People on the street would subconsciously glance at Li Xiaoxiao a few more times when they saw her. The street also saw the addition of fish balls and other snacks that had been sold before. Li Xiaoxiao walked around the street and then came to the pharmacy. She went straight in. As soon as the waiter saw Li Xiaoxiao, he put down the medicine he was holding and said very enthusiastically, "Madam Li, it's you. Do you have any medicinal herbs for sale today?"
Li Xiaoxiao sold ginseng here once before, and then went to another pharmacy in Yunli County. Unfortunately, it was the same pharmacy. That's when they realized that Li Xiaoxiao had enough ginseng, so they waited for her to come to their door.
But these days, Li Xiaoxiao has never visited again. Instead, she is doing very well. She even ignored the young master of the Jin family when he came to visit her personally. More importantly, Li Xiaoxiao knows how to treat tuberculosis.
This was an incurable disease, but Li Xiaoxiao cured it. However, the fact that an outsider could cure tuberculosis is not recognized by the masters of medicine. They want to study it, but so far there are still no results.
Now, another family with a long history in medicine is preparing to come to Yunli County, and the news that Li Xiaoxiao can cure tuberculosis has quietly spread. Now, an important figure has also come to Yunli County in person.
"There's no ginseng for sale today, so I've come to get some medicine."
After saying this, he placed the prescription on the counter. The waiter looked at it and saw that it contained one mace each of cloves, aconite, licorice root, cinnamon bark, and gecko, and seven fen each of alum, cornus officinalis, and sulfur.
Isn't this an aphrodisiac?
The waiter picked it up, and underneath was another prescription: cloves, Cnidium monnieri, Poria cocos, Nardostachys jatamansi, alum, Cistanche deserticola, and Ligusticum striatum, each five qian; Asarum heterotropoides, two and a half qian; and musk, five fen.
The third prescription: one dried dragon bone (dried on a tile), fifteen loofah seeds, five parts frankincense, five parts myrrh, seven almonds (oil removed), five parts musk, and five parts camphor.
The waiter's eyes widened as he looked at the prescriptions, but Li Xiaoxiao didn't care at all. "Just take three copies of each of these three prescriptions."
After Li Xiao finished speaking, she smiled faintly, which terrified Xiao Er.
These medicines, each one takes a whole night to prepare. Is Madam Li using them on other men? Are they playing around that much?
But he dared not say these things. Li Xiaoxiao was currently riding high. The waiter silently prepared the prescription. Li Xiaoxiao also prepared some medicinal herbs to treat her bones and muscles. In total, it would cost more than fifty taels of silver.
After paying, Li Xiaoxiao prepared to leave. Seeing that the transaction was complete, the waiter saw her off with a smile, saying, "Take care, Madam Li. You are welcome to come back to our pharmacy to sell any good medicinal herbs you may find."
As the waiter was calling, a beautiful lady came in from outside. Hearing the waiter's words, the lady looked in the direction of Li Xiaoxiao and saw Li Xiaoxiao's face. She was stunned for a moment, and a strong sense of familiarity came over her. She walked closer and closer, and behind Li Xiaoxiao's ear, there was a mark that was not very clear, but it was very similar to that mark. After a long time, she could see it clearly. It was indeed that mark. It was a mark that only her daughter had.
"Madam Li, may we speak further?" Wu Xinyue's voice trembled slightly.
Li Xiaoxiao was drawn over when she heard the pleasant and gentle voice. The woman was very beautiful and had the air of a well-bred lady. She also had a powerful presence in her eyes that could intimidate people. It was just a pity that she was indifferent on the surface but weak on the inside, and her health was deteriorating day by day.
"Of course, but may I ask what instructions you may have for me, Madam?" The waiter, seeing the noble lady talking to Li Xiaoxiao, immediately understood and said from the side, "There are rooms inside, you two may move in."
In the tea room, the woman looked at Li Xiaoxiao for a long time before speaking, "I am, um, you can just call me Madam Wu. I wonder how Madam Li has been these days?"
They would start by chatting about everyday things. Usually, if anyone asked her that, Li Xiaoxiao would stop them and tell them to get to the point, since her time was precious.
But the woman in front of her was gazing at her with gentle, loving eyes, as if there was some kind of relationship between them. What was even stranger was that she couldn't stop the woman from chatting about everyday things.
"Mrs. Wu, to be honest, I don't have much to do. I just stay at home doing some business and making some recipes."
After Li Xiao finished speaking, the lady looked at her with a smile and continued, "Has Madam Li ever thought about what it would be like to have an extraordinary identity one day, so that you could live a life of comfort and ease?"
What an extraordinary identity! Li Xiaoxiao carefully pondered the contents of the original book. The original owner of this body seemed to be just an ordinary woman with great strength, and her identity was never revealed after she was killed by Qi Yu.
"I'm just a farmer's wife. I'll do my best to fulfill my abilities. I don't dare to think about anything else," Li Xiaoxiao answered sincerely, but Madam Wu across from her looked at her with a pained expression.
"Um, Madam, is there anything else you need to tell me? I have to go back and arrange things at home. There are fewer people around these days, and there are many things to do at home, so I can't keep delaying..." After saying that, Li Xiaoxiao prepared to leave, not caring what the lady was going to say.
As Li Xiaoxiao was about to leave, Madam Wu coughed, covering her mouth, and coughed up a mouthful of blood from her palm. She looked at Li Xiaoxiao with a fragile expression.
"Madam Li, is it...is it convenient to tell me if your mother is still alive?"
Mother? Li Xiaoxiao was puzzled. "Mother has passed away."
As soon as Li Xiaoxiao finished speaking, Madam Wu coughed even more violently. Seeing that something was wrong with her, Li Xiaoxiao went behind her and carefully patted her back. The marks of the two small intertwined snakes were so clear.
"Li Xiaoxiao, I am your mother. You... cough cough cough, you were taken away by my maid and sold. I have been searching for you for seventeen years, and I have finally found you... cough cough cough..."
"I am the first-rank imperial consort of the General's Mansion. You will come back to the General's Mansion with me, and I will make up for what I have owed you over the years."
Wu Xinyue coughed more and more violently, tears streaming down her face. She stared at Li Xiaoxiao, her eyes filled with a thousand kinds of bitterness. After all these years, she had finally seen her biological daughter.
Li Xiaoxiao was unable to move for a moment. "Madam, are you mistaken? I have a mother, and she has indeed passed away."
"You have a birthmark behind your ear, a purple mark that looks like two intertwined snakes. This mark is unique, and you are my daughter."
Wu Xinyue was not supposed to come to this place, but after the Empress Dowager returned to the palace, she summoned her and told the Li family that there was a mysterious prescription that might cure her illness and allow her to live a few more days.
Unwilling to accept defeat, Wu Xinyue came alone to investigate. She had personally helped the general rise to power, but he had been bewitched by a concubine named Wen Tao. Her only daughter had been taken away by the concubine, who had given birth to two sons and a daughter. The greedy Wen Tao had even poisoned her, rendering her infertile for life. Now that the concubine was gone, she had finally ended her life. Now, she was the only one in power in the general's mansion, and she made all the decisions. Taking advantage of the general's lingering guilt towards her, she was willing to spend a fortune to find rare and precious ginseng.
She found two ginseng roots that extended her life by three years, and the general also doted on her. This trip back would be the perfect opportunity to make up for her long-missed daughter.
All of this should belong to her own daughter, not to that concubine's son and daughter.
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