Red Mansion Taoist

Chapter 20 Body Refining
  The next day, an unexpected guest came to the small courtyard.

"Sister Yuanyang!" Jade shouted happily when she saw Yuanyang.

The little sisters haven't seen each other for many days. They originally thought that they would never have the chance to see each other again after leaving Jia's house, but now they are particularly excited to see each other again.

"Jade, how are you doing?" Yuanyang was also very happy. She looked at Jade up and down and asked with concern.

"The master treated me very well and even let me take care of the money!" Jade shared her experience in a hurry, with a lot of flaunting in it.

"That's great!" Yuanyang couldn't help but sigh.

She did not expect that Jia Mu's assignment would allow Jade to live a good life.

When I think about how I and the other sisters will live in the future, I can't help but feel a little melancholy.

"Ah, the master is still waiting, let's go in quickly!" Jade came back to his senses, thought of Jia Qiang and hurriedly pulled the mandarin duck and said.

Yuanyang followed into the reception room and saw Jia Qiang in a Confucian shirt.

After not seeing her for a month, Jia Qiang's face didn't change much, but her elegant temperament was very different from a month ago, as if she was a different person.

"Miss Yuanyang, please take a seat quickly. Jade, quickly pour tea for Miss Yuanyang!" Jia Qiang greeted with a smile.

He did not treat Yuanyang lightly, not only because Yuanyang came on behalf of Jia Mu, but also because of Yuanyang's quality.

"Second Master Qiang, I'm just a maid. I'm here to tell you about our ancestors. How can I take a seat?" Yuanyang waved her hands and said, then she took out a piece of deed paper and put it in front of Jia Qiang and continued: "The ancestors said This is a congratulatory gift to you. Congratulations on your passing the examination as a scholar. Our ancestors also said that no matter what, your surname is Jia and we are all one family!"

Jia Qiang looked at the deed paper in front of him. From the words on the deed paper, he knew that it was the deed for a restaurant called Qingfenglou Restaurant.

Looking at the address, it's not far from this yard.

He understood that the restaurant seemed to be a gift, but in fact it was compensation, and he wanted him not to take Ning Guofu's previous actions to heart.

But in fact, how could he let go? Ning Guofu wanted to put him to death.

The frame-up in the college examination was to ruin his future, and to find Poppi's scoundrels to kidnap him was to directly kill him. Such a big enmity can only be life and death between you and me.

"Miss Yuanyang, please give a message to our ancestors. Jia Qiang's surname is Jia, and we are the same family as our ancestors!" Jia Qiang said to Yuanyang with a smile.

His biggest enemy was Jia Zhen and the Ningguo Mansion. He had no intention of becoming an enemy of the Rongguo Mansion or Jia Mu, so he accepted this gift.

"My ancestors would be very happy to know that Mr. Qiang said this!" Yuanyang thought that Jia Qiang had listened and said with a smile.

Jia Qiang sent Yuanyang away, and he followed him out the door.

This time he didn't bring Jade with him. When he got on the carriage, he saw a hatchet lying across the shaft of the carriage. He thought Lao Shun had prepared it because he was worried about his safety.

He smiled and didn't say anything. He didn't want to undermine Lao Shun Tou's loyalty.

"Lao Shuntou, go and see Qingfeng Tower first!" He ordered Lao Shuntou.

"Master, sit still!" Lao Shuntou reminded, waving the whip in his hand and starting the carriage.

Lao Shuntou's carriage drove much slower than usual. His eyes were constantly observing the surroundings, for fear that someone might emerge from the alley again.

Even though the carriage was a little slow, it didn't take long to arrive outside Qingfeng Tower.

Qingfeng Building is a small restaurant with two floors. Judging from the scale, it can accommodate at most a dozen tables.

It was not the time to eat at this time, there were no customers in Qingfeng Building yet.

Although Qingfeng Building is not big, this gift is not light. Such a two-story restaurant is worth a thousand taels of silver. The most important thing is that the business of this location is not bad due to the Imperial College.

Jia Qiang went in and met with the shopkeeper. This time nothing happened. The shopkeeper was well behaved and his accounts were clear.

This time it was clear that Qingfeng Tower would be his from now on.

With the output of the two industries, if he was just an ordinary scholar, it would not be a problem to support him in his studies.

This was probably what Jia Mu meant, but unfortunately he wanted more.

After coming out of Qingfeng Tower, we went to Baicao Hall. Shopkeeper Sun was surprised when he saw Jia Qiang wearing a Confucian shirt. Based on his impression and the medicinal materials Jia Qiang ordered, Jia Qiang should be from a general background.

"Shopkeeper Sun, do you have all the medicinal materials I want?" Jia Qiang waved her hand, stopping Shopkeeper Sun from saluting, and asked impatiently.

"It's all ready. I only found it from three branches!" Shopkeeper Sun explained as he took out a large bag of medicinal materials from the medicine cabinet.

Shopkeeper Sun was very careful in his work. Each medicinal material was marked with its name and quantity, which saved Jia Qiang a lot of trouble.

Jia Qiang took out the medicine list and checked it one by one. He didn't dare to be careless in the slightest. These medicinal materials were related to his practice of 'Jia's Hundred Turns Refining Technique'.

"Very good, we have all the medicinal materials. Here is the remaining silver!" He handed the silver that he had prepared earlier to Shopkeeper Sun, and then he asked: "I want to order another batch of the same medicinal materials. Shopkeeper Sun, look at it." How many days will it take?”

"Young Master, it's not that I don't want to do this business, I should wait until the Young Master has used up this medicinal material before considering the next one!" Shopkeeper Sun advised.

It is extremely difficult to practice the art of general body refining, especially the first time the failure rate is very high, not to mention Jia Qiang's age here, which makes the failure rate even higher.

"It's okay, prepare it first!" Jia Qiang replied with a smile.

"It's still a deposit of two hundred taels. This time it will take longer, at least half a month. I have brought all the medicinal materials from the nearby pharmacy. If you want it again, you will have to go further away!" Shopkeeper Sun said. After some further persuasion, I gave him a time after thinking about it.

"Then we'll have to trouble Shopkeeper Sun!" Jia Qiang took out another two hundred taels of silver and said.

The amount of money he spent to buy the medicinal materials twice was within the two thousand taels of silver he could use, so he wouldn't worry about being investigated.

In fact, purchasing two quantities of medicinal materials at once required him to use a small amount of the silver in his inventory. However, since the amount of silver used was small, there would be no problem.

The elm furniture in the main room of the west wing was removed, and a stone lock was hung from the main beam. The stone lock weighed exactly two hundred pounds.

There is also an open wooden box fixed on the stone lock. A bag of iron sand hangs from the main beam above the wooden box. This iron sand also weighs two hundred kilograms.

This is the prop for practicing 'Jia's Hundred Turns Refining Technique'. There is a bowl of Chinese medicine on the table nearby.

The bitter smell from the Chinese medicine made Jia Qiang frown.

He walked to the door and closed it. When he was halfway up the door, he saw the worried Jade and Lao Shuntou.

Only Lao Shuntou and Jade knew about his practice of general body-refining techniques.

The layout here requires Lao ShunTou's help, while Jade needs to help brew the medicine. He ordered Lao ShunTou and Jade not to spread the word.

Because the bond is with him, it is impossible for Lao Shuntou and Jade to betray him because the price of betrayal is too high.

Jia Qiang took a long breath and drank the medicine in the bowl.

Then he came to the stone lock. The stone lock was placed very low so that he, a short man, could use his strength.

He used his shoulders to lift the stone lock.

At the same time, the power of the medicine he had just taken turned into a hot line of fire flowing in his body. He quickly followed the operation method of 'Jia's Hundred Turns Refining Technique' and controlled the hot line of fire to run on a specific route.

The weight on his body is just at his limit, which makes all the bones and muscles in his body reach the ultimate state of exertion.

"Crack", he heard the sound inside his body, which was the sound made by the hot wire hitting the shackles inside the body.

His body swelled up strangely, and the tight-fitting training clothes he was originally wearing were burst by the swelling body, exposing his upper body.

The muscles in his upper body were taut, like the body of a person who had practiced martial arts for a long time, and this body was just that of an ordinary twelve-year-old boy a moment ago.

Due to the instantaneous expansion, dark blood flowed from every pore of his skin, making him look like a bloody man.

Hot lines of fire flowed through the muscles, meridians, bone marrow, internal organs, and every part of the body. Every time it passed, it felt as painful as if someone had stamped it with a hot iron.

"Why does it hurt so much!" He shouted in his heart.

Fortunately, his soul was powerful, and the fusion of the two souls doubled his endurance. Coupled with his yearning for force, he was enduring inhuman torture at this moment.

As time passed, the fiery thread developed a complex operating route in his body.

(End of this chapter)