Chapter 197 A poor man with no money
Cai Zhu almost spit out a mouthful of blood when she saw Jin Congcong's disgusted expression. She looked at him pitifully again: "Mr. Jin, isn't it said that doctors are the kindest? Well, even if you don't like me, we can still be friends after all."
"Zhu'er, please help me. Please help me talk to the prince and the princess and give our Cai family a way out. If all else fails, I...I will be your concubine. Can I be your concubine?"
Seeing her extended hand, Jin Congcong jumped up and said, "No, no, no, no. I can only have one wife in my life. Whoever Ruo'er says is the one. I can't take you as a concubine and cause unrest in the future."
"I just want to be like the prince and Ruo'er, loving each other so much. Just looking at them makes my life so comfortable."
"Besides, your father deserved what happened to him. Otherwise, why would he have his property confiscated while others were not dismissed from office? I can't ask for this favor. It will damage my luck."
Bu Ruo chuckled, not bad, you have made progress and you also understand your destiny.
"You heard it too. Jin Congcong said he doesn't want to marry you, and you're not his soulmate, so stop pestering me."
Jin Congcong's teeth nearly broke when he saw her refusing to give up. "Since your property has been raided, I'm not a reckless person. I've left all the banknotes and precious treasures you gave me with the prince intact."
"As long as you stop pestering me, I'll return everything to you. Whether you live a life of idleness and wait for death or use it to start a small business is up to you. When you leave Prince Zhan's mansion today, we'll pretend we've never met and I've never saved you."
"I've never met a woman like you. You're simply repaying kindness with enmity!"
Cai Zhu thought for a moment and nodded in agreement: "I thank you very much for your kindness, Doctor Jin. If I can achieve something in the future, I will definitely not forget your kindness today."
Unexpectedly, Jin Congcong took a few steps back in fear: "No, no, you'd better forget me. I don't want to have any contact with you again. This matter ends here. From now on, the mountains are high and the roads are far apart, and we will never meet again."
Bu Ruo couldn't help but burst out laughing, but she suppressed it under Jin Congcong's aggrieved glare: "Okay, in that case, then... Cen Nan, go and take back all those boxes and banknotes that the Cai family sent a few days ago to Miss Cai."
"Oh, by the way, to avoid misunderstandings, remember to stand at the gate and explain the whole story clearly. Don't let others think that our palace is a soft persimmon. As long as you have a relationship with our young doctor Jin, even if you are dismissed from office and your property is confiscated, you will still receive silver subsidies."
After sending Cai Zhu away, Jin Congcong finally reacted: "Ruo'er, did Cen Nan tell you something? Or did the prince tell you? Otherwise, how could you know so much about me?"
Bu Ruo stood up and walked out, saying as she walked, "No one told me this. I just figured it out because I was bored during my pregnancy."
Looking at Bu Ruo's back, Jin Congcong turned to look at Xiao Yulan: "Your Highness, is this really the case? Was it really calculated by Ruo'er?"
Without waiting for Xiao Yulan to answer, he nodded first: "Well, it's not impossible. Ruo'er is so powerful, I don't think it's a joke..."
"Hey? Hey hey hey? That's not right, this is not right! Cai Zhu hasn't paid me back for the tea. It was eight taels, a full eight taels! This is the second most expensive teahouse in Kyoto, and she even ordered several plates of snacks, and I didn't eat a single bite."
"No, no, I have to go find her and ask her to give it back. She agreed to treat me, otherwise I wouldn't have been able to go in the first place."
Seeing Jin Congcong running away in a hurry, Xiao Yulan laughed out loud. Cen Bei beside him also laughed and said, "I'm afraid that the money that Jin Xiaosheng Doctor got back can't be recovered. Cai Zhu has already left in a carriage. I heard that they can't stay in Kyoto anymore and want to live in another small town."
"I've inquired about this, and Cai Zhu has two goals today. One is to marry Divine Doctor Jin, and if that doesn't work, she wants to see if she can get some of the money back. However, she didn't expect that Divine Doctor Jin would offer to return the money to her before she even asked."
"That Cai Zhu... is probably running faster than anyone else right now. Little Divine Doctor Jin is doomed to return empty-handed."
Xiao Yulan walked to the desk, sat down, and picked up the secret report. "Well, you should be more relaxed these days, but remember, you must not give him the silver. Ruo'er said that he didn't know when he would return from his death, but he would definitely respond with the silver."
Cen Bei said that he understood. He was just like a heartless man. He could say a lot of nice things but couldn't do anything in reality.
Alas, Doctor Jin... he is also a poor man, and a poor man without any money.
Sure enough, that night, Jin Congcong went to Doctor Du's yard.
"Master... wow, I'm out of money. Eight taels of silver. Before this incident, I only had ten taels left from all the money I spent and saved. Now I'm down another eight taels. Wow... How am I going to survive with only two taels left?"
"And Cai Zhu, it turns out she hired a carriage when she came here. As soon as she loaded the boxes onto it, she ran away so fast that I couldn't catch up with her even after trying for a long time."
Doctor Du yawned and said, "Money is not as important as life. If it's gone, it's gone. I can just save it again."
Jin Congcong continued to lie on the table in Doctor Du's room and cried: "It's easy for you to say that, eight taels of silver, how much do I have to sweep to save up that much."
"Also, Cen Nan told me today that Cai Zhu had a purpose. Her father knew that his affair would be exposed sooner or later, so he brought her to disguise herself as a man and try to seduce the prince at the Hundred Days Banquet held at the Guangling Marquis' Mansion."
"But after testing the waters, she realized the prince was not easy to mess with, so she picked me again. Woohoo...why am I so unlucky? I just wanted to watch the fun, but I ended up losing eight taels of silver."
“Master… Master…”
Doctor Du looked at the person crying in his room and wanted to kick him out, but when he thought of Bu Ruo's words of comfort... he silently retracted his foot.
"These eight taels of silver..."
Someone straightened up.
"I definitely can't give it to you."
Someone lay back down again.
"How about you... Oh, didn't your master give you some pill recipes? You can continue to make pills and earn money."
Jin Congcong lamented, "Your recipe is a good one, but the herbs you use are too expensive, and they are all excellent. I only have two taels left now, which is not even enough to buy the herbs for making one pill."
"I'm also slow at refining pills, unlike you... You can produce more than ten pills in one furnace, but it takes me more than ten furnaces to produce one. So, all in all, I can only earn a few copper coins, and sometimes I might even lose a little."
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