o(∩_∩)o, good morning, get up and learn the skills of collecting medicine.

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Before dawn, the children in the small courtyard were shouted by several young men in brocade clothes, and gathered in a compound to carry out the entrance ceremony of joining the medicine collection hall.

There were a total of more than 40 medicine boys in the outer hall wearing blue coarse cloth clothes, and five medicine children in the inner hall wearing white cloth clothes, and the children were lined up in several rows on the flat ground, very nervous.

Ye Qin was no exception, slightly uneasy in his heart.

He found that there were two big names in the medicine collection hall standing in the compound.

One of them was not tall, very fat, and looked exactly like a wealthy businessman, with his hands behind his back, and looked at the boys with a smile. Another slender man in his forties and fifties in a cyan robe, with his hands behind his back, his expression was indifferent, his eyes were like lightning, and no one in the audience dared to look at him.

Manager Zhang, as well as dozens of pharmacists and pharmacists in the two halls, including Wang Cai, were very restrained in front of those two big men and did not dare to say much.

Manager Zhang introduced to the boys, the man who looked like a rich businessman was the deputy hall master of the inner hall, and the medicine collection hall sat in the second transaction. And the thin man is the deputy hall master of the outer hall, and the medicine collection hall sits in the third position.

And the legendary hall master Li Dashan did not appear at the ceremony.

Mr. Zhang Da also belongs to the senior steward level, but he is only in charge of some chores in the hall. He took care of many chores in the church.

The remaining dozens of pharmacists and pharmacists are specially responsible for leading apprentices and training pharmacists and pharmacists.

Manager Zhang finished introducing the big people present, and then began the entrance ceremony.

All the medicine picking boys stepped forward, dripping blood in the blood basin at the front one by one, half-kneeling under the banner of the Medicine King Gang, and taking the most common blood oath in the Jianghu Gang, swearing that they would never betray the Medicine King Gang, never betray the Medicine Collecting Hall, and signed a lifelong contract to serve the Medicine King Gang for the rest of their lives.

This blood-dripping ritual made the boys excited, and also made them feel that they had become people in the rivers and lakes for the first time.

Deputy Hall Master Ma and Deputy Hall Master Ji did not stay for long, and after the entrance ceremony was over, they told all the pharmacists to leave immediately. Chief Manager Zhang left after the two deputy hall masters. Some of the pharmacists also left.

In the end, there were only ten pharmacists and five pharmacists left, officially teaching the boys the skills of the medicine collection hall.

Each herb collector will bring four to five medicine pickers.

The other five pharmacists each brought only one pharmaceutical boy in a white coarse cloth coat.

Ye Qin, Yang Yicheng, Feng Xiao, Qian Ruoxiu, Sun Ying, five children, naturally followed Wang Cai. Ye Qin and Yang Yicheng were a little strange, and looked at the boys in white cloth from time to time, they were a little different from them, but they couldn't tell what was different.

Pharmacist Wang Cai took his hand and said coldly.

"Don't look at it more, they are the pharmaceutical boys in the inner hall, and they will either become pharmacists in the future, or they will stay in the store all the time, and they don't need to go out to collect medicines, they are here to enjoy the blessings. You are the medicine picking boys in the outer hall, you need to take your life to go out to collect medicine, you are here to fight for your life, it's as simple as that. You are now my Wang Hong's disciples, and when you see these disciples of the inner hall in the future, don't make trouble for me, it's not a joke to cause trouble. ”

Ye Qin and the five of them hurriedly lowered their heads to listen to the training.

Subsequently, Pharmacist Wang began to explain to them the content of training for a qualified medicine picker, as well as some things that need to be paid attention to.

There are surprisingly many skills to be learned by the children of the Medicine Harvesting Hall: literacy, arithmetic, medicine identification, medicine collection, survival in the wild, emergency treatment in the wild, insect repellent and fighting beasts, traps, camouflage in the wild, swords, bows, flying ropes, basic external skills, and basic internal skills, adding up to no less than ten types.

The variety is astonishing.

You must know that ordinary rural medicine pickers can at most distinguish and collect medicines, and it is enough to collect medicines in some undangerous wilderness.

But the Medicine Picking Hall is different, it is a hall under the help of the Medicine King.

The Yaowang Gang is the fifth largest Jianghu gang in Pingzhou, with strong strength. The main hall is in the capital of Pingzhou, and all counties have branch halls. The disciples of such a big gang are often involved in some vicious fights in the rivers and lakes, and it is completely impossible for the disciples in the gang to not know martial arts. Therefore, even the lowest-level beginner medicine picking boy must learn external and internal skills.

Moreover, you need to enter the dangerous deep mountains and valleys to collect the medicinal materials that have been medicinal for decades or hundreds of years, and you naturally need to learn a lot of skills.

Literacy and arithmetic - the medicinal recipes of herbs are all written down, and if you can't read and do arithmetic, you can't memorize thousands of medicinal herbs.

Identification of medicines - It is necessary to identify up to 1,000 different poisonous herbs, therapeutic herbs, and rare herbs. Whether it is a poisonous herb or a non-poisonous medicinal herb, it must be collected. Medicinal herbs, wood herbs, insect herbs, snake herbs, stone herbs, and even the fur and bones of wild beasts such as tigers and wolves. Identify the name, type, and surname of known medicinal materials. It is even necessary to identify the grade and surname of some unknown medicinal materials to see if there is any value in collecting. As long as you can sell it for money, you can pick any medicinal herb. An experienced herb picker must be able to spot valuable herbs at a glance from a great distance.

Herb Harvesting - In order to ensure that the maximum medicinal power of herbs is not lost, herb pickers need to master specialized herb harvesting techniques. Improper collection of medicine will lead to failure of drug collection. There are often some low-level apprentices who collect herbs because of their lack of experience, and make mistakes when collecting some high-level herbs, which damages the medicinal power.

Survival in the wild, emergency treatment in the wild, insect repellent and fighting beasts - needless to say, going into the mountains to collect medicines, usually the time of the last month and the last year, is sure to learn to survive in the wild for a long time, prevent insects and ants, and heal, these aspects are essential.

Trap technique, field camouflage technique, sword bow zipline, basic external strength, basic internal strength mental method - these are martial arts combat skills, but they have little to do with medicine collection, mainly to protect their own safety, used to deal with fierce beasts in the wild, and even people in the rivers and lakes. In addition, some precious medicinal materials are often guarded by fierce beasts, and they cannot be collected at all without killing them. Traps, camouflage are very practical. And if you collect precious medicinal materials, you are likely to be robbed by thieves and bandits on the way. There are a lot of bandits in Pingzhou, and fighting with thieves is also indispensable. The disciples of the Medicine King Gang of the Jianghu Sect, if they can't even beat ordinary thieves, then they will laugh and be generous.

Fortunately, Ye Qin and the others don't know anything about these now, but they don't feel that there are many things they need to learn at all.

The entire training period for children lasts for six months.

During this period, the Medicine Collector will not give any money to the children, but will only provide food. There are brown rice, greens, good performance and a small amount of meat. If the named boy behaves badly, he is likely to be expelled.

When the six-month "training period" is over, the three-year "training period" begins, and the herb pickers will follow the herb pickers up the mountain to collect medicines. The herb picker will teach them how to use the skills they have learned in the field. At this time, if you perform well, you can get a small amount of money reward.

At the end of the three-year training period in which the herb picker goes out to collect herbs with the herb picker, he can be promoted to become a medicine picker apprentice. At this time, there is no longer a need to follow the herb picker to collect medicine, you can read Li to go out to collect medicine to earn money, the more valuable the herbs you collect, the higher the reward you get.

After seven or eight years, the apprentices who perform well will be promoted to the position of herb pickers, and they can take new herb pickers up the mountain to collect medicines.

After a few decades, it is not impossible for the herb picker to accumulate enough contributions to the herb collection hall to be promoted to the medicine collector and become an important figure in the hall like Wang Yao. You must know that the status of a medicine collector is extremely high in the medicine collection hall, and he has money, power and status, except for a few people such as the hall master and deputy hall master, he doesn't need to look at the eyes of others. In Zhuqi County, he is also a very famous person.

After Pharmacist Wang Cai finished talking about this, Ye Qin, Yang Yicheng, Feng Xiao and others almost all showed fanatical eyes and clenched their fists. Such a bright prospect is enough to make them desperate.

Seeing the excitement on their little faces, Pharmacist Wang Cai secretly sneered: "Pharmacists' status is indeed high, but the premise is that you have the life to live until that day." The medicine picker dies for life, but it's not for fun. There are thousands of disciples in the entire medicine collection hall, and they are only a few dozen pharmacists.

He would not have said these words.