In an alchemy room with a high roof and low eaves, a middle-aged Taoist with white and thin cheekbones shouted three medicine boys, and was busy around a furnace. In front of the blazing fire, his face was calm and solemn.

"Go to the salary of forty percent, open the ding!" Bai Slender said.

"Yes, Master!" replied the medicine boy with a velvet beard standing on his left, and opened the lid as he said.

The white thin Taoist leaned close to the Ding furnace and inhaled hard, as if he was smelling the medicinal gas wafting out of the furnace. After three or two breaths, he instructed the velvet medicine boy: "Stop the lantern, come over with the lamp, so that the teacher can see it more clearly." ”

The hairy beard medicine boy answered "yes", took the lamp from the candlestick, lifted it and handed it to the white thin Taoist, and said respectfully: "Master, you take it!"

The white slender Taoist put the lamp on the edge of the Ding furnace, and bowed his body to look around the furnace, so as not to make any mistakes or omissions. After checking that everything was fine, he straightened up and said to the childish medicine boy behind him: "Stop the trench, take a measuring cup and scoop water." ”

The little medicine boy hurriedly brought a medicine box from the top of the medicine table, and took out a small porcelain measuring cup and two wide-mouth glass bottles. Seeing that the apprentice had prepared all the utensils, the white thin Taoist ordered: "Scoop in the nine measuring cups of nitrate!" Seeing that the little medicine boy was a little sluggish, he reprimanded: "The hands and feet are steady and sharp, don't miss the medicine!"

Zhi Yan bit his lower lip tightly, stabilized his hands and feet, and put all nine cups of nitrate water into the medicine pod.

"Take four more cups of red bile water and stir well!" the white thin Taoist ordered again. Zhi Kun picked up the medicine spoon next to the Ding furnace and stirred it evenly into the Ding. The white slender Taoist took a closer look, nodded "um", and then picked the highest one of the three medicine boys and said: "Stop, put three cups of alkaline water, seven coins of cordyceps dry powder, four and a half coins of clay、... ... ...、 two coins of red mercury!"

Sure enough, the most delicate work in this medicine refining was always entrusted to the most conscientious medicine boys. Zhi Qi is the oldest, he is close to adulthood, and he has been following the master for the longest time, and his hands, feet, and eyes all reveal a skillful sharpness. Take the dish, peel off, measure, and put into the ding in one go, without any jerky feeling. The white slender Taoist looked at it from the side, rarely showed a smile, and unconsciously bowed his head slightly. Seeing that the medicine had been completed, he took a probe to look at it, and said "um" again, and instructed, "Stir well, put a wet cloth on the lid of the lid!"

"Go to the salary of two percent, and replace it with beech charcoal!" the white thin Taoist commanded again. After listening to the master's words, the medicine boy called 'Zhiyuan' hurriedly ran to the southwest corner of the Danfang and brought a large basket full of gray-black beech charcoal.

The white thin Taoist circled around the Ding furnace three or four times, gently stroked his beard, and went to the Danfang.

"Yo, Zhan is the Taoist leader, but the liquid medicine has become it?" asked an old man about sixty years old who was walking briskly and smiled. Come to think of it, this old man had been waiting outside the Dan room before.

This white and thin Taoist is Qingxuan's second disciple, the first guest of Emperor Yonghua today, and Zhan is a Taoist. And this sturdy old man is the first confidant of Emperor Yonghua, Ni Juzheng, the leader of Dahua's internal officials.

Zhan Wei said with a smile: "It's not so fast, this bowl of stock solution has been boiled for more than two hours, and it is only then that it has been added, auxiliary liquid, and medicinal powder, and it still needs to be boiled on a low fire for half an hour. ”

"Yes, it's all up to the Taoist here. Ni Juzheng thanked him. After the ceremony, he said: "The emperor instructed me that whenever the Taoist chief has leisure here, he will go to his bedroom, thinking that he has something to inquire about." ”

Zhan Wei looked back at the Dan room, and saw the three apprentices standing honestly on the side of the Ding furnace, so he turned around and said Ni Juzheng: "Now that everything is done here, if the emperor is cheap, why don't I go to face the saint?"

Ni Juzheng said happily: "That's just right! If it weren't for the fear of mistaking your alchemy, the emperor would have already arrived here." Most of the emperors have been staying in the dormitory for a long time, and they can't sleep. If the Taoist goes a moment earlier, he will finish the emperor's heart-wrenching matter a moment earlier, and maybe he will have to rest a moment earlier. ”

Zhan Wei Taoist said "wait" to Ni Juzheng, then turned back to the Danfang and asked the three disciples a few words. The matter of controlling the fire was also explained, and there was nothing left in the Dan room to worry Zhan Wei, so he followed Ni Juzheng to the Palace of Heart Cultivation where Emperor Yonghua was sleeping.

Emperor Yonghua stayed awake all night, and his heart was really tormented.

Since taking the Yangsheng liquid refined by Qingxuan more than a year ago, Emperor Yonghua really felt much refreshed, and he really felt that he seemed to be more than ten years younger. At this point, Yu Dao's immortal technique became even more convinced, and he couldn't wait to take off his dragon robe and go to the True Martial Arts Temple on the spot to become a disciple of Qingxuan. It's a pity that he can't shirk this throne now, and Qing Xuan has no way of entering the palace to accompany him to cultivate, so he has to ask Zhan Wei to try out an elixir similar to Yangsheng liquid for himself. Unexpectedly, Zhan Wei's alchemy technique was so deep in Qingxuan's true inheritance, and he tried out the prescription in more than a year, and tonight is the time when the first furnace of medicinal liquid comes out. Emperor Yonghua couldn't watch from the sidelines, so how could he not be anxious? At this moment, he had never taken off his outer robe, and he had been patrolling back and forth in the Palace of Cultivating Hearts.

"Your Majesty, Chief Ni and Zhan Wei are here!" the little eunuch on duty at night came to report.

Qing Xuan raised his eyebrows and shouted, "Hey, it's finally here!"

"Excuse me! Excuse me!" Emperor Yonghua said hurriedly, "Zhan Wei, can the derivative liquid be refined?" The medicinal liquid refined by Zhan Wei is called the derivative liquid, and its effect is to maintain the balance of yin and yang qi in the body, so that the vitality in the body is not lost, so that the rejuvenation is rejuvenated.

Zhan Wei said with a smile: "The emperor is not in a hurry, the prescription has already been tried, there is no difference, you wait for it, and you can use the medicine in two minutes." ”

When Emperor Yonghua heard this, he kept grinding his palms, and said with a strong temperament: "Okay, okay, just wait for a while." ”

Zhan Wei saw that Emperor Yonghua was sitting uneasy, so he said: "Your Majesty, why don't I take this opportunity to explain this derivative liquid with you?"

"This is naturally the best!" Emperor Yonghua stroked his palms and laughed, and then led Zhan Wei to sit down at the offering table, with a look of expectation on his face.

Zhan Wei sat down, and said: "Master has passed on the prescription of this Yangsheng liquid to me, but this medicine is too powerful, and the emperor has already taken it once and categorically can't take it again." I split the medicinal properties of these more than 30 kinds of medicines, leaving only eleven herbs and preparing this derivative solution. It is said that this derivative liquid can be regarded as a defective product of Yangsheng liquid, and its medicinal properties are far inferior, but its advantage is that this medicinal liquid is mild, does not hurt the viscera, and can be used for a long time. The emperor takes one dose a day, and it is not difficult to stay in Yan for seven or eight years. ”

"Oh, seven or eight years!" Emperor Yonghua's excitement could not be suppressed, and he hurriedly stood up and asked.

"If you don't stop taking medicine, it will only be longer and not shorter!" Zhan Wei Zhengsedao, "The aging of people comes from the prosperity of yin energy in the body, and the gradual decline of yang energy." The ratio of the dispensing in this derivative liquid can make the positive medicinal power in the liquid be absorbed when the yin qi in the body is too heavy, and once the liver fire is too strong, the negative medicinal power in it will be absorbed. It makes people roughly maintain the balance of yin and yang, does not hurt yang, does not damage yin, and makes vitality not too depleted and not sluggish. This is the art of rejuvenating Changchun!"

Emperor Yonghua opened his mouth, listened fascinated, and his deep thoughts had flown beyond the clouds.

"Knock, knock!knock!" suddenly remembered the sound of the bronze bell signaling the time, but the time had come.

Emperor Yonghua came out of a dream from the fugue, suddenly reached out to grab Zhan Wei, and said tremblingly: "When will it be, let's go get the medicine!"

Zhan Wei had no choice, so he had to be dragged by him to the outside of the hall. When I arrived at the gate of the palace, I saw a large group of courtiers walking towards the Yangxin Palace, only to hear the big eunuch on duty whimpering and reporting: "Your Majesty, several princes, His Royal Highnesses and ministers were waiting in the outer courtyard early, saying that there was a report of something very urgent, and the servants did not dare to let them in because of the emperor's strict order, but the hour had come, and the servants really couldn't stop it!"

When Emperor Yonghua saw this battle, he naturally knew that something big must have happened, so he endured the direction of the Danfang, left two lines of turbid tears, and cried: "I am an idle person in the Daomen, but I am the emperor of a country!"