Chapter 106 106: Good Medicine
No one should be surprised. After all, Chen Jingang said that the Golden Pill of Immortality was fake and a lie, but he himself said that he would try to make an elixir. Isn't this contradictory?
After being surprised, Chen Shizhen was eager to give it a try and wanted to volunteer himself as Chen Jin's assistant to help refine the elixir.
But Chen Jin rejected it and it was not needed.
With the other party's little skill, it will only be a disservice and cause chaos.
Chen Shizhen had no choice but to take his daughter and Uncle Chen out, then closed the courtyard door and stood guard outside. He also told the two to keep it secret and not to leak the information.
Chen Jin asked: "Dad, aren't you going back to rest?"
Chen Shizhen said seriously: "I want to see what elixir Mr. Chen has made."
Chen Jin didn't know whether to laugh or cry: "No, dad, are you serious? Mr. Chen himself just said he would give it a try. Maybe he was just teasing you."
Chen Shizhen said persistently: "People like him don't make random jokes. He slapped me in the face last night, and he was very good at it."
Chen Jin: "...Dad, did you have a fever and start talking nonsense? Although my daughter also hopes that someone can wake you up, how can you still fight after being beaten?"
Chen Shizhen looked serious: "You don't understand this. Later I lay on the bed, and when I thought about it, the more I thought about it, the more I felt that it was not simple. Mr. Chen's slap had an angle, strength, and degree... in short, it was just right. All of a sudden, all the delusions and obsessions in my mind were eliminated. It was gone, which made me wake up. Also, I had a bad tooth in my mouth, and when it happened, it hurt so bad. Guess what, it was slapped loose by a palm, and I reached out and took it out. Come down. From now on, I will never have a toothache again.”
Chen Jin blinked, hearing what his father said was really magical. But then I thought about it, maybe it was a coincidence.
Chen Shizhen said seriously: "So I have to stay here. If Mr. Chen can really refine the elixir, then he is the person with real magical powers that your Uncle Hu mentioned."
When Chen Jin heard this, he stopped trying to dissuade him. In fact, the girl has the same desire in her heart. Probably when I feel lonely and helpless, I always want someone to help me.
Together with Uncle Chen, she moved the jars containing gold and silver to the accounting room, and then counted and entered them into accounts.
The results are impressive.
With this amount of money, we can meet the urgent need and no longer have to sell gold and silver jewelry.
If we sell the mountains of elixirs in the side courtyard, this family can survive.
The old butler Chen Bo was also sincerely happy. As the saying goes, "A skinny camel is bigger than a horse", that's what it means.
This family dinner at noon must be prepared.
……
The boy Awu brought a bamboo chair to the master. Chen Shizhen lay on the bamboo chair, shaking slightly, feeling quite comfortable and squinting.
Time passed by.
"Dad, it's time for lunch."
Chen Jin came over and called out: "Where is Mr. Chen, hasn't he come out yet?"
Chen Shizhen looked at the still closed courtyard door and said slowly: "Alchemy is a real skill of water grinding. How can it be completed so quickly? You see, I used to stay for two or three days to make alchemy."
Chen Jin curled his lips: "What about Mr. Chen's food? Otherwise, I can go in and call him."
Chen Shizhen quickly stopped him: "The most important thing is to avoid being disturbed when refining alchemy. The last time I blew up the furnace, it was because of this that I became distracted."
Although Chen Jin didn't believe it, he still felt that there was some truth to it.
It's a pity that this sumptuous lunch at noon was carefully prepared. The girl specially cooked and made several special dishes.
If Mr. Chen doesn't eat, what's the point?
Chen Jin asked dully: "Dad, what about you?"
Chen Shizhen waved his hand: "The doctor said, I can't eat too much, just ask Awu to give me a bowl of white porridge."
"Oh."
The girl responded and left sadly.
……
Time continued to pass, and it was evening.
Chen Shizhen was not in good spirits and had been napping all day.
At this time, he vaguely heard some movement and woke up suddenly. Sure enough, it was Chen Jin who opened the door and came out.
Chen Shizhen quickly looked up and down and saw that he was wearing a clean green shirt, a clean face, and his long hair was tied in a Confucian scarf, and he was meticulous.
No matter how you look at it, it doesn't look like he just came out of alchemy, he just looks a little tired.
He quickly asked: "Mr. Chen, have you achieved your elixir?"
Chen Jin raised his hand, holding two gourds in his hand, one with green skin and one with yellow skin.
Chen Shizhen recognized that these two gourds were purchased by himself at a large cost and were intended to be used to contain the gold elixir.
However, his craftsmanship was poor, and the elixirs he produced were either useless or half-finished products that had to be thrown away after they tasted salty. Therefore, the gourd is basically brand new and has never been loaded with anything.
Chen Jin said: "The elixir I made today has a total of twenty-one pills, and I took one pill myself. The remaining twenty pills are evenly packed in the gourd. You can choose a mouthful of the gourd and take it."
"What?"
Chen Shizhen looked dull after hearing this.
In just one morning, I refined more than twenty pills. What a joke!
Rubbing it by hand?
Chen Jin said: "Of course, what I am practicing is not some kind of immortality elixir, but it is called 'Five Qi Jingyang Pills'. It is made from pure herbs and can cultivate the body, calm the mind, nourish the mind and replenish the energy."
In the past, he followed his master to seek Taoism in the Fairy Mountain, and he dabbled in a wide range of things, including painting talismans, refining weapons, and making medicines.
Most of them are auxiliary skills for spiritual practice, mainly serving the great road.
These techniques are very pure and practical, but of course they are also subject to limitations of real conditions.
Drawing talismans is not bad. As long as spiritual thoughts are stimulated, you can get rid of the shackles of form and write characters into talismans. But the same cannot be said for refining weapons and making medicines. The requirements for materials are very real and cannot be drawn out of thin air.
Chen Jin has not yet reached the state of "following the law after speaking out".
As for the application of weapon refining, it is currently mainly reflected in the Kuixing Wenhuo Lamp; as for medicine, the few packets of rejuvenating soup that I grabbed for my uncle Chen Abu were a small test.
In fact, Huichun Decoction is just a low-level simplified version of Wuqi Jingyang Pill.
Because I can’t buy them, I can’t buy all kinds of high-quality medicinal herbs of sufficient years.
When he was in Yunshanfang City, Chen Jin went shopping and found only two or three suitable medicinal materials, so he gave up.
On the path of spiritual practice, resource integration is a great science. Human, material and financial resources are all indispensable, so there is a saying of "Dharma couple, wealth and land".
It is not realistic for Chen Jin alone to do it and pick up the leaks.
In addition, in rural counties, a small place is a small place after all. There may be no shortage of delicacies and wild game, but precious medicines and herbs of sufficient quality are hard to come by.
The prototype of the divine object bred on Yunshan Mountain is a special case born from heaven and earth.
Now that he has entered the state and county, he is like a fish leaping into the river, and he can show his talents.
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Chen Shizhen spent all his wealth and worked hard to collect materials that were used by Chen Jin, so he set out to make medicine and refine Wuqi Jingyang Pills.
He had no intention of eating alone. After the finished product came out, he gave half of it to the other party to offset the value of the materials.
Very fair.
Strictly speaking, Wuqi Jingyang Pills are certainly not elixirs, but belong to the category of tonics.
For ordinary people, this medicine can effectively improve physical fitness, regulate the mind, and thus achieve the effect of prolonging life. As for rejuvenation, nourishing yang and vitality, these are only incidental effects.
As for Chen Jin himself, taking pills to refine his Qi can consolidate his realm, which is quite beneficial.
This is all because Wuqi Jingyang Pill itself is a prescription carefully developed in conjunction with the early practice of "Huang Ting Ben Jing".
However, Master also said that elixirs and other substances should not be abused for pleasure. The foundation of Taoism should be laid out slowly, only then will it be solid.
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Chen Shizhen was relieved when he heard that it was not the elixir of immortality, but just some kind of tonic. His eyes turned around the two gourds and he coughed dryly: "This medicine was refined by the young master himself. I don't dare to take away people's love. I just want one pill and a taste."
Chen Jin directly handed over the yellow-skinned gourd: "The numbers are the same anyway, so just take this one."
Chen Shizhen really wanted to see what this Wuqi Jingyang Pill was, so he took it and immediately pulled out the cork.
The next moment, a medicinal fragrance that penetrated people's lungs curled out.
He couldn't help but widen his eyes, quickly turned the gourd upside down, and poured out a pill in the palm of his hand.
I saw that the medicine was like a lentil, not round, and appeared irregular; its whole body was brown, and it had a warm and moist feeling.
The most important thing is the medicinal aroma that is emitted, an indescribable smell that can instantly arouse people's appetite.
Almost without thinking, Chen Shizhen put the pill into his mouth and swallowed it with a groan.
Then he stood there with his eyes closed, as if he was in trance.
"Dad, it's time to have dinner...Ah, Mr. Chen, you're out."
Chen Jin came again and was very happy to see Chen Jin. His eyes were filled with emotion, and he was observing, worried that Chen Jin might be injured due to the alchemy. After all, every time his father came out of refining elixirs, he was in quite a mess. His body and face were either blackened by fireworks or burned.
Fortunately, everything is as usual for Chen Jin. He is still as energetic as jade and has a calm demeanor.
"Hey, Dad, what's wrong with you?"
Only then did Chen Jin realize that her father's appearance was a bit abnormal. Then she sniffed and exclaimed in surprise: "What smells so good?"
Chen Jin replied: "I made a pill, and your dad just took one."
"Eat it so quickly?"
Chen Jin's first reaction was worry.
How can you take pills and the like casually?
Especially after seeing a room full of elixirs, including cinnabar, realgar, and even arsenic.
Can these things be good if they are eaten in the stomach?
Not to mention that Chen Shizhen already had a lot of erysipelas accumulated in his body.
But this time, the elixir that Mr. Chen refined smelled really good.
As she smelled it, the girl wanted to take one.
After a while, Chen Shizhen suddenly opened his eyes, looking ecstatic, and praised: "Good medicine!"
Chen Jin said: "Even if the medicine is good, you should not take too much. Especially with your current constitution, the pills should be soaked in warm water and used as tea. If you take the whole pill, there will be some side effects."
"What side effects?"
"Such as diarrhea."
"Ah!"
The next moment, Chen Shizhen felt a gurgling sound in his stomach, like boiling water. His expression changed, and he ran away, running to find the toilet.
Running so fast.
Still holding the yellow gourd tightly in his hand, he was reluctant to let it go.
(End of chapter)