The Demon-Slaying Grandmaster

Chapter 115 This money comes too easily
The question now is, is this old witch just greedy by nature, so she does all kinds of evil things for money?
Or is there some powerful force behind her that allows her to extort money from the capital?

If it were the former, Li Jingxiao would naturally have no scruples.

They also raided her house and took away all the money that Ma Dao Po had saved over the years.

Anyway, the person is dead, so it is up to him to decide how much money he has, right?

It would be even better if there was some power behind Ma Dao Po.

If you follow the list, you will find a series of merits and experience packages.

But before that, Li Jingxiao still had to pretend.

I looked at my pocket watch and it was already past 2 o'clock. I took Erfu and others out to Zhenwu Temple to see patients and gain experience.

Then he said to Jia Rong who was following him, "Rong'er, go to the Wucheng Military Headquarters to find Qiu Liang and tell him that I have something to ask him.

But have him pretend to be unwell and come to Zhenwu Temple to find me."

Jia Rong immediately understood what Li Jingxiao meant, nodded quickly, and took the servants and maids to find Qiu Liang.

As soon as Li Jingxiao left the Dianqiansi yamen, a eunuch immediately ran to tell Xia Shouzhong.

When Emperor Longde knew that Li Jingxiao had left early, he was not angry. Instead, he just laughed and scolded him, saying that Li Jingxiao was lazy, and then ignored him.

Xia Shouzhong guessed the emperor's thoughts. The less Li Jingxiao valued the job of the Palace Front Office, the more it showed that he was obsessed with power, even less than treating patients.

The emperor and the emperor emeritus' requirements for Li Jingxiao were actually very simple: to report to work at the palace every day.

If anything happens, you can find him first.

During this period, Li Jingxiao was allowed to decide whether to meditate or train 1 cavalrymen.

Moreover, the training of the Sima team in front of the palace has always been done by 2 Du Yuhou and 10 Yuhou.

Whether Li Jingxiao is in charge or not, it will not affect the combat effectiveness and discipline of the cavalry.
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After leaving the palace, he rode his horse and jogged to the Zhenwu Temple. From a distance, he saw seven or eight people waiting outside the Taoist temple in the cold wind.

Li Jingxiao couldn't help but look happy when he saw this.

Although I only gain a little experience each time I see a patient, if I see an average of 10 patients a day, that’s 3650 points a year.

Not a lot.

He also has a good reputation for curing illnesses and saving lives.

In addition, since I only charge 100 coins to treat patients, my reputation will be even better.

When the patients saw the cavalry coming, they knew that Li Jingxiao had returned to Beijing.

There was also an expectant smile on his face.

As for blaming Li Jingxiao, why didn't he come to see patients in the previous two days.

After hearing that Li Jingxiao had been promoted again and was now the deputy commander of the third-rank Palace Front Division, all his resentment disappeared.

If it were them, having reached the same level of officialdom as Li Jingxiao, they would have no shortage of money.

How could you continue to treat patients for 100 wen each?

Therefore, in everyone's eyes, Li Jingxiao's behavior is the benevolence of a doctor.

By the time Li Jingxiao finished treating seven or eight patients, more patients had already arrived after hearing the news.

Qiu Liang was queuing in the crowd, waiting to see Li Jingxiao.

Half an hour later, we finally arrived at Qiuliang.

As soon as they met, Li Jingxiao took Qiu Liang's pulse. Not long after, he looked at Qiu Liang with a strange look.

This made Qiu Liang feel very uneasy.

I am not afraid of Chinese medicine practitioners smiling, but I am afraid of them frowning and looking at patients with squinting eyes.

Fortunately, there was nothing wrong with Qiu Liang's body, but his kidney water was a little insufficient.

It's obvious that he has had too much sex.

Li Jingxiao thought about it and decided not to mention it. He just prescribed a prescription for Qiu Liang.

Let him send someone to the pharmacy to get the medicine and then boil it at home.

Qiu Liang looked at the prescription and saw several herbs that could nourish the kidneys and strengthen sperm, so he knew what his problem was.

He put away the recipe and smiled awkwardly, then talked about his mother and why she offered 24 kilograms of incense oil every day in Ma Dao Po's temple.

After hearing this, Li Jingxiao couldn't help but frown.

It turned out that Mother Qiu had always felt dizzy and had consulted several imperial physicians and famous doctors from inside and outside the capital, but none of them worked.

There is really no other way but to ask for help from the immortals.

Unfortunately, the monks and Taoists searched a lot, but it was still useless.

Finally, they heard that Ma Dao Po was quite effective, so they invited her to ask her. Ma Dao Po said that the Qiu family was a family of military generals, and Qiu Liang was the commander of the Five Cities Army.

The murderous aura was so strong that Qiu Liang's mother was haunted by wronged spirits and could only offer an eternal lamp in front of the Buddha.

Asking for Buddha's blessing will naturally help you avoid disasters and solve problems.

As soon as Li Jingxiao heard it, he knew that it must be that Ma Dao Po who had targeted Qiu Liang's family.

Just think about it, when this old witch was plotting to harm Jia Baoyu and Wang Xifeng, she needed Jia Zheng's concubine Aunt Zhao to act as an accomplice.

Only by hiding two pieces of talisman paper with the five ghosts printed on them under the pillows of Jia Baoyu and Wang Xifeng can the spell be cast successfully.

In other words, there was someone in Qiu Liang's family who was acting as an accomplice to Ma Dao Po.

It is even possible that this accomplice had the same evil intentions as Aunt Zhao and wanted to kill Qiu Liang's mother.

The range of people who have this motivation is very small.

It's easy to tell Qiu Liang this, but it's hard to say whether he will be grateful.

The only people who would harm Qiu Liang's mother are her enemies, or people with strained relationships like Qiu Liang's wife or concubine.

If it is really the daughter-in-law or concubine who harms the mother-in-law, it would be a huge scandal.

He might even cause Qiu Liang to lose his job, be stripped of his title, and be thrown into jail.

So Li Jingxiao thought about it and just said that Ma Dao Po was the nominal godmother of Yuanchun's younger brother Jia Baoyu.

Only then did his future brother-in-law understand the background of this witch.

But who is Qiu Liang?
Being able to hold the position of commander of the Five Cities Military Department, his abilities are not the only thing that matters.

The ability to read people's expressions, flatter, and adapt to the situation must be very good.

Even if Li Jingxiao made an excuse to explain why he was called over for questioning.

But Qiu Liang didn't believe what Li Jingxiao said just now.

It never occurred to him that someone in his family wanted to harm his own mother.

Instead, he was wondering if Li Jingxiao was investigating some major case, and then he found out that it was Ma Dao Po.

Qiu Liang trembled at the thought of being implicated.

He actually thumped and knelt on the ground, "My dear brother, for the sake of our ancestors who served under the command of the old master of Ningguo Mansion, please show me a way to survive."

Li Jingxiao was stunned and it took him several seconds to realize that Qiu Liang had misunderstood.

He smiled and shook his head, waved his hand and used his internal force to lift Qiu Liang up in the air.

He said angrily, "What are you thinking? If there really is an important case, I will ask you for information and let you know what's wrong."

When Qiu Liang thought about it, it seemed to be true.

He wiped the cold sweat from his forehead with a sigh of relief, but his legs were still a little trembling.

He asked nervously, "Brother, just say something I can understand, otherwise I will be really unsure."

Li Jingxiao felt a little sorry when he saw this guy was so scared.

But when it comes to gaining experience, Li Jingxiao doesn't care whether Qiu Liang can sleep well.

However, Qiu Liang is the grandson of Marquis Jingtian and the commander of the Five Cities Army. He might be of use someday. After thinking for a moment, he said, "What I can tell you is that the case I'm investigating at the Zuo Zhenfu Division has nothing to do with you.

The reason you came here today is simply because you've been feeling tired and sleepy lately, and I'm here to give you a prescription. Do you understand?"

Qiu Liang naturally understood that Li Jingxiao was warning him not to delay the case of the Zuo Zhenfu Division.

He nodded quickly, "I understand, I understand. Thank you for diagnosing me."

After saying that, he took out a few silver bills he carried with him from his sleeve pocket and placed them carefully on the coffee table.

"Brother, friendship is friendship, but the consultation fee must be paid. Otherwise, I won't dare to ask you to treat me next time."

Li Jingxiao only took a glance and determined that there were four or five thousand taels of silver in the notes.

I glanced at Qiu Liang and saw that he was smiling a little awkwardly and uncomfortably.

Before I knew this guy was coming, I had already mistakenly thought that there was a case related to him.

That's why I plan to send money to ward off disaster.

After thinking about it, he casually put the money into the game inventory.

What is there to say?

"This society is a network of interests. If you don't charge money, people will not only not be grateful to you, but will think you are trying to harm them."

Only when Qiu Liang saw that he had accepted the money did he finally feel relieved.

He smiled and bowed to Li Jingxiao, "My dear brother, I won't bother you while you treat other people."

Li Jingxiao nodded, personally escorted Qiu Liang out of the Taoist temple, and continued to treat patients to gain experience.

By the time I finished seeing all 30 or so patients, it was already past six o'clock.

Seeing that Jia Rong was still waiting in the Taoist temple for orders, Li Jingxiao praised him a few words and asked him to go back with his servants.

Li Jingxiao then gave Erfu some instructions.

Erfu nodded and took two Jinyiwei to keep an eye on Ma Dao Po.

Li Jingxiao wanted to kill Ma Dao Po directly, but then he thought that this witch knew some evil magic, and there might be some inheritance behind her.

In this case, instead of killing Ma Dao Po, it is better to wait and see if she really has a master.

Unfortunately, even though he was in the Xing'an Earl's Mansion, it still made quite a commotion when he was helping his second uncle exorcise the Five Ghosts.

But during this period of time, no officials or dignitaries in the capital came to him for exorcism.

Li Jingxiao suspected that since he was still young, people would rather go to famous Taoist temples and Buddhist temples to exorcise evil spirits.

In order to avoid suspicion, Li Jingxiao was reluctant to order the Jinyiwei to investigate any unusual households in the capital.

This is to avoid people suspecting that he was the one who did the strange things in his family.

This shows the role of Jia Rong.

And this kid did a really good job. In just one morning, he found out about Qiu Liang and Ma Dao Po.

Of course, Ma Dao Po was seeking her own death by becoming Jia Baoyu's nominal godmother.

Judging from Qiu Liang's previous behavior, this guy will now only think that it is Ma Dao Po who is crying "stop thief". On the one hand, she is making money from the Marquis Jingtian's Mansion, and on the other hand, she is causing his mother a headache for a long time.
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After dinner, Li Jingxiao took his wife to the hall as usual to test the homework of his three cousins ​​and brother-in-law.

However, this time they were not tested on martial arts. Instead, the three Jingxi sisters were asked to recite medical books, and Qin Zhong was asked to recite the Thousand Character Classic.

Jing Xi and Jing Yue are fine, Jing Rong is the same as before.

I still stumble when reciting.

Occasionally, when he couldn't recite the time, he would scratch his ears and cheeks, which made Jing Xi and Jing Yue feel embarrassed and worried about the little guy.

She was afraid that even if her elder brother lowered his expectations of her younger sister several times, the little girl would still not take it seriously and she would get angry and punish her.

Fortunately, although I was not very good at memorizing the names of the medicines, I managed to memorize them in the end.

Li Jingxiao simply stretched out his hand and tapped Jingrong on the head three times, scaring the little guy so much that he subconsciously lowered his body by three inches.

He laughed and scolded, "Are you still afraid? Next time I'll make you copy books as punishment."

Jing Rong laughed and threw herself into Qin Keqing's arms, "Sister-in-law, my brother wants to punish me, you have to plead for me."

Qin Keqing hugged the little guy affectionately and said, "If your brother really punishes you, I won't dare to say anything."

Jingrong pouted and secretly glanced at Li Jingxiao's expression. Seeing that he just rolled his eyes, she immediately knew that her elder brother would not punish her at least this time.

She climbed into Li Jingxiao's arms and started acting coquettishly.

Li Jingxiao shook his head helplessly, thinking to himself that his little sister was only four years old and he really shouldn't ask too much of her.

But Li Jingxiao forgot that in his previous life, he despised the most those parents who always used the excuse of "the children are still young".

If I indulge my younger sister like this now, I might spoil Jingrong in the future.

Fortunately, Jingxi, as the eldest sister, is indeed very competent.

At least he was much stricter towards Jingrong than his elder brother.

As for Qin Zhong, I really don’t need to worry about this kid’s studies.

After praising Qin Zhong a few times, the smile on the little guy's face became even brighter.

And when he looked at Jingrong, he couldn't hide the pride on his face.

This made Jingrong snort in anger, and he turned his head away and stopped looking at him.

Then they talked about New Year's goods and New Year's greetings after the New Year.

Before they knew it, it was 9 o'clock. Qin Keqing hurriedly asked the maids and servants to take her sister-in-law and brother to bed.

After his younger brothers and sisters left, Li Jingxiao washed up and had to play another game with Qin Keqing, Baozhu and Ruizhu.

But Qin Keqing is not as lucky as Li Jingxiao.

How can you stand the revelry every night?
Not to mention, Li Jingxiao should play a match with her first, and then go to play with Baozhu and Ruizhu.
At the end, he had to review the game with Qin Keqing.

Although the happiness is doubled, it can be too much to bear if it happens so frequently.

Even Baozhu and Ruizhu felt weak and achy, and didn't seem as energetic as they were when they were girls.

Qin Keqing lay on Li Jingxiao's chest and took a long time to calm her breathing.

She said faintly, "Sir, how about I give you two personal maids?"

Li Jingxiao was surprised and wanted to ask "why", but before he could say it, he realized that his wife was complaining about him.

If she were a 30-year-old mature woman, she would be eager to have three or five games a night.

But Qin Keqing is only 28 years old now, and her fighting ability is indeed much worse than that of her older sister.

He could only hope that Jia Yuanchun would marry him sooner so that she could share the burden.

As for taking a concubine.

Everyone likes beautiful women.

Unfortunately, apart from marrying her and competing with her, I couldn't gain any experience, which means that I lost half of my happiness.

Li Jingxiao hugged Qin Keqing and kissed her on the forehead.

He smiled and said, "Madam, if you feel unwell, you can rest for a day or two."

Qin Keqing's face lit up with joy. She felt that her husband was considerate of her, which was her blessing.

But when I think about the fact that I can't satisfy my husband, I feel a little irresponsible.

I thought to myself that I was not prepared enough when I first got married.

If there were two more personal maids in addition to Baozhu and Ruizhu, there would be no such problem.

But now, Qin Keqing could only nod embarrassedly.

Even Baozhu and Ruizhu, who were in the small room outside the bedroom, breathed a sigh of relief after hearing their conversation.

(End of this chapter)