Chapter 89: Digging Three Feet into the Ground
Xi Zhengyong glanced at Fang Ling gratefully, but he didn't expect that it was an outsider who was speaking for him at this time, and he also took all the matter on himself, but how could he let Fang Ling be a scapegoat?
Just as he was about to speak, he heard Zhu Conghou sneer and say, "It's up to you, where did you get so many antidote herbs from an outsider, and you don't brag about it and don't make a draft?"
Fang Ling smiled incomprehensibly, and asked Zhu Conghou: "General Zhu, if you want to cultivate this detoxification grass, do you only need to have seeds, pond water, and this white mud?"
"Yes, this pool of water and white mud are not ordinary things, without these two things, the detoxification grass will not survive.||" Zhu Conghou said coldly.
Fang Ling smiled slightly, and said to one of the guards: "Brother guard, please bring a bucket, fill it with some pool water, add some white mud, and now I will show you how I have made the detoxification grass here more abundant." ”
"Hmph, who has the time to watch you mess around here!" Zhu Conghou glared.
Fang Ling's face did not change his "color" and smiled: "You have been at the bottom of the valley for three hundred years, and you don't know what the outside world has become, this detoxification grass is difficult for you to cultivate, but for me, it is only a snap of a finger to let it grow." ”
"Really?" Xu Tianchang said happily when he heard this.
Xi Zhengyong and Commander Li glanced at each other, of course the two knew that these detoxification herbs could not be put by Fang Ling, but when they heard him say this, it didn't seem like they were lying, after all, so many people watched, if it was a lie, it would be exposed immediately, and the officials also whispered, indeed, Fang Ling's identity as an outsider made what he said more likely to be 'sexual'.
Zhu Cong's thick eyebrows sank, a little annoyed by the troublemaker, listening to everyone's whispers, he sneered and said: "Okay, then General Ben wants to see how you trick me, if it doesn't get better, don't blame General Ben's subordinates for being ruthless!"
Fang Ling smiled slightly, at this time, a guard came over with a wooden barrel, Fang Ling rolled up his sleeves, took a soybean-sized seed from a mature detoxification grass, and lit it up towards everyone, then turned his back to everyone, put his hands together, and took advantage of this time to stuff it into the mouth of the little mink.
Naturally, everyone didn't see this action, and they were not interested in the little mink in Fang Ling's arms, and after the little mink successfully transformed the seeds, Fang Ling threw them down, and the seeds spit out from the little mink's mouth and fell into the barrel.
As soon as the seeds fell on the white mud, they immediately grew and sprouted, and in the blink of an eye, they had become a mature detoxification grass.
Everyone was skeptical, thinking that Fang Ling's statement about cultivating the detoxification grass was still an exaggeration in the snap of his fingers, but because he was an outsider, there might be a way to shorten its growth time.
However, when the detoxification grass took shape from the seed in an instant, everyone's eyes were swollen one by one, and their mouths were so big that they could stuff a duck egg, Zhu Conghou was even more stunned on the spot, and even shook his head and "rubbed" his eyes, unbelievable what was happening in front of him.
Xi Zhengyong gasped even more, and glanced at Fang Ling in surprise and joy, Fang Ling felt his gaze, smiled slightly, and signaled him to feel at ease.
Commander Li quietly gave a thumbs up, with a look of admiration, no matter what method Fang Ling used, but in this way, it was enough to make Zhu Conghou's trick fail.
Fang Ling said slowly at this time: "Now everyone sees is believing, when I came, the emperor once gave me a detoxification grass, after I researched it, I found that a certain method can make the detoxification grass grow quickly, and the extra detoxification grass here appeared like this, because I had no place to put it, so I just threw it here, of course the emperor didn't know." ”
Only then did everyone wake up from their sluggish state, and their faces were flushed with excitement. Everyone knows the difficulty of cultivating the detoxification grass, a detoxification grass must be carefully cultivated, and only one or two seeds can be born after five years, and the seeds can only be regenerated after five years of cultivation, so it is extremely precious, but the foreign teenager can instantly make the seeds grow, shrinking five years into an instant, and the problem of insufficient detoxification grass is perfect.
Xu Tianchang was even more overjoyed and said, "Young Master Fang was able to make the growth of the detoxification grass reach such a speed, so what war are we going to fight?"
Zhou Zujie couldn't help but be stunned, then laughed, his eyes were a little moist, and he muttered: "Yes, what kind of war is there to fight, the detoxification grass can be eaten as rice in the future." ”
Zhu Cong's thick body trembled, bought the imperial doctor, and moved the antidote grass, which took a lot of effort and time, but this well-designed plan was actually destroyed by this foreign boy, and his face turned into pig liver "color" for a while.
Xi Zhengyong was grateful from the bottom of his heart, and said sincerely: "Master Fang, this is really amazing." ”
Fang Ling said again at this time: "The reason why I didn't tell the emperor about this is because in addition to discovering the method of rapid growth of the detoxification grass, I also found a way to eradicate strange diseases!"
"What?" everyone couldn't help but be taken aback, and at the same time excited, the hand that the young man 'revealed' had already filled everyone with dissipation.
Xi Zhengyong was also a little unable to sit still, and hurriedly asked, "Young Master Fang, what you said is true?"
Zhu Conghou snorted coldly: "Ridiculous, we have been here for three hundred years, and we have not found a way to relieve strange diseases, you are an outsider, and you can find it in only two or three days after coming here?"
Fang Ling smiled slightly: "Actually, it's not that everyone didn't find the cause of the strange disease, they just ignored it. ”
At this time, Zhu Conghou's questioning could no longer control everyone's psychology, and everyone almost asked in unison: "What do you mean?"
Fang Ling said lightly: "Actually, as expected by the previous imperial doctors, what you have obtained is not a strange disease, but a poison!"
"Poison?" everyone was stunned when they heard this, and immediately began to whisper.
"Poison? What about the source of poison? The water we drink and the food we eat are all found outside. Zhu Conghou snorted coldly.
Fang Ling pointed to the sky and said, "The poison is in the colorful mist in this sky. ”
"How is it possible, that mist has no source, it is naturally formed, don't think that if you can let the detoxification grass grow, you will be able to talk here!" Zhu Conghou retorted with all his might.
Fang Ling said calmly: "No, this fog is not born from the sky, but from the earth!"
"What, from the ground?" the crowd was taken aback again.
Xi Zhengyong was confused and said, "Young Master Fang, what is going on?"
Everyone also looked over urgently, everyone's eyes were focused on Fang Ling, Zhu Cong trembled with anger, but there was nothing to be done for a while.
Fang Lingzheng said, "Have you ever heard of a fierce beast?"
Commander Li immediately replied, "Of course I know, it is a beast that can survive on the earth for hundreds of years, and it is more ferocious and terrifying than ordinary beasts. ”
Fang Ling bowed slightly: "At the bottom of this valley, there is a fierce beast buried - the corpse of the four-winged poisonous dragon, this corpse exudes poisonous gas all the time, the poisonous gas is born from the soil, scattered in the air, and forms a five-color poisonous mist in the sky, as long as the people who enter the valley will breathe this air, the poisonous gas will enter the body and exist, this is the real cause of your disease." ”
Everyone looked at each other when they heard this, only thinking that this thing was too weird, and Zhu Conghou snorted heavily: "Ridiculous, such a heavenly night, do you think we will believe it?"
Fang Ling smiled slightly and said, "Now that I have proven that I can make the detoxification grass multiply in large numbers, there is no need to lie to everyone, is there?"
In this way, everyone is right to think about it, people can even grow fast in the detoxification grass, maybe there is such a miracle, otherwise how can no one find the cause of the disease in three hundred years?
Xizheng Yongzheng said: "This emperor believes that what Fang Gongzi said is the truth, then, what about this solution?"
Fang Ling said: "If we want to solve this method, we first have to go to a place, the place where the poisonous dragon buries the bones!"
At this time, everyone did not expect what was going to happen, but simply thought that where they went, they could dig up the bones of the poisonous dragon and dispose of them to solve the strange disease.
Fang Ling didn't elaborate, because this was an excellent opportunity to strengthen his status in the hearts of the Xi people, so that the soldiers borrowed in the future would be able to truly obey his command.
The place where the poisonous dragon is buried is on a vast wasteland in the center of the valley floor, which is different from the surrounding forests, this place is all sandy and gravel land, and there is no grass, and it is also a three-regardless land boundary at the junction of the three tribes.
At the same time, including Zhu Conghou, he also had to get in the way of the situation, ordering his subordinates to spread the news of the mass multiplication of the antidote grass, and at the same time announced the news that the source of the poison would be found in the center of the valley.
The world at the bottom of the valley is not big, and it only takes a day to walk from this end to that end, not to mention that this matter spread quickly, people from all directions converged towards the center of the valley, and Xi Zhengyong set off for the center of the valley under the escort of the guards of the imperial city.
Due to the resolution of the matter of the antidote grass, everyone no longer has a reason to fight, although they used to fight against each other, and now there is no way to eliminate the estrangement at once, but they have no will to fight, and peace has begun to take shape.
When Fang Ling and his party came to the center of the valley, the people of the three tribes had already gathered on the surrounding hillsides, and when they saw Xi Zhengyong and the three generals coming together, they all bowed down.
Xi Zhengyong looked at the wasteland in front of him and asked, "Young Master Fang, the place has arrived, so what should I do now?"
Fang Ling said, "Your Majesty, please send a hundred people for my deployment." ”
Xi Zhengyong said to Xu Tianchang: "General Xu, then you will personally lead the team." ”
"Obey!" Xu Tianchang clenched his fists to receive the order, and selected a hundred strong men from the people of the villages who rushed over, waiting for Fang Ling's order.
Fang Ling found a high place, looked around, pointed to a place three hundred meters away from the center of the valley and said, "Dig five zhang underground here, the length and width are one zhang." ”