A wealthy person with a reading panel

Chapter 114: Awkward "Side Effects" (Revised)
Lancheng is the capital of Gansu Province, a central city in the western region, and a comprehensive transportation hub. When Zhou Qing was buying a ticket, he was considering whether to take a train or a plane back to Tanzhou, only to find that Lancheng actually has a high-speed rail that goes directly to Tanzhou and even Yangcheng.

Compared with high-altitude airplanes, for personal safety, he chose the high-speed rail and bought a ticket that departs from Lancheng West Station at 10:40 am and arrives in Tanzhou at 8:20 pm.

"After all, high-speed rail is on the ground. If anything were to happen, with my current physical condition and the protection of my internal energy, I would definitely be able to survive at over 300 kilometers per hour."

"But if it's at an altitude of 10,000 meters, it's hard to say."

"In the future, when my internal energy is deep enough and I can practice some light skills that can help me breathe more easily and move more lightly, as long as the plane doesn't explode directly... maybe I can fall from a height of ten thousand meters and use my internal energy and light skills to save my life."

"In the future, if you are not in a hurry, you should give priority to taking ground transportation."

Zhou Qing drove back to the city of Lancheng and looked at the time. It was 8:50.

It was still early, so he decided to go and see the Yellow River again.

He drove to Shilidian Wharf, found a place to park, got out and walked to the Yellow River.

I took a closer look at the river water and found it was turbid and had a lot of mud and sand.

I have heard about the Yellow River today on the Internet before. Although the water is still turbid most of the time, in some months, especially in winter, the river water becomes very clear.

"I must find time to come back and see what the clear Yellow River looks like."

Zhou Qing found a cement step by the river and sat there for more than ten minutes. He took a few photos of the scenery with his mobile phone and shared them with Teacher Bai and Boss Ruoshui.

Half an hour later, he returned the rented car at the high-speed rail station parking lot and came to the business car waiting room with his backpack.

The business class waiting room is very small, but it has everything it needs, including various facilities and services. There was no one inside. Zhou Qing stayed there for half an hour, and when the staff took him to check in and enter the station, no other passengers came.

Get on the bus and find your seat.

The seats this time are different from the business class seats I took in the previous times. This time they are separate booths, more like first class on the plane, and they also have wireless charging.

After changing into slippers, Zhou Qing casually called out the dashboard and had an idea. He then “expanded” the “completed reading library” that he usually didn’t pay much attention to: The Legend of Black Panther, The Song of Everlasting Regret, The Smiling, Proud Wanderer…

"According to the plan, this round, we will prepare ten long novels for intensive reading in advance, and make a full effort to draw the good stuff from Journey to the West."

"Some books in Curry are just read through, but not enough for intensive reading."

Zhou Qing counted them and found that there were thirteen novels in the "Complete Reading Library" that could be used for intensive reading, namely: "The Song of Everlasting Sorrow", "The Smiling, Proud Wanderer", "The Golden Lotus"... "Ghost Blows Out the Light", and "Ball Lightning".

"Le Petit Goriot is the first thing to exclude. If you want to study it carefully, you must first learn a foreign language."

He considered it and decided to start with martial arts novels.

With a thought, the panel changed to——

Name: Zhou Qing

Currently reading: The Heaven Sword and Dragon Saber (Intensive Reading)
Cumulative number of draws: 0
Extractable items: a tiger, a handful of mountain spring water...a bottle of methaqualone, etc.

……

After making his choice, he put the panel back into his mind and began searching online for some ancient recipes and methods for making wine.

There is a lot of information on the Internet, and Zhou Qing sorted out some of it.

Then he thought of Taoist Master Wang Yunyi from Wudang Mountain, and immediately switched to WeChat, found his WeChat account, sent him a message, and told him that he wanted to make medicinal wine.

Taoist Master Wang Yunyi, probably bored in the mountains, replied quickly after seeing the message: "Polygonatum is the most common herbal remedy for our health. We do have quite a few recipes for brewing wine with it in our Taoist temple, including one using bone whip, which was formerly used for practicing external martial arts... I'll take a photo of the recipe and send it to you later. But be forewarned, tigers are now protected species, so you must not follow the recipe exactly. You can use cow bones or dog whips instead."

Zhou Qing immediately replied, "Of course! I never do anything that is prohibited by domestic law."

Taoist Master Wang Yunyi misunderstood and replied, "Well, at least don't do that in China."

Zhou Qing didn't explain anything.

After a while, the other party sent a recipe for brewing wine. Taoist Wang was still very cautious and wrote it by hand for a while, changing some parts directly to ox bones and dog whips.

"Main ingredients: bone whip and nine-processed Polygonatum."

"Auxiliary medicine. Main medicines: Cistanche deserticola and Snow Lotus, auxiliary medicines: Old Panax ginseng and Deer Antler Blood Slices, auxiliary medicine: Angelica sinensis..."

The prescription was copied in great detail, and Zhou Qing read it carefully.

"I'll buy the herbs at the pharmacy when I get back to Tanzhou, but I can buy the base liquor and utensils online first."

He opened the shopping app and placed an order for a ceramic wine jar, mulberry paper, red cloth, yellow mud and 150 kilograms of 67-proof sorghum wine.

After a while, Zhou Qing put down his phone, laid the leather chair flat, lay down, played with his phone for a while, and then fell asleep.

In the past nine days, although I occasionally slept for an hour or two, I was always thinking about the Polygonatum that I was processing, and I couldn't sleep very well.

Now that everything is over, I feel relieved.

Although I only slept for more than an hour, I slept very soundly.

but……

When Zhou Qing woke up, he immediately noticed something embarrassing.

He raised his head, quickly reached out to put the chair up, pulled out the magazine in front, opened it, and turned it over to cover the area above his knees.

He touched it, adjusted his pants, and pressed the magazine.

Then he secretly adjusted his breathing and exerted his strength, trying to calm down quickly.

But he soon discovered that this method was not very effective.

"If you force your Qi to circulate and push back your Qi and blood, that's not a bad idea, but it will hurt your body and is not advisable."

“It can only be calmed down slowly.”

Zhou Qing adjusted his breathing, trying to face it calmly. But at this moment, a tall flight attendant in a purple uniform and black stockings approached him, leaned over, and asked softly, "Sir, you fell asleep when the meal was just served... We also have a boxed meal of braised pork and mushrooms. Would you like some?"

Business class passengers will be provided with meals at mealtimes.

This was a service that Zhou Qing had known for a long time, but at this moment, he smelled the perfume coming from the other person and looked at the beautiful black silk legs only ten centimeters away from his right hand. The feeling was like his fingernails scratching a blackboard, which was prickly and uncomfortable.

It was really impolite to stare at a woman's thighs like that, so he quickly looked away.

He skillfully turned his body to the side and lifted the magazine on his knees with his left hand to create more space below while blocking the view from the side.

"Okay, trouble."

"Please wait."

After everyone left, he quickly straightened his pants and opened the small table again.

But in my heart I was thinking: "My current physical condition is exactly the same as when I was seventeen or eighteen years old."

"After taking snake gall, especially after cultivating the Nine Yang Internal Force, the frequency has increased, but taking a nap like this... is the first time."

"It seems to be a 'side effect' of taking the Flower-Fruit Mountain Polygonatum."

Fortunately, I reacted in time and didn't put myself in an embarrassing situation.

Just as he was feeling relieved, he suddenly felt something was wrong and turned to look to the right.

Sitting next to him, a plump, elegantly dressed woman was looking over here. When she saw him looking at her, she smiled at him.

(End of this chapter)