Fairy cage

This time when he came to the alchemy room, Yu Lie was no longer a stranger and mingled with the crowd. After tapping his fingers, Yu Lie entered the factory where the poisonous mouth was.

Although Yu Lie is still just a low-ranking Taoist boy, he can be regarded as a small leader in the alchemy room because of the tiger skin.

There were exactly four Taoists under him. Yu Lie came earlier, and his four men came earlier and were already waiting for Yu Lie in front of Dukou's door.

When Yu Lie saw the four men under his command for the first time, he was immediately stunned and instantly remembered the appearance of his four men firmly in his mind.

Nothing else, because these four people are really recognizable by their size and facial features.

Tall, short, fat and thin, the four of them lived together. They had buck teeth, bald heads, crooked mouths and hunched backs. Each of the four had one, so they could be called crooked melons and split jujubes.

Yu Lie also happened to see an acquaintance there. He had buck teeth, a big head, and was extremely skinny. He looked like a carrot head.

Luobotou also recognized Yu Lie, with surprise on his face and waved quickly: "Brother Yu, it's really you!"

The other party walked quickly towards Yu Lie. The three people next to him were a little surprised when they heard it, and they quickly followed suit.

Yu Lie stared at Carrot Head and immediately waved, saying with a smile: "Carrot, long time no see!"

He also showed joy, because the visitor and he knew each other, they were his neighbors when he lived in the courtyard, and they were good friends. It's just that the other party later moved out of the courtyard for some reason, and there was no contact with him.

Carrot Tou walked up to Yu Lie, smiled and wanted to make love with Yu Lie, but he thought of something else, and the smile on his face faded, and he didn't get too close.

Carrot Tou stood still a few steps in front of Yu Lie, bowed to Yu Lie obediently, cooed in his mouth, and shouted respectfully: "I have seen Yu Tou... Taoist Master Yu."

The three tall, short and fat people who followed the other party also bowed quickly and shouted: "I've seen Taoist Master Yu!"

When Yu Lie heard Luobotou's respectful cry, the smile on his face froze. He glanced at the other three people next to him and nodded reservedly.

He returned the greeting: "Yu has met four Taoist friends. What are they called Taoist priests? You just call me Taoist friends."

He pointed at the poisonous gate and said, "Pindao is on duty for the first time today, so I have to ask you to take care of me."

The four people in the carrot head bowed, and the tall and fat one among them was still slumped in his stomach. They all responded quickly: "Don't dare, don't dare, Fellow Daoist Yu please come!"

The other four people immediately got out of the way and respectfully invited Yu Ling to come inside. Yu Lie nodded in response and strode inside.

But just as he was passing by Luotou, Yu Lie stretched out his hand and held Luotou's arm. He smiled and said, "Brother Luo, I'll trouble you to be Yu's master today."

"Please also ask Brother Luo to lead the way and teach me what I should pay special attention to when in the poisonous mouth."

Carrot Head was surprised when he heard this. He saw Yu Lie holding his arm, and a childish smile appeared on his face again: "Okay!"

Luobotou used to be Yu Lie's neighbor, so naturally he and Yu Lie belonged to the same group of Taoist boys. They were both fifteen or sixteen years old. Among the four tall, short, fat and thin people, he was the youngest, and he was already a big kid.

Luobotou immediately regained his closeness to Yu Lie. He led Yu Lie and took the initiative to wander around the poisonous mouth.

Came to a place with mud puppets.

Carrot Head took a stick of incense, lit it on the oil lamp, then bowed to the green-faced and fanged puppet on the altar table, and inserted it into the incense burner.

He leaned into Yu Lie's ear and whispered: "This is the ghost soldier responsible for supervising the poisonous mouth. Every day when working, he has to bow down. This is the real Dian Mao."

"You have to pay your respects when you get off work, otherwise, you have to be careful when the boss secretly deducts your wages at the end of the month."

Yu Lie was surprised when he heard this. He found that the other three people also quickly took the incense and candles and bowed.

So Yu Lie also played a stick of incense obediently, which was regarded as signing for himself for today's work.

Carrot Leader led the rest of the army and introduced again:

"Dukou has at least one Xiaokou busy working day and night. We work one day and have one day off. This month we are all working day shifts, and next month it will be night shifts, but the working hours should be about the same, sunrise and sunset. "

"The specific shifts will be given by Datou in advance. Occasionally, there will be a superior or an alchemy master in the room making alchemy, and everyone in the room will have to work overtime, day and night. But it is usually only once or twice a month."

"Anything that needs to be concocted will be sent over by someone. We are only responsible for extracting the poison. We can just release it."

"Each mouth in the poisonous mouth has its own specialty and responsibility for removing poisonous substances. Some are good at vegetation, some are good at gold and stone, and some are good at flesh and blood... Our mouths are most responsible for the scales in flesh and blood, mostly Poisonous snakes and poisonous fish.”

Yu Lie had already learned about this from the big head of Poison Kou in advance, so the antidotes he brought today happened to have the effect of alleviating snake venom and fish venom.

Luobotou introduced the work situation in Dukou to Yu Lie in detail, not missing any points and taboos that need to be paid attention to.

After Yu Lie listened, he found that although the job in Dukou was troublesome, the key was to have quick hands, quick eyes, courage and good luck. In addition, you will definitely become familiar with techniques such as dissecting fish to remove poison and extracting poisons after practicing it day by day.

The reason why it is said that luck is needed is because after removing the poison, the person responsible for removing the poison must first try it himself before it is completed.

The tried method is simple and crude, usually oral swabbing. As long as the person extracting the poison does not die, it means the toxicity is controllable.

The last poisonous little boss who was replaced by Yu Lie died at this step. The other party was unlucky, overconfident, misidentified the snake, and died suddenly on the spot before he could retire.

Therefore, the carrot head still leaned close to Yu Lie's ear and whispered: "Although poison is not allowed in the mouth, I am worried about wasting medicinal materials. But Yu Lieqian is new here and is the boss, so you can prepare some more toads and put them in your sleeves. Toad checks for toxicity.”

The other party also smiled and said: "Sparrows can also be used, as long as they can be tucked into the sleeves, but remember to clip off the wings first, and don't cover them to death, or you will scare yourself."

This approach was similar to Yu Lie using myna to test medicine. Yu Lie immediately nodded to show that he understood and thanked the other person.

After Carrot Head explained, he scratched his head, as if he couldn't think of anything to explain, and then looked at the three tall, short and fat people beside him.

Although the tall, short, and fat three of them looked like crooked melons and jujubes, they all had sharp eyesight. When Luobotou introduced them, they were very calm and did not say a word.

When Carrot Head looked over, the three tall, short and fat people were all sitting on their stomachs, grinning, and smiling innocently.

Carrot Head said respectfully to the dwarf among them:

"Mr. Hu, you have to tell Brother Yu about other matters, especially matters that the leader is responsible for."

Yu Lie took a good look at the short man called "Old Hu" and found that his face was gray and black, full of wrinkles, and he had a hunched back. He looked to be in his fifties or sixties.

Because the poisonous mouth destroyed the Taoist boy, Yu Lie couldn't guess how old the other party was, but compared to the others in Luobotou, there was no doubt that the other party would be the old man mentioned by the poisonous mouth, otherwise he would not be called "Old Hu".

Yu Lie also saluted: "I'm sorry for bothering you."

Mr. Hu hunched his back and said with a simple smile: "Nothing, nothing. Then let me tell Mr. Yu..."

There was nothing troublesome about what the little boss was responsible for. In addition, the other party spoke like an old farmer and spoke in a down-to-earth manner. After listening to it for a few times, Yu Lie roughly understood it.

There was another exchange of pleasantries, and Yu Lie promised to go to the dining hall in the evening and treat everyone to a drink. Everyone also officially came to live, and they had to deliver things that needed to be detoxified.

So everyone stood in front of large wooden piles that were as big as a table.

The wooden piles were hacked with knives and axes over time, and each one was soaked in blood and turned black, as if they could bleed with just a pinch.

It was already autumn and winter, but there were still flies and gadflies buzzing around, but they didn't even try to get rid of them.

Yu Lie was given a sharp knife and a wide knife. The sharp knife was used to disembowel the abdomen, and the wide knife was used to break bones and flesh. He also received a pitch-black robe.

The monk's robe was so dirty that it was so black that flies would slip on it.

According to what Luotou and the others said, Yu Lie's knife and robe had been passed down for three to five generations. They were left behind because they were easy to use, and they were finely crafted weapons. However, the three or five generations mentioned by the poison are very short, less than ten years.

Yu Lie stood in front of the wooden stake. Carrot Tou wrapped him in a black robe, mainly around his waist. He himself also held a knife.

This made Yu Lie look suspicious:

"With this outfit...can I learn any alchemy skills?"

When he lowered his head and looked down, he suddenly felt that he was not like a Taoist boy in the alchemy room who wanted to remove poison and eliminate evil and assist in alchemy, but more like a pork guy who wanted to kill pigs and cows in a slaughterhouse.