His name is Li Banfeng—”Feng” as in “mountain peak,” not “madness.” The doctor confirmed he is not insane.
To save a friend’s life, he stepped onto Platform 96, boarded the 11...
It’s settled.
With just two words, Li Banfeng agreed to the deal.
Zuo Wugang was a little skeptical and was about to confirm it again, but he saw Li Banfeng whispering to Xiaochuan and putting a box of dollars on the table.
Li Banfeng said, "Here are the wages, but let me make it clear first. You guys are here to be paid, not to be guests. You must follow my instructions."
Zuo Wugang nodded and said, "Of course."
Li Banfeng went out and brought back three contracts, which he handed to Zuo Wugang: "Please give us your fingerprints."
Zuo Wugang took a rough look and found that the content of the contract was very simple. Zuo Wugang and three others were responsible for protecting the safety of the master, and the master would pay corresponding remuneration.
If Zuo Wugang no longer wants to be a branch official, the two sides can part ways amicably after negotiation. However, if Zuo Wugang disobeys orders or even betrays his master during his tenure as a branch official, he will be subject to punishment from his master.
Having been a spy for a lifetime, they had naturally signed similar contracts. Zuo Wugang and the other three pressed their fingerprints without hesitation and thus became Li Banfeng and Ma Wu's spy.
Can you trust these three people?
To be honest, I can't believe it.
With the current strength of Li Banfeng and Ma Wu, hiring a six-story large support is risky, and the risk is not small.
If Zuo Wugang and his group have other purposes, Li Banfeng and Ma Wu have few means to counter.
But not much does not mean there is none.
As for Zuo Wugang, Li Banfeng has channels to find out his background.
Zuo Wugang knew almost nothing about Li Banfeng.
Just now, the deed they signed was made of deed paper made from copper lotus, and the auxiliary material used for the deed paper was Li Banfeng's rust pill.
If Zuo Wugang breaches his contract, he will turn into a pile of rust.
After drinking two glasses of wine, Zuo Wugang said to Li Banfeng, "Seventh Master, can you let us meet the Fifth Young Master? He and you are both our masters. We are just supporting staff, and we can't not even meet the master."
It was a reasonable request, so Li Banfeng agreed.
Xiao Chuanzi brought Zuo Wugang to Ma Wu's bedside and saw that Ma Wu could hardly move except for breathing and occasionally blinking. Zuo Wugang thought for a moment and asked, "Is this leprosy?"
"What leprosy!" Xiao Chuanzi gave Zuo Wugang a blank look.
Li Banfeng asked: "Is leprosy the same as leprosy?"
"It's not leprosy," Zuo Wugang waved his hand and said, "leprosy is caused by a strong wind that makes the whole body numb and unable to move. I have a secret prescription that is very effective. One dose of medicine will work."
Xiao Chuanzi frowned and said, "Master Zuo, you are also a person of status. This matter of treating illnesses cannot be taken lightly. I have seen the leprosy you mentioned, but it is different from our young master."
Zuo Wugang scratched his head and said, "Two different things? I think the symptoms are quite similar. My folk remedy is really effective. More than one person says it works."
Li Banfeng looked at Zuo Wugang and felt that there was something else behind his words.
He invited Zuo Wugang to the living room and asked about the origin of the folk remedy. Zuo Wugang drank a sip of tea and said, "Don't ask me the origin. Anyway, this decoction is really effective in treating leprosy.
Especially for people who are on the move all year round, it works for cold wind, warm wind, and even strong wind!"
Li Banfeng understood.
People who travel outside for a long time are called travel cultivators.
This prescription works, which proves that it once worked for Lu Dongliang.
Has Lu Dongliang ever had similar symptoms to Ma Wu?
Yes, it has happened. It must have happened.
At his age, and having reached the ninth level of cultivation, it is impossible for him not to take elixirs, and it is certain that he will be poisoned by elixirs.
As the richest family in Provins, Lu Dongliang should have some methods to resolve the poison.
Although the properties of elixirs produced by different companies are different, and there is no prescription that can dissolve the elixir poison of different elixirs, the elixir refined by Honglian is of extremely high purity, and the level of Jinyuan Dan is also extremely high. This type of elixir should have certain commonalities. The commonality of Jinyuan Dan should be numbness of the whole body, which is also the basic toxicity of Jinyuan Dan.
In addition to basic toxicity, the Jinyuan Dan obtained through other channels also has different characteristic erysipelas. This type of erysipelas is very difficult to resolve. Different toxicities must be treated one by one. There is no universal medicine. This is why there is no antidote for erysipelas.
Zuo Wugang has a method to resolve the basic toxicity, which has limited effect on Lu Dongliang, but has a great effect on Li Banfeng.
The poison brewed by Honglian is likely to have only basic toxicity.
Since Zuo Wugang brought it up, Li Banfeng naturally couldn't miss the opportunity.
"This folk remedy must be very precious." Li Banfeng waited for Zuo Wugang to make an offer.
Zuo Wugang shook his head slightly and said, "I don't remember the prescription, but I do have a few prescriptions for the medicine."
He didn't want to reveal the recipe.
That makes sense.
This was a technique he had learned through hard work. Regardless of its source, it was not easy for him to speak it out in such an occasion. There was indeed no reason for him to reveal it to Li Banfeng.
"Ready-made medicines are fine," Li Banfeng nodded. "Name a price."
"You are the master and I am a supporting employee. I shouldn't quote you a price." Zuo Wugang took out the ready-made medicine to show his sincerity.
Li Banfeng tilted his head slightly, his face completely hidden by the shadow and beard, but he seemed to convey a simple meaning.
He didn't want to listen to the other party's guessing.
Zuo Wugang had some understanding of the character of the Seventh Master, so he simply said, "I failed in the Lu family, my reputation is ruined, and no one wants me. Seventh Master, you kept me without saying a word. I am very grateful to you.
I gave you the first dose of medicine to thank Master Qi for his kindness. If Master Qi and Master Wu need it again, just give me the cost of the medicine."
Li Banfeng admired Zuo Wugang's character very much. Zuo Wugang came to Ma Wu, took out a small bottle of medicine powder, and fed it to Ma Wu.
After more than an hour, Ma Wu's fingertips could move slightly.
Xiao Chuanzi was surprised and said, "Master Zuo, your prescription is really effective!"
Zuo Wugang smiled and said, "It works, as long as it's leprosy, but it's only effective for leprosy. If it's other diseases, it's hard to say. I'd better persuade the Fifth Young Master to be more restrained."
"What disease are you talking about?" Xiao Chuanzi was unhappy, thinking that someone was making fun of their young master for having a serious disease.
Zuo Wugang said nothing and glanced at Qi Ye out of the corner of his eye.
Li Banfeng could understand that Zuo Wugang was reminding him, and this statement also verified Li Banfeng's speculation.
This medicine can cure the numbness of the body caused by Jinyuan Dan, but he has no way to resolve the other symptoms of erysipelas.
After waiting for half a day, Ma Wu was able to eat and walk again.
Ma Wu was very grateful to Zuo Wugang and asked Xiao Chuanzi to arrange accommodation for Zuo Wugang. As soon as Zuo Wugang left, Ma Wu moved his cheeks and squeezed out a small ball of medicine powder from between his teeth.
Li Banfeng was stunned: "Can you even keep this?"
"This is good stuff, really good stuff! Let me first determine the medicinal properties. I have already tasted out some of the herbs."
Ma Wu was so anxious to reverse the prescription that he didn't sleep a wink all night.
By the next morning, Ma Wu's eyes were bloodshot from staying up all night, but the prescription had not been given out.
"There are dozens of medicinal ingredients in this powder. Some of them can be roughly identified, but some are really hard to identify..." Ma Wu wanted to go back to the Ma family's old house and find some books related to medicinal herbs in the library, but he was worried that his father would not let him in.
"How about I find a medicine repairman to try?"
Li Banfeng shook his head and said, "That won't work."
Ma Wu sighed lightly, he also knew that this was not appropriate.
This is the medicinal powder that Zuo Wugang took out to save Ma Wu. If he finds a medicine repairman to crack the prescription, it would be equivalent to dispersing the prescription, which is obviously not fair to Old Zuo.
"Brother Ma, you take a rest first. Leave this medicinal powder to me for safekeeping." Li Banfeng took the medicinal powder back to his residence and stared at the copper lotus for a long time.
The copper lotus can refine everything, but Li Banfeng has no intention of refining this little bit of medicinal powder. What he wants to do is to let the copper lotus refine a prescription.
This doesn't seem to be in line with the function of the copper lotus. What if this powder is eaten and nothing is refined in the end? Wouldn't that be a huge loss?
After hesitating for a while, Li Banfeng fed the medicine powder to Honglian.
Zuo Wugang is still here, and the channel for the medicine powder has not been cut off. Even if the medicine powder is lost this time, we can just go to Zuo Wugang and ask for the finished medicine again.
Honglian swallowed the medicine powder and didn't react for a long time.
Li Banfeng sighed and was about to give up, but suddenly he saw the red lotus open its petals again, and the lotus seed in the heart of the lotus had matured.
This lotus seed was refined from Liu Liangyi's body. Logically, the elixir should have been ready long ago, but the copper lotus seemed to have deliberately slowed down the process.
Honglian did it on purpose. She was afraid that the elixir would be refined too quickly. Li Banfeng felt itchy in his heart and had impulsive thoughts again.
Li Banfeng was indeed a little impulsive. Liu Liangyi had reached the fourth level of cultivation. He didn't know how many years it had taken him exactly. According to Li Banfeng's estimation, he should be able to refine sixteen to twenty Xuan Chi Pills.
But the result was unexpected, three Jinyuan Pills exploded out of the lotus seeds.
This is equivalent to thirty Xuan Chi Pills.
Make money!
Big profit!
Li Banfeng was secretly delighted when he suddenly discovered that the quality of one of the pills was not right.
The other two pills were round and full, shining brightly with golden light under the candlelight.
This pill is very dull, as if a golden bean was coated with a layer of gold paint.
How could there be such a difference?
Is this pill insufficient in quantity or impure in quality?
Li Banfeng was observing carefully when he suddenly heard the record player humming: "Hey, husband, why are you staring at that pill? Are you going crazy again and want to eat it?"
Li Banfeng shook his head and said, "I suffered a great loss last time, but I've learned my lesson this time and I won't suffer it again."
"My husband knows the pain. Since we can't eat it, we should sell it quickly so that we can get some money to buy vegetables."
"My lady, the food you eat cannot be bought with money. Besides, you ate so many ghost servants before, are you going to be hungry again in the blink of an eye?"
huff!
The record player said in a coquettish voice: "My husband, my body is no longer what it used to be, so my appetite is naturally bigger."
Li Banfeng looked surprised and asked, "Are you pregnant?"
huff~ huff~
The record player sobbed and said, "My husband is mocking me, knowing full well that I cannot bear your child in my body."
"Whether you can get pregnant depends on your fighting ability, skills, strategy, and sincerity. My dear, let's consummate our marriage first..."
Phew~
A cloud of steam forced Li Banfeng to retreat. His wife said in a dignified voice, "It's not easy to wash clothes, my husband, please take good care of them. You slept well last night, and your practice is enough. Go buy some groceries."
Li Banfeng left Suishenju, and suddenly shouted to the outer room: "Sister Honglian, the quality of the pill just now seems to be a little off?"
Honglian responded, "It's all for sale anyway, so isn't it a good thing to let that madman make more money?"
"It would be fine if he really went to sell it for money, but I'm worried that he would go crazy and eat the pills again. Please don't poison him."
Honglian sneered: "Why do you still feel sorry for him?"
huff~ huff~
The sound of steam suddenly slowed down, and the singing became very cold and chilly:
"Whether I feel sorry for him or not is none of your business. Don't do anything behind my back, or we will never let each other off."
Steam gushed out slowly.
The copper lotus is covered with dew.
…
Li Banfeng sat in the wooden house with the pill in his hand, still thinking about the quality of the pill.
After observing the pill in his hand for a long time, Li Banfeng suddenly found a crack on the pill.
What material is this?
Li Banfeng carefully felt along the crack, just like he did when he was a kid, and peeled off the outer skin of the pill piece by piece.
The pill was hollow, and on the inner wall of the outer skin, Li Banfeng saw three words: Blue Leaf Poplar.
ps: The name of Lanyang Village comes from the blue-leaf poplar.
(End of this chapter)
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