Looking at the medicine garden in front of him, Si Cheng also sighed in his heart, and gradually understood the cruelty of cultivation. However, the green herbs in front of him were fluttering back and forth in the wind, and Si Cheng's mood was immediately much better.

When I came to the valley, I saw a stone stele, the stele was very old, covered with moss, and the words "medicine garden" on it were also vague, not to look carefully at all, but not to see clearly, if someone else came here, maybe they would directly ignore the past, but Si Cheng came here to take up a post, and it will take a while in the future, maybe it will be a long time, so he looked at it seriously.

"I don't know how long this stele has been standing here, and there is a chance to erect a new one from the new. Si Cheng shook his head, he was also quite helpless in his heart, he had also seen the stele or plaque many times before coming here, but all of them were clean, and the dragon flew and the phoenix danced, and the momentum was also quite vigorous, but the stele here had a sense of desolation, which made people feel sad when they saw it.

Suppressing the helplessness in his heart, Si Cheng passed by the stone monument and walked towards the valley. The mouth of the valley is not big, only a few meters wide, but when he walked in, Si Cheng's face was also happy. I saw that the whole valley is not small, there are thousands of kilometers in radius, and the most important thing is the medicinal herbs that are full of valleys, which are lush and lush, giving people a feeling of relaxation and happiness.

In addition, there is a bluestone path in front, which stretches towards the valley in zigzags, and the path is also quite clean, there is no trace of debris in sight, stepping on the bluestone path, Si Cheng walked towards it while looking at the surrounding scenery.

"Yes, don't look like no one cares about it here, but it's quiet and the scenery is quite beautiful, which suits me quite well. Sweeping away the previous unhappiness, Si Cheng was also very happy at this time, for him, the fewer people the better, and many things don't want to be known by others, and here, there is only one person to guard it all year round, and no one cares about it at ordinary times, which makes Si Cheng satisfied for a while.

After walking for more than ten minutes, I saw a pavilion, "Xieshui Pavilion", although the appearance is a little old, but it looks very freehand. Passing through the Xie Shui Pavilion, you can see a row of low buildings in front of you, but the distance is a little far, and Si Cheng can't see it very clearly, and there is a figure on the path in front of him, sweeping the road back and forth with a broom.

It was an old man, full of white hair, but looking at his sweeping movements, his body should be quite tough, and he was sweeping the road with his head down, and Si Cheng's arrival didn't know whether the old man didn't know or ignored it. Anyway, these are irrelevant, after seeing the old man, Si Cheng hurriedly quickened his pace and walked over.

When he came to the old man's side, Si Chengcai saw the old man's face clearly, in addition to a head of white hair, his face was also quite shocking, not to mention the wrinkles on his face, one eye turned outward, and the remaining eye, although intact, was also gray. When the old man knew that someone was approaching, the moment he raised his head to look at Si Cheng, Si Cheng's scalp exploded, and he took a step back in shock, and his heart and liver almost jumped out of his body.

"It's coming!" After seeing Si Cheng, the old man just said three words lightly, and then turned around and swept it again.

"Gollum" Si Cheng swallowed his saliva, this is still broad daylight, if he suddenly sees this scene at night, maybe it will be the result of his soul flying out of the sky. Then he saluted the visitor and said, "Here it is." ”

But the old man was still sweeping the road, as if he hadn't heard Si Cheng's answer, and Si Cheng was also standing quietly beside him. There was an eerie silence, save for the "hissing" of the broom in contact with the ground.

After a long time, the old man finished sweeping the floor, and Si Cheng also followed the old man, but now he came to the front of the house. When he arrived here, Si Cheng knew that where was this a building, it was clearly a few thatched houses, the thatched houses were built on the mountain, and there was a group of low hills in the back, except for a bluestone path leading directly to the valley mouth in front, the rest of the places were planted with all kinds of medicinal materials.

The old man put the broom away, looked down at Si Cheng, who had been following behind, and a smile appeared on the old man's face. "Come in with me. Then he walked into the grass house with a word.

Si Cheng followed closely and entered the grass house, and his eyes suddenly lit up, which was simply not the same as what he had seen before. The room is not big but it is very bright inside, and it is very clean, and a few ordinary furniture is also just right, not wide but not crowded.

The old man came to a chair, sat down, looked at Si Cheng, and said lightly: "Sit down." ”

Si Cheng walked to the chair next to him and sat down, this old man was quite withdrawn, and he had said three simple words since he came to the present.

"Senior, junior Si Cheng was assigned by the sect, and came here to manage the medicine garden with you, and I will ask my seniors to take care of it in the future. After Si Cheng thought about it, he got up and bowed slightly to the old man, and said sincerely.

The old man didn't have any expression when he heard Si Cheng's words, he still looked plain, and then a very soft sigh came into his ears. "My name is Ma Zhen, you can call me Ma Lao, there is no need to say anything about what seniors are not predecessors. ”

"You're here, I should also go, I'll teach you to identify the herbs in the medicine garden in the next few days, and when you're familiar with it, I'll leave with peace of mind, and you'll live in the room on the left for the next few days." With that, Ma Zhen got up and walked to the right.

Si Cheng looked at the back of the old man leaving, as if he had seen the old stone tablet in Taniguchi, and the indescribable sense of desolation climbed into his heart again.

"Whew...", he let out a long breath of turbidity, calmed down, and walked towards the room on the left. It was a very small room, with a wooden table and a green lantern in the middle, and there was nothing else, and now it was still bright, so the green lantern did not need to be lit, and he put his burden on the table and sat down on the floor.

It wasn't until it was getting dark that Si Cheng slowly opened his eyes, then got up and lit the lamp, and took some godmothers in the baggage to eat. After filling his stomach, the priest wanted to go out for a walk, but when he heard the silence of the whole thatched hut, he finally returned to the same place and continued to meditate.

The next morning, when the hissing sound of sweeping the floor outside reached his ears, Si Chengcai opened his eyes and blew out the oil lamp on the table, leaving only a wisp of green smoke in the air.

Stretching his waist, he walked out of the room, only to see that Ma Lao was still driving the broom back and forth outside, sweeping the ground with his head down. "Ma Lao, it's early!"

When Ma Lao saw Si Cheng come out, he stopped sweeping the floor, then put down the broom and walked towards the medicine garden, and then a faint voice came: "Go to the medicine garden." ”

When I came to the medicine garden, I looked at the herbs all over the ground, and my mood was much better, the air exuded the smell of herbs, the closer I got to it, the richer it became, I took a deep breath, and I only felt comfortable.

When he came to a clearing, Ma Lao stopped, looked ahead and said: "The medicine garden is divided into three parts: low, medium and high, and the medicinal materials are the same. Then Ma Lao pointed to a place.

Following the direction that Ma Lao pointed, Si Cheng saw a red and yellow color, which was a vine-like plant, with many yellow flowers blooming on it, some of which were red.

"That's Ling Xiaohua, it has the effect of breaking the stasis and dissipating the cold, cooling the blood and removing the wind, you are over there. Ma Lao continued. With Ma Lao's pointing, Si Cheng knew more and more herbs, such as sand kernel flower, prunella grass, green wind vine, etc.

"These are just low-grade medicinal herbs, which can only bring some benefits to the human body, but for mortals, they are still very precious. In the cultivation realm, because they can't be refined into pills, they are of a lower grade. If you look in the distance, that piece is a medium-sized medicinal herb, and there are blood tonic grass, Venus grass, blood scattering grass, yellow medicine and so on. Those herbs were vassal herbs that could be used to refine elixirs. Ma Lao seemed to be interested, and talked endlessly.

Si Cheng nodded while listening, he couldn't remember so many herbs and medicines for a while, anyway, wherever Ma Lao talked about it, he heard it. Then Si Cheng's heart moved, and he hurriedly asked, "Old Ma, where are the high-grade medicinal materials?"

Ma Lao was also stunned when he heard this, and looked at Si Cheng speechlessly. "High-grade medicinal materials are just the name here, and they still belong to the low-grade storage zài in the entire sect. That area is still far away, and some of those herbs can be used as the main medicine for alchemy, and some even if they can't be used as the main medicine, they are quite difficult to see in the attached medicine, so I list them as high-grade medicinal materials. ”

Si Cheng nodded, "What can be used as the main medicine for alchemy is not called high-level." At least in this medicine garden, it belongs to the top storage zài, so wouldn't it be in the future..."

"However, all that has been refined are some low-grade pills. Ma Lao gave him a hard blow when Si Cheng was thinking about it.

Si Cheng rolled his eyes speechlessly, low-grade pills are also pills, at least they should be able to use them now, and we will talk about them later, no matter what, Si Cheng's mood is still quite pleasant.

And Ma Lao took Si Cheng to several other places, each of which stayed for about half an hour to explain to Si Cheng. And Si Cheng was not in a hurry, he listened carefully, and he also tried to remember, because if Ma Lao left, he would be left alone, and he would not even know the medicinal materials in the garden in the future, which would be a little difficult.

It wasn't until the sun turned west that Ma Lao ended the explanation unfinished, and Si Cheng also breathed a sigh of relief. This whole day Si Cheng is quite uncomfortable, at the beginning with Ma Lao's explanation, I can still remember some, but in the afternoon, Ma Lao is more and more energetic, more and more talking, so that Si Cheng is overwhelmed, and then he simply doesn't remember, anyway, he can't remember.

Back at the grass house, Ma Lao asked Si Cheng to digest the knowledge explained today, so he left. Si Cheng returned to his room, and sat on the ground without saying a word, what kind of explanation is this, this is more tiring than going to the battlefield.

I didn't even turn on the lights, I just closed my eyes.