After Xing Haodong and several elders returned to the deacon hall, Shen He, the left hall master who went out to do business, also came back, and everyone discussed the destruction of the No. 3 Lingtian again.

An Tong and Xiao Yufeng were directly fined all their money and property because of their serious suspicions and were driven out of Baicaotang. And Xu Xiangqin barely kept the position of steward under Shen He's protection, but was still fined a year's salary.

After this matter is dealt with, it is immediately followed by the matter of flying leaves. A large area of Flying Leaf Grass was damaged, but the Qi Nourishing Pill still had to be delivered on time, otherwise, just doubling the loss of compensation would overwhelm Baicaotang.

Baicaotang is a medicine hospital opened up in Xingyue Valley by a real person with a blue name more than a thousand years ago. Initially, there were only a few medicine fields and a medicine building.

Later, he took in three disciples. Under him, the three disciples learned the cultivation methods of various herbs and the art of alchemy. Later, the herbs produced in the medicine field were not enough for the three of them to use for alchemy, so they invited some medicine farmers to come and open up some nearby depressions and peaks with better environment and soil quality, and gradually formed the current scale.

The name Baicaotang was chosen by Bixu Zhenren, but unfortunately he was incarnated a thousand years ago. The medicine hall fell into the hands of his three disciples, who later hired a number of people to manage the medicine hall, while they themselves traveled far and wide and traveled beyond Dongchuan, determined to learn more and more subtle alchemy.

The disciples they accepted continued to stay in the Baicao Hall to study alchemy, and in order to maintain their expenses, the Baicao Hall would regularly sell the pills refined by the Dan masters on weekdays in exchange for some spirit stones.

But later, the number of pharmacists who needed to support them increased, and the expenses became larger and larger, and the pharmacies had reached the point where they could not make ends meet.

The elders came up with a way to refine the pill for the Xiuzhen family in quantitative quantities in exchange for more spirit stones. The alchemist also set a fixed monthly task, a rule that has continued for more than three hundred years.

Xing Haodong looked at the people sitting in the conference hall, and said with a stern expression: "This batch of Flying Leaf Grasslands was originally used to refine the Qi Nourishing Pills that had been set by several families in the second half of the year, and even the deposit had already been collected. But now, the herbs are destroyed. We have to hand over the pill as promised, what can you do? ”

"Why don't you ......," the old lobby looked at him hesitantly, "Go to a few nearby cities and buy some flying leaves and come back?" ”

The old man of Wutang shook his head with an embarrassed face, "Let's not talk about whether we can buy such a large amount of flying leaf grass." Just buying the spirit stones needed is a lot of money, and the Deacon Hall can't afford to spend so much money at the moment. ”

Wutang was always the one in charge of the accounts of the entire Baicao Hall, and when everyone heard his words, their faces suddenly became ugly.

In the eyes of outsiders, the scenery of Baicaotang is infinite. With such a huge medicinal field and medicine mountain, there are countless pills sold every year, but who knows, in fact, Baicaotang's book has been in deficit for so many years.

The entire Baicao Hall, including the hall master, the elders, the deacons, the stewards, the alchemists of the medicine building, the medicine boys, and all the pharmacists combined, there were nearly a thousand people.

Everyone's food and housing, the maintenance of the medicine field and the medicine mountain, the herb seeds, etc., these expenses are nearly one million dollars per year.

And there are more than 20 alchemists in the medicine hall. The pills refined per person per month are about five hundred, and the overall income is about forty or fifty thousand spirit stones a month, with a maximum of six hundred thousand a year, plus the occasional refining of high-grade pills for some families, and the sale of other herbs, the income is less than one million spirit stones a year.

So, if you're lucky, you might be able to break even. If you are unlucky, you will have to lose your books, and you will have to rely on the pill deposit paid by the family to support it.

Flying Leaf Grass is a relatively noble and delicate spiritual herb. It is more difficult to grow, the survival rate is also low, and the price is more expensive. If you want to buy a sufficient amount of Flying Leaf Grass, the Deacon Hall must take at least 10,000 spirit stones.

A penny is hard to beat a hero. Right now, for this ten thousand spirit stones. The entire deacon hall was filled with sad faces.

"So be it." Xing Haodong looked at everyone, "Take some of the herbs accumulated in previous years to major commercial buildings and sell them, or directly replace them with flying leaf grass, hoping to make up for the second half of the year." ”

Several cousins nodded, "That's all it can be." ”

It was the No. 1 hospital that had the accident this time, although Lin Xiang was very wronged. But she also felt a little ashamed in her heart, after all, it was the reason why she didn't take care of it.

"Hall Master Xing said that the method is good. However, there are other ways to get enough flying leaves as quickly as possible. ”

Everyone hurriedly looked at her suspiciously, "What way?" The lobby asked.

"In fact, in previous years, the Flying Leaf Grass has been distributed to people in different medicine fields, according to the custom, if the harvest is particularly good, they can put away the Flying Leaf Grass that exceeds the prescribed harvest, and take it to the medicine store to exchange it for pills, or sell it for spirit stones."

"Not bad." Qi Xia, the steward of the second hospital, echoed.

"Oh. Right...... And I forgot about it. Xing Xiangdong suddenly realized.

The fourth elder expressed skepticism and said, "Even so, how many flying leaves can the medicine worker have?" ”

Steward Lin smiled at him, "There may not be many on one pharmacist, only a few dozen, but if ten pharmacists, or even twenty pharmacists, hand over the flying leaf grass, then there are a lot of them." ”

"That's right." Shen He, who had not spoken, laughed at this time, "Two hundred flying leaf grasses can refine two thousand Qi Nourishing Pills, although the number is far from enough, but at least it can solve the urgent need." ”

"Let's do it." In the end, Xing Haodong made the decision, and the matter was decided.

The next day, the deacon's hall sent two messages.

The first is that two female pharmacists, An Tong and Xiao Yufeng, from the Third Hospital of Yaotian, deliberately damaged the flying leaf grass of the No. 3 small medicine field due to personal grudges, and were deprived of their net worth, driven out of Baicaotang, and never allowed to take another step; Xu Xiangqin, the steward of the Third Hospital, was fined one year of salary for improper care.

The second is that from now on, the pharmacists who hand in 30 flying leaf grasses will be automatically promoted to the next level from next month. If you are a high-level pharmacist, you can go to the medicine house and choose to exchange for the same amount of pills or spirit stones.

For the second news, many pharmacists are flocking to it, and those who have flying leaves are excited, busy handing it in, and those who don't can only sigh.

Ye Zi learned that Xu Xiangqin had only been fined for one year, and a mocking smile immediately appeared on his face.

"Ye'er, what are you laughing at?" Fan Dandan had just finished catching insects, and as soon as he looked up, he saw the smile hidden from Ye Zi's mouth, and hurriedly asked.

"Didn't laugh at anything. If you catch it, I'll water it after you catch it. ”

"Oh. Wait a little longer. I saw one just now, but when I turned my head, it was gone, and I had to find it! Fan Dandan hurriedly leaned down on top of Su Ye again, rummaging inch by inch.

looked at Fan Dandan's unscrupulous side face. Ye Zi couldn't help but think of a scene she saw in the medicine building a year ago--

It was about half a year after Ye Zi had just arrived in Baicaotang, and that day she was going to go to the medicine building to hand in the newly collected herbs, because Fan Dandan had something to go out, and she was busy alone until dark to finish cleaning up. rushed to the pharmacy to hand in the task.

As soon as she walked into the gate of the medicine building, she saw two black shadows of ghosts on the left corner of the medicine building.

Ding Qing saw that it was Xu Xiangqin and an alchemist from the medicine building, and the alchemist quickly stuffed two gray Qiankun bags into Xu Xiangqin's hands, and quickly looked around.

Out of instinct or intuition, Ye Zi took two steps back like lightning, and deliberately made a noise After stepping back into the medicine building, Xu Xiangqin had already turned her head and stared at her for a moment.

At that time, she stepped forward casually, saluted lightly to the other party, and then gave the alchemist the transaction in her medicine field. And after registering, he turned around and left the pharmacy.

The next day, news came out from the pharmacy that the warehouse had been stolen and a lot of valuable medicinal materials had been lost.

Thinking about it at this time, maybe Xu Xiangqin has always been obsessed with this matter and has suspicions about her, so she will use the matter of the Third Courtyard to plant dirt on her head at the same time, so as to drive herself out of Baicaotang to cover up the fact that she committed theft.

But. What made Ye Zi feel puzzled was that, judging from Baicaotang's reaction, the matter should be very serious this time, but Xu Xiangqin only symbolically received some insignificant punishment. It's strange no matter how you look at it.

Could it be that she has a backstage?

Ye Zi can only make this conjecture, and only in this way can she explain why she, a small steward, dared to steal a large amount of medicinal materials in conjunction with the alchemists of the medicine building.

can make Xu Xiangqin rely on. It must be a person with a relatively high status in Baicaotang.

In the entire Baicao Hall, except for the three disciples of Bixu Zhenren who were wandering outside, the two hall masters and the hall elder were the highest, which of them would be them?

Could it be the three old people?

In view of the "bad" performance of the previous three halls, Ye Zi had to make this conjecture. In fact, she didn't want to care about these things at all, let alone pay attention to them.

But helplessly, even after so long of that incident, she has been pretending to be deaf and dumb, not saying a word, and the other party still refuses to rest assured. This time it's just to blame, and I don't know what I'll do next time.

Instead of passively getting troops to block and water to cover up, it is better to take the initiative to attack and catch the opponent off guard, so as to prevent future troubles.

After making up his mind, Fan Dandan's insects are almost caught, and he only needs to wait for the last water on the leaves, and he can collect Su Ye tomorrow.

At night, after Fan Dandan fell asleep, Ye Zi flashed into the space, selected some of the herbs that had been collected, and put them into a separate Qiankun bag. In the end, she added the flying leaf grass that was not light, and quietly threw the Qiankun bag on the road that Xu Xiangqin had to pass through early the next morning.

After seeing Xu Xiangqin take the Qiankun bag into his arms, Ye Zi turned around and went in the direction of the No. 1 medicine field.

didn't go far, and met Lin Xiang head-on, and the other party was walking towards her with an unknown smile. Ye Zi chuckled in her heart, and just as she was thinking about whether the small action just now had been discovered, Lin Xiang took the lead in speaking.

"You're going to collect Su Ye today, right?"

"Yes, Steward Lin." The leaves replied.

"Okay, be careful, you're in luck." With that, she staggered away with a smile and walked forward.

was praised inexplicably, Ye Zi had a weird intuition, but she didn't know what the other party's intentions were, so she couldn't figure it out, so she had to suppress the weird feeling and walk quickly towards the big medicine field.

Tang Yan, the chief medicine director of the Great Medicine Field, has been a pharmacist in Baicaotang for seventeen years, and her cultivation has also reached the first level of foundation building, according to her qualifications, she should be more qualified to be promoted to the manager than Xu Xiangqin.

Three years ago, Tang Yan was the chief medicine officer of Dayao Tian, and Xu Xiangqin was a senior pharmacist of No. 1 Yao Tian.

After the previous steward of the Third Court was successfully promoted to a deacon, everyone originally thought that Tang Yan would become the new steward of the Third Hospital. Unexpectedly, in the end, it was Xu Xiangqin who got this position.

Ye Zi didn't know what twists or turns or stories there were in the middle, but the two of them were incompatible since then, but they spread throughout the medicine field. The enemy of the enemy is the friend, and Ye Zi believes that Tang Yan will not let her down.

Tang Yan was inspecting the situation of the herbs in the big medicine field, and Ye Zi quietly leaned over and called softly, "Tang Yaochang." ”

"Yes."

The two usually have no intersection, Tang Yan glanced at the leaves, responded indifferently, and turned around to continue inspecting the herbs.

Ye Zi pretended to look down at the herbs in the medicine field, and sighed depressedly, "Speaking of which, I'm really unlucky. I don't know who I offended, but I was wrongfully damaged by the flying leaf grass. ”

When Tang Yan heard this, she turned her head and looked at Ye Zi strangely, "Snort...... Are you really stupid or pretending to be stupid? ”

Ye Zi looked back at each other with a confused expression, "I have nothing to do with An Tong and Xiao Yufeng, so it's impossible to offend them." Unless ......"

"Unless what?" Tang Yan looked at her with unturned eyes.

"If it's Steward Xu, it makes sense. Hey, maybe she misunderstood me. ”

Tang Yan asked with great interest, "What misunderstanding?" ”

Ye Zi pretended to be embarrassed, and hesitated for a while before he said, "It's important, so I'd better not say it." ”

After speaking, she hurriedly turned around and wanted to leave, but was grabbed by Tang Yan and asked her, "What is the matter?" ”

"Chief Tang Yao, you, you hurt me." Tang Yanren was delicate, but he didn't expect his hand strength to be quite large, and Ye Zi felt as if his arm was being clamped by iron tongs.

Tang Yan hurriedly let go of her hand, and a touch of unnaturalness appeared on her face.

Although Ye Zi felt a little strange about Tang Yan's reaction, this was not the focus of today.

Under Tang Yan's repeated urging, she told her about bumping into Xu Xiangqin in the pharmacy a year ago.

After listening, Tang Yan thought for a long time, and finally shook his head regretfully.

"After such a long time, any clues have disappeared, with your and my one-sided words, there is no chance of winning at all, but it is easy to be bitten by the other party. You came here today, it should be for this matter, but it's a pity ......" Tang Yan looked at Ye Zi with mocking eyes, "If you had told me a year ago, I would have been able to let her get out of Baicaotang." ”

Seeing through the other party's intentions, Ye Zi simply said bluntly, "Yes, I came here specifically to find you." I'm not afraid to tell you that I'm trying to use you for my own ends. But--" Ye Zi smiled at her, "I'm sure you won't refuse." ”

Tang Yan looked at Ye Zi and said coldly: "I have already said just now, unless you have evidence, you ......"

"Of course I have." (To be continued.) )

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