Chapter 147 I Want That
The pharmacy Ye Lanzhou had visited earlier had been shortchanged. He'd clearly ordered eight ounces of salvia miltiorrhiza, but when he got home he'd only got six. The pharmacy's shortage wasn't a big deal, but it wasn't a small one either.
However, the dosage of medicine prescribed by doctors is always predetermined. If the dosage of any one ingredient is missing, the medicinal properties of the medicine may change.
A store that harms people like this probably won't last long.
Xie Chengyan told her that there was a pharmacy called "Xinglinchun" in Shangjing, which had been open for quite a while and the owner was a nice person.
Today she took advantage of her free time to go out. Xinglinchun is located in the alley behind Zhuque. It is not a very prosperous place, and it is even a bit deserted. Most of the people who come here are here to get medicine.
When she entered, she was greeted by a large medicine cabinet that covered the entire wall, filled with commonly used medicines. The doorman saw her and hurried over to ask what she needed. Ye Lanzhou said nothing, simply handing the doorman a piece of paper.
While the waiter was getting the medicine, Ye Lanzhou stopped to look at the medicine on this wall. No wonder Xie Chengyan asked her to buy it here. Not to mention the store owner, the medicine on this wall was much more complete than the one she had been to before.
As I was watching, I suddenly noticed the girl in front of me who was preparing medicine. She looked young, wearing a plain shirt, with her hair casually tied up with a wooden hairpin. From time to time, she lowered her head to look at the prescription in her hand.
The girl also noticed her presence and pointed to a few stools at the door and said, "You can sit there for a while. We can get the medicine quickly."
Ye Lanzhou responded and sat down.
Not long after she sat down, the copper bell at the door of Xinglinchun rang again. The girl was grinding medicine with her head down. When she heard someone coming from the pharmacy, she looked up.
The visitor was wearing an indigo blue robe woven with gold, and a seven-treasure sachet jingled around his waist, looking like a child of a wealthy family.
He placed a certain amount of silver on the table and said, "Two taels of cinnabar, from Jizhou, three qian of ambergris, and half a qian of musk."
Yang Jiyu's pestle paused in mid-air. These were powerful aphrodisiacs, and ordinary doctors would have to think twice before prescribing them. She discreetly examined the young man leaning against the counter. The jade crown he used to hold his hair seemed stained with powder, and a faint sweet fragrance wafted from his collar.
His eyes were dark but bright, clearly a symptom of excessive indulgence while taking tonics.
"There's no ambergris in the shop." She turned to get the cinnabar. "There's only a penny of musk left. I have to peel it from the sachet now. It might take a while."
"It's okay, I can wait." Pei Xuan said, and suddenly leaned over, and his sleeve swept down a bag of dried rose petals on the table, which fell on the Poria cocos slices she had just cut.
Yang Jiyu looked at the contaminated herbs and frowned slightly. The weather had been cold recently, and her brother seemed to have caught a cold and had a sore throat. This was the medicine she was going to grind for him.
Then he acted as if nothing had happened, and said calmly, "Then please wait a moment, sir."
Pei Xuan narrowed his eyes and suddenly pointed to the black pottery jar on the top of the medicine cabinet. He said carefully, "Bring that over here too."
After hearing this, Ye Lanzhou looked in the direction he pointed, and saw a black jar with a red seal wrapped around it, placed on the top of the medicine cabinet. It was covered in dust and it was impossible to tell what kind of medicine it was.
When Yang Jiyu saw it, the corners of his lips tightened slightly. It was a jar storing arsenic, sealed with a red lacquer seal of the government.
"That requires official approval." She calmly moved to block the view. "Or could you please tell me about your symptoms?"
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