When Ling Zikai took the so-called secret recipe that Chen Yi had obtained, he was surprised to find that it was a thirty-two open booklet, with fifty or sixty pages.

The first page is a photocopied text, with dense ancient characters written on it, and the font is somewhat similar to what was written on the murals in the cave of the Nagusi tribe ruins in the Falling Star Valley, which should be the text of the Gusi tribe. As for the content, it is completely because it recognizes Ling Zikai, but Ling Zikai doesn't recognize it.

Fortunately, after turning to the next page, it is written in Chinese characters, although it is still in traditional Chinese, but it is generally recognizable. Judging from the content, it should be the translation of the previous page, all of which are the names of some medicinal herbs, some of which Ling Zikai knows, and some of which he has never even heard of by name. I counted them, and there were hundreds of names.

On the following pages, there is a detailed description of the various herbs, including the name, shape, efficacy, etc., some of which are illustrated, and some of which are simply written with the name.

After a cursory glance, Ling Zikai asked with some surprise, "Old man, is this the recipe?"

Old Man Chen nodded and said, "That's right, because I don't know which dynasty this recipe was written in, and many of the names of medicinal herbs on it are completely different from the current names, so I asked someone to compare them and made a modern version."

A total of one hundred and eight herbs were used in the entire recipe. A third of them are still available, a third are rare, and the rest are completely extinct.

In fact, not to mention the current environment, even in those days, some herbs were already very scarce, otherwise they would not have just prepared a bottle of slurry.

Therefore, if you can't find the herb, even if you have a recipe, it's useless. ”

In fact, without Old Man Chen's explanation, Ling Zikai also found that the explanations of those herbs had already marked where they could be found, or that they had become extinct.

It's just that Ling Zikai found that there were several herbs marked as extinct, but he remembered seeing them in the Tiger Leaping Stream. Perhaps, it can still be found in the real primeval forest like Tiger Leaping Stream.

Although most of the world's primeval forests have been trampled by humans, there are still a few places that still maintain the oldest primitive environment. Not to mention, it's like the three great Jedi in Xing'an, isn't it! If you have the opportunity to visit those places by yourself, you may even be able to collect all the medicinal herbs.

Thinking of this, Ling Zikai said, "Old man, if you don't mind, can you let me copy this recipe." ”

Old Man Chen knew Ling Zikai's thoughts, and said: "Mr. Ling, although this recipe is precious, it is actually a chicken rib, it is useless to keep it, and it is a pity to abandon it!"

Truth be told, in order to find these herbs, we engraved this recipe into a booklet and distributed it to the children of the clan, and if we found a certain herb, we would sell it at all costs.

So far, more than 80 species have been collected, but the rest have been determined by the plant kingdom to be extinct, and it is impossible to collect all the medicinal herbs.

If you're interested, I'll give you this book!"

When Ling Zikai heard this, he hurriedly thanked Old Man Chen, and carefully collected the recipe.

Seeing Ling Zikai's appearance as if he had obtained a treasure, Old Man Chen didn't care, but Chen Yi next to him looked at him a few more times, and seemed to be thinking in his heart.

After the dinner, Ling Zikai offered his farewell.

Old Man Chen sent him to the door, and no longer mentioned that he should be the great shaman, but only said that if Ling Zikai had a place to find the Chen family in the future, the Chen family would definitely do his best to help.

It was still Chen Yi who drove Ling Zikai to the He family's villa.

Before getting out of the car, Chen Yi invited Ling Zikai again to attend her drinking party.

Ling Zikai neither agreed nor refused, anyway, let's talk about it when the time comes.

When Chen Yi returned home, he saw that the third uncle Chen Shihao also came at some point, talking to the old man in the living room. I happened to hear Chen Shihao say: "Since this surnamed Ling can't be used by our Chen family, and we can't let him work for the He family, I think it's better to let him disappear in this world!"

Chen Yi was startled when he heard this, and without waiting for the old man to speak, he said, "No, this matter must not be done!"

"Why? Now while he is still on Hong Kong Island, we are just acting, if we wait for him to go back to the mainland, we will not be able to whip it!"

Chen Yi did not answer Chen Shihao's words, but said to Old Man Chen: "Grandpa, I don't know if you feel that there is a very strange aura on Ling Zikai's body, when facing him, I have an indescribable sense of awe in my heart, anyway, subconsciously, it seems that as long as he says it, we can't object at all, we must obey unconditionally!"

Old Man Chen nodded and said, "What Yi Yatou said is right! In the dark, I also have a hunch that if we do something sorry for him, it will bring disaster to the entire family. Third child, this Ling Zikai is very mysterious, even if he can't be a friend of our Chen family, he must not become an enemy!"

"However, we have reached an agreement with the Montenegrin Group of Bangzi Country and started to enter the beauty and health care industry, and we will definitely form a business rival with the Tianlong Group of the He family in the future. This surnamed Ling has a very strong relationship with the He family, and it is inevitable that there will be conflicts with him in the future!"

"Third uncle, those sticks may not be reliable, they took the initiative to come to the door to cooperate with us, I think it is mainly for our recipes, and I don't know where they got the news that our Chen family has an ancient recipe. ”

Chen Shihao explained: "Actually, this ancient recipe is not a secret. Over the years, in order to collect medicinal herbs, we have printed the recipes into pamphlets and distributed them to the children of the clan, who may have already obtained them.

The point is that they have found more than a dozen of these extinct herbs, and they have successfully cultivated them. That is, so far, a hundred have been collected all to the herbs.

According to them, they have also found alternatives to the remaining eight herbs, and as long as we provide specific herb content data, they can be developed immediately.

If we can develop it successfully, we will be able to be invincible in this field just by developing this product, not to mention the huge benefits it brings.

At that time, our Chen family will truly be among the top giants in the world. ”

Chen Yi said with some disapproval: "Third Uncle, if the substitute for medicinal herbs can be used, we would have prepared the recipe a long time ago. Grandpa, have you noticed that when you mentioned the extinct herbs in the recipe just now, Ling Zikai's expression looked a little disapplieving, and I also found that he looked surprised when he saw certain herbs, as if he had seen them before. ”

"Oh, I didn't notice. ”

"Grandpa, Third Uncle, I have a hunch that Ling Zikai is very likely to collect those one hundred and eight medicinal herbs in the recipe!

Old Man Chen smiled bitterly and said, "Yi girl, we really want him to be the great shaman of the Chen family, but he is unwilling, will he still cooperate with us in business?"

"It's hard to say about this, if he agrees to be the great shaman of the Chen family, it is actually equivalent to tying him to us. This is the first time he has dealt with us, and it was still a hostile relationship before, and the two sides did not have the slightest degree of trust, and thought that this was a trick we had set for him. If it were me, I wouldn't have agreed.

But if you cooperate with us in business, both parties are based on interests, as long as the benefits are fairly distributed. ”

Speaking of this, Chen Yi paused: "As for how to talk to him, I'll handle this matter." I'm sure he'll say yes eventually!"

Old Man Chen pondered for a moment and said, "If he can cooperate with us, of course it is the best choice! What do you mean, third child?"

Chen Shihao knew that although he was the head of the Chen family, in some major decisions, the words of the grandfather and grandson had a very important weight, who let them control the connections of the entire Chen family!

smiled bitterly at the moment, and said: "In this case, I will deal with it first on the side of the Black Mountain Group, and if you can't negotiate here, then cooperate with them!"

Ling Zikai naturally wouldn't make the decision made by the Chen family. When I returned to He's house, it was already more than ten o'clock in the evening, and He Wandong's family of three had not gone to rest, but were sitting in the living room, seemingly waiting for his return.

Seeing Ling Zikai coming back, He Ling said with some yin and yang weirdness: "I haven't come back until now, the Chen family's banquet must be very grand! Why don't you stay there and let the eldest lady of the Chen family accompany you for one night!"

"What kind of nonsense are you talking about, you damn girl!"

Zhang Fang didn't know what her daughter was crazy about, so she hurriedly opened her mouth to reprimand, and then said to Ling Zikai: "Zikai, don't listen to this dead girl's crazy words, come and sit here, Auntie will make you a cup of tea!"

"Aunt Zhang, no need!"

Ling Zikai knew that He Ling was a little unhappy that he went to Chen's house for a banquet, and besides, it was already common for the two to meet and quarrel with each other, so he didn't care what she was talking about at all, so he walked to the sofa beside He Wandong and sat down.

"Uncle He, what kind of medicinal herbs do you usually use in your company!"

He Wandong put down the newspaper he was reading, glanced at Ling Zikai, and said, "There are many kinds of herbs we use, mainly for beauty and health care. What's the matter, you've figured out which herbs to grow in the forest farm?"

"No, no, it's up to you to decide what medicinal herbs to plant in the forest farm in the future, Uncle He. That's right, today I got a recipe from the Chen family, I want to use one hundred and eight kinds of medicinal materials, see if there are any in your company, if there is, save yourself from looking around. ”

He Wandong said in surprise: "What kind of recipe does it take to use more than a hundred kinds of medicinal materials?"

Ling Zikai took out the booklet, handed it to He Wandong, and said, "This is an ancient recipe, I don't know what the effect is for the time being. ”

He Wandong took the booklet, took a cursory look at it, and said: "This recipe is very miscellaneous to get dispensed, there are many very rare medicinal materials, and we don't necessarily have them in our company." However, even if you find all the herbs, you won't be able to make any potions. ”

Ling Zikai was stunned when he heard this, and asked, "Uncle He, what do you mean by this? Could it be that this prescription is fake?"