Liu Bei looked at Li Mengxi and asked with a smile, "Xi'er, do you want us to test the medicine?"

Li Mengxi said without hiding anything, "That's right. Our army has insufficient shelter, the civilians don't have enough clothing to keep out the cold, and there's not enough firewood in the army. Therefore, I want to try to use medicine and food to keep out the cold, and see if I can withstand the cold a little bit."

He just wanted to test the medicine, and it was for business. Liu Bei nodded, "No wonder it's acrid and hard to swallow. Good medicine tastes bitter."

After that, Liu Bei looked at the dumplings in the bowl, and then at Li Mengxi who couldn't bear to taste the dumplings. Thinking that Li Mengxi's dumplings contained coptis, Liu Bei said, "Come on, Xi'er, let's switch. Yours contains coptis.

It’s painful…”

With that said, he was about to change bowls with Li Mengxi.

"No, no need!" Li Mengxi quickly put the bowl aside and refused, "The prescriptions conflict with each other, so you can't take them randomly!"

Li Mengxi didn't know much about the pharmacology. He didn't know whether eating dumplings with different fillings together would be poisonous, so he didn't dare to take the risk.

Liu Bei saw that Li Mengxi would not change, so he had no choice but to give up.

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They continued to eat dumplings, and the expressions of Liu Bei and the other three became more and more distressed.

Among the dumplings Liu Bei ate, except for the mutton, they tasted good. The ginger was not tasty, the angelica was also bitter, and the chuanxiong was astringent, especially the saponin. Taking one bite of the saponin made the tongue sting and hurt.

Liu Bei's expression was distorted.

Let’s talk about Guan Yu. Guan Yu’s dumplings have different fillings. Guan Yu’s fillings are mutton, ginger, mugwort leaves, white mustard seeds, aconite, and red ginseng.

Among Guan Yu's stuffings, the only ones that taste the same are mutton, ginger is unpalatable, mugwort leaves are bitter, crushed mustard seeds don't have much flavor, but are as chewy as gravel, and aconite is bitter. Adding red ginseng will make it taste even worse.

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Guan Yu ate the dumplings until his neck was scratched and his face became ferocious. It was so difficult.

The most embarrassing one is Li Mengxi. In Li Mengxi's dumplings, there are cinnamon twigs and coptis chinensis. The cinnamon twigs are sour and astringent, especially coptis chinensis, which is coptis! As the saying goes, if a mute eats coptis liane, he will be unspeakably miserable.

The bitterness of coptis is second to none.

When Li Mengxi took one bite of the coptis dumpling, he felt that his tongue was numb, leaving only a bitter taste in his mouth.

He endured the unpalatable taste and simply swallowed it whole. With the idea of ​​suffering for a while or an hour, Li Mengxi gritted his teeth and ate all ten dumplings in one go.

Li Mengxi's bravery surprised both Liu Bei and Guan Yu.

After finishing the coptis dumplings, the bitterness in his mouth lingered for a long time. Unable to bear it, Li Mengxi went to find some water and drank half a bowl of it to suppress the bitterness.

This meal was almost like torture.

None of the prisoners on death row had ever suffered such abuse. Li Mengxi was not sure. What might have gone wrong?

Are real medicinal dumplings really so unpalatable?

After that, Liu Bei and Guan Yu also finished eating the dumplings.

Just like Li Mengxi, he didn't even taste it when he ate it, he just swallowed it whole.

After eating, the two of them went to find water to rinse their mouths.

Next to the campfire, the three of them sat together, speechless for a long time.

Normally, Liu Bei would praise Li Mengxi's hard work and praise him for his vast knowledge and so on.

But tonight, the dumplings made by Li Mengxi were so unpalatable that Liu Bei opened his mouth several times and didn't know how to praise them.

After a while, Li Mengxi broke the silence and said, "There are still ten dumplings left to cook, let's do it tomorrow. It's a pity that the three generals are not here, otherwise the four of me would just finish trying four prescriptions."

After speaking, Li Mengxi looked at Liu Bei and Guan Yu and said with a smile, "Can I just wait for half an hour and see how effective the medicine is?"

Liu Bei and Guan Yu both nodded, "Wait and see." Guan Yu said.

After that, the three of them waited quietly.

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After half an hour, the medicine began to take effect.

Li Mengxi clearly felt that his throat was starting to become dry, his respiratory tract was dry and hot, and he could feel the hot breath even when he exhaled. The effect was immediate and the heating effect was good.

Sitting still all the time, Li Mengxi felt like he was sweating a lot.

Although I wasn't sweating profusely, I was sweating non-stop.

"How?" Li Mengxi wiped the sweat from his forehead with the back of his hand, raised his head and asked Guan Yu and the others.

"Hot." Liu Bei replied. Liu Bei was wiping sweat on his sleeves. He didn't know how many times he had wiped them.

Looking at Guan Yu, Guan Yu's face turned even redder. Guan Yu raised his sleeves and wiped the sweat from his forehead. He smiled at Li Mengxi and said, "I feel cold now."

It's obviously snowing outside and it's cold inside the house, but right now, it's so hot that I just want to take off my clothes.

After three people personally tried it, they found that [dumplings], even though they are unpalatable to dogs, have a very long-lasting effect of generating heat and keeping out the cold, and they can indeed be used to ward off the winter cold.

Although the dumplings are terrible to eat, regardless of whether they taste good or not, let’s just say, are they hot? Are they hot or not?

Anyway, after eating the dumplings, when Li Mengxi went back to bed early that night, he was so hot that he couldn't sleep. He was also thirsty frequently, even if he drank water.

Moreover, if you cover yourself with a quilt, if it’s too hot, you will sweat constantly. If you don’t cover yourself with a quilt, it’s a bit cold, so forget it. Although you feel cold, you are in a contradiction between hot and cold. It’s obvious that your body surface is cold, but your belly is cold.

A burning sensation, body heat rising from the inside out, and the heat cannot stop.
Chapter completed!