As An Immortal, I Only Learn Forbidden Skills

  Chapter 62 The Great Hermit in the Town

   "Master Zhang, congratulations!"

  Jiang Ming raised his wine bowl and raised it towards the happy old man.

   "Thank you, Lord Jiang, I have also invited you for this bowl of wine!"

  Old man Zhang grinned and said, he has been poor all his life, and today he is considered rich.

   "Hey, with these thirty taels of silver, Lao Zhang, you can open a small shop in the city..."

   "If you want me to say, build a big house in our town..."

  Many spectators chattered, imagining how to spend the thirty taels of silver.

  In a warm atmosphere, several elderly herb pickers had dim eyes, as if they remembered something...

  Jiang Ming walked to the corner of the counter, bumped a bowl with Old Jiang, and said in a low voice: "Master Jiang, do you know... this fire cloud grass appears frequently, what's the explanation?"

There was no joy on Old Jiangtou's face either. He heard the words and sighed: "When I was young, I heard from my parents that... when the fire cloud grass grows more and more, there will be a king of medicine born in the mountains. It is rumored that it can prolong life. , get rid of all diseases... I don’t know if there are more.”

   "But one thing is certain, once the King of Medicine appears, the herb collectors in Ping'an Town may be robbed again..." Old Jiang's eyes flashed a trace of worry.

   "King of medicine?" Jiang Ming pondered in his heart. Others didn't know how the fire cloud grass was born, but he saw it with his own eyes. It was created by the remnants of the failed transformation of the fire mayfly.

  The so-called king of medicine...could it be the successful transformation of the fire mayfly, where the purple root grass mutated?

   "I can't go into the mountain anymore..." Jiang Ming secretly said.

  Although he extremely doubts that the medicine king has anything to do with Xianyuan, he will not be dazzled by greed.

  Even Old Jiangtou knows these things... Maybe someone well-informed has gone into the mountains and started quietly looking for the so-called medicine king.

  He has a lot of time, at worst, wait and see, and wait a hundred years to find the next king of medicine...

  …

  In the next few days, Jiang Ming stayed in the town, tempering his tendons while teaching Zhou Wenxiu boxing at home.

  When this stupid girl's blood is not going well... go to Lao Jiangtou's tavern to sit for a while, and listen to the news of the southern war and the news related to Fire Cloud Grass.

   "Jiangnan Fucheng is a tough city. I heard that the Cangshan Army suffered a lot of casualties, and the city walls have not even been touched!"

   "Hey, I don't think it's very good. It is rumored that the family in the Jiangnan Mansion colluded with the Cangshan Army, and suddenly there is no movement..."

  …

  Nowadays, the major powers in Fucheng have branches in Pingan Town, and the news of these low-level villagers is much better than before.

  War news comes one after another...

  But for five or six days in a row, I haven't heard any news about Fire Cloud Grass.

  Until the seventh day, when Jiang Ming entered the tavern, he saw many drinkers blushing, as if they were celebrating something.

   His heart sank.

   Sure enough, a herb picker with flushed cheeks shouted excitedly: "Morning Jiang, today is another fire cloud grass, Xiao Jiang picked it..."

   "Hey, we herb pickers are finally getting rich..."

  Many herb pickers happily surrounded a young man in the middle of the tavern.

  Many people are gearing up and are ready to go to the mountains to do a lot.

   Three days later...

   "Two, two Fire Cloud Grass, Lao Tang and Qian Deaf both picked them..."

  In the tavern, even the drinkers who were not herb pickers became excited, and even a disabled person like Qian Deaf who dared not go into the mountains on weekdays got a plant. What are you waiting for...

  Although some elderly herb collectors were also celebrating, their eyes became darker and darker, as if they had a premonition of what was about to happen.

   "Master Jiang, I'm going back to Fucheng..." Jiang Ming sighed and slapped the money for the wine on the table.

  Old Jiang nodded knowingly: "You have to avoid it, I understand, I understand!"

  Jiang Ming is now considered to be a well-known and experienced herb collector in Pingan Town. If there is really a powerful force with a good background who comes to find the King of Medicine, he will probably be arrested as a young man...

  Jiang Ming sneered, his nickname Jiang Paopao is now well-known in the town...

   After going home and briefly explaining to Zhou Wenxiu, Jiang Ming packed his bags and left without delay.

  Although he is from Liehuzhuang, if the Cangshan Army came to invite him, or the forces outside the Dayun Mansion surpassed first-class warriors to arrest him, this background is useless...

   "Hello, Master Jiang!"

   "Master Jiang, where are you going?"

   "After fighting for so long, I have been suffocating in the mountains and fading out. Now that the city has settled down, I just saved some money and went to have fun for a few days..."

  In the town, Jiang Ming greeted people all the way, and walked in the direction of Dayunfu City, as if he was going to enjoy life in the city.

  …

   Dayunfu City.

   "Tiger Manor, Jiang Ming!"

  At the gate of the city, Jiang Ming took a photo with the officers and soldiers of the Shi family guarding the city, and walked in swaggeringly.

  There are more officers and soldiers on the street than in the past few days, conscription notices are posted everywhere, saying that the salary is generous and the future is promising, attracting desperate refugees or passionate young people who want to become princes and generals...

   "It's only a big defeat away from catching a strong man..." Jiang Ming muttered in his heart, walking unhurriedly, and walked into a secluded narrow alley unknowingly...

   A moment later, an ordinary-looking boy came out of the narrow alley and walked towards his small courtyard.

  Under a big tung tree, several old men are still playing chess.

   "Hey, Ah Sheng... why have you been there these few days?" An old man suddenly caught a glimpse of a figure and shouted immediately.

  Other old men also looked over one after another, and the old man Chen, who had a son of a warrior, yelled, "The Cangshan Army is enlisting soldiers on a large scale, and the pay is so high, Asheng, have you signed up..."

  The young man Asheng smiled wryly and shook his head: "Mr. Chen, don't be joking. With my small body, don't I go up to deliver food to the opposite party... These days I am afraid of being caught by a strong man, so I hid."

   "I see that the city is becoming more and more unsettled. I don't want to come back and clean up. I want to go to the countryside for a while. Maybe I can live by carpentry..."

   "Hey, you're young, you don't have much drive..." Old Chen looked regretful.

  An old man who was playing chess with him snorted coldly, clapped his legs and said, "I think Ah Sheng is very smart, this Cangshan army might be over at any time..."

   "No more!" Old man Chen suddenly said angrily, directly overturned the chessboard, and left with a gloomy face.

   "Tch, I won't brag about your warrior son this time..." An old man looked at Old Chen's back and sneered.

   "My lords, we will meet later!" As if he didn't see anything, Ah Sheng cupped his hands and turned back to his yard.

   After a while, the boy Asheng changed his clothes, carried a bulging bag, and carried a large box containing carpenter's tools, and strode away...

  At the gate of the city, when a soldier saw the young man, he immediately blocked the way and shouted, "Stop, what are you doing, where are you going?"

   "The young one is called Yu Asheng, and he took up some work in the countryside..." the young man said respectfully.

  The soldier stared at the boy for a moment, then said impatiently: "Go away, remember to come back!"

   "God, remember to come back..." Jiang Ming walked out of the city, speechless in his heart, wanting to wait for me to come back and catch me as cannon fodder, right?

   Thanks to the undefeated Cangshan Army, otherwise Jiang Ming would not dare to come back...

  …

   One day later, Ping An Town.

   "You can live here!" The potbellied Zhu Shichang, struggling to stuff a few taels of silver into his belt, casually pointed to a dilapidated small courtyard.

   "Okay, okay, thank you, sir!" Jiang Ming bowed again and again.

   Sending Zhu Shichang away, Jiang Ming looked at the small courtyard. He remembered that the previous owner was also a herb collector. After being captured by the imperial army and taken to the north as a doctor in the army, he never came back...

  Jiang Ming sighed softly, dropped the toolbox and luggage, and started to clean up the yard...

   "From today onwards, I am Yu Asheng, a carpenter..."

  (end of this chapter)