Since the medical shed was set up in Xujiacun, many refugees passed by and stayed, either actively or passively.
They were tired from wandering outside for several months, but they were afraid to go home because they were worried about encountering bandits.
Since there are guards here, we have temporarily settled down and want to wait until there is peace before leaving.
So the refugees built shacks in the village, and usually went outside to plant some vegetables in the fields abandoned by the villagers. They could also work in the medical sheds, wash and wash in exchange for food rations.
It’s just that there are only so many people who can use the medical shed. In order to save food, you still have to find a way on your own.
This man's name is Li Laosi, he has a simple and honest face, and he often claims to be an honest person.
In fact, I always make calculations, and I am reluctant to suffer a little loss among the refugees, and I am unwilling to put in a little more effort.
Knowing this person's true nature, everyone jokingly called him "Li Laoshi".
Now everyone says they don’t want to go up the mountain because they don’t recognize the medicine. But Zhang Juntou suspected that he was a liar because he was so active.
When Zhang Juntou pointed out his thoughts, Li Laoshi didn't blush. He bowed and nodded: "You really know me, I used to dig some medicinal materials at home and go to town to exchange for money. If Juntou can reward me with a few more cakes... …Hehe, I’m an honest man, I just want two more!”
All right! There is nothing we can do now.
Zhang Juntou did not ask Xu Dong to check the authenticity. Anyway, Xu Dong said that he would recognize the medicine when he saw it in front of him. He first dealt with the emergency and promised Li Laoshi to go to the mountain to find the medicine immediately.
Li Laoshi didn't lie, he did recognize several medicines.
Without leaving the village, I dug up a handful of Houttuynia cordata and a few Acorus cordata near a water tank on the broken wall of a house in the village.
After cleaning it up, he proudly took it back to Dr. Xu to see.
These are commonly used medicines. Xu Dong is very familiar with them and can recognize them without looking carefully. Now they are just in use, dried and used as medicine.
Houttuynia Cordata is cold, capable of purging and descending, and pungent to disperse stagnation. It mainly enters the lung meridian and is good at clearing away lung heat. It also has the effect of eliminating carbuncle and draining pus. It is an important medicine for treating lung heat cough and is also commonly used for external carbuncle. Taste.
Now that the wounded person has a high fever due to wound infection, this medicine can be used together with Scutellaria baicalensis and Coptis chinensis.
Acorus is also a good thing and has the effect of regulating qi and activating blood circulation.
It can promote blood circulation and improve symptoms such as chest tightness, breathlessness, deafness, and bruises.
But Acorus is a three-year-old plant, so it needs to wait until the third year before it can be harvested.
The growth period of the calamus collected by Li Laoshi is obviously less than three years, so the efficacy of the medicine must be compromised.
Xu Dong frowned but did not say anything. Now that he is short of medicine, he might as well make do with it!
Knowing that Li Laoshi really knew the medicine, Zhang Juntou suddenly became happy.
However, Zhang Juntou is also very scheming, and it is too easy for Li Laoshi to just grab a handful and exchange them for cakes.
So he said that this amount of medicine was too little, and he needed to collect more to get rewards.
Li Laoshi was a little disappointed when he saw that his idea of exchanging a handful of Houttuynia cordata for a cake failed. It seemed that he still needed to get something real.
But what Li Laoshi didn't expect was that there was even greater trouble waiting for him.
Just when he proudly went to hand over the medicine, the refugees who were watching the excitement made it public that Mr. Li was exchanging medicine for cakes.
It turns out that the grass in the corner of the wall can be exchanged for cakes. It turns out that the medicines in the drug store that cost hundreds of dollars a package are common grass that everyone is familiar with.
Everyone immediately became interested and began to search around the village.
When Li Laoshi found out that he had taught people for free, he became angry and anxious.
He couldn't help but curse, but he was almost beaten.
"The herbs are not yours, so why can't you pick them while we can't?"
Knowing that he was alone and weak, Li Laoshi had no choice but to endure it. He pretended to be looking for medicine, walked around a few times and then quietly slipped away.
He quietly left the village, but fell into the eyes of someone who was interested and followed him closely.
The man was sneaky, his tall and thin body appearing and disappearing behind the bushes, but Li Laoshi still discovered him.
Seeing that he sneaked out of the village and was followed by others, Li Laoshi gritted his teeth in hatred, but he couldn't be beaten. It would be even worse if he attracted other people in the village.
In order to earn two more white flour pancakes, he was brave enough to leave the village alone.
Anyone who has been a refugee on the road knows that only by gathering in groups can one stay safe, while running around alone is the most dangerous.
Li Laoshi was a lazy man when he was in the village. After his father and mother died, he became a single man.
After he separated from his brother and sister-in-law, he relied on finding some medicines in exchange for money to eat once in a while, and usually lived nine times in three days.
Unexpectedly, when I escaped this time, I picked up a lone woman on the road.
In the past, I only knew that it was better to be single, but now it is better to have a woman. Even though he is a lazy person, he just wants to earn more bread to support his wife.
Jiang Zhi and Xiaoman never go near the village at the foot of the mountain when collecting herbs, and they really let Li Laoshi find the herbs.
In the shady place of a willow tree beside a ditch outside the village, there are no leaves or buds, and the plant is as tall as a branch, and the knot-like grass-stemmed plants grow in patches.
Equisetum
Li Laoshi was overjoyed when he saw these familiar plants. He didn't know many medicines, and this was his favorite to dig up.
Every time I wanted to change a few dollars, I would go out to find some grass and sell it at the drug store in the town.
There is no other reason. Other medicinal materials need to be traveled through mountains and ridges, but this grass grows on the waterside and roadside, so it can be found easily.
But now that there was a tail behind him, he couldn't pick herbs casually. Li Laoshi jumped down into the ditch, took off his belt and squatted in the grass as if he was about to poop.
I was bored while taking a shit, and while looking around, I randomly pulled out a stick of grass, separated the grass section by section, and clamped it on my eyebrows.
Behind him, a tall and thin man with a beard frowned and watched Li Laoshi pull out the "cow grass" to play with when he was defecating. He spat something bad and turned around to leave.
But I still have some doubts in my heart: Could those grasses also be medicine?
He used to herd cattle in his hometown, and the cattle liked to eat the grass.
Not far away, when Li Laoshi saw someone leaving, he squatted on the ground without even lifting his pants. He quickly pulled out a large handful of "Jiejie grass" and stuffed it into his pocket.
In just a few breaths, a large cluster of knotted grass was installed around him, and he stopped continuing.
He lazily picked up his pants and tucked the bag around his waist. He looked around a few more times to make sure that the people following him had gone far away, and then he happily returned to the village to find Zhang Juntou to hand over medicine and ask for pancakes.
Looking at Li Laoshi, who came to hand over the medicine again, and then at the bag of grass, Zhang Juntou became wary: Didn't Xu Dong say that collecting medicine is difficult? Why is it so easy again?
Li Laoshi brought three kinds of medicine in less than an hour. Was he kidding himself?
Zhang Juntou opened the bag and revealed the green "branches" inside... He knew it and often saw it by the river.
Is it medicine? What kind of medicine is it?
Moreover, he has also seen the medicine package prescribed by the doctor. Those dark brown sun-dried and sliced medicinal materials seem to be incompatible with the green grass in front of him!
Zhang Jun kept his head straight: Forget it, let Xu Dong admit it himself, so a bag of "Jiejie grass" was placed in front of the medical officer.
Seeing the "Jiejie grass", Xu Dong, who was still serious at first, suddenly relaxed and immediately picked up one to look at it.
