bayedsolid Chapter 170: Real Disrepair
Chapter 170: Real Disrepair
Chapter 170: Real Disrepair
The pale golden bird flapped its wings and circled around her twice. Ye Wenyan whispered to it, "Spread your spiritual power among these flowers, making sure that every petal is evenly distributed. Can you do it?"
The bird nodded, sang sweetly, did a perfect somersault in the air, and immediately flew towards the wintersweet flowers.
At the same time, Ye Wenyan also worked with it to evenly distribute the silver light emitted by his own spiritual power on each flower.
When the magic was over, she was fine, but the bird that knew the way was exhausted. It chewed a handful of wintersweets on the spot to replenish its energy, and was happily taken back by Ye Wenyan.
She stood up and walked to the outer hall, called in everyone waiting outside, and asked them to put a flower in each porcelain bottle containing pills, and then seal them.
No one understood why, but everyone listened to Ye Wenyan's words without exception. Even the young man followed suit and worked more efficiently than anyone else.
Ye Wenyan praised him and he was very happy. "I have to do these things every day and I am used to them. I never thought that one day I would be able to do them with Fourth Miss Ye. Fourth Miss, you said before that you would pay for the pills. Is that true?"
Ye Chulian felt helpless after hearing this, "Can our family really lack this little money from you?"
"This is not just a little money, this is a lot of money!" The clerk was anxious, "You don't think you only need a little silver? If so, I can't explain it to the shopkeeper."
Ye Chulian quickly comforted him, "Don't worry, don't worry. We can afford any amount of money. We in the First-Rank General's Mansion will not owe you any less money. Just write down how much medicine you used, and we will definitely pay you." Ye Wenyan listened to them talking but did not say a word. His hands kept repeating the action of putting flowers into the bottle, but he was thinking about this clinic in his heart.
In the current situation in the city, there are too many people who need medical treatment. Even if there are no extra doctors, people still need a lot of medicine. But if she takes all the pills, what should she do if other people come to ask for medicine? She can't sacrifice some people to save others. That would be meaningless. Everyone is equal when it comes to seeking medical treatment.
So even if all the flowers were packaged, she couldn't take all the pills away. She had to leave some for the clinic.
It took half an hour to pack the baby. During this time, Zhuier and Suixi came back and said that the child had been sent to Lin'an Prefecture and was being taken care of by Madam Chi temporarily. At the same time, Madam Chi asked the prefect to write a notice and post it, asking anyone who lost a child to claim it.
Ye Wenyan was very confident in the Chi family's ability to do things. She asked Zhuier and Suixi to take a break and followed them to fill the medicine bottles. She sent Jiduo back to the First-rank General's Mansion to get some silver and banknotes. She was in a hurry to leave and didn't even bother to go back to her own yard. She had some small change on her, but it was not much. Not only could she not pay for these pills, but if she encountered something else that needed money along the way, it would be really difficult.
She was also concerned about the maids in her courtyard. Although she had not lived in that courtyard for a long time and could not even call out the names of many of them, they were still her followers. It would be unreasonable for her as a master to ignore them at this time.
But it was just for peace of mind. Her yard had been remodeled when she dug the cellar to hide the gold, silver and jewelry. Compared with other courtyards and houses, it was the most solid Feng Shui treasure land. Although the earth dragon turned over strongly this time, it would not destroy her yard, so the people in her yard should be safe if nothing unexpected happened.
Ji Duo took the order and disappeared in a flash. Zhuier was so anxious that she kept jumping up and down: "Oh, he left too fast. I didn't have time to tell her where our banknotes were. What if she can't find them now?" Ye Wenyan comforted her: "Don't worry, he's not stupid, he will go to ask Madam Ji."
Only then did Zhuier feel relieved.
After half an hour, the flowers were almost packed. Ji Duo came back from the general's mansion with the banknotes, and Ji Rong also came with two large sacks. After asking, I found out that they had visited more than a dozen official residences to fill the two large bags.
Ye Wenyan finally felt relieved. She was not afraid of anything else except having no flowers. As long as she had flowers, any difficulty would be a small matter to her.
There were about three hundred medicine bottles in front of her. After thinking for a while, she divided some of them and pushed them to the waiter.
"Leave these in the store. If anyone comes to ask for medicine because of an injury, you must ask how serious the injury is. If it is just an external injury, give one pill. If it is a bone injury, give two or three pills. This medicine can be taken internally, it is very effective."
The waiter frowned upon hearing this. "How miraculous is the effect? Two or three pills can heal a broken bone? And you want to take it internally? Don't all medicines for bone injuries have to be applied externally? And these pills are generally used to treat internal injuries. How can they be used for external injuries? Miss Fourth, please don't be biased. Although I am just a waiter, I have also been an apprentice and learned pharmacology."
Ye Wenyan reached out and patted his arm, "I'm not lying to you, just listen to me. But remember, the pills must be taken from the bottle where I put the flowers to be effective, don't take the wrong one."
She didn't have time to talk to the boy, so she spoke faster: "What's your name?"
The young man answered in a daze: "Anshun."
"Okay, Anshun, listen. I'm Ye Wenyan, the fourth daughter of the First-Rank General's Mansion, and this is Jiang Feng, the Minister of Justice. I guarantee you in the name of both of us that every word I say is true, and I will be responsible for all the consequences of what I say. So you don't have to doubt it, just do as I say, but if someone doubts the efficacy of the medicine like you, you don't have to worry about it, just follow the normal procedures of this clinic to prescribe normal medicine for him." As she spoke, she took two silver notes from Ji Duo's hand, "Here is five hundred taels of silver, I'll refund you if you're more and make up for the less, which is my money for your medicine. Remember, I've already given you money, so if someone comes to ask for medicine again, you can't charge him more, understand?"
The young man looked at the banknote in his hand, then at the pile of medicine bottles in front of him, feeling a little embarrassed.
"Not enough?" She had no idea about the value of silver in this era and thought that five hundred taels was a lot, but judging from the boy's expression, it should not be enough to pay for the pills.
Ye Feizhou couldn't bear to watch it anymore, so he walked forward, looked at the banknotes in Ji Duo's hand, and took out two more.
"One thousand taels in total, take it." He said to Anshun, "If it's still not enough, let the owner of your clinic go to Lin'an Prefecture to talk. I want to confront him in court and ask him what kind of pills he sells that are so expensive."
Anshun waved his hands repeatedly, "That's enough, that's enough. We don't need that much. About 700 to 800 taels is enough. I remember the account. Even if these pills are sold normally, they will only sell for more than 700 taels but less than 800 taels. This 1,000 taels is definitely too much. I'll find the account later and show it to Miss Four. Anything extra will be returned."
He looked towards Zetang, also with a worried look on his face. The house over there collapsed, and coincidentally it was where the accounts were kept. I wonder if I can still find all the account books. Why hasn't the shopkeeper come yet? How can he run such a big stall by himself?
Ye Wenyan found a few bundles from the clinic, packed the pills with flowers in the bundles, and each of them carried one.
The group finally finished replenishing their supplies and started heading towards the outer city.
We passed many official residences along the way, some of which were intact, some had collapsed severely, and some had simply become ruins.
Ye Chulian looked at all the official residences from beginning to end, but didn't see the one she wanted to see.
She really wanted to find out about the situation in Prince Chen's Mansion, but she didn't dare to ask, and couldn't ask.
This time she was not out for fun, nor was she out specifically to find out if the person she loved was okay. She had to help her fourth sister save people, to help the unfortunate people who were crushed escape danger.
Ye Chulian felt that she could be a useful person. She had met the emperor and had spoken to him standing so close to him after the palace banquet. They had also planned together how to trick... uh, how to get compensation from the Guiyue Kingdom. She was no longer the unknown fifth daughter of the Ye family. She had to live differently from before, so that she could live up to the palace banquet and the emperor's words to her that he would remember to invite her to any banquets in the future.
An unprecedented sense of mission rose in Ye Chulian's heart, along with unprecedented pride and pride, which made her already somewhat tired body full of strength again. She took bigger steps and chased Ye Wenyan even more closely.
Ye Feizhou seemed to have sensed her changes, and was puzzled, but he also felt that Ye Chulian seemed to be more lively and alive. This fifth sister who had never been noticed before had left a deep impression on him in just a few hours today.
The people living in the inner city of Lin'an are all nobles, but not rich. That means even if you are very rich, you cannot live in the inner city if you have no official position or are not a royal relative. You can build a mansion in the outer city, but you will never be able to live in the inner city.
Even the shops in the inner city were all opened by relatives of officials. It was difficult for ordinary people to enter the inner city to do business unless they used some crooked means.
Although the nobles were not as wealthy as the rich, they had power, which could be exchanged for money. In addition, they were very concerned about their reputation, which led to the fact that almost every household had a very nice mansion.
But even if it was in good condition, half of it collapsed in the earthquake, and the remaining half was also crumbling. No one dared to live in it before it was repaired.
However, there are exceptions. Not those that dare to live in them, but those that have collapsed most completely.
It was true that the inner city was full of noble families, but among them there was a mansion that was truly in disrepair. That was Prince Chen’s mansion, which had been almost abandoned after the owner left the capital for ten years...