Licorice is known as the medicine of China's old man, the emperor, and later generations are known as the king of all medicines, is a very important and common auxiliary medicinal material, a large number of prescriptions with licorice to straighten, rumored to be able to solve thousands of poisons.

Chen Xu knows nothing about traditional Chinese medicine and pharmacology, but he only knows a little about the skin, but he still knows a little about the highly toxic thing, and he also knows a little about the universal effect of licorice.

At present, he is in a hurry to go to the doctor, and he will not use other medicinal materials and dare not use them, but if he can find licorice, then the chances of Erxi's survival are a few points greater.

Although licorice generally grows in relatively arid desert areas, Nanyang County is located in Henan in the later generations, and wild licorice is distributed in the surrounding Shaanxi, Shanxi, and Hebei, so the possibility of growing licorice in Henan is also very large.

And this is two thousand years ago, the climate and soil are very different from later generations, at least now the Western Regions are still endless vast grasslands, and have not completely become deserts or even deserts, Lop Nur is still a vast lake, where the Huns are grazing and galloping horses, ready to go south at any time.

"Brother Xiaoxu, come and see, is this licorice!" A child about ten years old yelled loudly.

So a group of people immediately ran over and gathered in a heap.

"Get out of the way~"

Seeing Chen Xu coming, under the scolding of an adult, a group of people immediately quickly got out of the way and looked at Chen Xu with very excited and eager eyes.

A leguminous plant no more than two feet tall with opposite leaves, covered with tender blue-green pods, many of which had withered purple petals.

Chen Xu felt a slight excitement in his heart.

Although it looked similar to the previous legumes, this one was clearly more similar to the licorice he had seen before.

Chen Xu used a stick to dig open the soil at the root of this wild bean, revealing a section of the roots, then broke off a piece of the roots, rubbed it on his body a few times, stuffed it into his mouth and chewed it.

The palate is bitter, but soon sweetens with a hint of sweetness, and a very familiar flavor spreads in the mouth.

Sure enough, it's licorice!

Chen Xu was overjoyed, and hurriedly instructed the adults and children standing around, "Quick, this is licorice, dig it out quickly, don't dig up the big roots!" ”

When a group of people heard that it was licorice, they were immediately more excited than Chen Xu, and the three adults waved their hands to pull all the children to the side, and then one held the sapling, one began to pry open the soil around with a stick in his hand, and one used his hands to dig the soil apart.

The three adults were cautious for fear of breaking the root of the licorice.

And a group of children also held their breath and stood two meters away watching, and they didn't dare to come out.

With the cooperation of the three adults, a large pit nearly two feet deep was soon dug, and the licorice root in the center of the pit was the thickness of an egg, and the stammering root was full of fibrous roots, but it seemed to be very deep in the soil, and I didn't know how deep to dig it all out.

"Enough is enough, just pull it up~"

Looking at such a thick and long licorice root that he didn't know had been wild for decades, Chen Xu felt that it should be enough, so under his command, a middle-aged uncle grabbed the bottom of the root and roared vigorously, and as the surrounding soil fluttered and rolled down, a thick root more than one meter long was pulled out, and it was like a big yam in his hand.

With this huge licorice root in hand, a group of people followed Chen Xu and hurriedly returned to Ma Erbo's house.

"Did Erxi wake up?" When he entered the door, he saw Ma Erbo hurriedly walking out of the room, and Chen Xu hurriedly asked.

"Not yet, I'm trembling all over, Xiao Xu, Erwa...... Can't the second baby be saved? Ma Erbo's eyes were red and he asked.

"Wait for me to see!" Chen Xu walked into the room quickly.

Erxi was lying on the bed, his face was pale, his face twitched from time to time, his breathing was very difficult and intermittent, Chen Xu opened his eyelids and looked at it, his pupils were normal, but his eyes were full of bloodshot and red spots, it should be that the toxins had entered the blood in large quantities.

Chen Xu said with a solemn face: "Erxi is because I accidentally ate the oil tung fruit, it is very toxic, I found a medicine that may be able to detoxify, you hurry up and make a fire and prepare a small clay pot to prepare the medicine." ”

"Good!" Ma Erbo hurriedly turned around and went to prepare.

Chen Xu came out of the room, took out a bronze dagger from his waist, cut off the licorice about ten centimeters long, wiped the soil off his body, and then cut it into thin slices on a stone slab, and after Ma Erbo prepared the jar, he put it in, added half a jar of water and put it on the stove to boil.

Under the boiling of the fire, soon the water in the jar began to boil, and the licorice flakes also kept boiling in the water, and the water slowly turned yellow-green.

More than ten minutes passed, smelling the strong smell of Chinese medicine in the air, Chen Xu felt almost, so he annealed and poured the potion into several large pottery bowls to cool.

"Uncle Ma, there are three bowls of potion here, feed one bowl to Erxi now, one bowl at noon, and another bowl before going to bed at night, if Erxi doesn't get better tomorrow morning......"

Chen Xu didn't say the next words, but almost everyone around could hear the meaning.

"Second brother, Xiao Xu has done his best, you hurry up and feed the second baby medicine!" Just now, a gray-haired middle-aged man who was digging licorice patted Ma Erbo's shoulder and said.

"I know, I know!" Ma Erbo's eyes were a little red, and he entered the room with a bowl of medicine in both hands.

"Alas~" Chen Xu couldn't help but sigh in his heart, and his face became quite helpless.

Living in this day and age, death is simply like a commonplace.

Not to mention the war, even a common cold can be fatal, not to mention that the vast number of people are sparsely populated and poisonous insects and beasts are everywhere, and people do not know much about the toxicity of various plants, and I don't know how many people are poisoned by eating indiscriminately when they are hungry.

According to historical data, the average life expectancy of the people of the Qin Dynasty was only more than 20 years old, that is to say, ordinary people can live to forty or fifty years old, which is already very lucky and long-lived, even Qin Shi Huang only lived fifty years old, and the average life expectancy was lowered not only because of the war, but also because of the low level of medical care, women giving birth to children is a ghost gate, many young women die because of dystocia, many children do not live past the age of ten, if a couple gives birth to five children, it is good to have two adults Most children die within a few years or even a few months, so people in this era have no choice but helplessness and pain in the face of this kind of life and death.

Just like Erxi's situation, he can't be cured, so he can only watch him die.

However, now everyone is still full of expectations for Chen Xu's medicine.