Cui Yi was deceived by Liu Xiang and ran to prepare various items, looking forward to making alchemy in the afternoon.
After Liu Xiang finished eating, he went to find a doctor to prepare some medicinal materials to add to the soap.
After walking around there, I didn't find any medicinal materials. Instead, I found some sulfur, which was the treasure of a man obsessed with alchemy.
Liu Xiang thought to himself that it was impossible to make soap, and it would be better to make sulfur soap. So he soaked it hard and took a small bag, which was only one tael.
It's not that Liu Xiang didn't want to use the money to buy sulfur, he just encountered a problem of the century.
As the saying goes, money is not the problem, the problem is lack of money.
Walking east and west, looking west, it was afternoon.
Liu Xiang thought it was time to make soap, so he returned to his tent. With the help of Li Niu and Zhang Hu, he filtered the water soaked in plant ash.
Seeing that there were still some impurities in the water, and when he was about to filter it again, Cui Yi came over with one or two hundred people.
Liu Xiang was a little confused. He just asked him to call a few people. Why did so many people come?
Cui Yi was a little ashamed and said in a low voice: "My lord, I let it slip before that my lord was going to make elixirs in the afternoon, and all the brothers gathered here without even seeing him.
When I found out, they were all here. It’s hard to drive them away now, for fear of chilling the hearts of the brothers. I have leaked the lord’s secret, please punish me.”
Liu Xiang understood, waved his hand and said, "It's nothing secret, Zian doesn't have to worry about it."
After thinking for a while, he said: "Are they all the people Zian mentioned before?"
Cui Yi nodded, "They are all brothers who are willing to surrender to the lord. They are trustworthy. If they were outsiders, they would have been kicked out long ago."
Liu Xiang walked up to the crowd, cupped his hands and said, "Even if the brothers want to see it, I will make a pill to open their eyes."
Everyone was a little uneasy at first, but they were really curious about what alchemy was like, so they gathered together to gather their courage and come over.
Hearing Liu Xiang say that he was willing to let them see it, he immediately felt relieved and felt that Liu Xiang was even more convincing. They all bowed their hands and saluted, saying: "Greetings to my lord." "My lord is generous." "I am willing to die in the service of my lord!"
Liu Xiang pressed his hand down, and Cui Yi shouted "Quiet!" several times from the side. When everyone calmed down, Liu Xiang said: "This is a secret skill passed down from my family. It's okay to show it to my brothers, but it can't be passed on to others."
Get out."
Everyone said: "This will never be spread."
Liu Xiang nodded, and in order to increase the sense of participation and ceremony of these people, he said:
"Since the brothers are here, let's put in some effort. I want to make it clear that refining this plague-repelling elixir is a strenuous task. Later I will select a few people to refine the elixir together. Don't complain about the fatigue."
When everyone heard that they could participate in alchemy, everyone was very excited and signed up one after another. They all said that they were strong and not afraid of getting tired, so the Lord could do whatever they wanted.
Liu Xiang was amused that a group of 7-8-foot-tall men were fighting as hard as kindergarten children.
After a dispute, two water-purifying boys were selected to filter the water soaked in plant ashes, and to follow Liu Xiang's orders to add water. These two boys won because they were boys and had good looks.
Two more fire-making boys were selected to control the heat when refining the elixir. These two men won because they knew how to cook and knew what the heat was.
Finally, twelve more martial arts warriors were selected to be responsible for stirring. Originally, I only wanted to select two, but the enthusiasm of everyone to participate was too high, so the number increased six times. These twelve people won with their horns.
The rest of them were given the title of meritorious officials by Liu Xiang, claiming to guard the Xuan altar and isolate the inside and outside.
After one operation, everyone felt a sense of mission, and everyone was full of energy and hope.
There are even those who have an excessive sense of responsibility, carry long spears, draw swords, and look at everyone like thieves.
Liu Xiang looked at the sun and saw that it was about two or three o'clock in the afternoon, so he pretended to calculate with his fingers and said to everyone: "I calculated with my fingers that this is the time when Xi He is gradually disappearing and gold and fire are attacking. Brother
Let's quickly return to our positions and start refining the elixir."
Surrounded by the merit chambers on duty, the water purifier boy quickly filtered the water, the martial arts warriors quickly built a stove and placed a pottery pot, and the fire-making boy lit the fire to boil the pot.
Everyone looked like they were doing important things, and they looked solemn and solemn.
Liu Xiang suppressed her laughter and said in her heart: "I can't laugh. If I laugh, they will beat me."
Pour the grease into a pottery basin, heat it over a slow fire, slowly pour in the alkaline solution obtained by soaking the plant ash, add a small amount of water, the pot will start to foam, stir quickly with a wooden spatula.
Don't stop stirring, change people when you get tired.
Liu Xiang watched the saponification reaction in the basin and added some lye or grease from time to time. He didn't know the specific ratio, so he could only play this trick of adding more noodles with water and more water with noodles.
After nearly two hours, the oil in the pottery basin had completely changed color and began to become thicker, a bit like a yellowed milkshake. Liu Xiang knew that it was almost done. Fortunately, he succeeded in the first attempt.
Liu Xiang straightened up, ordered the coals to be removed, and said loudly: "Brothers, pay attention, this elixir is about to be completed, put the mold..."
"Crack...boom..." A sound of thunder interrupted Liu Xiang's words.
Liu Xiang was startled. There was thunder in the clear sky. Is there any fellow Taoist who can survive the calamity?
I looked up and saw that a large dark cloud had surged from the southeast at some point, and it was like a mountain.
Since the first blast of thunder, lightning and thunder have continued.
Liu Xiangxin said, "It's really unlucky. It rains now. It will rain later, when I finish my work."
Cui Yi hurried over and said with a frightened look on his face: "My lord, my lord, I am afraid that the heaven will not allow the Anti-Plague Pill to be born, and it will be punished by heaven. My lord, dodge quickly, dodge quickly."
These words made Liu Xiang so angry that he was so confused. How could the soap that he had made so hard be exposed to the rain?
I’ve never heard of anyone being struck by lightning while making soap.
Liu Xiang didn't care, but everyone around him was panicked. They all heard what Cui Yi said just now, and they all thought it was true. They all said that heaven forbids the anti-plague pill to appear in this world, so everyone should avoid it and avoid being punished by heaven.
Liu Xiang knew that the Han people were superstitious, but he didn't want to be superstitious to this extent.
It rains in the third month of the lunar calendar. It’s the time when the rainy season comes. If it doesn’t rain every year, there will be a drought.
This happened just by chance. The sky was clear in the afternoon, and the clouds were thick in the evening. Liu Xiang was making a fuss about the so-called alchemy, and it was stuck in the middle period.
God punishes me with my balls.
Everyone was confused, and no matter how they explained, they couldn't listen. Liu Xiang shouted: "Shut up, everyone. Get a tent and put it up on it. It will cover the sky and the weather. You will be fine."
What should we do at this time? Explain the scientific principles to them? If you don’t understand them, who cares about you?
However, if you follow their thinking and use superstition to defeat superstition, they will believe you.
Two hundred people worked together, and before the dark clouds came over, several large tents were erected, covering them tightly.
Everyone was also loyal. Not only did no one run away, but they all crowded around Liu Xiang, saying: "I protected my lord from heaven's punishment." "I died together with my lord!"
Liu Xiang said he was moved, but it was just a rain that really couldn't bring up the moved emotion.
Say they are not moved, they are really scared and they really want to die with Liu Xiang.
Just make a soap.
Liu Xiang thought to himself: "It's all my fault. If I didn't have fun and didn't lie to them, I wouldn't be like this.
Finish the work quickly, why don't everyone go back and have a rest?
We have to be squeezed together and I can’t even breathe!”