Chapter 40: Outside the City

At that time, Zhong Xingyue had a serious illness, and since then she has become a waste in everyone's eyes, and her mother probably suspected that the Wu family was a hindrance, but over the years, she found out that it was not the closest mother's family who harmed their mother and daughter, but the good sister Lu Qing, who was shouted by her sister and sister all day long, Zhong Xingyue, who was poisoned by her, became a waste, and her mother was isolated step by step.

The suspicion is solved, and Zhong Xingyue sincerely hopes that her mother can get back together with another relative in this world besides her.

"I remember, thank you. ”

"You little girl, thank me for what to do, Xiao Tian'er's sister, is my sister, how did you get this arm, tell my brother, my brother will kill him!"

Zhong Xingyue burst out laughing when she heard this.

"You're only two years older than me, and you still call me a little girl, so we're not much different. ”

This guy likes to pretend to be an adult, pretend to be mature, and he loves to brag, and now that Zhong Xingyue is sure that this person has no ill will towards him, he is not afraid of him.

"Two years older is also older, you have a good time outside, and I'll come to you again after a long vacation. ”

"Okay. ”

Ling'an Hall didn't close because of a guest, there were as many people who came to buy pills as usual, Zhong Xingyue chatted with He Dan for a few words, and then got busy, although He Dan looked unreliable, but he was much more knowledgeable than Zhong Xingyue, a novice cultivator, taking advantage of this opportunity, she asked all the doubts she had been accumulating in the past few days, she asked him to explain, and the afternoon passed quickly.

Before leaving, He Dan hadn't forgotten to tell Zhong Xingyue to cultivate hard.

"This person doesn't work hard himself, and he talks about others. He Yaoshi said with dissatisfaction on the side, he originally came to see him, but it turned out to be a chat with Zhong Xingyue, which is really ......

Zhong Xingyue smiled and pretended not to hear this, anyway, it wasn't her.

Her cultivation has always been very hard, in addition to being busy on the second floor every day, her spare time is to study the booklet seriously, and when she goes back to her room at night, she has to practice the Star Blood Moon Bible and Fengyun Miao Step for an hour and a half, and there are only five hours left to sleep every day, but she doesn't feel hard at all.

Because Kongkong said, "The heavens will descend on the people, and they must first suffer their minds, strain their muscles and bones, starve their bodies and skins, and empty their bodies......"

If you want to get something, you must put in the same amount of effort.

More than ten days have passed, Zhong Xingyue has seen Pharmacist He refining the Dan once, and that Pharmacist Liu has refined it three times, and she has also learned a little knowledge ignorantly.

"I still lack a medicinal herb here, Zhong Xingyue, would you like to get it for me?"

"Hmm, what medicinal herbs?" Zhong Xingyue agreed without thinking about it

The pharmacist alchemy, she was in charge of getting some things next to her, and she was used to these things.

"Tomb moss. ”

"Oh, okay... Oh, no, what pharmacist, we don't have tomb moss here?"

There are 518 kinds of elixirs in Ling'an Hall, Zhong Xingyue is very familiar with this, even if she closes her eyes, she can find it accurately, but tomb moss, Ling'an Hall really doesn't have it.

"I know no, that's why I let you pick it up. ”

Tomb moss is an endemic plant that grows in mass graves, similar to the moss that grows in the shade of the corner of the wall in front of the door, but in addition to liking cool and dark, it also likes corpse qi, Zhong Xingyue has seen it in books, so it is not unfamiliar with this name.

But..... She frowned and asked her to pick it up, could it be that she was going to the mass grave to pick!

"I... Where can I get it?"

"Mass graves outside the city. ”

Really!

"Today is the Midyear Festival, it is the best time of the year for the tomb moss to grow, with the tomb moss at this time into medicine, the effect is the best, why, you dare not go?"

What is the Midyear Festival, it sounds good, isn't it what the folk call the Ghost Festival?

In the middle of July, the ghost door opened.

Folklore sounds scary.

"After I come back, I will personally teach you to refine a furnace of pills. ”

Oh, this temptation is great, what Zhong Xingyue wants to learn most in the past few days is alchemy.

So, without saying a word, she took the special jade shovel in the pharmacy and left.

The elixir is different from the medicinal materials used by ordinary mortals, all iron is untouchable, it will seriously affect the medicinal properties of the elixir, some delicate elixirs, and even mortal iron will die when touched, those medicine cabinets of Ling'an Hall contain specially carved isolation formations, so they are not broken.

The streets of the national capital are still prosperous, obviously not affected by the Midyear Festival, but in the staple food store on the side of the road, it has begun to sell flower buns, it is said that the flower buns represent blessings, and they are the festival foods that people often eat during the Midyear Festival, and the colorful pasta is carved with flowers, animals and other images, lifelike, even Zhong Xingyue, who is passing by, can't help but buy one.

Many people are afraid to approach this kind of place, for fear of being infected with ghosts, and the people of the upper class think that there is filth there, so they cannot build such a place in the city, but also far away from the places where people live.

Zhong Xingyue walked out of the city gate, and when she asked for directions along the way, many people looked sideways, and when she arrived at the largest mass grave, nearly two hours had passed.

It's a small hill, and there are dwarf pine trees growing all over the hill, and from a distance, it looks overwhelming, and I don't know if it's psychological, but I always feel that the temperature here is lower than elsewhere.

When I got closer, I saw that many of the graves had not been worshiped for many years, and no one had added soil to repair them, and there were many holes in the soil of the graves, probably drilled out by rats and snakes. There were also graves that seemed to have been washed away by heavy rain, which was even more miserable, revealing the rotten coffin boards inside, and the burial clothes were scattered and mixed with dirt, and dirty.

The twisted branches of the pine trees intertwined, and sometimes crows flew by, echoing in the air with a desolate chirping.

"Fortunately, it was broad daylight, but it was okay later, and there will be descendants who will come to the grave to burn paper. ”

Zhong Xingyue lifted the hem of her skirt, took out the jade shovel and jade box from the storage bag, and stepped on the dead branches under her feet to enter.

Tomb moss mostly grows under the tombstones of cold graves, and obviously, the further you go inside, the colder the mass grave, the better the quality of the tomb moss that grows.

Anyway, there is no tomb moss growing outside this mass grave.

Walking inside, some of the dead branches on the ground were rotten, wet and sticking to the ground, and the feet were soft and soft, and they would stick to the soles of their shoes, Zhong Xingyue suddenly squatted down in the middle of a pile of graves.

"Well, this one is okay, the vintage should be a long time, and the condition is good. ”