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...
The man with gold-rimmed glasses said, don’t pay attention to one or two flowers on the roadside, because when you get to a good place, there will be plenty of beautiful flowers.
According to him, Li Banfeng thought that in a good place, the snakeweed was like wheat and could be harvested in large handfuls at a time.
But now that he had arrived at a good place, Li Banfeng found that there were not so many good flowers. After searching for more than two hours, he only picked five flowers in total.
Some snake daisies have long flower stems that can be cut directly with a sickle, while others have no visible flower stems at all, and the petals grow close to the ground, so they have to be dug out little by little with a shovel.
According to Li Banfeng's speculation, it would be considered luck to find a snakeweed within a radius of ten meters, because the fog on the mountain was getting thicker and thicker, visibility was getting worse and worse, and ten meters was basically the limit of vision.
Flowers are hard to find and competition is fierce.
The people from the pharmacy are nearby. They are more experienced and act faster.
Not only them, there is also competition within this makeshift team.
Lao Yan Pao is a real tobacco practitioner. He said he is at the first level, so he should not be lying.
The smoke was his eyes. He could see wherever the smoke went. In two hours, he picked thirteen snakeweeds.
The little girl was also an expert at picking grass leaves. As a medicine practitioner, she had a special sensitivity to herbs, so she picked ten.
The plump beauty nectarine, my skills are a little worse, I only picked three in two hours, not as good as Li Banfeng.
But what does it mean that she always hangs around in front of me?
How can I pick chrysanthemums with her like this, wearing a cheongsam, hunching over, bending at the waist, with peaches facing me and swaying in front of me?
Are you really going to let me pick chrysanthemums?
The expert, the man with gold-rimmed glasses, was of average skill. He picked six flowers, one more than Li Banfeng.
Like Li Banfeng, Hu Gaozi also picked Wuzhu flowers.
The most useless one was Qin Xiaopang, who only picked one flower and was so anxious that he stamped his feet in the grass.
Tiger Kozi laughed at Qin Xiaopang: "With just this one flower, you can't even make half a pill. I'm really worried that you won't be able to sell it when you get down the mountain!"
Xiao Pang said angrily, "Why can't it be sold? It's not like he has to use this flower of mine alone to make the elixir. He must have put all the flowers he collected together to make the elixir!"
Li Banfeng asked, "Can't even one flower make half a pill?"
"I can't make it," the little girl Caoye found another snake chrysanthemum and said as she picked it, "I heard that it takes five snake chrysanthemums to make a top-grade pill."
The beautiful nectarine interjected, "I heard that a lot of auxiliary ingredients need to be added."
Cao Ye thought for a moment and said, "I remember that there is no need for auxiliary materials to refine the snake-spotted pill, but the temperature is very difficult to control. The fire needs to be changed four or five times in the middle, and the fire strength is different each time. In addition, the method of refining the pill is different in each pharmacy."
Hearing this, Youtao sighed and said, "If I don't know the recipe, it's worth more than gold. If I know it, it's all nonsense. Who told me that I don't have that ability? I can only exchange my life for such a small amount of money.
Sister, we have known each other for a while and we can be considered friends. You should study pharmacology well. In the future, we will collect medicinal herbs and sell them to your house. At least you can give us more money. "
Upon hearing this, Cao Ye blushed, smiled, and continued to look for the snake daisy.
What Youtao said touched her heart. It was her dream to open a pharmacy.
Li Banfeng roughly calculated in his mind: five baht flowers were used to refine a pill, and each flower cost eighty-five yuan, so just buying the flowers would cost four hundred and twenty-five yuan.
The cost of snake-banded pills is not low. Even without using any auxiliary materials, including labor, it would cost about five hundred yuan per pill.
The pharmacy business is not easy to do!
"How much can a snake spot pill sell for?" Li Banfeng asked.
"Ten thousand." Xiaopang gave a brief answer.
Ten thousand?
Ten thousand!
Li Banfeng froze on the spot.
Is this a joke?
One pill sells for ten thousand!
This is too much profit!
Li Banfeng was stunned on the spot. Sister Youtao laughed and said, "Why, do you think it's expensive? The medicine store is a business that makes a lot of money.
At this price, only wealthy families can buy it. Ordinary people can't afford it.
Think about it, 10,000 yuan can buy one day of cultivation, 3.65 million yuan can buy one year of cultivation, 36.5 million yuan can buy ten years of cultivation.
Ten years of cultivation is one level of cultivation. Spending three hundred million can get you ten levels of cultivation. Ten levels of cultivation can triple your lifespan. Do you think it's not worth the money?"
"Whether it's worth it or not is another matter. Sister, don't point peaches at me when you talk."
Youtao turned around and smiled at Li Banfeng with narrowed eyes: "Do you like it? It's plump and white. Do you want to pinch it? Give me a flower and I'll let you pinch it as much as you want."
One pill, twenty times the profit.
Li Banfeng found a snake chrysanthemum, looked at it for a while, and asked, "Instead of buying such expensive pills, it's better to buy snake chrysanthemums directly. One plant is only 85 yuan."
Cao Ye shouted, "Brother Baisha, don't do anything rash. You can't eat this. Snakehead chrysanthemum is highly poisonous. If you eat one, you will die."
Li Banfeng was stunned: "Is the snake chrysanthemum poisonous? Is the snake chrysanthemum not poisonous?"
Cao Ye and Youtao looked at Li Banfeng together, as if they were looking at an illiterate person.
Cao Ye said: "Snake-banded dan is also poisonous, but the toxicity is not that strong, but you can't eat too much of it."
Youtao said, "Brother Baisha, how come you don't know anything? Do you really have any cultivation? If you don't have any cultivation, get down the mountain quickly and don't risk your life here.
Also, I just said that I would exchange three hundred million for ten levels of cultivation. It was just an analogy. Don’t take it seriously. If you really eat so many snake-spotted pills, you will die many times. "
Xiaopang reminded Li Banfeng: "Hurry up and find the flowers. There is no need to talk so much. Serious matters are more important!"
He was reminding Li Banfeng not to show his weakness again.
But he was right. Serious matters are important. The snakeweed only blooms for one day, and after a day, the flowers will wither.
This is not the most important thing.
Li Banfeng began to feel dizzy and he could hardly resist the bitter fog.
Old Smoker was concentrating on his work. While they were talking, he picked another snake chrysanthemum.
After putting the flowers into the cloth bag, the old smoker exhaled another puff of yellow smoke.
The smoke lingered for a moment, and Old Smoke Cannon sensed something and hurried forward. There was another snake chrysanthemum in front of him.
Old Smoker took out a pair of scissors and skilfully cut the neck of the flower. Just as he was about to put the flowers away, he suddenly saw the bald man who had snatched the flowers on the roadside come in front of him and reach out to grab them.
The old smoker was not in a hurry. He used the pipe to block the back of the bald man's hand. With a "hiss", a piece of flesh was burned off.
The bald man cried out in pain and shouted at the old smoker: "Old man, have you had enough of living?"
The old smoker laughed and said, "You've had enough of robbing me."
"Who stole your things? I saw the flowers first!"
"Don't worry about who saw it first, the flowers are in my hand, come and take them if you can!" The old smoker didn't waste any words, put the flowers in his pocket, held the pipe, and looked at the bald man indifferently.
The bald man whistled, and three more people came up to Old Smoker.
He brought help.
Now the old smoker was panicked.
"Old man, put down the bag in your hand. I'll let you live today." The bald man drew out his machete, and the three men behind him also drew out their weapons.
The old smoker hesitated for a moment and decided not to fight back. He opened his pocket and said to the bald man, "Here are twenty-two flowers. I'll keep half for you. This is over."
"I asked you to keep everything, don't you understand? You'd rather give up your life than your money?" The bald man smiled and without giving any time for explanation, he raised his knife and started to chop.
The little girl Caoye was frightened and hid beside the man with gold-rimmed glasses.
The man with gold-rimmed glasses shouted, "My friend, let's discuss something!"
Tiger Lamb also came over: "We have to be reasonable, don't do anything yet!"
The two men stepped forward to dissuade him, but the bald man ignored them and continued to chop at him with his knife, each time aiming at his head.
Being surrounded by four men, Lao Yanpao didn't even have time to smoke. Seeing a knife coming towards Lao Yanpao's head, the bald man suddenly withdrew his hand, leaving a bloody mark on the back of his hand.
Xiaopang took action.
When you become partners, you have to take care of each other. Xiaopang is very disciplined, and he has long wanted to teach the bald man a lesson.
When the bald man saw that only Fatty rushed up, he called on everyone to continue attacking.
Looking at the situation in front of him, Hu Gaozi glanced at the man with gold-rimmed glasses.
The gold-rimmed glasses scanned the rest of the group.
The little girl Cao Ye hid behind him, too frightened to move.
The nectarine girl looked at the bald man, not knowing what to do.
Li Banfeng saw a snake daisy and was about to pick the flower. The fight that was happening seemed to have nothing to do with him.
Tiger Kozi glanced at the man with gold-rimmed glasses again and said in a low voice, "It's almost done."
The man with gold-rimmed glasses kept his gaze on the bald man.
It was four against two, and the bald man's gang originally had the upper hand, but for some reason, the four of them became more and more impatient. The knife handles in their hands were shaking, and every time they cut down, the knife was crooked, like children who had never fought before.
What's going on?
Why are they so flustered?
This situation didn't seem like anything to panic about.
The bald man's eyes sparkled and his cheeks turned red.
He was not panicked, but excited.
I was so excited that my body was somewhat out of control.
Seeing this, the man with gold-rimmed glasses rushed up to the bald man in two steps and kicked him in the chest, making him take several steps back.
Tiger Lamb also rushed forward and knocked down a man holding a machete with one punch, and shouted at the crowd: "I don't want to give you face, do you? Do you think we are easy to bully?"
The bald man held up a knife and said, "I advise you not to meddle in other people's business."
The man with gold-rimmed glasses had a sullen face and adjusted his glasses: "We are partners and agreed to look after each other. We will definitely take care of this trivial matter."
Xiaopang opened his pocket and wolfed down a pound of dry food. He shouted to the crowd, "Come on, fight! Let's see if I can chop you to death!"
The old smoker picked up the pipe and took two puffs, and yellow-white smoke gradually spread.
Seeing that the situation was not good, the bald man turned around and fled with everyone.
The man with gold-rimmed glasses let out a long sigh, turned around and said to everyone, "Everyone, hurry up and pick the flowers. They don't dare to come again."
The old smoker put away his pipe, sat on the ground to catch his breath for a while, and then continued to pick flowers.
Xiao Pang came to Li Banfeng, sat down angrily, and said in a low voice: "Brother Li, why don't you help me?"
Li Banfeng handed the snake chrysanthemums he had just picked to Xiaopang: "Hurry up and pick some flowers. Pick a few and leave quickly. Something is wrong."
After saying that, Li Banfeng put a stone in his hand on the ground.
He had been holding the stone.
Only then did Xiaopang realize that Li Banfeng was already ready to take action.
The man with gold-rimmed glasses saw a snake chrysanthemum and just picked it up, when Tiger Kozi quietly walked over to him and said, "Why didn't you let the third brother grab it first?
Only after they have robbed a wave of things will they work harder. Except for that old man, all these people are useless."
The man with gold-rimmed glasses put the chrysanthemum into the bag and said in a very low voice, "There's something wrong with that Baisha."
"There's something wrong with him. He's just a greedy, cowardly waste."
"He is a Huan Xiu. Huan Xiu has the technique to disturb the mind. We must be on guard."
Tiger Kozi disagreed: "I don't think he is a happy cultivator. I have never seen a happy cultivator who is with a man."
The man with gold-rimmed glasses frowned slightly: "There are many things you haven't seen."
Tiger Lamb still didn't believe it: "When the little fat guy was beaten just now, I didn't see him take action. How could Huan Xiu watch his companion get beaten?"
"How do you know he didn't make a move?" The man with gold-rimmed glasses patted the dirt off his hands. "The third brother was hit by Huan Xiu's technique just now. Didn't you see it? He couldn't even hold the knife steadily!"
"Is that Huan Xiu's technique?" Tiger was stunned. "I thought the third brother was panicking. What are you going to do? Are you going to give up this business?"
"We must do business. Let's move to another place. Huan Xiu is weak and can't hold on for too long. We must go down the mountain early.
When he is alone, let the third brother take care of him, and we will take care of them all together." The man with gold-rimmed glasses stood up and looked for the next snake daisy.
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