Seeing Shi Luo and Su Fei talking and laughing, the other villagers seemed to have lifted their guard against Su Fei and the three outsiders.
Hu Mang and Xie Yufei are extremely beautiful young ladies. Some older uncles and aunts are better, but the young guys can't help but secretly look at Xie Yufei and Hu Mang, whenever they look up or turn their eyes
Sometimes I was too busy to look away, and sometimes I even made a big blush.
The children in the village also liked these two beautiful ladies very much. Xie Yufei took out the candies from Hu Mang and started giving them to the children around her, which immediately won a lot of laughter. The three of them quickly eliminated the initial barrier with the villagers.
But Su Fei still vaguely felt that some scrutinizing eyes were staring at him. Looking towards the mountain road, he saw several people wearing uniform national costumes, but different from the other three ethnic groups standing there. They had cross-body clothes.
There were many large and small cloth bags and small porcelain jars with unusually cold eyes, and the indifferent old man from before was standing in front of them.
"Is this the last nation after crossing the mountain bridge?" Su Fei murmured.
Shi Luo is the leader of the Miao people. He took Su Fei and the three of them around the village at the foot of the mountain, and finally led them to the door of his house. There were also some villagers behind him, but they were basically Miao neighbors who lived here.
, and more than half of them are children who have eaten Humang candy.
Shi Luo's home is a stilted building, with sixteen cypress logs underneath forming the base. It is the simplest single-slung stilted building, commonly known as "one-head hanging" or "key head".
Su Fei originally thought that the room would be very humid, but after entering, she found that it was not what she thought. Moreover, there was a slightly sour but not pungent smell in the air. Su Fei guessed that it was some kind of mountain smell.
Something similar to aromatherapy made from dried medicinal materials should have the effect of repelling mosquitoes.
There are only two wooden beds in the room, but an old woman has spliced ​​several stools together and made a third bed after throwing herself on the wooden boards. This woman, like Shi Luo, has a kind smile on her face.
, it seems that he should be Shi Luo’s wife.
"The room is simple, so please make do with it." Shi Luo asked the old woman to go out first, and then handed Su Fei a small porcelain bottle: "Here are some medicinal powders I made myself. Remember to put them away when you go to bed.
Sprinkle a little on the window sill and door cracks, otherwise small blind snakes may crawl in at night."
"The incense burner on the table also burns this kind of medicinal powder. The smell can also repel mosquitoes."
"Thank you."
"You're welcome. You can rest. I'll ask my wife to come and call you when dinner is ready."
After Shi Luo left, the three of them immediately started to clean up the room. Su Fei did not intend to use the bedding provided by Shi Luo, but took out the moisture-proof pad and sleeping bag from the cross-country backpack. The same was true for Xie Yufei and Hu Mang.
After packing up his things, Su Fei's attention turned to the bottle of medicinal powder Shi Luo gave him.
When Su Fei entered the room, he discovered that the insect-repellent aromatherapy burning in the room was a special formula, and he had no memory of certain medicinal materials used in it. You must know that Su Fei has been using the "Compendium of Materia Medica" since he integrated it.
, it’s been a long time since I’ve encountered a drug I didn’t recognize.
Su Fei twisted the cork of the porcelain bottle, and what came to his face was a sourness that was several times stronger than what originally filled the room. Hu Mang, as a member of the tiger tribe, has a sense of smell that is more sensitive than ordinary people. The moment the bottle cork was opened, he
I was so smoked that my nose was red and sour, and I almost shed tears.
"Brother Su Fei, what are you doing? It's so sour!" Hu Mang covered his mouth and nose, then quickly took out a mask from the outer pocket of his backpack and put it on himself.
"Humang, please bear with me for a while."
Su Fei was also a little embarrassed, so he could only try to speed up his tasting movements. Su Fei dipped a little medicinal powder on the pad of his index finger, then rubbed it with his thumb and index finger, and was wrapped by the true energy of "Tai Yan Jue"
A trace of soreness and numbness gradually appeared on Su Fei's fingertips, and then slowly spread to the next joint.
"Well, it does have some toxicity, and it is a fire-type toxin, but the amount is not large. Unless it is eaten directly, it will not have any impact on the human body."
Su Fei knew in his heart that the main medicine of this thing should be a kind of herb that Su Fei didn't know. When combined with other medicines, the smell it constantly emits can repel mosquitoes, snakes, lizards, spiders and other reptiles and arthropods.
Animals, and even Su Fei felt that these things had a certain effect on repelling poisons that were common in the mountains and forests.
But what Su Fei cares about is not this, but why Shi Luo prepared such a thing. Although the thing is very practical in the mountains, Su Fei has learned that although the ethnic minorities living in the mountainous areas of Nanhuai Province have their own ways to repel mosquitoes,
Poisons are nothing more than hanging certain plants on doors, windows or beams to drive them away with their smell.
As for the preparation of this particularly effective anti-insect and anti-snake drug, Su Fei is also sensitive to the magic method. There are vague traces of refining on these powders, which are definitely not available to ordinary mountain people.
Ordinary mountain people would make such things, and regard them as essential items for daily life.
This village seems not to be simple.
During dinner, Shi Luo specially asked his wife to stir-fry some mountain side dishes. A stir-fried wild vegetable that Su Fei didn't recognize, a vegetable tofu, and a stewed fish. Each dish had one thing in common, that is, chili peppers.
There are a lot of peppers.
There is a lot of humidity in the mountains, so eating more chili peppers can get rid of the cold and keep your body healthy.
Su Fei also intentionally chatted with Shi Luo during dinner, and while chatting, he talked about the medicinal powder Shi Luo gave.
"Oh, you're talking about this." Shi Luo smiled and pointed to the mountain through the window: "This thing is an old recipe passed down from our ancestors. Unfortunately, I have lost the skill in this generation. I don't know why it can repel insects and snakes.
I don’t know, I just prepared it according to the recipe left by my ancestors.”
Su Fei asked again: "Can you show me what the main ingredient is in this?"
"no problem."
Shi Luo nodded to his wife, who put down the bowls and chopsticks and stood up, taking out a bunch of leaves from the kitchen door. The leaves are shaped like banana leaves, but are much smaller than banana leaves. Each leaf is about twenty years long.
Centimeter, about three centimeters wide, Su Fei stepped forward and took a sniff, and sure enough, he smelled the faint sour smell emanating from it.
"I don't know what you call it outside. Here we call it Suozi. You can see it everywhere from our mountains to the swamps behind. As long as there are Suozi, there will be no mosquitoes gathering there."
, there will be no venomous snakes, scorpions, or spiders in the soil below.”
"Sometimes when we are forced to spend the night in the wild, we collect this kind of sesame and spread it on the ground so that we can sleep peacefully all night. This is much better than those mosquito repellents sold in the city."
While listening to Shi Luo's words, Su Fei carefully observed this thing called Suo Zi. Su Fei saw it clearly. Judging from the shape, it should also fit the same type of fern as the cypress, but the species is different, but she doesn't know why.
This thing is not recorded in general medical books and prescriptions.
Su Fei pulled off two leaves and stuffed them into his mouth. He was so fast that Shi Luo didn't even react.
"Oh, you can't eat this thing, spit it out quickly." Shi Luo shouted hurriedly, and asked his wife to get hot water for Su Fei.
"It's okay, I'm just a little curious about this poison. Don't worry, I'm a Chinese medicine practitioner myself and I have an idea of ​​its toxicity."
Su Fei casually explained that this toxicity might cause fever and diarrhea to ordinary people, but he had no such worries, and it would also help Su Fei learn more about the characteristics of this poison.
Sure enough, Su Fei felt a soreness and numbness infiltrate his mouth after chewing it. This was caused by the toxicity of Sazi. It seems that Sazi can not only repel mosquitoes, but also has an anesthetic-like effect, but it is very limited. In addition,
Su Fei already had a general understanding of the fire-attribute toxin that he had detected before, and why it could repel insects and snakes.
In humid places like the mountains, even poisons are mostly of water or earth nature, and the fire-attribute toxins in the poison are naturally their nemesis, not to mention that as the age of things increases, the fire-attribute toxins in the poison
It is also increasing, enough to drive away insects and snakes.
But Shi Luo was still worried and asked his wife to get a glass of warm water for Su Fei. He also took out some powder from the small leather bag he carried and sprinkled it into the warm water. He brought it to Su Fei and said, "Drink it quickly. Only by drinking can you detoxify."
"
In order to reassure Shi Luo, Su Fei drank the whole cup of warm water in one breath, and found that there was a faint fishy saltiness in the water, just like the taste of coarse salt. After tasting it carefully, Su Fei found that this should be another kind of water that he did not like.
It is a deadly medicinal material, and the cold water property in it can neutralize the fire property poison of Suo Zi.
The corners of his mouth that were still a little numb soon returned to their original state.
"What is this?" Su Fei pointed to Shi Luo's finger, which still had the foam left by the medicinal powder just now, turning it into a light yellow color.
Shi Luo smiled and took out a plastic medicine bottle the size of a baby's palm from the small cowhide bag: "This is also a medicine we always keep, which can detoxify the poison of Sazi."
"You don't know that there is a dense layer of white thorns on the leaves and branches of Sua seeds. These little thorns are soft when they are young, but they will harden after the third round of Sua leaves are completely unfolded. Collected
I often get pricked by them."
"When the time comes, you have to use the powder made by drying and grinding the dodder leaves to wipe the places where the dodder has grown. Otherwise, you will feel numb all over your body and have difficulty breathing."
Shi Luo's wife immediately took off the dodder leaves hanging on the beam and placed them in front of Su Fei and the other three. Su Fei stepped forward to check carefully and found that it should be a plant similar to moss. Judging from its appearance, it seemed to like growing in
Dark, damp place.
"Sazi and dodder leaves are interesting." Su Fei murmured, then turned to look at Shi Luo and said with a smile: "Mr. Shi Luo, can I buy you some powder made from suede and dodder leaves? I
spare."
"Yes, of course, the guests who came to the village some time ago also bought a lot after seeing these things, hehehehe."
"Um!?"
Xie Yufei and Hu Mang immediately became alert. Su Fei was curious: "Besides us, have you seen anyone else coming from outside recently? How many are there? What do they look like?"
Shi Luo didn't speak this time. His wife put away the dishes and said with a smile: "It seems to have been almost a week ago. There were quite a lot of people here, more than twenty. They also drove off-road vehicles like you and led the team.
He is still a young man, by the way, about the same age as you, and he is easy to talk to."
"At that time, he wanted to buy all the suozi and dodder leaves in the village, but Shi Luo didn't agree and only sold him a part."
To be continued...