat in the hall and sat down, and at the same time asked Meng Tian to sit down. After Meng Tian sat down, the middle-aged man said, "Don't be bored, little friend, the reason why I want to ask so clearly is also for the sake of safety." I have the elixir that Xiaoyou said, but it is right for you to say that this medicine is medicine, and it is also right to say that it is not medicine. It is said to be a medicine because it does have medicinal properties and has special effects on some diseases, and it is indeed very addictive, and it is difficult to quit once addicted. I hope you will think about it, if something goes wrong with my grandfather's medicine, I won't be responsible. ”

After hearing this, Meng Tian knew that he was talking about poppies, and he said: "I understand what my husband said, I have already been told about this medicine before, but my grandfather is nearly seventy years old this year, and every time he is sick, it is very painful, so I will think of using this medicine to let my grandfather ask for pain so that he can spend his old age in peace." As for addiction, to put it mildly, my grandfather's illness has been treated by many doctors in our family, and they are not optimistic, saying that my grandfather only has a few years to live, and I think that instead of letting the old man leave in pain, it is better to let him walk the rest of the way, which is something that my grandson can do. ”

The middle-aged man nodded, "This is a solution, although my medicine can't prolong people's lives, but according to the situation that Xiaoyou said, there is no problem in keeping the old man from pain." It's just that the price of my medicine is a bit expensive, I don't know if Xiaoyou can afford it. ”

"Oh, I haven't paid much attention to the price, but I think our family's financial resources should be able to support it, so please rest assured that sir. Meng Tian said.

The middle-aged man clapped his hands and said, "Since this is the case, then please go out with me to see how the elixir is doing, and I will introduce the elixir to Xiaoyou carefully." ”

Meng Tian said: "Since Mr. can allow me to go, then I naturally have no opinion. Please also ask the gentleman to lead the way in front. ”

The middle-aged man took Meng Tian out of the lobby and into the courtyard. The middle-aged man stretched out his hand and beckoned a servant in charge of guarding the courtyard to go to the housekeeper to get the keys to the two doors that led to the backyard.

The servant went out of the courtyard to get the key and came back, opened the door to the backyard, and Meng Tian walked in under the guidance of a middle-aged man.

The backyard is much larger than the frontyard, except that the front yard is more like a yard, and the backyard is a long, narrow and deep yard. There will be wings on both sides of the backyard, all of which are locked with keys, and the doors and windows are tightly closed, closing the rooms tightly. In the deepest part of the backyard was a three-sided ventilated house, and when I walked in, I saw that the ground inside was covered with fruit shells, which were the same poppy husks that Meng Tian had seen in the drugstore.

The middle-aged man and Meng Tian stood in front of the airy house, and the middle-aged man pointed to the husks on the ground and said, "Tian Xiaoyou, do you know what this is?"

Meng Tian shook his head and told the man that he didn't know what it was.

The middle-aged man bent down and grabbed a poppy shell and put it in his hand, then handed it to Meng Tian, "This is the elixir I told you about." ”

Meng Tian took the poppy shell in his hand, put it under his nose and sniffed it, and then said to the man, "How can this be medicine? Don't frighten me, sir, for if I take it home and give it to my grandfather, if he dies after eating it, then I will not become a sinner in the family. ”

The man took back the poppy shell and said with a smile: "Little friend will laugh at it, this can't be eaten directly, don't underestimate this fruit, if a small piece of it is mixed with the forage of cattle and sheep, it will not take a day for all the cattle and sheep who have eaten forage to die." ”

I didn't expect that such a small fruit would have such a huge toxicity, Meng Tian was a little surprised, it seemed that he still underestimated this poppy when he heard what Wei Yu said in Qin State when he didn't come out.

Meng Tian thought of something, and he asked, "Dare to ask sir, I saw outside Zhuangzi that the yards on both sides of the road were all planted with a particularly beautiful flower, I want to ask if those are all planted with this thing?"

The middle-aged man said, "Yes, all the things planted in those fields are indeed this thing, by the way, I haven't told you what the name of this medicine is." This medicine is called poppy, which has the effects of astringent lungs, astringent intestines, cough, pain relief and hypnosis, and is effective in treating many diseases such as cough, diarrhea, dysentery, prolapse, and pain in the heart and abdomen. ”

"I didn't expect it to be able to treat so many diseases, but if it's so useful, why can't we see this medicine anywhere else?" Meng Tian asked.

The middle-aged man threw the poppy shell in his hand to the ground, laughed, and said to Meng Tian: "The doctors in the world all know that poppies are so powerful, but unfortunately they all stop using this medicine because of the disadvantages of poppies. ”

Meng Tian asked, "Why, what is the harm of curing so many diseases?"

The middle-aged man pointed to the poppy husk and said: "This is the situation I told you before, addiction, although the poppy is beautiful and can be used in many medicines, but it is really very addictive, once addicted, it is basically a terminal disease, and it cannot be completely cured." So you can understand why you can't see this kind of beautiful and gentle flower in other places in the Central Plains. ”

"Hmm. Meng Tian nodded, "It seems that Mr. admires poppies very much." ”

"I don't appreciate poppies because they were left to me by my grandfather's grandfather. I can't let this inheritance be ruined, you see. ”

Meng Tian nodded, this is the same as his grandfather and father who gave their soldiers to their own leadership