Chapter 35: Mutual Testing, Large Purchase
"Young Master, you said your master is that old doctor Chen?"
The smile on Ma Ye's face disappeared and became a little solemn.
"It seems that the villagers all call him old man like this."
The tension on Lu Qing's face eased a little and he replied.
"Yes, Master Ma, my little brother goes to Dr. Chen's place to study every day."
At this time, Wang Daan also found an opportunity and took the opportunity to speak.
Master Ma looked at Lu Qing and Wang Daan scrutinizingly, and suddenly, he smiled.
"So you are Doctor Chen's disciple. I am so disrespectful."
Master Ma bowed solemnly to Lu Qing, but it seemed that Lu Qing was frightened and he took two steps back.
He waved his hands in panic: "I am not qualified to be a master disciple. I have only learned a little knowledge of herbs from my master. I can't even treat illnesses."
Seeing Lu Qing being so honest, Master Ma couldn't help but smile.
"Anyway, I was the one who offended you just now. So, I will pay for the meat you bought from this butcher's stall."
"How can this be possible?" Lu Qing shook his head repeatedly. "You can't accept gifts without merit. Master taught me that I can't just accept things from others."
"But I did offend you just now. Can this meat be regarded as my apology to you, young master?"
However, no matter what Ma Ye said, Lu Qing just shook his head and was determined not to accept Ma Ye paying for him.
Wang Da'an, who was standing by, watched with his eyes wide open.
It was the first time he saw Master Ma being so polite to someone.
And this person is his younger brother Lu Qing.
Seeing that Lu Qing kept refusing Ma Ye’s gifts, Wang Daan became a little anxious.
That's more than ten pounds of meat, and someone is giving it to him for free and he doesn't want it. What is Ah Qing thinking?
However, although he was anxious, Wang Daan did not speak up on behalf of Lu Qing.
He knew that Lu Qing could read and write, and with the guidance of the old doctor, he must know more than him.
Since he is unwilling to accept it, he must have his own reasons.
Seeing that Lu Qing was unwilling to accept his apology, Ma Ye suddenly had an idea and started laughing again.
"Young Master is indeed kindhearted, and you are worthy of being the disciple of Old Doctor Chen. How about this, I saw you seemed to be worried about the silver just now, why don't I help you find it?"
When the butcher heard this, he quickly said, "Yes, young master, the only one here who can pay your money is probably Master Ma."
After hearing this, Lu Qing hesitated for a moment and nodded, "Then I'll have to trouble you, Master Ma."
As he spoke, he took out the silver. Ma Ye took it and saw that it was top-quality snowflake-patterned silver. He believed Lu Qing's words a little more.
An ordinary country boy would not be able to get such good silver.
After weighing it, he smiled and said, "This silver is about six coins, which would be about six hundred copper coins."
Ma Ye took off a cloth bag from his body, took out two small strings of copper coins from it, and handed the bag to Lu Qing.
"The copper coins here should be worth your silver. Count them."
Lu Qing took the purse and started counting it without any hesitation.
Wang Daan wanted to help, but he knew he was not good at counting. If he forced himself to help, he would only cause more trouble and could only stand by and worry.
Lu Qing took out the copper coins and counted them quickly.
When Master Ma saw Lu Qing counting the money, his eyes narrowed again.
Few people in the countryside can read, so being able to recognize numbers within a hundred is already a remarkable thing.
Judging from the speed at which Lu Qing counted the money, it was obvious that counting was no difficulty for him.
He became more and more convinced that Lu Qing was indeed the disciple of the old doctor.
Soon, Lu Qing counted the money.
He raised his head: "It seems to be more."
There were a total of 650 copper coins in the cloth bag. Based on the conversion rate of one tael of silver to one thousand copper coins, there were 50 more coins.
"It's not much. Your silver is of very good quality. It's reasonable to give you fifty more coins." Master Ma said with a smile.
Lu Qing thought about it and did not refuse.
He knew that Mr. Ma was trying to please him.
But he had already rejected the other party several times, and he couldn't really not give him any face at all.
Moreover, this is also an opportunity for him to understand the outside world.
"The money has been exchanged, young master, you can buy things without worry. By the way, I don't know your name yet?" Master Ma took the opportunity to ask.
"My name is Lu Qing." Lu Qing said, and pointed to Wang Da'an beside him, "This is Da'an, who is from the same village as me."
"Master Ma, my name is Wang Da'an." Wang Da'an said somewhat flatteringly.
"Wang Daan, not bad."
Of course, Master Ma could see that Wang Daan was just an ordinary country youth.
However, he still nodded to her politely.
But this alone was enough to make Wang Daan excited, and his face turned red.
"Brother Lu Qing, I hope you can have fun here. I have something else to do, so I'll take my leave first."
Ma Ye was a man who knew his limits. He did not take the opportunity to follow Lu Qing, but chose to keep his distance.
Of course, Lu Qing was happy to see this happen.
Although he also wanted to make friends with this Mr. Ma, not now.
Because now, their strength is still unequal.
Today, he is only looked up to by others because of his identity as "Dr. Chen's disciple".
After Master Ma left, Lu Qing came to the meat stall again.
"Boss, can I buy meat now?"
"Of course." The butcher smiled and said, "Young man, you are the apprentice of old doctor Chen. No wonder you look so handsome!"
Lu Qing looked at his patched clothes and was speechless.
Is this what you call having a dignified appearance?
"What? The boss also knows Doctor Chen?" Wang Daan asked curiously.
"Brother, what you said is true. Who in this area doesn't know Doctor Chen? My wife caught a cold after giving birth last year and almost died. It was the old doctor who cured her. He is a famous doctor in our area!"
"In that case, boss, shouldn't you give us a discount on the meat?" Wang Daan took the opportunity to ask.
"Cheap, of course it's cheap!"
In the end, the butcher's stall owner still cut off the change in the price of the meat and charged Lu Qing three cents less.
After buying the meat, Lu Qing and Wang Daan continued to shop at the market.
Before long, I bought a lot of things.
Mainly food and some daily necessities.
Among them, food is the most purchased item.
In addition to these, Lu Qing also bought some vegetable seeds and needles and thread.
I bought vegetable seeds because I wanted to grow more vegetables in my yard.
You can't go digging wild vegetables every time.
As for needles and thread, it was because the fishhook made of a large iron needle at home was already a little overwhelmed.
He needs to make more fish hooks as backup.
Lu Qing also saw someone selling fish at the market. He asked about the price and found that it was cheaper than pork.
But it is also true that fat is very important to the lower-class civilians in this world, so even pork has fatty meat that is more expensive than lean meat.
Fish doesn't have much oil, so you won't feel full after eating it.
Only wealthy nobles are willing to spend a lot of money to buy fish for a taste of freshness.
For common people, if given a choice, they would even prefer to eat pork rather than fish.
After selling these things, most of Lu Qing’s 650 copper coins were gone.
He also bought two large bamboo backpacks, and then he and Wang Da'an carried and shouldered the load, and finally managed to get all the things on board.
Then the two of them left the market with heavy steps and walked towards the village.
(End of this chapter)
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