Chapter 338 Uncle Feihu is a liar
Although Xiaobao did not verbally agree to the bag thief's proposal, he still asked Chu Yuan to take him to a place to wash up and change clothes.
Because I am not sure whether this person is harmful or not, I just treat him coldly: let him go as he pleases or not.
At least he can't go back to the beggar group in Youzhou Prefecture. The elders are all dead. If he goes back alone, he's not looking for abuse.
Before going to bed, Xiaobao asked Li Hu: "What did you give those beggars to drink?"
Li Hu shook the big vase, and it sounded like there was still more than half of it inside, and said, "Ayahuasca."
Xiaobao: "What is that?"
Li Hu: "A vine that looks like it has withered and is no longer alive."
Seeing that Xiaobao was still staring at him, he continued: "When I was building ships with Dong Ping's family in Ganzhou, some local barbarians would use this thing to boil water to punish those who made mistakes. I also made some and wanted to study it."
Xiaobao stared at the big white vase: "Can it really kill corpse bugs?"
Li Hu chuckled: "Do you really believe it?"
Xiaobao said with some uncertainty: "I didn't believe it at first, but then you became more and more detailed. Although it is different from the three corpse brain pills my mother said, you used so many words!"
If everyone hadn't rested, Li Hu would have really wanted to laugh out loud: "You lied to them, there is no such thing as the Three Corpses Brain Pill. I just want to find some people to try this potion."
Xiaobao was puzzled: "Then you did give pills to those three people!"
"Pills? Oh, yes, they are Xiaoshi pills, made of hawthorn and chicken gizzard." Li Hu explained with a smile, and at the same time took out a small box, which contained neatly numbered pills.
Passing the box to Xiaobao: "Try it, I prepared it for you. Seeing that you eat so much meat every day, I'm really afraid that you will damage your spleen and stomach, but after such a long time, I think you will be fine."
Xiaobao picked up a pill and smelled it. There was a faint sweetness of hawthorn, but there was no fishy smell of chicken gizzard.
Not eating, Xiaobao put the pills back into the box again: "I have roasted garlic, which is better than this!" Then he asked: "Then you also said that the venom of the mountain wind can dissolve the three corpse brain pills?"
Li Hu laughed again: "You can say whatever you catch. However, 'a drop of snake venom is worth one tael of gold' is true. This snake venom only refers to the poison of the mountain wind, and other snake venoms do not count."
Therefore, I am reluctant to give it to them. Besides, this poison has no cure. It cannot cure other poisons, but it can continue to poison people who have not been poisoned to death."
Xiaobao: "I thought you wanted to keep the mountain wind because you wanted snake gall."
Li Hu: "The venom of snakes passing through mountains is more precious than snake gall!"
For Li Hu, harming people is more valuable than saving people.
Of course, the venom of snakes from mountain winds is really more precious than snake gall in modern times.
The venom that passes through the mountains is known as the King Cobra in modern times. The venom it releases at one time is enough to kill an adult elephant, and its venom contains both neurotoxins and cardiotoxins.
Without a specialized anti-cobra venom serum, there is no way to detoxify it.
The technology of this era simply cannot produce anti-cobra venom serum, so it is not an exaggeration for Li Hu to say that it is a poison with no cure.
Xiaobao wanted to see him take the snake venom, but Li Hu said: "You can't take it. Take out the snake venom. It will no longer be poisonous after twelve hours. Just keep it."
While chatting, he heard the sound of vomiting coming from outside. There were more than one person. Xiaobao wanted to see what was going on. Li Hu stopped him and said, "It's those beggars who are vomiting."
Xiaobao: "Ah?"
Li Hu said: "I'm going to take a look. I know this thing can cause vomiting and diarrhea. I don't know if it has any other effects. I just want to study it."
Uncle Feihu seems to be more interested in poison. Xiaobao looked at the direction where Li Hu disappeared thoughtfully.
When the sky lights up, everyone gets up.
Although they were sleeping in the open air, the tents and sleeping bags specially provided by the Chu family were still very good. It was the first time for the escorts to experience the "enjoyment" of camping.
The real hardship was for the beggars. They were tied up all night and were all stiff. In addition, they were cold, vomiting and diarrhea. Some of them had wounds on their bodies. The wounds had been contaminated by their own excrement and became inflamed.
Got a high fever.
After a simple breakfast, the team set off on the road.
With this bunch of beggars accompanying us along the way, there is no need to ask for escorts. Who dares to rob? This is the end of robberies!
When he met a small river, Chu Yuan pushed the beggars into the river and let them take a dip. It was so smelly!
For the sake of safety and economy, I did not choose to stay in a hotel. I stayed overnight in Xiaoxing and stayed wherever I went.
This string of beggars, like a peace charm, never encountered any trouble along the way.
It went so smoothly that the original estimate of four to five days to reach Kyoto actually ended up being nearly two days ahead of schedule.
There was still thirty miles to go before we reached Kyoto. Zhou Xiaochuan decided to rest an hour early today so that everyone could take a good rest and start the journey again tomorrow morning so that he could reach Kyoto before noon.
After hearing this instruction, the happiest people were the beggars.
If he hadn't been living a life of begging and his body wasn't so delicate, he would probably be cold by now.
There is a river nearby, which is perfect for everyone to wash themselves off.
Zheng Xiaorou brought Gan to eat. She didn’t have a good meal along the way, but now she could have a better meal.
Chu Yuan took several of his brothers to the surrounding area to see what kind of game they could get to eat. Bai Jiaxing went down to the river with some escorts to fish in order to improve the food for his wife.
It’s really boring to eat flatbread, pickles, and dried meat every day.
Although most of them are people who have endured hardship, some people are not picky about what they eat.
But Zheng Xiaorou has never lived like this. No matter how harshly her stepmother treats her, she still does well in other aspects, such as eating and drinking.
Bai Jiaxing felt sorry for his daughter-in-law, who had not eaten properly for several days and had to touch the fish.
It is too close to Kyoto, and although it is desolate, there is no game available. Chu Yuan and the others are far away.
But Baijiaxing and the others caught a lot of big fish.
As the saying goes, when the Qingming Festival is over, the fish will take the bait.
March 3 has passed long ago, and now it is the end of March, when the fish are in season. Xiaobao used his belt to catch three fish, each weighing nearly three kilograms.
Although this river is not that big, after several trips, Baijiaxing and the others actually harvested hundreds of fish, large and small.
"Are you trying to catch all the fish?" A group of less than twenty beggars came from a distance and shouted before they even got close.
As soon as these beggars came into sight, Xiao Sining, who was in charge of leading the patrol, noticed it and led his men to block them in the road, forcing the beggars to speak in advance.
Xiao Sining didn't answer and watched them approach.
Xiaobao took up his belt and tied it again, and looked up at the sky.
Two golden eagles were hovering in the sky, so high that only two small black spots could be seen.
The bag thief who was mixed in the team also looked up. In the past two days, he discovered that golden eagles would approach the team in the middle of the night. He knew that this was trained by the team, but he pretended not to know.
The beggars didn't even recognize his current appearance. Of course, they couldn't care less.
Chapter completed!