In a dark room that blocked out the light, four tall and thick Taoist boys stood on the floor. This environment made them think that the mayor in front of them was planning a shady conspiracy, and they would be honored to participate in it.
Status will also be improved.
Li Zhenshi's silhouette was hidden in the darkness, and all he could hear was his voice: "Use the iron casting skills I learned from Zhao Laodao to cast a few containers, which look like this."
He took out the paper from his sleeves. Lu Tu stepped forward and took it with both hands. He brought it up to his face and saw that it was a thing that looked like an alchemy furnace, but the size of the logo was only about one foot. He was suspicious about such a big elixir.
What elixir can be made in the furnace?
"After Taoist Master Zhao starts refining the elixir, I will teach you how to prepare the medicine and test it. Now go back to the pottery. I will go to the temple in person on the day of refining the elixir."
They were confused and did not understand Li Siye's intention. It seemed that it was not a conspiracy. Could it be related to alchemy?
"Go down."
The four of them exited the room and walked out of the back door of the Zhenshi Mansion under the leadership of Yan Xiaosi.
On the way back to the Taoist temple, the four people became more and more curious and suspicious, and they all speculated: "Tell me, tell me, what are we doing? Preparing medicine and casting utensils?"
"I know," Lu Tu put his hands behind his back and said pretending to be profound: "Master said that the elixir and cauldron can be used to make a golden elixir that prolongs life and a very poisonous poison. The general may have asked us to refine the poison.
, thrown into the river from the upstream, it can poison tens of thousands of troops downstream."
"Nonsense, what poisonous elixir can turn the entire river into poisonous water? It seems to me that the general is planning to ask us to practice a powerful vajra elixir. After taking it, a person's strength will increase five times, and he can even jump ten times.
It's a foot high. If you feed it to Shule's army, six thousand people can destroy an army of one hundred thousand."
"Well, this looks a bit like it, but it's not the same. From my point of view, the general is working on a formation eye. When the formation eye is opened, a heavy fog will fill the air. There is spirit-changing evil energy in the formation, but there is a strong enemy.
If you enter it, you will lose your mind and kill each other."
"You are even more unreasonable, but I heard from Master that if you add too much saltpeter when refining elixir, it will easily explode the furnace. Do you think this could be..."
The other three people sneered: "Can you have some imagination and just blow up the furnace? Why should Ambassador Li Zhen personally intervene? There is Yanzhou stone fat in the army, which will burn endlessly after being ignited with phosphorus fire! And blow up the furnace!"
The four of them walked towards the Taoist temple in a noisy manner.
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In the early morning of the next day, Li Siye bid farewell to Chuulu and Bian Lingcheng outside the gate of Shule City. The young boy Chuulu put on a Turkic robe, a felt hat on his head, and sheep felt shoes on his feet. He looked so naive.
A Guo Jing.
His eyes wandered back and forth among the crowd, but he didn't see the figure he wanted to see. He couldn't help feeling panicked and disappointed. It was all because of his stupidity that he couldn't ask "Can you come and see me off tomorrow?" yesterday.
He looked back in despair, bowed to Li Siye, got on his horse, stretched out his hand to hold the horse's reins, and took one last look into the city gate, his eyes suddenly brightened.
He saw Mei'er in a green skirt walking out with her sister-in-law. She was wearing a goose-yellow double-breasted jacket, with a princess-colored silk scarf between her arms, and a golden hairpin swaying and waving to him with a smile.
A smile also appeared on Chuo Lu's face. He straightened his body upright and saluted everyone, thinking that she was looking at him now, and the way he looked now was exactly what she expected.
The cavalry was getting further and further away. He turned back on his horse and looked at the wall of Shule City. It seemed that there was a green skirt there. Bian Lingcheng saw the nostalgia in his eyes and raised the corner of his mouth and smiled: "Little Khan, he repeated it several times."
When you look back, are you thinking about whose young lady you are dating?"
The followers around the supervisor laughed loudly.
"The little Khan must be a newbie and doesn't know how to pick flowers and branches."
Chuulu was furious, but didn't know how to retaliate. The words of these vulgar people were all blasphemy against her. How could the vulgar people know what he was thinking? She was different from anyone else in the world. She was a star rising in the sky. She could only be seen from a distance.
View from a distance.
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Daochang Zhao received the cinnabar he wanted from a business traveler from the Central Plains, which weighed a full thirty kilograms. There is everything in the Gobi Desert in the Western Regions, but there is no such thing. For these cinnabar, he did not know how much money he spent.
After asking for many favors, expending a lot of effort, and even writing five or six letters, I asked my senior brother to ask someone from Jiugong Mountain to spend money to transport the cinnabar to business travelers traveling to and from the Western Regions, and then send it to Shule for payment on arrival.
It cost me three guan, and in the end it was more expensive than buying a hundred catties.
He had to search for the remaining materials in the vast land of Qixi. Among all the Taoist priests in Jiugong Temple in the past, he was best at collecting materials from the wild, including various stones, soil, alum, crystals, chicken blood, and amber.
, gold, silver, copper, iron and tin ores can all be distinguished.
The four apprentices were not afraid of hardship, and carried cloth bags on their backs filled with the ores they collected. Apart from these things, they also collected a lot of saltpeter, and learned from Taoist Zhao how to identify the difference between real saltpeter and mirabilite.
After returning to the Taoist temple, Taoist priest Zhao Zheng prepared a medicine pounding hammer and a stone mortar. In addition to helping the master pound the materials, the three apprentices also made a large wooden hammer and a stone mortar the size of a cauldron. They put the saltpeter into it and pounded it until it became
Fine salt-like chips, charcoal, and sulfur are also prepared in the same way.
When the old Taoist opened fire to refine the elixir, he was also curious to see what the apprentices were tinkering with. What was the use of them handling so much saltpeter?
When they took out the alchemy furnace, it was as big as a melon. Taoist priest Zhao couldn't help but sneered at how such a big alchemy furnace could be used. But if it was used to deduce the alchemy process, it could be a try.
General Li also rode a horse to the viewing wall. He seemed to be very concerned about the effectiveness of his refining of the elixir. The old Taoist suddenly became very energetic and did not need his apprentice to fan the fire. He personally waved the plantain to control the heat. The red hearth reflected his face.
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He turned back from the alchemy furnace, narrowed his smile and said loudly: "General, please relax, I have been immersed in alchemy for decades. This furnace will definitely make it. If it makes two pills, you and I will each take one pill!"
Li Siye shook his head and said, "I don't take pills."
"If you don't take the elixir, is it possible that you are dedicating it to someone?"
"No."
He laughed loudly and turned back to continue refining the elixir. The disciples were running back and forth, running to Li Siye from time to time to report. He also said that the ratio of saltpeter was 75%, sulfur was 12%, and charcoal was something he couldn't hear clearly. He didn't have anything.
I'm suspicious, the elixir recipe mentioned that there is a method of subduing fire and vitriol, which is to instantly make the fire intense and increase the adhesion between elixirs and stones.
It seems that they are also refining the elixir over there. Li Zhenshi even went to see it in person. He seemed to be more interested in that elixir. The apprentices were tinkering with it and it was useless. After the golden elixir here is completed, he will be taken by this elixir.
Attracted by the furnace elixir, gold was mixed with mercury water and then melted into the elixir. After the elixir was formed, it became golden in color and produced a strange aroma that anyone who longed for immortality could not refuse.
Zhao Laodao suddenly turned off the fire, and a burst of white smoke came out of the mercury extractor on the top of the stove, making the entire alchemy room enveloped in fairy air. He carefully put the shovel in and took out three purple-red pills densely covered with golden spots.
The elixir was taken out.
He laughed excitedly, and was about to ask General Li to palm his eyes, but he saw Li Siye covering his ears with his hands and looking into the distance. His three disciples also hid far away, waiting to react and turn around...
boom!
The explosion caused a small area of wind and waves, and the booming sound could already be heard in his ears.
Zhao Laodao staggered, and the pill in the shovel fell to the ground. He shook his head vigorously and tried to lie down, but a high-pitched tinnitus sounded in his ears. This was simply more terrifying than the thunder falling in the low clouds.
It almost burst his eardrums.
He raised his head and looked in the direction where the sound came from. Half of the courtyard wall collapsed, there was a small deep pit on the ground, and the disciples' melon alchemy furnace was blown to pieces. Here Li Siye was pulling the black horse hard.
The horse was frightened by the explosion. It cowered back, jumped up and down, and peed again.
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