Longevity and Immortal Cultivation: Starting from Controlling Your Own Essence

Ten days later.

To the north of Lingjiang City, Jiangdu.

As the capital of Jiangzhou and the hub of water and land transportation, Jiangdu is prosperous even in troubled times.

On the long street, there is an endless stream of street vendors of all colors, antique calligraphy and paintings, rouge and gouache, pawnshops, money houses, restaurants and teahouses.

"Compared to Changping City and Lingjiang City, this place is much more lively."

Wearing a green shirt, Zhang Yao walked along the long street, visiting Jiangdu with great interest.

Since he decided to find a place to live in seclusion and live an ordinary life, he began to investigate and choose a place to live in seclusion.

At first, he took a fancy to Lingjiang City.

There is no grandmaster in Kelingjiang City, and various forces are mixed together, so it is not very stable, and it is only more than a hundred miles away from Changping, so it is not very safe.

Therefore, Zhang Yao gave up Lingjiang City, and simply took a boat along the Lingjiang River all the way north to Jiangdu hundreds of miles away.

"Boss, how do you sell this candied haws?"

He stopped next to the hawker selling candied haws and asked a question.

"A string of five cents."

Zhang Yao paid for a piece of candied haws, and ate it while walking, leisurely looking at the passers-by on the street.

Among the ordinary people in Changping City, there are also a lot of disheveled faces, and their lives are not very good. In comparison, the people in Jiangdu are much better.

After eating the candied haws, he wandered around for a while, then walked into a teahouse and ordered a pot of clear tea.

"...Is Li Tuozhu of the Cao Gang an ordinary person? Of course he can't swallow this bad breath."

"So he mobilized a team of people, including more than 30 large and small ships, and hundreds of masters, to fight the 'Black Whirlwind' more than a dozen times in Baibo Lake. The two sides are you coming and going..."

In the teahouse, the storyteller is telling an anecdote about the rivers and lakes, with beaming eyebrows and flying saliva.

In this era of lack of entertainment, storytelling is one of the few pleasures. Many people sat in the teahouse, and they all listened with gusto.

For them, the world of martial arts seems far away, yet at the same time they seem to be close by.

"Cao Gang..."

After listening for a while, Zhang Yao realized that this was an old story that happened more than twenty years ago.

He has been in Jiangdu for several days, wandering through the streets and alleys, and roughly figured out the division of forces in the city.

The situation in Jiangdu is much more complicated than that in Changping City, but generally speaking, the government, the business alliance, and the Cao Gang are three pillars.

Among the three, the Cao Gang has the largest number of people and the most extensive influence. Tens of thousands of gang members spread all over the upper and lower reaches of the Lingjiang River. They have halls and sub-rudders in seven cities, and almost control the shipping on the Lingjiang River.

"That Zhou Changgui seems to be in the Cao Gang, and his status is not low."

Zhang Yao thought of the unfilial son of Master Zhou An.

Many years ago, Zhou An entrusted his connections and spent a lot of money to send his only son Zhou Changgui to Lingjiang City, where he became a disciple of the local leader of the Cao Gang and a top expert.

The biggest regret in his life is that he has never learned the true biography of the inner family, so that after the completion of the Jinding Kung Fu, the martial arts stopped here.

Therefore, he pinned all his hopes on his son, hoping that he would be able to stand out from the blue and shine in the family, and fulfill his long-cherished wish.

"If Master knew that Zhou Changgui would become like that later, I'm afraid he wouldn't have sent him away at the beginning..."

Thinking of this, Zhang Yao couldn't help feeling a little sad.

Zhou An wanted his son to become a dragon with all his heart, but he never thought about how much impact it would have on him if he sent a child in his early ten years to the Jianghu gang that licked blood and schemed.

Zhou Changgui's upbringing experience is unknown to Zhang Yao, but from his indifference to Zhou An, even indifferent attitude, it can be seen that he harbors resentment.

It's just that the big mistake has already been made, and no matter how hard it is to recover the past, Zhou An's obsession with it before he died, he couldn't wait for the opportunity to resolve it after all.

"...If you want to know what will happen next, please listen to the next chapter to break it down!"

After drinking a pot of tea, the storytelling came to an end, replaced by a few boys and girls who played and sang.

Zhang Yao also knew from the conversations with the spectators in the teahouse that the protagonist of this anecdote, the former "Li Tuozhu", is now the leader of the Cao Gang.

"Being able to stand up to the government and the business alliance, this leader of the Cao Gang is likely to be a master."

"The prosperity of Jiangdu is really far beyond comparison."

Zhang Yao sighed with emotion, paid the money in a low-key manner, got up and left the teahouse.

The open and secret struggles of the three major forces, as well as the high-ranking master, have nothing to do with him.

When he came to Jiangdu, he just wanted to be an ordinary citizen, live a stable life, and wait for his body to develop the true energy of martial arts.

…………

Half a month later.

In the eastern city of Jiangdu, on Xinhe Street across the Lingjiang Bridge.

"This place is nice..."

Zhang Yao wandered back and forth in the medical hall, looking at the newly purchased place, showing satisfaction.

After thinking about it for a few days, he decided to become a doctor in Jiangdu and open a clinic. After all, besides martial arts, he only has good medical skills.

This medical clinic was also bought from a wealthy businessman after he inquired about it for a few days.

The medical center has been a long-established brand for many years, but none of the descendants studied medicine, and they all went into business. After the old man passed away, it was left vacant.

"Standard front hall and backyard, the front is used to receive patients, and the back is the living area."

"The medicine cabinets, medicine scales, and medicine mills here are all in good condition. If you buy some silver needles, pulse pillows, etc., and prepare enough medicine materials, you can start business."

After Zhang Yao inspected it, he went to buy and arrange the same day, contacted the medicine store to discuss cooperation, and prepared to open.

He moved from the inn to the backyard of the hospital, and was busy for several days. The neighbors in the neighborhood also knew about a new young doctor who bought the "Ren Shou Tang" and prepared to open it.

Although they looked familiar, the attitudes of many neighbors in the neighborhood were relatively indifferent.

After all, opening a clinic is a clinic that pays attention to reputation and word of mouth, so the older you are, the more popular you are. Zhang Yao's face is too young, it is hard for people to believe how good his medical skills are.

But two days later, the situation changed.

Zhang Yao's preparations were almost done, so during a few small chats, he revealed his plan to recruit two apprentices.

Immediately, many neighbors became enthusiastic and even offered to help him, with the purpose of recommending their nephews to Zhang Yao.

The children of the poor are already in charge of their families, and they are already considered laborers when they are in their teens.

Being an apprentice is definitely a good place for someone who can learn skills, at least it is much better than going to the pier to carry bags in the future, or begging for a living on the river.

In the end, Zhang Yao took a simple school test, and out of a dozen or so teenagers, he selected the two who were the smartest and the cleanest.

There are two young men, both about fourteen or fifteen years old, one is called Qian Gui and the other is called Chen Youfu.

They were pleasantly surprised that Zhang Yao could pick them, and they were even more grateful when they learned that they still had two denarii a month.

Their family members were also very grateful and wanted to invite Zhang Yao to dinner, but he declined.

In the evening of that day, after Ah Fu and Ah Gui finished their hard work for the day, Zhang Yao stopped them.

"Ah Fu, Ah Gui."

"I have something to ask you..."