Chapter 29 Smart and Clever Jiang Surou

Good man, he is trying to drag me down with him, even at the cost of his own life.

Sure enough, Zhang Xiang continued,

“Elder, when I was at Danxia Peak, I also confiscated medicinal herbs, but I never asked the collectors to check their efficacy.

I, your disciple, came to Luoxia Peak to take up my post today and went to collect the medicinal herbs, but Junior Brother Han said that he still needed me to test the efficacy of the herbs personally.

But the disciples only know how to manage chores. How can they check the efficacy of medicine? They don’t understand medicinal herbs at all.

It was my first day as a disciple at Luoxia Peak, and my mission was to collect the medicinal herbs. If I didn't collect them, I would be punished. If I didn't check, Junior Brother Han wouldn't give me the herbs. So I had no choice but to go along with him, pretending to check the herbs and writing a receipt.

Afterwards, the disciple went to ask other servants, and they found out that Luoxia Peak did not require those who collected the medicine to check its efficacy.

Junior Brother Han clearly wanted to shirk responsibility, bully me because I was new and ignorant, and put the blame on me.

Elder, I am innocent. Junior Brother Han is blackmailing me."

Elder Wang's face darkened and he said,

"Since there was no inspection, you shouldn't have written that you had done the inspection. This is also a crime of deception and malfeasance!"

"Yes, yes, yes. I accept the punishment. I accept the punishment."

Zhang Xiang said quickly.

Han Feng clasped his hands and said,

“Elder, every time my disciples’ herbs were confiscated, I would ask the confiscators to check and write a receipt. Previously, it was always Boss Ma who wrote it, but then Boss Ma disappeared and this senior brother took over.

Elder, I believe that checking the efficacy of the medicine is a must and is also the responsibility of the collector.

After all, the disciple gave him the herbs. What if he took them and replaced the good ones with bad ones, passing the inferior ones off as good ones, and then sold the good ones for money?

Or what if he took the herbs and then poisoned them to frame his disciples?

After all, once the herbs are taken away, we, the growers, no longer have the final say on what becomes of them.

Just like this time, after he took the herbs away, he poisoned them, or maybe the alchemist himself was not skilled enough and came to cause trouble for his disciples.

I do not admit this sin.

After all, I have evidence to prove it. I personally checked it and even wrote a receipt."

Zhang Xiang sneered,

"Humph, whether to recognize or not is not up to you, and whether or not to conduct an inspection is not something you, a mere errand disciple, can decide.

Our sect does not have such a rule at all, so the document I wrote is not in compliance with the regulations and I do not recognize it."

Elder Wang interrupted and said,

"Okay, you have all made your arguments and presented evidence. Now, it is time for this elder to personally check whether this pill is poisonous."

After saying this, he opened the pill bottle, poured out a pill, and swallowed it in one gulp.

Han Feng was confused. Is this such a fierce and primitive testing method?

After a moment, the elder nodded and said,

“It is indeed poisonous.”

Hearing this, Ye Yuntang jumped up and pointed at Han Feng and cursed,

“Han Feng, you bastard, you dog thief, what else do you have to say? Your herbs are poisonous and you want to kill me.

Five herbs can be used to make five pills. You want to harm five people!

Elder, I beg you to arrest this villain and torture him severely. This kind of person has ulterior motives and harms his fellow disciples. His crime is even more serious. He should be abolished and expelled from the sect!"

Elder Wang pondered, thinking about how to handle this case.

At this time, Jiang Surou stood up and said,

“Elder, I am also a mid-level alchemist, and I am very skilled in refining Qi Condensation Pills.

As far as I know, there are three recipes for refining the Qi Condensing Pill, and the one that requires Four-Leaf Orchid is the recipe that requires one Four-Leaf Orchid, one Golden Ice Flower, two taels of Qixun Root, five cents of Lingcao Ash, and one Square Orchid.

Five kinds of herbs are needed here, so how can we be sure that it is the four-leaf orchid that is the problem?

And even if the problem with the four-leaf orchid was confirmed, this herb had gone through three hands.

It was first in Han Feng's hands, then in Zhang Xiang's hands, then in the herb room at Danxia Peak, and finally in Ye Longzhao's hands.

Any of these links could have been poisoned and destroyed the efficacy of the medicine, so how can we be sure that it was Han Feng who did it?

If they are to catch someone, they should also arrest all the people involved and investigate, including the alchemist.

This is still within our own sect, where there are relatively few procedures. If you buy herbs from a street stall outside and something goes wrong, you can't even find the person, so who can you catch?

The disciple thought that this kind of alchemy business could only be done by finding the lowest-level supplier, that is, the alchemist.

As an alchemist, the pills he makes are for human consumption, so he should be responsible for ensuring that every pill is effective.

Every herb should be checked for problems before refining it.

It’s like when you eat in a restaurant and something goes wrong with the food, instead of blaming the chef or the owner, you go and find fault with the person who grew the vegetables. Does that make sense?

When a vegetable grower sells vegetables to a restaurant and the transaction is completed, the vegetable has nothing to do with the farmer anymore. If there is something wrong with the vegetable, the restaurant should not buy it.

Now that there is a problem with the pills that Ye Longzhao has refined, instead of looking for him, he is looking for the person who grew the herbs. This is really ridiculous!

If Han Feng is punished this time, then in the future, should we disciples who grow herbs start from home, keep an eye on every herb, send it to the herb room, have it taken away by the alchemist, and then watch the person taking the medicine take it, and only leave after making sure there is no problem?

Doesn’t every participant in this process have to keep an eye on it personally?

If that's the case, how much manpower and resources will be wasted. We just don't need to do anything and just keep an eye on the person who buys the pills.

If he takes the medicine for one month, he will watch it for one month. If he takes the medicine for ten years, he will watch it for ten years.

Is this the truth? "

After hearing this, Elder Wang burst out laughing and said,

"This is nonsense."

“But there is nothing we can do about this, unless there is a rule that every person who collects the herbs must personally check the efficacy of the herbs. After confirming that they are correct, they will be responsible for this step. In this case, we can just go directly to the final alchemist.

And even if you are an alchemist, it is not the last step.

What if the person who bought the elixir took poison and framed the alchemist?"

Elder Wang said,

"People's hearts are unpredictable. This is something that cannot be prevented."

“So, when someone has problems after taking a pill made by an alchemist, instead of looking for the responsibility of the alchemist, they look for the responsibility of the herb grower. Isn’t that ridiculous?

If it is really the responsibility of those who grow the herbs, then everyone in the supply chain has a greater responsibility, because no one checks the efficacy of the herbs.

If the herb collectors don't understand these things, don't the alchemists also understand them?"

Jiang Surou's eloquent logic left everyone present stunned.