Chapter 985: Receive Wages

"Yeah." A Ling responded, and the group, escorted by three soldiers, crossed the new street and headed to the Qin family's medicinal materials workshop.

After going through layers of inspection, the group arrived at the back area of ​​the herbal medicine shop...

The back area is a forbidden area, specially used for preparing highly toxic medicinal materials. Only Qin Xiaomi, Qin family's servants with death contracts, and people specially authorized by Qin Xiaomi can enter.

Anyone who enters without permission will be responsible for their own life and death, and the Qin family will not be responsible.

"Please come in." Zhu Sanhong stood at the door waiting and led A Ling and the others into the back area.

In the back area there are four large houses of eight meters by eight meters each, and a well.

"Please put on these leather protective gear." Zhu Sanhong brought them the protective gear and waited until they were dressed before taking them to the medicinal material soaking room.

There were rows of large bathing basins in the house.

"This large basin is soaked with Aconitum root, the medicinal part of the Aconite plant, a herb used to restore yang and relieve stress." Qin Xiaomi saw them come in and immediately began to explain: "Adding brine to the water used to soak the Aconitum can further eliminate the aconitine toxicity."

"The main root of Aconitum is more poisonous than the secondary root, so it needs to be soaked for more than five days, until the Aconitum root is soaked without dry core, and the water needs to be changed every day..." Qin Xiaomi knew that the mountain people were very brave, and was afraid that they would be poisoned by Aconitum, so she repeated the difference in toxicity between the main root and secondary root of Aconitum.

"The roots are small, so the soaking time can be shortened to six hours. It's best to soak for a day and a night..."

"The ones tied up in white cloth are the soaked Aconitum roots... Pour water in, pick up the roots, and steam them in a pot for at least an hour."

"After steaming, you can also add salt and roast it. The preparation methods are different, but both methods can produce aconite that can restore yang and rescue adverse conditions."

"For the taproot of Aconitum, the steaming time should be doubled. It must be steamed for more than two hours."

After Qin Xiaomi finished speaking, she added, "Come on, everyone drink half a bowl of honey to detoxify and prevent it."

Zhu Yiqing brought bowls of honey and asked A Ling and the others to drink them.

Qin Xiaomi: "Honey is expensive. You have a lot of it in the mountains, right? You can find it and sell it to our herbal medicine shop."

"It's a small matter. I will send a few trucks to your house in a while." The person who spoke was actually the village chief.

After his skin necrosis improved a little, he became much more energetic and talkative.

"Thank you. Let's prepare the aconite outside the hospital." Qin Xiaomi took them to the open-air stove outside the hospital and taught them how to prepare the aconite.

"Highly toxic herbs must be prepared outdoors, away from steam... Our eyes are like muscles without skin, an exposed, infectious organ, so we must be especially careful to prevent poisonous steam from penetrating through our eyes and causing poisoning."

Ah Ling nodded and said, "Yes, we will pay attention... The eyes are really fragile, but in a battle, the eyes are an excellent attack point."

Qin Xiaomi and Aunt Alan both heard that A Ling wanted to use poison to destroy the old village of the ancestors!

Qin Xiaomi reminded her: "Take it easy, take some antidote first, otherwise it's easy to hurt your own people."

"Oh, at this critical moment of life and death, who cares about so many things? Let's kill the enemy first." A Ling was really lucky that she was born in the mountains. If she was a girl from outside the mountains, she would be arrested and put in jail in minutes.

"Boss, everything is ready." Xiao Shanglu said as he came over.

"Well, start steaming."

As soon as Qin Xiaomi gave the order, the two groups began to prepare the aconite root. They worked carefully and anxiously for a whole day and finished preparing all the twelve large pots of soaked roots.

Although Ah Ling was very happy to learn how to prepare aconite root, she said, "Sister Qin, are you using the excuse of teaching to make us do hard labor?"

Twelve large pots were steamed and cooked to produce five large pots of aconite, weighing dozens of kilograms.

Qin Xiaomi smiled and said, "I'm your biological sister, so what's wrong with helping my biological sister with some chores?"

Ah Ling choked and could only smile and say, "My sister is right."

The village chief, on the other hand, laughed out loud, looking very happy, and said, "That's good. This is how young people should get along with each other."

Although they stayed outside the mountain for a long time, which may have made the status of their villages in the mountain unstable, Aling and Ahei developed feelings for Qin and Jiang, which was a good thing.

If there really is no place for them to stay in the mountains, they can still leave the mountains and seek refuge with Qin and Jiang.

Qin Xiaomi/Jiang Dalang: "..."

Are you really considering us as your fallback?!

if not?

If the outside of the mountain cannot serve as a retreat for the chief and his men, why should they waste time with people outside the mountain?

"Don't go yet. Rest for half an hour and make sure you are not poisoned before leaving." Qin Xiaomi greeted A Ling and the others, and instructed Zhu Yiqing to prepare another batch of honey. Once symptoms of poisoning such as numbness in the mouth are found, drink the honey immediately to detoxify.

The chief and his men stayed there for another half an hour. At the beginning of the evening hour, they took five pounds of processed aconite, left the medicine shop, and returned to their residence in the Xue family's large warehouse.

When the second leader learned that they had returned, he sent the third leader to call them.

The chief and his men went to see the second chief, told him what they had done today, and showed them the prepared aconite.

But they didn't say a word about how to prepare the root of Aconitum carmichaelii into Aconite.

When asked again, the chief said, "We have signed a contract with the Qin family's herbal medicine shop. We are not allowed to disclose the secrets of the herbal medicine shop. Those who violate the contract must pay compensation. Do you want to help our villages pay the compensation?"

The fifth village chief shouted, "Big village chief, we mountain people are one family..."

"Old Five, shut up." The Second Chief interrupted the Fifth Chief and said to the First Chief with a smile, "I heard that Aconitum is highly poisonous. We were worried that you would be poisoned. Now that we see that you are all fine, we are relieved. Go back and rest."

The chieftain stood up and left with the others.

The fifth leader was furious and cursed inwardly: "This old fellow of the chief leader has turned his heart away from the outside of the mountain. When we return to the mountain, we must immediately let the old Zhuyou and the ancestors get rid of him."

The Second Chief stared at the Fifth Chief with a cold gaze, "You know you can only take action after returning to the mountains, so just be quiet... It's only two months away, can't you wait?"

In fact, the second leader, or the ancestors, wanted to kill the first leader, Aunt Alan, and Leader Wen sooner than the fifth leader.

After killing them, we can annex their village, and the ancestors in the mountains will have the final say!

"Yes, second brother, I was wrong." The fifth leader apologized immediately.

After the chief and his men returned to their residence, they continued to prepare for returning to the mountain, while A Ling took time to tinker with medicinal herbs.

……

Boom boom boom!

On September 30th, just after lunch, the medicinal materials workshop, the new dye workshop, and the pine oil products workshop all sounded the shutdown drum at the same time.

Qin Liupo, Aunt Xu, Aunt Meng Sanma and other housekeepers shouted: "It's time to call it a day and get in line to get paid!"

After shouting for more than a quarter of an hour, the workers from the three workshops cleaned up the work site and lined up to receive their wages.

The workers in the other two workshops were fine, but the workers in the medicinal materials workshop were receiving their wages for the first time, and they were so excited.

"Are we going to be paid and given a holiday right now? I've never received wages in my life... What should I do? I don't know how to tell the authenticity of money. If I get fake money, my father and grandfather will beat me to death!" Liu Duotian was so scared that he was incoherent and his face turned pale.

Dangdang Dangdang!

He Liuliu struck the gong and said to the male workers, "Please rest assured, fellow workers. The silver and money in the Qin family workshop were all transported from the Provincial Administration Office by Lord Yu. There is no possibility that the silver minted from the imperial court is fake!"

The silver and money circulating among the people may be fake, but the silver and money coming out of the provincial government office can never be fake.

If there were, a large number of people in the entire Wei Dynasty would die.