Chai Yan stepped forward, knocked on the door and asked, and found out that this place was indeed Butcher Zhao's home.
The person who opened the door was Butcher Zhao's wife. When she heard that the group was here to buy pig blood and cow blood, a smile immediately appeared on her withered face.
"Come on, come on, please invite some guests..." Butcher Zhao's wife immediately opened the door to welcome her: "Son, don't sleep, we have guests coming..."
Then, Butcher Zhao's wife walked into the house loudly.
Mo Di had always had doubts, so he took the time to ask: "Chai Yan, how do you know the path on the left is the right one?"
Chai Yan smiled and said: "Uncle, the killings in this place are so heavy, the location of the murderer cannot be more obvious..."
Mo Di thought about it, so he nodded slowly.
The four of them stood in the yard for a while, and then a middle-aged man with a wide body and a fat body came out of the house. Without asking, you knew that this man was Butcher Zhao.
Chai Yan immediately went over and explained his purpose.
Butcher Zhao grinned and said, "It's just a coincidence that these guests came here. The pigs that were just killed in the morning are definitely fresh enough."
Soon, Butcher Zhao took out the wooden barrel containing the pig's blood.
Chai Yan looked at it and asked: "Shangguan Peining, are these okay?"
"Not enough!" Shangguan Peining replied.
Chai Yan then asked: "Is there any more? One bucket is not enough..."
Butcher Zhao apologized and said, "I'm sorry for the guests. We only have this bucket of pig blood left at home. If you can wait, I can leave some more for you when the pigs are slaughtered tomorrow or the day after. How about that?"
Chai Yan immediately shook his head. He didn't have time to wait until tomorrow morning.
Shangguan Peining said: "Chai Yan, there is still cow blood in this man's house. If we put it all together, it will be enough!"
But when Chai Yan asked Butcher Zhao about buying cow blood, Butcher Zhao suddenly became nervous and firmly claimed that there was no cow blood for sale at home.
Like many dynasties in history, the Sheng Dynasty was a farming society with a small-scale peasant economy. The harvest rate of crops was not high. The people paid great attention to agricultural production. And cattle were the main labor force in cultivated land and had a high status!
If a cow dies at home, it must be reported to the local government, which will then dispose of the dead cow.
If someone dared to deliberately kill a cow, he would be sentenced to a serious crime, so Butcher Zhao did not dare to say that he had cow blood at home.
In the end, Chai Yan offered ten times the price of the pig's blood, and with all his good words, he got the butcher Zhao to agree to sell the cow's blood to him.
After returning to the city, Chai Yan bought some green beans and an empty wine gourd along the way.
Gu Ling asked about the use of these two things, but Chai Yan kept it secret and told her that she would find out later.
By the time the four of them returned home and saw Gu Zhengbang, it was already past three-quarter noon.
Seeing that it was getting late, Chai Yan asked Gu Zhengbang to borrow a small courtyard at the back where debris was stored.
Next, Chai Yan started to get busy. He found a stove to light a fire, and a big pot for cooking porridge.
After all the preparations were done, Chai Yan locked himself in the small courtyard. Before closing the door, he specifically warned everyone not to peek, because it would distract him, which would cause problems in the process of refining the medicine, and the money would be spent.
But it was all in vain.
Gu Ling didn't believe this evil, so she asked Mo Di to find a ladder and put it on the wall of the small courtyard, and then prepared to climb up to find out.
Unexpectedly, just halfway up the climb, Gu Zhengbang appeared.
"Ling'er, don't come down yet!"
Gu Ling felt a chill in her heart and froze in her movements, then turned around and said: "Dad, I have to watch him, this person is not honest!"
Gu Zhengbang said with a serious expression: "Didn't you hear what I said?"
"Miss... you'd better come down..." Doudou, who was holding the ladder, hurriedly tried to persuade her.
Gu Ling pouted and had no choice but to step back from the ladder.
"Dad, aren't you curious?" Gu Ling came to her father and asked.
Gu Zhengbang said seriously: "How about being curious? So what if you are not curious?"
Gu Ling didn't answer. She was very familiar with her father's way of speaking, and she still had something to say.
Sure enough, Gu Zhengbang paused for a while and then said: "Whether you are curious or not, you can't do this! This is the skill of others. Is it the behavior of a gentleman to pry like this?"
Gu Ling thought to herself: I am not a gentleman to begin with, I am a woman...
"Doudou, take Miss back to your room to rest!" Gu Zhengbang ordered.
Doudou did not dare to disobey the master's words, and hurriedly took the young lady's hand and dragged her away from the door of the small courtyard.
Towards evening, the door of the small courtyard opened, and Chai Yan walked out with his head held high, holding the wine gourd he just bought in his hand.
Mo Di had been standing outside. When he saw him coming out, he asked: "Is it done?"
Chai Yan shook the wine gourd in his hand and replied with a smile on his face: "It's done!"
Soon, Gu Zhengbang and Gu Ling rushed over after receiving the news.
Gu Ling ran into the small courtyard immediately. As soon as she entered, she saw two empty wooden barrels.
Not only that, there were a bunch of boxes in the yard that originally contained medicinal materials, but they were also empty at this time.
"No, it's all used up!" Gu Ling muttered in a low voice.
Gu Ling, who walked to the stove, looked into the large pot and saw that the bottom of the pot was dark red and full of sticky substance, with many boiled beans mixed in.
"These are the magic medicine you refined?" Gu Ling pointed to the pot and turned around to ask.
Chai Yan outside raised the wine gourd and said: "What's left in the pot are failures, what's inside is the success!"
Only then did Gu Ling realize the purpose of the empty gourd. It turned out to be to hold the refined beans.
Gu Ling left the small courtyard at this time and quickly came to Chai Yan: "Take it out and have a look..."
At the same time, Gu Zhengbang also nodded. He was also curious about what Mantra Bean looked like.
Even Mo Di and Doudou gathered around.
Chai Yan understood that now was not the time to show off, so he pulled out the mouth of the gourd with a clean "bang" and said seriously: "Miss Gu, please stretch your hand over!"
Gu Ling suddenly hesitated, and her hand stopped halfway.
Mo Di immediately stretched out his hand and said: "I'll come!"
"No, I'll do it!"
Gu Ling finally made up her mind and stretched out a palm.
Then, Chai Yan slowly tilted the gourd, and a purple bean landed on Gu Ling's palm.
"Is this the truth bean?" Gu Zhengbang's eyes suddenly widened. This bean can make people reveal the truth?
Gu Ling raised her palm and put it in front of her eyes. She looked at it for a long time before asking, "Why did this bean turn purple?"
Chai Yan couldn't help but be stunned. Shouldn't he be more curious about its efficacy? Why are your concerns different from others?