()(Sincerely thank you all for your support, which allowed me to climb from forty to the category click list step by step. This is the second update. If it is still on the list tonight, I will post a third update.)
Fang Ping returned to the alchemy hall, found an empty one, and went inside to try the heat and the matching equipment. After spending ten minutes in the alchemy hall, there was a knock on the door outside.
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When Fang Ping opened the door, he saw a young man in Tsing Yi who was running errands for the pharmacists in the medicine hall. The young man was holding a few bitter herbs in his hand and said, "Dear pharmacist, Pharmacist Guo asked me to put these few plants into the medicine hall."
I will give the grass to you and ask you to process it and refine it into medicinal liquid."
Fang Ping couldn't help but smile bitterly. This is the so-called unspoken rule. It is common for high-level pharmacists to let low-level pharmacists work. Because low-level pharmacists generally do not want to offend pharmacists who are higher than themselves. And they give
High-level pharmacists may get some benefits from their work. Therefore, some low-level pharmacists will deliberately seek to flatter others.
Fang Ping did not want to follow this set of unscrupulous rules. He politely welcomed the young man into the door and said, "Do you know where Yaoshi Guo is from? What is his background?"
The boy in green clothes said, "Pharmacist Guo comes from the Guo family in Cangshan Town. He is the highest-ranking pharmacist in the Guo family and has a respected status. The owner of the village also treated him with great courtesy. When he was still a junior pharmacist of the first grade, he was hired as a priest.
Alright. Pharmacist Guo has also refined several profitable elixirs for the drugstore, and the owner of the drugstore thinks highly of him."
Fang Ping nodded and asked the young man in green to keep the painstaking grass and gave him two taels of silver. The young man accepted the silver and left happily.
After the boy left, Fang Ping began to think about it in his mind. The Guo family in Cangshan Town is not a great power, it is just a little stronger than the previous Qingniu Village. Guo Ke's background is nothing to worry about.
If a conflict breaks out, Fang Ping is not afraid of him at all. He can challenge most of their family alone with a strong bow and a group of horses.
However, he refined several profitable elixirs for Heyuan Pharmacy, including one of the main elixirs, Gujin Pills, which he led a group of pharmacists to develop. Fang Ping had to consider this.
It is not difficult for Fang Ping to suppress Guo Ke and replace his status and role. However, this is of little benefit to Fang Ping, and Fang Ping has no intention of replacing his position.
After thinking about it, Fang Ping felt that it would be better to avoid Guo Ke. He didn't want Heyuan Pharmacy to lose a money tree because of his temper.
Fang Ping put away the green jade cauldron, walked out of the alchemy directly, returned to his residence, and sent someone to find He Zhiheng. After a while, He Zhiheng rushed over, and after hearing Fang Ping's words, his face was helpless, and he said, "Guo Ke is indeed
He is a money-spinner of the drug store. My brother values him very much, and it is not convenient for me to offend him. To be honest, your weight in our drug store now is much greater than his. I am very happy that you can not argue with him. "
Fang Ping said calmly, "Just arrange another place for me with a refining pharmacy. I just want some peace and quiet."
He Zhiheng frowned slightly, "The residences with separate refining pharmacies are all equipped for senior pharmacists of second grade or above, and they are all full now. And there is no martial arts field there, which is not convenient for you to practice martial arts."
Fang Ping couldn't help but feel troubled, "I go to the medicine refining hall to make medicine, and sooner or later I will have a conflict with Guo Ke. I am not a narrow-minded person, but I am strong-willed and cannot be humiliated. I think Guo Ke might come to touch me.
Tiger Beard.”
He Zhiheng thought for a while and said, "In that case, you'd better live here. For the place where you can make medicine, go directly to my brother's medicine shop. Anyway, he has been busy running the medicine shop these years and doesn't use the medicine shop much anymore. You go first
Use it, I will talk to him about this when he comes back from Suiye City."
Fang Ping couldn't help but smile, "If I directly use the village owner's alchemy, wouldn't that mean I have more face?"
He Zhiheng smiled brightly, "I just want you to have face, so people like Guo Ke know how much respect you have." After saying that, He Zhiheng came over affectionately and led Fang Ping to He Qingyuan's special alchemy.
The refining pharmacy dedicated to He Qingyuan is very large, and is equipped with a special medicinal material room and a medicine preparation room next to it. Each room is equipped with at least two servants to take care of it. In the middle of the main pharmacy, there is a
There is a large cauldron, which is four times the size of the sapphire cauldron.
In the grooves under the cauldron, there are palm-sized, white jade-like stones placed one after another.
He Zhiheng pointed at these stones and said, "These are energy stones. One pound of energy stones can emit as much heat as ten pounds of scented whale oil. However, their price is one thousand taels, which is ten times more expensive than scented whale oil."
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"Is the heat emitted by the energy stone any different from that of sperm whale oil?" Fang Ping asked.
"The heat of the energy stone is automatically absorbed by the alchemy furnace. Therefore, when making alchemy, you only need to operate the alchemy furnace without adjusting the amount of fire below. Moreover, the energy of the energy stone is concentrated and can reach higher temperatures.
The temperature rises and falls faster." He Zhiheng said proudly.
"The cost of consuming energy stones is not included in the reward I deserve?" Fang Ping said with a hint of clarity on his face.
He Zhiheng nodded, "Of course, all resource losses and expenses incurred by you in refining the elixir will be borne by the pharmacy."
Fang Ping smiled happily, "So Guo Ke gave me a big advantage by forcing him."
He Zhiheng showed his pearly teeth and said with a smile, "Of course, if he hadn't forced me to do anything, I wouldn't have been able to bring you here."
The two chatted and joked for a while, and then a deacon from the medicine store brought Yuheng Pills worth ten thousand taels of silver, twenty pills in total.
He Zhiheng handed the elixir bottle containing Yuheng Pills to Fang Ping and said, "I won't disturb you anymore. You can refine medicine here at ease. If you need anything, just ask the servants here. They have all served here for five years.
Above, you are more familiar with everything here than I am.”
Fang Ping saluted and said goodbye to He Zhiheng. He Zhiheng took two steps and came back to Fang Ping's ear. She exhaled like blue and lowered her voice and said, "I'll come to you in the evening." After saying that, she walked quickly without waiting for Fang Ping's answer.
He left, leaving Fang Ping standing there for a while.
"Look at this posture, this beauty will eat me alive sooner or later." Fang Ping laughed at himself in his heart, gathered his nerves, and prepared to start working.
He placed the sapphire cauldron on a groove next to it, started the Tianxi system, connected the sapphire cauldron, and set a temperature. In less than a breath, the sapphire cauldron reached this temperature and maintained it without any fluctuations.
If you use scented whale oil, it will take at least two breaths, and the heat will need to be adjusted afterwards to completely lock in the temperature.
The energy stone will not actively release energy after the sapphire cauldron locks its temperature. Only when the energy of the sapphire cauldron is lost, will it automatically absorb it from the energy stone and replenish it. Compared with using scented whale oil, this is indeed
Much better.
If he had light energy derivation equipment, Fang Ping would directly scan the structure of the Yuheng Pill, then analyze its quantum-level structural form and establish a vector relationship with its attributes.
Without such high-tech equipment, Fang Ping could still use scientific research methods to find out the composition and materials of Yuheng Pills with external devices like the Qingyu Cauldron that could be connected to the system.
Fang Ping set the temperature of the green jade cauldron to ten degrees, then placed the Yuheng Pills inside, and collected all the data on the Yuheng Pills at ten degrees, including medicinal data and sensory observation data.
Fang Ping then gradually increased the temperature with a gradient of ten degrees. Every time it rose by ten degrees, the system would record data. Until finally, when the temperature rose to 1,200 degrees, the Yuheng Pills were completely burned and turned into fly ash and disappeared.
without a trace.
At this time, one hundred and twenty sets of data have been accumulated in the system. These data include the shape, color, smell, potency and other information of the elixir at different temperatures.
Then Fang Ping began to analyze these data group by group. He reasoned, judged, and demonstrated the changes between each data. For example, when the temperature rose from ten degrees to twenty degrees, the shape and attributes of the elixir changed.
What changes have been detected and what kind of substance may be causing them, and then the basic database is queried. If necessary, simulation tests are performed to verify.
This is a boring and complicated job, but this is what Fang Ping is good at. Setting up different experimental conditions, accumulating data, organizing and analyzing the data with computer programs, and then reasoning and predicting the results. For such work, Fang Ping
It's easy to do.
In fact, Fang Ping knew very well that the temperature near the temperature where the elixir's properties undergo drastic changes is almost the optimal temperature for the elixir's properties to be fused during refining.
Based on this temperature, and then searching for medicinal materials suitable for refining at this temperature, and then conducting pharmacological simulation analysis, it will not be difficult to find the main ingredient of Yuheng Pills.
Based on the main medicine and combined with other attribute change data, it is not difficult to analyze the corresponding preparations and all the ingredients and raw materials of the elixir.
However, Fang Ping did not adopt this opportunistic approach, but used a rigorous attitude and scientific method, starting from a temperature of ten degrees, and slowly analyzed and verified item by item.
The first reason for this is because of his past scientific research habits. The second reason is that Fang Ping does not want to deconstruct the prescription of Yuheng Pill so quickly. If the speed is too fast, it will arouse suspicion from others.
After a day of busy work, Fang Ping still gained a little. He analyzed that when the temperature rose from 30 degrees to 80 degrees, there was a smell in Yuheng Pills that continued to decrease. Fang Ping used a program to draw out the smell that continued to decrease with the temperature.
weakening curve.
Then Fang Ping entered the basic database, listed all the medicinal materials that were sensitive to this temperature, and drew the curve of their properties changing with temperature.
After all the curves are drawn, just compare the curve of the change of smell with the curve of change of attributes. The most similar medicinal material is naturally the component medicinal material in Yuheng Pill. Because the curves are similar, it means
Their reactions to temperature changes will also be similar.
Using this method, Fang Ping determined that there was one medicinal material in Yuheng Pills, which was the very common fragrant flower. The fragrant flower medicine has a special fragrance and is extremely sensitive to temperature. After the temperature exceeds 30 degrees, its active ingredients begin to
Loss. After reaching 80 degrees, its fragrance is basically lost.
Fang Ping ordered someone to take the fragrant flower and smell it. Although Yuheng Pills were mixed with the fragrance of various medicinal materials, with the actual fragrance of the fragrant flowers as a reference, it was still easy to distinguish the fragrance of Yuheng Pills.
The medicinal fragrance is indeed mixed with the fragrance of floating flowers.
It was already approaching dusk, and He Zhiheng had said early in the morning that he would come to see him in the evening and would make up for him well. Fang Ping's mind couldn't help but become a little more active.