chapter 2 Inheritance of ancient medical skills

A young man with dyed hair and a shovel on his shoulder put his left hand in his trouser pocket. He looked at the girl's thin body and said with a crafty smile, "Little girl, we collect people's money to help them solve their problems. They want to buy your land, but you refuse to sell it. So we have to help you demolish this shabby house first. Don't get in our way. It won't be good if your clothes are torn accidentally. "
As he spoke, his eyes became even more wild and obscene.
"Rogue! Shameless, despicable! Get out of here! Otherwise, I'll fight against you!" Esco angrily shouted, waving the broom in her hand.
"Hey! Let me see how powerful you are!" Another young man with a ring on his ear laughed sinisterly and kicked away the broken bucket beside him.
Esco's body stiffened, and she subconsciously grabbed the broom tighter, saying, "I warn you, I've called the police! The police are coming, and you'll all get punished!"
The five local ruffians looked at each other, and then they all laughed.
"Haha...little girl, are you naive or stupid? The five of us dare to come to your place to demolish the house, so we are not afraid of the bullshit police. To tell you the truth, the developer has already taken care of everything. If the police come, I'm afraid you will be the one arrested, right?"
"You..."
Esco was about to cry. Now, she was like a little flower in the wind, so weak and lovable.
Wade could no longer bear to watch this scene.
A cold light flashing in his eyes, Wade strode forward. Wade looked at the five gangsters expressionlessly and said coldly, "Get out!"
"Here comes another one. Who are you, kid? I advise you to mind your own business, or I'll deal with you too!" the dyed-haired young man looked at Wade arrogantly and threatened.
"Brother? Are you Wade?"
Esco was shocked, looking at the person in front of her in disbelief. She had been missing his side profile for seven years.
The sound of "Brother" made Wade, who had not been wavered by the gunfire, tremble slightly. He looked at his sister with a long-lost smile and said softly, "Sister."
Esco instantly burst into tears, and her heart was filled with surprise.
"Brother, run!"
Esco suddenly remembered that her brother often fought for her as a child but couldn't beat others every time. He couldn't be hurt again this time.
With those words, she rushed over and stood firmly before Wade with a broom.
Then, a pair of firm yet gentle hands held her wrist.
"Brother?" Esco looked at Wade.
Wade smiled, shook his head with his eyes full of tender care, and said, "Let brother continue to protect you from all the bad things in the future."
As soon as the words stopped, the luggage bag fell. Wade had disappeared beside the little girl. Almost instantly, he appeared in front of the ruffian with earrings, who had no time to react and raised his foot towards the ruffian. Then the ruffian was kicked away and screamed.
"Snap!"
The broom in Esco's hand fell to the ground, and she stared at the scene in front of her with her eyes wide open in shock.
Brother...
Amazing!
A warm current flowed through Esco's heart. Seven years later, her brother protected her from the bad guys again; this time, no one could bully him!
Wade's speed and ferocity frightened the other four hooligans.
But they were not afraid. With four people and weapons, why couldn't they deal with a little guy in his early twenties?
"Court death!"
The dyed-haired ruffian looked fierce, raising his shovel and hitting Wade.
"Ah! Brother, be careful!"
Wade's reaction speed and body agility were faster than Esco's exclamation. At that moment, Wade took action like lightning, grabbing the dyed-haired ruffian's shovel-gripping wrist and pulling hard, immediately causing the ruffian to lose balance. Then, by a punch, he stroked the dyed-haired ruffian in the face.
He was mighty. Even though he only used 40 to 50% of his strength in this punch, the dyed-haired young man was thrown away and landed heavily on the dirt ground five or six meters away.
Wade did not stop. His body didn't move around but went straight back and forth. The next moment, he appeared in front of the two young men. He whipped one of the young men in the face and flew out sideways, smashing the other young man to the ground.
Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom!
Wade quickly knocked down the remaining two young men, who rushed over with one move.
All five people were knocked to the ground in less than ten seconds.
"Get out! If you come here again, I'll break your legs!"
Wade's expression was cold, and his words were full of chill and murderous intent. The air around him seemed to have dropped a few degrees because of his words.
The five hooligans were completely frightened by Wade. They supported each other and fled in a hurry. Only after running far away did they dare to say a harsh word.
"Boy, just wait! A large number of people will come over soon. Let me see how powerful you are!"
Wade sneered and turned around just in time to meet the curious eyes of his sister, looking him up and down.
"What's wrong?" Wade asked.
During his six years as a soldier, no matter how powerful the enemy he faced, he had no ripples in his heart. But the look in his sister's eyes today made him feel a little nervous.
"Wow! Brother, you are so awesome!"
Esco cheered and rushed towards him.
Wade opened his arms to greet Esco with an unprecedented happy smile. This smile had disappeared from him for six years.
"Sister, what are those gangsters here just now?" Wade asked in confusion.
Esco loosened her arms and growled, "A developer has taken a fancy to this piece of land and wants to develop it into a commercial building. If some residents don't want to move, they will forcefully buy the land. But our ancestral temple can't be sold! I have been dealing with them for a month, and I can't help but use violence today. Brother, I don't know what will happen if you haven't arrived in time."
"Brother, the developer has a great business and power. What should we do?"
"When I return, it's up to them to consider what to do!"
There was a glimmer of coldness in Wade's eyes, and one sentence showed his strong self-confidence.
Esco stared blankly at the familiar yet unfamiliar brother before her. Although she didn't know why her brother said those words, it truly gave her a strong feeling of dependence.
Nothing seemed to be a problem as long as her brother was around.
"Brother, what have you been doing for six years? Why don't you go home during the Spring Festival?" Esco asked doubtfully.
"I went to serve as a soldier. This story is quite long. I will tell you later. Now, I will worship my ancestors first." Wade said with a smile.
Hearing this, Esco was shocked. She looked at Wade in surprise and asked, "Brother, do you want to study medicine and inherit our Dallas family's medical skills?"
"That's right." Wade nodded.
"Great! Grandpa has said since childhood that you are the most talented person in our Dallas family. Still, I don't know why you were not allowed to memorize medical books while others were memorizing them when you were young. It was originally discussed that letting you come to worship the ancestors when you are sixteen. But you chose to be a soldier! Haha, now you have to learn it again. I, your sister, am a student at Hebei University of Traditional Chinese Medicine and also learn the medical skills of our Dallas family. Brother, now you can't compare to me!" Esco said playfully and proudly.
Wade patted Esco's head lovingly and said nothing.
Except for the most orthodox descendants of the Dallas family, the others did not know that the medical skills inherited by the Dallas family for thousands of years were not explicit medical skills or family secret recipes but mysterious ancient medical skills.
What his younger sister learned was just ordinary Chinese medicine skills, the same as others on the market. Wade didn't need to learn that until he got the inheritance, unless he couldn't get the inheritance.
Ancient medical treatments had a variety of strange methods, including talismans, spells, mudras, herbal medicines, etc.
The Zhuyou technique（a method of curing diseases through spells, including Chinese herbs） recorded in traditional Chinese medicine was a branch of ancient medical techniques. The Taoist Maoshan technique was also a branch of ancient medical techniques.
The Dallas family was the only family that still inherited the fruits of ancient medical skills. To inherit ancient medical skills, one must have spiritually talented roots. Before Wade, there had been no heirs of spiritually talented roots in the Dallas family for 500 years. However, Wade was found to have spiritually talented roots as soon as he was born, and it is the best spiritually talented root that was rare to find in a thousand years.
Therefore, he was the only hope for ancient medical skills to reappear in the world and for the Dallas family's accurate medical skills to be passed down.
One could imagine how much pressure he endured from his entire clan when he gambled with his life to get permission to serve as a soldier. But today, six years later, he was back. As a member of the Dallas family, he was responsible for passing on and carrying forward ancient medical skills!
"Sister, please wait at the door while I go to worship my ancestors."
"Go! Go!" Esco seemed more anxious than Wade, pushing Wade into the ancestral temple.
Standing at the door of the ancestral temple, Wade took a deep breath.
The clan leaders of the Dallas family had a saying from mouth to mouth that the secret to inheriting ancient medical skills lay in the ancestral temple!
After Wade entered the door, he saw rows of family members' spiritual tablets on the cabinet shelves. The place was tidy, presumably because his younger sister Esco often cleaned it.
Padding to the spiritual tablets, Wade pulled out a few sticks of incense from the Eight Immortals table, picked up the match on the table, and lit it. Then he held the smell in both hands and bowed three times with great respect.
He stood up and inserted the three incense sticks into the incense burner. However, at this moment, a strong electric current rushed into his body from the bottom of the incense burner through the three incense sticks like an electric snake.
A ball of golden light suddenly erupted from the row of incense burners!
Wade's body suddenly froze, and there was a hint of horror in his eyes.
"What?"
At the moment when the golden light was at its peak, Wade felt pain in his brain as if a needle was pricking it, and strange characters appeared one by one in his mind out of thin air.
He was sure that he didn't recognize this kind of font.
However, he was shocked to find that he understood the meaning of this kind of font. The mysterious feelings lingered in his heart, and the content that kept appearing in his brain continued to let him accept and understand it.
"The inheritance of ancient medical skills?"
Wade's lips trembled. A trace of undetectable sound penetrated from the gap between his lips, and a strange color was projected in his eyes.
First, the hope of inheritance interrupted for five hundred years finally reappeared from him!
Secondly, the hope of curing his best comrade, who turned into a vegetative state, to save his life!