Licorice is known as the old Chinese medicine and the imperial master. Later generations are called the king of many medicines. It is a very important and common auxiliary medicinal herb. A large number of prescriptions are used to strengthen the body, and it is rumored that it can relieve thousands of poisons.

Chen Xu had only a little understanding of traditional Chinese medicine and pharmacology, but he only understood the skin and fur. However, he still knew something about tung tung is a highly toxic substance, and he also had a little knowledge of the universal effects of licorice.

Now that he is in a hurry to seek medical treatment, he will not use other medicinal materials and dare not use them, but if he can find licorice, the chance of Erxi's survival will be a little higher.

Although licorice generally grows in relatively arid desert areas, Nanyang County is located in later generations of Henan, surrounding Shaanxi, Shanxi and Hebei, so the possibility of licorice growing in Henan is also very high.

Then, this was two thousand years ago, and the climate and soil were very different from later generations. At least the current Western Regions are still vast grasslands, and have not completely turned into deserts or even deserts. Lop Nur is still a vast lake with blue waves. The Huns were grazing galloping horses there and ready to go south at any time.

"Brother Xiaoxu, come and see if this is licorice!" a child about ten years old shouted.

So a group of people ran over and formed a bunch of people.

"Get out of the way~"

Seeing Chen Xu coming, under the scolding of an adult, the group of people immediately made a way out and looked at Chen Xu with very excited and anxious eyes.

A legume plant that is only two feet tall has two leaves opposite each other, with green tender pods hanging on it, and many pods also have withered purple petals.

Chen Xu felt a little excited.

Although it looks very similar to the previous legume plants, this one is obviously more similar to the licorice he has seen before.

Chen Xu used a stick to dig the soil at the root of the wild bean and exposed a piece of the root, then broke it from the root, rubbed it a few times and stuffed it into his mouth to chew it.

It was extremely bitter in the mouth, but soon there was a hint of sweetness, and a very familiar smell spread out in the mouth.

It's indeed licorice!

Chen Xu was overjoyed and quickly ordered the adults and children standing around him, "Hurry, this is licorice, dig it out quickly, don't dig the big roots!"

When a group of people heard that it was licorice, they were even more excited than Chen Xu. The three adults waved their hands and pulled all the children to the side. Then one held the saplings, the other began to pry open the surrounding soil with the stick in their hands, and the other used both hands to dig the soil.

All three adults were careful, afraid of breaking the roots of licorice.

A group of children also stood two meters away and watched with their breath, not daring to let out.

With the cooperation of the three adults, a large pit nearly two feet deep was quickly dug out. The licorice root in the center of the pit was as thick as an egg, and it was stuttering and covered with fibrous roots, but it seemed to be very deep into the soil. I don’t know how deep it will take to dig it all out.

"Enough, just pull it up~"

Looking at the licorice root so thick and long that it had been wild for decades, Chen Xu felt that it should be enough. So at his command, a middle-aged uncle grabbed the bottom of the root and roared hard. As the surrounding soil rolled down, a thick root that was more than one meter long was pulled out and held in his hand like a big yam.

Holding this huge licorice root, a group of people followed Chen Xu and hurried back to Ma Erbo's home.

"Has Erxi woke up?" As soon as he entered the door, he saw Uncle Ma hurriedly walked out of the room, Chen Xu asked quickly.

"Not yet, my whole body was shaking. Xiaoxu, Erwa... Can Erwa be saved?" Ma Erbo asked with red eyes.

"Wait for me to see!" Chen Xu quickly walked into the room.

Erxi lay on the bed, her face turned gray and her skin twitched from time to time, and her breathing was very difficult and intermittent. Chen Xu turned on his eyelids and looked at it. His pupils were normal, but his eyes were covered with blood and red dots. It should be that toxins had entered the blood in large quantities.

Chen Xu said with a serious expression: "Erxi was because he accidentally ate tung tung fruit, which was very toxic. I found a medicine that might be able to detoxify. You should quickly make a fire and prepare a small clay pot to prepare the medicine."

"Okay!" Uncle Ma quickly turned around and prepared.

Chen Xu came out of the room, pulled out a bronze dagger from his waist and cut the licorice about ten centimeters long. After wiping the soil on his body, he cut it into thin slices on a stone slab. After Ma Erbo prepared the jar, he put it in, added half a can of water and put it on the stove and cooked it.

After boiling on high heat, the water in the jar soon began to boil, and the licorice slices continued to roll in the water, and the water slowly turned yellow-green.

After more than ten minutes passed, Chen Xu felt that it was almost done when he smelled the strong smell of Chinese medicine in the air, so he annealed the potion and poured the potion into several large pottery bowls to cool down.

"Uncle Ma Er, there are three bowls of potions here. Now I will feed Erxi one bowl, one bowl at noon, and another bowl before going to bed at night. If Erxi has not improved tomorrow morning..."

Chen Xu didn't say the following words, but almost everyone around could hear the meaning of it.

"Second brother, Xiaoxu has done his best. Go and feed Erwa medicine!" A middle-aged man with gray hair following the digging of licorice patted Uncle Ma's shoulder and said.

"I know, I know!" Uncle Ma's eyes were a little red, and he entered the room with a bowl of medicine in both hands.

"Oh~" Chen Xu couldn't help but sigh in his heart, and his face became quite helpless.

Living in this era, death is like a common occurrence.

Not to mention fighting, even an ordinary cold may be fatal. Moreover, there are many people, poisonous insects and wild animals everywhere. People do not know the toxicity of various plants. They are extremely hungry and eat and are poisoned to death.

According to historical data, the average life expectancy of the Qin Dynasty was only over 20 years old, which means that ordinary people were very lucky and long-lived to be able to live to forty or fifty years old. Even Qin Shihuang only lived to be fifty years old. The lowering of the average life expectancy was not only because of war, but also because of the low medical level. Women gave birth to children was a gate of hell. Many young women died of difficult labor, and many children did not live past ten years old. If a couple gave birth to five children, it would be good to have two adults. Most of the children died in a few years or even months. Therefore, people in this era had no way to face this separation of life and death.

Just like Erxi's situation, it cannot be cured, so I can only watch him die.
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