Because of some delays on the road, they could have reached the next city before sunset in the evening, but now they arrived at dusk.
Li Nian said to the driver, "Brother, you are familiar with this place. Could you please guide us and stop directly in front of the pharmacy?"
The driver replied, "Of course." He sighed and said, "Both girls are kind-hearted people."
After hearing what he said, Li Nian did not comment or respond.
The city streets were already very deserted at this time, and the coachman stopped his carriage in front of the "Baishantang" pharmacy.
He jumped off the carriage first and asked a little medicine boy from the pharmacy to help carry Sima Shaoyu, who was not very conscious, into the pharmacy.
"Master, a patient is here--" the little medicine boy shouted towards the backyard.
The drugstore was not very big. There were a few chairs and a wooden bed inside. There was a curtain hanging from the ceiling around the bed.
The coachman and the medicine boy worked together to lay Sima Shaoyu flat on the wooden bed.
The moment his back touched the wooden board, Sima Shaoyu frowned and let out a muffled groan.
Li Nian reminded him, "He also has a wound on his back."
At this time, a doctor in his forties came out from the back and ordered, "Xiaoshu, go light the lamp."
The little medicine boy responded, lit the lamp, brought it over and placed it on the table next to him, then went to get the medicine box.
The driver said, "Since the person is already at the pharmacy, I will go back and report."
"Okay, big brother, take care on your journey." Li Sisi greeted the driver and looked away when she saw him walk out of the pharmacy.
The doctor is already taking my pulse.
After a long while, he spoke with a serious expression: "This young master has been suffering from an old illness, and now he has been injured again. He needs a long period of recuperation."
He looked at Li Sisi and said, "Are you in a hurry to get going? If he rests for two days, he can probably keep going for two days. Otherwise, it's easy for something to go wrong along the way!"
Li Nian continued, "He's not in a hurry to leave. You can treat him first. It's okay."
The doctor looked at Li Nian in surprise. One of the two girls in front of him was tall and had a generous smile on her face, while the other was petite and looked well-behaved and obedient.
So he was asking about the tall girl, but he didn't expect that the petite girl would be the one in charge of the two?
Li Nian smiled lightly: "I am the elder sister."
The doctor understood what he said and turned to face Li Nian and said, "If we want to cure an injury like his, it will not only require long-term recuperation, but also the use of precious medicinal herbs."
Li Nian understood what the doctor meant, walked to Sima Shaoyu, and put his hand around his waist.
The other people's eyebrows jumped when they saw this.
Li Sisi asked in confusion: "Niannian, what are you doing?"
"Change?" Li Nian answered naturally, and his hand happened to touch something hard.
He was just about to take something out of Sima Shaoyu's waistband.
Sima Shaoyu, who was originally asleep, woke up instantly and grabbed her hand with his big hand so hard that Li Nian felt a little pain in her whole hand.
She took a breath and was about to speak when she heard Sima Shaoyu's hoarse voice: "Miss, this is not allowed!"
"Let go!" Li Nian said coldly.
"Miss, I can give you other rewards, but this one won't work," Sima Shaoyu insisted.
Li Nian pulled her hand back forcefully, her delicate face filled with indifference. "I don't need anything in return. Now that you're awake, you can pay for the consultation and the herbs yourself. We'll be leaving first."
Sima Shaoyu was stunned for a moment before he could clearly see the environment he was in.
We actually got to the pharmacy?
Li Nian raised her eyes and looked at Li Sisi: "The person has been delivered. We have done our best. Let's go!"
"Girls, wait a moment!" Sima Shaoyu propped himself up and sat up from the wooden bed, an embarrassed expression on his wheat-colored face. "I don't have any money, can you two ladies..."
"No," Li Nian refused without a second thought. "We sent you to the pharmacy halfway because we're all human beings and shouldn't be too heartless. But you still want us to pay for your medicine. That's too much."
Li Sisi asked, "Don't you have any money on you?"
Sima Shaoyu said awkwardly, "I'm penniless."
Upon hearing this, the little medicine boy immediately said, "How can you treat illnesses without money? We run a pharmacy, not a charity." He looked at Li Nian and Li Sisi, "Since you two girls brought him here, please take him away. It's getting late, and we have to close soon."
Li Sisi looked at the doctor and said, "How about you keep him as a laborer? Let him help you pay off your debts?"
The little medicine boy stared at him, "What a joke! My master has no shortage of apprentices. How can you ask him to steal my skills to help him heal his injuries? You're dreaming!"
Li Sisi didn't expect that this idea would be rejected on the spot. It seems that the plots in TV and novels are not credible!
She looked at Sima Shaoyu and said helplessly, "Master, there's nothing we can do. We have no relatives or friends with you, and we can't spend money to treat your illness, right?"
The little medicine boy's face was full of impatience: "Hurry up, hurry up, you are wasting my master's rest time."
Sima Shaoyu frowned, not caring about the situation at hand. He pulled out a flawless jade pendant from his waist and said to Li Sisi, "Miss, this is a relic of my mother's. I'm giving it to you as a pledge. Please pay the medical fee for me first. I will redeem it in return for ten times the price in the future."
Li Sisi took the jade pendant, which was pure white and transparent, without a trace of other colors.
She handed the jade pendant to Li Nian: "You are more familiar with this kind of thing, take a look."
Li Nian took the jade pendant and brought it closer to the fire to examine it carefully.
"It looks just so-so. What is this jade made of?" She frowned and asked Sima Shaoyu. She was not very familiar with the price of jade in this world. The only jade she had come across was an ordinary piece of green jade in the dowry, which was of average price.
Sima Shaoyu's eagle eyes flashed with an elusive emotion, and he replied in a muffled voice, "Fine Putian jade."
Li Nian knew about Putian. It was said to be located in the northwestern enemy country, within the territory of Xiyuan.
Because it was an enemy country, the other introductions recorded in the book are not very complete. We only know that Putian jade, whether from Xiyuan or Anyang, is a very valuable variety.
Moreover, she had just touched the jade and originally wanted to take it out to pay the medical fee, but the unconscious person woke up immediately when he found out that she was going to take the jade.
This shows that this piece of jade is very precious to him.
Li Nian handed the jade to the doctor and asked, "Take a look. Is this jade enough to cover the consultation fee and medicine costs?"
She didn't want to take on this hot potato. After all, in novels, if you saved someone and then accepted their things, there would definitely be entanglements in the future.
It was obvious that this man was not an ordinary person, and she didn't want to get into trouble with him.
"Girl, stop joking. If you want to be treated, then pay. If you don't want to pay, then get out."
Li Nian didn't expect the doctor to be so smart? He also knew that this thing couldn't be accepted?
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