CHAPTER 25: THE CHANGE IN THE DIFFERENT SEASONS
The city had different seasons, although it was more of a village, it was very bustling these days, now winter was beginning.
Several snowflakes fell from the sky, filling the streets with unparalleled white, as well as endless cold.
In many houses the sound of fire could be heard.
In the commercial place of the city.
Apothecary Gu had a girl by his side as a slave, her parents had broken their promise, apothecary Gu wanted to sell her, but she proved to be a little valuable, she could learn what others took years.
So he decided to teach him. At the moment she was thinking about whether to take him as a disciple, the parents came very often to see her, the apothecary Gu did not deny them, but if they came with other intentions, he would not be lenient.
As I watched as many came to buy their pills.
Suddenly in the afternoon of that day.
The boy with whom he made a deal returned.
"So you're back, tell me, you've gotten the spirit plants" – Apothecary Gu was interested, after all he thought that boy was dead.
The boy was obviously Adrian, who had spent almost a year inside the forbidden city.
When I spoke to him, Adrian took out several spirit plants that he had collected. They were all the same as the ones I had indicated in the picture.
The apothecary Gu didn't think he would be surprised like this, it should be said that his slave's parents couldn't make it, and they were six times stronger than this child, but he had succeeded.
But deals were deals.
After picking the plants, he picked up a purification pill before voting it on him.
Adrián caught it and kept it.
Then he took out a sack full of coins.
"Do you want to buy another pill?" asked Apothecary Gu, there were at least two thousand coins in the sack.
That was not a negligible amount.
As he was a merchant, he did not mind selling anything else.
"Do I want to learn?" – Adrián said decisively.
"Learn what?" Apothecary Gu asked again.
"Let's make pills!" – Adrian was very decisive when he said something. He didn't know of anyone else who could make pills besides the apothecary Gu.
Apothecary Gu wanted to laugh at that moment, but when Adrian's voice flashed through his head, it was as if something had gotten into him, he felt dizzy and bewildered, then released a little of his aura stabilizing, but for a moment something had happened to him, and he didn't know what it was.
He looked at Adrian again in a different way, however, he could not take a disciple only in that way. After all, it had standards.
"Well, well, you want to be my disciple, answer these five questions, if you can do it, maybe I'll teach you something" – Apothecary Gu said superbly, as he didn't even know if Adrian could answer them, since he was the only one in town with books about plants, their variations, and the method for doing alchemy.
Adrián accepted without problems.
Seeing him so serious, Apothecary Gu started instantly.
"Well, first question, The flower known as adamants, is born at night under the moonlight every third summer, it has one hundred and four petals of different color, and each one is different in its own way, it lists each of its colors and variants of stem and shape"- This was the first question that came to mind, I really wanted to get rid of Adrian fast.
Not even he knew the whole answer, since these plants were not found on this continent, and he had never seen them, only in pictures in books.
However.
"The adamantes plant has one hundred and four petals because it represents each of the shapes it can hold, each stem varies in color because it is in position to the light it receives, the first is brown because it is the closest to the earth..." – Adrian began to list each one, quickly answering Apothecary Gu's question.
When Apothecary Gu heard it, he only got up to the fiftyth color, then quickly took out the book where the plant he had mentioned was, and it was the same as what Adrian said.
He thought for a few moments, before smiling, and continuing with the other questions.
After more than an hour of questions, even Apothecary Gu was alarmed by the number of questions he had asked, at first there were only five, but he was also an alchemist who wanted to know more, even about plants that even he didn't know.
In the end, after Adrian has answered all the questions.
Apothecary Gu was ecstatic, within the world of alchemists, he could only be considered someone of Low rank, but when he saw Adrian, he could see.
"A mid-level alchemist, you don't... it still isn't" – That's what Apothecary Gu thought, but he knew that Adrian didn't know how to make pills.
So I only had the knowledge of one, but it wasn't one as such yet.
Apothecary Gu laughed inwardly, and touched his head, laughing because he was the one who was going to teach someone who had the knowledge of a middle-level alchemist.
"Okay, come back tomorrow, I'll teach you how to make pills" – After saying that, the apothecary Gu retreated, Adrian nodded. Leaving the store.
However, when he was leaving.
In the distance, he saw young Ma.