Sixteen enter mountain

  There are four more chapters until chapter 20, the exciting part is about to arrive.

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  Ye Qin brought Da Niu and found Yang Yicheng's iron shop in the county town.

  He wants to find a way to settle down the big cow.

  It's absolutely impossible to let the great cow beg in the county town and be bullied by others. After finally finding the great cow, he can't let it suffer again. However, his current status and identity make it impossible for the great cow to enter the medicine hall as a medicine boy.

  In this county town, there were not many people who had a close relationship with him, only his master and four other fellow apprentices. Feng Xiaojia was a tenant farmer outside the county town, Qian Ruxiu and Sun Ying were tailors and weavers, which were not very suitable.

  After some thought, Yang Yicheng's iron shop is the most suitable. It's located in the county town and I can learn the skill of blacksmithing, which will allow me to earn a living with my own two hands in the future.

  Yang Yicheng had told him before he left that his family was in a certain place in the county town, so it wasn't hard to find.

  Ye Qin soon found the Yang family iron shop in the southeastern part of the county town. It was a small, dilapidated ironwork shop with a tattered flag stuck at the entrance, inside an iron furnace and some hammers, forging and repairing farm tools such as hoes and sickles.

  Yang Yicheng is helping his father forge iron.

  When he saw Ye Qin come to visit, Yang Yicheng looked very happy and hastily introduced him to his father, saying that this was his fellow disciple and brother, who was extremely formidable. Old Man Yang was a swarthy, honest, middle-aged blacksmith, and when he saw Ye Qin, he just smiled foolishly and nodded, unable to utter half a word for a long time.

  Ye Qin secretly found it strange that such an honest and simple-minded person could have given birth to Yang Yicheng, who was so glib and restless. However, she only muttered this in her heart, otherwise Yang Yicheng would blow up again.

  Ye Qin pulled over the big cow that was following behind and introduced him to Yang Yicheng, telling him about his fellow villager Big Cow's situation, wanting Big Cow to find a job at the Yang family iron shop.

  "It's just a small matter!"

  Yang Yicheng didn't hesitate and immediately patted his chest in agreement, then told his old man to leave the big cow behind.

  Yang Lao Die however was worried and just shook his head.

  "Father, isn't it just one more person? Our Yang family iron shop can use an extra pair of hands, can't we? My brother has come to ask for help for the first time, and if I don't help him, how will I be able to face others in the future?"

  Yang Yicheng was anxious, Ye Qin had also taken care of him in the sect. If he lost face and hurt his feelings because of this small matter, how could he still be the eldest senior brother in the future?

  Yang Lao Die's face turned red for a long time before he managed to squeeze out a sentence, which was unclear and incoherent.

  However, Ye Qin understood, roughly meaning that the iron shop was too small, business was slow, and couldn't support anyone.

  Ye Qin left his hometown because his family couldn't afford to raise him, so he naturally understood the difficulties of small shops. It's not easy to support one person, and it's not possible to hire someone just because you want to. Having no work to do, having one more person would only be a burden.

  He immediately pulled out a hundred copper coins from his bosom and stuffed them into Old Man Yang's hands.

  "Old Yang, there's not much money here. Spending three copper coins a day to buy a few mantou from Big Cow should be enough for him to eat for a month. In the future, I'll send over the money I earn from picking herbs as his food allowance."

  Yang Yicheng's face turned red, and he also took out 100 copper coins from his bosom and stuffed them into his father's hand.

  "Dad, I forgot to tell you that our master gave us some money. This money is not needed for me at the moment, so it's better to make up for two months of food expenses. We will enter the mountain and estimate that we can come back once in one or two months. At that time, there must be more money, so let Big Cow stay in our iron shop."

  Yang Lao Die held two hundred copper coins in his hand, apparently not expecting them to take out two months' worth of food expenses, and was stunned, finally nodding his head.

  Yang Yicheng was overjoyed, patting Ye Qin's shoulder loudly and saying, "See, I told you it was a small matter! Second Brother, from now on, this fellow countryman of yours will be staying at the Yang family iron shop!"

  Ye Qin was deeply moved. Although Master Big Brother usually had a careless attitude and occasionally bullied people, he was also righteous at critical moments.

  In Yang's iron shop, a big cow was settled in, and Ye Qin finally left with peace of mind.

  The next day.

  Thirty or forty young medicine collectors of the Medicine Collection Hall have officially entered their training period. They were divided into ten groups, each led by a medicine collection master, and left the county town to search for medicinal herbs in the deep mountains and ancient forests within thousands of miles in all directions.

  Ye Qin and his five companions were followed by a young medicine collector named Xie Ze.

  Xie Ze, a disciple brought out by Vice Hall Master Ji, is now about 27 or 28 years old. He wears a simple coarse cloth robe, has a slender and tall build, speaks little but is very cold. At first glance, he looks like an ordinary medicine collector, but if you take a closer look at his pair of long, thin, and sharp eagle claw-like hands, you can discover that he has more than ten years of Eagle Claw skill. In the Jianghu world, he is absolutely a formidable character.

  For some reason, Ye Qin always felt that the people in the pharmacy had a cold and indifferent air, especially many of them didn't put others in their eyes. This was not due to the practice method, but almost everyone was like this.

  Ye Qin carried a heavy wicker basket on his back, filled with ropes, hooks, oil, salt, spices, an iron pot, a water bag, and various cloth bags and leather bags, following quietly five steps behind Xie Ze.

  The weight of six people is on his back alone.

  Xie Ze understood their cultivation methods and then assigned tasks to each of the five people.

  Six people, just formed a clearly divided medicine collection team. With Xie Ze as the center, they scattered in all directions. Ye Qin followed closely behind him, closest and safest.

  Yang Yicheng's powerful external family kung fu, responsible for opening the way forward, killing and driving away fierce beasts. Sun Ying wore a sword on her back, supporting Yang Yicheng from the left side. Qian Ruoxiu learned the agile "Zhe Mei Shou" (folded plum hand), capturing insects, snakes, ants and beasts on the right side. Some valuable insects, snakes, ants and beasts can be used as medicine.

  Feng Xiao's lightness skill was temporarily not useful, he always used his lightness to float around the crowd in a range of hundreds of steps, under the name of "scouting". However, there were more showy elements, occasionally he could also pick up a few low-value herbs, which was an unexpected gain, making Feng Xiao happy beyond control.

  Ye Qin lacked attacking and defensive capabilities, but had superhuman physical strength, carrying all the necessary items for the six to go gather herbs, alleviating the physical burden on the other five. With no burdens, they were in good physical condition and could naturally walk faster and farther.

  Ye Qin did not have the slightest complaint about this. He knew that his own skills, the preface of "Zuo Wang Jing" had a strange effect, making his physical strength flourish, far surpassing the other four fellow disciples in just six short months. However, when it came to fighting, he was afraid that he could not compare to any one of the four fellow disciples, and also could not bring out the ordinary internal skill's attacking and defending effects. Just like what the book said, this secret book could only strengthen his physique, prolong his life, and nothing more.

  Carrying a heavy load on his back, Ye Qin was practicing and cultivating along the way. The weak thread of breath in his body could dissolve the fatigue on his limbs every time he circulated through the meridians, allowing him to recover his consumed physical strength in time.

  Unfortunately, that breath of air seems difficult to cultivate and expand, always only having a faint wisp.

  Every time you turn around, the physical strength recovered also has a certain limit. If the physical energy is consumed too quickly, it will not be able to recover.

  Fortunately, Xie Ze didn't walk quickly, and instead headed deep into the mountains in a southwest direction. After entering the mountain forest hundreds of miles away, his speed slowed down even further. He walked and stopped, observing the cliffs and valleys to see if there were any herbs worth picking. Occasionally, he would pull out a grass from the cliff edge or river valley, and pick some roots, stems, and leaves.

  After walking hundreds of miles, unintentionally, many roots, stems, blocks, leaves, flowers, seeds, and fruits have been collected, filling dozens of small hemp bags and leather bags.

  Ye Qin had been following Xie Ze within five steps, so she saw clearly and couldn't help but secretly admire the sharpness of this senior brother's eyes. The five of them hadn't noticed the herb, but Senior Brother had spotted it with just a glance from afar.