Red Mansion Taoist

Chapter 14 Clan Meeting
  "Master, are you going to the rouge shop?" Lao Shuntou heard from Feicui that Jia Qiang owned a rouge shop, so he took the initiative to ask.

In fact, he had wanted to ask for a long time, but Jia Qiang had been studying hard in the past month, and he did not dare to disturb Jia Qiang's preparation for the exam.

In this era, everything is not as important as preparing for the exam. Lao Shuntou is very clear about this.

Now that Jia Qiang's exam is over and she has time, according to Lao Shuntou's idea, she should also check the situation of the rouge shop.

You must know that with Jia Qiang living alone now, Rouge Shop will be the only source of livelihood in the future.

Although Jia Qiang still has some money in her hands, it will eventually be used up if she can only get in and out of the house.

Jia Qiang is too young and cannot bring income to the family. At least Lao Shuntou cannot imagine that Jia Qiang can earn money at the age of twelve.

"Wait until the Rouge Shop passes in a few days and find a drug store first!" Jia Qiang calmly ordered.

Although Lao Shuntou had doubts, he still followed Jia Qiang's instructions and drove towards the drug store.

"Baicaotang!" Jia Qiang raised her head and looked at the name of the drug store. It was obvious at a glance that this drug store was not small in scale.

"Sir, this is the largest drug store in this area, a two-hundred-year-old brand with an excellent reputation!" Lao Shuntou introduced to Jia Qiang.

"You stay here, I'll go in and take a look!" Jia Qiang nodded with satisfaction.

He entered the drug store, and the clerk in the drug store did not look down on him because of his age.

"Master, do you want to see a doctor or buy medicine?" The clerk bowed to him and asked with a smile.

"Let me ask about the price. What are the prices of these medicinal materials?" Jia Qiang took a piece of paper and handed it to the clerk and asked.

On the paper were the medicinal materials used in the 'Jia's Hundred Turns Refining Technique' medicinal soup. Of course, in order to prevent the prescription from leaking, he still added a lot of medicinal materials to it.

"Hey, some medicines here are too expensive. I'm going to ask the shopkeeper to come over!" The clerk just took a look and said quickly.

The clerk has been in the drug store for a long time, so he knows the prices of common medicinal materials.

But the problem is that there are a lot of medicinal materials on the paper, which are too precious and he does not have permission to access them.

Besides, it's not his turn to come forward for such big business, usually the shopkeeper personally receives it.

The waiter quickly invited the shopkeeper, who was an old man.

The old shopkeeper greeted Jia Qiang first, and then looked at the contents on the paper.

"In order to prepare all the medicinal materials on the paper, Baicaotang also needs to transfer some medicinal materials from other semicolons. This will take five days. Based on the amount marked on the paper, it will cost 965 taels of silver. You must at least first Pay a deposit of two hundred taels in advance!" A look of surprise appeared on the shopkeeper's face after a moment, but it quickly disappeared and he said with a smile.

Although Jia Qiang knew that these medicinal materials were expensive, she did not expect that the medicinal soup she took before practicing the 'Jia's Hundred Turns Refining Technique' alone would cost 965 taels of silver.

Although he added some medicinal materials on paper, the added medicinal materials were not expensive and had little impact on the price.

"Do you have 500-year-old ginseng here?" Jia Qiang suddenly asked again.

The old shopkeeper was startled when he heard this. Fortunately, he had a lot of experience in this industry, so he was not too surprised.

"This young master, the five-hundred-year-old ginseng is a life-saving medicine. If necessary, it all depends on luck. If the young master is willing to wait, our store can buy it for you. However, the deposit of the five-hundred-year-old ginseng needs to be paid three thousand taels first. Silver, we’ll pay the rest after the goods arrive!” He replied with a smile.

"This is a deposit of two hundred taels of silver. Prepare a piece of medicinal materials on paper for me!" Jia Qiang took out the two hundred taels of silver notes and sent them to the old shopkeeper and asked.

"Do you still want the five-hundred-year-old ginseng?" the old shopkeeper asked, taking the banknote with a smile.

"I'm just asking!" Jia Qiang had no intention of settling on five hundred years of ginseng, he shook his head.

Who knows when Baicaotang will be able to obtain 500-year-old ginseng? No matter how rich he is, he can't just throw three thousand taels of silver into Baicaotang.

"I plan to practice general body refining at such a young age. I hope he can succeed!" The old shopkeeper smiled as he watched Jia Qiang leave Baicaotang and whispered to himself. He saw what the materials Jia Qiang needed to buy were used for. .

Although the prescriptions for the body-refining techniques of these generals are different, the medicinal principles are the same. It’s just that the prescriptions are different in order to coordinate with different techniques. of matching.

"The money is really not enough!" Jia Qiang shook her head helplessly and muttered to herself after walking out of Baicaotang. After a few days to get the medicinal materials, half of the family's wealth will be used.

Don't worry about being checked by outsiders. The only two thousand taels of silver you need to use are at least a source.

He still has no plans to go to the rouge shop now. He plans to wait until the results of the hospital examination are available before making a decision.

He has a lot of confidence that he can become a scholar. Don't underestimate the little talent, this is a real class jump.

After he left the Jia family, he lost the protection of the Jia family. In fact, his identity was just a white body, no different from ordinary civilians.

If there really is any problem with Rouge Shop, Bai Shen will make the trouble of dealing with the matter many times greater.

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In the Jia family's ancestral hall in Ningguo Mansion, Jia Zhen sits on the main seat.

After a month of training, his body has recovered.

But his hatred for Jia Qiang has not diminished at all, but has become stronger as time goes by.

Because he found that he had lost his ability as a man, he tried many methods and even beat two maids to death in the mansion.

At first, he thought it was because his body had not recovered, but after he recovered, the situation still did not change.

Finally, he also invited the imperial doctor, who was invited from the palace through Jia Mu's relationship. Of course, he did not inform Jia Mu of his situation. He just said that he was sick and wanted to ask the imperial doctor to take a look.

The imperial doctor is the most secretive doctor, and those who dare to talk too much have died many times.

In the end, the imperial doctor concluded that Jia Zhen's body could not recover.

Although Jia Zhen already has a son, Jia Rong, how can he, who loves pleasure so much, withstand such a blow?

There was news before that Wen Hong, the seventh-rank official, failed to frame Jia Qiang, but instead framed himself.

Fortunately, it was not Jia Zhen who came forward to do this. Even if Wen Hong wanted to bite him, he would not be able to do so with the current momentum of the Jia family.

But this time he hated Jia Qiang even more, so as soon as he recovered, he immediately invited the elders of the Jia clan and important members of the Jia clan.

The three clan elders, including Jia Dairu, have all been given some money by him. What he wants today will definitely come true.

"Members of the Jia clan, I invite you here today to revise the genealogy!" Jia Zhen glanced at Jia Dairu, and Jia Dairu said knowingly.

"Why do we need to modify the genealogy?" Jia Zheng asked with some confusion.

He didn't know what happened. He only knew that today was a clan gathering and he was invited to come and participate.

Since it was Jia Zhen who invited him personally, he was embarrassed.

But when he heard that the family tree was being revised, he had to speak.

The genealogy is the foundation of the family. Unless there is a new addition or the death of a clan member, the genealogy will not be touched.

"Jia Qiang of the third room of Ningguo Mansion voluntarily left the house and took away the property of the third room. In addition, Jia Qiang also hurt Uncle Zhen that day. Uncle Zhen did not want Jia Qiang to affect his future because of his disobedience, but such things cannot be done Please be patient, I discussed it with the two clan elders and decided to delete Jia Qiang’s name from the Jia clan’s genealogy!” Jia Dairu said the reason in a deep voice.

Those who came here to attend the clan gathering were representatives of each house, and they were also surprised when they heard Jia Dairu's words.

"How dare Jia Qiang do this? This beast that violates human ethics, I support his expulsion. The Jia family cannot tolerate him!" When Jia Zheng heard this, his reaction was more intense than other clan members.

He claimed to be an upright man and would not allow such disobedient things to happen.

If Jia Zhen hadn't wanted to sue Jia Qiang, he would have given Jia Qiang a reputation of disobedience for the rest of her life.

Jia She was not as angry as others. He seemed absurd, but he was like a mirror in his heart.

He and Jia Zhen are uncles and nephews, and they know Jia Zhen's character even more clearly.

He has also met Jia Qiang, who is an honest and shy child. To make an honest and shy child do something to hurt Jia Zhen, Jia Zhen must have done something extremely outrageous.

Although he could see clearly, he had no intention of stopping it.

Little Jia Qiang is not worthy of the fact that he hates the patriarch Jia Zhen.

Without even looking at Jia Zhen, the three clan elders jumped out on their own initiative. Jia Zhen had arranged this matter early in the morning.

(End of this chapter)