"Zhang Zhutou, you haven't been here for a while!"

In the Renxin Hall, the shopkeeper Wu Deyong saw Zhang Biao appear, and hurriedly stepped forward to say hello.

Zhang Biao looked around casually and said, "I have left the six doors, and I don't need to be called a head catcher." ”

"Oh?"

Wu Deyong was surprised, but he didn't ask much.

I saw Zhang Biao look around, then shook his head and said, "Shopkeeper Wu, I don't think your business is very good." ”

"Who's to say it isn't."

When Wu Deyong heard this, he immediately lamented: "Something happened in the source of medicine, and those medicine halls with deep backgrounds can still say that our business is about to go on." ”

Zhang Biao sighed, and then asked: "The price of other medicinal materials has risen, and how is the market for tonic medicines like swiftlet's nest?" ”

"It's going to go even harder!"

Wu Deyong shook his head and said: "These are not only medicines, but also nourishing products, rich and noble families give gifts and rewards, and there are fewer and fewer goods on the market." ”

Zhang Biao smiled and said: "That's just right, I spent a lot of money to buy medicine a while ago, so I had to sell some belongings." ”

As he spoke, he took out the swiftlet's nest and seahorse, and slowly opened the paper packet.

"Yo, it's in good condition..."

Shopkeeper Wu looked at it and became energetic.

In the end, the two were sold for fifty taels of silver.

Don't underestimate these, Shopkeeper Wu can make a net profit of ten taels when he changes hands, while Zhang Biao only sells a small share.

When the rest of the family is sold, you can get almost a thousand taels of silver, which can be regarded as alleviating the urgent need.

……

"Go, go!"

As soon as he came out of Renxin Hall, Zhang Biao saw that at the door of the medicine hall opposite, the guy was pushing an old man.

Although the old man was dressed in a Confucian robe, he was washed white and covered with patches, which made him look a little shabby.

His voice trembled, and he begged: "Little brother, can you plead with the king's shopkeeper, it's good, it's cheaper." ”

The guy said impatiently: "This is the medicine hall, and it's not a good hall, it's all like you, we can't do it!" Let's go, don't get in the way here! ”

With that, he turned around and went back to the store.

The old man stood for a while, trembling all over, but he could only sigh and stumble away.

When Zhang Biao saw it, he had to shake his head slightly.

As the saying goes, "I hit the iron and took the medicine", the people have a hard time, and the house is okay, but these two things are easy to empty the family savings.

In Anrenfang, this kind of scene of not being able to afford medicine was very common in the past.

Now that the price of ordinary medicinal materials has more than tripled, the people have no savings and cannot afford to eat at all.

But no one can do anything about this.

The weather was abnormal everywhere, not only the medicinal herbs, but also the food was seriously damaged, and the famine that followed was the big problem.

When the time comes......

I'm afraid there will be a big change in this Liang Dynasty!

Thinking of this, Zhang Biao's heart couldn't help but feel a little heavy, cheered up, and went to An Zhenfang.

What he didn't notice was that a squinted-eyed man in Anrenfang had trotted briskly, secretly caught up with the old man in the Confucian robe, and said in a low voice:

"Uncle, medicine is so expensive nowadays, no one can afford it, I don't know if you have heard of Mrs. Bai in Tongyifang?"

"Her old man's runic water, but it works very ......"

…………

When I returned to Anzhenfang, it was already unitary time.

On the way, I happened to meet my neighbor Daddy Zhou.

"Zhang Zhutou, where have you been in the past two days?"

"There are some chores, and besides, I've quit six doors, so don't call me a head catcher in the future."

"Huh?"

Zhou Laohan was obviously a little surprised, hesitated for a moment, and asked carefully: "Zhang Zhutou, you have seen a lot, I heard that those people who offered auspicious rui to the emperor have become officials?" ”

Zhang Biao was a little surprised, "The saint is so auspicious, it is not enough to be an official, but the reward is indispensable." ”

"What, Uncle Zhou has auspicious rui to offer?"

"How can an old man have that thing..."

Father Zhou smiled innocently and hurriedly left.

Zhang Biao was speechless and shook his head slightly.

He has been dealing with the three sects and nine streams all the year round, and his eyes are very poisonous, how can he not see that this old man is strange.

However, he didn't bother to ask.

The emperor is so auspicious, from officials to the people, some people want to soar with this way, which is not unusual.

When I returned home, I saw the autumn sun slanting in the west, the afterglow poured into the small courtyard, the shadows of the trees were mottled, and the windows showed golden light, which seemed warm and quiet.

Zhang Biao took the decoction, stood on the pile to refine the qi, made a pot of tea, sat at the table, and spread out a piece of paper.

In the inheritance of noodles, there is also a key point.

There are many methods in the world, all of which rely on external forces to improve oneself and gradually move towards the path of cultivation.

The general way is to use external forces to improve the cultivation of the Tao, and then adapt to stronger external forces.

If you are in a hurry, you will be affected by external forces and have terrible consequences.

If you take Waidan, there will be an accumulation of erysipelas and addiction, affecting the mind and corroding the body...

If there is a kind of beast control method, you can communicate your qi and blood with the spirit beast, and use the power of the spirit beast to practice, but if you lose control, you will have the symptoms of beastification...

For example, a Yanshi can use the technique to make a powerful puppet with spiritual materials, and practice with the help of the puppet's power, but sometimes the puppet erodes his mind...

There is no power, there is no cost.

Like his Three Yang Sutra, it is mixed with the method of taking it, and it is good to say that if you find any elixir in the future, you have to be very careful when taking it.

And Fang Xiangzong is a bit similar to Yanshi and Sword Cultivation, both of them are cultivated by borrowing utensils, but the latter two are puppets and swords, and Fang Xiangzong is a puppet.

It's not that you can't be a fellow practitioner.

Instead, every time one more method is cultivated, the danger of getting out of control doubles.

Zhang Biao is naturally cautious.

He planned to focus on the Sanyang Sutra, and did not need to practice the "Twilight Sutra" in the face, but simply used it as a ritual tool to shuttle through the spiritual realm.

That's right, he's decided to explore the spirit realm.

Cultivating true qi is not an overnight achievement, and now that the heavens and the earth are changing, all kinds of evil things are breeding and brewing, and there must be a protective technique.

This face of the Frontier Beam should also be a cultivator magic weapon in the Qi refining period, recording twelve kinds of trickery and four kinds of trickery refining methods.

Among them, there are four kinds of trickery at the first level of Huang Pin, namely: Ecstasy, Shadow Escape, Dark Fire, and Yin Curse.

Truth be told, there are only these four.

Because the remaining eight are the second and third grades of these four kinds of trickery, they are only called twelve because of the different materials and grades used.

Among them, it goes without saying that the Mystery of Trickery.

Trickery: Shadow Escape is a kind of escape technique, which can escape in the shadows, and its main material is the remnants of the kind of ghost that Wu Grandma transformed.

Trickery: Hellfire, is a Yin Fire spell that requires incense ash and bone meal from the dead in the spirit world, as well as some sulfur saltpeter.

Trickery: Yin mantra is a kind of spell, which is to collect the grudges of ghosts and attach them to utensils, such as copper coins and Buddha beads, etc., and cast them against the enemy.

The four trick weapons are the Ecstasy Mirror, the Ghost Cloak, the Hellfire Gourd, and the Evil Charm Bracelet.

That's right, it corresponds to exactly four tricks.

The advantage of trickery is that it is easy to use, it only needs to be repaired regularly, and it can be used faster when fighting the enemy.

As for the refining method of the noodles, it is a pity that only the sect has it, so as to control the disciples.

Before you know it, it's dark.

Zhang Biao lit the candle and thought in his heart while writing and drawing.

The spiritual realm is a must to be explored.

He has lit the true fire of Sanyang, plus the face of the beam, be careful, avoid danger, there will always be a gain.

But wait until the true qi is deeper, so as not to encounter danger and not have enough strength to use the true fire.

Moving is also on the agenda.

Even if you get the materials and practice trickery, you need a secluded place so as not to be discovered.

But escaping from the world and cultivating is unrealistic.

He does not have the support of the sect, and at this stage, only the prosperous place of the capital can gather the properties of the Quartet.

Thinking of this, Zhang Biao took out the map of Yujing City from his arms.

After taking a closer look, his attention was attracted by Fengyi Fang in the west of the city.

Fengyi Fang is famous for its funeral industry.

Most of the residents in the workshop make a career out of this, and most of them are coffins, paper figures, and incense and candle shops.

Although the funeral of the ancestors has been a great gift since ancient times, it is a bit unlucky after all.

Especially at night, the paper money left by the funeral of Fengyi Fang carries the coffin and flies wildly, and there are paper people and paper horses in the shops along the street, and the big white lanterns are swaying in the wind, which is very mad.

Therefore, there are relatively few residents of Fengyi Fang, and many of them work here during the day and leave at night.

And because of the need to tie a paper wreath, the workshop is full of bamboo, and several large bamboo forests are formed in remote places.

The reason why Zhang Biao was attracted to this place is because in the bamboo forest wasteland, there is a small Taoist temple that has collapsed.

It looks dilapidated, but it is actually an entrance to the underground passage of Yujing City.

This entrance is very wonderful, below is a warehouse left by Emperor Wu, and it is just far away from the dangerous place in the center of the Bagua Trapped Soul Array.

Just arrange it and transform the passage, it is a wonderful place to cultivate.

I don't know whose property it is,

Can you buy the money you have?

Let's go check it out tomorrow...

Thinking of this, Zhang Biao meditated cross-legged again before falling asleep peacefully.

…………

In the dead of night, the moon is dark and the wind is high.

There was silence in Anzhenfang, but the old man Chen who was on the watch passed by, which occasionally caused a few dogs to bark.

The father and son of the Zhou family were tired all day and snored constantly.

Aggressive!

In the firewood room,

Suddenly, there was a soft sound...