Martial arts start from the visualization of tortoise breathing

Money is easy to do things, this principle has never changed.

The servant who took the scattered silver went to report with a bright smile on his face. When he came back, his attitude became more respectful, and he led Fang Ping into the gate.

The moment he stepped into the Yellow Mansion, Fang Ping opened his eyes. A front yard is over a thousand square meters, and two ponds filled with lotus flowers are breeding glistening and valuable golden carps.

Walking through the front yard, there is a pavilion in seven steps, and a floor in ten steps. There are thousands of mountains and scenery, towering old trees, and maids and maids walking in the promenade, with various hairpins and emeralds, which symbolize their appearance.

"Please, son, the front is the back garden, where is the master waiting for you." The servant reminded.

Fang Ping pressed and entered the back garden of the Huang Mansion.

The carefully crafted rockery stands row upon row in the garden, which makes people feel relaxed and happy.

After a while, Fang Ping saw the old man of the Huang family, a hale and hearty old man with white beard and hair, who was lazily sitting in front of the lake fishing, looked back at Fang Ping, and said with surprise in the corner of his eyes: "How old is that?" ?”

Fang Ping was slightly stunned. He didn't expect the other party to ask his age as soon as he came up, "I'm eighteen years old."

Hearing this, the old man of the Huang family waved away the slaves, and the two maids who were serving at the side also retreated wisely.

When only an old man and a young man were left at the scene, the old man of the Huang family began to look at Fang Ping intently with an admiring look: "You can't look like a person, the girl of the Chu family said that a friend asked me to refine elixir, and she specifically talked about it. You have cultivated to the middle third rank in the year of the dancing elephant, I still don't believe it, I don't think it's the old man sitting in the well and watching the sky."

There are countless young talents in the city of Daze Prefecture, and there is also a small group of people who are ranked in the third rank. They may have cultivated to the third rank in the year of the dancing elephant. They are really rare, and the last one is many years old. forward.

Moreover, Fang Ping is not an ordinary third-rank powerhouse. Chu Ying has repeatedly mentioned this point. If he hadn't been so outstanding, the old man of the Huang family, who is in charge of the Huang family, would not have agreed to refine the elixir for Fang Ping.

"The old man is serious. Fang's achievements today are all due to his hard work." Fang Ping replied without redness or panting.

The old man of the Huang family twitched at the corner of his mouth, and the serious look of the young man almost made him believe it.

Can you succeed with hard work?The cruelest and most terrifying reality in this world is that hard work can't change anything, personal talent, chance, and luck are the most important.

For example, the ancestors of his Huang family, who slept later than dogs and woke up earlier than chickens, mediocre, struggled half-dead for most of their lives, and finally made their fortunes by relying on a windfall.

"Stop it, this old man has lived most of his life and seen so many outstanding talents, these eyes can still see clearly."

The old man of the Huang family got down to business and asked: "What kind of pill do you want this old man to refine? Let me be clear first, the success rate of this old man's pill is around [-]%. You must prepare at least three ingredients for a batch of pill. The one introduced by the maid broke the rules. After the pill is released, half of the pill will belong to the old man."

The conditions are harsh, but it is a bit more affordable than the "Lingbaozhai" that requires five medicines as a guarantee.

"Okay, let's do it according to the conditions of the old man."

Fang Ping then said that he wanted to refine the Dragon Tiger Pill.

"What Dan?"

"Dragon Tiger Pill? I've never heard of it. What kind of pill is this? Is there a recipe for it?"

The old man of the Huang family looked at the young man blindly. He suspected that the young man created something out of nothing. He could refine more than a dozen kinds of elixirs, and he knew hundreds of elixirs, but he had never heard of Dragon and Tiger Pills.

It is not ruled out that there are such pills, there are tens of thousands of pills in the world, and the pills circulating in this corner of Daze Prefecture City are just the tip of the iceberg.

"That's it?" Fang Ping was speechless, and after a long time, the old guy didn't know how to do it.

Then there is some operation, but Fang Ping took out the pill formula that he carried close to him, "I got this pill by chance, the refining method, and the medicinal materials needed for refining are all recorded in the pill formula Very detailed."

From the moment the boy took out the pill, the eyes of the old man of the Huang family shone.

For warriors, the attraction of martial arts is like the beauty in pink in the eyes of ordinary people.

As for alchemists, a never-before-seen alchemy formula not only allows them to master one more method of refining alchemy, but also draws inferences from one instance to strengthen their own alchemy skills.

In terms of value, it is indescribable. It is worthless to ordinary people, but it is hard to buy for alchemists.

"Come on, let me do some research for this old man. Is there really such a medicine as Dragon Tiger Pill?" The old man of the Huang family stretched out his hand, begging for it.

How could Fang Ping be fooled so easily, the corner of his mouth twisted and said: "Look, let's talk about the conditions."

The old man of the Huang family regained his composure, and pondered: "If this elixir is genuine, I can refine it for you for free, and you don't need to prepare the medicinal materials. I promise to give you a batch of elixir from the elixir, and I will pay for the consumption. "

Fang Ping shook his head. Such a condition is tantamount to a white wolf with empty gloves. "Ten furnaces of finished pills! In addition, I will supervise the alchemy process."

"Impossible!" The old man of the Huang family said in astonishment: "It is unknown how much the elixir in your elixir recipe is worth."

"But one thing is well known, even if the old man has a foundation in alchemy, if he wants to refine a kind of elixir that has never been refined, he will have to invest a lot of time and good ingredients to succeed, and the consumption during this period is difficult to estimate. Monitor from the side Not to mention, there is no room for any disturbance during alchemy."

What can't tolerate the slightest disturbance? I'm still afraid that my alchemy techniques will be stolen by Fang Ping.

But the purpose of Fang Ping's proposal to supervise from the sidelines was precisely to secretly learn alchemy.

The situation suddenly fell into a stalemate, and the old man of the Huang family broke the silence first, "Five stoves."

"Six ovens."

"Five furnaces."

"Six ovens."

"Give Dan Fang a glance at the old man first."

Fang Ping was not fooled, and read: "There are fifteen kinds of medicinal materials for refining Dragon Tiger Pill, including honeysuckle grass, blazing sun fruit, tiger head poisonous scorpion, red blood ginseng more than 50 years old..."

"Okay, don't talk about it." Before Fang Ping could finish speaking, the old man of the Huang family said with a stern face: "Don't talk about anything else, any of your medicinal materials cost several hundred taels of silver, and they can be refined in one furnace. It takes a few thousand taels of silver. This old man has a solid foundation in alchemy, but he needs to invest a few hundred thousand taels of silver to successfully refine it. This is a conservative estimate."

Fang Ping wondered, Madam said that if Lian Feihu could cultivate to the third grade, the Dragon and Tiger Pill was indispensable, but the cost of refining the Dragon and Tiger Pill was so high, who in Lianjiabao could refine it?

"Old man, the high quality of the finished product means that my elixir is also of high grade. If you learn how to refine this dragon and tiger elixir, you can earn it back sooner or later, and you can also pass it on to future generations."

Fang Ping changed his mind and reminded the old man of the Huang family.

The old man of the Huang family, who has matured into a mature person, knows everything.

Chapter 90; Tianhai Gang, Black Dragon Gang

In the end, Fang Ping and the old man of the Huang family reached an agreement acceptable to both parties.

The formula of the Dragon and Tiger Pill belongs to the old man of the Huang family, and the old man of the Huang family has to refine three furnaces of the Dragon and Tiger Pill for Fang Ping free of charge, and the number of one furnace should not be less than three. Fang Ping didn't care about the medicinal materials and how much gold and silver was invested in it.

In terms of time, Fang Ping gave the old man of the Huang family two months. Within two months, with the old man of the Huang family's original alchemy skills, he could make the dragon and tiger pill no matter what.

"Pillions can be roughly divided into three levels: low-grade pills, middle-grade pills, and top-grade pills. The refining method of this Dragon and Tiger Pill is the "water method", including "melting", "drenching", boiling" and "boiling". A joint, the process is complicated, and the opponent's technique is extremely demanding, it should be Zhongpin Dan. "

The old man of the Huang family took the alchemy, carefully observed it for a long time, and sighed with emotion. He hadn't refined the middle-grade alchemy yet, mainly because he didn't have the alchemy.

Fortunately, there are detailed records in the alchemy formula, and there are some annotations. He is confident in refining the Dragon and Tiger Pill.

"Zhongpin Dan? Water method?"

"What kind of pill is the Quenching Pill?" Fang Ping remembered the three Quenching Pills he found when he killed Liu Wuye, and he hadn't taken it yet.

"Body Tempering Pill, that's a low-grade pill." The old man of the Huang family replied without raising his head, his thoughts were all on the pill formula in his hand, the content of it was really fascinating.

"Okay, old man, take your time and think about it slowly. After two months, Fang will come to visit." Fang Ping made a series, turned around and left.

He has been familiar with the content of Dan's formula by heart, but he just doesn't understand the meaning.

After leaving the Huangfu, Fang Ping returned to the inn, and when he passed a street, he saw a bloody and tense scene.

In broad daylight, a group of gang members in blue costumes and a group of gang members in black costumes were fighting with knives and guns, and there were more than a dozen corpses lying on the ground.

The surrounding people hid far away, for fear of being implicated.

"Tianhai Gang, Black Dragon Gang!"

Fang Ping guessed who these people were from the iconic patterns on the clothes of the two parties.

There are also gang forces in Daze Prefecture, and the scale is still very large, far greater than that of Shanyang County.

Among the many gang forces, the Tianhai Gang and the Black Dragon Gang are the most respected. The two major gangs control the outer city of Daze Prefecture, and the inner city is controlled by the four gentry including the Huang family.

It is said that the Tianhai Gang and the Black Dragon Gang secretly have inextricable connections with the four great gentry in the inner city.

"It seems that no matter where you go, it's the same. There is no paradise in this troubled world, unless you hide deep in the mountains and isolate yourself from the world..."

Fang Ping quickened his pace and returned to the prosperous Tongfu Inn, which was full of people.

Lao Bai, who came and went like the wind in the hall, greeted the guests with a smiling face, played the role of a waiter to the fullest, saying that he is a hidden boss who pretends to be a pig and eats a tiger, a master of martial arts, who can believe it?

Not far away, the middle-aged lady, the charming shopkeeper Tong, also had a red face, smiling from ear to ear, thinking about the abacus, and muttering in his mouth: "Business is so good, I am so worried."

Fang Ping: "..."

On the second floor, in the guest room.

"Where's mother?" Fang Ping didn't see Li Rou, but only saw Fang Ying wiping her long sword for fun.

"Mother went to work." Fang Ying replied vaguely; "Mother said she couldn't be free, so she went to work."

Fang Ping:? ? ?

Went downstairs and asked shopkeeper Tong about it, Fang Ping couldn't laugh or cry.

Just like what Fang Ying said, Li Rou and shopkeeper Tong negotiated terms. Li Rou is responsible for doing chores in the inn, tidying up the tables, doing chores, washing dishes, and shopkeeper Tong can provide three meals a day for free. Fang Ping arrives In the backyard, Li Rou was sitting by the well washing dishes.

Seeing this scene, what else can Fang Ping say? With his current martial arts cultivation, it would be easy for him to buy a big mansion and find a dozen servant girls to serve Li Rou. The blessed life of reaching out may not be what Li Rou wants, even Fang Ping himself needs to have a meal and clothes to be served by someone.

"Ping'er, look... Mother just can't stay idle."

Li Rou stood up and explained.

Fang Ping knew what Li Rou was thinking, he was just afraid that she would embarrass his son by doing so.

A son doesn't think his mother is ugly, a dog doesn't think his family is poor, Fang Ping never thinks that way, "It's okay, what you want to do, mother, is your freedom, the child will not object, but don't work too hard, time is still You should use it more on the "Turtle Breath Breathing Technique", this health-preserving technique can make you live a long life, and I still count on you to bring me a child."

Li Rou's heart was a little wider, and she asked earnestly: "Then when will you marry a wife? How can you have a child without a wife? That shopkeeper Tong treats people very well. If our family lives in Dazefu City for a long time, let her help you. "

"What is Zhang Luo?" Shopkeeper Tong came to the backyard by coincidence.

"Nothing." Fang Ping said with a smile: "There are schools and colleges nearby."

Li Rou doesn't know a single word, Fang Ying is seven years old, and the Benlei swordsmanship can be pronounced as "Da Yu Jian Go". name.

Fang Ping didn't have the time to teach, and he didn't bother to teach, it was too torturous.

"There is a "Wansong Academy" on the East Street. Wherever they go to study, they are all children under ten years old. I heard that the old man who teaches is a scholar who is erudite and knowledgeable. Later, only those who offended him were dismissed by the court."

Shopkeeper Tong gave an introduction.

"Thank you." Fang Ping went upstairs, returned to his room, and told Fang Ying about sending her to study.

"Whatever, as long as it doesn't delay my cultivation." Fang Ying pressed obediently.

……

Inner city, government office.

Zhou Futai, who had a refined temperament, threw down his tea bowl with deep frowns.

He has been in charge of this Daze prefecture for nine years, and he is trembling with fear.

But the two letters he just received completely irritated him, one was telling him that there was no hope of promotion, and if he continued to work hard, he would feed the dog with all the white money?Raising a dog also knows how to be grateful!

The content of the second letter was even more exhausting for Zhou Futai, saying that cargo ships on the canal, even official ships, had been robbed repeatedly.

It's all right now, not to mention that there is no hope of promotion, the letter also issued an order for him to send troops to suppress the bandits, but the water bandits come and go without a trace, there are a large number of them, and there are many martial arts masters among them.

It doesn't matter if there are fewer people sent, but if there are too many people sent, the water bandits will run away as soon as they hear the wind.

The canal of Dazefu City leads directly to the capital of Yanzhou. It is thousands of miles long, and the vast part of the river stretches for hundreds of miles.

If it succeeds, it will be a merit, if it fails, it will be held accountable by the court, no matter how you look at it, the gain outweighs the loss.

"Come here, let Chu Ying come to see my lord!"

Anger turned into anger, after Zhou Futai calmed down, he ordered his servants to call Chu Ying.

Chapter 91: Wansong Academy

Chu Ying, who learned that Master Futai had summoned her, immediately put aside trivial matters and rushed to the government office.

There were people leading the way along the way, and after entering the house, Chu Ying saluted respectfully: "Chu Ying, a lowly official, I have seen the master of Futai, and I don't know what is the important order that the master of Futai has to summon the humble official."

Zhou Futai with a gloomy face suppressed the anger in his heart, and raised his hand with a forced smile: "There is no need to be polite, sit down first, and then talk after sitting down. Come here, serve tea for General Chu, and ask for the best tea."

Chu Ying looked at her nose and heart, and realized that Zhou Futai rushed to invite her here, and still acted like this, there must be some important orders.

As she expected, Zhou Futai got up in a pleasant voice, sat down opposite Chu Ying, and said without any pretensions: "The person under the Benfutai who is worthy of a great position belongs to you, and the Benfutai has always treated you You have high hopes, don't let this station down."

"Your Majesty Futai praised you so much, you might as well say something straight, as long as it is something that a lowly position can do, you will never refuse."

"Well, you can read this letter first." Zhou Futai handed out the letter stamped with the seal of the state capital.

Chu Ying took a glance at the contents of the letter, and blurted out: "The higher-ups want the master of Futai to send troops to suppress the bandits?"

The 13 prefectures in Yanzhou have a vast territory and vast mountains and rivers. In order to facilitate the imperial court to transfer grain and send tax money, a Grand Canal was built.This Grand Canal runs through 13 prefectures in Yanzhou.