"Yes, why are you asking if you don't want to buy it? It's true!"
Doudou is also not happy. My lady just paid for such expensive medicinal materials, but you said you don't need them. So wouldn't the two hundred taels of silver be wasted?
Chai Yan looked aggrieved and said: "I'm sorry, Miss Gu, I just wanted to tell you this, but you told me not to talk..."
Gu Ling was slightly startled. She had indeed interrupted Chai Yan mid-sentence just now and told him to shut up.
"Chai Yan, is it possible that you are teasing my young lady on purpose?" Mo Di said with a serious face.
Chai Yan immediately defended: "No, no, how is it possible? You have misunderstood. In fact, there is a reason for me to do this!"
"The reason?" Mo Di frowned and asked, "What's the reason?"
Gu Ling and Doudou were also staring at Chai Yan, as if saying that if you don't give a reasonable explanation, this matter will never end with you today!
Chai Yan explained: "I asked about Millennium Ginseng as soon as I came in. The main reason is to let the shopkeeper and the waiters know that we are not ordinary customers. We are here for the high-quality and precious medicinal materials, so as to prevent them from taking those high-quality They use inferior medicinal materials to fool us and waste our time..."
"Really?" Gu Ling was dubious.
Chai Yan immediately nodded and continued: "Miss Gu, think about it carefully. At that time, when I mentioned Thousand-Year Ginseng, did the waiters and shopkeepers here look at us differently? Did the shopkeeper also come to receive us in person? ?That attitude, tsk tsk, should be as enthusiastic and enthusiastic..."
Gu Ling thought about it secretly, and it seemed that it was indeed what Chai Yan said...
Chai Yan sighed softly: "Oh, I didn't expect that Miss Gu would be so impatient to buy things... If I had known, I wouldn't have asked about ginseng..."
After her anger subsided, Gu Ling felt a little embarrassed. Looking back on the process just now, she was indeed too impatient.
"Miss, why don't we return this ginseng..." Although Doudou is young, she feels sorry for wasting money.
As she said that, Doudou was going to get the wooden box on the table.
But Gu Ling stopped Doudou, shook his head and said: "It doesn't matter, just think of this wild ginseng as the one I picked for daddy!"
Doudou nodded and returned to his original position.
Gu Ling looked at Chai Yan and reminded: "Chai Yan, if you ask anything irrelevant again, you will be responsible for the consequences!"
Until now, Gu Ling still hasn't figured out why her father believed Chai Yan's nonsense last night.
Chai Yan immediately expressed his position: "Miss Gu, please rest assured, it will never happen again!"
Gu Ling said: "What other medicinal materials should I buy? I'll tell you all at once!"
"Oh, that's quite a lot..." Chai Yan immediately broke his fingers and started counting seriously: "Ganoderma lucidum, bezoar, agarwood, gecko, blood drain, antelope horn, seahorse, sea dragon, and akid snake." , toad oil..."
Gu Ling's expression changed at that time, thinking that this scoundrel must have done it on purpose. Everything he said was rare and valuable medicinal materials. If he bought them all, he would not be able to leave the house without a few thousand taels!
Doudou exclaimed: "No, you want to buy so much?"
Gu Ling frowned and asked, "Chai Yan, are you sure you mean what you said?"
The Ganoderma lucidum and agarwood mentioned by Chai Yan are fine, but bezoars are hard to find. Even big pharmacies in Beijing may not be able to buy them, let alone small places like Anping County.
There is a saying that a thousand pieces of gold is easy to find, but a bezoar is rare! This shows how hard it is to find a bezoar.
In fact, Chai Yan does not need any medicinal materials, but since the pretense of refining mantra beans has been put out, it is inevitable that it must be paired with several rare medicinal materials to appear credible. Otherwise, the "refined" mantra beans will inevitably be questioned.
It works!
"Uh... let me think about it..." Chai Yan said after pretending to think: "It doesn't necessarily mean that they have to be the same. Time is tight at the moment, so I can only adapt.
Let's do this... I'll collect five of them, and I'll find something else to replace the rest!"
Gu Ling was slightly relieved. After all, she had said something like "don't worry about money" just now. If the money was really not enough, it would be too shameful.
Next, Chai Yan called the shopkeeper and read out a lot of names of medicinal materials to him.
Beads of sweat broke out on the shopkeeper's forehead immediately after hearing this...
"Dear guests, many small shops don't have the things you want in stock..."
At this time, the shopkeeper felt regretful. When he went to purchase goods half a month earlier, he wanted to buy a batch of precious medicinal materials, but in the end he changed his mind.
Fortunately now, door-to-door business can no longer be done...
However, the drugstore shopkeeper is still a very lively person. In order not to lose big customers, he has no choice but to go to other drugstores to "borrow goods".
It says it’s a loan, but it’s actually a purchase!
An hour later, the medicine shop owner finally helped me get the five herbs.
Gu Ling paid the money, and the four of them left the pharmacy.
As soon as the four of them came out of the street, Gu Ling asked Chai Yan: "Where are we going next?"
Chai Yan said: "Don't be anxious, don't be anxious, I'll ask around first..."
As soon as he finished speaking, Chai Yan stopped a passerby nearby and asked: "Brother, where can I buy fresh pig blood or cow blood in the city?"
The passerby immediately pointed ahead and said, "I don't know about the city, but there is a butcher named Zhao outside the east gate. He should be able to buy it."
"Thank you, brother!"
Chai Yan thanked the passers-by, then raised his hand and snapped his fingers, signaling everyone to go to the east gate.
Gu Ling was full of doubts and asked: "Buying pig blood, what is the use of cow blood?"
"Of course it's about refining mantra beans!" Chai Yan replied casually, striding to the front.
There was no other way, so the three of them had no choice but to follow Chai Yan's footsteps. They didn't know what Chai Yan's method of refining medicine was, but he actually used pig blood and cow blood.
After walking for a while out of the east gate, the four of them stopped at a three-way intersection.
Chai Yan was afraid that he would go the wrong way, so he planned to ask passers-by about where Butcher Zhao lived, but as soon as he had the idea, Shangguan Peining's voice appeared in his mind.
"Go left, it's ahead!" Shangguan Peining's tone was inexplicably excited, as if there was a huge treasure waiting for her ahead.
Following Shangguan Peining's guidance, Chai Yan led everyone to the fork on the left.
"Hey, do you know the road? Just go wherever you want..." Gu Ling shouted.
"It's okay, you can try taking the road on the right." Chai Yan walked without looking back.
Gu Ling stamped her feet angrily and followed with Doudou, while Mo Di was slightly on guard.
After walking for a while, everyone saw a house. As soon as they approached, they smelled the fishy smell of a slaughterhouse.
"Here we are, here it is!" Shangguan Peining was excited but also had a hint of excitement.