From the next day, Zheng Qiu's hard days began.

Every morning, just after washing his face, Master Ming Zong would bring three bowls of herbs to the Fangcao Pavilion, and Zheng Qiu had to finish the morning portion under his supervision.

Afterwards, he would take Zheng Qiu to the mountain in front of Fangcao Peak, and let Zheng Qiu lie on the grass on the side of the mountain road to bask in the sun. According to his words, this is not called basking in the sun, but absorbing the essence of heaven and earth.

The current weather is the end of spring, and the light of the sun is getting hotter and hotter day by day, especially at noon, Zheng Qiu will definitely be sweating. But Master Mingzong didn't allow Zheng Qiu to drink anything else, the only thing he could drink was the kind of water in a porcelain bottle.

Unpalatable herbs, unpleasant water, Zheng Qiu ate and vomited in the first few days, and he vomited and ate, and he didn't know if these things had ever entered his stomach. Eating these things as food every day made Zheng Qiujue sleep badly, and he was eating grass in his dreams in the middle of the night.

So he stuck out his tongue all day long, drooped his head, and looked sluggish. However, his complexion was quite good, his cheeks were white and red, and he did not have the powerlessness of not eating on the mountain road. I don't know what Master Mingzong added to the herbs, and I think it's also a big tonic.

Although the herbs are unpalatable, you can get used to it when you spit it out. On the fifth day, Zheng Qiu was finally able to eat the entire bowl of herbs. For the water in the porcelain bottle, he still couldn't accept it, and every time he drank it, he pinched his nose and poured it in at one time.

Gradually, those bitter, astringent, and sour tastes were no longer obvious, and sometimes Zheng Qiu suspected that his tongue had been broken.

The number of times Master Mingzong supervised him to eat was also decreasing, but he did not mean to teach him knowledge, and still let him go to the grass every day to lie on his stomach and bask in the sun.

It was about the fourteenth day, and someone came to Yerba Grass Peak.

On this day, Zheng Qiu was lying on the grass as usual, and suddenly there was a sound of flying streamers above his head.

He turned over and looked up at the sky, a man in a blue white robe. The man was holding a large box in his hand, perhaps because it was too heavy, and the speed of the flight was very slow, and the streamer was faint.

The man also spotted Zheng Qiu and slowly landed in this direction. After getting closer, Zheng Qiu found out that the person holding the box was the young man who picked them up at the mountain gate that day.

The young man put the box on the ground, and with a bang, Zheng Qiu felt the ground under his body jump, oh my God, is it so heavy?

When the young man saw Zheng Qiu lying on the ground, he tilted his head and thought for a moment, and then he showed a look of surprise, but he quickly turned into doubt. "Aren't you the child who came to see Elder Mingzong that day, why are you still staying in Fangcao Peak, and the elder didn't drive you away?"

Zheng Qiu shook his head: "No, I now worship Elder Mingzong as a teacher." ”

"What?Elder Mingzong accepted you as an apprentice?" the young man looked incredulous, he looked up and down to re-examine the child in front of him, "Don't lie to me, you don't even wear a sect uniform, how do I know if you're lying." ”

"I'm not lying, I have a uniform, it's just that the clothes are too big for me to wear. ”

"Oh, what color?"

Zheng Qiu pointed to the young man's chest: "It's the same as you, blue patterned." ”

The young man smiled very happily: "Hehe, it seems to be true, so I will have to call you junior brother in the future." By the way, what's your name?"

"My name is Zheng Qiu. ”

"My name is Shao Wei, you have to call me Senior Brother Shao Wei, call me quickly. ”

"Well, Senior Brother Shao Wei. ”

"Haha, huh, why do you keep lying on the ground?"

"I'm absorbing the essence of heaven and earth. Zheng Qiu twisted his body, changed his posture to a more comfortable position, craned his neck, and repeated what Master Mingzong had said to him.

"Hahaha, hahaha!" Shao Wei clutched his stomach and couldn't straighten his waist with a smile.

"Senior brother, what are you laughing at?"

"Hahaha......" Shao Wei tried to hold back his laughter, "How can there be such a person who absorbs the essence of heaven and earth, if this is possible, wouldn't it be that all pigs and dogs in the world can cultivate." ”

But the master said......"

"Elder Mingzong is playing with you, get up quickly. ”

Zheng Qiu shook his head: "No, there must be a reason why the master said this, I can't get up." ”

Shao Wei shrugged his shoulders and picked up the box: "Then whatever you want, I'll go." ”

"Hey, wait!" Seeing that Shao Wei was leaving, Zheng Qiu waved his hand and stopped him, "I have a question for you, senior brother." ”

"Ask, I'm going to deliver something. ”

"That, why is the color of the sect's uniform different, is there anything particular?"

Shao Wei pointed to the blue cloud pattern on his chest and replied, "Is this this? Then I'll talk about it briefly, save you from bumping into others." ”

Shao Wei told Zheng Qiu that the Qianyun Sect used the color of clothes to distinguish the high and low status, and the seniority was limited to the usual titles.

In the Qianyun Sect, the green pattern is all disciples of the outer sect. Disciples of other sects are also called temporary disciples, they do not have special masters, and only when the sect holds a ceremony, can they come back to select exercises and listen to the elders' lectures.

In fact, many of the disciples of the outer sects were the original cultivators in various places, and they were just taking refuge in the name of the Qianyun Sect.

The blue patterned clothes are the real disciples of the Qianyun Sect, they all have their own masters, and they can participate in most of the activities of the sect, enjoying the benefits of choosing exercises at will and doing business with other sects.

Those who wore purple clothes were all elders, or people with the same status as elders, and in the Qianyun Sect, except for the sect master who wore gold-patterned clothes, it was the elder who was the largest.

There are exceptions, though. Shao Wei said that he had seen someone wearing a red patterned sect uniform, but the sect never talked about what the person wearing this color sect uniform did.

He told Zheng Qiu that there is actually a difference between sect clothes of the same color, because it is more complicated, and everyone generally ignores it. If Zheng Qiu wants to know the specific content, he can go to the Hui Si Book Hall in the sect to take a look, there are many common sense books there.

After Shao Wei finished speaking, he flew away from Fangcao Peak with the box.

Zheng Qiu lay down until noon, got up and ran back to the Fangcao Pavilion to eat the second bowl of herbs, and then continued to return to the grass on the side of the mountain road to absorb the essence of heaven and earth.

The sun deflected a little, and in the evening, Master Ming Zong flew down from Fangcao Building.

"Master!"

"Well," Master Mingzong saw a big square mark on the edge of the grass where Zheng Qiu was lying and asked, "Who has been here?"

"It's Senior Brother Shao Wei, who sent me to Fangcao Peak that day. ”

"Oh, it turned out to be him. ”

"Master," Zheng Qiu raised his head and asked suspiciously, "Senior Brother Shao Wei said that lying on the ground can't absorb the essence of heaven and earth, is that true?"

Master Ming Zong didn't answer Zheng Qiu, he asked rhetorically, "Since you know that you can't absorb the essence of heaven and earth, why do you still lie on the ground?"

Zheng Qiu scratched his head: "But master, you said that lying on the ground can absorb the essence of heaven and earth, maybe the senior brother is mistaken." And you didn't say it, master, you can get up and not lie down, so how can you stop halfway. ”

"Get up, the sun is about to set," Master Mingzong nodded, and a pleased smile appeared on his old face: "You won't be here from tomorrow." ”

"Not coming, where are you going?"

"Yerba Cao Lou. ”