Chapter 367

"Humans consume five flavors, and each flavor returns to one organ..."

After completing the cultivation of the Nine Returns Sun Scripture, Gu Qing held the Eastern Glow Secret Pill in his hand and recited softly, savoring the alchemy secret method of the Eastern King Father's lineage, pondering the changes in the internal elixir, and using this to correspond with the Nine Returns Sun True Scripture to observe the differences.

"The Dragon King Department has sent so much jade."

Xiao Qing curled herself into a ball and lay on a box filled with gold, silver, pearls, jade, and various hairpins. Xiao Qing looked at them a lot and wanted them all, so she simply lay on the box and occupied everything.

After all, the things inside were of a dragon's aesthetic, which Xiao Qing found completely irresistible.

"Qing'er, let me take a few to string into beads."

Bai Suzhen wanted to take some jewelry and smiled gently at Xiao Qing.

Xiao Qing moved her body to the side to let Bai Suzhen take the jade.

Seeing this, Gu Qing smiled and continued to recite the scriptures.

After killing Wang Daoling, Gu Qing completely won the recognition of the gods, big and small, in Hangzhou City. After all, it was a fact that Gu Qing communicated with the Big Dipper Star Lords. The gods of Hangzhou City all respected Gu Qing very much, and the things Gu Qing had sent out were now seeing a return on investment.

Everything in the pharmacy was now handed over to Xu Xian. He was devoted to the study of medicine, and with Gu Qing's teaching, he became more and more courageous in diagnosing and prescribing medicine, winning the recognition of the neighbors.

"It's time to worship the Toilet God."

Gu Qing closed the scroll in his hand, took the incense and candles, and walked toward the toilet.

The Toilet God is also a very difficult immortal to invite. Gu Qing being able to invite him was not only because Gu Qing kept the toilet clean, but also because Gu Qing was a Daoist body, pure throughout.

Entering the latrine, Gu Qing lit the incense and worshipped with care.

Bai Suzhen and Xiao Qing both knew that Gu Qing had a way of dealing with immortals and supported his careful worship. When Gu Qing came out and washed his hands, Bai Suzhen took the strung prayer beads and gave them to Gu Qing for him to look at.

"Not bad."

Gu Qing played with them in his hand for a moment, then set the beads aside. Just as he was about to take out a Daoist book, he heard noisy sounds outside. He walked to the front courtyard with Bai Suzhen and saw a middle-aged beggar in the main hall of the pharmacy, acting arrogantly and shamelessly, directly taking the fruit offered before the Medicine God and chewing it loudly, ignoring Xu Xian's urgent persuasion from the side.

"This uncle, our Tongren Hall has always been based on benevolence and righteousness."

Xu Xian persuaded the beggar, "If you have difficulties, just tell us. Whether it's waiving the medicine fee or providing a meal, you cannot be so arrogant and grab things, offending the gods."

Gu Qing took good care of these statues, and the beggar's destruction would likely make Gu Qing furious.

The beggar acted as if nothing was wrong, chewing the fruit in his hand, and said, "There's no offense; it's just unfair!"

Gu Qing walked over at this moment and looked at the beggar.

The beggar pointed at the Medicine God statue hanging in front of him and said, "Shennong, Bian Que, Sun Simiao, Wei Shanjun—these are all the legendary Medicine Gods of the folk. It's fine for you to worship these four, but why don't you worship Lu Zu?"

Lu Dongbin is also considered a Medicine God. In the Suzhou plot of the New Legend of Madame White Snake, Xu Xian opened the Bao'an Hall and worshipped Lu Dongbin.

"What you are talking about is folk legend."

Gu Qing said calmly, "And the four I worship are written in the Daoist official records."

Upon hearing this, the middle-aged beggar was immediately furious and said, "Official records? What is an official record? You are just spouting nonsense! Hurry up and hang up the statue of Lu Zu for me!" After saying this, the middle-aged beggar turned around and said loudly, "All these years, whatever you have offered them, you must offer the same amount to Lu Zu. Only then is it fair."

This middle-aged man seemed to be standing up for Lu Zu.

The people who came to see the doctor looked at the middle-aged beggar's demeanor, and they all began to speculate.

"Is this Lu Zu manifesting his spirit?"

"Doctor Gu treats people with utmost sincerity; perhaps this sincerity has moved the immortals in heaven."

People nearby whispered.

Gu Qing looked around the crowd, waved his hand to signal the people nearby to calm down, and said, "You came from Suzhou, didn't you?"

Upon hearing this, the middle-aged beggar had a hint of panic on his face, which he immediately hid, and shouted, "Suzhou? What right do you have to say we are from Suzhou?"

Gu Qing looked at the middle-aged beggar's appearance and exposed him directly, saying, "I heard that when scammers come to the door, some people will pretend to be crazy to act mysterious... You wouldn't happen to be pretending to be Lu Zu, would you?"

Gu Qing's words were too straightforward, leaving the middle-aged beggar stunned on the spot. The people nearby saw this and pointed fingers, saying that this middle-aged beggar didn't look like a good person from the start.

"I am not pretending to be Lu Zu!"

The middle-aged beggar's voice changed.

"Then you are Lu Zu?"

Gu Qing asked again.

The middle-aged beggar's face tightened, and he said nothing. He dared not admit this, fearing that Gu Qing would verify it.

"It doesn't matter."

Gu Qing asked the middle-aged beggar to sit there for a moment and said to Xu Xian, "Go to your sister's house. There should be Suzhou government officials there. Go and notify them to come and identify him."

Some time ago, the private secretary of the Suzhou Prefect died here, and Gu Qing knew that the Suzhou constable had come to understand the situation.

As soon as these words were spoken, the middle-aged beggar became panicked and stood up to leave, but Gu Qing pressed the beggar down with one hand, unable to move.

Xu Xian ran to his sister's house and, after a while, brought back more than a dozen yamen runners. The one in the lead was tall and thin. After arriving at Tongren Hall, he scanned the interior and immediately saw the middle-aged beggar sitting on the chair.

"Liu Ba, I've finally caught you!"

The constable took the middle-aged beggar down with one hand and then announced to the surrounding people, "This is a scammer from Suzhou. He was originally convicted and exiled, but I don't know how this kid ran to Hangzhou. He is best at scamming people by disguising himself as an immortal and then swindling money."

After saying this, the middle-aged beggar lowered his head in shame, and the surrounding people cheered.

"And these few..."

Gu Qing grabbed a few more people from the crowd who said Lu Zu was manifesting his spirit and let the constable identify them. Sure enough, they were in the same gang as the middle-aged beggar Liu Ba.

"We were lax in our supervision and caused you trouble."

The Suzhou constable bowed to Gu Qing and said, "Doctor Gu, we have all heard your name. There is a Three Emperors Ancestor Society in Suzhou, which is full of people in the medical profession. If Doctor Gu has leisure time, you can go and visit."

Gu Qing nodded, looked at the Suzhou constable, and asked for his name.

"My surname is Hao, called Hao Jianghua."

The constable introduced himself.

Gu Qing understood in his heart that this was the one who acted as a matchmaker for Xu Xian after Xu Xian was exiled to Suzhou.

It's just that this name is a bit hard to keep a straight face for.

This farce came and went quickly. After Hao Jianghua arrested the people, the patients in the shop continued to see the doctor honestly. However, without anyone noticing, a man in white stood in the shop, looking at the worshipped Shennong, Bian Que, Sun Simiao, and Wei Shanjun, reached out, took a fruit from the rearranged offerings, took a crunching bite, and walked out the door.

(End of Chapter)