When Wang Tao heard this, he hurriedly bowed and said: "It turns out to be Senior Brother Xu. Seeing that Senior Brother Xu has a reserved demeanor, his cultivation level must be quite high. Moreover, he is also Elder Yu's disciple, and his future achievements will definitely be limitless!"
This Xu Jiang is naturally Xu Jiang from Wajin Village. Since he was accepted as a disciple by Yu Tonghai two months ago and brought to the outer sect of Guashan Mountain, he has been directly trained in key areas. Among the three thousand disciples of the outer sect, his status is
It's also quite high.
Everyone likes to hear flattery. As expected, Xu Jiang laughed and said, "Thank you. If you can become an official disciple, I can take care of you in the future!"
The next moment, he turned his eyes and stared blankly at a piece of paper in Wang Tao's hand. At this moment, Wang Tao was very close to him, so Xu Jiang scanned a name on it.
"Junior Brother Wang, can I take a look at the list in your hand?" Xu Jiang said.
Wang Tao was secretly happy, but when he heard what Senior Brother Xu said, he quickly handed over the list in his hand. This list was just those handyman disciples who had paid the favor fee, and was not something to be looked down upon.
Xu Jiang took it and took a closer look, but was stunned.
"Xingtian...Xingtian, I heard that the boy has disappeared since the martial arts test. Could it be that he entered the Guashan Miscellaneous Hall?" Xu Jiang secretly guessed. He had just scanned a familiar name on the list, and it turned out that
I asked for the list and it turned out that I was right.
It can be said that Xing Tian and he are old acquaintances and have old grudges. At that moment, Xu Jiang wanted to go to the handyman hall to see if this person named Xing Tian was the Xing Tian he knew. If so, Xu Jiang planned to do it well.
Take care of each other.
At this moment, a formal disciple came from a distance and told Elder Xu Jiangyu to look for him.
Xu Jiang did not dare to disobey his teacher's orders, knowing that he would not be able to do it, so he thought for a moment, then waved to Wang Tao and whispered a few times. The latter nodded repeatedly and said: "Senior Brother Xu, this matter
Just wrap it around me." Then he turned and left.
"Hmph, no matter whether this Xingtian is that Xingtian or not, just because of this name, I can't let him stay in Guashan. It's only your fault for choosing such a hateful name!" Xu Jiang thought to himself, and then followed
The disciple left.
…
But Wang Tao hurried back to the handyman hall, arrived at the house of Deacon Jia Gui, knocked on the door respectfully and entered. At this moment, Jia Gui was sitting on a chair, drinking a pot of good tiger bone tea, and humming a tune leisurely.
The tiger bone tea he drank was made from special herbs and was sold in various small towns at the foot of the mountain. After being taken by Body Tempering Realm warriors, it can strengthen their physique and nourish their shins. In addition, the tea is fragrant, so it is very popular among warriors.
It's just that the price of this tiger bone tea is not low. Three taels of tiger bone tea can cost as much as dozens of taels of silver. If you don't have some wealth, you will never be able to afford it.
Although Jia Gui is in charge of the handyman hall, it is a hard job, but if you use some tricks, you can also make a lot of money. It is like assigning tasks to the handyman disciples. He has the final say who has more and who has less. Naturally, a
It is quite easy to make a few hundred taels of silver a month.
"Deacon Jia, I only received thirty taels of silver today. They are all here, as well as the list of servant disciples who paid the money!" Wang Tao respectfully offered the silver ingot in his hand. Jia Gui took it, but revealed
He looked quite dissatisfied.
"That's all?"
"Yes!" Wang Tao paused for a moment and then said what Xu Jiang had just told him.
"Xu Jiang...well, I know this person. Elder Yu's new disciple, and I heard that he is Chu Yingjie's cousin. Chu Yingjie is the most likely disciple of the outer sect to enter the inner sect, although I am an outer sect disciple.
Deacon, he is just a disciple, but based on these two relationships alone, I have to sell his personal relationship!" After Jia Gui finished speaking, he asked: "Then is this the handyman disciple named Xing Tian that Xu Jiang is talking about?
"
"This is Xingtian!"
"Well, this handyman disciple is unlucky. Since he also gave some money, I won't just expel him down the mountain. I'll just let him go to work in the medicine garden tomorrow..." Jia Gui laughed evilly.
When Wang Tao heard this, his eyes lit up. This medicine garden was quite famous in the circle of handyman disciples, but it was because the outer elder who managed the medicine garden had an eccentric character, was cunning and mean, and all the handyman disciples who were sent to the medicine garden
, 10% of the time, there is no way to satisfy the outer elders, and in the end they all get negative reviews.
If that Xingtian was allowed to go to Yaoyuan, and then driven down Guashan on the grounds that he was not doing well, it would be a matter of course, and no one would be able to fault him. And because the handyman disciple had just arrived a few days ago, he didn’t know what was going on in Yaoyuanzi.
It's a trick, so even if you suffer a loss, you don't know who framed it.
Thinking of this, Wang Tao flattered him and said, "Deacon, you are truly the best in this world. I can never imagine such a wonderful thing!"
"Haha, follow me and learn more from now on!" Jia Gui was very interested.
So the next day, Xing Tian was given the task of working in the medicine garden. Xing Tian, who had no idea about it, thought that the money he sent yesterday had an effect, so he took a badge that allowed him to enter the medicine garden and hurried there.
Guashan Medicine Garden is located in a valley in Guashan Mountain. Due to the topography of this valley, the valley is like spring all year round. It is said that the raw materials for all kinds of elixirs refined by the outer sect of Guashan Sect are supplied by this medicine garden.
As soon as Xing Tian arrived at the entrance of the medicine garden, he smelled the fragrant aroma of herbs and immediately became energetic. What surprised Xing Tian was that the purple gourd hidden in his waist also trembled slightly.
This time, Xing Tian was startled. He quickly took out the purple gourd secretly and checked it. He breathed a sigh of relief and hid it again after finding that there was nothing abnormal about the purple gourd.
Entering the medicine garden, Xing Tian shouted loudly: "Disciples from the Miscellaneous Hall, come and report!"
After waiting at the door for a moment, a voice came from inside: "Come in!"
Entering it, Xing Tian saw large tracts of land planted with various medicinal herbs, divided into dozens of areas of different sizes, like crops in the field.
There were many plants that Xingtian had never seen before, and among the medicinal fields, squatting a lean old man said without raising his head: "Go, go to the well behind the medicinal garden to draw thirty-seven buckets of well water, and then
Water one bucket of each medicinal field, no more or less. The rising sun is the right time to water. Water and irrigate. It must be done within an hour. Don’t miss the time!”
After saying that, the old man ignored Xing Tian, and Xing Tian also knew what he was going to do next and hurried to the back of the medicine garden. However, when he saw the bucket for fetching water, he was stunned.
The wooden bucket was three feet high and two feet wide. One bucket of water weighed hundreds of kilograms. It was not easy to get thirty-seven buckets of water from the well to irrigate the medicinal field in one hour.
But it was useless to say anything at this point. Xing Tian hurriedly rolled up his sleeves, grabbed the big bucket, put it on a rope, threw the bucket into the well, and when it was full, he shook the windlass and lifted it up.
In the next hour, Xing Tian was as tired as a dead dog, but fortunately he was a body-tempering warrior, with stronger strength and endurance than ordinary people, but he could barely finish the work assigned by the old man.
"There are some weeds in the medicinal field. Go and pull out those weeds. Remember, don't hurt the herbs!" The old man gave another task.
Xingtian didn't have time to rest, so he hurriedly pulled weeds. It should be noted that the entire medicinal garden was very large, and by sunset, Xingtian had only pulled out less than a quarter of the area.
"You can't do this little thing well. The handyman disciple is still so miserable. Go back. If you haven't completed the task, I will notify the handyman hall!" The old man who manages the medicine garden is playing with a copper furnace without raising his head at the moment.
, said impatiently. From the beginning to the end, he never looked at Xing Tian.
Xing Tian's face suddenly darkened, and he secretly thought that this old man really didn't make sense. He had worked hard all day and didn't even eat lunch, so he was evaluated like this. He was angry, but he turned around and left without looking back, and returned to the Zazai.
In the service hall, Xing Tiancai figured out a problem. The old man who was looking after the medicine garden did not know him, let alone target him. In other words, he was a cunning and mean person. If this was the case, it would definitely not happen in a day or two.
It stands to reason that Jia Gui didn't know, so why did he arrange for himself to be in the medicine garden?
You have to know that you have paid a favor fee. Is there something fishy in this?
Thinking of this, Xing Tian had a hasty dinner, but he found the senior brother Wang Tao again and handed over a ten-tael silver note again. After saying some useless polite words, Xing Tian pretended to leave, but secretly used Tianshan Cloud
He followed Wang Tao step by step, and as expected he saw him go to Jia Gui's room again, knock on the door and enter.
This time, Xing Tian secretly went under the window, listened closely, and finally heard some important information.
"Deacon, Xingtian handed over another ten taels today. Look..."
"That Xingtian is very wise, but unfortunately, this matter was handed down by Elder Yu's apprentice Xu Jiang. We can only blame Xingtian for his bad luck. Today, Elder Yaoyuan sent a message saying that Xingtian did not complete the task.
This counts as one time. According to the rules, as long as he fails to complete the assigned tasks twice, he can be expelled from the handyman hall."
"Deacon, what do you mean..."
"It's very simple. Just send Xingtian to the medicine garden tomorrow. As for the benefits given by the other party, accept them without fail. No one will think it's too much money!"
"The steward is wise!"
Xing Tianquan heard this conversation and was extremely angry. He left calmly and only began to think about it when he arrived in the woods where he usually practiced.
"Xu Jiang, it's this guy again!" Xing Tian was stern. Although he was annoyed in his heart, he was not just cursing, but was thinking of countermeasures quickly.
Now that he has entered Guashan Mountain, Xingtian knows that sooner or later he will face Xu Jiang. It is only a matter of time, so now that it is coming, Xingtian is not afraid. And if the other party wants to squeeze him out of Guashan Mountain, Xingtian just
He would not let the other party get what he wanted, but if Jia Gui really sent him to the medicine garden tomorrow, he would have nothing to do.
Of course, there was no way out. Xing Tian knew that if he could deal with the old man who was looking after the medicine garden, things would turn around.
But how to deal with that old man?
At this moment, Xing Tian suddenly thought of a detail. The old man had been busy all day. Xing Tian remembered that the old man dug some herbs, studied the copper furnace, and meditated on a piece of paper filled with herbs. The other party must be
What are you studying?
Xingtian didn't care at first, but now that he thought about it carefully, he realized something. If he guessed correctly, the old man should be refining the elixir. Moreover, this matter was not going smoothly, otherwise the old man would not have been able to do it all.
I have been frowning all day long.
Today's Xingtian is no longer the ignorant country boy of the past. He knows that alchemists are quite rare, but it is because becoming an alchemist requires a lot of knowledge and must be accumulated through more than ten or even decades of experience.
That's it. The old man who is looking after the medicine garden is obviously new to this. Maybe he is worried about this matter.
Thinking of this, Xing Tian suddenly came up with an idea. Although this was not a foolproof strategy and was even a bit risky, at least it was no problem for emergency use.
At that moment, Xing Tian played Tiger Safari several times and returned to the handyman hall to rest early.
The next day, Jia Gui indeed assigned Xingtian to the medicine garden again. Many handyman disciples looked at Xingtian with sympathy, but Xingtian didn't say anything and ran directly to the medicine garden.
"Why is it you again?" The old man in Yaoyuan glanced at Xing Tian, but said with some surprise: "Is it possible that you have a grudge against Jia Gui and that he deliberately punishes you?"