Chapter 66 Into the Mountains to Collect Medicine
Wen Yiheng's Bailuo skirt poison has been deep for a long time, and it is not easy to completely remove it.
Some of the medicinal materials that can be bought in the medicinal herb shop every day are not enough, and they are not enough to completely cure the poison of the Bailuo skirt, so Su Jiudong wants to go into the mountains to try his luck and see if there are any rare and exotic herbs to be found.
The spring is cold, the mountains are cold and humid, and it is easy to enter casually, Liu Yunniang wants to persuade Su Jiudong to wait until summer before entering the mountain.
Wen Yiheng's poison became more and more serious with the passage of time, and after being poisoned last time, Su Jiudong learned that someone would kill Wen Yiheng again at any time, so Su Jiudong did not dare to delay Wen Yiheng's treatment any longer.
Su Jiudong insisted on entering the mountain, and tomorrow happened to be the closing of the medicinal restaurant for repairs, and Su Jiudong planned to leave tomorrow.
In the early morning of the next day, Su Jiudong got up early. After washing lightly, Su Jiudong left a note for Liu Yunniang on the square table, took a sickle on his back, and quietly slipped out without telling his family.
Su Jiudong waited at the bottom of the mountain for a while, and only when he saw that the sky was bright before he started to climb the mountain.
At the right time, the mountains were surrounded by thick fog, and the vegetation was covered with wet night dew, and the air was filled with a damp and heavy smell.
Su Jiudong wore his usual spring shirt, and deliberately covered it with a waterproof oil-paper jacket. If you go directly into the mountains in your usual clothes and shuttle through the mountains and forests, you are afraid that your clothes will get wet after a while.
There are many wild plants growing silently in the mountains, but people who enter the mountains do not necessarily know their value.
Su Jiudong went all the way into the mountain, and hung his own small white cloth strips on the trees along the way to mark them.
After searching aimlessly for a morning, Su Jiudong only found some common herbs infused with star anise, three-point gold, rabbit umbrella and so on, and he gained very little.
Most of the exotic grasses grow at the water's edge or in the shrub and shade wetlands of deep forests, and Su Jiudong wants to go deep into the mountains to try his luck.
The deeper you go into the mountains and forests, the grass is high and the trees are high, and the ground is covered with thick stumps and fallen leaves, and there is a rustling sound when you step on it.
Su Jiudong heard the sound of a hurried run behind her, and turned around to see Wen Yiheng standing behind her in half-wet clothes, panting rapidly, and the hair on her forehead, which had been meticulously groomed, was also wet and sticking to her forehead.
"Why did you come along?" Su Jiudong stepped forward to help Wen Yiheng, "You are highly poisonous, you should have stayed at home to recuperate." Why don't you follow the doctor's instructions carefully, and come to me? ”
"I saw strips of white cloth hanging along the way, and I thought it was a mark left by you or the ranger, so I followed."
Wen Yiheng straightened out the messy and hungry forehead, wiped the water stains on his face with his sleeves wet with night dew, and said eagerly: "You only talk about me, and you don't set an example." You are a weak woman, going up the mountain alone, what if there is danger? I almost couldn't catch up with you. ”
Wen Yiheng woke up not long after Su Jiudong left home, and wanted to go to the kitchen to find water to drink, passing by the square table, he saw the note that Su Jiudong left for Liu Yunniang.
Wen Yiheng was not worried that Su Jiudong went up the mountain alone, so he only hurriedly approved a thick coat, and chased Su Jiudong to the mountain behind the village.
"There are not only many villagers who have climbed this back mountain, nothing has happened, and there are no birds or animals, you can rest assured." Su Jiudong wanted to drive Wen Yiheng home, but he didn't want Wen Yiheng to accompany him.
The road in the mountains is difficult to walk, and Su Jiudong is already very difficult to walk by himself, if Wen Yiheng is accompanied by him, he must always pay attention to it, and remind him not to approach some poisonous planters, it is too cumbersome.
Wen Yiheng didn't know that Su Jiudong at this time was disgusted with him from the bottom of his heart, and only thought that Su Jiudong was worried about his body, and argued: "If you let me rest assured, then I will also let you rest assured." I can run and jump now, my body is fine, with me with you, you still have someone who can call, why not do it? ”
Wen Yiheng had to follow, and Su Jiudong reluctantly agreed: "Okay, you follow my footsteps behind me, be careful not to touch poisonous plants." ”
After walking for a while, there was still not much to gain, so the two decided to stop and rest first.
Su Jiudong originally wanted to go into the mountain to collect medicine by himself, and go down the mountain immediately in the afternoon, as long as he could rush back to the village before dark, so Su Jiudong only brought two pots of water bags and rations for three meals a day for one person.
Wen Yiheng hurriedly went to chase Su Jiudong from home, but he didn't bring anything, so Su Jiudong's dry food, the two of them had to save and share it.
"You're not well, eat more. The mountain road is difficult to walk, and I'm afraid you won't be able to support it. Su Jiudong broke a piece of dry food cake into two pieces, one large and one small, and handed the large one to Wen Yiheng.
Wen Yiheng shook his head, didn't take it, only stretched out his hand to the small part, "I'm just here to accompany you, I didn't spend much physical strength standing next to me, so you should eat more." ”
So the two of them refused to go back and forth, and the piece of cake finally returned to Su Jiudong to eat.
"Why did you suddenly think to go into the mountains to collect medicine? I see that Dr. Yan's herb shop also has plenty of herbs. "Book six
Wen Yiheng took a bite of dry food cake and sat down against a big stone against Su Jiudong.
The mountain was humid, there was fog and dew everywhere, and the two of them were now soaking wet, and it was very uncomfortable to sit together, but Su Jiudong was afraid that Wen Yiheng would be tired, so he had to lean on him like this.
"Most of the herbs in Dr. Yan's medicinal herb shop are used to treat small pains and the like, like the poisonous and ferocious situation of Bailuo skirt poison, ordinary herbs are not effective enough, and the wild medicine in the mountains is sufficient, and maybe you can encounter rare and exotic herbs."
Su Jiudong said as he pulled up his oil-paper coat, wiped the newly stained dew on Wen Yiheng*'s clothes, and then picked up his hand to check if he was cut by vegetation, like an old mother who worries about everything.
"Actually, you don't have to take such a big risk to go into the mountains for me, it's good to be treated like this now." Although Wen Yiheng said that he didn't need Su Jiudong to go into the mountains to collect medicine, he was so excited about Su Jiudong's concern and initiative.
"The current treatment can only be sustained, and there is no way to completely eradicate the poison, so we still need herbs with the same fierce and sufficient medicinal properties to overcome it."
"The last time you were poisoned, your situation was so critical, and I was afraid that someone else would harm you. I'm just a civilian, and since I can't help you guard against the others, I can only do my best to detoxify you. Su Jiudong's words were categorical, and his beautiful eyes were full of sincere friendship.
"Jiudong, I'...... Thanks a lot. The two have only known each other for more than a year, but they seem to have known each other for a long time.
Wen Yiheng's feelings were inexplicably turbulent, and he had many words to talk to Su Jiudong, but in the end, he only stumbled and spit out the word "thank you".
After eating enough dry food and drinking water, the two got up and hurried away, gradually touching the deep mountains.
It was only afternoon, but the sky was gloomy and gray, and the trees were so tall and leafy that they almost blocked out the light of the day. Fortunately, Su Jiudong finally found a pool with his excellent hearing and following the sound.
The environment around the pond is humid and humid, which is exactly the environment where many herbs like to grow. Su Jiudong asked Wen Yiheng to stay where he was and not to move, and carefully identified the past along the edge of the pool.
In a group of crazy vegetation shrubs, Su Jiudong found a plant similar to the large-leaved goldenrod, which was unique among the low grasses, with thick rhizomes and savage horizontal growth, and dense brown diamond-like scales growing on the rhizomes, just like its alias "Thin-tailed Phoenix".
Big-leaved goldenrod can be used as medicine, bitter and cold in nature, can be used for food poisoning and drug poisoning, the effect is better, is one of the herbs that Su Jiudong wants to find on this trip.
Su Jiudong put on thick gloves, grabbed the warp with one hand, and slowly cut off all the large-leaved golden flowers and plants with a knife in the other, and put them in the back basket.
Su Jiudong traced all the way along the rhizome, looking for more and more, thinking that there were so many detoxification grasses, which could be taken internally by Wen Yiheng and could also be used for medicinal baths, it was an extraordinary harvest, and the hands and footsteps of mowing the grass couldn't help but get excited.
The sky was gradually overcast, and Su Jiudong was still immersed in the joy of picking herbs, and he didn't notice that the color was about to change, as if it was going to rain.
Wen Yiheng stood in place, watching Su Jiudong walk farther and farther along the path by the pool, and disappeared behind the bushes in a moment.
Wen Yiheng was worried, but he still put Su Jiudong's instructions aside for the time being, and also traced the past along the path.
Turning around the bushes, I saw Su Jiudong squatting on the ground from a distance, with a long mark cut on the plant in his palm, glowing with dark red blood.
Su Jiudong calmly pulled out the herbs that could clot blood next to him, bit them in his mouth and chewed them quickly, and then spit them out and rubbed them on the wound, and the slow-seeping blood was stopped.
Before Su Jiudong could stand up, the sky was gloomy, with gusts of gray clouds rolling, accompanied by roaring thunder, and heavy rain began to fall.
Wen Yiheng rushed to Su Jiudong's side and pulled her out, regardless of the slippery mud on the soles of her feet.
Standing under a tree in thunder and rain, Wen Yiheng followed the memory of when he came, and took Su Jiudong to hide in the cave he accidentally found when he came over just now.
Wen Yiheng watched the rain curtain outside the entrance of the cave gradually become denser, and said worriedly: "This rain will fall as soon as it is said, the rain is so heavy, I'm afraid it won't stop for a while." ”
"It's already afternoon, and if the rain doesn't stop before dark, I'm afraid we'll have to spend the night in this cave."
"It's all because I was so obsessed with collecting medicine just now that I forgot to observe the weather." Su Jiudong sighed ashamedly, and had to think about how to spend the night here.
The two bags of water bottles on Su Jiudong's body have already drunk one bag, and there are still two meals of dry food left, and it seems that there is little chance of relying on this material to survive until the second day. However, what needs to be solved urgently at present is that the two of them still need to light a fire to dry their clothes.
There was a rapid rush just now, and the clothes that were originally wet with fog were even more wet, and they kept dripping water.
"I'm going to change my clothes, don't look back." Su Jiudong glanced at Wen Yiheng's back, reminded him loudly, and without hesitation, he took off his oil-paper jacket and a moderately thin spring shirt, leaving only a white middle coat, but the middle coat was also slightly wet and sticky to his body.