Su Qingyan hurriedly helped Xiao Xu up. At this time, an old man with white hair and beard came from a distance, leaning on a cane and carrying a basket on his back. He was looking around in the grass, as if he was looking for something.
Xiao Xu thought to himself, "Could this old man be an old man who collects herbs? If he is an old man who collects herbs, you can ask him for help!"
Xiao Xu asked the old man, "Xianweng, are you collecting medicine?"
The old man smiled and responded, "Young man, I'm catching a snake!"
Xiao Xu's heart dropped when he heard this, and he thought to himself, "It turns out that this old man is a snake catcher, so I'm hopeless."
Su Qingyan asked in a curious voice, "Grandpa, what are you doing catching snakes?"
The old man smiled and stroked his long beard and said, "I want to find a cockscomb snake to use as a medicine guide."
After hearing the old man's words, Xiao Xu suddenly became interested and thought to himself, "Great, this old man is not only a pharmacist, but he also uses the Cockscomb Snake as a medicine guide, which will definitely remove the Cockscomb Snake's venom."
"Young man, little girl, why did you come to such a dangerous place? Don't you know that there are extremely poisonous cockscomb snakes here?" The old man looked at Xiao Xu and Su Qingyan and asked in surprise.
Xiao Xu sighed heavily and said, "Hey, Master Xian, why didn't you come earlier? If you had come earlier, wouldn't I be fine?"
The immortal looked at Xiao Xu in surprise and asked, "What's the matter with you?"
Xiao Xu rolled up his pants, revealing his swollen and discolored legs and sighed, "Hey, I've been plotted against by the Cockscomb Snake!"
"Young man, how can you deceive an old man at such a young age? Do you think this is appropriate for you?" the old man said with a questioning look.
Xiao Xu pointed at the wound with his finger and said seriously, "Look, is this injury fake?"
The old man walked over, looked at Xiao Xu's wounds, and murmured to himself, "It's weird, this is the first time I've encountered a person who was bitten by a cockscomb snake and didn't die immediately."
The old man was silent for a moment and smiled slightly, "I am a pharmacist. I live on the mountain next to you. It is the duty of a pharmacist to save lives and heal the wounded. I am willing to help you detoxify."
After saying that, the old man came over and helped Xiao Xu feel his pulse. After taking the pulse, the old man said with an incredible look on his face, "It's strange, your pulse is stable, as if you were not poisoned!"
Xiao Xu was secretly happy after hearing this, and said with a slight smile, "Then the immortal means that my poison does not need to be cured?"
The old man thought about it and said, "Although your poison will not hurt your life for a while, if you don't get rid of it, the poison will remain in your body. If this poison stays in the body for too long, it may cause
Festering all over."
"Isn't this old man just being alarmist? It's better to believe that he has something than to believe that he doesn't have it!" Xiao Xu thought secretly in his heart.
The old man fumbled around on his body for a while and said in surprise, "Oops! I forgot to bring the antidote."
Xiao Xu was slightly startled when he heard this, and thought to himself, "Could it be that God wants to kill me, Xiao Xu? This unfortunate incident of forgetting to bring the antidote also happened to me."
The old man looked at Xiao Xu, squinted his eyes and said with a smile, "I think you won't die for a while, how about you follow me back to my residence, and let's go get the antidote!"
Xiao Xu nodded slightly and said, "Okay! That's really annoying!"
"Wait for me, I want to go too!" Su Qingyan begged softly.
"Okay! You two can go together." The old man said with a smile.
"But aren't you going to catch cockscomb snakes to make medicine?" Xiao Xu asked puzzledly.
The old man smoothed his long beard, smiled and replied, "Rescuing people is more important. As for catching the cockscomb snake, let's put it aside for a while!"