Li Xing did not touch the oil-paper bag, not because he did not want to come into indirect contact with certain parts of Xiaohong's body, but because he was worried that the oil-paper bag contained poison.
Some poisons are so toxic that they can cause damage even if they get on the skin.
However, this kind of poison only exists in legends. Li Xing, a farmer who just came out of the village, would have never known that such a thing existed in the world if he hadn't heard from Yun Chao.
Li Xing put the oil paper bag in a tray with a clip and went to the West Street Pharmacy.
"Mr. Zhao, this oil paper bag may contain poison. Do you want to open it and take a look?"
Zhao Runchun rolled his eyes, you little bastards are so bad that you are afraid of being poisoned, so you use me as your guinea pig.
No one in the Dawu Dynasty kept white mice. The reason why Zhao Runchun knew about this stuff was of course because he heard Yun Chao tell him about it.
When Yun Chao was explaining anatomy to Zhao Runchun, one of the words he often kept on his lips was, "Believe it or not, I'm going to use you as a guinea pig for dissection?". Zhao Runchun naturally learned it after he talked a lot.
After all, Zhao Runchun was still unable to overcome his strong thirst for knowledge. He put on a hood, mask, gloves, isolation suit, took a pair of tweezers, and prepared to open the bag.
Don't think Zhao Runchun's equipment is too avant-garde. Such a thing is impossible in the Dawu Dynasty.
The ancients were not fools. How could they not think of covering their bodies with clothes before coming into contact with dirty things?
Even if he couldn't think of it, Yun Chao thought of it for Zhao Runchun.
Masks and gloves were "invented" by Yun Chao specially for Zhao Runchun.
Why is Zhao Runchun, such a proud guy, willing to work for Yun Chao? Is it because his precious daughter is in Wolong Village?
The ideas of the ancients and those of later generations are different. Don't think that if you like your daughter, you can accommodate them unconditionally. If you are really anxious, in order to ensure your family tradition and maintain the principles in your heart, it is not impossible to kill your daughter with your own hands.
The reason why Zhao Runchun turned a blind eye was not because he thought Yun Chao was good.
Although he has never admitted it, Zhao Runchun actually admires Yun Chao in his heart.
At a young age, he was able to understand astronomy and geography, and it also opened a new door for him in medicine.
Even if you put all these aside, just talking about Yun Chao's concern for Zhao Runchun made him have to give Yun Chao a thumbs up.
Scalpel, mask, gloves, alcohol...
None of these sharp tools used by doctors happened to be in Zhao Runchun's heart.
Yun Chao: Old Zhao, you are overthinking. I give you things because I want you to work better for me. I am not interested in you, an old-timer!
If a native pig wants to eat the cabbage you planted, you will definitely beat the shit out of it.
However, if you suddenly find out that he is not a country pig, but a warm-hearted man who is not only handsome but also very capable, do you still want to beat the shit out of him?
If you don't even want this kind of son-in-law, it means there is something wrong with me, and he may have some unhealthy thoughts about his daughter.
Unfortunately, Yun Er has a problem, he is too lecherous.
Moreover, there is a child bride, and it is very likely that his daughter will not be able to become his wife. This is something Zhao Runchun cannot tolerate.
Alas, what a contradiction!
With complicated emotions, Zhao Runchun opened the oil paper bag.
The oil paper bag is not big and contains less stuff inside.
A light yellow powder, about half a tael in size.
Li Xing retreated five meters away: "Mr. Zhao, you must not smell it with your nose!"
Mud horse!
Zhao Runchun almost cursed her.
You are so mean. If you didn't tell me, I wouldn't be able to remember it. But now that you remind me, I can't help but take a whiff!
"Go and catch a chicken."
"Yes, master!"
Zhao Runchun's apprentice Bai Shu winced.
have to!
There is one less chicken in the house.
I'm going to be scolded by my mistress again!
To Bai Zhu's surprise, after eating the chicken food mixed with yellow powder, the big red rooster did not have diarrhea, flutter, or kick up its legs or braid.
Jumping around as you should, jumping around as you should, without any abnormality.
Bai Zhu was wondering when he suddenly saw Zhao Runchun's eyes.
"ah……"
Bai Shu was so frightened that she screamed like a little girl: "Master, you...what are you looking at me doing?"
Zhao Runchun seemed to have seen the big bad wolf in Little Red Riding Hood, and smiled so amiably: "Baizhu, what do you think I treat you?"
"Haha, master, you are very kind to me, I want to help my wife kill the chicken!"
Bai Shu picked up the rooster and ran away: "Master, if you need help with anything, just let the junior brothers do it. They are more suitable as guinea pigs than me!"
Bai Shu’s junior brothers: “…”
Zhao Runchun curled his lips and said, "Humph, if you get close to that boy Yun Er, I won't scare you to death!"
All the juniors tightened their butts and firmly remembered one thing. They were determined not to get too close to Yun Xunjian, otherwise they would be in danger of being treated as guinea pigs by their master!
Although the big rooster used as a guinea pig was fine, Zhao Runchun still did not take it lightly.
It is precisely because there is nothing that there is something, and there are still big things.
Li Xing had already said that someone wanted to harm Yun Chao and asked people to put things in his meals.
Even thinking about it, I knew that those people had gone to such great lengths and taken such great risks. They couldn't be playing a prank with Yun Chao. There must be something wrong with this thing.
The less you can see a problem, the bigger the problem is likely to be.
The big rooster didn't sleep after eating it, which means it was not a sweat medicine.
There are no red eyes and looking for hens everywhere, which means it is not an aphrodisiac.
He didn't die immediately, which means it wasn't poison...
Well, at least, it's not a highly toxic drug.
It's not a highly toxic drug, but is it still a chronic poison?
Zhao Runchun specializes in treating diseases and saving people, and is not good at poisons.
Even if it is a chronic poison, there should be some reaction, right?
…
While Zhao Runchun and Li Xing stared at the oil paper bags, Yun Chao was conducting experiments in Wolong Village.
Without previous experience, neither Yun Chao nor several potters knew how long the coke should be burned for.
To this end, Yun Chao asked the potter to build several coke ovens.
Every once in a while, a coke oven is opened to see if the coal inside is burned into coke.
When they reached the third coke oven, several craftsmen and Yun Chao studied it and felt that it should be successful.
"Lao Tang, use these cokes to make iron and see if you can burn the iron."
In order to determine whether the smelted coke was coke, Yun Chao was going to ask Tang Long to start smelting iron.
Tang Long was already ready.
There are earthen blast furnaces for iron-making, crucibles for steel-making, auxiliary materials needed for iron-making and steel-making, and even the raw ore for iron-making was purchased.
All is ready except for the opportunity.
Now that we have the new fuel that Yunchao promised - coke, what are you waiting for? Let's start the furnace!
