"Do you mean that there should be one more medicine for horses called dandelion?"

Yu Qishu said: "Yes. Because horse wounds are more difficult to heal than human wounds, they can become infected if they don't use dandelions. ”

This is the rhetoric he and his master have discussed before leaving.

"Now in this weather, where are dandelions?" At this time, Dongzi beside Zheng Hangpei asked. As he spoke, he looked up at the snow fields on all sides, and the snow on the top of the mountain had not melted much, but the snow below the mountainside had partially melted, revealing patches of ground. However, as far as the eye can see, there is nothing green except for white, which is a gray-brown color unique to winter.

Yu Qishu said: "The Dongzi brothers don't know that this dandelion is a perennial weed, and in autumn, although the leaves and stems above are withered, the roots below are well-grown. Wait until spring for the roots underneath to sprout again. ”

"That dandelion root also has a medicinal effect?" Dongzi asked again.

"Dandelion can be used as a medicine." Yu Qishu replied to him.

At this time, Zheng Hangpei urged: "If you want to dig, go quickly, and when the horse is treated, we have to hurry." ”

He couldn't wait to get to the vicinity of Prince Xiao's barracks as soon as possible.

"Okay, I'll go." Yu Qishu said, and as he spoke, he took out the cloth bag he usually brought when he went out, which was used to pick rare herbs that he occasionally saw. This habit of carrying a cloth bag in his arms at all times and everywhere has been cultivated from his grandfather's generation to his generation.

"Go, I'll go with you." Kong Zhongda said.

When the two of them walked towards the mountainside, Zheng Hangpei's two guards followed them all the time, for fear that they would suddenly escape.

Dandelions are not hard to find in the mountains, after all, as a kind of weed that can be seen everywhere, the mountains are also everywhere.

But because the ground was frozen, they dug out the dandelion roots with small scissors in the medicine box.

The dug roots of the dandelion were placed in the cloth bag of the book.

Since the mountains were full of dandelions, after a quarter of an hour they dug up half a cloth bag.

Kong Zhongda saw that the amount dug up was almost over, and said to his book: "It's okay, we have to find a place to boil the herbs." ”

"Okay master." Yu Qishu said and checked the cloth bag, and saw that it was about two taels.

After digging up the roots of the dandelions, it took a lot of effort to find the people who boiled the herbs.

Finally they found the house of an old woman at the foot of the mountain.

The old woman decided to stay in the village because her wife had died and she herself had no children and no daughters, so she was too lazy to go out to escape the war.

When the group arrived in her yard, they frightened her.

Except for one of the older people, the others were all young people, and it seemed that there were two other people who looked like they were practicing their families. Each of them was leading a horse, and one of the young men was walking with a slight limp.

"Officials, I don't have anything here, please spare me, an old immortal." She said in a trembling voice.

The reason why she began to panic when she saw them was because every time she passed by the entrance of the village, she could hear similar remarks every time she passed by the entrance of the village before the rest of the village had left:

"Are you leaving?"

"Let's go, how can I do it if I don't go? When the time comes, when they don't eat, they go to the farmer's house to rob it, although we don't have anything valuable, but it is easy to say that it has accumulated a lifetime, and they robbed it, and it was done in vain for a lifetime. ”

"If they don't have anything to eat, I'm afraid they'll eat people." Some elderly people said.

Another young man said, "How can you do it if you don't go?" When the time comes, they will be short of people, and if they want to expand the number of soldiers, they will definitely arrest us as soldiers, and I won't do it. ”

The young girls would say, "I'm leaving, and you know that many of the soldiers haven't seen a girl for years." ”

Gradually, the young and middle-aged people in the village left, taking their fathers and elders with them.

She was the only one left in the village.

This kind of extreme loneliness has only been experienced once in her life.

Every time I go out to work in the mountains, I only see empty villages, and every time I come back with farm tools, I only see empty villages.

It was the first time in many days that she had seen anyone other than herself in the village.

As soon as she saw them, she remembered what those people in the village had said at the entrance of the village, so her legs and feet were a little weak.

Yu Qishu saw that her face was pale, and he rubbed his dry and thin hands with one hand, and said to her kindly: "Old woman, we are just here to borrow a pot for use." ”

The old woman asked as if she didn't believe it, "Borrow a pot?" ”

Yu Qishu said: "Yes, borrow a pot to cook herbs." Rest assured, old woman, we will not hurt you. ”

Dongzi also said: "Yes, old woman, we are all good people. ”

"So, whose people are you?" The old woman asked alarmedly.

In her opinion, they were either His Royal Highness the Crown Prince's people or Zhou Jing's people.

Yu Qishu said: "We are not any people, we are just ordinary people, because the road is slippery in the snow, the horse was slipped on the road and was injured, so I want to cook a herb here for you, and after it is cooked, I can put it on the horse." ”

As he spoke, he opened the opening of the cloth bag in his hand, showed it to the old woman, and said, "Look, it's all herbs, and I'm not lying to you." ”

The old woman looked at the soil-stained roots in the cloth bag he was carrying, and said, "These roots are herbs?" ”

"These are the roots of dandelions, which heal the wounds of horses."

"This is medicine?" The old woman was puzzled. She'd seen it many times, wasn't it just a wild vegetable that could be found everywhere in the fields?

She dug up the field a few times and tasted it, but because she didn't like the taste very much, she ate it a few times and didn't eat it again.

"There are many diseases that can be cured by this medicine." in its book.

When the old woman heard this, she hurriedly asked, "What disease can it cure?" ”

Yu Qishu snapped his fingers and said: "One, cold, cold, two, gastrointestinal problems, three, clear the liver and eyes, four, lung ematoma, five, cough and asthma, six, constipation, seven, urine drenching, eight, bruises." ”

"Are there really so many?" The old woman asked in surprise.

"That's what the medical books say."

"Then since it's a medicine, you have to see it to know how to use it?"

"This medicine can also be eaten as a dish, but it should not be used in large quantities for a long time."

As soon as he said this, one of Zheng Hangpei's guards, named Liu Yi, said impatiently at this time: "You don't have to talk a few words, quickly wash this herb and cook it." ”

Yu Qishu asked at this time, "Old woman, can we borrow your pot now?" ”

The old woman said, "Yes, you can go quickly." ”

After Yu Qishu and Kong Zhongda cleaned the mud on Bo Gongying's roots, Yu Qishu entered the room alone and began to cook medicine, Kong Zhongda stood at the door of the room, pretending to chat with him without a word, but in fact he was helping to watch the situation of Zheng Hangpei and the others.

And because he was standing at the door, it also made Zheng Hangpei's two guards relax their vigilance. Because they could never have imagined that their books would leave alone.

After Kong Zhongda realized that they were just standing in the courtyard and watching from afar, he turned back and glanced at his book.

Yu Qishu nodded, and began to step on the stool in the room to go up to the window, and then left the room.

After escaping, he immediately asked for directions all the way to the barracks of His Royal Highness the Prince.

It was only the next day that he arrived at the entrance of the barracks of His Royal Highness the Crown Prince.

He decided, he went to the barracks of His Royal Highness the Crown Prince, and after seeing Qingzhi, he immediately discussed with her about rescuing his master.