The Apothecary Diaries: Volume 10 [Parts 1 to 10] by Natsu Hyuuga

Author:Natsu Hyuuga
Language: eng
Format: epub

Maomao and the others headed for the edge of town like the villager had told them.

“Excuse me,” Maomao said, tugging on Lahan’s Brother’s robe.

“Yeah?”

“What makes you so interested in that particular field?”

“Can’t you tell? It’s the only pretty one out there.”

“Clean?”

There might have been better descriptors for a field, or maybe better things to describe as pretty, but Lahan’s Brother was completely serious.

“The other fields are scattershot, not laid out well—only that one is neatly divided into sections. It’s been stomped, too—there’s good, strong wheat growing there.”

“If you say so.”

When he mentioned it, she thought maybe she could see it, but sadly, Maomao didn’t have that much interest in wheat.

Doesn’t look like there’s any mondo grass around here...

Thinking of wheat naturally led her to think of medicinal plants. The plant she had in mind, though, sometimes called snakebeard, really had nothing to do with wheat. Specifically, she thought of the roots. Wheat with ergot could be used medicinally, although its toxic properties tended to get more attention. Since there were no ears yet, anyway, it was hard for her to muster much interest.

There are no good plants anywhere around here!

Maomao was on the verge of suffering from a chronic lack of medicinal herbs, a condition made all the worse by the great variety of medicines she’d been able to encounter since becoming a medical assistant.

Drugs! I want to see some drugs...

Just the thought brought on a sudden episode, her breath growing ragged. There hadn’t even been any good medicine along the roadside on the way here.

“H-Hey, are you all right? You don’t look so good,” Lahan’s Brother said, concerned.

“P-Pardon me. It’s nothing...”

Easy enough to say, but she wanted to see some drugs. To smell them. She would take anything, even if it was poisonous. What was there nearby that might serve as a medicine? Maybe the sheep grazing idly in the fields.

Can you use their horns as medicine? I can’t quite remember...

She thought it was called ling yang jiao, and yang meant “sheep.” These must have been a different kind of sheep, however, because their horns didn’t look anything like the medicinal ones Maomao had seen.

Maybe they would still have a similar effect...

Arms outstretched like a hungry ghoul, Maomao reached for the sheep nearest the fence.

“Whoa! Hey! I knew there was something wrong with you!” Lahan’s Brother pinned her hands behind her back. Maomao was perfectly aware that her behavior was erratic, but her body seemed to act on its own. She just needed medicine—any medicine!

“M... Medicine,” she rasped, trying to urge Lahan’s Brother to bring her some sort of drug, anything at all.

“Medicine? Are you sick?”

“What’s going on here?” Basen asked, coming over with his duck.

“She says she needs medicine.”

“She does? Come to think of it, Lady Suiren gave me something before we left.” Basen plucked a cloth-wrapped object from the folds of his robe. “She said that if the ‘cat’ started to act strange, I should show her this.”

The package was marked One. He unwrapped it slowly: it contained something dried.

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