From the family treasure tree to build an eternal family

Chapter 56: Boiling Medicine
A few days later, at the Xu family.

In the kitchen, Xu Fugui was trying to make the "Five Elements Magic Medicine Soup".

A clay pot was placed on the mud stove, with hot water bubbling violently in the pot and firewood burning brightly underneath.

There were some iron root grass, withered leaf black, blue vine, Chinese wolfberry and ground rose on the stove next to it.

"Water moistens and descends, fire burns and ascends, wood bends and straightens, metal follows and changes, and earth loves farming. Moistening and descending makes it salty, burning and ascending makes it bitter, bending and straightening makes it sour, following and changing makes it pungent, and farming makes it sweet..."

Xu Fugui repeated over and over in his mind the contents of the Five Elements Posture Exercise on making medicinal soup.

A tonic soup that usually costs a few hundred coins is made by simply putting all the medicinal ingredients into a clay pot and boiling them like a big pot stew.

"Five Elements Magical Medicinal Soup" uses five elements magical plants as medicinal ingredients, and is not as easy to prepare as ordinary tonic medicinal soups.

Xu Fugui had tried to refine it several times over the past two days, but each time he failed. He hadn't even figured out the trick yet, only the order in which to add the spiritual herbs.

"First Di Luosen, then Lan Si Teng..."

As he put the elixir in, he observed the changes in the soup. When the expected color change appeared, he quickly added the next medicine.

At the same time, the size of the fire must be controlled.

By the time the third ingredient, the dried black leaf abalone, was added to the pot, the soup already had a distinct burnt smell.

"Oh, another waste of time."

Xu Fugui was helpless.

It wasn't that he was too stupid, but the process was too complicated. The order and timing of adding the spiritual herbs, the proportion of the quantities, the temperature of the fire, and so on were all very important. The slightest mistake would result in the refining being wasted.

There weren't many spiritual herbs planted in the space within his body, and he felt bad about wasting them. He had already controlled the amount of each spiritual herb to the minimum, and would increase the amount when he became proficient.

According to what was in his mind, what he finally brewed should be a colorless and tasteless medicinal soup that [harmony between yin and yang and extracts the essence of the five elements].

He's still a long way from achieving that.

The process of refining the Five Elements Spiritual Medicine Soup reminded him of pills and elixirs made by immortals.

For example, the "Qi Xue Pills" are a similarly complex process, requiring the simmering of a medicinal decoction. The pharmacies that sell these pills must be experts in controlling the temperature and process of the decoction.

However, it was impossible for Xu Fugui to ask others for help with the method of making the Five Elements Elixir Soup.

"This involves the secret of my Xu family's rise to prominence, so I'd better take my time."

He didn't intend to teach it to others; he had to do it himself.

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At noon, Xu Xiaoyun distributed meals to the farmhands and hurried home.

Just as I reached the gate of the house, I heard the sound of horse hooves like drums coming from far away.

"Who?"

He looked in the direction of the sound and saw Xu Xiaogou riding a strong horse and galloping towards him with a smile on his face.

The horse is chestnut in color, with long, shiny and soft mane on its neck fluttering in the wind, its four hooves steady and heavy, and its tail swaying like smooth silk.

"Xu~~"

The horse stopped in front of the Xu family's gate, and Xu Xiaogou dismounted.

He was wearing a brand new light grey brocade robe and a jade pendant hung around his waist, all of which were gifts from his three uncles.

Fu Zhiyi's three brothers, Xu Xiaogou's uncles, were very enthusiastic towards Xu Xiaogou after learning about their relationship. They forced him to stay in the city and treated him warmly with good food and wine for a few days.

"Third brother, where is our horse? Is this the new clothes you bought?"

Xu Xiaoyun saw that the horse Xu Xiaogou was riding was not his own, but obviously a valuable and fine horse.

"The horse was given to me by my eldest brother-in-law. I have placed our horse in the Fu family mansion. Come inside and talk first. I have good news for my parents."

As Xu Xiaogou said this, he tied his horse to the stable outside the yard and walked into the house.

Xu Xiaoyun already understood what was going on and shouted, "Dad and Mom, Third Brother is a gigolo!~~"

"Who's eating gigolo?"

Xu Xiaogou rolled his eyes, but his words lacked confidence. On the surface, he did look like a gigolo.

Xu Fugui, who had just finished cooking another pot of elixir in the kitchen, walked out of the room and said, "Living off me? What?" "Dad, don't listen to what my fourth brother says. Zhiyi's father has agreed to my marriage and is planning a wedding date."

"Okay, okay!"

This is great news.

"San Gou, you didn't become a son-in-law."

When Jiazhen walked out of the room and saw Xu Xiaogou's brand new brocade clothes, she thought he had married into the Fu family.

"No, mother, I am marrying her."

After Xu Xiaogou explained everything clearly, everyone gathered in the main hall to discuss the marriage.

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"Third brother, I have a say in your wedding banquet. My parents have let me take charge of the family finances now, haha."

"What?"

Xu Xiaogou was stunned for a moment, a bad feeling rising in his heart: "You, in charge of the family finances?"

"That's right. My role in our family is to manage the accounts and make sure we can increase income and reduce expenditure and build up our family fortune."

"..."

Xu Xiaogou knew how stingy his fourth brother was. If he really asked him to organize a wedding banquet, it would definitely be very poor.

He looked at his parents for help: "Dad, Mom, please spend more money on my wedding banquet. We can't appear to be too stingy."

Jiazhen nodded in agreement: "Yes, you are the first one in our family to marry a daughter-in-law, and the other party is from a wealthy family. The wedding banquet cannot be shabby."

Xu Fugui warned Xu Xiaoyun: "This matter must not be saved."

"We should save when we can. We can do big things with little money. We have so many people in our family, and we can handle many things ourselves. Besides, no matter how much we spend, it's still shabby compared to the banquet at the Fu family."

Don't worry, I won't be reluctant to spend money, and I will definitely make it a grand occasion."

Xu Xiaoyun assured everyone that he wasn't stingy, and everyone breathed a sigh of relief. However, he turned around and asked Xu Xiaogou, "Third brother, do you mind using our homemade wine for your wedding banquet? I've been researching winemaking lately and want to increase our income, so I'd like to try it out at your wedding banquet."

"You want to save money on wedding wine? No, no, we have to use good wine."

Xu Xiaogou's face darkened.

The two of them had another heated argument, and finally, facing the strong demands of his parents and third brother, Xu Xiaoyun had to increase the expenses of the wedding banquet to a higher level.

Afterwards, everyone discussed the specific details of the proposal and wedding banquet.

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In the kitchen.

Xu Xiaoyun came to drink water and noticed a dozen or so Chinese wolfberries on the stove.

"Hey, why is this Yanqi different from the one in Yaotian?"

The wolfberries in his herb field have just grown and are producing their first year of wolfberry fruit this year.

In terms of profit, the profit of Yanqi is originally low, not to mention the Yanqi whose medicinal properties are not strong in the first year.

The profit from selling five acres of Yanqi is better than nothing.

So the cost-conscious Xu Xiaoyun came up with an idea, which happened to be what he had always wanted: brew Yanqi wine and sell it.

He didn't like martial arts, but was very keen on making money. At only fifteen years old, his mind was full of ideas about making money.

His family had farmland and self-produced grain, plus five mu of Yanqi, which allowed them to brew Yanqi wine. He had already researched the winemaking formula and process and had begun making the koji.

The Chinese wolfberry and a few other elixirs on the stove were left behind by Xu Fugui when he made medicinal soup.

Xu Xiaoyun picked up a Chinese wolfberry and examined it carefully: "Where did this come from? It looks much better than the Chinese wolfberries in the medicinal fields."

This is the spiritual plant Yanqi in the space inside Xu Fugui's body. Of course, it is different from ordinary Yanqi.

"Try using this wine yeast."

He picked up the Chinese wolfberry on the stove and prepared to use it as a raw material for wine yeast.

(End of this chapter)