The acquaintance came and went like the wind. In a moment, he picked up the two people with both hands and turned them back to Hu Long.
What he brought back were two young men who were both seventeen or eighteen years old: the face of the man on the left was vaguely similar to Jiang Er's. At this moment, his eyes were tightly closed and his face was like gold paper. It seemed that the situation was quite bad. ; The person on the right hand was born with beautiful features, and his face was full of anxiety. He was struggling desperately in the hands of the Prime Minister, and kept shouting words such as "Put me down quickly, don't delay me to save people."
When the acquaintance put the two men down, the latter saw clearly that Jiang Er was also at the scene, and said hastily: "Second uncle, the tiger was bitten by the 'Seven Steps Down'!" Then he leaned down to treat another young man.
After Jiang Er heard these words, his vision suddenly went dark and he almost fainted on the spot.
This young man named "Jiang Hu" is his only son.
He had already thought that as long as he could walk and move, he would never let his son engage in the snake-catching industry, and he had to protect the legacy of the Jiang family no matter what.
But when Jiang Hu saw that all the young men and women in the village went out to catch snakes to compensate for the heavy taxes, and exchanged his temporary danger for the long-term peace of the family, he thought that if he allowed his father, who was already quite old, to catch snakes, he would be better off. I sit at home and enjoy the success, but I don’t know how many people are poking my spine from behind.
Therefore, he repeatedly asked his father to join the snake-catching team, and later even went on a hunger strike to express his determination.
Jiang Er couldn't resist his son, so he finally agreed. Today was the day he took him into the mountains to catch snakes for the first time.
As the leader of the village's snake-catching team, he used his power a little for personal gain when assigning tasks, and arranged his son to be with a young man named Xu Xuan from the village.
Xu Xuan, a young man, was so kind that he was almost pedantic. He always said that humans should not hunt and kill even highly venomous snakes as long as they did not actively invade humans. Therefore, they would rather take greater risks and climb dangerous cliffs to pick some precious herbs and sell them for money, rather than hunting venomous snakes in order to reduce taxes.
However, no one dared to look down on Xu Xuan because of this, because he had an adventure when he was young. Now he is not only extremely agile and strong, unparalleled by anyone in the village, but also has exquisite medical skills. If anyone in the village is sick or injured, they will be affected. Depend on him for diagnosis and treatment.
Not only that, Xu Xuan has also been working hard to prepare an antidote that can dissolve the venom of ordinary snakes and insects, greatly avoiding possible casualties to the village's snake-catching team.
At present, he has begun to develop an antidote for the "seven-step down" venomous snake, a specialty of Yongzhou, but unfortunately there has not been much progress.
Jiang Er thought that by forming his son and Xu Xuan into a team, he should be able to get the greatest protection in terms of safety. Who would have thought that he would be so unlucky to be kissed by a snake when he participated in snake catching for the first time, but Xu Xuan still couldn't resolve it. The poison of "seven steps to fall".
Thinking of his grandfather and father who died because of catching snakes, and then looking at his dying son, Jiang Er felt a sharp pain in his heart. He no longer had any strength left in his body, and his legs went limp and he fell to the ground.
At this time, Hu Yuan was ready to take action. With his magical power at the level of an Earth Immortal, Jiang Hu had already been poisoned to death, and there were many ways to bring him back to life.
But when he saw the method Xu Xuan used to save Jiang Hu, he was rarely excited, and his expression changed drastically. He stopped the method he was preparing to use in secret to save people, and just looked on blankly.
Xu Xuan had just rolled up Jiang Hu's right trouser leg, revealing a calf that had turned as black as ink, swollen and shiny.
He placed an open small wooden box in front of him, took out eight silver needles of different lengths and shapes from the box, and used eight mysterious techniques to pierce Jiang Hu's legs in eight places one by one. acupuncture points.
While using the needle, he did not forget to comfort Jiang Er gently: "Second uncle, there is no need to despair. This time Hu Zi may still have a glimmer of hope."
Jiang Er was like a drowning man grabbing a life-saving straw. He jumped up from the ground and rushed forward, but he did not dare to get too close to avoid affecting Xu Xuan's rescue. He asked in a trembling voice: "Axuan, what are you doing?" Are you saying there is an antidote to the 'Seven Steps Down' poison?"
Xu Xuan nodded and said: "Perhaps the tiger's life should not be cut off. I just recently thought of a possible way to resolve the poison of 'Seven Steps Down'. Someone pointed me out and said, 'Wherever poisonous snakes appear, there must be a cure within seven steps'." Medicine'. So I have been carefully observing the 'Seven-Step Phytophthora' these days, and finally discovered that it often swallows this plant after devouring its poisoned prey..."
At this point, he first inserted the ninth silver needle into the two wounds on Jiang Hu's calf that were obviously bitten by snake teeth. Then a lot of sticky yellow pus continued to flow out from the wounds, and then from the pocket he carried with him. He took out a plant from the bamboo basket and raised it to Jiang Er's eyes.
Jiang Er saw that the rhizome of this plant was stubby and covered with a layer of membranous scales. The leaves were oblong and had serrated edges.
He looked at Xu Xuan with hope: "Axuan, do you mean that this thing is the antidote to the 'Seven Steps Down' poison?"
Xu Xuan nodded vigorously, with a look of great joy on his face: "I am 70% sure at this moment. I had already squeezed out the juice of this herb and fed it to Huzi, and it indeed suppressed the toxicity in his body and prevented the poisonous gas from entering. Heart pulse. I have just used a needle to force the toxins out of his body. I will crush the herb and apply it externally later, which will definitely remove the remaining toxins!"
While talking, he picked up two stones, one large and one small, and after cleaning them in a small stone pool, he placed the herbs on the flatter side of the big stone and pounded them repeatedly with smaller stones.
When he pounded the herbs into a paste, the wound on Jiang Hu's leg no longer leaked pus. Although there was still some black air covering the surface of the calf, it was no longer as stained with ink as before.
Xu Xuan first pulled out the nine silver needles, wiped the area around Jiang Hu's wound with a clean linen cloth, floated the paste on the wound, and wrapped it with another piece of clean linen cloth, then grabbed Jiang Hu's wrist and carefully checked his pulse. Xiang finally breathed a long sigh of relief.
He first picked up Dudou, the puppy who had been squatting beside him obediently watching him rescue people, then turned to Jiang Er and said with a smile: "Second uncle, don't worry, Hu Zi should be fine!"
Even if Xu Xuan didn't say anything, Jiang Er saw the signs from Jiang Hu's regained color on his cheeks and his increasingly even breath. Overjoyed, he bowed to Xu Xuan and said, "Axuan, my second uncle will never forget your kindness in this life." Kindness!”
"Second uncle, what are you doing? Wouldn't this disgrace me as a junior!"
Xu Xuan was startled and hurriedly dropped his bellyband to help Jiang Er.
Jiang Er's face was full of tears but he was extremely happy. He wanted Xu Xuan to receive a big gift from him no matter what.
Xu Xuan stopped Jiang Er but refused.
While the two were arguing, Hu Long had already stepped forward and first picked up the puppy that kept grunting because it was abandoned by its owner. He gently stroked the back of its neck to comfort it, and also used it to calm down his own agitation. Rufei was in a state of mind, and then asked Xu Xuan with a somewhat stiff smile: "May I ask this little brother, from whom did you learn the 'Nine Deadly Needles' method of extracting snake venom and the method of finding an antidote?"
The reason why his mood was no longer as calm and peaceful as before was simply because these "Nine Deadly Needles" were the unique secret skills inherited from his wife, Cheng Lingsu, from the Poison Hand Medicine King!
