HLnovel Chapter 276: Moxa Sticks
Chapter 276: Moxa Sticks
Ye Jintang listened to Liuli talking about other caravans being attacked and wondered if this pack of wolves was the same one that ambushed them.
They suffered a great loss at her hands, so they attacked other caravans in retaliation.
No wonder Xiao Mo said that the wolves were almost becoming spirits.
Thinking of this, Ye Jintang suddenly had an idea.
Could she make some packages of medicinal herbs to drive away wolves and sell them to passing merchants? Even if she wouldn't make much money, it would still be a great deed.
Wolves should go into the mountains to hunt instead of thinking about people all day long.
The more she thought about it, the more she felt that this was feasible. When she later told Manager Qiao and Bai Ziyao about it, they also felt very good about it.
The grocery store had just been established and needed a reputation the most. If the medicinal material packages made by Ye Jintang were really useful, the name of the grocery store would be known to everyone in Nanping City within two days.
The common people of Nanping City are really fed up with the suffering caused by wolves. If it weren't for the constant wolf attacks, there would definitely be more merchants coming and going in a city as big as Nanping.
"I'll write you a prescription."
Making a bag of medicinal herbs to drive away wolves is not complicated, but it requires a large amount of medicinal herbs, which is rather troublesome.
The medicinal materials in Nanping City are much more expensive than those in other cities. If the medicinal materials are priced according to Nanping City, the medicinal materials packages produced will be very expensive.
The merchants would probably rather risk their lives fighting the wolves than buy such expensive packages of medicine.
Ye Jintang was definitely unwilling to use the herbs in the space to drive away the wolves, but she had no choice at the moment. She could only grow cheap herbs overnight to make herb bags.
"Master, can I change the recipe to this?"
Ye Jintang studied it for a long time and felt that the previous method of driving away wolves was too extravagant and must be changed to reduce costs.
"I want to grind all the herbs into powder, add moxa and press it to make moxa sticks."
"When merchants are attacked by wolves, they can simply light the moxa with a fire stick to drive away the wolves. After the wolves leave, the moxa sticks can be extinguished."
"The wolves are very smart. They know that the merchant has moxa sticks that can kill them, so they don't dare to continue the sneak attack."
The reason why Ye Jintang chose to add moxa was because she had uterine cold in her previous life, and someone told her to use moxa to fumigate her navel to treat uterine cold.
She didn't know whether moxa could cure uterine cold. When she was fumigating with moxa, her neighbor thought her house was on fire because of the heavy smoke. They were so scared that they almost alerted the fire department.
Master Mu looked over Ye Jintang's prescription and preparation method very carefully and remained silent for a long time before speaking.
"There is nothing wrong with the prescription. Moxa will increase the density of smoke and slow down the burning speed, which is also very good."
"But it's a little troublesome to make. We need to hire a young and strong man to roll the moxa sticks tightly."
"And you need to test the burning speed of the moxa sticks and their effectiveness in driving away wolves. If you can't produce them, just ignore them."
"I see."
Ye Jintang still has a strong medical ethics and would not ignore other people's lives just to make money.
It is not difficult to make a small amount of moxa sticks. Ye Jintang made ten kilograms of moxa sticks in the afternoon of the day he entered Nanping City.
As for the wolves for the experiment, they are not difficult to find.
Wolves would attack passing merchants every few days, so naturally there were people who specialized in catching wolves in an attempt to kill all of them.
Wolves can be easily purchased in livestock markets.
The next day, Ye Jintang specifically asked Manager Qiao to choose a crowded place to conduct the experiment.
It was a horse paddock in the livestock market, and the fence was specially raised to prevent wolves from jumping out.
"Brother, what are you doing?"
Someone saw two wolves in a cage on the side of the road and couldn't help but come forward to watch.
The common people of Nanping City were filled with hatred when they saw wolves, and now that they saw a live wolf, they wanted to just grab a knife and kill it to vent their hatred.
"Our boss invented a kind of moxa stick that can drive away wolves. We want to experiment with wolves to see how effective it is."
"Ah, you can use moxa to drive away wolves, that's unheard of, right?"
The crowd gathered around talking. They had never heard that medicinal herbs could be used to drive away wolves. The thought of doing so seemed fake and unrealistic.
"I've been dealing with wolves for so many years, and nothing can scare them away except the bow and arrow in my hand."
A hunter carrying a strong bow couldn't help but look at the wolves in the iron cage and continued, "These two wolves have probably been hungry for three or four days. If you put a piece of meat on the ground, I'm afraid they will take a bite of the meat and run away if you chop them."
"We have to be careful at that moment. If the two wolves get mad with hunger and jump out of the fence directly, we might get bitten."
The hunters watching took a look at the height of the fence and shook their heads.
"Although the wild wolves in the mountains are fierce, they can't jump high. They definitely can't jump out of a fence that's more than two people high."
Standing not far away, Ye Jintang and Xiao Mo, wearing human skin masks, were waiting for the experimental results together.
In order to facilitate his actions, Xiao Mo also wore a human skin mask, but this one looked ordinary and no one would notice him in the crowd.
The two listened to the discussions in the crowd but did not say anything.
They had already seen the power of using medicinal herbs to drive away wolves on the way here. Now they just wanted to see the specific effect of the moxa sticks. If there was a problem with the effect, Ye Jintang would make some adjustments.
After all the preparations were done, the four guards put the iron cage containing the wolf into the fence and placed two pounds of pork opposite them.
Light the moxa sticks and insert them into the pork.
"Okay, let the wolf go."
With an order, the iron cage containing the wolf was opened.
The anxious hungry wolves inside rushed out. They had already seen the pork not far away, and they rushed towards the pork almost the moment they came out of the iron cage.
Someone in the crowd laughed and said, "See, I told you it's impossible to drive these animals away with medicinal herbs. It takes a lot of effort and you have to sacrifice two pounds of meat. What a pity."
"Who said it wasn't true? I deal with wolves every day, and I've never heard of any medicinal herbs that can drive away wolves in all these years."
While everyone was talking, the hungry wolf had already run to the meat, and just when they were about to go forward and feast on it, it suddenly stopped.
The two wolves seemed to become suddenly very anxious. They were eager to go forward and eat the meat, but they were hesitant and did not dare to go forward. They slowly backed away and began to circle around the meat.
After only two turns, the two wolves began to retreat again, even letting out low growls.
"It's really strange. Isn't the hungry wolf very smart? The meat is right in front of it, but it's still circling around it instead of rushing forward to eat the meat."
The hunters watching were amazed.
"Could it be that just lighting a stick of moxa would make the hungry wolf so fearful?"
"How is this possible? My family often uses mugwort to smoke mosquitoes in the summer, and we don't find anything special about it. If this thing can really drive away wolves, it would have been discovered long ago. Why would we have to wait so long?"
The onlookers were full of curiosity.