Xie Wanyou said with a smile: "Don't stare, the candied haws cannot escape. When we finish eating, we will have three each."

Xie Xiaobai reluctantly looked away, buried his head and started to eat the rice, and in the end he cherished it and licked every grain of rice.

Xie Wanyou often didn't have enough to eat when she was a child, so she habitually ate every grain of rice.

Mother and son faced the clean rice bowl and began to eat candied haws among themselves.

Bite through the outer sugar coating, and the sweet and sour taste spreads in your mouth, which is another kind of deliciousness.

Xie Xiaobai felt that his mouth was full of sweet taste. He hugged the last candied haws and let out a "gu" sound from his throat with satisfaction. He could no longer remember the bitterness he had eaten before.

After eating the candied haws, Xie Wanyou rearranged her hay bed to make it barely suitable for sleeping, then lay down on it and patted the pillow beside Xiaobai: "Would you like to sleep here, mother?"

Xie Xiaobai hesitated for a moment, shook his head and refused.

His mother never let him go to her bed. Although he once longed to sleep next to her, he... didn't dare.

Xie Xiaobai lay down in a small hay nest not far away and whispered to Xie Wanyou: "Xie Xiaobai, just sleep here."

Xie Wanyou curled her lips and protracted her voice in a deliberately disappointed voice: "Okay... just let my mother sleep alone. My mother is not sad at all."

Sure enough, Xiaobai immediately pricked up his ears and his tail waggled nervously.

After a long time, rustling sounds rang out in the increasingly dark room.

Xie Wanyou felt that the hay under her body had sunk a little, and a warm little thing lay down next to her neck. She asked shyly in a low voice: "Is mother still sad now?"

Xie Wanyou raised the corner of her mouth and hugged it into her arms: "Well, I'm not sad at all now."

She touched the dark and kissed Zaizai's little horn. When she heard it purring, she felt soft in her heart: "Go to sleep."

Xie Xiaobai had been looking for grass all day and was already tired. He nodded when he heard this, and curled up unprotectedly in Xie Wanyou's arms and fell asleep.

Tonight, even his dreams were full of sweet smells.

Xie Wanyou didn't fall asleep so quickly. She still kept her eyes open, thinking about how to make more money.

Sooner or later, she will take Xiaobai away from this bad place like Xie's house. Of course, the more money, the better. Just selling spiritual herbs is too slow.

Xie Wanyou knew that while the Xie family hated her, they wanted to squeeze out the last value from her and sell her to a wealthy businessman as a concubine in exchange for money.

The original owner wanted to escape precisely because she heard the news that the Xie family wanted to sell her.

Now that the Xie family knows that their plan has been discovered, they will definitely sell her faster and more urgently.

You must make enough money before then.

But given her current situation, what is the fastest way to make money?

Xie Wanyou rummaged through the memory of the original owner and found that the most profitable one was alchemy cultivation. The higher the level of the elixir, the more outrageous the selling price. It was a huge profit industry.

Alchemy seems to be feasible. The cultivation of alchemy does not require high cultivation, but the only disadvantage is that most of the alchemy cultivation requires the fire spirit root - because only the fire spirit root can ignite the fire and light the furnace.

Unfortunately, Xie Wanyou has water and wood spiritual roots and no fire spiritual roots at all...

To put it ten thousand steps back, even if the alchemist is not a fire spirit root, he must at least have a strange fire that can be freely controlled. Otherwise, if the fire cannot be controlled well, how can we talk about alchemy?

Xie Wanyou could do nothing but be jealous.

After being suspicious of life for a long time, Xie Wanyou suddenly remembered that he still had a system, and asked with the mentality of treating a dead horse as a living horse doctor: "Tongzi, do you think I can take the path of alchemy? This question should not involve the villain.

A secret, right? And you see, if I never have money, I won’t be able to raise Zaizai if I get caught.”

system:[……]

The system acknowledged that it had been controlled by the host. After a moment of silence, it only answered one word: [Yes]

Xie Wanyou: "Okay!"

Xie Wanyou was very happy when she received a positive reply, but she looked at the dark ceiling and soon had new worries: "But where can I make a fire? The alchemy without fire is just like a bicycle without tires. It can't be done at all.

Move."

The system didn't answer her this time.

Maybe I just fell in love with her briefly.

Xie Wanyou decided to ask the shopkeeper of Bihetang tomorrow if there was any way to solve the fire problem.

Since the system says she has the talent for alchemy, she must have it, and she must try this path.

After all, alchemy is so profitable.

Wanting to figure out what to do next, Xie Wanyou finally felt sleepy. She held Zaizai's limp body with one hand and fell into a deep sleep without realizing it.

The next day, Xie Wanyou slipped out with Xiaobai as usual, bought four steamed buns for breakfast, and two pancakes for lunch. After sharing the food, they went straight to Shangquanlin.

This time, the mother and son had gained experience and picked up grass much faster. When it got dark, they brought back five bundles of Sanyuan grass, four bundles of Xuanyang grass, and one bundle of Purple Golden grass.

Shopkeeper Lin once again marveled at her speed in picking up grass.

After settling the bill, Xie Wanyou had two hundred and twenty more copper coins in his pocket.

Xie Wanyou still remembered the matter of refining the alchemy fire, and took the opportunity to ask Shopkeeper Lin this question.

Upon hearing this, shopkeeper Lin looked at her target and became a little strange: "Do you want to learn alchemy?"

Xie Wanyou: "I just want to try it...any questions?"

Shopkeeper Lin shook his head and said with a smile: "It's okay, the girl wants to try it, just come with me. I happen to be fine now, so I can help the girl check whether she has the talent for alchemy."

It’s so easy. Isn’t the shopkeeper of Bihetang too easy to talk to? I said I wanted to give it a try, so he took me there... Couldn’t it be a trap?

Xie Wanyou has been walking in the society for so long, and he is no longer afraid of using the worst possible ill will on others. Seeing that Shopkeeper Lin is suddenly so enthusiastic, he can't help but think too much.

Fortunately, Shopkeeper Lin quickly explained the reason: "Nowadays, there are few alchemists in the world of cultivation. Every alchemy sect wants to recruit new disciples, but there are too few people with alchemy talents. Those alchemy sects can only entrust us to these medicine shops. If anyone wants to

To test the talent of alchemy, you must give them a try, there is no guarantee that one day you will really be able to dig out gold in the sand and find a talented alchemy disciple."

So that was it. Xie Wanyou nodded to express his understanding.

She secretly thought: It turns out that alchemy cultivators are indeed scarce. She hopes that the system's information will be kept true, and she'd better be able to eat this bowl of rice.

Xie Wanyou was led into an alchemy room by Shopkeeper Lin. As soon as he entered the door, Xie Wanyou felt that the temperature had risen a lot, and there was a thin layer of sweat on his back.

A sweaty young man was already standing in the alchemy room. A small silver cauldron was suspended in front of him. The crimson flames in the cauldron danced, making the young man's face turn red.

He formed a seal with his hands, tightened his masseter muscles, and exerted all his strength. He stared at the situation in the furnace with a desperate determination.

Shopkeeper Lin saw him, as if he was used to it, and sighed helplessly: "Master Mo is here again, girl, please wait a moment, he will be fine soon."

Xie Wanyou was not in a hurry. She guessed that the young man was refining alchemy, but she didn't know what his alchemy skills were. She wanted to watch the excitement, but unexpectedly, the next second, there was a bang in the alchemy furnace, as if something exploded.

The young man was stunned, and then he threw himself on the alchemy furnace, looking crazy in disbelief. He only said a few words over and over in his mouth: "Impossible! This is absolutely impossible! How could I fail again!"

Xie Wanyou: "..." I understand, it turns out that this is also a rookie.

Shopkeeper Lin was not surprised and stepped forward and said: "Master Mo, please stop for a moment and let this girl try it first."

Mr. Mo was still immersed in grief and could not recover. When he turned around and saw the thin Xie Wanyou, his expression immediately turned disdainful: "Just her? A mere second-level Qi practitioner?"

Shopkeeper Lin meant something and said tactfully: "When it comes to alchemy, it's not about cultivation, it's about talent."

Mr. Mo was heartbroken and angrily stood up and stepped aside, but did not leave. Instead, he folded his arms and watched from the side, as if he wanted to see a joke: "Shopkeeper Lin, you really dare to bring anyone here.

If you're like her, the entire alchemy furnace will probably explode, but don't blow up your alchemy room."

Shopkeeper Lin smiled and said nothing: "It won't be a loss if you try it."

Xie Wanyou was not disturbed by Mr. Mo's words. She followed Shopkeeper Lin's instructions and stood in front of the alchemy furnace, listening carefully to what the other party said.

Shopkeeper Lin briefly introduced the raw materials in his hand to her: "These are green marrow flower, xuanyang grass, purple golden grass, and Guyuan grass. They are the raw materials for refining Guyuan Dan. You need to put them in the fire.

Extract their essence, fuse them together, and condense them into elixirs."

Mr. Mo said with a smile: "Needless to say, Cheng Dan, I think it would be difficult for her to just refine a kind of spiritual grass."

Shopkeeper Lin and Xie Wanyou ignored him.

Xie Wanyou asked: "Shopkeeper, I don't have a fire spirit root or a strange fire. Can I still make elixirs in this situation?"

Mr. Mo sneered: "There is nothing, what are you doing here?"

Shopkeeper Lin said calmly: "It's okay, just use ordinary spiritual fire."

Sure enough, there are always more methods than difficulties.

Xie Wanyou followed Shopkeeper Lin's instructions, formed a meditation seal with his hands, concentrated on mobilizing the little spiritual power in his body, and wrapped the spiritual grass with difficulty.

But she soon discovered that it was impossible to purify the spiritual grass with spiritual power. Her spiritual power was too weak, and she could not support such a delicate purification operation.

No, you have to use something sensitive enough to wrap the spiritual grass.

The spiritual grass wrapped in spiritual power fell into the fire and turned into ashes due to the disappearance of the spiritual power.

Mr. Mo naturally gloated again: "Hahahaha, I'm just telling you, shopkeeper Lin, have you seen it? She can't even wrap herself in grass!"

Xie Wanyou closed her eyes and said nothing. She concentrated her mind and searched for the "talent" mentioned by the system in her body. Since the system said she could make elixirs, she must have another power that can wrap the spiritual grass.

Finally, she vaguely touched upon something mysterious, and then jerkily pulled out the power.

As soon as he touched the spiritual grass with that power, Xie Wanyou felt a huge difference.

She could actually sense the vitality and overall condition of that spiritual grass!
To be continued...