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Chapter 31 Herbs
Xiaocui was holding a thick booklet, Huaying got up to take it, and took a closer look.

"The Complete Book of Diligent Pesticides and Medicinal Herbs".

Huaying frowned, then opened the book and began to read.

Not long after, she opened her brows and said with joy, "This book is very good! Not only does it contain illustrations and illustrations of many medicinal herbs, it also contains some wild vegetables and fruits with certain medicinal value, which is very useful!"

"Sister Erya, can you use this book?" Xiao Cui asked from the side.

"Xiaocui, thanks to you, this book happens to be useful to me." Huaying nodded, thanking her, "I wonder if Uncle has used these books on weekdays, if not, can you lend them to me for a while?"

"Sister Erya, take it as soon as possible. Daddy can't come to the study a few times in a month or two. I'll tell him when Daddy comes back."

"Since that's the case, thank Uncle for me! I'll come down the mountain to bring Uncle some wild animals in the mountains again some other day! It's also good for Uncle's kindness to borrow books."

Huaying was overjoyed, hugged a few books tightly in her arms, and immediately stopped keeping any more, bid farewell to Xiaocui, then got up and left.

Trot all the way, walk back to the mountain.

First, I went to say goodbye to my master and senior sister, and then I went back to my room, lying on the bed, and formally flipped through the "Complete Book of Diligent Pesticides and Herbs".

The pages of this book are extremely thick, about hundreds of pages, and each page is accompanied by simple illustrations of various herbs and plants in addition to the text, plus the author's own notes and detailed explanations, it can be described as detailed and comprehensive. Complete.

Huaying only looked through for a while, and found many herbs that she was familiar with.Among them, a medicinal herb that was included in the book even though it was a wild vegetable caught her attention.

Amaranth, dried for medicine.

"Hey, it turns out that this donkey's purslane is not just a wild vegetable, but also has this kind of use."

Huaying was quite surprised. She thought that what she ate was just ordinary wild vegetables in the mountains, but when she looked at it now, she found something different.

"Could it be that the reason why the purslane is more effective than other vegetables is because it contains a certain medicinal power?"

What is medicinal power, Huaying doesn't quite understand, she only knows that no matter what kind of herbs are expensive, and the dried medicinal materials are even more expensive, compared with them, wild vegetables and fruits are worthless.

Could it be that the more expensive and rare a plant is, the more useful it is for cultivation?
Huaying guessed in her heart.

"It seems that we have to wait for the herbs in the medicine garden to mature before conducting another test. If the herbs are more effective than ordinary vegetables and wild fruits, we must find a way to grow more."

With an idea in mind, Huaying spent the next few days observing the growth situation in the medicine garden every day.To her surprise, the herbs in this medicine garden grew much slower than the vegetables in that vegetable garden.

According to the growth speed of green vegetables, it usually matures in half a day or at most one day after planting, but it takes three to five days for these herbs to start to grow leaves, and it takes seven or eight days for them to show signs of maturity. It has been more than half a month since the level of picking described in this book can be picked.

On this day, Huaying was squatting in the medicine garden in Yupei space, stroking a green herb with one hand, and holding a book in the other, comparing them back and forth, and finally said to herself:

"It took half a month to grow into a one-year medicinal herb. According to the book, the value of the medicinal herb is that the longer the age, the better. Generally, three-year-old or five-year-old medicinal herbs can reach the medicinal standard after being dried. One-year Herbs, I'm afraid they don't have much potency."

Nowadays, most of the herbs in the medicine garden have just reached the level of one year, and some grow slowly or even less than one year. Among them, the growth rate of asparagus oleracea is faster, which seems to be due to its low medicinal value.

There is no rush in farming, and it is difficult to come to a conclusion in a short period of time, and Huaying is not in a hurry.

For the next few days, she continued to practice taking purslane, and the daily dosage was very stable.Three times in the morning, noon and evening, one dose is about one handful, and it is very convenient to take with warm water.

Compared with practicing without taking anything, it can increase the internal strength by about [-]%.

Huaying counted with her fingers. If she continued to practice at the current speed, it would take about nine months to practice the kung fu to the second level.

Nine months, the premise is that you can't stop taking the purslane, otherwise I'm afraid it will take a year or two to practice.

And according to the statement in "Hunting Jue", it only takes about four months for people with medium aptitude to practice this skill to reach the second level.

As a result, even though Gushi Huaying took purslane, it was still difficult to compare with the cultivation speed of people with medium aptitude.

"If you want to speed up, it seems that you still have to rely on other herbs." Huaying compared the two, and couldn't help being a little disappointed with her waste material qualifications.

However, she was not discouraged. After all, there was still hope. As long as she continued to study, she would definitely be able to find a medicinal material that was very suitable for cultivation.

Ever since, in the next few days, Huaying's daily activities have been repeated in a cycle of training, farming, eating, and sleeping.

It's not boring at all, occasionally she will go up the mountain to play with her senior sisters, and take a look to see if there are any strange herbs growing, and pick them back and plant them when they see them.

As for the master of the two, after returning that day, he did not go out again, and stayed in the room all day concentrating on cultivation, and occasionally taught the two disciples some questions about cultivation.

The years on the mountain are very peaceful, and it seems that there is no more waves.

half year later.

It is midsummer.

Unlike the scorching heat at the bottom of the mountain, the forest huts in the mountains are like summer resorts. Occasionally, a gust of mountain wind blows through, bringing incomparable coolness to the bamboo forest.

It was noon at this time, and Qin Xiangzhi ran down from the mountain, holding a lively rabbit in her hand, sweating like rain, and her clothes were beaten through, she laughed and walked to a door, gently Tap.

"Junior Sister, don't sleep, let's go play in the mountains."

However, after half a day, there was no movement in the room.

"Hey, can't you really fall asleep?" Qin Xiangzhi didn't wait for a response for a while, and couldn't help but feel a little puzzled. After hesitating for a moment, she stretched out her hand and gently opened the door.

Looking inside, the windows in the room were closed, and there was no sign of anyone on the bed.

"Strange, Junior Sister is not in the room, so where did she go?"

Qin Xiangzhi didn't find Huaying's shadow, so she had no choice but to ask suspiciously, and turned around and left the room with the rabbit in her hand.

After she left, about half an hour later, a white-haired girl appeared on the bed out of nowhere, holding a pile of green weed-like objects in her arms.

"Phew, these should be enough for the next few days. You have to break through the second layer quickly."

(End of this chapter)