After coming out of Cao Mansion, Wu Liang took Dian Wei and headed straight out of the city.

He was going to find a kind of wormwood - Artemisia annua.

Although the Artemisia annua mentioned in "Emergency Prescriptions" is called "Artemisia annua", the specific drug for treating malaria is also called "Artemisinin", but in fact, later scientific research has shown that Artemisia annua and Artemisia annua are basically two kinds of diseases.

Different plants have completely different medicinal effects.

The only type of Artemisia that actually contains artemisinin is Artemisia annua.

It seems that Cao Shuo was very lucky, and he contracted malaria at the right time and in the right place.

The geographical environment of Juancheng is more suitable for the growth of Artemisia annua, and unlike Artemisia annua, Artemisia annua is a relatively cold-resistant plant, and its flowering period is from August to November every year.

Therefore, although it is late autumn now, the Artemisia annua has not died yet.

If it had been a little later, Wu Liang might really be powerless. After all, he didn't study botany, and he really couldn't find the wilted and deformed Artemisia annua among the pile of yellow weeds.

Besides, even if it is found, I don’t know if it has any value in treating malaria.

Sure enough, it didn't take long for Wu Liang to discover patches of wild Artemisia annua on the side of the road outside the city.

This thing, whether now or in future generations, has extremely strong adaptability, so basically as long as it is in a suitable temperature zone, it can be seen everywhere like a weed, and can even thrive in salted soil.

Wu Liang carefully identified the shape of the slightly wilted piece of Artemisia annua, and then picked off some branches and leaves and smelled it.

Pungent and smelly!

It shouldn't be wrong.

Wu Liang immediately took out his dagger and cut a large handful of Artemisia annua, and asked Dian Wei to also pull out a large handful for later use.

This is the advantage of Dian Wei. He never asked Wu Liang why he did what he did. As long as Wu Liang said it, he would carry it out without hesitation.

This is different from ordinary people's execution ability, no wonder Boss Cao liked it so much in history.

…

When we returned to Cao Mansion, it was only half an hour later.

The Cao family were all waiting eagerly. When they saw Wu Liang coming in, the ladies headed by Mrs. Ding immediately stood up with expressions of anticipation on their faces.

"Are you ready?"

The little girl Cao Ni rushed towards Wu Liang, but as soon as she reached him, she held her nose and stepped back, wrinkled her face and said angrily: "Well, it stinks, it stinks like hell!"

This is natural. Artemisia annua contains a volatile oil, and the smell comes from this volatile oil.

Now that the Artemisia annua brought by Wu Liang has been cut or torn, the volatile oil will naturally evaporate more easily, and the smell can be smelled from far away.

Moreover, not only people don’t like this smell, but even cattle, sheep, chickens and ducks don’t like to eat it.

"Wu Sima, what did you bring?"

The stench soon filled the whole room, and Mrs. Ding and other ladies couldn't help but cover their noses with their hands.

"Grave grass is a wild grass grown in random graves."

Wu Liang said with a smile.

Upon hearing this, Mrs. Ding immediately pulled Cao Ni behind her, frowned and said: "No wonder it smells so bad and is so unlucky, why should you throw it out quickly, so as not to infect others with the filthy smell!"

The other ladies took a step back in unison.

This kind of thing that is associated with the dead is naturally an evil thing in the eyes of people of this era and should not be touched... Moreover, Wu Liang had not said before that Cao Shuo suddenly became ill only if he was contaminated with the evil spirit of the graveyard.

Can't get out of bed?

"What I don't know, Madam, is that this thing is a medium to expel the evil spirits from the Second Young Master's body. As the saying goes, fight poison with poison. When I sing the divine tune for the Second Young Master later, I still need to use this thing as a lead to draw out the evil spirits."

Wu Liang continued in a serious manner.

"In that case..."

Mrs. Ding hesitated for a moment, then glanced at Cao Shuo, who was lying on the bed shivering, and finally nodded despite the stench, "Then you should do something quickly, and don't waste Shuo'er's life."

"yes."

Wu Liang said again, "Madam, please order someone to bring another iron basin and a bowl. In addition, there is this strong man outside the door. Please ask him to come in and help me."

"You still won't do it?"

Mrs. Ding glanced at the servant next to her, and someone immediately stepped forward to do something.

After a while.

The iron basin and bowl were brought in, and Dian Wei brought a fist-sized pebble in advance, put a large handful of Artemisia annua into the iron basin, and started grinding it with the pebble without saying a word.

Later generations used a very cumbersome extraction method to extract artemisinin, which not only required the assistance of chemical agents, but also required dozens of layers of extraction steps, which Wu Liang could not do at all.

However, it is mentioned at the end of "Emergency Prescriptions" that "take a handful of Artemisia annua, soak it with two liters of water, wring out the juice, and drink it all." However, the medicinal effect may not be sufficient.

So Wu Liang decided to use a more direct method.

Grind Artemisia annua directly into mud, add some water to rinse it, then simply filter out the large impurities with linen cloth, and then pour the filtered liquid into Cao Shuo's mouth.

Anyway, Artemisia annua is just pungent and does not contain other toxic ingredients.

"Squeak-squeak-squeak-"

Accompanied by the sound of Dianwei grinding mugwort.

"Madam, I'm ready to start. Please control the family on your behalf. Don't interrupt or ask any questions during the operation. Everything will be done as I say."

Wu Liang turned around and said to Mrs. Ding.

"allow."

Mrs. Ding naturally nodded in agreement.

"Ahem!"

Wu Liang cleared his throat and briefly recalled a familiar melody in his mind. Finally, while pretending to shake his head, he showed off the Mai Ba singing voice that dominated KTV in the late Eastern Han Dynasty for the first time:

"Ahhhh——"

"Ahhhhh-"

"Ah Sedi, ah Sai knife, ah Sai brother bring a knife——"

"..."

"..."

"..."

"Get an egg, get an egg, get an egg, get an egg, get a knife -"

"Ah, my waist—ah, my waist—"

"Auntie's swimsuit, Auntie takes off her clothes, Auntie's swimsuit, Auntie takes off her clothes——"

"Auntie, come quickly -"

"Ahhhhhhhhhh-"

"Auntie, please suppress it—please suppress it—"

"..."

This piece of music was a hit in later generations. Although it has mixed reviews, it can definitely be hummed by just pulling someone over on the street. It is worthy of the term "Divine Comedy", and it naturally deserves the title of "Divine Comedy".

The word "tune".

However, when the Cao family heard Wu Liang's destructive voice singing this "divine tune", they were shocked and felt a real pain in their backs.

They were considered a wealthy family, and they had heard some music before.

The beauty of musical instruments in the Han Dynasty is "sad sound", so the melody of the music is mostly slow and long, sometimes with the emphasis of some northern folk songs, but rarely as fast-paced and fierce as this divine song.

Especially when I see Wu Liang sometimes screaming and sometimes yelling, looking completely intoxicated and unable to extricate himself.

The Cao family was drunk.

Really drunk.
Chapter completed!