Shen Luo shook his head and put aside his thoughts for the time being. He got up and went to the door to ask for a meal.
After a while, Xiao Sanzi came in with a tray. There were two meat dishes and two vegetable dishes on it.
Shen Luo had been hungry for a long time. He immediately gobbled up the food and quickly swept it clean.
Xiao Sanzi waited for Shen Luo to finish eating, then he cleaned up the bowls and chopsticks. Just as he was about to leave, Shen Luo stopped him.
"Wait, little brother, are you a native of Song Fan County? Are you familiar with the situation in the city? "
"I'm from the nearby Xu Family Village, but I often go to the city to buy things. I'm quite familiar with the situation in the city. Young Master, do you have something to tell me?" Xiao Sanzi asked respectfully.
"Do you know where I can buy yellow paper and cinnabar in the county?" Shen Luo asked.
"Yellow paper and cinnabar? We have these two things in our shop. "Xiao Sanzi thought for a moment and said.
"These two things are not commonly used. Do you really have them in your shop?" Shen Luo asked in disbelief.
"It's a coincidence. My shopkeeper invited a master to the shop last month to pray for fortune. There are a lot of paper and cinnabar left in the backyard. If Young Master needs them, I'll help you ask the shopkeeper for some?" Xiao Sanzi said with a smile.
"Then I'll have to trouble you." Shen Luo said and took out a small piece of silver as a reward.
"Thank you, Young Master. Besides the paper and cinnabar, do you need anything else? I'll find it for you. "Xiao Sanzi was overjoyed. This small piece of silver was worth two or three taels. It was equivalent to three or four months of his salary.
"If you didn't mention it, I would have forgotten. Can you find me some fresh black dog blood and a set of brush, ink, paper, and inkstone? Well, tung oil. Also, get me some tung oil. "Shen Luo said after thinking for a moment.
"There is a slaughterhouse in the town. Dog blood is very easy to get. There is tung oil in the nearby grocery store. There are also ready-made ink and paper in the shop. Young Master, please wait a moment. I'll get it for you." Xiao Sanzi said and quickly left.
Less than an hour later, he ran back with another tray in his hands. On the tray were Shen Luo's things.
After Shen Luo checked and confirmed that there were no mistakes, he dismissed Xiao Sanzi and immediately began to try to draw the Little Thunder Talisman with the special ability of "treasure hunting".
He picked up the brush and filled it with ink, yet he didn't start drawing the talisman right away, and he revealed a pondering expression instead.
Although he had already mastered the drawing method of the Little Thunder Talisman, the Little Thunder Talisman that he had used to find the Jade Pillow was something he had carelessly drawn. It would not be easy for him to make another one.
He tried his best to recall the situation when he drew the Treasure Seeking Thunder Talisman, but many days had passed and many things had happened in succession during this period. He racked his brains and could barely recall thirty to forty percent of it.
Shen Luo repeatedly recalled these thirty to forty percent of his memories, and finally put down his pen and began to try.
Apart from the parts he remembered, he tried his best to imitate the painting style in other places.
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After an unknown period of time, Shen Luo had a thick stack of Little Thunder Talismans on the table in front of him.
"There are so many of them. It should be enough. There should be at least one of them that will work," Shen Luo murmured.
He then began to soak the Treasure Seeking Talismans in the tung oil, and the talismans were quickly soaked by the tung oil.
Shen Luo took out the talismans one by one, wiped the oil stains on their surface, and carefully dried them with the flame of the lamp, making them into oil paper talismans.
He then put one of the oil paper talismans into a basin full of water. The oil paper talisman didn't become soft after being wet, and the Fu characters on it were bright red as before.
Shen Luo thought of this method in order to prevent the talismans from being damaged by the water when they went to the river tomorrow to look for treasures.
When he was at home, he had seen the servants use tung oil to make waterproof oil paper, so he copied them. He didn't expect this method to work.
He took out the three Little Thunder Talismans and processed them in the same way.
After doing all this, Shen Luo was so tired that he fell into a deep sleep.
When he woke up, the sky was already bright outside. The sunlight shone into the room through the window, as if it had been cut into golden lines.
Shen Luo got up and opened the window. The sky was blue, as tranquil as a mirror, and occasionally dotted with a few small white clouds. Obviously, today's weather would be good.
He quickly washed up, but didn't go immediately. Instead, he took a brush and ink, bent over the table, and wrote a letter.
A few days ago, he received a letter from home at the Temple of Spring and Autumn. Recently, he had been troubled by various things, and forgot to write a reply. He only remembered it when he met Liu Baichuan yesterday.
Father read the letter and said,
Everything is well in the Temple of Spring and Autumn. My cultivation is also quite smooth, and my body is much better than before.
How is the situation at home? Second Mother, Second Brother, how is my little sister?
Last time, Father mentioned in the letter that there was a plague in the Ox-Moon Town in the west of the city. It is a disease of lung heat. I have been carefully thinking about it these days, and combined it with the ancient lotus flower soup, I have figured out a prescription. Seven ingredients, lotus, ephedra, almond, patchouli, roseroot, mint, and licorice, should be used in the medicine.
Shen Luo then wrote some things about himself at the Temple of Spring and Autumn. He didn't mention his current condition at all, so as not to worry his family.
At this point, he stopped writing and wrote down the recipe for the Lotus Flower Clear Plague Soup in detail. He blew the ink dry and put the letter away.
Shen Luo was eager to find treasures, so after finishing this, he got up and went to the inn lobby.
"Young Master Shen, are you leaving so early?" Innkeeper Hou saw Shen Luo coming with a bag on his back, and immediately greeted him warmly.
"Innkeeper Hou, this is the money for yesterday's room, and the consultation fee for Doctor Liu. I was in a hurry yesterday, and forgot about it. Please pass it on for me." Shen Luo said as he took out two pieces of silver and put them on the counter.
"It's only for one night. You don't need so much." Innkeeper Hou waved his hand.
"My illness flared up yesterday. It was all thanks to the shopkeeper's help that I was able to get out of danger in time. The extra can be considered as a thank you gift." Shen Luo cupped his hands in greeting. He didn't wait for the shopkeeper surnamed Hou to say anything.
Innkeeper Hou raised his hand as if he wanted to say something, but when he saw Shen Luo's anxious face, he swallowed his words.
Outside the inn, Xiao Sanzi had already brought the horse. Shen Luo mounted the horse and urged it to leave quickly.
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