Finally, the man stopped a few steps away from their table.
He raised his hawk-like eyes, looked at them indifferently, and said in a stiff tone,
"Is she your wife?"
"I heard she was seriously ill?"
These words were spoken to the man next to Chen Ningzhu.
The man was a great actor and immediately got into the role when he saw this.
He looked at Jiang Xuanyan without saying a word, but his eyes instantly turned blood red and filled with grief, as if he was enduring the greatest pain in the world.
"Bang——"
Jiang Xuanyan didn't wait for his reply, but took out a small porcelain bottle from his arms and said coldly,
"Here, my young master, I have an excellent life-extending elixir, worth three thousand gold. Would you like to buy it?"
Under the veil, Chen Ningzhu secretly rolled her eyes. What kind of pills are so expensive? I'm afraid they are trying to extort money?
Besides, her Xiaoyi is a miracle doctor, who wants his broken pills?
Unexpectedly, the actor next to him agreed without even thinking about it and was ecstatic.
He immediately took out all the silver notes on him, and also took all the silver notes from his "brother", and finally collected 30,000 taels of silver notes and handed them to Jiang Xuanyan.
By the way, he took the pill from Jiang Xuanyan and quickly handed it to Shen Ningzhu.
"My lady, eat quickly. You will survive if you eat it."
Shen Ningzhu: ...
Jiang Xuanyan looked at the thick stack of banknotes in his hand and said with a half-smile, "I'm just a stranger, and you trust me so much?"
The actor smiled bitterly.
"To be honest, my wife's health is probably... Now, we can only try our best to save her."
Jiang Xuanyan looked at the sadness in the other person's eyes, frowned, turned around and left, and walked onto the boat in a few steps.
Behind him, Jiang Yiyi said with a painful look on his face,
"Master, why did you just give such precious medicine to a stranger?"
Jiang Xuanyan just glanced at him indifferently and ignored him.
They chartered the boat, so as soon as they got on, the boat set sail.
Shen Ningzhu and his group finally breathed a sigh of relief, only to find that several of them had been paralyzed by fear.
After taking a breath, Shen Ningzhu complained,
"What a lousy pill! How dare you cheat us out of thirty thousand taels? Xiaoyi, let me show you if it's worth it."
The man who just played her husband whispered,
“Miss Shen, that person just now was openly selling medicine to us, but in fact he was trying to test us.
I think we just arrived at the inn when we came to the ferry and ran into them."
"Two consecutive coincidences made him suspicious."
Shen Ningzhu was frightened and broke out in a cold sweat.
Only then did she realize that the skirt she was wearing was made of Shu brocade given to her by Song Hanchuan, while the one Liu Zhiyi was wearing was made of Fuguang brocade, which was only available in the palace.
In order to match them, the two actors wore clothes made of very expensive materials.
Jiang Xuanyan must have noticed that they were dressed well and knew they could afford the money, so he deliberately asked for so much.
Moreover, they had just shown such deep affection and loyalty that they would have agreed immediately upon hearing about the life-extending medicine. But if one thinks about it, it is clear that either the illness or the affection is fake.
So just now, if the man hadn't reacted quickly enough, they might have been exposed?
This dog prince is really scheming.
Liu Zhiyi took the pill and smelled it, and said with surprise,
"Wow, thousand-year-old snow lotus, ten-thousand-year-old Ganoderma lucidum, thousand-year-old Polygonum multiflorum... This pill is made with over a hundred kinds of priceless medicinal herbs, using a special method.
I'm afraid there's no other pill like this in the world.
Its value is no longer something that can be bought with money.
The Dog Prince is very generous.
If it was just for testing, there would be no need to bring out such a good thing, right?"
Everyone: ...
Liu Zhiyi had a complicated expression and looked at Chen Ningzhu meaningfully, which made Chen Ningzhu shiver all over.
"You...why are you looking at me? What's that look? It's creepy."
Suddenly, Shen Ningzhu's pupils widened.
"You...you're not saying we've been recognized, are you? That's not right. If they really recognized us, they would know we're healthy. Why would we need a pill like this?"
Liu Zhiyi shook his head uncertainly.
"Maybe he recognized you and gave you this pill on purpose, hoping to save your life at the critical moment. Or maybe I'm overthinking it."
The man who played Chen Ningzhu's husband speculated. "Perhaps, he was moved by the affection we portrayed as a couple?"
Liu Zhiyi covered her lips and smiled.
"If that's the case, then he's quite nice."
Shen Ningzhu rolled her eyes at her fiercely, "What a hammer, I don't believe he would be so kind, and besides, have you forgotten how he hurt you?"
"You really have no memory. You actually speak up for him."
"Let's go, the boat is here, we need to hurry and stop talking about that scumbag. It's bad luck."
Liu Zhiyi quickly grabbed her.
"Oh, come on, he's already left. Why don't we rest for a few days before leaving?"
The head of Shen Ningzhu shook like a rattle,
"No, no, no, I just saw that bastard prince. My heart is beating like it's having a heart attack. It's pounding and pounding. I'm really panicking."
"Still resting? I wish I could grow wings and fly to the ends of the earth. Only when I'm far away can I feel at peace."
"Let's get on the boat and get as far away from him as possible."
"As for my health, it's okay. I'll just have to endure it for two or three days and we'll reach our destination."
Liu Zhiyi curled the corner of his mouth and said no more.
Without further delay, they headed south and three days later, they arrived at a small town in the south of the Yangtze River.
Song Hanchuan prepared several houses here for the two to choose from.
The first one is a large house with five courtyards, rockery corridors, winding streams, lotus ponds and gardens, and carved beams and painted buildings.
The two girlfriends agreed that the place was too big and they would never use it, so they went to look at the next house.
The remaining units were of varying sizes, all with good layouts and located in bustling areas, but the couple felt they were not quiet enough.
The people from Song Hanchuan's faction smiled and said that they would definitely be satisfied with the next set of instructions.
The two of them followed to see it, half believing and half doubting.
Unexpectedly, the carriage actually left the city and stopped at a farm a quarter of an hour after leaving the county town.
"Ladies, this is what the master has carefully prepared for you. Please go in and take a look."
The two went in without thinking much, but they didn't expect that as soon as they looked up, they were immediately attracted.
This house is an ordinary quadrangle courtyard with seven rooms in total. Each room is spacious and clean with excellent lighting.
The yard is very large, and the house only takes up one tenth of it. In the backyard, there are large areas of vegetables, fruits, and a few small plots of land where rare medicinal herbs are grown.
The front yard is paved with smooth bluestone, and there is space on both sides for planting dozens of fruit trees.
The most eye-catching thing among them is the small piece of cherry.
This is the season when cherries are ripe.
Under the emerald green leaves, the juicy and beautiful cherries are looming, red, yellow and green, in clusters and bunches, sparkling with alluring light in the sun.
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