"Brother, I'm hungry!" The little girl's voice pulled Chen Xu back from her complex imagination.

"Oh~" Chen Xu reached out and touched the little girl's dirty hair, which was as dirty as grass, and stood up and said, "Your mother...uh, no, where did you go?"

"Mom said she wanted to nourish her body and go fishing by the river!" The little girl looked at Chen Xu with her eyes wide open, her face a little timid and curious. It seemed that her brother became a little unfamiliar after she woke up. She either chattered or sat in a daze, completely like she became another person.

When Chen Xu heard his sister say she was hungry, he felt hungry in an instant. He endured the sequelae of dizziness after falling and was a little dizzy, and walked towards the dilapidated room swaying.

There are two thatched huts in total. The outer room is the one where Chen Xu woke up and slept. Apart from the broken bed made of a few stones and bamboo and wood, there are a few shabby rattan baskets and a wooden barrel. The ground is very damp and the room smells faintly.

The inner room is very small, which is the house of my mother and sister. It is very dark inside. Chen Xu lifted a straw curtain and took a look and then stepped out. The inside is the same as outside. In addition to some worn vine baskets and a few clay pots, there is only one bed, covered with old bedding mixed with hemp and woven.

There is nothing decent in the whole house.

Poverty can no longer describe its poverty.

Although Chen Xu understood the difficulties and embarrassment of a woman living with two children, he was a little unacceptable to this extreme.

Because he searched through various places in his home where he could store grain, and except for finding some fine shredded soybeans and some seemingly bran-skinned things, he had nothing to eat.

Looking at the small half of the gourd and crushed soybeans, Chen Xu couldn't help but thrust a few times.

Although soybeans can be eaten, it still takes a lot of courage to eat them as meals, especially raw soybeans.

The little girl followed Chen Xu, looking at half a can of soybeans, and couldn't help but lick her mouth.

"Brother, my mother said that these beans should be kept for emergency treatment, and there is no other food at home!"

Uh! Chen Xu then remembered that the ancient soybeans seemed to be called Shu, and they were also one of the five grains.

The grains in later generations were very different from those in the Qin Dynasty, referring to several crops such as millet (yellow rice), millet (millet), wheat (wheat), beans (soybeans), hemp (hemp, note: a crop, not smoked cigarettes). As for rice, it was only a small amount of planting in the south, not a staple food, and there were no corn at all. There were no potatoes and sweet potatoes with high starch content that were easy to plant and fill their stomachs. Those were not slowly introduced to China until the Ming and Qing Dynasties.

Just as Chen Xu put down the broken soybeans and thought about where to get something to fill his and his sister's belly, he suddenly heard a few very anxious shouts from outside.

"Chen Xu is coming out soon, your mother has been bitten by a poisonous snake!"

Chen Xu was slightly stunned for a moment and ran out of the room. He saw a young man about the same age as him rushing in from outside the yard with sweat.

"Where is it? Take me there quickly?" Chen Xu grabbed the boy's arm and said anxiously.

"Just by the river, go quickly!" The boy pulled Chen Xu and turned around and left without time to explain.

"Brother, wait for me!" The little girl also ran out of the room.

"Just wait for me at home!" Chen Xu didn't have time to bring this oil bottle with him, so he rushed out of the yard with the boy and quickly disappeared into the path with lush plants.

This village is not big, and it lives backed by mountains, with only more than ten households, all of which are thatched huts. There is a small river at the beginning of the village, and large areas of farmland have been reclaimed on both sides of the river.

In April, the spring is still bright, and the farmland is full of green crops. During this period, some men and women are weeding in the fields.

Behind the village is a green mountain. Although it is not high, the trees are lush and full of primitive charm.

But Chen Xu had no mood to observe the surrounding situation at this time.

Although Chen Jiang did not have any feelings for him, he was constantly raising him with this body. Moreover, if he wanted to live in this world in the future, family affection was also the most important thing. Otherwise, he would really become a lonely ghost without relatives, and no one would care about life or death again, which would be an absolute sorrow.

What's more, if Chen Jiang dies, how can he take care of a seven-year-old girl?

Under the leadership of the boy, the two of them ran to the river. They saw three or four children surrounded by dozens of meters away from the small river.

"Get out of the way, Chen Xu is here!" The young man leading the way shouted loudly.

These children should be from the village, but Chen Xu doesn't know each other now.

When he rushed to the river, he saw Chen Jiang lying on the grass less than three meters away from the river without any movement.

Chen Jiang was soaked all over, obviously he had just been fished out of the river. His eyes were closed and his face was blue and gray, and his whole body was still twitching slightly.

Chen Xu quickly squatted down and opened Chen Jiang's eyelids and looked at it. He found that his pupils were still normal. He quickly pressed his carotid artery and felt it. He found that the beating was particularly rapid. It should be the toxins that stimulate blood circulation, but judging from the situation, the toxins did not invade the internal organs and brain in large quantities.

Chen Xu didn't dare to be careless.

The types of poisonous snakes vary greatly, the physical condition of each person varies greatly, and the effects of toxins vary greatly.

Even after more than two thousand years, if you are bitten by a poisonous snake, you will still die if you are not treated. Especially some highly venomous snakes, sometimes they will kill people in just over ten minutes.

Chen Jiang's position was bitten by a poisonous snake in the calf above the ankle. The two small holes were clearly visible. It may be because they fell into the river and were soaked in water. The wound expanded very obviously. The bitten area was red, swollen and black, and the entire calf was thicker.

Before Chen Xu could even see the wound clearly, he quickly took off his clothes, thorned them into several strips of cloth, and then wrapped them tightly above Chen Jiang's knees. After tightening them, he knelt down and lifted Chen Jiang's calf, put his mouth to the wound and sucked them hard.

He grew up in the countryside and saw many people in the countryside bitten by poisonous snakes. When he was a child, he saw with his own eyes that someone died halfway through the road before he could be taken to the hospital. Therefore, he has also seen some simple treatment measures.

Tighten the cloth belt to prevent the venom from circulating through the blood, especially the internal organs, and then try to pull out the venom. This must be done with the mouth. From primitive society to later generations more than two thousand years later, this is still the most convenient and direct method, and no other tool can be used.

"Ph~"

Chen Xu spitted a mouthful of thick black blood next to him and sucked it up again. After seven or eight consecutive times, the blue and black skin around the wound turned white, and light red blood began to ooze out of the wound.
Chapter completed!