Original War

Chapter 362

Shao Xuan followed the old man around the mountain. If he saw the plants he needed, the old man would go up and pick them off.

A kind of brown low grass was cut off by the old man, the spiral-shaped tree was peeled off, and there were some flowers that Shao Xuan had never seen before, and the old man picked the flowers as well.

“You want to…” Shao Xuan asked when he saw the old man’s movements.

“Tell down those wild mice!” The old man said in a solemn tone. He was determined to obtain the few plants that were suspected of being “thousand grains of gold”, and would never let those wild mice eat the ears of corn.

“Poison them?” Shao Xuan asked. There are also a lot of wild mice. If you want to poison those wild mice to death, even if you configure herbs, the amount is huge, unless you configure special medicines.

However, the old man did not want to directly poison these wild rats.

“They are useful to stay in this barren mountain. If there are thousands of grains of gold in the future, they might have to rely on them to find them. They can’t all be poisoned to death. I just want to stun them.” The old man’s hands are already full. Although there is not much grass growing in each place on the mountain, there are even fewer people who want to pick, but in order to hurry, the old man walks fast, and he also knows the places where some plants may grow in his heart. Just for a while. , The hand is full.

“I’ll take it, you continue.” Shao Xuan took the concentrated grass from the old man’s hand.

The old man didn’t insist, and when he handed the things to Shao Xuan, he told him: “Be careful, don’t touch the fracture, it will be bad if the grass juice is stained. Don’t get close to it. If you pour it early, I can’t help it. Put down all those wild mice.”

The pace of the two people speeded up, and the movement of the wild mice indicated that the ears of grain on the top of the mountain would soon be fully mature, so we must hurry up.

Following the old man’s journey, Shao Xuan also learned a lot, but he didn’t reach the old man’s ability to draw on the spot all the time. Because he was in a hurry, the old man would not say much. Shao Xuan could only read and remember more. Can be used in the future.

The mountains that seem to be covered with bushes and weeds, for a person like Lao Ju, are actually treasures everywhere, waste products or treasures, it depends on people. Some plants may not have much tolerance when separated separately, but together they are different. What the old man wants to configure is a medicine made from a mixture of multiple plants.

“Okay, that’s it.”

The old man stood there, and began to dig out something to make.

A small copper cauldron and a few odd-shaped knives can handle all of these.

“Shao Xuan, you go to the mountain to find it, and get more’a hint of worry’. Look for the kind that has opened a small mouth, don’t do it, and don’t have the mouth opened completely.” Lao Ju said without raising his head. Shao Xuan said that he was so busy with his hands that he had no time to leave, and he couldn’t match Shao Xuan’s speed.

“Okay.” Shao Xuan didn’t say much, he knew what kind of plant the old man was talking about, and the old man taught him to recognize it on the way.

Shao Xuan remembered that most of the plants like “Sorrow” grew in the low valley between the two mountains, and he had seen many of them when he walked along the narrow part of the valley.

“Sorrow” is a shrub that is not taller than Shao Xuan’s waist. This is the name that Old Man Ju himself gave to this shrub.

Running down the mountain, Shao Xuan looked around, and saw a tree of “sorrow”.

The so-called “sorrow” is because when the fruit of this shrub is about to mature, a line will appear on the fruit with a hard shell, and then as the fruit matures, the line will split and the wind blows. In the sun, the inside of the split line of fruit will dry so that only a small core is left. When the time is ripe, the cracked fruit will open completely and spray the core inside. come out.

Shao Xuan tried it once and was hit by the pit from the fruit, and it hurt. If it weren’t for Shao Xuan’s strong body and thick skin, he might have broken the skin.

Generally, after the fruit of this kind of plant splits a crack, no other beasts will appear around it. In the words of the old man, “I am worried when I see the thread on the fruit, and I can’t get close to it. If I get close, I will be shot.”

If picking is improperly, it will also stimulate the split line of fruit to shoot out the core in advance. Therefore, the old man also demonstrated twice when talking to Shao Xuan, telling him how to pick the “first line of worry” correctly.

Compared to the previous two days, there are more and more fruits on the sorrow tree with lines and cracks, but I don’t know what the old man needs, and some cracks are still shallow, which may not meet the requirements of the old man.

After thinking about it, Shao Xuan directly chopped off the branches with dense fruit. Shao Xuan went up the mountain after finding ten or so trees in a row and cutting a lot of branches with fruit.

The old man said that the wild mice on the mountain were waiting for the ear of corn to mature at the moment, and the moment the ear of corn reached the perfect moment, the wild mice could get what they wanted most from it, not even early. Maybe the larger wild mice at the front of the wild rat group grow into that way after eating more than a thousand grains of gold. Should I cook something for myself after I get it?

As he thought about it, Shao Xuan went up the mountain with a thread of sorrow that he had cut down.

When Shao Xuan arrived, the old man had already lit the fire, and the various grasses beside him had been processed almost, and there was some pungent smell wafting out of the copper cauldron.

“Stay away.” The old man waved to Shao Xuan and told Shao Xuan to put things down and avoid him. After all, Shao Xuan didn’t have his detoxifying physique, so he was afraid that Shao Xuan would fall directly.

Shao Xuan felt a little dizzy when he smelled the smell just now, so he moved his feet and stood ten meters away from the small tripod upwind.

The fire was raging, and water vapor kept coming out of the copper cauldron. The old man squatted aside and stared, keeping his eyes on the cauldron for a while, constantly stirring it with a knife.

“All right!”

The old man yelled in excitement, put out the fire, picked up the branches that Shao Xuan had brought, quickly picked off the fruits that met his request, and then held the fruits in one hand, and the other hand picked up two with one hand. It looked strange. With the knife, scrape some powder from the small pot, and pour the powder in through the gap opened by the fruit.

Each fruit is just the size of a quail egg, and the gap in the fruit is narrower, but the old man can use those two strange knives to pour the powder in with only one hand holding a knife, and the leakage of powder is very small.

No wonder they brought so many weird knives, they were used to do these things.

After filling, the old man still covered the gap with a thin layer of almost transparent leaf skin, so as not to let the fine powder inside leak out.

The action quickly filled all the picked fruits with medicine and sealed the leaf skins. The old man picked up the last fruit with the least medicine and looked around.

Not far away, there was a small bird pecking at the insects on the ground, and focused on the target. The old man flicked his finger, and the fruit shot straight there, hitting the ground, making a “click” sound, the fruit opened completely, and the fruit inside was opened. The nucleus was ejected, and at the same time the powder filled in it was ejected.

Shao Xuan saw the bird flapping its wings twice, looking like it wanted to fly, but after shaking its wings twice, it fell down.

“How?” The old man looked at Shao Xuan with a smug expression on his face. Obviously, he was very satisfied with what he had made himself.

Shao Xuan went over to look at the bird lying still on the ground, and then at the fully opened empty nutshell, and sincerely commented: “It’s really an artifact!”