After w.a.n.g Yao had finished preparing the herbs, he went out to practice Tai Chi in a seated position . He leaned against the wall and looked at the sky .

Lianshan was not an industrial city . So the air was nice and clean, and the sky always looked high and far .

w.a.n.g Yao had learned something from looking at the sky every night . He could predict the weather of the next day by observing the sky . He found the position of stars contained a lot of secrets, which were worth to observe and study .

w.a.n.g Yao didn't go to sleep until the middle of the night . It was so quiet on Nanshan hill . Only the sound of wind could be heard .

w.a.n.g Yao got up before dawn the next day . He had a lot to do during the day .

After he had had breakfast, completed breathing exercises, and finished working in the herbal field, the sun was high up in the sky .

It was a nice day . The time was right, the land was fertile, and w.a.n.g Yao was ready . It was the perfect time to brew decoction .

w.a.n.g Yao made sure he had enough firewood before starting to brew a decoction . He also called his family to tell them that he wouldn't go home for lunch .

"San Xian, I'm about to brew a decoction; don't let anyone in!" shouted w.a.n.g Yao .

Woof! Woof! Woof! San Xian barked to accept w.a.n.g Yao's instruction and then went on patrol .

w.a.n.g Yao started to brew the decoction inside his cottage .

He started a fire, put herbs inside the multifunctional pot, and adjusted the fire accordingly .

As said on TV, the taste of food depended on a cook's experience in ingredients and cooking . It could apply to brewing decoctions, too . Brewing

decoctions involved a lot of factors, including the person's ability to control

the time and fire .

The smell of herbs started to come out of the cottage from 9 am and didn't stop until the afternoon .

w.a.n.g Fengming's illness was the most serious among all three patients . Therefore, he required a large number of herbs, and it took much longer to brew the decoction for him . Professor Lu's condition was not too bad, so he didn't need a lot of herbs, and the process of brewing a decoction for him was easy . But, w.a.n.g Yao was serious about every single step of brewing decoctions from the beginning to the end .

When w.a.n.g Yao had completed brewing all the decoctions and walked out of his cottage to rest, it was late afternoon . The sun became red and was no longer s.h.i.+ny .

Because w.a.n.g Yao was going to meet Tong Wei in town the next day, he didn't deliver the decoctions to his patients in town immediately .

w.a.n.g Fengming had already felt much better after taking the first dose of decoction w.a.n.g Yao gave to him . His spirits had lifted, and his eyes were brighter . w.a.n.g Fengming and his wife were very touched when w.a.n.g Yao gave them another two doses and insisted that w.a.n.g Yao should stay for dinner .

"Sorry, I have to go now . I'm meeting someone in town . Make sure you and auntie rest well," said w.a.n.g Yao .

"Okay, thank you . Let me know if you need anything," said w.a.n.g Fengming .

"Sure, thanks," said w.a.n.g Yao .

w.a.n.g Yao drove out of the village after he had delivered the decoction to w.a.n.g Fengming . He then drove to Riverside Town, which was located to the southeast of Lianshan to deliver a decoction to Xu Maosheng . It was a twenty minutes' drive for w.a.n.g Yao . Xu Maosheng and his wife were both at home when

w.a.n.g Yao arrived . Xu Maosheng stopped cooking tea leaves and came out to

welcome w.a.n.g Yao .

"Here is the decoction for your wife . After taking two doses, make sure she rests well, and she should be able to recover," said w.a.n.g Yao .

"Thank you for coming here . You could have asked me to fetch it from your place," said Xu Maosheng .  

"That's fine, I like driving anyway," said w.a.n.g Yao with a smile .

Xu Maosheng finished drinking a large gla.s.s of water as he was talking to w.a.n.g Yao .

"Uncle Xu, don't spend too much time cooking tea leaves from now on," said w.a.n.g Yao . He noticed the redness in Xu Maosheng's eyes and his warm, heavy breathing .

Xu Maosheng had to be very close to the fire when he was cooking tea leaves . He had toxins in his body from the fire and smoke due to years of

processing tea leaves . Only young and healthy adults could resist the smoke

toxins . Xu Maosheng was strong, but he was not young anymore . His health

started to go downhill, and his immune system was no longer functioning well . Fortunately, he loved drinking green tea, which could resolve the toxins a bit .

The tea leaves cooked by fire could resolve toxins caused by fire . How magical that was!

"You are right, and I don't have the energy to work as hard as before," said Xu Maosheng . He knew he was getting old and felt tired easily when he was cooking tea leaves . He took a whole day off to rest after cooking half a kilogram of tea leaves for w.a.n.g Yao .

"You can drink more tea," suggested w.a.n.g Yao .

"I never stop drinking tea . I've got plenty of tea leaves at home," said Xu Maosheng with a smile .

w.a.n.g Yao didn't stay long at Xu Maosheng's place . He drove back to Lianshan afterwards and called Tian Yuantu on his way .

Tian Yuantu insisted that w.a.n.g Yao stay after they met .

"Don't leave, let's have dinner together . Ask Mingbao if he's available . I'll call Professor Lu," said Tian Yuantu .

"Okay," agreed w.a.n.g Yao .

Tian Yuantu picked the same restaurant where he invited Secretary Yang for dinner last time . The restaurant was located on a quiet road . Apart from w.a.n.g Mingbao and Li Maoshuang, Tian Yuantu also invited a deputy chief of some bureau .

w.a.n.g Yao was not keen on dining with anyone from the local government . But, he found w.a.n.g Mingbao was very happy to get the opportunity to

sit with the deputy chief . After all, w.a.n.g Mingbao was a businessman . It would bring him potential business if he knew more people from the local government . Li Maoshuang had changed a lot . He no longer drank a lot of alcohol like before . He only had one gla.s.s of wine .

w.a.n.g Yao was happily chatting with Professor Lu . Professor Lu was in good spirits, especially after w.a.n.g Yao had given him a dose of herbal decoction for free .

They said goodbye to each other after dinner .

Tian Yuantu stopped w.a.n.g Yao .

"Are you available tomorrow?" asked Tian Yuantu .

"Sorry, no . Do you need me?" said w.a.n.g Yao .

"I bought a big area on a hill near town to build a vacation house . Are you interested in having a look with me?" asked Tian Yuantu .

"Near our town?" w.a.n.g Yao was curious about which hill it was . Lianshan was surrounded by large areas of foothills . The foothills were not connected to each other, but there were still quite a lot . w.a.n.g Yao's village was located in the middle of four foothills .

"Yes, that's why I asked Professor Lu to have a look at what kind

of buildings should be built here," replied Tian Yuantu .

"Maybe on another day?" suggested w.a.n.g Yao .

"Okay," agreed Tian Yuantu .

w.a.n.g Yao didn't drink any alcohol . He drove home straight away .

The weather was nice the next day .

Zhang Xiuying called w.a.n.g Yao early in the morning to remind him of bringing Tong Wei to home for dinner . Actually, w.a.n.g Yao got up very early . Most villagers were still sleeping when w.a.n.g Yao was doing breathing exercises .

w.a.n.g Yao drove out of the village and headed to Tong Wei's home in

Lianshan town center . He called Tong Wei when he arrived at her door . A moment later, Tong Wei came out . She was wearing light makeup and casual clothes .

"Hi, have you had breakfast?" asked w.a.n.g Yao .

"Yeah," replied Tong Wei .

"Where would you like to go?" asked w.a.n.g Yao .

"Up to you . I don't mind," said Tong Wei .

w.a.n.g Yao found it difficult to find a suitable place as Lianshan was not big . The only interesting places were the hills around Lianshan town center where w.a.n.g Yao had visited numerous times . He thought both he and Tong Wei would probably find it boring to visit those hills again . Haiqu was nearby, but there weren't many places worth seeing . Haiqu was close to the ocean while Dao City, where Tong Wei worked was close to the ocean too . Dao City had a much nicer beach .

w.a.n.g Yao couldn't think of a good place to visit .

"What's going on?" asked Tong Wei as she noticed w.a.n.g Yao didn't start the car .

"I'm still thinking of where we should go," said w.a.n.g Yao .

"Haha," laughed Tong Wei . "I heard a place called Changqing hill has been quite popular recently . Shall we go and have a look?" asked Tong Wei .

"Sure," agreed w.a.n.g Yao .

It was much easier when a destination had been decided . Interestingly enough, w.a.n.g Yao had never been to Changqing hill before . w.a.n.g Yao put the address in his GPS and drove off .

"How long are you going to stay this time?" asked w.a.n.g Yao .

"Three days . I have three days off every month," replied Tong Wei .

"Sounds nice," said w.a.n.g Yao .

"Right, when are you going to show me your herbal field?" asked Tong Wei .

I've been waiting for you to ask, thought w.a.n.g Yao .

"Anytime . Well, we can go to Changqing hill in the morning and come to my place in the afternoon . Then we can have dinner at my home . I'll drive you home after dinner . How does that sound?" w.a.n.g Yao told Tong Wei his plans for the day .

"Sounds super!" said Tong Wei happily .

"Okay, let's go!" said w.a.n.g Yao excitedly .

w.a.n.g Yao found the so-called Changqing hill was just a small hill with a few towers on top of it . Those towers were built recently . There was also a hotel on the hill . In fact, the place is very similar to Nanshan hill .

"Let's go and have a look since we are here anyway," said Tong Wei after she saw w.a.n.g Yao's disappointed look .

"Okay," said w.a.n.g Yao .

Although the hill was boring and there was graffiti everywhere on the towers and labels that hadn't been removed, Tong Wei was in a good mood . She posed for w.a.n.g Yao to take photos from time to time .

What amazed w.a.n.g Yao was that there were quite a few visitors on the hill, even though it wasn't even the weekend . He was wondering if those visitors were like him and didn't need to work .

There were also a lot of stones on the hill .

He found there were many stones stacking up at one part of the hill . The stones were used by the developer to build a tourist attraction called "18 holes . "

"Shall we go and take a look?" asked Tong Wei when she moved closer to w.a.n.g Yao . She was slightly short of breath after climbing the hill . Her breath smelled as nice as flowers .

"Sure," said w.a.n.g Yao .

The pathway on the hill was narrow, with stones on both sides . Some of the stones formed a hole . Many visitors liked to take photos on the stones .

"What a shame to have these stones here," murmured w.a.n.g Yao .

"What did you say?" asked Tong Wei .

"Nothing," said w.a.n.g Yao .

"Be careful!" someone suddenly shouted .

A large stone rolled from the top of the hill to the visitors, and it was only two meters away from Tong Wei's head .

"Move!" shouted w.a.n.g Yao .

But Tong Wei was too shocked to move . Her face went white .

w.a.n.g Yao ran in front of Tong Wei and used his Qi to move the stone to a different direction . The stone, which was over one hundred kilograms changed its path and dropped into the river next to the hill, making a loud sound .

"Are you okay?" w.a.n.g Yao took a look at Tong Wei and was relieved after he found that she hadn't been injured .

. . . . After w.a.n.g Yao had finished preparing the herbs, he went out to practice Tai Chi in a seated position . He leaned against the wall and looked at the sky . Lianshan was not an industrial city . So the air was nice and clean, and the sky always looked high and far . w.a.n.g Yao had learned something from looking at the sky every night . He could predict the weather of the next day by observing the sky . He found the position of stars contained a lot of secrets, which were worth to observe and study . w.a.n.g Yao didnt go to sleep until the middle of the night . It was so quiet on Nanshan hill . Only the sound of wind could be heard . w.a.n.g Yao got up before dawn the next day . He had a lot to do during the day . After he had had breakfast, completed breathing exercises, and finished working in the herbal field, the sun was high up in the sky . It was a nice day . The time was right, the land was fertile, and w.a.n.g Yao was ready . It was the perfect time to brew decoction . w.a.n.g Yao made sure he had enough firewood before starting to brew a decoction . He also called his family to tell them that he wouldnt go home for lunch . San Xian, Im about to brew a decoction; dont let anyone in! shouted w.a.n.g Yao . Woof! Woof! Woof! San Xian barked to accept w.a.n.g Yaos instruction and then went on patrol . w.a.n.g Yao started to brew the decoction inside his cottage . He started a fire, put herbs inside the multifunctional pot, and adjusted the fire accordingly . As said on TV, the taste of food depended on a cooks experience in ingredients and cooking . It could apply to brewing decoctions, too . Brewing. decoctions involved a lot of factors, including the persons ability to control. the time and fire . The smell of herbs started to come out of the cottage from 9 am and didnt stop until the afternoon . w.a.n.g Fengmings illness was the most serious among all three patients . Therefore, he required a large number of herbs, and it took much longer to brew the decoction for him . Professor Lus condition was not too bad, so he didnt need a lot of herbs, and the process of brewing a decoction for him was easy . But, w.a.n.g Yao was serious about every single step of brewing decoctions from the beginning to the end . When w.a.n.g Yao had completed brewing all the decoctions and walked out of his cottage to rest, it was late afternoon . The sun became red and was no longer s.h.i.+ny . Because w.a.n.g Yao was going to meet Tong Wei in town the next day, he didnt deliver the decoctions to his patients in town immediately . w.a.n.g Fengming had already felt much better after taking the first dose of decoction w.a.n.g Yao gave to him . His spirits had lifted, and his eyes were brighter . w.a.n.g Fengming and his wife were very touched when w.a.n.g Yao gave them another two doses and insisted that w.a.n.g Yao should stay for dinner . . . Sorry, I have to go now . Im meeting someone in town . Make sure you and auntie rest well, said w.a.n.g Yao . Okay, thank you . Let me know if you need anything, said w.a.n.g Fengming . Sure, thanks, said w.a.n.g Yao . w.a.n.g Yao drove out of the village after he had delivered the decoction to w.a.n.g Fengming . He then drove to Riverside Town, which was located to the southeast of Lianshan to deliver a decoction to Xu Maosheng . It was a twenty minutes drive for w.a.n.g Yao . Xu Maosheng and his wife were both at home when. w.a.n.g Yao arrived . Xu Maosheng stopped cooking tea leaves and came out to. welcome w.a.n.g Yao . Here is the decoction for your wife . After taking two doses, make sure she rests well, and she should be able to recover, said w.a.n.g Yao . Thank you for coming here . You could have asked me to fetch it from your place, said Xu Maosheng .   Thats fine, I like driving anyway, said w.a.n.g Yao with a smile . Xu Maosheng finished drinking a large gla.s.s of water as he was talking to w.a.n.g Yao . Uncle Xu, dont spend too much time cooking tea leaves from now on, said w.a.n.g Yao . He noticed the redness in Xu Maoshengs eyes and his warm, heavy breathing . Xu Maosheng had to be very close to the fire when he was cooking tea leaves . He had toxins in his body from the fire and smoke due to years of. processing tea leaves . Only young and healthy adults could resist the smoke. toxins . Xu Maosheng was strong, but he was not young anymore . His health. started to go downhill, and his immune system was no longer functioning well . Fortunately, he loved drinking green tea, which could resolve the toxins a bit . The tea leaves cooked by fire could resolve toxins caused by fire . How magical that was! You are right, and I dont have the energy to work as hard as before, said Xu Maosheng . He knew he was getting old and felt tired easily when he was cooking tea leaves . He took a whole day off to rest after cooking half a kilogram of tea leaves for w.a.n.g Yao . You can drink more tea, suggested w.a.n.g Yao . I never stop drinking tea . Ive got plenty of tea leaves at home, said Xu Maosheng with a smile . w.a.n.g Yao didnt stay long at Xu Maoshengs place . He drove back to Lianshan afterwards and called Tian Yuantu on his way . Tian Yuantu insisted that w.a.n.g Yao stay after they met . . . Dont leave, lets have dinner together . Ask Mingbao if hes available . Ill call Professor Lu, said Tian Yuantu . Okay, agreed w.a.n.g Yao . Tian Yuantu picked the same restaurant where he invited Secretary Yang for dinner last time . The restaurant was located on a quiet road . Apart from w.a.n.g Mingbao and Li Maoshuang, Tian Yuantu also invited a deputy chief of some bureau . w.a.n.g Yao was not keen on dining with anyone from the local government . But, he found w.a.n.g Mingbao was very happy to get the opportunity to. sit with the deputy chief . After all, w.a.n.g Mingbao was a businessman . It would bring him potential business if he knew more people from the local government . Li Maoshuang had changed a lot . He no longer drank a lot of alcohol like before . He only had one gla.s.s of wine . w.a.n.g Yao was happily chatting with Professor Lu . Professor Lu was in good spirits, especially after w.a.n.g Yao had given him a dose of herbal decoction for free . They said goodbye to each other after dinner . Tian Yuantu stopped w.a.n.g Yao . Are you available tomorrow? asked Tian Yuantu . Sorry, no . Do you need me? said w.a.n.g Yao . I bought a big area on a hill near town to build a vacation house . Are you interested in having a look with me? asked Tian Yuantu . Near our town? w.a.n.g Yao was curious about which hill it was . Lianshan was surrounded by large areas of foothills . The foothills were not connected to each other, but there were still quite a lot . w.a.n.g Yaos village was located in the middle of four foothills . Yes, thats why I asked Professor Lu to have a look at what kind. of buildings should be built here, replied Tian Yuantu . Maybe on another day? suggested w.a.n.g Yao . Okay, agreed Tian Yuantu . w.a.n.g Yao didnt drink any alcohol . He drove home straight away . The weather was nice the next day . Zhang Xiuying called w.a.n.g Yao early in the morning to remind him of bringing Tong Wei to home for dinner . Actually, w.a.n.g Yao got up very early . Most villagers were still sleeping when w.a.n.g Yao was doing breathing exercises . w.a.n.g Yao drove out of the village and headed to Tong Weis home in. Lianshan town center . He called Tong Wei when he arrived at her door . A moment later, Tong Wei came out . She was wearing light makeup and casual clothes . Hi, have you had breakfast? asked w.a.n.g Yao . Yeah, replied Tong Wei . Where would you like to go? asked w.a.n.g Yao . Up to you . I dont mind, said Tong Wei . w.a.n.g Yao found it difficult to find a suitable place as Lianshan was not big . The only interesting places were the hills around Lianshan town center where w.a.n.g Yao had visited numerous times . He thought both he and Tong Wei would probably find it boring to visit those hills again . Haiqu was nearby, but there werent many places worth seeing . Haiqu was close to the ocean while Dao City, where Tong Wei worked was close to the ocean too . Dao City had a much nicer beach . w.a.n.g Yao couldnt think of a good place to visit . Whats going on? asked Tong Wei as she noticed w.a.n.g Yao didnt start the car . Im still thinking of where we should go, said w.a.n.g Yao . Haha, laughed Tong Wei . I heard a place called Changqing hill has been quite popular recently . Shall we go and have a look? asked Tong Wei . Sure, agreed w.a.n.g Yao . It was much easier when a destination had been decided . Interestingly enough, w.a.n.g Yao had never been to Changqing hill before . w.a.n.g Yao put the address in his GPS and drove off . How long are you going to stay this time? asked w.a.n.g Yao . Three days . I have three days off every month, replied Tong Wei . Sounds nice, said w.a.n.g Yao . Right, when are you going to show me your herbal field? asked Tong Wei . Ive been waiting for you to ask, thought w.a.n.g Yao . Anytime . Well, we can go to Changqing hill in the morning and come to my place in the afternoon . Then we can have dinner at my home . Ill drive you home after dinner . How does that sound? w.a.n.g Yao told Tong Wei his plans for the day . Sounds super! said Tong Wei happily . Okay, lets go! said w.a.n.g Yao excitedly . w.a.n.g Yao found the so-called Changqing hill was just a small hill with a few towers on top of it . Those towers were built recently . There was also a hotel on the hill . In fact, the place is very similar to Nanshan hill . Lets go and have a look since we are here anyway, said Tong Wei after she saw w.a.n.g Yaos disappointed look . Okay, said w.a.n.g Yao . Although the hill was boring and there was graffiti everywhere on the towers and labels that hadnt been removed, Tong Wei was in a good mood . She posed for w.a.n.g Yao to take photos from time to time . What amazed w.a.n.g Yao was that there were quite a few visitors on the hill, even though it wasnt even the weekend . He was wondering if those visitors were like him and didnt need to work . There were also a lot of stones on the hill . He found there were many stones stacking up at one part of the hill . The stones were used by the developer to build a tourist attraction called 18 holes . Shall we go and take a look? asked Tong Wei when she moved closer to w.a.n.g Yao . She was slightly short of breath after climbing the hill . Her breath smelled as nice as flowers . Sure, said w.a.n.g Yao . The pathway on the hill was narrow, with stones on both sides . Some of the stones formed a hole . Many visitors liked to take photos on the stones . What a shame to have these stones here, murmured w.a.n.g Yao . What did you say? asked Tong Wei . Nothing, said w.a.n.g Yao . Be careful! someone suddenly shouted . A large stone rolled from the top of the hill to the visitors, and it was only two meters away from Tong Weis head . Move! shouted w.a.n.g Yao . But Tong Wei was too shocked to move . Her face went white . w.a.n.g Yao ran in front of Tong Wei and used his Qi to move the stone to a different direction . The stone, which was over one hundred kilograms changed its path and dropped into the river next to the hill, making a loud sound . Are you okay? w.a.n.g Yao took a look at Tong Wei and was relieved after he found that she hadnt been injured .