While secretly pleased that her wish had been fulfilled, Jia Xitong carefully calculated the money that Shang Yanting still had left.
The materials for making the talisman cost 200 taels of silver, and sending them for processing cost another 15 taels. Adding the 500 taels of silver spent yesterday, all that money was gone in an instant.
Shang Yanting now only has 1 tael and 450 coins left.
"Dear host, you've given me all the money to buy materials, what about your legs?"
We don't have enough money to buy the medicinal herbs.
"This money isn't enough even if we don't use it."
Shang Yanting glanced at his wrist; the scab hadn't fallen off yet.
It will be difficult to cure his hands and feet.
Aside from the five thousand taels of silver for treatment that Xie Qingxian mentioned, the real bulk of the expense was in the three medicinal herbs.
The medicines he prescribed were all expensive and scarce.
Not only that, the miracle doctor even specified where to buy it.
The inside story between the two is very easy to understand: it's simply a collaboration between the two parties. The divine doctor prescribes the medicine, and Wanbaoge collects it and takes the opportunity to raise the price.
Each medicinal herb originally cost as much as a thousand taels of silver, and at Wanbaoge's auction, the price would at least double.
"According to Xie Qingxian's prices, it would cost 20,000 taels of silver to cure my leg."
Twenty thousand taels of silver.
Even among the eight great families, that's a considerable sum.
Shang Yanting knew that he couldn't raise the money in a short time, so he was already thinking of other ways.
Jia Xitong also started secretly calculating.
Twenty thousand taels of silver would require 134 talismans to convert.
The particularly lucrative middleman gradually developed the idea of providing large loans, and considering the host's kind-hearted relative, she was willing to lower the interest rate a bit.
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