Chapter 634: Use the best medicine, pick the most expensive one. I'll pay for it.

When Granny Sun heard this, her vision went dark, her body swayed, and she almost fell to the ground.

Chu Ruohan supported her and her face turned completely cold.

"Look at it again."

The old doctor waved his hand impatiently, "It's the same even if I see him a hundred times. This child's foundation is too weak, and the cold has entered his system. If he waits too long, his internal organs will be damaged. There's nothing I can do."

Gu Junze remained silent.

He held the child and just looked at the doctor quietly.

He did nothing, not even his expression changed, but the old doctor felt his whole body go numb and cold sweat gradually seeped out of his forehead.

What kind of look was that?

As calm as a deep well, the more it makes people feel like they are in hell!

The old doctor felt a chill running up from his tailbone to the back of his head, and his legs felt a little weak.

"My wife, let me ask you to look at it again." Gu Junze finally spoke.

"I...I..." The old doctor's lips trembled. Facing that gaze, he could no longer hold back. His voice changed. "I'm telling the truth!"

He stood up tremblingly, looked around, and then lowered his voice, fearing that someone would hear their conversation.

"Sir, the root of this child's illness is that he hasn't had enough food for many years, and his body has long been depleted."

"I caught a cold a while ago, and I didn't have money for good medicine, so I took some moldy old medicine residue. That's how I turned a minor illness into a serious one!"

The old doctor took a deep breath and said, "Now...now even a god can't save him!"

"Moldy medicine residue?" Chu Ruohan frowned.

"Yes... yes." The old doctor was about to cry, "In this city's medicinal materials business, our Baicaotang has the final say."

"Good medicine is very expensive. How can those poor people afford it? Our boss... our boss sells those medicinal herbs that are about to be scrapped to them at a low price..."

"Who is your boss?" Gu Junze asked.

"That's right... our boss's surname is Lin. Most of the businesses in the city belong to him. Even Jinxiu Pavilion is our family's property..."

In an instant, all the clues were connected.

They exploited weavers, monopolized cloth, and then used inferior medicinal materials to harvest their last life-saving money.

This is not a business at all, this is clearly cannibalism.

Chu Ruohan's heart was boiling with anger. Just as she was about to speak, Gu Junze held her hand.

There was no trace of emotion in Gu Junze's voice. "Prescribe medicine. Use the best medicine, the most expensive. I'll pay for it."

He took out a heavy gold ingot from his pocket and threw it on the counter.

The sound of the gold falling was so crisp and heavy that it made the doctor and the waiters in the room twitch their eyelids.

No one expected that this couple, who were dressed in ordinary clothes, could be so generous. I guess they were keeping a low profile and didn't want to show off.

After receiving the order, the doctor dared not delay any longer. He wrote the prescription quickly and directed his servants to get the best medicinal herbs in the city.

She thought of the Chu family's Chamber of Commerce, which was more convenient for family members to use.

"Is there a shop in Jinguan City with the surname Chu?"

She stopped a passerby who had just come out of the pharmacy and asked.

The passerby looked at her and shook his head. "Chu? They closed down a long time ago. Two years ago, the prefect said that foreign merchants were disrupting the market and kicked them all out."

"There are no other big businesses in this city except Jinxiu Pavilion."

Chu Ruohan's heart sank little by little.

She originally thought that she could use the power of the Chu family to find a way out for people like Grandma Sun.

But unexpectedly, the Chu family's roots had been uprooted here long ago.

Expel foreign chambers of commerce, monopolize the market, and collude between officials and businessmen.

This prefect of Jinguan City is very generous.

Gu Junze held the child, turned around and walked out of Baicaotang, his eyes sweeping across the long street.

There are "city guards" patrolling the streets, wearing uniform uniforms, carrying sticks in their hands, and walking in a casual manner.

But Gu Junze could see clearly that those people walked steadily and their temples were bulging high, and they were obviously martial artists.

Moreover, since entering the city, he has not seen a single soldier wearing the military uniform of the Eastern Jin Dynasty.

Such a prosperous and important city's defenses.

Chu Ruohan walked up to him, followed his gaze, and understood something.

The two looked at each other and saw the same solemn look in each other's eyes.

The sky is high and the emperor is far away.

This prefect of Jinguan City is probably the local emperor here.

They originally came out for fun, but they never expected to run into a huge web of corruption.

The two decided to stay in Jinguan City for a while.

Gu Junze did not show off in the best location in the city. Instead, he found a quiet courtyard with two entrances in the south of the city near the suburbs.

The yard is not big, but it is quiet.

He directly used a gold ingot to buy the yard from the pawnshop and even took the title deed.

Grandma Sun and her little grandson were settled in the innermost courtyard.

New bedding, clean clothes, and a specially invited doctor who came to see the patient three times a day and prescribed medicine continuously.

It's late at night.

In the villa in the south of the city, Chu Ruohan blew out the extra candles and only left one on the table.

She looked at the inky bamboo shadows outside the window and felt very upset.

"I still don't understand how they dared to do this."

"The emperor is far away and this is their world." Gu Junze's voice came from behind her.

He had changed out of his daytime cloth clothes and into a tight black night suit, which made his figure look even taller and more upright. He looked like a sword in its sheath, its edge restrained.

"I need to go out for a while."

Chu Ruohan turned around and asked: "Going to the Lin Mansion?"

"Let's go to Jinxiu Pavilion first." Gu Junze said.

He didn't say much, and his figure flashed and blended into the night outside the window, quietly, as if he had never appeared.

In the backyard of Jinxiu Pavilion, several guards were yawning sleepily.

A black shadow passed over the wall like a ghost and landed silently.

Gu Junze's physical skills were honed on the battlefield at the cost of his life, and were specifically designed to chop off the heads of enemy commanders. For him, dealing with a few shop guards was no different from strolling in the garden.

He went straight into the largest warehouse.

The air was filled with the smell of cloth and camphor wood.

Rows of shelves are filled with all kinds of cloth.

He looked around carefully and found nothing but brocade.

As expected.

Real secrets are not kept in places like this.

He turned and left Jinxiu Pavilion, his figure rising and falling on the roof as if walking on flat ground, heading straight for the Lin Mansion in the center of the city.

The Lin Mansion covers a vast area, with high walls and a large courtyard, and two stone lions in front of the gate. It is more magnificent than the homes of ordinary officials.

The defense here is more than ten times tighter than Jinxiu Pavilion.

There are many martial artists with long breaths hiding in the dark.

Unfortunately, they were facing Gu Junze.

Like a weightless fallen leaf, he easily climbed over the courtyard wall, avoided all patrolling guards, and went straight to the study.