Chapter 208: Horseshoe Rhubarb
"Zhongkang!" Li Jie handed the rabbit in his hand towards Xu Chu's hand, and pointed to Fang Da, who was still leaning against the tree and half-lying down:
"Today, the three of them are our brothers who have been through the same hardships, well, even if we know that they are infected with the plague, do you think we can give up on them?"
"Lord!" Xu Chu hurriedly took the rabbit with both hands, his legs were weak again, and after he fell to the ground again, his eyes suddenly turned red and said:
"Can't! No! No! Lord, it was Xu Chu who was stupid, and he almost broke the righteousness of the lord! ”
"Zhongkang!" Li Jie was taken aback by Xu Chu's actions, he thought that in the face of this flood and beast-like plague, he would be satisfied to be able to temporarily persuade Xu Chu to work together to rescue Fang Da and the three of them, where did he expect that his words just now would allow Xu Chu to make such a move:
"Hurry up, in this way, you are responsible for eating, I'll go and deal with them for Fangda first, and then I'll look for it later to see if there is any horseshoe rhubarb you said."
"Xu Chu obeys the order!" Although Xu Chu was very excited, he also knew that he had delayed a lot of time when he told Li Jie about the past just now, so as soon as Li Jie's voice fell, Xu Chu immediately got up and replied and went to dig a hole and build a stove with ease.
"Cold, Master Jie! I'm cold! Li Jie didn't talk nonsense, before Xu Chu turned around, he flew towards Fang Da's side, and as soon as he squatted down and touched Fang Da's head, Fang Da opened his eyes slightly and glanced at it, and moaned vaguely in his mouth.
"Master Jie! The small ones are also cold, gurgling! Li Monkey was the latest to become ill, but after hearing Fang Da's voice, Li Monkey also looked at Li Jie, and his teeth trembled.
"Damn it!" Seeing the condition of Fang Da and the three of them, Li Jie immediately scolded in a low voice, and immediately remembered that Xu Chu said that although they were rescued, although they had eaten horseshoe rhubarb, they had also burned a fire for a few days at that time.
Although Li Jie is familiar with the medical scriptures of Taiping Yaoshu, when this true qi is completely lost, he has no means to use it, so he has to use some mundane methods to temporarily heal the three of Fangda.
"Xu Chu, let's go get some firewood with Li first!" Since there was going to be fire, Li Jie shouted to Xu Chu, and the people swept towards the hillside by the road.
After a while, Xu Chu also caught up, with the help of the brute Xu Chu, Li Jie and the two worked together to pull up a few small trees with the thickness of the bowl, in this hurry, they didn't even care that the leaves on the trees were still green, and the two of them rushed down the mountain with them.
"Xu Chu, you come to build a shelf, I'll go find some dead branches!" Li Jie threw the small tree to the ground, turned his head and rushed towards the hillside, his eyes blazing around looking for something dry that could start a fire.
By the time Li Jie returned to the side of the road with a dead tree that had been dried up, Xu Chu had already dealt with the previous small tree properly, and the bonfire was already set up in the downwind direction.
Immediately lit the fire, lit the fire, and started the fire, and finally after Li Jie and Xu Chu were in a hurry, although the small tree was full of smoke, it was still a thunderbolt and burned, and under the sunlight of this afternoon, the surrounding temperature was a few degrees higher in vain.
"Lord, it's okay to have me here!" Xu Chu saw that the smoke from the previous small tree was too big, so he took it out and dried it on the side, and said to Li Jie:
"To cure them, you have to find the horseshoe rhubarb, it's all up to the lord!"
"Okay, Fangda, Li Monkey, offer chickens, you hold on to Lao Tzu!" Li Jie stood up with a disgraced face, looked at the three people who were paralyzed on the ground, gritted his teeth, and rushed towards the hillside.
Rhubarb, a perennial plant, the rhizomes are mostly white reticulated, mostly red or brown, but the horseshoe rhubarb in Xu Chu's mouth is not, it is indeed jagged leaves, and the rhizomes below are like radishes.
According to Xu Chu, when they found Rhubarb, it was in the valley, near the water, and it happened that when Li Jie was looking for food, he passed by a water field, where he even washed his hands and face, and replaced the sheepskin water bladder he carried with him with fresh water.
With his memory, Li Jie quickly swept towards the valley and water that was very similar to Xu Chu's description, and along the way, he really only hated himself for missing two legs.
Soon, Li Jie returned to the valley where he drew water, standing on the hillside and looking down, Li Jie's face immediately showed an ecstatic expression, on the edge of the water under the mountain, a piece of greenery, isn't it the jagged rhubarb that Xu Chu said, what else can it be.
Li Jie didn't think about it, his steps were a little faster, and he almost ran to the front of the horseshoe rhubarb in the back, and he didn't care about anything, so he stretched out his two hands, and pulled up the horseshoe rhubarb one by one, and soon pulled up a lot of them.
Li Jie thought about it, and after washing the dirt in the water, he took off the brocade clothes that he had changed again at Gan Ning and spread them on the ground, and beat these life-saving horseshoe rhubarb into a burden, and after carrying it on his back, he rushed back towards the way he came.
"Zhong Kang! Zhongkang! Li Jie ran back from the hillside and shouted from afar:
"Come and see, you're talking about this horseshoe rhubarb?"
"Ahh You're back, my lord! Xu Chu had just finished dealing with the bonfire, and those fresh trees were also burning with the dead trees that Li Jie began to bring, and slowly emitted green smoke and heat, but because the fire was in the downwind direction, although the smoke was not small, after all, it was blown by the wind, and there were very few people who ran upwind.
"Zhongkang, take a look, this is what you said?" It's too late, it's fast, this life-saving thing, although Li Jie feels very similar to what Xu Chu said, but according to the Taiping Yao Shu Medical Sutra, these are not horseshoe rhubarb, but are called maple leaf stems, and it is said that this maple leaf stem can be used in medicine for at least five years, and the Taiping Yao Shu Medical Sutra has never said that the maple leaf stem can treat the plague.
"Lord, exactly, exactly! These are horseshoe rhubarb! Seeing Li Jie rushing back eagerly, Xu Chu grabbed the brocade package that Li Jie had opened, quickly grabbed one and looked at it in his hand, and then pointed:
"You see, these roots taste a little astringent, the tender ones taste a little sweet, and the older ones taste bitter in the mouth, but after the bitterness is over, people are comfortable."
"Thank goodness! Thank goodness! Xu Chu grabbed the horseshoe rhubarb brought by Li Jie, and suddenly he didn't know that it was smoked in his eyes, but he still thought of the previous experience of him and his eldest brother Xu Ding roasting these rhizomes, tears dripped out, but his mouth said:
"Lord, quick, quick, you feed them fresh food first, and I'll bake the rest for them, okay, finally saved, saved!"