"Ginseng, Poria, Atractylodes, Polygonatum, Polygonum multiflorum, cypress, Yiren, Rehmannia glutinosa, pine nuts, two liang of each, please take it!"
Wang Ermazi reached into the drawer and grabbed various dried medicinal materials with great skill.
There are seventeen kinds of medicinal materials required by Zhang Xuezhou, and nine kinds of medicinal materials are given.
Bigu Powder can be prepared with a combination of seven kinds of medicinal materials. Zhang Xuezhou doesn't care about more or less types, but he does care about the portion.
Compared with the amount of tens of thousands of medicinal materials purchased when refining Peiyuan Dan in the real world, the medicinal materials in front of me are relatively few.
There are a total of eighteen taels of medicinal materials, which are only the ingredients for three servings of Bigu Powder.
In this process, it is inevitable to encounter the problem of failure to boil the medicine.
In order to obtain Feng Shui skills, Weng Weng and others ordered medicinal materials to support Zhang Xuezhou's Bigu Powder, but the weight of this medicinal material made Zhang Xuezhou feel a little nervous.
Even if he successfully refined it, it would only be three servings of Bigu Powder.
"Gone?"
Following Wang Ermazi from the Sheriff's Mansion to the medicine shop, Zhang Xuezhou took many medicinal materials into his hands and weighed them, and couldn't help but ask.
"Yes, they are all here," Wang Ermazi said, "Don't tell me, this is the first time I have seen Governor Wen buy so many medicinal materials."
"Is there a lot here?"
"It cost a total of two hundred and forty-eight and a half taels, which must be a lot!"
Banliangqian is a currency issued by the imperial court, similar to units such as "yuan" and "copper coins".
Zhang Xuezhou rarely used "half two coins" and only saw this kind of currency when killing pigs in Chengdu.
A pound of pork costs one and a half taels, and the total value of this pile of medicinal materials is equivalent to about two hundred and forty-eight pounds of pork.
After Zhang Xuezhou calculated this, he felt that it was really not cost-effective to use Bigu Powder to fight hunger.
But he couldn't eat more than ten kilograms of pork at a time and then starve for several days.
Bigu Powder needs to be refined, and Zhang Xuezhou also has to think about buying more medicinal materials for refining.
He touched all over his body and found that he could hardly find one and a half taels of money in his pockets and purses.
"Do you accept gold cinnabar here?"
Zhang Xuezhou touched it for a long time.
In addition to the jade bottle that stores Jiuzhen wine tied to his waist, there are also two Hongku inherited jades in his pocket, as well as Dong Zhongshu's magic fan, the deer-cutting knife, and the feathers of the Golden Crow Emperor, and then only
Here are the materials used by Zhang Xuezhou to practice "Yunzhongshu", etc.
He obtained the materials for sacrificial wooden wings, iron wings, and most of the copper wings from Wuchao. By the time he obtained the Bodhi Fruit from Buddha, all the materials had been used up along with the transformation of the copper wings, and in the end he only had
A portion of gold cinnabar was left behind.
This is the material used to convert copper fins into gold fins.
Zhang Xuezhou thought that it would be impossible for him to practice "Yunzhongshu" again in the future, so he took the gold cinnabar in exchange for half a tael of money or medicinal materials.
"Golden sand? What is it?"
Seeing Zhang Xuezhou take out a small bottle, which contained black gravel with golden light inside, Wang Erpazi found it difficult to identify the material.
"Jindansha is a very precious material, a high-quality material that even the royal family cannot purchase." Zhang Xuezhou explained: "Simply put, it is very valuable!"
"Return to the royal family?" Wang Ermazi said: "You practitioners just like to come up with weird things to deceive people. I will accept it and let anyone buy these weird things."
"Well!"
"If you hadn't come from the Sheriff's Mansion, I would have doubted whether you were here to cheat."
"How is that possible!"
"Two and a half taels, if you want to sell it, I'll take it for the sake of the Sheriff's Mansion!"
Wang Ermazi obviously doesn’t understand the value of gold cinnabar.
To be honest, Zhang Xuezhou didn't understand the value of gold cinnabar. Apart from using this material to practice "Yunzhongshu", he didn't know of any other situations where this material could be used.
But gold cinnabar is undoubtedly a more valuable material. If Wang Ermazi paid three to five hundred and a half taels, Zhang Xuezhou felt that he would sell it in order to refine bigu powder.
Two and a half taels of money were useless, and he couldn't even buy a tael of medicinal materials, so he depressedly took the gold cinnabar back.
As he returned to the Han Kingdom, Zhang Xuezhou found that not only was his upper limit as a monk lowered, but the environment he faced was also brought back to its original shape.
There are no weird and weird treasures in this environment, nor are there any high-end and rare materials being traded.
If he wants to seek materials through normal channels, he has to use the currency of normal channels.
After working hard for several years, Zhang Xuezhou didn't feel that he was a poor person. Only when he fell into his current situation did Zhang Xuezhou realize his predicament.
He didn't have a penny and a half, and he seemed to be extremely poor.
This reminded him of Zhang Qian who almost built a shop on the street in Chang'an City.
"Your Majesty asked me to be a spy, but you didn't even give me one hundred and eighty thousand and a half taels. How can I be a good spy? Any spy should first think about making money on his own!"
The big companies Zhang Xuezhou can rely on are a little far away.
Based on the current condition of his body, Zhang Xuezhou felt that he would not be able to persist on the journey to the Hundred Thousand Mountains to seek respect.
He even needs to refine Bigu Powder as soon as possible, and then take a look at the success rate and quality of his refining before making plans.
If the quality of his refining Bigu Powder is high enough and the success rate is high enough, Zhang Xuezhou feels that the cost of his seven days of sleep is about 80 kilograms of pork.
If the quality of Bigu Powder is average, the price will rise quickly.
When the efficiency is average, the price will show a linear upward trend.
"Doctor Wang, do we have any grain-preserving medicine here?" Zhang Xuezhou asked.
"If you don't have enough food to eat, whoever has the money to buy the anti-grain medicine will have no one to buy it. If there is no one to buy it, there will be no one to sell it. There must be no one here, old man!"
Wang Ermazi glanced at Zhang Xuezhou, and then at the medicinal materials in Zhang Xuezhou's hand.
"Besides, it's not an elixir that an old man can have access to. Only the upper class nobles can refine this." Wang Ermazi rolled his eyes and said, "Brother Zhang, are you using this medicinal material to refine the anti-grain medicine?"
"Yes." Zhang Xuezhou nodded and said, "But I'm afraid that I won't be able to refine it well. I want to ask if there is a place where I can buy it. If the price is cheaper than refining it myself, then I will definitely buy the finished product."
"I once heard that the anti-grain medicine is like swallowing gold. I'm afraid I won't be able to get a portion of the anti-grain medicine for only three or five gold!"
“Seems a bit expensive!”
Zhang Xuezhou looked at the medicine bag he was carrying and thought about the price.
One gold corresponds to one thousand and a half taels, and three or five gold corresponds to almost thousands and a half taels, that is, more than ten pigs.
He finally felt that the alchemist had a "money source" and gave up the idea of buying the Bigu medicine.
"As the heir of the Yin Yang family, I practice alchemy, which is the best at refining pills. How can I buy medicine!"
After bravely motivating himself, Zhang Xuezhou borrowed a medicine spoon from Wang Ermazi and began the boring process of grinding medicinal materials.
"Is this how the anti-aging medicine is made?"
Zhang Xuezhou's grinding of medicinal materials aroused Wang Ermazi's interest, and he kept looking around in the medicine shop, even when treating patients, he was a little distracted.
But Wang Ermazi's curiosity quickly disappeared.
"If you can't even eat, whoever has the money to come to you to buy anti-grain medicine will have no use learning this!"
Zhang Xuezhou lazily repeated Wang Ermazi's previous words, and Wang Ermazi believed deeply.
There were many materials needed to learn how to make alchemy, and Wang Ermazi couldn't afford to waste it. Even if he learned the ability to refine big grain medicine, no one would come to buy them.
It may seem noble, but to him, this is the skill of slaying a dragon.
As the ingredients for the Bigu Pill were ground and boiled, Zhang Xuezhou couldn't help but have a headache after seeing the Bigu Powder that failed three times in a row.