Chapter 29 Mixed
“What are the requirements for admission to the slaughterhouse?”

Passing by the slaughterhouse, Chen Ku looked back several times and saw a live tiger tied with a chain and driven into the yard.

He was jealous and excited.

There is no doubt that this Tujieyuan is a perfect place for him to practice the Transformation Diagram and accumulate evil spirits.

The prerequisite is that you have to be able to get in.

Wu Gui looked at Chen Ku curiously and asked, “Do you want to work in a slaughterhouse in the future?”

The Yaowang Hall is where medicinal materials are processed and is divided into three major courtyards: the Slaughterhouse uses animals as medicine, the Herb Courtyard uses plants as medicine, and the Metal and Stone Courtyard uses metals as medicine.

Among them, the Slaughterhouse was the hardest working, with cooking, slaughtering and stewing, and the physical effort required was far greater than that required in the Baicaoyuan.

As for the Jinshi Academy, it is the place that tests the pharmacist’s talent the most. It has already involved the level of “alchemy pills”, and only people with ordinary talents can enter.

Chen Kuzi would not tell what he was thinking, but said calmly: “I’m just asking out of curiosity.”

It must be said that the Tujieyuan gave him an idea.

Even if I can’t get into the slaughterhouse for a while?

Can I find a job as a pig butcher in the county town?

First, practice the transformation to perfection?
Wu Gui didn’t know what Chen Ku was thinking, and he didn’t suspect anything. After all, he had just passed the slaughterhouse, and he thought Chen Ku was just curious, so he said carefully:
“This is easy. As long as you can become an ‘apprentice’, half of the conditions are met. The other half depends on your own preferences and talents. For example, for a butcher’s shop, you must at least have the talent for ‘slaughtering’. To put it simply, you must have good knife skills. For example, Master Shang Yunfang, his knife skills have reached the level of supernatural skills. He can butcher an ox with a single knife with ease.”

“Knife skills?” Chen Ku had seen clearly just now that the knife used to extract the bear’s gallbladder was much sharper than the scalpel in his previous life, and the technique was also perfect. He asked in a low voice: “Master Shang, how powerful is your martial arts? Are you a master of internal energy?”

“It’s more than just internal energy!” Wu Gui said, “It’s above internal energy, but I don’t know what realm it is. After all, I haven’t even been promoted to a regular apprentice, so I have no chance to learn advanced martial arts. I only know the three levels of strength training, transformation of energy, and internal energy.”

Far beyond internal energy? !
Chen Ku kept it in mind silently.

To enter a slaughterhouse, do you need to become an apprentice?
“Then how should an apprentice become a regular employee?” Chen Ku asked again.

Wu Gui replied, “Either you are valued by the masters in the academy, or you have made progress in martial arts and have perfected your strength training. If you have the strength of a thousand pounds, you will naturally be favored. Even if you go to help in the three major academies, having the strength of a thousand pounds is a big advantage. There will be a ‘monthly exam’ every other month. At that time, different masters will come to the academy to select people, and you will know then.”

Is a thousand-pound force enough?

Chen Ku’s heart moved slightly.

It seems that I have to fight for a chance to perform.

After a while, they arrived at the kitchen where the waiters rested, and Wu Gui took him to room number 16.

Chen Ku went in to take a look and saw that it was indeed a large bunk bed, a kang about six or seven meters long and two meters wide, with four quilts placed on it.

“You stay near the wall. The things are all prepared by Yaowangtang.” Wu Gui patted Chen Ku on the shoulder. “The men’s room is a big bunk bed like this. You have to endure it. But if you have the opportunity and become an apprentice, you can have your own bed. Not only that, the food you eat will be better than our men.”

Chen Ku looked at this simple yet clean dormitory and couldn’t help but miss the dormitory he lived in when he was in school. At least there were upper and lower bunks.

“Your roommate will be back after work and for lunch soon. As for daily martial arts training, it will be in the early morning. The hospital will send a master to teach us the basic strength training method of the Medicine King Hall, the ‘Spiritual Ape Great Strength Exercise’ within half an hour in the morning. This is a superior martial art for the strength training stage. Even if you leave the Medicine King Hall in the future, with the Spiritual Ape Great Strength Exercise, you can be a good hunter in the mountains and have all the strength in your body!”

Wu Gui said:

“There’s nothing else to tell you. I have some work to do in the front hall, so I’ll leave you alone.”

Chen Ku readily agreed and said, “I’ll treat you to a drink in two days.”

He now has more than one hundred taels of silver and dozens of taels of precious herbs on him, which can be said to be quite wealthy. A meal is nothing, but he thinks Wu Gui is a person worth communicating with, so that he can learn more about many things in Yaowang Hall.

“Okay.” Wu Gui laughed out loud when he heard that, and he had a better impression of Chen Ku.

After sending Wu Gui away, Chen Ku was in the courtyard, waiting for the other three people in the room, while thinking about his future plans for life in Yaowang Hall.

The dog’s nose’s ability to find precious herbs must not be forgotten when entering the county town, especially in Yaowang Hall, where there are more opportunities to deal with precious herbs, and it can provide him with the smell of many precious herbs that he has no idea about.

“Each of these precious herbs is considered useful by masters of internal energy, let alone someone like me who is in the stage of training strength.”

He was not qualified to use the first precious herb himself, so it could only be used as a capital for advancement. If he found another precious herb in the future, he would have to use it on himself.

While Chen was thinking hard about these things.

Not long after, a loud bell was heard ringing outside, and then in less than half a quarter of an hour, many people returned to the “dormitory” from many places outside.

Chen Ku looked at a man in his thirties with a small face and a big belly who broke into the room. His eyes were a little small, like beans. When he saw someone in the room, he was stunned for a moment, then he smiled and said, “You must be the new Chen Ku. Your bedding was prepared half a month ago, but you just came today.”

“Haven’t you asked yet?” Chen Ku knew that this must be one of the guys he lived with.

“What do you mean by asking for advice? Just call me Zhang Erniu.” Zhang Erniu, who was about 30 years old, was nice to Chen Ku and said with a smile, “It’s time for dinner. Let’s go get some food together. You can also try the magical “medicinal food” of Yaowang Hall that is said to be so magical outside?”

Chen Ku asked, “Aren’t there two brothers in this room?”

Zhang Erniu said, “Oh, you mean Che Ping and Huang Wenbao. They just happened to be with the others in the branch store collecting medicine and doing odd jobs these days. They will be back in two days.”

“Okay, then please let Brother Zhang lead the way.”

Chen Ku was indeed very interested in the medicinal food of Yaowangtang. When he was outside, he had heard that the medicinal food eaten by the most ordinary guys in Yaowangtang had better effects than muscle-building powder.

After a while, the two men arrived at the large cafeteria behind the Medicine King Hall.

Another big yard.

Chen Ku noticed that there were three long queues in the yard. At the same time, he smelled an extremely strong aroma in the air. He couldn’t help but ask Zhang Erniu curiously: “Is this the medicinal food? It smells so good?”

Zhang Erniu looked at him, shook his head and smiled: “The fragrance you smell is the ‘apprentice meal’…”

Chen Kuwei was surprised: “Apprentice meal?”

Zhang Erniu pointed at the three long lines and said, “Apprentices? They are the half-apprentices of Yaowang Hall. Every time we eat, we stand in the middle. Their standard meal is two meat dishes and one vegetable dish. We are just servants, standing in the rightmost line. Although there are some variations in our meals every day, they are at most ‘stewed vegetables’ or ‘medicinal porridge’. As for the medicinal food, it is cooked once every seven days, not every day. It’s not that we can’t afford it, but we are afraid that we can’t digest it after eating…”

Chen Ku looked at the team with the least number of people in line: “Who is this team?”

Zhang Erniu whispered, “That’s a small kitchen with four dishes and one soup for the chefs. They took the food and put it in a lunch box and delivered it to the chefs personally.”

Chen Ku was silent for a moment, then lined up with Zhang Erniu.

After a while, they arrived in front of the big pot for serving rice. Just as Zhang Erniu said, the waiter’s meal today was “stewed vegetables”.

It contains pork, cabbage, vermicelli and radish. There are not too many slices of meat, just a little bit of oil, and it is served with two steamed buns.

Such a standard of food can be considered as “banquet” level in Dachen Village.

Chen Ku turned around and looked at the apprentices’ food standards: two meat dishes and one vegetable dish.

Today, the apprentices ate “Stir-fried Bamboo Shoots with Pork”, “Chicken Stewed with Potatoes”, and “Beans and Eggplant”…

And the small lunch boxes sent to the chefs not far away seemed to contain seven or eight dishes, which was very luxurious.

Three kinds of dishes, three levels.

He couldn’t help but sigh in his heart:
“From the countryside to the county, there are so many differences between people…”

(End of this chapter)