Early the next morning, a group of people rushed to the county seat to complain.
This case was clear and obvious, and the county magistrate would not get into trouble with Lin Xiucai Du Tuan because of a mere drugstore owner. After reading the pleadings, he immediately issued a fire warrant and asked the government officials to arrest shopkeeper Wang for questioning.
Shopkeeper Wang has been a little uneasy since Wu Jie left the city yesterday. That night, Qiaoen and others did not come back, and he was even more restless. By the time the government officials came to arrest people, he had already understood a little bit, and came tremblingly.
In the hall, when he saw Wu Jie and Qiao Qiao waiting for him, he was so frightened that he collapsed on the ground and confessed his crime honestly.
The evidence was conclusive and the confession was false. Shopkeeper Wang was naturally sent to death row, waiting for the case file to be reported to the Ministry of Punishments for approval before he could be executed. However, there was still one piece of loose ends to resolve in this case - the man surnamed Wang was a lonely ghost, not to mention his wife and children.
He didn't have any relatives. He was finished, but the drug store needed to be properly dealt with.
According to the laws of the Eastern Chu Kingdom, murder is a capital crime regardless of whether it is successful or not; coercing good people to become bandits is considered to be treason, which is an unpardonable crime that will kill both father and son and exile the whole family. However, these two crimes are not related to property.
There is a slight complication in the handling of the crime - for murder, the property must be distributed to the victim as compensation; for treason, the property must be confiscated.
Shopkeeper Wang has always been stingy. He has saved a lot of money from running a drug store for many years. More importantly, the drug store itself is worth a lot of money. Should he be fined or compensated? This puts the county magistrate in a dilemma.
He thought about it carefully, but still couldn't make a decision, so he turned his attention to the staff master beside him.
This master was a fellow villager of the county magistrate. Although he was not very good at reading, he was very clever. Seeing that the master was hesitant, he quietly pointed at Wu Jie.
The county magistrate was stunned and immediately understood what the master meant.
Wu Jie said that he went out to seek immortality but failed, and only found a ginseng tree. Although it sounds reasonable, there are many people in the world who have failed to seek immortality. Who can dig up a ginseng tree worth eight hundred taels of silver and come back after failing to seek immortality?
I'm afraid that this time he went out, it was not that his "seeking immortality failed", but that his earthly fate was not over yet...
For the money left by shopkeeper Wang, the county magistrate can offend Lin Xiucai and Du Tuanlian, but if he offends Wu Jie, who will become an immortal in the future, it doesn't seem so worth it...
After understanding this point, the county magistrate immediately made a decision, struck a panic, and made a verdict.
Shopkeeper Wang's crime was unpardonable and he was sent to prison to be executed. The family's wealth was confiscated, but the drug shop itself was sentenced to Wu Jie.
"No matter what, the county needs a pharmacy after all. The Wu family has been practicing medicine for generations, so they will be able to run it well." The county grandpa said kindly, "This county knows that you are a person seeking immortality, but you
My father and brother are not seeking immortality, so it would be quite suitable for them to stay in the county and become a famous doctor."
As soon as the verdict came out, everyone in the hall was shocked, even Wu Jie himself was shocked - according to Lin Xiucai's calculation beforehand, the most he could do was return the ginseng tree, but unexpectedly the entire drug store was awarded to him!
Of course, no one has trouble with money, and Wu Jie is no exception.
So when he came out of the county government, he had transformed from Wu Xiaoer of a small drugstore in the countryside to Boss Wu of a big drugstore in the city.
Because the county magistrate had given special attention to it, the matter of taking over the drug store went smoothly. The Wu family took over all the related businesses without much effort. Of course, the boss is Dr. Wu, not Wu Jie. For one thing, Wu Jie himself
He had no intention of running a drug store, and Dr. Wu was not confident about using his younger son's medical skills.
"You only have the ability to cure headaches and fevers, and you can become a wandering doctor. If you want to open your own medicine shop, you can learn it for ten more years!"
Wu Jie laughed along with him. Although he felt that he might have good medical skills, compared with his father, there was indeed a huge gap and he had to accept it.
So Doctor Wu took charge of the county drugstore "Ping'an Tang" from then on, while the "Wu Family Drugstore" in Wujiaji was handed over to Wu Jie's brother Wu Cheng.
They have been working on this case for a long time. They also bought a large house in the county town. The three families live here temporarily. Firstly, it is convenient to do things. Secondly, everyone may move here and become "city dwellers" in the future.
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Everyone seemed happy, except one person who was unhappy.
Du Ruo.
She had confidently assured Wu Jie that waiting for him to come back would be beneficial, but she didn't expect that Wu Jie would actually come back before she was ready - and he would return home in glory!
"Oh! What a shame!" The tigress with the strongest combat power in the Wu family sat in front of the window sill and let out a long sigh.
After sighing for a while, she walked to the door of the room and looked around to make sure no one was paying attention. Then she closed the door and window, pulled out a rattan box from under the bed, opened the box carefully, and took away some sundries placed on the upper floor as a cover.
, revealing a purple wooden box.
The workmanship of this wooden box is simple, but the materials used are abundant, and it looks very strong. When you open the box, there is nothing else inside, only a bright red jade stone.
She walked to the door again, held her breath and listened, but heard neither footsteps nor voices.
Du Ruo, who was a little relieved, hurried back, picked up the jade, and put it on his forehead.
"Master, Master Sanshan! Didn't you say that it only takes a hundred days for me to build the foundation and develop my magical powers? Why, it's been almost five months, and besides my improved skills, I don't have any magical powers at all.
None?"
"One hundred days of foundation building is based on ordinary disciples who can pass the Immortal Sect's assessment. How could I have expected that your qualifications are so poor, and your cultivation is still at the 'body training' stage! The mental method I teach you is from the outside.
And internally, successful physical training will naturally stimulate the body's potential, refine the internal energy into true energy, step from acquired to innate, and then you will have magical powers." An old, thin voice came from the jade, like a needle.
, directly penetrated into her mind, it was the voice of Taoist Sanshan, "You foodie! You have poor qualifications. Instead of practicing harder to make up for your shortcomings, you blame the master for not teaching you well? Meet you?
I am really unlucky for this kind of apprentice!"
Du Ruo immediately blushed and apologized hurriedly.
After a long time, the anger of Sanshan Taoist in the jade stone calmed down a little, and he said helplessly: "If I were still cultivating, it would be easy to refine two elixirs to cleanse your hair and marrow and reborn you, but I am unlucky enough to get you into trouble."
The people of Yulong Sect, their bodies were captured and their souls were sealed. At this moment, they only have a ray of distraction hiding in the soul-nurturing jade, and they don’t have any magical powers... Alas! How could I, the Sanshan Taoist, be so unlucky?
You are such a foodie! Look at you, what else do you do besides eating! I have never seen a guy with such low qualifications as you in my life!"
"Isn't this all fate...Master, please don't scold me all the time, can you help me think of something? Now the fourth child is busy, and he can't remember what he said at the beginning, but when he is done, he will think about it.
Get up... where will I put my face as a sister when the time comes!"
"You, a foodie, know how to be embarrassed?! Then why are you so verbose? Go practice with me!" Sanshan Taoist inside the jade stone shouted angrily, and his voice echoed in Du Ruo's mind like a bell, "Look at you these days.
What have you done! After you have gained a little bit of skill, you go around causing trouble. Today you smash rocks and tomorrow you pull out trees. Are you practicing Taoism or performing arts? If my magic power is still there, I will hang you up and give you a hundred whips!"
Du Ruo was so scolded that he hid the jade again dejectedly, sighed, and ran to the martial arts training ground to start practicing.
Her training method is quite strange. She does not exercise her body or meditate to practice her Qi. Instead, she submerges her head in the water again and again. She almost suffocates and faints every time, and only then performs some strange magic in the short period before fainting.
Mental method.
This method is simply crazy, but the effect is very obvious. When the body senses danger, it will naturally stimulate the potential of life, and then this potential is converted into its own power, incorporated into the meridians, and performs on the body.
nourish.
Every practice she performs is worth ten days of regular training. In just five months, her skills have been improved to the level of a first-class player in the world. Now Du Ruo, let alone an invincible opponent in the Wu Family Collection,
Even the gun and stick instructor at the county military camp or the head escort in the escort agency is not her enemy with self-confidence.
But... just being a master is not enough!
Her original plan was to become an immortal within half a year, and then proudly accept Wu Jie as her disciple!
Unfortunately, the plan could not keep up with the changes. Wu Jie came back faster than she expected, and her own lack of qualifications even shocked the Sanshan Taoist who taught her the magic.
If this continues, wouldn’t the original boastful words become just bragging?
Du Ruo lamented in his heart while immersing himself in training.
"Folklore says that if you meet an immortal and teach you the Dharma, you will soon become an immortal through cultivation. But why am I different from the legend? If this continues, when will I become an immortal!"
In fact, she also knew that she had been blessed with the kind of good fortune that would take her who knows how many lifetimes to cultivate - she discovered that Taoist Sanshan actually had special skills by eating the offerings, and then accidentally discovered Taoist Sanshan's secret cultivation while climbing the mountain.
In the end, after the Immortal War destroyed Sanshan Temple, he found the jade stone containing the remnant soul of Sanshan Taoist in that place of cultivation, and thus became his disciple and received the immortal method taught by him... Such a fate is simply like
It's like those lucky people in the legend. If there is any dissatisfaction, they should be hung up and whipped!
But... she is really anxious. If she doesn't become an immortal as soon as possible, she will be very embarrassed!
Waking up from a semi-fainting state, even the tigress, who had always been carefree and carefree, felt a little frightened. Looking at the ordinary basin of water, she really couldn't muster the courage to dip her head in it again, so she had to find one.
I sat down in a sunny corner sheltered from the wind, feeling the strength in my body strengthen a little while holding my cheeks and frowning.
"It's definitely over now..."
After thinking for a while, Du Ruo finally came up with a solution that was not a solution.
drag!
Let Wu Jie first experience his rapid progress in magical skills, and then he will definitely be like a donkey who sees a carrot, patiently waiting for his magical skills to be completed.
