437 Surprise
Ping An followed them to the side of the boat, and a young man ran over and said, "Father, Enli has a fever again. He is hot to the touch."
Ping An naturally understood what he said.
The middle-aged man turned to him and said, "Friend, do you have any antipyretic medicine? The medicine we brought with us accidentally fell into the sea. Enli, who came with us, was already having some problems with the local climate and caught a cold. He had a fever all day yesterday. The fever finally subsided in the middle of the night, but now it's like this again."
The man spread his hands helplessly.
Ping An said, "It just so happens that I know a little bit about medicine, so I can go with you to have a look."
Several people were delighted and hurriedly embraced Ping An as they walked inside.
Enli was a blond-haired, blue-eyed young man in his twenties. He looked obviously unwell. Ping An knew without even having to diagnose him that he had caught a cold, or in modern terms, a bad cold.
He still examined him, then told the middle-aged man his diagnosis in English and asked if he could give him acupuncture?
The middle-aged man nodded frantically: "Of course, silver needle technique is a very wonderful medical skill."
He gave Ping An a thumbs up and said, "My name is Fei Ke, what's your last name?"
Ping An smiled and said, "You can call me Ping An, a safe journey."
After saying that, he took out a small wooden box from the pocket of his cotton-padded jacket, with the silver needle inside. He also took out three pills from his waist belt. It was not that he was reluctant to do so. One pill a day, three days should be enough.
Ping An inserted needles into the Enli, Hegu, Lieque, Fengchi, Dazhui and Waiguan acupoints.
While waiting for the needle to be removed, he handed the medicine to Fike and told him how to use it and what to pay attention to.
A quarter of an hour later, Ping An took out the needle and fed him a pill.
Fike asked him how much it would cost.
Ping An said, "We are destined to be together, so there is no need to talk about money. Let's go and see what you have."
"Young Master." Xiao Ming came. He just heard his young master talking to these foreigners, but he couldn't understand a word they said.
My god, what do these people look like? They look like goblins.
"Xiao Ming, you go back first. I'm helping to take care of a patient here. I'll be back in about half an hour."
Xiao Ming ran back.
"Your servant?" Fek asked.
Ping An said: "You can say he is a little guard, or a little brother."
The ship is very large, with a cabin in the middle where Enli was living just now, and two smaller cabins on both sides, equivalent to three small rooms.
The three small rooms could easily accommodate more than a dozen people, but Ping An saw that there were only six of them.
The cargo is in the room near the bow.
Ping'an saw real potatoes at first sight. There were potatoes in Da Zhou, but they were very small. The largest was only the size of an egg, and some were even three smaller than an egg. The yield was not good either, with one acre of land barely yielding 200 kilograms.
Potatoes are different. They are big in size and naturally have a high yield.
"Feike, are you bringing these potatoes here to sell as well?"
"No, no, no, I brought some for the trip. I caught a lot of fish along the way, so these are the leftovers."
"Feike, can you sell it to me? I really like eating this. I can give you silver or pearls in exchange."
Feke shook his head. "Ping An, you are our friend. We will keep a little and give you the rest."
The boy next to him immediately filled his backpack with the goods. It was completely full, with only a quarter left on the ground.
"Thank you, thank you." Ping An was extremely happy. It was God's blessing that he could get these things on this trip.
"Ping An, these are the goods we have left. They don't know the value of the goods and the price they offer is too low. I don't want to pay them because I don't have enough money to invest in them. No one wants them. They can actually be used as decorations and look very nice, but it's a pity that no one understands them."
Feke lifted the tarp to reveal what was underneath.
In a large wooden box were placed more than a dozen alarm clocks, each the size of a palm, still ticking away, with Arabic numerals written on them. Just based on this, the people of the Great Zhou Dynasty could not understand.
There are also twenty or thirty pairs of crystal reading glasses, which are so valuable that you can't even ask for them.
Then there were seven or eight telescopes and, in the corner of the box, a small cloth bag of colorful diamonds. The number was not much more than what he bought at the market, but their luster was obviously better.
"Feike, how much are these? If the price is right, I'll take them all, saving you the trouble of shipping them back and forth."
Fei Ke said, "There are twenty of these alarm clocks, five taels each. The glasses are made of top-quality crystal, not cheap stuff, at least thirty taels each. I also brought twenty-five pairs here. The telescope lenses are also made of crystal, forty taels each, eight of them. I'll give you a hundred taels for these diamonds, a total of one thousand two hundred and seventy taels. Just give me one thousand two hundred taels. You can give me silver, or pearls. We don't have these things."
Ping An thought the price was right. Although it was definitely not worth much in their local area, they had to make some profit since the goods were brought across the ocean. There was no need to bargain for such a price.
"Okay, I'll take them all at this price."
Ping'an took out a purse from his arms and put the pearls he found from the sea yesterday afternoon in the purse. He stuffed the bigger ones into his waistband and put the smaller ones into his arms.
Although it is small, it is slightly bigger than the one left by Zakui and the others in the cabin.
He took out six or seven beads from his pouch.
Feke exclaimed, "It's really beautiful, much more beautiful than the ones I got at the market. What's your price for this?"
Ping An smiled and said, "You name the price."
"Can I pour it all out and see?"
Ping An took a large bowl from the side and poured out everything in his pocket.
He counted them when he put them in, seventy-eight small ones and sixteen large ones.
He won’t take out the big ones.
"78."
Several people gathered around and said, "Wow, it's so beautiful, and the glossiness is so good."
Ping An certainly noticed that these pearls were different from the others, and he was reluctant to sell them all.
Pearls this big would cost about three or four taels each in Minzhou, and if shipped to the capital or Jiangnan, they would cost at least ten taels.
The small bag that the Marquis’s wife had given me before was thirty this big, but not as beautiful as this one.
"Ping An, I'll give you twenty taels of silver for each one. Can you sell them all to me? You know, I only spent five taels of silver on each one when I bought them at the market."
Ping An smiled and said, "Those pearls are not as good as mine. I will sell you 60 of them to pay for the 1,200 taels of goods. I can't bear to sell the rest."
Ping An counted out sixty and handed them to Fike, "You count them."
There were only eighteen pills left, which he put back into his purse and stuffed into his arms.
Fei Ke counted the beads in his hand regretfully: "Yes, the number is exactly right, Ping An, can't you sell them all to us?"
Ping An held out his hand, "Feike, I'll give you a bottle of the best antipyretic medicine for free. As for the pearls, I only have eighteen left. I have to take them back to my fiancée."
Several people looked at him.
Peace always smiles.
Fike smiled and said, "Ping An, thank you. I really can't resist this. We will be away from home for quite some time. Maybe someone will get sick. Thank you."
Fike took the bottle.
A young man came over and said that Enli's fever had subsided.
Fei Ke even held Ping An's hand and kept saying thank you.
"You're welcome, Feke. Ask your men to help me carry the box. I have to go now. My companions are waiting for me."
Fei Ke said, "I'll take you there and show you the direction."
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