Here, take it.

Pei Lin happily accepted the bowl of medicine from Yun Ling.

"You did a good job, but compared to me, you're still a bit behind."

"You're so capable, yet you never show up. You dare to flaunt your mediocre skills? You'll probably fall and die on the street without even realizing it."

Pei Lin was overjoyed and naturally couldn't think of any rebuttal. He gestured to Yun Ling with his eyes.

"Hey, take the gauze out of the medical kit, I need to apply medicine to Manager Zhou."

If it weren't for feeling guilty towards Manager Zhou, Yunling would have loved to throw a left hook, a right hook, and then a double hook to kick this man out of Shengfu Restaurant, out of Pingcheng, and all the way to the Khitan and Western Xia.

Yunling grumbled inwardly, but her hands were already opening the medical kit to take things out. Despite Pei Lin's tendency to be all talk and no action, the medical kit was very neatly organized and had a faint herbal fragrance that made people feel very comfortable.

With this medical kit, Yunling was able to reduce her resentment towards Pei Lin. She took out the gauze, closed the medical kit, spread the gauze out on the surface of the kit, and waited for Pei Lin to apply the medicine on it.

"Not bad, you little bug. You have such good judgment. Why don't you come work for me at Ren'an Hall? I'll pay you double the wages and provide you with food. How about it?"

"Keep dreaming. Don't fall into the latrine in the middle of the night, get your mouth all smeared with shit, and get your brain all muddled. Hurry up, I'm in a hurry."

What's your rush?

Pei Lin was still thinking about having dinner with Yun Ling, so naturally he was unwilling to let her go.

"none of your business."

Pei Lin got angry when he heard her words. He wanted to grab her hair, but seeing that she was really anxious and was grabbing the medicine bowl to do it herself, he stopped teasing her. He quickly spread the herb residue on the gauze and applied it to Manager Zhou.

He gave Manager Zhou a prescription for external decoction, settled the consultation fee, then grabbed his medical kit and hurriedly pushed through the crowd to catch up with Yunling, who was turning her carriage around.

"where did you go?"

Ren'an Hall.

Pei Lin leaped onto the deck, placed the medical kit into the vehicle, and sat steadily.

"I don't believe you. You're definitely planning to leave me behind. Tell me, what are you going to do?"

"No, what I do is none of your business. Even when you're making house calls, you know to protect the privacy of your patients and not disclose it to outsiders. How come you don't understand this kind of thing?"

Pei Lin leaned against the carriage floor, his fingers secretly hooking the bottom of the deck. He wasn't going to leave, he didn't want to leave. He felt that Yun Ling was acting strangely today, and he didn't know what had happened. He had to find out.

After a while, the carriage slowly came to a stop at Ren'an Hall. Yunling gestured to Pei Lin,

"Get out of the car and take your first-aid kit."

"I won't go down."

"Hey, why are you acting so strangely today?"

"You're the one who's acting crazy. Tell me, where are you going? In the past, you were so irresponsible, you would have stayed in the city until dawn. Now you're so anxious that you don't even crave food. There must be something fishy going on."

Yunling felt flustered after this person had hit the nail on the head. She hesitated for a while before saying "I," which only made people more suspicious.

Pei Lin turned to the side, narrowing his eyes as if trying to see through Yun Ling's thoughts with his keen observation.

"Are you planning to sneak off to Qingcheng again?"

What would I do in Qingcheng?

"That fashion show you put on caused such a stir, wasn't it all to sell your products? You went to Qingcheng to buy this and that before, and now that the products are so popular, you'll have to go to Qingcheng again, won't you?"

Pei Lin truly admired his own intelligence. If he hadn't noticed something amiss with this person in time, she might have slipped away tomorrow, and seeing her again would have been incredibly difficult.

"When you go to Qingcheng, you have to take me with you. I promised to take you to see the mountains and rivers, and I won't break my promise. You can't break your promise either, or I'll go home with you tonight and see what you can do to me."

Yunling's lips twitched again. It seemed that this person did have a brain, but not much. However, since she was going to the paper shop, why not take him with her, so that he would know that he was actually a fool?

Yunling couldn't help but feel happy when she thought about the look of surprise, doubt, disbelief, and disbelief on this person's face when he realized he had been tricked.

"Okay, okay, I'll take you there."

Just as he had guessed his thoughts, Pei Lin was about to show off when Yun Ling drove the carriage around a sharp bend, making him almost lose his senses.

Upon arriving at the exchange shop, Yunling parked the carriage and jumped down, while Pei Lin was completely bewildered.

"Hey, what are you doing here?"

"Let me show you your shattered self-esteem."

Yunling walked to the sign in front of the shop, pointed to the words on it, and read them aloud one by one.

"Qingcheng Chamber of Commerce Exchange Shop".

"Can't you even read, you tiny little thing?"

"The literal meaning of this is the Qingcheng Chamber of Commerce's paper money shop. In other words, this is a paper money shop set up by the Qingcheng Chamber of Commerce to facilitate business between the two cities, thus saving merchants from having to travel back and forth between the two places. Do you understand, you little idiot?"

Pei Lin was embarrassed by what he was being told. He wasn't in business and had no idea about chambers of commerce or paper shops. He had really lost face.

Pei Lin was unwilling to lose to Yun Ling so easily, so he thought of giving her a difficult question that Elder Zhong had asked, a question that no one in Ren'an Hall could answer. He wanted to teach her a lesson for her arrogance, but Yun Ling turned around and disappeared in a flash.

Pei Lin quickly grabbed his medical kit and hurried inside to catch up.

This was Yunling's first time visiting the paper shop in women's clothing, so much so that from the moment she entered until she found Wen Siqing, she attracted a lot of curious glances.

Among them was Wen Siqing. Although he knew Yun Ling was a woman, he was still somewhat surprised to see her enter dressed as a woman.

"Young lady, it's been a long time. Are you here at the parcel shop to place an order?"

"I've come today mainly to ask about something."

Upon hearing this, Wen Siqing put down his abacus and thought about welcoming Yunling to sit down.

"I won't sit down. I'd like to ask you, sir, how much colored cotton cloth is sold by Master He? And how much cowhide broth does Shopkeeper Yu have? Just these two things."

Wen Siqing nodded, counting the days on his fingers.

"The cotton workshops in Qingcheng have always only produced raw cotton fabrics; dyed cotton fabrics are only produced by workshops in the Jiangnan region..."

Yunling was puzzled.

"Master He is from Jiangnan. I heard from his employees that the He family owns a dye shop in Jiangnan. If that's true..."

"That's not what I meant. I was just informing you of the day when I will receive a reply."