The most secure job in Dajin

Chapter 54, Hide and Seek
The medicine shop is more than ten miles away from the Medicine Valley. In order to save time to plant medicinal materials, houses were also built in the Medicine Valley, and the servants lived and ate here.

It was a large dormitory bed, with dozens of people living in one room.

After working for a day, Hua Changxi had dinner and went into the room where the maid lived.

The room is 15 meters long and 6 meters wide, with the door in the middle and earthen beds on both sides. The earthen beds are 2 meters wide and 15 meters long.

The temperature in the valley is still relatively low, especially in the morning and evening, so all the seats inside are occupied, and only the seats near the door and window are empty.

Hua Changxi has not been afraid of the cold since he was a child, and he became even less afraid after he started practicing. Seeing that there was more moonlight coming through the window on the left, he decided to sleep on the left kang near the window.

The bedding and sheets were ready-made, and had a strong musty and strange smell. I don't know how many people had used them.

There were too many people in the room, so Hua Changxi couldn't use the Immaculate Technique. He could only fold the bedding and put it in the corner of the kang.

After packing up, Hua Changxi left the house and prepared to fetch some water for a quick wash. When he was entering and leaving the house, he noticed someone was looking at him.

At first, she thought it was one of those male servants who wanted to take advantage of her and were looking at her, but when she got the chance to look back, she found it was the one-armed man.

After knowing that the one-armed man was looking at her, Hua Changxi's heart was alarmed. Only then did she suddenly realize that the one-armed man's reaction to seeing her was too calm.

This is not normal!

She had broken the one-armed man's coercion in the medical department's treasury. Now that they met again, even if the one-armed man did not retaliate, he should not have no reaction to her.

The only explanation is that the one-armed man has shifted the attention on himself to the darkness.

Is the one-armed man spying on himself?
Yes, if she meets someone who can compete with her again, she will observe him secretly for a while.

Hua Changxi returned to his room worriedly.

I don’t know how long the one-armed man will monitor her. How can she find the Yuanling Grass if he is watching her?
Hua Changxi didn't want to lie on the smelly kang. She had been planning to sit cross-legged and meditate, but now with the one-armed man staring at her, she didn't dare to do anything strange. She could only endure the discomfort and force herself to lie on the kang.

The moonlight fell on his body, and Hua Changxi slowly calmed down. He no longer cared about the one-armed man outside the house, closed his eyes and practiced the bird breathing method.

She discovered that when practicing in the Medicine Valley, the spiritual energy flowed particularly smoothly and the speed of practice was much faster.

After a night, Hua Changxi woke up to the sound of other people talking and took a look at the data: [Realm: Qi Hai Realm 1850/100000].

He increased his realm points by more than 100 in one night, which was several times faster than in the Menial Services Hall.

In the following days, Hua Changxi secretly observed the one-armed man while working, and found that he came down from the west mountain and entered the Medicine Valley at 10:00 am every day, and left the Medicine Valley and entered the west mountain at 19:00 pm.

This was his open course of action. Secretly, at midnight every night, he would come down from the West Mountain and secretly patrol the Medicine Valley, especially visiting her dormitory.

After discovering this pattern, one night, when the one-armed man went down the mountain for patrol again, Hua Changxi quietly followed him and went into the mountains west of the medicine valley.

Knowing that there was a master in charge of the Medicine Valley, she did not dare to follow too closely. From a distance, she saw the one-armed man reach a stone cliff halfway up the West Mountain.

In front of the cliff is a flat stone platform, and behind it is a stone cave.

On the stone platform, an old man in gray clothes sat cross-legged facing the moon.

Hua Changxi guessed that this old man should be the master named You.

"Is he practicing?"

Hua Changxi was a little helpless because she came from a self-taught background and she had no idea how to judge whether others were cultivators.

"Master."

When Hua Changxi heard the one-armed man address the old man, a look of surprise flashed across his eyes.

"Master, Hua Changxi has been acting like any other servant these days. Did we make a mistake?"

"It's not normal for someone who can withstand the pressure of a seventh-rank warrior to do menial work. Now she's been punished to come to Medicine Valley, but she doesn't make a fuss and doesn't want to leave. The more obedient she is, the bigger her plans are. Keep watching her and see what she wants to do."

You Lao looked at the bright moon in the sky and asked: "Besides the medicinal herbs, what else is there in Medicine Valley that is worth her coveting?"

Hua Changxi felt a little uneasy as he listened to the conversation between the two.

It turns out that in the eyes of smart people, her behavior is full of flaws.

Seeing the one-armed man sitting next to Old You and starting to sit cross-legged in meditation, Hua Changxi quietly retreated back to the medicine valley.

After knowing that the Grandmaster and the one-armed man were spying on her, Hua Changxi was not completely passive. She also spied on the two of them.

Because the Medicine Valley was very large and the people were scattered far apart, Hua Changxi took advantage of the one-armed man's movements to avoid his surveillance and explored the Medicine Valley several times.

Unfortunately, the Yuanling Grass has not been found.

At noon on March 13, Hua Changxi came back from the fields to have lunch and found that the one-armed man was gone.

This is strange. The one-armed man is a very serious and responsible person. He is very dedicated to his duties when patrolling the medicine valley and has never been late or left early. Why did he leave his post today?
"Why isn't Master Guo here?"

Hua Changxi pretended to be casual and asked the female servant beside her, because she had helped the female servant plant medicinal seedlings, and this person had taken good care of herself these days.

"It will be the fifteenth the day after tomorrow."

"On the fifteenth of every month, Mr. You has to deliver medicine to the Medical Department. Master Guo should be helping Mr. You collect the herbs."

Hua Changxi looked surprised: "What kind of medicine needs to be delivered on the 15th of every month?"

The maid shook her head: "I don't know about that."

Hua Changxi didn't want to continue inquiring, so he quickly finished his lunch, went to the manager to get the medicinal seedlings to be planted in the afternoon, and then left quickly.

After placing the medicinal seedlings in the medicinal field she was responsible for, Hua Changxi did not work. Instead, she used the Lingbo Weibu and quietly entered the West Mountain.

During this time in the Medicine Valley, because of playing hide-and-seek with the one-armed man, her Light Footsteps became more and more handy. Once the spiritual energy gathered in her feet, she could run a hundred meters away in an instant.

Hua Changxi reached the halfway point of the mountain first. He didn't see anyone on the cliff, and he didn't dare to explore the cave rashly, so he could only wander around nearby.

After turning around a few times, he found nothing except some medicinal herbs needed by warriors.

Hua Changxi was unwilling to come here and get nothing, so he turned back to the stone cliff.

"Why did the Grandmaster choose to live here?" "Is it because there is a cave here?"

There was a stone door installed in the cave, but it was closed at the moment and one could not go in to explore, so Hua Changxi just walked around outside.

This time, I immediately discovered the problem.

The spiritual energy here is so rich!

After she started practicing, she kept thinking about one question: where did the spiritual energy come from?

Hua Changxi stood on the stone platform, closed his eyes and practiced the bird breathing method. After sensing the concentration of spiritual energy around him, he immediately opened his eyes.

Hua Changxi walked to the edge of the cliff and looked down.

I just started practicing my skills and discovered that the spiritual energy is densest below the cliff.

The cliff is not straight down, but has an inclination of about 20 degrees. Looking down from above, it seems bottomless.

Hua Changxi weighed her own strength and felt that with the Lingbo Weibu she had mastered, she could go down and find out what was going on.

Although Hua Changxi was not afraid of heights, he still felt nervous at the thought of jumping down, and couldn't help but hesitate. But then he thought that Mr. You was always guarding the cliff, and if he didn't go down when he was not around, it might be difficult to find a chance later.

Thinking of this, Hua Changxi no longer hesitated. He jumped up, stepped on the cliff with both feet, and ran quickly downwards.

Although he had the support of the cliff, Hua Changxi still felt like he was in free fall, and his legs were running as fast as Hot Wheels.

At this time, Hua Changxi couldn't help but think, it would be great if she could fly a sword or ride on the clouds.

It seemed like a long time had passed, but also like just a blink of an eye had passed, Hua Changxi saw the bottom of the cliff.

Because he couldn't control his speed, Hua Changxi dived heavily to the ground.

Hua Changxi fell down and his teeth were grimacing with distorted facial features. It took him a while to recover and he climbed up tremblingly.

The next moment, when he saw the countless spiritual plants growing at the bottom of the cliff, the pain in his body instantly healed.

Although these spiritual plants are all first-level spiritual plants, Hua Changxi still became very excited.

"Master, what are these fruits?"

"I don't know either."

"Master, I see these fruits are fragrant."

"Why, you want to eat?"

"If you eat one or two, the boss probably won't know."

"Do you know what happened to the last person who had the same idea as you?"

"Killed by someone above him?"

"No, the people above didn't know that he had stolen the fruit. But he still died. Within a breath of time after taking the fruit, his body exploded and he died."

"Ah~"

"That person is your senior brother, an eighth-rank warrior."

"What? Senior Brother is dead!"

"Your body is torn to pieces. It's all because of my greed. Your elder brother was testing the medicine for me. Why do you think the people above were so confident in leaving the medicine valley to me to look after? Because I can't bear to eat these precious medicines. If I eat them, I will die!"

"How could this be?"

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Hua Changxi's face changed when she heard the voices coming closer and closer. She quickly waved out her spiritual power, and a strong wind blew up, blowing away the trace of where she landed. Then, she dodged and hid in the bushes a hundred meters away.

Soon, the figures of Old You and the one-armed man appeared in Hua Changxi's sight.

The two men did not notice Hua Changxi and walked away from the bottom of the cliff along the cliff wall.

As soon as they left, Hua Changxi rushed to explore the bottom of the cliff.

The one-armed man has gone upstairs and will soon go to inspect the Medicine Valley. She has to hurry back before he goes to the Medicine Valley.

Hua Changxi didn't care about the other spiritual plants at the bottom of the cliff, and only concentrated on looking for Yuanling grass. Finally, he saw large tracts of Yuanling grass in the southeast direction.

In addition to the first-level Yuanling grass, there is also a second-level Yuanling grass.

"boom!"

The Shennong Ding was summoned out, and Hua Changxi began to quickly collect Yuanling grass. Every time he collected one, he would use a spell to seal the medicinal properties and spiritual energy of the Yuanling grass.

Hua Changxi planned to fill up the Shennong Ding and leave, but who would have thought that she had picked hundreds of second-level Yuanling herbs and the Shennong Ding was still not full.

"This"

Hua Changxi didn't have time to explore what was going on with the Shennong Ding, and quickly collected the first-level Yuanling grass.

She did not dare to pick too many, fearing that Old You and the one-armed man would notice something unusual, so she stopped after picking three hundred first-level Yuanling herbs.

After taking back the Shennong Ding, Hua Changxi was about to leave the bottom of the cliff, but when he turned around, he saw a jujube tree full of red dates.

When Hua Changxi saw the dates, his mouth started to water.

"Whoo~"

A stream of spiritual power passed by, and thousands of dates fell from under the tree.

Hua Changxi summoned the Shennong Ding again. A whirlwind blew up, gathered the dates into a pile, and quickly put them into the Shennong Ding.

Not daring to stay any longer, Hua Changxi filled his legs with spiritual energy and climbed up the cliff quickly.