With a gentle breeze and fresh air, Zheng Qiu squatted in the medicine garden, harvesting ripe herbs. The leaves into the medicine have to be cut with jade scissors, the roots into the medicine should rely on the hoe to pick out the herbs from the soil, the best fruit into the medicine, pick the fruit and collect it.

Incense medicinal vine, purple thorn fern, solid gas grass, water swallowing tobacco melon, only these four medicinal materials in the medicine garden are ripe, and the others are estimated to take some time.

The medicinal herbs grown in the riverside medicine garden are not delicate, and they do not have snow beans that cannot be stained with metal, soil, and wood, and they need to be specially preserved.

Zheng Qiu picked up the herbs he had picked up into the basket, sprinkled a little water, covered it with a damp cloth, and then left the medicine garden with the basket on his back. According to the rules of the sect, every seven days, the medicine garden has to send the picked medicinal herbs to the Danfang.

Count the days, today is the time to deliver medicine. In the past, Zheng Qiu followed his master to send it, but now he is asked to take care of this medicine garden alone, of course, he has to send it himself.

In addition to the medicine house and medicine garden, the Danfang is the place that Zheng Qiu is most familiar with. The Danfang was built on the highest position of the middle mountain peak, which was higher than the Sect Master's Discussion Hall.

Danfang is different from other places, it is a big circle. There is a large patio in the middle of the building, and a copper furnace more than four feet high stands at the bottom. In the three years he had been on the mountain, he had never seen the copper furnace open for alchemy, maybe the big copper furnace was just a decoration.

The furnaces that are really used for alchemy are placed under the eaves of the patio, and they are also surrounded by circles, and there are as many as thirty of them, and the furnaces are large or small, fat or thin, and there are different forms.

"Is anyone there, is anyone there, I'll deliver ......" Zheng Qiu shouted and stepped into the Dan room, and when he saw the situation inside, he quickly covered his mouth.

There are five senior brothers in the Dan room who are refining the pill, so you can't disturb them.

Zheng Qiu stood on tiptoe and leaned forward gently, lowered his voice and asked tentatively: "Senior brother, I am Zheng Qiu from the medicine house, I am here to deliver the medicine, can I put it here?"

"Wait!" The senior brother in front of him didn't look back, and there was a hint of anger in his voice.

Zheng Qiu was so frightened that his neck shrank, stuck out his tongue and hurriedly retreated, did he do something wrong, why was his senior brother angry?

He turned sideways and secretly looked forward, and there was a broken copper piece lying on the side of the alchemy furnace, which turned out to be a fryer. No wonder Senior Brother is in a bad mood, what are they refining, such a strong furnace can be fried.

Wait, wait, Zheng Qiu's legs were a little sore when he stood up, he pinched his sleeves and patted the ground, and sat down cross-legged.

I don't know how many hours have passed, when Zheng Qiu was a little sleepy and waiting, a crisp sound in the stove woke him up. When he raised his head, he found that the senior brothers began to talk loudly, and the one standing in the middle was holding a porcelain bottle in his hand, which must be the pill that had just been refined.

"Congratulations, Senior Brother Mo's alchemy skills have reached a higher level. ”

"Don't praise me, you see that I have wasted Dan twice and fried the oven once, this is completely lucky. ”

"You are too humble at this, Senior Brother is not wrong, luck is also part of the alchemy technique. ”

"yes, when are you going to turn it on again so we can see it a few more times. ”

"Well, this Dan is too difficult, let me go back and figure it out again, I can't refine and fry a stove at a time. ”

"Hahaha, you can't blow it up again, and it will give you a headache if you blow up the elder again. ”

After chatting like this for a while, the senior brother who had just spoken to Zheng Qiu to wait turned around and took care of him.

"Zheng Qiu, why are you alone, your master?"

Senior brother didn't seem to be angry anymore, and Zheng Qiu didn't need to lower his voice anymore: "Oh, the master asked me to take care of the medicine garden by the river, and I will deliver the medicine there." ”

"Can you take care of it? What kind of herbs are you sending today?"

"Incense vines, solid gas grass, purple thorn ferns, and water-swallowing smoked melons. ”

"Show me. ”

Zheng Qiu turned the back basket and hugged it to his chest, and held it up to show his senior brother. Who knew that Senior Brother's brows gradually furrowed, which made Zheng Qiu panic, and he tried to ask, "Senior Brother, Senior Brother, is the medicine wrong?"

"Didn't the master tell you that the medicine sent has to be screened first?"

"I—I don't know!"

Seeing that Zheng Qiu was panicked in front of him, Senior Brother felt that he didn't need to worry about a child, so he said softly: "Forget it, read your first delivery, don't talk about you." Give me the basket, I'll screen you to look at the point, don't send it directly next time. ”

Zheng Qiu nodded and watched carefully at the senior brother's choice of medicine. Danfang is really picky in the selection of medicinal materials, don't want the medicinal vine to be too thin, don't want the leaves of the solid gas grass to be not round, choose the purple thorn fern with a good color, and even swallow the tobacco melon to pay attention to the quality.

"Remember? These bad things must be removed in the future, and don't send them to the Danfang. I saw that the senior brother took the wooden box, put the screened medicinal materials into the box, and threw the rest back into the back basket.

Zheng Qiu turned his back basket upside down, and there was a lot of heaviness, and asked, "Senior brother, what about these?

"Throw away the leftovers, it's useless. ”

"Huh, throw them all away?"

"What are you doing if you don't throw it away? ”

"Oh. Zheng Qiu put the basket on his back and bowed to his senior brother, "Thank you, senior brother, I will ask the teacher when I go back, and I will definitely choose it first and send it next time." ”

With that, he turned around and walked out of Dan's room. When Zheng Qiu left, the young man in the Dan room, who was called Senior Brother Mo by others, turned out from behind the Dan cabinet and stared at Zheng Qiu's back for a long time.

"Senior Brother Mo, what are you looking at?"

"Ahh ”

"No wonder you've made such rapid progress, you've worked so hard. ”

Back in the medicine garden, Zheng Qiu went to see the Yiluo flower that the senior sister wanted to plant herself. The flowers are growing very well, the petals are becoming more and more watery, and the purple-red color of the original flowers has become slightly lighter. When the purple color fades completely and the flowers turn pale yellow, they can be picked and sent to the Cloud Palace.

As for the seeds, they still haven't moved, and they don't know when they will sprout.

Boom, boom, two more streamers crossed the top of the head, in the direction of the main hall. Recently, there have been more people returning to the sect than usual, and I don't know what special things are.

Zheng Qiu brought stools and lined them up, then climbed up and lay down on his back. The most boring thing about taking care of the medicine garden is this time, when there are neither mature medicinal materials nor new varieties of medicinal materials, except waiting or waiting. couldn't stand it, the sleepy insect climbed up vigorously, and Zheng Qiu simply pulled two blades of grass over his eyes.

"Master!" Zheng Qiu knocked on the edge of the bowl with chopsticks during dinner and pouted, "You have something to hide privately and don't teach me." ”

"Where is the master, didn't he teach you?"

"Today I went to the Danfang to deliver medicine, and I was criticized. You didn't tell me that I had to be screened before I delivered the medicine. ”

"Oops, this is the master's negligence, the master is not good. Did you choose the medicine later?"

Zheng Qiu picked up the rice in his mouth: "It's chosen, it's a senior brother who chose it." Master, you are going to teach me to screen medicinal materials tomorrow, and I only know the screening requirements for four kinds of medicinal materials now. ”

"Not tomorrow, tomorrow the master will go down the mountain. ”

Zheng Qiu blinked, the master rarely went down the mountain. "Master, what's the matter?"

"Ah Niu's daughter-in-law is about to give birth, I'll go and bring him some medicine to nourish fetal gas. ”

Ah Niu is a porter who lives at the foot of Yuexi Mountain, and Zheng Qiu's master and apprentice are all asked to send them up the mountain. Every time he saw Ah Niu coming, Zheng Qiu was the first to rush up, calling Brother Ah Niu while going to his box to rummage through the delicious food.

"Master, can I go?"

How do you know that the master stiffened his face: "Don't get involved with this kind of thing, children." ”

"Oh......" Zheng Qiu lowered his head, it seemed that he couldn't go down the mountain to play this time.