Quick Transmigration: The Love Rescue Plan

Using the family's last remaining money to buy medicinal herbs was no small matter.

Although a large portion of the money came from Dong Ping's dowry and the money she earned from treating patients over the years, it was still related to the family's livelihood, and Guo's mother couldn't come up with a solution.

The family of three gathered in the yard and discussed it in detail.

Perhaps it was because of Dong Ping's extremely reliable performance over the years that Guo's father agreed without hesitation: "Your concerns are not unfounded. Historically, floods have made it easier to contract diseases. It is necessary to take precautions. Daughter-in-law, go and count how much money we have left."

Mr. Guo looked at Mrs. Guo, then at Dong Ping, and continued, “Ping’er, you’ve really worked hard all these years. If it weren’t for you, we two old folks would probably have died of thirst or starvation long ago.”

"Dad, you're too kind. I just stumbled upon this by accident," Dong Ping quickly shook her head and said modestly, "I'm just used to being poor, so I unconsciously always like to collect ingredients that can be stored for longer! Besides, the village was able to get through the difficulties safely because everyone was willing to help each other. They all agreed to put their grain at our house, and we agreed to cook and distribute the food, right?"

"Everyone trusts your cooking skills. Do you think all those days of pork bone soup, fried intestines, stir-fried pork belly, and braised chicken feet were just for free? You can even cook those things that people would throw away so well. Everyone believes that you can cook plain porridge better than anyone else."

Mr. Guo said, both amused and annoyed, "I wonder if you little devil knew this day would come all along, so you started winning people over early on."

"What do you mean? I'm just trying to maintain good neighborly relations. It's only four coins' worth of food, enough for everyone to have two meals. How is that not a good deal? Besides, if everyone likes it, they'll save some when they slaughter the pig, and some will even bring us some out of kindness. So we're not losing out!" Dong Ping said coquettishly, clinging to Guo's father's hand. "Furthermore, Daddy, the villagers aren't eating our food for free. They often bring us eggs, duck eggs, goose eggs, river fish, river crabs, river shrimp, firewood, and things like that!"

"You're so clever. Father can't argue with you." Father Guo shook his head with a helpless smile.

“I’ll go to the pharmacy in town with you tomorrow. There’s been a natural disaster recently, and there probably aren’t any oxcarts in town. You’re a young lady and you can’t carry that much stuff. If I go with you, we can bring back more medicine.”

Although Dong Ping really wanted to say, "Father, with these prices, you can't just carry back as much as you want," she swallowed her words when she saw the expectant look in Guo's father's eyes.

In the past few years, Guo's father had been in poor health and had been recuperating at home.

Not long after his health improved, he encountered a natural disaster and never left the village again.

Now that things have finally settled down, it wouldn't be bad to go out and explore the city together.

The next morning, after breakfast, Dong Ping divided the family's only three strings of cash into four portions. She and Guo's father each put one string of cash at the bottom of a bamboo basket, covered it with a printed coarse cloth, and then each of them carried five hundred coins, along with dry food and water, and prepared to walk into the city.

Once in the city, Dong Ping calmed down considerably. Instead of rushing to buy medicinal herbs, she found a large tree and sat down to rest with Guo's father.

Dong Ping silently recalled her Chinese medicine book, which was thicker than a brick, and thought about the medicinal materials that could treat the early stages of plague, compiled from the collection of famous doctors from all over China's five thousand years of history.

After all, the modern Chinese medicine book is the essence of traditional Chinese medicine, which cannot be compared with the ancient herbal books.

Only by choosing a variety of options can you buy more medicinal herbs with limited funds.

After quietly compiling a list of all the medicinal herbs that could treat the early stages of the plague, Dong Ping greeted Guo's father and went to the nearest pharmacy to find out more.

Why didn't Dong Ping go with Guo's father?

Please, is shopping something women can do in a flash?

Moreover, if you want to buy something cheap, how can you be sure that you're getting the best price without comparing prices from different vendors?

Dong Ping would feel guilty making Guo's father, a man in his thirties or forties, accompany her from one end of the street to the other, and then back again!

After a flood, epidemics are likely to break out. Ordinary people may not know this, but would people in clinics and pharmacies not know it?

As expected, medicines are very expensive nowadays, especially those used to treat or prevent plagues.

However, Dong Ping also had to be thankful that ancient herbal medicine collections did not have the same detailed understanding of medicinal materials as modern ones.

There are still loopholes that can be exploited.

Of course, commonly used medicinal herbs such as honeysuckle, mint, licorice, forsythia, perilla, saposhnikovia, dried ginger, cinnamon twig, mulberry leaf, chrysanthemum, and platycodon are definitely not overlooked.

However, the prices of herbs such as Anemarrhena asphodeloides, gypsum, fermented soybean, reed rhizome, and catnip spike are just those of common medicinal herbs.

Perhaps because there were no medicines for recuperating from the early stages of a plague in this era, herbs such as Solomon's seal, sand ginseng, ophiopogon japonicus, and hyacinth bean were priced like ordinary herbs.

Of course, the price of this common herb is now about ten times higher than it was a few years ago.

Compared to mint and parsnips, they are much cheaper.

However, Dong Ping was not in a hurry to buy them. Instead, she asked the herbalist about the price of each herb and said that she would come back with her father to buy them later.

Fortunately, Dong Ping has a baby face. Even after being married into the Guo family for so many years, she still looks like a sixteen or seventeen-year-old girl.

Although the apothecary looked a little unwell, he didn't say anything more.

Dong Ping followed the same method and visited several pharmacies in succession.

Relying on her exceptional memory as a liberal arts student, she slowly pieced together the price differences between several pharmacies before heading to meet up with Guo's father.

Only then did the procurement of medicinal materials officially begin.

In addition to buying common medicinal herbs for treating plague at each pharmacy, Dong Ping and Guo's father also bought some medicinal herbs for treating and conditioning that Dong Ping only knew about, as well as some other common herbs.

In this way, others will not know the purpose of your large-scale purchase of common medicinal herbs.

After all, he possessed pharmacological knowledge unknown to this dynasty, and this was a secret. If others found out...

Therefore, it's always wise to be cautious in everything you do.

Most of the medicinal herbs were bought from several shops, except for gypsum.

Although gypsum is priced the same as ordinary medicinal materials in pharmacies, it's better to go to a tofu shop if you want to buy it cheaply.

Therefore, after making a large purchase at the pharmacy, Dong Ping asked Guo's father to wait for her at the city gate while she went to the tofu shop and bought a lot of gypsum.

After meeting up with Guo's father, they started heading back.

With the medicinal herbs collected, Dong Ping felt much more at ease, hoping that everything would go as she wished, and that Wangjia'ao and even the entire Zhangjia Village could safely weather this ordeal.