The Legend of the Condor Heroes: From Being Expelled from Peach Blossom Island

Chapter 22 The Magical Uses of Bamboo Slips
After reaching an agreement with Manager Wei, Wu Chengyu immediately took out fifty taels of silver and asked to redeem the jade pendant. Manager Wei did not refuse to accept it. Businessmen know how to deal with people best. He also saw that Wu Chengyu was not someone who liked to owe favors to others. The most fair thing was to settle the payment in exchange for goods.

However, the favor Wu Chengyu owed for introducing the Beggars' Sect could not be repaid solely by relying on the previous help from Manager Wei, so Wu Chengyu felt at ease and asked Manager Wei to do two things.

First, find a clean house as a temporary shelter for Wu Chengyu and A Ku. He was tired of being a beggar living in an abandoned house.

Second, he asked for paper and pen, and wrote down the medicinal materials needed for the Black Jade Ointment, hoping that Manager Wei would purchase them for him.

Fortunately, although the Black Jade Intermittent Ointment has extraordinary efficacy, its main advantage lies in the ratio of medicinal materials and the preparation method. The medicinal materials themselves are not expensive and do not exceed Wu Chengyu's budget.

Manager Wei only got the list of medicinal materials, and he couldn't figure out the formula of the Black Jade Ointment based on that alone. Wu Chengyu didn't want the foundation of his life to be leaked.

Unconsciously, Wu Chengyu did not realize that his way of doing things seemed to be very different from that in his previous life.

For a middle-level manager of a state-owned enterprise, it is necessary to be good at dealing with people from all walks of life. Wu Chengyu has good relationships with everyone at all levels and is so smooth that he seems a little greasy.

He never minds owing favors to others, nor does he mind others owing him favors. This way, there will be more interactions between them, and he will have a wider network of contacts and more ways to get things done.

Now, except for A Ku, he seems to have drawn a clear line with everyone. He repays kindness with kindness and returns favors with kindness, and he will never owe anyone anything.

On the surface, Wu Chengyu himself has not really integrated into this world. He observes the people and things here from an outsider's perspective.

Manager Wei was very efficient and soon found a small courtyard. The courtyard was at the end of the market town. It was originally a stationery store, but the business was not going well, so the courtyard was mortgaged to Manager Wei.

There is a shop in front of the courtyard and a yard in the back. The shop in the front is very small, and the door is in an inconspicuous corner of the market. Walking into the backyard, there are only two rooms and a kitchen. The yard is not big, about 30 square meters. There is also an old elm tree in the yard, and there is a stone table and stone bench under the tree.

Manager Wei was very attentive. Not only did he ask his staff to clean the house inside and out, he also provided all the necessary daily necessities.

A Ku was very happy because there was a bed in the bedroom with a thick quilt on it. She had never had her own bed.

And there was the old elm tree, which made her drool. Next month, she could pick elm seeds and eat elm seed rice, which was the best delicacy that Ah Ku could eat.

Now that they had money in their pockets, life should have been good. Wu Chengyu first took A Ku to a clothing store to buy some clothes for little girls. They were all colorful and looked ugly to Wu Chengyu, but A Ku was careful not to touch them for fear of dirtying the clothes.

Wu Chengyu also bought a few sets of clothes for herself, all of which were ordinary scholar's clothes, and asked the tailor to make them smaller. Now what she was wearing was a bit luxurious, and it was the attire of a martial artist, so it no longer suited Wu Chengyu. However, these clothes were sewn by Feng Heng himself. Wu Chengyu was influenced by Wu Mianfeng and cherished them very much, and must keep them well.

Then Wu Chengyu bought some soapberries and took Aku back to the courtyard. He boiled a large pot of water on the kitchen stove and poured it into a wooden barrel. He first taught Aku how to use the soapberries and let her take a nice hot bath. When Aku finished her bath and came out changed into new clothes, Wu Chengyu felt unprecedented warmth in his heart when he saw her beautiful appearance.

Let the good people have happiness and let the evil people die without redemption, so that there will be no unpleasantness.

In the next few days, Wu Chengyu only did two things.

During the day, he took Aku around to find delicious food, and also found a doctor to prescribe some nourishing medicine for Aku. Aku's health was getting better day by day. His face had more flesh, and he was no longer skinny with sunken eyes. He even grew taller.

At night, Wu Chengyu took the medicinal materials sent by Manager Wei and tried to prepare them bit by bit. He couldn't let others do this, and he had no basic knowledge at all, so he could only follow the operating procedures on the bamboo slips and try step by step.

The things made two nights ago, apart from being black, had nothing to do with the Black Jade Paste. It was black jade, but what Wu Chengyu made was black poop. The finished product of the Paste had a fragrant and refreshing smell, but the one in Wu Chengyu's hand not only had a terrible stench, but also had an inexplicable smell of sulfur.

Wu Chengyu couldn't help but open the window, which immediately made Ah Ku, who was playing with a stuffed tiger next door, think that he had hidden himself to eat shit. Ah Ku was so miserable that he couldn't laugh and almost cried.

After a few days of hard work, I finally made something that was barely recognizable and was about 50% similar to the original described in the bamboo slips.

This was the limit of what Wu Chengyu could do. He was so worried that his hair almost fell out. How could he dare to use such a thing on such a person? At this time, he once again discovered another use for the bamboo slips in his mind. When the suspected intermittent ointment was produced this time, the bamboo slips reacted and an extra line of handwriting appeared on them.

The finished product of inferior Black Jade Intermittent Ointment is only one-tenth of the effect of the real thing, and has toxic side effects. While treating bone injuries, it also causes meridian atrophy and skin ulcers.

Reasons for failure: 1. There are too many non-medicinal impurities during the preparation process and the crushing and grinding are not thorough.

2. During the water preparation process, if there is salt residue in the medicine, seaweed should be used to rinse the salt, and pinellia should be used to rinse the water to reduce toxicity.

3. The fermentation heat and time are insufficient, and complete fermentation is impossible.

4. The alcohol concentration of the auxiliary drinks used in the grilling is insufficient.

5. The years of Danshen and Panax notoginseng used in making medicine are insufficient.

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Evaluation: The previous one was not very noticeable, and I thought the host was artificially making poop. This inferior version still looks like poop, but at least it has some medicinal effect.

The bamboo slips listed more than a dozen reasons for the failure in a very eloquent manner. Some were problems with the materials themselves, and some were operational errors by Wu Chengyu. Not only were there specific reasons, but methods for improvement were also pointed out.

It was just that the last comment was a bit playful, which made Wu Chengyu doubt that the bamboo slips had self-awareness.

With the help of quality inspectors and instructors, Wu Chengyu's progress was accelerated. Through continuous trial and error, the quality of the medicines he produced became better and better, and the defects that could be found on the bamboo slips became fewer and fewer. After seven days, Wu Chengyu finally produced the precious Black Jade Intermittent Ointment.

"Black Jade Fracture Ointment, a sacred remedy for bone injuries, a rare treasure, non-toxic and side-effect-free, effectively repairs bone damage, reshapes bone strength, connects damaged meridians, and restores nerves in wounds. The current supply is sufficient to restore the health of a person with all four limbs broken."

The effectiveness of the product decreases as the patient's injury lasts. Within one year, the patient will recover as before; within ten years, the patient will be able to walk freely; beyond ten years, the patient will only be able to recover the ability to move.

Comment: Look at the professional guide version, then look at your previous ones, and you still say it's not daddy.'

It's done. Wu Chengyu looked at the paste-like substance in front of him that looked like black jade and had a fragrant smell, and he breathed a sigh of relief. After more than ten days of hard work, he finally succeeded.

However, what made him happiest was not that he could recover from his injuries, but that he had found a way to use the bamboo slips, at least partially.

The bamboo slips had no reaction before, probably because they were not activated. After Wu Chengyu chose to fight the villains and save A Ku, and finally cremated him by Taoist Mo, he passed the test of the bamboo slips, received the reward and the right to use it.

During the process of refining the Black Jade Intermittent Ointment, the bamboo slips could immediately point out the problems and solutions, just like an extremely detailed instruction manual, which only lacked teaching him how to make the medicine step by step.

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