Mountains and seas can be flat

Fang Zheng thought of it when he was sniffling. He had never heard of "You Bi Country", but he had heard of "You Bi Country", and it had a lot to do with ancient times.

Although the name of this country is funny, it does not emphasize that the people have noses, but a homonym. The place is also called Youxi or Youbei.The name of the country comes from "Mencius" and "Hanshu", and it is the fiefdom of Shun's half-brother.

Shun's half brother was called Xiang.In "Historical Records" and "Mencius" and other records, he is a villain who is jealous of his elder brother. Shun's parents are also very strange. The whole family teamed up to try to kill him and seize his property, and pushed Shun into the well all at once. After a while, Shun was instructed to repair the roof, remove the ladder and set fire, but Shun did not die miraculously, and forgave them regardless of the past.Yao appreciated his benevolence and filial piety, and finally gave up the throne to Shun.

In the "Han Shu" record, although the elephant obtained the fiefdom, it did not deserve the right to enjoy the Taimiao. That is to say, although Shun gave Xiang a fief, he did not give him the right to establish an heir, and he could not inherit the offerings and state sacrifices, because he felt that he was not qualified to be the founder of the country.After the elephant died, the fief should have been abolished or taken back.

These are just the most common and common records, Fang Zheng recalled intently: Regarding Ba and Xiang, his father once put forward a hypothesis from another angle.

At that time, Fang Zheng was still young and was brought to the research institute by his father. He was bored playing puzzles on the table while listening to the discussions between his father and his colleagues.

"...The construction of disciplines has started again. Yangshao, Liangzhu, Xiajiadian, and Sanxingdui are all short of people. I want to determine a research direction. Please give me some advice..."

"Sanxingdui, right? The civilization of Pakistan is indeed—" an uncle's voice interrupted.

"Snake swallows elephant." Researcher Fang whispered.

"The Ba Snake is the totem animal of the Ba Kingdom. In the "Shan Hai Jing" there is a myth of "Ba Snake swallows an elephant", which is an exaggeration - it is impossible for a modern snake to swallow an elephant, so there is also a "people's heart is not enough" The saying that snakes swallow elephants." Another uncle said.

"What exactly is 'elephant'?" Researcher Fang participated in the speech.

"Asian elephant?"

"The Zhang Zhung Dynasty in Tibet?"

Researcher Fang shook his head: "It seems to be the name of a leader."

"Who is the leader of the Cuban state?"

"There are different opinions. In the "Shan Hai Jing", it is called Lin Jun."

"Who is the elephant?"

"Shun's younger brother."

"The vicious half brother."

"The younger brother who pushed Shun into the well,"

"Shun forgave him and gave him the fief."

"Shun was a filial monarch."

"This is recorded in "Han Shu" and "Mencius."

""Bamboo Book Chronicles" is not true. In fact, Shun is not a benevolent king..."

""Bamboo Book Chronicles" is suspected to be Wei's composition, so be careful in citing it."

"It's not an isolated proof, "Han Feizi" can also prove "Bamboo Book"..."

"The heroes and careerists are just trying to discredit the wise king for the sake of hegemony."

Researcher Fang had no choice but to change the topic back: "Snake swallows elephant."

So some other researchers understood, "The Ba snake not only refers to the giant python, but also refers to the country of Ba. The totem includes the worship of the giant snake."

"Xiang not only refers to the little elephant, but also refers to Shun's younger brother 'Xiang', who is called 'inhumane' in history."

""Hanshu" said: Shun granted the elephant to Youbi, and he did not leave it behind after death, thinking that violent and chaotic people should not be grand ancestors."

"'Ba She Tun Elephant', a myth in the "Shan Hai Jing", may represent the war between the two tribes."

"In that war, Pakistan defeated Youbi, an elephant."

"That's what 'Ba She Tun Xiang' really means."

Fang Zheng's whole body trembled. This was discussed many years ago. He was still very young at that time, so he didn't think much about it in his mind.Now that I am in the middle, every sentence is true.

This tribe is the descendant of the nose, not necessarily the descendant of the elephant, but the people who used to live in the fiefdom called the country. There is no record of how the "country is eliminated" lightly.But if a living person is "eliminated", it will definitely not be pleasant to hear and see, even if Shun is lenient, but what about his descendants or other forces?

The explanation that can connect the current situation with his father's speculation is: Shun died, and Xiang also died. This tribe tried to preserve its independence, but was targeted by another superpower "Badian" and launched a war against them, killing them. , captured men, and surrounded women as production tribes. This is where they come from today.

My father was right, every argument of my father was right, yet his life was ruined.

Fang Zheng wanted to cry for a moment. This unreasonable weakness made him choked up and irritable. After a quick glance at Elder Xuan Si, he took two steps to hide.

"I have something to discuss—" Great Elder Ming Ye said behind his back.

"In a while!" Fang Zheng also had something to ask him for confirmation, but not now, he walked out quickly to prevent the other party from seeing the sparkle in his eyes.

Fang Zheng walked to the edge of the tribal stream. There were not many aquatic products in this stream, and he could barely catch some small fish.There is a division of labor in the tribe that is fishermen. Fishing women are holding hemp nets and net sinkers, throwing them into the water, and after a while, they catch a few small white fish.

Zifeng stood by the river watching the fish, the fishing woman was very attentive, she held a stone pot and said: "Master Zifeng, this kind of small fish is called 'tuna', it has no scales, it is the most beautiful when eaten raw, and it tastes best when mixed with pine nuts." Yes, these are pine nuts that I have preserved for a long time."

Zifeng watched her chopping fish on the stone anvil by the bank, and started gesticulating again, the woman was at a loss and could not understand.

"Master Zifeng, since the elder said that you eat with us, of course you can eat whatever you want. The fish I cook is the best in the tribe." The woman said.

Zifeng shook his head, with a hint of anxiety in his expression, but his gestures became more and more incomprehensible.

Although Fang Zheng couldn't understand Zifeng's gestures, he glanced at the stream but knew there were other problems. He lazily walked over to the woman and said, "You can't eat raw and cold stream water now. Is there a pot to heat it up?"

There are stone pots in the tribe, but the stone pot is fragile, and the water temperature cannot be heated very high. The tribe only heats and soaks frozen meat until it is soft.Most meat can be eaten raw.Fang Zheng thought that they would not eat many people to death every year.

The fishing woman wondered: "It won't be tender after cooking, why?"

Fang Zheng pointed to the surface of the water; "There is a lot of foam in the stream, it is not clean. Just swam by a big snake, if you want to die, just drink it."

The fishing woman was so frightened that she couldn't hold the fish in her hand, Zifeng turned to Zheng Zheng, smiled and nodded.This is the same as what he wanted to say just now, if the women can't understand gestures all the time, he will grab the fish to prevent them from eating raw.

Fang Zheng was taken aback for another moment, thinking, this handsome young man looks good when he smiles.

What a pity, it's the accomplice of that perverted eunuch.

"What about drinking water?" the fishing woman panicked.

Fang Zheng waved his hand and said: "Wait a few days, the running water will wash away naturally. In these two days, I will teach you a way. Make do with it."

Not only did the fishing woman stare blankly at her, but Zifeng also gave her an interested and inquisitive look, wanting to know what method Fang Zheng could use.

Fang Zheng walked to the stone basin where the fishing woman filled the water, which was already filled with stream water.He took a stone ladle, scooped water up and down, repeated several times, and the foam on the water surface turned into a thick layer of light brown boiling beads.This is the simple water purification method in "Compendium of Materia Medica".

"Fill out the foam, don't touch the lower layer of sediment, take the middle layer of water. But it's not guaranteed to be foolproof, it's best to heat it up in a stone pot before drinking it, and it's best to eat boiled food these days."

The woman looked at the boiling beads in the upper layer and the froth in the lower layer in amazement, believing that the drinking water in the middle was indeed much cleaner. She showed admiration to Zheng Zheng. They never knew about such a simple and easy method.

While they were still working by the stove, they heard the noise of several houses in the distance. Among the villagers who were fetching water for cooking by the stream, some of them had unbearable abdominal pain after drinking water, and even passed out from the pain and vomited continuously. It was a chaotic scene...

The fishing woman hurried over to help, yelling at them.While listening to her, those women followed the method of scooping water that Fang Zheng taught her just now.

But more people surrounded the villagers who fell to the ground and were poisoned. They had already sent people to invite the Great Elder Ming Ye.There were two poisoned villagers. After hearing the news, Elder Ming Ye rushed to rescue a woman on the upper stream side of the stream. He burned mugwort leaves, muttered and prayed, and took out a delicate small stone jar.The woman's groans became lower and lower, and she didn't know whether it was because the pain had eased or she was about to faint.

The others surrounded another woman. Fang Zheng recognized that it was Ji Liu, so he walked over to have a look.Zifeng followed behind him and looked at him without saying a word.Ji Liu who fell to the ground had froth around his mouth, his eyes were sunken blue, curled up and convulsed in pain.This is a typical reaction to unhygienic drinking water.

In modern times, you can use salt water to induce vomiting, drink milk, or take laxatives.But there is obviously no milk here.Fang Zheng asked, "Is there any salt?"The women next to them looked bewildered, thinking that in this era, people still don't know how to dry salt.Even if there is, it is probably very precious, and these villagers cannot afford it.

Fang Zheng suddenly reached out to pry open Ji Liu's mouth, and the other party screamed in fright at the sudden movement.Fang Zheng ignored her reaction and quickly put his fingers into her throat to dig.Fang Zheng moved quickly and with great strength. Before Ji Liu could yell out, his esophagus convulsed, his stomach receded, and he vomited on the floor with a "wow", his complexion immediately improved, and most of the pain disappeared miraculously.

The women onlookers were stunned. At that moment just now, the female hunters almost thought that Fang Zheng was going to kill someone. He had a criminal record. The female hunters were very dissatisfied.Unexpectedly, Fang Zheng moved faster, and simply reached in and grabbed it neatly, helping Ji Liu to vomit out the poison that he had swallowed by mistake.

Fang Zheng washed away the vomit splashed on his hands by the stream, and all the women onlookers showed complicated gazes at Zheng Zheng. They were hostile to him before, and Tengmao and Xuemao, who were tricked into poisoning him, tried their best to say He speaks badly.But at this moment Fang Zheng saved people.

"Thank you." Ji Liu struggled to sit up, and the first sentence was "You saved my life again."

Aware of all kinds of subtle sights around him, Fang Zheng said: "It's just a matter of course, I don't treat you very well."

The women around looked at each other in blank dismay, in stark contrast to Ji Liu's grateful expression.Fang Zheng ignored them.

The Great Elder Ming Ye who rescued him over there tossed and tossed for a long time, the wormwood was smoked thickly, and the woman lying on the ground with food poisoning was still moaning.

Fang Zheng didn't want to be nosy, the elder should have a way to detoxify.But unable to hold back, those villagers murmured around and said something, and forcibly put the poisoned person in front of Fang Zheng, and the Great Elder Ming Ye followed.The intention is obvious, come to ask Fang Zheng for help.

Fang Zheng saw an exquisite stone pot in the hands of the Great Elder Ming Ye, and was very curious. Now is a good time to make a request, so he asked, "Does the medicine not work? Show me it?"

Great Elder Ming Ye was a little hesitant, but also reluctant.But seeing Zifeng's face behind him, he had no choice but to open the jar to Fang Zheng, carefully holding the lower end, for fear of being snatched by Fang Zheng.

The jar was filled with brown crystal-like froth. Elder Mingye said, "This is '鹾'."

Fang Zheng suddenly realized that 鹾 is the ancient name for salt.The thick kind.

The climate here is not like the sea. If there is no trade exchange, the probability of sea salt is very small, probably the halite precipitated on the rock.

Fang Zheng understood that the Great Elder Ming Ye originally planned to drink salt water to the poisoned woman, and it did have an emetic effect.But there is no clean water to soak it away. Of course, smoked wormwood alone cannot expel the toxins, and there is no way out.

Fang Zheng simply lifted the poisoned woman upside down.His strength made everyone gasp.Fang Zheng stuck two fingers into the man's throat. The man delayed the treatment just now, and was so smoked by wormwood that he couldn't vomit it out.Fang Zheng frowned, looked back at Zifeng, and said, "Help, my lord, mention it."

Zifeng came over and made it easier with one hand. He watched Fang Zheng's movements with great interest. Fang Zheng freed his hands to massage the acupoints on the back of the poisoned person.

After a while, the woman's face suddenly turned purple, and in the next moment, she spat out a pile of brown dregs with a "wow".It was not until the man had completely vomited out the contents of his stomach that Fang Zheng signaled that he could be put down.

After the big snake disturbs the water source, all the sediment and sand come down, bringing out bacteria.Both were just typical abdominal pain reactions to drinking unhygienic water.It is not the snake venom that Fang Zheng is most worried about.

"Thank you." The rescued woman was very grateful to Fang Zheng.Teng Mao was also among the group of women, and she still looked at Fang Zheng vigilantly, as if worried that he would play tricks.

Fang Zheng was also polite, and sneered and stretched out his hand directly to Elder Ming Ye: "I didn't save people for nothing."

Tengmao showed a look of "as expected".The Great Elder Ming Ye laughed: "You...how about you choose a medicine?"

"Remember first." Fang Zheng wrote the account contentedly.While cleaning the stains by the stream, although the water is not drinkable, there is nothing special about washing hands.After he finished these things, he found that Zifeng had been staring at him intently, asking, "Is there something on my face?"

Zifeng shook his head, unable to speak, he grabbed his wrist and walked out. Fang Zheng was puzzled, why did this young man like to hold hands at every turn?Like a little girl.Fifteen or sixteen years old is not young in primitive tribes, it is the age of adulthood.Fang Zheng complained in his heart that the boss is not a man at all, but he didn't dare to earn it. He could see clearly how strong Zifeng's force is, so he was dragged to a secluded place.

Zifeng had a small pouch next to his body, sewn from deerskin, which contained some healing herbs.He turned it over twice and poured out two dark, irregular, somewhat deformed chestnut seeds, and held them to Fang Zheng.

"Give it to me?" Fang Zheng coughed, "Lord Zifeng, are you so polite?" Although he couldn't understand the gesture, it didn't prevent Fang Zheng from accepting it brazenly. Whatever it is, the meaning of the boss's gift is enough.

But Fang Zheng took a closer look, he really recognized this kind of thing, and almost choked.

It is two common peony seeds.

Then Fang Zheng recalled, it seems that peony seeds can be used as medicine, maybe it was rare in primitive times.

"This is '蓇葖'?" Fang Zheng thought about their name in "Shan Hai Jing", which is called "蓇葖".Peony is a native flower in China and one of the oldest flowers with a long history. It is also recorded in The Book of Songs. "Victors and women, Yiqi will tease and give them a spoonful of medicine." It is still a romantic poem.

But Fang Zheng could not appreciate those elegant sentences.Besides, although "Paeoniae" is a beautiful ornamental plant in later generations, Fang Zheng doesn't think that people here will think that it has any other uses besides medicinal materials.

Zifeng nodded, and made some gestures, his eyes were also very gentle, Fang Zheng didn't understand the meaning of those gestures until a long time later.Among them, the two that touched him the most will be——

A gesture is: its flowers are beautiful.

Another gesture is: you don't cry.