Chapter 3: Tong Ji
Because taking care of the medicine field is a very professional thing, if there is no capable person in this area, even if you open up a medicine field, it may eventually be abandoned due to poor care, so unless it is some large and medium-sized sects or families will open up medicine fields within the sect or family to find someone to take care of them, and the small sects or small families do not have this ability at all.
Take the Tong family as an example, the most powerful person in the pharmacy is just a low-level alchemist who has just stepped into the door of alchemy, and the rest of the people have nothing to do with the word alchemy, the low-level alchemist is an old man, and he only accepted one apprentice from Zhao Lan in his life, Zhao Lan has been with the old man for more than 20 years, and now he can only be regarded as a senior pharmacist.
Although the pharmacist deals with medicinal materials all day long, but compared with the Danshi, the understanding of medicinal materials can only be regarded as the surface, the Danshi practices a taste of the elixir, which may be mixed with hundreds of medicinal materials, if the characteristics of each medicinal material can not have a clear enough understanding, then it is impossible to become a Danshi, in contrast, the pharmacist is much simpler, as long as you know the properties of some commonly used medicinal materials in the world and can prepare most of the commonly used medicines.
However, the pharmacist is the pharmacist, and the Danshi is the Danshi, and the most obvious gap between the two is that the pharmacist dispenses medicine for mortals, while the Danshi dispenses medicine for immortal cultivators.
For example, a very ordinary pill may only help an immortal cultivator calm the chaotic aura in his body, but if it is used by a mortal, it may make him live a hundred years old, and even save a seriously ill patient who is hopeless in the eyes of the pharmacist.
This is the gap between the pharmacist and the danshi, the insurmountable gap!
Dongyang Continent is so vast and rich, naturally there are many alchemists, but because there are countless large and small sects and families on Dongyang Continent, if you look at it like this, these alchemists are not many, and it can even be said that there are very few.
According to the principle of resource allocation, these alchemists are naturally mostly gathered in those big sects and big families, similar to the Tong family, small and medium-sized families, naturally there are no decent alchemists, and it would be good to have a similar pharmacist in charge of the family.
There is no alchemist in charge, and it is common sense that there is no medicine field in the family, so some medicine children like Tong Chen are needed to go out to collect medicine every month, come back and hand it over to the family, and then the family will refine it into medicine and distribute it to the children of the clan at regular intervals every month.
Since coming to this world, Tong Chen has already gone out to collect medicine twice, so he is not unfamiliar with this matter.
After putting on his boots, he stood up, walked to the washing rack in the room, washed his face with water, and then picked up the towel on the shelf and carefully wiped his face clean.
Zhao Lan heard that he was going out to collect medicine for three days before returning, so he went to prepare for him to take things to bring when he went out, which was nothing more than the shoulder strap he carried when collecting medicine, as well as a medicine basket and some medicine collection tools.
The place where the medicine boy of the Tong family collects medicine is generally on several big mountains near Yuquan, there are no fierce beasts on those mountains, as long as the medicine boy acts cautiously on the mountain, he will basically not encounter any danger.
After washing, Tong Chen walked out of the room and played a set of palm techniques in the small courtyard, and his body quickly became hot.
Over the years, Tong Chen and his mother Zhao Lan have been living in the medicine garden, compared to his other brothers, the living environment of their mother and son is really not decent, the Tong family medicine garden is very large, but the place where people can really live is very small, only a row of stone houses at the back of the medicine garden, the medicine garden up to the old man Qian - that is, Zhao Lan's master, down to more than a dozen medicine children including Tong Chen live in this row of stone houses.
These stone houses are divided into many small rooms, each stone house is not very large, no more than 20 square meters, two years ago Tong Chen has been living in the same room with her mother, until a medicine boy went out to collect medicine and disappeared and never came back, then vacated a room for Tong Chen, until then, Tong Chen moved out of Zhao Lan's room and lived alone.
However, the events of two years ago have nothing to do with the current Tong Chen, after all, it has only been three months since this Tong Chen really came to this world.
After playing a set of palm techniques, Tong Chen was about to go to Zhao Lan's house to have some breakfast, but saw a figure coming out of a forest next to the stone house.
Tong Chen recognized at a glance that the person was one of his brothers in this world, Tong Ji, to be exact, his second brother Tong Ji, Tong Ji was the child born to Tong Ying and his second wife Wei Yao, one year older than Tong Chen, this was not the first time Tong Chen had seen his cheap brother, so he immediately recognized it after seeing someone.
According to the memory of Tong Chen, his brother is really not very good to him, although he knows that Tong Chen is his younger brother, but Tong Ji has never recognized him as a younger brother in his heart, every time he sees Tong Chen, he is either sneering or teasing, and usually encourages Tong Chen to help him do some shady things.
With those memories of Tong Chen in the past, the current Tong Chen naturally did not have any good impression of Tong Ji, seeing Tong Ji beckoning to him from afar, he didn't want to go over, but then he thought that if Tong Ji really wanted to find him, he couldn't hide from the next time even if he could hide this time, so he raised his feet and walked towards Tong Ji.
When Tong Chen walked in front of Tong Ji, Tong Ji felt for a moment that his "younger brother" looked a little different from before, but this thought only flashed in Tong Ji's mind, and he didn't stay long: "I said what are you doing slowly? Didn't you see me call you over?"
As soon as Tong Chen stood firm, the statistics were a complaint.
Although they are brothers born to the same father, Tong Ji and Tong Chen's appearance does not look like brothers, it may be that they usually eat too much delicious food, and their lives are more moisturized, Tong Ji's body is slightly fat, and his face is also round, in mortal words, he belongs to the kind of blessed appearance, while Tong Chen is completely the opposite, he has a thin body, a very pointed chin, and is relatively handsome.
"What's the matter?" Tong Chen didn't bother to talk nonsense with Tong Ji, and asked directly.
Seeing that Tong Chen was contrary to his previous submissive appearance, and actually used this tone to talk to himself, Tong Ji immediately felt very dissatisfied, but considering that he came secretly, he was afraid that he would be discovered after a long delay, so he temporarily suppressed his dissatisfaction, and said straightforwardly: "I have encountered a bottleneck in my cultivation in the past few days, you can get me a bottle of Qingyu in the Dan Pharmacy as soon as possible." ”
The clear jade dew in Tong Ji's mouth refers to a precious medicine that can enhance and stabilize low-level cultivation, which is made by mixing the flower dew of a variety of precious flowers, not to mention those precious medicinal raw materials, just talking about the production process, the Tong family has the ability to prepare this kind of medicine at present, only the old man Qian and Zhao Lan are the two, as soon as Tong Ji opened his mouth, he asked Tong Chen to help him steal this medicine, which was a little frustrating.