Chapter 91, Human Planting Fruit

Chapter 91, Human Planting Fruit

Chapter 91, Human Planting Fruit
On February 18th, the shop plaque was completed, and Shennongtang Pharmacy opened for business amid a burst of firecrackers.

In the shop, there were only Hua Changxi, Aniu and Pu Cao, as well as a green ox peeking out from the back door.

Because the store is located in a remote area, apart from the neighbors who heard the sound of firecrackers and came over to take a look, no one else came.

Looking at the deserted streets, Pu Cao and Aniu looked at each other in confusion.

Seeing that there was no one in the store, Pu Cao looked at Hua Changxi worriedly: "Changxi, do you want me to go out and attract some customers?"

Hua Changxi shook his head: "No, I didn't plan to do retail anyway. If someone comes to buy medicine in the future, you can sell it. If no one comes to buy, it doesn't matter."

Cattail: "But can we make money like this?"

Hua Changxi: "Yes, don't worry, someone will be here soon."

An hour later, Yu Hui arrived with Wan Xiaozhou and Li Meng.

Looking at the deserted shop, Yu Hui smiled and said, "Sister, this is the first day of your opening, why don't you invite more people in? This way, it will attract more people."

Hua Changxi glanced at him. Did she not want to call him? The problem was that she didn't know the drug dealer or the drug seller.

"Brother Yu, if you know any drug dealers, please introduce them to me."

Yu Hui smiled awkwardly: "I am just a warehouse manager, and I don't know many people. But if I know someone in the future, I will definitely introduce them to you."

Hua Changxi smiled and said, "That's great. If you really bring me a big customer, I will give you a discount." As he said that, he took him to the medicine cabinet where Pu Cao was and introduced Pu Cao to him.

"Brother Yu, this is the manager of the pharmacy. When I'm not here, she's in charge of the business. As you know, I have other errands in the errand hall, so I won't stay here all the time. If you come to buy medicine in the future and I'm not here, you can always look for her."

"Pu Cao, this is Manager Yu Hui, the first big customer of our store."

Pu Cao hurriedly greeted him and said that he would definitely receive Yu Hui well in the future, then nodded to Li Meng and Wang Xiaozhou who were standing behind him.

Yu Hui agreed with a smile and looked at Hua Changxi with emotion: "Sister, I really didn't expect that Eunuch Jia would ask you to take over Eunuch Lu's job. When I found out, I thought everyone was joking."

Hua Changxi didn't want to elaborate on the matter, and said perfunctorily: "It's all because of Eunuch Jia's kindness." Pointing to the pills behind the counter, "Brother Yu, the warrior pills sold openly in the pharmacy are only of the first to fifth grades."

"But we are family. I still have sixth-, seventh-, and eighth-grade elixirs to sell to you. How many elixirs do you plan to buy this time?"

Yu Hui was shocked when he heard that there were even sixth-grade and seventh-grade elixirs. He took out 10,000 taels of silver from his pocket and said, "Sister, I'm about to break through to the fifth grade. I want to buy more fifth-grade elixirs, and also sixth-grade, seventh-grade, and eighth-grade elixirs."

Hua Changxi took the silver and said with a smile: "It seems that Brother Yu has made a lot of money recently."

Yu Hui chuckled: "Thanks to my sister's support."

Hua Changxi handed the silver to Pu Cao and let her and Yu Hui deliver the money. She just watched from the side. Seeing that Pu Cao handled it well, she did not interfere.

Yu Hui bought the elixir, chatted with Hua Changxi for a while, and then left with Wang Xiaozhou and Li Meng.

As soon as the three of them left, Hua Changxi looked at Pu Cao and A Niu: "Now you can rest assured, our medicine shop will definitely be able to operate for a long time."

One customer bought elixirs worth 12,000 taels of silver, which made Pu Cao and A Niu completely relieved.

Before, when Hua Changxi said that the pharmacy would go the wholesale route, they were a little worried, but now they are not worried at all.

Afterwards, Hua Changxi watched Pu Cao finish recording the account book. Seeing that there was nothing to do in the store, he prepared to return to the Medical Department.

After leaving the pharmacy, not long after walking, I saw a fight going on in a restaurant on the street. The tables, chairs and benches in the shop were smashed to pieces. The owner was so anxious that he was about to cry.

Looking at this scene, Hua Changxi thought about it, turned around and returned to the pharmacy, and set up a first-level defense formation in the pharmacy and the backyard.

Thanks to the "Introduction to the Four Arts" in Taoist Jiang's storage ring, which explains in a simple way how to make elixirs, talismans, refine weapons, and set up formations, low-level formations are easy to learn, and you just need to follow the steps in the book.

Afterwards, Hua Changxi gave Pu Cao some more spirit stones and told her the key points of the defense formation, asking her to replenish the spirit stones regularly to ensure the continuous operation of the defense formation.

On the other side, Yu Hui took the pill and went back to the Medical Department first. As soon as he came back, he went to find Eunuch Yu and handed him the eighth-grade pill that Eunuch Yu needed.

He did make some money from selling pills, but he couldn't come up with 10,000 taels at once. The money to buy the pills this time was given to him by Eunuch Yu.

Eunuch Yu took the pill and asked: "How is the business of the medicine shop?"

Yu Hui shook his head: "It's very quiet. My son might be the only customer today when the shop opens."

Eunuch Yu was silent for a moment and said, "Find an opportunity to introduce Mr. Zhuo to Hua Changxi."

Yu Hui looked at Eunuch Yu in surprise. Ever since the Jinyiwei searched the Menial Services Hall half a month ago, he clearly felt the change in his godfather's attitude towards Hua Changxi.

Before, when Hua Changxi came back from the medicine shop, even though her godfather learned that she was valued by the grandmaster, he did not say anything. But today, he, who had always been stingy, actually gave him 12,000 taels of silver and asked him to take care of Hua Changxi's business.

Now I want to introduce the great businessman Zhuo to her.
Eunuch Yu sighed, "Father was wrong. I shouldn't have been so greedy when I was working with Hua Changxi to make medicine." Then he looked at Yu Hui and said, "Fortunately, you still have some friendship with her. You must get along well with her in the future.

Seeing Yu Hui's confused expression, as if he didn't understand why he did this, Eunuch Yu could only explain clearly: "Do you know how many people would have died in the Miscellaneous Service Hall if Hua Changxi hadn't stood up when the Jinyiwei searched the Miscellaneous Service Hall that day?"

Facing the Embroidered Uniform Guards, not only the servants were terrified, but even managers like Eunuch Yu, who had some background, were very scared.

Xiao Luzi is the best proof. I heard that he died the next day after he was put in the imperial prison.

"Many people above have set their sights on the Medical Department. Since it's difficult to place people in the Ninth Street, they have set their sights on the Miscellaneous Affairs Department."

"Eunuch Sun from the First Office had no background and was the first to be killed."

"Eunuch Zhao from the Second Office and Eunuch Jia from the Third Office have some connections in the palace, so they can barely continue to hold their positions."

"During this period, there have been undercurrents in the Miscellaneous Affairs Hall, and the shady tactics against Eunuch Zhao and Eunuch Jia have been one after another."

"The two of them managed to hold out, but then the medicine was stolen again. The thief left traces behind, leading the Jinyiwei to the Miscellaneous Service Hall."

"If Hua Changxi hadn't stepped forward and forced Leng Xiangru out, the entire errand hall would have definitely seen a major change in personnel. Even the warehouse would have been affected."

Listening to Eunuch Yu's analysis, Yu Hui was filled with fear.

The Jinyiwei do not rely on evidence when handling cases. Since the last trace of the thief appeared in the Miscellaneous Service Hall, according to the Jinyiwei's method of handling cases, everyone in the Miscellaneous Service Hall is a suspect, and they have the right to arrest anyone who is a suspect.

Being arrested and imprisoned by the Embroidered Uniform Guards was equivalent to being sentenced to death.

Eunuch Yu looked at Yu Hui and said, "The Jinyiwei don't even take the senior officials in the court seriously, but they didn't touch Hua Changxi. Hua Changxi fought with them. Why do you think that is?"

Yu Hui scratched his head, unable to figure it out: "Sister Changxi doesn't have any background."

Eunuch Yu said directly: "Because she is a monk."

Although Eunuch Jia had ordered the man to keep quiet about what happened on the sixth day, he still went to great lengths, even at the cost of his reputation, to get Eunuch Jia to open up to him.

The water droplets floated in the air and turned into water arrows. That was the method used by cultivators, but they were stopped by Hua Changxi.

What does this mean?
This means Hua Changxi is also a cultivator.

Master
If it weren't for the earth-shattering battle that broke out in Five Finger Mountain last September, he didn't know how long it would take for him to find out that there were even more powerful monks above warriors. Before that, only the royal family and some top dignitaries knew about the existence of monks.

In the past few months, he used all his connections and inquired from many sources, and only then did he find out a little bit about the monks.

Unexpectedly, there was a real monk by his side.

Unfortunately, I was offended by him.

Eunuch Yu was really regretting his decision at this moment. In the past half month, he investigated the background of the Hua family again. He found out that the Hua family actually had a daughter who was a direct disciple of the head of Taisu Palace.

Only then did he understand why Eunuch Jia could still stay in the servants' hall safely.

"Eunuch Jia is so lucky. If Hua Changxi hadn't been here, he would have been the first to die in the drug theft incident. Even if he didn't die in the Jinyiwei prison, the people who were eyeing his position would have killed him."

"Now only Xiao Luzi died, but he is still alive. The third department is still in his hands, and he has not suffered any injuries."

Yu Hui really didn't expect there to be so many things involved, but what he wanted to know most at the moment was: "Godfather, what is a monk?"

He was not well-informed, so even though there was a big commotion in the Five Fingers Mountain, he did not take the rumors seriously.

Eunuch Yu looked at Yu Hui and said in a surprisingly kind tone: "I don't know either. If you want to know, go ask Hua Changxi."

Yu Hui was not sure whether Hua Changxi would tell him: "Then my son should have more contact with Sister Changxi in the future."

Eunuch Yu smiled like a teachable child: "Hui'er, if you can find out about the monks from Hua Changxi, I will give you half of the wealth I have accumulated over the years."

When Yu Hui heard this, he couldn't help but swallow his saliva. He knew how much Eunuch Yu loved to save money. How much money would that be with half of his fortune?

Eunuch Yu did not say anything about Yu Hui's reaction. When he knew that a master was like a fish on a pallet waiting to be slaughtered, he was eager to become a monk.

Now he could only use Yu Hui to try his best to reconcile with Hua Changxi.

After Hua Changxi returned to the Medical Department, he first went to the fourth, fifth, sixth and seventh bureaus.

Perhaps it was because her stick was a bit thick and her carrot really took care of the servants, so after she took over Eunuch Lu's position, no one made trouble.

Even the Jinyiwei never came to cause trouble again.

Of course, she didn't know whether the Jinyiwei had any involvement with Eunuch Jia.

Thinking about this, Hua Changxi returned to the yard and took out the medicine box that Manager Leng wanted to frame her with, which contained three rebirth pills.

Tuotai Dan means to shed the mortal body.

The Rebirth Pill combined with the Wood Spirit Pill, Fire Spirit Pill, Water Spirit Pill, Earth Spirit Pill and Gold Spirit Pill can shape a spiritual vein. What Shi Niang gave to her family were three Rebirth Pills and three Wood Spirit Pills.

Things that can shape spiritual veins are naturally extremely scarce. To refine the Rebirth Pill, one needs an innate spiritual fruit - the Human Seed Fruit.

Although the human-seed fruit is not like the good fortune fruit, which will be destroyed by heavenly thunder as soon as it comes into the world, it is extremely difficult for it to grow and develop, and it will suffer the baptism of heavenly calamity once every hundred years.

The fruits are not many, and only one is produced in a hundred years.

This rebirth elixir was made by the Medical Bureau, which was enough to prove that the royal family had control over the fruit trees grown by humans.

However, now that spiritual energy has revived, the spiritual fruits under the stone cliffs of the Three-Forked Medicine Valley and the spiritual fruits of the Five Finger Mountain are growing at the speed of light. Hua Changxi guessed that the royal family should have accumulated a batch of human-grown fruits.

Hua Changxi looked at the three roughly refined Rebirth Pills with some disgust. After taking such Rebirth Pills, the quality of the spiritual veins formed would not be very good, so he directly put the Rebirth Pills back into the Shennong Ding.

The shop has stockpiled a batch of elixirs that can be sold for a while. Now, she is ready to start refining elixirs.

[First-class Alchemist (Top-quality Alchemy): Alchemy 2267 furnaces 2267/10000]
Seeing that he still needed to refine more than 7,000 furnaces of pills to be promoted to a second-grade alchemist, Hua Changxi took a deep breath, began to take out the necessary spiritual plants, spiritual medicines, and spiritual fruits from the Shennong Ding, and then devoted himself to refining the pills.

On the left side of the middle of the First Street of the Medical Bureau, there is a nine-story building with a plaque with three large gold-plated characters "Medical Bureau" hanging on it.

Ding Peng, the Jinyiwei Tongzhi who came to the Medical Department for the first time, stood in front of the pavilion and said to Gu Qiming, the director of the Medical Department beside him: "Is the location of this pavilion not built correctly?"

Gu Qiming smiled and said, "When the pavilion was first built, the officials in charge wanted to build it in the middle of the first street, but as soon as the construction started, strange things happened frequently."

Ding Peng looked curious: "What's the weird thing?"

Gu Qiming said: "As long as you build a loft in the middle, no matter how solid it is, it will collapse the next day."

"This is really strange."

Ding Peng looked at the pavilion and then walked forward.

On the right side of the attic is a T-junction that runs through Ninth Street and leads directly to the square behind.

"Behind Ninth Street is the Servants' Hall and the Apprentices' Hall?"

"Ah."

Afterwards, the two of them didn't say anything else, and Gu Qiming led Ding Peng to his office.

Ding Peng came here this time because of the missing pills on Second Street half a month ago.

Ten rebirth pills were lost. The Jinyiwei found four of them in the Apprentice Hall with the soul-detecting device. Together with the three found in the sixth bureau of the Miscellaneous Hall, a total of seven were found.

"Leng Xianggu is from Shura Gate."

After hearing this, Gu Qiming took out a wooden box from the cabinet on the table and handed it to Ding Peng.

Ding Peng opened it and saw a Wood Spirit Pill inside: "Director Gu, what do you mean by this?"

Gu Qiming: "The remaining three pills were taken by Leng Xiangru, so let's close the case."

"You have captured quite a few people from the Apprentice Hall, which is enough to report to the higher-ups. The people from the Miscellaneous Hall are all poor people. They have no way of knowing about the monks, so there is no need to continue investigating."

Ding Peng's eyes flickered, and he smiled, "I heard from Yin Jianxiong that there is a cultivator hiding in the Miscellaneous Hall. Aren't you curious about her origins?"

Gu Qiming smiled and said, "I think the Jinyiwei has already investigated her background clearly."

Otherwise, with the Jinyiwei's style of handling cases, they would have come and arrested Hua Changxi long ago.

Ding Peng thought of Hua Changxin of Taisu Palace and her relationship with the Fifth Prince, and fell silent: "Do you think the remaining three rebirth pills are in Hua Changxi's hands?"

Gu Qiming: "According to common sense, she shouldn't be here. If she really took the rebirth pill, she would feel a little guilty when facing the Jinyiwei, so she wouldn't dare to stand up and confront you directly."

Ding Peng was silent again. After a moment, he said, "Is there going to be a result soon in Kunlun Mountain?"

Gu Qiming paused and said, "As long as a high-level cultivator doesn't suddenly appear like in the Five Finger Mountain, the result should be out soon. If nothing unexpected happens, the palace will choose to cooperate with Taisu Palace."

Hearing this, Ding Peng looked at the medicine box in his hand and decisively put it into the storage bag at his waist.