The banquet finally started. Zhou Chaozong diligently led everyone to take their seats, and asked Jin Jiu to bring out the snake wine he had treasured for many years and pour it for everyone himself. Mu Ningzhi refused, but he was also poured a glass. At this time, she was worried about the wine glass without saying a word, not knowing what to do.

When Zhang Xiaofeng saw the snake soaked in the jar, a pair of small horns actually grew on the left and right of the forehead, he couldn't help but wonder: "Uncle Zhou, is the snake soaked in the medicinal wine, the one that grows on the other end is the horn?"

"What a good eye, you can see it so deep in the jar." Zhou Chaozong smiled, "That's indeed a horn."

As soon as these words were said, everyone was surprised and took turns to watch the cage.

Li Yuankang said: "The snake's head has horns, isn't it a dragon? So we should drink the wine made by Xiaolong now?"

Zhou Chaozong waved his hand: "No, no, dragon is a magical object. How could I be caught by me, an ordinary person, so I can make a wine? Shaobai, let me explain to you what kind of object this is."

Zhou Shaobai was stunned: "I? But I don't know..."

"Ah, you are on the mountain and haven't studied the "Medicinal Sutra"?" Zhou Chaozong asked in confusion.

Zhou Shaobai's face turned red with embarrassment: "...I am busy practicing Taoism and practicing qigong, so I don't have time to study the "Medicinal Sutra". I have only read the first three articles in total."

Zhou Chaozong couldn't help but shook his head: "You child, don't work hard. When you turn 18, how can you take over this Jiukangtang?"

Zhang Xiaofengqi said: "Uncle Zhou still wants to wait for Junior Brother Zhou to take over the medicinal materials business in the future?"

"Of course, I got this only son only in my fifties. If I don't expect him to inherit the family business, who else can I count on?" Zhou Chaozong said with a smile.

Li Yuankang said: "But Junior Brother Zhou has already achieved amazing achievements now. If you continue to practice hard, you will have a bright future. Uncle Zhou insists on asking him to come back to do business. Then Junior Brother Zhou, don't you want all your previous efforts to be wasted?"

"This..." Zhou Shaobai thought to himself that the master had said that the world was difficult and unpredictable. If I followed my father's wish, I came back to inherit the pharmacy, married the Qin girl, and continued to run this ancestral pharmacy, would be happy and happy.

Thinking of this festival, Zhou Shaobai said: "Actually, my father sent me up the mountain to study Taoism just to help me strengthen my body."

Zhang Xiaofeng was silent for a moment: "So that's the case, everyone has their own ambitions, and it's not convenient to force it. But now there is still two years before you turn 18, so you don't have to make a decision so early."

Li Yuankang also nodded: "Yes, you have a very good bones. It's really not easy to have the current cultivation level. It's a pity to give up easily."

Zhou Shaobai saw that his father's face looked a little ugly, and hurriedly raised his glass and said, "Yes, it's still early now. Don't worry, come on, have this cup!"

Everyone raised their wine glasses and drank them all in one go.

Mu Ningzhi frowned and finally swallowed a small mouthful. He felt that the mouth was extremely spicy. A small mouth entered his abdomen and became warm and comfortable.

Zhou Chaozong said with a lip, "My son is not good enough, so I won't read the "Medicine Sutra". Let me say that this snake is called the "Jiu Viper", which is very rare. According to the "Medicine Sutra", it appears in the Great Wilderness Swamp on the Northeast coast. It is extremely poisonous, but if you can catch it and soak it, it is a rare tonic product that the emperors are all rare today. Like you practitioners, drinking this snake wine is the most beneficial. However, this dragon viper is indeed rare and has no market value. This dragon viper was obtained by my chance to get it from the magical hand Changbaicao."

"What!" Zhou Shaobai was shocked, and the others were also very surprised. Unexpectedly, they would hear this name from Zhou Shaobai's father.

"Dad, what you just said was Chang Baicao, a magical hand of immortal pills?" Zhou Shaobai asked.

"Yes, this dragon viper was given to me by him." Zhou Chaozong replied inexplicably.

Zhang Xiaofeng said: "Uncle Zhou, in fact, we were ordered to go down the mountain this time, which has a lot to do with this Mr. Chang Baicao, so if you can inform us about him, it may be helpful to us."

"So that's what it means, I'm scared." Zhou Chaozong nodded and filled the wine glass again, "Come on, drink, talk while drinking!"

After drinking for three rounds, Zhou Chaozong, who was slightly drunk, recalled the past and started talking.

"Seventeen...No, eighteen years ago, I went to the Qingchuan area to purchase medicinal materials. Qingchuan is located in the Western Barbarians, desolate and miasma, and sparsely populated. However, there are many rare medicinal materials recorded in the "Medicinal Classic" and are rare in the middle and earth."

"At that time, my medicinal materials business encountered some dissatisfaction and owed a lot of foreign debts, and could only maintain it hard. Guan Zhang Daji could be maintained at any time. At this time, a member of Shuichuan found me through an old friend. He heard that I had a wide range of ways and had a lot of medicinal materials, so he asked me to buy medicinal materials. But when I saw that the medicinal materials on it were almost all rare medicinal materials produced in the Ximan area. Not only did other medicinal shops, but I didn't have them here. In desperation, I could only tell the truth and declined him. Then the official staff asked someone to tell me that he had urgent use in purchasing this batch of medicinal materials. Life was at stake. All the ways he could think of had gone, but he was disappointed. He heard that I had the best way to count Lianzhou City, and I was already his last hope. Moreover, he promised me that if he could find the medicinal materials he needed, he would rather buy them at a high price of five times."

"Five times the price! If I can bring back the medicinal materials he needs, not only will my pharmacy be able to bring back my life, but my business will also become the number one in Lianzhou. But the Ximan area is very dangerous and I have never been there. If I really want to take a gamble, maybe even my life will be left there."

Zhou Chaozong shook his head gently, tears appeared at the corners of his eyes, and Aunt Zhou next to him handed the handkerchief with heartache.

Zhou Shaobai had never heard his father talk about this experience, but just listened quietly without saying a word.

"But the business at home is getting worse and worse. Every now and then, some rascals will gather to collect debts, and even their signs are smashed. If I don't fight hard, I will really sink into it. If I have a chance to turn over and do nothing, there will be only a dead end. So I sent my wife back to her parents' home for the first time and set off for the Western Man. On the way, I walked for three months. Within these three months, I inquired about countless people and finally learned about Qingchuan. It is said that this is the place where the Western Man does business. I speculated that there will definitely be someone doing medicinal products there, so I inquired about the location of Qingchuan and continued to go to the Western Man. After going through a lot of hardships, I finally arrived at Qingchuan."

Li Yuankang said, "Uncle Zhou, I have heard that the Western Barbarians are uneducated and barbaric and bloodthirsty, especially dislike us Middle-earth people. When the Middle-earth people go to the Western Barbarians, they are caught by the locals when they are not careful, and their heads are chopped off in confusion, and their bodies are scattered and eaten. I admire you for your own risk."

Zhou Chaozong waved his hand and sighed and said, "How can people bear this fate? If you don't go, there will be no other way out. After I arrived in Qingchuan, I did not rush to find medicinal materials, but first found a local person. His ancestors were from Middle-earth, and they got married and had children in the local area. Therefore, he was familiar with Middle-earth culture and the customs of the Western Barbarians. I think with his help, he should not cause any big trouble."

"It was indeed as I expected. At the beginning, many things were going well in purchasing medicinal materials. I promised him to pay a lot of money, so the man also tried his best to help. He said that the local inn was not safe, and Middle-earth people often encountered attacks in inns and lost their lives in a mess. So he invited me to live in his home, and all the medicinal materials he purchased were also stored in his home."

"That day, after we had been traveling for a day, we drank and rested together at his house in the evening. He asked me what the medicinal materials we purchased were effective. I carefully recalled the many records in the "Medicinal Sutra" and tried my best to answer them one by one."

"He suddenly slapped his legs and said that he had thought of a way to make a fortune."
Chapter completed!