After obtaining the Qibu Incense, Lu Yuan's purpose of this trip had been achieved. He had no interest in wandering around the city anymore. Instead, he felt uneasy about traveling with a treasure for fear of being snatched by others.
Although I know this feeling, I just scare myself.
But in order to feel at ease, he still accelerated his pace back to Yangmei Town.
After more than half an hour, I was relieved when I saw the small town in the valley.
Back home, Lu Yuan lit a fire and started cooking the medicinal materials needed for practicing internal strength. On the other side, he took the seven-step incense formula he bought for one hundred taels of silver and began to study it.
"According to this recipe, there are two ways to make Qibu incense. One is to make incense sticks, which are lit and smoked to charm people. The other is to make powder incense, which can be added to drinks and dishes. Foolish people.
The two kinds of seven-step incense each have their own benefits..."
Lu Yuan looked at the yellowed paper in his hand.
There are more than two thousand words densely written on it, recording various recipes and production processes, and even thoughtfully giving several methods of using the drug. It can be called a drug tutorial.
After roughly reading the formula, he put it away, and then took out the prescription that Zhou Ze had given when buying the formula from his backpack, and checked it for confirmation.
After taking medicine for more than a year, Lu Yuan has a certain understanding of various medicinal materials.
Although this kind of understanding is still at the level of following the pictures, it is not an embarrassing situation where one's eyes go dark as soon as one looks at the medicinal materials.
Asking him to treat illnesses, save lives, and diagnose prescriptions may not be possible.
But it is not difficult to identify several medicinal materials.
At this time, he dug out the Ten Thousand Prescriptions of Medicine that he had bought for a tael of silver, opened the thick pages, and slowly began to identify the medicinal materials.
"Red thread snake venom, seven phantom flower petals, four-legged insect skin, bitter scale fruit..."
After counting all the ingredients, Lu Yuan confirmed that all the medicinal materials recorded in the formula were available here.
Of course he was happy to save himself the trouble of searching for and purchasing. I couldn't help but secretly thought, Doctor Zhou is really a kind person.
The formula of Qibuxiang records a total of thirty-one preparations. It is not an easy task to collect all these medicinal materials.
And just buying medicinal materials is a huge expense.
Lu Yuan has been buying medicines for a year and has gained some experience. He has a basic understanding of the prices of various medicinal materials.
If you want to prepare all the medicinal materials in the entire recipe of Qi Bu Xiang, you will need at least six or seventy taels of silver.
And this is just the cost price.
"Especially the bitter scale fruit and grimace resin. These two items are not very common. They are both products from Xichuan County thousands of miles away. If you want to buy them, you must put some thought into them.
Dr. Zhou was able to go to great lengths to gather these medicinal materials. It seems that this seemingly amiable doctor also has a hidden side in private. "
Lu Yuan thought of Zhou Ze's elegant and gentle face, and then looked at the various medicines and medicines in front of him, and his whole body felt a little torn.
It should be said that people really cannot be looked down upon by their appearance, right?
If it weren't for today, I bought the drug from Zhou Ze and witnessed it with my own eyes.
I'm afraid even if I beat him to death, he wouldn't believe that that good old man with some slanderous words was the one who secretly prepared the drug.
"But think about it. As a doctor, I often treat some people in the Jianghu. They are ruthless people who lick blood from their swords and do the work of desperadoes.
Not only are they murderous, they are at least ruthless.
It's strange that you often come into contact with this kind of person and don't guard against him in private. "
Lu Yuan was already sure at this time that Zhou Ze must have a ready-made intoxicating drug in his hand, maybe both powder and incense.
But he had no idea about this.
People secretly prepare drugs for the same purpose as themselves, all for self-protection.
It's not like I'm actively using it to harm others.
Let me ask, what is wrong with a person taking some effective measures to protect himself for the sake of his own life?
Lu Yuan didn't know what other people thought, but he felt it was right anyway.
Not only is it true, he is also preparing to get this kind of insurance for himself at this time.
"So Dr. Zhou is a kind man after all."
Lu Yuan sighed with emotion, then picked up a bitter scale fruit, put it into the copper bowl for grinding medicine, picked up a copper pestle, and began to grind it according to the recipe.
Zhou Ze had collected the entire recipe for Qibuxiang for him. The so-called buying formula for one hundred taels is actually buying and dispensing medicine.
The dispensing cost of sixty-seven taels of silver, if you include the collection costs from all over the world, it is normal to need one hundred taels of silver.
So today it looked like he was buying a drug, but in fact Dr. Zhou was a good person and gave him a drug formula for free.
How can such behavior not be called kind?
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The process of making seven-step incense is extremely tedious and long.
According to the recipe records, there are a total of thirteen steps in the processing of various medicinal materials, including drying, soaking, grinding, steaming, roasting, purification... and other procedures.
Just going through these processing procedures will take a long time.
After the medicinal materials are processed, the next steps include the proportioning of various medicinal materials, the fusion of medicinal properties, the control of heat, the control of timing, etc., etc., which is an extremely time-consuming process.
If there is even the slightest mistake in the above procedures, it will be a pharmaceutical failure.
Before, when Lu Yuan dealt with medicinal materials, the most he could do was to mix the medicines he bought for practicing medicine and then cook them in a casserole.
It can be said that apart from cooking medicine, he has no other experience in handling medicinal materials.
Starting with no foundation at this time, one can naturally imagine the success rate of a newbie in making medicine.
The first few attempts to make intoxicating drugs ended in failure.
The successive failures forced Lu Yuan to temporarily stop making medicine.
The reason is very simple. What failed was not the medicinal materials, but the money.
That was a prescription bought for hundreds of taels of silver.
Even if Zhou Ze was a kind man and gave him about the amount of medicine needed to make ten portions of Seven-Step Incense at one time, he still couldn't withstand such trouble.
After failing four times, forty taels of silver were lost.
My hard-earned money was just burned inside, and no one would feel bad if I changed it.
"So next, we can't fumble around like a headless fly. We have to work out some specific and feasible methods before we can make medicine again."
After Lu Yuan learned from the pain, he changed his previous strategy.
He began to summarize the experience of previous failures.
Then he carefully studied the Wanfang Yao Gang, focusing mainly on the various medicinal properties of the Qibu Xiang drug, and prepared to start from this aspect.
After a few days like this, I finally got some insights.
I have a deeper understanding of the medicinal properties of various medicines and the control of heat.
After his self-consciousness improved significantly, Lu Yuan started making new medicines.
This time the results were better.
Although I still didn't get the seven-step incense, I finally got some incense.
However, these drugs were either too ineffective or not concealed enough. They could only be regarded as defective products and were not what he wanted at all.
"These things can only fool those stupid beasts. It would be impossible for those charlatans to fall for them."
Picking up a pile of dust with a strong smell, Lu Yuan frowned and looked at it, then poured it into a small bottle nearby and put it away.
These are the drugs that I made with a lot of money. Even if they are defective products, they cannot be wasted.
He decided to drug these scraps and use them to trap prey.
The taste of these intoxicating drugs is too strong. People will find out if they can't be drugged in the arena. Their practicality is too poor.
But those beasts in the mountains have no human wisdom.
Those are beasts that eat raw food.
The smell of blood when preying on animals is strong enough to cover up the smell of these drugs.
"I remember that during the winter period a year ago, when I was hunting in the mountains, I also discovered the nests of several tigers and wild bears. At that time, I was afraid of their ferocity and did not dare to take risks.
But now with these inferior poisons, you can directly catch a few rabbits, rub the poison into the meat, and throw them into their holes.
I don't believe it.
This group of beasts had just finished winter and were hungry. Would you not eat the meat delivered to your door? "
After making plans in his mind for hunting after spring, Lu Yuan turned around and picked up his homemade pencil, and began to record this failed experience in the pharmaceutical manual.
Failure is the mother of success.
He is not afraid of failure.
As an immortal with a long lifespan, he has enough time in his life to slowly learn all kinds of knowledge.
The failure in front of you is not terrible. What is terrible is that there is no progress in response to failure.
People with a truly strong will will learn lessons and accumulate experience when faced with failure, and then overcome it the next time they face it.
Lu Yuan didn't know if he was a strong-willed person.
But regardless of whether it counts or not, he is slowly trying to make himself become such a person at this time.
Now, making Qibu Incense is the first step towards success.
Lu Yuan believed that he would succeed.
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The spring is cold and cold, and the weather is warm and cold at first.
The cold winter has passed in the blink of an eye, and the snow that has been covering the ground for several months has melted, but the cold air that remains between the sky and the earth is struggling and unwilling to leave.
On this day, Lu Yuan came to the small pavilion next to the plum forest outside the town to see Sun Siwen off.
"Brother Sun, in this spring examination, I hope that I will be on the list and get what I want."
He raised a glass of wine and gave his blessing.
"With Brother Lu's good words, I will definitely gain fame during this trip."
Sun Siwen also raised the wine glass next to him, looked at the plum blossoms around him that were gradually withering as the season was about to pass, and took a long drink.
In the next few days, he will live in the county seat, where he will participate in the county's spring examination this spring.
I have studied hard for more than ten years and suffered a lot. I wonder if I can survive the cold winter and bloom like these plum blossoms this time.
"I'll go too."
With a loud laugh, Sun Siwen picked up his book box and walked away along the official road.
After watching the other person's disappearing back, Lu Yuan finally looked away and returned home.
It’s February in the blink of an eye, and early spring has arrived.
Sun Siwen has embarked on his own path to seek fame, and it is time for him to prepare for the hunt in the new year.
"I bought the poison at the beginning of the year and spent one hundred taels on it. This expense is too much. I need to catch more prey this year to earn back the money."
On the way home, he thought like this.
Regarding money, Lu Yuan is now extremely short of money.
Among them, the consumption of practicing is one aspect. The cost of making intoxicants is another aspect.
"Although I can now successfully make the seven-step incense, this potion costs ten taels of silver, which is really too expensive." Thinking of the terrifying cost of making the potion, the corner of his mouth twitched.
Yes, this winter, after eight consecutive failures, he finally succeeded in creating Qibu Incense.
The remaining two preparations were made, and one of them was made into medicinal powder, ready to be used as medicine for people's meals. The other was made into incense sticks to be used at night when others are asleep.
One direct, one indirect, perfect coordination.
No, it's not really perfect, it's just too little.
Two doses of intoxicating medicine can only be used twice at most, and they are gone after use.
But with Lu Yuan's temperament, how could he be satisfied with only two copies of something that could save his life?
Intoxicating drugs, traveling at home, killing people... no, it is a must-have for self-protection. Of course, the more the better.
Therefore, since the drug was successfully produced a few days ago.
He took the opportunity to go to the city to replenish martial arts medicinal materials, and asked Zhou Ze to buy some more Qibu Xiang to mix with the medicine, and planned to make a few more intoxicating medicines.
But unfortunately, Dr. Zhou didn't have any extra medicine in his hands.
The original ten batches of prescriptions were already the only inventory in the other party's hands.
After all, for Zhou Ze, practicing medicine is his main business, and it is enough for his family to make a living.
Other drugs and so on are just for emergencies as a means of self-protection.
Unable to buy the medicine, Zhou Ze still had some finished Qibu Xiang in his hand, but that was a life-saving measure that people kept at the bottom of the box, and it was impossible for Lu Yuan to ask for it.
This is both embarrassing and knowing that even if you ask for it, you won't be able to get it.
Therefore, we can only entrust the other party to purchase some medicines.
Otherwise, if he collects it slowly by himself, there will be no channels and channels. God knows how many years it will take before he can collect everything.
For this reason, Lu Yuan paid another hundred taels of silver as a deposit.
no way.
Those medicinal materials are rare goods, and there is a cost to purchase them. If you don't give enough money, why should people help you buy it?
Zhou Ze's willingness to spend time and work for him is already a huge favor.
In addition to being grateful for this, Lu Yuan could only think about seeing if he would have the opportunity to repay Dr. Zhou in the future.
Well, repaying conditions will not harm oneself.
After all, our trainee immortals still cherish their lives.
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All in all, after buying the drug twice, Lu Yuan spent two hundred taels of silver.
Taking into account the consumption of martial arts training, his savings suddenly fell below the one hundred mark again, leaving only thirty-seven taels of silver.
This little money, no matter how frugal and frugal it is, can only cover half a year's consumption at most.
If there is no progress by then, then the progress of martial arts training will have to stop.
This is not allowed.
"So, now that spring is here, it's time to put the remaining copies of the potions in my hands to use."
After returning home, Lu Yuan took out a few vials from the cupboard, opened them and looked at the drugs inside, with a smile on his face.
Although these poisons are defective products after failure, he has done experiments these days. With only a small amount of the poison, even a strong cow cannot withstand it and will be knocked out directly.
In this regard, the buffaloes in the town who suddenly became extremely lethargic this winter have a lot to say.
That's all personal experience.
Looking at these slightly yellowish medicinal powders, Lu Yuan seemed to see the prey waving towards him.
Well, among these prey, there are tigers, ferocious bears, wild boars, etc., all the guys that I had a hard time hitting in the past.
Whether he can make a fortune again depends entirely on these cute little fans in front of him.
Believe me, you won't be disappointed.
Because this is all the crystallization of my own sweat and wisdom.
Those who work hard will always have good luck and success.
Lu Yuan firmly believed this.
