Chapter 2 Fishing for corpses in the river, golden locks hide pills
The acquired realm is the most basic realm at the physical level, and it is the first step in cultivation.
However, if you want to enter the day after tomorrow, it is extremely difficult, first of all, you must raise a fetus, the fetus is a mortal fetus, it is the body, the source of strength, without a strong body, how can it produce strength?
The so-called people are iron, and rice is steel.
To raise a fetus, this requires eating, and a good diet is needed to be able to raise the body well, so people who have recovered from a serious illness are very weak, and their families will have chicken soup, bird's nest, ginseng, deer antler, and ganoderma lucidum······ Wait for him to drink, or in a few days, the patient will be red and alive.
These are the best ingredients for raising a fetus, but they are very precious, worth thousands of taels of silver, and not everyone can afford to eat.
Although Skylark House is the top restaurant in Tieyun Country, it is impossible for ordinary handymen to eat these things, and it is already good to be able to eat enough, and the rest can only be hoped for.
"I wish Brother Ming to step into the realm of the day after tomorrow as soon as possible and be promoted to become the guard of the Skylark Tower, and when the time comes, please don't forget our brothers." ”
Feng Kang and the three of them immediately flattered, nodded and said, looking like Wu Ming was looking at the horse.
"Don't worry, you invest half of the ten taels of silver every month in my body, I, Wu Ming, am not an ungrateful person, when I successfully raise a baby and enter the acquired realm, you can follow me to eat and drink spicy, what you want. ”
Wu Ming said confidently, with a wave of his hand: "Let's go, today is the last day of this month, the day of the salary, after eating, finish the afternoon's work, you can receive ten taels of silver, when the time comes, you give me the money, I will buy some good supplements, it will definitely improve my strength a lot, at most two months, it is expected to enter the acquired realm." ”
With that, he took the lead and left, and the three of them followed, found an unmanned table and chair, sat down, and enjoyed lunch in the Skylark Tower.
As a handyman, although there is nothing good about the food, but it is also delicious, much better than that of the poor family, Zhao Zhen filled the weight of three people, sat on the table and chairs, gobbled up, and in less than a while, he ate the food in the bowl cleanly, and there was not a grain of rice left.
As a child of a poor family, Zhao Zhen knows the truth that "every grain is hard", and waste is shameful.
The consumption is large, the amount of food is also large, chopping wood and carrying water are all hard work, which requires great physical strength, and if you don't have enough to eat, you can't do work at all.
"I don't know if my father and sister are good at home and have enough to eat? ”
Zhao Zhen has been away for the first time in fifteen years, although he is only more than ten miles away from home, but in this month's time, the mood of homesickness has become stronger and stronger, especially in the dead of night.
"When I receive ten taels of silver, I will go to the store in Liucheng tomorrow to buy a few new clothes for my father and sister, and then give the rest of the money to my mother. ”
As a poor person, eating is the first priority, wearing animal skins obtained from hunting, after the woman's ingenious sewing, it becomes a rough clothes, but this kind of animal skin clothes can not be perfectly fitted, often the clothes are not wrapped around the body, men are just that, there are not so many taboos, but as a woman, it is always inconvenient.
Zhao Zhen doesn't buy the best, as long as he can dress properly, he doesn't think it will cost much in his heart, and he can buy two or three taels of silver at most.
After eating, Zhao Zhen immediately left the hall, without any time to rest, at the urging of a kitchen manager, he picked up two large wooden barrels and headed towards the river thousands of kilometers away.
The firewood had been chopped in the morning, and the next time, Zhao Zhen's job was to carry water and fill the two huge water tanks.
Liucheng is a city built by the river, this river, called Qingshui River, is crystal clear, sweet and delicious, the people in the city are eating the water in this river, and Skylark Tower is no exception.
In a few minutes, Zhao Zhen came to the Qingshui River, looking at the flowing water and the magnificent long river, he couldn't help but feel comfortable, he immediately put down the bucket, stripped naked, and plunged into the water without hesitation.
"I don't know where the water in this river comes from, the sweet spring is like liquor, it is actually better than the well water in our Zhaojia village, I don't know if there are fish in it. ”
Zhao Zhen thought about it, and drilled into the water again, this time for a long time, and when he waited for his head to show the water again, his face was full of ecstasy: "As the saying goes, when the water is clear, there are no fish, but in this river, there are really fish, it seems to be silver, I have never seen it, the speed seems to be very fast, I just wanted to catch it, and it ran away." ”
Zhao Zhen's face showed a look of regret, and then, his eyes lifted, and he saw a black object floating in the distance upstream of the river.
"What's that?"
Zhao Zhen looked at the black thing from far and near, and said: "It's a piece of clothing, no, it's a person, someone is drowning." ”
He swam over and pulled the man ashore.
"It's out of gas, it's a floating corpse, pale face, I don't know how long it's been dead. After rescuing the person ashore, Zhao Zhen's fingers probed the tip of the person's nose, and he couldn't feel any breath at all, and his heart skipped a beat.
Seeing the drowning corpse for the first time, Zhao Zhen looked a little nervous, and the scene in front of him was a little shocking.
"What should I do, this person died in the Qingshui River, his life is at stake, and he was found by me, is it to report to the official or what?" Zhao Zhen had never encountered this kind of thing, and immediately thought of reporting to the official and letting the government deal with it, and then stood up, but just after taking two or three steps, he stopped again:" No, I haven't finished the work of carrying water this afternoon, and if I can't pick two large water tanks, I will be deducted from my wages, if I go to report to the official now, this time and again, I'm afraid it will take a long time, maybe I will be suspected, and his death is related, and the government will stay behind to investigate, not to mention carrying water, whether I can stay out of the matter is a problem. ”
The rules of the Skylark House are very strict, and the work arranged must be completed on time, if you are lazy and can't complete it, you will be deducted from your salary, or even expelled from the Skylark Tower.
If Zhao Zhen didn't carry water this afternoon, I am afraid that he would have to be deducted one or two lines of silver wages, which is a lot of money for him, not to mention that he also plans to buy new clothes for his father and sister, and if the money is deducted, he will not be able to buy clothes.
"This person is not related to me, dressed in black, maybe he is a Jiangyang thief, a heinous gangster, since he is dead, I can't delay my work for him, it is better to bury him, put him in the ground, as if nothing had happened, more than one thing is better than one less. ”
Zhao Zhen hesitated, but he was sure in his heart, dragging the corpse with both hands, ready to find a place to bury it.
Bang Dang!
At this moment, in the arms of the corpse, a dark green jade box rolled out, the size of a palm, boxy, carved with exquisite patterns and patterns, which seemed to be very heavy, and fell to the ground, sounding a piercing sound.
"What is this?"
Zhao Zhen's eyes responded, and he immediately picked up the jade box from the ground, weighed it in his hand, and felt that the jade box weighed ten catties, and a small golden lock was locked on it.
"Such a heavy box, still locked with a gold lock, the contents are probably extraordinary, a treasure, but this is a dead man's thing, do you want it or not·······?
Zhao Zhen hesitated for a while: "Phew! I'm just a countryman, the lowest handyman in the Skylark Tower, what a gentleman is not a gentleman, anyway, this person is dead, if you don't take it for nothing, just treat it as the funeral money you gave me." ”
Zhao Zhen said, picked up a hard stone next to him, and struck hard towards the golden lock: "Let's see what is in the jade box first." ”
Click!
The golden lock was very weak, and it broke immediately when it was struck.
"This lock is pure gold, I'm afraid there are ten taels, one tael of gold is ten taels of silver, equivalent to my monthly salary, ten taels of gold is one hundred taels of silver, I have to work in the Lark Building for a year to get so much money, with this money, I can do a lot of things, and I will receive it." ”
Zhao Zhen took the broken golden lock into his arms, and then opened the jade box.
When he opened it, the contents were immediately revealed and fell into his eyes.
I saw a flash of golden light, and a thumb-sized golden elixir came into view, with purple gas on it, exuding a faint fragrance, refreshing people's hearts, Zhao Zhen smelled it, and immediately felt refreshed, and the cells in his body seemed to come to life, sending out a happy mood.
This is a magical golden pill.
The most amazing thing is that at the moment when Zhao Zhen opened the jade box, in his ears, vaguely, he seemed to hear the sound of the dragon roaring and the tiger roaring, the dragon and the tiger roared together, and the sunset was sunset.
"What is this, it smells so good, it seems to be delicious. ”
Zhao Zhen had never seen any elixir at all, nor did he know the contents of the jade box, smelling this aroma, he swallowed his saliva fiercely in his throat, as if there was a voice in his head that kept telling him that he swallowed the contents of the box in one gulp.
"It's strange, it's only been an hour since I finished lunch, and I don't feel any hunger, but why do I feel like I haven't eaten for three days when I see this thing, and my amount of food has increased again?"
Zhao Zhen took the golden pill, as if he was looking at a delicious fruit, thinking about whether he should swallow it.
But in the end, reason still told him not to eat indiscriminately until he knew the specifics of this thing.
In the past, in Zhaojia Village, there were people who ran to the mountains to look for food because they were hungry, but they ate something they shouldn't eat, and they were immediately poisoned, and they died in Huangquan and died.
So later, his father and mother warned him that things should not be eaten indiscriminately, especially things from unknown sources.