Queen Of Medicine

As the sun sets, Zhuo Xi follows Xiaobai's route and has found twelve kinds of herbs. She identifies them. Most of them are non-toxic, cold resistant and blood activating. She hasn't found the key toxin source for a day. She doesn't know what Xiaobai means. The people who want to make medicine here are also very thoughtful. They have found more than a dozen herbs to cover up their toxicity. In desperation, she had to put all the twelve herbs into her pocket. This kind of sleeve pocket is sewn in the wide sleeve, which is the only merit of ancient clothes. The pocket is large enough, but it can't hold heavy things, otherwise it's easy to fall and affect walking. Seeing Xiaobai swim into the mountains again, she sighed, "Xiaobai, it's going to be dark this day, or let's search again tomorrow?"

Xiaobai wags its little tail again and signals her to follow quickly.

She had to stand straight, twist her waist, take a deep breath and follow Xiaobai up the mountain. Xiaobai took her to a dry place full of rocks, and then stopped at the hole of a suspected small animal, looking like waiting for a rabbit. Zhuo Xi looked around. It was all red rocks. It was very dry and there was no grass. Along the way, the vegetation is lush, and there is no trace of water shortage and drought. How can it be so abnormal here? She touched the rock and found that it was still warm. The sun has completely set in the West and the sky is getting dark. Zhuo Xi is about to call Xiaobai back. When he comes back tomorrow, he sees Xiaobai stand up vigilantly and stick completely to the edge of the rock, as if to hide his body. Zhuo Xi knew that what it was waiting for came. She also pasted it gently behind the rock and stared nervously at the small hole.

After a while, the two small stones in front of the cave became loose. Then two big pliers stretched out, and then the whole body turned red. It turned out to be a big scorpion. It seems that the poison source is this scorpion. The little white brush jumped out and bit its tail. As soon as it was thrown on the spot, the Scorpion was thrown onto the rock and fell down. Xiaobai quickly swam over and repeated the old trick. Several times, the scorpion had almost no room to fight back, and finally fell to the ground. Zhuo Xi went over and tied it with the rope she had brought and held it in her hand. It's better not to put this poison in your sleeve pocket.

She patted her pocket and said, "Xiaobai, is it gone? Shall we go back? "

Xiaobai hesitated and nodded.

Zhuo Xi raised her legs and left, but strangely felt a vibration from the ground, as if a wheel was pushing a heavy load. Zhuo Xi immediately lay on the ground and listened for a while, as if the voice came from below. Zhuo Xi glanced at Xiaobai. Xiaobai looked innocent. You didn't ask me about it. How can I tell you?

Zhuo Xi asked Xiaobai in a low voice, "are you hiding here for reconnaissance these days?"

Xiaobai nodded.

"Where is that?"

Xiaobai is very tangled. How can I answer that?

Zhuo Xi had to continue to ask right and wrong questions, "is there anyone down there?"

Xiaobai nodded.

"Many people?"

Xiaobai nodded again.

"Very dangerous?"

Xiaobai tangled again. How can I judge? Nature is not dangerous to me.

Zhuo Xi also realized the unanswerable nature of this question and asked, "do you know import and export? I mean the way people go. "

This is a good answer. Xiaobai nodded immediately.

"Show me."

Xiaobai looked at the sky and shook his head.

Isn't this a good time? Zhuo Xi smiled, "goodboy, you can't even detect the shift change time of others, can you?"

Xiaobai looked at her proudly and nodded his head proudly. It was natural.

"Well, then, let's find some food for the bottom, and then go in at a suitable time."

Xiaobai shook his little tail and went to the grass. Zhuo Xi followed it and finally knew that the little red fruit it had found several times actually grew in the tree. It's difficult for Xiaobai, as a snake, to meander up the tree, roll down the red fruit, and then go back to the ground to give Zhuo Xi the red fruit to eat.

Zhuo Xi looked at Xiaobai's painstaking efforts to spin up the tree. Her nose was sour. She couldn't help shouting, "Xiaobai, come back!"

Xiaobai looks back at her and doesn't know why. Zhuo Xi picked up a stone on the ground and said, "Xiaobai, come back and let me serve you today!"

Xiaobai retreated behind her and saw that she shot red fruits on the tree with stones. A lot of red fruits fell in a moment.

Zhuo Xi picked up the fruit, wiped it and handed it to Xiaobai, but Xiaobai shook her head, indicating that she didn't eat it.

Zhuo Xi was immediately moved again. Xiaobai just found red fruit for her, but she didn't eat it. She also understood that snakes should eat things like rats and frogs, and vegetarians don't eat them. She shrugged regretfully. "Well, go find something to eat yourself. I'll wait for you here." Since we can't have dinner together, we have to wait here for it to come back.

Xiaobai nodded and left.

After about half an hour, Xiaobai came back with enough food and drink. Zhuo Xi saw that his stomach was bulging, and it was obvious that a ball of things was bulging out. It was the first time she saw a snake that had just eaten. She was a little scared to think of an animal that had just been swallowed by it. She quickly shifted her attention, "Xiaobai, do you think the time is about the same now? Are you ready to go in? " She thought it was a good military teacher. She almost depended on it.

Xiaobai nodded and opened the way in front.

Zhuo Xi hid in the dark of the stone and followed Xiaobai into a hidden cave, which turned out to be a unique place. It was in the hinterland of the mountain. It was night. There was moonlight outside, but there were bright lights inside. People came and went. Zhuo Xi covered her body all the way, went deep into the hinterland, and almost kept taking a deep breath to calm her inner surprise. She wants to ask Xiaobai what this is, but she also knows that Xiaobai can't answer her. She can only observe by herself.

This is a slave factory. From time to time, people dressed as soldiers whip and shout. Slaves in rags pushed carts back and forth. She wasn't sure what stone was in the car, maybe what ore or something. Suddenly, a little boy pushing the car in front fell down, and his companion shouted, "Xiao Meng, Xiao Meng, how are you?" The soldier on one side waved a whip, "go, don't be lazy." The man held the little boy while hiding from the whip and pleaded, "officer, Xiao Meng has been feverish for several days. If he doesn't treat it again, he will die."

The soldier sneered, "you slaves still want to be healed? Not to mention a child, but a young slave. If you get sick, don't you know where to go? "

"Officer, please be kind. Slaves are also human and a life."

The soldier raised his whip. "Don't talk nonsense. Go quickly. Someone will take care of him."

The little boy's hand held the man tightly and cried weakly, "Uncle Ma, no, don't leave me."

The soldier's whip had fallen on Uncle Ma, "do you hear me, go to work!"

Uncle Ma wept and caressed Xiao Meng's face. "Child, don't be a slave in the afterlife, afterlife."

Zhuo Xi looked at the empty hand and hated that she had not prepared some weapons, overpowering drugs and so on, so that she had no power to fight back now. Xiaobai swam in front of her and gave her a warning look.

But Uncle Ma was dragged up by the soldiers and roughly pushed to the cart. The soldier shouted to the back, "two more people, throw him into the waste pit."

Soon two numb looking slaves came, picked up Xiao Meng and threw him into an empty car like a rag and carried him away.

Zhuo Xi saw the child's eyes shed tears of despair, and his face was red with high fever. His hands and feet seemed to struggle to get up. When the man next to him stretched out his hand and pressed it, he was paralyzed in the car again and didn't move.

Zhuo Xi followed them quietly and saw that they threw the boy on the edge of an abandoned mineral pit like a rag.

Zhuo Xi covered her mouth and tried to dispel the disgusting smell from the pit. She slowly approached the boy. He opened his closed eyes in despair and looked at her.

She asked softly, "how are you?"

Xiao Meng's eyes showed the light of hope and said faintly, "sister, save me. I don't want to be like them."

"They?" Zhuo Xi couldn't help looking around for a week. As expected, some humanoid objects were faintly lying on the ground in the pit.

"They were all sick and couldn't work..."

Zhuo Xi quickly covered his mouth and dragged him out. "Leave here first. It's really smelly here."

They left so far that they felt the air could barely breathe. Xiao Meng sat down with her help, licked his cracked lips and asked, "sister, do you have water?"

Zhuo Xi touched the sleeve pocket full of herbs and smiled awkwardly, "no"“ But I have this, "she remembered that she had some red fruits that she couldn't eat in her pocket, took them out and handed them to him.

Xiao Meng slowly bit and ate, "thank you, sister. I'll call Meng. Sister can call me Xiao Meng. How did you get here? "

Zhuo Xi tilted her head and thought about not introducing Xiaobai. So he said, "I went up the mountain to collect herbs and accidentally fell into this cave. By the way, where is this place? What are you doing? "

"This is a mine. After we slaves were bought, we sent them directly to mine here. Once you get sick and can't work, you'll be thrown away. "

"What mine are you digging?"

"Copper mine."

"Copper mine?"

"Well, it's a stone with yellow and green spots. Like this stone with red spots, it will be abandoned here." Xiao Meng pointed to a stone against his back and said.

Zhuo Xi looked. This red spot is the rust formed by the oxidation of iron. It seems that this is iron ore. There may be a smelting place in a cave, so the place where she just stood was dry and hot, and even the stones on the mountain were baked hot. The whole mine cave is hidden in the mountainside. No one leads the way. It's difficult to find here. But why is iron ore abandoned in large quantities?

After eating the red fruit in his hand, Meng said, "sister, I'm much better. Thank you."

Zhuo Xi thought for a moment and said, "wait here for a moment. I'll find you some sweaty herbs. Maybe you're just tired, cold and fever. Just take two pills."

Meng Honghong's face radiated a look of hope, "thank you, sister! You are a good man! "

Zhuo Xi stood up and went deep into the forest.

While following Xiaobai, she read, "Xiaobai, Xiaobai, find some antipyretic drugs. No, no, find some more trees to dispel the cold and heat."

Suddenly, she felt something coming from behind her ears. Her head tilted and she saw a dark dart nailed to the trunk in front. Then a masked man in black came with a sword. Zhuo Xi dodged a few moves with her bare hands. Seeing Xiaobai waiting for an opportunity to attack, she quickly shouted, "Xiaobai, go." As soon as she called, the masked man turned his sword and was about to attack Xiaobai. Xiaobai narrowly escaped. It seemed that he also realized that today's enemy was not so easy to deal with. He took a quick look at Zhuo Xi and disappeared into the grass silk. Zhuo Xi was relieved and focused on dealing with the masked man in front of her. But obviously, the masked man's martial arts were very high. Zhuo Xi was defeated in less than ten moves.

The man in black escorted her to another person. It was a strange voice, "master, she is the only one. The little white in her mouth is a little white snake."

Zhuo Xi raised her head, and the figure was hidden in the dark“ Why are you here? Why save the slave? " He asked.

"I can only answer your second question. I saved him because he needed to be saved, and I happened to be able to save him."

"Save him? You can't even save yourself now. "

"Are you going to kill me? I want to ask, but why did you kill me? You and I have never known each other. I just want to find some herbs in this mountain. I think I have done nothing wrong. " Zhuo Xi raised her head and asked. Are ancient people like this, indiscriminately fighting and killing?

"Nothing wrong? Just because you come to this mine is enough for you to die ten or eight times. "

It was illegal exploitation? Zhuo Xi immediately figured out that the governments of all dynasties had very strict control over resources, not to mention the metal minerals in the cold weapon era, which could cast coins and weapons every minute.

"Hum, it's just a copper mine. I don't pay attention to it."

The man in black next to her sent the knife around her neck, "if you know the truth, say it quickly. Who sent you? Who are you loyal to? "

"Ha ha ha," Zhuo Xi laughed up, "my loyal man? No one in this world deserves my loyalty! " I'm a man who died once. If I die again, I'll go through it again. Be arrogant before you die.

"No one deserves your loyalty? What is worth it? " The man asked again in the dark.

It is rare for someone to be a curious baby, so she explained, "the so-called loyalty must be what I read, respect, feel and ask in my heart. When I come to this world, there is no one to read, respect, grace or desire. I am loyal to no one but myself!"

No one to read, no one to respect? Didn't you hear that she had a childhood sweetheart and escaped from the house for him? No sense of grace, no desire? What was it after he liberated her before the palace election and gave her the position of female history? What was the "freedom" she asked for that day?

She continued, "since I have no master, I will not reveal the secret here. If you are the owner of the mine, I saved a slave and saved a property for you. Shouldn't you thank me? If you are not the owner of the mine, why do you care if I know the secret? "

Jing Yuan in the dark smiled and said, "even so, I don't seem to have a reason to kill you. Let her go. " The man in black next to Zhuo Xi stepped back. She touched her neck. The coolness of the blade seemed to be still on it, "can I go?"

The man nodded in the dark. The man in black was worried, "master!"

"Let her go."

Zhuo Xi Shi ran tidied up his clothes, waved his hand and left.