The most secure job in Dajin

Chapter 18, A Good Start
The warehouse of the Miscellaneous Services Hall was very large. Hua Changxi estimated that it was at least as big as the stadium in his previous life, and there was more than one such warehouse.

Cartloads of medicinal materials were constantly pulled into the warehouse from outside, and then the materials inside were taken to various departments of the Miscellaneous Services Hall for processing.

Hua Changxi walked into the warehouse and his eyes lit up when he saw the wide variety of medicinal herbs inside.

The person guarding the warehouse saw Hua Changxi staring at the herbs in a daze, looking shocked. He thought she was ignorant and sneered, "What are you doing standing there? How many herbs do you want?"

Hua Changxi wanted to find out some information about the warehouse, so he smiled and looked at the young man guarding the warehouse: "Hello, big brother. My name is Hua Changxi. I'm new here. I've never seen such a big warehouse before. Don't blame me for being ignorant."

Seeing that Hua Changxi was well-behaved and spoke nicely, the young man's attitude improved a lot: "Hey, that's nothing. If you've been to the medicine store, you'll know. The warehouse there is really huge."

Hua Changxi was amazed: "Are these so many medicinal herbs not all that the Medical Department has?"

The young man said proudly: "Of course not, we are only a small part here."

Hua Changxi's eyes widened: "The medicinal materials here are top-quality medicinal materials that I have never seen outside, and they are not all."

The young man laughed, mocking Hua Changxi for making a fuss: "What kind of good medicine is this? The real good medicine is sent directly to the medical clinics in Jiu Street. What we store here are just some common herbs."

Hua Changxi was surprised: "Are there any better herbs than these?"

Seeing Hua Changxi's eyes shining and looking at him with admiration, the young man was very pleased and said a lot more: "Of course."

"Let me tell you, in the past two years, local government offices and martial arts schools have discovered many new medicines. Many of those medicinal materials have miraculous effects. They are the real precious medicines."

Hua Changxi showed longing: "I really want to see what the precious medicine that big brother mentioned looks like."

Upon hearing this, the young man smiled sarcastically: "Go away, you are just a small errand boy, stop having such thoughts."

Hua Changxi's face froze, and he felt a little embarrassed and said, "I don't know how high the sky is or how deep the earth is."

Seeing a little girl like this, the young man felt that he had said something too much, so he softened his tone and said, "How many herbs do you want? I'll help you carry them."

Seeing that the young man didn't want to say more, Hua Changxi didn't ask any more questions. Seeing that there was only an hour left until lunch, he decided to take only 200 herbs back.

"Big brother, I want two hundred herbs."

The young man looked at Hua Changxi's small body and said, "You have to deal with 500 herbs every day, can you clean them all?"

In the workplace, one must show one's value at the right time. Hua Changxi immediately smiled confidently: "Big brother, don't look at my young age, but I have plenty of strength."

The young man chuckled, obviously not taking it seriously: "I'll find you some easy-to-clean herbs."

"Don't think that it's all about cleaning medicinal herbs. There are some tricks here. Some medicinal herbs are easy to clean, while some are difficult to clean."

"You're lucky to have met me. Otherwise, if you had come so late, you would have received herbs that are difficult to handle."

Hua Changxi smiled and nodded: "I know, I am very lucky today to have met such a noble person like big brother."

"Big brother, please give me less of each herb. I'm still a newcomer, and the manager is not that strict with me yet. I have to take advantage of this time to get familiar with the cleaning methods of various herbs."

This was no big deal, so the young man did not refuse and took dozens of types of the two hundred medicinal herbs.

When Hua Changxi saw this, he smiled so much that his eyes narrowed: "Big brother, you are so kind. Can I come to pick up medicine next time and still look for you?"

Seeing that the young lady liked him so much, the young man pretended not to be very impatient: "Okay, since you are so young, just come to me, and I will protect you in the future."

Hua Changxi looked extremely happy: "Thank you, big brother. Big brother, I don't even know your name."

The young man helped move the herbs onto the cart: "My name is Yu Hui, you can call me Brother Yu from now on."

The 200 medicinal herbs this time are of many varieties, but they are not large in size and can be taken away in one truck.

Yu Hui wanted Hua Changxi to pull the cart twice more, but Hua Changxi declined with a smile: "Brother Yu, don't worry about me, I can do it."

"I have to go back to work, or I won't have lunch. Brother Yu, see you this afternoon."

Seeing Hua Changxi really pulling a cart full of medicinal herbs away, Yu Hui was so surprised that his mouth opened wide: "Sister Changxi is really strong. Well, she is a good material for doing odd jobs."

The people under each manager would work together and usually clean the medicinal materials together.

Hua Changxi returned to the sixth bureau, took the herbs and went to Du Ruo's group. He found an open space a little further away, moved the herbs to the ground, rolled up his sleeves and started working.

After soaking the herbs in the ditch, Hua Changxi submerged his hands in the water and used the water control technique from the Immaculate Technique.

The next moment, the water that soaked the herbs began to shake, and for a moment, it felt like the herbs were put into a flushing machine.

With this method, washing medicinal materials is extremely easy.

Hua Changxi carefully controlled the flow of water so as not to let others notice anything unusual on her side.

By lunch time, [Commentary on the Hundred Herbs (Great Completion): Tasting Hundred Herbs 612/1000], [Immortal Art (Great Completion): Cleansing Medicinal Materials 650/1000]
Hua Changxi not only cleaned the two hundred medicinal herbs, but also secretly tasted each type.

Looking at the changing data, Hua Changxi was very happy.

After lunch, Hua Changxi took the washed herbs to the second office to report. After signing his name, he went to the warehouse to collect 300 herbs.

He went to Yu Hui again, and this time Hua Changxi brought back dozens of medicinal herbs.

After cleaning all three herbs, the data changed again.

[Commentary on the Classic of Materia Medica (Dacheng): Tasting Hundreds of Herbs 692/1000]
[Immortality (Great): Cleansing herbs 950/1000]
Seeing that the Immaculate Technique only needed to clean fifty plants to be upgraded, Hua Changxi looked around at the people in his group.

"careful!"

Seeing the young lady who reminded her to eat yesterday almost slipped while carrying medicinal herbs, Hua Changxi quickly helped her up.

"My name is Hua Changxi, thank you for reminding me to eat yesterday."

Lu Qingluo shook her head: "No need to thank me, we are all under Manager Du, we should help each other."

Hua Changxi asked with a smile: "How should I call you?"

Lu Qingluo's attitude was not very warm but not distant either: "My name is Lu Qingluo." Hua Changxi saw that she was two or three years older than him, so he called her "Sister Qingluo": "By the way, Sister Qingluo, you also put the steamed buns on my bedside, right?"

Lu Qingluo hummed, picked up new herbs and went down to the ditch.

Hua Changxi walked up to her and helped her wash the herbs while saying, "Thank you so much, otherwise I would have been hungry this morning."

Seeing her like this, Lu Qingluo quickly said, "It's only a piece of cake to bring you steamed buns. You don't have to help me wash the herbs."

Hua Changxi didn't stop moving: "Sister Qingluo, I've finished my work. I'll help you wash something that won't get in the way."

Lu Qingluo stood up and looked at Hua Changxi's cart on the shore. It was full of cleaned herbs. She asked in surprise, "How come you wash the herbs so quickly?"

Hua Changxi smiled and said, "I have been helping out in my family's medicine shop since I was a child. Don't look down on me because I am young. I am an old hand at handling medicinal materials, and I am also very strong."

Even without using the water control technique, Hua Changxi was able to wash the medicinal herbs very quickly.

Lu Qingluo watched her hands constantly turning in the water, and each herb was quickly washed clean, and she was very impressed.

Not far away, Du Ruo saw this scene.

She originally thought that Hua Changxi got up late today and would have to work until evening, but now she found that she not only finished her own task, but also had enough energy to help Lu Qingluo.

It seems that Manager Leng really gave me an excellent servant.

[Immortality (Perfect): Cleansing Medicinal Materials 1069/10000]
After the Immaculate Technique was upgraded to perfection, Hua Changxi suddenly felt that his control over water and wind had greatly improved.

There were just some drops of water on his fingers. Hua Changxi flicked his fingers lightly, and the water drops immediately turned into sharp weapons and shot towards the edge of the ditch.

"Boom~"

The place hit by the water droplets collapsed, leaving a pothole with a diameter of more than one meter.

The people around were shocked when they saw the sudden collapse, but Hua Changxi's heart was extremely excited.

"I'm going to fill that pothole."

After all, he made it himself. Hua Changxi walked over quickly and dug the soil to fill the hole.

With the help of Hua Changxi, Lu Qingluo had finished her work for the day and came over to help her.

The two of them quickly filled the hole.

"Let's go, let's go to the second office to report."

Hua Changxi pulled two trips and then handed all his herbs to the second office. Lu Qingluo was still pulling at this time, but Hua Changxi did not continue to help her. Instead, he ran to help Du Ruola pull the herbs.

After washing medicinal herbs for a whole day, Du Ruo was very tired, so she did not refuse Hua Changxi's flattery.

When it was time for dinner, Hua Changxi ate with Du Ruo and Lu Qingluo.

In the cafeteria, Hua Changxi looked at Du Ruo, then at Lu Qingluo, with the corners of his mouth raised.

As soon as she entered the menial work hall, she made good friends with her supervisor and colleagues. Even Yu Hui, who was in charge of the warehouse, smiled at her when they met. Her career path was off to a good start.

After dinner, Lu Qingluo suddenly called Hua Changxi: "Changxi, can you help me?"

Hua Changxi: "You say."

Lu Qingluo: "The canteen does not allow people to bring too many buns. Each person can only bring five at most. I think there will be several people who don't have dinner every day in the same dormitory with us."

Hua Changxi understood what she meant: "No problem, I'll get five steamed buns too."

Seeing Hua Changxi coming back with steamed buns, Lu Qingluo smiled, and then the two of them went back to the dormitory together.

After returning to the room, Hua Changxi went to wash up. As soon as he finished washing up, he went to bed: "Sister Qingluo, I'm going to sleep." After saying that, he lay down on the bed and closed his eyes.

Thirteen years after traveling back to the Jin Dynasty, today was the day she had to work the most. Even though practice had strengthened her physique, she was still exhausted.

Seeing Hua Changxi fall asleep in a short while, Lu Qingluo was a little speechless: "Changxi fell asleep too quickly."

As it got dark, people began to come back one after another.

"Qingluo, why did you take so many steamed buns?"

"It wasn't just me who took it. Changxi also took it."

"Why did she fall asleep again?"

"Changxi has only been thirteen for a short time. He is in the period of growing up, so he must be more energetic than us."

Because he helped bring the steamed buns, his roommates became much nicer to Hua Changxi.

The next day, when everyone went out, Hua Changxi was still sleeping. Lu Qingluo hesitated whether to wake her up, but when she thought that Hua Changxi did not ask her to wake her up when she went to bed last night, and Hua Changxi washed the herbs quickly, she did not say anything.

Hua Changxi slept until the hour of Si as usual, ate the steamed buns left for her by Lu Qingluo, and went to the warehouse to find Yu Hui to get the medicinal materials as usual.

At the end of the Shen time (17:00), Hua Changxi had cleaned the 500 medicinal herbs for today.

After she handed in the washed medicinal materials to the Second Office, Hua Changxi did not go directly back to the Sixth Bureau, but took a detour to the gate of the Medical Bureau.

Today is the day when the list of apprentices hired will be announced. Even though he has already entered the menial service hall, Hua Changxi still wants to take a look at the list.

The Medical Department recruited 200 apprentices this time. Hua Changxi read the names on the list one by one, but did not see her name at the end.

Although I already knew the result, I still felt a little depressed.

After standing at the gate of the Medical Department for a while, Hua Changxi waited until he calmed down before turning back to the Miscellaneous Affairs Hall.

(End of this chapter)