out of time

Chapter 24 Kid, you answer

Xu Qing at this moment, did not heave a long sigh of relief until he returned to his residence.

He felt that it was not good for him to do that, but his desire for knowledge made him have no other way.

And he also understood that his little trick might have been seen through.

"I will repay you later."

The young man murmured and kept this matter in his heart. He didn't know what he could repay, but that was what he thought in his heart. Maybe there would be this opportunity in the future.

Worried that he would forget, Xu Qing took out a bamboo slip from the leather bag, and carved the words Master Bai on it with an iron pick.

Looking carefully, besides Master Bai, there is Team Lei on the bamboo slip, and there are three other names on it.

Those three names were all people who helped him when he was in the slums, even if it was just a little bit, he still remembered them in his heart.

In this way, after engraving the name, Xu Qing took out another bamboo slip, recalled what he heard in this class, and recorded it bit by bit.

He even took out the bamboo slips from the last lecture and recited them silently. After making sure that he had memorized them all, he showed satisfaction on his face.

"There are already 27 kinds of herbs that I know about."

Xu Qing was very happy, and this mood lasted all day, even when he was practicing, he was in a happy mood.

So the next day he also got up early, went to sell some horse chestnuts, bought a herb similar to Destiny Flower, and went outside Master Bai's tent with ease.

It was still where it was yesterday, and it was still standing there silently waiting to pay attention to the lessons inside, and it was still at the end of the lesson. When Master Bai came out to inquire, Xu Qing took out the medicinal herbs to inquire with nervousness and apprehension.

Looking at the herbs, Master Bai coughed lightly, shook his head, and at the same time told Xu Qing about the herbs he bought.

This allowed Xu Qing to know one more medicinal herb invisibly, which made him more satisfied and grateful. After he bowed and left, in the distance, he looked back like yesterday, and saw Master Bai standing where he was. He nodded himself.

The picture of this scene was reflected in Xu Qing's eyes and engraved in his mind.

In this way, half a month passed.

Almost every day, Xu Qing took various medicinal herbs and inquired about them after listening to the class outside Master Yu Bai's tent.

He heard more and more knowledge about vegetation, and even heard a lot about the method of blending vegetation later.

This made Xu Qing gain a lot, and there are dozens of bamboo slips recorded.

And Master Bai never mentioned the matter of Xu Qing stealing his master, and patiently answered his daily inquiries about herbal medicine.

So much so that in the end, not only the guards here are used to this kid in a leather jacket appearing every morning, but even the teenagers and girls in the tent are deeply impressed by him.

There was even a time when it was raining heavily outside, both Master Bai and the young man and woman thought that Xu Qing would not come, in the rain, Xu Qing came wearing a coir raincoat.

Study tirelessly, rain or shine.

This left a deep impression on Master Bai and his two apprentices.

So one day, when it was time for the class, and Xu Qing rarely showed up on time, the boys and girls looked outside frequently.

It seemed to be surprised that the dirty little scavenger didn't come today.

It wasn't until Xu Qing's tired figure was reflected in the tent that the young girl withdrew her gaze.

The reason why he was late was that Xu Qing, apart from attending classes at Master Bai's place, would also enter the restricted area every day, looking for the Destiny Flower and the Scar Stone, and at the same time honing himself to hunt exotic beasts.

The searchable process is not very smooth.

He never found these two items, and Xu Qing once again deeply understood the danger of the restricted area.

Even if he has the keen judgment and observation of an old scavenger on the fourth floor of the Sea Mountain Art, he can save his life and even hunt if he is careful in the outskirts of the jungle, but he still encounters crises occasionally.

That time of being late was because he encountered a strange beast that came out of the depths, barely escaped after a narrow escape, ran all night, and only returned in the early morning.

After he came back, he didn't go to rest, but listened to the class silently.

In addition, these days, Xu Qing also has a small gain, that is, the insurance proposed by the bone knife.

Osteotomy is alive and well.

Since the last time I bought insurance from him, I would come to buy it every time I entered the restricted area. Although the fog never appeared again, Xu Qing did not make a move.

But the bone knife is still persistent, and I don't even know how to pass it on. Gradually, more and more people come to him to buy insurance.

Out of caution, Xu Qing ignored most of them, except for the few people he had saved before, he agreed.

This increased Xu Qing's income, and with his harvest from hunting in the restricted area, his life gradually improved.

Although Team Lei was unable to continue the mission, Xu Qing offered a lot of rent. Even if Team Lei refused to accept it, Xu Qing still insisted, so that Team Lei could only accept it in the end.

Team Thunder spent most of this money on food, which allowed Xu Qing to have warm meals every time he came back from the restricted area.

Team Lei even bought some clothes for Xu Qing.

These clothes are very brand new, Xu Qing is reluctant to wear them, each one is neatly folded and placed in the cabinet, and he will feel happy when he takes it out to have a look at it from time to time.

And the meal time every day is also the time when Xu Qing feels the warmest.

Because not only the food is good, but Team Lei is often at this time, like the elders in the family, when they get older, they like to talk about the neighborhood, telling him about the trivial things in the camp.

During the period, both Shizi and Luanya also came back, accompanied Team Lei for a while, and then left again.

It can be said that during this period of time, Xu Qing felt that he was the most satisfied in the past six years.

There are hot meals, new clothes, and the company of Team Lei. His cultivation level is also improving, and his knowledge of vegetation is still increasing.

So in addition to being satisfied, he cherishes everything he has now, and he is extraordinarily serious about listening to lectures outside the tent every day.

Until this day, Xu Qing, who was standing outside the tent under the early morning sun, heard Master Bai's questioning of the boy inside.

"Chen Feiyuan, tell me about the herb Night Corpse Morning Glory."

Chen Feiyuan is Master Bai's name for the boy. Xu Qing has known it for more than a month, and also knows that the girl's nickname is Tingyu.

Hearing Master Bai's question, the young man couldn't answer, he stuttered a little and couldn't continue.

Xu Qing couldn't see the tent, but he could also think of the mournful face he saw from the corner of his eye after the tent was opened many times.

"Lack of learning and skill, Tingyu, you answer." Master Bai's voice was very stern, and he named the girl to answer.

Only this time, the girl was obviously not prepared enough.

"Night Corpse Morning Glory, also known as Poisonous Mountain Genban... Teacher, I, I forgot." The girl said here, and fell silent.

The tent immediately fell silent, obviously Master Bai was brewing with anger, at this moment, Master Bai's voice reverberated with unconcealable sullenness.

"Son, you answer."

Xu Qing, who was outside the tent, was taken aback for a moment, and subconsciously spoke immediately.

"Night Corpse Morning Glory, also known as poisonous mountain root Vernonia, is the cane and root of the Asteraceae plant Vernonia venosa, a woody vine, born in the valley of the corpse, by the cold stream or in the jungle, its taste is astringent and pungent, and the mouth is slightly warm , has a sense of rot, and the power has the miraculous effect of timid wind and relieving the appearance, but it is poisonous in excess, and it is a typical yin and yang pole." Xu Qing paused when he said this.

"What are the symptoms of overdose?" Inside the tent, Master Bai asked again amidst the slight dissatisfaction of the boy and girl.

"Symptoms of poisoning include abdominal pain, dizziness, and hallucinations. If he is not rescued, he will die within a quarter of an hour." Xu Qing outside the tent was nervous, but he answered immediately without stopping.

"How to detoxify."

"It can be relieved by inducing vomiting and gastric lavage first, supplemented by egg whites and red thorn stamens, and symptomatic treatment at noon when the sun is strong. The treatment time should not exceed half an hour, for three consecutive days."

Following Xu Qing's answer, although Master Bai in the tent had no expression on his face, the eyes of the boys and girls beside him widened in surprise.

"What are the plants and trees at the extremes of Yin and Yang?" Master Bai asked again.

"The polarities of yin and yang are both good and evil in one body, positive and yang are medicine, and yin and evil are poison." Xu Qing replied without thinking. These are the knowledge he has heard during this period of time, and he has memorized them many times, and he is already familiar with them. in the heart.

"How does this strain behave?" Master Bai asked faster.

"Taking this Night Corpse Morning Glory as an example, combining it with square inch leaves can double its yang effect, and it can also relieve the damage of the main soul. If an ordinary person eats it by mistake, he will die within thirty breaths."

"How to deal with the velvet flower?"

"What's the use of a square-inch leaf root?" Master Bai asked faster and faster, Xu Qing's inner tension gradually decreased, and his answer was just as fast.

In this way, one old and one young, asked and answered through the tent, and the time passed by for a stick of incense.

Master Bai raised a lot of questions, and even many of the answers were only known after the lecture content was synthesized after many days of intervals, but Xu Qing answered them fluently.

And the young men and women have changed from being surprised before to being shocked, staring blankly at the figure reflected in the tent.

Until the end, under the dumbfoundedness of the young men and women, Master Bai asked the last question.

"What is the effect of the medicinal solution prepared by combining three annual nightglories with six three-year-old cloud clusters, and nine ten-year-old whole plants of any Cyperaceae single-eared water centipede?"

As soon as this problem came up, the complexion of the boy and the girl changed rapidly, and their breathing became short of breath, because what was involved was no longer a simple plant, but a deployment.

This question was also the one that kept Xu Qing silent for the longest time. He thought about it for more than 30 breaths before taking a deep breath and speaking in a low voice.

"Evil is difficult to suppress, and yang is strong and yin is weak. Combined with the power of cloud grass transformation, it can detoxify the whole plant of the Cyperaceae plant, the single-eared water centipede, to an astonishing degree." After Xu Qing finished speaking, his eyes opened Big, faintly aware of something.

"This is the [-]% basic prescription of Dahua Pill among the detoxification pills, combined with three kinds of herbs, it can be refined by warming the fire for seven hours." Master Bai's voice came from inside the tent.

"After so many exams, is there anything in your heart that you want to ask?"

Xu Qing's spirit was shaken and her breathing became short of breath.

Over the past month or so, he had indeed been puzzled by many questions, but he was only eavesdropping after all. Although Master Bai was kind and didn't stop him, he couldn't disturb the other party's lecture, so he couldn't ask.

Hearing Master Bai speak at this moment, Xu Qing quickly collected his thoughts and asked immediately.

"Master Bai, Yansuoma and Yangyangci have something in common regardless of origin or efficacy. What's the difference between the two?"

"Why can't the spirit flower be picked during the day?"

"The juice of the square inch leaf is obviously used to exorcise evil, why can't it be shared with the eye of life branch that also exorcises evil?"

……

Xu Qing asked questions one by one, and Master Bai answered each one in detail.

And Xu Qing seemed to be asking endless questions until the time passed, far exceeding the class time, and under the eyes of the boy and girl looking at monsters, Xu Qing glanced at the sky with unsatisfactory eyes, and had to end the questioning.

He felt that this day was indescribably rewarding for him. Most of the questions in his heart were answered, and he even felt a sense of mastery.

This made his thirst for knowledge stronger, and he was ready to go back and engrave all of this.

Just as he was about to leave, Master Bai's tired voice came from inside the tent.

"From now on, you don't need to stand outside, and you don't need to take those messy herbs. From tomorrow onwards, you will be paid to attend classes."

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This chapter is 3500 words, brothers and sisters, today is nearly 8000 words again.

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