Chapter 252 Sharing the Prescription
Perhaps time can heal all wounds, but at least for now, Xie Wanniang still can't convince herself to truly be without resentment.
It's like a fine piece of jade. Once you break it, even if you glue it back together, you'll still find yourself thinking about the cracks whenever you look at it again.
Xie Wanniang didn't want to wrong herself, so she wouldn't pretend that she didn't care at all.
After returning to Zijing Pass with Jiang Yuan, she smiled and sent Jiang Yuan to work in the military camp.
Seeing that she seemed more relaxed than when Xie Jingshu was there, Jiang Yuan didn't say much. He hugged her, said "I'll be back as soon as possible tonight," and rode off with a group of people to the military camp.
After she left, Haitang, wanting to cheer Xie Wanniang up, specially asked the kitchen to send over all sorts of fresh fruits and pastries that Xie Wanniang liked.
The fresh fruit was soaked in well water beforehand, making it not only sweet and sour but also refreshingly cool with every bite, which Xie Wanniang particularly loved.
Although Xie Wanniang used to like all the pastries, she is now only interested in hawthorn cake and jujube cake.
She showed little interest in other snacks such as jujube paste cake and walnut shortbread.
"Take these and eat them." Xie Wanniang kept some for herself and distributed most of the remaining fresh fruit and pastries.
Haitang was already used to Xie Wanniang always taking care of their meals. She gave a loud reply and carried the tray to find Xiaoyang, Xiaomei, and the others.
It is worth mentioning that Atai has now joined the army. However, since he is currently just an ordinary guard by Jiang Yuan's side, he will not be sent out to do certain tasks alone. So, whenever Jiang Yuan comes back, he will come back with him.
Even so, Xiaomei has been quite worried lately.
She really wanted to learn from Xie Wanniang and try her best to be like her. Even if she was worried about someone in the military camp, she would still do what she was supposed to do. But unfortunately, she didn't have Xie Wanniang's strong self-control and emotional regulation ability yet.
Xie Wanniang didn't have any good solutions to this, after all, a person's temperament and ability to endure cannot be completely changed by a few words from others.
Even when Xiaomei asked her for help, all she could say to Xiaomei was, "You'll get used to it over time."
To be precise, Xiaomei gradually got used to it after enduring the torment.
After all, this girl wasn't just finding out that her brother was going to do this kind of work. In fact, she had even started learning medicine from her several years in advance so that she could treat her brother in time.
Based on her temperament alone, Xie Wanniang believed that she could gradually adapt.
It was already the height of summer. Xie Wanniang was heavily pregnant and also found the heat outside unbearable. So after Xie Jingshu left, she stayed home to rest and rarely went out.
Of course, Xie Wanniang did not temporarily put aside or pass on her business affairs to others. Although she stayed at home, she never stopped sending letters to the outside world.
Besides, others who learned of her pregnancy later, such as the Xie family women including Madam Hu, as well as the Lady of the Marquis, Chang Yuan, and the Lady of the Heir Apparent, also sent a lot of things over.
There were small clothes and tiger-head shoes prepared for the children, as well as bird's nest to nourish Xie Wanniang's body, peace locks, peace plaques, fine cotton cloth, and soft, simple silks and satins suitable for making undergarments and children's clothes.
Of course, they also brought some local specialties, seasonal fresh fruits, rice, flour, oil, meat, chicken, duck, fish, eggs, various dried goods, wine, and tea.
Xie Wanniang received so many gifts that she was overwhelmed, and writing replies and preparing return gifts made her even busier.
Fortunately, there has been no fighting on the border recently, so Jiang Yuan has a lot of free time to help her with these trivial matters. Haitang, Xiaoyang, and the others are all very capable.
She lived her life in this way, sometimes busy and sometimes idle. During this time, Xie Wanniang not only reached a cooperation agreement with the Lady of the Marquis on wine, but also made a fortune from the pills and powders that she put in the herbal medicine shop.
Because they are convenient to use, her pills and powders are very popular with customers.
Especially for those who travel north and south to trade goods, even if they get sick along the way, they often have nowhere to seek medical treatment. Or even if they do find a place to seek medical treatment, they are likely to end up with an incompetent doctor because they are unfamiliar with the area. They spend money, but their condition is also delayed.
With the pills and powders sold at Xie Wanniang's shop, which were labeled with their uses and contraindications, they could use medicine on their own for minor ailments such as diarrhea, headaches, insect bites, and minor wounds.
Besides them, the military doctor in charge of procurement at the military camp was also very interested in Xie Wanniang's pills and powders. However, in order to reduce costs, they did not purchase the finished products directly from Xie Wanniang's shop. Instead, they wanted to spend a sum of money to buy the right to use some of Xie Wanniang's prescriptions.
When Chang Yao heard from the military doctors that Xie Wanniang's prescription was more effective than any prescription they had ever seen before, and that they wanted to buy it and promote it widely in the military camp, his first reaction was to shake his head and deny it.
It wasn't that he didn't want the soldiers to use better external wound medicine, but rather that anyone who had a prescription would treat it as a closely guarded secret.
However, the military doctors kept coming to him, not only bringing up the banner of "all of this is for the soldiers in the army", but also taking turns to put on a series of acts such as earnestly persuading him, playing the victim with red eyes, blocking him to give him bad advice, and throwing a tantrum in public.
In the end, some people even said outrageous things like, "You should agree to whatever she asks for, and you must buy back the right to use the formula no matter what."
Chang Yao was so annoyed by their persistent pestering that he had no choice but to tentatively ask Jiang Yuan to pass on a message to Xie Wanniang.
Xie Wanniang didn't guard the prescription as tightly as Chang Yao had expected. She not only agreed to give up the right to use the prescription, but also didn't set any conditions because the only medicine powders they wanted to buy were the two that had the effects of stopping bleeding, astringing, reducing inflammation and relieving pain.
She didn't want money or make any other requests. The prescription was written down by her and then handed over by Jiang Yuan to Chang Yao, the garrison commander of Zijing Pass.
She also said that she would have no objection if Chang Yao wanted to present these two prescriptions to the emperor or to promote their application in other military camps in Baoding Prefecture.
Although Chang Yao was very happy that she was so generous, he wasn't shameless enough to actually take her things for free.
As before, Chang Yao made a copy of the prescription and had it sent back to the Marquis's residence along with a handwritten letter to his mother, the Marquis's wife.
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