After picking and choosing among seventy or eighty porcelain bottles, I got a little more than twelve bottles of Zhendingshen Pills in total.
"My heart is dark."
The remaining items are mostly precious medicinal materials and a small amount of unknown minerals.
There is also a matte black tripod with three legs and two ears.
The three-legged tripod is oblate as a whole, with a smooth and moist surface, and the material looks like black pottery.
The edge of the lid is engraved with cloud patterns, and the belly is surrounded by unknown strange beasts. The shape is elegant, coherent from front to back, and quite beautiful.
There was a ball-shaped button on the top cover. Chen Mu pinched it and tried to lift it up, but failed to open it.
The black pottery tripod is placed in the big drawer at the bottom. Next to it is a simple jade slip as thick as an arm. It is densely packed with small golden characters and etched on every jade piece.
"Hunyuan five-gas furnace?"
"This is an alchemy furnace!" Chen Mu's eyes lit up.
"I've learned a lot." This was the first time he saw this thing.
"It's a pity that the medicine level is not high enough." Chen Mu shook his head.
The fifth-level pharmaceutical technique is still just the refining of ordinary medicines.
Even the simplest Bigu Pill cannot analyze its ingredients and refining techniques.
"Keep it, I'll definitely use it in the future." Chen Mu thought happily.
…
Five days later, Tongtianfang Pier.
Chen Mu followed Mr. Hao, who was bruised and swollen, and Shang Huan, who was also bruised and swollen, to the boat.
"What are you two doing?" Chen Mu asked knowingly while suppressing a smile.
"It fell!" they both said in unison.
Ah……
"Look at those people!" Old Hao would eventually be more shameless than Fatty Shang. He couldn't stand Chen Mu's strange eyes and quickly pointed at the crowd who had just gotten off the boat not far away to change the subject.
"Why are everyone so downcast? What happened?" Chen Mu frowned slightly.
"It's purely distressing." Mr. Hao joked cheerfully.
"The first time you went to the dojo, you came back without success. Your expression at that time was not as good as theirs." Shang Huan also teased happily.
"Don't laugh at me. When you leave, you will see a hundred white jade coins go down the drain. I wonder if you feel bad or not." Mr. Hao said angrily.
"Why feel bad? If I can earn the first hundred, I can earn the second hundred." Shang Huanhuan didn't care.
Mr. Hao suddenly stopped talking.
This fat guy really didn’t brag.
A fake medicine formula has already made this fat man a lot of money.
Chen Mu glanced sideways at Shang Huan, this fat man is a bit shy...
"I heard that a genius emerged this year. He broke through the telepathy in the dojo, developed a spiritual light, and was directly admitted to the upper court." Shang Huan looked envious: "It would be great if I could do the same."
"You can't even dream of this." Mr. Hao rolled his eyes: "There are thousands of disciples in the entire Lower Court, how many people like Mo Wuzhou and Brother Mo are there?"
"Do you know him?" Shang Huan was surprised.
"You think I have been living in the lower house for nothing for decades." Mr. Hao looked proud.
"Mo Wuzhou?" Chen Mu became interested.
Breakthrough in the dojo and directly enter the upper court?
"Brother Mo is an honest man who is down-to-earth and hard-working. He can grow yellow bud rice, grow several kinds of medicinal materials, prepare medicinal wine, and carve up exotic animals."
"Now that I think about it, he is indeed a genius. He knows such things at such a young age, and he deserves to make money."
"Coupled with the outstanding talent, breakthrough induction is a matter of course."
"It is said that I will directly become a disciple of Master Yuan Rong and Yuan Dan from the Upper Academy. From now on, both my financial prospects and my future are immeasurable."
Mr. Hao's tone was full of envy, but not much jealousy.
Chen Mu glanced at the old man in surprise.
It seems that this little brother Mo is indeed a capable person.
but……
"If you practice induction, can you directly enter the upper courtyard?"
"That's not possible." Mr. Hao shook his head: "But it's still possible to enter the lower courtyard."
Chen Mu is clear
True disciples of the lower court can practice cultivation outside of work.
These people, who are called disciples of the lower courtyard, are actually at best the engineers of the lower courtyard.
…
"Guest, please keep the twenty-two pieces of white jade." In the Yupinxuan, a white-faced middle-aged man handed Chen Mu a black cloth and gold silk bag.
Twenty bottles of Dingshen pills for twenty-two white jade?
"Is that too much?" Chen Mu looked at the middle-aged man warily.
"Don't the guests know?" The middle-aged man looked at Chen Mu in surprise: "The price of Guanqieyecao has increased."
"I heard that there was an outbreak of Spodoptera exigua, and production was reduced in many places. So..." The white-faced middle-aged man shrugged.
Chen Mu couldn't help but frown.
Raw material prices are rising, which is not a good thing.
After leaving Yupinxuan, he went to several medicinal shops in succession.
"The price has really gone up."
Chen Mu was not in the mood to watch the alien performance.
I bought a batch of nightshades and left the boat in a hurry.
…
Night, low mountain courtyard.
Chen Mu held a palm-wide withered yellow leaf in both hands and kept rubbing it.
Staring at the fine powder on the screen, his face didn't look good.
"It used to cost two white jade coins per pound, but now it costs four. It has doubled."
Short-term shortages can also be used to transfer costs by raising the price of Dingshen pills.
If there is a long-term shortage of materials and prices soar, sales will be greatly affected.
"Hoarding? Make a profit?" Chen Mu was excited, but in the end he shook his head.
"A small amount is okay, but if you do it in large quantities, it's easy to be targeted."
"I don't know if the ten kilograms I have stored are enough."
"I'll go to the underground market tomorrow night. If the price is right, I'll buy more and stock up."
…
The next day, Chen Mu had dinner, changed his appearance, put on a beast-head mask, and came to Difang City early.
But he searched all over the underground market and couldn't find a stall selling tuberose.
"Is there someone who is hoarding goods in large quantities?" Chen Mu frowned slightly.
He stopped searching deliberately and ignored the vendors selling more and more hypothetical magic pills.
Chen Mu started to buy other ingredients for Dingshen Pills.
I found that although the prices did not increase much, the prices of these materials were also increasing.
"Something's wrong."
…
Three days later, Aishan Courtyard.
Chen Mu prepared a large table of dishes early.
Old monk Hao Huan and the two arrived as promised.
"Brother Chen's craftsmanship is really amazing!" Shang Huan's newly swollen face was full of surprise: "The food in Bazhen Building of Tianhe Water Mansion is nothing more than this!"
"I believe it now." Mr. Hao said proudly.
"I just have a lust for food and drink, which is of no use to my practice and is not worth mentioning." Chen Mule said cheerfully.
"That's not necessarily true." Shang Huan shook his head.
"It's a pity you can't leave the Commons."
"Otherwise, if you work as a cook for Bazhenlou, the reward will be much more cost-effective than growing yellow bud rice."
Chen Mu smiled and said nothing.
"Brother Chen, if you don't understand anything, just ask." Mr. Hao smoked a cigarette with an expression like "I can see through you."
Chen Mu scratched his head: "Isn't the price of Dingshen Pills going up?"
"So you want to buy our Dingshen Pill?!" Shang Huan was overjoyed.
roll!
That fake elixir of yours was given to you by me!
"No, I bought a little more from Baicao Pavilion. I was afraid something might go wrong, so I wanted to find out the reason." Chen Mu scratched his head and smiled naively.
Shang Huan suddenly looked disappointed: "How much did you buy?"
"Six bottles." Chen Mu smiled.
"Okay." Mr. Hao chuckled: "But you'd better buy a few more bottles."
Chen Mu couldn't help but squint his eyes. It seemed that something was indeed wrong.
"It is said that a strange beast is restless, and a fish that slipped through the net is attacking the lower courtyard."
"Most of Bingchen District has been destroyed, and all kinds of medicinal materials are in short supply."
"There is also a pest infestation nearby, and exotic medicinal materials are extremely expensive."
"So..." Mr. Hao shrugged with a smile.
"I guess prices won't go down throughout this year." Shang Huan looked at Mr. Hao with excitement and said, "The higher the price, the more money we will make!"
I can't make a pill, but you can make a lot of money!
Chen Mu glanced at the fat man and said nothing.
Alien beasts restless? Attack the lower court medicine field?
If the shortage of medicinal materials lasts for a year, the impact on him will be great.
(End of chapter)
