Honglouchun

Jia Qiang didn't bother to persuade her anymore, so she just said: "Sure, you can eat well by yourself." After a pause, she said: "By the way, after eating, don't forget to give the store a few pennies for each table. They also need to clean the table. worked hard."

The shopkeeper who came back from the back kitchen looked over and said with a smile: "I was going to accept it, and I couldn't accept it if I didn't give it. Now I have what you said, the guest officer, and I can't accept it if I give it. Or it is said that scholars should be respected." , what you say will make people feel good.”

Jia Qiang chuckled, the words of a businessman should not be taken too seriously, let alone a shop opened on a wharf where dragons and snakes are mixed...

He started to talk about the business: "This shopkeeper, you can see that he is an old Jinmen, and he must be familiar with everything in Jinmen. I have something to ask for advice, and I hope the shopkeeper will give me some advice."

"Ouch!"

The old shopkeeper cupped his hands and made a bow, and said with a smile: "Although I am indeed an old Jinmen, I don't dare to give advice or not, but the guest officer can just ask if there is anything. It looks like the guest officer is from Beijing. your nobleman?"

Jia Qiang smiled, but didn't answer the question, but asked: "I heard in Beijing that the Taoist priests in the Jinmen Church are proficient in Western medicine. Although it is different from Chinese medicine, it also has some miraculous effects. , is this true or false?"

The shopkeeper's face changed when he heard the words, and he looked at Fan Jiaqiang carefully again. After that, he looked out and saw that the fog had not cleared away, and no guests had come to the door. You are asking the right person, if you are talking about other things, my little old man is short-sighted, maybe I don’t know. But I know a lot about the foreign religion.”

Jia Qiang raised her eyebrows lightly, and said: "The shopkeeper knows that there are really good doctors in the foreign religion?"

The shopkeeper nodded and said: "Of course there are. Otherwise, the Mercy Church would not have saved so many people and accepted so many believers. Not to mention, even the old man and his wife were rescued by Father Andrew of the Mercy Hall Yes, so our family is all believers in the Hall of Mercy..."

Li Jing was overjoyed when she heard the words, and asked with a smile: "If so, it's a good thing, why is the shopkeeper so worried?"

The shopkeeper shook his head and said, "I thought it was a good thing. I heard that the Hall of Mercy was short of manpower, and I sent my eldest son to help. I just wanted to thank him for saving his life. But who would have thought that Father Andrew is a good man. But not all the priests under him are good people. Some priests are very bad. They used gold, silver and means to gather a lot of green-skinned ruffians to serve as his thugs, and they did some bad things. It is easy for my young man to get in, but he can figure it out. But it’s difficult. No, something happened in the Ren Ci Hall recently.”

Jia Qiang focused and asked, "What happened?"

The old shopkeeper hesitated for a moment, but still said: "This year's severe drought in Shandong, although there are not many refugees, and many people died of starvation, but there are many more families who can't afford to support children. Boys are better. When they grow up, they can work as laborers. But many of those girls were thrown into mass graves right after they were born. After the Ren Ci Church found out about this, they specially sent people to Shandong to adopt these abandoned babies..."

Li Jing raised her eyebrows and said, "Isn't this a matter of boundless merit?"

The old shopkeeper sighed, and said: "It turned out to be a matter of great merit. My family also donated five slings of money, but who would have thought that after autumn, for some reason in the Ren Ci Hall, many of the two hundred or so children would be infected with wind and cold. But when I came here, I could only watch half of them die. The Mercy Hall enshrined the babies in two or three coffins and buried them in the cemetery outside the city. However, the entrusting person was careless and buried too shallowly, and the babies died. The body was picked up by wild dogs... Sigh, when it was discovered, it was like hell on earth."

Tietou, Zhuzi and the two Jinsha gang put down the noodles tea and shortbread with no expression on their faces, feeling a little nauseous.

Jia Qiang seemed much calmer than the others, he said: "This matter is really hateful, could it be that the government couldn't stand it and sent someone to arrest the pastor of the Benevolence Hall?"

The old shopkeeper said solemnly: "Not here. Although the people are heavy-hearted, they will not vent their anger indiscriminately. If the girls in Shandong were not rescued to Jinmen, they would be gone. The key is that it is not just those who died in Shandong. Some of the children are fostered locally in Jinmen. In addition, Jinmen has always lost children in the past two years. The thief who stole the children was arrested the day before yesterday, but he confessed that the person who ordered him to steal the children was the Hall of Mercy. The Western Taoist priests in the village! He also said that this is because the Western Taoist priests took in more babies in order to spread their Taoism, and publicized their good deeds. If all the children died, they could not explain it, and others would not believe it. Their masters are gone. Those who lost their children, there are quite a few big families in Jinmen, how can they agree? There has been a lot of trouble in the past few days, and the Mercy Hall has also closed, and they dare not receive believers anymore. Nothing else. It's just a pity that those bastards got involved with Father Andrew."

Jia Qiang heard the words, frowned and said: "This Hall of Mercy really deserves to die! God will pay it back, these bastards have committed such a heinous crime, and they will suffer the consequences in the future. However, there is still a good one. Shopkeeper, that's it, I have My family suffers from a severe disease, and many famous doctors in Beijing have seen them, but they all say that there is no cure. I am not reconciled. I heard that Western Fandao has unique medical skills, so I came to Jinmen from Beijing to seek medical treatment. Just now The shopkeeper said that the son is in the church now, and that Father Andrew has saved the life of Mrs. Ling. Then, can the shopkeeper recommend that Father Andrew, who has excellent medical skills? It is best now, because the illness waits for no one. Of course , I will not let the shopkeeper be busy for nothing."

After finishing speaking, he stretched out his hand towards Li Jing, Li Jing's slender hand flipped over, and two ingots of ten taels of silver appeared in her hand.

Jia Qiang took it, put it on the table, and said softly: "If this is done, I will thank you very much afterwards."

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Chapter 96 Blood

After finishing their morning tea, Jia Qiang and his party returned to the boat.

At this time, the morning fog has cleared, the sun rises in the east, and the boats on the pier are like crucian carp crossing the river, countless.

After returning to the boat, I saw Jia Lian waiting on the deck with seven or eight attendants very unhappy. When he saw Jia Qiang and his party coming up, he scolded angrily, "What are you doing?"

Seeing the two Jinsha gang members holding their early noodle tea in their hands, they said angrily: "Okay! What did you come to Jinmen for? Did you come here to let you eat, drink, whore, gamble and have fun?"

Jia Qiang looked at him coldly and quietly, until Jia Lian closed his mouth, Fang said: "We have found a way to see Xiyang Fandao, now we will send Chief Li to see a doctor."

Jia Lian hesitated when he heard the words, and then said in embarrassment: "Since you are so capable, then you go and invite yourself. Let's go, let's go back and continue to have fun. I don't know what to do..."

"Jia Lian!"

After stopping Jia Lian, Jia Qiang frowned and said, "You'd better remember the business of your trip."

Jia Lian was soft by nature, and when he met someone strong, he didn't dare to be tough, but he managed to hold on and said, "This is so fun, why are you looking at me?" In the end, he couldn't keep up his face and complained Sentence: "It's also strange that a nephew can still call his uncle by his first name..."

Jia Qiang said impatiently: "You don't need to talk about relatives who are out of the fifth service earlier. It's fine if you treat me as a relative. It's just that when I was in trouble, I never saw any uncle or uncle who came to help me, give me a hand. One bite. Some things are well known to everyone, so what’s the point of talking about them? As for your business... I originally wanted to come to Jinmen to seek medical treatment by myself, but the old lady asked me to help you. My aunt is going south, and secondly, I’m here to invite Western doctors to go south to treat Aunt Lin. I’m here to help you, not me to do these things. So, it’s your business to ask the doctors to go south, you’d better not shirk mind."

Jia Lian froze when he heard the words, and was half-dead in anger, but seeing behind Jia Qiang, the iron head, the pillars, and the four gang members of the Jinsha Gang, they all had the air of desperation. You said you were going to invite the monk or the Taoist priest, so why bother the two masters? You and I don't like each other, so it would be better if we just don't see each other?"

Jia Qiang didn't know how to evaluate this guy, saying he was bad was irrelevant.This guy can complain about grievances for stone nerds, so he was beaten half to death by Jia Amnesty, which shows that human nature is not bad.

It can be said that he is a good person, but it seems impossible to talk about it.When her daughter had a rash, she hanged out with Bao's second wife, which eventually killed her.Knowing that Second Sister You had an affair with Jia Zhen, she still took over.When he was not at home, Jia Zhen visited Second Sister You, he didn't care, and even had an affair with Jia Amnesty's concubine...

In short, he is a ridiculous and confused young man.

Jia Qiang didn't want to talk to him too much, so she said: "I went to Ren Ci Tang to ask the doctor to see a doctor, but he probably won't agree to go south with us. Earlier, the old lady asked the master to give you a name card, you go to Jinmen Zongzhen, ask him to come forward and force Doctor Fan to go south with us by boat... Do you understand?"

Hearing this, Jia Lian twitched the corners of her mouth, and said to the servants behind him, "Let's go."

Jia Qiang reminded behind him: "The Mercy Hall is not stable these days, and there may be big troubles. You'd better ask the Jinmen Township to hurry up, otherwise things will change later."

Jia Lian stomped his feet when he heard the words, but didn't respond. He took people off the boat, rented a few horses at the pier, and walked away.

Jia Qiang didn't care too much, if something happened to Ren Ci Tang, at least he could protect himself with his dexterity.

But I didn't expect that when he and Li Jing took Li Fu out of the cabin and were about to disembark and go to the Hall of Mercy, Zijuan stopped the way and said, "Second Master Qiang, our girl has something to do with you."

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"Aunt Lin, you are a boudoir lady, how can you show your face to the Westerners?"

In Daiyu's room, Jia Qiang said with a frown.

Daiyu was silent for a while, then sneered and said, "Brother Qiang came here for the people in your house, so it has nothing to do with me. How can I trouble you to seek medical treatment for my father?"

Jia Qiang had no choice but to talk about things, what kind of red eye circles...

It just seems that what he said with Jia Lian just now reached the ears of Aunt Lin.

some headaches...

Jia Qiang was patient, and explained to the girl with bright eyes: "Aunt Lin misunderstood, if I hadn't wanted to help Aunt Lin, I would not have told the Western doctor this time in Rongqingtang. The reason why I brought it up was to remind Aunt Lin that you don’t have to just ask famous doctors from the Central Plains to treat my uncle, you can also find some Western doctors, which may have a miraculous effect. As for what I said to Jia Lian just now, it is because All the men in charge of the Rongning Second Mansion regard me as a thorn in their side. If I don't force him, this person will definitely not take out a famous card to invite Jinmen General Town, so within a day he wants to take that skilled doctor It's impossible to go south, so I can only make this bad move, I hope Aunt Lin will forgive me."

"For no reason, you will help me? Isn't it a distant relative who has been out of the fifth server..."

Daiyu looked at Jia Qiang suspiciously and asked with black eyes that seemed to be filled with morning dew.

Since her mother passed away, she has been suspicious by nature...

Jia Qiang laughed at herself, and said lightly: "I am a person who lost my father and mother. I know how painful this fate is, so I don't want people in the world to be like me. Don't say that distant relatives are also relatives. Even ordinary passers-by can be helpful. I will also speak out.”

Daiyu paused when she heard the words, and looked at Jia Qiang carefully for a while, seeing that his face and attitude were flat, as if he really just regarded her as an ordinary passer-by...

Some unwillingly asked: "Really?"

It's not that she wants Jia Qiang to look at her high, it's just that since she was a child, everyone has looked at her high and gave her three points.

Now that there is someone who only treats her as an ordinary person, she feels a little uncomfortable, and also a little novel...