Chapter 4: Enlightenment
Chen Yu took advantage of Yang Ye's inattention, and quickly plucked a beard from his goatee.
"Eh!"
Yang Ye snorted in pain, and the tea in the small teapot in his hand was poured on the ground, and he suddenly lost his previous calm appearance.
Chen Yu protested against his decision: "Old man Yang, I'm just an apprentice, do you really rest assured that I will come to see the shop?" β
Hearing this, Yang Ye stood up all of a sudden, glared at Chen Yu angrily, and scolded him loudly: "You little rabbit cub, you are really not sensible at all, the old man is thinking about you and giving you a little more opportunity to hone!" β
"I believe you're a ghost, you're a bad old man!" Chen Yu rolled his eyes, and there was a wave of slander in his heart, disapproving Yang Ye's words.
Yang Ye breathed a sigh of relief, carried his left hand, stroked his goatee again with his right hand, and said earnestly: "You, you have to take advantage of this opportunity, hone and hone more, only practice can produce true knowledge!" Otherwise, how will I inherit my mantle in the future! β
If it weren't for the fact that Chen Yu had been with Yang Ye for a long time and knew Yang Ye's temperament, he might have believed what he said.
Chen Yu couldn't help but muttered in a low voice: "I still inherit the mantle, it's good if I don't deduct my salary!" β
"What is a penalty for deducting wages! The old man did that to deepen your memory, otherwise how could you have memorized the names of thousands of medicinal herbs and their properties in just one year! β
Yang Ye's ears were too sharp, and Chen Yu's small voice was heard by him. Chen Yu was inevitably counted out again, and even if he stopped speaking.
"Okay, yesterday's reserved prescriptions are all on the table, you go and pick out the medicinal materials on the prescription and weigh them, and I'll check them later." Remember, pick the wrong or wrong herbs, and deduct a copper coin! β
Yang Ye sat back on the rattan chair, fanning the wind leisurely while instructing Chen Yu to go into the shop to work.
"I see~"
Chen Yu was weak when he spoke, as if he had accepted his fate, and finally had to raise his feet and walk towards the pharmacy. He seemed to have guessed a long time ago that Yang Ye would use the trick of deducting money, so he didn't show too much surprise.
However, Chen Yu was still very confident in his ability to identify medicinal materials, and after more than a year of oppression by Yang Ye's money deduction rules, Chen Yu could be said to be ripe with most of the medicinal materials circulating in the world, even rare elixirs.
Looking at the ten prescriptions on the table that were pressed by the stones and spread out one by one, Chen Yu was secretly proud in his heart: "It's a piece of cake!" β
He took a closer look and found that the first seven were all prescriptions for minor ailments such as colds and fevers, and he got them in three or two clicks.
When he picked up the eighth prescription, Chen Yu's eyes couldn't help but widen, and he looked at the name written on it over and over againβNaqi Dan.
He couldn't believe that this was actually an alchemy pill, and this was also the pill of the Naqi Pill that he had in mind!
In Chen Yu's cognition, he originally thought that this pharmacy was for ordinary people to treat minor illnesses and pains, but now that he learned more, he found that this pharmacy was not as simple as he imagined!
This Dan Fang of Naqi Dan is obviously correct, after all, Chen Yu has long remembered the authentic Dan Fang in the alchemy primer in his mind.
Suppressing the shock in his heart, Chen Yu shifted his gaze to the medicine cabinet behind him. He couldn't believe that there was actually a collection of several rare elixirs for refining the Naqi Pill.
Absorb the essence of the sun and the moon, swallow the aura of heaven and earth, and conceive a spiritual root, so that it can be called an elixir! Compared with ordinary medicinal materials, elixirs are many times rarer.
This medicine cabinet is very huge, visually five zhang long, more than four zhang high, the whole is made of mahogany, perhaps because it has been used for a long time, the whole medicine cabinet presents a dark red color, faintly revealing a simple and elegant atmosphere!
Chen Yu had only cared about the medicinal materials of the medical secretary before, and had never paid serious attention to this medicine cabinet, even when he had just grabbed the medicine, he had not carefully observed it.
It was only when he learned that there was an elixir hidden in the medicine cabinet that Chen Yu became aware of it. And he suddenly felt that this pharmacy was suddenly dyed with a mysterious aura.
The drawer of the medicine cabinet was not marked with the name of the stored medicinal materials, and Chen Yu was able to get the first seven prescriptions so quickly because Chen Yu often followed Yang Ye to watch him grab the medicine.
Over time, the location of the medicine cabinet where ordinary medicinal materials were stored could be easily found by Chen Yu even with his eyes closed.
It's also strange to say, obviously Yang Ye usually sees some minor diseases, prescribes some ordinary prescriptions, and catches some ordinary medicinal materials. But on the table today, how can there be a pill recipe used in alchemy?!
While rummaging through the drawers to find the elixir on the pill, Chen Yu wrote down the location of the medicinal materials stored in his mind, so that when he grabbed the medicine in the future, he didn't have to rummage through the drawers one by one.
Since Chen Yu had already memorized the four elixirs for refining the Naqi Pill, he flipped through them quickly, often scanning them and going to the next drawer.
It didn't take long for four strange-shaped elixirs with a faint halo to be placed on the table.
One of the elixirs is more than a foot long, the whole body is green and shiny, the appearance is like grass but it has nine leaves, implying the meaning of ninety-nine to one, and it is called Guiyuan grass.
Next to it was a dark green vine, about two feet long and two fingers thick, and it was a plant with two bodies intertwined with each other, so that it looked like a dark green twist flower. It's hard to tell that it's been growing for a hundred years, so it's called the centennial vine, which is probably just a cut from the main plant.
In addition, there is a gray-brown, palm-sized ground Ganoderma lucidum and a sunflower that is yellow and clear and looks like a sunflower.
After Chen Yu selected the elixirs on the Naqi Dan Formula, he put them into the medicine box one by one, and then stacked the four pill boxes neatly on the table.
Immediately, he picked up the two prescriptions behind him and looked at them, and sure enough, it was not out of Chen Yu's expectations, the last two prescriptions were actually pills for alchemy.
At this moment, Chen Yu suddenly understood that Yang Ye really wasn't lying. He made this arrangement obviously to test his ability to identify medicinal herbs.
Glancing at Yang Ye, who was still lying leisurely on the rattan chair, Chen Yu's eyes gradually moistened. Thinking of the past year, Yang Ye has silently taught himself a lot of knowledge and given him a lot of help.
At this time, Chen Yu couldn't help but think of the dilemma he had a year ago when he came to the pharmacy with a few copper coins to grab medicine for his mother. He naturally knew that a few copper coins were not enough to pay for the medicine, so he originally wanted to pay the account on credit first and then pay it back slowly.
However, Yang Ye told Chen Yu that his pharmacy happened to be short of a handyman, so he asked Chen Yu to work beside him to offset the cost of medicine.
Now in Chen Yu's opinion, where there are so many just right, it is obvious that Yang Ye wants to use this way to help himself.
In the past year, Yang Ye taught Chen Yu like a father and a master, allowing him to experience the long-lost fatherly love.
Although Chen Yu was feeling, the work in his hands did not stop, and after such a while, he had already selected the elixir needed for the last two pills, and put the medicine boxes neatly on the table.
The last two pills are the Gathering God Pill and the Healing Pill, which are the other two pills recorded in the alchemy primer.
Chen Yu didn't know if this was a coincidence or Yang Ye's intention, but it didn't matter now, anyway, Yang Ye wouldn't harm himself. Chen Yu thought like this, and his mood suddenly relaxed a lot.
"Old man Yang, the prescriptions are all done, can you come over and take a look?" If that's right, I'll have to go back to take care of my mother! β
"It's coming, it's coming! You little rabbit, why are you so impatient? I can't eat hot tofu in a hurry! β
Hearing Chen Yu's shout, Yang Ye stood up slowly and walked in leisurely.
He walked along the table, glanced at the prescription on the table, stroked his goatee with his right hand, and nodded at Chen Yu: "Not bad!" Not bad! It's all right, it's worthy of being a good apprentice carefully guided by the old man! β
Chen Yu saw Yang Ye's stunned appearance, and plucked out his ears with a gesture, and the emotion not long ago had already drifted out of the clouds.
"Can I go home, then?" Chen Yu asked Yang Ye tentatively.
Time flies, and now it's almost dusk, and he has to go back to cook for his mother!
"Don't worry, the show is only starting now!"
Yang Ye laughed incomprehensibly, and at this time, his momentum suddenly changed, and he shouted at Chen Yu: "Concentrate, mind is one!" β
Chen Yu was shocked by his Dao voice, and the whole person involuntarily followed Yang Ye's instructions. Immediately afterward, I saw Yang Ye's right hand pointing like a sword, pointing towards Chen Yu's eyebrows, who was drunk by him, and saw a trace of golden light coming out of his fingertips, instantly burrowing into Chen Yu's skin.
"Ahh
Chen Yu exclaimed, and then his eyes went dark, and when he came back to his senses, he could only see the darkness around him.
But at this moment, a little golden light suddenly appeared here, and Chen Yu was suddenly attracted by this little golden light.
I saw that the golden point of light slowly moved, and its trajectory was very strange, with a mysterious mystery. Chen Yu's spiritual power also moved with the golden points of light, crossing those mysterious trajectories.
The golden point of light seemed a little out of place with this dark world, it was so dazzling that Chen Yu's spiritual power was always attached to it, inseparable.
As time slowly passed, the speed at which the golden light points moved slowly intensified, and by this time, Chen Yu's spiritual power began to be a little unable to keep up.
At this moment, Chen Yu's spiritual power actually had a feeling like being stuck in a quagmire, he could clearly see the movement of the golden light spots, but he couldn't keep up.
This feeling of powerlessness made Chen Yu crazy for a while, and his mentality lost its stability in an instant, and then he could no longer see the golden points of light.
"Brush!"
Chen Yu opened his eyes suddenly, and what caught his eye was Yang Ye's grinning old face, which frightened him into subconsciously taking a big step back.
Yang Ye's eyes were fixed on Chen Yu, the corners of his mouth were about to crack to the root of his ears, and looking at him like that was like discovering a peerless treasure.
"You know what? Ordinary people can only hold on to half a pillar of incense at most, but you can hold on to a whole stick of incense for the first time. This means that your spiritual power is at least half higher than that of ordinary people, and you are really a good seedling of alchemy! β
He put his hands on Chen Yu's shoulders, and said to Chen Yu with a red face, he couldn't suppress the joy in his heart at all!