Dongxue was no fool either. After hearing what Ye Shaohua said, she thought of the glue kept in the room. It really was much better than what Liu Mingxin had made.
“Young lady, then let’s also put our wound medicine into this and make a bandage. Your medicine works much better than hers. With my bandage, what place does her Huichun Hall have?” The more Dongxue spoke, the more excited she became.
“No need. She was the first to ‘invent’ it. If I do that, wouldn’t I be a ‘thief’?” Ye Shaohua waved her hand. “Besides, I’m not doing this to make money. The goal is to revive the Ye family medical hall.”
If she were doing it purely to make money, why would she be so busy?
Dongxue felt that imitating others was not good either, so she put aside this thought and could only sigh. But the more she looked at her young lady, the more she felt that she was so clever.
Meanwhile, in the shadows, after the two people finished listening to the conversation between the two women, they exchanged a glance and could both see the shock in each other’s eyes.
Sima Mingchen did not speak. He directly flew into Dongxue’s room.
From her room, he took away one of the “glue” bottles she had mentioned.
Chu Yunmo glanced at him but did not say anything.
After returning to their lodging, Sima Mingchen immediately called for someone to bring paper. He placed the glue on the paper, and the two sheets of paper instantly stuck together.
“It’s actually real?” Sima Mingchen did not know what he was feeling. He had originally thought those two girls were bragging.
So he had thought he would go get it and try it. After bringing it back, it turned out to be real.
This was much more adhesive than the bandage from Huichun Hall.
Such a miraculous thing had never appeared in the Central Plains before, which made Sima Mingchen begin to take Ye Shaohua seriously.
From what Dongxue meant, perhaps the wound medicine that he had looked down on really did have that medicinal effect.
Putting himself in her shoes, Sima Mingchen finally understood what Dongxue had meant earlier.
If it were him, he probably would not have been able to resist making that so-called bandage to make a fortune.
Once this came out, what did the bandage from Huichun Hall even count for?
Faced with such an opportunity, that Ye Shaohua could still steady her mind and refuse Dongxue.
This made Sima Mingchen increasingly feel that Ye Shaohua was terrifyingly strong-willed.
“Fourth Brother, why have I never heard before that Imperial Physician Ye had such a daughter?” At this thought, Sima Mingchen could not help looking toward Chu Yunmo.
Chu Yunmo did not answer him. He only frowned and sank into thought by himself.
**
Xu Jin was a merchant from the north. This time, he had come after hearing of the great name of Liu family’s medical hall.
He had originally wanted to line up to buy the bandages, but he had not expected the line to be so long, and the bandages were also sold in limited quantities.
If waiting in such a long line only got him so little, it would not be enough for business. So Xu Jin did not have his servants line up and instead wandered casually along the street.
During this wandering, he was drawn in by the “wound medicine” at Ye’s Medical Hall.
“Wound medicine? Haven’t I heard that the formula was already lost?” Xu Jin was somewhat surprised. He was an outsider and had not yet heard the news about the Ye family, but even if he had heard it, he would not have cared.
“Is this medicine really wound medicine?” he asked a young girl who was dozing off.
Dongxue did not know what the young lady had gone to do. These past few days, she had always been mysterious.
But every time she came back, she would bring back silver. Because of that, even though Ye’s Medical Hall did not have much business, it could still keep going.
Hearing the voice, Dongxue immediately woke up. “That’s right, sir. It is wound medicine.”
Although he felt it was unlikely, Xu Jin looked at the quiet shop. He had also suffered hardship when he was young, so he still had a bit of compassion. After asking clearly about the price, he bought two bottles.
Afterward, he did not take it to heart.
When he returned to the restaurant, Xu Jin’s mortal enemy, who was also the top merchant in the north, Dai Zhifu, heard about this matter and even mocked Xu Jin in his words. “That is the number one quack doctor in Jiangnan. You actually dare to buy it? Aren’t you afraid of ruining your own reputation?”
The two big shots were at odds. The servant beside Xu Jin was frightened, and not only did he break a teacup, but in his panic to apologize and clean up the teacup, he also cut a gash on his hand.
Xu Jin saw that the cut on his hand was quite large, so he ordered someone to apply medicine for him.
After that, he paid no more attention to it.
As for Dai Zhifu’s words, he did not take them to heart at all.
When he got up the next morning and finished washing his face, he only then discovered that the servant who had brought him the face-washing water was actually the same person whose hand had been cut last night. Seeing that his hand was no longer wrapped in white cloth, he could not help asking, “Didn’t I tell you to rest for a day?”
“Thank you for granting me medicine, sir. This humble one’s hand is already well.” The servant was deeply grateful to Xu Jin. He had not expected the master to be so good even to an ordinary servant like him, using such good medicine. In just one night, it was more than half healed. Not to mention anything else, now there was no problem at all putting it in water.
After Xu Jin looked at his almost-healed wound, his expression changed. He did not even eat breakfast and immediately went to the Ye family medical hall.
“Sir, aren’t we going to look at silk today?”
“No more looking, no more looking!”
When Xu Jin arrived at the Ye family medical hall, he spent a large sum of money to buy all the wound medicine in Ye’s Medical Hall. He also built a relationship with Dongxue, saying he would come again next time.
He was a merchant, so naturally he understood how to maximize profit. Based on his judgment, one bottle of Ye Shaohua’s wound medicine was worth far more than thirty taels.
After returning, he slightly spread word of the wound medicine’s miraculous effects, causing confusion among both the martial world and the imperial court.
Especially among ordinary people, when they heard that this was wound medicine that only the imperial family could use, they became even more stirred up.
These people did not care what crime the Ye family had committed. The medicine worked well, did it not?
Jiu’er had originally come to watch Ye Shaohua make a fool of herself, but she had not expected to fail to see that. Instead, she discovered that after a few days, more and more people were going to Ye’s Medical Hall.
She frowned and grabbed a person, earnestly trying to persuade him. “Old sir, you are not from around here. Whatever you do, don’t be fooled by this Ye family. Ye Shaohua’s father was an imperial physician appointed by His Majesty. Why not go to Huichun Hall across the street? You’ve heard of Divine Doctor Liu there, right? She is a figure like an immortal. For this kind of wound, a bandage is enough. Why would you need wound medicine? She is swindling your money!”
Dongxue could not keep up with everything now and had hired help, so she had some free time.
Seeing Jiu’er like this, she could not help smiling very gently.
Seeing her so anxious to argue, Jiu’er pulled the old man toward the opposite street. “Oh, I’ll take you to see. Once you see how Divine Doctor Liu cuts people open and opens their abdomens, you’ll know she is not someone ordinary people can compare to!”
