Chapter 48, Goodbye Gu Jinfan
Chapter 48, Goodbye Gu Jinfan
Eunuch Lu was eager to break through the fourth level and become a fifth-level warrior. After knowing that Hua Changxi could refine medicine, he asked him to wait in the yard. He went out for a while and soon brought back three sets of medicinal materials for refining Tongmai Pills.
These medicinal materials are not discarded, but intact medicinal materials that have been processed.
Hua Changxi was not surprised that Eunuch Yu could use some discarded medicinal materials. After all, they were discarded. Whether they were taken away by merchants for disposal or misappropriated by the managers below, it would not harm the interests of the superiors, and the superiors would not care too much.
However, what Eunuch Lu could embezzle were the prepared medicinal materials, which had to be handed over to the medicine warehouse.
Hua Changxi was a little surprised. He was just a manager in the chores hall, yet he was the top leader. Did he have so much power?
Although she was frightened, Hua Changxi did not ask about the source of the medicinal materials. She played her role wisely. She was just a small alchemy servant who followed orders.
This was the first time that Eunuch Lu saw Hua Changxi making medicine. Looking at her skillful and fluent technique, he respected Hua Changxi even more.
This Hua Changxi's attainments in alchemy were even more profound than he had imagined.
She is familiar with the properties of medicinal herbs, can detoxify and refine medicine. Not to mention the apprentices in the Apprentice Hall, even the prospective disciples in the Disciple Hall may not be able to compare with her.
Such a person must have some ulterior motive for coming to the menial hall to work as a handyman.
Eunuch Lu thought about this and had already made up his mind that he must ask Steward Leng to keep a closer eye on Hua Changxi in the future.
One portion of medicinal materials can be used to refine 10 Tongmai Pills. With three portions of medicinal materials, Hua Changxi can refine 30 Tongmai Pills. Without waiting for Eunuch Lu to say anything, she took 12 pills on her own and then handed the remaining 18 pills to him.
Seeing this, Eunuch Lu looked a little unhappy, but seeing that the medicinal materials Hua Changxi used to refine medicine were nearly half less than those used by the Medical Bureau, he didn't say anything.
"You can go back to work. When you need to make medicine, I will send someone to notify you."
Hua Changxi took the elixir and left. After returning to the sixth bureau, he went to find Du Ruo and said, "Manager Du, Eunuch Lu has taken back his promise to assign me more tasks. I will still clean 500 herbs in the future."
Du Ruo knew that Hua Changxi had gone to Eunuch Lu early in the morning. Hearing her say this, he just said "hmm" faintly: "The Miscellaneous Affairs Hall cannot tolerate people who are too smart. You can take care of yourself."
Hua Changxi did not agree with Du Ruo's idea, but he also knew that she said it with good intentions, so he did not argue with her and turned to go to the warehouse to get the herbs.
When he was about to approach the warehouse, Hua Changxi saw several people walking out of the warehouse. His face suddenly changed and he quickly dodged and hid behind the cart next to him.
After those people walked away, Hua Changxi walked out from behind the cart with a serious expression.
is her!
The young lady who was fighting with the red-robed demon for the red stone on the altar!
"Brother Yu!"
Hua Changxi walked towards Yu Hui and asked curiously, "Brother Yu, who were those people just now? I think the people in the warehouse seemed a little afraid of them."
Yu Hui did not hide it: "They are from the No. 1 Pharmacy on Second Street. The young lady in the lead is Gu Jinfan, the new disciple of Pharmacist Tong, the seventh lady of the Xin Guo Mansion."
Hua Changxi's eyes flickered: "It turns out to be the young lady from the Duke's Mansion."
The Hua family and the Duke Xin's Mansion have nothing to do with each other, so why does Gu Jinfan know her?
Yu Hui continued: "Chang Xi, I heard that Gu Jinfan is also very good at refining medicine. Pharmacist Tong is one of the most powerful pharmacists in the Medical Department, and all of his disciples are masters of refining medicine."
Hua Changxi didn't care much about this. What she cared about was: "Brother Yu, aren't there special people delivering medicinal materials to the various medicine shops on Second Street? Why did they come to the warehouse in person?"
Speaking of this, Yu Hui's face suddenly became serious: "Sister Changxi, tell me the truth, what are those withered herbs you took away before?"
Hua Changxi did not reply but asked: "Are they here to look for those dried herbs?"
Yu Hui looked at her and nodded: "Yes, Pharmacist Tong is the pharmacist in the Medical Department who is most enthusiastic about researching new drugs. Whenever a new drug arrives in the Medical Department, a copy will be sent to him."
"Didn't the people from Sancha Medicine Store escort a batch of medicinal herbs here yesterday? Among them were two baskets of the dried herbs you wanted. I don't know where they got the information, but when they came here today, they directly asked me for that dried herbs."
"I was planning to give you those two baskets of dried herbs today, but now they have all been taken away."
"By the way, Gu Jinfan also asked me how I dealt with the dried herbs in the past."
Hearing this, Hua Changxi's expression tensed: "Then how did you respond?"
Yu Hui: "Of course I mean, treat it as discarded medicinal material." After a pause, he tried again, "Sister, what exactly is that medicinal material?"
Hua Changxi looked at him: "That's a new medicine, it has some miraculous effects."
Yu Hui immediately asked, "What miraculous effect?"
Hua Changxi: "If you eat it, you will explode and die."
Even if the Yuanling Grass has withered, there is still a small amount of spiritual energy left, and spiritual power is more powerful than internal strength. If ordinary people take it, they don't have spiritual veins and don't know how to absorb it, and the spiritual energy will remain in the body, which will burst.
Yu Hui's face froze: "Is this true?"
Hua Changxi: "If you don't believe me, next time Sancha Medicine Store sends you dried herbs, you can give it a try."
Yu Hui quickly shook his head: "Forget it then."
Hua Changxi was silent for a moment: "Brother Yu, I want to ask you a favor. Don't tell anyone that I took the dried herbs."
Seeing her serious face, Yu Hui wanted to ask her the reason, but after hesitating for a moment, he didn't ask: "Don't worry, I won't tell anyone."
Hua Changxi smiled and said, "Thank you."
After that, Hua Changxi stopped chatting with Yu Hui, took 500 herbs and returned to the sixth bureau.
As soon as she left, Yu Hui called Wan Xiaozhou and asked him to go to the kitchen and get a live chicken and bring it to his room.
"Brother Yu, what do you want a live chicken for?"
Yu Hui did not respond to him, but chopped up a half-dried Yuanling grass that he had hidden and fed it to the chickens.
After eating the chicken, within a few breaths, blood began to flow from all seven orifices, then the skin and flesh were torn apart, and finally with a "bang", the body exploded and died.
"Ah~"
Seeing the fried chicken pieces all over the room, Yu Hui and Wan Xiaozhou were so scared that their faces turned pale.
"Brother Yu, what is that withered medicine?"
Yu Hui swallowed and said, "What Sister Changxi said is actually true!"
When Hua Changxi wanted to wither the medicinal herbs before, he didn't actually care too much about it. It was not until today that Gu Jinfan came personally to ask about the withered herbs that he realized that the withered herbs were not ordinary.
When handing the dried herbs to Gu Jinfan, he couldn't help but secretly hide a few of them.
I thought it was some kind of precious medicine, but it turned out to be a deadly herb.
On the other side, Hua Changxi, who returned to the sixth bureau to wash the medicinal materials, was a little absent-minded.
She didn't expect that the young lady who was competing with the red-robed demon for the red stone was actually a young lady from the Duke's Mansion, and now she was working in the Medical Department just like her.
She had gotten the chance to get the red stone, so she was afraid of meeting Gu Jinfan again and letting her find out about it.
For the opportunity of getting the red stone, the red-robed demon Taoist jumped directly into the lava, risking her life. It is really hard to predict what Gu Jinfan would do if she knew that the opportunity was obtained by her.
Hua Changxi felt a strong sense of crisis.
Gu Jinfan took the Yuanling grass away, obviously knowing its medicinal effects.
"So, Gu Jinfan is also a cultivator?" Hua Changxi took a look at his realm data: [Realm: Qi Hai Realm 15250/100000].
Gu Jinfan is the young lady of the Duke of Xin's mansion. She is powerful and influential. Now she is also the disciple of the most powerful pharmacist in the Medical Bureau. She knows more about cultivation than her and has more resources than her.
Hua Changxi felt that her level should not be able to compare with Gu Jinfan's.
Although she knew some spells, they were all alchemy techniques and she did not know how to use spiritual power for real combat.
We can't defeat them if we fight them, and they don't have the power or influence.
You can only avoid it!
Hua Changxi frowned. Is he going to leave the Medical Department?
Gu Jinfan's knowledge of cultivation must be higher than hers. The fact that she came to the Medical Department means that the Medical Department has what she wants.
Pharmacist Tong was researching new drugs. She was a young lady from a Duke's mansion and she came to be the pharmacist's apprentice, obviously because she was going for the new drugs.
Therefore, her previous guess was correct, the Medical Department should indeed be collecting various spiritual plants.
Hua Changxi didn't want to leave the Medical Department. Apart from the fact that it was easiest for her to come into contact with spiritual plants here, this was also a job, and it was also her hobby.
After all, human abilities are limited, and they require a suitable platform to bring their abilities into full play. The Medical and Pharmaceutical Department is obviously a good platform.
If you don't leave, you can only take shelter temporarily.
The level of cultivation alone improves too slowly, and Hua Changxi has always wanted to find an opportunity to go to the Sancha Medicine Valley to collect Yuanling grass.
It is now February, and the Menial Works Hall will soon be sending menial workers to various medicine shops and valleys to help plant medicinal herbs. If she goes to the Sancha Medicine Valley, she can not only avoid Gu Jinfan, but also take the opportunity to look for Yuanling grass.
"How can we get to the Three Forks Medicine Valley?"
Just when Hua Changxi was thinking about how to be assigned to help at Sancha Medicine Store, Eunuch Lu took three Tongmai Pills refined by Hua Changxi and successfully broke through to the fourth level in just seven days.
After becoming a fifth-rank warrior, Eunuch Lu was not grateful to Hua Changxi, but was eager to control her and let her refine pills for him to earn more money.
To this end, Eunuch Lu found Eunuch Yu and wanted to cooperate with him.
Eunuch Yu also didn't want to share the 40% profit: "Hua Changxi is a warrior, and I can't do anything to her."
Eunuch Lu laughed: "Eunuch Yu, this is the Medical Bureau. When has working in the government office ever relied on one person's strength?"
Upon hearing this, Eunuch Yu's expression changed.
Eunuch Lu continued, "She is just a servant. It is up to me to decide whether to let her stay in the servants' hall. If Hua Changxi wants to stay in the servants' hall, she has to listen to us."
"Besides, we provided the herbs. Without them, what good would it do her medicine-making skills? She used our herbs to practice her craft, and we were already doing her a favor by not asking her for money."
In Eunuch Lu's opinion, Hua Changxi was just a servant and had no right to bargain with them. If it were possible to transfer medicinal materials without going through the warehouse, he would have wanted to kick Eunuch Yu out.
Eunuch Yu was persuaded and smiled at Eunuch Lu: "I'll have someone call Hua Changxi over now, and you come and talk to her."
Eunuch Lu: "Don't worry, let's first decide on our share of the profits."
Speaking of profit sharing, Eunuch Yu immediately became serious. The two of them argued back and forth several times, and finally reluctantly accepted a 50-50 profit sharing.
After discussing the profit sharing, Eunuch Yu asked Yu Hui to go and ask Hua Changxi to come.
When Yu Hui saw Eunuch Lu coming to his house, he had a bad feeling in his heart, and now the premonition has come true.
Sister Changxi, who provided the technical support, lost her share of the profits, so he got even less.
At this moment, Yu Hui really hated Eunuch Lu. Without the elixir, how could he practice martial arts? But he had no power to object, so he could only bite the bullet and go find Hua Changxi.
"Brother Yu, what's wrong?"
Yu Hui angrily told Hua Changxi about Eunuch Lu's visit to Eunuch Yu.
After hearing this, Hua Changxi was also somewhat surprised at the greed of these eunuchs. Previously, Eunuch Yu wanted to force her with force, and now Eunuch Lu wanted to force her with power.
Wanting a horse to run without giving it grass is a bad thing.
Seeing Hua Changxi remained silent, Yu Hui thought for a moment and reminded her, "Sister, if you want to continue to stay in the Miscellaneous Affairs Hall, you'd better not confront Eunuch Lu head-on."
Hua Changxi was of course angry, but not that angry.
Female servants would not normally be sent to help out in the pharmacy or medicine valley unless they had offended the manager.
She had been worrying about how to get to Sancha Medicine Valley, and she fell asleep and hit the pillow.
"Brother Yu, I definitely don't want to work for nothing. If I have a conflict with the two eunuchs later, please don't speak for me."
Hearing this, Yu Hui became anxious: "Sister, don't do anything stupid."
Hua Changxi: "Brother Yu, listen to me, didn't I tell you before that I wanted to go to the medicine store to have a look? I was serious about this."
Yu Hui was anxious and puzzled: "Everyone is trying to avoid it, why do you insist on rushing forward?"
Hua Changxi did not explain: "Brother Yu, later in front of the two eunuchs, if you just mention the conflict between Mao Yong and Mao Wei and me, and don't let them punish me by sending me to Sancha Medicine Store, I will be very grateful."
"Let's go. You've been out for quite some time. Don't let Eunuch Yu get mad at you."
Yu Hui saw that Hua Changxi was serious and wanted to confront the two eunuchs head-on, so he kept trying to persuade her along the way.
Soon, the two arrived at the No. 9 Qihuang Clinic.
Eunuch Lu got straight to the point: "Hua Changxi, Eunuch Yu and I have discussed it and found that you have taken too much of a commission. We will give you 100 taels of silver every month in the future. All you have to do is help us refine the medicine."
Hua Changxi looked at him: "Eunuch Lu, what if I don't agree?"
Eunuch Lu smiled and said, "If you don't agree, you can't stay in the errand hall any longer."
Hua Changxi: "I was recruited by Eunuch Jia. If you want to drive me away, I will go to Eunuch Jia to make the decision."
Eunuch Lu was not afraid of anyone except Eunuch Jia. When he heard Hua Changxi mention Eunuch Jia, his face suddenly darkened: "Hua Changxi, you are just a handyman. One hundred taels of silver a month is already a high income that many people can't even dream of. Don't be too greedy."
Hua Changxi: "Since my father-in-law thinks I'm greedy, then you can go find other pharmacists to make medicine." After saying that, he turned around and was about to leave.
Eunuch Lu smashed the table with a loud bang and said, "How dare you! Do you think we really don't dare to kick you out of the errand hall?"
Hua Changxi's expression turned cold: "Eunuch Lu, if you don't follow the rules, then you'd better not leave the Medical Department, otherwise there will be accidents."
Seeing Hua Changxi directly threatening Eunuch Shanglu, Yu Hui was so scared that his legs were shaking.
Eunuch Lu was so angry that his face turned blue.
Eunuch Yu had expected that this would not go so smoothly, but he also expected Hua Changxi to be so tough.
Even if you fight, you may not be able to win.
How can you use your power to oppress others and they won't be afraid?
(End of this chapter)