Servant of the Otherworldly Pharmacopoeia

Xu Jiu wondered: "I saw him last time."

"When?"

"About a month ago, he said that you asked him to come and see me."

Grandma laughed: "I didn't say that! That kid must have missed you. He sneaked to see you, but he was too embarrassed to say it."

Xu Jiu nodded: "Then he hasn't come home?"

"No, I don't know where it went."

Xu Jiu thought for a while and said, "I'll look for it when the time comes. The last time I saw him, I saw that he was doing well. Don't worry too much, Mom."

"Ba that boy has always had his own ideas, so I don't need to worry about you. What I worry about is you. You always make trouble at home. Tell me, how did you become a servant?"

Xu Jiu fell onto the bed at once, and smashed his face into the animal skin blanket; "Didn't I just say that I raise Liche beasts well, and the housekeeper appreciates me."

"Is the Liche beast so easy to raise?" Grandma went up to push him, "Tell me carefully."

"Oh, grandma, the liche beast is just a bird. It was slaughtered and eaten by us. It saw that I was grandma's son and looked so mighty and majestic, so it didn't dare to touch me again. Fuck me."

Xu Jiu was already talking nonsense.

Grandma thumped him: "You brat can talk nonsense!"

Xu Jiu turned over with a smile and grabbed the woman's hand: "Mom, I have raised a child."

"What child?" The woman was puzzled.

"Uh, it's a child that no one else wants, and I raised it."

"Could it be the child of the Beast God!" Grandma understood as soon as she heard it, stood up quickly, and pulled Xu Jiu up, "Tell me how the child came here."

When Xu Jiu heard that it was not good, he tried to remedy it: "Mom, don't get excited, he is not the child of the Beast God. He was quite big when I picked him up, so he was not dedicated to the Beast God."

Grandma glared at him angrily: "Jiu, you didn't do him good by picking him up, you hurt him, you know! The children dedicated to the beast gods are weaker children. What kind of place is the wasteland? Can't they grow up in the wasteland?" Big, even if you grow up, you will suffer a lot if you survive. This is the rule from generation to generation. Which parent is willing to give their newborn child to the beast god? But if you don’t give up one, the other will not survive! Back then, your little Brother is such a good little boy?" The woman became more and more excited, and finally cried, "I really want to raise him! Seeing your father send him to the wasteland, he kept crying, and my heart ached when he cried It looks like a big hole has been cracked...but I can only raise one..."

The woman cried so hard that her face was flushed.

There is a rule in the wasteland that only one child can be raised. This rule is not enforced but is silently followed, because it is too difficult for a child to survive.The blood of the beast god gives children a great appetite from birth, and poor families can't afford it, not to mention the big hurdle of adult medicine.

Xu Jiu squatted with the woman, silently handing the towel, and waited for the woman to finish crying.

"Don't be sad, Mom, it's not your fault."

"But why do you want to raise a child! Do you know how difficult it is!" The woman yelled at him while crying.

"Grandma, Chubby is very obedient. He feels soft, obedient and obedient. He is so tall... and still growing, very healthy. He is also very cute, and his face is puffy when he smiles. His eyes are black and he is very clever. Mom, I can definitely raise him."

Immediately received a slap on the head, the woman sobbed and said, "You've got a lot of skills! Since I want to support you and earn money! Don't bring so many things when you go home in the future, you should save your life, you know! How much money do you have?"

"..." Xu Jiu thought for a while, then hesitated, "Two copper coins?"

"Why do you leave so much money!" The woman slapped him again, "Give me the money, you leave a copper coin for the little doll to buy food, and I will save the rest for you."

Xu Jiu bargained: "Grandma, is it too little to keep one copper coin?"

"Give it to me, you prodigal! You will marry a wife and have a baby in the future, plus this little baby, you still don't know how to save money!"

"Oh, Mom, I'd be stupid to shoot again!"

Xu Jiu was chased and beaten, and the woman laughed and cursed at the same time.

This stone house was the last one to be quiet in the village.Xu Jiu and his mother slept on their own stone beds, and fell asleep when the silver light was all over the ground.A huge full moon hangs high on the gentle slope, and the green sunflowers are round like clouds floating on the ground.

The next day Xu Jiu was woken up by a woman pushing her.

He woke up very reluctantly, and after a sleep, he was so sleepy that his soul went out of his body, and finally he was woken up by the unbearable woman.

"Mom, are you hitting me with a stone!" Xu Jiu covered his head and wrapped himself up, wondering when his mother became so violent.

"Damn child, get up!"

With a completely different voice, Xu Jiu was shocked, took the blanket off his head, and was stunned for a long time: "...Grandma?"

"Who am I? Are you sleepy?"

"Oh, oh," Xu Jiu got up in a hurry, looked at the sky, and laughed, "it's dawn."

"The sun is drying your ass! Hurry up and pack up, if you don't go to your uncle's house, he will go out to work!"

"Okay, okay." Xu Jiu tidied up quickly, and was about to go out in a few moments.

"Don't wear this! Wear this."

Xu Jiu was putting on his old trousers, but Grandma tore them off in distaste, and stuffed them into Xu Jiu's hands with the clothes he wore yesterday.

"...I don't want to wear it if it's dirty... Huh?" Xu Jiu touched the clean clothes, "When did you wash it, Mom?"

The woman smiled happily, and her black and red face was full of pride: "I woke up before dawn, so I don't look like you."

Raising sunflower beasts is hard work, and women get up early every day to take care of them for decades.

"Auntie is so kind to me!" Xu Jiu threw good words at the woman, put on her clothes quickly, and the two went out with the things they had prepared.

Meanwhile, on the other side of the village.

"Hey, old man, why are you still at home?" The gentle wife of the elder came back from work early in the morning, and was startled when she saw the people in her stone house.

The elder put down the teacup in his hand and glanced at her: "I'll drink some water before leaving."

"It's just this saliva, and you can drink it with a straight neck. Is it worth it for you to drink it for so long?"

"What do you know, there are Shengjin stones in it."

The elderly wife must not understand, she directly exposed: "How long are you going to drink?"

"Hmph." The elder put down his cup heavily, also very angry.

Of course, anyone who drinks half a glass of water for two hours will be angry.There is another reason for him to be angry, which is the big event that caused a sensation in the whole village yesterday.

The elders of each village are quite similar to the head of the village, and they are also the ones who usually mediate with the little housekeepers.The elder in Dasha Village has been in the village for many years, and is so respected that even his original name has been forgotten. Everyone respectfully calls him the elder, and the younger generation calls him Uncle, and they consult him on everything big and small.

The old man is old and has been working all his life, and he has a lot of free time after his old age, but he is not particularly free, okay? Let’s talk, people, why haven’t they come yet!

The elder's wife snickered aside.

The elder got even angrier, blowing his beard and staring: "What are you laughing at!"

"Hey, smelly old man, don't you make people laugh when you laugh?"

"You are a stinky old woman!"

"Say one more thing?" The old woman was furious.

"You...!" The old man pointed at his wife, angrily, "You call me an old man, aren't you an old woman?"

"I'm much younger than you. Who stipulates that an old man's wife is an old woman. Do you blame me for being old?"

The old man didn't want to talk to her anymore.

Xu Jiu and his wife heard the elderly couple arguing from a distance, and they exchanged glances with their grandmother, who then shouted, "Uncle, are you there?"

The two who were angry in the room hurriedly cleared up their emotions. The elder's wife quickly refilled him with another glass of water, and quickly packed out two more glasses.

The elder walked out in a spirited manner.

Seeing the elder, Xu Jiu immediately bent slightly and called out respectfully: "Abo."

The elder was noncommittal and looked him up and down: "Are you back?"

"Abbe is back."

The elder's wife packed up her things and came out. When she saw Xu Jiu, she first smiled softly: "Come in and sit down."

Aunt Xu Jiu's voice would always be soft in front of this woman. She pulled Xu Jiu and nodded with a smile on her face: "Hey, good."

The elder turned and entered the room first.

"Abbot, I'm coming back for a day this time, and I have to leave before dawn tomorrow morning."

"In such a hurry?" The old man sat down leisurely, motioning for Xu Jiu to sit on the other side of him, "It's going to be Dongyue."

"Which uncle is it, but I have received an errand in the manor, so I have to go back early."

"You kid, you're promising a lot."

Xu Jiu blushed, watching his mother and the elder's wife discussing what he had brought.

"Thanks to the armor that Uncle gave me."

The old man smiled and nodded: "It's good if it works."

On the other side of the small stone house, the voices of women's discussions can be heard endlessly: "Ah, it's really soft."

"That's right, when I touched it, it was like touching a cloud in the sky!" It was his mother who spoke loudly.

"Ahem." The elder coughed with a straight face.

He frightened the other two people in the house, but he couldn't restrain his wife. The woman happily showed him the leather: "Touch it, how soft it is."

The old man touched it reluctantly, and immediately sighed: "Are all the leathers in the manor so good?"

Xu Jiu thought about what Du Tuxuan and the housekeeper used, and replied: "The leather they use is not our usual ones. There are many that I have never seen before. There is a dark blue one with dense hair. Like silver needles, they seem to glow."

"Oh——" the old man sighed in a drawn-out tone, "The leather used by nobles can be found in all directions, not only from our Dutu, but also from Jiwu and Guanchi."

Is this a trade relationship? Xu Jiu memorized it silently, and Du Tuxuan's face suddenly appeared in his mind.

noble.

There is indeed a natural barrier between the nobles and the commoners.This made him more uncertain, how did he get into Dutu Manor?No one in the inner manor was born like him, and even the Second Courtyard was a family-born servant.

"Cough!" Seeing the young man lost in thought, the elder coughed unhappily.

"Abo, can our village also transport things to sell elsewhere?"

The old man sighed: "We don't have anything. We only raise sunflowers for the manor to earn food and clothing."

"My father, they go out to carry water every day?"

The old man nodded.

What a waste of labor!

Xu Jiu felt pity: "Abbot, I saw you dig a hole in the ground last time."

The old man waved his hand: "I'm old and have a lot of time, so I took out one to put things in."

"Then Uncle, will water come out if you dig deep?"

"Ok?"

"There is plenty of water near the manor. I see people in the manor digging wells underground. If they dig deep, there will be water."

The old man narrowed his eyes: "But we are not near the manor, the underground is very dry."

Xu Jiu is also a little uncertain, mainly because he is not sure about the geological formation here. In theory, there is a water storage belt underground. As long as you dig deep enough, there will always be water.But how deep is it?Hundreds of kilometers?Xu Jiu didn't dare to speak big words.

"what happened?"

"Abbot, last time I dug a deep pit on the barren cliff, the bottom of the pit was cold, wet, and filled with water."

"The bottom of the pit is very cold." The old man was not surprised, "It will also get wet, but it is not easy to get the water out."

Xu Jiu said: "Uncle, can you see if this works? During the winter months, let everyone store more snow at the bottom of the pit. The deeper the pit, the better. The longer the snow is preserved, there will be no shortage of water for a period of time."

The elder nodded: "I usually store snow, but when it's hot, it seeps into the sand, so I'll try to dig deeper."

Xu Jiu caressed the leather in his hand: "Well, Uncle, do you think this leather can be sold?"