After Longshan left, Longcheng's military affairs had been handed over to Longquan. The frontier defense line is being repaired, after the last battle, the Hanging Sound Pass has lost the third city wall, and the Dragon Fist has to go to the Hanging Sound Pass from time to time. The Xinye Army stationed on the third city wall has not moved, and after Dragon Fist came to the Hanging Sound Pass, he was planning how to recapture the third city wall.

After Long Fist went to the Hanging Sound Pass, Long Ming was not idle. The task given by Long Shan seems simple, but it is not easy to do it, because Long Ming has never refined the elixir, and he has never studied it, and now he really doesn't know how to start, and now the only thing that can help him is his teacher Duanmu Minghuo. Long Ming did not lack the medicine for refining the Qi Condensing Pill in his hands, because Long Shan had already prepared it, he came to Duanmu Minghuo here mainly to ask for advice on the refining method, although the note given by Long Shan also elaborated, but for Long Ming, who had never refined the pill, it was much faster and safer to find someone to teach than to touch it blindly, and the configuration of magic drugs would explode or flood with corrosive gases if he was not careful, and he could be injured and disfigured at any time.

"Why did you suddenly think of learning to refine the pill, I told you not to learn it before?" Duanmu Minghuo didn't expect that this disciple who had been only thinking about cultivating magic bubble girls suddenly began to refine the pill.

"The teacher also knows that my family has an ancestral recipe for alchemy, and Brother Boxer is not a magician, I have to learn to refine medicine sooner or later, otherwise the ancestral elixir will be lost. Long Ming was also very helpless when he heard Duanmu Minghuo ask, it seems that the original Long Ming is really not doing his job.

"Hehe, that's what I said, now even your junior sister can refine it, but she can't refine some of the pills I developed, and I have some recipes to give to you to try in the future." It seems that this kid has really begun to be civilized, Duanmu Minghuo smiled: "Actually, refining the pill is very simple, first you have to find a good furnace, and then configure the medicine and spar you want to refine and put it in the furnace, start a fire to refine, control it with magic power, how to add medicine and remove the medicine in the process, it depends on your prescription." ”

After speaking, Duanmu Minghuo and Long Ming came to the alchemy room, which was full of all kinds of magic medicines, spars, and some magic cores of magical beasts. There are a few alchemy furnaces in the back, and the large table in the middle is full of utensils equipped with medicines, and there are some drug residues on them, it seems that Duanmu Minghuo has not had time to sort out after refining medicine last time.

"You haven't refined the pill, so let's start with the simplest medicine in a moment. Duanmu Open Fire did it in front of the table and began to sort out the utensils while saying: "We first have to mash and match the drugs, what we should pay attention to here is to distinguish the properties of the drugs, some drugs attract and some repel, the two drugs that are repulsive should be very careful when matched together, which may cause explosions or volatile toxic gases, you first know these most common drugs that attract and repel each other." Later, you can try to make the simplest healing medicine, and I will tell you about the use of various hedrons and magic cores. ”

"Okay, teacher. Long Ming began to dispense the medicine under the guidance of Duanmu Minghuo. Sure enough, under the guidance of the teacher, refining the medicine was much easier than imagined. Long Ming used several water-attribute herbs and a paralyzing earth-attribute herb to mash together, and the rich medicinal fragrance came out.

After Long Ming prepared the medicine, Duanmu Minghuo picked up a few spars and said: "The spar has a good catalytic effect on the formation and solidification of the elixir, and the healing medicine you are configuring now only needs this kind of black crystal, and the amount required is not much." ”

"Do you want to grind the spar?" Long Ming took the spar.

"This hedron doesn't have to be ground. Duanmu Minghuo picked up the medicine that Long Ming had prepared and walked to a stove, and said, "This black crystal is easy to dissolve after being heated, and the medicine you refined is not a complicated medicine, and it doesn't need a magic core." Magic cores are mostly used to make magic scrolls, and I'll teach you about this later. Okay, now you use your magic to set this stove on fire. ”

"I don't have a strong sense of the fire element, so it won't have an impact on alchemy. "Long Ming is not a fire magician, but some simple fire magic can still be.

"It doesn't matter, refining the elixir mainly depends on you controlling the mana to adjust the medicine, you really can't use dry wood or fire spar to make fire, but it may affect the speed, you can still use a fire technique now." Duanmu opened the stove and smiled.

"I'll try. Long Ming began to chant the incantation, his hands were joined together and a flame slowly emerged, Long Ming pushed it with his hand, and the cup of flame was sucked into the furnace.

Duanmu Minghuo also put the medicine in and said, "Wait a while before you put the spar in." ”

"Okay, teacher. ”

Soon, there was already a reaction in the furnace, and there was a "snort" sound. Long Ming put in the hedron under the guidance of Duanmu Minghuo, covered the stove, and began to condense mana to adjust.

Just as they were refining medicine, the door was suddenly opened, and a Qianying rushed in, it was Long Ming's junior sister Spark, she came in and asked, "Teacher, is there any medicine for refining beauty pills?"

She didn't expect Long Ming to be here, and without waiting for Duanmu Minghuo to answer, she looked at Long Ming with strange eyes and said, "What kind of wind is blowing here today, blowing you here?" ”

The younger sister smiled. Long Ming really couldn't cry or laugh.

Seeing this, Duanmu Minghuo said with a smile: "Your senior brother is refining medicine for the first time, just right, you can teach him." I still have something to do, so I'll go out first. There are still medicines, if you want to make alchemy, use another stove. ”

"What is the teacher in a hurry to do?" Long Ming didn't expect Duanmu Minghuo to leave so quickly.

"I'm going to see a friend, just ask your sister if there's anything I don't understand. Duanmu Minghuo walked out of the door after speaking, and guided Long Ming with Spark's current alchemy technique, he was still very relieved. Besides, this brother and sister used to often discuss magic together alone, and it seemed a bit redundant to stay.

After Duanmu Minghuo went out, Spark came over to find the medicine she needed, and Long Ming saw her rummaging through the cabinet next to her, and couldn't help asking, "Senior sister, you just said that you wanted to refine the beauty list?"

"yes, what's wrong?" Sparkle replied without replying.

"Hehe, does my junior sister still need to use this medicine if she is naturally beautiful?" Long Ming said with a smile.

Spark took out a few herbs from the cabinet, turned around and walked to the table and put them down, giving Long Ming a blank look: "What do you know." "The spark is radiant and delicate every day, maybe it is really the relationship between using this beauty pill.

"Senior sister, how do you see how I practiced this elixir?" After Duanmu Minghuo left, Long Ming had no bottom in his heart, so he could only ask him for advice.

"What are you anxious about, it's still early. Spark began to configure her elixir, as if she was too lazy to deal with him.

"Senior sister, you also teach me how to refine this beauty pill, and senior brother will refine it for you in the future. Long Ming looked at her and ignored her and said.

Hearing this, a flash of joy flashed in Spark's heart, and immediately turned to look at him, Long Mian was also stunned when he saw this, Spark somehow turned back to get her medicine, and said, "Hmph, I'm afraid it's for your two wives." ”｜

"Of course, this is for you first. It seems that Spark still has a lot of resentment towards herself, and if she wants to teach, she still has to coax her.

However, it is said that the people and horses of Longshan and Princess Mingyao who marched towards the imperial city together have also been gone for some time, and now they have left the province of Xuanyin and entered the province of Xianglin, and when they arrived at the boundary of the province of Xianglin, they were naturally under the jurisdiction of another governor, and they knew at a glance that they were the men and horses of the national army, and it could be said that they were unimpeded along the way. Due to the fact that there are a lot of people and horses, they do not stop to rest when they enter the province and pass through many small cities. It was not until Rongcheng, a large city on the edge of the province, that it stopped, and Longshan found the largest hotel here to stay, and the army also sent people to find a place to camp or find other accommodation.

"Hehe, I haven't been here for many years, and this province has changed a lot. After Long Shan settled the princess and the others, he walked with Zhang Zhong to this Rongcheng street.

"Well, it used to be a small town, but now it's growing. Zhang Zhong said.

It can be seen that many streets and houses in Rongcheng are newly built, and there are still many pedestrians on the streets, but some places still look a little empty, and occasionally a few storefronts are still closed. Both of them glanced at each other, noticing the strange phenomenon, and Ryuyama quickened his pace and grabbed a young man's shoulder, wanting to ask. The man glanced back at Long Shan and Zhang Chong, and wowed in horror, and ran away from the road, and Long Shan and the two were even more strange. Zhang Zhong proposed: "Marshal, we might as well go to a shop and ask." ”

"It's fine. Long Shan said helplessly.

The two walked into a nearby pharmacy, and the customers immediately ran out when they saw the two. The store manager was also so frightened that he stood in front of the counter and didn't dare to make a sound, and Ryuyama asked forward, "Why are you so flustered when you see us?"

The store manager said in horror: "Two military masters, the two eldest sons in my family have already gone to serve in the army, and the younger son is only ten years old, you can let us go, do you want to catch my old bones?"

It turned out that he was afraid of being arrested to be a soldier, Long Shan said: "Don't worry, we are not here to arrest strong men, have many people in your city been conscripted to serve as soldiers recently?"

The store manager was stunned when he heard this: "Don't the two military masters know, the army came to Rongcheng a few months ago to arrest a lot of young people, just now we saw the two military masters led a force into the city and thought they were here to catch the strong men again." ”

Long Shan muttered: "It's strange, I haven't sent the recruitment documents to His Majesty Emperor Ming recently, could it be that I want to recruit myself in the province?"

In the Minglong Empire, to recruit troops are sent to the imperial city to pass documents, after the approval of His Majesty the Ming Emperor, recruit troops, and each province can not form its own army of more than 100,000 people, generally each province can only recruit troops in its own province, but because Longshan guards the frontier, a large number of personnel are needed to expand the army, in order to ensure that the strength of the Xinye Empire is dealt with, and with the approval of His Majesty the Ming Emperor, you can recruit troops in other provinces, and in recent years, Longshan has only recruited troops in the province of Xuanyin, and if there are no veterans in the province, there is no need to recruit soldiers, but now this Rongcheng is panicked because of the recruitment, which is really a bit strange。

Zhang Zhong said: "Marshal, why don't we go to the city lord and ask." ”

Long Shan nodded and said, "That's what I mean." ”

Hearing them say this, the store manager finally breathed a sigh of relief and said, "Aren't you really here to catch strong men?" ”

Zhang Chong snorted and said: "Why are you so nervous, even if someone here makes you a soldier, what are you afraid of, and you don't have to go to war in this province." ”

The store manager sighed when he heard this, and said with a bitter face: "Don't the two military masters know, I heard that the training of being recruited as a soldier this time is very cruel, either dead or injured, and my two sons don't know what happened." ”｜

Zhang Zhong glanced at him contemptuously: "Hmph, no matter how cruel it is, is it still so tragic to go to the battlefield." ”

The store manager didn't dare to speak again, Long Fist thoughtfully, and said, "Let's go back, get ready, and go to the city lord in a while." ”

"Yes, Marshal. ”

With doubts, the two returned to the booked hotel, and when they returned to the door, they saw that it was full of people, and they were all guards, lined up in two lines. Long Shan and Zhang Chong were about to go inside, but the two guards stopped them, and Zhang Chong shouted loudly when he saw this: "Get out!

This is a person from the hotel, about forty years old, wearing an official uniform, he came out and saw Longshan Zhang Chong and the two of them drinking away from the guards and said, "Aren't the two Marshal Longshan and General Zhang Chong?"

Long Shan said: "I am Long Shan, are you?"

The man smiled and said: "I am Xu Yi, the newly transferred city lord of Rongcheng, I received a notice from the city gate guards that Marshal Longshan brought troops to Rongcheng, but he didn't come to me and came to this hotel, which is really inappropriate, so Xu Yi came to invite the marshal to the mansion as a guest." ”

Long Shan thought to himself, and was about to look for you, but you found it yourself, and said, "It turned out to be the city lord, let's go in and talk, I just have something to ask you." ”

"If you have something to ask me, why don't you go to the house and talk about it. Xu Yi was a little surprised.

"No need. "Yongsan walked straight into the hotel.

Zhang Zhong and Xu Yi also followed, Long Shan walked to a table and sat down, Xu Yi came over and said, "Since the marshal has something to ask the lower officials, I will drive out the idle people first." ”

After saying that, after calling people to clear the room, after everyone in this hall left, a masked woman upstairs walked down with two maids, needless to say, this is the princess. But because she went to Longcheng to change the army into a caravan, and she was veiled, Xu Yi didn't know that she was a princess, Xu Yi saw that she was dressed noblely, and she didn't know which noble daughter she was, so she didn't want to be easily offended, so she came over and said, "This young lady, we have something to discuss, can you please avoid it first?"

"Bold, dare to be rude to the princess!" said the maid next to her.

"Princess?" Xu Yi was surprised and looked at Long Shan in disbelief.

Long Shan stood up and said, "This is Princess Ming Yao." ”

When Xu Yi heard Longshan say this, he naturally didn't have a fake, and immediately knelt down and said, "Xu Yi, the city lord of Xiaguan Rongcheng, see the princess." ”

Princess Ming Yao stretched out her jade hand and said, "No courtesy, I heard upstairs that someone was clearing the venue here, so I came down and took a look." ”

Xu Yi said: "The lower officials didn't know that the princess was here, and they were worried that the princess was resting, so damn it." ”

The princess said, "You get up first, I just heard you say that you want to discuss things, can I listen to it?"

Xu Yi stood up and said: "Actually, it's nothing, it's just that the marshal has something to ask the lower officials, since the princess is down, let's come over and discuss it together." ”

After speaking, everyone sat down together, and Xu Yi first said: "When did the princess come to Rongcheng, how could she still be with the marshal, and why didn't the lower officials know at all?"

The princess said: "When I came, I dressed up as a caravan, you naturally don't know, I have already gone to Longcheng, and now I am rushing to the imperial city with Marshal Longshan." ”

This princess is really weird, since the princess naturally has her reasons for doing this, Xu Yi didn't dare to ask more, and said, "I see." After pondering for a while, he looked at Long Shan and said, "The marshal asked me something just now, I don't know what it is?"

Long Shan said: "Just now I walked on the street with General Zhang Chong for a while, and the people were very frightened when they saw us, we asked the owner of a pharmacy and learned that this is because Rongcheng has recruited troops to arrest strong men in recent months, and I heard that the training for recruiting soldiers this time is very strict, and the people will panic when they mistakenly think that we are also arresting people, I don't know why the city lord recruited so many people?"

When Xu Yi heard this, he thought for a while, and said with a smile: "This is just a veteran retiring from the army and recruiting new soldiers, as for the strict training of the lower officials, it is only according to the will of the superiors, and the specific intentions of the lower officials do not know, the marshal really wants to know what is going on, so he can only go to Linzhou to ask the governor." ”

Long Shan said: "Is it really that simple? I really want to ask Xue Shao in Linzhou, but we have to rush to the imperial city, and we don't pass through Linzhou if we take a shortcut." ”

Xu Yidao: "This subordinate really doesn't know, now that the army has just been recruited, it is normal for the people to be a little frightened, and the marshal does not need to be surprised." Xu Yi didn't want to dwell on this issue, so he looked at the princess and asked, "Why doesn't Your Highness show your true face and wear a veil?"

Princess Ming Yao smiled and said nothing, and Long Shan smiled when she heard this: "I also thought it was strange, the princess was low-key, although she looked like a fairy, she didn't like to see the coveted eyes of ordinary people." ”

Xu Yidao: "It turns out that His Royal Highness doesn't like to show his face, but His Royal Highness rarely comes to Rongcheng once, but the lower officials can't even see their true faces, the lower officials have only been to the imperial city twice, and they have never seen His Royal Highness, I don't know if they will go again in the future, this time I don't see His Royal Highness, I'm afraid I won't have a chance in this life, can Your Highness take off the veil, lest the lower officials hold a grudge for life." ”

"Okay. Princess Ming Yao saw that Xu Yidu had already said so, so she had to slowly lift the veil.

"Your Highness is really a celestial!" Xu Yi sighed after seeing the princess's true face.

The princess put on her veil again and said, "It's not that I don't like to show my head, it's just that I don't want to cause unnecessary trouble. ”

Xu Yi said: "I don't know if His Royal Highness and the Marshal are going to rest in Rongchen for a few days, it is better to go to the mansion together, but I came here but stayed in the hotel, if I let His Majesty the Emperor know that His Royal Highness and the Marshal are so neglectful, I am afraid that I, the city lord, will not have to do it." ”

Long Shan waved his hand and said, "No need, we have to hurry early tomorrow morning, and it is very troublesome to move around, so we will rest here at night." ”

Xu Yi smiled bitterly: "This ......"

Princess Ming Yao saw that he was embarrassed and said: "What the marshal said is very true, I want to rest as soon as possible tonight, I don't want to move around, don't worry, my father wants to ask about this matter, and I will explain the situation to him." ”

Xu Yi sighed and said helplessly: "In that case, Your Highness and the Marshal should rest here tonight." It's not too early, so it's okay for the lower officials to have dinner with His Royal Highness Marshal here. ”

"It's fine. Princess Ming Yao nodded.

After speaking, Xu Yi asked someone to serve a table of the most expensive dishes in the hotel, and after a few people talked together for a while, Xu Yi said goodbye and went home, and the princess and the others also went back to their rooms to rest.