Martial Arts Song

Chapter 276 It smells so good
"Wow~"

In the evening, the street lights on Kowloon Avenue were dim.

Chen Qing, dressed in short casual clothes, came to the Jiulong Avenue in the "Sanlin District" section and walked along the riverside towards the stairs leading down to the river bank.

From time to time, the sound of the "Red River" surging against the shore could be heard in his ears.

While thinking about buying medicinal herbs, he walked to the stairs leading down to the riverbank and went down the stairs.

But as soon as he walked down, he raised his eyebrows and said "hmm".

I saw him standing on the stairs, looking down.

At the end of the stairs near the river, a figure in a black jumpsuit took off her high heels and put them aside. She sat on the edge of the stairs with her feet dangling into the river, swinging back and forth continuously, kicking up splashes of water.

After hearing the sound coming from the stairs, the figure turned around and looked in the direction of the sound. After seeing Chen Qing, she stood up with obvious relief and said, "You're finally here!"

This figure was naturally Lin Manli.

"Have you made an appointment with that Sister Lan?"

Seeing Lin Manli sitting here, Chen Qing asked with narrowed eyes.

He told the other party that if the situation was really urgent, he could come here to find him. Now that the other party was here, it seemed that he had made an appointment to meet Sister Lan.

"Ah."

Lin Manli nodded when she heard Chen Qing's question and said, "Sister Lan and I have an appointment to meet at the Anping Hotel in Xicheng tomorrow night."

"Anping Hotel?"

After hearing this, Chen Qing couldn't help but turn his head and look at the brightly lit West City on the opposite bank.

"Anping Hotel" is a relatively iconic building in "Hu Hai". It has existed since the Ning Dynasty imperial era and has continued to this day. It has received many dignitaries from this city or other places, and even from other countries. It is a place frequented by many prominent people in "Hu Hai".

After staring at the other side for a while, Chen Qing retracted his gaze, looked at Lin Manli again, and said, "I understand. I will accompany you to the appointment tomorrow."

"Thank you!"

When Lin Manli heard this and got Chen Qing's promise, she immediately thanked him with a look of gratitude.

Chen Qing waved his hand nonchalantly and said, "Okay, go back."

Lin Manli didn't ask any more questions. After saying "OK", she put on her high heels that she had taken off to the side, and then walked up the stairs to Kowloon Avenue.

Then, she walked to the roadside, looking back every three steps, hailed a rickshaw and left.

Chen Qing stood at the stairs on the river bank, watching the other party leave, with a hint of satisfaction flashing in his eyes.

Obviously, he was very satisfied that Lin Manli knew the situation and didn't ask any questions.

After Lin Manli walked away, he went down the stairs to the river again, then dived into the water and started practicing today...

The next day, early in the morning.

Chen Qing woke up slowly under the influence of his biological clock.

He first glanced at the [Essence, Energy and Spirit] value at the bottom of his left eye. After confirming that the [Essence] value was still steadily increasing at an efficiency of 0.075 every day, he got up, dressed, washed, and began today's "spirit training" and "energy training".

When he finished "training the mind" and "training the qi", it was past six in the morning. After it was bright, he went out again and came to the "Luo's Paper Mill" located on "Gushan Road", "Sanyang District".

However, he did not plan to go to work today, but came to ask for leave.

After telling Gao Changzhi and others that he had something to do today, he left the "Luo's Paper Mill" and returned to the Chen family yard in "Sanlin".

When he returned, it was just after seven in the morning.

Chen Yang wrapped himself in farm clothes and harvested wheat in the field next to the yard.

He reclaimed a piece of barren land nearby into a field, and used the other land near the road to grow vegetables and corn.

Now it was the end of July, and the corn had grown taller than a person and was about to bear fruit, directly blocking Chen Yang inside.

If you don't look carefully, it's hard to even notice that there is a field planted with wheat.

Similarly, it is difficult for people inside to notice what is happening outside, especially when they are concentrating on doing something.

Anyway, when Chen Qing arrived, he saw Chen Yang busy inside, but because Chen Yang was busy, he didn't pay attention to him outside.

Chen Qing didn't care about this.

Without saying hello to Chen Yang, he went straight to the gate of Chen's yard, took out the key, opened the lock, pushed the door open and walked in.

"Hey, why are you back so early today?"

When Chen Qing returned to the yard, Xuanfeng was practicing the "Tiger Step" in the yard. When he saw him, he asked with a look of surprise.

Although Xuanfeng has actually already trained to the limit of the human body and is currently practicing the "Tiger Leopard Thunder Sound" to break the limit, it stands to reason that it doesn't matter whether he practices the "Tiger Step" during the day or not.

But he did not have Chen Qing's left eye ability, nor did he have Chen Qing's health knowledge from his previous life. Although Chen Qing had told him about it, the cognitive concepts he had developed since childhood still made him subconsciously feel that practicing martial arts was like rowing against the current, and if he did not advance, he would retreat.

Therefore, he still maintains the "Tiger Step" practice every day these days.

"Of course there is something going on."

Chen Qing directly responded to Xuan Feng's question: "Change your clothes and follow me."

After two days of thinking, Chen Qing came up with an idea to obtain medicinal materials, but this idea still needs to be verified.

That's why he didn't go to work this morning.

The reason why he called Xuanfeng to join him was because he wanted to verify this idea and needed the help of Xuanfeng, the master of "divine transformation".

"You want me to give you a ride again?"

Xuan Feng frowned slightly, wanting to say something, but thinking of the debt he owed, he finally returned to his room without refusing, changed his clothes and said expressionlessly, "Let's go."

After saying that, he walked towards the car parked in the corner of the yard. A valuable item like a car naturally could not be parked on the roadside. It was usually parked in the Chen family's yard.

The car itself is not that big, and the yard rented by the Chen family is big enough, so parking a car does not affect daily life.

However, when Xuan Feng walked towards the car, Chen Qing shook his head and said, "No need to drive today."

"No need to drive?"

Xuan Feng was startled when he heard this, "What do you want me to do?"

Suddenly, he seemed to have thought of something, and his eyes lit up, "Could it be..."

"Yes, you are right."

Chen Qing nodded and replied: "You owe too much debt, I'll give you a chance to pay it back."

"Good good!"

After hearing this, Xuanfeng said "yes" three times in a row, with a look of eagerness to try.

Recently in "Sanlin", there have often been fights between people from the "Axe Gang" and the "Sanbei Gang" at night.

Since Chen Qing said he would not drive, it meant that the business had to be done at "Sanlin". This made Xuanfeng, who had just made some progress in his martial arts training, eager to try.

Chen Qing didn't explain much and walked out of the yard first.

At this time, Yang Ying went to buy meat and vegetables, and Chen Zhengzhong was still sleeping.

Chen Yang was busy harvesting wheat in the field next to him. Therefore, there was no one to stop the two from leaving or to stop them.

They left "Sanlin Town" and came to the urban streets of "Sanlin". Chen Qing took Xuanfeng to "Linxing Road" first.

Looking at the herbal medicine shops all over the street, Xuan Feng couldn't help wondering, "What are you doing here?"

"Of course I came here to buy medicine."

After Chen Qing replied, he came to a herbal medicine shop.

"Hey, isn't this Master Lin? Are you still the same today?"

The owner of the shop, a middle-aged man in his forties or even fifties, obviously knew Chen Qing and greeted him warmly.

Chen Qing said calmly: "Give me a dose of Qi-replenishing and blood-nourishing medicine, take it away."

The boss was stunned and asked, "Are you not going to make medicine today?"

During this period of time, Chen Qing came here to buy medicine in large quantities, so most of the shop owners here remembered Chen Qing, and when they saw Chen Qing, they called him Master Lin - because Chen Qing called himself the last name Lin.

But today, Chen Qing actually only bought one prescription, which surprised the boss.

"You have to boil it, but you also have to take the medicine."

After hearing what his boss said, Chen Qing replied calmly.

He has to practice martial arts every day, so naturally he has to boil medicinal herbs.

"Okay, Mr. Lin, please wait a moment~"

Hearing that Chen Qing still wanted to boil medicine, the boss immediately responded with a smile.

Afterwards, he personally prescribed a dose of qi-replenishing and blood-nourishing medicine for Chen Qing, wrapped it in oil paper, and handed it to Chen Qing.

After Chen Qing took the medicine, he said to Xuanfeng, "Let's go," and then turned and left "Linxing Road."

Xuanfeng, who was following behind him, was stunned when he saw this, but then he immediately took a step forward to catch up with Chen Qing.

"Just buy a dose of medicine and leave?"

Xuanfeng asked in surprise.

Because he had only done something with Chen Qing once, and that was to help seduce the boss of "Paramount" during Chen Qing's promotion assessment task.

So, he thought that this time he was also dealing with someone.

But Chen Qing actually walked for quite some time, came here to buy a prescription and left, which surprised him and puzzled him at the same time.

Chen Qing didn't explain much, but just said calmly: "Just follow me."

Xuanfeng had no choice but to continue following Chen Qing.

We walked like this for another ten or twenty minutes.

Led by Chen Qing, the two came to a street called "Kangqiao Road".

"Ok?"

After arriving here, Xuan Feng looked at this street, his expression suddenly fell, and he stared at Chen Qing and said: "You said the opportunity to pay off the debt, could it be that you want me to come here as a porter?!"

This street called "Kangqiao Road" is actually a warehouse street!
Although the houses are similar to other areas in "Sanlin" and are all self-built, the first floors are basically built into warehouses with wide doors, and most of them are equipped with iron gates.

On the side of this street, there are many trucks full of goods parked. A group of strong young men with bare chests and dark tan are constantly unloading goods from the rear of these parked trucks and moving them into warehouses, or pulling goods out of the warehouses and loading them onto the trucks.

At first glance, it wasn't crowded, but there were still a lot of people.

"How could that be? You are my senior brother after all. How could I do this to you?"

After hearing Xuanfeng's words, Chen Qing smiled slightly and said.

"That's pretty much it..."

Xuan Feng muttered upon hearing this.

Just as he was muttering, Chen Qing suddenly picked up the bag of medicine he had been holding in his hand, which he had bought on "Linxing Road".

He held it in his hand, untied the rope, and slowly unfolded it, revealing the herbs inside.

Ginseng, Chinese Angelica, Astragalus...

He held the unfolded package of herbs in his hand and put it in front of Xuanfeng's nose, saying, "Brother, you are a master of 'Divine Transformation' and have a keen sense of smell. Smell the scent of this package of herbs, then walk across the street and smell carefully which warehouse on this street has the same scent as these herbs."

This was the idea of ​​obtaining medicinal materials that he came up with after thinking about it over the past few days.

Previously, when he was practicing his mind in a rickshaw in the "Sanlin" Concession, he had accidentally picked up Tao Weifeng once. The other party's destination at that time was here, Kangqiao Road.

Later, Chen Qing came here to work as a porter to practice martial arts, and observed that this place was basically used as a warehouse.

So, after learning that the big boss of "Sanlin" medicinal materials was Tao Weifeng, the leader of the "Sanbei Gang", he couldn't help but come up with an idea.

That is, will the medicinal materials that Tao Weifeng have be kept in the warehouse on Kangqiao Road?
At the moment, the "Axe Gang" and the "Sanbei Gang" are fighting fiercely on the "Sanlin" side. If Tao Weifeng's medicinal materials are placed in the warehouse here and the other party has no time to distract himself with other trivial matters, he plans to come here first to "borrow" them.

However, it is still difficult to find those medicinal herbs among the many warehouses on this street.

The doors here are all iron gates. Even if he is a master of "Jingbian", it will take some effort to open them, and it will cause quite a noise.

In addition, there are people from various trading companies guarding here day and night. If any noise is made, they will definitely be discovered and attract the police.

Although he doesn't have to worry about being caught, if he alerts the enemy, the medicinal herbs he wants may be diverted away.

It will be difficult to find it again then.

So, he must find it right the first time!
Thinking of a solution under this premise, the first thing he thought of was to use the sense of smell of Xuanfeng, the "divine transformation" master, after his transformation!

Medicinal materials are all air-dried, so it is difficult for their smell to spread out. You can only smell a little bit if you get close to them.

This requires a person with a good nose.

Although Chen Qing's [God] value has almost reached 3 and his five senses have become much sharper than those of ordinary people, he is still within the range of ordinary people.

His sense of smell was not enough to detect the scent of medicinal herbs stored in the warehouse on this street, so he could only rely on Xuanfeng, the master of "divine transformation".

As for whether Xuanfeng could ask the answer, he was actually not sure.

So, he has to verify it first.

"..."

Xuanfeng looked at the medicine bag that Chen Qing put in front of his nose and was speechless.

After a long while, he glared at Chen Qing fiercely and said through gritted teeth: "You really went too far this time! Do you think I'm a dog?! I'm a master of 'Divine Transformation' and you want me to help you find things like this! I——"

"To pay off a debt of five hundred."

Chen Qing's light words interrupted the angry Xuan Feng.

After hearing his words, Xuan Feng, who was extremely angry in the previous second, smiled in a friendly manner in the next second.

He took a deep sip of the medicine bag in front of him, and then exclaimed: "What a nice smell! I love the smell of these herbs the most. When I was in the mountains, I went into the mountains every day to collect herbs. I would feel uncomfortable if I didn't smell them for a day! Don't worry, Junior Brother, as long as there are these herbs on this street, I promise to help you find them!"

After saying that, he walked into the "Kangqiao Road" in front of him, closed his eyes, and began to concentrate on smelling the various smells emanating from the street.

(End of this chapter)