Yi Qiu pinched Qinglan's little face and praised: "Qinglan is so smart"

At the same time, he also said to the friends next to him, "There are not many medicinal herbs at the foot of the mountain, we need to walk a little way to the mountainside, no matter whether there are pythons, wild boars, wild wolves or something, we still have to be careful."

All of a sudden, the children talked about the topic of the python, you quarrel with me, I said that you have come to the foot of the mountain unconsciously.

"Giggles, it's almost at the foot of the mountain, brother, let's go up the mountain quickly" Xiao Qinglan smiled and grimaced.

Hearing Qinglan say this, Yi Qiu suddenly stopped, only to see Yi Qiu lift his pants and roll up his sleeves, but seeing that the exposed skin was full of scars and blood scabs, there was almost no intact skin without scars, and the children were dumbfounded, Xiao Qinglan stroked the scars on Yi Qiu's arms, and her eyes were full of tears.

Seeing everyone looking at him, Yi Qiu showed an indifference and smile that was not similar to his age: "If you don't want to be scratched by this mountain branch climbing vine like me, you must be careful every step in the future, see the foothold and then step on it, beware of stepping on the vacant and falling and being injured by the mountain rocks." Beat the place with a stick before walking in the place where the leaves are dense, so as to avoid the snake and scorpion hiding under the dead leaves from hurting us. Even though it's just a place not too high up at the foot of the mountain, there are no big beasts, so you can't be careless, especially Xiao Qinglan and Sister Red Sleeves, you don't want to leave some scars on your cute face, do you?"

The children nodded and shook their heads busily, while Qinglan and Red Sleeves playfully stuck out their tongues and shrunk their necks.

Yi Qiu picked up a vine with a branch: "You see, like this climbing vine, the vine is full of small spikes, very sharp, and the edge of the leaves of this climbing vine also has jagged teeth, do you want to try to be able to cut your little hands?"

The tiger head snatched the climbing vine, pulled it with both hands, and immediately broke it in two, and looked at Yi Qiu with disdain after throwing it away: "Although Peng Lao has a strange personality, what he taught us is the real thing, and it's just like you to be this kind of climbing vine." You know, any of us can easily break a branch a few inches thick!"

Seeing this, Yi Qiu nodded and didn't continue to say anything, turned around and took the lead to walk up the mountain and crawled away.

A group of friends laughed and slapped the branches and vines around them with sticks and iron hooks in their hands, chasing them.

Yi Qiu looked at the tiger's head, the stone and their vigorous steps were steady and powerful, even Xiao Qinglan and Red Sleeves were extremely light, and they were like butterflies wearing flowers under the mountain chase. The eyes couldn't help revealing the envy that a child of this age should have, but after thinking of his own situation, he could only forcibly suppress the envy, in fact, God knows how much he wants to learn skills with his partners in Peng Lao's now?

"Brother, what's wrong with you?" Xiao Qinglan jumped to Yi Qiu's side.

"Oh, it's nothing, Sister Qinglan, let's go" After speaking, she pulled Qinglan's little hand and walked up slowly, while the green bamboo in her hand kept playing with the surrounding weeds and flowers, and Qinglan followed her Yiqiu brother obediently.

The section of the road from the foot of the mountain to the mountainside is not very steep, and the really steep is from the mountainside to the top, when it is really a thousand walls, and it is difficult for apes to climb.

"Hey, there is such a big one here" Yi Qiu was surprised and squatted down carefully in front of a seven- or eight-inch tall purple-brown vine with three-petaled leaves, and at the same time took out a small shovel from the medicine frame on his back, first carefully cleaned up the weeds around the roots of this vine and other leaves and vines that were intertwined with it, and after cleaning up the debris around him, he began to dig up the rocks and soil around the roots with a small shovel.

Xiao Qinglan looked at her brother's cautious appearance, and he squatted down casually, "Brother, is this also a medicinal herb? I see that there are a lot of such vines around here." ”

Hearing this, Yi Qiu carefully dug and explained without looking back: "Do you see that this vine is the same as the surrounding one? First of all, its color is purple-brown, and secondly, its leaves are divided into three different from those of the surrounding vines. ”

Xiao Qinglan looked at it carefully and said in surprise: "It's really brother, most of the vines around here are divided into two leaves, and the color is blue-purple and much lighter than this color." Is it of any use?"

"You also know that Ah Niang almost lost her childbirth when she was pregnant with my brother a few years ago...... Well...... Coupled with the fatigue of these years, the doctor in the town said that A-Niang was injured and had already lost both qi and blood, and it was difficult for ordinary medicine to be effective, let alone cured. Although I am taking the medicine I took every day, after all, I can only maintain a normal life. Well, this vine is called the brown blood vine, the main effect is to replenish the blood, the usual rhizome is more than an inch long at most, you see this is almost two inches long, according to this judgment, it has grown for at least twenty years" Yi Qiu gently dug out the rhizome of the brown blood vine from the soil, wiped it with his sleeve, and then showed it to Xiao Qinglan and explained, and then put it into the medicine box with grass blades behind him

"Brother, you know so much"

Yi Qiu stood up from the ground, patted the dust on his clothes casually, and smiled: "Red sleeves have her brother Shi watching, a few of them seem to have learned a lot in the past three years from Peng Lao, they came to the mountain to play." With or without me, let's move on."

Hearing this, Qinglan was dissatisfied, "Hmph, brother, don't look at the red sleeves gentle and gentle, in Peng Lao's house, every time Qinglan fights with her, it hurts!

Yi Qiu smiled: "Well, half of it was taught by Dr. Guo, and half of it was taught by me, which is the book "History of Dongzhu Medicine" that you turned out from under my bed a few days ago."

"Brother, you teach me"

Yi Qiu smiled bitterly, "I don't know much about the Tao myself, and besides, I have to learn this for a long time just to debate medicine, what can I teach you in a while." Well, it's roughly like this, the medicine book says that the defense of medicine should look at its shape, smell its fragrance, and taste its taste, so that it can be done accurately. ”

Qinglan glared at Yi Qiu with two big eyes, "Brother, can you taste herbs indiscriminately, what if you are poisoned?"

I don't know how many kinds of medicines I have tried, and the bitter and astringent taste in the process of tasting the medicine will not be understood unless I experience it personally. Of course, Yi Qiu didn't say this, but smiled bitterly: "How dare I, what kind of medicine did Dr. Guo teach me to pick, and I slowly learned more medicinal materials, and besides, ordinary pharmacists don't dare to eat indiscriminately, how dare I taste indiscriminately?" However, I read that the medicine book also said that there must be something that contradicts it within seven steps of the place where poisonous herbs and poisons are infested, and if it is according to this principle, even if it is poisoned by mistake in the wild, you can find the antidote stone around it, of course, that is the case, no one will really verify it like this!"

After listening, Xiao Qinglan nodded lightly as if she didn't understand, and she didn't say anything.

In the next two hours, Yi Qiu explained to Qinglan while picking the medicinal materials he needed: "You see that the top of this grass has white white hair, it is a pulsatilla, well, that golden retriever dog can be collected on its back, do you see if its surface is densely covered with golden ......fluff?

In Yi Qiu's occasional herb collection process and constant explanations, the rising sun unconsciously climbed overhead.

"Little monkey, little Qinglan, there is a mountain spring here, come and rest and rest."

Yi Qiu listened to the call of the dog, looked at Xiao Qinglan's already very tired face beside her, and blamed herself in her heart, how could she patronize her own medicine and didn't expect to ask her sister to rest, although she studied at Peng Lao, but after all, time is still in place, and it is the first time for a little girl to climb the mountain.

"Sister Qinglan, are you tired, let's go to the front to drink some mountain springs and eat some dried steamed buns I brought."

Qinglan shook her head crisply: "Qinglan is not tired, my brother is tired, my brother is still carrying such a big frame"

Yi Qiu smiled and led Qinglan to a mountain spring not far in front, fat, tiger head, stone, dog leftover, big tail, and red sleeves had all gathered here, although they were talking and laughing, but when they got closer, they couldn't hide the tiredness on their faces. And among them there were many melons, fruits, roots, and stems.

Seeing the arrival of Yi Qiu's two siblings, Shi shouted: "Little monkey, come and see, what things can be eaten here and which ones can't be eaten, starved to death" and said that he touched his stomach with his little hand.

Yi Qiu stepped forward and squatted down to identify the melons and fruits piled up on the ground for a while, picked out a few small mushroom-shaped and black fruits, and threw them aside: "These mushrooms look similar to what we eat on the surface, but they are poisonous, although they are not very toxic, they can also make people dizzy after eating, and if you eat too much, you can also make people blind."

He also held up a small black fruit the size of a big smile and a thumb, "Such a small black fruit is called wood mango recorded in the medicine book, which is a kind of medicinal material, although it is non-toxic, but if you eat it, it is guaranteed to make you vomit and diarrhea all day" Yan Ji smiled in front of the tiger head: "Do you want to try it?"

The tiger head slapped away the wooden mango nunu in Yi Qiu's hand: "I won't try it, then the rest can be eaten?" Hehe, in fact, you don't say that we also know the Tao, like these yams, green fruits, ground vegetables, wolfberry sprouts, etc., my father often picks them back to eat!"

After that, he grabbed a green fruit and rubbed it on his pants and threw it into the sky, and then his head was raised and his mouth was long, and it naturally fell into the open mouth of the tiger's head

While chewing, he shouted inarticulately: "These are little monkeys with medicinal herbs, you get them aside, and the rest of you come and eat them."

Qinglan grabbed a handful of wolfberry buds from the ground, washed them in the mountain spring, and handed them to Yi Qiu: "Brother, come and eat some."

Yi Qiu took it and stuffed it into his mouth and chewed it, this kind of wolfberry bud can not only be full but also quench thirst. At the same time, he took out a white cloth bag from the medicine frame, took out a few pieces of dry steamed buns from it, and put them in the melons and fruits, "If I don't have enough to eat, I still have dry cakes made by Ah Niang here."