Chapter 289 On the River in Linhai
On a small river more than 30 meters wide, a large fleet of boats headed towards the depths of Linhai at a speed of more than ten kilometers per hour.
Frederick and doctor Haijiaqi were sitting in one of the passenger boats with several apprentices and some people from Binala, looking at the cabin curiously.
This boat is a flat-bottomed boat about ten meters long. It is surrounded by wooden frames. Blind-like wooden boards are nailed to the frames as bulkheads. You can’t see the outside when you sit inside. It’s raining outside. Even the rain can't get in, and it's quite ventilated.
He didn’t ask why the ship was designed like this, but he understood it by noon.
Near noon, the scorching sun shines on the cabin. If the cabin is not ventilated, the cabin will be suffocated.
Not long after, there was a gust of wind, and stones and clods of earth came from the shore and crashed on the boat.
The boatman could only let the buffalo run faster, while he erected a wooden board to block it.
Hai Jiaqi has been a doctor here for many years, and Lin Haili often comes and goes. When he saw Frederick acting inexplicably, he said: "The shore is the territory of a group of Diona gorillas. They saw a boat or If any monster passes by, it will throw something and smash it. If the boat capsizes, they will swim over and take away everything they can."
Frederick heard from monster hunters about this kind of beast, although they don't look like it. It can breathe fire like a fire dragon, or its fur becomes as hard as rock, but its limbs are so powerful that when angry, it can slap people's heads away.
Haijiaqi couldn't stop talking after he started talking. It was crackling like the sound of wind and rain just coming from outside. After introducing animals such as the Seven Black Baboons with seven black spots on their bodies and the Heart Black Ducks that are preparing to migrate to breed. He also said: "In the forest, the most terrifying thing is all kinds of bugs. You don't know when they will get into your clothes, then pierce your flesh and suck blood, leaving half of your butt exposed."
< br>At this time, another passenger on the boat answered the call. She was Bila’s sister Ayesha: “Yes, many people have been burrowed into their legs by this kind of bug, and they can’t pull it out. It doesn’t take long for them to get fever and die. "
Aisha is in her twenties. Her husband died in the rebellion. She fled to Linhai with her two young children and some members of her husband's family.
Now that Bila has gone to wholesale supplies and deliver letters to Frederick, she will manage this caravan.
Ayesha has always been silent, and Frederick just sat aside when they chatted, and did not speak out until Haijiaqi talked about "domestic" issues.
When talking about the professional field, Hai Jiaqi said seriously: "If an insect bites into the flesh, it cannot be pulled out. Its mouth will bite the flesh, and if you pull it out hard, the head will be broken inside, and the person will be poisoned by the insect. ”
“The easiest way is to dry the clay and grind it into powder. Boil the water in a pot for about a finger width, then put the clay powder in and cook until it turns into snot. Mud."
"Let the mud cool and cover it on and around the insect's butt. The insect uses the slit on its butt to breathe, and it will crawl out by itself."
"Cover the boiling water until it is less than two fingers wide and let it cool. When the bugs come out, use it to wash the wound. Once it is clean, apply it."
Ayesha listened. He was very serious and repeated it completely after Hai Jiaqi finished speaking.
At first, Frederick wondered whether oil could be used to block the insect's valve, but he soon realized that oil was precious food, and using boiled and sterilized mud only required some firewood.
Hai Jiaqi continued: "During the rainy season, the swamp leading to the river will turn into a pond. At that time, multi-egg fish will enter the pond to lay eggs."
"Poly-egg fish They are usually as long as the wrist to the fingertips and as thick as the fingers. They will eat the bugs in the swamp, and at the same time, there will be more fish eggs in the belly, and finally the belly will be as big as a fist.”
“It’s okay at this time. Go pick up the female fish and retrieve the eggs. If you eat the eggs, the wound will heal quickly, and the patient will recover quickly if you eat them. You can also wash the eggs, drain them, and pickle them with a lot of salt."
< br>Frederick asked curiously on the side: "Is this pickled fish egg delicious?" Haijiaqi trembled as if he heard something terrible, and said: "I think it tastes terrible, fishy and fishy." It’s salty, but my wife likes it fresh. It’s a bit sweet and crunchy when bitten, but my wife hates it.”
Frederick thought about it, if this kind of fish eggs could be used as nutritional supplements, there should be good sales.
At this time, there was a horn sound amidst the rain outside, and the boatmen on the bow and stern of the boat shouted to pour the poisonous oil quickly.
At the same time, Hai Jiaqi, Ayesha and several other passengers jumped up, and together with the helmsman who got into the cabin, they quickly untied several ropes on the roof of the cabin. After the curtain was lowered, the interior of the cabin was tightly wrapped.
Hai Jiaqi pulled Frederick to sit back-to-back with him, and said to him at the same time: "There are fire-spotted snakes outside, with thick fingers. If they get in, kill them with weapons."
"Be careful not to get bitten, I can't save it."
Frederick asked: "What about the buffalo?"
Hai Jiaqi said: "The boatman will pour poisonous oil, The snakes in the water are afraid of this, but now that it’s raining, I’m afraid there will be less poisonous oil at the stern, and snakes will crawl up from there.”
As soon as he finished speaking, someone screamed from the stern.
Frederick stood up and saw a meter-long white snake with red stripes worming its way in from outside the louvered bulkhead, looking for a gap in the wooden curtain.
The screaming man subconsciously threw a ball of ice mist, and the snake was wrapped in a layer of ice.
But the snake seemed to heat up on its own, and the ice disappeared in the blink of an eye.
Frederick rushed over and killed the snake with a canned necromancy magic.
The boatman who was catching up with the boat also sped up and soon left the range of the group of fire-spotted snakes.
After the boatman confirmed that there were no snakes on the boat, all the passengers breathed a sigh of relief.
Haijiaqi said to Frederick: "The venom of this kind of snake is very terrible. After being bitten, you don't feel anything at first. After a while, the surrounding meat seems to have been cooked in water. There is no cure."
"I heard that someone dropped snake venom into a raw egg, and the egg white immediately turned as white as if it had been boiled."
Then he looked around and no one noticed him, so Whispered: "I heard that someone is studying the use of this snake venom to treat hemorrhoids."
Frederick just nodded and made no comment.
It was lunch time at this time, and Aisha took the girl who screamed just now to distribute lunch to everyone.
In the Kingdom of Kush, everything can be stuffed with rice. The dry food these days is grape leaf rice. It is made by rolling grape leaves into a roll first, then stuffing soaked rice and a little vanilla into it, sealing it, steaming it, and then drying it. It is said that the rice inside will not be a problem for two or three days.
The box where the dry food is placed is a storage box made of slime glue imported from Wesson, with moisture-absorbing charcoal placed underneath. Frederick did not suffer from diarrhea even after eating for four days. I arrived at my destination safely and soundly.
(End of this chapter)