Chapter 97 The Turtle
"You are..."
Wu looked at Shao Xuan, but he wanted to say something but stopped. He really didn't know what to say. He hadn't received a living thing for many years.
“For you!”
Shao Xuan placed the turtle in the open space next to him, thought about it, put it on its belly facing upside down, and every time the turtle was about to turn over, he would push it with his hand and turn it back.
"Send it here, and ask by the way, when will I start learning herbal medicine with you?" Shao Xuan said.
The witch's eyes moved back from the turtle that was busy turning over. After thinking for a while, he said, "You go up the mountain in ten days." During this period, he still had some things to deal with, and he still had several scrolls to draw, and he couldn't get enough time.
"Okay, I'll come to you in ten days." Seeing that the witch had many empty animal skins to write and paint, Shao Xuan knew that the witch had a lot of things, so he stopped talking, and said goodbye and left after bowing. As for the turtle, someone was watching the witch and could not hurt anyone.
After Shao Xuan left, Wu Jingjing looked at the turtle that was turning over from the open space next to him.
The turtle, which was originally murderous, is not as aggressive as it is in Shao Xuan's room. It just opened its eagle hook beak slightly, looked at the witch, and did not step forward to bite it.
After staring at the turtle for a while, the witch called the person guarding outside in and asked him to change the turtle on the ground.
When Shao Xuan returned home, Lao Ke was waiting at the door, looking very nervous. The people in the tribe were particularly concerned about Wu, and Lao Ke also wanted to know if Wu would be satisfied when he received the items he gave.
"How is it? Does Wu Xi like it?" Before Shao Xuan entered the door, Lao Ke asked hurriedly. Because the hand holding the crutch was too hard, the cyan meridians were obviously raised and the crutch was almost cut off.
Shao Xuan recalled Wu's expression at that time and said, "It should be satisfied. Wu asked me to go up the mountain in ten days."
Hearing Shao Xuan's words, Lao Ke breathed a sigh of relief. Since Wu had already asked Shao Xuan to go to the mountain, there was nothing he was dissatisfied with.
In fact, Shao Xuan felt that Lao Ke was not necessary to worry like this. After having more contact with Wu, even if he didn't have much conversation, Shao Xuan could realize that Wu was not an ignorant old antique, and he would not change his attitude towards people because he liked the gifts he presented.
"Since you go up the mountain in ten days, before that, you can go to the hunting team to learn about medicine planting, and you can satisfy the witch at that time." Lao Ke wanted to find some former comrades, but many of the people he knew who knew more about medicine plant were in another hunting team and had already gone out. When the hunting team came back, Shao Xuan had already gone up the mountain.
Generally speaking, during the year, the activities of wild beasts in the forest are in a wave shape, reaching the peak peak during the two-moon full moon period. After the full moon period, the activities of wild beasts in the forest will gradually begin to show a decreasing trend. By the end of the year, some prey has been hidden and ready to hibernate. In order to ensure that there is enough food in winter, the hunting team will go out to hunt longer than before and after the full moon.
Therefore, even if there are twenty days, the hunting team may not come back immediately. After Shao Xuan goes up the mountain, he will have to wait for another three or four days before he returns there. If he encounters other troubles, it may be longer.
"I can't help you with herbs." Lao Ke can't remember some of the knowledge about herbs I mastered back then, because he was afraid that teaching mistakes would make Shao Xuan embarrassed in front of the witch. That's a witch!
However, Shao Xuan was not as nervous and anxious as Lao Ke at all. What should he do? He polished the stone tools, took Caesar and Zhazha to train, practiced the newly learned trap lasso, etc.
In this season, many trees on the hills of the training ground have fruits, and many people have picked them over. Many fruits have ripened for a short time. The day before, they looked just a green fruit the size of a peanut. When they went to see it the next day, it had become as big as an apple and the color would change. If they were not picked at this time, the fruit would rot in another day.
Therefore, there are many people who go to the training ground to pick fruits every day, but most of them are from the foot of the mountain. After all, they have relatively few food reserves, so it is always good to be able to save more food.
When it was finally the day when it was going up the mountain again, before Shao Xuan set off, Lao Ke repeatedly told him to study hard and not to make the witch angry. What a great honor it would be to learn from the witch, and never be careless!
No matter what he thought in his heart, Shao Xuan nodded seriously, "Don't worry!"
Lao Ke: "..."
I was relieved, but now when I heard this, my heart was hanging high again. No matter how I thought about it, I looked at Shao Xuan's back up the mountain, Lao Ke stood there worried.
Shao Xuan did not take Caesar up the mountain, but Zhazha followed him all the way to the top of the mountain.
When he came to the stone house where the witch was specially asked for someone to talk, Shao Xuan saw the two soldiers in charge of guarding staring at the sky.
The two warriors naturally knew the eagle that was hovering in the sky at this moment. After all, it was taken to Wu when it was very young, and was blessed by Wu. No one dared to throw it and shoot it.
Shao Xuan made a gesture into the sky, then squeaked and flew back down the mountain.
This is not the first time the two soldiers have seen Shao Xuan do this, but every time they see, they can't help but be surprised and envious. They have never thought that a bird with great attack in the forest can be so obedient. It is precisely because of this that their attitude towards Shao Xuan is much better than that of ordinary people living at the foot of the mountain. When they see Shao Xuan coming, they can smile on their faces every time.
Except for the first few times, Shao Xuan didn't have to show signs when he came here. He walked into the house directly, and no one would stop him.
Wu was still sorting out the animal skin scroll. Shao Xuan glanced at it quickly and couldn't understand it. It seemed to be a painting, but it was too abstract. It was much simpler than the paintings on the animal skin scroll in other people's hands and the murals in the cave before. It seemed to be just a symbol. Each one was only one or two strokes, but Wu drew every stroke very slowly, and it seemed that it took a lot of effort to complete the content.
Shao Xuan didn't bother him, and after he arrived, he sat aside.
After about five minutes, Wu put down his pen, let out a long sigh, and looked at Shao Xuan with a faint smile: "I have told Gui Ze that you can go directly to the medicine house and she will tell you how to do it."
Shao Xuan doesn't know who Gui Ze is. He is probably a figure like Wu's disciple. Judging from Wu's current appearance, he can't walk away. The animal skin scroll was only one-third drawn, and it was not good to stop in the middle. Shao Xuan understood and knew that Wu could not walk away now.
"Okay, then I'll go there first." Shao Xuan said.
The medicine house is the place where the witch uses herbs to configure herbs. Among the many houses near the top of the mountain, four houses are the most upright, namely the stone house where the witch summons people, the stone house where the leader summons people, the stone house where the tribe's high-level general meeting place, and the medicine house.
These four houses are in four directions. If the two opposite stone houses are connected, they will form an interlaced "Ten".
It is reported that these four houses are connected to the fire pit and can be like a greenhouse in winter. As for how to connect, it is the ability of the witch and the fire.
On weekdays, except for those who are seriously ill and the wounded sent by the hunting team, others are not allowed to approach the medicine. Shao Xuan only knows the specific location of the medicine house, but has never been in.
There was also someone guarding the medicine house. After Shao Xuan handed out the pattern sign, the man asked him to go in. It was obvious that Wu had already said hello.
You can smell the medicine from a distance, and when you get closer, the smell becomes even more intense.
After lifting the animal skin curtain in the medicine house, Shao Xuan walked in.
What caught my eye was a large square stone table placed there. At this time, a little girl who didn't look big was working at the square table.
The sleeves of her skin-wearing jacket were just passing through her elbows, and the skin-wearing pants under her were not at the ankle. At this time, she was walking barefoot on an uneven but carefully beaten soil, along the stone table, and dealing with the herbs placed everywhere on the stone table.
Chapter completed!