Chapter 18: Bai Langzhong's Test
After walking for another quarter of an hour, Chen Jie felt that Doctor Bai was getting heavier and heavier...

It has to be said that his body was still too weak. Just when he couldn't hold on any longer, he suddenly remembered the Yangchun Jue. He immediately adjusted his breathing and switched to the Yangchun Jue breathing method.

There was not much change at the beginning, but slowly, Chen Jie felt that his breathing became much smoother and no longer difficult. As his breathing became smoother, his body was no longer as tired as before, and he began to slowly recover.

It even gets easier as you go.

There is something interesting about this secret of nourishing spring!
They walked all the way down the mountain and finally returned to the village. Chen Jie sent Doctor Bai home.

Only Doctor Bai's daughter was at home. His son-in-law did not come home because he had something to do at the fish pen.

Seeing that Doctor Bai was so badly injured, the daughter was terrified and asked if he was okay. Doctor Bai waved his hand and said, "It's okay, I just sprained my foot."

Chen Jie sent Doctor Bai home and sat on the bed. Only then did Doctor Bai breathe a sigh of relief.

It goes without saying that the daughter was pouring water for Doctor Bai and serving him.

When Chen Jie found that everything was fine in the house, he went outside and saw many grinding wheels of different sizes placed outside, which seemed to be used to build up strength.

He remembered that Doctor Bai's son-in-law was called Wu Zhong, a Ming Jin martial artist who had achieved a breakthrough.

I guess this is used to build up strength.

As he was thinking this, Doctor Bai called his daughter into the room.

"Go to the cabinet and take out three taels of silver and give it to him."

The daughter was stunned, looked at Doctor Bai and said, "Dad, this is too much."

Doctor Bai said, "Is my life not worth three taels of silver?"

The woman was stunned, and then said: "No, Dad, that's not what I meant."

Doctor Bai asked, "Do you know who he is?"

"Who?"

The Bai family had just recently moved back to Xiantao Village, so they were not familiar with some of the younger generations.

"Chen Yongwang's grandson."

"Ah! It can't be Chen Jiusi, that gambler!"

"Shh, keep your voice down."

Doctor Bai made a silent gesture and then said, "Alas, I lost to Chen Yongwang back then, and I was unwilling to accept it. However, his medical skills are extraordinary. Chen Jiusi should also be considered the descendant of a famous doctor."

"It's a pity that he got addicted to gambling, but today I saw that he had some novel understandings of medicine and some talent..."

"Dad, you don't want to take him as your apprentice, do you?"

Doctor Bai said, "Why not? I lost to his grandfather back then. Now I accept him as my disciple. I want the dead Chen Yongwang to know how broad-minded I, Bai Wenjing, am."

"But... well, you give him the money first. If he accepts it, he won't mention it anymore, and it will be considered as my repayment of the favor. If he doesn't accept it, you can go to his house tomorrow and tell him that I'm too busy here and want to hire an apprentice. Ask him if he's willing."

After Doctor Bai finished speaking, he asked his daughter to leave.

Soon the daughter came to the yard and saw Chen Jie beating the millstone. Seeing this, the woman smiled and said, "Ninety-four, right?"

"Hello, auntie."

Chen Jie came over, and the woman said, "Well, today it's all thanks to you, otherwise our old man would be in danger. I won't say much, thank you for your kindness, take these three taels of silver."

"Oh, no, I can't have it."

Chen Jie immediately refused, and the woman said, "You take it."

Seeing this, Chen Jie immediately jumped away and said, "Aunt, I have sent the person away. I will not stay any longer. Please tell Doctor Bai that I am leaving first."

Chen Jie left as if he was escaping. In the room, Bai Wenjing was looking outside through the window. When she saw Chen Jie leave without asking for money, she smiled and nodded without saying anything more.

The woman also looked at Chen Jie's back, and couldn't help but look at him with a higher opinion. It seemed that Chen Jiusi was not as terrible as people said.

The woman went back to the house and said, "Dad, I didn't ask for money."

Bai Wenjing said, "When Ah Zhong comes back, ask him to prepare a bigger fish. Go to his house tomorrow and ask him if he is willing to be my apprentice."

"Yes, Dad."

Chen Jie left the Bai family and looked back at the few large tiled houses built with blue bricks in the village, feeling a little envious.

Chen Jie would definitely not accept the money offered to him today.

Taking the money means repaying the favor, and his goal is not the three taels of silver, but to borrow Doctor Bai's platform and finally climb up the big tree of the Fishing Gang.

You must never underestimate the fishing gang.

Daqian was a country founded by a foreign race and was very wary of the Han people. Therefore, although there were government offices and county magistrates in various places, most of them were domestic slaves of the Mulan people or were recommended to power by the Mulan people.

Therefore, the person who truly holds local power is the Darughachi sent by the Mulan people to supervise the local area.

In order to limit the power of these Han county magistrates who were recommended through recommendations, Darughaci used local gangs to help manage the local areas in order to achieve checks and balances and make money at the same time.

Therefore, the local gangs have great power, and the gang leaders are on equal footing with the county magistrate.

At the local level, the power of gangs is definitely more deterrent than that of the yamen runners.

Therefore, there is still a bright future in forming gangs in this world.

It is similar to joining the Green Gang in Shanghai at the beginning of the last century.

Chen Jie left the Bai family, thought for a while, and went straight into the town. Soon he arrived in the town and found a pharmacy, which was also a subsidiary industry of the fishing gang.

Chen Jie sold the ten-year-old ginseng today for three taels and eight cents of silver.

The price isn’t high, but it can’t be said to be ripping yourself off.

With the money, Chen Jie started to buy things. His family was penniless and had no food to eat, so he had to solve the basic material problem first.

Chen Jie first bought 100 kilograms of sorghum rice, and then bought some fatty pork. These fatty pork were used to make delicious lard at home.

Then comes oil, salt, sauce and vinegar.

There is a saying that the seven necessities of life are firewood, rice, oil, salt, sauce, vinegar and tea.

Chen Jie bought everything, then came to the pawnshop, found the owner, and wanted to redeem the pawned items.

Chen Jie remembered that Su Yunjin pawned a hairpin given by her mother to buy the arsenic. The hairpin was made of copper plated with silver and was not expensive, but the damn shopkeeper insisted on asking Chen Jie for one or two taels of silver.

Chen Jie thought about it and decided to pay for it.

Originally, Chen Jie wanted to make a new dress for each of the two girls, but most of the money had been spent, and only eight cents of change was left.

Chen Jie borrowed a wheelbarrow from a fellow villager and pushed the things home.

As a result, they suddenly encountered a group of people on the road. The leader had pockmarks on his face. When he saw Chen Jie, especially the truckload of goods, he immediately came up to him with a smile and shouted from a distance, "Brother Jiusi!"

Chen Jie recognized him, Ma Liu, a lackey of Yu Jiabao's bureau. In Macau, such people are called stackers.

The intelligence he refreshed yesterday also included information that he was colluding with Yu Jiabao, the young master of the bureau.

It said above that the fat pig Yu Sanliu had set his eyes on his wife and wanted to set a trap to make him lose Su Yunjin to him.

And this Ma Liu is his accomplice. Chen Jie narrowed his eyes and smiled: "Oh, it's Brother Ma Liu."

(End of this chapter)