My game even includes ancient times

He Shi was still sitting quietly in that corner, his hands wrapped around his knees, his head half-lowered, so his face could not be seen.

He Yu's heart sank when he saw the mess on the ground.

She zoomed in on the image, focusing her gaze on He Shi's face.

His face was flushed, his breathing was rapid, and he was trembling slightly, as if he had started to have a fever.

He Yu didn't dare to delay and quickly opened [Homestead], picked up the recipe for [Cold Medicine] from the shelf. There was a recipe, but no place to cook the medicine.

She tried the "Kitchen" function, but it didn't work.

what to do……

He Yu switched the screen and saw He Shi curled up in discomfort. She recalled how he had looked so energetic and light-footed before going to bed last night. She felt sorry for him and secretly hated the culprit who caused this scene.

But the most urgent task is to cure He Shi's cold as soon as possible. If he continues to have a fever, who knows what irreversible negative effects might occur.

She thought for a moment, since she couldn't brew medicine in her home, she wondered if the pharmacy in the market could?

Given the game's degree of freedom and operability, He Yu felt that this idea was very likely to succeed.

She looked around the street but couldn't find a pharmacy, so she opened the map and found a Yongkang Pharmacy on another commercial street to the south.

He Yu clicked on the pharmacy sign, and the screen unfolded, revealing a fairly large consultation room. Behind the consultation table sat an elderly doctor with white hair and beard, and behind him stood a row of medicine cabinets.

[Hu Langzhong: Young lady, do you want to see a doctor? What symptoms do you have?]

He Yu typed: 【A cold or flu.】

[Hu the Physician: The consultation fee is thirty coins. Please place your hand here so I can take your pulse.]

So expensive? I still need to buy medicine and prepare it later...

He Yu was taken aback. She had spent almost all her money yesterday, and now there were only eight copper coins left in the storeroom, which was not enough no matter how she looked at it.

What to do... I've got it!

He Yu lowered her eyes in thought, then suddenly an idea struck her. Her fingers flew across the keyboard as she typed in the chat box: "[Doctor Hu, my young master's maid has caught a cold. He sent me here to buy medicine. Just get the medicine according to my prescription: three ounces of Scutellaria baicalensis and half a pint of Pinellia ternata...]"

She entered the prescription for the "cold medicine," clicked send, and carefully observed Hu Langzhong's reaction.

In the scene, Hu Langzhong's ordinary NPC-like face showed a slightly puzzled expression.

His gaze swept up and down, as if he were sizing up He Yu.

[Hu the Physician: In that case, I will prepare the medicine for you.]

As he spoke, he stood up and rummaged through the medicine cabinet behind him.

The system then notified: [You have obtained one dose of 'Cold Remedy']

Become!

He Yu was overjoyed and quickly typed: 【Thank you, Doctor Hu. The medicine will be charged to the Li family's account.】

[Hu the Physician: Well… never mind. I suppose the Li family is wealthy and powerful; they wouldn't keep my paltry sixty coins for medicine.]

Sixty coins? I didn't even save up sixty coins after completing two tasks...

He Yu's lips twitched, and he typed rapidly: "Of course, thank you very much, Doctor Hu. I'll take my leave now."

After sending the message, He Yu tried to exit the [Yongkang Pharmacy] interface, and as expected, she succeeded.

He Yu looked at the extra packet of medicine on the warehouse shelf with delight, feeling as if he had unintentionally unlocked a new way to play the game.

She followed the same method and found another pharmacy in the west of the city. This pharmacy was much smaller than Yongkang Pharmacy, and the doctor on duty was a tall, middle-aged man.

He Yu spent five coins to have the doctor prepare the medicine, then hurriedly opened the storeroom and found the cold medicine in a bowl on the shelf.

He Yu was about to give He Shi the medicine for a cold when she suddenly realized that he must not have eaten since he was sick. So she first gave him a steamed bun and then logged out of the Homestead to check on him.

This was alarming; He Shi seemed to have fainted. His posture had changed from leaning against the haystack to lying on his side, his arms tightly wrapped around himself, and he lay there motionless.

He Yu was startled and hurriedly zoomed in on the image to look at him.

Seeing that his face was flushed and his eyes were closed, as if he had stopped breathing, my heart suddenly tightened, and I was so anxious that I wanted to poke him awake.

After clicking twice with no response, He Yu realized that she couldn't interact with him directly.

In a moment of desperation, she picked up some snow from the ground with her fingers and threw it at He Shi's face.

This worked very well. He Shi slowly lifted his eyelids, his light-colored eyes, covered with a watery sheen, were unfocused, staring blankly ahead.

Could it be that the burn has caused irreversible damage?

He Yu bit her lip, about to click on [Character] to check He Shi's current status, when He Shi in the picture slowly sat up, sluggishly wiping the snow off his face.

Seeing that he seemed to have no sign of food, He Yu quickly pushed the steamed bun with her finger, making it roll to He Shi's side.

He Shi finally noticed the foreign object, looked down, and immediately saw the steamed bun lying next to him, and was stunned for a moment.

Then, her eyes, which had been misty due to the fever, slowly brightened.

He Shi raised his head and glanced around. His lips moved as if he wanted to say something, but in the end he said nothing.

He bent down again, picked up the cornbread, took a bite, and chewed it slowly and forcefully.

Seeing that he had eaten most of the cornbread with difficulty and that his stomach was already full, He Yu quickly gave him the medicine for catching a cold.

In the game scene, He Shi stared at a bowl of steaming medicine that suddenly appeared on the ground in front of him. Although he was delirious from the fever, he was still stunned and forgot to continue chewing the food in his mouth.

He hesitated for a moment, then struggled to stretch his back and pick up the bowl of medicine.

Looking at his blank expression, He Yu thought to herself, "Drink up, drink up..."

No one knows what He Shi was thinking, but after a while, he put the bowl to his lips and drank the medicine in one gulp.

Finally, he held the bowl up until the last drop of dark brown medicine fell into his mouth, then he placed the bowl steadily against the wall and groped his way to lie down.

Seeing He Shi drink the medicine and lie down, He Yu opened the [Character] menu and saw the status of [Severe Cold (Under Treatment)], and half of the weight in her heart was lifted.

It seems there are no major problems. Next, we should tackle the second task.

Based on the descriptions of the two tasks, He Yu roughly reconstructed what happened during the time she was offline.

He Yu took the fur coats from two servants of the Li family and gave them to He Shi. For some reason, the fur coats were stolen, and He Shi caught a cold because he was without warm clothes.

The thief who stole the fur coat was discovered and arrested by the Li family. He confessed that the coat came from He Shi, so the Li family will probably send someone to arrest He Shi next.

As for why the Li family was so fixated on the two servants' clothes, it must be because of the body of the young man who was dumped in the mass grave in the middle of the night.

When the two servants who had been knocked unconscious woke up, they reported the incident to the eldest son of the Li family out of fear. The eldest son of the Li family was afraid that someone would discover that he had harmed his brothers, so he followed the missing fur coat and investigated all the way down...

He Yu was once again amazed by the game's freedom and realism. She had a feeling that most of the NPCs in the game were AI, or at the very least, they should have very complex and sophisticated programming and their own set of self-consistent behavioral logic.

In the future, you'll have to be more careful when playing. If you treat them like NPCs in a regular game, you might fall into a trap.

As she pondered this, she opened the map, located the Li residence, and clicked to jump to the front of the Li residence.