longevity road trip

Chapter 23 Tea

After sending off the yellow-faced old man, Zhang Shiping slowly returned to Biyuan Mountain. He looked a little lonely, sitting alone in the courtyard where the yellow-faced old man usually sat on the armchair, looking at the blue sky and white clouds through the bamboo leaves.

The chair made of green bamboo, after more than ten years or even decades, has changed from the original turquoise to the current brownish yellow, and the armrest of the chair is very smooth.

After all, there is no feast that never ends in this world.

When Lin Zhiqi left, he also took a jade card from Zhang Shiping, and said with a smile that when he became the ancestor of Yuanying in the future, he would ask his own descendants to look for it, so that he would not forget it.

Zhang Shiping even said that he must remember, but he just took it as a joke in his heart, now that he hasn't even established a foundation, what is he talking about Nascent Soul?
There should be 3 or [-] Qi-refining monks under the Zhengyang sect, but the number of foundations is only about [-], and Jindan real people are even less than ten fingers. There is only one Wang Laozu, Changshen Zhenjun.

He doesn't have such big delusions, and foundation building is the most important thing right now.

The bamboo leaves are fluttering, and the cool breeze is blowing.

Lying on the bamboo chair, Zhang Shiping slowly closed his eyes, playing with a jade token in his hand.

On the front of the jade tablet is a character "Zhang", on the back it says "Little Ape Mountain", with cloud patterns carved all around, it was carved by him when he was young, with a carving knife bigger than his little hand, so this jade tablet The cards are only engraved and barely readable.The jade tablet that Lin Zhiqi took away was similar to it.

After a long time, another bamboo leaf swirled and landed on Zhang Shiping's cheek. He opened his eyes, picked up the green and yellow bamboo leaf, put it in front of his eyes, and looked at the sky.

Then he smoothed it out and threw it casually, and the fallen leaf passed through another fallen leaf in mid-air.

The remaining momentum continued, the bamboo leaf deeply plunged into a green bamboo seven or eight feet away, and the other fallen leaf turned into two identical pieces in the air, swaying and falling to the ground.

But Zhang Shiping didn't even look at it. He picked up the book on tea tree planting presented by old man Lin and read it word by word.

When he reached the end of the page, he put down the book and sighed, "The old man wrote it in great detail. As expected of an old man who has been playing with tea trees for decades, he really has a hand."

Right now, the old man has delivered all the [-] catties of first-class spiritual tea in Biyuan Mountain Baicao Garden this year, so there is not much left for Zhang Shiping to do.What is left to him is the task of second-class spiritual tea and third-class spiritual tea.

After putting down the books, Zhang Shiping got up and went to the second-order spiritual tea garden with the imperial weapon.

Seeing that the tea tree was growing very well, Zhang Shiping couldn't help grinning, it was true that the predecessors planted the tree and the descendants enjoyed the shade.

These second-order spiritual teas are picked in spring, preferably in the early morning after the continuous spring rain. The quality of the produced spiritual tea is the best, and the taste is the most fragrant.

Then he went around to other places, and after he had cleared up the many matters on Biyuan Mountain and arranged them, it was already evening and sunset, when the tired birds returned to their nests.

At this moment, Zhang Shiping just returned to the room in the small courtyard, meditating and practicing Qi, and was speechless all night.

In the next three or four days, he read the two books two or three times and began to study them.

At the same time, out of habit, he saved all the original text of the book and his own insights into the jade slips.

As for the three spells of spring rain, lily needle, and soil-turning about Xianzhi, Zhang Shiping practiced them for five days and mastered them all. , practice is not difficult.

In addition, Zhang Shiping studied the two prescriptions that the old man left for him. In the first one, except for some second-order spiritual tea leaves, the other medicines are not needed much, and they are all common medicinal materials.The other recipe is about the preparation method of the first-order spiritual tea elixir, using the spiritual tea leaves from the No. [-] tea garden. Of course, if the first-order spiritual tea is used, the medicinal effect is naturally far inferior to that of the second-order spiritual tea.

This kind of low-level elixir does not need to use lava ground fire, nor does it need to build a foundation with innate real fire, it only needs to use silver carbon fire made of spiritual wood.

After reading it, he felt itchy and wished he could start alchemy directly. He immediately turned up the storage bag, and then patted his forehead, only to realize that he didn't have an alchemy furnace, so he immediately drove the flying magic weapon to a distance of more than a hundred miles. Fangshi.

The square city is called Yunjinfang City, which is only one-third the size of Baitaifang City. He visited three shops and chose a first-tier mid-grade alchemy furnace.

The price of this middle-grade alchemy furnace is about the same as that of ordinary first-grade top-grade instruments. Fortunately, there are spirit stones given by the family, otherwise he can only buy spirit stones after selling second-grade spirit tea next year.

As for why he didn't go to Baitaifang City, Zhang Shiping couldn't help feeling cold when he thought of the previous events, and he also guessed the reasons, but they were nothing more than those kinds.

One is Baoruizhai’s idea of ​​making money, but it’s not very likely. In such a big shop, you don’t know how many spirit stones you buy every day, and if you want your own life, there are foundation-building monks in their shop, so you can run away anyway. not drop.

The second is that I don't know when I was marked.

It's just that Zhang Shiping didn't know that the green worm had been thrown off when he was fighting with the three of them, so the two behind them misunderstood.Otherwise, he might be in trouble this time.

After the injury improved, he checked it up and down, but found nothing abnormal.And because the sky was too dark that day, he couldn't see the faces of the other party clearly.

It was also fortunate that there was no green worm, otherwise the two of them would keep up, Zhang Shiping who fainted would not survive tomorrow with a hundred lives.

The third is that he was unlucky, and happened to be met by the three of them, and he became malicious.

But no matter what, Zhang Shiping didn't want to go to Baitaifang City anymore, there were still those two monks there, if they met, if they were in the dark and he was in the light, and he capsized in the gutter, wouldn't he be very wronged!

There are also many square cities around here, so I don't have to go to Baitaifang City.I've only heard of being a thief for a thousand days, so there's no reason to guard against thieves for a thousand days.

Zhang Shiping bought an alchemy stove from Yunjinfang City, and Zhang Shiping paid attention all the way, and soon returned to Biyuan Mountain Baicao Garden.

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This is a half-person-high alchemy furnace with three legs and a whole body of copper. There are two lenses with simple and elegant lines, without too much decoration.

Zhang Shiping put the spirit wood silver charcoal under the alchemy furnace, emitted a ball of fire, ignited it, and then touched the furnace body. Seeing that the temperature was about the same, he opened the top cover of the alchemy furnace. Put it into the alchemy furnace.

After finishing all this, he held the hand formula, changed the gestures of both hands, and drew out a fire snake with a thick wrist and a thick thumb from the fire at the bottom of the furnace. The fire snake with a thick wrist was like a dragon coiled around the belly of the pill furnace, tightly Clinging to it, the fire snake with a thick thumb hovers in the alchemy furnace from the fire inlet, refining the incoming medicinal materials.

At the same time, he kept paying attention to the pill furnace with his spiritual sense, carefully cleaned up all the impurities in the medicine in the pill furnace, and slowly blended it into the spiritual energy, refining it into a small ball of yellow-green essence.

Seeing this, he immediately put in the second medicinal material. After refining, he tried to blend the essence of the two elixir together as mentioned in the pill recipe, but he didn't want to suddenly feel a rush of anxiety coming from the pill furnace. Stinky, plumes of black smoke came out from the mouth of the furnace top.

Zhang Shiping sighed with an ugly face, and then extinguished the fire.

He was thinking about which link went wrong, he had just started alchemy, and there was only one main drug in the alchemy formula, and seven auxiliary drugs, so he only put in two kinds of medicinal materials.

After carefully thinking about the process step by step just now, he found that he seemed to have too many thoughts and too many complicated thoughts, the control of his spiritual consciousness was unstable, and the carbon fire in the pill furnace was not well controlled, causing the essence of the medicinal liquid to be directly scorched by the fire.

After the pill furnace cooled down, he opened it and saw that there was only a layer of burnt black lumps and some powder inside the pill furnace. He took them all out and put them in a wooden box. After these charred objects were turned into powder, It can be put into the soil and used as fertilizer for tea trees.

After cleaning up, he took a deep breath and started alchemy for the second time.

　I'm such a stubborn person, I only see those who can post chapters on a regular basis.Try to see if this chapter can be posted regularly.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)