Chapter 662: Entrusted with Medicine
Zhou Lao Wu said this and was worried that Da Niu would be busy working in vain and would not get anything, but who knew that Da Niu replied with a red face and frowned: "How many times have I said it, I voluntarily came to find the condensed ice jade!" I treat Sanhua as a sister, I just want her to marry a good family, I don't want her to repay me! ”
Everyone else laughed dryly twice and stopped answering, and Hu Xianxian didn't say much.
No one wants to be flawed in terms of appearance, even if they can't be as beautiful as a country and a city, at least they have good facial features. Although the purity of the heart is more important than the appearance of beauty, it is certainly better if you can show off your wisdom.
The immortal family has a technique to change her appearance, and Hu Xianxian can use the technique to make Sanhua beautiful, but she never thought of doing that. All kinds of spells are performed by chance, and deliberately using them will lead to unexpected disasters.
Moreover, there is always a sense of falsehood in the appearance that is changed by magic, which is also the reason why Shang Weiran can use magic or Gu to transform his appearance, but he has never done so. Taking Clotted Ice Jade is different, it can penetrate into the skin and repair damaged skin from the inside out.
They fell asleep quickly after a tiring day, while Hu Xianxian sat cross-legged on the stone and thought about some chores.
Although what Zhou Lao Wu said is extreme, it also has its truth, such a supernatural thing as condensed ice jade is not important to him, but it is very important to people who want to restore their appearance, or those who want to make a fortune from this thing.
After finding the Clotted Ice Jade, how to use it?
Thinking about it, she had a solution. I always felt that this method was a little different from what I thought, and then I remembered what Cheng Haofeng thought, and I couldn't help laughing, I was really affected by him unconsciously.
At this time, she didn't know that Cheng Haofeng was also thinking about her, Cheng Haofeng got the news and knew that Shang Ren, Shang Weiran's father and daughter had close contacts with the forces of Fanbang during this time, and there were signs that they were taking advantage of each other's advantages to be unfavorable to the French Dynasty and Qingqiu Kingdom.
But Cheng Haofeng didn't remind Hu Xianxian that he wanted to see how she would do when she went to the Qingqiu Congress, and he couldn't protect her at any time.
Hu Xianxian has always acted without looking at the overall situation, he always deals with what he encounters, acts according to fate, and acts recklessly.
At this time, she didn't think much about how to deal with the situation on Lie Yufeng's side, and was lamenting the past.
In a trance, the noisy scene in a small inn was just yesterday, but the people who were chattering and talking were changing unconsciously.
Not only she and Cheng Haofeng have changed a lot, but even Da Niu and Sanhua have changed. Da Niu came to find the condensed ice jade, maybe he really didn't have any thoughts about Sanhua, but only hoped that she would become beautiful and marry a good family.
Da Niu Mu Ne is also timid, this time he used full courage to do this, it is more like a ritual to say goodbye to his past, he is really ready to cut off his little thoughts, right?
It was getting dark, and they all woke up early, and after a few quick meals, they packed up the camp and headed deep into the forest.
After entering the forest, they dispersed and made an appointment to gather again at noon. Hu Xianxian followed Zhou Lao Wu all the way and asked him where he had collected the clotted ice jade before.
Zhou Lao Wu said that it was in this direction, but he had to go to the snow peak, and the specific location was not clear, but he remembered that it seemed to be a hole under the cliff.
It was not easy for them to go up to the Snow Peak, but it was easy for Hu Xianxian, but she was not in a hurry to find a place, but followed them around the mountains.
In the past few days, they have been very lucky, they don't bother to pick mushrooms, and they have to keep their pockets for more expensive mountain goods.
Some of them dug up the big codonopsis, although this codonopsis is expensive from the party, but the product from Lingshan is not bad. It is still a hundred years of ginseng, although it is not as expensive as ginseng, and it is impossible for people to get rich with just one tree, but it can be worth more than half a year's hard work.
There are also people who have picked the golden lotus, which is also the golden lotus, but the petals are smaller and the sepals are fewer, which does not look as beautiful as the nasturtium, but the medicinal effect is countless times better.
Some people have also picked stone lotus, this stone lotus is also a snow lotus, but it grows in a rock crevice without snow, and it is not as strange as the one that blooms on the snow peak.
Zhou Lao Wu picked all the antler mushrooms, and the flowers were fresh and complete. When he got together to rest at noon, he carefully wrapped the deer antler mushrooms and wondered to himself: "Usually it is good to be able to pick half a bag in a season, why do you come out in a pile today?" ”
"Good luck......" The others were happy and busy, and answered casually.
Hu Xianxian pursed her lips and chuckled beside her, she could do it if she wanted them to pick more expensive things, but it would bring a complete change to their lives, which would be against the will of heaven. It would be nice if they could make a profit and live a little more comfortably.
The harvest was quite abundant, most of them went down the mountain to sell their goods, and Hu Xianxian took Zhou Laowu and Da Niu to climb to the higher snow peaks.
On the seventh day of the seventh month, we arrived at a cone-shaped snow peak. Because the top is very narrow and full of ice and snow, Zhou Lao Wu and Da Niu can barely stand steadily, they are hunched over and barely stable with their hands picking at the snowdrift.
Zhou Lao Wu's head turned around, his eyebrows tightened and he thought about it, and said, "I should have found the condensed ice jade near here that year, but at that time, it was flatter on it, and there was a protruding rock the size of a round table over there, why was it gone?" ”
"As long as it's around here, I'll search carefully." Hu Xianxian asked them to rest first, and then flew up to look around.
To the north of the snow peak is an ice cliff, and there is a small depression facing down, and a huge rock falls into the cave. It is estimated that the boulder at the top of the peak fell during it, and Zhou Lao Wu was probably the clotted ice jade that was mined in that cave.
Hu Xianxian flew to the side of the cave, only to see that the hole was covered with snow lotus, and the stamens fell one after another in the cracks of the boulders.
She leaned in and sniffed it, and the cold, cold fragrance came to her nose, and the strongest part of the fragrance was a finger-wide strip of ice in the crack in the stone.
Hu Xianxian was happy in his heart, the ice strip should be the condensed ice jade!
After the joy, Hu Xianxian looked sad again, if you want to take out the clotted ice jade, you must get rid of the boulder, but the shock force of the boulder rolling down will inevitably cause the clotted ice jade to roll out, how can you get the clotted ice jade intact?
After thinking for a while, Hu Xianxian felt that after prying out the boulder, let the boulder stabilize to the side and not roll down first, so that the condensed ice jade would not be shocked and fall out.
She flew to the top of the peak, asked Zhou Lao Wu and Da Niu to find a rope to come out, and told them to drag the rope firmly, and she let it go.
The people who collected the medicine were all prepared with strong ropes to go up the mountain, but it was inconvenient to take them out, so Zhou Lao Wu and Da Niu grabbed each other and pulled each other before slowly taking out the ropes.
Hu Xianxian tied the rope to a large icicle at one end, and flew down with one end to tie it to the boulder.
After being tied, he slowly pry the stone out with the Huixin Jade Sword. As soon as the stone moved, the condensed ice jade trembled, and Hu Xianxian stopped again, and when the condensed ice jade did not tremble, he went to pry again.
When the gap was pried to the point where she could reach for it, she quickly took the clotted ice jade and put it in her sleeve.
"It's ready to go!" Hu Xianxian shouted as he flew up.
"Boom, boom" sounded, and the loose boulder fell from the hole to the cliff!
Originally, Zhou Lao Wu and Da Niu pulled the rope hard just to stabilize the boulder, and the real force point was on the big icicle.
When they let them go, they just let go and didn't cut the rope, and the pull of the boulder down pulled the icicle off!
It was nothing if the icicle broke Ben, but the break caused the snowdrift where they were lying to shake, and the two of them slid down the slope together!
In desperation, they all forgot to call for help, but kept digging around, trying to grasp something to stabilize their bodies.
But all the way down is slippery snow and rocks, how can there be anything to catch?
was so frightened that his soul fell, but he heard the sound of the whirring wind, and both of them were in mid-air.
The two of them glanced at each other, but they both became ghosts, and they both fainted when their chests were stuffy.
In fact, Hu Xianxian already knew that something had happened to them when he saw the ice and snow falling on the top of the peak, and he spread the fog and hidden nets to trap them in mid-air.
When he arrived at the bottom of the mountain, Hu Xianxian opened the net and saw that Zhou Lao Wu and Da Niu were still unconscious, so he didn't wake them up, and placed them in the small village and left in a hurry.
Hu Xianxian didn't know where Qingqiu Country had moved, so he sent a talisman to ask Lie Yufeng, and Lie Yufeng replied with a spirit talisman: It should be near Fanbang, and it can be perceived carefully
At midnight on July 7, there are still many girls in the Central Plains who have not slept, or looking at the stars and watching the morning glory Vega, or chasing the dancing fireflies with a hand-cranked fan, or tossing and turning back on the couch and thinking about it......
Not long after waking up from the coma, Da Niu and Zhou Lao Wu didn't sleep and rest, they kept rummaging for things, looking for only a few things close to their bodies, and each found two taels of silver.
"Alas...... It doesn't matter if you didn't bring other mountain goods down the mountain, you made a special trip to find the condensed ice jade, why don't you have a little bit of the surname Hu, you are acquaintances......"
Zhou Lao Wu knew that the two taels of silver were left to them by Hu Xianxian, but he still couldn't help complaining.
"Nothing...... It was originally picked up by the young lady. Alas, it's useless to blame me, and it's useless to blame Sanhua for her own bad life. ”
Da Niu is ready to go back to Lingzhou, and after July, there will be no chance to pick condensed ice jade, so he has to go back to continue to work as a chef to support his family.
"You have a good heart...... You respect her as a young lady, but she only cares about herself...... She has such a great ability, it is not difficult to find it again, why is she not willing to give you a little? ”
Zhou Lao Wu complained while packing up his things, he had to go up the mountain tomorrow to pick some other mountain goods.
When cleaning things, an inconspicuous little cloth bag fell out, he had seen this cloth bag before, but he thought that he was packing the sundries, so he didn't care. At this moment, I just rolled it out, and I noticed that this cloth bag was very delicate, not like my own thing.
Zhou Lao Wu opened it in surprise, only to see that there were two small gold bars and a letter inside. The letter reads:
Brother Zhou, Da Niu is like a brother to me, please escort him back to Lingzhou.
After arriving in Lingzhou, you can settle down and don't go back to the border city. This place is a fortress, and I am afraid of war.
I will deal with the matter of Sanhua, please advise the bull not to worry.
Zhou Lao Wu read it several times and understood that Hu Xianxian's arrangement was that she was afraid that giving the condensed ice jade would cause disaster to the big cow, and she was worried that the long way from the border city to Lingzhou would be dangerous, so she gave the gold bar and asked herself to escort the big cow back.
He couldn't help but exclaim: "It's really a fairy!" ”
"What? What are you thinking about sour fake vinegar? ”
Zhou Lao Wu didn't explain to Da Niu, but only said that he also wanted to return to his roots and wanted to go back to Lingzhou with Da Niu.
Hu Xianxian only listened to Zhou Laowu's past before he thought of making some comprehensive arrangements, but he didn't expect that this would also make Zhou Laowu hand over good luck.
After Zhou Laowu returned to Lingzhou, he used those two gold bars as the capital to sell medicinal materials, and it was developed after a few years.
Zhou Lao married his wife after forty years and gave birth to two sons and two daughters. He left behind a family motto that one of the family members must study medicine.
Until many years later, one of his descendants was named Zhou Heling, who and his wife An Xiaolu saved people in the national disaster, and the Zhou family's medical skills and medical ethics were famous all over the world.
Not to mention the hardships of Zhou Lao Wu and Da Niu all the way back to Lingzhou, Hu Xianxian flew slowly at the junction of Fanbang and the French Dynasty, and found the entrance of Qingqiu Country in the early morning of the eighth day of the seventh month.