The two of them walked through several abandoned medicine gardens one after another. Soon came to the front of the stone house. It was a four-row three-room house, the roof had long since collapsed, and the doors and windows on the walls had long since been decayed by the years, or for some other reason. Directly in front of the house was a flat clearing, but now it was barren and miserable, and the waist-deep grass was covered with the footprints and dung of all kinds of wild beasts. On the left side of the house is a small bamboo garden, although the area is not large, but the bamboo inside is vigorous and dense. On the right side there is a clear spring, and the water flows silently from the spring and gathers into a small pond not far ahead. Walking into Xiao Tan, I fixed my eyes and took a closer look, only to see that the pool of water was crystal clear, and the fish and gravel were vivid. There are not many types of fish swimming in the pool, and they are not particularly rare species, and they are not big, and the largest is only three or four catties.

Zuo Liancheng easily broke off a branch with leaves from the miscellaneous tree in front of the house, and cleaned up the cobwebs wrapped around the doors and windows one by one, and then the two walked into the house one after another. The room is also dilapidated, the middle part may be the reception hall, which is also relatively large, and the houses on both sides may be used for living, and the stone beds and stone benches inside are still clearly recognizable, but they are all covered with thick dust. With the roof collapsed and the absence of doors and windows, birds and animals can come and go as they please, so that the entire ground is littered with rubble and dung, wet and dry droppings left behind by animals. Because of the age, Zuo Liancheng has not been able to find even the slightest residue of wood in it, perhaps the wood was not used at all when the house was built, or perhaps although wood was used, the wood has decayed and disappeared with the passage of time.

Zuo Liancheng squatted on the ground, bent down to pick up a relatively intact tile from the ground, and carefully examined it. When the people of their tribe build their houses, most of them use a kind of thatch, a local specialty, to build the roof, and rarely use tiles, and even if they do, the size and material of the tiles used are very different from what they see in front of them. The tiles of the tribe are made of locally produced clay and fired from a yellow clay, and the whole tile has a grayish-black color. But the tiles in front of me are not only much longer than the common tiles in the tribe, not only the whole tile shows a golden luster, but also the surface of the tiles is very smooth, and the hand touches it, slippery, I don't know what method the owner of this house used at that time, such a smooth tile covers the roof, is it not afraid that it will slide down by itself?

"The previous owner of this house was certainly not from our nearby tribe. Look at the stone houses and tiles, which have never been used by the tribes in our vicinity. Zuo Liancheng pondered for a while and then continued, "The firing level of this tile is obviously much higher than ours. ”

"You're right, you see that this house, although it is made of stone, the structure of this house and the technology of building the walls are obviously more advanced than those of our tribal craftsmen. Looking at everything in front of her, Josia was equally shocked.

"Let's look again and see if there's anything else in this house. Zuo Liancheng threw away the tiles in his hand, patted the dust on his hands, stood up, and walked towards the stone bed leaning against the wall.

Just when Zuo Liancheng was about to walk to the bed, he suddenly tripped over something under his feet, and because he didn't pay attention for a while, his whole body suddenly lost his center of gravity and fell to the ground suddenly. In a panic, Zuo Liancheng hurriedly stretched out his hands, trying to grab the stones at the head of the bed so that he would not fall to the ground. But just when Liancheng grabbed his hands tightly, he was about to use his strength to stabilize his body. The stone in his hand suddenly turned, and the entire ground at the head of the bed suddenly collapsed down along with Zuo Liancheng.

Caught off guard, Zuo Liancheng's whole person fell to the ground of the cave at once, and the tiles and various animal feces and other debris that fell down with him all piled up on his body at once, almost burying his whole person in it.

It took a lot of effort for Zuo Liancheng to endure the pain in his body and crawl out of the rubble. At this time, his wife's anxious voice also came to his ears: "Dad, what's wrong with you? Are you okay?"

"I'm fine. There's a basement here, so come down and take a look. Zuo Liancheng shouted at Josia, who was still standing on it.

Josia walked to the head of the bed and looked into the hole, and saw that her husband had risen from the rubble, and knowing that he was all right, a pounding heart also settled. But looking at her husband's disgraced and embarrassed appearance, he couldn't hold back for a while, and giggled, "Why is it always you who are unlucky today, just now I fell at the foot of the mountain and fell on all fours, and now it is even worse, and I am about to become a beggar who asks for food." ”

"Don't laugh at me. Come up and take a look, there's a lot of stuff in there. Zuo Liancheng didn't care about his wife's teasing, and when he saw that his wife was still standing on it and looked at him in a daze, he hurriedly urged.

"Don't you have a ladder? just jump down?" asked Josia as she stopped laughing and looked at her husband who was still below, frowning.

"There's no ladder down here, it's not high anyway, so you can jump down. Zuo Liancheng knows his wife's skills, although this stone room is more than a zhang high from the top, but this height is not difficult for his wife who knows martial arts.

Josia didn't say much anymore, and landed lightly at the entrance of the cave to Zuo Liancheng's side.

As Zuo Liancheng said, there are really not a few things in this basement. Seven or eight wooden shelves are neatly placed around the stone chamber, which is about three or four zhang square, and the shelves are full of large and small altars and jars of different shapes and jade bottles of different colors.

"It's a pharmacy. The shelves must have been filled with containers for medicines. After Zuo Liancheng saw that his wife had also come down, he pointed to the shelf by the wall and said.

"Let's go and see, maybe we'll find some kind of panacea here. Josia looked at the neat shelves around her and said excitedly.

"yes, let's check it well, there are so many samples on this shelf, there must be a lot of good things. ”

The two of them stopped talking, and looked at the vials on the shelves one by one. After some careful inspection, the two really gained a lot. Although many of the jars were empty, there was nothing in them. It is those jars and jars that contain things, and the medicinal materials in them are either moldy or spoiled, and basically have no value. But most of the large and small pills contained in the jade bottle were very well preserved. As a pill pharmacist, Zuo Liancheng certainly knew what was going on. Using jade as a medicine bottle not only has better sealing performance than a medicine bottle fired with clay, but also has a fresh-keeping effect, and it is the best to store the elixir.

But what made Zuo Liancheng feel depressed was that as a third-level pill pharmacist, it stands to reason that he should be very familiar with all kinds of common pills. But in front of him, he could only recognize one or two of the pills stored in these jade bottles. Although these jade screens are engraved with words, they should introduce the names and usages of the pills stored inside. But Zuo Liancheng couldn't recognize a single word of these words.

"Looks like we're having a lot of fun. Looking at the pile of large and small jade bottles placed in front of him, Zuo Liancheng smiled bitterly, shook his head helplessly, and then sighed, and said very regretfully.

"Not necessarily, since there are words on it. Even if we don't know each other, there will always be people who recognize us. Josia replied to her husband's words as she removed a foot-long box from the shelf. "I'll see what's in this box. Josia said as she broke the clasp with her hand. "Ouch, it hurts!" José had just opened the box through a crack, when suddenly there was a huge pain in her fingers, and when she looked closely, her thumb seemed to have been burned by fire, and a bright red mark appeared on it, and the fire burned and hurt.

Zuo Liancheng heard his wife's exclamation, quickly put down the jade bottle in his hand, ran over, and saw that his wife was blowing on his fingers vigorously at this time, and his expression was very painful, so he quickly grabbed his wife's jade hand and put it in front of his eyes to take a closer look, only to see that the thumb and finger of his wife's right hand were already red at this time, as if they had been burned by fire. "What's wrong with your hands??

"It's so strange that I had just opened a crack in the box, and before I could see what was inside, a red light came out of it, and hit my hand, and my hand became like this. After her husband had given her good medicine, Josia finally felt better, so she pointed to the wooden box in front of her and spoke.

"I'll see. Zuo Liancheng picked up the wooden box that Gangqiao Thea had seen and looked at it carefully. I saw that this wooden box is about one foot long, about eight inches wide, and about three inches thick, and it is engraved with simple patterns, such as clouds and dragons, full of ancient meaning. But when he tried to open it, he couldn't open it, and whether he broke it with his hand or slashed it with his sword, the wooden box was like a piece of iron, unscathed.

"We'll put it away and take it home and study it later. There's another box here, see if you can open it?" Zuo Liancheng studied for a while, and saw that he couldn't find a way to open the box for a while, so he put this wooden box into the package and picked up another box.