Chapter 79: Prescription

When Shen Ning woke up, she found herself in an unfamiliar place, not the room she had slept in before. Then, her memories of last night came back to her.

Thinking of the last moment when she was entangled in a kiss with someone in her consciousness... She sat up suddenly, her heart beating violently, got out of bed in a few steps and opened the door, almost bumping into the waiter who was about to knock on the door.

"Sir, you are awake. I was about to knock on the door to ask if you would like breakfast."

Shen Ning asked hurriedly: "Where are the people in this room?"

"That gentleman you mentioned...he's already checked out, but you can stay in this room until noon. Would you like breakfast?"

"No, thanks."

Shen Ning walked out quickly with confused eyes.

Something happened last night. July and the others must be extremely worried. She had to go back quickly to reunite with them. Last night, last night... it was Xiao Nanchen.

Although her consciousness was a little blurry at the time, her memory was clear, and Shen Ning confirmed that the man was indeed Xiao Nanchen.

She felt the scar on his leg and heard him calling her name.

Xiao Nanchen was also in Hai City. He saved him, and then...

Thinking of the pain she felt last night as if she was being burned, and how she couldn't help but lean against his cool clothes even though she knew it was wrong, Shen Ning felt a little numb in her heart.

She even remembered Xiao Nanchen feeding her the antidote!

At that time she could no longer swallow the pills, so he had to do that, just like when he had a high fever and was unconscious at the beginning, she couldn't feed him the medicine and had to feed him mouth to mouth.

It was something I had to do in a desperate situation.

But she seemed to...did she...did she...hook his tongue and then pull him...

Shen Ning stopped, covered her face and took a long breath, almost unable to hold back the urge to scream out.

What a social failure!

No wonder Xiao Nanchen left early without waiting for her to wake up.

This is so embarrassing!

He shouldn't misunderstand. She was drugged and became unconscious and unable to control herself.

Wait, now is not the time to think about this. Who on earth wanted to harm her last night...

Just when Shen Ning's mind was in a mess, Er Yue's tense and gloomy face appeared in front of her eyes.

After flying over and confirming that it was her, the boy's eyes instantly turned red.

Shen Ning sighed and comforted him: "I'm fine, let's go back first."

Er Yue pursed her lips and bowed: "Yes."

When Chen Ning reunited with Su Lianyi and Qiyue, she saw that Qiyue's eyes were red from crying. When she saw her again, the little girl rushed over, hugged her and burst into tears, apologizing while crying.

"Wow, it's all my fault. I shouldn't have watched the fun. I'm sorry. Wow, it's all my fault..."

Su Lianyi stood up with a face full of shame: "It's my fault. I didn't pay attention and someone took advantage of the opportunity to change the key..."

It turned out that before Shen Ning came back, they had already figured out what had happened.

First of all, when it was dawn in the morning, July didn't get up early as usual, which made her feel a little strange.

After knocking on the door, there was no answer from inside. Realizing something was wrong, July went straight into the inner room and found that the person lying on the bed was an unconscious inn waiter.

The steady breathing that July heard that night was that of the unconscious guy.

At this moment, July immediately became anxious and hurried to find Su Lianyi and Eryue and others who stayed on the boat. Only then did she realize that she and Shen Ning did not enter the same room at all.

When I rushed over there, I found that the room was in a mess and empty.

The inn manager was brought over, and then it was discovered that someone had knocked out the inn waiter last night and pretended to be the waiter, deliberately separating the rooms of Shen Ning and Su Lianyi.

The key in July's hand had been swapped.

Then Su Lianyi recalled that she had been bumped by someone on the Korean ship... The only time the key could have been replaced was at that moment.

The innkeeper also reported the matter to the authorities, but the person who had entered Chen Ning's room had long since disappeared, and when the officials arrived they only filed a report.

Just when everyone was at a loss, Er Yue saw Chen Ning...

"I'm fine. I was rescued last night."

Shen Ning only said that she was rescued after she realized something was wrong, but she was unable to return in time because she was unwell. In short, it was a close call and nothing happened.

It was only then that Qiyue managed to stop crying. She held onto Chen Ning's hand tightly and kept apologizing in a low voice.

“I don’t know who is causing the chaos.”

Su Lianyi gritted her teeth and said angrily, "If I see him... Oh, I still remember what the man who hit me looked like. Let's look for him here and chop him up when we find him."

Shen Ning laughed helplessly: "With so many people in such a big city, finding one person is like finding a needle in a haystack. We were careless last night. We just need to be more careful in the future."

After comforting a few people, Shen Ning asked Su Lianyi and Qiyue to deal with the sale of the remaining half of the goods, while she took Eryue to the trading office again.

After thinking it over, the only thing Shen Ning could think of that might cause her trouble was the canned food recipe.

I took it out last night but failed to sell it, which may have attracted the covetousness of some interested parties.

After all, if you get the recipe from her and then deal with her... then the canned food recipe, or the recipe for decolorizing brown sugar, will be exclusively enjoyed by the mastermind behind the scenes.

You can imagine the profits that represents.

She still trusted the security of this place too much... To be on the safe side, she had to use the recipe as soon as possible today.

In this way, it would be impossible to monopolize the recipe from her, and it would also put an end to those people's intentions.

Soon, Shen Ning arrived at the trading office again.

But as soon as she entered the trading office, she saw an extremely eye-catching purple dress.

It was the man we met when we were fighting against the pirates before.

Meeting Chen Ning's slightly surprised look, Xu Zhiyi lazily raised his finger at her as a greeting.

He didn't look like someone who was unable to walk and needed a wheelchair. Instead, he looked like he was leaning on the wheelchair on a whim, ready to stand up at any time, walk a few steps, and give someone a slap in the face.

Shen Ning also bowed to him from a distance.

After the sign selling canned recipes was put up again, someone immediately asked, "Shopkeeper Shen, can the price be negotiated?"

Before Shen Ning could reply, the follower behind the purple-robed man sitting opposite her said directly, "Twenty thousand taels, my master wants it."

Shen Ning was stunned for a moment, then met the smiling eyes of the purple-robed man.

The businessman who had just wanted to bargain was a little anxious: "There has to be a first come first served rule in this matter, right?"

Shen Ning came back to her senses and said with a smile: “You want to bargain, this young man just accepted it at the original price, so I will naturally sell it to him.”

"Then I..."

The man was about to say something when he saw the trading office manager hurried in.

Seeing the purple-robed man, the steward's forehead veins throbbed a few times, and he quickly stepped forward and bowed, "Master Xu, you are so honored to be here. I am sorry for not coming to greet you."

The purple-robed man waved his hand nonchalantly, "You're welcome, sir. I'm here to buy something, so just follow the rules."

At this time, the people around reacted.

Mr. Xu San?

In the entire Daxuan Dynasty, he was the only one who could be addressed as Master Xu San by the officials in such places as the Haishi Trading Office.

"It turns out to be Mr. Xu San. I've long heard of your name. Nice to meet you."

"Mr. Xu San has arrived..."

Those businessmen were very cunning and swarmed over to show their courtesy.

Are you kidding? With this person's status, he can't even get into the Xu family's gate even if he wants to show his courtesy on normal days. Now that he happens to meet them, how can he not kneel down and lick their ass?

What if you lick it?

Shen Ning was stunned, amazed at the speed at which these wealthy businessmen changed their expressions, and at the same time, she was extremely surprised.

Mr. Xu San.

She had heard that the son of the powerful Lord Xu was said to be extremely noble and also extremely evil and eccentric.

But these have little to do with her, and they will no longer have any contact after the silver and goods transaction.

Soon, under the notarization of the transaction office, Shen Ning handed the canned food recipe, including the recipe for making white sugar from brown sugar, to Xu Zhiyi, and took the stack of silver bills from Xu Zhiyi's follower.

Xu Zhiyi took the recipe handed over by Chen Ning, lowered his eyes and glanced at it. When he saw that yellow mud was used to turn brown sugar into white sugar, even though he was knowledgeable and used to seeing all kinds of scenes, he still couldn't help but twitch his lips slightly.

"Twenty thousand taels, that's all?"

Xu Zhiyi raised his eyebrows and looked at Chen Ning, smiling: "This is strange, it's the first time someone has taken advantage of me."

Chen Ning said seriously: "Mr. Xu, you are too serious. This is how things are in this world. Sometimes they seem simple, but the process is not easy. Moreover, there is a huge gap between knowing and not knowing."

She didn't want to have too much contact with these powerful people, but she certainly didn't want to make enemies or even bear grudges against them, so she spoke very sincerely: "Sir, you are knowledgeable and experienced, and you naturally know what kind of return this thin piece of paper will bring you. You will definitely not lose out on these 20,000 taels of silver."

Xu Zhiyi looked at her and smiled suddenly: "You are quite eloquent."

Shen Ning cupped her hands: "I dare not, this is from the bottom of my heart."

"Okay, the money and goods are settled, you can go." Xu Zhiyi casually handed the prescription worth 20,000 taels to the back, and the follower behind him hurriedly bowed and took it and put it away.

After Chen Ning delivered the recipe, she did not linger and left the trading office with Eryue to meet up with Su Lianyi and Qiyue. However, just a few steps out of the trading office, she saw Zhao Tong and several guards chasing someone.

Su Lianyi shouted from a distance: "He was the one who hit me, catch him!"