A thousand enlightenments in one night, starting from being a menial apprentice.

Chapter 322 A Good Place

Duan Rong was holding a yellow booklet and a list of medicines, moving between the shelves, and sometimes he had to push a ladder to climb up and down.

Yin Cong, carrying only a bag, followed behind in a disjointed manner, occasionally glancing at Duan Rong, and spent most of the time leaning against the shelf, pretending to doze off and sleepwalking...

When Duan Rong handed the last two bundles of herbs to Yin Cong, there were already two large round bags on the ground beside him.

There was another bag stuffed in Yin Cong's empty pocket. When one pocket was almost full, he pulled out the other one.

Yin Cong smacked his lips, as if he had just had a sweet dream. He took the two bundles of herbs that Duan Rong handed over and stuffed them into the bag at hand.

Duan Rong said, "This Silver Star Grass is the last herb left. All the medicines on the list are complete!"

"It's all here..."

Yin Cong put the herbs away and leaned against the edge of the shelf again. He was about to continue his erotic dream when he suddenly heard Duan Rong say this.

Yin Cong stood up yawning, walked to the window and looked at the sky outside.

Although there was heavy fog, it was obvious that the sky was beginning to darken, and it seemed that dusk would fall soon.

"It's getting late. Let's go to the first floor, pay the bill, and go back!" Yin Cong waved his hand and turned his stiff neck.

The two of them were now in the corner of the third floor of the pavilion.

Duan Rong just found two herbs and soon found the trick.

He first sorted the herbs on the list by layers, and then searched for them layer by layer.

This way, you don't have to run back and forth between the upper and lower floors, and you can also avoid missing anything.

The two men, each carrying a bag, came to the curved counter on the first floor.

There was a middle-aged woman behind the counter. When she saw the two bulging pockets, her brows immediately frowned. She turned into the room behind the curved counter and called three more people out.

Several people started to count the medicines in the two bags.

Yin Cong put his hands on the counter and walked up to a young and pretty female disciple among the group and started chatting with her.

The female disciple fiddled with the abacus while counting a small pile of herbs beside her without even raising her eyelids.

Yin Cong's face suddenly became a little embarrassed, and he looked at Duan Rong next to him awkwardly. He found that Duan Rong didn't even look at him, and was still flipping through the yellow booklet in his hand.

Yin Cong walked over, leaned on Duan Rong's shoulder, and said with a smile: "Senior Brother was right about you. You are indeed a caring person. Look around more. This job of finding medicine will depend on you from now on."

Duan Rong slumped his shoulders and removed Yin Cong's arm, saying coldly, "Brother, are you so shameless?"

Yin Cong said anxiously, "Junior brother, don't think I'm taking advantage of you. That Chen Hu guy isn't a good person either, and he came earlier than me. When I did this job with him, I was just following behind and carrying the bags. It's not that Chen Hu doesn't want to use me, it's just that I can't do this job at all. Just flipping through this densely packed yellow booklet makes my head hurt. How can anyone be as focused as you... Junior brother, you should do more work and be more considerate of me..."

Duan Rong glanced at Yin Cong, not knowing how much truth or falsehood there was in what he said.

But even if Yin Cong didn't say it, Duan Rong was originally prepared to take on the job of flipping through the yellow cover book to find the medicine.

He took the job not because he sympathized with Yin Cong.

Although Duan Rong had only been in Shang Xiangyu for a short time, he had already figured out that the truly dangerous guys among these people were Pan Yong and Chen Hu.

Compared with these two guys, Yin Cong is much less cunning and less experienced.

But Duan Rong had his own considerations for taking on this job.

He wanted to see if he could use Shang Xiangyu's authority over the star chart to exchange for "Qingtong", an auxiliary medicine for his practice of the fourth level of the Taizang Sutra.

Of course, the prerequisite is that you don't leave any tail behind to be caught by others.

The two men waited in front of the curved counter for about half an incense stick of time before the two bags of medicine were finally counted.

The middle-aged woman behind the counter was busy for a while, with sweat on her forehead. She looked at the two of them and said, "The total is nine hundred and twenty-one points."

Yin Cong was stunned for a moment when he heard this.

Duan Rong turned his head to look at him and asked in a low voice: "What's wrong?"

Yin Cong shook his head secretly and did not answer.

Before Yin Cong came, Pan Yong had already calculated the exchange points for these medicines, and it seemed to be 911 points, but after hearing the number reported by the middle-aged woman, Yin Cong was a little unsure.

He hesitated for a moment, but still took out the astrolabe and handed it to the middle-aged woman behind the counter.

There are six small holes in the circular groove along the edge of the front of the star plate, numbered A, B, C, D, E, and F. By inserting a key with a specific pattern into different small holes, the numbers of the corresponding digits can be erased.

The middle-aged woman first took out a black iron key and turned it nine times in the Ding hole. Then she changed to another black iron key and turned it twice in the Wu hole. Finally, she took out another black iron key and turned it once in the Ji hole.

Then she handed the astrolabe back to Yin Cong. Yin Cong watched carefully as the middle-aged woman manipulated the astrolabe. He took the astrolabe, glanced at the numbers on it, and rubbed his fingers to calculate...

Duan Rong only glanced at the plate and said, "That's right."

"Really?" Yin Cong looked at Duan Rong suspiciously.

Duan Rong said: "Eight six five five minus nine two one is seven seven three four."

This time, not only Yin Cong was looking at him, but even the middle-aged woman behind the counter was looking at him strangely.

Duan Rong looked at the two of them and said, "This is mental abacus."

When Duan Rong was checking the accounts at Yuanshun Escort Agency, he swallowed the spirit of the abacus of the abacus genius Li Jun and gained the ability of mental arithmetic.

"Mental abacus? Is that true?" Although Yin Cong heard Duan Rong say this, he still took the abacus from the counter and started fiddling with it.

Yin Cong fiddled with the abacus beads for a while and found that it was just as Duan Rong said. He then half-seriously praised, "That's amazing, Junior Brother."

The two men carried two bags of medicine and prepared to leave.

Just as Duan Rong was about to leave, the woman behind the counter suddenly asked, "Boy, are you really good at mental abacus?"

Duan Rong smiled and didn't answer.

The woman immediately asked, "What is the number of ninety-eight sixty-five minus thirty-nine seventy-seven?"

Duan Rong had already turned around by then, and only said lightly.

"Five-eight-eight."

Upon hearing this, the woman immediately frowned and started rummaging on the beads on the counter.

After a few breaths, the woman looked at the number on the abacus, suddenly raised her head, her face full of surprise.

She looked intently and saw that the two people had already left the pavilion.

The woman immediately went to the room behind her and called out, "Shanzhi, come and help me for a while."

After shouting, she ran out of the counter.

Duan Rong and Yin Cong had already left the medicine cabinet, chatting as they walked.

Yin Cong was a chatterbox, and Duan Rong, having just arrived, wanted to hear more stories about the sect, so he also provoked him to talk more.

The two were chatting when they heard a whistling sound behind them. Then, a figure flashed and stood not far in front of Duan Rong.

Duan Rong's heart skipped a beat. "Good body skills."

Although the woman had just settled down and was wearing a golden hairpin, her eyes were already full of smiles as she looked at Duan Rong and said, "My dear brother, you are a registered disciple, right?" Duan Rong said, "Yes. I wonder if Madam has any advice for you."

This woman can be in the pavilion of the medicine pavilion, and her body movements are so amazing, she is obviously not an ordinary person.

The woman smiled and said, "I have a good place to go. I'd like to introduce it to you."

"A good place?" Duan Rong frowned.

The woman said, "Just help me work at the counter in the pavilion. I'll give you two contribution points a day. How about that? You just need to help me with the inventory and accounting, and don't worry about anything else."

Duan Rong's heart moved.

He read the notice on the bulletin board in front of Guangluyuan. Repairing the palace and mining copper mines both cost eight contribution points in five days.

The woman offered ten points for five days, and the work behind the counter was definitely much easier than repairing the palace or mining copper.

More importantly, if he could work in the pavilion, he would have a clearer understanding of its daily management and operation, and could also use this to find some of its loopholes.

After all, he wanted to use Shang Xiangyu's star map to exchange for a blue pupil, but the premise was that it had to be safe and not let the secret be exposed and people hold him accountable later.

If I could work at the counter in the attic, wouldn't that be stealing from the inside?

Sounds easy! ?

What's more, since the auxiliary medicines in the fourth and fifth levels of the Taizou Sutra come from the mutated species in the twisted space underground, I'm afraid that the auxiliary medicines in the future will be the same.

His work at the attic counter would also be beneficial to him in the long run.

Duan Rong smiled and said, "Thank you, Madam! Master Shang has been busy refining medicine recently. I will consider this matter. See you when you have time!"

After Duan Rong finished speaking, he pulled Yin Cong, walked past Xia Honghua, and headed towards the iron chain on the edge of the cliff.

Xia Honghua shouted from behind him, "When you've made up your mind, remember to come find me!"

Duan Rong did not look back, but just paused for a moment.

Xia Honghua looked at Duan Rong's back, with a thoughtful look in her eyes.

Duan Rong's words just now seemed to imply agreement, but he didn't say anything definite.

"Could it be that the contribution points I gave were too low?" Xia Honghua murmured to herself with a puzzled look.

However, she then shook her head. "Two contribution points a day is not low! If it's higher, people will say I have a gigolo..."

Xia Honghua said this, then twisted her waist and walked back to the medicine cabinet.

Duan Rong and Yin Cong walked together towards the iron chain at the edge of the cliff. They had already walked some distance when Yin Cong was still looking back. He turned his head to glance at Duan Rong and said, "Junior brother, that's a good job! You just entered the mountain, and you don't know how hard it is for us registered disciples to earn a few contribution points! Repairing the palace and digging copper mines are already good jobs. Although it's a bit tiring, there's no danger and it's not troublesome. This kind of work will be filled up in a day if there is recruitment. It's not available every day."

"Really?" Duan Rong didn't expect that repairing palaces and mining copper would be so popular.

"What do you think?"

Duan Rong said, "Then I see that some tasks give dozens of contribution points?"

Yin Cong's expression changed, and he said, "Don't do that. Senior Brother is reminding you because he sees that you're a good person. Think about it, who would give you dozens of contribution points for nothing?"

Duan Rong's eyes flickered. He remembered the note about helping to capture the Yuan beast cubs, which said that the mission was somewhat dangerous.

Yin Cong said, "Junior brother, those who can earn contribution points in the Medicine Pavilion are not ordinary people. If you can get in, you are really in a good position! You should have agreed right away just now."

Duan Rong smiled and said, "Master Shang, aren't you going to make medicine? I don't have time recently. Let's talk about it after this busy period is over."

After Duan Rong finished speaking, he suddenly looked at Yin Cong seriously and said, "Also, Senior Brother, I still need you to keep this a secret for me. This matter is only known to you and me at the moment. If it gets out to Master Shang, it must have been spread by you, Senior Brother."

Although Duan Rong's tone was calm and easygoing, the threat and deep, sharp eyes still made Yin Cong startled.

Yin Cong paused for a moment, then smiled and said, "Don't worry, Junior Brother. Don't think that I am a chatterbox. But I know what to say and what not to say."

Duan Rong said, "I knew that Senior Brother would understand my difficulties. After all, we are going to be together for a long time..."

"That's right, that's right." The look in Yin Cong's eyes when he looked at Duan Rong had changed.

When the two of them crossed the iron chain and returned to Shang Xiangyu, it was already dark.

The two men walked to the entrance of Pan Yong's cave and handed him the two bags of medicine and Shang Xiangyu's star map.

Pan Yong stood at the entrance of the cave. Candles were lit inside the cave. The dim candlelight shone out from the cave, leaving a dim and mottled light and shadow at the entrance.

Pan Yong took the two medicine bags, weighed them and placed them at his feet. Then he took out the star plate and looked at it in the light of the cave entrance. His face suddenly changed. He stared at Yin Cong and said coldly, "Why did you add ten more points?!"

Yin Cong was stunned and said stubbornly, "How can there be more?"

"Why not?" Pan Yong's face was very ugly. He said, "I made a list last night and calculated it. I also told you this morning that it was 911. How come you only got 921?"

Pan Yong said this while shaking the astrolabe in his hand.

When Yin Cong heard Pan Yong say this, he knew that something must have gone wrong between him and Duan Rong. "I said, I can't do this job. Why don't you arrange Chen Hu and Duan Rong to do it? Why do you have to do it for me?"

As Yin Cong spoke, he glanced at Duan Rong beside him. Today in the medicine cabinet, he seemed to be dozing off, but in fact his eyes almost never left Duan Rong. He was almost certain that Duan Rong did not hide any drugs during the whole process.

At the counter of the pharmacy, the woman quoted him nine hundred and twenty-one points. He was startled and felt that something was wrong, but he was not sure.

Because Pan Yong had always handed over this work to Chen Hu before, and Chen Hu was the one who kept the lists and the numbers. This was his first time leading the team, and the two numbers were very similar, so he got distracted. Unexpectedly, something went wrong.

Pan Yong said, "Chen Hu has his work, and you have yours. Brother Yin Cong, are you blaming me by saying this?"

Yin Cong said: "How dare I blame you, Senior Brother? If you don't blame me, I will burn incense and pray to Buddha."

Pan Yong sighed and said, "Since there is a shortfall of ten points, and you are responsible for this matter, I will deduct ten points from you to make up for it. How is that?"

"Brother, please do as you please!" Yin Cong said, then turned away.

Duan Rong immediately chased after Yin Cong and followed him.

Duan Rong walked away and asked, "This is ten points off. What should I do? Senior brother, maybe I took the wrong medicine."

Yin Cong stopped and said, "It's okay."

Duan Rong said, "How about I take the list to the medicine cabinet tomorrow to check the accounts and see where the mistake is."

Yin Cong snorted coldly and said, "Just because you want it to be right, you can make it right? Do you think the people in the Medicine Pavilion are so easy to talk to? The Medicine Pavilion will only reconcile the accounts if someone from the Judgment and Rectification Department comes. Forget about anyone else."

"Really?" Duan Rong stood behind Yin Cong, his eyes flashing.

In fact, Duan Rong had deliberately created this ten-point difference by deliberately taking three more grams of Silver Star Grass.

The list listed three coins of silver star grass, but he took six coins.

He created this difference just to take the opportunity to trick Yin Cong.

Only the Judgment and Rectification Department can check the accounts of the medicine pavilion. This is obviously a very important piece of information.

That is to say, the risk for Duan Rong to borrow Shang Xiangyu's star map and exchange it for Qingtong is actually very low.

Unless the people from the Judgment and Clan Affairs Bureau locked onto Shang Xiangyu or him and checked the accounts of the pharmacy they handled, they would never find out that he had exchanged for Qingtong.

(End of this chapter)