Evergreen Immortal..

Chapter 74 Master Li has never been so rich
Late at night, Li Mansion.

A dim candlelight and a silhouette.

inside the room.

The wooden table in front of Li Rui was filled with so many things that there was almost no room for them.

"Ambergris, Wonderful Spiritual Branch, Silver Dragon Iron."

Spiritual medicines and spiritual iron are basic supplies. Most of them are naturally grown and picked up by herbalists or mountain people, and then sold on the black market.

These people don't know how to tell the difference.

There are good and bad things mixed together, it all depends on your eyesight.

Li Rui has been wandering around the black market these days, rarely making a purchase, but when he does, it's always big stuff.

These spiritual herbs are worth at least two hundred gold, or two thousand taels of silver. Even the wealthy families in Qinghe City may not have so much money.

Poor trader, after being swept away by Li Rui, they can’t make any big money in the near future and can only make a living by picking up scraps.

Looking at the table full of elixirs, Li Rui's heart was pounding.

“I’ve never been so wealthy in my life.”

Relying on the spiritual eyes, it is possible to earn so much money in just a few days.

Li Rui touched his chin.

"They are all spiritual herbs. It's still a matter of luck to get a fist-sized piece of spiritual iron."

Salt and iron are government-run.

Most of the spiritual mines are occupied by the imperial court and major forces, and ordinary people have no chance to access them.

This piece of silver dragon iron is covered with stone skin. From the outside, it looks like an ordinary stone. It was picked up by the stall owner and used as a cloth pressing stone.

This was what Li Rui took advantage of.

In comparison, spiritual herbs are more common and are also the main target of black market traders.

Li Rui put away the Silver Dragon Iron.

He had just upgraded his weapon and applied soft armor, so he couldn't use the silver dragon iron for the time being, so he saved it for later and would make plans after getting more spiritual iron.

As for the elixir
Two ways.

Either sell it for silver, or find an alchemist to make pills for it.

After weighing the pros and cons, Li Rui decided to find an alchemist, provide the materials himself, and let the alchemist refine the elixir into pills.

He now has bones of iron, and one step further he will have bones of gold.

The number of elixirs needed to refine gold bones is more than ten times that of iron bones, not to mention the higher level jade bones.

Find a reliable alchemist, pay him some time, and save the middle steps

Find people directly who will do the work to avoid middlemen making a profit from the price difference.

Moreover, he has a unique advantage—there are alchemists in the Tiandi Alliance.

Pharmacy, backyard.

The air was filled with the fragrance of elixir and gray-white smoke, like the legendary fairyland.

"Master Li, why do you need Deputy Captain Zhang to come in person for such a small matter? You can just come to me directly."

A shrewd middle-aged man said with a smile as he walked.

Li Rui glanced at the newly appointed Hall Master Xu Xiang.

In my heart: “Haha.”

If he hadn't asked Zhang Yang to say hello in advance, he might not even have been able to find Xu Xiang's door, and there would be no grand scene of Xu Xiang personally leading the way.

Everyone knows that Xu Xiang is a man who will take advantage of others and only cares about the tasks assigned by his superiors.

"Master Li, you are a popular figure in front of Deputy Captain Zhang, so you should say a few good words for me in the future."

There was a hint of flattery in Xu Xiang's words.

"Easy to say."

Li Rui responded indifferently.

In fact, it stands to reason that Xu Xiang, the head of a pharmacy, has nothing to do with Zhang Yang, the deputy leader of Tianyi who is in charge of introductions.

But it all started with Zhao Wei’s death.

After Zhao Wei's death.

One of the three halls under his charge was given to Ge Hong, and the other two were given to Zhou Rui.

Turn around.

Deputy Captain Zhou had originally become a idler, but then he got rich unexpectedly and inexplicably restored his status as deputy captain. He was even in charge of the medicine hall and the discipline hall, and his power was even greater than before.

Dao Xiong's distribution has a profound meaning.

Zhao Wei is dead, so the Qinghe branch needs to be stable, so the actions must be as small as possible and the number of people involved must be as small as possible.

Once we have safely made it through next year's big exams, redistribution will be a natural process.

So Zhou Rui became the best candidate to take over.

But letting Zhou Rui, the weakest deputy leader, take over three halls at once is bound to make people dissatisfied.

That's why Dao Xiong gave the most important Wenwu Hall to Ge Hong, and the other two halls to Zhou Rui.

But anyone with a discerning eye can see it.

Zhou Rui, the deputy leader in charge of the pharmacy, will not be in his position for long.

A year later, 80% of the time it will be replaced by Deputy Captain Zhang.

Xu Xiang must plan ahead.

"Why do you think the previous head of the Medicine Hall took the initiative to ask to be sent out to watch the scene?"

"It's because I've offended too many people."

"After changing the deputy helmsman, he is always making things difficult for us. We can't even get by."

That's why Xu Xiang had to take this as a warning. Li Rui was able to ask Deputy Captain Zhang to personally say hello, which obviously showed that they had a close relationship. He could take this opportunity to curry favor with him.

By the next year, he will still be the head of the medicine hall.

Thinking.

The two of them came to a detached room that looked like a palace but was not.

"Master Li, Elder Jiang is in the alchemy room."

"Elder Jiang is obsessed with alchemy and has a strange personality. If his words offended Master Li, please don't be offended."

Xu Xiang added another sentence.

Li Rui waved his hand: "No problem."

The Elder Jiang mentioned by Xu Xiang is the only master alchemist in the Qinghe branch, who can refine eighth-grade elixirs.

"For a rare skilled worker, it's normal to have a bit of temper."

"It's good that Master Li thinks so."

Xu Xiang said this, but he muttered in his heart: "It's better to really think so."

Elder Jiang was arrogant because of his talent and had a special status in the pharmacy. Even he, the hall master, was unwilling to pay any attention to him.

Xu Xiang often got so angry that his lungs ached.

Even several deputy helmsmen were almost tempted to roll up their sleeves and hit others by Elder Jiang.

If it weren't for his high attainments in alchemy, the branch would have been inseparable from him and he would have been thrown out of the branch long ago.

The two walked into the alchemy room.

Dozens of pharmacists were busy in the room, and the red medicine furnace in the lower half of the center of the room made the air scalding hot.

"Three qian of Lingfeng grass, one qian of Lingzhi powder, and one Yangdingtian."

A middle-aged man with a goatee stared at the alchemy furnace intently, and blurted out a string of names of medicinal herbs.

There was a bustling scene in the alchemy room.

Seeing this, Xu Xiang stopped walking awkwardly: "Master Li, why don't you go have a cup of tea first? Elder Jiang cannot be disturbed when he is refining the elixir. This is the unwritten rule of the medicine hall."

Li Rui is very patient.

"It should be done soon, let's wait a little longer."

The two waited for about a quarter of an hour.

A few slight bangs were heard from the furnace.

"It's done!"

Elder Jiang's eyes lit up. He trotted forward and used tongs to open the lid of the alchemy furnace. A strange fragrance filled the air.

"Eighth-grade elixir?"

Li Rui has spiritual eyes and can judge the grade of the elixir by the spiritual substances contained in the elixir at a glance.

I watched Elder Jiang take out more than ten elixirs.

Xu Xiang then spoke: "Elder Jiang, this is Master Li of Tianyi Hall, and he would like to ask you to refine a batch of elixirs."

The smile on Jiang Cheng's face disappeared as if he had changed his expression, and he looked at Li Rui coldly.

Without even asking the origin, he simply said two words:
“No Refining”

(End of this chapter)