Chapter 34 Useful Wound Medicine
"Don't report this to the authorities. We don't want the medical expenses. Let's just let this matter go."
Wang Mazi softened and kicked Meng Shi.
It took Meng a long time before she reluctantly got up from the ground.
“It’s not up to you to decide. You owe us twenty taels. If you don’t pay, we’ll report you to the authorities.” Lu Qingqing refused to budge.
Lu Qingqing dared to have Dr. Pang verify it, and with the ginseng given by Lin Zhuang, the turtle soup must be valuable.
Wang Mazi would never dare to report this to the authorities.
He had no money to compensate for the loss.
Finally, after much persuasion and forcing her son to apologize to Sixi, Lu Qingqing finally relented.
"A father with a pockmarked face, a short and ugly mother, and a son as stupid as a pig—your family is pretty miserable too. Let's just let it go this time."
Remember, Lu Sixi's surname is Lu. Don't think the Lu family has no one else!
The crowd dispersed.
A figure sneaked home.
Under the dim light of an oil lamp, a person was struggling to swallow his meal at a table.
"Mom, why were you gone for so long? Where are the scallions you picked?"
"That's all, we've pulled them all out. Just make do with this meal."
Liu sat down, clutching her stomach.
The person in front of them slammed down their bowl and chopsticks.
"I'm not eating! What kind of life is this?!"
Liu also lost her appetite, and the thought of what had just happened made her stomach feel even more bloated.
"Xiuwen, guess what I saw when I went out just now?"
Seeing that Lu Qingqing had actually stewed turtle and hen soup, and then gave such a big bowl to that unlucky Lu Sixi!
Turtle and chicken soup?
Ning Xiuwen swallowed reflexively.
"Is Lu Qingqing crazy? Why did she pick on Lu Sixi again?"
"Could she have known she'd never get married and thus picked a younger man to support her?" Liu guessed.
"Why don't you go and coax her again, and get some money back to tide you over?"
"That brat Dingxiang, it's so difficult for her to get anything, and I'm so tired of seeing that ugly face!"
Ning Xiuwen looked restrained; he had seen enough.
Even with the scars on her face, Lu Qingqing is still prettier than Ding Xiang.
The problem is, Lu Qingqing gets whatever she wants, but Dingxiang is always scheming against her, which is really annoying.
However, he needed money, and he always needed it, until he achieved success.
Only the Ding family can supply it.
"I'm not going to see Lu Qingqing again! She'll regret it in a few days anyway!"
She will realize how foolish it was to give up on a promising young scholar!
"That's true, it's better to coax Dingxiang than Lu Qingqing."
Thinking back to how Lu Qingqing had looked just now, Liu realized she had changed so much that she had even stunned Wang Mazi.
Not easy to deal with.
"Xiuwen, a woman can only be of one mind with a man if she sleeps with him. Find an opportunity..."
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After that day, Sixi practically became Lu Qingqing's little shadow.
She kept calling herself "Little Sister," running back and forth, memorizing the names of herbs, gathering herbs, and processing herbs, as if she were competing with Lu Yun.
Lu Qingqing taught them as she organized the materials, and the two of them quickly got the hang of it.
Lu Feng and his father finished building the side room and set up two medicine racks.
Lu Qingqing then led the two to write down the names and effects of the medicines and put the processed medicinal materials on the shelves.
Si Xi was illiterate, so Lu Yun and Lu Qingqing taught him to read.
The shelves were gradually filled, with a few rows still empty.
Lu Qingqing first wrote down the names of the medicines: Wangyuesha, Yemingsha, Baidingxiang, Zuopanlong, Baimatong, Xufumi, Heibingpian, Renzhonghuang...
"Little sister, what kind of medicine is this? It looks really powerful," Lu Yun asked.
"They must be extremely valuable, otherwise my aunt wouldn't have placed them on the top shelf."
Xiao Sixi used his intelligence and wit to his advantage.
Lu Qingqing smiled wickedly: "They are indeed very valuable. Who will organize them once they are collected?"
"I!"
"I!"
The two started fighting over it again.
"Let's split it in half," Lu Qingqing said.
"Let me first tell you what kind of medicinal herb this is."
"Wangyue Sand, rabbit droppings, is pungent and cold, and enters the liver and lung meridians. It treats pterygium, malnutrition sores, hemorrhoids, and fistulas."
"Night-shining sand, bat droppings, has a sweet and neutral taste, enters the liver meridian, and improves eyesight and detoxifies..."
"White lilac, sparrow droppings..."
"Left-coiled dragon, pigeon droppings..."
"Rice in the belly of the dog, dog shit..."
"June 1st mud, earthworm droppings..."
"Human urinary tract yellow..."
Lu Yun and Si Xi were dumbfounded.
Various insects are one thing, but then there's a pile of poop?
Among them was human feces.
Is this truly a good medicine for curing illness, rather than a poison?
"Second Uncle, I'm too young and not reliable enough to do things properly. You should take care of it."
"You should do it. You may be small, but you're very smart and you remember things much faster than I do."
"Come here."
"Come here."
"Let me do it!" Old Man Lu came in with a smile.
“I’ve helped your mother prepare medicinal herbs before, so I have some experience.”
Lu Yun and Si Xi felt as if they had seen a savior.
"Father, then you do it!"
"Grandpa, you've worked hard."
Old Man Lu nodded with a mature and steady demeanor, his eyes gleaming with eagerness: "Daughter, what do you want to tidy up?"
"Wangyue Sand, Ye Ming Sand, White Lilac, Zuo Panlong..."
The smile on Old Man Lu's face gradually froze.
He may not know about other things, but he does know about the yellow substance in philtrum.
These two guys tricked me!
But it's okay, he can just say the carpentry work is urgent...
Outside, listening to the cheerful laughter coming from the side room, Lu Feng couldn't sit still.
The younger sister treats him very well, but she seems to get along better with the second brother.
They're together every day and have endless topics to talk about.
"Dad, this job is really boring. You've been doing it your whole life. Don't you get tired of it?"
"But I don't have my second brother's good brain either; I can't remember so many medicine names."
"father?"
Lu Feng looked back, but there was no sign of his father.
Alright, Dad's gone to the side room too!
"Excuse me, is this Lu Yun's house?" someone called from outside the door.
Lu Feng quickly went to open the door, and a well-dressed middle-aged man was standing outside.
"Who are you?"
"My surname is Tian, and my given name is Tian Leshan."
"Oh, it's Mr. Tian. Please come in."
Tian Leshan came to buy medicine for wounds.
In Ming'an County, he was considered a successful businessman with a stable supply of goods.
They mostly waited in the city for people to come to them for purchase and inspection, or they would send a young assistant to collect the goods.
This was the first time in several years that he had personally gone to the store to solicit goods.
The main reason is that the goods are so good that he has to seize the opportunity!
"Miss Qingqing, that wound medicine is amazing! It stops bleeding and reduces swelling incredibly quickly. See how much more you can make? I'll take it all."
“Some materials are scarce, so we can’t make a lot. The medicine is also expensive, costing at least one tael of silver per bottle,” Lu Qingqing said.
The effectiveness of wound medicine depends entirely on its formula. The best wound medicine requires dragon bone, which fetches a higher price.
Unfortunately, that material is no longer available.
This medicine is not something ordinary people can afford; what she made is already the most cost-effective formula.
Even after deducting costs and labor, you can still make 500 coins per bottle.
Tian Leshan has been dealing with medicinal herbs for many years, so how could he not know the general price of wound medicine?
Most of them only collect 1 to 3 taels, but their medicinal effects are far inferior to those of Lu Qingqing's!
Such a highly effective drug, if released to the public, would inevitably drive up its price.
At that time, you might not even be able to buy it for five taels!
"Miss Qingqing, I can give you a bottle and a half ounces, but can we sign a contract stipulating that this medicine can only be supplied to me from now on?"
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