Poor children

Chapter 29 Golden Gu, Hedgehog Soup

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The second lady looked at the two dark duck eggs in front of her and was even more confused, "Why...why?"

"This is a poison from southern Xinjiang. A few days ago, I read "Treatise on the Causes and Symptoms of Diseases: Symptoms of Poison": 'Take a lot of insects and snakes, store them in containers, and let them eat each other. There is only one thing. If it exists alone, it is said to be a voodoo, and it can change people's minds, follow food and drink, and bring disaster to people.' "Zuo Zhuan" and "Compendium of Materia Medica" also have records that there are voodoo girls in southern Xinjiang passed down from generation to generation, but only girls. , they went to the fields on the fifth day of May and caught twelve poisonous reptiles, including snakes, centipedes, scorpions, spiders, toads, etc. They put the caught poisonous insects together into an urn and buried them underground in the house for 49 days. , you need to recite mantras and pray every day during these 49 days. The poisonous insects in the urn will eat each other due to hunger. When the urn is taken out after a year, only the most poisonous one will be left. This is the poisonous insect. This poisonous insect eats other poisonous things. The body has changed slightly. Some are like dragons, which are obtained by swallowing snakes. Others are called dragon Gu. Some are like unicorns, which are obtained by toads. Others are called unicorn Gu. Some are like golden silkworms, but I don’t know how they were born. It’s just that this golden silkworm is born. Poison is the most poisonous. The person who raises the Poison will take out the Poison and put it in the incense burner as an offering. If he continues to feed poisonous insects every day, the Poison will continue to grow in the incense ashes and will excrete feces in the incense ashes. If this feces is used If put into food and drinking water, it will be colorless and tasteless. People who have eaten will experience severe pain in the chest and abdomen, and their belly will be as swollen as an urn. After seven days, all the internal organs of the person infected will turn into blood and water and die."

"The situation between the two of them is very similar to what you said." The second lady arrived

"Did the two of them eat anything different from others last night?" Pao'er asked.

“Taro Crispy”

"Did this sister do it herself yesterday?" The poor boy looked at Kan Lianrong.
"The taro cake is indeed made by myself, but I have never poisoned it, and I don't know what poison is." Ms. Kan said
"Has anyone touched this taro cake yesterday?" asked the second lady
"There is no one else's, so I made it and served it directly to the two of them."

The three of them didn't speak for a long time
"Yeah!" Miss Kan suddenly exclaimed.

"What?" asked the second lady
"Yesterday Yun'er said she wanted to use the kitchen to make a bowl of noodles, but I had a stomachache and went to the toilet..."

"Sure enough, it's her." The second lady clenched her fists. "After holding it in for so many years, she finally couldn't bear it anymore! Now that she is pregnant again, she wants to pave a smooth road for her child, so she starts to do whatever it takes! It's poison and poison. Witchcraft, I wanted to kill two of my children at once, if something happens to my son, I will make her child not see the light of day."

"Second Madam?" She is usually a very gentle and kind person, but she didn't expect to be like this today, scaring the poor boy so much that he didn't know what to say.

"Poor boy! Is there any antidote to this poison in the book you are reading?"

"There are, but I have never used them. I don't know if they are useful." The poor boy said
"Now that your brother is like this, let's give it a try." The second lady arrived and turned around to see Kan Lianrong with a wronged look on her face and comforted her, "I know very well that this matter has nothing to do with you. Someone wants to use your hands to harm my son's life. You also No need to blame yourself too much”

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"I remember in the book it said that realgar, garlic, and calamus are used to swallow the three flavors with boiling water to purge the poison. The golden silkworm Gu is the most afraid of hedgehogs with heads and mouths like mice, and body hairs like oysters and pigs' arrows. It's just that I don't know how to use this hedgehog..." Paoer arrived
"Xiang Xing, go ahead and prepare realgar, garlic and calamus. As for the hedgehogs, ask outside to get two and give them to the kitchen to make soup." The second lady arrived

It was not difficult to get those three herbs and drink them down with the two young masters, but the cooks in the kitchen were at a loss as to what to do with the two hedgehogs crawling all over the floor.
"Dare I ask, little brother?" Mrs. Su asked, "What do you think these two masters want to do? Make soup?"

"That's the order. If you have to hurry, we also spent a lot of effort to catch it from the mountains. You old man, please stew it quickly." The boy arrived
"Mother Su..." A cook held a knife in her hand but didn't know how to do it. "It would be easy to kill a chicken or duck. This hedgehog has never been killed before. I don't know where to cut it? I don't know how to remove the thorns all over my body?"

"Miss Xiangxing said she wanted to stew the whole thing. When stewing, no object on the hedgehog should be missing." "Oh! Oh my God! What else can you kill? Just throw it into the pot when the water boils." "The cook is a joke"
"That's it," the young man said. "Just wash it and stew it directly. Anyway, my errands are done. I'll leave first. I have to work for the rest of my sisters-in-law." The young man said and left.
"Mother Su, what do you mean?"

"If the host asks you to stew the whole thing, then stew the whole thing." Mrs. Su arrived.

"This body is full of thorns. Will your mouth be pricked when you eat it?" Just as he was talking, he saw Xiang Xing coming through the door.
"Did the hedgehog arrive?"

"Girl! It's a gift, it's just this way..." The cook hesitated.
"Isn't this a bad idea?" Xiang Xing asked

"How can you eat this stewed alive with thorns?"

"You can add more ingredients to make the soup thicker. Just put the soup in it. I have something else to do. Now that the hedgehog is here, I'll ask my sisters-in-law to cook it quickly." Xiang Xing said and left.
In the kitchen, a pot is boiling to prepare water for stewing hedgehogs
three

In the room of the two young masters in the North Courtyard, before the herbal medicine was poured down and the incense was poured out, the two young masters sat on the porridge and couldn't get up. The room was filled with such stench that they couldn't tolerate anyone else. Everything was dark and sticky. After a long time of ejaculation, the two young masters' stomachs gradually returned to their original state, and the abdominal pain gradually subsided.

When the second lady saw the two young masters acting like this, she felt more at ease.

The diarrhea finally stopped, and the two young masters regained their energy. The second wife ordered them to go to bed to rest. At this time, someone came from the kitchen to bring soup. Xiang Xing brought it in and put it on the side of the cave.

"What kind of soup?" The second lady was very happy to see the blood on the faces of the two young masters, and forgot all other things.
"It's that soup, the soup that the pauper mentioned." Xiang Xing didn't dare to say it clearly in front of the young master.

"The soup the poor boy was talking about? Oh!" The second lady remembered. "Son! You've been exhausted for so long, but you're hungry? Let's drink some soup first." The second lady took the bowl and handed it to them. These two people were indeed I was a little hungry and thirsty, so I took a few sips from the bowl and drank it
"Why is this soup so delicious today?" Chenghe asked, and couldn't help but drink a few more bowls.

While he was drinking, Pao'er came in from outside and saw the two of them drinking soup, so he asked, "You two have met so well! How good is this hedgehog soup?"

The two gentlemen were drinking vigorously, but when they heard what she said, they immediately stopped what they were doing, "Hedgehog soup?"

"Yes! I was afraid that they were not doing well, so I went to watch them personally. I think the whole hedgehog meat should be eaten..."

Before she could finish speaking, the two young masters were leaning on the edge of the cave and vomiting wildly. The ground was covered with black water. After vomiting, they suddenly felt refreshed and all the poison had been eliminated.
Seeing that it was noon, Pao'er saw that they were well, so he left and went back to the kitchen to do some work. At this time, someone came from outside to say that the old god was here...

(End of this chapter)