As the two Jade Boxes were opened, Cheng Zongyang had Ma San take a wooden basin to wash and then take stock of the gold, silver, and Jewelry.
He stayed alone in the cabin, looking at the contents of the two Jade Boxes.
He took them out, looking at them and feeling their texture. They were made from some kind of animal hide.
He slowly unrolled the leather scroll from the thinner Jade Box, revealing densely packed black characters the size of rice grains.
The entire scroll was about thirty centimeters long and four centimeters wide.
"Martial... Essence... Pill... Recipe."
Cheng Zongyang sounded out the words one by one, a strange expression on his face.
'A medicinal formula?'
He continued reading.
"Ingredients: one tael of Golden Thread Orchid; one tael of Centennial Purple Ganoderma, three taels of Jade Mushroom..."
As Cheng Zongyang read on, he grew more and more alarmed.
