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Section 8 Herbs

"What is this?" Du Qingyi looked at the plate of steamed cakes that Lu Youyou took out from the steamer curiously, and couldn't help but exclaim, "My sister's skills are so good. This flower glutinous rice cake is more exquisite, no less than yesterday's fruit cheese."

"It's a pity that the cherries are out of season," Lu Youyou looked regretful. When she thinks about it, she feels sour and drooling. "Otherwise, it's better to make cherries."

When Du Qingyi heard this, she couldn't help but yearn for her and asked, "Did you mean cherry? I heard that the flower glutinous rice cheese is popular in the capital, but I didn't expect that my sister is also good at this."

When she mentioned the Huaji, Lu Youyou remembered the pilosula she brought when she escaped from Lu's mansion that day. The squeezed along the way ended up becoming a sticky cake. It was terrible. She simply took a piece of the steamed cake in her hand and gave it to her, "I can't make it. But this peanut cake and mung bean cake. After a few days, I can still make milk jelly and cakes. If there is ice, I can also make shaved ice or ice cream. The taste is guaranteed to be better than Huaji, and it is not inferior to cheese cherries at all."

"Really? Sister, you are so capable!" Du Qingyi took the steamed cake, took a small bite, squinted her eyes, and smiled with her eyebrows and eyes curled up, "It's so sweet... melts in your mouth, delicious..."

"What are you eating?"

Du Qinglian suddenly walked into the kitchen, and his nose moved slightly, smelled the aroma of steamed cake. His face changed and rushed to Du Qingyi, snatched the steamed cake from her hand, twisted a little powder at the fingertips and put it into his mouth, throwing it aside immediately, jamming Du Qingyi's throat, "Spit it out soon!"

"What's going on?" Lu Youyou was startled by him, "This is the peanut cake I made with my own hands, it's not poisonous!"

Du Qingyi was already pinched by him and vomited it out. Her face changed drastically. She couldn't speak, her breathing became rapid, her eyes were even red, and a dense red rash floated on her face.

Du Qinglian picked her up, glared at Lu Youyou fiercely, and rushed out of the kitchen.

Lu Youyou stood there in a daze, looking at the steamed cake left on the plate, thinking about Du Qingyi's symptoms just now, and couldn't help but shivering. The steamed cake was not poisonous, but Du Qingyi... was afraid that she was allergic to peanuts... and she did something bad, so she was so eager to cry without tears.

After waiting for a long time, he was almost an ant on the hot pan at Du Qingyi's door. Lu Youyou finally waited until Du Qinglian opened the door and hurried forward to ask.

"What's wrong with Qingyi? Is it important? I really don't know that she will be allergic to peanuts..."

Du Qinglian looked at her coldly, "I don't know? Since I want to study medicine, have you recited the "Hundred Sketches" you have memorized?"

"Not yet..." Lu Youyou felt guilty, "Master, I'll go and recite it now."

"Wait a minute." Du Qinglian snorted softly, "I only promised to let you stay, but I haven't agreed to accept you as a disciple yet. Today you are allergic to Qingyi. If you can't recite the Hundred Sketches within three days and can't find the right medicine, just leave by yourself!"

"Ah, Master——"

Lu Youyou was shocked and was about to plead for mercy, but Du Qinglian had already left and ignored her. She couldn't help but pause, "Three days, I have to find medicine to memorize the "Hundred Sketches". How could it be possible!"

"What's impossible?" The little silver fox poked out his head, "Master, have you forgotten that I still have?"

"By the way, there's you!" Lu Youyou was happy, and she picked it up and couldn't help but kiss it. "I almost forgot that I still have you. I just collected herbs and I'm not afraid of having you here!"

"Qingyi is allergic, and the symptoms include schizonepeta, windbreak, coptis chinensis, raw rehmannia, mugwort leaves, mint, honeysuckle..."

While carrying the "Hundred Sketches" in his back, Lu Youyou tried hard to recall the herb habits recorded in it.

"Schizonepeta likes sunshine, with yellow-green leaves, four-edged stems, square stems, slightly purple, flat taste, warm nature, can calm phlegm, dispel wind, and cool blood... With it! Here!"

He happily picked the freshest buds and leaves of schizonepeta into his back basket. Lu Youyou continued to look forward. Baicao Valley was in the arms of the mountains and was in a unique position. There were hot springs, so there were overgrown herbs, and there were many good medicines specially cultivated by Du Qinglian, such as coptis chinensis, mugwort leaves, mint and honeysuckle, which could not be picked long before they could be picked. But the raw land was not easy to find.

Lu Youyou picked herbs while searching and picking a lot of mushrooms. When he saw other herbs, he compared them with the records in "Hundred Sketches" and learned with relish.

Before she knew it, she walked farther and farther away until the sky became darker, she suddenly looked up and found herself on a strange mountain. She hurriedly looked back and looked around. Not to mention the Medicine House, she could not even see the two honeysuckle trees at the door of Baicao Valley.

"Oh no, where am I?" Lu Youyou hurriedly found the little silver fox, "Xiaobai, do you recognize the way back?"

The little silver fox opened his eyes in a daze, "Ah? I recognize the way, it's easy to say, as long as I smell it... I can find the way...ah...Ah snee!"

A drop of water fell on the tip of its nose, causing it to sneeze. Suddenly a flash of lightning flashed through the air, followed by a rumbling sound. The rainstorm poured down, and in a blink of an eye, it poured into a person and a fox.

When the little silver fox heard the thunder, he shivered all over and shrank into Lu Youyou's arms, forming a ball, and refused to come out if he died.

Lu Youyou held it helplessly and hid under the tree to shelter from the rain. As soon as she squatted down, a thunderbolt fell on the tree, slashing the big tree so that sparks burst out and broke half of it. Only then did she remember that she could not shelter from the tree during thunderstorms, so she had to run out of the woods in a panic and run towards the most open place.

I don’t know if the thunder god in the sky really targeted the little silver fox. Lightning thunder followed one by one, scaring the little silver fox to tremble.

Lu Youyou was also worried that something would happen, so she ran all the way in the rain. After finally seeing a temple-like building in front of her, she hurried over and vaguely saw the three words "Qingxuguan" written on the lintel through the rain curtain, and finally breathed a sigh of relief.

"Is anyone? The little woman is taking herbs and encountering rain. She is here to avoid it for a while..."

While shouting, he pushed the door open and entered, Lu Youyou found that there was no one in the Qingxu Temple, so quiet that he could only hear the sound of thunder and rain.

When I went in, I saw that the courtyard was desolate, the grass at the entrance of the main hall was more than one foot high, and a dilapidated statue in the hall was covered with dust. I could no longer see who it was.

It’s better if there’s no one, it’s time to take shelter from the rain.

As soon as Lu Youyou breathed a sigh of relief, she walked into the main hall, but she tripped under her feet and stepped on something soft and almost fell to the ground. When she looked closely, she was shocked.

"It's... a corpse?! It's dead!"

She turned around and wanted to run away, but the little silver fox didn't dare to go out for adventure again. She jumped out of her arms. As soon as she landed on the "corpse", she heard him moan, suddenly turned over and grabbed Lu Youyou's ankle.
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