Chapter 40
The contest between the elders and the head of the Yin family is still going on during this period, and there is chaos outside, so no one can pay attention to Yin Jiuxiao for a while.
Lin Qinghen occasionally contacted Yu Yinyin these days to learn about the latest developments at Diemeng Pharmacy.
He is not very good at doing business, but everything is fine over there, so he is relieved.
The medicine was selling very smoothly, which was a good thing and also something that Lin Qinghen had expected. Moreover, Diemeng Pharmacy's practice of not raising prices but relatively reducing prices during this crisis was unique in the city. For many ordinary people in the city, it was a very favorable thing.
More importantly, Diemeng’s medicines are of good quality.
For the same price, their yellow-grade four-star elixir is obviously much better, with quick effects and good efficacy. Even after the rat plague is over, I'm sure they will still have a lot of repeat customers.
In Lin Qinghen's opinion, this is called brand identity and customer stickiness.
The brand name of Diemeng has truly taken its first step.
Lin Qinghen is responsible for the supply of the entire shop. Yu Yinyin will quietly come to the Lin family and take him away according to his request. Lin Qinghen will give her the medicine that has been prepared in the system, and then put the red round wheat grown in the plantation and the prepared medicine base into the production table. The handover is completed and it doesn't take much time.
Yu Yinyin had previously guessed that he had a spatial spiritual weapon on him, and Lin Qinghen also tacitly agreed to this without further explanation.
In the first few days, Yu Yinyin was worried that he would be discovered if he went back to the Yin family to do this, so Zeng also told him that it would be better to just live in Diemeng Pharmacy for a few days.
Lin Qinghen comforted her, saying that his medicine refining method was different from ordinary medicine refining methods, it would not be a big deal, and he had a "space magic weapon" in his hand, Yin Jiuxiao could not see it, so he could conceal it from others and it would be no big deal.
Regarding the research part, Lin Qinghen doesn't need a very large plot of land now, and Yin Jiuxiao's yard is enough.
If he needed to tinker with something crucial, he would do it in the small inner room of the room, which was not used by Yin Jiuxiao and was relatively hidden. Lin Qinghen tidied it up a bit and dug some soil and put it in, making it look like a simple laboratory.
No one from the Yin family paid attention to this place. They were all busy with other "important things". Besides, even if they came, they wouldn't be able to understand.
Yin Jiuxiao can prove this.
He was not blind, but he did not fully understand what Lin Qinghen was doing. He only knew that Lin Qinghen was studying the soil.
He is obsessed with digging every day, and digging is his most important thing.
He was dirty these days, but Lin Qinghen would wash his hands first every time he came over to hold his hand or support him.
Yin Jiuxiao previously thought that since he had become Die Meng's young master and Die Meng had turned the tide during this rat plague, Lin Qinghen should have stepped out to gain attention or something, but that didn't happen. She still lived a quiet life with him in the yard.
This guy acts as if everything going on outside has nothing to do with him.
If he hadn't sent a shadow that day, Yin Jiuxiao would have almost thought that this person was as simple, well-behaved and virtuous as she seemed on the surface.
However, at this time, Lin Qinghen chose not to show up and not to have any direct relationship with Diemeng Pharmacy. Naturally, there was a reason for this. The main reason was that he did not want anyone to focus their attention on him.
Lin Qinghen's marriage to the Yin family bound him to this family to some extent. Many people in the Yin family haven't noticed him yet and think that he is a waste like Yin Jiuxiao.
Without all this attention, there would be less trouble, his life would be much calmer, and he would have more time to do research.
If he revealed at this moment that he was the owner of Diemeng Pharmacy, would the frustrated Xu Yaoyang let him go?
He would not let himself be drawn into the center of the vortex, or rather, now was not the time.
Yin Hengxie and even Yin Jiuxiao made many mistakes, so he couldn't rely on him, so it was better to be more considerate.
The current external owner of Diemeng Pharmacy is Yu Yinyin. Yesterday, some people came to cause trouble on purpose and tried to ruin the business of the shop, but she had already beaten them out.
During these several tugs of war, the fact that she was a heavenly spiritual master also attracted the attention of most people in Tear City.
Yin Hengxie and many of his men also knew the significance of Diemeng at this critical juncture, and because of the requirements for cooperation, and Yu Yinyin being a heavenly rank, they naturally also had the intention of protecting and winning her over.
Now, many people in the city also know that this pharmacy has some background and sells medicine honestly, so they trust Die Meng even more.
The two ungrateful alchemists who had met Lin Qinghen once could not say anything in this situation. Lin Qinghen was wearing a mask at that time, so they could not recognize him, let alone revenge.
Somewhat surprisingly, Yu Yinyin later mentioned to him the fate of these two people.
"They were both not very skilled in the art to begin with, and they changed to a different pharmacy, but they were not treated as well as Diemeng. A few days ago, they even regretted wanting to come back, but I kicked them out," Yu Yinyin said, "but the strange thing is that when they came to my house, they were both injured. I heard someone say that their hands were broken, and I don't know what kind of power was left in them, so they couldn't be cured.
Although he is still alive, it looks like he will suffer for a long time to come."
Lin Qinghen was puzzled: "Who did it?"
"Anyway, it's not Diemeng. We've been busy lately and don't have time to care about other people," Yu Yinyin said, "Forget it, evil will be punished."
Lin Qinghen thought about it and decided not to pursue the matter any further.
However, when he heard about this incident and went back that day, he saw Yin Jiuxiao lying alone on the couch, still in the same state as when he left.
After Lin Qinghen came back, he woke up after a while.
He would take a nap every afternoon. It seemed like a habit. It was really a good habit. Lin Qinghen took advantage of this time to go out.
Lin Qinghen looked at him, still sleepy after he got up. The first thing he did was to look for her, and he didn't calm down until they held hands.
"Jiuxiao," Lin Qinghen looked at him, and his heart softened. "It's not peaceful outside right now. There are too many hooligans in Tear City. You should be careful. Listen to me during this period of time and don't go out. Got it?"
Yin Jiuxiao then lowered his eyes and nodded: "Got it."
Lin Qinghen was very satisfied and felt that this person was the most obedient.
Besides those things outside, he has more important things to do.
Regarding the soil research, he needed materials, so he made a list for Yu Yinyin first.
Yu Yinyin's trust in Lin Qinghen is now much greater than before. She has long been accustomed to the fact that her disciple is not an ordinary person. Even if he asks her about everything, she will not understand it. It is better for her to just follow him.
So during this period of time, whenever Lin Qinghen asked her for something, she would not ask any further questions and would just give it to him directly.
Moreover, what Lin Qinghen wanted was not something precious, just the seeds of several designated yellow-grade mid-quality spiritual plants, and some miscellaneous materials.
Lin Qinghen has tried it and found that if you start from the soil, it is indeed a method that can lead to all methods.
But this is a big project and he can't complete it in a short period of time. From the perspective of completing the system task, he can do it step by step.
He discovered that each different kind of yellow-grade spiritual plant performed differently in the soil of Northern Province, and the system only required him to perform five tasks.
So Lin Qinghen brought over all the popular yellow-grade mid-quality spiritual plants that could be used as medicine-making materials that could be found in Beizhou.
Yu Yinyin found more than a hundred kinds for him. He experimented with them one by one and picked out the five spiritual plants with the strongest meridians.
Amaranthus and Polygonum multiflorum, one is yellow grade four stars, the other is yellow grade five stars. Both materials can be used as the main ingredients of Lingpo Pill. Lingpo Pill is a pill that helps to better absorb spiritual power during cultivation, and it is also a very popular medicine.
For the Peiyuan Pill to be used before and after giving the child spiritual enlightenment, Lin Qinghen chose the yellow-grade four-star snake-eye flower.
The healing pills and hemostatic powder have similar uses. Lin Qinghen chose the yellow-grade five-star Ruorong grass.
The last one is the seed of a tree called Seven Star Wei, Yellow Rank 6. This material is unpopular, and the pills made from it are also unpopular, and their name is Jifengsan.
A type of elixir that has special functionality in battle. As the name suggests, it can temporarily increase movement speed. It sounds useful, but elixirs with this type of effect are of the "instant burst" type. Generally speaking, this is a characteristic of Xuan-level elixirs.
Gale Powder is only six stars in the yellow grade. Its rapid movement duration is short, its speed is not fast enough, and it has side effects after use, with a noticeable feeling of weakness, making it seem a lot less useful.
What’s interesting is that the five types picked out by Lin Qinghen are not considered popular materials in alchemy. Apart from making the meridians strong and easy to maintain, each has its own shortcomings.
Some have too long a growth period, some have poor efficacy, and some have low output quantities. They have never been the best choice for the main ingredient.
But if you persist and maintain that "stimulated" state, the spiritual plant will be very different.
Lin Qinghen currently has no way to eliminate the evil spirit in the soil. This project is too big for him now. If he can do it now, not to mention the system task, the entire Beizhou will have to worship him.
You can't take too big a step. Lin Qinghen knows that he doesn't have the ability to do so now.
He can now rely on his keen perception to mix different types of soil, trying to maintain the concentration of demonic energy in it at the dimension he wants.
The spiritual plants will still die after being planted, but this is the longest time they can last. This concentration can also stimulate that fleeting state of excitement. If it is a little less, there will not be the state that Lin Qinghen wants.
The several spiritual plants he found were relatively strong. After Lin Qinghen adjusted the soil ratio, it seemed that as long as he added a little more, he would succeed.
But after working with the soil, Lin Qinghen hit a research bottleneck.
All he lacked was that “little bit”.
His initial research direction was to add protective substances when the plants were already in an excited state, to help the spiritual plants survive.
At first, he tried to add concentrated spiritual liquid at the critical moment to attract spiritual power to offset the evil spirit, but it didn't work. The sudden addition of external spiritual power made the spiritual plants, which were already in a fragile state, unable to adapt and died faster.
Lin Qinghen tried all the other potions with protective properties that he could find, but none of them worked.
Yin Jiuxiao has been feeling his distress these past few days.
Since the fact that there was demonic energy in the body had been made clear, Yin Jiuxiao and Lin Qinghen could discuss the matter directly.
"What methods are there to fight against demonic energy?" Lin Qinghen asked him, as if he was asking himself.
Yin Jiuxiao thought about it seriously and answered him: "If you ask me how I feel, it is that you should not fight against the evil spirit, but guide it, or use it. Don't treat it as an enemy, only then can you survive."
Lin Qinghen seemed to have some vague ideas in his mind because of his words, but they were not clear. He talked to Yin Jiuxiao again and felt that the other party seemed to be a doctor after suffering from the disease for a long time.
Don't fight it.
He pondered over this sentence from day till late at night.
Because Yin Jiuxiao was blind and needed care all the time, Lin Qinghen slept in the same bed with him from the beginning.
The bed in this room is big, so it’s not crowded. He is quite used to it.
As for Yin Jiuxiao, he could smell the scent of grass and trees on Lin Qinghen's body, a very soothing scent. It could even help him calm down a little when he was practicing, and it was even better when he was resting at night.
Over the years, Lin Qinghen was the only one who could lie next to him without feeling repulsed, and he had naturally accepted her since they got married.
But Lin Qinghen's distress was even more obvious at night. Even if Yin Jiuxiao was really blind, his mumbling voice could still be heard in his ears.
Just like the first time he met this person, as soon as things didn't go well, he started talking to himself, as if repeating it a few more times would dispel his doubts.
"Don't resist, don't resist, this evil spirit..."
This time he could not only hear it, but also see that Lin Qinghen's eyes were slightly wrinkled. He didn't look discouraged, but just a little pitiful.
Yin Jiuxiao found it funny and raised his hand to pull him closer.
"Why are you still thinking about it now? I shouldn't have told you if I had known."
What he said was true, but how could it be so easy to utilize demonic energy?
This is not something that can be done in one or two days.
Lin Qinghen was not averse to being close to him. He felt that Yin Jiuxiao was becoming more and more to his liking, especially now that he was the only person with whom he could discuss a few words while he was doing research.
Then Yin Jiuxiao felt this person put his arm around his waist, and naturally pulled him in as well.
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