Wang Decai said, "Okay, okay, give me some face. Don't do this. Take out the letter and see if it belongs to my brother."
Zhao Chuan didn't say anything, but the man rushed to ask, "Have you read the letter?"
Zhao Chuan said of course he had read it. How would I know it was not an ordinary letter from home without reading it? What, why can’t I read the letter I picked up? It doesn't necessarily mean you lost it.
Wang Decai tried his best to persuade Zhao Chuan not to be angry, saying that the man was a martial artist with a straightforward temper. If he picked it up, he should take it out and take a look.
Zhao Chuan said that I can't show you this letter directly. I want to make sure it's yours. You can first tell me what words and languages are in the letter, or what it's about.
The man was so impatient. He was impatient after losing the letter, but he just didn't want to tell me the content of the letter.
Zhao Chuan said, let’s do this. There is a place, and you just need to tell me whether you have been there in the past few days.
"Where?" the man asked.
"The coffin shop!"
Wang Decai was stunned for a moment, then smiled and said, "Been there before! Or you went there with me, but it's a coffin shop, and I even got into the coffin, haha!"
Zhao Chuan said that this letter was found in the coffin, and it seems that it is really yours.
Zhao Chuan said and took out the letter.
The man read the letter, nodded and said yes, let out a long breath, and then sat silently, looking like he was thinking about something.
Zhao Chuanxin said that this man was so uncultured. He picked up the letter and returned it to him without saying thank you. He looked to be in his fifties and had grown so many years in vain.
Half an hour later, Da Mao came back and told Zhao Chuan that the place was not easy to find. The places for rent were all large courtyards. The town was small, and there were no single-family courtyards.
Wang Decai said stop looking. There is a large field two or three miles away from my shop. It turned out to be my family's herb planting land. My father is gone and I have no intention of hiring anyone to plant and manage it. There are several gardeners living there. The thatched house is fully equipped with daily necessities. Can we go and have a look?
Zhao Chuan asked Damao to go over and take a look.
Not much time left, so Damao came back and said it was okay. The place was close to a small hill, with mountains, water, and a large bamboo forest.
Then go ahead.
Zhao Chuan asked Damao to go to the street to buy some daily necessities, some rice, grain and oil, etc., and then stayed in the herb plantation temporarily.
"Master, do I want to learn alchemy from you?" Damao asked.
Zhao Chuan said, don’t call me Lao Lao Lao. I’m not yet seventeen years old. Am I that old? Shouting every day makes me feel old.
Da Mao said what was the shouting about?
Zhao Chuan said anything is fine, just don’t call me master again.
Da Mao said, can I call you Master?
Zhao Chuan said okay, secretly thinking that you are a generation younger than before.
The preparation work before making alchemy is very complicated.
Zhao Chuan began to teach Da Mao how to identify medicinal materials: First, he must identify the five elements of the medicinal herbs, otherwise he would be in trouble if the ingredients were misplaced.
The easiest way to identify the five elements of herbs is by their taste. The taste of herbs is different, and the five elements are different, except for a few herbs.
The five elements of the sour and astringent herbs belong to gold, the five elements of the bitter herbs belong to water, the five elements of salty herbs belong to fire, the five elements of sweet herbs belong to earth, and the five elements of pungent herbs belong to wood. This is a rough identification method.
However, this method is still very dangerous. If you accidentally taste poisonous weeds such as gutwort or sagebrush, you will be poisoned and fall to the ground immediately. So those poisonous herbs were recognized in advance.
Fortunately, Da Mao had worked as a clerk in a drug store for a few days before, and his brain was also relatively easy to use, so he mastered these basic knowledge in just two days.
In addition to teaching him the five elements of medicinal herbs, Zhao Chuan also taught him other things, such as telling him about pathology: to treat diseases, you must learn to distinguish yin and yang, and all diseases are caused by imbalance of yin and yang.
Because all things in the world are condensed by the two qi of yin and yang. If the two qi are deviated, diseases will appear, and if the two qi are balanced, the disease will be cured. The so-called treatment of diseases and saving lives is actually about balancing yin and yang. To balance yin and yang, we must first clearly distinguish yin and yang. Yin and yang have no permanent shape, so it is difficult to distinguish...
Basic knowledge like these was explained to Da Mao intentionally or unintentionally by Zhao Chuan during the process of alchemy.
After making all the preparations, Zhao Chuan started refining alchemy with the alchemy furnace sent by the ghost master Xiaotian.
Since he had no personal experience, he relied solely on the empty theoretical knowledge that the ghost master Xiaotian had previously instilled in him.
Since Zhao Chuan had a specific goal plan, he initially just wanted to practice making general physical therapy elixirs. Such low-level elixirs were not difficult to make. After repeated trials and wasting half of the materials, I finally came up with a Phlegm-Resolving Qingfei Pill three days later.
This elixir is light red, transparent, and about the size of a peanut. It really makes people happy to see it.
But I don’t know how effective this medicinal elixir is. I have to find an opportunity to try it before I can know for sure.
Once you get results for the first time, you have to continue practicing.
Mao Hai came over from the town drugstore at this time and said that shopkeeper Wang wanted to see Zhao Chuan for something.
Zhao Chuan asked Da Mao to guard the herb plantation, and he went to the medicine shop with Mao Boy.
In the drug store, the two southern druggists were sitting and waiting, and three large trucks were parked at the door.
After being polite and drinking tea, Wang Decai took out his account book and told Zhao Chuan that the goods were sorted and now he would check them out.
Wang Decai fiddled with his abacus for a while, and then said that the total was fifty-six thousand two hundred and sixty taels of silver.
Fifty-six thousand, two hundred and sixty taels?
Although Damao had told him before that it would cost tens of thousands of taels, Zhao Chuan was still shocked when the exact figure came out.
Zhao Chuan felt like he had been tricked.
After Wang Decai finished calculating the accounts, he placed the detailed account book in front of Zhao Chuan for him to review. He waved his hand and asked people to prepare to unload the goods one by one and move them in for reconciliation.
Zhao Chuan waved his hand and said forget it, I believe the merchant will not make a mistake.
Wang Decai said that this payment...?
Zhao Chuan said that these three trucks are the only ones with more than 50,000 yuan worth of goods?
Wang Decai said no, this is only one third, and it was sorted out first according to your request.
Zhao Chuan said to bring a few items down for me to take a look at.
Wang Decai asked the drug dealer to unload several bags and took a few items for Zhao Chuan to look at.
Zhao Chuan took one look at it and said, "This is not in line with my requirements. You know my purpose. I am for making elixirs, not for a pharmacy to boil medicine for patients."
When the southern drug dealers heard this, they looked at Wang Decai in shock.
Wang Decai said, "Oh, it's my fault. I didn't tell my superiors clearly. Let's do it this way. I'll process it for you again. Do you think that's okay?"
Zhao Chuan said that I was refining alchemy over there and something happened. I had to leave. Let’s talk about it after the processing is completed.
The southern drug dealer became anxious upon hearing this, thinking that Zhao Chuan was not making excuses. He quickly stood up and looked nervous, wanting to talk to Zhao Chuan.
Zhao Chuan waved goodbye and said to me, if you have any questions, talk to Shopkeeper Wang. You are the supplier of medicinal materials, Shopkeeper Wang is the purchaser, and I am the final customer. I only buy from pharmacies. I can’t take anything that doesn’t meet the requirements.
After Zhao Chuan said this, he took out a few silver notes and told Wang Decai that these were one thousand taels of silver notes, which could be regarded as a deposit for the goods I wanted. If you can't deliver what I want today, you'll have to pay me the money. If you deliver goods that meet my requirements today, the deposit will be yours if I don't take it.
After all, Zhao Chuan still wanted to leave. How could Wang Decai let him go?
Wang Decai asked the southern merchants to unload the goods immediately and process them according to Zhao Chuan's requirements.
The servants accompanying the drug dealer's three carts of medicinal materials turned out to be people who had brought them from the south. They were also knowledgeable about medicinal materials. After listening to the instructions of the two pharmacists, they processed them on the spot in front of the drug store.
Some people were cutting, pressing, pounding, grinding, and grinding, and it was a busy scene.
Zhao Chuan didn't want to stay. Where could he get these tens of thousands of taels of silver? Even if I have the Han Jiayu Card, I can go to the bank to withdraw it, but if I withdraw so much money, not to mention whether others will allow me to withdraw so much money, even if I can withdraw it, what is the purpose of collecting these medicinal materials? Zhao Fa felt that he had been just fooling around for the past two days.
Zhao Chuan wanted to escape.
Wang Decai refused to let Zhao Chuan go without saying anything, and called his wife to make tea, and called the man who had lost the letter a few days ago to come out to apologize to Zhao Chuan for a chat.
It's not that the man didn't want to come out, he just felt that he had nothing to say to Zhao Chuan. He just kept saying polite words, saying that he forgot to thank you in the excitement last time, so he stayed in a friend's pharmacy for the past few days after you left. , I just want to see you again and thank you in person.
Zhao Chuan frowned and said nothing, thinking that he was afraid of you.
Zhao Chuan had no choice but to talk, so he had to chat casually with this man.
When Zhao Chuan is in a bad mood, he doesn't pick up the pot.
Zhao Chuan said, I also read the letter, why don’t you leave and go to that place to get a job?
The man said that he had to take the waterway to go somewhere, and the waterway boat only came once a month.
Zhao Chuan said when was the nearest ship? Ferry tickets are not cheap.
The man said that in two days, if there was a chance, he could take a boat for free.
Zhao Chuan asked what opportunity it was?
The man said that it was a newly opened small route. The boss of the boat was called Huang Jin. Because he was afraid of water bandits, the boss of the boat wanted to recruit a few guards to accompany the boat. If they can be hired, they can get on the boat. I will get off the boat when the boat arrives. Resign and quit.
Zhao Chuan said that this was a good idea, but such a position usually requires a reliable relationship with the ship boss to introduce him.
The man said it must be.
Huang Jin? Is it that charlatan Huang Jin? Zhao Chuan was stunned.
But then I thought about it, and it seemed impossible. Huang Jin was a medical officer on board a luxury passenger ship, so how could he be the boss of this newly opened small route?
Just as Zhao Chuan was about to change the topic, the man added, "Yesterday when I went to Jiangzhou Pier to inquire about ships, I heard that there are only two passenger ships in this newly opened small route. The ship boss named Huang Jin used to be a traveling doctor. So he This ship is called the Salvia, and you happen to be a doctor and an alchemist. I feel that I am very lucky, and the people I meet are all medical people.
Upon hearing this, Zhao Chuan felt that Huang Jin, the ship's boss, might be the guy with whom he shared the same troubles.
If it's really him, then this guy's recent thoughts are hard to figure out. According to what Zhao Chuan knew when he last saw him, Huang Jin wants to climb up and enter the officialdom, otherwise he wouldn't be with Zhao Chuan. He said he wanted to get to know the Marquis of Jiangzhou City.
"Is the passenger ship on the new route you mentioned big?" Zhao Chuan asked the man.
"It's not very big, only about ten feet in size." The man said, "When I went there yesterday, I was recruiting boatmen at the dock. There were not enough boatmen. We went to a poor land in the southwest and it was chaotic. Not many people wanted to go."
Zhao Chuan secretly wondered what was going on with Huang Jin. Why did this guy get off the luxury passenger ship and become the boss of a small ship? The route was not good. There seemed to be something wrong with abandoning medicine and going into business.
