Chapter 33: The Oddity in Bile
"Brave fart, two big fools who only know how to take their lives to do their best. Hmph, even two adult warriors wouldn't dare to fight such a big beast head-on! I don't believe that this snake can fly into the sky to chase them. The two of them saved their lives by walking shit luck this time. The second elder said coldly.
Liang Xiaomei stuck out her tongue and said, "This time is really dangerous." If it weren't for the two of them not coming back for a long time, Uncle Lin Feng would have gone to find them, it would have been miserable. ”
The second elder said: "Lin Feng, this guy is really nosy, what are these two bastard boys doing when they are rescued, and I have to work hard to save them, it is really in vain." ”
Liang Xiaomei said: "But one thing is still very strange, Ying Xiang didn't fall for the snake venom of the silver-tailed snake, how did he persist in surviving the snake venom so powerful." ”
The second elder said: "That can only mean that this kid should have gone out of his shit luck." After he was bitten, he also made violent movements that caused the wound to burst and bleed a lot, and most of the snake venom also flowed out of his body along the blood, and the snake venom did not kill him. Fortunately, Lin Feng immediately stopped the bleeding when he found him, otherwise excessive blood loss would also lead to death, but he was able to survive until Lin Feng came to save him, which means that he still has a lot of blood. ”
Liang Xiaomei pursed her mouth and said, "Grandpa, he is injured like this, and you still talk about him, it's so ruthless." ”
The second elder blew his beard and glared, "He deserves it!"
Suddenly, a thin young man in Tsing Yi hurriedly ran over, and when he ran to the door, he was careless and almost fell down by the threshold under his feet.
"Why are you flustered? How many times have you said that you have to be calm and calm in doing things, and are you in such a hurry to be reincarnated?" the second elder stroked his beard while frowning and chattering.
The young man in Tsing Yi raised his head, his eyes were big and bright, his face was still childish, and he looked about eleven or twelve years old.
The young man obviously didn't expect the second elder to be here, and stammered, "Master...... Master, it turns out that you ...... You're there too?"
The second elder was angry and couldn't help but ask, "Can't you see it?"
The young man resignedly: "Yes, yes." ”
"Okay, grandpa, look at Xiaodi being scared by you. Liang Xiaomei glanced at her grandfather. This young man named Xiaodi has been frail and sickly since he was a child, Liang Xiaomei has been conditioning his body, and the relationship between the two has always been very good.
Liang Xiaomei walked over and patted Xiaodi's shoulder gently, and said softly: "Brother Xiaodi, if you have anything to say, don't pay attention to the unreasonable white-bearded old man." ”
When the second elder heard this, he immediately glared at Xiaomei, but Liang Xiaomei turned her head and pretended not to see it.
Liang Xiaodi wiped the sweat from running on his forehead and said, "Master, senior sister, go and see, there is something in the bile of the silver-tailed snake!"
Liang Xiaomei grinned and said, "What can be in the bile, it's not that you are playing a prank, right?"
"No, no. Xiao Di hurriedly waved his hand and said, "We don't know what it is, it seems to be a piece of gold." No one dared to move, and everyone called me to inform my sister. ”
"Oh?" Liang Xiaomei suddenly became interested.
"Grandpa, let's go take a look!" Liang Xiaomei grabbed the sleeve of the second elder and said. The second elder thought for a while and couldn't figure it out and felt that this thing was very strange, so he nodded and agreed.
"Then let's go, it's in the Hundred Grass House. Liang Xiaodi hurriedly turned around and left.
"Wait!" Liang Xiaomei grabbed Xiaodi's clothes behind his back and dragged him back.
"For ...... Why?" Liang Xiaodi was clearly unwilling.
"My grandfather and I went to see that there were still two patients here, and no one could take care of them. Liang Xiaomei still remembered Ying Xiang and Liang Yue on the bed.
Although Liang Xiaodi wanted to see the excitement, he also knew that the patient could not be taken care of, so he nodded a little aggrieved.
Liang Xiaomei took her grandfather's rough big hand and jumped towards the Baicao House, only to see a group of teenagers in a circle, chattering non-stop.
"What's wrong, what's the baby?" Liang Xiaomei asked loudly.
"Master, senior sister is good. When the young men saw that the second elder was also coming, they immediately became a lot more restrained and greeted the two.
If they usually meet, no one will call Liang Xiaomei Senior Sister, because Liang Xiaomei is very young, but she has been studying medicine with her grandfather since she was two years old. This group of teenagers is at least four or five years older than Liang Xiaomei, and they usually only call her Xiaomei or a girl when they meet.
"Hello junior brothers!" Liang Xiaomei immediately responded, the smile on her face bloomed like a flower, obviously very useful to this "senior sister". This treatment is not ordinary, hmph, it is too much for them to call me senior sister only when grandpa is there.
One of the oldest apprentices spoke: "After we cut the gallbladder of the silver-tailed snake, we used a wooden barrel to pick up the bile, and then divided the bile into the jade bottle according to the master's instructions. But when the bile was getting less and less, we found something golden at the bottom of the barrel. ”
When Liang Xiaomei heard this, she immediately pushed aside the crowd and walked straight to the barrel. She was no stranger to this barrel, she had only come to retrieve bile not long ago, but she didn't expect that there was a treasure at the bottom of the barrel.
The fishy smell of bile was very strong, and Liang Xiaomei pinched her nose and poked her head out to take a look. It turned out that the bucket full of green bile was only a shallow layer barely covering the bottom of the barrel, and a fist-sized golden ball at the bottom of the barrel was very conspicuous in the green bile.
Liang Xiaomei stretched out a finger and poked the golden ball, which was soft and quite elastic. Her large, beautiful eyes looked closely, but she didn't recognize what it was.
"Grandpa, this golden ball is so strange! Is it really something in bile, why hasn't it been mentioned in the medical book?" Liang Xiaomei asked.
"Grandpa......" didn't hear half of the grandfather's answer behind him, Liang Xiaomei was very strange, and when she looked back, she saw that her grandfather's expression was very strange.
The second elder's eyes widened, and his mouth was wide open, completely stunned. The big hand holding the snow-white beard kept trembling, and when he accidentally pulled off a lock of beard, he suddenly screamed.
The second elder trembled and reached out to grab the ball at the bottom of the barrel, carefully holding it in his hand and examining it carefully, completely forgetting the pain of his beard being pulled off.
"Grandpa, what kind of good thing is this?" Liang Xiaomei saw her grandfather's depressed appearance, and immediately guessed that this thing was not ordinary, and asked very anxiously.
"Ha, ha, ha. The second elder immediately smiled, and suddenly raised his head and laughed.
"Good things, good things!" the second elder said loudly.
"Quick, quick, get the best jade bottles I've ever treasured. The second elder commanded.
The jade bottle was quickly brought in, and a faint purple aura appeared in the soft jade color.
The best container that the healer yearns for is made of the most legendary purple jade, and if the container made of purple jade is used to store medicinal materials, it will not deteriorate for tens or even hundreds of years, and the herbs taken out of the purple jade container still maintain the freshness when they were first put in.
Of course, purple jade is extremely precious, and it often takes hundreds of thousands of years to form.
The jade bottles of the second elder naturally could not be purple jade, according to the preciousness of purple jade, a large tribe of tens of thousands of people may not necessarily buy a small piece of the size of a fingernail.
The jade bottle treasured by the second elder was just contaminated with some purple jade breath, and it should be a secondary jade produced in the jade mine that produced purple jade. Even so, the second elder still spent a lot of money to exchange for jade, and finally made these jade bottles.
The second elder has always regarded these jade bottles as treasures, and he has always been reluctant to use them.
At least if you take these jade bottles to fill ordinary medicinal liquids, it is absolutely impossible.
Damnation is for spoiling good things!
But today, the second elder did not hesitate to order the best jade bottle, and Liang Xiaomei, who knew her grandfather very well, couldn't help but have a look of surprise in her eyes. You must know that the essence blood of the Dragon Wing Blue Bird that I got last time was very unusual, and Grandpa had never taken out these jade bottles.
The second elder took out a silver needle and carefully punctured the golden ball, because the wound was too small, the liquid inside could not flow out for a while. The second elder immediately uncorked the jade bottle, placed the jade bottle directly below, and then squeezed the golden ball in his hand vigorously.
Squeezed, the liquid inside the ball flowed out of the tiny wound, and drop after drop of golden liquid fell into the jade bottle.
The golden liquid has a shimmering sheen, and a faint fragrance emanates from it. It's hard to imagine that such a miraculous thing could grow out of the astringent and fishy bile.
The second elder carefully squeezed out the golden juice into the jade bottle, staring at the mouth of the bottle, his eyes were bigger than the eyes of the Niu people, for fear of spilling a drop.
Finally, the jade bottle was all filled, and the second elder carefully closed the bottle cap and breathed a sigh of relief.
Liang Xiaomei couldn't help the question in her heart for a long time, and hurriedly asked at this moment: "Grandpa, grandpa, what is this?"
"Xiaomei, this is called the essence of gall, it is the essence of gall!" the second elder explained.
"How come I've never heard of gall spirit?" Liang Xiaomei felt a little depressed, she had read a lot of medical books but she had no impression of gall essence at all.
"I've never seen such a thing as gall essence, I once read a medical book that mentions gall essence. The book says that there is a small chance that the gallbladder of a fierce beast that is more than 100 years old will be produced, and it is in the shape of a golden ball. The silvertail snake grows slowly, and the big snake is estimated to be more than 300 years old, and it only produces bile essence in its body. The Second Elder explained.
"Even grandpa is the first time I've seen it, it seems that the probability of this guts being formed is really low. Liang Xiaomei said with emotion.
The Second Elder shook his head and said, "Although the probability of the formation of gall essence is low, there are at least hundreds of fierce beasts over the age of 100 that our clan has hunted for decades, but not a single one has been found to have a gall essence. Not only our tribe, but also several surrounding tribes have never heard of it. ”
Liang Xiaomei said: "The probability of low does not mean that there is none, what is going on?"
The second elder said: "It is recorded in the medical books that the gall essence has only been found in the bodies of bears and snakes, and there are no bears in the mountains and forests near us at all, and snakes and beasts are naturally spiritual and can avoid danger in advance. Most of the snakes and beasts over 100 years old sleep in caves deep in the mountains and rarely come out. ”
Liang Xiaomei said: "Yes, Yingxiang is really unlucky, that hateful snake is not sleeping well, why did he suddenly run out and commit murder?"
The second elder said, "This big snake didn't appear for no reason. ”
Liang Xiaomei said: "Why is there still a reason for its appearance?"
The second elder said: "There must be a cause if there is an effect. Remember when Eagle caught a small silvertail snake, we killed the little snake and took out the gall to save you. ”
Liang Xiaomei suddenly understood: "Oh, it's the reason for that little snake." The big snake that appeared later should be the relatives of the little snake, and it was to avenge the little snake. ”
The second elder said, "Not bad. When you kill a baby snake, it smells of blood, and snakes have a very sensitive sense of smell. Besides, Eagle Xiang also carried the corpse of the little snake, which simply pointed out the way for the big snake. ”
Liang Xiaomei asked, "What are you doing with the corpse of that little snake when Ying Xiang has nothing to do, it's really confusing." Besides, such a small snake stew is not enough for a pot. ”