Chapter 7
After returning to the medicine garden, Zheng Qiu carefully took care of Yi Luohua every day. When he is free, he moves a stool and sits in front of the medicinal vines and stares at the flowers.
One day, two days, the purple color on the flowers is getting weaker, and the day of maturity is getting closer and closer.
On the morning of the third day, Zheng Qiu sat in front of the medicinal vines looking at the flowers as usual, and the sound of conversation came from afar outside the garden. He walked out of the garden and saw a group of six people coming from the mountain road.
Zheng Qiu, who walked in the front, was very familiar with him. It was Senior Brother Mo Junrong who came to him every seven days to get the rest of the medicinal materials.
"Hello, Senior Brother Mo!" Zheng Qiu went up to greet him, but there were others there. He didn't have Senior Brother Mo Junrong's full name, so he was afraid that Senior Brother Mo would be unhappy.
While walking forward, Zheng Qiu looked at the other five people, four men and one woman, all wearing alchemy robes, they must be from the alchemy room.
He bowed one by one: "Hi brothers! Hello sister!"
Brother Mo smiled and introduced to the people around him: "Now Zheng Qiu is taking care of this medicine garden."
Zheng Qiu's politeness had a good effect, all senior brothers and sisters nodded to him and smiled back.
"Let's go and have a look in the garden." Brother Mo raised his right hand slightly, and led the others into the medicine garden, "Look, the raw materials of my alchemy pills are exactly the medicinal materials in this medicine garden."
Then he turned back to Zheng Qiu and said, "Zheng Qiu, go and get the rest of this time."
"Remaining materials? Oh, I'll get them right away." Zheng Qiu ran into the hut and took out the basket containing the leftover medicinal materials.
Brother Mo casually took out a herb from the basket: "Look, these leftover ingredients are used to refine those pills."
The rest of the people took the medicinal herbs from Brother Mo's hands and passed them to each other to watch.
One of them asked: "The rest of the ingredients are more or less flawed, how does Mo Zhanglu distinguish? Using such flawed medicinal materials to make alchemy, wouldn't it be easier to discard the alchemy."
"That's true. But many of the remaining ingredients are just too many impurities, or the amount of medicine is insufficient, and there is not much difference in their medicinal properties."
Brother Mo took out three remaining medicinal materials from the basket. He pointed to these medicinal materials and said: "These medicinal materials are used to refine Tongjing Guanqi Pill. Naturally, these medicines with poor quality cannot be refined. But if Add Huayu Powder to it, and change it to a low-grade Huoxue Pill, and it will be successfully refined."
The senior sister asked: "Then according to Mo Zhanglu's intention, all the remaining materials from the medicine garden will be used for alchemy in the future?"
Brother Mo nodded: "That's right, Zongli pills have always been in short supply, especially the low-grade pills for daily use. I know that low-grade pills are time-consuming and expensive to refine, and everyone is unwilling to refine them. The matter has been resolved, we can use the remaining materials after screening..."
"Mo Palm Furnace, I didn't interrupt you. Although you can use leftover materials to make alchemy, if you want everyone to waste time on these low-grade pills, I'm afraid no one will be happy."
Brother Mo smiled slightly: "You can rest assured, I have reported this matter to the elder. The elder said that as long as we are willing to practice, he will calculate that three low-grade grades are worth one high-grade grade. You can get more rewards from Zongli."
The other five people thought about it for a while, and then nodded.
Brother Mo waved his hand lightly: "Then you guys go back first, I will tell Zheng Qiu about the medicinal materials."
Zheng Qiu listened with his ears upright, he only understood the general idea of what Brother Mo and the others were talking about, and he only knew that in the future the alchemy room would use leftover medicinal materials to make alchemy.
"Mo Zhang Furnace, do you want to take these leftover materials to the alchemy room now?"
"Don't hold the furnace?"
Zheng Qiu scratched his head: "Don't they all call you Mo Zhanglu?"
"No need, you can still call me Brother Mo Junrong."
"Oh, senior brother Mo Junrong."
"Zheng Qiu, you go back and tell your master that from now on, you must save the remaining materials from the three medicine gardens, and send them with you every time you deliver medicine."
"Is it still at the door of the medicine room?"
"Yes, I put another wooden box there,
It is specially used to dump the leftovers. I have to further screen the remaining materials before storing. "
"I've made a note of it, and I'll tell the master when I get back tonight."
"Okay, that's it for this matter, if you have any questions, you can come to the alchemy room to find me." Brother Mo touched Zheng Qiu's forehead and hurriedly left the medicine garden.
Zheng Qiu lowered his head and realized that he was still holding the basket containing leftovers, oops, I forgot to ask Brother Mo if he wanted to give these away today. He shrugged and had to carry the basket back to the house.
When he came to the medicine garden again, the scene in the garden made him ecstatic. The petals of yiro flowers turn pale yellow and the flowers are ripe.
Great, great, today is only the third day, one day earlier than what I promised to the senior sister, I believe the senior sister will be very happy to send it today.
But soon, his excitement was swept away, and the expression on his face was uglier than crying, because he thought that at that time, the elder sister asked him to send the flowers directly to Yundian. Sending it to Yundian is a headache.
Yundian is the place where the second elder of Xunwu Sect teaches, and it is also the residence of the second elder. The second elder is a short old woman with a weird temper.
There is a legend in Zongli that when the position of Yundian was chosen, the second elder was not satisfied either on the left or on the right.
In the end, she took a fancy to the highest Zuofeng of Yuexi Mountain, and insisted on building the Cloud Palace on the cliff of Zuofeng. The clouds in the mountains often drift past there, which is how the name of the Cloud Palace comes from.
At first, there was an arm-thick iron chain hanging outside the Yundian, for people in the Zongli who could not fly to get on and off. But in winter, the iron chains are covered with frost, and no one can climb up.
Under the persuasion of many apprentices, the second elder replaced the iron chain with a rope ladder.
Zheng Qiu packed the mature Yi Luohua in a wooden box, put the wooden box into his clothes, and hurried to His Highness Yun. Raising his head, the rope ladder hanging from the Yundian is a full ten feet long, swaying with the mountain wind.
Zheng Qiu's heart pounded, this is too scary, not to mention climbing up, even standing and watching, his legs can't stop getting weak. How to do how to do? Zheng Qiu turned around underneath, but he still didn't dare to grab the ladder.
The sun tilted a little bit, Zheng Qiu knew that he couldn't drag it any longer, it would be more dangerous to climb the rope ladder when the sky darkened. Besides, it has been some time since the Yiluo flower was picked, and if it is not sent up as soon as possible, it may wither.
After thinking for a while, Zheng Qiu pulled some thatch from the ground, interlaced his hands, and weaved the thatch into two straw ropes. He tied one end of the two straw ropes around his waist, and then stepped forward to grab the rope ladder.
After climbing two or three steps up, Zheng Qiu wrapped his hands and feet tightly around the rope ladder, and at the same time tied a straw rope to the step. Climbing a little further up, he tied another to a higher rung. Then he climbed back down to his original position and untied the straw rope tied the previous time.
Just climb up, climb down, climb up, climb down again. Zheng Qiu moved up the rope ladder bit by bit like a little snail.
The mountain wind blew, the rope ladder swayed violently, and the scenery passed before Zheng Qiu's eyes. He felt dizzy, like leaves in a storm, about to fall at any time.
Pa, stretched out his hand and slapped himself, Zheng Qiu shook his head vigorously, trying to drive out the dizziness from his head. Eyes wide open, staring at the rope ladder, he completely focused his gaze on the steps in front of him.
One step, another step, one zhang, another zhang, finally, after tossing and tossing for more than half an hour, Zheng Qiu finally climbed up to the Yundian trembling.
With his feet on the ground, Zheng Qiu scrambled and moved to the eaves, leaning against the pillars of the palace and trembling non-stop. His hands and feet were limp and he had no strength at all, his back could not straighten up, and he was already in a state of exhaustion all over his body.
As the old man in the village at the foot of the mountain said, the blessed land of the fairy family is hidden in the clouds, and the sky is beyond the reach of ordinary people. Climbing up the Yundian, Zheng Qiu felt that half his life was hanging on the rope ladder.