After arriving, Ye Tianxian and his father found a restaurant to have something to eat. Then they inquired with the restaurant owner and went straight to the "Oriental Medicine City", the largest Chinese herbal medicine trading base in Anguo.
Anguo's traditional Chinese medicine trade is mainly conducted through the "Oriental Medicine City", which is also one of the 17 professional markets for traditional Chinese medicine recognized by the Chinese government.
The entire market covers an area of more than 600,000 square meters and is divided into upper and lower floors. The annual turnover exceeds 5 billion yuan, the annual throughput of medicinal materials is 100,000 tons, and the daily trading volume exceeds 10,000 merchants.
"Damn, this...isn't this too big?"
Looking at the four big characters "Oriental Medicine City" at the door, Ye Tian felt a little stupid. He had never thought that these medicinal materials growing in the mountains could have such a large-scale trading place.
However, after being stunned for a moment, Ye Tian also realized that today's Chinese medicinal materials are no longer picked from the mountains in ancient times. Most of them are grown by farmers. These medicinal materials are far inferior to wild medicinal materials.
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"This smell is so deadly, isn't it?"
After entering the medicine city, the smell of Chinese medicine filled every molecule in the air. Ye Dongping frowned when he smelled it. Ye Tianze, who was walking beside him, sniffed and looked like he was enjoying it.
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You should know that Ye Tian has been given medicinal baths every other week since he was five years old. He has long been accustomed to the smell of Chinese medicine, and identifying Chinese medicine by smell was also an interesting thing in Ye Tian's childhood.
The old Taoist often goes up the mountain to pick some medicinal materials, mix them together and let Ye Tian smell them. If the identification is right, he will get meat to eat. If he is wrong, he will punish Ye Tian to carry water from the waterfall. Ye Tian's skill in identifying the medicinal materials is also that.
Learned from time to time.
While Ye Dongping frowned, Ye Tian had already selected a stall at the door. However, after picking up a few samples and smelling them, Ye Tian frowned like his father, looked at the stall owner and said
: "Uncle, your castor beans are not old enough, and the name of this medicine is too different!"
"Young man, for your own use?"
The stall owner wasn't angry either. He had grown it himself. Ye Tian could tell the year and name of the medicine just by smelling it. He was obviously an expert.
However, when experts who know pharmacology usually come here, they won’t talk about the name of the medicine. They are all from pharmaceutical manufacturers. As long as the price is cheap, it doesn’t matter what the name of the medicine is. That’s why the stall owner concluded that Ye Tian bought it himself.
To use.
Ye Tian nodded and said: "Yes, uncle, is there any medicine with a better name? It's best to use wild medicinal materials!"
That's not to say that cultivated medicinal materials are not good, but as a result, Ye Tian's dosage will be greatly reduced. Originally, the wild ones require ten grams, but he has to buy at least ten kilograms of cultivated ones.
Hearing that Ye Tian wanted to buy wild medicinal materials, the middle-aged man laughed and said, "Young man, if you want to buy wild medicinal materials, go straight in. You can't find wild medicinal materials in these small stalls at the door, but uncle tells you that wild medicinal materials
It’s so valuable…”
After listening to the kind boss's explanation, Ye Tiancai understood that there were so many small stalls one or two meters in front of the door. They were all small-scale family businesses that grew their own medicinal materials and sold them themselves. Although the place was a bit inferior, the cost was
It's also cheap, only three to five hundred yuan a year is enough.
If Ye Tian wants to buy wild medicinal materials, he has to go to the sales points of large merchants. These are exhibition halls run by companies with large distribution scales, and the medicinal materials inside will be more abundant than those of different years.
In addition, there is a boutique trading hall in this medicine city, which is a relatively easy-to-read display and trading hall specially developed for local enterprises that are supported by the government.
It's just that the stall owner also said that even in these places, not all of them are wild medicinal materials, 70 to 80% are still cultivated artificially, but the technology and vintage are better than those of self-employed people like them.
The medicinal materials that Ye Tian used since childhood were all picked by experienced practitioners. He really didn't have an intuitive understanding of the word "expensive", but when he walked into the boutique trading room, he was dumbfounded.
There are definitely wild medicinal materials, and there are quite a lot of them, but the price tag there makes Ye Tian's heart beat loudly. The money in the card in his pocket can't even buy one old wild ginseng.
arrive.
In desperation, Ye Tian could only settle for the next best thing and chose some Chinese medicinal materials that were relatively cheap but had more medicinal properties. Based on his knowledge of medicinal materials, he did not suffer much.
In just two or three hours, Ye Tianka spent all the more than 200,000 yuan in his bank account, and even gave his father more than 200,000 yuan, but the result was just a few more bulging cash in his hands.
Just a bag.
"You're really a spendthrift. How can I have enough wealth for you?"
After returning to the car, Ye Dongping was so angry that he went out with Ye Tian today. He really lost a lot of money. The last bit of liquidity in his hand was wiped out by Ye Tian.
"Dad, in half a year, at most half a year, I will pay you back with interest!"
While patting his chest and talking nonsense, Ye Tian carefully took out several medicinal materials in the box and inspected them. They included Ganoderma lucidum, saffron, musk, cordyceps, natural wild ginseng and other medicinal materials. Although the quantity was
It wasn't much, but it cost Ye Tian more than 200,000 yuan.
In the past, the old Taoist often told him that if he wanted to practice their martial art to the extreme, "dharma, couple, wealth, and land" were indispensable, and among these four words, the word "wealth" was especially important.
In the past, Ye Tian just ate a little more and didn't understand his master's words very well. But after this experience, he finally understood what "poor in writing and rich in martial arts" means.
As the saying goes, food is the most important thing for the people. Ordinary people can live a tolerable life as long as they eat good and bad. However, for those who practice boxing, they must have meat every meal.
You must know that practicing martial arts is to strengthen the body and stimulate its potential. If you do not take nourishment at all times, it is equivalent to using your own flesh and blood to boil oil. Over time, you will suffer from tuberculosis and seven injuries. If you cannot practice kung fu, your life will be lost.
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During the Republic of China, several famous boxers were said to be able to eat whole cattle. Although this statement is a bit exaggerated, it also shows that the appetite of martial arts practitioners is far beyond that of ordinary people.
The reason why famous boxers like Du Xinwu in modern times served as bodyguards for Song Jiaoren, Sun Yat-sen and others was also for this reason. Otherwise, where would he have the financial resources to support the supplements needed for martial arts training?
And the family conditions of some famous and brave generals in ancient times were not bad. For example, Xiang Yu, the overlord of Western Chu, was a descendant of the generals of Chu. Although the country was ruined and his family was destroyed, he was still a wealthy local family. In terms of nutrition,
You won't lose money if you do.
"You kid, when you're short of money, just tell dad and I'll just throw out a few items!" Despite the scolding, Ye Dongping still felt sorry for his son. What's the use of making money for him? In the future, it will all be left to Ye Tian.
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Ye Tian shook his head and said: "It's almost there. It should last for three to five months. Then there will be no need to spend money..."
The efficacy of the Qiankun Spirit Gathering Formation is beyond Ye Tian's imagination. With the tempering of the almost substantive spiritual energy, and the addition of these medicinal materials taken internally and externally, Ye Tian believes that he can break through the bottleneck within three months.
If divided according to internal martial arts, Ye Tian's martial arts is still at the stage of refining and transforming qi. At this stage, no matter how much tonic food he eats, it can be converted into essence in the body. That's why he has
Such a large appetite.
After breaking through the refining of qi, Ye Tian can enter the realm of refining qi and transforming into spirit. This realm is also called the Great Zhou Tian Gong. The body's orifices are further opened and the meridians are unblocked. At this time, the qi of the human body and the energy of heaven and earth are combined.
The Qi is further aligned.
After practicing to this level, if Ye Tian uses the inherited secret techniques in his mind, the backlash from heaven and earth will be much smaller, and some of the secret techniques that could not be used before can also be used.
After returning to Yanjing, Ye Tian called Yu Qingya, Wei Hongjun and others respectively to inform them that he was going to retreat. The courtyard where he lived, except for opening the garage every half month, had all the doors open.
Tightly closed.
But what puzzles the old neighbors is that the bleating of sheep is often heard in the courtyard, and sometimes the bleating is so miserable that it makes people tremble in their hearts.
Such a strange situation made the idea of a haunted house pop up again. As long as it was after eight o'clock in the evening, no one dared to pass by the door of Ye Tian's house.
Three months have passed in a blink of an eye, and the New Year's Eve is getting closer and closer. There have been several heavy snowfalls in the past few days. The entire Forty-Nine City has been shrouded in white snow, and there is a scene of silver everywhere.
However, the New Year atmosphere has not been weakened at all. In the courtyard where Ye Tian lives, the sound of firecrackers can be heard from time to time, but the door of Ye Tian's courtyard is still closed, with no sign of opening.
But on the morning of New Year's Eve, the door of the mansion, which had been tightly closed for more than three months, opened with a creak from the inside, and a young man with shawl hair walked out.
"Ghost, ghost!"
Not far away, several people who got up to sweep the snow in the morning saw Ye Tian whose face was covered by his hair. They threw the broom away and ran home crying.
It's just that these people ran in such a hurry that they didn't realize that in this world shrouded in heavy snow, there were actually flowers blooming inside Ye Tian's gate.
"Ghost? Brother, are you so scary again?"
Ye Tian was stunned for a moment, then turned to look at the long hair on the shawl. He suddenly understood. He stretched out his left hand to pull the hair together, then wiped his right hand from the hair, and a handful of black hair fell to the ground.
"Chiji...jiji..."
Just when Ye Tian wanted to close the courtyard door, a white light burst out from the door like lightning and fell directly on Ye Tian's shoulder. The fluffy hair circled around Ye Tian's neck, until it looked like
