Chapter 89 Being Scared
Not long after, Shi Taishou hurried back with a silver note.
"Miss Chen, this is a hundred taels of silver. Please keep it. My master's chronic illness is in your hands."
Chen Qingqing smiled softly and took the banknote. "Don't worry, Steward Shi. Since I have accepted the money from the Fan family, I will do my best to cure Mr. Fan. If I cannot relieve his pain, I will return the money to you in the same way I got it."
Seeing her so confident, Fan Tong finally felt at ease. "In that case, Miss Chen, go find the medicine!"
Looking for medicine, does she still need to look for medicine?
It's just a few lice. It only takes a few minutes to cure them.
The purpose is to make you vomit blood and make you bully others by being stingy.
"Master Chen, before I go to look for the poison, I must first gather the other auxiliary herbs. Otherwise, I won't be able to refine the medicine in time after catching the poison, which may affect the efficacy of the medicine." Chen Qingqing spoke nonsense seriously.
Fan Tong was already dizzy at this time, his mind was filled with the thought that he would soon die. In order to survive, he wanted to take the medicine right away.
He waved his hand and said, "The shit stinks. Go get some good ginseng and cordyceps and bring them back to Miss Chen to prepare the pills."
"I'll get it right away." Shi Taishou was about to leave when he turned back and asked, "Master, how much of each item should I prepare?"
"Well..." Fan Tong looked at Chen Qingqing and asked with a smile, "Miss Chen, how many of these medicines should we prepare?"
"Ten ginsengs, five kilograms of cordyceps, and ten kilograms of deer antlers."
"What, ten ginsengs? Ten ganoderma lucidums? Ten kilograms of deer antlers?" Fan Tong almost dropped his jaw in shock. One ginseng was worth more than one hundred taels of silver, cordyceps was also priceless, and deer antlers were commonly known as soft gold. Their prices were staggering. These things alone were worth tens of thousands of gold coins. This was going to cost him his life!
Fan Hun grinned upon hearing this and could not help but say, "Miss Chen, these ginseng, cordyceps, and deer antlers are all very tonic medicines. If my father ate these, he would bleed from his nose and mouth!"
Chen Qingqing smiled faintly, "It's precisely because it's a tonic that I asked you to prepare it. Your father's heart has begun to fester, and simple herbs are of no use. If you want to completely cure it, you must combine poison with tonics.
Think about it, if we only use poison, let alone five kinds, even one of them would be enough to kill your father. If we want to remove the poisonous wind, we must combine it with nourishing medicine to prevent your father's body from being unable to withstand it and dying."
"Okay, Dad, did you hear that?"
Fan Hun glanced at Fan Tongyi in dissatisfaction, "You still scold me for being a spendthrift every day, but look at what has happened now. This disease can be cured by just peeing, but now they're using ginseng and Ganoderma lucidum, and that's a lot of money!
Not counting the Cordyceps and Deer Antlers, just talking about the ginseng, one piece costs over a hundred taels of silver, ten pieces would be over a thousand taels. This amount of silver is enough for me to find so many girls and visit Zui Xiang Lou so many times. Just thinking about it makes me anxious. You are just throwing away the watermelon to pick up sesame seeds!
"You unfilial thing, what nonsense are you talking about? Is your father's life more important, or your visit to the brothel? Get out of here right now." Fan Tong felt heartbroken and reluctant, but what else could he do to survive?
He wiped the cold sweat from his forehead and said, "Miss Chen, can you use fewer of these herbs? They are all treasures I have accumulated over the years."
Chen Qingqing frowned and said sternly, "Master Fan, are you mistaken? I'm treating you, not buying groceries. You can't bargain. I'm not exaggerating. If your illness isn't treated promptly, it will relapse in three days. If you can't take the medicine on time after six days, even if you bring a cart of ginseng, I won't be able to help you. Just wait for your stomach to rot and your intestines to bleed out!"
These words really frightened the shrewd Fan Tong. He didn't dare to joke with his life. What if, like last time, his chronic illness got worse in order to save twenty taels of silver, the consequences would be very serious.
He gritted his teeth, steeled his heart, and waved his hand towards Shi Taishou, "Butler Shi, go get all the ginseng, cordyceps, and deer antlers that Miss Chen requested."
"Okay, sir, I'll go prepare it right away," Shi Taishou returned after a moment and ordered the servants behind him to put everything on the table.
"Please take a look, Miss Chen. Ten pieces of top-grade fourth-grade ginseng, five kilograms of cordyceps, and ten kilograms of deer antlers are all here."
Chen Qingqing raised the corners of her mouth, feeling very proud. She had been worried about her livelihood, but she had never thought that making money would be so easy. She waved her hand.
"Okay, bring all these things with me. I'll set off for Wild Wolf Valley immediately. Once I catch the poison, I'll start refining the medicine. I'll do my best to see Master Fan again in three days."
Fan Tong was stunned, and he started to wonder in his heart, this is all money, how can he let her take it all away? As the saying goes, people's hearts are hidden, who knows if she has a good conscience?
If she secretly hid a ginseng, he would suffer a great loss. No, he couldn't let her take the thing away no matter what.
"Miss Chen, please stay for now. How about this: you go to Wild Wolf Valley to look for poison first. Then come to the Fan Mansion to make medicine. I can ask the servants to help you."
"Master Fan, do you not trust me?" Chen Qingqing frowned, her expression suddenly cold. "I'm trying to make pills, not boil swill to feed the pigs. How can your servants help?"
"No, no, no, Miss Chen, you misunderstood. I meant to let the servants help you with some rough work so that you can be more flexible. I was mainly afraid of tiring you out."
"I think you're not worried that I'm tired, but that you're worried that you're running low on ginseng, right?"
Having his thoughts exposed, Fan Tong blushed profusely and hurriedly laughed to hide his embarrassment. "Miss Chen is such a jokester! You think I'm too narrow-minded. How could I possibly suspect you of stealing my ginseng?"
Seeing this, Fan Tong couldn't help but burst into laughter. "Dad, you're really good at lying. Look at your face, it's as red as a monkey's butt. Miss Chen must have poked your lungs."
"You, you, you..." Fan Tong was so angry and ashamed after his weakness was exposed that he wanted to find a way to hide in it. He stomped his feet fiercely and said, "You stupid idiot, shut up right there! You've made me lose face."
"That's right. Be wary of people like you would a thief. If you have the ability, don't let Miss Chen treat you." Fan Hun was dissatisfied and muttered, "Trust those you employ, and don't employ those you doubt. I understand this principle, why don't you know it?"
Seeing her son getting angry again, Mrs. Fan couldn't help but complain, "Hun'er, stop talking and don't interrupt."
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