Chapter 397 - Cultivating Earth Treasures? (2/2)
It was Li Ji calling.
Fang Qiu picked up. “Hello.”
“Senior, I’ve found it.”
Li Ji directly said, “After careful investigation, we’re positive that no one leaked the message. The one who leaked it was the one whose kung fu had been removed by you, the fourth oldest in the HNS organization. From him, we knew that they had a secret way of sending messages and had already sent back the message in advance. Initially, we prepared those bombs for the military force and didn’t expect you would go there earlier.”
Hearing that, Fang Qiu shook his head and smiled wryly.
The people ran off but he got three Earth Treasures.
Was it on earth good or bad luck?
“I see.”
Smiling bitterly, Fang Qiu said, “About the news of HNS organization, I hope you can help continue looking into them. Inform me at the first opportunity if you’ve got any.”
“Got it.”
He Gaoming immediately replied, then hesitated and quickly added, “Senior, well… I heard you’re selling Earth Treasures. Do you think you can sell me one?”
Fang Qiu said, “When I come back, go find He Gaoming. You probably know him.”
Li Ji nodded. “Got it.”
After hanging up, Fang Qiu was going to buy the ticket back to Jiangjing; the cell phone rang again.
This time, it was Jiang Miaoyu calling.
“Hello?”
Picking up, Fang Qiu asked with a smile. “What? Did you miss me?”
“Yes.”
Jiang Miaoyu said, questioning the rationality of the answer. “Who else could I miss?”
Fang Qiu happily laughed. “Hehe.”
Jiang Miaoyu asked, “Right, where on earth have you been? When will you come back to school?”
“What?”
Fang Qiu asked, “Is anything up?”
Jiang Miaoyu said, “The school has arranged that we’ll set off for the capital tomorrow morning because the Young Physician of Huaxia Competition is about to begin. You have to make it back to school and go with us.”
“You guys go first and don’t need to wait for me.”
Fang Qiu thought about it and said, “I can only make it back to school tomorrow. Later, I’ll directly find you in the capital.”
“OK. Take care. I’m off to class.”
Jiang Miaoyu suddenly lowered her voice. Just as she finished speaking, she hung up.
Putting away the cell phone, Fang Qiu bought a flight ticket back to Jiangjing.
After waiting at the airport for a long time, Fang Qiu finally boarded the plane.
When he was back in the Jiangjing city, it was already past 5:40 in the morning.
He took a taxi back to school.
Fang Qiu did not even think about it and immediately took the Heavenly Scent Horn to Yaowang Mountain to find the keeper.
The reason why he chose Heavenly Scent Horn was that Icicle Flower was basically not a plant, fiery fruit was too rare, and only Heavenly Scent Horn was kind of normal.
It was 6:10.
Fang Qiu found the keeper of Yaowang Mountain.
“Mister, can you help to see if the plant can be grown or not?”
Fang Qiu took the Heavenly Scent Horn to the keeper.
Taking the Heavenly Scent Horn, the keeper was first stunned and then started to observe it carefully. He watched it here and there for more than 10 minutes, and then shook his said and said, “The plant is a little strange. It requires very strict growing conditions. It can’t be grown unless we have the same temperature, humidity, soil quality, and sunshine. You can’t absolutely plant them in Yaowang Mountain. It must be hard to find a place with the same conditions. And there seems to be a stricter condition that I fail to see through now.”
Hearing that, Fang Qiu understood.
He knew that the stricter condition the keeper of Yaowang Mountain said was Heaven and Earth energy.
When the outside conditions in every way had reached the standard, he still needed abundant Heaven and Earth energy so he could possibly grow them.
From that point of view, he would temporarily have no hope of growing Earth Treasures.
“The thing looks nice. Here you are.”
After another look at the Heavenly Scent Horn, the keeper then handed it back to Fang Qiu, saying, “You haven’t come here in a long time. While I still have the opportunity, I’ll teach you something.”
After saying that, he took Fang Qiu to tour Yaowang Mountain while talking to Fang Qiu.
After the walk, the keeper had told Fang Qiu the properties, the cultivation, and the processing of all the herbs.
After saying those, the keeper of Yaowang Mountain looked at the herbs all over the mountain with a pitiful face and melancholy said, “In the future, on the Chinese herb subject, you can only count on yourselves.”
Fang Qiu asked in doubt, “Mister, did something happen?”
“No.”
The keeper shook his head and waved to say, “Go ahead if you’ve got business to attend to.”
Fang Qiu grew more bewildered.
However, he knew that even if he pursued the matter, the keeper of Yaowang Mountain still would not tell him the reason. Therefore, he could only get off the mountain and returned to the dorm.
On the way to go off the mountain, Fang Qiu turned his head back to look.
He found that the keeper of Yaowang Mountain was holding his tool, weeding the fields. His look was extremely serious, full of tender loving care for Chinese herbs.
Returning to the dorm, Fang Qiu pushed open the door.
He found Zhu Benzheng, Sun Hao, and Zhou Xiaotian all in the dorm.
Seeing Fang Qiu, the three people all didn’t seem very pleasantly surprised; they didn’t seem to be in a good mood.
Fang Qiu asked, “What happened to you? Why a long face, everyone?”
Zhou Xiaotian sighed melancholy. “Alas.”
Sun Hao shook his head and let out a long sigh. “Sigh…”
Zhu Benzheng also sighed with a sad face. “Alas.”
Fang Qiu pursued. “What on earth happened?”
Zhu Benzheng said, “Our master is quitting.”
“What?”
Fang Qiu was stunned and asked, “What the hell is going on?”
“Here’s what happened.”
Sun Hao pursed his lips and said, “Back then, a pharmacy company had always wanted to poach our master. But our master refused time and time again for the herbs, because he likes the environment in Yaowang Mountain. But now, my master’s son is getting married and he hasn’t enough money for a new apartment. A new apartment will cost a few million yuan. With my master’s a-few-thousand-yuan pay, how can he afford it?
“Our master was so worried that in the end, he decided to leave our school to work in that company.”