The shopkeeper put the silver into a money bag and handed it to her, asking, "Recently, the pharmacy has been short of some hemostatic and anti-inflammatory herbs. Do you have any?"

“Sanqi is fine.”

"Using it solely as a hemostatic agent is too costly."

"Then what do you want?"

"Bletilla striata, Typha pollen..."

"These prices are low, how much are you planning to pay?"

"One hundred coins a pound, I suppose."

"Okay, I'll go back and check if there's any stock in the warehouse. I'll come back in a few days."

"Is three days later okay?"

Xiao Nan thought for a moment and said, "Okay, it's settled then. However, I hope you will keep my matter a secret."

"Don't worry, I don't want anyone else to know about this, I'm afraid they'll try to take you away."

"Haha, they're gone."

Leaving the pharmacy, she curled her lips into a smile. It seemed the medicine business was doing well, but it wasn't a regular occurrence.

Thinking that the house would be completed soon, and that she would have her own room, she needed to make doors, windows, furniture, and so on.

There is space, but the quality is incomparable to what you can find here. It's too eye-catching, so it's better to have it custom-made outside, or better yet, have a carpenter come to your home to make it.

However, people in ancient times were more feudal. It was fine if members of the Wang family came, but if other men came to the house, she wouldn't be afraid, but her grandmother wouldn't.

However, you can't do without hiring them, because many people measure the dimensions at home and do the work on the spot.

The best solution would be to have two men from the Wang family stay behind to help.

The kang (heated brick bed) needs to be laid out, the ground needs to be compacted, and the vegetable garden in the backyard needs to be replanned so that other vegetables can be planted; one type of vegetable won't do.

At the very least, you need to have chives, scallions, garlic, and ginger.

So Xiao Nan went to the carpenter's shop and saw that business was slow, with no one working and everyone just sitting idle.

The shopkeeper and his assistant were delighted to see her arrive.

"Young man, do you want to have furniture made, or buy ready-made furniture?"

"My house was just built, and all the doors, windows, gate, and furniture inside need to be new, including kitchen cabinets and such. Do you have any?"

"The house has furniture and kitchen cabinets, but other items will need to be made to order, which will be slightly more expensive."

"No problem, can you come to our house tomorrow?"

"Sure, may I ask where you live?"

"At the very end of Ping'an Village, the last house is the first one; if you want to take a shortcut, it's the first house."

What kind of furniture do you need? We'll deliver it to you tomorrow.

"Two wardrobes, two kitchen cabinets (the kind with locks), a table, a dressing table, a jewelry box..."

Xiao Nan said whatever came to mind, and the shopkeeper made notes on the paper. Finally, he calculated the price.

"Young man, you have quite a lot of things. The furniture here is all made of pine wood. It costs five taels and six mace of silver in total. This doesn't even include the items delivered to your door."

"Okay, it's settled then."

Xiao Nan deftly took out a coin and placed it on the table: "This is the deposit. I need to see the furniture and the people first thing tomorrow morning."

The shopkeeper sized him up. His clothes were new and without patches. He was very clean, and his hair was neatly combed with an ordinary wooden hairpin. He looked very ordinary, but the shopkeeper was surprised that he wouldn't even haggle over the price.

He nodded repeatedly: "Don't worry, I'll definitely arrive first thing tomorrow morning."

"Okay, then I'll wait for you at home."

Xiao Nan turned and left. She walked around the town and surprisingly found green apples for sale. Although they weren't very fresh, it was better to have them than not.

In this way, she can take out the things in her space without any problem.

For lunch, she didn't want to eat at a restaurant because the food was too bad. She took a piece of cake from her spatial storage and ate it as she walked back.

Just then, a carriage sped past her and stopped in front of the pharmacy. The coachman and two maids helped an elderly lady rush into the pharmacy.

She raised an eyebrow, not wanting to meddle, but thinking the shopkeeper was a nice person, she ate the cake in a few bites, wiped her mouth, and ran to the entrance of the pharmacy, looking inside.

"Doctor, doctor, please save my old lady."

The maidservant placed the old lady on the bed, crying anxiously. The doctor stepped forward, felt her pulse, and shook his head.

"I'm afraid it's no use. It's a heart ailment, and our pharmacy doesn't have any medicine to nourish or cure the heart."

The shopkeeper recognized her at a glance; she was the famous Old Madam Qiao from the Qiao Family Compound in the county.

He rubbed his hands together, extremely anxious. The helplessness of wanting to save someone but being unable to touched Xiao Nan. As a doctor, she had a compassionate heart. Although she was not a doctor, she knew how to save the person in front of her.

So he took out a quick-acting heart medicine from his spatial storage, calmly poured out six pills, walked over and pried open the old woman's mouth, placing the pills under the base of her tongue.

Then, he rolled up her sleeve and slapped her elbow hard with two fingers.

This action terrified everyone in the shop. Just as the two girls were about to rush over, Xiao Nan's cold voice rang out.

"Your old lady is already dying, I'm just trying anything as a last resort. What, are you just going to watch her die?"

That's why the two girls didn't rush over; otherwise, they would have fought her to the death.

The slaps to the elbow made the old lady feel a little better; her lips were less purple, her complexion was much more relaxed, and she kept swallowing the pills under her tongue with her saliva.

At this moment, the doctor stepped forward, took the old lady's pulse, and said with delight.

"There's hope! There's hope! The pulse is strengthening; there's a chance of survival."

Upon hearing this, the two maids knelt down in front of Xiao Nan with a thud: "Thank you, thank you for saving my old lady, otherwise, we would not have been able to escape responsibility."

Xiao Nan ignored them and stared intently at the old woman's face, saying, "She should be alright now. She can't move around, so she should just lie down and wait until she wakes up to hear what the doctor says."

The shopkeeper stepped forward and bowed to her, saying, "Thank you. Young man, do you know anything about medicine?"

"No, I just have some medicine for heart problems on hand. It's up to you guys now. I have to go home."

The shopkeeper quickly grabbed her sleeve, pinching it between two fingers: "Aren't you going to wait? You saved her, she will definitely repay you."

"No need, I don't like trouble, I'm leaving!"

The shopkeeper watched her retreating figure and gave her a thumbs up.

When Xiao Nan returned home, the roof was almost completely plastered, and it would be finished in another day.

She was in a good mood today, having received over a hundred taels of silver and completed her household registration. From now on, she would be a citizen of the Dragon Kingdom.

Since it was still early when she got home, she took out the pig's feet and tail, and then took out a large piece of tofu, and loudly told the people working there.

"Don't leave tonight, we'll stew some meat,"

Wang Zhou quickly brought over a ceramic basin: "So much money, it's cost us money again, we feel so bad."

"There's nothing to be embarrassed about, we need to eat too."

"Thank you then."

"Go wash them clean, then wash the dried green beans and soak them."

After giving the instructions, she cut the tofu into dried pieces and heated up the steamed buns. At that moment, the old woman came over.

"He's wasting money again."

"I'd rather eat this silver than let those people steal it, or would it be better for us to eat it?"

"Of course, it's good to eat."

“That’s it. Since we’re like this, let’s eat well. If we run out, we’ll figure something else out. We have hands and feet, we won’t starve.”

"Grandma will listen to you."

Granny Wang watched her bustling around the stove with a smile, her eyes involuntarily welling up with tears.

Xiao Nan chopped the cleaned pig's feet and tail into small pieces, blanched them in water, then added water and seasonings such as soy sauce.

Put the meat back in, cover it, and simmer over low heat.

Half an hour later, the aroma of meat wafted out, and the workers took a deep breath, feeling that this was the most fragrant aroma they had ever smelled.

Swallowing hard, Wang Zhoushi and her grandmother stood guard by the stove.

"Girl, your skills are amazing! You could set up a stall in town!"

Xiao Nan chuckled but did not reply.

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