Chapter 10 Baicao Pills

Ding Yang tossed and turned in **, and his heart was so messy that he couldn't sleep. Finally, he simply put on his clothes and came to the yard.

I took a breath of the fresh cool air in the mountains, and Ding Yang's spirit was refreshed. Today is the second day of October. The stars are shining in the night sky, and rolling mountains appear in the distance. The protruding peaks are standing upright giants.

There were five cloud cards in the distance, and soon the lights in the room lit up. Liu Erxi and three others came out of the room rubbing their eyes. Seeing Ding Yang standing in the yard, he was stunned for a moment, and then remembered who Ding Yang was.

"Oh! Ding Yang, why did you get up so early?

He Ming was the oldest and said with concern, "I must be homesick and can't sleep. It was the same when I first came here. I will get used to it in a few days."

Jiang Xiaowei rubbed his eyes and said, "Okay, wash up first, and then we'll take you to see the stew manager."

[Iron Sword Gate] is a major school. In addition to those formal martial arts disciples, it also requires a large number of ordinary people to engage in daily work. After all, eating, drinking and lasa have to be dealt with. You can't let those martial arts masters carry water, chop wood, sweep the floor, cook, and even clean up the hut.

Therefore, each sect will have many handymen who specialize in handymen. The difference between handymen and handymen is that there is little hope that handymen can be promoted to outsiders, and handymen can only be handymen.

However, if the miscellaneous disciple still fails to meet the requirements for promotion to a foreign disciple before the age of 20, he will be completely disqualified and can only die in the position of a handyman.

Ding Yang followed Liu Erxi and walked out of the courtyard. Along the way, there were many teenagers in the same costume in each room, and they scattered in different directions.

Several people passed through several stone arches and came to a large yard. At this time, the sky was already a little bright, and the space in the yard was very large. Dozens of handymen lined up in a row in the middle of the yard, waiting for the dispatch of the steward.

Liu Erxi took Ding Yang to a table, bowed to a steward sitting at the back of the table, pointed to Ding Yang and said, "Sergeant Wang, this is a new miscellaneous disciple arranged by Deacon Cao yesterday. His name is Ding Yang. Deacon Cao asked him to also work under stewergeant Wang.

The king stewer is forty-four or five years old, with a dark face and a sharp mouth. He was originally an outer disciple in the family. After practicing [the skin realm], he had no inch of progress. He was getting older and older, and his heart was extinct, so he operated a stewerman, thinking of getting more oil and water, and going back to the secular world to be a rich man.

steward Wang glanced at Ding Yang with slanted eyes and asked lazily, "Oh, who are you from Deacon Cao?" Deacon Cao is the managing boss of steward Wang. If there is anything to do with Deacon Cao, he should arrange a more relaxed job for him.

Ding Yang also knows this layer of power in his heart, but Cao Dayou has made it clear that he can't play in his name. So he said honestly, "I'll report to the stewer Wang, I have nothing to do with Deacon Cao. It's just that I didn't pass the induction test yesterday, so I asked Deacon Cao to arrange this handyman disciple."

Manager Wang was relieved when he heard the words. He turned his little eyes and ordered, "Well! Your name is Ding... Ding Yang, right? Now that there is a shortage of water in the kitchen, you can go to the kitchen to carry water.

Liu Erxi's face changed and he begged, "Mr. Wang, Ding Yang has just started. Besides, he is still young, it's better to give him another one...

Before he finished speaking, Guan Wang patted the table and said, "Liu Erxi, there is no place for you to talk here. The work in the door has to be done by someone, and you can't be picky. What, you don't want to do the work of helping the kitchen, why don't you carry the water together?

When Liu Erxi saw that stewul Wang was angry, he did not dare to talk about it again. He subtly retreated to the back.

When Ding Yang followed him to the kitchen, he asked the handyman next to him about the work of the handyman. A handyman with a black mole on his nose told him something.

It turns out that this handyman's work is also divided into three or six. Although they are all handymen, but they are given different positions, the treatment is very different and far different.

The best positions are in the accounting room, library, treasury and other places, and the work is relatively idle.

General positions, such as helping to cook, cleaning, washing, etc., have a certain amount of labor, but it is not bad.

The worst position is Dingyang and others, such as carrying water, cleacing firewood, cleaning toilets, etc., either the work is too heavy or too dirty. In short, disciples who do not recruit s are assigned to this kind of work.

Everyone came to the yard where the kitchen was located. There are 24 large water tanks in the yard, each of which can hold 12 loads of water. Each handyman disciple should be responsible for a water tank until it is full.

A wooden barrel can hold 30 catties of water, and two wooden buckets are 60 catties. Coupled with the weight of the wooden bucket, each teenager has to weigh nearly 100 catties on his shoulder. It is very heavy for most of these teenagers who are only eleven or twelve years old. In addition, the spring is more than three miles away from the kitchen. In this way, each person has to carry a burden of more than a hundred catties a day to go back and forth for 70 miles. No wonder the miscellaneous disciples who were arranged to carry the water all looked bitter.

Ding Yang was the youngest of these disciples to carry water on the first day. Originally, these handymen looked at him with a sense of sarcasm and jokes in addition to sympathy. But soon they began to look at Ding Yang with new eyes.

Although Ding Yang's strength is gone, he has been in the mountains to carry firewood since he was a few years old, and he has to walk seven or eight miles to return home. I have long cultivated a firm perseverance and stubborn character. Moreover, long-distance weight-bearing walking also requires the cooperation of breathing and pace, otherwise, no matter how strong you are, you can't stick to it for a long time.

Ding Yang is always thinking about improving himself. For the work of carrying water, he feels that it is an opportunity to exercise his physique, so there is no dissatisfaction in his mentality.

Ding Yang followed his disciples to a spring behind the mountain. There was a clear spring in the spring, which flowed down into a small pool. The pool is clear to the bottom, and dozens of brightly colored fish can be seen swimming around in the pool. The flowers and plants on the edge of the pool are lush, slightly swinging in the breeze, and the colorful butterflies dancing in the flowers are really a quiet and pleasant place.

The disciples turned a blind eye to the scenery and just took full of clear water in the pool, took on the burden and walked back.

Ding Yang is also full of spring water and follows everyone. He has been carrying firewood for many years. He has already summed up a set of methods of breathing and pace coordination. If the breathing and pace are matched according to a certain regularity, the movements of the whole body will form a perfect balance. In this way, walking a long way will greatly reduce the sense of fatigue.

By noon, Ding Yang had carried seven loads of water and walked 40 miles. Even with the cooperation of breathing and pace, he felt tired and his feet looked heavy.

Liu Erxi asked him to go to lunch. Ding Yang just asked Liu Erxi to help him get two steamed buns, and then carried the barrel to the spring.

In the afternoon, Ding Yang's fatigue became stronger and stronger, and the speed of carrying water slowed down. Ding Yang gritted his teeth and persisted, and his breathing became messy. By the time he poured the last bucket of water into the water tank, the sun had fallen to the top of the west.

On the first day of becoming a handyman disciple, Ding Yang carried twelve loads of water and walked more than 70 miles.

When Guan Wang heard Ding Yang tell him that today's task had been completed, he thought Ding Yang was lying. He didn't believe that Ding Yang could complete the quota on the first day. He scolded Ding Yang in a stern voice. It was not until he went to the water tank in person that he let Ding Yang leave in a surprised tone.

When Ding Yang left, several disciples who were still carrying the water looked at him in surprise, with a look of disbelief. They only now did they bear nine loads of water until dark after completing the task.

Back to the room, Ding Yang sat ** and felt some pain on his shoulder. He took off his clothes and looked at it. There was a layer of skin on his shoulder and it was slightly swollen.

When Liu Erxi came back, he saw Ding Yang's shoulder worn out. He quickly went outside to pick some fresh herbs, pounded them into a paste and applied them on his shoulders. Ding Yang felt a cool feeling from his shoulder, and the pain was relieved a lot.

After a while, He Ming and Jiang Xiaowei also returned to the room. He Ming's job is to clean the courtyard. Jiang Xiaowei, like Liu Erxi, is helping the kitchen. Although the work of the three is not the best, it is okay.

The three of them heard Ding Yang talk about the situation of carrying water today. They also expressed their amazement that Ding Yang could complete the task in the first day, but they were very sorry to see the redness and swelling on Ding Yang's shoulders.

Liu Erxi said with a sad face, "You are introduced by Deacon Cao. Why don't you beg him to change your position for you?"

Ding Yang shook his head with a smile. If he wants revenge, he must at least cultivate [the marrow-washing realm] to have hope. I don't know how much suffering he has to endure in the process. If you can't even cope with such a simple job as carrying water, you can't even think about it, let alone revenge.

"It doesn't matter. You will get used to it in the future."

Ding Yang suddenly remembered something. He asked Liu Erxi, "Brother Erxi! What should we do if our handymen want to practice? Are there any special venues, equipment and so on?

Liu Erxi said with a wry smile, "Our miscellaneous disciples are all raised by stepmothers. Remember what venues and equipment are provided in the sect."

He Ming said, "If you can take the doorway of management, arrange to work in the library and the martial arts practice hall, you can also practice secretly after the official disciples finish teaching. Like us, alas..."

Ding Yang has a sense of loss in his heart. It doesn't matter how hard he suffers and how tired he is. What he needs most is cultivation. Only when he cultivates to the supreme martial arts can he have a chance to revenge. Although I have entered the [Iron Sword Gate] now, I don't have the opportunity to practice. What should I do?

At this time, Liu Erxi asked, "Ding Yang, Deacon Cao should have given you a [Baicao Pill] yesterday. How do you feel after eating it? Let me give you a reference and see how much potential you have?

Ding Yang was stunned for a moment, and then remembered something. He quickly put his hand into his arms, and when he took it out again, there was an earthy yellow pill lying in the palm of his hand.