"I've seen Master Hou!" The head of the guard, who was in charge of the security of the Nanshan Annex, came over with a few burly men to salute.

"No courtesy, always be vigilant, don't let irrelevant people approach this yard!" Chen Xu nodded and admonished.

"Don't worry, Master Hou, I have arranged for people to inspect this area all the time, and several nearby farmers are also innocent, and there has been no abnormal situation recently!" The leader of the guards replied with a serious face.

"Well, everything is loose on the outside and tight on the inside, don't interfere in the life of the dealer on weekdays, especially to be optimistic about Zheng Boqiao, don't let him run away, you guys continue to patrol, I'll go to the backyard to see!"

"Yes, Master Hou!" A few guards dispersed, and Chen Xu took a few personal guards to the backyard.

In a spacious and bright laboratory, Zheng Boqiao and his two apprentices were refining potions.

The windows of the room are all equipped with glass, more than a dozen transparent glass tiles are also installed on the roof, the floor is paved with a layer of snow-white tiles, and the walls are also repaired and whitewashed with lime, so the room looks very bright, Zheng Boqiao and the two apprentices are wearing white coats made of fine linen, if it weren't for the fact that the three of them are combing their hair, I'm afraid that the first person who came in would have thought that he had walked to a Chinese medicine research institute.

There are several long tables and chairs against the wall, and the tables are messily placed with various bottles and cans, among which there are several transparent glass jars, which contain colorful things such as spiders, scorpions, centipedes, and poisonous snakes, which look creepy when crawling around.

In addition, there were many shriveled and broken corpses of poisonous insects on the table and various objects that he didn't know at all and couldn't tell what they were, and the whole room was filled with a disgusting smell, and after a few breaths, Chen Xu felt a little dizzy.

"Master Hou~" The little Taoist boy who was boiling potions in front of a stove saw Chen Xu coming in, and he was trembling and quickly stood up and saluted.

Zheng Boqiao, who was shaking a glass bottle, was so frightened that he almost dropped the bottle on the ground, and hurriedly put the glass bottle away carefully and turned around and saluted: "Zheng Boqiao greets Master Hou!" ”

Looking at this Taoist priest with silver hair and white hair, ruddy face, and a faint bit of fairy wind and Taoist demeanor, Chen Xu's face twitched a few times, and his face became gloomy: "Zheng Boqiao, have you found any results in so many days?" ”

"Back to ...... Back to the Hou Ye, there is no ...... yet Nothing has progressed! Zheng Boqiao trembled and bowed his head tremblingly, not daring to look at Chen Xu.

Last time, Chen Xu beat him viciously, if he didn't think that the Five Poisons Soul Water was still a little useful, it was estimated that he would be buried by Chen Xu on the spot.

Although Zheng Boqiao framed Chen Xu by deceiving Chen Jiang with the Five Poisons Shu Shu Soul Water, after knowing the reason, Chen Xu did not have much hatred for Zheng Boqiao, but was a little wary of Hou Sheng, who had never met.

If Zheng Boqiao was killed in the Taiyi Temple at that time, it is estimated that Chen Xu would not know that there would be someone else who framed him.

But Zheng Boqiao told her that she couldn't get pregnant in order to have a good relationship with Chen Xu's mother, which made Chen Xu's family atmosphere very discordant.

Originally, in this era, the status of women was low, and Zheng Boqiao might just be the most normal thinking, thinking that if he said Chen Jiang, he would inevitably let Chen Xu take a break from Shui Qingrou and remarry, but he didn't know Shui Qingrou's identity and status in Chen Xu's mind, so it caused very bad consequences.

Chen Jiang has been haunted by this matter, although his attitude towards water softness does not seem to have changed since then, but Chen Xu obviously feels that his mother doesn't seem to like water softly anymore, especially after moving outside the city, every day to open up wasteland and farm with Li Gui's mother and several nearby farmers have close contacts, except for eating and resting, they don't like to stay at home very much, and the mother-in-law and daughter-in-law get along less and less, and there is no scene of working and laughing together in Xiaohe Village before.

Chen Xu can feel this change, and the water feels more obvious when she is in it, even if she is indifferent, but marrying Chen Xu as his wife, as a daughter-in-law, she is naturally more distressed, full of depression and unable to speak, often hiding in the room alone in a daze, staying for a long time, until Chen Xu comes home, she will feel that she has found warmth and dependence.

After the recent opening of the women's college, Shui Qingrou went to the college as an art teacher, basically living in the Qinghe Hou Mansion in the city, and Chen Xu also ran inside and outside the city for three days.

Various cracks have begun to appear in this family, and the culprit is the white-bearded old man in front of him.

Therefore, every time Chen Xu saw Zheng Boqiao, he was angry, and he wanted to press him to the ground and rub him hard, grinding off the white beard on his face and the face of the fairy wind bones.

"I'll give you another half a year, and if there is no progress on this matter, you will be dead!" Chen Xu threatened again viciously.

"Poof~" Zheng Boqiao knelt directly on the ground in fright, kowtowed again and again with a frightened face, and said, "Master Hou...... Master Hou, don't kill me, these five poisons soul water is the prescription of the Miao people, and it has been passed down for a long time, if you want to figure out all the medicinal effects and pharmacology, you must find some Miao witches who are proficient in Miao medicine......"

"Hmph, you mean you can't do it?" Chen Xu snorted coldly.

The sweat on Zheng Boqiao's forehead rolled down, and he lay on the ground and didn't dare to move: "Master Hou, the land of Miao Jiang is very different from the climate of my Central Plains, this poisonous weed and poisonous insects are all born in the poisonous miasma to have an effect, everything is extremely poisonous, in order to collect these things, last year, Lao Er went to Miao Jiang to look for several months and did not come back until early summer, if you really want to achieve the effect that Hou Ye needs, you must find a few Miao Wu, although Lao Er is proficient in the art of alchemy, but after all, it is not Miao Wu!" ”

"Do you know Miao Wu? Do you know where to find them? Chen Xu estimated that Zheng Boqiao did not tell a lie, after all, Miao medicine and Central Plains medicine are basically not a system, and the ways and methods of treating diseases with medicine are very different, Zheng Boqiao inherited the most orthodox Huang Lao culture and Taoist medicine in the Central Plains.

"Acquaintance, Lao Er knows several Miao Wu, I can take people to find them, and the materials of this formula are all in the land of Miao Jiang, it is easier to verify the effect of improvement over there!" Zheng Boqiao nodded his head like a chicken eating rice.

Chen Xu pinched his chin and pondered for a moment, nodded slightly, and said, "Then you pack up and prepare, and I will arrange someone to send you to Miaojiang in a few days!" ”

"Yes, yes, thank you for your leniency!" Zheng Boqiao breathed a sigh of relief, and lay on the ground as if he had collapsed, and his whole body was drenched in sweat.

Under the oppression of Chen Xu, a disciple of the orthodox immortal family, he felt that he must be a fake immortal who cultivated, and he couldn't have the slightest idea of resisting at all.

Even in front of the emperor at the beginning, he never knelt, not only did he not kneel, but he had a lofty posture, because the emperor asked them to refine medicine and live forever, and he had always been polite to them, and he bowed his hand when he met and called him an immortal.

But since he met Chen Xu, the skin of the immortal chief was completely stripped off, and he was almost beaten into a pig's head after a wild beating, and he no longer dared to pretend to be an old immortal.

"Remember, I'm still the same sentence, if you can't figure it out for half a year, you'll die!" Before leaving, Chen Xu brushed his sleeves away with a threatening word.

"Master Hou, wait!" Zheng Boqiao, who got up from the ground, called Chen Xu.

"What else do you have to do?" Chen Xu turned around.

"Hou Ye, Lao Er knows that Hou Ye has been committed to the collection and sorting of prescriptions and pharmacology, and wants to compile a medical canon for future generations, which is a great kindness, although Lao Er has framed Hou Ye, but he has also been inherited by his teacher to learn a lot of medical theories, and he also likes to visit the world to make friends with medical and Taoist warlocks, so he knows many medical and Taoist celebrities in the Central Plains and even many witch doctors and witches in barbarian places, especially some of the Fang Xiandao disciples that Lao Er knows, all believe in ghosts and gods and are obsessed with fairy prescriptions, Looking for ancient immortal recipes and immortal herbs everywhere in order to refine the elixir of immortality, if it weren't for that, Lao Er would not have fallen into Hou Sheng's bewitchment to frame Hou Ye......"

"What the hell are you trying to say?" Chen Xu interrupted Zheng Boqiao's words.

Zheng Boqiao was so frightened that he hurriedly said: "Master Hou, if you want to study this prescription thoroughly, I'm afraid it may not be possible to rely on me and a few Miao Wu, I used to know some friends of Fang Xiandao, all of whom are famous doctors and Taoists, if they come together, they will definitely gain something!" ”

Chen Xu's cheeks twitched slightly, nodded a few times, and said, "Okay!" ”

"Thank you, Master Hou!" Zheng Boqiao was so excited that he almost burst into tears.

Next, Zheng Boqiao wrote seven or eight letters, and also wrote down the address name, Chen Xu read the letter next to each other, to the effect that Zheng Boqiao himself got an ancient immortal prescription, and now he needs to find someone to study and seal it together, and he hopes to get the letter Friends are all rushing to participate, and they will not wait!

And the person who received the letter, Chen Xu, has never heard of it, they are called Song Wuji, Chongshang, Xianmengao, Wei Zifeng, etc., at first glance, he is not an ordinary serious person, and the name naturally has a trace of ethereal feeling.

For Zheng Boqiao, who was in a hurry to go to the doctor, he wanted to pull his friends into the water to pad his back, Chen Xu had no reason to refuse.

Most of these people have real talents, they are indeed proficient in medicine, and they also keep many ancient prescriptions and ancient books in their hands, and they are dedicated to the pursuit of immortal Taoism, basically they will not take the initiative to go to the bookstore to donate these prescriptions, just like Zheng Boqiao, hiding somewhere to study alchemy, and at the same time live by selling some pills on weekdays to get money.

Just like the last time in the Taiyi Temple, the elixir of a small gourd was sold to a noble lady for ten taels of gold, and later Wang Qi went to inquire and learned that the woman was the wife of Xia Qing, and the medicine she asked for was also to treat men's hidden diseases.

In other words, people like Zheng Boqiao will never be short of money.

Chen Xu may not know about their existence, but these people are very famous among the high-level leaders of various countries, and Xu Fu knows a lot.

If it is on weekdays, people like Zheng Boqiao must be guests in the palace of the princes and princesses, and everyone is really like inviting immortals to go back and worship, but since the emperor drove them out of the palace, in order to avoid suspicion, all the princes and princes did not dare to contact too much, and could only ask for some pills in private.

And these elixirs must have an effect.

Chen Xu took the letter back to the Qinghe Marquis Mansion and arranged for someone to send it out, most of these people lived in seclusion in Xianyang City or in the nearby countryside, although they did not meet each other often, but they were more or less connected.

And these people also have no fixed residence, like to travel all over the world, and may not always be able to find them.

Sure enough, when it was almost time to eat, the servants who had gone out to deliver the letters came back one after another, three of which were delivered to the main owner, and the remaining five were long gone.

Chen Xu didn't care, since he had found three, he would not be far from finding thirty, and this kind of thing in pharmaceutical research and development is really the same as the Academy of Sciences of the Health Center, it needs to gather a large group of Fang Dao warlocks, and it is impossible to improve the Five Poisons Soul Water, and develop the Ten Perfect Tonic Pills, Liuwei Dihuang Pills, Quick-acting Heart Saving Pills, Huoxiang Zhengqi Pills and other commonly used emergency and health pills, which can be regarded as making a great contribution to the health of the whole people.

As a disciple of Fang Xiandao, resource sharing is also a very important method, and the heart of pursuing immortal Dao is always hot, so the day after getting the letter, these three people took the apprentice to the Nanshan Courtyard where Zheng Boqiao was located in an ox cart, and then ...... There was no then, and when he entered the door, he was brought into the laboratory by a group of tall and powerful guards, and then he and Zheng Boqiao made the same fate as the mandarin duck and fell into the control of the Qinghe Marquis.

The next day, Chen Xu, who got the news, came to Nanshan Villa again, and cordially received the three new warlocks who pursued the immortal path in the laboratory, and after a few words of comfort and encouragement, he arranged for people to prepare various supplies for eating, drinking, and Lasa on the road.

On the third day, seven carriages carrying a convoy of Zheng Boqiao, three warlocks, nine apprentices, and various supplies left the Nanshan Courtyard under the escort of a huge team of nearly fifty guards and servants, and crossed the Weihe Bridge and headed straight for Chudi.

Li Gui, the patrol guard of the Qinghe Courtyard, was appointed as the leader of this escort team, and the main task was to send these people safely to the Miao gathering area in Changsha County, in addition to opening coins, they also carried a lot of bottles and jars of medicine refining utensils, as well as many exquisite glass products and porcelain, and even some Qinghe wine and other fine wines, mainly used to establish a good relationship with those Miao people, because after arriving, they had to settle down for a long time to settle and study, and the collection of many medicines required the cooperation of Miao people.

Chen Xu was full of hope for the improvement of the Five Poisons Soul Relief Water, so he also had high hopes for this research team.

Once the research is really successful, the future will not only be as simple as making a fortune, but even have a huge impact on the conquest of the earth.

Mencius said: Food, sex, and sex.

The ancient sages used very straightforward language to express the basic demands of people.

Confucius wrote a book of etiquette: Eating and drinking men and women, people's great desires exist.

Therefore, even the respectful and virtuous Confucians intuitively believe that the greatest desire for human life is sex.

Therefore, there is a saying that you are full of warm thoughts.

When you're full and you've had enough, it's time to do something pleasant.

And sexuality, as the most basic method of biological inheritance, must be the demand above other levels, which is a genetic demand, not subject to morality and law, otherwise the race will be extinct.

In Daqin, which is still relatively primitive era, the topic of sex is more naked and blatant, there is no moral restraint of Confucian perversion in later generations, and there is no great defense of men and women, the needs are satisfied, men and women can freely pursue their own needs and hobbies for sex, all kinds of messy relationships are quite chaotic, I heard that at the banquet of some princes and princesses, the guests can eat and drink while stripping naked and hugging the concubines and maids of the host's house for entertainment, not ashamed but proud, and talking about it with relish.

Because of this matter, Chen Xu turned down many invitations to banquets from princes and princesses, afraid that he would not be able to accept that kind of spicy scene.

And sex, as a common topic of human beings, no matter how suppressed it is, it is a blatant existence after all, and the Roman, Greek, and Egyptian countries, which are now the most powerful in the West like Great Qin, have a chaotic and unsightly demand for sex, and chaos between mother and son, brother and sister, father and daughter. Lun incidents emerge in endlessly, a history of ancient Rome, is a history of fornication and indulgence, Greek history is similar, those stories born from the Greek gods, is a disorderly and chaotic incest story, as for the history of Egypt is even more naked, known as the country of incest, the king pharaoh in order to maintain the purity of the blood of the main god of the family, the most prevalent on the royal family of all kinds of incestuous marriage.

As the most basic needs and desires of human beings, sex is an inevitable topic, and it is absolutely impossible to deliberately cover up, the later two thousand years of Confucian rule, even if the morality is suppressed to the point of talking about sexual discoloration, the Ming Dynasty with the strictest etiquette, but still gave birth to several small yellow texts on sexual topics, such as ...... The famous "Golden Vase Plum" and "Jade Futon".

And given that the contemporaries of Greece, Rome, and Egypt in the West had such a wide range of interests, once the research on this drug was successful, it might be possible to conquer them without blood.

When one day, a mysterious elixir from the East descended on the Western countries, the kings and pharaohs must have gone crazy after using it, this medicine is so cool, it used to be three minutes, but now it can be high for three days and three nights.

Imagining that the potions contained in the finger-sized crystal glass bottles could be exchanged for a cart of gold, and that all countries that wanted to get the potions had to pay taxes, Chen Xu was a little drooling in an instant, and looked at the distant team with excitement and went crazy.

The so-called army to fight and plot, and the soldiers who surrender without a fight, is the highest state of war.

The hope of world unification may be changed by this small potion.

Although this idea is very unreliable, but whatever, think about it, you won't get pregnant!