A wealthy person with a reading panel

Chapter 110 Xiao Zhou's Reading Notes

Scared?
Zhou Qing thought she had encountered some accident and quickly called her.

The call was quickly connected, and Gu Qian's voice came from the other end: "Mr. Zhou, let's send a message. It's a bit inconvenient to call now."

"it is good."

So he hung up again and sent a message: "Have you arrived in Jiangcheng? What's going on? Why are you scared?"

Gu Qian replied first: "I'm here. I've met with your friend's assistant and am getting in the car now."

After a while, he replied, "It's just that your friend is too rich, and I'm afraid I won't do it well and embarrass you."

So that's how it is. Zhou breathed a sigh of relief, then couldn't help but smile again, thinking that this little girl has a strong sense of responsibility. He immediately comforted her, "Don't worry, I believe in your ability. After all, you always make me fall asleep. And even if you fail, it doesn't matter. Just try your best."

After thinking for a moment, he added, "Although my friend is very rich, she is also a young woman, only a few years older than you, and a very nice person."

He sat in the living room on the first floor and chatted with the little girl for a while.

"Well, Mr. Zhou, don't worry, I will do my best! (Struggle)"

Zhou Qing ended the conversation only after he felt that Gu Qian had relaxed a lot.

I got up and went outside to the yard to move everything out of the trunk. I basically piled them in the kitchen first and put the food in the refrigerator.

Then he took out the cast iron charcoal stove that people usually use to make tea, unpacked it, and took out four boxes of the most expensive smokeless charcoal on the market and the small bamboo steamer, willow shovel, rice wine, and black beans that were usually used in breakfast shops selling dumplings, and placed them aside.

After taking inventory and making sure nothing was missing, he began to think about the water problem.

In the nine steaming and nine drying methods, "steaming" requires water. According to the ancient method, it is best to use rootless water or water from mountains and rivers and water from the earth, that is, rainwater, mountain spring water or well water.

It is too late to collect the rootless water. It is sold online, but no one knows whether it is real or fake.

So Zhou Qing’s idea was to get spring water or well water nearby.

He had already asked the landlord about this on WeChat. There were no mountain springs nearby, but there were many wells in the village, and the landlord's family had a deep well.

Zhou Qing first told the landlord on WeChat, then went out, took two 15-liter hand-held buckets from the back seat of the car - the kind of common tea table pump buckets, and went to the third adjacent house.

After fetching the water, we can officially enter the pharmaceutical preparation stage.

Zhou Qing has simulated the ancient nine-steaming and nine-drying process in his mind many times.

He closed the courtyard door and the door again, filled a small plastic basin with half well water, and placed it on the long table in the living room on the first floor. Then he sat down at the table and called out the panel -

Name: Zhou Qing

Currently reading: Journey to the West (Second Reading)

Cumulative number of draws: 0
Extractable items: a handful of mountain spring water, a finger of Polygonatum odoratum...a bottle of Quaalude, etc.

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"It's a pity that the spring water we drew last time wasn't enough, otherwise it would be great to use the spring water from the martial arts world for cooking."

Zhou Qing's thoughts wandered for a moment, but quickly gathered together. He stretched out his left hand upwards, "staring" at the "One Finger Polygonatum" in the available options, and an idea came to his mind.

The next moment, a piece of plant rhizome the size of an index finger appeared in the palm of his left hand.

At first glance, it looks unremarkable and is very similar to the rhizome of Polygonatum odoratum that grows abundantly in his hometown.

But if you look closely, it is different. The inside is slightly darker and rougher.

Before the first steaming and drying, it originally needed to be purified for three days, that is, soaked in water for three days to wash away all the dirt and other impurities on the medicinal materials. However, Zhou Qing's Polygonatum was extracted from the panel, so it could not be cleaner.

So after observing carefully for a while, he directly put the Polygonatum into the prepared basin of water, intending to soak it until dark and then start steaming it.

The first steaming should be done for six hours, or twelve hours. I have to stay up all night tonight.

A day and a night passed very smoothly. At seven o'clock the next morning, Zhou Qing opened the steamer and saw that light yellow mucus had seeped out of the surface of the Polygonatum, just like steamed sweet potatoes bursting.

This term is called "fat flowing through the heart", which means that the cooking temperature has reached the required level.

The sun had already come out outside. Zhou Qing placed the Polygonatum odoratum on a bamboo board and took it to the second-floor terrace to dry in the sun.

He moved the rattan chair out of the bedroom and placed it in the shade next to it. He also put a parasol brought up from the yard on the first floor over his head. Then he lay on the chair and read "Journey to the West".

The first three steamings require high heat, so I have to keep an eye on the fire, fan it, add charcoal, add water, etc. There are too many distractions, plus I have to take a nap for half an hour occasionally. So although I have a lot of free time, it is rather fragmented, and my reading speed naturally becomes very slow.

However, no matter how slow the progress is, we have already reached the penultimate chapter, which is the 99th chapter.

This chapter is short. After counting the first eighty difficulties that the masters and disciples had to go through in their journey to obtain the scriptures, Bodhisattva Vajra jokingly set one last difficulty to make up the number eighty-one... Finally, we get to the last 100th chapter, and at the end the names of all the Buddhas are chanted again.

"All Buddhas of the ten directions and three times, all Bodhisattvas, Mahasattvas, and Mahaprajnaparamita." This is where Journey to the West ends.

Zhou Qing closed the book again and lay in the recliner for a long time without saying a word.

After watching it for the second time, I felt different.

There is a kind of emotion that is hard to describe.

"Because this time, I always refer to historical events. Maybe that's why it has a deeper feeling."

After thinking about it for a while, he couldn't help but look at the Polygonatum sibiricum who was enjoying the sunbath over there, and stood up and turned it over.

Then he couldn't help but rub his hands and called out the panel.

"I can pick another one to read through the Four Great Classics. This time..."

Zhou Qing weighed it himself and felt that this round was not as good as the second round in terms of the accumulation of the previous ten books. After all, there were three intensive readings in the second round, but overall, the difference was not too big.

"The winner in the second round was this finger of Polygonatum. If we compare and accumulate them, at least two-thirds of the Polygonatum in this round were there."

"If I'm lucky, I might get another finger of Polygonatum, or something good like it!"

When he thought about it, he felt a little anxious, but after thinking about it, he put the panel away.

I walked to the table on the terrace, picked up my phone, and called the landlord: "Brother Ma, do you have a laptop that you can lend me?"

"Okay, okay, thank you then."

At noon, when the landlord, Brother Ma, came to deliver Zhou Qing's meal, he brought a well-configured laptop. "This is the laptop I used before. I recently bought a new desktop computer to play Black Myth: Wukong... But it's definitely enough for editing videos or something."

"Thanks."

"What are you thanking me for? I ordered two whole lamb banquets just for you. I'd even give this to you." Ma Ge spoke the truth enthusiastically, and then asked, "Do you have any friends coming over later? Do you want to host them? If so, let me know in advance and I'll do my best to arrange it."

"Okay, if you need anything, be sure to tell me." Zhou Qing responded.

In fact, he ordered two whole lamb banquets in order to test the medicine after the nine steaming and nine drying.

With the experience of taking snake gall, he had to prepare the food in advance.

After everyone left, Zhou Qing ate while using his secondary mobile phone account to register accounts on Bilibili and Douyin.

When choosing a name, he thought about it and originally planned to call it "Xiao Zhou's Reading Notes", but this name had already been used, so he changed it to "Xiao Zhou's Reading Miscellaneous Notes".

"It's okay to be a mixed bag. A humble name is easy to maintain. This bastard is still the best hanger-on in the world of Jin Yong."

(End of this chapter)