After the three-year training period, all the more than twenty or thirty surviving herb-picking boys, after the evaluation of the deputy hall master of the herb-picking hall, under the auspices of the herb-picking masters, slaughtered chickens and sacrificed to the gods, carried out the knife ceremony, and were officially promoted to the herb-picking apprentices of the herb-picking hall.

Ye Qin took a small knife symbolizing his surname from the hand of the pharmacist Wang and carefully stored it close to him. With this knife, it also means that he has become a teacher and is qualified to read or go out to collect medicine in a group.

Subsequently, Deputy Hall Master Ji announced the rules that medicine picking apprentices must abide by: after becoming medicine picking apprentices, the medicinal materials collected must be handed over to the medicine collection hall, and then the appraiser will evaluate the value of the medicinal materials, and will be rewarded according to five percent of the price of the herbs.

There is a minimum amount of herbs to be collected each month - five silver leaves.

(This refers to the money that can be rewarded by the apprentice after collecting the medicine, not the value of the herb itself.) The value of medicinal herbs far exceeds this number. The calculations that follow are usually the same as the reward money, unless otherwise specified. In the Kingdom of Wu, a hundred copper coins can be exchanged for a silver leaf, and a hundred silver leaves can be exchanged for a gold leaf. ）

If the minimum limit is not reached for two consecutive months, they will be punished, and the reward amount will be reduced at the least, and the punishment court will be punished at the worst.

If there are a lot of medicinal materials collected in the mountain every time, the Medicine Picking Hall will gradually increase the reward amount by 6 to 10 percent, and even reward some extremely precious medicines refined by the Medicine Collecting Hall, which can save your life at a critical time. If the reward amount exceeds 10%, you can be promoted to Herb Picker, and at that time, the reward will be even higher, 10% to 20%. When you reach 20 percent, you are eligible to be promoted to herb picker.

The apprentices were very pleased.

In the past, when I went out to collect medicine with the medicine picker, I could only get a hard reward of one or two hundred copper coins every month. In the future, when you go out to collect medicines, the price is assessed according to the value of the herbs collected, and the income you get will definitely be far higher than before, at least 500 copper coins (five silver leaves).

With this stimulus, the teenagers who had just been promoted to the apprenticeship of collecting medicine were anxious to collect medicine.

Yang Yicheng, Ye Qin, Feng Xiao, Qian Ruoxiu, Sun Ying and other five brothers also made an appointment to form a group to collect medicine, and they took care of each other on the way.

Before leaving, Ye Qin went to the Yang family's iron shop and said goodbye to Cheng Da Niu. Cheng Da Niu has been playing iron with Father Yang for three years, and his muscles have become quite strong, and he is no longer like the weak child at the beginning, who can earn a little money by striking iron every month, at least to support himself.

Ye Qin was relieved that even if he was not there, Da Niu would be able to live well, so that he could go into the mountains to collect medicine with confidence.

Subsequently, the five people left the county seat and went to the deep mountains and old forests for hundreds of miles to collect medicine.

Still according to their previous team model, Ye Qin walked in the middle with the herb basket on his back and the weight of everyone. Yang Yicheng opened the way in front, Sun Ying responded on the side, and Qian Ruoxiu and Ye Qin walked together to expel insects and ants. Feng Xiao, on the other hand, wandered around for hundreds of steps, picking up some low-value herbs.

Without that Xie Ze medicine picker, there was no need to worry about being sent to risk death to collect medicine, they seemed very relaxed and comfortable along the way, talking and laughing, and would not go out of their way to venture to the dangerous dangerous peak canyon.

For Ye Qin, carrying weights is already a very easy job. After practicing for more than three years, the prelude of "Sitting and Forgetting Sutra" has gradually strengthened the trace of aura in his body by several points, and the physical strength he recovers has doubled each time. In the past three years, he has made great progress in physical strength, and his spirit is quite sufficient.

For more than ten days, they were like playing in the mountains and rivers, somewhat casual.

Ye Qin was a little worried.

Every night, he calculates the value of the herbs in the herb basket. Calculating the value of medicinal materials is one of the most basic abilities of a medicine picker.

Because the people don't take medicine seriously, there are not many medicinal materials collected so far. He calculated carefully, and the average score of the five people, that is, each person had more than one silver leaf, which was far from the minimum limit of five silver leaves. But in terms of time, a third of the month has passed.

As soon as Ye Qin told everyone about the situation, Yang Yicheng, Feng Xiao and others suddenly jumped in shock, and Qian Ruoxiu and Sun Ying also showed shocked faces.

This is no small matter.

If you don't complete the task in the first month, the next month will be in danger. The punishment of the Medicine Collecting Hall is not for jokes. They had seen the bloody human skins in the torture chambers, the bloody people whose bones had been cramped and pulled out, and the disciples who had been punished for breaking certain rules. Some of them failed to complete the task, some of them sold the collected medicinal materials to others without permission, and some of them were captured by the rebels.

The casual atmosphere disappeared in an instant, and in the next few days, they had to hurry to some places where some canyons and cliffs were dangerous, but there might be precious medicinal herbs, and they had to collect as many herbs as possible.

In these dangerous places, the first to be sent to the field was Feng Xiao. Because his light skills are the best, his skills are the most flexible and agile, and he is the most sure of picking the medicinal herbs on the cliff.

Feng Xiao complained quite dissatisfied, but the other four unanimously asked him to go, and he couldn't help but go.

In this way, the medicinal materials in the herbal basket that Ye Qin was carrying began to increase gradually. When the time was almost a month, they had to leave the mountains and rush back to the county seat of Zhuqi. By the way, on the way back, I picked some low-value herbs in the wilderness and used them to make up the numbers.

Despite this, when they were about to arrive at the county seat, the five people poured out all the medicinal materials in the herbal basket, divided them into five piles, and finally carefully liquidated them, and the herb basket contained about twenty-one medicinal materials with a little more than silver leaves. Even if the estimated price is higher, it is at most twenty-two silver leaves, and at least three silver leaf herbs are missing.

The five men looked at each other.

In other words, only one or two people can complete the medicine collection task, and the remaining three will definitely not complete the medicine collection task this month.

Who takes five silver leaf herbs, and who takes four silver leaf herbs?

"I'm going to take five silver leaves. At least half of the valuable herbs in it were picked by me!"

Feng Xiao held back for a while, and then asked for five silver leaf herbs.

The crowd was silent.

Feng Xiao took the biggest risk, and if he wanted to take five silver leaves, they had no opinion.

But for the rest, who takes a little more?

Yang Yicheng, Qian Ruoxiu, and Sun Ying all have opinions. Yang Yicheng said that he drove out jackals, tigers and leopards along the way, and he wanted to take a little more when he saw the mountains and opened the way. Qian Ruoxiu said that she caught a lot of insect and snake medicinal materials on the way, and many of the medicinal materials were found by her, and she wanted to take a little more. Sun Ying said that she killed a lot of beasts, why did she want to score less?

It is related to whether this month's medicine collection task can be completed, but no one is willing to give in easily.

Ye Qin was just on the sidelines, watching silently. Because he has hardly ever picked herbs, carrying a basket of herbs is not much of a "contribution". He didn't want to join this argument for the sake of that little herb.

He watched the three of them arguing back and forth, and suddenly a trace of gloom suddenly appeared in his heart. Even though they are brothers and sisters, they have been united in order to save their lives for three years, but in the face of Myanmar's cruel interests, they have also quarreled.

Although it is convenient for several people to go together to collect medicine, it is easy to hurt their feelings for whether it is fair to divide the medicine.

Perhaps, it's time to consider going alone to collect medicine.

He is not alone in this idea.

After returning to the county town medicine collection hall, all the medicinal materials were sent to the medicine appraisal office in the inner hall to count the value of the medicinal materials, and Ye Qin, Yang Yicheng, Qian Ruoxiu, and Sun Ying only collected four silver leaves. Because it was the first month, each person was punished with only ten lashes, and he was also deducted with one silver leaf, and only three silver leaves were issued.

Feng Xiaoyi was exempted from punishment because he collected enough medicine and was rewarded with five silver leaves.

The five returned to the stone house where they lived.

Feng Xiao was the first to propose to break up the group, and he consciously went to collect herbs by himself, so that he could collect more herbs without being dragged down by others.

Yang Yicheng looked at Feng Xiao coldly, and snorted coldly: "You only learned light skills, if you meet a jackal, I will see how you can protect yourself!"

Feng Xiao didn't care: "When I'm stupid, I can't beat me, can't I run? With my light skills, what jackal can catch up with me?"

Yang Yicheng didn't say anything more, he also decided to go to collect medicine alone, with his foreign kung fu of tearing wolves and splitting tigers, he couldn't go anywhere.

After two days, when they went to collect medicine again, the five of them each packed their bags and went their separate ways.

Qian Ruoxiu and Sun Ying decided to go to collect medicine together, and before leaving, they also asked Ye Qin if he was going with them, and it was better to take care of them if there were many people. Looking at their expressions, they were sympathetic to Ye Qin. Because Ye Qin is the weakest of the five, he wants to use force without force, and he wants light work without light work, but he has enough physical strength and has been walking for a long time. They wanted to bring Ye Qin, most of them out of sympathy.

Ye Qin smiled bitterly and shook his head lightly. If the three of them go, when it comes to dispensing medicine, he is still at the bottom. He decided to go alone and try his luck.

Moreover, Ye Qin also had a sense of arrogance in his heart, not believing that he would be much worse than the other four.

In fact, in the past, he followed Xie Ze as a medicine picker, and he followed Xie Ze for five steps for three years, and he memorized Xie Ze's every move in the process of observing and collecting medicine, and learned the most practical skills. In contrast, Yang, Feng, Qian, and Sun learned a lot less because they were scattered.