Chapter 600: A Livelihood
The snake demon also knew that it was powerful, and he didn't dare to do anything wrong in Yizhou City, so he honestly followed Zhang Yuan out, and his attitude was much better.
Maybe it's because it knows that if he wants to eat this kind of exquisite food in the future, he will have to rely on Zhang Yuan more.
"There are more than 10 years of yellow plum fruit in Mingjiu Mountain, which grows halfway up the mountain.
If you have the ability to pick it, you can exchange it for a few taels of silver. ”
Green Snake said.
Just now, Fengqing Lou posted a signboard to buy more than ten years of wild yellow plum fruit, one tael of silver and 3 catties.
Although Huangmei fruit is planted in large quantities, Fengqinglou has high requirements and must be wild, which depends on luck.
Huangmei wine is divided into one year, three years, and ten years, and the price of each will go up to a new level.
Just now, what Zhang Yuan ordered was just a year's of ordinary wine, and the material was fruits grown by farmers, which was relatively cheaper.
Every year, there are jacks who go up the mountain to collect medicines, which is a kind of livelihood.
However, the gains are always equal to the risks.
"It's easy for you to say, I can't climb halfway up the mountain."
"I can go up, but I can't."
This is easy to do, the green snake can pick the fruit, and Zhang Yuan can help carry the fruit down the mountain.
It's a pity that the green snake has no hands and feet, even if it can use the demon method to pick the fruit, it has no way to bring dozens of catties of fruit to Fengqing Building for money.
The demonic transformation is similar to the human Dan period.
Practicing qi, building a foundation, and forming a Dan (or transforming a shape), after forming a Dan, can be called a master, and it is also a watershed in reading.
The green snake originally wanted to keep it for itself and eat it slowly.
If it weren't for Zhang Yuan's guidance, he would have gotten the benefits of human food, how could he have shared it so generously.
Just do it, Mingjiu Mountain is not too far from Yizhou, and you can see the foot of the mountain when you go out of the city gate.
One person and one snake, they have just made up for their spiritual power, and they urgently need to exercise, regardless of the hard journey, they immediately went up the mountain.
It's just that along the way, Zhang Yuan didn't feel the progress of the spiritual power in his body.
This journey is just to make money, not purely for cultivation, so no matter how many roads you take, you will not be able to improve your cultivation.
"I see, I understand that cultivation is cultivation, and scientific research is scientific research.
No wonder I can't save for three years, Brother Fox always says that my mind is too distracted, and I must concentrate on doing one thing.
I don't have enough energy to do both! Zhang Yuan suddenly had an epiphany.
Study, scientific research, must choose one of the two.
In the past, he studied and practiced calligraphy, and the purpose of the scientific examination was to report, of course, he could not get the spiritual power condensed.
If it is someone else, it has no impact, and Hongchen Dao will not prohibit disciples from entering the court as officials, Hongchen Dao is a branch of Taoism, which pays attention to joining the WTO and encourages disciples to make a difference in the world.
However, Zhang Yuan's own cultivation is to "adapt to the world", that is, to adapt to the secular trend, so that the soul can find a glimmer of life in the secular world, and the heart is far away from itself.
He was in the wrong direction at the beginning, which meant that he didn't cultivate at all.
Without cultivation, it is of course just a fantasy to want to progress.
originally wanted to help the green snake, but unexpectedly, he himself got an epiphany.
Since you have decided on something, it is always better to give up halfway.
Is it because eating can't increase cultivation, so I don't eat from now on? Zhang Yuan's skills can't reach the Bigu stage, and he still needs to worry about the world, even if he delays some time.
The foot of the mountain has been reached.
Zhang Yuan looked at the majestic and continuous mountains, and his heart was very shocked.
The famous dove mountain is not a few mountain packs, but endless, the momentum is like the 100,000 mountains described in the "Classic of Mountains and Seas", and even more than that.
I have long heard that there are many monsters in the famous Dove Mountain, if it weren't for the green snake leading the way, the ordinary people who picked the rose would have gone and there would be no return.
Because it is inaccessible, there are many fruits and medicinal herbs to be picked in Mingjiu Mountain.
It's just that the green snake doesn't know much, and at most it can identify the most common ones, such as wheat dong, snakeberry, tiger skin dendrobium, and so on.
Wild dendrobium, in particular, is sold out every time it is sold, and can be sold at a good price in any pharmacy.
"This is just the periphery, and I don't dare to go there if I go deeper.
I heard that the ancestor of the demon clan practiced here, and he didn't like to bother. ”
Green Snake introduced.
It cultivated on the mountain, so it would naturally hear about something that Zhang Yuan didn't know.
"Then let's go outside, pick some wild fruits and go."
Zhang Yuan didn't want to go too far.
In the famous dove mountain, the cultivation of the green snake is not famous at all, and the Yuan Baby, the Golden Immortal, and the Mahayana are everywhere there.
The yellow plum fruit grows halfway up the mountainside, and from a distance, it looks like a yellow, enlarged circle of grapes.
The green snake flicked its tail, and suddenly swept a gust of demonic wind, and with a bang, rolled up the yellow plum fruits on the tree, and fell to the ground one after another.
"I fell to the ground, and I'm afraid a lot of them were broken now.
The wind is lighter, Brother Snake. ”
Zhang Yuan complained.
He looked at the broken fruit on the ground, and felt very distressed, it was all money! "Hmph, it's not me who picked it up anyway, I'm only responsible for picking the fruit."
The green snake is very thick-skinned, but he doesn't admit it.
In fact, the "Wind Decision" he used just now was a simple and easy-to-understand spell, but the strength was fixed, so that it had a little less wind power, and it couldn't be done with its cultivation.
However, in front of Zhang Yuan, the green snake loves face and refuses to say that he can't do it.
It has been less than a day since he came to the world, and the green snake has been contaminated with some bad habits in the world.
Zhang Yuan sighed, so he had to pick up Huang Mei one by one and put them in the cloth bag he carried with him.
The cloth bag is an ordinary cloth bag, a thing in the market for two pennies a piece.
There may be mustard seed bags, but they must be something that Zhang Yuan can't afford at this stage.
The green snake can't do this kind of delicate work, its whole body is covered with smooth scales, no claws and no hands, Zhang Yuan is still an indispensable laborer.
"These fruits should be more than ten years.
If we can pick ten catties, we don't have to worry about the food money for these two days.
I can't say that I can buy a copy of the transcription of the Devotional. ”
Although Zhang Yuan was tired, he was very happy in his heart.
Lu Rong's transcription of a famous literati, he definitely can't afford it.
However, the price of the unsigned transcription scroll is actually very common, between 3 and 10 taels of silver, and he can still grit his teeth and buy it.
If you can find a book with a good-looking font and buy it back to collect and copy, it will definitely be beneficial.
Zhang Yuan likes to read very much, especially in the past few years in Hongchen Road, not to mention that he has read a lot of various precious papers.
Including transcripts, and even originals.
Among them is the "Shennong Sutra", which I don't know who made it, which was originally carved on the stone and is said to have a history of 5,000 years.
Hongchen Dao preserves transcripts that have been processed by later generations, but they are more detailed, and there are drawings for disciples to learn basic herbal knowledge.
This is the contribution of Hongchen Dao to the earthly world, and the transcription of the "Shennong Sutra" has now become a must-read enlightenment book for the introduction of medicine.
There are many precious medicines recorded in it, and there are several kinds of medicines, all of which are grown in a humid mountain such as Nahatoyama.
Zhang Yuan had long seen a tiger skin dendrobium sandwiched in the crack of the stone, white and purple flowers, ** to be released, the most precious.
If you get it to the pharmacy, you can exchange it for at least three taels of silver.
If it's vintage, it can be more expensive.
Zhang Yuan decided to discuss with the green snake and asked the green snake to send him to the cliff halfway up the mountain and take the risk of picking.
Don't dare to let the green snake do it, although it knows some spells, but the simple and rough wind is too easy to hurt the foundation of the dendrobium.
If the foundation is damaged, it can only be ground into medicine, and it cannot be sold at a good price.
The market price of dendrobium powder is 5 taels of silver a catty; The price of fresh dendrobium with buds tripled.
Of course, you can't sell it at this price if you go to the pharmacy, and if you can get half of it, it's a good deal.
Money is a bastard, and no money is difficult for heroes.
Zhang Yuan and Green Snake both belong to the very arrogant type, but when they saw the benefits of money, they quickly reached an agreement.
It's just that the green snake just needs to swim to the cliff, and it has to share half of the silver, which makes Zhang Yuan very sad.
"Lao Tzu is still unwilling to let you ride it, you have the ability to pick it yourself."
The green snake has its nostrils facing the sky, which is very difficult to deal with.
I had no choice but to agree.
The yield of tiger skin dendrobium was originally very scarce, and Zhang Yuan was careful on the road, but he only encountered such a plant.
This plant is retained because the place where it grows is too tall for ordinary rose pickers to go up.
As for those born in the trees and in the rocky depressions, he has already been taken first, and where can he be found.
Suspended in the air under his feet, Zhang Yuan trembled and climbed to the top of the steep cliff, not daring to look down at the bottom.