Chapter 24 The crisis of one corpse and two lives!
Although there is not much money left, some expenses are still indispensable.
Early the next morning, Lu Ze and Lin Suisui packed up and entered the city. There were many shops in the city. Although it was still early, the small market was already bustling with people.
Lin Suisui and Lu Ze went to the medicine store first.
Along the way, Lin Suisui also gained some understanding of the distribution of shops in the city. Naturally, the largest number were inns and restaurants, followed by cloth embroidery, and then porcelain and tea shops.
As for medicinal herb shops, there are several in this city, but compared to the hustle and bustle of other businesses, this one seems a bit deserted.
But it's not surprising when you think about it.
Although the northern border is the origin of precious medicinal materials such as ginseng and deer antlers, it is unfortunately located on the border and the people are sparse due to years of war. In addition, most of the refugees who migrated from the mainland do not know how to obtain these medicinal materials, so it is even more difficult to obtain them.
Many of these medicinal materials have to be trafficked from countries further north, such as Korea.
Because of their special nature, medicinal materials are usually escorted by caravans, and are rarely used in the kind of store transactions at hand.
Therefore, it is not surprising that there are only a few drug stores in this city.
Lin Suisui was not in a hurry. She just visited all these pharmacies before returning to the second Wang's Pharmacy she had visited before. She politely stopped the waiter who had received them before.
He asked in a low voice: "Can you tell me where you can collect medicinal materials?"
Things like musk are expensive but not marketable. In addition to being able to buy medicine from medicine shops, she can also turn around and ask many spice shops in the city. She would give priority to medicine shops because of her partiality as a doctor.
Although the waiter saw the two people in front of him wearing simple clothes, he did not show any contempt for them. He just paused for a moment and said simply: "Take it. I don't know what medicinal materials you two want to sell."
?!"
"Musk."
Lin Suisui's voice was not loud, but it still attracted the attention of the shopkeeper not far away. When he came over and heard that the two people in front of him wanted to take action, his eyes suddenly lit up. He took a few steps and stopped the man who was about to reply.
The waiter pushed aside and looked at the young lady in front of him eagerly: "What this lady is talking about is musk?!"
"Yes." Since she was doing business, Lin Suisui was very straightforward. She turned around and motioned to Lu Ze to take out the two scented glands from the basket on his back and put them on the table aside for the shopkeeper to see.
These two servings of scented glands were quite heavy, and the eagerness in the shopkeeper's eyes suddenly climbed to another level.
"You two, at what price do you plan to sell it?" Although he wanted it very much, the shopkeeper still tried hard to maintain restraint and tried his best to calm his desire.
To avoid being noticed by the other party, they will take the opportunity to increase the price!
"Of course it's the market price." Lin Suisui could see the eagerness in the shopkeeper's eyes at a glance. As a doctor, she naturally knew the value of these two medicinal materials. Many prescriptions for treating patients require this medicinal material!
If she hadn't been so strapped for money now, she would have been reluctant to take action.
The shopkeeper pondered for a moment, then slowly raised his hand, slapped Lin Suisui with his hand, flipped it over once, and then said: "I wonder if the lady can accept this number."
"The shopkeeper is indeed a fair person." Lin Suisui smiled. The shopkeeper's action was actually a bargaining gesture that many doctors understand. In other words, the shopkeeper was negotiating with her, and it was also a kind of test.
Doctors have a sense of awe for the many precious medicinal materials that can save people in distress. Therefore, they rarely say the price directly. Over time, they use this gesture instead.
If she were just an ordinary person, she would come across this medicinal material by chance and come to take advantage of it. If she didn't know the trade, she would probably think that the shopkeeper's gesture was only fifty taels of silver.
But she knew clearly that the actual meaning of this gesture was one thousand taels.
"It's a blessing for the shop that the lady can cut off her love." Seeing that Lin Suisui is a knowledgeable person, the shopkeeper gave up the last thought of luck and bowed to Lin Suisui in a decent manner, and then only invited her
Wait a moment with Lu Ze. They have to pack up the Musk for inspection first, and then come over to pay her money.
While waiting, Lin Suisui also had time to look around the drug store. She was not very interested in other things. She just saw the two sets of tools placed together on the shelf against the wall.
, it’s hard to walk.
It was a set of thirteen knives of different sizes and a set of silver needles used for acupuncture.
The needles are not bad, mainly because of the set of knives. The smallest blade is as thin as a cicada's wing, while the largest one is also extremely sharp. It can be seen that it was made by a famous master!
She had a set of this kind of knife before, which was used to debridement and treat injuries. For a doctor, she is definitely Shangjia's assistant!
However, the price...
"This is one of the knives made by Master Liu Yishou before. It originally belonged to Dr. Du, but something happened to his family last year and he needed money, so he gave this knife to our shopkeeper to get the money."
The waiter who was accompanying Lin Suisui saw that Lin Suisui was interested in this set of knives, so he introduced her to her with a wink.
Hearing that the knives were made by 'Liu Yishou', Lin Suisui felt even more eager. You must know that the set of knives she used before was also made by this master!
Apart from being too expensive, there are almost no disadvantages!
so……
Lin Suisui raised her hands to cover her chest, feeling for the first time that she couldn't bear the pain of poverty.
But before her feeling of not being able to get her wish could deepen, she was interrupted by a burst of chaotic footsteps. She turned around and looked over, and saw a group of panic-stricken maids and women, surrounded by a thick man.
The mother-in-law crowded in from outside the door. When the girl in the lead saw the shopkeeper, she was like a drowning person seeing a life-saving straw. She came over and knelt down in front of him with a thud: "Help, please save my girl."
, She, she just fell down... her fetus was moved, please, please save our girl, she lost a lot of blood..."
The sudden chaos in the lobby did not affect Lin Suisui's observation and judgment. She immediately saw the woman lying on the stout woman. At this time, she was already unconscious, and her skirt was dizzy.
The blood red color all reflects the crisis of the current situation.
But even if he knew it, the shopkeeper who was dragged by this girl was still unstoppable: "I'm not a doctor! I, I am also powerless!"
There is indeed a doctor sitting in the medicine shop, but he can only give a simple look at the headache and brain fever. Now this is a job that can kill two people if it goes wrong... Who dares to get involved?!
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