fifth form

Chapter 470 Bigu powder

"Ginseng, Poria, Atractylodes macrocephala, Polygonatum, Polygonum multiflorum, Baizi, Yiren, Rehmannia glutinosa, and pine nuts, two taels of each, you take it!"

Wang Ermazi reached into the drawer, grasping various shriveled herbs with great skill.

There are seventeen kinds of medicinal materials that Zhang Xuezhou needs, and nine kinds of medicinal materials are given.

Bigu powder can be brewed with every seven kinds of medicinal materials. Zhang Xuezhou doesn't care about the number of types, but he cares a little about the quantity.

Compared with the tens of thousands of medicinal materials purchased in the real world when refining Peiyuan Pill, these medicinal materials are relatively small.

There are a total of 18 taels of medicinal materials, which are only three parts of Bigu Powder.

And it is inevitable to encounter the problem of failure to boil medicine.

In order to obtain Fengshui, Wen Weng and others ordered medicinal materials to support Zhang Xuezhou's Bigu Powder, but the amount of the medicinal materials made Zhang Xuezhou feel a little nervous.

Even if he completely refines it successfully, it is only three bigu powders.

"Gone?"

Following Wang Ermazi from the county guard's mansion to the pharmacy, Zhang Xuezhou weighed many herbs in his hands, and couldn't help asking.

"Yes, it's all here." Wang Ermazi said, "Don't tell me, this is the first time I've seen Governor Wen buy so many herbs."

"Are there many here?"

"It cost 240 eight and a half taels in total, it must be a lot!"

Half taels is a currency issued by the imperial court, similar to units such as 'yuan' and 'copper coin'.

Zhang Xuezhou rarely used 'half taels', and he had seen this kind of currency when he was slaughtering pigs in Rongcheng.

A catty of pork costs one and a half cents, and the total value of this pile of medicinal materials is approximately equal to 240 eight catties of pork.

Zhang Xuezhou calculated it like this, and felt that it was really not worthwhile to use Bigusan to fight hunger.

But he can't eat more than ten catties of pork at a time, and then starve for days.

Bigu powder needs to be refined, and Zhang Xuezhou has to think about buying more medicinal materials for refining.

He felt his body up and down, only to feel that it was difficult to find one and a half taels of money in his pockets and pouches.

"Do you accept gold cinnabar here?"

Zhang Xuezhou touched it for a long time.

In addition to the jade bottle tied around his waist to store Jiuzhen wine, there are two Hongku inheritance jade in his pouch, which also involves Dong Zhongshu's magic fan, deer cutting knife, and the feather of Emperor Jinwu. Next, Zhang Xuezhou sacrificed and practiced the materials of "Cloud Art".

He obtained the materials for practicing wooden wings and iron wings from Wuchao, and most of the materials for copper wings. When he got the bodhi fruit from Buddha's alms, many materials have been used up along with the transformation of copper wings. A golden cinnabar was left behind.

This is the material for converting copper fins to gold fins.

Zhang Xuezhou thought that it would be impossible for him to practice "Cloud Art" in the future. He took the golden cinnabar to exchange for half a tael, or the medicinal materials would not be a loss.

"Gold cinnamon? What is it?"

Watching Zhang Xuezhou take out a small bottle, which contained sand and gravel shining with golden light in the black, it was difficult for Wang Ermazi to identify the material for a while.

"Golden cinnabar is a very precious material, a high-quality material that the royal family can't even buy." Zhang Xuezhou explained: "Simply speaking, it is very valuable!"

"Return to the royal family." Wang Ermazi said: "You people who practice magic just like to create weird things to deceive people. I will accept who will buy these weird things."

"Uh!"

"If you didn't come from the Sheriff's Mansion, this old man would suspect that you are here to cheat."

"How is that possible!"

"Two and a half taels, if you want to sell it, I'll take it for the sake of the sheriff's office!"

Wang Ermazi obviously doesn't understand the value of golden cinnabar.

To be honest, Zhang Xuezhou didn't understand the value of golden cinnabar, he didn't know any other situations where this material could be used except for practicing "Cloud Art".

But golden cinnabar is undoubtedly a more valuable material, if Wang Ermazi offered three to five hundred and a half taels, Zhang Xuezhou felt that he would sell it for the purpose of refining bigu powder.

Two and a half taels are useless, and one or two taels of medicinal materials can't be bought, which made him depressed and took the golden cinnabar back.

After returning to the territory of Han, Zhang Xuezhou found that not only was his monk's upper limit lowered, but the environment he faced was also returned to its original shape.

There are no weird natural treasures in this environment, and it is not a trade of all kinds of tall and rare materials.

If he wants to seek materials through the normal way, he has to use the currency under the normal way.

After several years of wandering around, Zhang Xuezhou didn't feel that he was a poor man. It was only when he fell into the current situation that Zhang Xuezhou realized his predicament.

He doesn't have a penny or two on him, and he seems to be poor enough to be poor.

This reminded him of Zhang Qian who almost laid a shop on the street in Chang'an City.

"Your Majesty asked me to be a spy, but he didn't give me one hundred and eighty thousand and a half taels. How can I be a good spy? Any spy should first think about earning money by himself!"

The big family that Zhang Xuezhou can rely on is a bit far away.

According to the current condition of his body, Zhang Xuezhou felt that he would not be able to persevere to seek respect on the Hundred Thousand Mountains.

He even needs to refine Bigu San as soon as possible, and then take a look at the success rate and quality of his refining before making a calculation.

If the quality of his refining bigu powder is good enough and the success rate is high enough, Zhang Xuezhou feels that the cost of sleeping for seven days is about [-] catties of pork.

If the quality of bigu powder is average, the price will rise rapidly.

In the case of average efficiency, the cost will show a straight-line upward trend.

"Doctor Wang, do we have medicines for bigu?" Zhang Xuezhou asked.

"I can't even eat. Whoever has the money to buy bigu medicine, if no one buys it, no one will sell it. There must be no more here!"

Wang Ermazi looked at Zhang Xuezhou, and then at the medicinal materials Zhang Xuezhou was carrying.

"Besides, it's not a pill that old people can touch. Only those nobles at the top can refine it." Wang Ermazi rolled his eyes and said, "Cultivator Zhang, are you refining bigu medicine with this medicinal material?"

"Yes." Zhang Xuezhou nodded and said, "But I'm afraid that I can't make it well, so I want to ask if there is a place where I can buy it. If the price is cheaper than my own refining, then I will definitely buy the finished product."

"I've heard that bigu medicine is like swallowing gold, I'm afraid that a piece of bigu medicine can't be taken down without three or five gold pieces!"

“Seems a bit pricey!”

Zhang Xuezhou looked at the medicine bag he was carrying, and then thought about the price.

One gold corresponds to one thousand and a half taels, and three five golds correspond to almost thousands and a half taels, that is, more than ten pigs.

In the end, he felt that the alchemist had a "money way", and he gave up the idea of ​​buying bigu medicine.

"As the inheritor of the Yin Yang family, I am practicing alchemy, which is the best at alchemy. How can I buy medicine!"

Stiffening his face and motivating himself, Zhang Xuezhou borrowed a pounding spoon from Wang Ermazi, and began to enter the boring process of grinding medicinal materials.

"Is this how the bigu medicine is refined?"

Zhang Xuezhou's grinding of medicinal materials aroused Wang Ermazi's interest, and he kept looking around in the pharmacy, even when he was treating patients, he was somewhat absent-minded.

But Wang Ermazi's little curiosity quickly disappeared completely.

"You can't even eat, whoever has the money to buy bigu medicine from you, it's useless for you to learn this!"

Zhang Xuezhou lazily repeated what Wang Ermazi had said before, and Wang Ermazi took it seriously.

There are so many materials needed to learn alchemy that Wang Ermazi can't afford to waste them, and even if he has learned the ability to refine bigu medicine, no one here will come to buy them.

It seems tall and tall, but to him it is the skill of slaying dragons.

And with the grinding and boiling of Bigu Dan ingredients, Zhang Xuezhou inevitably had a big head when he saw Bigu San fail three times in a row.

(End of this chapter)