CHAPTER 74: CHAPTER 72: MEDICINAL EFFECT

After thinking it over, the boss readily agreed!

Those duck feathers and such, although he didn’t know what she wanted them for, were of no use to him. If they could be exchanged for a hefty sum of silver, it would be a big profit!

So the process of signing the contract went smoothly. Before leaving, Ruan Mian conveniently bought three horses and two donkeys for transporting goods.

Guard Liu was a little puzzled: "Miss Ruan, although that boss doesn’t seem like a greedy person, can you really trust him? What if he takes your money and doesn’t deliver the goods?"

Ruan Mian was indifferent: "At worst, I’ll just lose this amount of silver. Besides, he’s a businessman. Once he tests a shipment and tastes some benefits, seeing long-term profits, ordinary people wouldn’t refuse."

"Besides, don’t I have you? When we reach Wuheng, if you’re willing, you can do some business with me. Once you show up, the boss wouldn’t dare to go back on his word."

Guard Liu’s face reddened slightly; it was the first time he felt the value of being needed by someone.

"Where did you get that passage document from Lord He?"

Guard Liu almost forgot about this and hurriedly spoke.

"Mr. Xie gave it to me. He said having this would help pass through some city checkpoints smoothly, avoiding some troubles. I didn’t expect it to be used so soon." That Lord He, He Yuan, is the former Prime Minister who had retreated from power.

In the original book, he had a generation-spanning friendship with Xie Huai’an. Giving this document to Xie Huai’an was probably a way to ensure his safe arrival at the place of his banishment.

However, it was used by him to repay a favor, used for himself.

This Xie Huai’an truly deserves to be the male lead in the original book. In the story, he cared not for love, only for the country, and was intelligent and brave against King Yan’s opposing faction.

It’s a pity that in this life, the plot changed because of me, and he was exiled to the border. Who knows how he will make a comeback afterward.

She returned to the post station with full supplies before it got dark.

But as soon as she reached the door, she heard a quarrel inside and saw a man with a fierce face push Mrs. Chen aside.

"Sister-in-law!"

"Wei!"

Ruan Qing and Mrs. Zhang, mother and daughter, quickly helped Mrs. Chen up, and Ruan Mian put herself protectively in front of them.

"Sister-in-law, are you okay?"

Ruan Mian glanced at Mrs. Chen, who immediately grabbed her hand in a hurry.

"Mianmian, they’re trying to drive your brother out. He’s caught a cold now. If he sleeps outside for a night, won’t he freeze to death!"

Ruan Mian frowned slightly: "Caught a cold? When did this happen?"

He hadn’t shown any signs these past few days.

Mrs. Chen could only tell the truth now: "It’s been two days. At first, he didn’t want you to worry, so he wouldn’t let me say. I thought this cold would heal in three or four days, and so..."

Mrs. Zhang was very worried: "Wei, before, it was in the mansion, a cold would indeed heal in three or four days, but now we’re in a place like this, the cold will only get worse!"

The man roared at this moment: "He’s already so sick, how can he rest inside the post station? What if he infects us? Ru Ning’s epidemic just got over last year; I can’t let an irrelevant person endanger us!"

"Any of you who want to stop me will go lie outside with him!"

This man with a fierce face was the stationmaster of the post station. Even though Cui Zhu had given him some silver, it hadn’t helped.

After roaring, he walked into the post station.

The urgent matter was for Ruan Mian to go check on her brother.

Ruan Qingsong was thrown by them into the snow outside the backyard, with Cui Zhu and Shaoxi watching over him, bringing blankets and a small stove to keep him warm.

As soon as they saw Ruan Mian, the two of them stood up.

At this moment, Ruan Qingsong had little strength left, his face full of fatigue and weakness, his complexion pale, and he was coughing non-stop with a very hoarse voice.

Once she felt his forehead, it was burning hot like iron, definitely a high fever.

Ruan Mian quickly called Cui Zhu and Shaoxi.

"Zhu’er, you and Shaoxi go boil some hot water for me. By the way, there’s some tarpaulin in our wooden box, also bring that over."

These tarpaulin tents were something she randomly grabbed from the Xuanjia Army’s storerooms.

While they went inside, Ruan Mian touched the Jade Bracelet, quickly searching on the medicine rack in the space for medicines that could relieve the symptoms.

Thinking how nice it would be to have modern Western medicine. The effects are immediate, and she wouldn’t have to painstakingly research traditional Chinese medicine prescriptions.

However, just as she thought of it, she saw another rack behind the medicinal herbs, filled with Western medicine.

Her face lit up with joy, but as she reached out for it, she noticed some blue text appeared on the rack.

Under each type of medicine was the corresponding goodwill value.

She found the antipyretic medicine. She still had enough goodwill value and clicked on the blue text, realizing these so-called goodwill values were the indexes accumulated from the lessons she taught those villainous characters along the way.

Every time someone paid the necessary price, the goodwill value in the space increased by ten points.

So, did this mean she was forced to be a good person?

Besides this, some rare seed grains could also be exchanged for goodwill value.

She first exchanged for some antipyretic medicine, got some traditional Chinese medicine prescriptions to treat colds, and fed Ruan Qingsong some spiritual spring water.

When Cui Zhu and Shaoxi brought the tarpaulin, she quickly set up a tent, lit some charcoal, and let Mrs. Chen go in to care for him.

Unexpectedly, as soon as the family went inside, the stationmaster started shouting again: "It’s not free to eat and drink here! All of you, go haul bricks and build houses!"

Their original plan was to stay at the post station for two days and then leave. Who would’ve thought they’d be ordered to work as soon as they arrived not even a night ago.

Hauling bricks and building houses is a labor-intensive job. They hadn’t rested enough and were suddenly forced into work, soon complaining one after another.

Ruan Mian, feeling sorry for her family, secretly said some good words to the stationmaster and offered enough gold to make him relent.

The people of Uncle’s Mansion and Qi Mansion could only watch jealously as Mrs. Zhang and her family escaped the labor and went inside to sleep and rest, their eyes turning red with envy.

Ruan Jiao had been bitten by a ferocious dog. If it weren’t for passersby driving the dog away, she might have been bitten to death.

Now the old wound hadn’t healed and there were new ones on her face, she felt very uncomfortable.

After long hours of labor, the next morning, her body couldn’t take it.

She dragged her weary self, intending to ask Qi Nanfeng for help, when she unexpectedly saw that the Ruan Qingsong from yesterday, who seemed worse off than her, was already in high spirits.

He didn’t look like someone who had caught a cold at all, completely well after just one night, and this while staying outside, not in a warm room.

It turns out Ruan Mian truly had some skills!!

Not just her, everyone was amazed by how quickly Ruan Qingsong recovered, and Ashun and the others were even more admiring of Ruan Mian.

They couldn’t help but boast to others: "Our second young lady’s medical skills are better than some doctors! Look at our young master, just after taking a prescription from our second young lady, he’s fully recovered. Which doctor can have such quick-acting prescriptions like our second young lady?"

"What kind of prescription did your second young lady use? I saw your young master yesterday, he looked gravely ill, and he recovered fully overnight?" Everyone noticed the drastic difference in Ruan Qingsong’s condition, seeing it with their own eyes.