Chen Qiubai originally wanted to follow Ma Ningyuan to continue chatting a few words, but when he saw that Ma Ningyuan had left, he could only smack his lips boringly and keep up with Ma Ningyuan's footsteps.

The two of them walked upstream for about a long time, and then they saw a small cave that appeared on the bank of the river, and the two of them were basically able to determine this place

The cave is probably the cave that Zhuge Liang said has the Northern Emperor Xuanzhu.

Chen Qiubai was also very happy when he saw that he had finally arrived at his destination, and said to Ma Ningyuan: "It's here, this Zhuge Liang is really a god, and he can even connect to the riverside."

It's not easy to remember every cave on it. ”

Ma Ningyuan also nodded and said: "That's for sure, otherwise how could others call Zhuge Liang a clever and unpredictable ghost?" Zhuge Liang must still have some

Really competent. ”

In this way, Chen Qiubai and Ma Ningyuan walked all the way into this cave, and as soon as they entered the cave, the two of them found that this cave was actually not too big, and they could go in and take a look

It is enough to get the head, and because the water level of the Yangtze River is also relatively low at this time, there is no water in the cave, and it is basically very safe.

Chen Qiubai continued to look at the walls around the cave, but found that there were indeed some stones and beads growing on the walls

West, this is probably the legendary Northern Emperor Xuanzhu!

Chen Qiubaizai looked at these Northern Emperor Xuanzhu carefully, but in the end he couldn't see any way, so he could only say helplessly: "I originally thought that the Northern Emperor Xuanzhu would have it."

Duoxuan, I didn't expect it to be just like this, nothing special. ”

Ma Ningyuan frowned, looked at these Northern Emperor Xuanzhu carefully, and finally said, "Is this thing really called Northern Emperor Xuanzhu?" How do I remember this thing seems to be called

Make another name! ”

"What's another name?" Chen Qiubai asked Ma Ningyuan in confusion.

Ma Ningyuan frowned and thought for a while, and finally said: "I remember that this kind of thing should be called saltpeter, that is, it grows on top of the stone like a mushroom, and it feels like it."

Something like a fungus, something I've seen in a book before. ”

"Saltpeter! What is saltpeter used for? What exactly does it do? Chen Qiubai was more and more confused by Ma Ningyuan, he actually said that this thing is not called North

Emperor Xuanzhu, but what is called saltpeter, is really inexplicable.

"Saltpeter seems to be a kind of traditional Chinese medicine, which has the effect of relieving pain and regulating qi and intestinal laxative. If you have a headache, stomach ache or diarrhea or something like that, you just need to

Get some saltpeter and soak it in water and drink it, it will get better immediately, and your head will not hurt and your stomach will not pull anymore. In ancient China, saltpeter can be a very valuable Chinese herbal medicine, and ordinary people

It's definitely unaffordable. Only those who are very wealthy and large, or eunuchs, are eligible to use saltpeter. Ma Ningyuan just knew what he didn't have in his stomach

The little ink that was half-understood was shaken out in front of Chen Qiubai, and it was called a head is the Tao, which sounded as if it was really something.

However, although this Ma Ningyuan is just a half-witted person who knows nothing. But that's only relative. For Chen Qiubai, he is completely out of tune, and he doesn't know anything about it

As a well-known person, Ma Ningyuan, a half-person, can basically be his teacher. Of course, this is not to say that Chen Qiubai is stupid, on the contrary, in fact, Chen Qiubai himself is quite smart

, but for some of the more obscure knowledge points, Chen Qiubai was relatively little involved, which made Ma Ningyuan be a teacher in front of him for a while.

"Oh! That's what it looks like. I really didn't expect that your knowledge is so rich, and your knowledge must be very profound! I can't see it. Chen Qiubai said to Ma Ningyuan like a good gentleman.

Ma Ningyuan was not interested in this, and said modestly: "Where, this is actually nothing, it's just that I usually like to read a few more books, and

And good at learning, good at accumulating results. "Looking at his appearance, he really looks like a full university scholar, a great scientist, as if he thinks how great he is.

Chen Qiubai continued to ask Ma Ningyuan: "You said that saltpeter is very valuable, in that case, then there are so many saltpeters here, we just need to take these saltpeters."

If you sell it, you will be able to make a lot of money! ”

Ma Ningyuan said: "That's what I said, but we are now in the Three Kingdoms, even if you make more money here, it will be useless!" It's better to put it in a good way

These saltpeters are mined and brought back to Zhuge Liang! ”

Chen Qiubai listened to what Ma Ningyuan said, and he also felt that it made sense, so he said: "Hmm! That's the case, so we might as well pick it faster. ”

In this way, Chen Qiubai and Ma Ningyuan collected enough saltpeter, and then the two walked all the way back to Huangfu.

As soon as Chen Qiubai and Ma Ningyuan returned to the Huang Mansion, they immediately walked towards Zhuge Liang's room.

It's just that they didn't expect that the two of them had just come to the outside of the room where Zhuge Liang lived, but they found that Zhuge Liang was burning a fire outside his room at this time, and what was even more strange was this

There was nothing boiling on the fire, it was just a lonely fire. And Zhuge Liang's burning of the fire is also quite strange, neither let the fire burn too much, but

At the same time, he couldn't let the fire go out, and he was careful as if he was doing some kind of surgery.

As soon as Chen Qiubai saw Zhuge Liang's situation, he immediately became suspicious, walked up to Zhuge Liang and said, "Mr. Zhuge may I ask what you are burning."

It's so weird. ”

Zhuge Liang turned his head to look at Chen Qiubai and Ma Ningyuan, but at the same time, he didn't put down what he was doing, and still looked at the fire while facing Chen

Qiubai and Ma Ningyuan said, "Oh, it's General Chen and General Ma. Why do you have time to come to me today to see me, do you think that the Northern Emperor Xuanzhu has already arrived?

If you get it, bring it to me. ”

"Hahahaha! Mr. Zhuge is really a god, he can't hide anything from your eyes! That's right, we've already brought the Northern Emperor Xuanzhu here, please take a look. After saying that, Chen Qiubai hurriedly took out the Northern Emperor Xuanzhu collected by the two and handed them to Zhuge Liang.