Chapter 243: Ten-Fold Tonic Soup

As the Spring Festival is approaching, Wenzhong Road is much busier than before.

In addition to the main road with people coming and going, the alleys on both sides are also full of stalls selling things, forming a small "market" one by one.

Some sell vegetables grown by themselves, some sell cooked food, and some sell fireworks and firecrackers.

Big cities have begun to completely ban the setting off of fireworks and firecrackers, but Qinghe County still has the freedom of fireworks.

Red firecrackers, cigarette-like strips of firecrackers, fancy couplets and blessing characters, when these things appear together, Zhou Rui has a feeling of Chinese New Year.

However, Zhou Rui is not here to buy firecrackers today, he is here to keep healthy. There is a parallel lane behind Wenzhong Road, with two or three herbal medicine stores. He used to pass by it every day. The smell is very strong. Passing by it a few meters away, it is like drinking Chinese medicine, but he has never gone in.

It is called a herbal medicine store, but it is more appropriate to call it a "health store". It sells everything, including dendrobium, angelica, walnuts, and grains. There are also stacks of eggs at the door. On weekdays, the most frequent customers are old men and women. Next door is a small medical clinic, and there are wreaths and funeral clothes farther away.

The one-stop arrangement is clear.

The store door is open, and various things are placed in wooden grids. After Zhou Rui walked in and took a look around, the boss asked: "What do you want to buy, young man?"

Zhou Rui said: "Buy some health-preserving things, I mean the kind that is really effective."

"Give gifts to the elders at home? Do you want to buy one of our American ginseng gift boxes? Imported, 400 per box, buy two boxes and get a box of eggs for free."

Zhou Rui took a look at the huge and exquisite box, the small and cheap jar, and the three words "IQ tax" were almost printed on the box.

He shook his head and took out a thermos cup from his pocket: "Can I try it?"

Boss: "Ah?"

Zhou Rui simply took out 20 yuan and handed it to the boss as a tasting fee, then pinched a piece of "Danggui" and threw it into the thermos cup, covered it with a lid, and shook it desperately. After shaking it forty-nine times, the pill was considered to be made.

He opened the lid and took a sip, which had a faint medicinal taste.

Then he waited for a few seconds, and no experience prompts appeared.

Not to mention the boss, Li Wenqian was stunned by the operation.

Zhou Rui pinched another piece of astragalus, three wolfberries, a dendrobium, a piece of American ginseng, and a monk fruit. Finally, he thought about it and simply added some common medicinal materials. The thermos cup became porridge, covered the lid and shook it for ninety-nine and eighty-one times, and made a ten-in-one tonic soup.

Zhou Rui frowned and took a sip. He felt that he could no longer distinguish the taste, but there was still no experience prompt.

He simply drank it all.

Finally, the voice of experience prompts came from his mind.

"Entry task [Health], experience value +1, current progress (1/100)"

Zhou Rui's eyes lit up. This tonic must be a hodgepodge!

"Give me two taels of each of those things just now."

Pack them all up first, and then study them slowly.

Li Wenqian asked curiously: "Is it delicious? What does it taste like?"

Zhou Rui: "The taste of health."

On the way back, Zhou Rui refilled himself with a cup, took a sip every two steps, and filled his stomach with water.

This cup of hodgepodge is not, it is a ten-fold tonic soup. I don't know which ingredients are effective, but the result is good anyway. When I drank the second cup, I got a little more experience.

I don't know if Zhou Rui really mixed some secret recipe, or if the system's judgment is relatively loose.

He doesn't care which ones are effective and which ones are not. As long as he has experience, isn't it enough?

Anyway, they are all common and mild herbs, but the stomach suffers.

Zhou Rui wondered whether to increase the amount of herbs and reduce the amount of water. After all, concentration is the essence.

After strolling along Wenzhong Road, Zhou Rui bought some small things, a firecracker and a swinging firecracker, and asked the firecracker seller to reserve a big firework, which he would drive over to pick up in two days.

"Will you come to the party tomorrow?"

Li Wenqian thought about it and shook her head: "Your class is having a party, so I won't join in the fun. I'll ask my class later."

After seeing Li Wenqian off, Zhou Rui walked home with a bag of small firecrackers. He was bored and found a wasteland, opened the package and started playing.

One rub, one throw

"Pah"

It's gone.

Is it so boring?

Wasn't it fun in my memory? Why don't I have the same feeling as before?

When I was a child, I felt that if I had a whole box of firecrackers, I could show off for several days, and I would even pick up the unexploded firecrackers on the ground like treasures.

Now I look at the bag. There is a whole box of firecrackers, ten boxes, and a box of forty.

I bought too much, so I'll try again.

One rub, one throw

"Pah"

Well, it's really boring.

Zhou Rui threw the firecrackers mechanically, feeling like a fool. He was going to go home after throwing one box.

When he turned around, he didn't know when three or four little boys gathered behind him. From a distance, their faces were dirty, just like they had just crawled out of a cat's nest.

Zhou Rui thought about it and took out a box of firecrackers.

"Together?"

The little boy smiled immediately.

So one big and four small ones lined up at the edge of the wasteland.

"Let's see who can throw farther! 3! 2! 1!"

Zhou Rui threw more than 30 meters with overwhelming momentum, and his arms left afterimages.

"You are a scumbag! You are an adult!"

"I am not! I am just tall!"

Occasionally, crisp laughter came, but it was hard to tell whether it was from adults or children.

It turns out that it is not as fun as before because there are no friends as before

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The next day, after Zhou Rui got up, he received a system message while he was still waking up.

"Entry task [Health], experience value +1, current progress (3/100)"

Scratching his head, it turns out that going to bed early and getting up early still has experience, but it needs to be sustained for a period of time.

The other two points were given by the Ten-Ingredients Soup yesterday, but two points a day was the limit. The third and fourth cups did not give any experience, but just filled a belly with water.

Today I have something serious to do, which is to drive to the elevator house bought by Yao Peili to move things.

Yao Peili started to pack up these two days. Some items that have not been used for many years and do not affect the New Year, but do not want to be thrown away, are going to be gradually sent there. It just so happens that Zhou Rui and Zhou Weigang both have cars.

Zhou Rui also went there for the first time. It happened to be in the same community as the house that Yao Peili bought with all her family property in her previous life, but in a different building.

In the previous life, this was Yao Peili's only property in her later years. In this life, she just bought it and put it here to keep a memory.

The decoration is OK, reaching the middle and high level of the town. It has been completed 80% so far, but the decorator went home for the New Year and could not finish it.

All the things were piled up in the living room. Zhou Rui and Zhou Weigang ran back and forth four times before they finished the work. When they returned home in the afternoon, the two men were speechless.

After moving so many things, why did it feel like nothing was missing at home?

After that, Zhou Rui took a shower, changed his clothes, and prepared to go to the class reunion.

Yao Peili reminded: "Don't drive after drinking. If you can't, ask your dad to pick you up."

Zhou Rui shook his head: "I don't drive, and I don't need to pick you up. I guess it will be an all-nighter."

At the class reunion, why bother driving to show off?

My little teacher Zhou, do you still need this kind of external things to show off?

Before leaving, Zhou Rui drank another cup of "Ten-fold tonic soup" and gained some experience points again.

Zhou Weigang looked into the cup curiously: "What kind of porridge is this?"

There was still half a cup of ingredients left after drinking all the water. What else is it if not porridge?

Zhou Rui looked at the white hair on Zhou Weigang's head: "It's for health, do you want to try it?"

Zhou Weigang pondered for a moment: "What aspects?"

"I don't know, all of them?"

The place of the party was still the Qingcheng Restaurant last time. Because there was a soul figure like Zhou Rui to organize it, and it was the first holiday after graduation, there were still many people this time, nearly 40 people.

"Zhou Rui! This way!" This is Song Bin.

"Little Teacher Zhou!" This is a nickname.

Zhou Rui smiled: "Come on, come on, why do you always like to stand outside and chat, go in and talk!"

It was still the same private room, the middle baffle was disassembled and combined into two, and the two large round tables were crowded, and one more leg could not be inserted.

Everyone's jade feet were close to each other, showing the friendship of classmates.

Before the dishes were served, the heated chat began.

Compared to last year, everyone has changed a lot. After all, everyone has either become a college student or a junior college student, or has been working or working for half a year. Everyone has a lot of new things and new experiences.

But when they got together, they talked most about the past, those old topics that they had talked about a hundred times.

Who made a fool of themselves, who was stupid, who liked whom, and Zhou Rui was awesome!

The meal was lively, and Lu Xubo came when they were halfway through.

Around nine o'clock, a small half of the people left, and the others headed to the KTV in a mighty manner.

Tong Xin drank a little wine, and was very close to Zhou Rui on the way. Suddenly, she secretly scratched Zhou Rui's palm.

Zhou Rui looked back and saw only a pair of eyes with rippling water.

Zhou Rui raised his eyebrows, looked left and right, then pressed his fingers on his lips and made a "hush" gesture to Tong Xin, meaning to be careful not to be seen, or he would be teased for several years.

Tong Xin: A little? Okay!