"It still doesn't work." Chen Mu held up a big brown meatball with duck eggs and looked at it.
It contains fish, white wheat rice, nuts, oils, salt, honey, as well as body replenishing and antiseptic medicines.
Chen Mu wants to make a dry food that is high in calories, rich in nutrients, and durable for storage. Prepare for the upcoming journey.
Inspired by compressed cookies from a past life.
Unfortunately, after many attempts, it still failed.
It's edible, but the taste is not that good, the preservatives are not very good, and the medicinal tonic effect is slight.
"Fortunately, I can improve my proficiency."
Pondering a new formula can increase your proficiency by fifty or sixty, which is as good as reading a medical book.
After working hard for more than half a month, the pharmaceutical skill reached more than 9,000, and he was about to break through the third level.
"Have a day off tomorrow." Chen Mu turned to look at a basket of failed products.
"Gotta get rid of this stuff."
…
Dongshanxia gathering area market.
Chen Mu wore a hat and a face scarf, and put on Yang Zhi's vest again.
Walk to a familiar location, spread out the stall, and place the failed rice balls on them.
Then he sat down on the ground and waited quietly for customers to come.
"Brother Yang, here to sell rice balls again. Two cents each, right? Give me ten."
As soon as he sat down, a skinny old man with a goatee came over next to him.
The other party's surname is Liu, and everyone calls him Old Liu Tou. He is a local doctor and a wandering doctor.
He sells Daida medicine pills in the market, often goes into the mountains to collect herbs, and also collects them from laborers.
Chen Mu set up a stall here, 50% of which was for his medicinal materials.
"Yeah." Chen Mu nodded muffledly, looking taciturn.
Paired with the birthmark costume on the face, it looks a bit cold.
Old Liu Tou was already familiar with it and didn't take it seriously. He handed Chen Mu an oil paper bag and said, "Let's see if it's the medicinal material you mentioned."
Chen Mu opened it and took a look, raising his eyebrows slightly.
Putting down the oil paper bag, he quickly wrapped ten rice balls, paused, and gave two more.
He took out thirty copper coins and handed them to the other party along with the rice balls.
Lao Liutou immediately nodded with satisfaction.
While watching, there was a sudden commotion at one end of the street.
Several government officials carried a stretcher and left quickly.
Everyone gathered at the street corner to discuss.
"What's going on?" Chen Mu clicked his chin and walked away to stretcher and asked.
"Beasts hurt people." Old Liu Tou said as a matter of course: "It's just a bit miserable. It is said that the heart, liver, spleen, and lungs were all taken away by the beast."
"It's normal for neighbors to open up wasteland in the deep mountains and wild places. It's normal to encounter ferocious beasts. Fortunately, there is Qingfengguan, otherwise it would be unlucky to encounter evil spirits."
Chen Mu couldn't help but nod.
Qingfengguan does have means.
Thousands of workers gathered in the wilderness. Months passed without a single evil incident.
The two of them chatted one after another.
From the corner of his eye, Chen Mu searched the streets.
Thousands of people opened the mountains, and wild game, herbs, minerals, and all kinds of natural raw materials were continuously discovered.
There are no precious ones here, but there are many common ones, making it easier for him to find formula materials.
"Are there wild boars today?" Chen Mu looked at it for a long time and suddenly asked.
"It's gone now. Zhang Laoliu sold it out early in the morning." Old Liu is an old man and well-informed: "Do you want it?"
"Yeah." Chen Mu nodded.
"A few brothers from the old Zhang family made a wild boar nest using wine grains and sweat medicine. There will definitely be more tomorrow."
"Where is his home?" Chen Mu thought for a moment and asked.
"Go to his house? That's right, the butcher has to keep some for himself." Old Liu Tou was stunned, and then shook his head: "It will definitely cost more."
Chen Mu calmly shook his head: "No problem."
He wants to do a test, and the money has to be spent.
"Go east, his house is at the eastern end of the shanty town."
"It's close to the Xiaobailang River, so it's convenient for slaughtering and cleaning animals."
"You'll know once you go over there and ask."
Chen Mu nodded to express his thanks. Then I quietly sell rice balls.
The rice balls are full of ingredients and very sweet. Once you buy them, you know they are good.
There are many regular customers, and everything is sold out in a short time.
Chen Mu said hello to Lao Liutou, put the stall away and stuffed it into a bamboo basket, and walked eastward with it on his back.
…
Gathering area east.
Chen Mu followed the instructions of passers-by and found the family of butcher Zhang Laoliu.
A wooden house surrounded by a fence made of forearm-thick wood.
A pigsty was isolated on the east side of the yard. The ground was covered with black mud and the stench was overwhelming.
Several black-skinned wild boars were grunting and humming inside.
There is a stone platform on the west side, surrounded by three tall and thin men, eating pig ears, peanuts and drinking wine.
"Zhang Laoliu?" Chen Mu pretended to be Yang Zhi and said calmly, pretending to be cold.
"Who are you?" The three men put down their wine glasses, stood up and looked at Chen Mu with unkind expressions.
"Are the pigs for sale?" Chen Mu said calmly.
The expressions of the three people suddenly softened.
"It's sold out today, and there are only a few ears left, which is not enough for our three brothers. Let's do it tomorrow."
"I want a live pig." Chen Mu pointed to the pig pen.
The three of them were surprised, but they didn't ask any more questions: "You choose."
Chen Mu pondered for a moment and said, "The biggest one at the other end."
"That's more than three hundred kilograms, and you get ten taels of silver." Zhang Laoliu said
"Okay." Chen Mu said simply.
Then he strode to the pig pen and looked around.
Not only were the wild boars not afraid of strangers, they also glared at Chen Mu angrily. If they hadn't been able to jump out, they might have given Chen Mu a few blows.
Zhang Laoliu was startled when he saw Chen Mu happily agreeing, and couldn't help but feel annoyed.
Shout less!
After thinking about it, I didn't have the nerve to raise the price.
He divided it and sold it, only seven or eight taels.
Now I save effort and earn two more taels. When I think about it, I feel happy.
Zhang Laoliu put his thoughts away and was about to ask his brothers to help tie the pigs with ropes.
boom!
Chen Mu hit the wild boar on the head with his fist.
The wild boar that was snarling just now rolled to the ground with a grunt.
Then he reached out and grabbed a wild boar's front leg, and lifted the three hundred kilogram wild boar out of the pig pen like a chicken.
He threw it into the big bamboo basket behind him.
He threw sixty taels of silver to Mr. Zhang and left without saying a word.
Zhang Laoliu and the others' eyes widened.
grass! So much effort? !
…
The west side of Xiaodong Mountain.
Chen Mu deliberately stayed away from the altar construction area on the east side and chose a pit not far or near Qingfeng Temple.
He lifted out the big wild boar and took out a broken wooden basin from under the bamboo basket.
The hidden sword flashed and opened a bloody hole in the pig's neck.
The wild boar woke up in pain and was about to struggle.
laugh!
Chen Mu waved calmly.
The hidden sword slid along the back and neck, piercing through the hard spine like tofu, and the spinal nerves were instantly cut off.
He just grabbed the wild boar's hind leg and raised it with one hand to bleed.
When the wooden basin was full, Chen Mu put the wild boar down and stepped back ten meters with the bamboo basket in hand.
Putting on sheepskin gloves, he carefully took out a wooden box from the bottom of the basket and took out a bright red leather bag.
This is a strange object obtained from a round-faced Taoist priest.
Chen Mu guessed it was a magic weapon.
The little paper man was weird and he didn't dare try it easily.
As for confessing the hero by shedding blood, forget it, he thinks he doesn't have that hero's life.
After pondering for a month, I tested it using different methods to confirm that the bag would absorb blood.
This time Chen Mu planned to feed him all at once to see the reaction.
Ten meters away, throw the bag into the pig's blood basin.
Gulu gulu...
The bag sinks and bubbles.
The blood dropped at a speed visible to the naked eye, and it was clean after a while. There wasn't even a cent left in the gap between the tubs.
Chen Mu looked closer, picked up a wooden stick and poked the leather bag.
The bag showed no reaction, and the paper man he was afraid of didn't pop out.
But the mouth of the bag was opened with a few sticks.
But he didn't dare to dig it out with his hands.
Find another wooden stick, like chopsticks, to hold the leather bag and flip it over.
Wow...
A large pile of things fell out of the small bag, and the half-meter-diameter wooden basin was filled to less than half in one go.
Chen Mu: "..."
Baby!
Before he could react, the black rope on the bag shrank and the mouth of the bag closed tightly again.
Chen Mu took the leather bag and put it into the wooden box just now.
Throw the wooden basin and wild boar into the bamboo basket, pick them up and leave quickly.
