fairy cage

Chapter 222
After staying in the alchemy darkroom enshrined in Shouwu for a while, Yu Lie and Miao Mu came out with their beards and tails intact.

The shopkeeper on duty waiting outside the door saw the excited faces of the two, and immediately knew that the purpose of their trip should be achieved.

After Miao Mu went out, she bowed her hands to Yu Lie sternly and said, "Thank you brother Yu for this negotiation!"

Yu Lie replied politely: "Where."

Just now when he asked the Shouwu worshiper to provide the ground fire, the other party also made a request, that is, the other party just happened to be short of a coolie for alchemy recently, and needed multiple people to help.

The other party knew that Yu Lie was also an alchemist in the Qianlin Chamber of Commerce, so he asked Yu Lie to come directly to him.

Of course, wages are definitely not there.

As for Miaomu, the Shouwu priest also seemed to have sensed something from her, and also asked Miaomu to come to the workshop to take care of the medicinal materials for her.

Taking care of medicinal materials is much easier than burning fire to make alchemy, and Miao Mu is not a member of alchemy, and she doesn't know much about medicinal materials. This move can also increase her foundation, which is not a bad thing .

In fact, the same is true for Yu Lie. Although he said that he wanted to work as a coolie for the worship of the Shouwu, but the other party was an old alchemist, and being able to watch his alchemy process was also a learning opportunity for Yu Lie, and he was very happy.

"If Brother Yu didn't have this relationship, how could the Shouwu priest be so easy to talk about?" Miao Mu smiled.

The two of them were talking, and except for the key content being concealed, the rest were said directly, which made the shopkeeper on duty next to him hear it clearly.

When the shopkeeper saw that they not only got what they wanted in exchange, but also entered the big pharmacy to work for a period of time, his eyes were slightly startled, showing a thought-provoking look.

The man thought to himself: "Let these two work in the big pharmacy...

Shouwu enshrined this move, is it to make them compensate, or is it to compensate or value them specially?
"Since when did the priest become so easy to talk about?" He glanced at the faces of Yu Lie and Miao Mu, combined with the information he had inquired at the chamber of commerce yesterday, and immediately judged:

"These two are so young and have good cultivation, it must be the latter!"

Immediately, the smile on the shopkeeper's face became even brighter, and he happily sent the two of Yu Lie to the door.

At the entrance of the big pharmacy, Yu Lie did not return with Miao Mu, but said again:

"Miao Daoyou, you go back first, Pindao still has some chores in the workshop."

Because he wanted to help Shouwu worship alchemy, and the other party asked Yu Liebai to do the work, some utensils and the like, the other party might not provide them, and even if they did, they would not take advantage of them, so Yu Lie had better buy them himself.

But Yu Lie didn't want to show off his wealth by spending more than 100 spirit stones on the alchemy furnace in his pocket. Similarly, he didn't want to spend that unjust money to buy another one.

Fortunately, in the small pharmacy where he works, there are more than a few utensils he is used to.

He happened to pass by to pick it up directly, and the two pharmacies belonged to the Qianlin Chamber of Commerce, and they were in the same workshop, not far away.There is also Shouwu enshrining this big flag, and Yu Lieliang Jiucei and others dare not disagree.

Seeing what Yu Lie said, Miao Mu nodded in response after pondering for a moment: "Then I will go back first."

After all, she didn't delay any longer, bowed to Yu Lie, and hurriedly left the entrance of the big pharmacy to avoid violating the curfew.

At present, Yu Lie is still a member of the workshop, but Miao Mu is not. The former stays late, so he can stay overnight in the workshop, while the latter is an outsider. If he stays overnight, it will be quite troublesome.

Watching Miao Mu leave, Yu Lie turned his head and nodded towards the shopkeeper on duty in the big pharmacy, and was about to walk to the small pharmacy immediately.

But suddenly, the shopkeeper on duty took a step forward and said, "Wait a minute, Daoist Yu, since you want to go back to the inferior pharmacy to get some stuff, why don't you go to the poor pharmacy to accompany you? Save face for the poor Taoist priest, so as not to bother the Taoist priest."

He smiled with a very kind face, just like Yu Lie's uncle.

This is what the shopkeeper on duty said was reasonable, and the relationship between Yu Lie and the Taoist disciples of Jiuzai was not good in the first place.

The words of the shopkeeper on duty hit Yu Lie's heart, causing Yu Lie's eyelids to lift slightly, and he was about to respond with one gulp.

As a result, the shopkeeper on duty paused, and then said to himself:
"It's better... and this is the case. Since the Taoist chief wants to help the Shouwu worship, why not go over there to discuss with the poor, and directly reassign the position of the Taoist chief to our shop?"

These words made Yu Lie's eyes brighten and his heart moved.

Working in a low-grade small pharmacy is completely different from working in a high-end big pharmacy.

If Yu Lie had been admitted to the Taoist Palace, maybe he wouldn't care about this difference, but didn't he even take the exam now?Let's implement a good alchemy job first!
Therefore, Yu Lie showed a smile on his face, looked at the other party happily, and said, "This, this is really troublesome for the shopkeeper. Is this okay?"

The shopkeeper on duty saw it and understood that Yu Lie was moved.Immediately, he made a promise: "This is nothing troublesome. Daoist Yu is a good-looking talent. It is a good thing for our shop to come to work in our shop."

People carried people in a sedan chair, and Yu Lie immediately said: "The shopkeeper is still called 'Dao Chang', you call me brother Yu, just treat me as a junior."

"Don't dare, dare not." The shopkeeper on duty shook his head.

With the initiative of the other party, Yu Lie also expected to work in the big pharmacy in the future, and the relationship between the two suddenly became intense.

"This way please!", "This way please!"

The two walked all the way down to the pharmacy, and continued to exchange pleasantries along the way.

Among them, the on-duty shopkeeper first confirmed Yu Lie's age and how long he had been in Daocheng, and then began to insinuate, asking him about his relationship with Shouwu worship and how he got on the road.

When Yu Lie heard these words, he naturally wouldn't be one-sided, saying that he hadn't figured out what the relationship between his sister-in-law Luo Sen and Shouwu worship was.

He cherished words like gold, and only mentioned his sister-in-law, and vaguely hinted at the Taoist palace examination and the Taoist palace's recommendation letter.

When the shopkeeper on duty heard these words, his eyelids twitched, he suddenly felt enlightened, and thought to himself:
"That's how it is! These two are young, well-cultivated, and quite wealthy. The possibility of being admitted to the Taoist Palace is not ordinary!"

The smile on the face of the shopkeeper on duty was much brighter than before, and at the same time, there was joy in his eyes. He was glad that he didn't just let Yu Lie go directly, but took the initiative to post it to show his favor.

After a while, the two walked to the front of the inferior pharmacy.

But when they saw the pharmacy, they were taken aback.

Because they saw a dao boy who was unconscious, being dragged out of the pharmacy, and then lying on the aisle like a dead fish, not knowing whether he was dead or alive.

And in the doorway of the pharmacy, thick smoke was constantly leaking out, it seemed like it was on fire, but it was still a big fire!

The two walked over quickly, and hurriedly asked a few Taoist boys, but found that there was no fire in the workshop, but just refining elixir.

This remark made Yu Lie and the shopkeeper on duty feel inexplicable, so they didn't rush in, but stayed outside, grabbing a few Taoist boys and asking them carefully.

The Taoist boys shrank and didn't dare to say too much, but when there were too many people, you would talk to each other, especially someone who recognized Yu Lie and still explained the reason clearly.

It turned out that it was because the errands were tight, too many and too heavy, and the higher-ups urged the tasks urgently, Jiuxuan and the others did not dare to stop working, so they had to urge the Taoist boys in the pharmacy to refine for a while.

As a result, after many days, the entire pharmacy was smoky, and several pill furnaces were burnt and scrapped.

Such an environment made the already tired Taoists in the pharmacy even more uncomfortable.

Even though all of them have been cultivated, their bodies are stronger than ordinary beasts, but the charred smoke from the alchemy furnace is not the usual firewood smoke for cooking, but billowing thick smoke mixed with Sulfur, scorched rock, mercury vapour, plant toxins, etc. are strong and poisonous.

As a result, many Taoist boys, because of insufficient cultivation or lack of physical fitness, after a few days and nights without sleep, finally turned pale and fell into the billowing smoke and fishy smell.

Because the pharmacy was in full swing, these Taoist boys who fell to the ground were only discovered after a few cups of tea, and they suffered a lot. Today, there is another unlucky guy who has completely lost his life.

Knowing this, Yu Lie frowned slightly, guessing a deeper reason.

And the shopkeeper on duty next to him also frowned, and the other party was an old man, and he also vaguely guessed something.

So before Yu Lie provoked him, the shopkeeper on duty narrowed his eyes slightly and said with a sneer:

"Hmph! The Chamber of Commerce hired Dao Tong, and they didn't let them ruin it.

It seems that today is just a coincidence to accompany Fellow Daoist Yu. In the scene in front of us, either the fellow Daoist who assigned the task in the meeting did not consider the subordinates and dispatched them randomly, or the disciples below had other thoughts.Otherwise, it would be nothing more than normal medicine refining, no matter how urgent the task was, how could it be possible to exhaust the Daoist in the meeting to death. "

Without needing any extra details, this person said: "Let's go! Fellow Daoist Yu, you are familiar with this place, just pointing out to the poor Taoist, and checking the accounts with the poor Taoist!"

And on the way here, Yu Lie also specifically mentioned that he has not been in the workshop for a while, or hang out in the outer city, or retreat in a quiet room, and has never received a salary at all.

So hearing what the shopkeeper said, Yu Lie just showed surprise on his face, without any panic.

With the other party here today, he just happened to be able to expose the scheme of Jiu Xianbi and others, and completely get rid of the relationship.

It's just that Yu Lie glanced at the fainted Taoist boys around him, and sighed in his heart.

So his heart suddenly moved, and he whispered a few words in the ear of the shopkeeper on duty.

The other party pondered, nodded in agreement, and then did not choose to go in with great fanfare, but took out a charm from his sleeve, pinched it in his hand, and walked quietly into the pharmacy with Yu Lie.

………………

At this time, in this low-grade medicine workshop, Taoist Taoist Jiuzai and several colleagues were there, and they were also working overtime to cook the elixir.

"Cough, cough, cough!"

The workshop was filled with coughing and panting sound after wave, and it was everywhere.

But the three of Jiucena were indifferent when they heard it, they didn't feel any guilt in their hearts, they just felt that the Taoist boys were annoying.

When there was a little commotion, the three of them had a discussion, and the rosacea showed up again to clean up.

As a result, the rosacea was too lazy to take a few more steps to go out to see those Taoist boys, but stood in the room and shouted:

"Hurry up! Drag these trash snacks out. It's okay to fall, but it happened at this time, and I insisted on delaying the completion of the errands! These people's wages for the past few days will be halved first."

His few words were heard by the Taoist boys in the pharmacy, and everyone felt chilling and hated:

"When they wake up, let them continue to come and work. If you don't come, you won't even think about this month's wages! Ahem..."

After giving the order, Rosacea also coughed. He was choked by the billowing smoke, tears and snot came out.

But this guy was wiping his nose and still cursing: "Hurry up and work for the men! If you really miss the deadline, you will definitely be stripped of your skin! If you don't ask you to pay for it at that time, it will be regarded as kindness. "

After walking back to the place where he was staying, Jiuxuan quickly took out a cleansing talisman and a cleansing talisman from his sleeve, and blessed himself to make himself feel better.

It's just that now the whole pharmacy is full of smoke. Even if the place where the three of them stayed is better, it's not much better, and they still have to bear the smoke.

Moreover, the Taoist boys were only helping with alchemy, and the key alchemy process had to be done by a few of their disciples themselves, and the three of them could not be completely hands-off shopkeepers.

So he met the other two disciples again, and immediately cursed at him with his rosacea:
"It's unlucky! Delay Lao Tzu's business. Fortunately, one died today."

The two Taoists heard it, and none of them felt that the words of the rosacea were inappropriate, but someone asked, "How did you die?"

"This guy was unlucky. He fell into the wastewater of the alchemy furnace and drowned."

The Taoist who asked the question said fortunately: "No one did anything, as long as he died by himself. This matter will not implicate you and me, it will only be counted on the head of the chamber of commerce."

After talking for a while, the Taoist frowned again, and said, "By the way, more and more work has been distributed recently, and I have to find a way to evade it."

But another person responded: "How can I evade? I asked the steward above a few days ago, and I learned that the tasks sent to each room are calculated on a head-to-head basis. It may be a little too much, but it is not exceeding the standard. You The three of us are exhausted enough, but if it falls on the heads of four, it's okay, it's not like this."

These words made all three of them silent.

There is no other reason for the current situation, it is because the three of them withheld the rest of the letters privately, embezzled benefits and salaries, and emptied their pay, which made the superiors think that there were still four Taoists in the house, and that there were too many tasks.

Feeling so depressed, the Taoist with a rosacea nose immediately cursed:

"This Yu deserves to die! If I had known this, I should have ordered him directly and reported him as absconded and absent from work."

But these words, the three of them have said no less than six times in the workshop, and recently they even curse a few times every day, which is useless.

After cursing secretly for a while, the three of them could only continue to sigh and say: "After this period of time is over, go and order him."

"Let's endure it first, otherwise it will be exposed, and his share will not fall into our hands. Wouldn't it be a waste of work these days. By the way, those Taoist boys in the store need to be taken care of?"

Jiuxuan sneered: "What to do, there are plenty of ways to concoct them. In this pharmacy, we are God!"

After saying this, a sneer suddenly sounded in the smoke-filled workshop:
"Hey, good heavens!"

　Fill.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)