After getting the seven-step incense, Lu Yuan's purpose of this trip has been achieved, and he is not interested in walking around the city anymore, but has a sense of uneasiness to travel with treasures, for fear that others will rob him.

Although I know this feeling, I just scare myself.

But in order to seek peace of mind, he still accelerated the pace of returning to Yangmei Town.

It wasn't until half an hour later that he saw the town in the valley that he breathed a sigh of relief.

Back at home, Lu Yuan lit a fire and began to boil the medicinal materials needed for cultivating internal strength. On the other side, he took the seven-step incense recipe he bought for a hundred taels of silver and began to study it.

According to this recipe, there are two ways to prepare the seven-step incense. One is to make incense sticks, which are lit and charming. One is to make a powder drug, which can be used into wine and dishes to deceive people.

Two kinds of seven-step incense can be regarded as having their own benefits......"

Lu Yuan looked at the yellowed paper in his hand.

More than 2,000 words are densely written on it, recording various recipes and production processes, and even intimately giving several ways to use ecstasy, which can be called a drug tutorial.

After reading the formula roughly, he put it away, and then took out the dispensing medicine that Zhou Ze gave when he bought the formula from the back basket, and checked it to confirm.

After drinking medicine for more than a year, Lu Yuan has a little understanding of various medicinal materials.

Although this kind of understanding is still at the level of following the map, it is not an embarrassing situation where you can look at the medicinal materials and your eyes will be dark.

Let him treat the disease and save people, diagnose the prescription, maybe he can't do it.

However, it is not difficult to identify a few medicinal herbs.

At this time, he turned out the 10,000 prescription medicine compendium that he bought for a tael of silver, opened the thick page, and slowly identified the medicinal herbs.

"Red Snake Venom, Seven Illusion Petals, Four-legged Insect Skin, Bitter Scale Fruit......"

After counting all the dispensing medicines, Lu Yuan confirmed that all the medicinal materials recorded on the formula were available here.

He was delighted that he had saved himself the trouble of looking for a purchase. I couldn't help but secretly say in my heart, that Doctor Zhou was really a kind person.

The recipe of the seven-step incense records a full thirty-one dispensings, and it is not a simple matter to collect all these medicinal materials.

And just buying medicinal herbs is a lot of money.

Lu Yuan has bought medicine for a year, and he has also bought some experience, so he basically has a general understanding of the prices of various medicinal materials.

If you want to have all the medicinal materials in the entire recipe of Qibu Xiang, at least sixty or seventy taels of silver is indispensable.

And that's just the cost price.

"Especially the bitter scale fruit and the grimace resin, these two things are not common, and they are all products of Xichuan County, thousands of miles away. If you want to buy it, you have to put some thought into it.

Doctor Zhou can spend a lot of effort to gather these medicinal materials, it seems that this seemingly amiable doctor also has an unknown side in private. ”

Lu Yuan thought of Zhou Ze's elegant and gentle face, and then looked at the various drugs in front of him, and the whole person felt a little torn.

Should it be said, sure enough, people can't be disfigured, and no one can look down on them?

If it weren't for today, I bought the drug from Zhou Ze and witnessed it with my own eyes.

I'm afraid he won't believe that the good old man with a broken mouth will be the one who secretly dispenses drugs.

"But think about it. As a doctor, I often treat some people on weekdays. Those are all ruthless people who lick blood from the knife edge, and they are doing the work of outlaws.

Not to mention that they are murderous, at least they are ruthless.

It's strange that I often come into contact with this kind of character, and I don't guard against it in private. ”

Lu Yuan was already sure at this time that Zhou Ze must have a ready-made medicine in his hand, maybe there are both medicinal powder and incense sticks.

But he didn't have much of an idea about it.

People privately configure drugs, for the same purpose as themselves, all for self-preservation.

and did not take the initiative to harm others.

Let me ask, what is wrong with a person taking some effective means to protect himself for the sake of his own life?

Lu Yuan didn't know what others thought, anyway, he thought it was right.

Not only that's right, but he is also ready to take this kind of insurance for himself at this time.

"So Dr. Zhou is a kind person after all."

Lu Yuan sighed with emotion, then picked up a bitter scale fruit, put it into the copper bowl for grinding medicine, picked up a copper pestle, and began to grind it according to the recipe.

The entire seven-step incense dispensing, Zhou Ze collected it for him. The so-called one hundred taels to buy the formula is actually buying and dispensing.

The cost of dispensing medicine of sixty or seventy taels of silver, if you count the cost of collecting from all over the world, it is normal to need one hundred taels of silver.

So today, it seems that he is buying a drug, but in fact, Dr. Zhou is a good person and gave him a drug formula for free.

How can such behavior not be called a kind word?

……

The process of making seven-step incense is extremely tedious and long.

According to the recipe, there are thirteen steps in the processing of various medicinal materials alone, including drying, soaking, grinding, steaming, roasting, and purification...... And so on.

It takes a long time just to go through these processes.

After the medicinal materials are processed, the following various medicinal materials are proportioned, medicinal properties are integrated, the heat is controlled, and the timing is controlled...... And so on, and so on, and it's a time-consuming process.

If there is even the slightest mistake in the above procedures, then it is a pharmaceutical failure.

Previously, Lu Yuan handled medicinal materials, at most, he used the practice medicine he bought, and directly took a casserole and boiled it.

It can be said that he has no other experience in handling medicinal herbs other than boiling herbs.

At this time, there is no foundation to get started, and the success rate of a budding novice in pharmaceuticals can naturally be imagined.

At the beginning, several attempts to make drugs ended in failure.

The successive failures forced Lu Yuan to temporarily stop continuing to make medicines.

The reason is very simple, it is not the medicinal herbs that have failed, but the money.

That's a dispensing medicine bought for hundreds of taels of silver.

Even if Zhou Ze was a kind person and gave him about ten seven-step incense dispensing at a time, he couldn't withstand such a toss.

There were four failures before and after, that is, forty taels of silver were gone.

The money I earned was burned in it like this, and I didn't feel sorry for anyone.

"So then, you can't fumble around like a headless fly. We have to work out some concrete and feasible ways to make drugs again. ”

After Lu Yuan learned from the pain, he changed his previous strategy.

He began to sum up the experience of previous failures.

After that, he carefully studied the Wanfang Medicinal Class, mainly focusing on the various dispensing properties of the seven-step incense drug, and prepared to start from this aspect.

After a few days, I finally got some experience.

I have a deeper understanding of the medicinal properties of various dispensing drugs and the control of heat.

After consciously grasping the great improvement, Lu Yuan started a new pharmaceutical.

This time it turned out to be better.

Although I still haven't made seven steps of incense, I finally made some drugs.

However, these drugs are either too ineffective, or they are not concealed enough, and they can only be regarded as defective products, which is not what he wants at all.

"These things can only fool those stupid beasts, and if they are replaced by those Jianghu people, it is impossible to be recruited."

Picking up a pile of dusty with a strong smell, Lu Yuan frowned and looked at it, and poured it directly into the vial on the side and put it away.

These are drugs made with a lot of money, even if they are defective, they can't be wasted.

He decided to use these remnants of the drug to trap his prey.

The smell of these drugs is too big, and if you can't drug people on the rivers and lakes, you will be discovered, and the practicality is too poor.

But those wild beasts in the mountains have no wisdom.

Those were raw animals.

The smell of blood when preying on animals is strong enough to mask the smell of these drugs.

"I remember that in the winter of the previous year, when I was hunting in the mountains, I also found the nests of several fierce tigers and wild bears. At that time, I was afraid of their ferocity and did not dare to take risks.

But now with these residual drugs, you can just grab a few rabbits, smear them in the meat, and throw them at their holes.

I don't believe it.

This group of hungry beasts who have just finished winter. Faced with the meat delivered to the door, will you not eat it? ”

After planning the hunt after the beginning of spring in his heart, Lu Yuan turned his head and picked up the homemade pencil again, and began to record the experience of this failure in the pharmaceutical manual.

Failure is the mother of success.

He is not afraid of failure.

As an immortal with a long lifespan, you have enough time in your life to learn all kinds of knowledge slowly.

The immediate failure is not terrible, but the terrible thing is that there is no progress in failure.

People who are truly strong-willed, in the face of failure, will sum up the lessons, accumulate experience, and then overcome it the next time they face it.

Lu Yuan didn't know if he was a strong-willed person.

But whether it counts or not, he is slowly trying to become such a person at this time.

And right now, making a seven-step incense is the first step towards success.

Lu Yuan believes that he will succeed.

……

The spring is cold, and it is warm and cold.

In the blink of an eye, the cold winter has passed, and the snow that has been spread on the earth for months has melted, but the cold air left between heaven and earth is struggling and unwilling to leave.

On this day, Lu Yuan came to the small pavilion next to Meilin outside the town and saw Sun Siwen off here.

"Brother Sun, in this spring test, I hope my brother will be on the list and get what he wants."

He raised a glass of wine and offered his blessing.

"By Brother Lu's auspicious words, I will be famous in this trip."

Sun Siwen also raised the wine glass next to him, looked at the plum blossoms that were gradually withering around him as the season was about to pass, and drank it for a long time.

In the next few days, he will live in the county seat, where he will participate in the spring test in the county this spring.

I have been studying hard for more than ten years, and I have suffered a lot, and I don't know if I can survive the cold winter and bloom like these plum blossoms this time.

"I'll go too."

Laughing, Sun Siwen picked up his bookcase and walked along the official road, gradually moving away.

Seeing the other party's disappearing back, until he could no longer see it, Lu Yuan retracted his gaze and returned home.

It's February in the blink of an eye, and early spring has arrived.

Sun Siwen has already embarked on his own road to fame, and it is time for him to prepare for the hunt in the new year.

"At the beginning of the year, I bought a drug, and I used 100 taels directly, which is too much expense. This year, we need to catch more prey and earn it back. ”

On the way home, he thought so.

As for money, Lu Yuan is extremely lacking now.

Among them, the consumption of practice is one aspect. The consumption of making drugs is another aspect.

"Although I can now successfully make seven-step incense, this medicine costs ten taels of silver, which is too expensive." The thought of the horrific consumption of making the drug made the corners of his mouth twitch.

Yes, this winter, after eight failures in a row, he finally succeeded in making seven steps of incense.

The remaining two servings were dispensed, one of which was made into a powder, ready to be used for medicinal purposes. The other is made into incense sticks, which are ready to be used at night when others are asleep.

One direct, one indirect, perfectly matched.

No, it's not really perfect, it's just that the amount is too small.

Two servings of ecstasy, you can only use it twice at most, and then it's gone.

can Lu Yuan's temperament, for this kind of life-saving thing, how can he be satisfied with only two copies.

Drugged this kind of home travel, killing...... No, it's a must-have for self-preservation, and of course the more the merrier.

So, since the successful production of the drug a few days ago.

He took the opportunity to go into the city to supplement the medicinal materials for martial arts, and asked Zhou Ze to buy some more seven-step incense to dispense medicine, and planned to make a few more potions of medicine.

But helplessly, in Dr. Zhou's hands, there was no extra medicine.

The original ten dispenses were already the only stock in the other party's hands.

After all, for Zhou Ze, practicing medicine and seeing a doctor is his main business, and it is enough for the whole family to make a living.

Other drugs or something, just in case of emergency, are just means to protect themselves.

Unable to buy the dispensing, Zhou Ze still had some seven-step incense products in his hands, but that was a life-saving means for people to press the bottom of the box, and it was impossible for Lu Yuan to ask for it.

This is not only embarrassing, but also knowing that even if you ask for it, you will not be able to get it.

Therefore, I can only entrust the other party to buy some dispensing.

Otherwise, if he collects it slowly by himself, there will be no channel, and God knows how many years it will take before he can collect it all.

For this reason, Lu Yuan spent a deposit of one hundred taels of silver.

No way.

Those medicinal materials are rare and expensive, and there is a cost to buy. If you don't give enough money, why should people buy it for you?

Zhou Ze is willing to spend time and work for him, which is already a great favor.

In addition to being grateful for this, Lu Yuan can only think about seeing if he can have a chance to repay Dr. Zhou in the future.

Well, the premise of repaying is not to harm oneself.

After all, our apprentice immortals still cherish their lives.

……

All in all, after buying the drug twice, Lu Yuan spent two hundred taels of silver like a stream.

Counting some of the consumption of martial arts, now his savings suddenly fell below the 100 mark again, and only 37 taels of silver remained.

This amount of money, no matter how frugal it is, can only be used for half a year at most.

If there is no progress by then, then the progress of martial arts training will have to stop.

This is not tolerated.

"So, now that spring has begun, it is time for the few remnant drugs in my hands to come in handy."

Back at home, Lu Yuan took out a few vials from the cupboard, opened them and looked at the drugs inside, with a smile on his face.

Although these drugs are defective products after failure, he has already done experiments these days, and with only half a small portion of the drug, even a strong cow will not be able to withstand it, and will be directly stunned.

This winter, the buffaloes in the town who suddenly became extremely sleepy have a lot to say.

That's all personal experience.

Looking at these medicinal powders with a slightly yellowish color, Lu Yuan seemed to see the prey beckoning to him.

Well, among these prey, tigers, violent bears, wild boars, etc., all of the guys who were difficult to do in the past.

Whether he can make a fortune again depends on these cute little fans in front of him.

I believe that it will not disappoint.

Because it's all the crystallization of my own sweat and wisdom.

People who work hard will always have good luck and will succeed.

Lu Yuan firmly believes this.