For the next 10 days, 20 people each day, hundreds of children were arrested and put into the cabin to test the medicine.

It's just that there are very few children who pass the level, and one or two out of ten can pass the level, which is good. Those who did not pass the customs were either killed, poisoned, and expelled from the house. These children who passed the test were left in the medicine collection hall.

The remaining thirty or forty children who had not yet tried the medicine remained in the small courtyard.

These children have a bowl of porridge and a few steamed buns every evening. Ye Qin was also among them, he successfully hid for more than ten days, and he didn't test the medicine until now. Now that he eats porridge and steamed buns, he doesn't know the taste at all, and he thinks about it every day, how to delay time and find a way to pass the test pill.

Almost all of the remaining children are very clever, and their ability to dodge is no less than Ye Qin's.

On this day, Ye Qin was overshadowed by a civilian child from the county seat, and pushed him to the ground, but was caught by a young man in brocade, carried to the high platform, and in front of Manager Zhang, pressed the handprint of the life and death contract, and then threw it into a small cabin.

The cabin was not big, only a table, two stools, and a middle-aged man in a green robe. The table was a wooden plate, no more, no less, and a hundred different herbs were being placed. There was also a large incense burner on the table, and there was a lot of burned incense dust in it.

The middle-aged man sat on a stool and looked at him coldly.

"Boy, you should also know the rules of drug testing, so I won't say more. Pick one and eat it. After eating one plant, after one stick of incense for a while, eat the second plant, and eat until there are more than nine plants. If you are poisoned with less than nine plants, don't expect this pharmacist to save you, you will be driven out of the house directly. If more than nine plants are not poisoned, they are the people of the medicine collection hall. ”

Ye Qin immediately recognized this man in green clothes, it turned out to be the Wang Yao Master he had seen at the gate of the Medicine Picking Hall, and he couldn't help but be surprised. Unexpectedly, it was this person who personally supervised the drug test, and he was resentful and a little afraid in his heart, so he carefully stuck his butt on the stool and looked down at the herbs on the table.

His mind was in turmoil.

Of the 100 herbs here, 50 are poisonous, accounting for a full half. Thirty strains of ordinary non-poisonous herbs. Twenty plants of poisonous herbs.

If you twist a plant at random, half of it may be a poisonous herb.

Unless he can recognize which herbs are poisonous weeds and which are not.

But where did he recognize these strange herbs?

As long as you accidentally eat a poisonous weed, you will die immediately and throw your body into the wilderness. At least, he was kicked out of the house because of poisoning, and he could not afford to go to the medical hall and pharmacy in the county town for treatment.

Ye Qin's heart inevitably felt desolate and sad.

Before Da Niu could enter the medicine collection hall, he was swept out of the house by this Wang medicine picker because of his leg injury, and his life and death in the county town are unknown.

He has now entered the medicine collection hall, but he is facing a life and death situation, and death is not far away.

Under the grief and indignation, Ye Qin gradually forgot his fear, and instead calmed down and stared at the herbs on the wooden plate.

When it comes to herbal medicine, Ye Qin is not completely ignorant.

He was born as an ordinary hunter in the countryside, and when he was only ** years old, he once followed his father to the mountains to hunt and be a helper. In the past three years, I have entered the deep mountains and old forests one or twenty times, and each time I will stay in the mountains for more than ten days, or even one or two months. In the mountains and forests, when you are hungry, you dig wild vegetables to eat. If you accidentally get a skin and flesh bruise, you will also get some herbs to stop the bleeding and apply it.

Dad also thought that he would be a hunter in the future and learn the craft of making a living, so he taught him to recognize some herbs. If it weren't for the drought this year and the scarcity of prey in the mountains and forests, he would probably still stay in the countryside as his little hunter.

Ye Qin's eyes widened and he looked at the hundreds of herbs on the plate, carefully distinguishing them. There are several herbs that Daddy taught him to identify, but after a long time, he has forgotten some of them.

Ye Qin racked his brains, recalling the herbs he had tasted in the past, and found that several of them turned out to be poisonous herbs that he had eaten. He picked out the three poisonous herbs that he had eaten first, and put them close to him.

Pharmacist Wang took a pillar of incense, inserted it in the incense burner on the table, lit it, and then looked at Ye Qin's actions coldly, and did not urge.

After Ye Qin picked out the herbs he had eaten, almost all of the rest were gone. After a moment's hesitation, he began to sort the remaining herbs. He didn't recognize most of the herbs, but he knew a little common sense.

The kind of colored herbs in the old forest, very bright herbs, fishy and pungent smelling herbs, and foul-smelling herbs, these kinds of poisonous weeds may have a large surname. Also, the most poisonous mushrooms in the deep forest are mushrooms, which die the fastest, and those you don't know will never eat them.

Ye Qin put the twenty or thirty herbs on the plate, with bright colors, stench, and fishy smell, including a few mushrooms, whether they were poisonous or not, and carefully moved them to a place away from him first, in order to be safe.

The remaining sixty or seventy herbs, he did not dare to guarantee that the rest were absolutely not poisonous. Because there are some herbs in the old forest, even if they are odorless and colorless, they are highly poisonous. He desperately recalled the herbs he had seen, picking out the ordinary non-poisonous herbs that he had some impressions of.

Pharmacist Wang Cai was a little surprised.

In the past ten days, he has supervised no less than thirty or forty children to test the medicine, and many of them have taken one with their eyes closed and put it in their mouths, completely relying on heaven to gamble their lives. A small number of children know some herbs, and they only pick what they have seen to eat, and do not touch what they have not seen.

It is rare for the kid in front of him to pick up so carefully and seriously, and to classify poisonous weeds, healing herbs, and ordinary non-poisonous herbs. Although a large part of these herbs are misclassified, I am afraid that the reason is that this kid does not know these herbs, not because the method of classification is wrong. This is enough to see that his mind is in the middle and upper range, and it is not comparable to ordinary children.

Pharmacist Wang Cai was secretly satisfied.

On the surface, the "drug test" test in the medicine collection hall is to test whether you know the herbs, but what is really tested is courage, mind, and calmness. The courage to face life and death, whether it is stupidity or wit, whether it can still keep a cool head and sober at the life and death juncture of accidentally eating poisonous weeds, poisoning, and falling into a desperate situation.

As a herb picker, he often has to go alone to extremely dangerous Jedi to collect precious herbs. In that lonely place, there is no one else to help them. Identifying herbs is important, but mind and calmness are more important than identifying herbs, and if you are not calm enough, even if you can identify herbs, it is a dead end to fall into a panic in a desperate situation.

Children who participate in the drug trial, as long as they have any one of the courage, mind, and calmness, in fact, even if they do not eat enough ten herbs, they will be admitted exceptionally.

As for those who stuff herbs into their mouths indiscriminately, don't take their lives seriously, rely on luck and luck to get by, and those who have a psychological breakdown once they mistakenly take poisonous herbs, they are all eliminated directly, and those children will die sooner or later even if they enter the medicine collection hall.

After a quarter of an hour, Ye Qin picked out three of the healing herbs and four ordinary herbs from the hundred herbs. He is very sure of these seven plants, and he should not be poisoned if he eats them.

However, there are still two plants missing, so there are nine plants.

Ye Qin began to sweat on his forehead.

These two herbs, as long as one of them is highly poisonous, is enough to cost him his life.

"The time for a stick of incense is almost up, eat one immediately!"

Pharmacist Wang's cold voice suddenly rang out, and he pointed to the incense burner.

Ye Qin looked up at the incense burner in amazement, it turned out that this incense was used for timekeeping, and before he knew it, the pillar of incense in the incense burner was almost finished and was about to be extinguished.

He had no choice but to pick up an ordinary herb that he had already identified and stuff it into his mouth. With a hint of fear in his heart, he prayed that he would not be poisoned by mistake.

Seeing that Ye Qin had eaten a herb, Wang Cai immediately took out the second pillar of incense and lit it in the incense burner.

The smoke was filled, and every other pillar of incense, Ye Qin was forced to eat an herb.

Time passes little by little.

In the blink of an eye, the five pillars of incense had been burned out in the incense burner, and Ye Qin had also eaten four ordinary herbs and one healing herb, and there were still two healing herbs left in his hand. But he was getting more and more anxious, because he had not yet been able to pick out the non-poisonous herbs that he was sure to eat from the large pile of herbs that remained.

Ye Qin panicked.

What to do?

At this time, Ye Qin was suddenly stunned, looking at the two poisonous herbs in his hand!

He remembered one thing, remembering that Chief Manager Zhang once said that if he ate enough of fifty to seventy herbs, he could worship directly under the door of the deputy hall master.

However, Manager Zhang obviously said that there are fifty poisonous weeds here, which will be poisoned. So how is it possible to eat enough herbs for seventy plants?

Ye Qin's heart suddenly moved, could it be that poisonous herbs can actually be eaten? The twenty poisonous herbs here can cure the poison of twenty poisonous herbs, adding up to seventy!? Yes, it must be like this. Otherwise, it is impossible for anyone to eat enough herbs for seventy herbs and not die.

He shifted his gaze to the poisonous weeds that he had pulled away.

Ye Qin recognized the two healing poisonous weeds in his hand, and naturally recognized their corresponding poisonous weeds. Poisonous weeds and poisonous weeds are a pair in themselves, and only when you recognize the poisonous weeds can you prescribe the right medicine to eat the poisonous weeds.

Otherwise, what's the use of just knowing the healing weed?

Ye Qin immediately stretched out his hand and took the two poisonous weeds. These two poisonous weeds are actually common poisonous weeds found in the countryside, and the poisonous surname is not strong. Occasionally, animals eat grass and get poisoned and sick. People can also be poisoned if they eat it.

Pharmacist Wang Cai was slightly moved, and looked at Ye Qin with deep meaning.

No more, no less, exactly nine.

It is permissible to use healing herbs to detoxify poisonous herbs.

If you eat one more plant and reach ten, you will reach the minimum limit of entering the medicine collection hall and becoming a medicine picking boy.

This last strain, it doesn't matter if it's poisonous or not, and the medicine collection hall will heal it.

After that, every time you eat an additional plant, you will be treated one point higher in the herb picking hall.

In this drug test, Ye Qin ate a total of eleven herbs, and was poisoned in the eleventh plant, but he did not find the corresponding antidote herbs in the pile of poisonous herbs, so Wang Yaoshi stopped the test and detoxified him.

Pharmacist Wang Cai said in an indifferent voice: "Good job. From now on, you are the registered medicine picking boy of the Medicine Picking Hall, and you are also the disciple of this medicine picker. Tomorrow, after all the boys' drug trials are over, you and the other boys who have passed the test will follow me to train. ”

"Yes!"

Ye Qin carefully hid the resentment in his heart towards Wang Cai Medicine Master, nodded very honestly, and withdrew from the cabin.

After all, he is also a child born in a teenager Orion, who has just crossed the door of death and entered the medicine collection hall and became a medicine picking boy. And this Wang Cai Medicine Master's status is respected, just by the respectful attitude of those gatekeepers and brocade-clothed young men towards Wang Cai Medicine Master, it can be seen that he cannot pose any threat to Wang Cai Medicine Master.

If you show the slightest resentment, you are just looking for death, and you can't get any justice for Da Niu at all.

When he walked out of the cabin, Ye Qin only felt that his whole body was soaked as if he had been drenched with water, and his feet were weak and weak. He didn't have any joy now, he just wanted to find a place to sleep right away and make up for the physical and mental energy he had consumed in the past few hours.

A proud brocade-clad girl led him to a courtyard to rest.

The next child waiting for the medicine test was caught by the brocade-clothed boys, and was sent to the cabin where Pharmacist Wang was to test the medicine in panic.