Those years when I was Cannon fodder

Lies about Cultivating immortality

  Speaking of books, When Chu Yu flipped through the pile of books that was sent over by the City Lord, there were only a few books written in that particularly complex font.

  Short and precise, just like the traditional Chinese language in her previous life. Chu Yu could recognize the words, but couldn't understand what they meant as a sentence.

  The only way was to ask Mrs. Mo for advice after the class is about ended.

  Mrs. Mo also did not refuse. And for the ones that she could not answer, she very frankly said that she'll get back to her after checking.

 Chu Yu was on the verge of dropping to her knees for these books. Even with Mrs. Mo's translation, many of the contents, in her opinion, are quite strange.

  The first book is a bit like 'the classic of mountain and seas', detailing all kinds of strange and bizarre creatures.

TL Note: the classic of mountain and seas: a Chinese classic text and a compilation of mythic geography and beasts.

  There are two other books that look like immortal novels, having the first person point of view. They are a little like travelogues, with the author narrating his experiences.

  It went something like this, 'one day I picked up a mysterious stone. With my careful perception, I found out that there was spiritual energy in it, could this be the legendary spiritual stone?

  one day, in a certain place, I met an evil cultivator. The whole village was killed as blood sacrifice. After investigation, I found that the villagers and this evil cultivator are related by blood .

  It was a real tragedy , so "I" did not hesitate to battle with the evil cultivator. I exhausted his magic power and killed him.'

  ......

  Chu Yu thinks this is an ancient early immortal cultivation novel.

  Why early?

  The writer of the travelogue worded it quite carefully, like many martial arts novels that became popular early in her previous life.

  The author has very carefully thought out the setting.

Unlike later in her previous life, when people dared to everything, all kinds of realm level, but no inner logic and no boundaries.

  She also had a whimsical thought, could these be true?

  After all, it was too formal. It was even written in a special script.

  She asked Mrs. Mo. Mrs. Mo told her calmly that she would know when she grew up.

  Chu Yu immediately understood.

It was the same as her previous life. Children in the Chūnibyō phase read some immortality novels and think that immortality is real. So they would find their parents and make trouble saying that they want to cultivate immortality.

TL Note: Chūnibyō (中二病) is a Japanese colloquial term typically used to describe early teens who have grandiose delusions, who desperately want to stand out, and who have convinced themselves that they have hidden knowledge or secret powers.

   The Parents not wanting to explain, knowing that the bear child would not listen will simply tell them that you will know when you grow up.

  When the child grows up and hopefully matures, they will naturally not have the delusion.

  Some parents are more direct saying "When you grow up, you will be able to cultivate immortality" These lies temporarily shut the mouths of children.

  Chu Yu felt that perhaps because the special font is more compelling, The immortal novels can be sold at a higher price. Also it works better at deceiving children.

  As for the city lord, why would he send this kind of book to her?

  On one hand, It would raise her interest in learning to read, on the other hand, who has not received a few fairy tale books as a child?

Chu Yu felt that neither of these books was of much use to her.

  After she read those books, her resentment towards this particular font deepened.

  The rest of the books were very simple, all written in simplified characters.

  At a single glance,you could know that the city lord especially had someone to collect small moral stories to teach people to be good. There were various fables, myths, legends, and travelogues of various places.

  Every time she learns a character in the special font,to avoid getting dizzy, she would use the book as a tonic. she instantly felt more comfortable. After drinking a cup of milk tea, she feels even better.

  After two months, Chu Yu once again gave herself a body check.

  Because there is no instrument, she can only use the techniques of Chinese medicine - to look, smell, and feel.

  In the mirror, check the face color, check the color of her tongue, use a small wooden stick wrapped in cotton as a cotton swab and check throat ......

  And at last, check the pulse.

  The healer cannot heal herself, it is not that the healer is incapable of healing themselves, but it is too cumbersome to go through the process by yourself. Plus, Chu Yu's main concern is actually the toxins in her body.

  Because the antidote ingredients contained in the pills were too little, the effect could not be seen even with frequent checks.

  But after two months, she found that the toxins in her body had not decreased at all, so she was a bit worried.

  Since there is no precise instrument, she has developed a classification of her poisoning situation.

 When she first woke up in this body and checked herself, she assigned herself to be Grade 2- moderate threat.

  At birth, it was probably grade one- dangerous threat.

  Two months of meals, even after insisting on taking antidote pills, did not lower her situation to level three- slightly dangerous, which made Chu Yu very unhappy.

  After thinking about it, she took out the pill and began to check the ingredients in it.

  Because of these two months of good food and drink, her tongue was actually restored to the level of an ordinary person.

  This degree is not enough to be as magical as in her previous life, but it allows her to taste like an experienced herbalist with her tongue to analyze how many kinds of herbs were used in a medicine.

  In her previous life, in her country, in 5,000 years of history, when there was no precise instrument,. Countless old Chinese doctors rely on this method of tasting. It was said that Shennong has tasted a hundred herbs to test out the medicinal value of the herbs from nature's countless plants.

TL note: Shennong was a mythological Chinese ruler who has become a deity in Chinese and Vietnamese folk religion. In , Shennong taught humans the use of the plow, aspects of basic agriculture, and the use of medicinal plants.

  After finding the use of most of them, the smaller ones left can be speculated relying on one's knowledge base to on the specific effects of the remaining herbs.

  Then, Chu Yu came up with a not-so-good guess.

  The pills that Nanny Xu gave her were only to nourish the body and supplement the innate deficiencies, and had no antidote effect.

 Various guesses popped up in Chu Yu's mind, but in the end, she calmed down.

  She gott this result without instruments. Her method has only 70% accuracy, she should not jump to conclusions.

  Suddenly, Chu Yu thought of something and ran to the kitchen.

  "Miss, what are you looking for?"

  Qingyu, who was in the kitchen, preparing the meal, inquired.

  Chu Yu had already thought of a reason, "I want to find the jar that Mother stored the medicine in."

  "Anyway, I'm taking pills now, so this medicine jar won't be used, I'm going to use it to grow flowers."

  Qing Yu said speechlessly, "Miss, you can't grow flowers in a medicine jar, it won't live."

  "Why can't it live?"

  Qingyu stammered, "The medicine jar has been so many times, the flowers are so delicate, they will be smoked to death."

  "Then I'll use it to grow herbs, it's all medicine, it can definitely be raised."

  Chu Yu unblinkingly added.

  "Mother said she learned the skill of growing herbs from grandfather, I also want to inherit grandfather's mastery."

  Qingyu was amused by this serious tone, "Okay, Miss, I'll help you find it."

  After looking around, Qingyu helplessly stretched her hands, "The kitchen doesn't have any jars. I reckon that madam put the medicine jars away in her room, why don't I find you a broken pottery jar?"+

  "The medicine jar is so bad smelling, how could mother put it in her room?"

  Chu Yu said, and suddenly, as if she remembered something, she asked seemingly without much thought,

  "Aunt Qing, where did mother dispose the medicine residue?"