Chapter 3 Selling Medicines
Xu Mo stared at the water and remained motionless, his original relaxed and happy mood was gone.
Ten minutes later, he smiled at himself, in fact, with the experience of his previous life, it is not difficult for him to realize that the ability of the mirage consumes not only the spirit, but also overdraws his life, but he has no choice before, but he has a lot to do in the future, and unlike the previous life, his body has begun to decline when he found the problem, and now his body is in the growth stage, and he still has a chance to make up for it.
He picked himself up and prepared to descend the mountain.
In the next few days, he was busy, fishing and catching animals, smoking fish and bacon, collecting kudzu and potato roots to make dry food, collecting herbs he encountered, and dyeing his hair black with some medicine, and before leaving, he made a sumptuous meal: a golden roasted leg of mutton, two white and tender lake fish steamed in an underground smoldering oven, a plate of lake algae salad vegetables, a bowl of lake shellfish and shrimp "lake fresh soup", and the staple food is bread baked with dried fruit puree as filling and hybrid powder as noodles.
A man and a beast sat on the ground, eating and drinking with their stomachs open.
After eating and drinking, Xu Mo put the food prepared on his back, put the black ball into a cage made of reed leaves, and carried it down the mountain - now that the black ball was almost inseparable from him, he naturally wanted to take it with him.
It didn't take long for him to notice a problem, nothing else, it was the black ball acting agitated in the cage, constantly clutching the cage and making squeaky sounds.
In order to make it comfortable, he made the cage made of rattan and rabbit skin underneath.
Seeing that he couldn't appease it, he was a little sad, thinking that it didn't want to leave the environment he was used to, so he opened the cage and released it.
After it was released, it really stopped screaming, but as soon as Xu Mo left, it moved its short limbs and followed it with some amusement, and as soon as he stopped, it grabbed his trouser leg and climbed up.
Xu Mo was suddenly overjoyed, holding it with his hand, it moved its nose and sniffed, and stopped screaming, it turned out that it was not that he didn't like him, but he didn't like the cage, which made him sad in vain.
He gently stroked its little nose with his hand, and walked down the hill with easy steps.
Relaxed, but cautious when he hurried, he slowed down once he spotted the beast's tracks, he didn't want to use the mirage abilities anymore, and he didn't want to run into anyone else - he didn't know if Baicaoju had given up chasing him, but if he didn't leave a trace, he wouldn't leave a trail.
It took him six days to descend to the foot of the mountain, and after a day's walk he came across the first human village, and he continued on his way without alarming them, and after half a day he came to a relatively large town.
He knew that there would be more and more people behind him, and in order not to attract attention, he should also change into normal clothes - there were no conditions on the mountain, he could only wrap all kinds of animal skins around his body, although he kept warm, but after all, it was not serious clothes.
After nightfall, he hid in the only tailor's house in the town, and used the herbs at hand to make a requiem incense, and when he heard the sound of snoring in the house, he went into the room where the clothes were kept, picked out a few good clothes that he could wear, and took them away, and before leaving, he deliberately threw a small thirty-year-old mountain ginseng on the ground.
The price of this ginseng will never be lower than the price of clothes, so that the tailor will make a profit, and he will not make a noise when he finds that he has lost his clothes, and the ginseng thrown on the ground will also be considered to have accidentally fallen from his body when the mountain guest stole clothes, and Xu Mo will be able to keep his whereabouts as much as possible without being leaked.
After choosing his clothes, he went around to the field and spent two days in Qing'an County, the county seat eighty miles away.
He almost didn't stop along the way, because he felt that it was too close to Thundering Mountain or unsafe, and that it was too remote, and he wanted to go to a larger city, where there was more information and resources, and to achieve this, he urgently needed the most important thing in human society: money.
He found an abandoned ruined temple outside the city and rested for a while, and then he entered the city with a group of people, and with clean and tidy clothes, the guards who were huddled in the city gate tower did not check him.
After nightfall, he sneaked into the house outside Xie Yuan in the east of the city.
Xie Yuanwai is the leading merchant in the entire Qing'an County, Xu Mo wants to get the money as soon as possible, so he targets him - of course, he is not here to steal money, the process of stealing is dangerous, and there will be big trouble afterwards, which is completely inconsistent with the principle of keeping a low profile, he has a better, safer and more hidden way.
On the way here, he heard that Xie Yuanwai had just accepted the ninth concubine at the age of seventy, and he thought of the way to get money: to say that the easiest way to make money in the world, a woman's face and a man's kidney must be among them, for Xu Mo, he deliberately wrote down hundreds of prescriptions in the two years he lived in Baicao, and it was not difficult to use the herbs collected from the mountains to prepare a pair of aphrodisiac and kidney medicines.
Before sneaking in, he had already observed the terrain of this five-entry mansion through the big trees outside, with the help of dogs and mushrooms, coupled with careful observation, he found the room where Xie Yuanwai was without danger.
Gently pushing the door and dodging in, I saw Xie Yuanwai himself, I saw the other party sitting on a chair, with tall bones, looking quite tough, but his mind was tired, the bags under his eyes were loose, the circles under his eyes were black, and his face was yellow.
Hearing the movement, Xie Yuanwai glanced up, but he didn't notice Xu Mo standing on the vase holder.
After observing for a while, Xu Mo said directly: "I have a few elixirs refined by my master here, do you want them?"
"Who?!"
Xie Yuanwai was startled, looked up, and saw Xu Mo covering his face, only revealing a pair of eyes, and he subconsciously said, "Who are you?
Xu Hei had experience in his previous life, and knew that the more he talked, the easier it was to go wrong, so he repeated: "I have a few elixirs refined by my family master here, do you want them?"
"Elixir?"
Xie Yuanwai's face relaxed slightly, and then asked, "Dare to ask who the Ling Master is? I am very familiar with the Taoist temples in the city and outside the mountain, so I don't know where the Ling Master is practicing?"
Xu Mo has rich experience in negotiation, so naturally he will not enter the rhythm of the other party, his expression remains unchanged, he glanced at him lightly, and said: "Don't ask more if you shouldn't ask, if you want an elixir, you can try one pill, I have half an hour, you can wait here for a while." ”
As he spoke, he took out a wax pill and picked it with his thumb, and the pill bounced towards the other party.
Xie Yuan didn't care about speaking, so he quickly reached out to catch the wax pill, and looked at the light, only to see that the wax pill was the size of a lotus seed, with a smooth and delicate appearance, and no flaws-to promote goods, Xu Mo would naturally do a good job of packaging.
This thought was not in vain, Xie Yuanwai's attention was attracted to the wax pill, and then he carefully scratched it with his fingernail, pinched it gently, and dropped a vermilion pill from it, put it under his nose and sniffed it, he couldn't distinguish other medicines, but for him who still accepts concubines at this age, tonic medicine is usually indispensable, and the smell of ginseng can naturally be smelled, and judging from his experience, the year of ginseng in it is not low!
Based on this alone, he knew that this medicine would not be a fake medicine taken out by charlatans, thinking that Xu Mo said that it was only half an hour, he hesitated a little and took it.
After taking the medicine, he looked at Xu Mo and wanted to know more, if this was really an elixir, he naturally wanted to buy it again in the future.
Xu Mo was thinking about another question, since he had never seen the use of this medicine, and he didn't know how effective it was, he was ready to add another insurance, so he said: "The medicinal materials used by the family master when refining medicine are all of the highest quality, and it is not easy to restrain them, so let me pass you on a method of taking medicine!"
Xie Yuanwai couldn't ask for it, and said in surprise: "There is little master Lao!"
Xu Mo said solemnly: "The tongue is against the upper jaw, the fists are clenched in the door, and they tremble up and down as they walk......"
This is a technique he learned in his previous life to nourish the kidneys and generate yang energy, and when he saw that the other party was obviously in contact for the first time, he said it with confidence.
After Xie Yuanwai followed his method, he slowly felt that his waist was slowly warming and getting hotter, just like making a small stove, and then a stream of heat rushed to his head, fine sweat appeared on his forehead, and his mind was much clearer, he couldn't help but be overjoyed, and his eyes when he looked at Xu Mo became eager.
Half an hour later, Xu Mo came out of the backyard of Xie's house with a total of 1,000 taels of silver tickets, carefully observed and quickly disappeared into the street.