The Demon-Slaying Grandmaster

Chapter 72 Must get married
Jia Zhen was the king of Ningguo Mansion. He was fearless and even his two cousins, Jia She and Jia Zheng, had no power to restrain him.

Moreover, the head of the Ningguo Mansion is the patriarch of the Jia family, and the contributions of his ancestors are greater than those of the Rongguo Mansion.

It was only because Lady Jia spoke that Jia Zhen did not dare to disobey out of consideration for filial piety and his reputation.

In modern society, if you are said to be unfilial, it means you are morally condemned.

Take it to court and they'll rule that you have to pay alimony.

If a person does not provide for his/her parents or abandons them, and the circumstances are serious, he/she will be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not more than five years, detention or control.

But in feudal society, being unfilial was a serious crime.

"Disobeying" parents is the most serious crime among the "Ten Evils", second only to treason and rebellion, and is a crime of extremely serious nature.

Forget about becoming an official, no one would even plead for me if I were to be exiled.

So don’t think that Jia Zhen’s father, Jia Jing, became a Taoist priest.

In a feudal society where etiquette, laws and filial piety are more important than anything else, just one word from Jia Jing could make Jia Zhen lose everything he had.

If Jia Jing knew that Jia Zhen had pushed out his nephew-in-law who was a true Taoist practitioner, he would definitely break his legs.

No, it’s possible that you might be beaten to death.

Jia Zhen could only sigh, ask Li Huaili to sit for a while, and then he quickly went to Rongguo Mansion.

Fortunately, it was already evening, and although Jia She had the title of "first-class general", he actually had no specific position.

In other words, he was a first-rank general, but the title of a first-class general was just an honor and had no real power.

He stays at home all year round, playing with antiques and women.

No matter how ambitious you are when you are young, after ten or twenty years, you will be useless.

Jia Zhu also stayed at home to study and prepare for the exam.

As for Jia Lian, since he had no errands to do, he had long ago followed Jia Zheng to the yamen to do his errands.

His most important task was to run errands for his second uncle Jia Zheng.

But don’t think that he is just running errands. In fact, all the external affairs of Rongguo Mansion are handled by Jia Lian.

This also trains this guy's ability to handle affairs and communicate.

Someone was sent to find Jia Zheng and Jia Lian. The uncle and nephew had just finished their work at the government office and soon arrived at Rongqing Hall.

After hearing what Jia Zhen said, Jia She and Jia Zheng frowned at first, and then heard Jia Zhen say, "Qin Ye doesn't agree, and we can't force him to do this."

If a quarrel breaks out, the Jia family will lose all face, not only will they not be able to marry their daughter off.'

This is also the reason why Jia Zhen only dared to invite Qin Ye to the restaurant to discuss the matter quietly.

Even if Qin Ye refused, he didn't dare to force him too much.

After all, he is the head of the Ministry of Works. Although he seems to be only a sixth-rank official, in modern society, he would at least be a department-level cadre in a ministry in the capital.

It is impossible for the Jia family to cover up everything, and they don’t have the ability to do so.

So Qin Ye was not wrong when he said that Jia Zhen forced him, but he was actually not that afraid.

He spoke so pitifully to Li Jingxiao just to provoke him.

After Qin Ye refused, Jia Zhen had no choice but to use the backup plan and go to find the former Xing'an Earl Li Huaili.

On the grounds that Li Huaili had no children and would not be able to face his ancestors, or even his elder brother and father, a hundred years later, he persuaded Li Huaili to find Li Jingxiao to inherit both branches of the family.

But the problem now is that, in the eyes of the Jia family, although Li Jingxiao promised Li Huaili, he was unwilling to be a person who broke his promise and insisted on marrying the girl from the Qin family as his first wife.

Then Yuanchun could only be the second wife.

However, Li Huaili did not want to offend the Jia family, so when he talked to Jia Zhen, although he hinted at it, it didn't matter whether the Jia family agreed or not.

But he also kept praising how great his nephew was.

The five evil techniques that the three Maoshan disciples couldn't handle were easily eliminated by his nephew with just a few talismans.

Plus an amazing medical skill.

It would not be difficult to earn a title for the offspring of the second wife in the future. When Jia Mu, Jia She, Jia Zheng, Jia Zhu and Jia Lian heard Li Jingxiao's words about killing the five evil spirits, they were actually inclined to agree to it.

But this issue of face made the whole family frown again.

Finally, Jia Zhu suddenly had an idea and said tentatively, "Uncle Jing has been refining and taking elixirs for many years, but he has not entered the Dao.

I have read some records about this in books. If one does not use elixirs correctly, the damage can be considerable.

Otherwise, please ask your uncle to go down the mountain and meet Jingyou.

If my uncle really had health problems and Jingyou cured him, it would be like saving both me and my uncle.

Add to that my aunt, uncle and cousin, this kindness is so great that it wouldn’t be an exaggeration to even set up a memorial tablet for Jingyou, let alone marrying off his daughter.

As for whether my uncle is willing, I think he should be willing."

Jia Mu and others immediately felt that this was indeed true.

If outsiders knew that he had saved so many people in the Jia family, they would not say anything about the Jia family marrying off their daughter. Instead, they would say that the Jia family was grateful.

Of course, there will still be gossip, but there will definitely be less slander.

Moreover, everyone knows that if it were their own family, they would definitely try their best to win over such a miracle doctor and Taoist practitioner.

As for Jia Jing, if he knew about this, Jia Mu and others would know without hesitation that Jia Jing would go down the mountain without hesitation.

It’s hard to say if you just want to learn the true art of cultivation from Li Jingxiao.

Yuanchun is not Jia Jing's daughter. The Ning and Rong families seem to be one, but their ancestors had already separated.

Otherwise, he would not have been conferred the title of Duke of Ningguo and Duke of Rongguo.

Jia Zhen was very honest in front of Lady Jia because she was the oldest noble lady in the two mansions.

Jia Zhen had no choice but to do so because of the pressure of seniority and filial piety.

But when facing Jia She and Jia Zheng, Jia Zhen did not listen to everything they said.

In the original novel, after Qin Keqing died, Jia Zheng felt that it was inappropriate to use the wall wood coffin of the deposed prince as Qin Keqing's coffin.

But Jia Zhen ignored Jia Zheng's repeated persuasion.
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The next morning, Jia Zhen took Jia Rong and Jia Lian and rode on horseback to Xuanzhen Temple outside the city.

After hearing the repeated assurances from his son, grandson and nephew, Jia Jing could no longer sit still and got on the carriage to go into the city.

By the time we entered the capital and arrived at Zhenwu Temple, it was already past four in the afternoon.

Looking at the person who had gone in to see Li Jingxiao before, he didn't look sick at all when he came out.

Jia Jing couldn't help but have more expectations for Li Jingxiao.

But Jia Jing did not let Jia Zhen cut in line. He just sat quietly in the reception room and told Jia Heng to wait until all the patients had been seen.

Notify Li Jingxiao again.

At around 5 p.m., after more than a dozen patients had been sent away, Li Jingxiao had just walked out of the clinic when Jia Heng hurried forward and whispered something to him.

Li Jingxiao couldn't help but frown and slowed down his pace, thinking that since Jia Jing was not practicing Taoism at Xuanzhen Temple, why did he come to his Zhenwu Temple?

After much thought, he could only guess that Jia Jing's health had deteriorated due to years of refining and taking elixirs.

After meeting everyone from the Jia family, he first exchanged some pleasantries and then took their pulses.

It turned out that there was indeed something wrong with Jia Jing's health.

After taking one Sanhua Yulu pill, the poison that had accumulated in Jia Jing's body for many years was eliminated, just like his cousin Li Huaili.

After spitting out a few clumps of black blood, he breathed much more freely.

PS: The original title of this book was "Groups of Taoist Companions". Due to some indescribable reasons, it was changed to its current title.

Book lovers feel that the title of the book does not match the content. As the author, I actually have a bigger headache than you do.

Because when this book was published, there were already 260,000 to 270,000 words of manuscript in stock, and it was impossible to change it even if I wanted to.

(End of this chapter)