Gao Mingde also told Shujie about the efficacy of those pills, and the name of the pills was posted on each porcelain bottle.

"Little brother, thank you for trusting me. These medicines are really effective, easy to store, and convenient to use. I am penniless now and it is my first time in Beijing, so I have to sell them at a low price.

I asked them in exchange for the money. Just give me a hundred taels of silver. Uh, if it doesn’t work out, it’s at least eighty taels. In fact, one hundred taels is not even enough to buy medicinal materials. Just treat us as friends. Of course, you

It also helped me.”

Shujie nodded in agreement. Even if he didn't have these medicines, he would still be willing to spend a hundred taels to buy Shuwen's medicine and dietary prescriptions. Not only did the young master Gao not exaggerate Shuwen's illness, he also bluntly said that his condition was getting worse and worse.

Well, it proves that this gentleman is not only excellent in medical skills, but also has good character.

While Gao Mingde turned around to get a pen and paper to write the prescription, Shuyao took out three 100-tael silver notes from the mahogany box and quietly stuffed them into Shujie. Gao Mingde's eight years in the capital were very prosperous, and with the royal family,

There are many high-ranking families and powerful officials who have good relations. Shuyao sincerely hopes that her eldest brother can have a good relationship with Gao Mingde.

Moreover, a year later, these dozen bottles of medicine may not even be able to be bought for 3,000 taels of silver. Just the bottle of antidote pills called "Wanhua Dan" is said to be worth 300 taels each, and it is extremely difficult to buy.

There are six in the porcelain bottle now.

Shujie didn't know that much, nor did he know Shuyao's intention to get him on good terms with Gao Mingde, but like Xia Linxuan, he had a chivalrous heart. As long as he was sure that the other party was not a bad person, he would always be willing to do anything he could to help.

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With this in mind, he handed the banknote to Gao Mingde: "The capital is expensive, and Mr. Gao is not familiar with the place, so it would be better to prepare more money."

Gao Mingde saw the amount of the banknote and was shocked and moved: "Brother, I really need the money, so I won't refuse. Even if I borrowed it from you, I still owe you a share."

As a favor, please tell me your surname and name, little brother."

Shujie said with a smile: "My little brother's surname is Xia and his name is Shujie. Brother Gao, don't worry about it. You gave my brother a diagnosis and treatment and made us feel at ease about his health. It also helped us a lot."

Gao Mingde still gave him a big gift. The three brothers and sisters were not richly dressed, and he had clearly said that at least eighty taels of silver would be enough, but Brother Xia gave him three hundred taels, and they had not used his medicine yet.

It’s not as if he knows the value of the medicine. It’s obvious that he just wants to help him. He is lucky to meet such a kind and benevolent person. Of course, he will definitely return this love in the future.

Gao Mingde wrote out prescriptions for medicines and meals, and wrote down the functions and usage of various pills and powders in detail. Then he sent Shujie and the others out of the inn, and stopped by the counter to pay five taels of silver: "I'll have more tonight."

Stay one night, and prepare three fresh noodles for me to bring to the room for one night." He had not eaten a single grain of rice since last night.

The waiter responded loudly, and when Gao Mingde turned around and went up the stairs, he muttered to the cashier: "You really are being taken advantage of. You actually trust a counterfeit medicine seller and you won't eat dead people, right?"

Gao Mingde snorted in his heart: "People like you are not worthy of using my medicine." However, he sincerely thanked Shujie, otherwise it would be difficult to meet someone who could trust him, and he didn't know whether he would be able to go to the capital smoothly.

As soon as Shuyao and the others stepped into "Yuncaifang", they bumped into Mr. Zhou, accompanied by a little girl wearing a plum-red brocade skirt, who was her cousin Xia Shuqing who was four years older than them.

The eldest uncle Xia Linyu had three sons and two daughters. Among them, the eldest son Xia Shuyi, the second son Xia Shuyao, and the second daughter Xia Shuqing were all born to the Zhou family. The eldest daughter Xia Shulin and the youngest son Xia Shuyu were born by concubines.

Xia Shuqing is much more cunning than her parents and two biological brothers. She always has an elegant and gentle ladylike demeanor in front of others. When she was growing up, because her fiancé Guo Jinnan rescued her concubine Xia Shulin from the lake, she reluctantly broke off the marriage and let her fiancé marry her.

He married his concubine and became known as "kind and generous".

Guo Jinnan is three years older than Xia Shuqing. The two have been engaged since childhood. Guo's father once rescued Xia Linyu, and the two families are considered close friends. Unexpectedly, when Guo Jinnan was fourteen years old, his father was killed by a bandit, and his family property was robbed by his uncle to "pay off debts."

, the mother and son had no choice but to go to Yulin Town to join the Xia Mansion. They used Guo's mother's small dowry to buy a small courtyard on the edge of the town, and purchased several acres of land in a nearby village to collect rent.

I originally wanted to wait for Xia Shuqing to have hairpins, but Guo Jinnan's filial piety period had also passed, so I could quickly get the two of them married. Then Guo Jinnan went to Beijing to take the exam, but unexpectedly he married Xia Shulin later. Mother and son still felt ashamed of Xia Shuqing for this.

Not long after, Xia Shuqing married the eldest son of a wealthy businessman. Unexpectedly, less than half a year after marrying, the man died of illness for unknown reasons, and Xia Shuqing was abandoned and kicked out.

At the same time, Guo Jinnan passed the Jinshi examination and was assigned to be a county magistrate in a large county on the outskirts of Beijing. He heard that his future was very promising. It happened that Xia Shulin was about to give birth, so he had to stay in Yulin Town to wait until the baby was one month old before taking him in.

Jing and Guo's mother also stayed to take care of their daughter-in-law and grandchildren.

As a result, Xia Shulin had a dystocia and died of massive hemorrhage after giving birth to a son. In order to take care of her poor little nephew, Xia Shuqing married Guo Jinnan as her second wife.

When Shuyao lived in Weiyuan Hou Mansion, Xia Shuqing came to visit Mrs. Hou several times as Shuyao's cousin, trying to get closer. Unfortunately, Mrs. Hou Yao Xuelan was so shrewd that she was very cold to her, and she also analyzed Xia Shuqing with Shuyao.

Trouble in the twists and turns of a marriage.

Later, Shuyao accidentally rescued Shuqing's personal maid Qiaohe, only to hear that Qiaohe confirmed Shuqing's viciousness. It turned out that Shuqing was responsible for Shulin's falling into the water and being forced to marry Guo Jinnan, as well as her tragic death during childbirth.

The plot was planned. Qiaohe also escaped because she was raised as an aunt because she was pregnant with Guo Jinnan's child, and was persecuted by Shuqing.

Although Shuyao in her previous life had not had much contact with Shuqing and was not plotted by her, it was better to stay away from such a hypocritical and vicious person.

When Mrs. Zhou saw Shujie and the others, she spat heavily on the ground: "Is this where you came from? Are there people who have no one to teach you something, and you still want to learn how to twist needles and thread to make things elegant?"

Shuyao tilted her head and looked at Shujie: "Brother, are you saying that you have no one to teach you about life? Does that mean you are uneducated? My mother said that spitting is what uneducated rough people do, how dirty it is.

ah!"

Shuwen also frowned: "That's right, mother said that if there is a virus, it will be transmitted to the people around you through saliva."

Most of the guests who came to "Yuncaifang" were women, and most of them came from relatively well-off families. Seeing Mr. Zhou spitting and making loud sounds like that, I already felt uncomfortable. But then I heard the words of Shuyao and her brother, and even more.

They looked at Mr. Zhou with contempt, and they all covered their mouths and noses and pushed away.

"It's disgusting. This is how people live their lives and have no one to teach them."

"No, even a child understands the truth, but a person of such an age still doesn't know it."

"Shopkeeper, why don't you quickly find someone to clean it up? There are so many of us here, so we don't want to catch any disease."

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Mrs. Zhou was so angry that her face turned red and white, but she didn't dare to yell out loud here. If she bumped into any lady, it would be terrible for the lady. She just offended the golden tongue next to the emperor a few days ago, and she has not forgotten it.

Shu Qing next to Zhou wanted to find a crack in the ground to crawl in. This mother was getting more and more ungraceful. Last time she had a quarrel with her third aunt at the "Huitong Bank", she spit like this and was almost killed by the bank's clerk.

How could she forget so soon after being kicked out? If the Xia family had not been deprived of their title, her mother would also be a lady-in-waiting now. How could she be so... vulgar?
Chapter completed!