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Shen Nong Tries a LOT of Herbs

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Long, long ago, the plants of this extravagant world were unclassified. No one knew what were weeds, medicine and food. That is really sad. The people of the world ate only meat at the time, since they had no veggies (wish I could do that). When that caught an animal, they had dinner, if not, then no food. Sometimes, people got so hungry that they ate veggies,but, some of them were poisoned. Others were ill and had no medicine to cure them. In order to stop our suffering a nice guy named Shen Nong decided he would be our lab rat. Yay! In the daytime, he would taste herbs on the mountain and at night he sorts them out by the fire. Wait... Doesn't he need to sleep too?
Once he put a piece of herb into his mouth,and before he even started chewing, he got really dizzy and fell to the ground. A passerby caught him and picked him up. But Shen Nong knew he was was poisoned. He took his last bit of energy and pointed towards to super healing herb. The passerby immediately put it in his mouth and he was saved.  Even though he lived, many tried to convince him to go down the mountain (Free Will!). But he was stupidly persistent and continued with his work. He went from mountain to mountain for 49 days straight! He organized all the herbs he had ever tried and  and taught people how to use them. In total, he tasted 365 different herbs! I have never had so many veggies in my young life. Not only that, but he called on a super magic birdie, and made him get wheat and other grains for us! Yippee!!! Shen Nong then taught us how to grow all these different grains to feed ourselves, and we lived happily ever after.

The End

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  1. WelkinSeptember 6, 2017 at 4:50 AM

    365 herbs over 49 days, that's only like 7 per day, so of course he had time to sleep!

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