My Apprenticeship to Uncle Jiu: I Was a Warlord in the Republic of China

Sure enough, when they were cleaning the room to remove any possible remaining corpse poison, they discovered the evil baby statue in Michelle's room.

Seeing this, he frowned, thought for a while, then found Jiang Li and whispered, "Ah Li, go to Dongtou Village to find your master Zhe Gu and come here. There is an evil baby in that room, and I'm afraid it will harm Sister Lian."

Jiang Li frowned and asked, "Is he so powerful that even you, the master, can't deal with him?"

Uncle Jiu frowned upon hearing this and said, "It's not difficult to deal with it, but I'm not specialized in this and I'm not familiar with it. It would be bad if I hurt Sister Lian."

Jiang Li frowned and said, "But I don't know where Dongtou Village is. If I ask along the way, it will probably take a lot of time. I don't know if I will be able to make it in time by then."

Uncle Jiu thought for a while and said, "Wencai knows the way, so go with him. I'm worried if he goes alone."

Jiang Li heard this and said, "Master, be careful. I'm going to go and calm Mao Dalong down first. Otherwise, I'm afraid he'll turn hostile and chase you away once the poison is resolved."

Uncle Jiu frowned and said, "This time the situation is special so I won't say anything, but this will not happen again and you are not allowed to lie to others in the future."

Jiang Li grinned when he heard that and turned to go downstairs.

Mao Dalong saw Jiang Li coming down alone and asked, "Is the upstairs clean? Why are you coming down alone?"

Jiang Li smiled and said, "Master just thought of something and asked me to tell you about it so as to avoid any future troubles."

Then he made up a story, "The medicine that Master gave you just now can only cure the corpse poison in your body, but it can't cure the corpse poison outside your body. If you don't clean it up, I'm afraid it will inevitably affect those weak women and children in the future."

Mao Dalong was immediately panicked when he heard this, "What should we do? Think of a solution quickly!"

Jiang Li smiled and comforted Mao Dalong, "Don't worry, Marshal. Master has already thought of a solution. That is to grind glutinous rice into juice, and then soak your whole body in a glutinous rice water bath. This way, whether taken internally or externally, will definitely completely eliminate your corpse poison."

Mao Dalong heard this and said, "That's easy. It's just taking a bath. I'll have someone grind the glutinous rice right away."

Jiang Li said here, "This matter is not urgent. There is another urgent matter I need to tell you."

Mao Dalong asked in confusion, "What's the emergency?"

Jiang Li said with a bitter face, "It's nothing to say, we have almost cleaned up the upstairs, but I'm not sure if your wife is infected with corpse poison now."

"I originally wanted to go in and take a look, but the master said that there are differences between men and women and we should avoid suspicion, because the examination will inevitably involve physical contact, and it would not be good if it got out."

Mao Dalong nodded immediately after hearing this and said, "He's smart. If he dares to touch my wife, I'll shoot him."

Then he reacted and said, "So how are you going to check on my wife?"

Jiang Li smiled and said, "To be honest, my master has a senior sister named Zhegu. Her dojo is in Dongtou Village. She specializes in the art of delivering children and nurturing spirits."

"Master asked me to invite her here. By the way, she can also help your wife find out why she often has stomachaches. What do you think?"

Mao Dalong heard this and said, "Okay, then go quickly. If you can cure my wife, I will reward you handsomely."

Jiang Li smiled and said, "Then I'll leave first."

Then he said to Wencai, "Big Brother, take me to Dongtou Village to find Uncle Zhegu."

Wencai was wiping the tables and chairs with a bitter face. When he heard Jiang Li talking about Zhegu, he immediately said happily, "Okay, okay, let's go!"

After saying goodbye to Mao Dalong, the two got on a carriage and headed for Dongtou Village.

The maid downstairs who was controlled by the evil baby was just coming out of the kitchen, looking at Jiang Li and Wencai away with a vicious look on her face.

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Fortunately, Dongtou Village was not far from the Marshal's Mansion, but the two of them arrived at Zhegu Taoist Temple at two o'clock in the afternoon.

Wencai took Jiang Li to see Zhe Gu, and then he went to look for his junior sister An Muxi. Jiang Li came to Zhe Gu and saluted, saying, "Disciple Jiang Li is Uncle Jiu's third disciple. I am honored to meet Uncle Zhe Gu."

When Zhegu heard Uncle Jiu's name, she was delighted at first, then she thought of something and immediately said with a straight face, "What does your master want me to do?"

Jiang Li told her the purpose of his trip, but Zhe Gu was furious and said, "What? You want me to save his old lover? I wish she was dead."

Seeing that Zhe Gu was unwilling to go, Jiang Li immediately said sorry to his master in his heart, "Master, don't blame me. I can only perform a little today."

Then he frowned and bowed, saying, "Uncle Master, you may not know that Master is troubled by love and worries. I can't bear to see him, so I came to ask Uncle Master to help him out of his predicament."

Zhe Gu never expected Jiang Li to say that. She immediately stood up and asked in surprise, "Didn't your master ask you to come to me for help in getting rid of the evil baby? Why are you talking about being trapped by love again?"

Jiang Li then repeated what Uncle Jiu had said in the carriage, adding some exaggeration, and then said to Zhe Gu, "There is an old saying that goes, what you don't get when you are young will eventually haunt you for the rest of your life."

"Master knew Uncle Michelle in his early years, but due to coincidence, they were not together. It is inevitable that they felt emotional when they suddenly met after many years."

"But now that Master Michelle is married to someone else, Master should have given up. If this matter can be resolved perfectly this time, I think Master will be able to move on and start a new life with an open heart."

Zhe Gu was unhappy when she heard the first half of the story, but when she heard Jiang Li talking about opening his heart and starting a new life, she was overjoyed and said loudly, "Are you telling the truth? If I help him, can he really open his heart?"

Jiang Li smiled and said, "If you, uncle, save Master's sweetheart with a selfless attitude, he will definitely be grateful to you. Then I can say a few good words to Master, and he will definitely open his heart to you."

Hearing this, Zhe Gu smiled and said, "What are we waiting for? Let's go!"

Saying that, he was about to go out.

Jiang Li quickly pulled her back and said, "Uncle Master, please don't be careless. If this thing succeeds, Master will be grateful to you. If there is any mistake, Master will hate you for the rest of his life, so you must be well prepared."

After hearing this, Zhe Gu calmed down a little and carefully asked Jiang Li about the specific situation. After thinking for a long time, she came up with a perfect solution and said, "We can lure it out first, and then when it is out of the mother body, it will be easy to solve it."

Jiang Li thought of the guy in the movie who was almost caught, but he still managed to get into the mother's body, and it took a lot of effort to force him out.

Jiang Li said quickly, "I wonder if Master has a way to make the evil baby unable to return after leaving its body. Otherwise, I'm afraid that if I lure it out but fail to catch it, it will escape and return, which will be troublesome."

Zhe Gu frowned and said, "That's easy. As long as we draw a soul-soothing charm on the mother body, it won't dare to get close. But I want to lure it out and wait for an opportunity to catch it, so let Mu Xi draw the soul-soothing charm."