Chapter 3 Medicine Garden

When Wang Tao heard this, he hurriedly bowed down and said: "It turned out to be Senior Brother Xu, seeing that Senior Brother Xu is restrained, his cultivation is definitely not low, and he is also a disciple of Elder Yu, his future achievements are definitely limitless!"

This Xu Jiang is naturally Xu Jiang of Wajin Village, since he was accepted as a disciple by Yu Tonghai two months ago and brought to the outer gate of this hexagram mountain, he has been directly cultivated. And among the three thousand disciples of the outer gate, his status is also quite high.

Everyone loves to listen to sycophants, and sure enough, Xu Jiang laughed and said, "It's over, if you can become an official disciple, I can take care of it in the future!"

The next moment, his eyes rolled, but he stared at a piece of paper in Wang Tao's hand and was stunned. At this moment, Wang Tao was very close to him, so Xu Jiang swept a name on it.

"Senior Brother Wang, can I take a look at the list in your hand?" Xu Jiang said loudly.

That Wang Tao was secretly happy, and when he heard the words of this Senior Brother Xu, he hurriedly presented the list in his hand with both hands. This list is just those miscellaneous disciples who have paid the benefit fee, and it is not something that cannot be seen.

Xu Jiang took it and took a closer look, but he was stunned.

"Xingtian...... Xingtian, I heard that the kid has disappeared since the martial arts test, could it be that he entered the Hexagram Mountain Miscellaneous Service Hall?" Xu Jiang secretly guessed in his heart. He had just swept the list to a familiar name, and he asked for the list, and sure enough, he was right.

Xingtian and him can be said to be old acquaintances, and they have always had old grudges, at that moment Xu Jiang wanted to go to the miscellaneous service hall to see if this person called Xingtian was the Xingtian he knew, if so, Xu Jiang planned to 'take care' of the other party.

At this time, a formal disciple came from afar, only telling Elder Xu Jiangyu to look for him.

Xu Jiang didn't dare to disobey his master's orders, knowing that he couldn't see it, so he thought about it, but beckoned to Wang Tao and whispered a few times. The latter nodded again and again, and only said: "Senior Brother Xu, this matter is on me" and turned to leave.

"Hmph, no matter if this Xingtian is that Xingtian or not, just with this name, I can't let him stay in Hexagram Mountain, it's only because you took such a hateful name!" Xu Jiang said secretly in his heart, and then left with the disciple.

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However, Wang Tao hurriedly returned to the miscellaneous service hall, arrived in front of the room of the deacon Jia Gui, and respectfully knocked on the door and entered. At this moment, Jia Gui was sitting on a chair, drinking a pot of good tiger bone tea, and was humming a little song leisurely.

The tiger bone tea he drank was concocted with special herbs, and it was sold in various towns under the mountain, and it could enhance the physique and nourish the shin bones after being taken by the warriors of the quenching realm, plus it was fragrant with tea, so it was quite popular among the warriors. It's just that the price of this tiger bone tea is not low, and the price of three taels of tiger bone tea is as high as dozens of taels of silver.

Jia Gui is in charge of the Miscellaneous Service Hall, although it is a chore, but if you play some tricks, you can also get a lot of oil and water. It's like assigning the task of miscellaneous disciples, who has more and who has less is up to him, naturally, it is quite easy to earn a few hundred taels of silver a month.

"Deacon Jia, I only received thirty taels of silver today, all of them are here, and there is a list of miscellaneous disciples who have paid the money!" Wang Tao respectfully presented the silver ingot in his hand, and Jia Gui took it, but he showed a rather dissatisfied look.

"That's all?"

"Yes!" Wang Tao paused for a moment and then said what Xu Jiang had just explained to him.

Xu Jiang ...... Well, I know this person, Elder Yu's newly accepted apprentice, and I heard that he is also the cousin of Chu Yingjie, Chu Yingjie is the most likely disciple of the outer gate to enter the inner gate, although I am the deacon of the outer gate, he is only a disciple, but with these two layers of relationship alone, I have to sell the other party's personal favor!" After Jia Gui finished speaking, he asked, "Is that what Xu Jiang said about this miscellaneous disciple called Xingtian?"

"That's it!"

"Okay, even if this miscellaneous disciple is unlucky, for the sake of him also sending some money, I won't expel him directly from the mountain, just let him go to the medicine garden tomorrow to do things......" Jia Gui laughed.

When Wang Tao heard this, his eyes lit up, this medicine garden is quite famous in the circle of miscellaneous disciples, but it is because the outer gate elder who manages the medicine garden has a strange personality and is tricky and mean, but all the miscellaneous disciples who are sent to the medicine garden can't satisfy the outer gate elder ten out of ten, and in the end they all end up with an unfavorable evaluation.

If you let that Xingtian go to the medicine garden, and then drive him down the hexagram mountain on the grounds that he is not doing well, it can be regarded as logical, and no one can find fault. And because the miscellaneous disciple had only been here for a few days, he didn't know that the cat in the medicine garden was greasy, so even if he suffered, he didn't know who framed him.

Thinking of this, Wang Tao patted his ass and said: "Deacon, you are really a living Zhuge in the world, we would never have imagined such a wonderful thing!"

"Haha, follow me to learn more in the future!" Jia Gui was very interested.

So on the second day, Xingtian got the task of working in the medicine garden, and Xingtian, who didn't know anything about it, thought that the money he sent yesterday had an effect, so he took a waist card that could enter the medicine garden and rushed over.

Hexagram Mountain Medicine Garden is in a valley in Hexagram Mountain, this valley because of the terrain, the valley is like spring all year round, it is said that all kinds of pills refined by the Hexagram Mountain Sect, the raw materials are supplied by this medicine garden.

As soon as Xingtian arrived at the entrance of the medicine garden, he smelled a pungent aroma of herbs, and his spirits were immediately lifted, and what surprised Xingtian was that the purple gourd hidden in his waist was also slightly shocked.

This time, Xingtian was startled, he hurriedly took out the purple gourd secretly to check, and only after finding that the purple gourd was not abnormal, he breathed a sigh of relief and hid it again.

Entering the medicine garden, Xing Tian said in a loud voice: "The disciples of the Miscellaneous Service Hall have come to report!"

After waiting at the door for a while, a voice came from inside: "Come in!"

Entering it, Xingtian saw a large area of land planted with various herbs, like crops in the field, divided into dozens of areas of different sizes.

Many plants, Xingtian has never seen before, and between the medicine fields, there is a lean old man squatting, without raising his head, and said: "Go, go to the well behind the medicine garden to make thirty-seven buckets of well water, and then water one bucket for each medicine field, not more and no less, at this moment the sun is rising, it is the time to water, watering and irrigation, do it within an hour, you must not miss the hour!"

After saying that, the old man no longer paid attention to Xingtian, and Xingtian also knew what he was going to do next, so he hurriedly ran to the back of the medicine garden, but he was stunned when he saw the bucket of water.

The barrel was three feet high and two feet wide, and a bucket of water weighed hundreds of pounds, and it was not easy to dig thirty-seven buckets of water from the well and pour it into the medicine field in one hour.

It's just that it's so far, it's useless to say anything. Xingtian hurriedly rolled up his sleeves, grabbed the bucket and put it on the rope, threw the barrel into the well, and when it was filled, he shook the roller and lifted it.

In the next hour, Xingtian was as tired as a dead dog, but fortunately, he was a martial artist in the Quenching Body Realm, and his strength and endurance were stronger than ordinary people, but he barely finished the work that the old man had assigned.

"There are some weeds in the medicine field, you go and pull out those weeds, remember, don't hurt the herbs!" the old man gave another task.

Xingtian didn't have time to rest, so he hurriedly went to pull weeds. It must be known that the entire medicine garden area is huge, and by sunset, Xingtian is only less than a quarter of the area.

"I can't do this little thing well, the miscellaneous disciples are still so unbearable, go back, if you don't complete the task, I will inform the miscellaneous service hall!"

Xing Tian's face suddenly turned dark, and he secretly said that this old man was really unreasonable, he had worked hard all day and didn't eat lunch, so he ended up with such an evaluation. He was angry in his heart, but he turned around and left without looking back, and returned to the miscellaneous service hall, and the punishment genius pondered a little problem, the old man who took care of the medicine garden didn't know himself, let alone target himself, that is to say, the other party himself was a tricky and mean person, if so, it was definitely not a matter of one day or two, it stands to reason that Jia Gui would not know, how could he arrange himself to the medicine garden?

You have to know that you have paid the benefit fee, isn't there anything wrong with this?

Thinking of this, Xing Tian hastily ate dinner, but found that Senior Brother Wang Tao again, and handed over a silver ticket of ten taels again. After saying some unnutritious polite words, Xing Tian pretended to leave, but secretly used Tianshan Yunbu to follow Wang Tao, and sure enough, he saw that the other party went to Jia Gui's room again and knocked on the door.

This time, Xingtian secretly went to the window, eavesdropped, and finally heard some important information.

"Deacon, the punishment day has handed over another ten taels today, you see ......"

"That Xingtian is very good, but unfortunately, this matter is explained by Elder Yu's apprentice Xu Jiang, and I can only blame this Xingtian for his bad luck. Today, the elder of the medicine garden sent a message, saying that the punishment day did not complete the task, this is counted once, according to the rules, as long as the task is not completed twice, he can be expelled from the miscellaneous service hall. ”

"Deacon, what do you mean ......"

"It's very simple, just send that Xingtian to the medicine garden tomorrow, as for the benefits given by the other party, you can accept it correctly, and no one will think that there is a lot of silver!"

"Deacon wise!"

When Xing Tianquan heard this conversation, he was already extremely angry in his heart, and he left quietly, and only began to think about it in the grove where he practiced on weekdays.

"Xu Jiang, it's this guy again!" Xing Tian was cold, although he was annoyed in his heart, he was not blindly cursing, but thinking about countermeasures quickly.

Now that he has entered the Hexagram Mountain, Xingtian knows that sooner or later he will have to confront Xu Jiang, and this is only a matter of time, so since the matter is coming, Xingtian is not afraid. And if the other party wants to squeeze himself out of the hexagram mountain, Xingtian will not let the other party get his wish, but if Jia Gui really sends himself to the medicine garden tomorrow, he has no way.

Naturally, it's not completely impossible, Xing Tian knows that if he can deal with the old man who watched the medicine garden, things will take a turn for the better.

Just how do you deal with that old man?

At this moment, Xingtian suddenly thought of a detail. The old man had been busy all day, and Xing Tian remembered that the old man had dug up some herbs, studied the copper furnace, and pondered on a piece of paper full of herbs, the other party must have been studying something.

Xingtian didn't care about it at first, but when he thought about it at the moment, he was a little enlightened. If he was not mistaken, then the old man should be refining the elixir. Moreover, the matter went extremely unwell, otherwise the old man would not have been frowning all day.

Today's Xingtian is no longer the country boy who didn't know anything in the past, he knows that alchemists are quite scarce, but because to become an alchemist, you need a lot of knowledge, and you must accumulate more than ten years or even decades of experience. The old man who was in charge of the medicine garden was obviously new to this, and perhaps the other party was worried about this matter.

Thinking of this, Xingtian suddenly had an idea, although this is not a foolproof strategy, and there is even a little risk, but at least there is no problem with using it for emergencies.

At that moment, Xingtian fought Tiger Tour Mountain several times, and returned to the miscellaneous hall early to rest.

On the second day, Na Jia Gui really assigned Xingtian to the medicine garden again, and many miscellaneous disciples looked at Xingtian with sympathetic eyes, but Xingtian didn't say a word, and ran directly to the medicine garden.

"Why are you again?" The old man in the medicine garden glanced at Xingtian, but said with some surprise: "Could it be that you have an enmity with that Jia Gui, and he deliberately manipulated you?"