Starting from the Greyhound, seventy-two changes.

Chapter 45 Red Dates
Coming out of Baisuifang.

When he walked out of Baisuifang, he looked at his assets which had shrunk again and secretly clenched his fists:
"One hundred and sixty taels of silver, one hundred and sixty thousand was spent in one day. I couldn't even imagine it in my previous life. It really hurts, it hurts... I'd better buy the stick-shaped weapon later."

I paid a deposit of sixty taels just to buy a monkey, and I had to spend another sixty taels later.

Including the cost of completing the second picture, he spent 160 taels of silver in one day.

The funds shrunk by half.

He heard that a good weapon was also very valuable. If he spent all of it at once and was left penniless, he would feel very insecure.

Chen Ku cried out in his heart with great pain, half of his money was earned by collecting herbs in the middle of the night. Although all this was for spiritual practice, he couldn't bear the heartache.

"I'm still too poor... I must quickly learn how to make prescriptions and pills to expand my income-generating methods. Otherwise, I won't be able to keep up with the rising consumption standards."

With this thought in mind.

Chen Ku turned back towards Yaowang Hall.

Prescriptions and elixir recipes.

These are the fundamental lifeblood of Yaowangtang, some of which are even more valuable and important than martial arts inheritance.

Martial arts may be passed on to other children, but the lifeblood of Yaowangtang, the "prescriptions" and "pill recipes", will definitely not be easily passed on to outsiders.

Only disciples can receive the teachings.

What is a disciple?

They are the master and his apprentice, the father and his son, the inheritors of the craft, and the people who will inherit part of the ancestral foundation of Yaowangtang in the future.

That’s why Yaowangtang has so many employees and apprentices, but rarely accepts disciples.

A master is only allowed to have one or two disciples at most, not too many.

In other words, if you become a disciple of Yaowang Hall, you will have a 60 to 70 percent chance of inheriting a master's position in the future.

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At the entrance of Yaowang Hall, Wu Gui was working in the front hall as usual today. He saw Chen Ku walking towards him from across the street from a distance and hurried to greet him.

"Brother Chen, your family came to the hall to look for you and left some things under the cabinet at the front desk."

When Chen Ku heard this, he was slightly stunned.

"my family?"

Then, after listening to Wu Gui's description, Chen Ku knew who it was.

"Did my mother and sister-in-law come here?" Chen Ku asked hurriedly.

They immediately became worried. The county town was forty or fifty miles away from the village. How could two women and a child dare to run so far? Aren’t they afraid of something happening on the road?
Wu Gui seemed to know Chen Ku's worries, and quickly relayed, "Aunt and Mrs. Chen were afraid that you would worry, so they asked me to tell you that they came to the city with the wood-purchasing cart from your village. They wanted to see you, but after waiting in the hall for half a quarter of an hour, I told them that you would be back soon, but they seemed to want to catch up with the oxcart back to the village, so they left early without waiting for long."

Chen Ku was silent.

A car for purchasing wood.

Most likely, Mr. Guo’s house needed to be renovated, and he came to the county town to buy wood. My mother and sister-in-law hadn’t seen me for more than a month, so they thought of coming over to take a look.

It just so happened that I was not in the hall.

Just missed it.

"Did they leave any other words?" Chen Kulian asked.

"Well, I left something for Brother Chen."

Wu Gui quickly took out a large bag from under the cabinet in the pharmacy:
"They said these are the dates and walnuts harvested from the date trees in your field this year. They brought two portions, one for you and the other for your sister. They don't have time to catch the bus, so they have to go back, so they hope you can give it to your sister."

Open the package and look at the red dates and walnuts inside.

This originally belonged to their own family, but later the land no longer belonged to the family, and the several walnut trees and jujube trees in the field also became the property of Mr. Guo.

Now it is September to October, the season when walnuts and red dates are ripe. When they were picked, the first thing I thought of was to send them to myself and my sister in the county.

Chen Ku felt a little sad.

This kind of simple family affection is instinctive in any world.

"Well, thank you Brother Wu for the message. Let's go out for dinner after work tonight." Chen Ku bowed to Wu Gui, who was the messenger, and said sincerely: "When I first entered the hall, I said I would treat Brother Wu to dinner."

Wu Gui looked slightly pleased.

He didn't expect that Chen Ku, who had become an apprentice and now had a higher status and position in the hall than him, was still willing to make friends with him. It was worth it for him to receive the old mother when other guys were unwilling to talk to him.

In the evening, after Chen Ku got off work, he treated his 'guide' to Yaowang Hall to a big meal.

After having a good meal and a few drinks, Wu Gui, looking slightly tipsy, said to Chen Ku:
"Brother Chen, I won't make a mistake in your judgment. You will definitely become a master chef in our hall in the future, but I don't have much hope. I will probably only be a waiter for the rest of my life."

"Wait until I promote you."

Chen Ku spoke sincerely without any pretense in front of Wu Gui.

The two clinked their glasses together.

Because they had to go to work the next day, neither he nor Wu Gui drank too much.

After Chen Ku and Wu Gui returned to Yaowang Hall, they looked at the two bags of red dates and walnuts.

Thinking about my mother's instructions.

The next day, taking advantage of the lunch break, I finally divided it into two portions, packed them up, left Yaowang Hall, bought a few boxes of snacks on the way, carried them all together, and walked towards my sister and brother-in-law's house.

He had to convey the old man's wishes no matter what.

Li Yuancheng's family lived in the inner city. After all, he was a fast-moving constable and had served as deputy chief constable for three years. He had some assets, otherwise his sister would not have been able to secretly support their family.

There are more than 20 households living in an alley in the inner city. One of the courtyards is my sister's home, but there are more than just my sister's family living there, there are also other people.

When Chen Ku came to the yard, a woman with a loud voice asked him who he was looking for. When Chen Ku explained his identity.

Soon, the woman's loud voice was heard throughout the yard:
"Sister of Constable Li, your brother is here to see you, come out and pick him up."

Hearing the sound, a woman in plain blue came out from the kitchen of one of the three large tiled houses on the east side of the yard. She looked to be about twenty-seven or twenty-eight years old and was a bit prettier than his sister-in-law.

"sister."

When the woman came out of the kitchen, she saw the tall and handsome young man in the yard calling out to her.

Her eyes immediately turned red, and she quickly stepped forward and slapped Chen Ku, her voice excited:
"You didn't even tell me you were here. How did you come to the city? Did you walk here? Are you tired from the journey?"

After asking, I felt something was wrong and looked at the clothes my brother was wearing.

"Sister, I'm in the city now."

For some reason, Chen Ku felt a little guilty for not having come to see his sister.

He slowly told everyone about how he had dug up the precious herb and changed the fate of his family, and that he now had more than twenty acres of land and was currently working as an apprentice at the Medicine King Hall in the county.

The eldest sister covered her mouth with tears in her eyes:
"…Really? Yaowang Hall? Apprentice? Are you kidding me?"

"Yeah, my mother came to the city from the countryside today, and I didn't see her. She brought her to Yaowang Hall and asked me to bring some to you..." Chen Ku took out the red dates and walnuts.

The elder sister saw the snacks other than the bitter walnuts and red dates, and patted her brother's shoulder with her palm in distress:

"You're an apprentice, you don't even get paid, why are you buying these?"

After saying that, he pulled Chen Kuxian into the house and choked up again: "Your brother-in-law is working in the government office. He was stabbed two days ago. I asked him to rest but he refused. He won't be back until the evening..."

Chen Ku couldn't help but think of the scene of Li Yuancheng and Ni Kun fighting that he saw from the perspective of the greyhound.

It seemed that in addition to the knockout drug, there was indeed a bloodstain on Li Yuancheng's chest.

"Brother-in-law, it's okay, right?"

Chen Kuzheng said.

[There is a person named Ni Kun who has bad intentions towards the owner of the picture...]

Saw this line of text.

He subconsciously activated the Thin Dog Transformation, and then his expression changed drastically:
"Ni Kun, nearby?!"

(End of this chapter)