"The treatment at your pharmacy is truly excellent." Su Hua smiled. "However, I only know this one first aid method and am completely ignorant of other medical techniques. I'm afraid I will have to disappoint Dr. Zhou's kind intentions."

"Really?" Doctor Zhou's eyes were filled with doubt and surprise.

Su Hua's smile remained unchanged, "It is indeed more genuine than gold."

Going to work? She would never go to work again in her life.

As long as the flavored snails sell well, it's much more profitable than staying at Zhou's Pharmacy as a junior doctor.

Most importantly, it's about freedom.

The Su siblings bid farewell to Doctor Zhou and carried three large bags of medicinal herbs to the alley entrance.

"Hua'er, what's with that so-called first aid method?" Su Erhu finally couldn't help but ask. "And these three packets of medicine, supposedly for treating Dad's cold, but Dad has been dead for thirteen years. Did Hua'er somehow find a godparent somewhere?"

Su Hua's brow twitched, and she coughed lightly.

"Um, Second Brother, do you remember when I was saved by Meng Po?"

“Of course I remember.” Su Erhu murmured, then his eyes lit up. “Hua’er means that Meng Po taught you that so-called first aid method? No wonder, the methods of the gods are really good, they can even snatch people from the hands of the King of Hell.”

He went on and on.

Looking at the three packets of medicine, she exclaimed in surprise, "I thought that people in the divine realm would never get sick. It turns out they are just like us mortals, they can catch a cold and need medicine to recover. Hua'er is so clever, knowing to buy medicine in her father's name. Otherwise, if others knew about Meng Po's matter, our Su family would be surrounded by onlookers every day..."

Seeing his second brother's style going further and further astray.

Su Hua quickly stopped him, "Second Brother! This medicine is for us to take ourselves."

"What?" Su Erhu exclaimed in surprise, "No one in the family is sick, why would we eat this stuff?"

Su Hua chuckled, "Of course, I'll make delicious food, and I guarantee Second Brother will want more after he eats it."

After saying that, he pulled the person towards the meat stall in the market on the east side of the town.

Having wasted too much time at Zhou's Pharmacy, the meat stall now only has a sparse amount of meat scattered about.

Su Hua bought two catties of pork fat. In Cangwu Town, pork fat and fatty meat were the same price, eighteen coins per catty, while lean meat was cheaper, only twelve coins per catty. Seeing that the morning market was about to end, the butcher gave her two big bones as a bonus.

"Hua'er, shall we buy some lean meat to take home?" Su Erhu took out his money pouch and counted out the copper coins with some puzzlement.

In the past, Hua'er loved to eat lean meat the most.

Why would you buy only pork fat these days?

"No rush, we'll buy it again when we've made some money." Su Hua smiled as she took the pork fat and bones and walked towards the town entrance.

Shanghe Village is indeed a bit remote.

It takes an hour just to make one trip.

By the time we get back, it will probably be past noon.

"Hey." Seeing Su Hua walking so fast, Su Erhu could only hurry after her. "If Hua'er wants to eat meat, your second brother has some copper coins here. They were earned from selling rabbits. Mother said that Hua'er can buy whatever she wants."

Perhaps fearing she wouldn't believe him, he quickly added, "We have money at home, and after the busy farming season, your eldest brother, third brother, and I will go to the docks to carry sacks. We certainly won't be short of money for meat, so Hua'er doesn't need to worry about it."

Su Hua paused, raising her eyes to look at Su Erhu.

He's only eighteen this year.

In her previous life, that would have been the age when she was just starting university.

Although his face was still full of youthful innocence, he, along with Su Dahu and Su Sanhu, had been carrying bags at the dock to earn money during the off-season since they were around ten years old. In the past few years, when they were young, it was rare for each of them to earn five copper coins a day. Later, when they grew up, they worked from morning till night and could only earn fifteen copper coins.

The vast majority of the money ended up in the original owner's stomach.

“Yes.” Su Hua nodded with a smile. “From now on, we’ll definitely be able to eat meat every day.”

By the time the two siblings from the Su family returned to Shanghe Village, it was already noon.

At the entrance of Shanghe Village, there stands a crooked sycamore tree. As far back as Su Hua can remember, this sycamore tree has been thicker than her. Now, the trunk is even larger, and clusters of palm-sized sycamore leaves cover the sky. Under the tree, many villagers are sewing shoe soles and chatting.

"Hey, is the second son and the youngest daughter of the Su family coming back from town?" A sharp-eyed woman spotted the Su siblings from afar.

He spat out the sunflower seed shells and ran towards the two of them.

"Oh dear, what kind of pastries did you buy? You bought several big bags of them; it must have cost a lot of money!" Widow Liu snatched the paper package from Su Erhu's hand, examined it from all angles, and immediately wrinkled her nose. "Why do these pastries smell so strong? They smell like medicine. Erhu, is your mother sick?"

"Aunt Liu, what are you saying!" Su Erhu said with a forced smile, reaching out to snatch the herbal medicine packet back. "My mother has always been healthy. Even if you, Aunt Liu, were to get sick, my mother would never get sick."

“You silly boy…” Widow Liu looked embarrassed.

With a quick glance around, she exclaimed, "Oh, I can smell meat now!"

After saying that, she looked directly into the basket on Su Erhu's back. When she saw the pork fat inside, she exclaimed in surprise, "My goodness! Erhu, you've bought pork again? There's also a huge bone. How can we finish all this?"

The glistening white pork fat almost made the woman's mouth water.

Both were widows from Shanghe Village and both had three sons, but Su Baishi's two sons were already married with children. Although life was a bit hard, she had two daughters-in-law and so many grandchildren to keep her company.

Unlike himself, all three of his children are still single.

I feel unbalanced no matter how I think about it.

The villagers who rushed over upon hearing the commotion looked at the contents of the basket and echoed the sentiment.

“You can’t live like this. If you keep eating like this, all your acres of land will be eaten up.”

"Yes, you shouldn't spoil your daughter like this. Your little sister is so strong now, she should eat less meat."

"That's right! Which family doesn't love their son? But they dote on a little girl. This girl will belong to someone else's family sooner or later. This old woman Su is probably getting more and more senile as she gets older. In the future, this little girl will eat up all the family property. She'll have a lot to cry about then..."

Su Hua felt a toothache just listening to this, but nodded seriously, "That makes sense."

The crowd, who were craning their necks and spitting as they spoke, instantly fell silent.

The look in his eyes when he looked at Su Hua was indescribable.

Couldn't she tell that they were all making fun of her?

I thought that the incident of catching her in adultery in the dilapidated temple yesterday had made the youngest daughter of the Su family suddenly become more clever, but I didn't expect that after one night, she would return to her old foolish self.