God of Pets

Chapter 806 I Just Want to Sell Medicine
Zhang Chunxiang has been very distressed lately. Since the war with the Southern Heaven Kingdom, she has been ordered to memorize information about various medicinal herbs at home. She is not even allowed to go out for fun until she has memorized all the information about the herbs perfectly.

In her grandfather's words, this is the foundation for the Zhang family to establish themselves in the Great Cave Heaven. As long as this knowledge exists, there will always be people who need the Zhang family, and the Zhang family will never be excluded from the mainstream.

The phrase "to be needed" is extremely important in the context of Da Dong Tian.

Because of the existence of the secret laws, it is almost impossible for one person to carve out a place for themselves in the Great Cave Heaven. No matter what, they will need to cooperate with others, otherwise they will eventually encounter situations where they cannot deal with the secret laws and will eventually die a violent death.

In such places, the most useless people are often the first to become cannon fodder.

The reason why the Zhang family has been able to develop smoothly for hundreds of years is not because the Zhang family members are better at killing enemies than others, but because the Zhang family members' talismans can deal with ever-changing situations, and their understanding of the effects of various rare treasures and their ability to make medicine are unmatched.

In order to acquire knowledge of the rare treasures of heaven and earth, the Zhang family paid a price that others could not imagine.

Countless members of the Zhang family have tested the drugs on themselves, and many have died in the pharmaceutical research laboratories as a result.

A powerful medicine can also be highly toxic. Many rare and precious ingredients used in special elixirs can cause great harm to the body. The dosage must be controlled with extreme precision, and other medicinal materials must be used to neutralize its medicinal properties in order to avoid harming the body while achieving its miraculous effects.

For example, the Zhang family's famous "Rejuvenation Pill" uses Rejuvenation Grass as its main ingredient, which is itself extremely toxic.

Zhang Chunxiang didn't dislike studying and making medicine, but there was just too much information about these rare and precious things in the world. Even with Zhang Chunxiang's memory, it was difficult for her to remember everything clearly, and she would easily remember the beginning but forget the end.

Logically speaking, as practitioners continuously cultivate and their levels increase, their memory will also be enhanced accordingly.

Zhang Chunxiang is already level 60, so having a photographic memory should be considered a basic skill.

Unfortunately, "photographic memory" is just an adjective; it means that you did remember something at the time and you won't forget it for a short period of time.

But this doesn't mean that you won't forget it in the future, nor does it mean that you can remember it forever.

Aside from those common natural wonders that can be documented in writing and searched online, there are others.

There is much more about the Zhang family than outsiders know, and the Zhang family never puts it into writing, but only passes on the knowledge of medicinal herbs orally.

Whether it's medicinal herbs that can be written down or medicinal knowledge passed down orally within the Zhang family, it all needs to be memorized.

Because this involves many medicinal formulas, if you can't memorize them all and understand the function of each herb, you won't be able to handle changes in the formula according to the corresponding situation.

After all, rare treasures of heaven and earth are not always available. Many precious rare treasures of heaven and earth are often out of stock. At this time, we must find ways to use other things to replace them or use special methods to achieve the same effect. The ability to adapt in making pills and refining medicine is also an important skill.

"How do I solve this problem Grandpa Xuan gave me? If the Rejuvenation Pill doesn't have the main ingredient, the Rejuvenation Grass, can it still be called the Rejuvenation Pill? The king is the master, and the minister is the assistant. If there's no main ingredient and only the assistant ingredient, the Rejuvenation Pill is completely invalid. Even if we can find a substitute, can it still be called the Rejuvenation Pill?" Zhang Chunxiang racked her brains but still couldn't solve the problem Grandpa Xuan left her today.

"I'm definitely not going to study medicine in my next life. Let whoever wants to study it study it, I'm not going to." Zhang Chunxiang was thinking to herself in a depressed mood when she suddenly heard her phone beep. It was a message notification.

Zhang Chunxiang glanced at the message listlessly, then noticed it was from Chen Guan. She immediately perked up, grabbed her phone, and read the message. "You're so careless! You even misspell words. 'Buy' and 'sell' are completely opposite meanings. If you want to buy medicine from me, you have to use the word 'buy,' not 'sell.' That reverses the meaning completely..." After reading Chen Guan's message, Zhang Chunxiang immediately replied with a long voice message.

She's been being taught like this every day lately, and she's almost become obsessed with it.

“That’s right, I’m not asking you to buy medicine, I really want to sell medicine to your family. Could you ask around and see if your family will accept it?” Chen Guan said.

Zhang Chunxiang laughed upon hearing this and immediately replied, "I truly admire your courage. You want to sell medicine to our Zhang family? This is the first time I've ever heard of such a thing in my life."

"It's a misunderstanding. I was talking about medicinal herbs, not elixirs," Chen Guan quickly explained, realizing Zhang Chunxiang had misunderstood.

“So it’s medicinal herbs. We did collect them, but our family has a strict set of standards for collecting medicinal herbs. It’s not something I can decide on my own.” Zhang Chunxiang was a little embarrassed because the Zhang family always used only the best medicinal herbs for alchemy. They generally didn’t use ordinary herbs unless there was no other choice or substitute and they had to refine a certain kind of pill.

"Do you want Jiuying?" Chen Guan asked.

"Nine Infants..." Upon hearing this name, Zhang Chunxiang felt as if she had been struck on the head with a club, and everything suddenly became clear.

"Nine-Headed Serpent...that's right...it's the Nine-Headed Serpent...if we don't have the Rejuvenating Grass...then we'll use the Nine-Headed Serpent instead...well, not exactly replace it...the Nine-Headed Serpent can't replace the Rejuvenating Grass...but when combined with the Three-Life Vine, it can transform extreme Yang into Yang, thus replacing the Rejuvenating Grass. Add to that the Winter Basket Grass, Autumn Sun, Pinellia, and Spring Vine...it should have about seven-tenths the efficacy of the Rejuvenating Pill..."

Zhang Chunxiang suddenly froze, her expression turning strange. She spoke into her phone, "How did you know I was thinking about the Rejuvenating Pill? And how did you know Jiuying could replace it? You wouldn't be secretly in love with me, secretly having someone spy on me, would you? Was it Huacai or Chunman? Chen Guan, let me tell you, I, Zhang Chunxiang, will never be someone's mistress..."

"No, what are you thinking? How would I know any of that nonsense you're talking about? I really am going to sell Jiuying to your Zhang family. I didn't mean anything by mistress or anything like that," Chen Guan said.

"What? You mean I'm not qualified to be a mistress? Tell me, what am I lacking? My figure, my looks, my education, my abilities—what do I lack?" Zhang Chunxiang said, pursing her lips.

“I didn’t say you weren’t qualified to be a mistress. You’re good in every way—figure, looks, common sense, ability—you’re good in every way,” Chen Guan said with a wry smile.

"So you admit it now, you just wanted to make a move on me and make me your mistress. I advise you to give up on that idea. I will never be a mistress," Zhang Chunxiang said with a smile.

"Sister, I really just want to sell some medicine," Chen Guan said speechlessly.

“If you really want to sell the Nine-Headed Serpent, you can just go to any auction house and sell it there; the price will be higher,” Zhang Chunxiang said.

The Nine-Headed Serpent is a rare and precious treasure that has been in short supply for a long time. Even in the Great Cave Heaven, humans can not find many Nine-Headed Serpents. This is mainly because over the past few hundred years, almost all the Nine-Headed Serpents in human-controlled areas have been dug up. Occasionally, one can find a single one, which is already extremely rare and can fetch an astronomical price.

The Zhang family also lacks a Nine-Headed Serpent, but one Nine-Headed Serpent wouldn't be of much use to them. They wanted it to make the Perfect Tonic Pill, but that stuff only works if you take it long-term, so refining just a few pills is meaningless.

“I have over 100 jin of Jiuying, which is inconvenient to put on auction,” Chen Guan said.

(End of this chapter)