8 Try medicine by yourself
In the next ten days, twenty people were each arrested every day, and hundreds of children were already caught in the cabin to test medicine.
It’s just that there are very few children who pass the test. One or two out of ten pass the test is considered good. Those who fail the test will either die or be poisoned or expelled from the mansion. Only these children who pass the test will be left in the medicinal hall.
Only thirty or forty children who had not yet tested the medicine remained in the small yard.
These children have a bowl of porridge and a few steamed buns every evening. Ye Qin is among them. He has been hiding for more than ten days and has not tried the medicine until now. Now he has no idea how to eat porridge steamed buns. He is thinking about how to delay time and find a way to pass the medicine test.
Almost all the remaining children are very clever, and their ability to dodge is no less than Ye Qin.
On that day, Ye Qin was secretly implicated by a civilian child from the county town and pushed him to the ground. As a result, a young man in brocade clothes caught a chicken and took it to the platform. In front of General Zhang, he pressed the mark of life and death, and then threw it into a wooden house.
The wooden house is not big, there is only one table, two stools, and a middle-aged man in a green robe. The table is a wooden plate, with no more or less, and there are a hundred different herbs placed. There is also a large incense burner on the table, with many burning incense dust inside.
The middle-aged man sat on a stool and looked at him coldly.
"Boy, you should know the rules of testing medicine, so I won't say much. Pick one and eat it. After eating one, eat the second one until more than nine plants are eaten. If you are poisoned below nine plants, don't expect this pharmacist to save you. You will be driven out of the mansion directly. If you are not poisoned above nine plants, you will be the one from the medicine collection hall."
Ye Qin suddenly recognized the man in green. It turned out to be the master Wang Caishi who he had seen at the gate of the medicinal hall. He was shocked. Unexpectedly, it was this man who personally supervised the medicine test. He was angry and a little afraid. He carefully stuck his butt on the stool and looked down at the herbs on the table.
His heart was already in chaos.
There are 50 of the 100 herbs here that are poisonous, accounting for half of them. Thirty ordinary non-toxic herbs and twenty poisonous herbs.
If you just twist a plant out, half of it may be poisonous herbs.
Unless he can recognize which herbs are poisonous weeds, those are not poisonous weeds.
But where did he recognize these strange herbs?
As long as he accidentally ate a poisonous weed, he would die immediately and throw himself away from the wilderness. At the least, he would be driven out of the mansion due to poisoning, and he would not have the money to go to the clinic or pharmacy in the county for treatment.
Ye Qin's heart inevitably felt desolate and sad.
Before the big bull could enter the medicinal hall, he was swept out by the hero Wang because of a leg injury, and his life and death were unknown in the county town.
He has entered the medicinal hall now, but he is facing a life-and-death barrier and is not far from death.
In grief and anger, Ye Qin gradually forgot his fear, but calmed down and stared at the herbs in the wooden plate.
Ye Qin is not completely ignorant of herbs.
He was born as an ordinary hunter in the countryside. When he was only eight or nine years old, he followed his father to hunt and serve as a helper. In three years, he has been to the deep mountains and forests at least 10 or 20 times, and each time he stayed in the mountains for more than ten days, or even one or two months. In the mountains, when he was hungry, he would dig wild vegetables to eat. If he was accidentally scratched by the skin and flesh, he would also get some herbs that could stop bleeding and apply it.
My father thought that he would also be a hunter in the future and learn the skills of making a living, so he taught him to identify some herbs. If it weren't for the severe drought this year and the prey in the forest was scarce, he might have stayed in the countryside as his little hunter.
Ye Qin widened his eyes and looked at the hundreds of herbs on the plate and carefully identified them. The herbs his father taught him to identify were several of them the same as those here, but after a long time, he forgot about some of them.
Ye Qin racked his brains and recalled the herbs he had tasted in the past, and found that several of them were the poisonous herbs he had eaten. He picked out the three poisonous herbs he had eaten and placed them close to him.
The herbalist Wang took a stick of incense, inserted it into the incense burner on the table, lit it, and then looked at Ye Qin's actions coldly without urging him.
After Ye Qin picked out the herbs he had eaten, he almost didn't recognize the rest. He hesitated for a moment and began to classify the remaining herbs. He did not recognize most of these herbs, but he knew a little common sense.
The colorful herbs in the old forest, very bright herbs, fishy and irritating herbs, and foul-smelling herbs, there is a high possibility that these types of poisonous weeds are. Also, the most poisonous ones in the deep forest are mushrooms, which die the fastest, and will never eat them if you don’t know them.
Ye Qin put the plate with 20 or 30 herbs with bright colors, foul smell and fishy smell, including a few mushrooms. Whether it is poisonous or not, he should carefully fiddle with him to a place far away from him in order to seek insurance.
He could not guarantee that the remaining sixty or seventy herbs were absolutely not poisonous. Because some herbs in the old forest were odorless and colorless, they were highly poisonous. He desperately recalled the herbs he had seen and picked out ordinary non-toxic herbs that he had some impression of.
The herbalist Wang Cai was a little surprised.
He has supervised no less than thirty or forty children to test medicine in the past ten days. Many children have picked up one with their eyes closed and ordered them to stuff it into their mouths. They rely entirely on the heavens to bet on their lives. A few children know some herbs, and they only choose to eat them if they have seen them, and don’t touch them if they have never seen them.
It is rare to be so careful and serious about the boy in front of him that he also classified poisonous herbs, poisonous herbs, and ordinary non-toxic herbs. Although a large number of herbs are divided into wrong, the reason is probably because this boy does not recognize these herbs, rather than the wrong classification method. This is enough to show that his mind is among the top and is not comparable to ordinary children.
The Herbalist Wang Cai was secretly satisfied.
The "drug test" test in the Medicinal Hall, on the surface, tests whether you know herbs, but what is really tests is courage, mind, and calmness. Is the courage to face life and death stupidity or wit? Can you still keep your mind calm and clear when eating poisonous weeds by mistake, poisoning, and falling into a desperate situation?
As a herb collector, you often have to go to the extremely dangerous Jedi alone to collect precious herbs. In that lonely place where you are dead, no one can help them. Identifying herbs is important, but mind and calmness are more important than identifying herbs. If you are not calm enough, even if you can identify herbs and fall into panic in a desperate place, it is a dead end.
Children who participate in the medicine test will be admitted as long as they occupy any of their courage, mind, and calmness. In fact, even if they don’t take enough of ten herbs, they will be admitted exceptionally.
As for those who stuff herbs into their mouths, who don’t regard their own lives as their lives, who rely on luck and luck to pass the test, and those who fail to take poisonous weeds by mistake will be eliminated directly. Even if the children enter the herb collection hall, they will die sooner or later.
After a quarter of an hour, Ye Qin picked out three of the poison-treated herbs and four of them. He was very sure of these seven plants and would not get poisoned after taking them.
However, two are still missing to get enough nine.
Ye Qin began to sweat on his forehead.
As long as one of these two herbs is highly toxic, it is enough to make him lose his life.
"The time for an incense stick is almost here, eat one immediately!"
The cold voice of the Elderly Master Wang Cai suddenly rang out and pointed to the incense burner.
Ye Qin looked up at the incense burner in shock. It turned out that the incense was used for timing. Before he knew it, the incense stick in the incense burner was almost over and was about to be extinguished.
He had no choice but to pick up a common herb that had been identified and stuffed it into his mouth. He felt a little scared in his heart, praying that he would not get poisoned by mistake.
Seeing Ye Qin taking a herb, Wang Cai's herbalist immediately took out the second incense stick and lit it in the incense burner.
The smoke was shrouded in smoke, and every time the incense stick, Ye Qin was forced to eat a herb.
Time passes by little by little.
In a blink of an eye, five incense sticks were burned in the incense burner, and Ye Qin also ate four ordinary herbs and one healing herbs, and there were two healing herbs left in his hand. But he became more and more anxious because he had not been able to select the non-toxic herbs from the remaining piles of herbs that he was sure to eat.
Ye Qin was panicked.
what to do?
At this time, Ye Qin was suddenly stunned and looked at the two poison healing herbs in his hand!
He remembered something, remembering that General Zhang once said that if he had eaten enough fifty to seventy herbs, he could just worship him under the deputy hall master.
However, General Manager Zhang Mingming said that there are fifty poisonous weeds here, which will cause poisoning. So how could you eat enough seventy herbs?
Ye Qin suddenly felt aroused in his heart. Could it be that poisonous weeds can actually be eaten? The twenty poisonous herbs here can treat the poison of twenty poisonous weeds, and the total number is seventy! Yes, it must be like this. Otherwise, it would be impossible for someone to eat enough 70 herbs and not die.
He shifted his eyes to the poisonous weeds that were thrust away by him.
Ye Qin recognized the two poisonous weeds in his hand, so he naturally recognized their corresponding poisonous weeds. Poisonous weeds and poisonous weeds are a pair of them. Only by first recognizing the poisonous weeds can you take the right medicine to take the poisonous weeds.
Otherwise, what's the use of just knowing the healing weed?
Ye Qin immediately reached out and took the two poisonous weeds. These two poisonous weeds are actually common poisonous weeds found in the countryside, and are not very toxic. Occasionally, animals will eat them when they eat them, which will cause poisoning and illness. People will also be poisoned.
The Elderly Master Wang was slightly moved and looked at Ye Qin with a profound meaning.
There are no more or less, just nine trees.
It is allowed to use healing poisonous weeds to remove poisonous weeds.
After eating another plant and reaching ten plants, you will reach the minimum limit for the collection of herbs.
This last plant is toxic or not, and it will be cured by the herb collection hall.
After that, every time you eat one more plant, the treatment in the medicinal hall will be one point higher.
During this test, Ye Qin took eleven herbs and was poisoned at the eleventh plant, but he did not find the corresponding detoxification herbs in the pile of poisonous weeds. He was stopped by Pharmacist Wang and detoxified him.
Wang Caizhi said in a cold voice: "It's done well. From now on, you will be the registered herbicide collection boy in the Medicine Collection Hall and also a disciple of the Herbicide Collection Master. After the medicine test for all the boys tomorrow, you and other passing boys will follow me for training."
"yes!"
Ye Qin carefully concealed his anger towards Master Wang Caizhai, nodded very honestly and left the cabin.
After all, he was just a hunter born in his teens. He had just passed the gate of the Death Gate and entered the herb collection hall and became a herb collection boy. The status of this Wang Chicai Master is respectful. Just the guardians and the respectful attitude of the young men in the brocade clothes to Wang Chicai Master can be seen that he could not pose any threat to Wang Chicai Master.
If you show a look of resentment, you are just seeking death and you will not be able to seek any justice for the big bull.
When he walked out of the cabin, Ye Qin felt that his whole body was soaked with water, and his feet were weak and weak. He was not happy at all now, just wanted to find a place to sleep immediately and make up for the physical and mental energy consumed in these few hours.
An arrogant girl in brocade clothes led him to a courtyard to rest.
Chapter completed!