The evil cultivation of immortality, starting from an apprentice in a medicine shop

The morning light breaks slightly, and the fog is misty.

The suburban market in Qingmu Town gradually became lively, and people kept coming from the mist.

Some are carrying bamboo baskets on their backs, carrying poles and baskets, or leading mules, carrying large and small bags, and so on.

The vendors set up their own stalls, placing various herbs and wild products on the shelves, waiting for customers to come.

Unknowingly, rich people from the city, local merchants, and out-of-town traders wandering around empty-handed also appeared in the market.

For a time, the market became very lively, with shouts and bargains coming and going, and it was extremely noisy.

Although Qingmu Town is only a small town, as one of the main distribution centers for medicinal materials in Changle Prefecture, it has a strong commercial atmosphere, with drug dealers and mountain product merchants gathering here.

As long as you have good goods, you don’t have to worry about not being able to sell them.

Therefore, villagers from all over the country, as well as hunters and herb gatherers from all over the country, would travel across mountains and rivers to come to the market as long as they had goods.

Every morning to mid-morning, the suburban market in Qingmu Town is very busy.

"Hey~ Brother Qiu, I haven't seen you come to the market for a long time."

Qiu Zhen carried the bamboo basket and came to the corner of the market. He had just found a small open space when several herb collectors greeted him.

"I've been a little busy lately and rarely go to the mountains to collect herbs."

With that said, Qiu Zhen took out a piece of linen cloth from his backpack and spread all kinds of medicinal materials that he had concocted on it.

After a while, the shop was full.

"Brother Qiu, the harvest is good. He also said that there are few people who go up the mountain. If you go up the mountain every day, you won't make a fortune."

"What do you know? People go to the mountains and old forests to collect herbs, and the harvest is naturally rich. If you are bolder, you can also make a fortune."

"Forget it, forget it, I'm older and younger, so I can't take risks and I can't compare with their young people's drive."

"Hahahaha~"

Seeing everyone joking, Qiu Zhen just smiled and did not participate in the discussion of "the pros and cons of medicinal herbs in the mountains."

We are all adults, and our feet are on our own legs. The opinions of others are not important.

"Brother, are these medicinal materials of yours authentic from the mountains?"

While everyone was talking, a middle-aged man came to Qiu Zhen's stall.

This person is dressed in a very elegant outfit. He wears a black cloak with an open front and large sleeves. The body and edges of the clothes are decorated with exquisite patterns, with auspicious clouds and white cranes flying. He has cloud-head shoes on his feet and a tight sash around his waist. He was very impressive, and there were two young men following behind him. He looked like he belonged to a wealthy family.

Here comes the big customer.

Qiu Zhen felt happy and nodded calmly:

"Yes, these medicinal materials are all collected by me from deep mountains and old forests. They are not cultivated in medicine fields or medicine mountains. Customers can rest assured."

In the surrounding area of ​​Qingmu Town, in addition to grain fields, the most common areas are medicinal fields. The medicinal material planting industry is extremely developed and a large amount of medicinal materials are continuously produced.

The official government of Qingmu Town's official forest regularly sows herbal seeds. In a sense, it can be regarded as a giant medicinal field or mountain.

Under normal circumstances, the medicinal materials grown in medicinal fields have long-term depletion of soil fertility, and their medicinal efficacy is not as good as that of natural wild things in the mountains.

The "authentic licensed products" in the mouth of medicinal material dealers and mountain product dealers refer specifically to wild medicinal materials in deep mountains and old forests.

"Hmm~"

The middle-aged man nodded noncommittally, glanced around casually, and said with some surprise:

"Brother, what they are selling are crude medicines. Why do you insist on concocting your own medicine when you are selling genuine medicines? Are you trying to pass off inferior medicines as good ones?"

Qiu Zhen wanted to explain, but unexpectedly the herb picker on the side spoke first.

"Master, you don't know something. Brother Qiu is the master of roasting in Yaowang Valley. The medicinal materials he prepares are praised by all the merchants from all over the world. Will you come earlier or later? These medicinal materials It must have been wrapped up.”

The middle-aged man was a little surprised and couldn't help but look at Qiu Zhen again.

"Ahem~"

Qiu Zhen coughed and explained:

"Guest, please don't misunderstand me. I'm just an apprentice in a medicine shop. I don't dare to be called a master of Pao Zhi."

"Whether there is a way or not, you can tell by looking at it."

The middle-aged man heard the conversation and became interested.

At that moment, he squatted down, picked up a few licorice slices, and tasted them carefully.

After observing for a while, he nodded.

"The craftsmanship is really good."

Then, he picked up a few more pieces of Atractylodes.

"Hey, this white art"

At first, the middle-aged man was a little careless and his comments were quite high-spirited. However, after receiving the "Baizhu Pian" and looking at it carefully and sniffing it, his expression changed slightly:

"Brother, is this cooking technique of yours a traditional Chinese atractylodes technique?"

Qiu Zhen nodded: "Not bad!"

"wrong!"

The middle-aged man shook his head: "The warm and dry aura of your Atractylodes is too gentle, and it doesn't look like the roasted Atractylodes."

Qiu Zhen smiled and said nothing.

The middle-aged man was stunned for a moment, then he realized what he was doing and laughed dumbly:

"You made me laugh. Your roasting skills are indeed extraordinary. Not bad. I have collected these medicinal materials. How many copper coins are there?"

"The price of this batch of medicinal materials on the market is approximately 650 yuan."

Qiu Zhen was very frank when talking about the market price of medicinal materials, but after he finished speaking, he changed the topic and continued:

"I'll sell it for eight hundred cents."

"It's not expensive, it's worth the price."

The middle-aged man was very happy and agreed.

"By the way, I don't know what to call my little brother."

"My surname is Qiu and my name is Zhen, Qiu Zhen."

"Seeking truth and truth, a good name."

While he was talking, the boy behind the middle-aged man paid to pick up the goods. The whole transaction process was surprisingly fast.

After the other party left, Qiu Zhen came to his senses and realized that his goods were sold out.

"What a generous foreigner!"

Qiu Zhen commented, then happily carried the bamboo basket into the city and went straight to a weapons shop in the city to buy bows and arrows.

If you are dabbling in archery for the first time, you don’t need to buy a special bow or a strong bow, but you don’t need to put too much thought into it.

A bow costs 1,500 coins and an arrow costs 70 coins. I asked for ten of them.

It cost more than two dollars in total.

The 800 articles that Qiu Zhen had just sold for selling medicinal materials were gone before they were even heated, and he posted them in reverse.

Fortunately, he still has about ten taels of savings, so he is not short of money.

After buying a bow and arrow, Qiu Zhen didn't stop and hurried to the medicine shop to work.

After returning to the backyard of the medicine shop, Qiu Zhen found a place to put his things and went straight to the open space in the compound.

As soon as he arrived at the open space in the compound, he was surprised to find.

It's a bit lively today.

Not only the apprentices from the backyard gathered together, but also the apprentices from the front hospital hospital came to the backyard one after another, densely packed and very lively.

"Brother Zhen, why are you so late today? Did you encounter something on the way?"

Zhao Dou and Shen Liang saw Qiu Zhen from a distance and hurriedly gathered over.

"I went to the market to sell medicinal materials."

Qiu Zhen responded, then looked around at the crowded and lively courtyard, feeling a little curious:

"Big head, thin monkey, what day is it today? Why is it so lively?"

"Brother Zhen, you don't know?"

Seeing that Qiu Zhen was confused, Zhao Dou immediately explained:

"Today, Pharmacist An will choose an apprentice to start in our pharmacy. He is a big shot from Yaowang Valley. I will be an apprentice with him and learn something casually, which will be useful for the rest of my life."

"Brother Zhen, we only found out today, but how could you not know?"

Skinny Monkey Shen Liang looked surprised and puzzled:

"Shopkeeper Liu said that he would select the apprentices with the best skills in roasting and send them to Yaoshi An. Your skills are recognized as the best. Didn't Manager Kang inform you in advance?"

After saying that, Zhao Dou also frowned slightly:

"Everyone else was informed in advance."

When Qiu Zhen heard this, his heart sank, and he immediately understood what happened.

"Fucking virtue!"