After Lu Jiaxin learned Ba Duan Jin, Master Qian was ready to leave, not to return to his hometown, but to visit an old friend in the Northeast.

Lu Jiaxin said: "Master Qian, when will you come back?"

Master Qian said he would stay there for a while: "My old friend is ill and probably won't come before the New Year. If it's early, it will be after the Lantern Festival, and if it's late, it will be in April or May."

This trip was to visit old friends and settle some old matters. It will be difficult to travel far in a few years, so I will visit these old friends and settle some matters while I can still run, so that I won't have any regrets.

Lu Jiaxin said: "Master Qian, I hope you can come back soon. I have something I want you to do."

Master Qian was still happy to help Lu Jiaxin, and gave her two hundred yuan for helping him find the middleman. He liked employers who were open-minded and generous. "What's the matter?"

"I need to go to the ancient capital. But don't rush. Let's talk about it after you come back from the Northeast."

"OK."

Thinking that she was not in good health, Lu Jiaxin said, "Master Qian, there are many precious medicinal herbs in the Northeast. My body needs to improve. If I come across precious herbs like ginseng and deer antlers, I hope you can help me buy them."

Master Qian said seriously, "Miss Lu, children should not be given supplements casually. Excessive supplementation will cause serious problems. This happened to a relative of a friend of mine. Because they didn't know about this, they gave deer antler to their six-year-old daughter. As a result, the drug was too strong and the child couldn't handle it, so her intelligence remained at the age of seven."

Lu Jiaxin knew that the weak could not be nourished: "Master Qian, don't worry, I won't eat anything careless. I will ask the doctor."

Master Qian felt relieved after hearing this: "If you trust me, give me 5,000 yuan first. When I get there, I'll ask someone and I should be able to buy some."

He has traveled a lot and has seen a lot. For precious medicinal materials like wild ginseng and wild deer antlers, hunters with more money would keep some for their own use. He can't guarantee more, but it's no problem to get some for Lu Jiaxin.

Lu Jiaxin smiled and said, "Master Qian, it's too polite to say that. If I didn't trust you, I wouldn't have asked you to help find someone to investigate Ding Jing."

The next day, Master Qian left. When they parted, Qian Xiaoxiao waved his hand very coolly and said, "Old man, bring back some more good herbs to make wine!"

Seeing her so relaxed, Xue Mao couldn't help but ask, "Don't you feel a little reluctant?"

After asking, I learned that Master Qian had been working outside when he was young, and he also spent most of his time outside after he got married and had children. It was not until she was one year old that her grandmother passed away, her father broke his leg in an accident, and her mother remarried, that Master Qian stopped going out. But five years ago, he started going out frequently again.

Xue Mao spoke faster than he thought: "Are your parents still alive?"

Seeing Qian Xiaoxiao following Master Qian, he thought she had lost both her parents like himself. But it was normal for him to think so, as most parents would not let their daughters travel far and wide.

Qian Xiaoxiao shrugged and said, "My dad broke his leg. My mom heard from others that the injury couldn't be healed and he would be paralyzed in bed for life, so she took the family money and ran back to her parents' home. A few days later, she remarried in the next town. My dad didn't want to live at the time, but he couldn't let me go. He was afraid that no one would take care of me if he died. At this time, grandpa came back. He took my dad to the provincial capital for treatment. He was treated in the hospital for more than two months, and then he went home to recuperate for more than a year. After his leg was healed, my grandfather asked a matchmaker to find him a wife."

Seeing that there was no gloom on her face, Xue Mao asked curiously, "Didn't your stepmother abuse you?"

Of course, there are also annoying things: "My mother likes to nag me, saying that I don't look like a girl and it will be difficult for me to get married in the future. I don't like to listen to her nagging, so I live with my grandfather."

Master Qian was a bit eccentric, and he moved out to live alone after his son remarried. Unexpectedly, Qian Xiaoxiao was influenced by him and liked martial arts very much, and she could endure hardships. Seeing that she had a good foundation, Master Qian taught her. After that, the two of them lived together.

Xue Mao thought she was lucky. "What about your biological mother?"

Qian Xiaoxiao said nonchalantly, "Before I was seven, I always thought I was born by my current mother. It was only when I was seven that I realized she was not. My grandfather said that we don't need to care about the biological parent, and that being good to me is the most important thing, so it didn't affect my relationship with my mother."

"Last year, my biological mother suddenly came back to me and said that she had no choice but to leave. She has been thinking about me day and night since she left. I don't care what her reasons are. Since she abandoned me, I will just treat her as dead. Don't show up in front of me in the future."

To be able to say such a free and easy thing, one must either be strong in heart or have received enough love. Lu Jiaxin felt that she had both.

Xue Mao praised, "Your father is quite good, unlike Sister Xin's father. After he married his wife, she no longer loved him and didn't even pursue the matter when she was almost killed."

Qian Xiaoxiao said without hesitation: "Then just treat him as dead."

Lu Jiaxin couldn't help laughing after hearing this. These words really touched her heart: "You are right. Just treat him as dead."

At dinner time, Xiao Qiu and Lu Jiaxin said, "Sister-in-law Wu just called back and said she was going to look at a house, so we shouldn't wait for her for dinner."

Lili, the black horse of the heavenly general, just came back. As soon as she got home, she went to find Lu Jiaxin and told her about the house she saw today: "That house is not as big as yours, but it also has its own door and yard, four large rooms, plus a kitchen and firewood room. It's just in Dongcheng District, which is quite far from you, and the other party offered a very high price of 8,600 yuan."

Being able to come and tell her means that he likes her, but is still hesitant for some reason. Lu Jiaxin asked, "Did you bring Xiaoyuan with you?"

"There is a yard, but it's only half the size of your place."

Nowadays, the rooms in a siheyuan are generally very spacious. Four rooms plus a yard and a kitchen and firewood room are definitely more than 120 square meters. Dongcheng is located in the second ring road, and the price of 8,600 is relatively high, but it is definitely worth buying.

Lu Jiaxin asked, "How is the house preserved? If it's like mine, I can take it. If it's shabby, I'll have to lower the price. It will cost a lot of money to repair the house."

Ma Lili said, "The house is about the same size as you, and even better in some places, but it's too far from here and beyond my budget."

Lu Jiaxin knew that she was worried about the price, so she smiled and said, "There are many buses now, and it will be very quick to take the bus. Don't worry about going over budget. Su Heming told me on the phone a few days ago that Fifth Brother is doing a great job. If Fifth Brother wants to work in his electronics factory, he will pay him three hundred yuan a month."

This was to tell Ma Lili that Lu Jiajie had the ability to repay the money and he could pay off the foreign debt of three or four thousand in one year.

(End of this chapter)