Mai District, who had already retired from standing aside as a chief clerk, was just suddenly promoted to the deputy department, and came to the city to do a symbolic non-party deputy position, Director Chen approached him with the mentality of not offending the leader, many friends and many roads, but he never thought that this Mai District would have such great ability in Hei and Dao.

As the saying goes, it's not a big deal to dare to commit a crime, and it is a real skill to make the police unable to catch it.

Only then did Director Chen feel that this Mai District was very mysterious and capable, and imagined in his heart that even the first brother of the provincial government might not be able to suppress him.

Although Lao Mai is not in charge of the Urban Management Bureau, every time Director Chen goes to the 9th floor to report to his own leader in charge, he always glances at Lao Mai when he is not in the office, and if he is there, he has to go in and say a few words of respect.

Lao Mai really did Director Chen a big favor in this matter, after the thorns in other counties who sold pork were injured, they naturally stayed at home to recuperate, and the remaining honest butchers no longer dared to work against the urban management personnel and the villagers in the city, and honestly engaged in cleaning and hygiene.

The whole market was finally in order, which was exemplary, and at the beginning of the next year, the market management office was able to hang a golden plaque of the annual environmental sanitation advanced unit.

In the city, everyone knows that the two directors were injured, and after the incident was finally resolved, they all said that by dog-eat-dog, Lao Chen picked up a dead cat, which was due to luck.

Only Director Chen secretly knew that it was the wheat district that made the effort to create this benign and favorable situation, which also allowed him to gain a firm foothold in the urban management system under the Iron Curtain.

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Compared with other provinces in the country, there are so many ethnic festivals of all kinds that there are a lot of folk festivals in October every year, and there is a folk festival that can be closed for two days every year.

Lao Mai called and asked the Organization Department of the District Party Committee to inquire about his 15 days of public holidays every year, which had been 6 days off in the Municipal Development and Planning Commission, and 5 days off in the last centralized public holiday, and there were 4 days of surplus, plus 2 days of public holidays and weekends for the Folk Festival, a total of 8 days of time were available for his own disposal.

It was almost the harvest season of the medicinal materials of the Five Sects Medicine Garden Zhuji Dan in the deep mountains of the border border, and the remaining raw materials of Juyuan Dan that he was suitable for were only occasionally planted in the medicine garden, and Lao Mai had to go to the field to see for himself, whether he could make up enough of them, which was a serious problem related to whether he could advance to the Great Perfection of Foundation Building at the end of the year.

During this time, the problem of fever in the left and right of the head still exists, and the annoying phenomenon of being able to feel various other emotions remains the same, and the cause of the disease cannot be found.

Since he had no clue, he could only let it go again, thinking that you would get used to it, and it would have no effect on other things, especially cultivation, so don't care about it.

When Lao Mai was young, the unit often sent him to major cities in China, and he went to Tianjin Wei several times, and he liked the pronunciation of the word Ma in Tianjin dialect the most, and from time to time he took a few sips, which almost became his mantra.

Due to Lao Mai's personal time, please wait for the holidays, others have already set off, and when he departs on Tuesday, he will no longer drive by himself, but directly take a plane to Kunming, and then transfer to Lijiang, where he will take the old American imported Grand Cherokee off-road vehicle (JeepGrandCherokee) that has been waiting there in the morning, and go straight to the direction of Wuzong Medicine Garden.

There are many stretches of mountains in the southern hilly area, and the road into the mountains is really not easy to walk, and the big cut swayed for most of the day, and finally can't walk those forest paths, and then gets off the car and changes to a smuggled unlicensed off-road motorcycle that has been left at the local mountain junction for a long time.

After driving like this for half a day, it was completely dark in the mountains and forests, and this off-road motorcycle couldn't walk the rest of the way.

On one side of the trail are dense with all kinds of coniferous trees, and on the other side are dark and bottomless grasses and wild ravines, and no one dares to walk on a two-wheeled motorcycle.

It was Ah Guang who drove to pick up Lao Mai, and he wanted to walk on the road, he was in front of him with a long-handled engineering flashlight to guide the way, and Lao Mai followed behind, so fast for two hours, it seemed that the mountains were boundless, and how to walk was not yet to the place.

Lao Mai couldn't help but be a little anxious, remembering that Mu Qingzi had taught him a general small spell called the Qi Method, so he asked Ah Guang, who was familiar with the road, to use a flashlight to shine on the curved path ahead, twisting the trick with his left hand, holding Ah Guang's waist with his right hand, and running like flying.

Ah Guang, who was refining qi at the fifth stage, suddenly saw the pine trees with slanted branches on the side of the road, rushing towards him one by one, and was so shocked for a while that he almost threw away the big flashlight, and after a while it returned to normal, and he felt that it was countless times faster than walking on the mountain wall step by step just now.

So, in less than half an hour, they saw in the distance the light of a large mountain in the foothills.

Flying up closer, it is also a mountain villa with a pattern similar to the summer resort behind Wuhua Mountain, the difference is that the surrounding and the courtyard are all planted with many tall pine trees, and the ground is full of dried and brown pine needles, there is a thick layer, and the scale of the area is much larger.

When Lao Mai and Ah Guang arrived at the villa, it was almost midnight, and they were led by the young waiter in white guarding the gate to the small building where Jin Shizong was stationed.

I saw that Mu Qingzi Lao Dao took the little Taoist boy out to welcome them in, wrapped his stomach with some simple food, and arranged for his own house to meditate and rest, and there was no other word for the night.

Early the next morning, the cultivators of the five major sects gathered in the main pavilion for breakfast, and they were ready to leave.

It is said that cultivators can rely on the aura of heaven and earth to survive after advancing to the foundation building period, and they no longer need to eat the fireworks of the world, but for example, the stock of the five spiritual qi of the five systems is insufficient today, and if you want to maintain your life, you also need to cultivate advanced, and you can't do it without eating, in addition to the needs of the body, you must add medicinal materials containing spiritual energy.

Therefore, Lao Mai felt that every time he ate this kind of food at a meal, every meal always had a strong smell of traditional Chinese medicine, and after the thing was eaten, he felt that the true yuan of the earth aura transformation in the body increased a little.

After everyone walked out of the main pavilion, they did not go out of the gate of the villa, but turned to the backyard, which looked like a small col with no way out.

I saw that the sect masters of the five major sects formed a semicircle, each pinched several tricks, and finally waved his hand at the same time, Lao Mai was surprised to find that there was a crack in the small mountain pass, it was a small road, and everyone saw that the intersection was open, so they followed their respective sect masters step by step.

This is the first time that Lao Mai has directly come into contact with the formation, this is a shielding formation, which belongs to a kind of phantom array prohibition, although it is invisible to the naked eye, but there is no physical barrier.

In order to worry that someone would inadvertently rush in, it was necessary to build a mountain villa at the gate to block the way, so as to prevent outsiders from inadvertently entering and discovering the secrets inside.

Lao Mai was half a step behind, followed behind Mu Qingzi Lao Dao, and entered the medicine garden step by step.

Mu Qingzi turned around from time to time and spoke to Lao Mai: "This is the main medicine garden, the foundation medicinal materials are planted here, and there are two other medicine gardens elsewhere, after the mature medicinal materials here are picked, they have to go over there, this year is middle-aged, and there are many varieties of mature medicinal materials." ”

"Middle-aged, what does this mean?" asked Old Mai curiously.

Mu Qingzi smiled and said: "Middle-aged is the annual festival of picking medicinal materials under ten years, many varieties of ten years and eight years, three years and five years have matured together, and there are small years, which refers to the basic medicinal materials picking festival below five years." ”

Lao Mai asked with interest: "So, there is also a big year?"

"Of course there is, but it's just a legendary thing," Mu Qingzi shook his head and said, "That's the number of years of medicinal materials used in the Jindan cultivation period, more than ten years and less than a hundred years, no one has mentioned this for many years." ”

"Is there anything more than the old age?" "Now Lao Mai is like a curious baby, everything feels fresh, and he wants to ask everything clearly.

Mu Qingzi frowned and replied: "No, at least we won't have it in this realm, Jindan Dao, legend has it that if anyone breaks through to the Yuan Infant Stage, he will ascend to the Spirit Realm, and the mortal realm can no longer accommodate you, let alone plant medicinal materials for the Yuan Infant Stage for more than a hundred years, this is the best air and soil, and it can't afford to consume the Heaven and Earth Yuan Qi at this level of cultivation." ”

At the end of the trail is the bamboo gate of the medicine garden, just like an ordinary medicine garden, as soon as the firewood is opened, a lush, purple and red scene enters the eyes, under the blue sky and white clouds, it seems to be a fairyland on earth.

From the beginning of breakfast, the bigwigs of the various sects, who had been silent, whispered a few words, and then instructed their respective pharmacists to start picking all kinds of ripe medicinal materials.

Cultivators are like this, they devote themselves to cultivation, everything is inferior, only the cultivation is high, when they intersect together, if there are words, they will be long, and if they have no words, they will be short, most of the time they are silent, most of the time they are running their own exercises, and they are constantly practicing.

Lao Mai always followed Mu Qingzi's old way, watching him command the pharmacists to pick all kinds of medicinal materials, looking at it, he suddenly found that the pharmacists who commanded the picking of each sect were not from his own sect.

When I was young, I heard Mu Qingzi say: "This is cross-picking, to prevent self-filling, even if the ban was opened to enter the medicine garden just now, it is only possible for five people to work together." ”

Lao Mai smiled secretly in his heart: "This is the essence of the cultivation realm, originally a person who is afraid of death to seek immortality, selfish, distrustful of each other, and believes in pragmatism. ”

Mu Qingzi has unreserved trust in Lao Mai, after all, he has not much life, Lao Mai is not only the successor of his Jinshi Sect, but also the one who will carry it forward in the future, not to mention hiding his secrets, he often wants to give everything he has, and teach him all in one go.

But Lao Mai is a pure earth person after all, and for the Jinshi Sect dominated by gold and wood, he has to accept it slowly and step by step, and he can't be in a hurry.

Mu Qingzi was not idle, and while directing the pharmacist to pick, he introduced the varieties of medicinal herbs to Lao Mai and said: "This is the Heavenly Thorn Grass, what is it used for, this is the Demon Yellow Flower, what is it used for, that is Lingqiluo, what is it used for, that is the star strain, what is it used for, and so on." ”