Red Mansion Taoist

Chapter 72 Poisoning
  "Min'er, don't underestimate Brother Qiang, he is a first-class viscount!" Lin Ruhai explained to Jia Min from the side.

"It's really amazing. Brother Qiang couldn't inherit the title of Ningguofu, but he got the title himself!" Jia Min exclaimed.

Coming from a noble family, she knew very well how difficult it was to obtain a title, especially the title of first-class viscount. It was this understanding that made her even more surprised by Jia Qiang.

"I was removed from the family tree by the Jia family two years ago!" Jia Qiang shook his head and said, he did not want to have any involvement with Ningguo Mansion.

"Are those clansmen in the clan always blind and ignorant?" Jia Min narrowed her eyes slightly when she heard the news.

If she hadn't been in Yangzhou and was in poor health, she would have wanted to go to the capital in person and ask the clan elders.

A genius who was able to obtain the first-grade title on his own was expelled from the family. If other families knew about this, they would probably become a laughing stock.

After Jia Min said these unfair words, she looked at Jia Qiang with eyes full of pity.

Two years ago, Jia Qiang was only twelve years old and was kicked out of the Ningguo Mansion. What wrong thing could a twelve-year-old child do that would cause him to be kicked out of the family?

How much hardship did Jia Qiang have to endure to achieve what she has achieved today.

"Brother Qiang, do you plan to be both civil and military?" Jia Min was quick in thinking. Thinking of the conversation just now, she asked again.

To be able to obtain the title of first-class Viscount, Jia Qiang must have good martial arts skills, otherwise it would be impossible to obtain the title of knighthood.

Only by inheriting a title can one be incompetent in martial arts.

The first generation of titles are all obtained through military exploits, and the only way to obtain military exploits is to kill the enemy.

But Jia Qiang also worshiped Lin Ruhai as her teacher and studied literature with her. This was not just a combination of civil and military skills.

"I dare not say that I have both civil and military skills. I just have one more choice at my young age!" Jia Qiang explained with a smile. He looked at Jia Min's face and asked with concern: "Is the master's wife sick? "

I remember in "Dream of Red Mansions" that Jia Min died of illness in the past two years.

Now that he has the means to cure the disease, he may be able to try to change Jia Min's fate, which can indirectly change Lin Daiyu's fate.

"It's just that I'm not feeling well!" Jia Min replied with a smile, but did not tell the truth.

"Teacher, Master, I still have some research on medical skills, and besides practicing martial arts, I also learned acupuncture to treat diseases. How about I try it for Master?" Jia Qiang offered.

What he told Xue Tong before was the 'point-pressing technique', but the master's wife is a woman, so he could only say 'point-pointing technique', otherwise he was worried that Jia Min would not let him treat it because men and women are not close to each other. .

"Do you really have a cure?" Lin Ruhai asked in surprise.

Maybe he wouldn't believe it too much when other people said this.

But who is the young man in front of him? He is a man who has obtained the title of first-class viscount in just two years. He was also favored by Emperor Jingwen and sent to Yangzhou to handle the salt affairs.

This all shows that Jia Qiang is different. The credibility of what this kind of person says is still very high.

"I came to Yangzhou to board the Xue family merchant ship, and I met the owner Xue Tong. I cured Xue Tong's illness!" In order to strengthen her credibility, Jia Qiang used Xue Tong's story as evidence.

"Brother Qiang, please leave it to me!" Lin Ruhai bowed to Jia Qiang seriously and said.

"Teacher, you are really embarrassing me. I will definitely try my best to heal my wife!" Jia Qiang quickly supported Lin Ruhai.

The master-disciple relationship in this era can be compared to the relationship between father and son, especially this kind of formal and independent apprenticeship. The relationship between the two parties has achieved mutual prosperity and loss.

"What other preparations are needed?" Lin Ruhai asked.

"It doesn't need to be that complicated, as long as the master's wife turns her back to me!" Jia Qiang waved her hand and replied.

Jia Min turned around generously. Jia Qiang was not very old, let alone a junior of the same race. She did not care about the contact during treatment.

Jia Qiang stretched out her hand and tapped Jia Min's back a few times.

He performed the 'Healing Technique [Intermediate]', and a blood bar appeared. The blood volume in the blood bar barely reached half, which showed that Jia Min's illness was very serious.

After casting a 'Healing Technique [Intermediate]', Jia Min's blood bar was filled up within a few breaths.

Just as he cast another 'Healing Technique [Intermediate]' and was about to release it slowly, he found that Jia Min's blood bar had dropped a little inexplicably.

He stopped using the 'Healing Technique [Intermediate]', stared at the blood bar again, and judged Jia Min's condition based on the feeling when he just cast the 'Healing Technique [Intermediate]'. Lin Ruhai couldn't help but feel nervous when she saw Jia Qiang suddenly stopped moving and her face was serious.

As the saying goes, if you are not afraid of a smiling doctor, you are afraid of a low-looking doctor. He loves Jia Min very much, and becomes even more nervous when he cares about her.

"Brother Qiang, did you find something?" Lin Ruhai asked carefully.

"Teacher, my wife is not an ordinary disease, she is poisoned!" Jia Qiang shook her head and replied.

"Poisoned?" Lin Ruhai's eyes suddenly widened, and then he thought of something, and the killing intent in his eyes could hardly be suppressed.

He naturally thought about where Jia Min's poison came from. It must have been at the hands of the salt merchant.

In order to deal with him, the salt merchants did almost anything and tried every means to destroy him.

Starting with his youngest son, who was poisoned and died, and then his beloved wife was poisoned. He could no longer bear the loss of his relatives.

"Brother Qiang, is there any way to detoxify?" Lin Ruhai asked after he had been an official for many years, and he quickly calmed down.

"I don't have much research on detoxification." Jia Qiang shook her head and replied. Seeing Lin Ruhai's face turned pale, she quickly continued: "Although I can't detoxify, I can protect my wife's life, but I must do it every five days." Just treat once a day.”

Lin Ruhai's mood surged up and down like a roller coaster. It wasn't until he heard Jia Qiang's assurance that he felt relieved.

"Brother Qiang, I'm going to bother you from now on!" Lin Ruhai said with a smile.

He felt that this disciple was worth his while. He saved his wife as soon as he became a disciple.

He decided not to hold anything back and taught Jia Qiang everything he had learned.

At this moment, Jia Min felt relaxed all over her body, her fatigue disappeared, and her whole body seemed to be reborn.

After she heard that she had been poisoned, she thought of her young son who died young. If she could have met Jia Qiang earlier, maybe her young son would not have died so early.

"Teacher, Master, please keep the treatment confidential for me!" Jia Qiang asked Lin Ruhai and his wife.

"Don't worry, it will never be spread. We won't mention it again after leaving this study!" Lin Ruhai nodded heavily and promised.

After seeing Jia Qiang's treatment methods, he didn't know how shocking this treatment method was, and how much trouble it would bring to Jia Qiang if it were leaked.

After treating Jia Min, the relationship between Lin Ruhai and Jia Qiang became closer.

He ordered people to tidy up the side room in the backyard and let Jia Qiang live in it.

Jia Qiang first went to the inn to pick up her luggage, and then returned to Lin Mansion.

Originally Lin Ruhai planned to host a banquet for Jia Qiang in the evening, but Jia Qiang refused because she was tired from the journey and had to clean up.

Even with his strong physique, thirty days on the boat made him very uncomfortable, and he wanted to take a good rest.

Seeing that Jia Qiang had no one with her, Jia Min arranged for a little maid named Siyu to be given to Jia Qiang to take care of Jia Qiang's daily life.

Jia Qiang accepted Jia Min's kindness, but he did not let Si Yu serve him to bathe. He was not used to being served by someone other than a personal maid.

Lying in bed, he thought about this mission and recalled the information he had read today in his mind.

With his memory, he only needed to read the information twice to memorize it.

The power of salt merchants in Jiangnan, especially Yangzhou, exceeded his imagination. Almost everyone in the government from top to bottom received benefits from the salt merchants.

The eight major salt merchants are headed by the Huang family. A bowl of egg fried rice costs the owner fifty taels of silver. Why is egg fried rice so valuable?

First of all, you have to select rice, one by one, mainly to ensure that every grain of rice is absolutely complete. Fried rice also requires that the rice grains are all separated and must not stick together.

In addition, every grain of rice must be soaked in egg juice, golden on the outside and snow-white on the inside. This bowl of egg fried rice is served with a hundred fish soup. The hundred fish soup includes crucian carp tongue, silver carp brain, carp white, grouper liver, yellow croaker fat, shark fin, turtle skirt, eel blood, bream paddle, blacktail Fish fillet etc.

Even the emperor and the supreme emperor in the palace do not have such luxury. This is just one example.

(End of this chapter)