After putting saltpeter into the basin, Doctor Sun helped stir it and warned, "The ice in this basin cannot be eaten. Father Qi, please be careful.

Wait until the primer cools the water down, then put something under the small basin or bowl of water and slowly stir the outer layer of water.

Miss Shen, you see, this is a time-consuming and laborious task. Six taels is really not a low price. Why not lower it a little?"

Old Man Qi nodded repeatedly: "I'm not trying to bargain too hard. Five taels, is that okay with you?"

Shen Lingzhu and her senior sister looked at each other and nodded silently. Five taels could temporarily solve the urgent problem.

While waiting for the ice to break down, Old Man Qi watched Doctor Sun help him write the document. The water became increasingly colder, and then he happily went home to get the silver.

The transaction was completely completed on their side. When they went to the shopkeeper to pay for the medicine, the other party asked them to prepare to leave the city and really didn't dare to take them in any longer.

Doctor Sun was helpless about this and told them privately that their aunt needed to continue recuperating. If they had relatives or friends to rely on in the provincial capital, they should try to find Doctor Qian from Renhetang, as he was very good at preserving the fetus.

Shen Lingzhu asked: "Is it expensive?"

Doctor Sun: "The minimum payment for a visit is two or three taels of silver, and the outpatient fee is five qian."

Seeing her gasp, he continued, "But the medicine he prescribes will be adjusted according to the patient's physical condition and the patient's own abilities. For example, he can replace the expensive medicine we prescribed this time with ordinary medicine."

"Doctor Sun, you are too honest. Aren't you afraid that the shopkeeper will know and scold you?" Shen Lingzhu really felt that their family was lucky to have met such a person.

Doctor Sun smiled sheepishly: "He is my uncle, what's there to be afraid of if he scolds me?"

Shen Lingzhu expressed her admiration for him in silence.

At this time, the senior sister asked, "If I give you a secret recipe for a plaster to treat injuries, how much silver will the shopkeeper give you?"

“Our clinic mainly focuses on treating major and minor pulse diseases and women.

Unless your patent medicine works immediately." Doctor Sun deliberately used technical terms to talk to her.

The senior sister didn't ask any more questions. She knew that the other party would not trust the prescription of a half-grown child like her, and she didn't have the time to make the ointment and use it.

Shen Lingzhu, who was standing next to him, just felt a little hope when he flew away again.

After feeding my aunt some water, she mentioned to her senior sister that she had just passed by a vegetable stall and suddenly thought of the method of growing bean sprouts, which seemed to have been widely spread relatively late in ancient times.

When she lived in Huilongguan to recuperate, she often followed her master and senior sisters to grow bean sprouts and grind tofu.

She planned to go out and ask around and sell it as a secret recipe.

My senior sister disagreed: "There are records of sprouts appearing very early, but there is no record of when they became common people's homes.

I'll go back to my hometown and see if anyone knows how to do it. It's a simple way to make money quickly, and it would be best if we could earn some money ourselves first."

"But this is already the medical fee. Doctor Sun asked the shopkeeper for a discount, and he got 328 off the bill." Shen Lingzhu shook the remaining copper coins and silver dimes in his hand.

"Let's buy some rice and flour, and then find a place to stay outside the city. It will be spent in minutes." Given my aunt's condition, she didn't dare to stay in a dilapidated temple.

The senior sister patted her head and said with a smile: "They don't dare to ask for the recipe of the plaster here, but it doesn't mean that they can't do it in the capital. It will be easier to sell it for ten or twenty taels then.

Actually, silver is very valuable. You can tell by how readily Dad Qi gives copper coins, but how reluctant he is to give away silver dimes.

Shen Lingzhu didn't care that silver was more expensive than copper coins. She was happier to see her senior sister smiling and optimistic again than to make money.

When her senior sister asked her to look after her aunt and said she would hire a medicine boy to take her to the street to buy rice and flour, Shen Lingzhu expressed her strong support.

But before the two of them could make any move, three yamen runners from the front hall came over and said, "The Shen family, please come with us to the yamen and wait."

The two sisters looked at the shopkeeper who followed them, shook their heads slightly but couldn't stop him, but they found a strong woman to help carry Hu.

Shen Lingzhu tried to stop them: "Senior Sister, they didn't show us any credentials, so who knows where they're taking us?

It’s not that women in ancient times would not easily enter the government office. I vaguely remember that only my uncle and brother went to the county town ahead.”

The senior sister grabbed her and said, "Don't act on the street unless you see the right thing to do. Don't cause trouble for Doctor Sun."

While the yamen runners were waiting outside the back door, Doctor Sun told Shen Lingzhu that a lackey had given Captain Luo some money in exchange for letting them report to the yamen immediately.

He said he would walk in front with the medicine box on his back, and if the two people couldn't see him on the road, he would find a way to stop on the street. The two people were very grateful.

There was nothing wrong with the route the yamen runners had taken, but when they arrived at the yamen gate with the unconscious Hu in the cart, these people just asked them to wait outside and said they would go in to report.

After waiting for a while and no one paid any attention, the senior sister had already found a way to put up a tarpaulin on the car.

Shen Lingzhu was tanned and wiped the sweat off his aunt's face. When he walked over and looked inside the gate, he happened to meet the person who was looking out from behind the screen wall.

It was the follower who was rudely shouting at people beside Master Shi this morning.

She couldn't help it: "Humph, go into the government office, good!"

"Little Bamboo." The senior sister couldn't keep watch anymore, and the junior sister rushed to the drum of vindication and hit the drum hammer.

Doctor Sun saw it from a distance and was so shocked that he stood there in shock.

"Stop her!" The senior sister chased and shouted, waking up the yamen runner who was dozing off in the corridor, but the two did not try to stop Shen Lingzhu. They did not have the right to do so.

Fortunately, the moment Shen Lingzhu raised the drum hammer, she remembered the reason why she did not file a complaint, so she turned around and rushed into the yamen with the drum hammer in hand, and immediately found the Shi family follower who was looking at her from behind the door.

Then without saying a word, he rushed over and hit her in one go. The follower was quite skilled in fighting and kicked her away when he was caught off guard.

Just then, two gatekeepers reacted and rushed over to catch her, "Stop messing around!"

Shen Lingzhu had been physically agile in both his past and present lives. In the past few days, he had secretly resumed practicing the internal martial arts taught by his master at Huilong Temple. At this moment, he dodged with a backflip.

In a blink of an eye, she jumped up again to avoid the officers and charged again with the drum hammer in hand. The Shi family follower snorted coldly, pushed the officers away, and clenched his fist to teach her a lesson.

Unexpectedly, Shen Lingzhu paused his elbow slightly in the middle, and the drumstick stabbed straight towards his lower body. Because of its extremely fast and accurate speed, it really hit the vital acupuncture point.

"Ah!" The follower immediately rolled on the ground and screamed, scaring many people from the tax duty rooms on both sides.

The incident happened so fast that the two gatekeepers forgot to stop Shen Lingzhu and continued to chase and hit people.

Just then, my senior sister came running in and said to the yamen runners running over from the other side of the ceremonial gate, "Quickly catch that man on the ground. His portrait as a sea constable is posted at the city gate."

At the same time, he stepped forward and embraced his junior sister, stepping back to make room for the yamen runners. "If you don't believe me, compare it with the portrait."

She didn't notice the portrait when she first entered the city. It was only after her junior sister mentioned it that she took a look at it when she picked her up. It did look somewhat like it.

Shen Lingzhu, who had beaten someone before, never thought that she would actually beat up an adult. "Senior Sister, what if it's not her?"

"Just admit your mistake by taking the reward." As soon as the senior sister finished speaking, the two of them were surrounded.

But at this moment, someone shouted, "Oh! This man looks just like the one in the arrest warrant."

The yamen runners were puzzled and quickly sent someone to ask the county magistrate for instructions.

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