Chapter 38: Looking for the Soul Breaker Grass in the Mountains

"Let's go! I'll teach you the art of medicine right now. Zhang Yin threw two hoes and two baskets in front of Zhu Cijiao and buckwheat.

"To learn medicine, do you need a hoe and a basket?" Zhu Cijiao looked at Zhang Yin puzzled.

"Yes, to learn medicine, you must first identify the properties of the medicine, which ones are toxic and which ones are not." Zhang Yin said slowly.

"Okay." Zhu Cijiao was a little disappointed, but he still carried the basket on his back, picked up the hoe, and followed the master into the mountain.

Buckwheat didn't think it was strange, because it was common to follow the master to collect medicine, so she followed with a basket on her back.

Spring in the mountains seems to come early, not long after the beginning of the fifth year of Yongli, the flowers and trees on the mountain begin to sprout, but the spring flowers are blooming golden.

Seeing a cage of spring flowers blooming in the ravine not far away, Zhu Cijiao jumped down the ravine with an arrow step, picked a handful of spring flowers and climbed up.

"Senior sister, this flower is for you to pick!" Zhu Cijiao, who had experienced the previous life, knew that girls liked flowers, so he stuffed the spring flowers he picked into buckwheat.

Buckwheat took the bright spring flowers, looked at them again and again, and looked like: "Thank you, junior brother!" ”

Zhu Cijiao and Buckwheat followed Master to continue walking into the mountains, and from time to time there were bees flying around on the roadside, busy picking flowers, and Master's eyes kept staring at the plants on the roadside.

"This is the blood vine, which can be used to replenish blood." Zhang Yin pulled a purple vine on the side of the road and said.

Zhu Cijiao nodded, indicating that he remembered, and Zhang Yin continued to walk forward.

"This is black bean, buckwheat, you dig it." Zhang Yin pointed to a few plants two feet tall with small purple flowers.

"Yes, Master." The buckwheat picked up a hoe and dug up a few black beans.

"The medicinal properties of black beans are mainly in the fruit of the ground, which is very poisonous, and oral administration can poison people, but it can be used externally to treat bruises." Zhang Yin patiently explained with a black bean shaped like a rat's head.

This mountain seems to be a medicine storehouse, and Zhang Yin can tell its medicinal properties when he pulls a plant in his hand, such as four tiles, a one-legged lotus, a fig, and ten merits......

"Master, is this a medicinal technique to be learned by apprentices? You're going to teach us medicine? After walking a long way in the mountains, Zhu Cijiao asked with some disappointment.

"Don't worry, Master, I know that you want to know about the medicine related to darts as soon as possible, but you haven't found it yet!" Zhang Yin told him clearly.

"How can I find it?" Zhu Cijiao asked again.

"Keep looking, there must be one in this mountain, then it depends on whether we can meet it." Zhang Yin pointed to the vast mountain in front of him and said.

"Well, what kind of medicine are you looking for? It's so hard to find. Zhu Ci sighed.

"Seeing blood sealing the throat, five steps down, and soul breaking grass, these kinds of medicinal materials are fine." Zhang Yin said tirelessly.

"What should I do after I find these three medicinal materials?" Zhu Cijiao seems to have endless questions.

"For example, soak this bamboo dart with a five-step example, and if the bamboo dart hits the enemy, the enemy will fall to the ground and die after not walking five steps." Zhang Yin took out a toothpick-like bamboo dart from his waist and demonstrated it to Zhu Ciyi.

"This bamboo dart is so powerful?" Zhu Ciyao's eyes widened.

"yes!" Zhang Yin nodded.

At this time, there was a hare more than ten meters in front, and Zhang Yin casually threw the bamboo dart in his hand, which happened to hit the hare.

The hare ran two steps and fell to the ground, and Zhu Ci ran over, lifted the hare, and found that the hare was dead.

"Ci Yao, pay attention, don't let the bamboo dart hurt you." Buckwheat shouted loudly from the side.

"Okay, senior sister, I see." Zhu Cijiao looked back at the buckwheat flower and kept nodding.

This is the first day Zhu Cijiao entered the mountain, and he saw the bamboo sticks hanging on the wall in the hut, and he witnessed its power with his own eyes today.

Zhu Cijiao probably understood what kind of kung fu the master was talking about.

If there were enough of these bamboo sticks, how many people could be killed if they replaced the bamboo sticks he and his sister used for threading needles and threads and embroidering bamboo sticks? It's much easier to repel the enemy forces that are chasing after your father.

"Father, let's go find medicine! Otherwise, it will be dark again in a moment. Zhu Ciyi, who was lazy at the beginning, took the initiative to urge Zhang Yin.

"Okay, let's go to the hill ahead and look for it." Zhang Yin wiped the sweat from his forehead and continued to walk forward.

Zhang Yin was old after all, picking medicinal herbs along the way, walking on the mountain road, his steps were a little staggering.

"Master, give me the hoe and the basket, and you can take care of the medicinal herbs."

Zhu Cijiao said and took the basket on his master's back, poured the medicinal materials of the two baskets together, put the two baskets together, and carried them on his body.

Looking at the apprentice so sensible, Zhang Yin showed a happy smile on his face.

After walking for more than an hour, I climbed over the top of a mountain, went around a few bends, and went down to a ravine, and there were thorns in front of me, and I could no longer move forward.

Zhang Yin kicked on the ground, staring at the thorns and moving his gaze from near and far, and not far away, a herbaceous plant with small dark blue flowers caught his eyes.

"Look, it's Soul Breaker Grass." Zhang Yin pointed not far away and said happily.

Zhu Cijiao and buckwheat looked at the master's direction, only to see a plant with small blue flowers swaying in the wind.

Zhu Cijiao brushed aside the thorns with both hands and approached the Soul Breaking Grass step by step, and when he approached the Soul Breaking Grass, Zhu Cijiao was about to reach out and uproot the Soul Breaking Grass, but was stopped by the master.

"Disciple, you have to remember its characteristics, blue flowers, fir leaves, this medicine is extremely rare, you can't uproot it when picking, only pick some vines, keep it to grow, and come to pick it next time."

Zhang Yin put on gloves and admonished Zhu Cijiao while using scissors to demonstratively cut off some branches, pull a few thatch, and gently tie them into handfuls.

"Master, what's the use of the Soul Breaking Grass?" Zhu Ciyi couldn't help but ask Zhang Yin.

"Soul Breaking Grass, also known as Broken Intestine Grass, is the same as five steps down, seeing blood and sealing the throat, it is a highly poisonous herb, used to make Soul Breaking Bamboo Darts, which can kill people invisibly, if people take it orally, they will break their intestines and die."

Zhang Yin took the picked Soul Breaking Grass and introduced it to Zhu Ciyi.

"Does it take a lot of Soul Breaking Grass to make the Soul Breaking Bamboo Dart?" Zhu Cijiao looked at the Soul Breaking Grass in his master's hand and couldn't help but have questions.

"Yes, that's why I told you to remember its characteristics just now, if you need to make a lot of Soul Breaking Bamboo Darts, then you need to pick a lot of Soul Breaking Grass." Zhang Yin gently put the Soul Breaking Grass he had picked into his back basket.

After a mile of hard walking along the ravine, there was an old rock pine on a cliff, and a black, thorny withered vine with a few dark green leaves grew on the vine.

"That's five steps!" Zhang Yin pointed to the dead vines on the cliff and was amazed.

"Master, wait until I go and pick it back." Zhu Cijiao said as he prepared to walk towards the cliff.

"Slow, you won't pick it, if you don't get it right, you'll lose your life, let Master pick it." Zhang Yin grabbed Zhu Ciyi and pulled him behind.

Five-step down is also a highly poisonous plant, the thorns on the vine are very sharp, accidentally stabbed by the thorn when picking, can not walk five steps, poisoned to death, so called "five-step down".

Zhang Yin took a light effort, jumped lightly, and jumped onto the branches of the rock pine, first used scissors to cut off the thorns of the five steps, and then cut a few vines before jumping up from the rock pine.

Zhu Cijiao stared intently at the master's every move, for fear of missing any detail, because he needed to collect a large number of poisonous bamboo darts and collect a large number of highly poisonous medicinal materials in the next step.