"What does he look like?" Wanruo asked hurriedly.
The little girl blinked. "He has a square face, thick eyebrows, and is a little dark. He looks a little ugly, but he's a very nice person. He said I was the best boy, so he gave me some candied fruit."
Wanruo's heart, which had been hanging in her throat, finally settled down. Her palms were covered with sweat, and she weakly placed the pen on the table.
It must not be his.
"Sister Xiaowei, what's wrong with you? Are you not feeling well?" the girl asked her with her head tilted.
Wanruo's face turned pale, she pulled the corners of her lips and shook her head: "No."
She was overthinking it. Lin Han said that her body had already been buried, so he would definitely not find out. Even if he did find out, he would have come to her house and strangled her to death with his own hands.
The candied fruit wasn't something that only the chefs at Songhe Garden could make. Craftsmen all over the world passed down their skills from master to apprentice. She was just too vigilant.
She thought so, but she felt inexplicably anxious.
At the corner of the alley, a carriage was parked there. The curtains of the carriage were lifted by slender hands. The person inside the carriage had a silver crown and a silver-gray robe, which made him look as cool as jade.
He looked at the anxious look of the woman in the drugstore, his eyes cold. He thought she had forgotten everything about Songhe Garden, but it turned out that she was still afraid.
"Sir." A square-faced, thick-browed attendant stepped forward and lowered his voice. "The person who sent the gift to Lin Han said that he has already accepted it."
It was the candied fruit he had just given to the little girl. He usually worked for Xie Xianyu outside the mansion and seldom entered the inner house, so Wanruo had never seen him before.
Xie Xianyu's eyes lit up with sarcasm. "I thought it would take a lot of effort, but you're so short-sighted. Let Prefect Zhao know it's time to take action. Let's start investigating that salt merchant."
"yes."
Fu Xian clasped his fists in agreement and immediately did it.
The drugstore became busy again, with more customers coming. Wanruo's business in Shiya County over the past two months has not been without results, and now there are many old customers.
Because Wanruo's pharmacy not only sells medicines for injuries and illnesses, but also sells many health-preserving medicinal foods, tonics, and various medicine sachets for sleeping, concentration, and insect repellent. These are especially attractive to the daughters of wealthy families.
"Miss Bai, do you still have that pearl beauty cream? I bought a small bottle last time and my face has become much smoother after using it. My husband even said that I have regained my youth." Mrs. Zhang came in with a rosy face.
Wan Ruo quickly came back to her senses and said with a smile, "It just so happened that I just made some more yesterday."
Wanruo was about to get a can from the cabinet behind her and give it to her, but she immediately said, "Give it all to me!"
"This pearl cream will lose its effectiveness if left for too long. I'll get you two bottles first. You can use them first and come back next month when they're gone. I can't run away." Wanruo said with a smile.
"Oh, that's true. I was afraid they'd all been snatched up," Mrs. Zhang said, lowering her voice. "Did that little bitch, Concubine Liu, send anyone to buy them?"
Wan Ruo's eyes flickered slightly, and she smiled: "Probably not, I don't think I saw it."
Aunt Liu secretly sent someone to buy two cans last night.
Madam Zhang snorted coldly, "That's good. That little bitch only knows how to flirt with the Master all day long."
Wanruo wrapped up the two jars of pearl cream and handed them to Zhuan: "Twenty taels of silver."
Mrs. Zhang happily gave the money and took the pearl cream away.
Hiding in a corner, Qing'an couldn't help but mutter, "Two small jars the size of a palm, and twenty taels of silver? They can actually sell them for that?"
Xie Xianyu said coldly, "Rich people's money is easy to make, how could she be soft-hearted?"
In the small shop, Wanruo was still busy packing things, because she had to deliver tonics and medicinal foods to several families. She packed them one by one and asked Suyue to deliver them.
Just as I finished, two more simply dressed couples came in panicking, holding their children. "Doctor Bai, my child has had a high fever all night and suddenly started convulsing today! Please save him quickly!"
"Give me the child!"
Wanruo immediately laid the child on his side on the crib, opened his mouth to clean out the foreign object, then took a pill and stuffed it into his mouth, forcing him to swallow it.
After a while, the child finally calmed down and lay weakly on the bed. The woman quickly hugged the child in her arms and burst into tears: "I was so scared! I thought you were going to die!"
"Thank you, Dr. Bai! Thank you, Dr. Bai!" the man thanked him repeatedly.
Wanruo wiped the sweat from her forehead and said, "We can't keep delaying the child's high fever. If this happens again, we must send him here immediately. Any later will be really dangerous."
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