annihilation

Chapter 23 Collecting Herbs in the Mountains

Su Langzhong led Lu Yang away from Tianyang Town, walked through a dense forest, and came to the foot of a mountain.At first glance, there is nothing there except for a few thatched houses.These thatched houses are better than the place where they lived in Lu Mansion. At least the thatched houses are fairly solid, but they are not much better. After all, there are strong winds blowing at the foot of the mountain here. Lu Yang is really worried that the strong wind will blow The thatched cottage blows down.

In a blink of an eye, the two came to the thatched cottage. Langzhong Su smiled slightly and said, "Lu Yang! Are you wondering why a doctor like me lives in such a place?"

Lu Yang really hadn't thought about this question just now, it's really strange to think about it now.If Su Langzhong was just an ordinary doctor, he really didn't have much money, but he was still a fortune teller. Even if he only counted it once a year, if he met a rich family, three golds would be enough to build a courtyard.

Lu Yang didn't think it was because of the money, so he thought for a while and said, "Grandpa Su should like living in a thatched house."

Su Langzhong was startled for a moment, then laughed and cursed: "Only a fool likes to live in a thatched house! I'm not a fool."

Hearing this, Lu Yang was dumbfounded, and asked in confusion, "Grandpa Su, why is that?"

Su Langzhong sighed, his eyes were full of complexities, he took a deep breath, and said: "These days, there are a lot of poor people, I treat them, and sometimes I charge some copper coins, but most of the time not only do I not charge money, I also pay them money." It takes a lot of medicinal materials. Although these medicinal materials are all collected from the mountains, there is no cost, but there are too many patients, and I am not rich."

"What about fortune-telling! Should you be able to get a lot of money?" Lu Yang asked in a low voice.

Su Langzhong nodded, shook his head again, and said, "Fortune-telling is indeed very profitable, but I never tell fortunes for others."

Lu Yang was confused again, his eyes were full of doubts, and he couldn't help asking: "Since you don't tell fortunes for others, why do you still make such divinations?"

Su Langzhong raised his head to look at the sky, and said: "Fortune-telling is about the secrets of heaven. As the saying goes, secrets of heaven should not be leaked. If a person leaks too many secrets of heaven, he will be punished. Do you think I can tell fortunes for others casually? So Over the years, I've only counted once and haven't been charged lol...”

Lu Yang naturally knew that Naheren in Su Lang's words was referring to himself, and he was even more puzzled: "Grandpa Su, why do you want to tell my fortune, because I should be talented and suitable for learning medicine?"

"As I said just now, the heavenly secrets must not be leaked, as long as you know that I will not harm you." Su Langzhong obviously didn't want to say so much, and pointed to a thatched hut in the front right, "That room will be yours from now on, you Hold out your hand, I'll take a look at your body, and tell you what to do next."

Lu Yang stretched out his left hand, Su Langzhong looked at it for a while, and said, "You should have learned physical skills!"

"Well! I have learned a little bit, but I haven't cultivated my true strength yet." Lu Yang replied truthfully without hiding anything.

Su Langzhong liked Lu Yang's honesty very much, nodded in satisfaction, and said: "You already have a trace of true power in your body, although it hasn't been condensed together, if you can persist in practicing for more than an hour every day, you should be able to condense true power within three years. Strength cyclone, reaching the cultivation base of the early stage of the yellow rank."

Hearing this, Lu Yang showed ecstasy and said, "Really?"

"Not bad." Su Langzhong nodded, but the next sentence made Lu Yang very depressed, "Cultivate to the early stage of the Huang rank within three years, as long as one person can do it, do you still think your aptitude is good?"

"Ah!" Lu Yang lowered his head, like a defeated rooster, and said disappointedly, "My aptitude is so poor, and it seems that I can't reach a high level, so how can I avenge my mother?" Suddenly, he Thinking of something, he said again: "Grandpa Su, you said that you can kill people if you have cultivated medical skills to a very high level?"

Su Langzhong's face darkened, and he said sullenly: "Medical skills are for saving people, how can they kill people?"

Lu Yang shook his head. He had his own thoughts and said, "Grandpa Su, you are wrong."

"Am I wrong?" Su Langzhong asked, "Then tell me, where did I go wrong?"

Lu Yang replied: "If you treat ordinary people, it is indeed saving people. If you use medical skills to kill a bad person, isn't it the same as saving others in disguise?"

Su Langzhong was startled for a moment, and then he laughed loudly and said, "I didn't expect that you are quite smart, but I must remind you that you don't have any martial arts skills, so you must not use medical skills to kill people. This will not only affect your future reputation, but will also affect you." If you delay your cultivation, if you are hunted down, you will not even have a place to hide in the future. Because ordinary people hate doctors who sell fake medicines and put people to death, understand?"

Lu Yang nodded and assured: "Grandpa Su, please rest assured, I will not use medical skills to kill people indiscriminately except for my enemies."

Su Langzhong touched Lu Yang's body for a while, sometimes smiling and sometimes frowning, but he didn't say a word.After a while, he said: "From now on, I will practice martial arts for an hour every morning, and then go with me to the mountains to collect herbs. In the evening, I will boil out the medicinal juice for you to soak, three hours a day. If I go out to practice medicine, you will stay at home and read the pharmacopoeia. Is there a problem?"

Lu Yang thought about it for a while and thought it was okay, nodded and said, "Grandpa Su, I can do it."

Su Langzhong led Lu Yang to the kitchen and said, "Can you cook?"

"This..." Lu Yang really doesn't know how to cook. He only knows how to cook, but he has never done it once.

Su Langzhong frowned, but did not blame Lu Yang, and said in a commanding tone: "From today on, I will teach you how to cook, and I will leave the cooking to you in the future."

In the early morning of the next day, as soon as the sky turned pale, Lu Yang got up to practice Taishuquan.

With every punch, Lu Yang used all his strength to punch, as if he was hitting the person he hated the most.

An hour later, Lu Yang finished his training, simply washed his face, and started cooking.

Lu Yang learned how to make porridge, and it didn't burn the first time, which made him wonder, do I have an amazing talent in cooking?This idea is just fleeting, no matter how good the cooking talent is, Lu Yang can't become a chef, and he can't go to Lu's house with a kitchen knife to avenge his mother in the future!

During breakfast, Su Langzhong nodded in satisfaction and said, "It tastes good. I'll teach you how to make some side dishes later."

After eating, Su Langzhong took Lu Yang to the nearby mountains. This is a large mountain range with endless peaks, and the edge cannot be seen at a glance.The mountain is covered with dense trees, those ancient trees are as thick as the bodies of several adults.It was autumn at this time, the leaves were withered and falling, and the ground was covered with a thick layer, and the feet stepped on it, making a crisp sound.

When he came to the halfway up the mountain, Su Langzhong searched in the woods with a solemn expression. He told Lu Yang the common sense of finding herbs while walking, and Lu Yang also took notes carefully.

After walking for a while, Su Langzhong stopped. He bent down and brushed aside a piece of weeds, and said to Lu Yang, "Did you see that, this medicinal material is called Polygonum multiflorum, which likes sun and tolerates half shade. Only the soil can grow.” As he said, he took out a medicine shovel from the medicine basket, gently dug up the surrounding soil, and immediately dug out a huge Polygonum multiflorum.

Su Langzhong held the Polygonum multiflorum in his hand, carefully looked at the leaves and the appearance of the fruit, and immediately became ecstatic, and said: "I never thought that! I was so lucky that I found a century-old Polygonum multiflorum. Even if it is placed in the world of cultivating , that is also a rare medicinal material." As he spoke, he carefully placed the Polygonum multiflorum in the medicine basket.

Lu Yang frowned, and quickly asked, "Grandpa Su, are there really powerful immortals in this world?"

"There should be!" Su Lang hesitated, as if he didn't want Lu Yang to know about the world of cultivating immortals.

Lu Yang didn't give up, and continued to ask: "What does it mean? Is there any?"

"I don't know if there are any, but I have heard a lot of legends about the world of cultivating immortals, and I know the classification of some medicinal materials in the world of cultivating immortals. I think there should be immortals." Lang Su paused, and then changed the subject, "However, there are It has nothing to do with us if there are no immortals, the world of immortals is too far away, even if you want to become an immortal now, it is impossible, let's talk about it after practicing good physical skills!"

Lu Yang didn't continue to ask, but followed Su Langzhong, and continued to walk deep into the woods.

Along the way, Lu Yang learned a lot and got to know a lot of medicinal materials.

Su Lang dug out another herb, which was similar to ginger, but much bigger than ginger. He handed it to Lu Yang and said, "This is Huang Jing, and it's over ten years old. It's a rare good thing. After taking it, It can strengthen the muscles and bones, benefit the essence, and nourish the essence. When you see it in the future, remember to dig some more back.”

Lu Yang was a little speechless, and said depressedly: "Grandpa Su, is Huang Jing easy to dig?"

"It's rare to see for more than a hundred years, but you can still find a lot of sealworts that have been around for more than a few years." Su Langzhong pointed to the mountain forest directly in front of him, and said slowly, "There are quite a few in this mountain range. Come and walk around. It’s best to look for medicinal materials while reading a book, but when you go up the mountain, you need to apply ointment to repel mosquitoes and poisonous snakes.”

In this way, the two went up the mountain to collect medicinal materials for a day, and when the sky became dark, they returned to the thatched hut at the foot of the mountain.

Before coming to the thatched hut, Su Langzhong took a few thick pharmacopoeias and asked Lu Yang to make dinner, and then took the medicinal materials to boil the medicine.

After dinner, Su Langzhong brought Lu Yang to a house, the house was so closed that not even a fly could fly in.Under the light of the oil lamp, Lu Yang saw a large wooden barrel as tall as a person placed in the center of the room. The barrel was emitting heat. After smelling it a few times, he was surprised to find that there was more than half of the barrel of medicine in the barrel.

Lu Yang looked at Su Langzhong in surprise, then at the wooden barrel, and asked in a low voice, "Grandpa Su, how long will I drink so much potion?"

Su Langzhong glared at Lu Yang, and said angrily, "You can't drink so much Chinese medicine for three days."

"I heard that after the traditional Chinese medicine is brewed, it will go bad if you don't drink it at that time. What should I do?" Lu Yang spread his hands, expressing that he couldn't finish it in a short time.

Seeing Lu Yang's expression like this, Su Lang became furious, and shouted angrily: "You forgot what I said yesterday. I let you soak for three hours, not to drink."

Lu Yang thought about it, Su Langzhong did say such a thing yesterday, nodded and said: "It's just soaking, don't you need to drink medicine?"

"No need." Su Langzhong waved his hand and said, "Drinking the medicine will take a long time to take effect, so you can just use it to take a bath in the future."

Lu Yang was not a pretentious person either, he took off his clothes and jumped into the wooden barrel to soak. The water temperature was just right and it was indescribably comfortable.

Su Langzhong nodded in satisfaction, and left the room. After closing the door, he muttered to himself in a voice that only he could hear: "Little guy, it's really cheap for you. I've spent half my life collecting these precious herbs. .If it weren't for you being her child, I wouldn't help you like this, it's too troublesome."