Chapter 23： Tea

After sending off the yellow-faced old man, Zhang Shiping slowly returned to Biyuan Mountain, his expression a little lonely. But there is no permanent banquet in this world. Zhang Shiping returned to Biyuan Mountain, took a look at the second-order spirit tea garden, then went down the mountain and returned to the small courtyard where the yellow-faced old man lived. He sat in the courtyard where the yellow-faced old man most often sat. on the armchair.

The chair made of green bamboo, after more than ten years or even decades, has changed from the original turquoise to the current brownish yellow, and the armrest of the chair is very smooth.

When the yellow-faced old man left, he took a jade card from Zhang Shiping, and said with a smile that when he became the ancestor of Yuanying, his descendants would come to him again, so he should not forget, Zhang Shiping even said that he would remember. Zhang Shiping smiled in his heart, he didn't even establish a foundation yet, so he was talking about Jindan Nascent Soul.

On the jade plate is a character "Zhang", on the back is "Little Ape Mountain", engraved around it, this character was carved by Zhang Shiping very early, when he was young, a carving knife was bigger than his little hand, The engraving is barely passable.

He picked up the book about tea tree planting presented by the yellow-faced old man, and read it word by word. The old man wrote it in great detail, as expected of someone who has been playing with tea trees for decades.

Biyuanshan Baicao Garden has delivered all the fifteen catties of first-class spiritual tea to the yellow-faced old man this year, and there are not many things left for Zhang Shiping. What is left for Zhang Shiping is the second-class spiritual tea and the third-class spiritual tea. The yellow-faced old man has already completed 70% of the work, and there is still plenty of time.

He went to the second-order spiritual tea garden to have a look. The predecessors planted trees, and the descendants enjoyed the shade. Zhang Shiping grinned at this thought. These second-order spiritual teas are picked in spring, preferably in the early morning after the continuous spring rain. The quality of the produced spiritual tea is the best, and the taste is the most fragrant.

After Zhang Shiping clarified all the matters on Biyuan Mountain and made arrangements, it was already evening and sunset, when the tired birds returned to their nests.

Zhang Shiping returned to his room in the small courtyard. After a night of practice, Zhang Shiping began to study tea in the early morning. In three or four days, he read the two books two or three times and recorded them all in his heart. Inside, out of habit, Zhang Shiping took out the blank jade slips and saved the contents in the jade slips.

It took Zhang Shiping five days of practice to master the three spells of spring rain, lily needle, and soil-turning on Xianzhi, and it was also because they were the most basic spells.

In addition, Zhang Shiping wanted to study the two elixirs that the yellow-faced old man left for him. This kind of low-level elixir does not need to use lava ground fire, nor innate real fire, but only needs to use spirit wood silver carbon fire. Zhang Shiping flipped through his storage bag and patted his forehead, only to realize that he didn't have an alchemy furnace. In desperation, he could only look at the alchemy formula first. Except for some second-order spiritual tea leaves, there were no other alchemy furnaces. The amount of medicine needed is not much, and they are still common medicinal materials.

The other recipe is about the preparation method of the first-order spiritual tea elixir, using the spiritual tea leaves from the No. 3 tea garden. Of course, if the first-order spiritual tea is used, the medicinal effect is naturally far inferior to the second-order spiritual tea.

Zhang Shiping was very itchy after reading it, wishing he could directly practice alchemy. He took the time to drive the flying magic weapon to a relatively nearby market, which is called Yunjinfang City, which is only one-third the size of Baitaifang City. He visited three shops and chose a first-level middle-grade alchemy furnace.

The price of this middle-grade alchemy furnace is about the same as that of ordinary first-grade top-grade artifacts. Fortunately, there are spirit stones given by the family, otherwise he can only wait for the next year to sell second-grade spirit tea.

As for why he didn't go to Baitaifang City, Zhang Shiping felt cold in his heart, and his face was cloudy and uncertain. He was thinking about why he was attacked by those three people. He didn't know the reason, but it was nothing more than those kinds of things. .

One is Baoruizhai’s idea of ​​making money, but it’s unlikely. In such a big shop, you don’t know how many spirit stones you pass every day, and if you want to kill yourself, there are foundation-building monks in their shop, so you can run away anyway. not drop.

The second is that I didn't know when I was marked by someone. The green worm was thrown off when Zhang Shiping was fighting with the three of them, so that Zhang Shiping was safe. After the injury improved, he checked it up and down. No abnormalities were found, but to be on the safe side, he changed into a suit of clothes and burned the original ones.

It's also fortunate that the cyan worm is gone, otherwise if the two of them keep up, Zhang Shiping, who fainted, would not survive tomorrow with a hundred lives.

Because it was too dark that day, he couldn't see the faces of the other party clearly.

The third is that he was unlucky, and happened to be met by the three of them, and he became malicious.

But no matter what, Zhang Shiping didn't want to go to Baitaifang City anymore, there were still those two monks there, if they met, if they were in the dark and he was in the light, and he capsized in the gutter, wouldn't he be very wronged!

There are also many square cities around here, so I don't have to go to Baitaifang City. I've only heard of being a thief for a thousand days, so there's no reason to guard against a thief for a thousand days.

Zhang Shiping went to Yunjinfang City, bought an alchemy furnace, paid attention all the way, and soon returned to Biyuan Mountain Baicao Garden.

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This is a half-person-high alchemy furnace with three legs and a whole body of copper. There are two lenses with simple and elegant lines, without too much decoration. UU Reading Zhang Shiping is going to use this alchemy furnace to refine first-order elixir.

Spirit wood and silver charcoal were burning blazingly underground in the alchemy furnace, Zhang Shiping opened the top cover of the alchemy furnace, and put the medicinal materials into the alchemy furnace in order according to the records of the alchemy recipe.

Zhang Shiping squeezed the hand formula, changed the gestures of both hands, and drew a fire snake with thick wrist and a thick thumb from the fire at the bottom of the furnace. The fire snake with thick wrist was like a dragon coiled around the belly of the pill furnace, clinging tightly to it. The fire snake with the thickness of a thumb hovered in the alchemy furnace from the entrance of the fire, refining the medicinal materials he put in and turning them into essence.

Zhang Shiping continuously scanned the alchemy furnace with his consciousness, and found that the first drug magazine in the alchemy furnace had been cleaned up, and it became a small ball of yellow-green essence.

He immediately put in the second medicinal material, thinking that after refining, Zhang Shiping tried to blend the essence of the two kinds of elixir together, but he didn't want to suddenly have a scorched smell coming from the pill furnace, and the furnace mouth on the top of the pill furnace There were plumes of black smoke.

Zhang Shiping's face was ugly, and he extinguished the fire.

He was thinking about which link went wrong, he had just started alchemy, and there was only one main drug in the alchemy formula, and seven auxiliary drugs, so he only put in two kinds of medicinal materials.

He thought about all the steps of the process just now, and found that he seemed to have too many thoughts and too many complicated thoughts, and his spiritual consciousness was unstable.

Zhang Shiping didn't know if he was thinking right. After the pill furnace cooled down, he opened it and saw that there was only a layer of burnt black lumps and some powder inside the pill furnace. He took them all out and put them in a wooden box. After some burnt matter is turned into powder, it can be put into the soil and used as fertilizer for tea trees, which is what is written in the yellow-faced old man's book.

Zhang Shiping thought about the details that should be paid attention to, took a deep breath, and started the second alchemy.