Chapter 88 - Alchemy

When both of them returned home, it was still quite early, not even noon yet.

Chen Yang fed all the wild rabbits with domestication pills and put them in the breeding area.

Then, he took three small wild pigs to the pigsty in the backyard.

“I’ve never raised pigs before, let alone wild pigs.

How am I supposed to manage this?” Chen Yang, stroking his chin, looked at the three wild piglets in the pigsty, feeling a headache coming on.

“Let’s check online!

See how best to raise these creatures.”

Not being able to figure it out, Chen Yang simply walked away.

Walking to the clinic, he lay in the rocking chair and took out his phone to start browsing online.

After browsing online for a good while, Chen Yang informed himself about many habits of wild pigs, as well as methods for feeding and breeding them.

You can’t feed wild pigs slop like domestic pigs.

They must eat some raw food,

such as carrots, rotten leaves, pumpkins, and sweet potatoes — these common agricultural products are good food for wild pigs.

After understanding the habits of wild pigs, problems followed.

Chen Yang’s home didn’t have a vegetable garden, and these little pigs had quite an appetite.

Where was he to find these agricultural products and vegetables?

“I’ll go check Auntie Wang’s house first, get something for them to eat for now, and then think about a solution later, maybe grow some myself.” Chen Yang got up from the rocking chair, called out to Nizi twice, and then headed to Wang Hong’s house.

When he arrived at Wang Hong’s door and saw it was open, Chen Yang just walked right in.

Wang Hong had hurt her foot two days ago, and he didn’t know if she had recovered yet.

Reaching Wang Hong’s bedroom, Chen Yang saw her lying in bed watching TV alone.

Chen Yang didn’t rush in but looked around first.

Knowing that Qiangzi was not home, he smiled and walked in.

“Auntie Wang.”

Chen Yang called out as he entered.

Hearing Chen Yang’s voice, Wang Hong immediately looked over.

“What brings you here, lad?”

“I came to check on your leg injury!

Wanted to see how you were recovering.” Chen Yang snickered and walked over to the bedside.

Seeing the smile on Chen Yang’s face, Wang Hong knew that he was up to no good.

But Wang Hong didn’t mind at all.

She even felt a strange sense of anticipation for Chen Yang to come with such intentions.

“Want to check the leg, do you?

Then help Auntie have a good look.” Wang Hong said coyly, then stretched out her leg.

Seeing Wang Hong’s face full of coquetry, and the stretched out fair leg, Chen Yang couldn’t help but swallow, then reached out his hand and picked up the foot to examine it.

“Auntie Wang, your leg is healing well!

It looks like it could be fully better by tomorrow,” Chen Yang said after examining the wound, then quickly added, “But you still need to use my massage technique to promote blood circulation and remove blood stasis for faster recovery.”

As he spoke, Chen Yang was ready to begin.

But at that moment, Wang Hong suddenly withdrew her fair leg.

“You scamp, always so flippant!

Didn’t you say you’d wait until my leg healed?

Can’t you wait even one day?” Wang Hong said with a flirtatious smile.

“I really can’t wait.

Who can blame me when Auntie Wang is so charming?” Chen Yang said goofily, flattering Wang Hong.

Although Wang Hong knew Chen Yang was just flattering her, she couldn’t help but beam.

“Go on with your nonsense!

You’re with Nizi all day; do you even spare a thought for your auntie?” Wang Hong rolled her eyes at Chen Yang, then added, “So what brings you here really?”

Seeing that Wang Hong wasn’t in the mood, Chen Yang became serious.

He cleared his throat twice, then inquired if Wang Hong’s household had any cabbages, carrots, rotten leaves, or the like.

Hearing Chen Yang ask for these items, Wang Hong became slightly curious.

But without asking more, she just pointed toward the area behind the village and said, “There’s a patch of carrots planted near the forest behind your house, you can go pull some if you want.”

Hearing this, Chen Yang thanked her and then immediately left Wang Hong’s house.

Wang Hong was wearing little, and the coquetry in her eyes made Chen Yang feel somewhat restless.

But as he couldn’t do anything else, Chen Yang could only leave hurriedly.

To avoid making oneself feel uncomfortable.

After leaving Wang Hong’s house, Chen Yang headed straight for the plot of land she had mentioned.

He wandered around behind his own house for a while and, once he found it, he pulled up some fresh radishes to bring back home.

He threw the fresh carrots into the pigsty, and the three wild piglets immediately started devouring them with eager snorts.

They seemed really hungry.

After feeding the piglets, Chen Yang left the backyard and walked into the kitchen to busy himself for a while, then he and Nizi quickly finished their lunch.

With no children’s business in the afternoon, Chen Yang planned to turn all the herbs Nizi had gathered over the past few days into alchemy.

Since his own supply of alchemical pills was low and he hadn’t taken any Dragon and Tiger Pills lately, Chen Yang felt his body starting to accumulate impurities again.

“I’ll start by making two Dragon and Tiger Pills to take.”

Chen Yang carefully locked the inner room’s door to prevent Nizi from disturbing him.

Then, he sat down on the floor of the inner room and began using the Medicine King’s Scripture to practice alchemy with the fresh herbs.

Every alchemy session was an immense drain on his physical strength.

Therefore, every time Chen Yang practiced alchemy, it consumed a great deal of energy and took a long time.

This session took up the entirety of the afternoon.

By the time he had turned all the herbs into variously shaped alchemy pills, it was already past four in the afternoon.

“Phew.”

Chen Yang, sweating profusely, let out a long breath and then quickly gathered the alchemy pills he made.

“I need to take more Dragon and Tiger Pills; otherwise, just one session of alchemy leaves me too exhausted.”

Saying this, Chen Yang picked up a Dragon and Tiger Pill and swallowed it down.

As the pill entered his body, he instantly felt as though flames were engulfing him,

but Chen Yang was already used to this burning sensation.

After swallowing the Dragon and Tiger Pill, Chen Yang carefully unlocked the inner room’s door and then turned to go to the bathhouse to cleanse his body of impurities.

After he had comfortably bathed, the sun had started to set outside.

“It’s strange, how could Nizi be so patient today?

Quietly reading a book all afternoon?”

Chen Yang walked out of the bathhouse and suddenly remembered that Nizi was still in the clinic reading.

He also couldn’t help feeling puzzled as Nizi was never usually so quiet.

Curious, Chen Yang walked to the clinic.

As he approached the clinic, he saw that Nizi was already asleep, her head resting on the clinic’s table…

Looking at Nizi’s sleeping visage, Chen Yang chuckled and shook his head: “I was wondering why this girl was so quiet this afternoon; turns out she was tired and fell asleep.”

Worried that Nizi might suffer heatstroke from sleeping like that, Chen Yang turned around and went inside to move the household fan out to blow on her.

Having done this, Chen Yang, with nothing else to do, lay on the rocking chair and started browsing some materials about growing mushrooms on his phone.

Now that the farm was complete, Chen Yang’s next goal was to focus on cultivating wild mushrooms.

Although the farm was stable, it wasn’t a daily moneymaker.

Moreover, the money he made from selling wild mushrooms a few days ago had really whetted his appetite!

“My daily requirement isn’t high, if I can get about thirty pounds per day like gathering, that would be perfect!” Chen Yang thought to himself.

Thirty pounds a day would amount to more than twenty thousand dollars in daily income!

The thought alone was quite delightful.

Lying on the rocking chair, Chen Yang looked through many documents and videos about transplanting wild mushrooms.

By the time it was nearing six in the evening, Chen Yang grew restless, itching to try out the process himself.

“There’s still a large patch of wild mushrooms in the old locust forest, I’ll get some to experiment with transplanting first!

It should be fine!”

As soon as he thought of it, Chen Yang decisively decided to give it a try.