"Brother, I'm hungry!" The little girl's voice pulled Chen Xu back from complicated conjectures.

"Oh~" Chen Xu reached out and touched the little girl's dirty hair like grass, stood up and said, "Your mother...... Uh, no, where did my mother go? ”

"My mother said that she wanted to make up for my brother's body and go fishing by the river!" The little girl looked at Chen Xu with wide eyes, her face was a little timid and a little curious, it seemed that her brother had become a little strange after waking up, either nagging or sitting in a daze, just like becoming another person.

Listening to his sister say that he was hungry, Chen Xu also felt hungry in an instant, and endured some dizziness and dizziness sequelae after fainting, and staggered towards the dilapidated room.

There are two thatched huts in total, the outer room is the one where Chen Xu woke up and slept, in addition to the broken bed built with a few stones and bamboo and wood, there are a few dilapidated rattan baskets and a wooden barrel left, the ground is very damp, and the room exudes a faint musty smell.

The inside room is very small, it is the house of my mother and sister, it is very dark inside, Chen Xu opened a straw door curtain and took a look at it and retreated, the inside is the same as the outside, except for some shabby rattan baskets and a few clay pots, there is only one bed, which is covered with old bedding mixed with hemp and grass.

The whole family simply couldn't find a decent thing.

Poverty has become indescribably poor.

Although Chen Xu somewhat understands the hardships and embarrassments of a woman's life with two children, he is a little unacceptable to be so poor.

Because he rummaged through all the places in his house where he could store food, he found nothing to eat except for some finely chopped shriveled soybeans and some things that looked like chaff.

Looking at the small half gourd scooping the crushed soybeans, Chen Xu couldn't help but twitch a few times.

Although soybeans can be eaten, it still takes a lot of courage to eat them as a meal, especially if this is still raw soybeans.

The little girl followed behind Chen Xu, looked at the half scoop of soybeans, and couldn't help licking her mouth.

"Brother, my mother said that these mushrooms should be kept for emergency relief, and there is no other food at home!"

Belch! Chen Xu then remembered that the ancient soybean seemed to be called soybean, and it was also one of the five grains.

The five grains of later generations are very different from the five grains of the Qin Dynasty, referring to millet (yellow rice) millet (millet) wheat (wheat) soybean (soybean) hemp (hemp, note: a crop, not a smoke) and other crops, as for rice and corn, these things are not available, and the potatoes and sweet potatoes with high starch content are easy to grow and fill the stomach, and those were not slowly introduced to China until the Ming and Qing dynasties.

Just as Chen Xu put down the broken soybeans and was thinking about where to get something to fill his and his sister's belly, he suddenly heard several anxious shouts outside.

"Chen Xu, come out quickly, your mother was bitten by a poisonous snake!"

Chen Xu was slightly stunned for a moment and hurriedly ran out of the door, and saw a young man about his age rushing in from outside the courtyard sweating profusely.

"In what place? Take me there? Chen Xu grabbed the young man's arm and said anxiously.

"It's right by the river, go and go!" The young man didn't have time to explain, so he pulled Chen Xu and turned around and left.

"Brother, wait for me!" The little girl also ran out of the room.

"You're waiting for me at home!" Chen Xu didn't have time to take this oil bottle with him at this time, so he rushed out of the yard with the boy with a word of advice, and soon disappeared into the lush path.

The village is not large, living on the mountain, with a total of no more than 10 households, all thatched houses, and a small river meandering through the village, and large areas of farmland have been reclaimed on both sides of the river.

In April, the weather is in full spring, and the fields are full of green crops, and some men and women are weeding in the fields.

Behind the village is a green hill, although it is not high, but it is also verdant and full of primitive charm.

But Chen Xu was in no mood to observe the situation around him at this time.

Although Chen Jiang does not have any family feelings for him, he has a constant nurturing feeling with this body, not to mention that if he wants to live in this world in the future, family affection is also the most important thing, otherwise he will really become a lonely ghost without relatives, and no one cares about life or death, which is an absolute sadness.

What's more, if Chen Jiang's family dies, how can he take a seven-year-old girl with him?

Under the leadership of the teenager, the two trotted all the way to the river, and saw that three or four children had been surrounded by dozens of meters away from the small river ditch.

"Get out of the way, Chen Xu is here!" The boy leading the way shouted loudly.

These children should all be from the village, but Chen Xu doesn't know them at the moment.

When he rushed to the river, he saw Chen Jiang lying on the grass less than three meters away from the river, without any movement.

Chen Jiang was drenched, obviously just fished out of the river, his eyes were closed, his face was gray, and his whole body was still twitching slightly.

Chen Xu hurriedly squatted down and opened Chen Jiang's eyelids to take a look, and found that the pupils were still normal, and quickly pressed the carotid artery to feel it, and found that the beating was particularly rapid, and it should be a toxin that stimulates blood circulation, but it seems that the toxin has not invaded the internal organs and brain in large quantities.

Chen Xu didn't dare to be careless.

There are many different types of venomous snakes, and so do the physique of each person, and the effects of toxins are also very different.

Even after more than 2,000 years, if you are bitten by a venomous snake, you will still die if you can't get treatment, especially some highly venomous snakes, sometimes in just over ten minutes.

The location of Chen Jiang's bite by the poisonous snake is in the calf position above the ankle, and the two small holes are clearly visible, which may be caused by falling into the river and being soaked in water, the wound is very obviously expanded, the bite site is red, swollen and black, and the entire calf is thickened.

Chen Xu didn't even have time to see the wound clearly, so he quickly took off his clothes, tore it into several strips of cloth with a few stabs, and then tightly wrapped it around Chen Jiang's knee, and after he was tightly tied, he knelt down and lifted Chen Jiang's calf, put his mouth to the wound and sucked it hard.

He grew up in the countryside and had seen many people in the countryside bitten by poisonous snakes, and as a child, he had seen people die on the way before they could reach the hospital, so he had also seen some simple treatment measures.

Tie the cloth tightly so that the venom can not enter the body through the blood circulation, especially the internal organs, and then try to pull out the venom, which must be used by mouth, from the primitive society to the later generations more than 2,000 years later, this is still the most convenient and direct method, and any other tools are not used.

"Phew~"

Chen Xu spit out a mouthful of thick black blood beside him, and then sucked it up again, and after seven or eight consecutive times, the blue and black skin around the wound turned white, and light red blood began to come out of the wound.

"Whew~" Chen Xu finally breathed a sigh of relief, hurriedly went to the river to pick up the water and rinse his mouth, then looked around the ditch, pulled out a few weeds with small white flowers from the lush weeds, kneaded them into a ball and stuffed them into his mouth and chewed them without washing, and then applied them to the position where Chen Jiang was bitten by the snake, and bandaged it with a torn piece of clothing, and then untied the strip of cloth that bound his legs.