Zhou Xiuchun walked out of the medical hall, walked all the way to the east, walked about three miles, and arrived at the foot of a barren mountain outside the county seat.

Seeing that there was no one left and right, Zhou Xiuchun's heart moved, and the medicine box in his hand disappeared out of thin air.

Touching the unpretentious iron ring on the ring finger of his right hand, Zhou Xiuchun showed a smile.

To say that since the fight has traveled these days, it really depends on this thing.

This ring can barely be regarded as a space ring, the space that can be used to store items is pitifully small, and its main use is still its invincible "alchemy" function.

Zhou Xiuchun couldn't say how he figured out the function of this ring, it was an instinct anyway.

In the past few months, Zhou Xiuchun has relied on this ring to refine a total of five kinds of pills. Rejuvenation Pill, Jinchuang Medicine, Strength Pill, Detoxification Pill and Dragon Tiger Pill.

Rejuvenation pill cures diseases, from small colds to large to various severe and advanced stages, one is effective, two are cured, and it is magical. If he can travel back in time, Zhou Xiuchun estimates that he will become the richest man in the world in the shortest ten years.

Jinchuang medicine treats iron injuries, Zhou Xiuchun used it for the gangsters who broke their bones, and the effect is wonderful, the gangsters who have obviously had comminuted fractures, after a medicine goes down, they can jump around the next day.

The use of the strong pill is relatively powerful, it is simply a copy of the stimulant, with the help of this thing, the underworld forces led by Zhu Tousan in Changqing County already have the intention of expanding to the neighboring counties.

The detoxification pill is as the name suggests, anyway, now Zhou Xiuchun prescribes medicine to people every day, which is basically a rejuvenation pill plus an antidote pill, no matter what mess he has, eat two to ensure that it will be effective in minutes.

As for the last kind of Dragon Tiger Pill-

"Alas......" Zhou Xiuchun, who was standing at the foot of the mountain, sighed, "There is no woman, no matter how good the medicine is, it is useless......"

While sighing, Zhou Xiuchun walked into the mountains and forests.

Medicine cannot be refined out of thin air, and raw materials are always needed. According to Zhou Xiuchun's experience, the better the raw materials, the higher the quality of the refined elixir. If you just casually get some wild grass as raw materials, at most you can only practice the Rejuvenation Pill and the Golden Creation Pill, but if you can really pick some veritable herbs, you can refine the Mighty Pill and the Dragon Tiger Pill if you are lucky.

For this barren mountain, the people of Changqing County have always been very timid.

In fact, Zhou Xiuchun always feels hairy when he comes here every day. However, considering the existence of Wang Xianling and Zhu Tousan, he had to go into the mountains to collect medicine.

Taking advantage of noon, Zhou Xiuchun walked cautiously along a small mountain road that seemed to have been walked by no one for many years.

Along the way, while picking some wild grasses and using them as raw materials for rejuvenation pills and Jinchuang medicine, he carefully searched for plants with strange appearances - in fact, Zhou Xiuchun didn't know medicine at all, and Boss Li of the coffin shop said it well, he was indeed a wild man, and in terms of real skills, he was not even as good as Ye Langzhong. If you don't have an artifact in your hand, you might starve to death in the first three days of your journey, and there are no good people in Changqing County who give alms to others, and beggars will die one by one.

After walking about a mile in the mountains, Zhou Xiuchun looked left and right, and saw that he had walked a little deeper, and he had collected a lot of strange plants, so he immediately turned around and went back.

Hurried all the way, as if fleeing for his life, out of the forest, looking at the large houses in Changqing County in the distance, Zhou Xiuchun breathed a long sigh of relief, reached out and wiped the fine cold sweat on his forehead.

Turning his head to look at the dense jungle, Zhou Xiuchun shuddered for no reason, and said to himself: "You must quickly save enough money to leave here, and stay any longer, even if you don't get killed by Wang Papi and Zhu Tousan, you will be scared to death by this ghost forest." ”

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Back at the rented inn, the shopkeeper saw Zhou Xiuchun coming back, put down the small abacus in his hand, and greeted him: "Doctor Zhou, come back so early today?"

Zhou Xiuchun smiled at the bastard who opened a black shop, opened the medicine box, took out a bottle of Jinchuang medicine and handed it to him, and said, "Boss Zhao, this is the medicine I made to treat bone-setting yesterday, that's all, it's this month's house money." ”

"Okay, good, Dr. Zhou's bottle of medicine is more than enough for a month's room money. The shopkeeper put away the medicine, grabbed Zhou Xiuchun's sleeve again, and quietly asked in his ear, "Doctor Zhou, I heard that Wang Xianling has been very majestic in China recently, did you give him any secret recipe?"

Zhou Xiuchun naturally understood what he meant, he pretended to be cautious and looked left and right, then took out a small porcelain bottle, poured out a small blue pill from it, put it in the palm of Boss Zhao's hand, and whispered: "Boss Zhao, don't make a noise, there are not many things, I gave it to Lord Wang." ”

The shopkeeper smiled happily and said continuously: "Naturally, naturally!"

Getting rid of Boss Zhao's entanglement, Zhou Xiuchun went upstairs with the medicine box.

After entering his room and putting the medicine box on the table, Zhou Xiuchun took out his money bag from the medicine box and weighed it carefully, it was about three taels of silver.

Zhou Xiuchun calculated that if he wanted to leave Changqing County, he would need at least one horse and enough settling-in expenses to settle in the next county. It's just that the people in Changqing County who came to him for medical treatment either didn't give money at all, or they couldn't get the money.

Rao is business in the hospital was booming last month, and Zhou Xiuchun only made so much money.

And for now, it looks like the situation is going to get worse. Because the effect of his medicine is so good, there are almost no repeat customers in Changqing County, and Boss Zhao is now starting to resell Jinchuang medicine in a grand manner, Zhou Xiuchun's income is becoming more and more meager.

Faced with this situation, Zhou Xiuchun could only endure it. Because it is useless to discuss intellectual property rights with Boss Zhao, if you don't get it, you will lose your only place to live.

After a period of grief in his heart, Zhou Xiuchun cheered up and began to refine the medicine.

The process of refining medicine is very simple, the raw materials are already packed in the ring, Zhou Xiuchun took a few empty bottles, and as soon as his thoughts moved, the pills jumped out of thin air and were poured into the bottles with a clatter.

As the process continued, Zhou Xiuchun soon felt fatigue hit her.

The raw materials in the ring were used up in one go, and in a few empty bottles, there were two or three hundred more pills.

Zhou Xiuchun endured his sleepiness, and after sorting and packing the pills, this time it seemed that he had gone deeper into the forest, and he was lucky enough to make more than a dozen Dragon Tiger Pills and Powerful Pills, as well as a new type of pill that was displayed as "Taiyi Dan" in Zhou Xiuchun's consciousness.

Zhou Xiuchun smelled the smell of the pill and felt fresh and pleasant, but he was still wary and did not take it directly.

Although all he has made so far is good medicine, he can't guarantee that one day a poison will suddenly come out, and there is only one life, and he really can't afford to die. The technical work of trying the medicine is still left to those little gangsters who see death as if they were at home - even if they don't eat well, don't we still have antidote pills to save it?

Zhou Xiuchun put Taiyidan alone into an empty small wooden bottle, put the small wooden bottle into his arms, then stood up and stretched his waist, walked to the wooden shelf where the basin was placed, washed his face, and recovered his spirit a little.

Seeing that the time was not early, Zhou Xiuchun opened the door and went downstairs, planning to have lunch first.

In the lobby downstairs, there was already a person sitting at this time, dressed as a scholar, and the book was resting at his feet, looking like he should be a reader.

Zhou Xiuchun suddenly became interested, speaking of which, this person was the first intellectual he had met in time - Lord Wang and Master Zhao in the yamen were not counted.

Zhou Xiuchun sat opposite the scholar very naturally, and the scholar raised his head a little strangely and asked Zhou Xiuchun, "This brother, is there anything wrong?"

Zhou Xiuchun grinned and said, "In the next Zhou Xiuchun, a medical center will be opened in Changqing County, look at the little brother, you should be from other places, right?"

Xiucai smiled and said, "Doctor Zhou is polite, Xiaosheng Gong Zixi, it is Xiucai who is going to enter Beijing to catch the exam, so hurry up and pass by Changqing County." ”

"Xiucai who entered Beijing to take the exam?" Zhou Xiuchun was a little puzzled and asked, "How can Xiucai enter Beijing to take the exam?

Gong Zixi smiled and said, "Doctor Zhou, what you said is the old yellow calendar." At present, the world is not peaceful, there are few people, let alone Xiucai, in a county, there are few literate people. More than ten years ago, the imperial court had already issued an order that as long as you can be admitted to Xiucai, you can enter Beijing for the examination. ”

Zhou Xiuchun suddenly realized: "I see." ”

I ordered two cheap vegetarian dishes, and Zhou Xiuchun and Gong Zixi chatted while eating.

When men talk, the topic is naturally indispensable to women, Gong Zixi drank some wine, and he was a little excited when he talked about it, and words such as the old man's cart and Guanyin sitting on the lotus jumped out, and Zhou Xiuchun shouted repeatedly: "Brother Tai is really talented!"

Gong Zixi replied very humbly: "Brother Zhou, read more books written by famous artists such as Lanling Xiaoxiaosheng, and you will naturally be able to read a wide range of books." ”

Zhou Xiuchun nodded frequently in agreement.

After eating the cups and plates, Zhou Xiuchun took out two copper plates and put them on the table, threw down Gong Zixi, who was already asleep on the table, and turned around and went upstairs. Although the conversation was speculative, but when he was drunk, Zhou Xiuchun was too lazy to take care of him.

When I returned to my room, I lay down and fell asleep after a while, staring in a daze, only to be woken up by a noise coming from downstairs.

Zhou Xiuchun rubbed his eyes and got up from the bed, sat on the edge of the bed in a daze for a long time, and waited until he was almost sober before he opened the door and went out, planning to go downstairs to see the excitement.

As soon as he walked downstairs, Zhou Xiuchun saw Gong Zixi and a guy pushing each other, both of them had not very clean mouths, scolding, and they didn't have to think about it to know that it was the black-hearted shopkeeper who was asking for a sky-high price, and had an argument with Gong Zixi.

Zhou Xiuchun didn't want to make trouble for herself, shook her head, and wanted to go back to the room to sleep, and was about to leave, but saw Zhu Tousan suddenly rush in with a group of people, and without saying a word, he picked up the guy and slashed at Gong Zixi.

In Gong Zixi's screams one after another, the smell of blood quickly spread in the store, and soon, Gong Zixi, who was cut to the point of blood, stopped moving, lying motionless in a pool of blood, and the appearance of the skin and flesh dripping with blood was really scary, and Zhou Xiuchun trembled all over.

After Zhu Tousan finished cutting people, he turned his head and asked Boss Zhao for compensation, and Boss Zhao didn't care about the "quasi-dead corpse" lying on the ground, and began to bargain loudly with Zhu Tousan.

Zhou Xiuchun trembled for a long time and finally reacted, hurriedly turned around and returned to the room, took out the bottle containing the golden creation medicine and rejuvenation pill and put it in his arms, and hurriedly ran downstairs.

He can not care about fighting, but watching a living person die in front of him, Zhou Xiuchun can't accept it.

Running to Gong Zixi, Zhou Xiuchun hurriedly stuffed the medicine into his mouth, Boss Zhao saw this, rolled the eyes of the dead fish, and said with a weak look: "Doctor Zhou, you can save it, it's all cut like this, and the gods can't save it when they come......"

Zhu Tousan also smiled and said: "That's it! No one who has been cut down by my old Zhu can stand up!"

"I'll your mother......"

A gloomy voice sounded, and Gong Zixi, who was originally covered in blood like a fountain, actually got up from the ground.

Zhu Tousan's face turned pale in an instant, and the dozens of thugs on the side all raised the knives in their hands in panic, and Boss Zhao asked nervously, "You...... Are you a human or a ghost?"

Gong Zixi didn't answer, smiled coldly, and suddenly stepped forward with an arrow and punched Zhu Tousan in the face.

Hearing a crisp click, Zhu Tousan's facial bones were dented and entered, and his body flew out of the inn in the air, slamming heavily on the mud outside, raising a puff of dust.

At this moment, the whole world fell silent......

"I'm rubbing, this medicine is so strong?!"

Zhou Xiuchun held the empty wooden bottle that he had picked up in a hurry, stared at it for a long time, and said with a look of horror.