After bringing Ding Qi to Qixia Town, Ding Shan quickly completed the relevant procedures with the person who took care of the medicine garden.

Ding Shan's identity is no longer as good as before, and a person in charge of the outer door of the medicine garden is naturally very polite to Ding Shan, and the procedures are much faster.

The person in charge of the medicine garden in Qixia Town was an old man of fifty or sixty years old, with a slightly rickety figure, gray hair, and a thin appearance. The old man's surname was Zhao, and Ding Shan asked Ding Qi to call him Zhao Steward.

In the process of talking with Steward Zhao, Ding Shan naturally asked Steward Zhao to take care of Ding Qi in the future.

Ding Shan's identity is far from being comparable to this Zhao steward, and his request for Ding Shan, an upstart in the sect, of course, is to say yes again and again, and he dare not offend in any way.

After staying here with Steward Zhao until the afternoon, and telling Ding Qi to listen to Steward Zhao honestly in the future, Ding Shan left near evening.

Gong sent Ding Shan into the carriage, and had already left far away, Steward Zhao turned his head to look at Ding Qi.

Steward Zhao spent most of the day talking with Ding Shan, although after half a day, Ding Qi and Steward Zhao had no contact. For Ding Qi, Steward Zhao is still a complete stranger. After all, he had just come to a strange place, and he was already uneasy in his heart, and Ding Qi was even more nervous when he was looked at by Steward Zhao like this.

Just when Ding Qi was a little uncomfortable being looked at by Steward Zhao, Steward Zhao opened his mouth and said, "It's already late for you to come on the first day. Well, you'll take a break today. I'll talk about the rest tomorrow. ”

Without waiting for Ding Qi to answer, Steward Zhao walked out of the house and walked outside. It seems that he is going to take him to the place where he wants to live.

Ding Qi was stunned for a moment, then quickly followed behind Steward Zhao, and looked towards the medicine garden, and looked around from time to time, wanting to be as familiar as possible with the place where he would work in the future.

The medicine garden was not far away, and Ding Qi could see it when he came out of the house. This medicine garden is not too big, roughly estimated to be half an acre in size. This half-acre medicine garden is obviously divided into several areas, each of which is planted with different medicinal herbs. I wonder if it's the season when the herbs are ripe, and the strong aroma of herbs wafts out of the garden. Ding Qi unconsciously took a long breath, feeling quite comfortable.

At the back of the medicine garden, there is a sparse woodland.

The woodland stretched out into the mountains and forests in the distance, and it looked swarthy. Since the sky was already dark, Ding Qi could no longer see clearly.

A sparse fence separates the medicine garden from the woodland, and encloses the house where Steward Zhao lives, forming an area for living.

He looked back again, and could see the outline of Qixia Town, so that this desolate medicine garden would not be completely unpopular.

From the conversation between Steward Zhao and Ding Shan in the past half day, Ding Qi knew more about the situation of this medicine garden.

Although this medicine garden is said to be in Qixia Town, the actual location is not a short distance from the center of the town. Qixia Town was originally a town formed near Qixia Mountain, and the medicine garden was in the middle of nowhere, and it was already extremely close to the foot of Qixia Mountain.

The medicine garden was built at the foot of a deserted mountain, rather than in the center of the town, because this area at the foot of the mountain was more suitable for the medicinal properties of the herbs to be cultivated. If it is built in the center of the town, although it has many conveniences in life, it is not suitable for the growth of medicine.

Steward Zhao took Ding Qi and walked around the medicine garden and towards the east. There, there were several rooms similar to the one where Steward Zhao lived. Ding Qi guessed that that should be where he would live.

Sure enough, when the two of them walked to the side of the house, Steward Zhao pointed to these rooms and said to Ding Qi: "There are a few rooms here, you can choose them, see which one you like, and choose to live." Anyway, there are only two of us in this medicine garden, and I live in the house on the west side, so you can arrange these rooms yourself. ”

The Qingyun faction has always been the simplest staffing establishment of arranging a person in charge and a deputy. During this time, the Qingyun faction had frequent personnel transfers,

Steward Zhao has only been arranged in the last month or two. Now that Ding Qi is here, it means that everyone in charge of this industry is here.

When Steward Zhao introduced Ding Qi's residence, his expression was quite cold. Doesn't seem to want to talk much other than the necessary explanations.

If you just look at Ding Qi's attitude, most people will think that this Zhao steward has some kind of prejudice against Ding Qi. makes people speculate whether Ding Qi accidentally offended him somewhere.

However, Ding Qi is not worried about this.

After half a day of observation, he found that the Zhao steward who took care of the medicine garden should just be relatively cold and didn't like to talk much. Although he has always treated Ding Qi coldly, he actually takes care of Ding Qi quite a lot. Like now, he personally led Ding Qi to see the residence, and generously let him choose at will.

"Probably, it's for the sake of the second uncle's face. Ding Qi muttered in his heart.

As for the reason why the old man took care of himself so much, Ding Qi could only think of this aspect.

Speaking of which, Ding Qi felt quite agreeable to the old man's cold temperament.

He himself was not a person who liked to talk much, if Steward Zhao was not like this, but a chatter, Ding Qi really felt that he couldn't handle it.

Seeing that Steward Zhao didn't talk more, Ding Qi followed Steward Zhao's instructions and walked towards the rooms in front of him. These rooms are basically the same, and one room directly opposite the door has simple household utensils and beds. Just wait for someone to move in and dispose of these things as you want.

Seeing that there was nothing worth choosing in these rooms, Ding Qi casually found a room with a room in the back and ventilated to the sun.

Seeing that Ding Qi had already selected the house and started to clean up, Steward Zhao gave him a few more words before leaving.

There weren't many things in the house, and Tintze quickly cleaned them up. By this time, it was completely dark.

Lying on the cleaned bed, Tintze looked at the black night sky outside the window. He knew that from now on he would really have to leave home and live alone. However, unlike ordinary children, Ding Qi does not have too many feelings of fear, but is full of expectations for his new life.

Looking at the moon that appeared outside the window, planning about his new life in the future, drowsiness soon hit, and I don't know when, I have fallen asleep.

In the next few days, Steward Zhao did not rush to teach Ding Qi to take care of the medicine garden, but took him around the town to familiarize him with the place where he would live in the future.

As Ding Qi had predicted, although Steward Zhao was extremely cold, he took good care of him. In the past few days of walking around Qixia Town, the places that should be mentioned will never be forgotten, and they have been told to him seriously.

Many important things, for fear that Ding Qi will forget, will mention them many times.

Although Steward Zhao has not been in Qixia Town for a long time, due to the Qingyun Sect's operation in Qixia Town over the years, he is naturally very familiar with this place. Every time you change people outside the door, you will tell the next one the necessary content. So that the people who took over can familiarize themselves with the situation in Qixia Town as soon as possible.

When Steward Zhao took over the medicine garden, he had already learned the general situation of Qixia Town from the previous steward, and coupled with the understanding in the past two months, he was already extremely familiar with Qixia Town.

In the past few days, under the introduction of Steward Zhao, Ding Qi has a deeper understanding of the entire town.

As the largest town near the entire mountain range, Qixia Town undertakes the important task of connecting Qixia Mountain with the cities outside. Although Qixia Mountain does not have much production, there are also some mountain goods, wood, medicinal materials, mountain treasures, prey furs and other things, which are all circulated to the outside through Qixia Town as a transit. Due to the frequent circulation of goods, it is only a town, but it is also extremely prosperous.

Even if it can't be compared with a city like Liangcheng, there are all kinds of shops, restaurants and other places in the city, and Qixia Town is not lacking.

What Steward Zhao made Ding Qi familiar with was the various shops and other places that he needed to contact to live and take care of the medicine garden. At the same time, he also knew that in this town, in addition to the medicine garden that he needed to take care of, the Qingyun Sect also had another industry here.

It is the largest restaurant in Qixia Town, called 'Tongfu Inn'.

is also an industry of the Qingyun faction, and the meals of Ding Qi and Steward Zhao three meals a day are also provided by this restaurant. These days, Steward Zhao will take him to the restaurant every day, which also makes Ding Qi and the people in the restaurant familiar.

There is nothing surprising about this restaurant, it is not similar to the restaurant he has seen in Liangcheng. The only thing that surprised Ding Qi was that the person in charge of this restaurant was actually a female shopkeeper.

Whether it is Liangcheng or Qixia Town, judging from the situation he has been in contact with, the owners of places like restaurants are generally men. The shopkeeper Tong, who was in charge of the restaurant, was somewhat surprised to see Ding Qi, who was a female shopkeeper for the first time.

After getting acquainted with the situation in Qixia Town, Steward Zhao began to teach him the knowledge of taking care of the medicine garden.

On this day, Ding Qi walked towards Steward Zhao's house according to Steward Zhao's instructions. These days, he has been to Steward Zhao's house many times, and he is already extremely familiar with it.

Just yesterday afternoon, when he came back from the town, Steward Zhao told Ding Qi that from today onwards,

He would teach Ding Qi some of the things about taking care of the medicine garden.

Thinking that he would have to learn how to take care of the medicine garden from today onwards, Ding Qi felt a little bumpy in his heart, but he still forced himself to settle down, and as usual, walked to the door of Steward Zhao's house, knocked on the door, and then waited outside the door.

"Come in. Soon, the voice of Steward Zhao came from inside the door.

Pushing open the door, I saw that Steward Zhao was sitting on the Taishi chair next to the table, and on the table, there was a somewhat thick account book-like thing.

Steward Zhao's residence, although it looks similar to Ding Qi's house on the outside, the interior furnishings are much richer, far from being comparable to the only few daily necessities in Ding Qi's house. The exquisitely patterned furniture is placed in the room, making the whole room full of life.

On both sides of the room, there are several ink paintings with great charm. On the other side, there is also a small bookcase. Although there are not many books on it, it also adds a bit of elegance to the room.

After Ding Qi entered the house,

His eyes were fixed on the ledger on the table. Because when he went to Zhao's house, he had never seen this ledger. Now that Steward Zhao has solemnly put this account book on the table, it has already made Ding Qi wonder if it has something to do with the purpose of his visit this time.

"You're smart, boy. Seeing Ding Qi looking thoughtfully at the ledger on the table, Steward Zhao smiled.

Then, Steward Zhao continued: "The purpose of calling you here this time has already been said yesterday. In the past few days, you have already learned about the situation in Qixia Town. Next, it's time to teach you how to take care of this medicine garden under our care. This book is actually related to your taking care of the medicine garden. ”

Speaking of this, Steward Zhao picked up the book on the table and flipped through it casually.

"It turned out to be a book. Ding Qi thought clearly.

Ding Qi, who had always mistaken the things on the table for the ledger, realized at this time that he had made a mistake.

Although Ding Qi wondered what taking care of the medicine garden had to do with this book, he also knew that next, Steward Zhao would explain it to himself, and he didn't ask too much, just stood there quietly, waiting for Steward Zhao's next words.

"I think you're literate. Steward Zhao flipped through a few pages, then put the book in his hand back on the table and said.

"In the past, I learned from people in the village. Ding Qi nodded honestly and said.

Seeing Ding Qi nodding, Steward Zhao said with satisfaction: "Since this is the case, it will be easy to do." Take a look at this book. ”

After speaking, Steward Zhao handed him the book.

Taking the book, Ding Qi looked at it seriously. He carefully read the first few pages, and then quickly flipped through the rest of the contents, and roughly understood the content of the book. At the same time, it is also clear why Steward Zhao said that this book is related to his work in taking care of the medicine garden.

In Ding Qi's opinion, the thing in his hand should be more of a note than a book. And judging from the various fonts on this note, there is more than one person who has written things on it.

Seeing the look of surprise on Ding Qi's face, Steward Zhao put down the teacup in his hand and said, "It seems that you also understand why I showed you this thing." As long as you can memorize the contents of this book, you will have no problem taking care of the medicine garden. ”

This notebook contains knowledge about the growth habits of various herbs. With this knowledge, as long as you follow the methods described above to take care of the medicine garden, there will indeed be no problems.

Ding Qi nodded, and then said with some confusion: "Do I need to write down the content on this?"

There is a lot of content in this notebook, and it is not easy to write it all down. Moreover, Ding Qi also clearly knew that the types of herbs planted in the medicine garden were far from as many as recorded in the notes.

Steward Zhao shook his head and said, "The content in this is summarized by the successive stewards of the Medicine Garden. You just need to memorize the growth habits and care methods of some of the herbs in our medicine garden. The rest, you don't have to remember. ”

After that, Steward Zhao instructed Ding Qi a few more words, and repeatedly told him that after memorizing the contents of the notes, Ding Qi came out of Steward Zhao's room.

On the way back to his room, Ding Qi looked down at the notes in his hand, a contemplative expression appeared on his face.

"In the medicine garden, there are less than ten kinds of medicinal herbs planted. I'll just jot down the necessary things and I'll be good to go. It's a very easy thing for me. The second uncle said before that taking care of the medicine garden is not hard work, and he is really right. Thinking of this, Ding Qi couldn't help but feel a lot more relaxed.