Chapter 74 Are you sure you won't get beaten to death by your dad?
Jiang Nuanzhi was pulled into the scene by Lü Shizhu in a daze, and immediately realized that everyone's eyes were on her.
He couldn't help but frown at that moment.
She came to Elder Lü's place simply to ask some questions. If Elder Lü was interested, they could continue their conversation; if not, she planned to visit a few more pharmacies.
Unexpectedly, he was detained here by Lü Shizhu.
Before she could speak, Lü Shizhu turned around and winked at her desperately. She then clasped her hands together in front of her chest and bowed.
Only then did he turn back and continue his arrogant confrontation with the three teenagers opposite him.
Jiang Nuanzhi: "."
"I just made some ointment and was thinking of seeing if I could buy it, or perhaps I could sell it on consignment at the clinic."
"Take it!"
Before she could finish speaking, Young Master Lü slammed his hand on the table and said, "As long as you made it yourself, I'll accept it. How much do you have here? I'll take it all!"
Seeing that Lü Shizhu didn't seem to be faking it, Jiang Nuanzhi still advised, "Why don't we call it quits today? We can talk about it in detail another day."
“Cousin, I think this older sister is right. Let’s let it go today. I know you were just being impulsive. There’s no need to put on a brave face just to save face. If you get punished by your aunt and uncle later, I won’t be able to plead for you.”
"Do I need your pleading? You're just someone who freeloads at my house, why should my parents listen to you? I'm taking this ointment today."
Young Master Lü turned around and glanced at Jiang Nuanzhi: "Nuanzhi, don't be a coward. Just tell me how much silver you want, and I'll have A Yong give it to you right now."
Before Jiang Nuanzhi could speak, she heard the young man coldly say, "No money allowed."
The boy frowned and looked at Lü Shizhu with a look of disapproval: "Cousin, do you know that last year Tongji Pharmacy's revenue was less than one-tenth of Jinhuatang's?"
Young Master Lü: "So what? Jinhuatang's medicine is more than double that of Tongji Pharmacy. Besides, my father does a free clinic one day a month. Isn't it reasonable for him to earn less?"
"Ha! With cousin like this, no wonder Tongji Medical Clinic is not as good as before. This lady has a past with you, right? I just heard from A-Yong that you actually sold the medicine to her at a 20% discount."
Cousin, you're not naturally gifted, and it's bad enough that you dabble in crooked ways, but now you're associating with shady characters and constantly coming to the clinic to freeload. Aren't you afraid of Aunt and Uncle's wrath?"
Upon hearing this, Jiang Nuanzhi narrowed her eyes slightly. This kid looks all respectable, but his words are really irritating.
As it turns out, Lü Shizhu was reliable at times, because the next second, his big slap landed on the boy's face!
"Who are you calling a bunch of cronies? Who's freeloading? Let me tell you, you can call me one thing, but calling me a friend? No way!"
The boy, slapped in the face, looked utterly incredulous: "You piece of trash, how dare you hit me?"
"I hit you! So what? Go ahead and complain! Let my parents punish me! Are you thinking it would be best if they punished me to death? So that you can inherit all my family's wealth?"
A hint of coldness flashed in the boy's eyes, but it ultimately turned into a sigh: "Cousin, I just wanted to persuade you to avoid losses for our clinic. Since you won't listen, I really have no other choice."
Lu Shizhu immediately crossed his arms and said, "Xu Qingfeng, what are you pretending for? I feel like throwing up just looking at your face. If you have any self-awareness, you'd better get lost so I don't have to have someone kick you out."
"Lu Shizhu, don't go too far." Xu Qingfeng narrowed his eyes slightly and clenched his fists.
"Oh ho, not pretending anymore?" Young Master Lü rolled his eyes. "What are you all doing? Have you forgotten whether Tongji Pharmacy belongs to the Lü or Xu family? Hurry up and throw him out."
"Pah! I usually wouldn't even bother with you, but you really think you're something special."
Hearing his young master's increasingly offensive words, Ah Yong immediately stepped forward and said with a smile to Young Master Xu, "Young Master, why don't you head back today?"
Xu Qingfeng didn't say anything in the end, only nodded gently to everyone, clutched his chest, and walked out while coughing.
"Young Master Xu, are we just leaving like this?"
After he went outside, one of the boys approached him and said angrily.
The young master Xu curled his lips coldly: "What are you waiting for if you're not leaving? I've already tried to stop my cousin, but he's insisting on going his own way. If he causes any trouble, then don't blame me."
The two boys beside him suddenly realized what was going on and clapped their hands, saying, "Young Master Xu's move was brilliant! We'll tell Old Master Lü when we get back that Young Master Lü will be kneeling in the ancestral hall again today."
"I won't tell my uncle about this. I'll wait until the truth comes out, won't I?"
Making him kneel in the ancestral hall is too lenient a punishment!
"But the woman's medicine might not necessarily cause any problems."
Xu Qingfeng's eyes were cold: "If there are no problems, then create them."
"That's true, we can just do something underhanded then."
Xu Qingfeng laughed again upon hearing this: "No need. What kind of medicine could a country woman make? Don't dirty your hands. As long as her medicine is not as good as that from Tongji Pharmacy, just find someone to tell the patient this news and wait to see the joke."
The crowd immediately understood and escorted the boy back.
Inside the Tongji Pharmacy, Jiang Nuanzhi was stunned when she saw the twenty-five taels of silver that Young Master Lü had slapped into her hand.
"Lu Shizhu, are you serious? Aren't you sure your father won't beat you to death?"
Upon hearing this, Lü Shizhu immediately became proud. He raised his chin and said, "Don't worry, I'll accept your things, and my father promises he won't beat me! He highly praises your medical skills. Even though Xu Qingfeng complained about you to the extreme, I wasn't punished."
As he spoke, Young Master Lü looked at his hand and chuckled, "That slap felt so good today. Actually, I've wanted to slap him for a long time, but I just haven't had the chance!"
Jiang Nuanzhi: "It felt good to have the injection, but did it really have any negative effects?"
What impact will it have?
"Aren't you afraid people will think you're mean? That you've bullied some young master?"
Young Master Lü waved his hand dismissively: "Everyone has said I'm not as good as him since I was a child, but I'm doing just fine, aren't I? Don't worry! Here, take the money."
Recalling the boy's appearance, Jiang Nuanzhi frowned and said, "This person doesn't seem like a kind person. You should be careful when dealing with him."
"Okay, okay," Young Master Lü said, stuffing the silver into her hands.
Jiang Nuanzhi: "Even close brothers keep clear accounts. What's with giving me twenty-five taels?"
Jiang Nuanzhi decided not to mention Xu Qingfeng again, and instead carefully calculated with her abacus: "We agreed on a 30/70 split, I get 70% and you get 30%. A bottle of wound ointment sells for one tael of silver on the market, so let's set the price at that. I have a total of thirty bottles here, at seven hundred cash per bottle, which is exactly twenty-one taels."
"However, this is only a preliminary agreement, and we haven't discussed it in detail with Elder Lü yet. I'll keep these twenty-four taels for now, and if there are any discrepancies later, we can discuss it further. Consider this as a deposit from you."
"And this medicine, you need to try it." With that, he took out a small knife and cut a small gash in the man's hand.
Lu Shizhu gasped in shock: "Hey! You're repaying kindness with enmity!"
Jiang Nuanzhi smiled at him, and the next second, she opened a bottle of wound medicine and applied it to the wound.
The bleeding from the wound stopped almost instantly.
Lu Shizhu couldn't help but be taken aback: "Hey, your medicine is pretty good. It's effective for pain relief too."
Jiang Nuanzhi nodded: "It's good that you approve of the medicine's efficacy. We're not enemies, we're business partners. If it goes well, we'll make money together."
"In that case, I have other matters to attend to, so I'll head back now."
Jiang Nuanzhi was actually worried that Old Master Lü wouldn't trust Young Master Lü. She even gave A Yong a few instructions and wrote a letter for them to deliver to Old Master Lü later before leaving.
He went out and headed towards the cosmetics shop.
On the way, Jiang Nuanzhi truly felt that the twenty-odd taels of silver were rather heavy. Lü Shizhu hadn't given her any silver notes, so the silver was indeed heavy, feeling substantial in her arms.
As the saying goes, mountains may crumble, and people may run away.
Ultimately, you can only rely on yourself.
If all goes well, she can make a hundred or so bottles in the next few days and earn a hundred taels of silver.
(End of this chapter)
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