The roads in Chu Family Village are all muddy. Once the snow melts, the roads become muddy. Chu Qiuyue went out this morning and stepped into the mud, which dirtied the embroidered shoes she had taken back from the wealthy man's mansion.
This made Chu Qiuyue extremely disgusted.
"Cough cough cough!" Chu Yuning coughed repeatedly in anger at Chu Qiuyue's words. Did he not want to return to Jian'an City?
But he can't go back now!
He swindled some money from the girls at Zuichunlou. If he returns to Jian'an City and the girls at Zuicunlou find out, they will definitely force him to pay back the money.
This money is his capital for making a comeback; he absolutely cannot return it to those girls.
Chu Yuning said irritably, "After so many days of snow, the roads into the city have been blocked for a long time. How are we supposed to get into the city?"
“We could have stayed in the city, but you insisted on coming back, brother…” Chu Qiuyue muttered softly, but when she looked up, she saw that Chu Yuning’s face was already as black as the bottom of a pot, so she quickly stopped talking.
After a moment of silence, Chu Qiuyue asked cautiously, "Where are we going to sleep tonight? The house has collapsed!"
"I'll make do at the ancestral hall for the night, and then I'll ask the clan chief to borrow a room when it's light tomorrow."
Chu Yuning pulled her bundle and quilt from the ruins and asked Chu Qiuyue to follow her to the ancestral hall.
The Chu Family Ancestral Hall is built halfway up the mountain. After the snow, the mountain path is deep and shallow, making it particularly difficult to walk.
Chu Qiuyue's injuries hadn't healed yet, and she was out of breath after only a few steps. With a mournful face, she followed behind Chu Yuning, her hatred for Shen Yuan growing even stronger.
Shen Yuan stabbed her in the back, causing the death of her only sister and sending her aunt to prison. Each and every one of these acts was an irreconcilable enmity.
Shen Yuan caused her to fall to this state, and she will never let it go!
Thinking of this, Chu Qiuyue clenched her fists so tightly they cracked, her chest filled with anger, as if a huge stone was pressing on her heart, making her cough violently.
"Cough cough cough! Cough cough cough!"
Seeing that Granny Liu's cough was getting worse every day, Shen Yuan was very worried.
She brought over the herbal medicine and patted Liu Mama's back: "Grandma, are you feeling better?"
Granny Liu took the medicine and drank it all in one gulp. The weather had been particularly cold these past few days since the snow melted, and she had caught a chill. She had been sick for several days and had drunk several bowls of medicine without getting better.
After catching her breath, Granny Liu said in a hoarse voice, "I've been sick before, but I could just take a couple of packets of medicine and get better on my own. But now, even after taking medicine for so many days, I'm not getting better. I guess I'm getting old, and my body isn't as strong as it used to be!"
"No, Grandma is just as healthy as ever, she walks with a brisk pace!"
Shen Yuan used a handkerchief to wipe the medicine stains from the corner of Liu Mama's mouth. Although Liu Mama had been sick for a long time, fortunately it was just a common cold, not the kind of terrible disease that Shen Yuan was worried about.
Shen Yuan smiled and comforted her, "The weather this year is much colder than usual, so Grandma won't recover from her cold so quickly. She'll get better once the weather warms up after the New Year!"
"The weather this year is really strange. After the snow stopped, the sky never cleared up. I haven't seen the sun for almost half a month. People are more likely to get sick if they don't get any sun!" Granny Liu sighed.
Shen Yuan felt that what Granny Liu said made a lot of sense.
This month it's been either snowing or cloudy, the sky has been gray for half a month, how can people not get sick?
After Granny Liu rested, Shen Yuan prepared several doses of medicine according to the prescription given to her by Physician Jiang.
"Deliver these packets of medicine to Master Wang's house, and deliver these packets to Prefect Jiang's house." Shen Yuan handed the prepared medicine packets to the helper and asked him to deliver them.
"What about me? Me, me, me!" Sweetie stretched out her two little hands, eagerly waiting for Chen Yuan to assign her a task.
Shen Yuan handed the remaining medicine packets to Tian Tian and rubbed her forehead: "These are for Sister Haitang. Go to the other side and tell them to decoct one packet a day and distribute it to everyone until all the medicine I gave them is used up."
"Alright!"
Sweetie ran out excitedly, carrying the medicine bag.
Watching her retreating figure, Shen Yuan shook her head and chuckled.
Xiao Ling leaned against the door, his gaze slowly shifting from Shen Yuan's face to the outside. The pharmacy was not far from Shen Yuan's newly rented shop. Tian Tian took three steps at a time and ran into the shop across the street in the blink of an eye.
When she opened her eyes again, Sweetie, the happy little swallow, had run back from the pharmacy across the street.
Seeing Xiao Ling standing at the entrance of the pharmacy, she looked up at him and asked, "Big brother, what are you doing standing here? Are you watching the pedestrians on the street? You're so tall, is the view you see different from what Tian Tian sees?"
Hearing Tian Tian's chattering, Xiao Ling was surprisingly not impatient. He bent down, lifted Tian Tian by the collar, and hoisted her into the air.
Sweetie exclaimed in surprise, grabbing Xiao Ling's arm tightly in fright. After seeing the scene in mid-air clearly, Sweetie blinked twice: "Wow! So this is the scenery that big brother can see!"
"So many dark heads, like lumps of coal!"
"I feel like the wind up here is different from the wind down here. The wind up here smells so fresh!"
Sweetie flapped her two thin, short legs and spread her arms, like a little bird flying in the sky.
Looking at Tian Tian, who was breathing in fresh air with her eyes closed and cheeks puffed out, Xiao Ling suddenly became lost in thought.
"Be careful, don't fall!"
Shen Yuan walked up to Xiao Ling and took Tian Tian from his hands.
Xiao Ling snapped out of her daze and put her hands behind her back.
Sweetie slid off Shen Yuan's arms and onto the ground. After standing up, she straightened her clothes and looked at Shen Yuan obediently.
The helper who had just delivered the medicine happened to be returning.
Shen Yuan said to the two of them, "The medicine in the pharmacy is running out of herbs, and I will be going out of the city tomorrow. The prescription that Doctor Jiang gave me is called Four Seasons Detoxifying Decoction. I have prepared 120 doses of the medicine according to the prescription. If anyone comes into the shop in the next few days, you can recommend this medicine to the customers. This medicine can prevent colds. If someone in your family is sick, taking this medicine for a few days can also prevent the spread of the disease!"
"good!"
Sweetie and the helper nodded in unison.
The next day, as soon as the snow on the road melted, Shen Yuan rented a carriage and took Xiao Ling out.
A few days ago, heavy snow blocked the roads, preventing the transport of medicinal herbs from the village and town into the city. The pharmacy is now in dire need of several herbs that are key to treating the epidemic. Shen Yuan remembered that in her previous life, right after the New Year, a severe plague broke out in Jian'an City, killing many people.
However, because the governor of Jian'an City acted decisively to seal off the city gates, the plague was contained within Jian'an City and did not spread to other cities.
The dead were only residents of Jian'an City.
But now that Shen Yuan is in Jian'an City, she wants to save the people of Jian'an City, so she plans to purchase a batch of medicinal materials to treat the epidemic from several nearby towns.
The first city Shen Yuan visited was Jinling City, because Jinling City was the closest to Jian'an City.
Shen Yuan unexpectedly encountered Li Luoxue, whom she and Xiao Ling had previously rescued, in Jinling City. The Li family were well-known wealthy merchants in Jinling City. Upon hearing that Shen Yuan needed medicinal herbs, they took the initiative to contact the Jinling City Chamber of Commerce and arranged for a truckload of the medicinal herbs that Shen Yuan needed.
Shen Yuan pulled the cart of medicinal herbs and rushed towards Jian'an City without stopping.
In order to return to Jian'an City as soon as possible, Shen Yuan took a shortcut, and Chu Family Village was on this route.
She did not enter the village, but drove her horse-drawn carriage through the main road outside Chu Family Village.
But from a great distance, Shen Yuan could see the flames spreading across the sky above Chu Family Village.
The firelight enveloped the entire village, like a ferocious beast unleashed from hell, its gaping maw ready to devour all living beings in the world.
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