Chapter 177: Catching a soft-shelled turtle
Wang He went to bed after completing the task of "Yugong Moves Mountains", and got up early the next day as usual, and went to class after running and practicing Red Sun Gong. This was the case for three days in a row. He wasn't in a hurry, Chen Suke couldn't help it, and on the afternoon of the fourth day, when Wang He passed by the door of the Huichun Hall after school, he was called in by him.
After sitting down in the back room, Wang He didn't wait for him to speak, and said with a "ashamed" face:
"Old Chen, I'm sorry, the medicine you gave last time has run out, and the Dan has not yet been refined. ”
Chen Su said with a smile:
"It's okay, it's okay, I'm not in a hurry, you must not be in a hurry, alchemy must be mastered...... By the way, I've already brought in the medicinal herbs you want, how many more do you think you need?"
Wang He thought for a moment and said:
"Let's take three portions, I'll try again. If it doesn't work again, I'll give you the deposit back. ”
Chen Su hurriedly waved his hand and said:
"Gee, don't think like that. I have already entered a lot of medicinal materials to use, so you can relax and refine them. Don't be in a hurry. ”
After seeing Wang He leave, Chen Su's face turned cloudy. In addition to not going into the government compound in the past few days, like the half-life pavilion and the school, where Wang He appears every day, he has quietly observed Wang He's daily life, and he has not seen anything abnormal about this stinky boy.
Chen Su was not worried that Wang He would cheat him out of his money, but after this period of tossing back and forth, he already felt that there was little hope, and Wang He gave him hope again.
At noon on Friday, Wang He came to the Huichun Hall and told Chen Su that he was going home on the weekend, because he felt that refining here was not going well, and he wanted to try it in another place.
Chen Su expressed his support. In the evening, Wang He sat on Lao Yong's home.
At two or three o'clock in the evening, Chen Su changed into black clothes and quietly sneaked into the government compound, skillfully stabbed open the door of Wang He's dormitory with a wire, and after going inside for a turn, he found nothing except two pieces of paper wrapped in medicine, but he seemed to smell a fragrance.
Chen Su found the cardboard box under the bed, which Qiu Jianjun had left for Wang He before leaving, and there was nothing in it except some books and a pair of nunchucks.
Chen Su buried his head in the cardboard box, sniffed the smell like a hunting dog, put it down after a long time, put the carton back in its place, and quietly left.
Wang He took home only two packets of medicine, and the remaining three packets were hidden in a room in the government office building. The four-story office building has several rooms that are not visited on weekdays, except for a few magazines and damaged furniture.
The reason why Wang He wanted to "embezzle" these medicinal materials was to increase the difficulty, so that Chen Su felt that the pill was extremely difficult to refine, so that he could feel that the money was worth spent. In addition, there is another reason, in addition to refining one piece to turn it into tea for his relatives to drink when he adapts, he also thinks that maybe there will be other uses in the future, and prepare raw materials in advance, so as not to use it in time to prepare.
This week, Wang He went home with two bags of medicinal herbs, although they were wrapped in paper, the smell of medicinal herbs was still very strong, Wang He explained to his family that this was a favor for his classmates, and this medicine needed to be hidden in the barn and buried with rice for dozens of days, and then it would be taken out to make the medicine.
After only a short week, there was a clear difference between the seedlings in the rice field of Wang He's house, and the seedlings who were pampered by the Daoxiang card skills last week grew significantly better than other seedlings, just like the difference in height and weight between the fourth and fifth grade students and the first and second grade students.
This phenomenon surprised everyone, Wang He's grandfather, aunt, uncle, and aunt asked Li Feifeng what kind of fertilizer was used to make the seedlings in these two fields grow so well, but where would Li Feifeng know? So as soon as Wang Xiangyu returned home, she talked about it.
Wang Xiangyu couldn't figure it out, so he took a little rest, then took a hoe and went to the field.
After Wang He put the medicine in the barn on the second floor, he returned to the kitchen to help boil the water. In those years, there were no water heaters in the countryside, and the hot water for bathing was heated in a large iron pot.
Recently, the weather is getting hotter and hotter, and after dinner is ready, Li Feifeng asked his children to move the Eight Immortals Table to the sun-dried valley ping, bring out the food, and eat outside the house is cooler.
Wang Yan put the dishes and chopsticks in place, Li Feifeng came out with the dishes, and saw that Wang Xiangyu had not come back, so he called Wang He:
"Two-two, go and ask your Abba to come back for dinner. It's getting dark and I haven't come back, I've been watching it for a week and I haven't found any reason, and he can see it by looking at it?"
Wang He was playing with the black dog, listened to his mother's words, answered the call and was about to go to the field, just after walking two steps, he saw Wang Xiangyu appear from under the paulownia tree, and said:
"Mom, Abba is back, hey, what's in his hand?"
As Wang Xiangyu took a few steps closer, it could be seen that he was holding an oval-shaped gray-brown thing in his hand, Wang He's eyes were good, and he saw it at a glance, and said in surprise:
"It's a foot fish. Mom, Abba caught a foot fish. ”
The foot fish is the soft-shelled turtle. As soon as they heard Wang He's words, the mother and daughter next to them put down the work in their hands and approached to see together.
Wang Xiangyu reminded not to touch it with your hands and be careful of being bitten.
Wang He reacted quickly, and hurriedly brought a wooden bucket over, and after putting the soft-shelled turtle into the bucket, Wang Xiangyu breathed a sigh of relief, he hadn't caught this thing much, and had been carefully pinching the hard shell, for fear of being bitten.
Li Feifeng scooped up a spoonful of water and asked:
"Didn't you go to see the grass, how did you catch a foot fish, and where did you catch it?"
Wang Xiangyu answered his wife's question while washing his hands:
"When I came back from watching He, I saw it at the outlet of the fish pond. ”
Li Feifeng scooped another spoonful of water for the soft-shelled turtle, and the family sat down to eat. The fate of the soft-shelled turtle was arranged at the dinner table and sold for money. After eating, Li Feifeng took a scale and weighed it, and the weight of the soft-shelled turtle was more than two catties.
In the countryside in these years, wild soft-shelled turtles are not rare, and many of them are said to be wild in later generations, especially in the cities, there are people who wear mud clothes, holding a big soft-shelled turtle full of yellow mud and selling, saying that it is dug up in the construction site, and 99% of this is farmed.
The next morning, when Wang He went to cut the fish grass, in the rice field with a clear distinct distinction, he cast the Daoxiang card skill next to the grass seedlings that had been released last week. Before it was confirmed, Wang He had tested the skill in the rice field, and cast the skill once today and tomorrow, and all his seedlings could accept the baptism of skills.