Fairy Desire

Yan Shi gently dug up a medicinal herb from the ground with a bamboo shovel, put it in the medicinal basket behind his back, wiped the sweat off his face, and said with a smile: "Brother Meng, the nails and double tails are missing Scorpio and we can go back?"

"It's almost the same." Meng Xiang fixed his eyes on a stone crevice, and responded in a low voice.

"Really? Brother Meng, what did you find? Is it a bone-penetrating nail or a twin-tailed scorpion?" A big smile appeared on Yan Shi's face, and he was about to approach Meng Xiang, but then he seemed to think of something suddenly and stopped. out of shape.

Both the Bone Piercing Nail and the Two-Tailed Scorpion were living creatures, and they were very vigilant. Once they were disturbed, they would run away immediately, and they would burrow into every opening. It would be quite difficult to catch them again.

After about a cup of tea, Meng Xiang's right hand suddenly stuck out, and two chopstick-like things were inserted into the crack of the stone like lightning. Centipedes are six or seven inches long.

Seeing that Meng Xiang had succeeded, Yan Shi rushed to his side, staring at the trapped centipede, and said excitedly: "It's a bone-penetrating nail! And it's a seven-year bone-penetrating nail!"

In fact, the bone-penetrating nail is a kind of centipede, but it is more poisonous than ordinary centipedes, and its medicinal effect is also greater. It can easily deliver some medicines to places in the patient's body that are difficult for medicines to reach.The effect of the twin-tailed scorpion is basically similar to it.Their effect in the hair-plucking and marrow-washing soup is to send the other 34 medicines deep into the body, so that every inch of the body, even the bones, can be nourished and strengthened.

Meng Xiang skillfully put the bone-penetrating nails into the bamboo tube prepared in advance, plugged the plug, and shook his head: "One pot of hair-plucking and marrow-washing soup needs ten bone-penetrating nails, and the two of us need two pots. I caught one, and there are still nineteen left, so it’s early.”

"Brother Meng, in fact, you only need to prepare a pot. Me, let me see..."

"You what?" Meng Xiang glared at Yan Shi, "Are you afraid that I will harm you?"

"Brother Meng, I didn't mean that, I..."

Seeing that Yan Shi was a little anxious, Meng Xiang patted him on the shoulder, and said with a smile: "Shitou, you are not funny! You take it seriously when I am joking with you? Well, stop joking. Let's hurry up and finish the joke." Grab the bone penetrating nails and the two-tailed scorpion, and go back. I see that it is about to rain, and once it rains, the medicinal materials will be wet and rotten, which will be troublesome."

After that, the two stopped talking, and began to carefully search for the bone-penetrating nail and the twin-tailed scorpion.Not to mention, their luck was not bad. When the sun was slightly westward, they really managed to catch the remaining bone-penetrating nails and twin-tailed scorpions.

The weather was also beautiful, although it looked like it was going to rain, but it didn't start to rain until it was dark and Meng Xiang and Yan Shi returned home.

After finishing dinner in a hurry, as soon as the rain stopped, Yan Shi carried a medicine basket on his back and sent the medicinal materials that Uncle Li had entrusted them to pick, while Meng Xiang stayed behind, and started to prepare hair-plucking and marrow-washing soup according to the prescription.

Not long after Yan Shi went, he came back in a hurry, obviously he wanted to see what the so-called hair-plucking and marrow-washing soup looked like.

The two of them worked until midnight, and finally made all kinds of medicinal materials according to the requirements.However, they also encountered a problem, that is, there was no container for the medicinal soup.You must know that it must not only be able to carry medicinal soup, but also be able to hold a person.According to the instructions on the prescription, people have to soak in the medicinal soup to absorb the medicinal effects.

Finally, Yan Shi thought of a way, moved his two large water tanks over, tried it, let alone, it was just right.

Put the prepared medicinal materials into two large vats, put water on them, then light the mulberry branches that have been prepared earlier, and start heating.At first, Yan Shi was able to talk and laugh with Meng Xiang, but after a while, he began to doze off, and was ordered by Meng Xiang to rest.

Early the next morning, Yan Shi opened his eyes and smelled a strange fragrance faintly through his nose.Following the scent, he came to an empty house, and found that the scent was coming from the two large vats filled with hair-plucking and marrow-washing soup.Meng Xiang is carefully controlling the heat.

Yan Shi rubbed his eyes: "Brother Meng, is the medicinal soup ready enough?"

"It will be ready to use in half an hour." Meng Xiang was adjusting the fire under the vat without raising his head.

"Yeah." Yan Shi nodded, and didn't go to prepare breakfast.According to the instructions on the prescription, the soaking hair plucking and marrow washing soup needs an empty stomach. If you eat, the effect will not be good.

After walking around the two big vats twice, Yan Shi's eyes suddenly widened. He pointed to the top of the big vats and asked in surprise, "Brother Meng, here...why is there blue mist on it?"

Meng Xiang put away the mulberry branches, stood up, glanced at Yan Shi angrily, and said lightly: "Blue mist is blue mist, what's so strange?"

Although he didn't care about what he said, he also murmured in his heart, but he asked himself that he was completely following the prescription, and there shouldn't be any problems.

Half an hour passed quickly, and when it was time to enter the vat, perhaps because of the blue mist floating at the mouth of the vat, although Yan Shi really wanted to test the efficacy of the medicine first, he was still a little apprehensive at the end.

Meng Xiang didn't think about letting Yan Shi go down first, after all, the prescription was his.After taking a look at Yan Shi, he said in a deep voice, "Stone, you master the fire, I'll go down and give it a try first."

"Brother Meng, is there really no problem? Do you want to turn off the fire first, and wait for the medicinal soup to cool before entering." Yan Shi actually asked the question that Meng Xiang was worried about.However, he finally decided to follow the instructions in the prescription, go down when the medicinal soup is boiling, and keep it heated throughout the whole process of soaking in the medicinal bath.

Meng Xiang took off his clothes, leaving only a pair of underpants. After thinking for a while, he stepped up a simple ladder on the mouth of the tank and came to the mouth of the tank. After a little hesitation, he jumped directly into the tank. .He has experience before, if he goes into the water in winter, if he can't jump directly into it at once, he can't go down at all.

"Hmm!" Although he was mentally prepared, Meng Xiang couldn't help but let out a muffled snort.For a moment, he had an illusion, as if he jumped into the boiling oil pan, and the skin on his body had been scalded off.

"Persevere! Persist! You are going to become a big shot, how can you be conquered by this little pain?" Under the psychological suggestion of self-hypnosis, he gritted his molars and endured the initial pain.

Just after he got used to it slowly, more pain followed. The scorching heat from the outside of his body quickly penetrated into his body through the pores, turning into fiery snakes, scurrying around, with muscles, bones, internal organs ……everywhere.He seemed to have an illusion, as if he heard the hissing sound of roasting meat inside his body.

Compared with the pain outside the body, the pain inside the body is undoubtedly more unbearable.Meng Xiang's face turned purple, the veins on his forehead popped out, like little snakes, the muscles on his cheeks twitched, his teeth rattled, and his whole body seemed to be suffering from malaria. Trembling, the ink-like concoction in the vat was stirred up into waves.

The human body's tolerance is extremely strong. After enduring the initial pain of the fire snake piercing his body, he gradually became less uncomfortable.But what he didn't expect was that a bigger test was still waiting for him.

Suddenly, without giving Meng Xiang any time to prepare, the third wave of pain came without warning. It was an itch that was more unbearable than pain.There seemed to be tens of thousands of ants in the body, crawling and gnawing non-stop, itching, numbness and pain, and itching started from the depths of the internal organs and bone marrow, and I couldn't catch them even if I tried to scratch them.

In less than a cup of tea, Meng Xiang couldn't help it anymore, any psychological hints, any diversion of attention, all of which were not working.The pain he's going through now is the sum of all the pain he's had since he started sitting in the vat.

Boom, Meng Xiang hit his head straight into the vat, but he still had a sense of reason and didn't jump out of the vat, because he knew that as long as he got out of the vat, although the pain would be relieved immediately, the pain he had suffered before would be relieved immediately. But in vain.

Yan Shi panicked when he saw this happened, and called in Meng Xiang's ear anxiously. The mulberry branches under the vat were removed, but when he thought of Meng Xiang's instructions to him before entering the vat, no matter what the situation was, he should not disturb him, he finally chose to listen to him.

He wiped the sweat from his forehead, rolled the clothes that Meng Xiang had taken off into a roll, and placed it on the place where Meng Xiang's head hit, to prevent his head from being damaged by the big tank.

I don't know how long it took, Meng Xiang felt that 1 years had passed, all the pain on his body began to slowly weaken, and the color of the medicinal soup became transparent.But his whole body was sore, numb and painful, and his body was weak. If Yan Shi hadn't helped him out, he wouldn't even be able to climb out of the vat.

Yan Shi took out a clean and soft white cloth, gently wiped off the water on his body, helped him put on a soft underwear, and helped him to lie down on the bed.After a while, he closed his eyes and snored like thunder.

Upon waking up, Meng Xiang jumped off the bed, moved his body, and there was a crisp sound like popping beans in his body. His whole body seemed to have inexhaustible strength, as if there was a mountain in front of him, and he could lift it up. stand up.In addition, he himself did not know that his height had also increased a lot, as much as two inches.

When Yan Shi heard the movement, he hurried into the room and saw that Meng Xiang was fine. Although his face was full of tiredness, he was still extremely happy, and excitedly shouted: "Brother Meng, what's wrong? Is there any discomfort?"

"Of course not. I feel that my body has never been so good. If you don't believe me, look at it." As he spoke, Meng Xiang tried to throw a few punches, and made a whistling sound.

The effect seemed to be beyond his expectation. Meng Xiang was stunned for a moment, and then said with a smile: "Sure enough, what the old man said is not true. Only when you suffer bitterly can you become a master. The hair-plucking and marrow-washing soup Although it makes people feel a little uncomfortable, the effect is nothing to say."

After speaking, Meng Xiang turned his head to Yan Shi, and said seriously: "Shitou, for your own good, no matter how painful the process is, you must soak in the hair-plucking and marrow-washing soup.

Unexpectedly, after hearing his words, Yan Shi showed a strange expression, as if he was very surprised by what he said.