Pushing martial arts horizontally: starting from depriving the mantis shrimp of its talent

Chapter 61
I had breakfast on the roadside and asked the stall owner where in Corning City the most abundant medicinal materials were available.

After getting a name, Chen Cheng walked through several streets and finally stopped in front of an antique attic with a strong medicinal smell.

"Quanyao Zhai?"

Looking at the large gilded characters on the door plaque, Chen Cheng stepped in.

It was indeed a big pharmacy as the stall owner said. People were coming and going in the attic, and various apprentices were wandering among the medicine cabinets, taking out the corresponding medicinal materials from the drawers according to the prescriptions.

Soon, the person in front of Chen Cheng took the medicine bag and left, and it was his turn.

"This guest, what kind of medicine do you want to grab?"

The apprentice behind the cabinet asked with a smile on his face.

Chen Cheng handed over a piece of paper.

"Do you have any of the medicinal materials here?"

The apprentice picked up the paper and glanced at it from top to bottom, said to him a moment, then walked to the back and said something to an old pharmacist.

Not long after, I saw the old pharmacist walking up in person and said with a smile
"Among the things the guests want, there are some very unpopular medicines. Very few people usually ask for them, so the apprentice doesn't know about them."

"However, these medicine stores do have them."

After saying that, the old pharmacist pointed out several medicine cabinets to the apprentice standing behind him, handed Chen Cheng's prescription to him, and saw the other person quickly running to grab the medicine with the prescription in hand.

The old pharmacist turned his head and asked curiously while the apprentice was grabbing the medicine.

"The guest's accent sounds a bit familiar to me. It sounds like the accent from Fuzhou Prefecture, but also a bit like the accent from Huiyun Prefecture."

Chen Cheng was a little surprised in his eyes.

He is indeed from Fuzhou Prefecture. Due to a drought a few years ago, there was no harvest in the fields. In desperation, the whole family had to rush to a nearby big city.

At that time, I thought that since the drought was so serious, the government would open warehouses to release grain and go all out to provide disaster relief.

But the reality is that this is not the case. Instead, grain dealers take the opportunity to raise grain prices, and the entire household cannot afford a bucket of rice.

Along the way, the whole Fuzhou Prefecture was like this, people were starving for thousands of miles, and people were competing for food.

His whole family fell on the way to escape. Seeing that there was no way to survive in Fuzhou Prefecture, he could only go to Huiyun Prefecture alone. In the end, he ate unknown plants because he was too hungry and collapsed outside Wangjiang City while spitting out bubbles. .

After that, it was about awakening the wisdom from the previous life and coming to Wangjiang.

Chen Cheng nodded.

"I am indeed from Fuzhou Prefecture. Because I fled to Huiyun Prefecture, that's why my accent is like this."

Hearing this, the old pharmacist suddenly understood and a smile appeared on his face.

"That's when I met a fellow countryman."

Seeing Chen Cheng's puzzled look, the old pharmacist explained
"I also escaped from the drought in Fuzhou Prefecture a few years ago, but you went to Huiyun Prefecture, and I came to Huaiyang Prefecture. I don't know how many people died in that drought."

Chen Cheng was a little sad when he heard this.
"Yeah, that drought was so bad."

Unexpectedly, the smile on the old pharmacist's face disappeared when he heard this sentence, and he snorted coldly.

"Serious? Haha! My old man has lived for six to seventy years. He has seen droughts more serious than this several times, but he has never seen more people die than this one."

Chen Cheng was stunned and frowned.

"How to say?"

Although several years had passed, the old pharmacist was still furious when he thought about it. He was a member of a large family at his age, and many of his sons and grandsons had died on the way to escape. "When droughts occurred in the past, although the government's response was slow, they would eventually provide relief. Although the rice porridge for disaster relief was a little thin, people could still survive."

"What about this time? Not only is the porridge gone, but the drought has lasted for so long, and there isn't even a single official to come out to provide relief."

"Most of the disaster victims in this government died of starvation on the way out because the government failed to provide disaster relief!"

When they talked about this topic, both of them felt heavy.

But soon, the heavy atmosphere was broken. The apprentice came back with medicine, packed each medicine separately, and finally came back with a large stack of medicine bags.

"The old man said a bit too much. Guest, the medicinal materials you requested are ready."

Chen Cheng nodded and handed over a banknote and a piece of silver.

The old pharmacist first checked the silver note, then took out a special small scale and weighed the piece of silver.

After cutting off a piece with scissors, he weighed it again, and after confirming that the number was correct, he returned the remaining silver corner.

Chen Cheng walked out of the Quan Yao Zhai with a large bag of medicinal materials, exhaled a breath of turbid air, then went to other places to buy a bunch of metal minerals, and finally returned to the Huang family's branch in Corning.

"The only support a person has is himself."

"Whether the drought is a natural disaster or a man-made disaster, strength will ultimately speak for itself."

Putting aside the complicated thoughts in his heart, Chen Cheng opened the medicine packets. Each small medicine packet had a piece of paper with the name of the medicine and the amount written on it.

Chen Cheng bought so many medicines this time, including Po Feng Claw and Hunyuan Ru Yi Shen's Ning Jin prescription, and the prescriptions for taking the medicine were also out of order.

Separate the medicinal materials of the two martial arts, and then prepare them strictly according to the proportions of the Ningjin prescription.

Chen Cheng looked at the finished Hunyuan Ruyi Body's second layer of Ningjin prescription powder and felt relaxed. The medicine he bought this time was enough to practice two martial arts for a month, and he would not be delayed even on his way back.

"Finally I can improve my strength again!"

During this period, more powerful demons appeared again, and what else caused the government to fail to act. All this made Chen Cheng feel very panicked.

"Practice martial arts! You must practice martial arts!"

"Only a surge in strength can make me feel at ease, and only a stronger fist can make me sleep peacefully."

"No matter who it is, whoever makes me feel uneasy, I will beat him to death!"

The caravan did not stay too long after arriving in Kangning. Four days later, the caravan unloaded the jade brocade it brought, and the empty carriage was refilled with specialties from Huaiyang Mansion. Then the horses started walking with heavy steps. Return trip.

This time, because a demon appeared on the original road, the cautious Huang Ji did not choose to return to the original road, but took a detour.

Although the detour was a bit longer, everyone in the caravan had no objections and no one wanted to encounter the monster again after going back.

Twenty days later, a group of people with stubbled faces appeared on the dock on the west side of Wangjiang City.

Chen Cheng watched everyone unloading the specialties brought back from Kangning off the boat. Huang Ji said something to Huang Gui who came over, and then saw Huang Gui walking towards him with a smile and grabbing one of his hands enthusiastically. hand.

Chen Cheng was not used to it. Just as he was about to pull his hand back, he felt a package stuffed in his palm.

The moment he took it, Chen Chengcheng felt the feel of the banknote, and his arm that was about to withdraw suddenly stopped.

Huang Gui said gratefully

"Thank you, Brother Chen! Captain Huang told me, no one expected to encounter such things as demons and ghosts on the road. If it weren't for you, I might not be able to come back."

"This is the reward we agreed on before, and I've added some extra. Don't be dissatisfied."

(End of this chapter)