Chapter 42 After Qin Ren left, Liu Qingyue lay down...
After Qin Ren left, Liu Qingyue lay in bed unable to sleep.
He rummaged through the food for a long time, then opened the small bag Qin Ren had given him and started munching on it.
He wasn't hungry, nor was he particularly craving anything, but he just couldn't sleep and his mind was in turmoil.
His mind was filled with the feeling of Qin Ren touching his head just now. He felt that it wasn't good for them not to see each other for too long, and they should see each other more often in the future. Otherwise, he wouldn't have done that.
I'm so...sorry.
He actually hugged Qin Ren?
I wonder... what Qin Ren will think of him?
Qin Ren had already returned to the modern world; he had indeed been away for quite some time.
When I came back yesterday, I found that the dog had almost destroyed my yard.
The puppy has an automatic feeder, so it wasn't hungry even though they weren't at home.
However, the puppy wasn't hungry or thirsty, but it still pooped all over the yard.
Qin Ren spent a lot of time thoroughly cleaning the house.
This won't do. If he doesn't come back for a long time, we should board the dog with someone else so the puppy won't be lonely at home.
After Qin Ren returned from Liu Qingyue's place, he played with Bianbian, their dog, for a while.
The puppy was named by Liu Qingyue because it used to always circle around Liu Qingyue's feet, and Liu Qingyue was sometimes worried that she might accidentally step on it and flatten it.
To remind herself to be careful of dogs, Liu Qingyue named the puppy Bianbian.
Qin Ren played with Bianbian for a while, then began to count how much silver he had earned recently.
Over this long period of time, the shop earned more than six hundred taels of silver and thirty taels of gold.
This is the amount after Shen Wanying received her share; it's not a huge sum, but it's not insignificant either.
The reason Qin Ren's shop makes money in this way is mainly due to the principle that scarcity increases value.
The items he brought were already rare, and since he brought relatively few items, the prices were quite high.
He was going to follow Liu Qingyue now, so he planned to leave two hundred taels of silver and exchange the rest for cash.
He switched to cash, and combined it with his previous savings, to see if he could buy a house or get a vaccine.
Smallpox vaccines are probably hard to come by, so let's work on cholera, plague, and other vaccines first.
These vaccines weren't all for Qin Ren; most of them were given to that weakling Liu Qingyue.
Whether in modern times or in ancient times, there are many diseases.
For Liu Qingyue's health, these vaccines should be prepared for him.
Not only do you need to get the vaccine, but you also need to find a reliable private hospital.
Qin Ren was unsure about Liu Qingyue's physical condition. If she felt unwell during the vaccination, she would need a good hospital to ensure her safety.
The next morning around 8 a.m., Qin Ren took the food he had promised to give to Liu Qingyue and went to the passage.
He gave us a roast chicken, two apples, a bunch of bananas, and a box of strawberries.
When he placed the things on the box by the door, he noticed an exquisite purse on top of it.
The purse was given to him by Liu Qingyue, and inside was the silver that Liu Qingyue said she would give him.
Qin Ren opened it and looked inside; there was a pair of pure gold bracelets.
Liu Qingyue went to great lengths to get him to come along.
Qin Ren hadn't originally intended to accept it; he had only mentioned it casually yesterday, hoping to put Liu Qingyue at ease.
But thinking about the vaccine, and in case it would cost a lot of money, he decided to wear the gold bracelet as well.
Anyway... the vaccine wasn't entirely for his own benefit.
Once he gets the vaccine, he'll arrange it for Liu Qingyue.
Those diseases that could easily kill someone would no longer threaten Liu Qingyue's life.
If he had enough money, he might be able to get more vaccines for Liu Qingyue's brother and mother.
Thinking about it this way, Qin Ren could take the gold bracelet with more confidence.
Qin Ren took the gold bracelet and left home with his gold and silver.
Just as Qin Ren left the village, Liu Qingyue finished washing up and secretly opened the passage again.
He glanced at the food Qin Ren had given him, and moved the roast chicken away with a hint of disgust.
He muttered to himself, "Who... eats roast chicken so early in the morning?"
As he said this, he pulled an apple out of the bag.
Qin Ren washed both the apples and the box of strawberries beforehand.
Liu Qingyue doesn't need to wash it anymore; she can just take it and eat it directly.
However, he didn't like eating apple peels, so he peeled the apple peels off little by little, carefully collected them, and put them back into the passage.
There are apples in Dayong, but they are not called apples.
Since there are no apples in Yuyang Prefecture, Liu Qingyue doesn't dare to take them out and eat them openly.
Thinking of his meticulous older brother, he even hid apple peels and cores to prevent his brother from discovering his passage.
After eating an apple, Liu Qingyue left the room in a good mood.
He wanted to ask his older brother when they would be leaving for the capital.
As soon as he found his older brother, the first thing his brother said to him was...
"Does the moon know...where is Qin Engong now?"
Liu Qingyue looked bewildered upon hearing this. Just yesterday, her elder brother had said that their current identities made it inconvenient for them to contact Qin Ren.
How come it's only been one night, but my brother seems to want to see Qin Ren?
"What's wrong? Didn't my brother say that it's not convenient for us to contact him right now?"
“It’s not convenient for us to contact him right now, but I have a friend who wants to meet him.”
"Friend? Who is it?"
Before Liu Yuze could answer, a voice answered Liu Qingyue's question first.
"It's me."
Upon hearing this, Liu Qingyue looked towards the person who spoke.
The other person came out from the inner room, and Liu Qingyue only glanced at him before quickly bowing and saying, "Yue'er greets Young Marquis."
The person who came was Wen Lingzheng, who was not familiar with Liu Yuze.
The reason he made a special trip here was not only to see Liu Yuze, but also because of that foreigner.
He only learned today that the merchant who ran the shop in Yuyang Prefecture was the foreigner he was looking for.
Coincidentally, the other party was also the benefactor of Liu Yuze's younger brother, and their relationship was very close.
“Get up. Tell me about that foreigner. I met him once before and bought a strange car from him. I want to buy more from him and put them in the army for the soldiers to use.”
As Liu Qingyue got up, she muttered to herself, "What a nuisance. How did Qin Ren end up selling the stuff to this guy?"
He grew up in the capital, so naturally he knew Wen Lingzheng.
Similarly, Wen Lingzheng also knew him because of his outstanding appearance since childhood.
Liu Qingyue didn't have a good impression of the young marquis of Zhenbei Marquis's mansion. He thought the other party was an arrogant, unreasonable, and sometimes annoying guy.
Seeing that he had his eye on Qin Ren was not a good thing for Qin Ren.
Liu Qingyue: "I haven't seen him for a long time."
Wen Lingzheng: "Then do you have a way to find him?"
Liu Qingyue: "There's nothing we can do for now. After all, I'm a boy and he's a man, and a foreigner at that. We don't keep in touch much on a regular basis."
Wen Lingzheng was clearly getting impatient when she heard this.
He frowned slightly, seemingly realizing that Liu Qingyue was fooling him, and glanced at Liu Yuze beside him with some displeasure.
Seeing this, Liu Yuze said, "Yue'er hasn't seen him for a long time. Ever since Yue'er returned to the Liu family for her mother, the Liu family has kept him locked up. If the young marquis really wants to see him, why not wait until this matter is settled, and then I will have Yue'er find a way to contact him?"
Wen Lingzheng: "No, I'm giving you three days to find him for me."
After saying this, he ignored the brother and sister and turned to walk outside.
As Liu Qingyue watched his departing figure, she couldn't help but mutter something under her breath.
"What kind of person is this? I really hate them!"
Liu Qingyue muttered something to herself, then looked up at her brother with a wronged expression.
"Brother, how did he know about Brother Qin? Did you tell him?"
“How could Yue’er think of her brother like that? Qin Ren is also a benefactor to me, and I would never want to harm him. The young marquis must have been looking for Qin Ren a long time ago. I heard before that he was looking for a foreign merchant with short hair. It is said that he bought a strange car and wanted to bring back more. There is also a foreigner in Yu Yang’s mansion, so he probably sent someone to investigate in the city.”
Because the Liu family had caused trouble for Qin Ren, many people in the prefecture knew about the relationship between Qin Ren and the Liu family. In addition, Qin Ren was a foreigner, so finding him wasn't too difficult.
Liu Qingyue didn't want to suspect her brother, but she felt that things were too coincidental.
He had just reunited with his brother yesterday, and today the young marquis came to his door demanding his return.
Liu Qingyue: "What should we do? I really can't contact him right now. If we can't hand over the person in three days, will he get angry?"
If he were just the heir of the Marquis of Zhenbei, to be honest, Liu Qingyue wouldn't be that afraid of him.
However, the current situation is that the other party is the person the new emperor trusts most.
He is ostensibly the heir apparent, but in reality, he represents the emperor.
The thought that Qin Ren possessed too many strange qualities made Liu Qingyue unwilling to have him sent before the emperor.
The most ruthless are those in the imperial family; emperors would even kill their own brothers, so they obviously care even less about the lives of outsiders.
Liu Qingyue was afraid that they had discovered the strangeness about Qin Ren and would do things that would harm him in order to get more things.
If Qin Ren were alone, it wouldn't be so bad; he could simply open the door and run away.
But... now that Qin Ren is close to him, he might become his weakness in the future.
Liu Yuze: "Do you really not know where he is, or... do you not want him to see the young marquis?"
Liu Qingyue: "Why would you ask that, brother?"
“I feel... you seem to care about him a lot.”
Liu Qingyue's heart skipped a beat when he heard this, but thinking of how Qin Ren had saved him time and time again, Qin Ren was his savior, so what was wrong with him caring a little?
The more flustered he became, the more likely his brother would notice something was amiss.
Therefore, at this moment, he absolutely must not panic or act rashly.
Liu Qingyue said naturally, "He is my benefactor and has saved me several times. I treat him like an older brother, like family. It's not strange that I care about him a lot."
Because Liu Qingyue seemed relatively calm, and the two guards said that Qin Ren was very ugly, Liu Yu thought that perhaps she was overthinking it.
His younger brother is very particular about looks; he feels uncomfortable looking at unattractive men, so how could he possibly fall in love with one?
Liu Yuze: "If you really can't find him, the young marquis won't do anything to you. You're just a young man, and the person you're looking for is a foreign man. If you can't find him, then so be it."
"But... after what he just said, I feel like he won't let this go. He's still a favorite of the new emperor, won't he use this to cause trouble for my brother?"
"Now that the Liu family has committed such a serious crime, I would have been dismissed from my post if I went back. In any case, I have redeemed myself. I am, after all, one of the Emperor Emeritus's men. They can't really take my life. At most, they will just prevent me from returning to the court."
"But, but didn't my brother study hard for ten years just to become a civil servant?"
If he can never return to the court, wouldn't that be too cruel to his brother?
"If we can't go back, it has nothing to do with you and Qin Enren. Who made us born into the Liu family?"
The root of all this, in the end, is their troublesome father.
Even though he already held such a high official position, he still insisted on claiming credit for supporting the emperor and wanted to be ennobled and appointed prime minister.
Minister Liu wasn't particularly stupid; it wasn't that he couldn't see that the Crown Prince was the rightful heir.
Instead, he discovered that the crown prince didn't like him very much.
He was probably worried that the crown prince would not value him after ascending the throne because he did not like him.
Having enjoyed wealth and power for so long, he simply couldn't accept the fact that the Liu family would decline so drastically after the new emperor ascended the throne.
After returning to her room alone, Liu Qingyue left a message for Qin Ren using her tablet.
Fortunately, Qin Ren is currently in the modern world, so even if the young marquis has absolute power, he can't go to the modern world to arrest people.
Qin Ren told him yesterday that he would be staying in the modern world for a while.
By the time Qin Ren returned to ancient times, they should have already set off for the capital.
The old emperor in the capital is still alive, and the new emperor probably wouldn't dare to kill his brother and them, so their situation isn't considered a crisis.
On the other hand, Qin Ren spent two days exchanging his possessions for cash.
Qin Ren earned a total of 530,000 taels of silver and 30 taels of gold.
The pair of bracelets that Liu Qingyue gave him were so exquisitely crafted that they weren't sold at the ordinary gold price, but rather as collectibles to a wealthy person.
After deducting the money paid to the middleman, Qin Ren received 180,000 yuan from the pair of gold bracelets.
Qin Ren already had over 700,000 yuan, and with this 710,000 yuan, he now has approximately 1.4 million yuan.
Qin Ren didn't rush to buy a house. He went through a lot of roundabout connections and found a private hospital with a good environment and high standards.
This hospital has most of the vaccines available, which can meet Liu Qingyue's needs for various vaccines.
Because Qin Ren was only giving Liu Qingyue a vaccine, not injecting her with anything harmful, it didn't matter that Liu Qingyue didn't have an ID card.
Of course, there's no connection here; Qin Ren needs to give a lot of money.
Only then are they willing to take the risk and help them keep the secret.
Now that we've found a hospital, they also have the vaccine.
The only problem is that Qin Ren has no way to bring Liu Qingyue over for the time being.
Liu Qingyue is currently staying with her mother and brother.
It's that time of year again when the Liu family is implicated in a crime. Qin Ren estimates it will be difficult to bring him over; it seems he'll have to wait a while longer.
The total cost for finding a hospital and the vaccine is 200,000 yuan.
Qin Ren hasn't given the money to the hospital yet; he'll have to wait until Liu Qingyue comes to give it to them.
He had a separate account with 600,000 yuan, specifically for Liu Qingyue's vaccination, and he didn't plan to use that money again.
After deducting the 600,000 that cannot be touched, Qin Ren still has more than 800,000 in his hands.
Qin Ren planned to return to the county to see if there was a suitable house.
800,000 yuan certainly won't buy you a very nice house.
But Qin Ren now needs a house to buy packages and store things.
There are many advantages to living in your hometown, one of which is being able to live in a detached house with its own yard.
The chickens, ducks, fish, and meat in my hometown are fresh, and the eggs and duck eggs don't have any weird high-tech stuff.
Because the population is small and the houses are scattered, it is convenient for Qin Ren to come and go on a daily basis.
However, medical conditions in his hometown were poor, and he knew too many acquaintances there.
When he buys something, he's easily watched by people he knows.
For the past six months or so, he's been buying this and that every day, and rumors have started circulating in the town.
Qin Ren felt he had to buy a house; even if he didn't move to the city, he needed a place there.
Since he can't go back to ancient times for the time being, he can take this opportunity to look at houses.
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