The Elixir is for You, The Poison is for Me

#487 - Pills and medicine bottles

Lu Jing breathed a sigh of relief upon hearing this. Just as the Young Marquis had said, this matter was indeed within his purview.

Besides, Lu Jing could be considered to have known A'bao for a while, and he couldn't bear to watch such a fine wild boar grieve to the point of emaciation, dying of excessive sorrow, essentially starving itself to death.

So, after hearing the Young Marquis's words, Lu Jing immediately went to A'bao's side.

From afar, A'bao saw Lu Jing, a familiar face, but acted as if it hadn't seen him, remaining quietly lying on the ground.

Lu Jing brought a bunch of red berries he had just picked from a tree and held them to A'bao's mouth.

This was usually the thing it craved the most, because once these berries were completely ripe and fell to the ground, they were no longer edible, and Han Shan Ke was busy with alchemy every day and hadn't mastered beast language, so naturally he wouldn't help A'bao pick berries.

Speaking of which, the first time it ate these berries was also when Lu Jing picked them for him, and the two, oh no, it should be one person and one pig, formed a bond because of it.

"I'm saying when the wild boar will get beaten up," the Gambler said leisurely.

As the two were talking, they saw that A'bao, who was originally angry and about to attack, gradually calmed down under Lu Jing's stroking, for some unknown reason.

Then, it began to grunt again, but the grunting no longer contained any anger, only sadness.

Lu Jing patted A'bao's back, and A'bao raised its head, resting its nearly hundred-pound head on Lu Jing's shoulder, just like a wronged big fatty.

Everyone couldn't help but click their tongues in amazement at the sight, and then Lu Jing found the right moment, bent his finger, and flicked a mud pellet into A'bao's nostril.

The mud pellet was wrapped in a special spice that could greatly stimulate the appetite of most omnivores. This thing was of course given to Lu Jing by Ye Gongmei, and it came in handy now.

When Lu Jing took out the bunch of red berries again, A'bao, whose spirit had been comforted this time, finally couldn't resist its instincts under the stimulation of the special spice.

It opened its mouth and swallowed the bunch of red berries, and since it had eaten the first bite, the rest was much easier.

Lu Jing asked the Drunken Taoist and others to collect a large batch of melons and fruits, feeding them to A'bao little by little. Later, seeing A'bao staring at the wine gourd on his body, Lu Jing was rarely generous and poured A'bao a mouthful of Fallen into the Mortal World.

The Drunken Taoist, seeing the dazed look in A'bao's eyes, also had his curiosity piqued and said to Lu Jing, "Hey, can you give me a taste too?"

Lu Jing shook his head, "It's not that I'm stingy, it's just that no one can drink this wine except me."

"Aren't you opening your eyes and talking nonsense? It just drank it," the Drunken Taoist pointed at A'bao, dissatisfied.

"Are you stupid? It's a pig," Old Fisherman popped out from somewhere and retorted.

Lu Jing ignored their banter because he saw that the Young Marquis had already chosen a burial place for Han Shan Ke and was walking towards them.

Lu Jing stood up and said, "I have not failed my mission."

"The Ye family's beast-controlling technique is indeed well-deserved. You are too kind, Great Hero Lu," the Young Marquis said, then paused and turned to look at the others around him, saying loudly.

"Lu Jing saved Han Shan Ke's… um, beloved pig, A'bao. According to the rules of the valley, I plan to take something from Han Shan Ke's belongings and give it to him. Does anyone have any objections?"

"It should be so," Old Blind Man took the lead in agreeing.

Then Ding Liu also said, "I also have no objections."

With the two of them taking the lead, plus Lu Jing had previously saved Dongmen Weilan "at the cost of his inner strength," the paper figures in the valley had a good impression of him. Except for those female paper figures who wanted the recipe for the Youth Preservation Pill, everyone else basically expressed their agreement.

And just when those female paper figures were still hesitating, Lu Jing timely opened his mouth and guaranteed, "I will definitely not touch the Youth Preservation Pill."

With his words, those women finally breathed a sigh of relief, and at this point, no one opposed the Young Marquis's decision anymore.

The Young Marquis waited for a while, and finally nodded to Lu Jing, "Come with me."

Lu Jing patted the mud that A'bao had rubbed on his body and followed the Young Marquis to the place where Han Shan Ke's belongings were stored.

The Young Marquis pointed to a box and said, "All of Han Shan Ke's things are here. Find it yourself."

Lu Jing suppressed the tension and unease in his heart, walked up and opened the box.

Objectively speaking, there weren't many things inside, which was in line with Han Shan Ke's original, minimalist lifestyle, and most of them were related to alchemy.

Lu Jing ignored those strange alchemy tools and focused his attention on the place where the pill formula might be recorded.

He did find two scrolls written by Han Shan Ke himself, no, one of them might be more appropriately called the Trial and Error Collection, which contained pill formulas that Han Shan Ke had verified to be ineffective.

In comparison, the other one was much thinner, with only a few dozen pages, but the pill formulas on it were bizarre, basically byproducts that Han Shan Ke accidentally obtained while refining the Longevity Pill.

Lu Jing roughly scanned through it and quickly flipped to the back. However, to his disappointment, the latest thing Han Shan Ke wrote on the last page was a formula related to sex.

Lu Jing was unwilling to give up and flipped through the remaining items in the box, but still couldn't find the pill formula he was looking for, so he could only turn his attention to those bottles and jars.

Some of the bottles had words engraved on the bottom, which Lu Jing could eliminate, but there were still three small bottles that had nothing on them.

Lu Jing looked at the Young Marquis, who shook his head and said, "Don't look at me. Like you, I know nothing about the things in these bottles, so I can't give you any advice."

Now, Lu Jing could only open the bottles, observe the color of the pills one by one, then try to smell the fragrance in the bottles, and finally chose a bottle of pills that had been recently refined.