Chapter 2170: White
None of them have reached adulthood yet, so they are still growing. Liu Huan is okay, he should have grown enough, but both Yin Huo, the oldest, and Man Bao, the youngest, have grown a little during this period.
Manbao ate his noodles while saying, "I've summarized it. First, we're still young and we're all in the growth stage, especially the three of us. Yin Huo didn't grow much before because he was sick, but now that he's feeling better, he's starting to grow as well."
"The second reason is that we have been eating a lot of meat recently." When they go out, they rarely find people to buy vegetables on the grassland except for wild vegetables, so they mostly eat meat.
Sometimes, in order to facilitate digestion, they would drink broth. That is to say, they were the only ones who could eat wild vegetables cooked in broth, while the guards could not even eat wild vegetables.
"Three is because we move around every day and get some sun."
Bai Shan: "What does this have to do with sunbathing?"
"Of course it does. Flowers and plants need sunlight to grow taller, and so do people."
Bai Shan: "...We are just like flowers and plants?"
Manbao nodded: "The growth of all things in the world depends on light, it's just a matter of more or less light, bright or dark."
Bai Shan became thoughtful.
Manbao asked, "Have you sold the prescription?"
Bai Shan looked at her deeply, then took out a purse from his sleeve pocket and gave it to her, "It's sold."
Manbao widened his eyes in surprise and immediately opened his purse and poured it out. There were three silver ingots inside, two weighing two taels and one weighing one tael.
Manbao was stunned. "Did you really sell it?"
Bai Shan stared at her and asked, "Surprised?"
Manbao felt guilty and said embarrassedly: "I think you are too confident, so I thought it would be a good idea for you to give it a try."
"Then why don't you come in with me?" I was originally thinking that maybe it was because she came to the pharmacy the day before yesterday and bought a lot of medicinal herbs, so it would be inconvenient to go in and sell the house, but who knows...
When he entered and asked about medicinal wine, the shopkeeper hinted that their shop didn't sell medicinal wine. He had originally thought that they didn't have a recipe, but fortunately his intuition was wrong at the time, so he asked a few more questions...
Man Bao said, "Medicinal wine is still wine. It's fine to brew it at home, but drugstores have to report to the government office if they sell it. That's fine, but brewing medicinal wine takes a certain amount of time, and the selection of medicinal materials is also very strict. Most of us doctors brew it for our own use, or give it to friends and relatives. Patients in need can also use it in drugstores, but it's difficult to buy it back home."
"Firstly, the quality of medicinal wine is difficult to control. Even if it's the same batch, the medicinal effects can vary due to differences in the medicinal ingredients. Secondly, the medicinal ingredients used in the brewing process are toxic. If the preparation is not done properly, toxins will be produced. For doctors and pharmacies, if something cannot be guaranteed to be safe, it will not leave the pharmacy."
Because Bai Shan was one of them, Man Bao said bluntly, "Who knows if the medicinal wine sold will be added with something else? That's really hard to explain."
"If there's a problem with a decoction or ointment, we can find out where the problem lies. For the former, we can check the residue, and for the latter, the quality of the same batch is the same. Furthermore, ointments can't be used up all at once, so if someone has added something to it, we can probably find out."
Medicinal wine is different. It is made from medicinal materials soaked with aconite. If the customer adds aconite that is not processed cleanly after buying it, and then takes it out after soaking it for a period of time, the good medicinal wine will become poisonous. Who can the pharmacy complain to?
Therefore, currently, patients can only use things like medicinal wine in pharmacies, and pharmacies usually do not sell them to the outside.
"There are exceptions," Manbao said, "For example, if I go to see someone I trust, and I feel that medicinal wine would be more useful, I will prescribe it for them, and then I will make it myself and sell it to them."
Bai Shan asked, "But the hands of the pharmacy?"
"It depends. If I'm the one who's treating the patient, it won't go through Jishidiang, but if Zheng Da, the shopkeeper, is the one who's treating the patient, it might go through the pharmacy. It's not certain," she said. "Medicinal wine has too many variables, and pharmacies generally won't compete with doctors for such a small profit."
That's why she was surprised that Bai Shan was able to sell it, and for as much as five taels.
Manbao couldn't help but touch the silver ingot again and grinned, "Are they all mine?"
As Bai Shan's noodles arrived, he took a two-liang silver ingot from her hand and put it in his own purse. "Sixty-four, you take six and I take four."
Manbao had no objection, mainly because she never thought that the pharmacy would really buy this prescription, and besides, this prescription was copied from the Imperial Medical Bureau.
Manbao was very curious, "How did you sell it?"
Bai Shan said calmly, "Nothing much. I was just a little disappointed to hear they don't have any medicinal wine here. I said our group is going to the Western Regions and might not be back until winter. We didn't expect the north to be so bitterly cold, so we wanted to buy some medicinal wine to keep warm. Since the pharmacy doesn't have any medicinal wine, I wonder if they have any spicier drinks. We bought some herbs and made our own."
Manbao became interested and immediately asked, "And then?"
"Then we started chatting," Bai Shan glanced at her and said, "Liangzhou isn't very big. Because of the smallpox outbreak in Xiazhou, not many people have been coming to Liangzhou from the south and east lately. Our group is very conspicuous. Besides, we've been buying things these past two days, visiting the Great Wall, and visiting the Governor's Mansion. The owner of the pharmacy knows me."
Bai Shan remembered something and smiled slightly, saying, "Of course I know you too."
Manbao was stunned. He said, "Knowing that this recipe came from you, he paid five taels of silver to buy it. He also promised to make two jars of medicinal wine for us for free. Now start preparing the herbs and wine. It should be delivered to the post station before dark."
Manbao blinked, "Am I that famous?"
Bai Shan said, "I heard that after we left yesterday, the governor's mansion invited a doctor to come to the mansion to look at prescriptions and ask about acupuncture. Their family doctor also went."
So when Zhou Man and the others went to the pharmacy to buy herbs the day before yesterday, they might not have known who she was, but they should have known after yesterday.
Manbao pondered for a moment and then felt pleased with himself, "I'm so amazing!"
Bai Shan nodded, "Yes, it is very famous."
The two of them were busy eating noodles while discussing, "I've seen that there are two medicine shops in Liangzhou. Should we go to the other one as well?"
Bai Shan didn't have any objection. Five taels of silver was not a small amount, enough for them to buy a lot of things.
Daji said, "Master, it's getting late. We should go back and pack our bags."
Bai Shan and Man Bao could only express their regret.
The two of them ate a bowl of noodles and returned. Bai Erlang and his men were packing their bags. Seeing them, they said, "The master asked us to pack our luggage again so it will be more convenient for us to take things later. We bought a lot this morning, and we need to sort out the old stuff too... Hey, why do you smell like mutton soup?"
The noodles they ate just now were cooked in mutton soup.
Manbao and the others were surprised. "We walked back and were blown by the wind all the way. How could you still smell it?"
See you tomorrow
(End of this chapter)
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