Chapter 23: A shallow smile
Man!
Su Shangxuan jumped out in fright with a scream, and at the same time quickly took out a fiery red long sword from the storage bag, pointed it at his eyebrows, and said in horror: "Who are you?!When did you come?!What are you doing?"
"Uh-" Jiang Changan didn't know which one to answer first.
Su Shangxuan calmed down, this was in his own territory, his face returned to normal, he walked left and right and looked at Jiang Changan, and said, "You came to receive the notice to be a gentleman?"
"That's right. Jiang Changan had been standing behind her just now, and he didn't see anything clearly, but at this moment, although he was pointed at by Jian Feng, he could also see the person in front of him clearly.
What broke into his eyes was a delicate smiling face like a flower and jade, with green eyebrows and green mountains, and his eyes cut water, just at a good age like a flower and jade.
He has seen countless beauties, some are more beautiful than her, some are better than her, but he is the first one in his life who is so spiritual.
"Hey, talk about you. Su Shangxuan shouted a few times and said, "The meeting assessment office is in Zixia Pavilion, why are you coming to my Fenglai Building?"
Jiang Changan looked embarrassed: "I said I made a mistake, do you believe it?"
Su Shangxuan shook his head, "As a gentleman, even if you don't know the intricacies of the mountain road, at least you can distinguish a few words on this plaque, right?"
Jiang Changan closed his mouth in amusement, the responsibility for this matter is indeed his, and there is no excuse.
Su Shangxuan looked submissive, inexplicably proud in his heart, and laughed out loud.
"Okay, I'm not going to tease you, it's already noon, if you don't rush over, it's really too late. ”
Jiang Changan looked up at the sky through the window, hurriedly turned around and ran out.
"Giggle......" Su Shangxuan couldn't stop laughing, his eyes rolling, "Mr. Alchemy's assessment, I want to see how capable you are......
After speaking, he remembered the side of the chest just now, and his little face was instantly a little redder than the pill in his hand.
Out of Fenglai Lou, Jiang Chang'an asked a few more people just in case, and finally asked the right direction of the real Zixia Pavilion.
Zixia Pavilion is magnificent, the stone steps are smooth as a mirror, and the couplets on the pillars are also a little mottled, not to mention the gold bricks and silver tiles, but it invisibly reveals a solemnity, which is the solemnity that makes people can't help but look up and admire when they come to the front, and this sense of heaviness is only available after thousands of years of accumulation.
Jiang Changan hurried to the assessment site, but he was still one step too late.
After inquiry, I learned that Jiang Changan's name had already been called.
"Who do you say this guy named Jiang Changan is?
The few guys who were about to be tested gloated and said: "In recent years, alchemists have become two trends, either very good or very poor, those who are very good naturally go to some major sects, and those who are bad can only become warlocks who shout and sell on the streets. ”
"People like us who make do with it finally have the beauty of this sect gentleman, and they didn't come early, but that person named Jiang Changan wasted such a great opportunity, and he really thought that he was the son of those big families or the alchemist of the sect, and he didn't know how to take a good picture of the peeing and weigh his own weight. ”
The other also said: "Who said no, it's not easy to find a job these days, people outside think that the alchemist has a transcendent status, and he only needs to move his fingers to make things that are difficult to buy, hmph, how do they know that the people who can do this are the ones who are one in a million." This Jiang Changan is also really presumptuous, it is estimated that he got into the quilt of a girl in the Junya Building in Yingzhou City last night, and he can't get up today. ”
These guys had a smug smile on their faces, as they said, although the alchemist industry has gone downhill, the competition has a tendency to increase instead of decreasing, and they all want to learn to cheat a few taels of silver in the last days of the elixir, and there are not many people left who can really refine medicine.
Mo said that there was one less competitor, and they wished that everyone except themselves would automatically abstain like Jiang Changan.
A group of people are amiable on the surface, but secretly they have their own ghosts.
Jiang Changan inquired a few people to figure out that the exact point of the preliminary examination was not in Zixia Pavilion, but in a small wooden house next to Zixia Pavilion, which seemed to be a house where sundries were placed on weekdays, and only after passing the preliminary examination could the second exam in the main hall of Zixia Pavilion be carried out uniformly.
Jiang Changan wandered around for a while, and saw a middle-aged guy guarding the door of the small house, supervising the few who had counted their names to enter one by one, with a thin body, five strands of long hair, and an extraordinary expression of pride, not Wen Chuyuan or anyone.
Jiang Changan walked over with his head down and was arrested.
"Alas, what's the matter with you kid, is this place where you can come?" Wen Chuyuan said habitually, and when he saw the person clearly, he suddenly said: "Oh, it turned out to be you kid." ”
Wen Chuyuan said in an official tone: "Why are you here again, haven't you already let you go?" Do you know that being able to come to our Qinglian Sect as a gentleman is a blessing that you have cultivated in your previous life, how many people want this opportunity to try for the first time, you, it's better to hurry up and take a walk......
In front of the mountain gate, Jiang Chang'an did not pay some "hard money", but he remembered this matter clearly. At this moment, seeing Jiang Chang'an deflated, his heart blossomed.
At this moment, a woman's voice came from the house, gentle and moving: "Mr. Wen, what's going on outside?"
Wen Chuyuan's proud appearance collapsed instantly, even if the other party couldn't see it, he turned around and said respectfully: "Miss, there is someone named Jiang Chang'an, but the specified time has passed, do you want to order the disciple to drive him out......
"Let him in. ”
"But the eldest lady, the rule set by the great elder is that whoever has passed this set time will not be allowed to be hired......"
"Look at this day, there is still half an hour before the deadline, why did you turn over the rules, Mr. Wen, do you listen to me, or do you listen to the Great Elder?"
Jiang Changan secretly guessed the identity of this woman, her tone was gentle and decisive, and her position must not be low.
Wen Chuyuan was shocked, and hurriedly said: "Naturally, I listened to the eldest lady, let him in......"
He secretly hated it in his heart, but this person was all for Jiang Changan, and he couldn't refute it.
Entering a small house inside, Jiang Changan couldn't wait to see what this woman looked like.
Who knew that in addition to Wen Chuyuan and the other two examiners in the room, there was also a screen.
Through the screen, I vaguely saw the figure of a woman sitting upright, and the voice just now came from inside.
The few people who went in before were holding the brush in their hands, facing the bamboo slips in front of them, scratching their ears and cheeks with a sad face.
Jiang Changan took a look, and a few of them were still good, writing out some things, in an orderly manner, all of them were the names of some medicinal materials, and more of them were not written a word.
"If you want to be an alchemist, the most basic thing is to know the Dan Fang, and if you want to be the alchemy master of the Qinglian Sect, you need to know more and more powerful Dan Fang. ”
Wen Chuyuan didn't have the same respect as the previous people, and said to Jiang Changan impatiently. But he also realized that the strength of the Blue Lotus Sect was not as good as before, and his tone of voice was a little insufficient.
A guy handed Jiang Changan a brush and bamboo slips.
"Write Danfang silently?" Jiang Changan finally knew why the guys in front of him were sad.
Most of these people are warlocks or even liars who make a living, not to mention writing Dan Fang, even if they take out a complete Dan Fang and let them copy it, I am afraid it will be crooked.
The last thing Jiang Changan is worried about is to write the Dan Fang silently, how powerful the Jiang family is, there are tens of thousands of Dan Fang.
Not to mention that he also used his spare time to write down all the legends and historical records about medicinal herbs.
Wen Chuyuan secretly sneered, thinking about what kind of problem to make it difficult for Jiang Changan, who knew that this guy was absentmindedly glancing behind the screen.
Wen Chuyuan snorted coldly, and said arrogantly: "Jiang Changan, what you want to write is not difficult, it is just an ordinary plague pill." ”
"Scatter the plague pill!" a few people next to him gasped.
At this time, I couldn't see clearly that Wen Chuyuan deliberately didn't want this guy to enter the Qinglian Sect, although the Scattered Plague Pill was not a complicated pill, but the difficulty was that it had to be the right medicine.
For those pills that are beneficial to the human body, it is nothing more than to make a little more tonic effect, otherwise put two more doses of blended medicinal materials, which are basically suitable for men, women and children.
But this Scattered Plague Pill is just the opposite, what plague, what disease must be figured out, there are thousands of kinds of plague, and this bamboo slip that writes the Scattered Plague Pill Pill is only so big, where is there a pill that can treat all types of plague.
Jiang Changan also raised his eyebrows slightly after hearing this, this Wen Chuyuan was clearly looking for trouble, and the woman behind the screen didn't say anything this time, and wanted to see what he could write.
Jiang Changan's face sank, and he said, "It's strange, there are thousands of kinds of plagues, doesn't Mr. Wen even have this bit of common sense?" Or does no one in the Qinglian Sect know?"
"You are presumptuous! Come on!" Wen Chuyuan drank, what he was waiting for was Jiang Chang'an's mistake.
"Slow ......down," said the woman behind the screen, "you can write as long as you want, as long as you can cure the plague." ”
"Then what is this standard?" Jiang Changan asked.
"I'm the standard. She said confidently: "As long as it is harmless to people and can effectively and quickly retreat the plague, then you have passed." ”
Jiang Changan complained bitterly in his heart, this sound good, but if you think about it carefully, it is a medicine that is poisonous, it may be absolutely harmless to the body, and how fast it is? It all depends on the woman behind the screen.
In three or two sentences, the original exam questions were relaxed on the surface, but in fact, they became more demanding unconsciously.
Jiang Changan didn't think about it, and directly began to sketch on the bamboo slips, which was extremely casual.
Wen Chuyuan's face was full of ridicule, the fastest person he had ever seen had to think about it a little, and he would dare to write only after dealing with the medicinal properties of each herb in his heart, Jiang Changan immediately waved his pen and wrote, this was obviously a random picture that he didn't know how to answer, and he really had to roll sooner or later.
"It's written!" Jiang Changan said with a smile.
"Bring it ......" Wen Chuyuan stretched out his hand and was about to stand up to get it, Jiang Changan shrank his hand and dodged it, as if he was playing tricks on the other party.
Wen Chuyuan said angrily: "Jiang Changan, what do you mean by this?!Oh...... I see, you must have just not thought about it at all, so you just made a fool of yourself. ”
"The method of agitation was useless when I was three years old. Jiang Chang'an said, "This young lady said just now, the standard of judgment is her, so naturally she has to show him first, Mr. Wen, is it difficult to exceed his authority." ”
Although this woman didn't know what the origin was, it was certain that her position of power must be much higher than Wen Chuyuan's.
"Full of nonsense!" Wen Chuyuan was generalized, and he looked back carefully at the back of the barrier and did not move, and then he secretly breathed a sigh of relief. I didn't dare to make any more mistakes, so I respectfully presented it to the back of the screen.
The room became very quiet, and even those who were writing stopped their pens and waited to see the results of Jiang Chang'an.
"Hehe-" There was an unprecedented chuckle behind the screen, and even Wen Chuyuan looked incredible, he hadn't heard this laugh for more than half a year.
She said, "You passed the ......."
Jiang Changan seemed to have guessed the answer, holding his head and yawning lazily and walking out the door.
"There will be a second test in a while, don't be late this time......"
"Yes, yes. He stepped out of the house.
"This ......" Wen Chuyuan hadn't figured it out yet, and when the woman handed over the bamboo slip, he quickly opened it and looked at it, and the other people also swarmed up and formed a group.
"Swallowtail Soul Rejuvenation Fruit, Soul Herb, Myrrh, Ginseng, Xiao Qu Wheat, Hanyi Ganoderma lucidum, Shengkudzu Root, Lotus Kernel, Yao Lotus Silk, Cloth Slag Leaf, Yuanzhi, Chu Suzi, Wen Xiang. ”
The names of various medicinal herbs are scrawled on the wooden tablets, and the dosage of each medicine is explained below.
Wen Chuyuan seriously considered the effect, and said disdainfully: "Hmph, these thirteen flavors of medicine are quite pertinent, but at least three of them do not need to appear in the Danfang, it is useless to eat too much medicine, and this is to add to the snake, if Jiang Changan teaches it like this, this is a misguided child, this kind of strength, I don't understand why Miss let him pass the ......."
Wen Chuyuan was wondering in his heart, just seeing that the faces of so many people behind him were a little wrong, as if they wanted to laugh but didn't dare to laugh.
"What's wrong?!"
One of them replied with a smile: "Wen ...... Mr. Wen, you turn this Danfang upside down from left to right, and then connect the first word...... Puff haha...... "In the end, he didn't hold back his laughter, he laughed, and the others also laughed wildly, making a lot of noise, Wen Chuyuan looked at it again, and his face turned purple.
However, you can't get angry with the person who is also laughing, because the woman behind the screen is also laughing, and the smile is shallow.