Shao Xuan put down the animal skin curtain and said, "Hello, my name is Xuan. The Shaman asked me to come here to learn."
The person who was processing the herbs on the stone plate raised her head and looked at Shao Xuan. She smiled and said, "I'm Gui Ze."
Although she had a smile on her face, Shao Xuan didn't think she was friendly or malicious. She was just like the shamaness, smiling faintly at everyone. She looked friendly but that was just a facade.
She was really taught by the Shaman. Even her smile was the same.
Compared to other people who had awakened their totemic power, Gui Ze was relatively thin and weak. After all, in the tribe, no matter if it was a boy or a girl, after awakening their totemic power, their physique would be strengthened a lot, and they would look stronger.
The temperature in the room was a little higher than outside. Just like what people in the tribe said, this room was connected to the fire pit. Shao Xuan did not know how the heat was transmitted. After all, there were no suspicious objects around the room.
Walking to the stone table, Shao Xuan asked, "What do I need to do first?"
Putting down the stone plate in his hand, Gui Ze thought for a while, and said, "You can watch from the side and see what I'm going to do."
"Okay." Shao Xuan had no objection. He wanted to observe first. He still did not know how to process the herbs here.
The plants here were too strange, but similar to what Shao Xuan learned in his previous life, most of these medicinal plants needed to be selected and processed. Some parts of the same plant could be used to save people, while some could be used to poison others.
Up to now, Shao Xuan only knew a few basic ways to use the herbs he saw when he went out with the hunting team. He also learned a little about harvesting when he followed the advance group. For example, when was the best time to harvest, which plants could be harvested from the ground, which needed to be uprooted, and some could only be harvested when flowering.
As for now, the first thing he needed to know was how to select the plants after they were delivered here.
Gui Ze was doing the same thing now, and he had already processed more than half of the plants. After all, it had been twenty days since the last hunting team came back, and the plants that could not be kept for a long time had already been processed, and the plants that could be kept for a long time were processed last.
Shao Xuan walked over and stood beside Gui Ze, watching her every step carefully.
When the turtle saw Shao Xuan approaching, it bit Shao Xuan's leg.
Shao Xuan's line of sight had been fixed on Gui Ze's actions as he processed the herbs. He did not look at the tortoise, but his hanging hand moved quickly. He drew out his stone knife and slapped the back of the knife at the tortoise's beak that looked like an eagle's hook.
Pa!
The tortoise shook its head after being slapped. It still looked at Shao Xuan with disdain. It probably remembered how Shao Xuan treated it in the past.
But then, to Shao Xuan's surprise, the tortoise did not bite him again. It was completely different from when they were in the stone vat at the foot of the mountain, when it could not wait to kill a target as soon as it saw one.
Shao Xuan did not understand. Why did the tortoise, which used to love biting people, settle down when it came here? Was it because of the Witch? He did not understand.
Anyway, the tortoise did not pester and bite people anymore, which saved Shao Xuan a lot of trouble.
It was almost winter, and the temperature had dropped a little. If he used the standard of pet tortoises in his previous life, the tortoise's appetite and activity should have been greatly reduced. But now, this weird-looking tortoise with even weirder attributes had completely overturned Shao Xuan's previous understanding of it.
The tortoise looked energetic, much livelier than when it was thrown into the water vat by Shao Xuan ten days ago. Although it did not crawl fast, the tortoise's steps were domineering.
"Few of the new plants brought back by the hunting team can be eaten directly. Most of them have dirt and other impurities in them …"
Gui Ze explained some basic knowledge to Shao Xuan when he was processing the herbs in the stone plate.
Newly brought back plants had a lot of dirt and other impurities in them, and some of them also had a high water content. If they were not processed in time, they would also go through qualitative changes. Maybe they would grow moldy like ordinary plants, or maybe they would go through other changes. Therefore, the plants brought back by the advance group were directly sent here, and the medicine house would immediately process the ones that were most likely to go through qualitative changes.
"After the initial washing of the plants, we need to remove the dirt and sort them out. Then we need to remove the non-medicinal parts. For example, the outer shell of this fruit must be removed. Its outer shell can make people have diarrhea." Gui Ze said.
Obviously, this kind of fruit was very poisonous. It could make people in the tribe, who were physically strong, suffer from severe diarrhea and even urinate and defecate. Even warriors could not stand it.
Shao Xuan watched Gui Ze skillfully cut open the hard outer shell of the fruit with a sharpened stone knife. He peeled off the outer shell of the fruit with long hairs like whiskers, but the translucent and solidified flesh inside was not damaged at all. Obviously, Gui Ze was very familiar with this kind of treatment.
Shao Xuan wanted to ask what to do with the poisonous outer shell of the fruit, but before he could ask, he saw Gui Ze throw the outer shell into the tortoise's open mouth.
Shao Xuan was speechless.
What the hell! Wasn't it poisonous?!
One threw it away calmly, while the other could not wait to eat it!
Shao Xuan was stunned.
Did the Shaman send the tortoise here just to be a lab rat? Or a trash can to dispose of waste?
Gui Ze did not notice Shao Xuan's strange behavior. Because she wanted to demonstrate to Shao Xuan, she did not continue to deal with the same thing. Instead, she walked to another stone plate and picked up a plant that looked like a withered leaf. She continued, "Not every kind of fruit needs to be removed like the fruit. For example, you need to remove the stalk. The stalk will make people's hands and feet numb."
Shao Xuan watched as she skillfully peeled off the stalk, then threw all the peeled leaves into the tortoise's mouth again.
Shao Xuan was speechless.
Looking at the tortoise chewing with its beak, Shao Xuan thought to himself: Severe diarrhea?! Hands and feet numb?! It's all fed to the tortoise!
Moreover, the tortoise was fine after eating it!
"These are all harmful. Why are you still feeding it?" Shao Xuan asked.
When he gave the tortoise to the Shaman, he thought that the Shaman would stew it directly. He did not expect it to be sent here, and it was so obedient. What surprised Shao Xuan the most was that Gui Ze actually cut off the parts of the plant that were identified as harmful to people and fed them to the tortoise. The tortoise even ate it, big mouthfuls.
"The Shaman said that you can try to feed it some." Gui Ze did not feel that there was anything wrong. Since the Shaman said it, it must be correct. She just had to carry it out.
Sure enough, it was an undead species. Shao Xuan had a new understanding of the strange species in this place.
He followed Gui Ze around the stone table. After looking at the preliminary treatment methods for many kinds of plants, Gui Ze continued with her task.
After looking for a while, Shao Xuan asked, "Is there any relevant information, such as animal skin scrolls? I can take a look first."
After all, the advance group had spent a lot of effort to find these plants. They couldn't let a newbie like Shao Xuan operate them. Even if the steps were very simple, they couldn't let him operate them. Unless the Shamaness agreed, Gui Ze couldn't make this decision. Shao Xuan could not help even if he wanted to.
Gui Ze thought about it and felt that it was right. She also began to read the drawings and related records on the animal skin scrolls very early. After she understood the basic knowledge, she began to learn from the Shaman. However, compared to Shao Xuan, she had someone to explain to her when she read the animal skin scrolls. She was willing to explain to Shao Xuan, but unfortunately, there were still a lot of plants that had not been processed.
Gui Ze pointed to a small stone table in the corner where there were many animal skin scrolls. She said, "They are all over there. You can read them."
"Then I will go first. You can continue. I will ask you later if I don't understand."
Shao Xuan came to the stone table. Some of the animal skin scrolls on the table looked old, but the one on the side was relatively new. It should have been made this year.
Shao Xuan first took a slightly old animal skin scroll and opened it to have a look.
There were several drawings of plants, and there was a brief description next to them. However, it was not detailed, and the drawings were not detailed.
How to identify them?
In the eyes of a layman, looking at these drawings, more than four out of ten would feel that they looked the same. Weren't they all leaves, roots, barks, seeds and so on? They all looked the same!
There was only one color, the drawing style was rough, and the annotations were too thin. There was no real object to compare with, and no one to explain. Just by looking at these animal skin scrolls, one could not understand much.
After flipping through a few old animal skin scrolls, Shao Xuan found that they were all similar in style. Then he set his eyes on the newer one. The quality of the animal skin scroll looked much better than the other scrolls.
After opening the slightly new animal skin scroll and seeing the contents, Shao Xuan was stunned.
If the previous scrolls were rough, then the drawings on this one were extremely simple. Just like the symbols drawn by the Shaman today, no one could understand what these drawings were.
Staring at a drawing that looked like a blob of ink, Shao Xuan wondered if this was a lump of paint that fell from the Shaman's brush when he was drawing.
Unexpectedly, in the next moment, Shao Xuan seemed to see a round brown fruit gradually emerge from the drawing.
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