The sacred tree is about to pass, and the cannon fodder's wish countdown is coming

New Year’s Eve is extremely lively.

Every household is decorated with lanterns, brightly colored spring couplets are posted on doors, and exquisite window decorations are posted on windows. The streets and alleys are filled with the rich atmosphere of the New Year, and people are laughing and chatting, greeting each other.

As night falls, bonfires burn and fireworks bloom, lighting up the entire night sky.

In this noisy and cheerful atmosphere, Lu Shi and the Monkey System spent their first New Year's Eve in this small world.

In the following days, Lu Shi walked around the village without stopping from the first to the tenth day of the lunar year. The villagers said that since Lu Shi had no family, they were his family. They even argued over which family Lu Shi should go to for dinner every day.

Therefore, since the beginning of the year, the stove in Lu Shi's house has always been cold.

The man and the monkey gained a lot of weight thanks to the villagers' warm hospitality.

On the 11th, Lu Shi conducted devilish training on the sixteen people according to the plan.

Lu Shi brought the sixteen people to an unused abandoned house in the village. The location was relatively remote because it had been abandoned several years ago. The site was very dirty, but fortunately it was relatively spacious. Lu Shi asked the monkey system to repair and clean it up, and now it was just the right place for training.

He pointed to the herbs he had prepared and said, "Today's task is for everyone to refine a pill according to my requirements."

Everyone looked troubled when they saw the herbs in front of them.

Lu Shi ignored them and began to carefully explain the steps and precautions for refining the pills.

After explaining the theory, Lu Shi began to demonstrate the practical process. The process of refining pills was actually similar to that of refining elixirs. However, to save costs and adapt to the development of the small world, he replaced the alchemy furnace with a large iron pot and changed from using spiritual power to condensing the pills to hand-kneading the pills and then injecting spiritual power.

In order to increase their success rate, Lu Shi also set up a spirit gathering array to help them feel and use spiritual energy.

After Lu Shi demonstrated it once, he had 12 more pills in his hand. Everyone's eyes lit up and they all started to try it.

However, the process was not smooth. Some people did not control the heat well, some mixed the herbs incorrectly, but most people were stuck on the spiritual power aspect.

Lu Shi sighed. This step was the most critical and also the most difficult for them, but his requirements were not very high. He just needed to guide the Qi into the body.

Years ago, Lu Shi not only taught them how to read and write, but more importantly, he taught them how to draw Qi into the body, and analyzed and understood them word by word. After the New Year, they had consolidated this for a long time, so today Lu Shi planned to do it in one step and let them refine pills while drawing Qi into the body.

The requirements were not harsh. Following the methods taught by Lu Shi and the support he gave them, one of them soon made a successful breakthrough - Xia Mei.

The talents of several people were similar, so it didn't take long before several of them succeeded in drawing Qi into their bodies.

"Those who succeed, hurry up and make the pills. Those who don't succeed, don't worry. Calm down and follow my instructions slowly!"

The sky was getting dark. After a day's hard work, someone finally succeeded in refining a pill. Of course, some people were unsuccessful in drawing the Qi into their bodies, but it seemed to Lu Shi that the last few people were already on the verge of breaking through and would surely succeed tomorrow.

Lu Shi looked at the successfully refined pill, nodded, and said, "This is your result today. Although there are still some flaws, it is already very good. In the next period of time, you must continue to practice and improve your skills."

As usual, he said some comforting words and asked people to go back, leaving only Tian Quan.

He was the most special of the group, lacking any spiritual roots but possessing exceptional luck. The methods he taught others were of little use to him, so Lu Shi could only often give him special training.

Tian Quan was alone, so Lu Shi taught him more carefully, almost guiding him step by step in how to use the spiritual weapon and injecting the gathered spiritual energy into the pills.

The steps were more complex than others, but also simpler. The difficulty for others lay in drawing the Qi into the body, but the subsequent use of the Qi would naturally become a thorough understanding.

Although Tian Quan was spared this step by the blessing of the spiritual weapon, the subsequent use of spiritual energy would not be more convenient for him than for others.

Each has its own advantages. After all, talent is something that can only be encountered by chance.

In the following days, everyone took the time to practice, and by the beginning of spring, almost everyone could make a pot of qualified pills. Although not as good as Lu Shiyi's dozen or twenty pills, they could still make seven or eight, and the worst one could make four.

Lu Shi asked them to distribute the pills to the villagers. This was the most common pill in his prescription, but it could cure many diseases and had only benefits and no harm to ordinary people's health.

Now is the time to plant herbs.

The villagers were not good at growing herbs, but weren't they good at growing vegetables? Lu Shi told them that it was all the same. Some herbs needed a specific growing environment, but this was just a matter of formation. Coupled with the growing spiritual energy in the village, it would be difficult for these herbs to die.

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In early March, the pills in Changping Village finally began to be sold.

The villagers casually set up a stall at the entrance of the village, hung a "Changping Pharmacy" sail on a bamboo pole and started doing business.

Almost all the villagers came to the scene. They were afraid of gathering together and scaring the customers, so they were scattered around, glancing at the stalls from time to time.

The village chief standing next to the stall was smoking his pipe until it was almost smoked. "Xiao Lu, is this okay? Why don't we set up the stall in town? There are more people there. How many people can come to our small village?"

Lu Shi understood the village chief's concerns. "Village chief, I've already sent a message to the town. I estimate that someone will be here soon. Don't worry, if we are doing so well, we will definitely have no trouble selling. Besides, setting up a stall in town does cost money, so we should save money and spend money accordingly."

Yesterday he specially took all the children in the village to the town and gave each of them two strings of candied haws. The children tried their best to promote his product, running around the streets and alleys of the town, singing the nursery rhymes and tongue twisters he had composed for the whole day.

Lu Shi also specially disguised himself as Jia Ming and went to the Wen family's casino, revealing in some ways that the Changping Village pharmacy would open today.

After a day of publicity, I believe that many people should have received the news. The efficacy of their village's medicine is obvious to all, and there are only more and more people coming today.

The village chief wanted to say something else when he saw a man coming from outside the village. He saw the stall and walked straight over.

The man must have seen Lu Shi before, so when he saw Lu Shi standing by, he didn't doubt too much whether such a simple medicine stall was a scam. His purpose was clear.

"I want the medicine you gave that child last time in Qingning Town. Do you have it?"

Lu Shi smiled and served: "Yes, there are, one hundred coins a bottle, each bottle contains four pills, there is another kind, five taels of silver a bottle, the effect of the medicine is better."

There is also a more expensive kind that works immediately after taking it, but he didn't mention it. This person probably can't afford it. His kind is for those at the top, and it would be more satisfying to fleece them.

There's really no difference between a bottle that costs one hundred coins and one that costs five taels of silver, the only difference being the potency. Those who want to think quickly and avoid incurring less guilt should buy the more expensive ones, but for those with limited financial resources, a bottle of one hundred coins will suffice.

If the child's condition was really the same as that day and could be saved, then the price of the medicine would be very reasonable. The buyer nodded and said, "Give me a bottle for one hundred coins."

"Ok."