Red Mansion Taoist

Chapter 12 Collection of Books
  "Then the Jia family should also have this body-refining technique for generals?" Jia Qiang asked curiously.

"That's of course. Although not every general's family has passed down the body refining technique, every lord's house must have passed down the body refining technique!" Lao Shun nodded and replied.

"Why have I never heard of or seen Jia's general body refining technique?" Jia Qiang then asked.

Although he was not taken seriously in the Ningguo Mansion, he had still been to the study room of the Ningguo Mansion. If there were books on this subject, he would not be completely ignorant of it.

Even if he didn't know, Jia Rong or the other young masters of the Jia family would mention it.

"Since the generation of Mr. Jing, Ningguo Mansion has turned to martial arts and literature, and the same goes for Rongguo Mansion. It is said that practicing the art of general body refining is extremely painful and consumes many precious medicines. There is no one in Jia Mansion in recent generations. He practices the art of general body refining!" Lao Shuntou told everything he knew.

These are not secrets. He is no longer a member of the Jia family, but a servant of Jia Qiang. Since Jia Qiang asked, he answered honestly.

Jia Qiang shook his head, secretly thinking it was a pity.

He has a martial arts dream in his heart. Being able to cultivate powerful strength is very attractive to him.

It's a pity that he has left Jia's house. Even if he can enter Jia's house in the future, he will be treated as a guest. It is impossible to have access to the books collected by Jia's house, and he will not be able to obtain the body-refining skills of Jia's generals.

With such regret, the carriage returned home.

As soon as I entered the door, I saw Lao Shuntou's family preparing to kill a chicken.

The chicken kept struggling in the hands of Laoshuntou's family, and was about to become a dead soul under the knife.

"Wait a minute!" Jia Qiang's heart moved slightly, and he waved to Lao Shuntou's family.

"The old lady has disturbed the master. I'm going to kill the chicken in the kitchen right now!" Laoshuntou's family thought that the killing of chickens had shocked Jia Qiang, so he quickly put down his knife and lowered his head and said.

"Miss Jade was worried that the master would be tired, so she specially bought this hen. She also bought some ginseng and cooked it together to replenish the master's health!" Lao Shuntou explained.

Although Jade is a maid, after Jia Qiang gave her the power to manage the inner house and money, Lao Shuntou and other servants called her a girl to show the difference in status.

"Let me kill this chicken!" Jia Qiang reached out and took the hen from Lao Shuntou's hand without explaining much.

He killed the chicken not because he was worried about Lao Shuntou's family being tired, but because he thought about his own game board, and now he is still at level one.

If you want to improve your game level, you should level up by killing monsters based on past game experience.

Although he does not have the skill of general body refining, as long as the game level is improved, his strength, physique, agility, spirit, etc. will be improved accordingly, and he can also strengthen himself.

Lao ShunTou and Lao ShunTou's family looked at each other. The couple didn't understand what Jia Qiang was going to do.

But Jia Qiang is the master. If it’s just a matter of killing a chicken, let Jia Qiang kill it.

Jia Qiang held a kitchen knife in her hand and looked at the chicken's neck, feeling like she couldn't take the knife off.

You can't blame him. In his previous life, he wanted to eat chickens, so the market helped him kill and clean them, and he could even buy cooked food. Few people would buy live chickens and take them home.

In this life, Jia Qiang is more or less a young master. When will it be his turn to do such a thing.

The first time I kill, I always feel uncomfortable.

He thought about the dangers of this world. If he still followed the way of doing things in the previous world, he would probably encounter a lot of trouble in the future.

With a sudden heart, he pressed the chicken's head to the ground without caring about where the big blood vessels in the chicken's neck were, and chopped off the chicken's head with a knife.

Killing an animal for the first time was not as uncomfortable as expected, especially since Lao Shun Tou's family took away the headless chicken body very considerately, allowing him to recover faster.

Jia Qiang looked at the game panel, and he was shocked to find that there was no change in the game panel.

"It seems you can't get experience by killing chickens! I just don't know if you can get experience by killing bigger pigs, cattle and sheep!" he thought to himself.

It is best not to need to kill people to gain experience, otherwise the difficulty of game upgrades will increase infinitely.

Even though this is a relatively backward world, if you really kill someone in this world, the consequences will be very serious.

The reason why Jia Zhen killed a maid at will was because Jia Zhen held Qu'er's body bond in her hands. More importantly, Jia Zhen was able to use the power of the Jia family to prevent Qu'er's family from being too public.

If Jia Qiang killed someone, she would be taken away immediately to pay with her life. The idea of ​​improving one's strength through game upgrading only came up, and was ruthlessly extinguished.

He waved to Lao ShunTou and Lao ShunTou's family, stood up and walked to the reception room in the inner courtyard. Since the main room was used as a study, it became his living area.

Jade helped him change his clothes and wash his face. Within a month, he had become accustomed to living with a maid by his side.

"Go ahead, don't let anyone disturb you, and call me again at dinner!" Jia Qiang told Jade.

Jade obeyed the order and went out and closed the door.

Jia Qiang opened the door from the reception room to the study room. No one in the family could enter the study room unless he ordered it.

He entered the study alone to put back the books and materials in the inventory.

With so many books missing at once, he was worried that Jade would make a fuss when he saw them.

These books are very precious. Even if you pass the college examination this time, you will only become a scholar. You will still need to take the provincial examination later. As long as you study, you must study these books thoroughly.

I studied for the past month just to pass the college exam.

It is relatively easy to pass the exam to be a scholar. It involves a competition with local students. In addition, this is Kyoto, so the top 120 students in the academy are selected as scholars.

However, the provincial examination requires competition with talented people from all over the country. In particular, the knowledge of students from the south is far superior to that of the north. That is the most difficult test.

It took Jia Qiang a month and his previous reading memory to be sure of passing the examination for scholar, but he knew very well that it would take many years of hard work to have any hope of success.

It was very easy to put the books back. He swept his hand across the empty bookshelf, and a book disappeared from the inventory and appeared on the bookshelf.

He had just finished the exam, and he planned to relax for a few days, and did not plan to read these classics and history books again.

But it was still some time before dinner. He looked at the wooden book boxes placed in the corner of the study and decided to find some miscellaneous books to read.

When he first came to this second courtyard, he took a cursory look at the books in the books. They were all books that had nothing to do with classics and history.

There are eight rattan books. As soon as the book box is opened, you can smell a fragrance. This is the use of insect repellent spices.

Preserving these books with expensive anti-insect spices is probably only possible by wealthy families like the Jia family.

You must know that these books need to be preserved for a long time, which makes the number of insect-proof spices in the rattan box quite large, and its value is beyond imagination.

Jia Qiang became interested and opened the rattan boxes one by one.

This is an inventory. The entire yard, including all the items in it, were sent by Jia's family and belong to him privately.

"Hey!" When he opened a rattan box, he saw a set of books made of silk, with more than ten books from top to bottom.

The most important thing is that on the cover of the top silk book, there is written "Yangongbingshu".

The name of the first Duke of Ningguo Mansion was "Jia Yan". When he saw "Yan Gong's Military Book", he immediately thought of Jia Yan, the Duke.

The four characters "Yan Gong Bing Shu" are very ugly and do not look like they were written by a literati, but they are vigorous and powerful, giving people the feeling of the pen entering the back of the paper.

There is no author's name in "Yan Gong Bing Shu", and only the serial number is noted on the cover. This is the first book.

Jia Qiang curiously opened "Ying Gong Bing Shu 1". After reading the content, he thought he was seeing a child's picture book, and it was the kind that a child drew by himself.

He looked carefully and found that it was indeed a military book.

It's just that this is a military book written by a person with a low level of education. It uses the simplest method to show various military formations through ugly pictures.

The first page shows various two-person and three-person formations, the second page shows six-person and nine-person formations, and each page below is about military formations.

He quickly turned to the last page and saw an explanation of the military formation formed by one hundred thousand soldiers and horses.

According to Jia Qiang's understanding, as long as he mastered this "Yangong Bingshu No. 1", he would be able to organize his troops and control a hundred thousand soldiers and horses.

(End of this chapter)