Chapter 70 Selling Medical Skills
There was nothing delicious left at home, and they were also short of quilts and clothes. They had only a few sets of old clothes that they had worn for many years.
The New Year is less than four months away, and the weather is getting colder day by day. Fu Zhaoning doesn't want them to shiver in the cold winter like before.
Therefore, everything else was empty talk. She had to get some money first to buy enough things for her home.
"I'll find a way."
Fu Zhaoning said to Xiao Tao, "Tell me where the things you need to buy at home are. Don't worry about whether you have money or not. Just tell me what you need and I will buy it for you when the time comes."
Xiao Tao wanted to ask, Miss, where do you get the money to buy things?
But the young lady has changed so much recently, and she is reluctant to dampen her enthusiasm.
"If there is one thing that is most needed, it is that the old man's room should have a new quilt. The cotton in the old man's quilt has clumped together, and it is heavy and not warm enough to cover himself with."
"Also, the weather is getting cold soon. We need some silver charcoal. Ordinary charcoal has a strong smell and the old man may not be able to stand it. But silver charcoal is too expensive."
"If the old man gets better in a few days, he will definitely go out to the yard to bask in the sun, and he will still need a new coat and new cotton shoes."
"Will you still live at home in the future, young lady? If so, you should prepare some of these things. Buying ready-made clothes is too expensive, so it's better to buy some needles and thread, and Aunt Zhong and I can sew them at home."
Fu Zhaoning listened to the little girl talking about a lot of things that she and her grandfather needed, but she didn't mention anything about what she and Uncle Zhong needed. She couldn't help but feel a little soft-hearted.
She looked at Xiaotao's two small buns and reached out to pull them gently.
"If our Xiaotao tied two pink hairbands on her buns and put a few small pearl flowers in her hair, she would be very beautiful."
Xiao Tao was stunned for a moment, then stamped her feet, "Miss, please don't buy these things, it's a waste of money."
She is a servant, why should she dress up so beautifully?
Fu Zhaoning thought of Uncle Zhong and Aunt Zhong’s cracked hands and sighed inwardly.
After Xiaotao finished telling her what was needed at home, she asked Xiaotao to go ahead and busy herself. She fiddled around in the house for a while, changed her clothes, and went out carrying a large bag of things.
The guard standing guard in the dark corner of the courtyard watched her leave the door and asked Zhong Jian in confusion, "Why did Miss Fu disguise herself as an old man?"
That’s right, after fiddling around for a while, Fu Zhaoning had turned into a little old man.
Because they watched her enter the house, and when she came out, Fu Zhaoning was still in her original distorted posture, and she also made an accurate gesture and said something in their direction, meaning that the house was left to their protection.
That's why they were able to recognize that it was Fu Zhaoning.
But in fact, if it weren't for this, they really wouldn't be able to recognize Fu Zhaoning just by looking at his disguised appearance.
She's so good in disguise!
His skin color became two shades darker, his eyebrows became a little white, his nose became bigger, his eyelids became droopy, there were many wrinkles on his face, his hair was half gray, and his neck and ears looked like an old man.
Even her lips looked different.
Zhong Jian exclaimed in his heart: I have discovered another ability of Miss Fu!
"Ms. Fu naturally has her own plans, no need to ask." Zhong Jian said to his men.
After Fu Zhaoning went out, she turned left and right and finally arrived at a street in her memory.
This street is very long and busy, with many stalls selling things, and a constant stream of pedestrians and carriages coming and going. However, there is only one medicine shop at the far end of the street, which is far away from the clinic.
Maybe it’s because this place is more urban.
Fu Zhaoning found a place, put down a large bag of things, and took out a small wooden stool from the bag.
She spread out a piece of cloth on a small wooden stool and placed a large bamboo cup on it.
She had sawed this bamboo tube cup in Luoyue Mountain, and she used it to drink water for those three days.
After arranging everything, Fu Zhaoning took out another thing that looked like a small tree stump, used it as his own small stool, and sat on it.
To her left was a small tea stall, with just a cart and a small charcoal stove on top, warming two large pots of tea. An old lady was looking after it. To her right was an old man with a pair of bamboo baskets in front of him. There looked to be quite a lot of dried bamboo shoots in the baskets.
The aunt and uncle looked at the little old man with some surprise.
"Uncle, what are you selling?" the old lady couldn't help but ask.
She was illiterate and could not make out what was written on the cloth that Fu Zhaoning had placed on the stool.
"This is mine," Fu Zhaoning raised his voice, pointed at the words written on his cloth and read them, "It is specially used to treat difficult and complicated diseases!"
Fu Zhaoning actually wanted to sell medicine, but her grandfather needed a lot of medicine. She had also intentionally dug medicine in the mountains for her grandfather. If she sold the medicine, she would have to spend money to buy it back later, which was not cost-effective at all.
She also thought about making some pills or powders to sell, but it would be difficult to get people in medical clinics and drugstores to trust her medicine. The prescriptions she had learned before were definitely different from those of this dynasty.
She’s afraid that people don’t know how good her medicine is and instead think she’s cheating them.
So, Fu Zhaoning came up with this idea.
She remembered that there were actually quite a few vendors nearby whose families were feeling unwell, and there were many people here, so if the reputation was to spread quickly, there would be enough people here.
Many servants from wealthy families would also come here to hang out and buy things. It was not difficult to spread the name to these wealthy families.
After hearing Fu Zhaoning's words, the vendors around couldn't help laughing.
"Old man, are you here to brag? You look very unfamiliar to us. We have never seen or heard of you before."
Fu Zhaoning waved his hand and said, "It's okay. You will get familiar with each other soon. My last name is Ning. You can just call me Old Man Ning."
If Zhong Jian were here, he would be surprised to find that Fu Zhaoning's voice now sounds like that of an old man.
"Old Ning, do you really know medicine?"
"Of course. How can you cheat or defraud someone when it comes to curing illnesses and saving lives?" Fu Zhaoning said.
"If you could really treat difficult and complicated diseases, a clinic would have hired you as a resident doctor long ago," someone laughed, clearly not believing her words, "As a doctor, do you still need to beg for a living on the street like the rest of us?"
In Zhao State, the status of a doctor is completely different and his value is very high.
Of course, quacks don't count.
If the medical skills are really good, the reputation will spread quickly, and naturally there will be clinics coming to invite you, and even some dignitaries will want to invite you to be a resident doctor.
It is extremely rare to see someone like Fu Zhaoning setting up a stall to sell medical skills.
Fu Zhaoning was just about to speak when someone suddenly screamed in front of a stall not far ahead.
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