The harsh medicinal material that Xiong Gu and Lu Zi needed was called "immortal fruit". The whole plant has five leaves, each stretching in different directions, which looks like a person, hence the name There is the word "immortal".

The prickly pear is usually in the state of evergreen leaves, but once the five leaves grow, flower buds will start to emerge. The flowering of prickly pears is not affected by the seasons and can be done all year round.

After flowering, it will bear green round fruits within a day, and the green fruits will quickly turn red within an hour.

The green fruit is a berry, and after turning into a red fruit, the pulp inside completely disappears, leaving only two seeds.

The medicine that Lu Zi needs is the serum in the green fruit of the prickly pear before it turns red.

Because prickly pears change very quickly and are "solitary", although it is not to the point where "one mountain cannot accommodate two tigers", the two closest prickly pears are almost [-] meters away from each other.

There is no more high-tech in this era, and we can only rely entirely on manpower. Therefore, over the years, when Xionggu collected the prickly pear fruit, it was barely enough to maintain Lu Zi's monthly medicine.And because they decocted the medicine for Lu Zi immediately after finding the prickly pear, the couple collected only six prickly pear seeds—three of which were saved by Lu Yuan when he was alive.

Xionggu kept two seeds for himself and distributed four seeds-for him, the seeds that cannot grow prickly pears are actually of little value.

Although he said he would ask Ohm to help him try it out, in fact, Kumagai didn't have much hope - after all, he had been disappointed too many times.

Over the years, they have traveled far and wide. Although they have not visited every mountain in Qing Dynasty, they have tried all the places suitable for planting medicinal materials, but they have no choice but to get out a few buds at most, and they can't even grow the first leaf. It just died.

Although they also went to see the land in Tu Zongye's villa, which was relatively fertile, but this was originally a coastal area, so how fertile could it be compared to the area in the south of the Yangtze River?

Later, I saw Ohm following him up the mountain to collect herbs again and again, saying that he was observing the growth conditions of wild prickly pears. Seeing that he was so attentive, Kumagai naturally wouldn't say anything to pour cold water on him, but he didn't even dare to ask how the progress was, for fear Let the other party mistakenly think that they are urging.

But what makes Xionggu happy is that they don't know if the couple got lucky after meeting Ohm and the others, but they didn't expect that there are quite a lot of prickly pears in such a barren place like Qingshui Town.

Xiong Gu and Lu Zi's plan to stay here for only ten days has been continuously extended.

The only thing that makes Kumagai feel that there is a fly in the ointment is that it took a long time to find a prickly pear tree, which made people scratch their heads. Now there are relatively more prickly pears, and basically two or three plants can be encountered at a time, which is also worrying.

After all, medicinal materials are poisonous if they are more or less, and he dare not increase the amount just because they are rare.

He wanted to pick all of them and save them, but once the green fruit was picked off the stalk, if it wasn't handled in time, although it wouldn't turn into red fruit and set seeds, it would rot within an hour.

Therefore, Kumagai could only watch as several fairy trees produced seeds. In order not to feel sad, he simply gave these seeds to Ohm.

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These days, they all lived in Tu Zongye's small villa. Although Tu Zongye said that it was to repay the kindness of his leg treatment, and they could stay as long as they wanted, but the couple didn't like to repay favors.In the free days, in addition to following up on the recovery of Tu Zongye's legs, he also offered to take care of the little guy after he accidentally learned that Tu Zongqin's bones had been weak due to premature birth.

Lu Zi, in particular, treated Tu Zongqin with more care than Tu Zongye—because of her frail health, she and Xiong Gu were married for many years and did not dare to have a child, but in fact she was very eager to have a baby, and even did it He planned that if he became pregnant one day, he would give birth even if he tried his best.

She never revealed these thoughts to anyone, including Kumagai.

She doesn't know how many prickly pears are left in this world, and she doesn't know how many years she can accompany her husband, but she thinks that if she has a child, with the continuation of their crystallized blood of love, the child can accompany her instead of her Husband more years.

Summer goes to autumn and time flies by.

Although Qingshui Town is near the sea, the four seasons are always very distinct, but it doesn't snow in winter.

Seeing that the leaves in the forest turned yellow, and after he searched the mountains near Qingshui Town in Xionggu and found no prickly pear, he knew it was time to say goodbye to his wife.

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When Xiong Gu and Lu Zi came to say goodbye, Ohm was holding Tu Zongye's hand, watching him walk slowly step by step.

Tu Zongye's broken leg has been officially healed a few days ago - although it is said that he has been injured for a hundred days, in fact, after Ohm's secret "treatment" before, his leg injury is not as serious as it actually is up.

It's just that Tu Zongye had broken his legs for so many years in his previous life, and his legs were almost hopeless before he met Ohm. Even though Lu Zi said that the situation was not that serious, the psychological hints were It's not that easy to remove.

Fortunately, Tu Zongye's psychological quality is relatively strong. After Lu Zi announced that he could stand up, he forcibly ignored the many worries and assumptions in his heart, and devoted himself to the recovery exercise-even if he was cured, but After all, I haven't walked for such a long time, and I have to re-practice the mastery of leg strength.

So Ohm temporarily put down what he was doing and concentrated on being Tu Zongye's "accompaniment".

However, in view of the fact that the height difference between Ohm and Tu Zongye is a bit big - Tu Zongye didn't notice it when he was sitting before. When he stood up, Ohm realized that his height is only slightly above Tu Zongye's chest. , so most of what Ohm can do is to help.

Suddenly, Ohm remembered that in the previous world, the caracal and the white lion were different in size.

"Fortunately, it's not too bad. Eat a little more, Xiaomu, you can still grow taller." Although Tu Zongye likes to hold the relatively small Ohm in his arms, he prefers that the other party can grow taller. To grow a bit thicker and taller is not only because of his heartache for his unsatisfactory life in the past ten years, but also because of some unspeakable obsession in his heart.

There is always a sense of crisis that the difference in body shape is too big and I will not be happy.

I don’t know that there are inexplicably more colored waste in Tu Zongye’s mind, and Ohm also secretly made up his mind to grow taller and stronger-the caracal has a fixed body shape and cannot be compared with the white lion, but he and Tu Zongye are both human , the same race, there can't be too much difference, right?

With this in mind, when Tu Zongye was tired from his rehabilitation and was resting aside, it was time for him to use those equipment to exercise his body—in order to better restore the ability of his legs, Ohm also referred to the rehabilitation equipment given by lady Combined with the acceptance of this era, I specially found craftsmen to make a batch of "gadgets" for resuming exercise.

However, probably because of the lack of recreational facilities in this era, the kid Tu Zongqin also participated in the exercise after seeing it—of course, it is more of a fun nature—and it is precisely because of the addition of the little guy that Tu Zongye’s Rehabilitation treatment is not so serious and heavy. In addition to his kung fu background, his legs and feet are recovering day by day. He was sweating profusely from the first two or three steps, but in just a few days, he can Walking up the small half-pillar of incense, I was out of breath and sweating.

Xiong Gu and his wife explained the reason for coming and leaving. Tu Zongye stopped exercising, looked at them, and said in a calm tone: "Are you two planning to leave because you have to find fairy fruit again? Let me ask, in Did the two of you go to the medicine field all the time in the days of Xiaoshanzhuang?" Seeing how they looked at each other, Tu Zongye knew that they hadn't paid attention to it, so he pursed his lips tightly, and suddenly felt angry for Ohm Come.

He squinted his eyes and was about to enter short-term protection mode, but Ohm squeezed his hand and motioned him with his eyes, and then the little flame was extinguished with a "chih-" and replaced with a relatively moderate one. His tone: "Brother Xiong, Mrs. Xiong, it's still early, why don't you follow us to see something before we talk about it."

Xiong Gu and Lu Zi looked at each other. Although they didn't know what to look at, as Tu Zongye said, they were not in a hurry, so they nodded.Especially Lu Zi, who was born sickly and more sensitive as a woman, noticed the attitude of Tu Zongye and Ohm, and already had some unbelievable thoughts in her heart.

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The group did not leave the small villa, but went directly to the courtyard next to Tu Zongye's residence.

As the owner of the small villa, Tu Zongye's main courtyard is naturally the largest, and the next door to him is of course the mistress's courtyard. Originally, it should be arranged for Ohm to live in, but Tu Zongye is even more cheeky, directly using "It's inconvenient to clean up the two yards due to insufficient manpower, and it's better to take care of them living together", so he and Ohm were directly arranged to live in his yard—the room next door.

If the old butler hadn't gritted his teeth and said that it was not good to live in the same room before getting married, he would have thrown away what little conscience he had left.

But from the courtyard next door to the room next door, he has already made rapid progress——Tu Zongye comforted himself like this.

Closer to home, although the yard next door is unoccupied, it is not completely locked.

Although it is now autumn and many trees have begun to drop their branches and leaves, the whole yard still looks vibrant.

The only thing that is eye-catching is the half-acre garden in the yard.

The garden is full of gravel and slightly whitish muck, which looks like it has not been well-maintained, but the trees, flowers and plants outside the garden are full of energy, and the branches are neatly built, which is particularly tragic .

There are a dozen or so green plants sparsely growing inside, each with only three or four leaves, trembling under the breeze, looking very pitiful.

But in the eyes of Xiong Gu and Lu Zi, every plant and every leaf seems to be shining!

Because these are prickly pears!

All are prickly pears that are already alive!

Lu Zi's personality was restrained, and she just watched without blinking at this moment, too shocked to speak.On the other hand, Xionggu showed much more emotion. He let out a voice of "┗|`O′|┛嗤~~", and he didn't care to startle the birds around him. His big hands were tightly held together, and his big eyes like copper bells looked at them expectantly: "Brother Tu, Brother Qu, these are...these are..."

Tu Zongye had expected this kind of behavior a long time ago, so he smiled very calmly: "As you can see, they are all the living prickly pears."

"All!?" Kumagai's pupils dilated, he gasped and subconsciously looked at Lu Zi.

Lu Zi was the weakest at a distance, but she could hear their words clearly. At this moment, she covered her chest and nodded heavily: "I remember you gave a total of thirteen seeds." She and this medicinal material They have been together for so many years, and they will never admit to being wrong, one of them is quite a few.

Seeing that Lu Zi's usually pale face turned red, Ohm was worried that the other party would faint because of his excitement, so he hurriedly said: "I planned to wait until the first flower bloomed before telling you, after all, although I'm alive, But I'm not sure about the efficacy of the medicine..."

"Don't worry! You are too modest! I believe in you little brother! It was me, Old Xiong, who underestimated your ability before!" Xiong Gu hurried to his beloved wife, stroking her slender back with his big palm, giving her comfort , interrupted Ohm's words uncontrollably.After all, according to his previous experience, even in the wild, at most one tree can survive in an acre of land, but now thirteen trees are densely (not) gathered in an acre of land, not only alive, but not sick at all. look!How did this happen?

Thinking of his attitude that he didn't care about at the beginning, Kumagai felt extremely guilty, and apologized repeatedly very sincerely, which made Ohm feel a little embarrassed—after all, he didn't expect the survival rate to be so high.He just followed Xionggu to look for prickly pear fruit these few times, and at the same time used the plug-in lady to make statistical statistics on the soil nutrients, soil humidity, air humidity, light, etc. of the prickly pear fruit's growth environment. Can be tricky.

He himself felt lucky to be able to survive all of them.

Now being so apologized and thanked by the other party, I always feel a little bit ashamed.

However, Tu Zongye felt that the other party's attitude was taken for granted. After all, for Xiong Gu and his wife, this was a life-saving grace.

Tu Zongye originally planned to inadvertently reveal the planting method he had explored in his previous life intermittently when Ohm started planting. Who knew that Ohm had succeeded before his plan was put into action—you know, His method can only guarantee the probability of saving seven out of ten at most.

Tu Zongye didn't have the slightest doubt or pity about this, on the contrary, he was very proud - this is the person he likes, and he is so capable!

In this way, it is only necessary to make the couple feel grateful to Ohm, and then he will be sure that the couple will agree to his request.

Tu Zongye was still calculating when it would be more appropriate to speak, when Ah Quan came running out of breath: "Young Master, Young Master! And Young Master Ou...just now a team of people came from the village, just outside the villa, and asked to Seeing you!" After taking a breath, Ah Quan deliberately added, "It looks like you have a lot of background!"

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