County town market

  After resting for a day in the Medicine Pavilion, Ye Qin finished his meditation practice and felt that his cultivation was too slow, so he became somewhat impatient and left the Medicine Pavilion's mansion to stroll around Zhujici County.

  Looking at the bustling streets, Ye Qin felt a sense of familiarity and strangeness, and he couldn't help but feel a little sentimental.

  Since coming to this Zhujici County, joining the Medicine Hall, I haven't really strolled around the county once. Usually, it's either busy learning medicine and collecting herbs or busy meditating and cultivating, where would there be time to idle on the streets?

  He first went to the largest "Jinji" money house in Zhuxi County, and took out more than 180 silver leaves that he had accumulated over the past five or six years. This sum of money is also a considerable amount for an ordinary family. One silver leaf can be exchanged for one hundred copper coins, and ten copper coins are enough for an ordinary Han man to eat a full meal in the county town. All the money is equivalent to five years' worth of meals for an ordinary Han man.

  With money in his pocket, Ye Qin thought to himself about what valuable things he could buy to enhance his strength. The fight with his cousin ten days ago was not a big deal for him. What's most important now is finding the spiritual stone that can help him cultivate the "Sitting Forgetting Sutra" and nurture the Small Dew Grass.

  Ye Qin knew that there was a trade market square in the Western City District, specifically for Jianghu people to conduct transactions. In addition, there were several good jade shops in the city, and there were also jade sellers, but it was unknown whether they had the kind of spiritual stone he needed.

  Ye Qin thought to himself and headed towards the trade market in the northwest city district first.

  As the number of outsiders in Zhū Qí county town increased, the number of Jianghu people trading in the market also began to surge. Now it's just dusk, the whole market is bustling with excitement, with hundreds of Jianghu guests, either sitting on the ground and setting up stalls, or looking at goods and haggling over prices.

  Ye Qin walked among the crowd of Jianghu people, and he didn't stand out. He was now over sixteen years old, strong and healthy, with steady and powerful steps, his eyes introverted and spirited, and there wasn't much difference between him and these Jianghu guests.

  In recent years, with his own strength greatly increased, Ye Qin no longer had a sense of awe for those powerful and heroic Jianghu warriors.

  It's still early for the Medicine King Gang's medicine conference, and the real masters of Jianghu haven't arrived in Zhukai County yet. Most people in the market are also second- or third-rate Jianghu guests, without any top-notch masters, not even a few who can catch his eye.

  Ye Qin's gaze swept over each stall, carefully selecting items from within. However, most of the items did not meet his expectations. Large knives, long swords, spears, bows and arrows, flying darts, iron armor, soft inner armor, wrist guards, leg guards, cowhide boots, and other types of blades and armor were all priced at tens of silver leaves per piece, but they were not what he was looking for.

  Occasionally, you can find one or two low-level martial arts manuals on the street stalls, which can be cultivated, but unfortunately, the price is a bit too expensive, requiring several gold leaves. It's not as good as directly buying a low-level manual in the secret room of the herbal medicine hall for just one gold leaf.

  Besides, he now looks down on this low-level secret book.

  In addition, there are some strange raw materials on the stalls, with a wide variety of types. Iron ore for iron making, black iron blocks that are said to be meteorites. Many medicinal materials, such as bear gallbladder, rhinoceros horn, rhinoceros tendon, tiger femur and so on. On many stalls, there are also low-grade medicines packaged in dan bottles, such as hemostatic powder, pain-relieving powder, golden wound medicine, a small number of medium-grade medicines such as rheumatic powder, and high-grade medicines such as black ointment for reconnecting tendons, but these are relatively rare.

  Like those hemostatic powder, pain-relieving powder, and wound medicine, you can tell what they are used for at a glance. These low-grade medicines are all clearly priced and the price is stable, one silver leaf per serving. The middle-grade medicine, rheumatic powder, requires ten silver leaves per serving. Like the high-grade medicine, black paste bone-repairing powder, which is extremely rare in quantity, does not have a marked price.

  Ye Qin saw a stall in the market with a bottle of black ointment for sprains, and his heart moved, he went forward to ask.

  "Older brother, how does this Black Ointment for Reconnecting Tendons and Activating Collaterals sell?"

  The stall owner, a dark-skinned middle-aged man, saw Ye Qin asking about the price and immediately gave a thumbs up: "Young brother, your eyes are really sharp, this black ointment for reconnecting tendons is a rare treasure in the martial arts world. If during a fight, your hand or foot tendons are cut off by an enemy's weapon, as long as you reconnect them within a day and apply this black ointment, you can fully recover in less than two to three months without affecting your future training. Young brother, if you want it, I'll give you a discount, one gold leaf for one portion."

  "If it's a tendon that was cut off four or five years ago, can it be reattached?"

  Ye Qin asked.

  That dark-faced man's face stiffened, and he hastily waved his hand: "What kind of joke is this? The tendon that was broken four or five years ago, even a god can't reconnect it. This medicine of mine can only save those who can be saved, but not those who are fundamentally unsalvageable. I see that little brother doesn't seem to have any broken tendons either!"

  "Of course it wasn't me who got hurt, it was my younger brother's calf muscle that got injured, and that was four or five years ago. Since the medicine didn't work, forget it, selling it wouldn't be of any use either."

  "Hey, little brother, don't rush off, I have a lot of good stuff here that's essential for traveling the world. There must be something you can use. How about a bottle of Huo Luo San? It can unblock the meridians throughout your body and clear out any blockages caused by blood stasis. Just ten silver leaves. Better safe than sorry, carry some with you and you won't have to worry about your meridians getting blocked again."

  "My meridians are fine, what's the point of spending so much money on a useless Huo Luo San?" Ye Qin shook his head and turned to walk away, planning to check out other stalls.

  "Don't go, little brother, I still have good things here."

  That dark-faced man revealed a painful expression and pulled out a book of herbal medicine that he had hidden in his bosom.

  "Judging from your attire, you should be a disciple of the Medicine Pavilion in Zhuge County. I have a herbal medicine manual called 'Treasured Grasses Illustrated Guide' that records dozens of extremely rare and precious herbs, along with their medicinal formulas. You might find it useful."

  "Ben Cao Tu Jing", dozens of rare and precious medicinal herbs?

  Ye Qin heard this and immediately stopped in her tracks, unable to help but laugh.

  Is there anyone in Pingzhou who can collect more medicinal herbs than the Medicine King Gang's Medicinal Hall? That is absolutely a joke. The Medicine King Gang has collected countless medicinal herbs from Jianghu for hundreds of years. If the Medicine King Gang doesn't have it recorded, that would be an unthinkable thing.

  However, he still turned back to the stall, took over "Ben Cao Tu Jian" from the dark-skinned man's hand, and quickly flipped through it. If he could find one or two kinds of herbs that he had never seen before in this herbal book, he would buy it.

  Ye Qin shook his head as he watched.

  The medicinal herbs recorded inside are indeed some rare and precious ones. However, he had already seen them in the pharmacopoeia of the Medicine Pavilion, so this volume of Rare Herb Illustrated Guide is completely worthless.

  He patiently turned the pages, turning to the last few pages, and when he saw a familiar herb drawn on it, his hand suddenly trembled almost imperceptibly, and then quickly closed the precious grass identification book.