Chapter 109

"Miracle medicine! Miracle medicine! Buy the miracle medicine!"

"This is the miraculous medicine from Ronghe Mansion. Ladies and gentlemen, come and take a look."

"The lotus flowers grown on the snowy mountains are used as medicine. Eating them can keep women young forever, and men can benefit from them by nourishing their bodies and strengthening their virility."

The hawking voice had an accent. Xuan Duofu listened to the general idea. Before he could say anything, Wang Banban was surprised and said, "What kind of medicine can have different effects when taken by men and women? Weird."

Many people would like to say: "This drug seller seems to be making false and exaggerated propaganda."

As for whether it is a scam, he doesn't know yet because he hasn't bought it yet.

"Let's go and have a look."

Two people pushed a cart and stopped on the side of the road. There was a tall camel next to them. The clothes worn by the two people and the camel - the camel was also dressed up, all in the style of Ronghe Mansion, very Rong style. A man and a woman wore small octagonal hats, and their hair was braided into small braids with colorful beads, which was very beautiful.

The Rong people have deep facial features and thick hair. They have thick eyebrows and big eyes. The girls are more outgoing than the Yi people. The Yi people are more beautiful and pretty, while the Rong girls are somewhat heroic, probably because of their thick eyebrows.

Soon, a lot of people gathered around to watch the fun.

"Gentlemen, please don't disbelieve me. We are from Ronghe Mansion. My brother and I got this Snow Lotus Pill after risking our lives. It's fate." The eighteen or nineteen-year-old girl talked eloquently with a smile on her face. She said, "My brother and I are the only ones in my family. My brother is a good hunter. He accidentally broke his leg while hunting in the mountains last year."

The brother next to him pulled open his robe and lifted up his trouser legs, revealing a horrible scar on his calf.

The onlookers all gasped and said, "It looks serious.", "How serious must the injury be.", "It's very serious.", "But I just saw you walking without a limp at all."

When Xuan Fu heard the words "not lame at all", he looked at the person who said it. The other person looked like a Dasheng person, but he always felt that this person was cooperating. Was it because his "anti-fraud" awareness was too strong?

"What the old man said is right. My eldest brother was lame before and couldn't even get out of bed, let alone walk. He was even more paralyzed. He said that he had caused me trouble and told me to find a good family to marry. But my parents are dead, and my eldest brother is the only relative left." The girl's eyes turned red as she spoke. "I heard from the elders of my tribe that there are snow lotus flowers on the snowy mountains. If you make them into medicine and eat them, they can heal any injury. But the snow lotus flowers are hard to find. They grow on cliffs and are guarded by sacred beasts."

Why is it so mysterious? Xuanyuefu stroked his chin and listened to the story.

"Then how did you find it?"

It was that person who spoke again.

The girl said: "I couldn't lose my eldest brother, my only brother, so I had to brave the wind and snow to climb the mountain. I almost froze to death at the foot of the mountain several times. It was the gods who showed me the way..."

There are gods again! Manyufu: Keep listening.

In the girl's story, she experienced life and death several times, was tested by the gods, and was then saved by a divine beast. The divine beast was more human-like and could recognize people with pure souls, so it carried her to a snowy village. The villagers of the snowy village heard her story of seeking medicine and, moved by her deep affection for her brother, gave her a snow lotus.

"… Snow lotus only needs a little. My eldest brother's legs were originally rotten, but after using the snow lotus, the rotten flesh fell off and new flesh appeared. The bones still hurt when the medicine was used. It took three petals of the snow lotus to completely heal my eldest brother's serious injury and allow him to walk."

"There are still a lot left. Big brother is kind-hearted. My brother and I have received help from the Snow Mountain God. Now we also want to help those who are suffering in the same way. Naturally, we also want to exchange some silver for a more convenient life."

"Brother, please show everyone our medicine."

The big brother next to me lifted the cloth covering the car bed. There was only a wooden box on such a large car bed. The box was not big and was covered with dust and scratches. It was obvious that the car had gone through a lot of hardships on the way here.

"Where's the medicine?"

"Let's take a look first."

“Is it really so magical?”

The curiosity of the onlookers was aroused, but some were skeptical, and some did not believe it - the latter was actually the one who spoke to him first, and his attitude changed every time.

The girl smiled and said, "I'll open it for everyone to see. The medicine made from the remaining half of the snow lotus is very precious, so it must be properly preserved." She opened the wooden box, and the onlookers stretched their necks to take a look, and there was actually another box inside.

So the box was inside the box, and the girl opened the second small box. This time there were finally small boxes inside, sixteen small boxes - the size of ring boxes.

The girl wiped her hands on her clothes with a serious look on her face. Her look made everyone more curious and took it seriously. The girl took out a box with both hands, carefully opened the lid, revealing the pills inside.

A Malteser.

Xuanyunfu looked at the marshmallows and thought that they were definitely not as delicious as yacon!

"Is this the Snow Lotus Pill?", "Why is it black?", "What does a Snow Lotus look like?", "I was thinking of a Snow Lotus, a lotus this big is pink, so a Snow Lotus should be snow-white?"

Everyone was talking about it. Some people wanted to buy it and naturally bargained for it. They said with a picky look on their faces, "This black thing doesn't look like it's made of snow lotus." "Who knows what it's made of."

The girl immediately said, "I guarantee that this is made of Snow Lotus, but it contains the most nourishing medicinal materials from Snow Lotus Mountain. Women can take one pill, dissolve it with pearl powder and rootless water, and then drink it for three days, sleep for one night, and then your skin will be tender and you can look ten years younger."

"Ten years old!"

“Is this true or false?”

"Can I really be ten years younger?"

"If a man takes one pill, he will look ten years younger. But this pill is very powerful, so it's better to cut one into pieces and use them over three days," the girl explained in detail.

The onlookers were eager to try it out.

Many people even heard a familiar voice behind them: "How much is it!"

So Xuanfu looked back in disbelief. Liu Qiang, the pig, was very excited and his eyes were on the pills. He didn't have time to pay attention to him.

Many blessings: ...

Xuanyu Fu turned to look at Yan Jinjin. Yan Huaijin felt his gaze and turned to look at Xuanyu Fu, showing a question mark face, "What's wrong with me?" Xuanyu Fu was relieved immediately, "It's okay, it's okay. Fortunately, you are smart. Yan Jinjin, do you believe this?"

"I don't believe it. I already have what I want," said Yan Huaijin.

He didn't want to say anything about "what if" or "what if" Xuandu Fu was so or so bad. He didn't even want to "think about it". Now he and Xuandu Fu were just fine, and Xuandu Fu was in good health, so he didn't believe in the Snow Lotus Pill.

If you have a request or desire in your heart, you should give it a try even if you know it is fake.

Xuan Xuanfu understood what he heard, and he wondered if Wang Yuansun had any old injuries.

Liu Qiang asked about the price, as if he was asking a favor. As soon as he asked, the onlookers also asked enthusiastically.

The girl said modestly: "It's not that I sell it expensively, but it's very rare and precious. I went through great risks to get a snow lotus -"

"It must be very expensive," Xuanfu said. This was too long a preparation.

Everyone was curious and urged, and some said that there was plenty of money and they just wanted to quote a certain amount.

"Ten taels of silver for a box." said the girl.

Everyone gasped. Ten taels of silver for a pill was indeed very expensive.

Many blessings:!!!

"Ten taels, ten taels! I only had five taels of silver as pocket money a month when I was in school!" His Highness was shocked.

Many people wanted to stick their five fingers into Liu Qiang's nostrils - he hated it, so forget it. Because when Liu Qiang heard the price, he didn't back down, but turned around to ask Wang Yuansun for the money, and muttered: "It must be real if it's so expensive."

"Old Wang, why don't you just take care of this pig of yours, Liu Qiang!" Xuanyuefu couldn't stand it anymore, because Wang Yuansun really spoiled Liu Qiang and bought him all these things!

Liu Qiang: "Don't yell about how much good fortune you have. If you want it, buy it yourself."

Xuanyu Fu: ...Does he mean whether he is rich or poor?

This is expensive and a waste of IQ.

Seeing that Xuanfuqi was very angry, Yan Huaijin fanned Xuanfu and said, "Calm down."

"Just tell me, are their Snow Lotus Pills very strange?"

Yan Huaijin nodded, "Yes. We won't buy it."

Xuan Fu could only let it go. He couldn't stop Liu Qiang from spending money, so he deserved it.

"I think what if it comes in handy?" Liu Qiang took the wallet and started counting the money. "Then the rotten flesh can fall off and new flesh can grow—"

"You are worse than a pig!" Xuan Fu cursed. The brother and sister who were selling the goods must have almost laughed to death. If Liu Qiang was not his brother, he would have beaten Liu Qiang violently.

"If you are older, I will sell you health products."

Liu Qiang: “What are health products?”

Manyu Fugaogui sneered: "It is your favorite lotus pill."

The two of them were bickering, and Liu Qiang had already taken the money. The girl kept looking at them, especially at the silver in Liu Qiang's hand. Liu Qiang turned around and asked Wang Yuan: "Do you believe it?"

Wang Yuansun shook his head.

Liu Qiang: "Then give me back the money."

"Go ahead and buy it. You're buying it for me, so you can put your mind at ease."

Manyu Fu said, "If this thing is not good, aren't you afraid that your old Wang will suffer from it?"

Once these words were spoken, they had a greater effect than just complaining that it was too expensive.

Liu Qiang immediately took the silver and said, "Yes, what if it is a bad medicine?"

The brother and sister saw that their business was disrupted and there were many curious people. The only one who really paid was the big fool, and now that big fool refused to pay. The atmosphere became a little tense, and many people wanted to leave when they saw the high price.

Just then, someone in the crowd shouted, "My son! My son!"

The sound was so loud that everyone looked over. In the crowd, there was a woman holding a three or four-year-old child. The child was covered in blood and vomiting blood. The woman kept shouting, "My son, please save my son. I heard that there is a magic medicine for sale here."

When the girl saw him, she looked anxious and asked, "What happened to your child?"

"My son fell from the wall today and has been vomiting blood. He said his internal organs hurt." The woman cried and talked while holding the child, and she knelt down in front of the girl and begged her to save her son.

The girl gritted her teeth and said, "This is a matter of life and death. Snow lotus is a gift from the gods. I am saving people now. It is a good opportunity for everyone to see whether this medicine is real or fake, good or bad, so that people won't say that ten taels of silver for a box is too expensive and call me a liar."

Many blessings: ...

This is pointing at him!

His Royal Highness the Crown Prince was so angry that his face turned red.

Yan Huaijin's eyes fell on the children and women, and he lowered his head and whispered something in Xuanyuefu's ear. Xuanyuefu raised his eyebrows, "Officer Ling, go up and help the children."

"Yes, Master." Xu Lingguan stepped forward and said, "I know some medical skills. I can help your child."

As a result, the woman was extremely frightened and alert. She did not allow Xu Lingguan to get close to her child. She slapped Xu Lingguan's hand away and shouted, "I won't let you look, I won't let you look."

The girl was also anxious, and quickly took out the medicine box, trying to put the pill to the child's mouth. When Xu Lingguan saw it, he was one step faster and took the pill. The girl fought for it and said, "You still want to steal my pill? Do you know that if you rob in Xining City, you will be whipped ten times, give it back to me now."

Xu Lingguan held the pills in his hands, gently crushed them, smelled them, licked them and said, "Honey, Lithospermum officinale, bamboo leaves, angelica--"

"The medicinal materials in your pills are all the cheapest medicinal materials for clearing away heat and reducing internal heat. You sell them for ten taels of silver. Do you know how many lashes you will get for cheating people here?"

The girl raised her eyebrows and said, "How do you know there is no snow lotus if you have never seen it? You look like a barbarian, so what you said is true!"

"Then you still look like a Rong." Xu Lingguan retorted.

The two quarreled here. The girl was strong on the outside but weak on the inside. Officer Xu Ling said he wanted to see Lord Hu and let Lord Hu conduct a trial. The girl said: "Who is afraid of who? You destroyed my medicine. You have to pay me back the ten taels of silver first."

"This medicine is evidence. If Lord Hu decides that I destroyed your Snow Lotus Pills, I will compensate you twenty taels." Officer Xu Ling put away the evidence and said, "Let's go."

The onlookers nodded one after another, yes, yes, some said that Xu Lingguan, a man, bullied a girl, while others said that the medicine was so expensive that they should go to the government office for identification.

"The cart is coming!" someone shouted. The girl heard it and glared at Xu Lingguan angrily. Then she jumped onto the cart. The camel snorted and the man and the horse fell to the ground. The brother and sister ran away.

The woman on the ground was still shouting, "Hey, why did you run away? You said you would give me thirty cents."

"Mom, should I still pretend to be in pain?" the child asked.

"Why are you pretending when everyone has run away?" The woman scolded the child at first, and when she saw that people around her had reacted and pointed at her and accused her of lying, she quickly took the child and ran away, saying, "Everyone, I'm really not in the same group with them. I just want to earn some money for vegetables. Please have pity on us, mother and child..."

In the end, the woman and the child were released.

The originally bustling place suddenly became an empty street. The crowd dispersed as needed, but some people were still talking about Snow Lotus Pills and asking if there were real Snow Lotus Pills.

"Who knows? We have to go to Ronghe Mansion."

Liu Qiang: "How do you know if the many blessings are fake?"

"Because I have brains." Xuan Xu Fu snorted, "I didn't want to sell it in the first place, but these people want too much. Believe it or not, if the woman and the child are 'cured', the price of the Snow Lotus Pills will have to be reduced. Don't pay 998 yuan, don't pay 998 yuan, just take three taels of silver home."

"You'll all have to buy it by then, you'll all be addicted!"

"There are sixteen boxes in total, and the cost is only a few dozen coins. How much profit can we make from this?"

Yan Huaijin listened to Duo Fu shouting at the top of his voice, his brows full of smiles, "In fact, they are all suspicious points. Wang Yuansun has also noticed the clues, but Liu Qiang was thinking about Wang Yuansun and didn't notice it."

"Ah?" Liu Qiang scratched his head in frustration.

Wang Yuansun patted Liu Qiang on the shoulder to indicate that everything was fine.

"The county magistrate of Huang'er Prefecture said that this place is in chaos and gave us a warning. I guess this is the case. The pills made of medicinal herbs are not poisonous and will not harm people. Are they ordinary pills for clearing away heat and detoxification?"

Xu Lingguan nodded, "Yes, Master."

Xuan Fu continued, "There are many people and businessmen in Xining City, and there are many opportunities to make money. Naturally, there are many scammers. They make a fortune and run away, then come back in a new look after a few months or half a year."

No wonder Hu Qingdian used harsh measures to govern the city.

This was just a minor incident. The man ran away, and Xu Duofu didn't chase him - Xu Lingguan and others would not leave His Highness there unattended just to chase a petty thief. Anyway, they didn't cheat any money, so if he ran away, he ran away. They could just go back and tell Lord Hu to strengthen patrol management.

After that, I didn't encounter any scammers. There was a dizzying variety of food on the street. Many people ate from the beginning to the end of the street with their stomachs opened. The most famous and best food here is grilled beef skewers. For people in arable land areas, cows are used for plowing fields, and it is absolutely unacceptable to kill cows for food.

Killing cattle was illegal in the past, but it is no longer illegal in Dasheng. However, if a villager has a cattle, they will raise it carefully and will not kill it for meat.

But Xining City is located between the Rong and Yi tribes. In the past, the two tribes mostly raised cattle and sheep, especially cattle. The cattle here are different from those used for farming. They are long-haired cattle with particularly good meat. The meat skewers are large and fragrant, sprinkled with salt and cumin, and roasted until they are sizzling. Xuanfu ate a lot of them, and also had some flatbreads and a lot of dairy products.

Fermented yogurt.

Many people drank three bowls at a time.

"Be careful not to get a stomachache." Yan Huaijin looked worried.

Xuanyuefu shook his head and said no, "I ate meat and drank yogurt. This yogurt helps digestion just like hawthorn. It definitely won't cause a stomachache."

Liu Qiang also ate with his mouth full of oil, thinking: Fortunately, I didn’t buy the cheat pills with the ten taels of silver just now. I can buy a lot of meat with the ten taels of silver here.

After shopping and eating, there are shops. There are a lot of things in the shops here, and most of them are wholesale - small merchants from prefectures and counties all over the place come to purchase goods. They sell wool blankets, felt, leather clothes, and leather boots. Many people even found sweaters.

Many blessings: ???

He was stunned, holding the sweater.

"Master, do you want one? This new style of wool sweater is not available anywhere else except in Xining City."

Xuanyuefu was very excited and asked, "Who came up with the idea of woolen sweater?" There couldn't be anyone else who had worn it like him!

"It was Lord Hu who saw that there were spinning wheels in the north, and we knew how to make felt here. One of our smart girls suggested that we could not use wool to weave it like cloth..."

In short, after repeated failures and all kinds of trying, she finally figured out how to make a sweater this year - the dexterous girl knitted it with two sticks. As for spinning and twisting the wool into yarn, it is also a pure manual job.

Manyu Fu: "How many are there? I'll take them all."

He didn't bargain and just paid whatever price the other party quoted. They were all Dasheng citizens. It was hard work to twist the wool yarn and weave it into sweaters by hand.

Because he was generous and didn't bargain, the aunt selling goods was particularly friendly and enthusiastic to him, "Young master is really generous. Every time the merchants who come to us to buy goods, they bargain."

"Why don't you take the goods out and sell them yourself?" Xuanyu Fu asked.

My aunt said, "No, no, we can't speak well outside, and the journey is long. We can only make some things. Sometimes when we are in short supply, we have to ask the villagers to do it. If there are villages that can spin wool and clean the wool beautifully, we will give 80 coins for a sweater. If there is no material and we just knit it, then it will be 15 to 18 coins..."

Xuan Fu listened to some business advice and learned that businesses like knitting sweaters and selling them not only benefited the people in the city, as they provided jobs, but also the people in the villages and towns could earn some pocket money.

This is a good thing.

My aunt is from the Yi tribe. Her husband died, and now she is married to a man from the Rong tribe. There are many people like my aunt. In their profession, many girls marry people from the Dasheng tribe. Naturally, my aunt said that they are all people from the Dasheng tribe now.

"...Even Lord Hu has married several women."

"The men of Dasheng are smarter and better at doing business, but they are less strong."

“Rong men are strong but love to drink, and they fight at the slightest provocation.”

"The men of the Yi tribe are timid. My ex-husband was timid too. When we talked about fighting, he ran away first and didn't care about my mother and me."

Xuanyu Fu: "I thought he died in battle, but it turns out he left you and your son behind and ran away. He deserves to die."

"That's right, sir. You are as capable as Lord Hu," the aunt praised.

Manyufu: Hehe.

It can be seen that the people of Xining City still trust Hu Qingdian. Lord Hu is also a good man. In his four years in office, a new city has emerged out of thin air, and he has also tried every means to develop the economy.

Because if the people here plant crops, the soil is only suitable for growing some small barley, and the planting area is not large. If we rely on farming to feed all the people, it will definitely not work and they will not be able to get enough food.

It is feasible to develop the economy. We can exchange the beef jerky, wool and leather goods here for silver and grain from Qianyong City. Qianyong City is a big farming city, next to the Fujiang River, with a suitable temperature. When the Wang family hoarded grain, the grain became moldy, which shows how suitable it is for farming.

"Your sweaters are very nice, but I think it would be better if you made them with an open front, like the one I'm wearing now, and crocheted some flowers like lambs and calves that are unique to Xining, to make them cuter, and sewed them on the chest, and made some children's sweaters, pullovers, and scarves, so that you can take them outside and sell them."

"I'm not talking about Qianyong City, I'm talking about the North. I think your sweaters are very soft and comfortable. They can be sold in the North or Shengdu City. I can charge five times more."

Many blessings to give advice.

The sweater is very light and relatively sturdy. Unlike porcelain, I am afraid it will break.

“The waterway is very convenient.”

The aunt was undecided. "Master, you are right, but we have to take it slowly. We also need to ask Master Hu for his opinion. Master Hu encourages us to think of new things."

"I really need to think more about it. I hope that one day I can see the goods from Xining City in Shengdu City." Xuanyu Fu said.

Giving everyone a sweater will make it a New Year's gift.

When they returned from their play, it was already late at night, and the guards who stayed in the palace said, "Your Highness, Lord Hu Qingdian has just arrived, and he said that he will welcome Your Highness tomorrow. Here is the invitation."

Xuan Fu read the post, focusing on the address, and couldn't help but smile, "This Mr. Hu is interesting. Is this Xingyue Tower the two-story building at the northwest corner of the largest intersection we just visited?"

"Yes, Your Highness." Xu Lingguan said.

There were people coming and going in the Xingyue Building, and there was a sign at the door saying "Acrobatics, Dancing, and Dining".

Xuanyi Fu is now very masculine. At first glance, he refused to go in and said he was sleepy and wanted to go home to sleep. He held Yan Huaijin's hand and scratched the palm of Yan Jinjin's hand with his fingers, meaning that he behaved well!

Yan Huaijin smoothed over the Crown Prince from head to toe, and he almost turned his belly over.

"Hu Qingdian invited me to go. We will all go tomorrow, but I don't want to go." said His Royal Highness the Crown Prince.

"Of course, I trust Your Highness the most. Your love and care for me is unforgettable to me. I don't know how to repay you. How about -"

"Promise yourself to me!!!" the big pervert replied.

Yan Huaijin laughed out loud.

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