Summer is hot.
The mountains are covered with green trees, but it’s also very hot and sweaty all the way up.
Cheng Wanwan walked to a secluded place where few people went. When herbs appeared within one meter, the mall would alert her.
However, I encountered many common medicinal materials, such as dandelions, wild pockmarks, salt aconite, etc., which are similar to weeds on the roadside hillsides. The people in Dahe Village had headaches, brain fever, bruises and other diseases. In the beginning, they were hard. If you can't carry it anymore, you can find these medicinal materials and use them first. If you can't cure it yourself, you will finally go to Dr. Zheng to check the pulse and prescribe the medicine.
"This is Chuluhuang." Cheng Zhao suddenly stopped, "This herb seems to be able to kill insects. There are many mosquitoes in the chicken coop and duck shed. Second aunt, do you want to pick some and go back to try it?"
Cheng Wanwan looked at him in surprise: "Do you still understand pharmacology?"
Cheng Zhao shook his head: "There is a library in Nanfu Academy. I once borrowed an encyclopedia of herbal medicines to read. In order to exercise and enhance my memory, I memorized the medicinal properties of herbal medicines, but I don't understand the pharmacology."
Cheng Wanwan pursed her lips.
The scientific examination did not test these things, but he still went to study.
This eldest nephew grew up in an environment like that of the Cheng family. He was doted on by everyone in the Cheng family and was highly praised by the entire Cheng family village. It was rare that he did not grow crooked.
Even after falling from a height, I didn’t feel sorry for myself.
She asked softly: "You were expelled from Nanfu Academy. What happened?"
Cheng Zhao's eyebrows drooped. He had not told anyone about this matter, and the old scholar who had taught him did not know.
He doesn't want anyone to worry about him, he wants to get out of this predicament on his own.
But now when the second aunt asked him, the grievances in his heart came up inexplicably.
His voice was slightly hoarse and he said: "I did not cheat, but sir found evidence of cheating, as well as personal and material evidence. In the face of the evidence, the mountain chief was unable to protect me..."
Cheng Wanwan asked: "Do you know who framed you?"
"One is the son of the magistrate of Fenghuang Town, and the other is the brother-in-law of a wealthy businessman in Baiyun Town. The two worked together in the academy and tried to woo me several times. After being rejected by me, they became angry and framed..." Cheng Zhao clenched his fists. "One person has power, another person has wealth, and I have no power and power. How can I resist... Maybe this is the end of my life for me, Cheng Zhao."
Cheng Wanwan smiled: "Since you thought it would stop here, why did you study late at night?"
During the past few nights, when she was sleeping in the back room, she could hear the voice of her roommate Cheng Zhao talking casually. He was not talking in his sleep, but reading.
In the dark night without light, it was impossible for Cheng Zhao to take out a book and read it. He was probably reading the book in his mind based on memory. He seemed to have accepted his fate, but in fact, he still hoped to continue on this road.
She said: "The expulsion of you from Nanfu Academy does not mean that you lose the qualifications for the college examination. As long as someone vouch for you, you can still take the scientific examination."
Cheng Zhao smiled bitterly.
There are two guarantee methods for participating in the imperial examination. The first one is the most common one and the method he first planned to use. The five children signed guarantees among themselves. If one person commits fraud, the other four will also be implicated. .
He has a history of "cheating". Who in the entire academy would be willing to vouch for him?
As for the second method, a Linshan student from the official school will serve as the certifier. He is a student from the village and does not know anyone from the official school.
Both roads in front of him were blocked.
"There are still more than half a year before the hospital exam, don't be in a hurry." Cheng Wanwan patted him on the shoulder, "Since you are familiar with the encyclopedia of herbal medicine, please help me find more herbal medicines for repelling parasites, all kinds."
Cheng Zhao nodded and started searching carefully together.
They walked deeper and deeper. They were not afraid of the sun in broad daylight, and the wolves did not come out to look for food at this time.
However, where she walked, a little wolf quietly appeared. The wolf sniffed the scent in the grass, stared at Cheng's crooked back, then turned around suddenly and ran deeper into the forest.
More than an hour later, Cheng Wanwan and Cheng Zhao returned home with a full load.
The two backpacks were full of various herbal medicines. She said, "Use pen and paper to record these herbs, and my operation process. You can also write down all of them."
Cheng Zhao nodded and went to do it immediately.
Cheng Wanwan called Wu Huiniang over, first sorted the herbs, then boiled them separately and boiled them into water.
"Da Shan, go to the field and cut some ears of rice."
Zhao Dashan was stunned for a moment: "Mom, the rice is not ripe yet, what are you doing after harvesting it?"
Cheng Wanwan flipped over the work in his hands and said without raising his head, "You'll find out later."
Zhao Dashan picked up the sickle and walked into the rice field. After a while, he came back with a small handful of rice.
She divided the rice into several portions, soaked them in different herbal waters, and asked Cheng Zhao to record them at any time.
Zhao Sidan came back from chasing the ducks and asked curiously: "Mom, what are you doing?"
Cheng Wanwan pinched his increasingly fleshy cheeks and said with a smile: "You can throw these rice into the basket later."
Zhao Sidan's big eyes were full of doubts: "Mom, the basket on your back is full of locusts. Why do you feed the locusts with rice?"
As for Cheng Zhao, he had already understood, and he said: "Second Gu wants to test the effect of these herbs on locusts. If we can find an herb that can restrain locusts, we will no longer have to worry about crops being damaged."
Cheng Wanwan gave him an appreciative look.
The book mentioned many medicinal materials, but there were only three or four scattered ones that could be found in the mountains. She would not know until she completed the experiment whether they were exactly the same as those mentioned in the book.
She selected four medicinal materials, corresponding to four backpacks. After soaking the rice in the potion, she threw it into the basket and waited for a quarter of an hour.
The first basket is filled with rice soaked in qi mugwort.
The locusts are still buzzing, but they dare not approach the rice.
Cheng Wanwan said: "Qi moxa can drive away locusts, it can only drive them away."
The second basket contains rice soaked in lantana.
Half of the rice inside was eaten, and all the locusts died, having been poisoned.
Cheng Zhao wrote on paper that locusts ate lantana and died suddenly.
Then there are the second and third backpacks. The locusts will still eat the rice, but the locusts that have eaten the poisonous rice are still buzzing, but they are not in good spirits. It is estimated that they can survive for another hour or two before they die.
Cheng Zhaodu recorded them one by one.
Mrs. Zhao, who was busy in the back room, heard the commotion and came out. When she saw Cheng Wanwan feeding the locusts with rice, her old face suddenly fell down: "Boss, wife, you must be so frustrated that no one can bear to eat rice." How could you waste such precious things..."
Cheng Wanwan interrupted her old man: "Mom, are you done with your work? If so, can you help invite Uncle Li Zheng over? I have very important things to discuss with Uncle Li Zheng."
Mrs. Zhao immediately followed her words and said, "Okay, I'll call Li Zheng over right away."
