A leisurely life in the world of cultivation

Chapter 14 The First Time (Please add to your favorites and recommend!)

three days later.

Wanliang Town in Jilin Province is the largest ginseng trading and distribution center in China, accounting for more than 80% of the country's ginseng trading volume.

It was only 3 a.m., but the place was already bustling with noise.

The place was filled with shouts, curses, and sounds of fighting—a truly lively scene.

And if you look beyond the crowds, you'll see an ocean of ginseng.

Ginseng, costing only one or two yuan a piece, is everywhere, piled up like mountains of radishes.

Just a day earlier, Li Weizhou had bought ten jin of rice in Huoshan, at 20,000 yuan per jin.

I wouldn't dare use anything too cheap, and anything too expensive isn't necessary for now, since I'm planning to use it for bathing, not for medicinal purposes...

According to information found online, Li Weizhou did not wander around the trading base, but went straight to a time-honored brand store.

There is a national-level ginseng testing center here, where you can identify the authenticity and age of ginseng on-site.

Of course, forget about getting genuine wild ginseng. It became a nationally protected plant a decade or two ago. Unless you're a really big shot, even if you're lucky enough to come across it, you can't pick or buy it, or you could really go to jail...

The wild ginseng sold now is all forest-grown ginseng, which simulates the growth environment of wild ginseng and is artificially cultivated.

Those sold in bulk by weight, priced similarly to radishes, are grown in greenhouses with transplanting, fertilization, and pesticides; they're plump and straight, and worthless.

However, there are also wild ginseng plants that can be planted and kept for twenty or even thirty to fifty years without being transplanted. Those that are older than fifteen years are called wild ginseng and can be used as medicine.

This type of ginseng is more valuable, just like dendrobium, and is sold by the gram. The price varies depending on the year and the quality; ginseng that costs 100-200 yuan per gram is quite good.

I spent another 600,000 to buy five jin (2.5 kg).

Don't underestimate five catties; this is dried ginseng!

Those big, large tubers on TV that look quite large are actually just fibrous roots, weighing only 20 or 30 grams each. Very few weigh more than 50 grams.

When used in medicine, the whole ginseng root is not taken at once. Usually, picking some ginseng rootlets is enough, and the ginseng body is cut into slices for consumption in several doses.

Li Weizhou, being quite wealthy, planned to order half a jin (250ml) at once!

Even though forest ginseng can't compare to real wild ginseng, it's still an old ginseng that has grown for twenty or thirty years. Half a pound of it shouldn't be too different.

Dendrobium is roughly the same thing...

Unfortunately, the honeysuckle in the formula for the Peiyuan Dan can't be found on Earth; it can only be bought over there.

However, it's not very expensive; it's just an auxiliary medicine.

After everything was settled, Li Weizhou immediately flew back to his hometown in the mountain city of Changzhou District.

He bought a second-hand detached villa here and hired someone to build a three-meter-high courtyard wall, spending less than three million in total.

Housing prices have plummeted in the past two years, especially in the southwestern counties. It's hard to say whether this is a good thing or a bad thing.

A rural villa like this, occupying 1.5 acres, would probably cost over 100 million yuan in Shenzhen, and even in the main urban area of ​​Chongqing, it would cost tens of millions.

But Changzhou is almost outside the province, and its neighbor is Luzhou in Sichuan, so it is very cheap.

Right now, there's a row of stainless steel workbenches in one corner of the high courtyard wall. They were taken from the kitchen of a closed-down restaurant.

The number of restaurants that have closed down in this mountain city in the past two years is countless. Prepared meals have become ubiquitous…

On the stove was a tall, large stainless steel insulated soup pot, which was already filled with water by a hose.

Without further ado, I started the stove and put the pot on the stove, and threw in half a pound of ginseng, half a pound of dendrobium, and two pounds of honeysuckle.

After reading a novel for two hours, the alarm clock rang, and Li Weizhou started working.

After pouring the boiled "bath water" into the two pre-prepared wooden buckets in batches through the tap, Li Weizhou had one thought in his mind: Let's go!

……

Before dawn on the Daqian side, Li Weizhou got up and went out to the east wing.

He had already instructed Ximei and the other servants beforehand that he was going to do his work in this room and that no one was allowed to disturb him. He also asked Ximei to keep an eye on things for him.

Although Xi Mei is young, she now has two playmates, Xiao Dong and Xiao Xi, and a bodyguard, Hu Nu Xiao Bei, making her life increasingly joyful, yet she remains extremely sensible.

He always strictly follows his brother's instructions.

Inside the east wing, a large wooden tub was also prepared in advance. Li Weizhou stood outside, and with a thought, a wooden tub appeared out of thin air. Li Weizhou grabbed it and poured the soup into the large tub, creating a splash of white mist.

Summer hasn't arrived on the other side of the world yet, but here it's already late autumn and winter.

After pouring the soup into both buckets, and waiting for another half an hour, Li Weizhou placed the enlarged version of the secret manual on the shelf next to the wooden bucket, stripped naked, and jumped into the bucket with a grimacing expression.

It's still a bit hot, but bearable.

After getting used to it for a while, he looked at the enlarged photo of the manual and tried to strike that pose...

One hand emerged from his crotch, the other wrapped around his shoulder and behind his back, while his left leg was raised high behind him like a stray dog ​​urinating, and his right leg was turned in the opposite direction...

How could a normal person possibly do that?
Li Weizhou didn't understand the point of doing this either...

However, it doesn't matter if you don't understand or can't do it. Li Weizhou didn't waste these three days. He came out naked and moved a strangely shaped support from the side. The two ends of the support were just right to fit on both sides of the wooden barrel.

I slipped my ankles into the rings, turned on the 12-liter oxygen tank, put on my full-face mask, and submerged back into the broth. Getting my head underwater and wrapping my arms around my back wasn't too difficult; the real challenge was my legs—it required real determination.

After securing his wrists, Li Weizhou gripped a pair of chains tightly with both hands and pulled hard. The wheel above the support spun with a "whoosh," and then Li Weizhou's legs were exaggeratedly and forcefully spread apart...

"Let's go!!"

……

"what!!"

At the villa, Li Weizhou opened his eyes in terror, letting out a scream.

I'll fuck her, you son of a bitch!

It hurts so much!
It felt like my eggs had exploded too; the pain was absolutely unbearable.

That intense, tearing sensation was truly terrifying.

Li Weizhou now understood why Qi Erniang said he couldn't possibly master it, and that no one could.

It was simply inhuman; the excruciating pain of having one's testicles crushed was unbearable, let alone for the time it takes for an incense stick to burn, even for a single breath.

Still shaken, Li Weizhou found a rattan chair and lay down. The mountain city was so hot today that it could roast a chicken, but his back was still covered in cold sweat.

After he slowly recovered, he started to have doubts: Would it even work? Spending money was secondary; he didn't want to suffer excruciating pain for nothing. Even if it didn't work, it would be ridiculous if he ended up with a broken body and crippled.

That's why I chose to test it there. Although I really like that place, this is where my original body is, so I don't dare to mess with it.

Worrying was useless, Li Weizhou took out his phone, opened the Diaanniang app, and continued reading books.

Only good books can soothe the soul.

Unfortunately, some of my favorite authors have passed away, some abandoned their projects, and others have absolutely no professional ethics, taking a year-long break after finishing a book—they must have lost their minds…

Oh dear, people's hearts have changed.

I reread the books, and it's frustrating; there haven't been any truly outstanding works this year.

Various plagiarisms and imitations are Frankenstein's monsters, and they all stubbornly deny it. Bah!

Forget it, I'll just go browse the girls instead...

The young lady was still prettier. In the blink of an eye, a stick of incense had burned out. Before leaving, he left a message reminding the young lady in the live stream to behave herself and not to always dance in a way that skirted the edge of the rules. Then he swiped away and left. Li Weizhou turned off his phone and took a deep breath.

Silently chanting "go back" in my heart, what followed was an overwhelming pain...

……

"Snapped!"

Li Weizhou struggled to climb out of the soup, his face pale and nauseous, his hands trembling.

I wish I could go back to wearing it; it really hurts so much.

But he knew he couldn't give up halfway.

It doesn't matter if he doesn't understand these postures. He doesn't understand Tai Chi stance, Hunyuan stance, or San Ti stance either. How can he practice just by standing in them?
But you'll know once you try it; it really works, and it's really not easy to practice.

Since that's the case, Li Weizhou stopped worrying about the scientific principles behind these stance exercises and just focused on mastering them.

After pulling back his full-face mask, taking a bite of dark chocolate, and regaining his senses, Li Weizhou replaced the stent with a new one.

These are the different supports he designed based on different movements.

Thanks to the powerful industry of our motherland, with enough money, they can really make anything...

After taking a deep breath, put the mask back on and re-enter the water.

Be careful this time, because you have to twist your neck to the extreme. It feels like if you twist it any more, your head will turn off, and you might even feel suffocated.

Then arch your body to its maximum extent...

Li Weizhou slowly turned the lever in his hand, enduring the increasingly intense pain as he tried to control it little by little.

At the peak, it instantly travels back...

Repeating this process over and over again, by exploiting a bug to cheat, Li Weizhou completed the practice of the Twenty-Four Forms of Stance Training for the first time on just four days after obtaining the manual!

As for the effects, we can't see them yet, because apart from feeling exhausted and sore all over, I don't feel anything else.

However, the large bucket of soup had become murky and smelly.

After a few quick thoughts, Li Weizhou made the soup disappear, took another shower, changed into clean clothes, went out to greet Ximei, and then, ignoring that it was still daytime, went straight to sleep.

He slept very soundly, but felt surprisingly good.

It was fulfilling and hopeful.

In his dream, Li Weizhou dreamed that he was all-powerful, capable of flying and disappearing into the earth, and invincible in the world!

There are three million celestial sword immortals, all of them spamming "666" when they see me!
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