One month later.

A medicinal hall, a small courtyard and a stone house.

"It's not as dangerous as I imagined! We entered the mountain this month and had almost nothing to do. We easily received more than 200 copper coins. The three-year exercise period for the boys who collect herbs will pass quickly and we can accumulate a lot of copper coins. When we become apprentice apprentice, we will definitely earn more, so it's okay to ask for a beautiful young wife!"

Feng Xiao proudly threw away a small purse of drum nanban and said happily in front of Ye Qin.

Because Feng Xiao was "floating" around while collecting herbs and occasionally picked some low-level herbs, the reward money he received was the most among the four. Yang Yicheng, Qian Ruoxue, and Sun Ying were less, and there were more than 140 or 50 pieces. Ye Qin carried the herb basket and did not collect a single herb, so he only got about 100 hard-earned money from copper coins.

After returning to the county town, Xie Ze gave a reward according to their contributions.

Ye Qin smiled, a little bitter.

Who made him practice hard work and hard work? During the exercise period of the boy who collected herbs, he was the one with the least income among the people. After three years, he became an apprentice of the medicine, and I am afraid the result will be the same. The reason is very simple. The internal strength he practiced is not very suitable for collecting herbs. Feng Xiao practiced light skills, which is the most suitable one.

With a "bang", Yang Yicheng pushed open the wooden door from outside and came in. His face was gloomy and ugly, and his eyes were lost. Without saying a word, he climbed onto his bed, lay on the bed and turned his back to them, without saying a word.

"Hey, senior brother, what's going on? Why are you so angry?"

Feng Xiao shouted strangely.

Ye Qin took a look and was also secretly surprised. He had known Yang Yicheng for so long and had never seen him get such a temper. He had just returned from outside for two days and got a hundred copper coins. Why did he go out tonight? How could his mood become so bad for no reason when he came back?

Qian Ruoxue and Sun Ying also walked in from outside at this time.

Ye Qin and Feng Xiao couldn't help but look at them.

Qian Ruoxu's lips were a little white.

"Die, two died!"

Feng Xiao was shocked, "Die~, why did two die?"

"The other teams that went out to collect herbs have returned, but two boys who collected herbs died. One of them knew the elder brother and was his partner who grew up with him."

Qian Ruoxue's eyes were filled with tears.

Zhuqi County is so big, and many children in the county know each other. Even though they don’t have much friendship, they have seen each other a few times.

Feng Xiaodai was so stupid that he couldn't come back to his senses for a long time.

Ye Qin was also stunned. Two died in just one month. After the three-year exercise period, how many of their more than 40 herb-collecting boys could survive?

Ye Qin couldn't help but feel a little cold on his body, and the air in the stone house was a little cold.

The boy who collects herbs will die forever, this is not a rumor.

Ye Qin was not scared by this bad news and asked calmly.

"How did those two herb-collecting boys die?"

Qian Ruoxue shook his head.

"I don't know, after those teams of herb-collecting boys came back, their faces were even more depressed than the elder brother, but they refused to say anything. But in their tone, they seemed to have fallen to death when they were picking some precious medicinal materials."

Ye Qin shook his head, and the idiot also knew that they had fallen to death by collecting herbs. Otherwise, the boy who had practiced martial arts for more than half a year, and the herbs who had a stronger martial arts skills would not be so easy to die.

He said, "You must know how they died so that you can find a way to avoid another danger. The fourth and fifth junior sisters, you are from the county town and are familiar with the situation here. Then you go and ask the boy you know about the medicine collection, what is the specific process."

Yang Yicheng suddenly turned over, with a few bloodshot blood in his eyes. "Don't ask, I know how they died!"

Ye Qin looked at him in surprise.

Yang Yicheng said hatefully, "I know the boys of the two teams. One of them said that they found a hundred years of precious black grass on the cliff of a valley. But it was almost steep in the air, and the rocks were very sharp, and the wind knife was very sharp, and the ropes were easily cut off. The herbicide was unwilling to take risks, so he sent a herbicide boy who knew light skills, but he was scraped off the valley and lost his life. Another team found a rare medicinal plant in the river valley. Because the herbicide was unwilling to take risks, he sent my brother who knew light skills to go up, but he lost his hand and was washed away by water in the blink of an eye. These herbicides were not good things, so they exchanged their lives for their safety!"

Ye Qin, Qian Ruoxue, and Sun Ying, after hearing this, he couldn't help but look back at Feng Xiao in the stone house.

Among them, Feng Xiao is the only one who knows light skills. If one day, the herbalist Xie Ze also needs someone to take the risk of collecting herbs, the first one is probably Feng Xiao.

Feng Xiao had already turned pale and was frightened. He held his head and didn't dare to listen. "How could this happen? Isn't this good? Why do you want to die?" His happy mood that he had previously received 200 copper coins was completely gone. If he lost his life, what's the use of asking for this little money?

Ye Qin was silent.

He thought of a further question. If Feng Xiao died, who would replace him next? It was probably one of Qian Ruoxue and Sun Ying, who was flexible and agile. Then there were Yang Yicheng and him who only had physical strength. Every time one more died, he would be in danger.

So no matter what, Feng Xiao must be kept. Only when Feng Xiao is not dead will everyone be safe.

Ye Qin told Qian Ruoxue, Sun Ying, and Yang Yicheng about this idea, and they all agreed and were willing to do their best to protect Feng Xiao.

I rested in the county for two or three days.

Xie Ze was going to go into the mountains to collect herbs, so the five of them naturally had to set out again and enter the mountains to collect herbs. However, this time they no longer had any leisure time, but were heavy-hearted and secretly looked at Xie Ze with strange eyes from time to time, as if he was a man-eating evil spirit.

Especially Feng Xiao, who was in a very low mood and had no intention of using light skills to pick up any herbs. He wished he could not know how to light skills at all, so as not to die quickly.

Yang Yicheng, Qian Ruoxue, and Sun Ying had no intention of catching insects, snakes and wild animals.

Although they are only eleven or twelve years old, they are mostly born in poverty and have grown up after suffering and are relatively mature in some aspects. They are very alert to those who have malicious intentions.

Xie Ze had already seen their strange expressions and knew the reason, but he ignored them at all. He walked slowly and just occasionally sneered in secret, and said in his heart: So what if you should be careful? When you should use them, you will naturally use them. Can you still resist?

Only Ye Qin, who followed Xie Ze with herbal basket on her back five steps, was always low-key.

Spring goes and winter comes, year after year.

The three-year exercise period for boys who collect herbs will pass soon.

In the past three years, sometimes several herbs will die in a month, and sometimes even a herbs may not die in a few months. It depends entirely on whether they will encounter precious medicinal materials, whether the place where the medicinal materials grow is extremely dangerous, and whether the medicinal materials will fail. If the above three points do not appear, under normal circumstances, no one will die.

In the first year, the number of boys who collected herbs was not experienced enough, and the number of boys who died was the most was seven. In the next two years, the number of people who died began to decrease significantly, but there were always a few in the year.

Ye Qin's team is a little lucky.

In the past three years, Xie Ze has only let Feng Xiaoding replace him five times.

Feng Xiao was timid. Under Yang Yicheng's encouragement, he knew that he could not get rid of the fate of substitution. In his grief and anger, he practiced light skills hard and forced Ti Yunzong to the third level. With his playful nature, it was not easy to be able to practice to the third level.
Chapter completed!