Chapter 36: Planning Alchemy
The next day, Zhou Tong and Fang Huairan took Zhou's mother back to Union Hospital to prescribe some painkillers, and then signed up for some luxury tour groups of domestic attractions and took Zhou's mother around. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info
After Fang Huairan said a word to his aunt during the New Year, he accompanied Zhou Tong and Zhou's mother back to Handan to celebrate the New Year together.
Zhou Tong endured his grief, and Fang Huairan, under the guidance of his uncle, handled Zhou's mother's funeral, bought a cemetery in Handan, took out the ashes of Zhou's father in the funeral home, and buried them in the cemetery with Zhou's mother's ashes.
After burning Wuqi in Handan, Fang Huairan and Zhou Tong locked the doors and windows of Zhou's mother's house, turned off the water and electricity, left a spare key at Zhou Tong's uncle's house, and drove back to Yanjing.
Huairan drove on the road, Zhou Tong beat Zhou's mother and died, and was often stunned there, Fang Huairan was a little worried in his heart, turned on the stereo in the car casually, selected a few Yanni's music to play, and listened to the familiar music of "With Orchids", Zhou Tong couldn't help but burst into tears.
The first time I heard this music, it was an English audition before the final exam of my freshman year, and later when I went to the Great Wall for the first time with Fang Huairan, I heard this music on the road and knew its name.
Fang Huairan saw Zhou Tong's grief crying, there happened to be a rest area in front of him, turned the car in, pulled over, turned around and hugged Zhou Tong, and comforted softly: "It's better to cry, I haven't seen you shed tears these days, and I know that you have been holding on." ”
When Zhou Tong heard this, he cried even more, and said intermittently: "I won't have a mother anymore!"
Fang Huairan patted Zhou Tong's back and comforted: "This is the law of nature, think about it, when my parents died, I was just thirteen, and I was depressed for half a year, and then I survived, now you still have me, I don't have parents anymore, and the two of us will depend on each other in the future." After speaking, Fang Huairan couldn't help but have red circles in his eyes, thinking that it was really as he said, there were only two people in this world who depended on each other.
Zhou Tong stopped crying for a while, his eyes were already swollen from crying, Fang Huairan saw that Zhou Tong's mood had stabilized, and suggested going to the service area to eat something before going on the road, Zhou Tong nodded in agreement, and the two immediately got out of the car to eat.
It was already the end of March when they returned to Yanjing, Fang Huairan and Zhou Tong calculated the time, and they still had time to plant herbs, according to last year's plan, they left two plots of land to try to plant ginseng, and the other places were planted with honeysuckle and schisandra like last year.
After finishing the matter of planting herbs, Zhou Tong's mood basically returned to normal, no longer in a daze, and Fang Huairan also talked and laughed, which made Fang Huairan feel a lot more relieved, thinking that it was all the credit of changing the environment, thinking that if you cultivate ginseng, you must often apply a new talisman array to it, Yanjing Fangshan is also tired of running back and forth, it is better to rent a house in a nearby village to live, I remember that when I went to the village committee, I saw people who lived in small villas, and the conditions were also good。
Fang Huairan told Zhou Tong about his idea, Zhou Tong was very happy after hearing it, raised his hands in agreement, Fang Huairan saw Zhou Tong so happy, very pleased, and then ran a few companies to buy ginseng, bought more than ten ginseng that can continue to grow, and asked how to cultivate it, and then put it on and took it home to go to the countryside to rent a house in two days to study ginseng.
There was a big battle between the two at night, this was the first time after Zhou's mother died, Fang Huairan completely believed that Zhou Tong had walked out of the previous sadness, after the battle, Zhou Tong lay on Fang Huairan's side, drew a circle on Fang Huairan's chest with his hand, and said in a hoarse voice: "Didn't you say before that you have some ancient monks' pills, show me tomorrow, find out if there are any pills that can make up the materials, if there is, when you plant ginseng, you also plant the medicinal materials needed for the pill, and after you get the medicinal materials, I will use them to practice alchemy, what do you think?"
Fang Huairan was stunned after hearing this, and looked at Zhou Tong with puzzled eyes, Zhou Tong didn't wait for Fang Huairan to speak, and continued: "I'm fine, I'm not sad anymore, and I understand that birth, old age, sickness and death are natural laws, don't worry, I've come out."
Zhou Tong paused, changed to a comfortable posture, and said: "You see that the two of us don't take much time to farm, and it doesn't take much time to practice step by step, we have to find something to do for ourselves, I see that you are so invested in making talismans, I also want to find my own hobbies, I chose food because I like chemistry, and alchemy can be regarded as a little bit next to chemistry, so I choose alchemy, and it just so happens that medicinal materials can also be cultivated by themselves." ”
Fang Huairan saw that what Zhou Tong said was quite reasonable, and nodded in agreement: "That's okay, I make talismans, you refine the pill, if this is put in the past, the two of us will have all the skills of cultivation, and we will produce it for our own use." ”
Zhou Tong saw that Fang Huairan agreed, and said again, Fang Huairan may be tired, and slowly lost his voice, so he fell asleep first, while Zhou Tong meditated on alchemy in his heart, thought about it for a while, and slowly fell asleep.
The next day, Fang Huairan looked for Zhou Tong the information in the computer and the collected paper materials, Zhou Tong sorted out a few days, and found the raw materials needed in the Danfang through Internet search, one by one, and after a few days, she really found a few Danfang that could be refined, not only the herbs that can be used as raw materials can be found now, but the steps of refining are also described in great detail, if you do not consider the age of the raw materials, you can completely refine these pills, of course, affected by the lack of years of herbal medicines as raw materials, the efficacy is also greatly reduced。
Zhou Tong excitedly told Fang Huairan the result, Fang Huairan was also very interested in it, knowing that alchemy needed a Dan furnace, Fang Huairan and Zhou Tong ran a few markets selling antiques together, and finally found a bronze Xiaoding.
As for the flame needed for alchemy, of course, the innate true fire is the best, but the innate true fire is at least something that can only be used by cultivators in the Dan period, and with the cultivation of Fang Huairan and Zhou Tong in the qi refining period, there is no need to think about it.
There is no innate true fire, you can use some heavenly fire, earth fire can be replaced, the heavenly fire because of instability, in addition to some special pills, ancient monks are rarely used, ancient low-level monks used the most is earth fire, choose the fire of the earth lungs in the land of Xuanyang, draw out the size and thickness of the fire suitable for their needs, and quench the elixir.
The so-called fire of the lungs, Fang Huairan and Zhou Tong analyzed that it was magma underground, but the mana of the two was limited, and they could not trigger the fire of the lungs at all, let alone control the size and thickness of the flames.
The plan has been decided, the two of them packed up their things and prepared to set off for Fangshan the next day, when Fang Huairan was packing his own talismans, he suddenly remembered that there was a small fireball talisman, which could be used to use the small fireball talisman to replace the earth fire to refine the elixir, which was more reliable than the method of building the stove by himself, no matter how high the temperature of the stove was, it could not reach the temperature of the earth fire, and the temperature of the small fireball talisman was far better than the temperature of the ordinary stove.
Fang Huairan hurriedly told Zhou Tong his thoughts, Zhou Tong thought about it and felt that it was feasible, but unfortunately Fang Huairan didn't know how to refine the small fireball talisman, Fang Huairan said that this study should be able to refine it after a period of time, fortunately, Zhou Tong needed to cultivate the herbs he bought with aura for a period of time before he could refine the pill, and Fang Huairan could use this time to refine the small fireball talisman.
The next day, Fang Huairan and Zhou Tong locked the doors and windows and drove to Fangshan, first drove to the village committee, and talked to the village chief about renting a house, the village chief readily agreed, and said with a smile: "There will be news soon, many young people in the village have gone to the city to work, the family house is empty all the year round, only come back to live for a few days during the New Year, there is no problem with renting it to you, the price will not be too expensive, the owner has to thank them for helping to see the house, you two first tell me what kind of house you want to rent, how big is it?"
Fang Huairan and Zhou Tong were very happy when they heard that they could rent a house, Fang Huairan replied with joy on their faces according to the conditions they had thought before: "I want to rent a villa with better conditions, if there is no single-family villa, it is okay to rent a floor, we can prepare the bedding or something, the kitchen appliances are fully equipped, and you have to be able to take a bath, and the time is to rent until eleven from now on."
When the village chief heard that the two wanted to rent a villa, he frowned, closed his eyes and thought for a while, took out his mobile phone to make a call, hung up the phone, and said with confidence: " I just asked you Xiao Wu, his house can be rented to you, the price is 50,000 a year, the household appliances and furniture are complete, you can take a bath, the bedding is also ready-made, the key is in his uncle's house, if you want to see, I can take you to see it now, you can rent it at any time, how long you can rent it, Xiao Wu and his daughter-in-law work in Shenzhen, the house was built for his parents before, and then his parents were no longer there, he rarely went back to the village, as long as you two don't trouble the house. ”
Fang Huairan and Zhou Tong listened, felt that the conditions were good, and then pulled the village chief to take them to see the house, after seeing more satisfied, the three-story villa, as soon as you enter the house, it is a large living room, opposite the living room is a wide staircase, go upstairs along the stairs, the second and third floors are facing the stairs are a living room a little smaller than the first floor, there are four rooms on both sides of each floor, north and south, all of which have been decorated, and the furniture and appliances are complete.
The village chief saw that Fang Huairan and Zhou Tong were very satisfied, and said with a smile: "Xiao Wu is doing business with his daughter-in-law in Shenzhen, and he makes a lot of money. The guest room has a wooden bed, and when it was built, I planned to come back to live in the future, you can live well, the house is well maintained, and I will help you talk to him about reducing the rent next year.
Fang Huairan and Zhou Tong thanked the village chief in unison and returned to the village committee with the village chief.