Chapter 24: Kid, You Answer
At this moment, Xu Qing didn't let out a long sigh of relief until he was back inside his residence.
He felt that it wasn't good for him to do that, but his desire for knowledge left him with no other way.
And he also understood that he was afraid that his little trick had been seen through.
"I'll have to repay later."
The teenager muttered and whispered, keeping this matter in his mind, he didn't know what he could repay, but that's what was in his heart, maybe there would be this opportunity in the future.
Worried that he would forget, so Xu Qing took out a bamboo slip in his leather pouch and used an iron stick to carve the words Master Park on it.
Looking closely, on this bamboo slip, apart from Master Park, there was also the Lei Team, and on top of that, there were three other names.
Those three names, are the slums when he helped people, even if just a little bit, but also by him in mind.
In this way, after engraving the names, Xu Qing took out another bamboo slip, recalling what he heard in this lesson, recording it little by little.
What's more, he took out the bamboo slips from the last lesson he heard as well, silently reciting them, and after making sure that he had memorized them all, he revealed satisfaction within his expression.
"There are already twenty-seven herbs that I understand."
Xu Qing was very happy, and this mood was maintained for the entire day, even when he was practicing, he was in a happy mood.
So the next day, he also woke up early, and after going to sell some Seven Leaf Grass, he bought an herb similar to the Heavenly Fate Flower, and navigated his way to the outside of Grandmaster Park's tent.
Still in the same position as yesterday, still standing there silently waiting to pay attention to the course inside, still also at the end of the course, Master Park walked out to ask, Xu Qing with nervousness and apprehension took out the herb to ask.
Looking at the herbs, Master Park coughed lightly, shaking his head at the same time, actually opened his mouth to tell Xu Qing bought the information about the herbs.
This allowed Xu Qing to invariably learn about one more herb, which made his contentment and gratitude even stronger, and after leaving with a bow, in the distance, he turned back to see Grandmaster Cypress standing in the same place as yesterday, nodding his head to himself.
The image of this scene was reflected in Xu Qing's eyes and engraved in his mind.
Just like this, half a month passed.
Almost every day, Xu Qing would take various herbs and ask questions after listening to the lessons outside of Grandmaster Park's tent.
He heard more and more knowledge about herbs, and even heard quite a bit about herb blending methods later on.
This made Xu Qing's harvest great, and the bamboo slips he recorded were dozens of them.
On Master Park's side, he never mentioned anything about Xu Qing stealing from his master, and he patiently answered all of his herbal inquiries every day.
So much so that in the end, not only did the guards get used to the appearance of this child in a fur coat every morning, even the young girls in the tent were extremely impressed by him.
There was even a time when it was raining heavily outside, and both Master Park and the young man and woman thought that Xu Qing wouldn't come, but in the rain, Xu Qing came wearing a straw raincoat.
Rain or shine.
This left a deep impression on Grandmaster Park and the two disciples by his side.
So when one day, to the time of the course, and Xu Qing rare did not appear on time, that teenage boys and girls are frequently look outside.
Seemingly amazed at that dirty little scavenger, how come he didn't come today.
It wasn't until Xu Qing's tired figure was reflected in the tent that the teenage girl withdrew her gaze.
The reason why he was late was because every day, in addition to coming to Grandmaster Bai's side to listen to the lessons, Xu Qing would also enter the forbidden zone, searching for the Heavenly Fate Flower and the Scar Removal Stone while also sharpening himself to hunt foreign beasts.
But the search wasn't very smooth.
He never found these two items, and the perilousness of the forbidden zone was once again deeply experienced by Xu Qing.
Even though he was at the fourth level of the Hai Shan Skill and possessed the same keen judgment and observation as the old scavenger, and could save his life and even hunt by being careful in the outer reaches of the jungle, he still occasionally encountered crises.
That time he was late was when he encountered a beast that came out from the depths, and only barely escaped after nine deaths, running all night before returning in the early morning.
After returning, he didn't go to rest, but rather listened to the lessons in silence.
In addition to that, these days, Xu Qing had another not-so-small gain, and that was the insurance that Bone Knife had proposed.
Bone Knife was alive and well.
Ever since the last time it had bought insurance from him, it had come to buy it every time it entered the forbidden zone, even though the mists had never appeared again, and Xu Qing had never made a move.
But Bone Knife remained persistent, and even somehow spread the word, gradually coming to him to buy insurance, and then some more.
Xu Qing out of caution, mostly ignored, only before a few had saved people, he agreed.
This makes Xu Qing's income, gained a boost, with his hunting harvest in the restricted area, the day slowly over the good up.
Although the Lei team could not continue to go out on missions, the rent Xu Qing gave was extremely high, and even though the Lei team did not accept it, Xu Qing still insisted, making it so that in the end, the Lei team could only accept it.
Most of this money, the Lei Team spent on food, which made Xu Qing able to eat hot meals every time she came back from the forbidden zone.
Even the Lei Team had bought Xu Qing some clothes.
These clothes were all brand new, Xu Qing didn't want to wear them, each piece was neatly folded and placed in the cabinet, taking them out from time to time to look at them and feel happy.
And the daily meal time was also the moment Xu Qing felt the warmest.
Because not only is the food good, Lei team also tends to be at this time, such as the elders at home, after getting older, like to talk about the neighborhood like, to him about the trivial things in the camp.
During this time, both Cross and Luan Ya also came back, accompanied Team Lei for a while, and then left again.
It could be said that this period of time was when Xu Qing felt the most contented he had been in the past six years.
There was a hot meal to eat, new clothes, the company of the Thunder Team, his cultivation was also rising, and his knowledge of grasses and trees was still increasing.
So in addition to this fulfillment, he cherished everything nowadays, and his daily lectures outside the tent were extraordinarily attentive.
Until this day, under the early morning sunlight, Xu Qing, who was standing outside the tent, heard Master Park's quizzing of that teenager inside.
"Chen Feiyuan, tell us about the Night Corpse Petunia herb."
Chen Feiyuan, was Grandmaster Park's name for that teenager, which Xu Qing had already known over the past month or so, as well as that young girl's nickname, Tingyu.
Hearing Grandmaster Park's questioning words, the teenager was somewhat unable to answer, stumbling over a bit and then not going down.
Xu Qing couldn't see the tent, but he could also think of the many times when the tent was opened, the afterglow looked at the other party's crying face.
"Unlearned, Ting Yu, you answer." Grandmaster Park's voice was stern, and he named the young girl to answer again.
Only this time, the young girl there was clearly ill-prepared as well.
"Night corpse petunia, also known as poisonous mountain root spot ...... teacher, I, I forgot." The young girl said here and also fell silent.
The tent immediately quieted down, and it was obvious that Grandmaster Park was having anger brewing, and just then, Grandmaster Park's voice echoed out with an undisguised huff.
"Kid, you answer."
Xu Qing outside the tent froze, and subconsciously, the words immediately came out.
"Night Corpse Petunia, also known as Poisonous Mountain Root Zebra Chrysanthemum, is the vine and roots of the fine-veined Zebra Chrysanthemum of the Asteraceae family, a woody vine, born in the corpse-shaded ravines, by the shady and cold streams, or in the jungle, with an astringent and pungent flavor, slightly warm in the mouth, with a feeling of decay, and with the miraculous effect of cowing the wind and relieving the epidermis, but poisonous in excess, and a typical yin-and-yang bipolar herb." Xu Qing said here and paused.
"Excessive what kind of symptoms." Inside the tent, in the slight disbelief of the teenage girl duo, Grandmaster Park asked again.
"Symptoms of poisoning are abdominal pain, dizziness, hallucinogenic, death in a quarter of an hour if not rescued." Xu Qing outside the tent was nervous at heart, but without the slightest pause, he immediately answered.
"How to antidote the poison."
"You can induce vomiting and wash the stomach method, supplemented with egg white as well as red thorn stamens, at noon when the sunlight is thick symptomatic treatment, the treatment time should not exceed half an hour, for three consecutive days."
Along with Xu Qing's answer, although Grandmaster Park inside the tent was expressionless, the teenage boys and girls beside him had their eyes widened in some surprise.
"What is the Yin-Yang Bipolar Grass?" Grandmaster Park asked again.
"Yin and Yang Bipolar, both positive and evil dual methods in one, positive yang is medicine, and negative evil is poison." Without thinking, Xu Qing answered out, these were the knowledge he had heard during this period of time, and memorized many times, and had long been familiar with it.
"And how does this plant behave?" Grandmaster Park asked even faster.
"This night corpse petunia for example, with the square inch leaf, can make its Yang effect doubled, the main soul injuries, in the heterogeneous also have a little soothing use, but if with the pilosebaceous flowers, then its Yin effect rises, the toxicity of the unusual people accidentally eat, within thirty breaths of death."
"How to deal with the pilose flower?"
"What is the use of square inch leaf roots?" Grandmaster Park asked faster and faster, Xu Qing's inner tension gradually diminished, answering just as quickly.
Just like this, an old man and a young man, asking and answering questions across the tent, time passed and an incense burner actually went by.
The questions raised by Grandmaster Park were extremely numerous, and even many of them were answers that could only be known after synthesizing the contents of the lectures over the course of many days, but they were all answered by Xu Qing.
And that teenage boy and girl, has from the previous surprise, changed to shock, staring blankly at the tent reflected on the figure.
Until finally, under the dumbfounded stares of the teenage boy and girl, Grandmaster Park asked the last question.
"What is the efficacy of the medicinal liquid concocted from the three one-year old Night Corpse Petunia, combined with the six three-year old Overcloud Bush, and the nine ten-year old whole grasses of the arbitrary Salviaceae plant, Single Spike Water Centipede?"
The moment this question came out, the teenager and the young girl's faces changed rapidly, and their breaths were both shortened, because what was involved was no longer a simple herb, but a concoction.
This question, is also in this quiz, let Xu Qing silent for the longest time, he pondered for more than thirty whole breaths, before he took a deep breath and opened his mouth in a low voice.
"Evil is hard to overpower righteousness, yang flourishes and yin declines, together with the power of the Overcloud Grass to transform positive effects, it is able to bring the effect of detoxification of the entire herb of the Single Spike Water Centipede of the Salix family of plants to a staggering degree." As Xu Qing finished speaking, his eyes widened, vaguely realizing something.
"This, of the antidote pills, is the seventy percent base formula of the Great Harmonization Pill, along with the three herbs, and with a warm fire for seven hours, it can be refined." Inside the tent, Grandmaster Park's voice came out faintly.
"After quizzing you so much, is there anything in your heart that you wish to inquire about?"
Xu Qing's spirit shook and his breath caught.
Over the past month or so, he had indeed had many questions that he did not understand, but after all, he had only been eavesdropping, and even though Grandmaster Park's kind heart did not stop him, he was not in a good position to interrupt the other party's lectures, and there was no way for him to ask questions.
At this moment, when he heard Grandmaster Park open his mouth, Xu Qing hurriedly organized his thoughts and immediately inquired.
"Grandmaster Park, Yan Suo Ma and Yang Yang Thorn have something in common regardless of their origin or efficacy, what is the difference between these two types of existence?"
"Why can't the Stopping Spirit Flower be picked in daylight?"
"The juice of the Square Inch Leaf clearly has the purpose of repelling evil, why can't it be shared with the Life Eye Branch which also repels evil?"
......
Xu Qing's questions were asked one by one, and Grandmaster Park answered them one after another, each one answered in great detail.
And as if Xu Qing couldn't finish asking, until after the time had passed and far exceeded the time of the class, in the eyes of the teenage girl duo as if they were looking at monsters, Xu Qing swept his eyes at the sky with unfulfilled intentions, and had to end his questioning.
He felt that this day had been indescribably rewarding for him, with most of the questions in his heart answered, and even a sense of understanding.
This made his thirst for knowledge, even stronger, and he was ready to go back and carve it all down.
Just as he was about to leave, Master Park's somewhat tired voice came from within the tent.
"In the future, you don't need to stand outside, nor do you need to take those messy herbs, from tomorrow onwards, you will enter the tent and listen to the lessons."
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This chapter 3500 words, brothers and sisters, today is again nearly 8000 words ah.
