Chapter 385 - 385 Business
385 Business
“Even so, we don’t have to offend them!” The boss looked heartbroken. Thinking about how she would lose her monthly income, her heart ached.
“What about our monthly income? Without this money, how can we support our second son’s studies?”
And the relatives who came over to freeload… The thought of it gave the boss a headache.
“What are you afraid of? Their shop is obstructing someone else’s way, so they want to see it close down now. How can we not benefit if we help them?
“Besides, that shop will be closed in the next two days, while our restaurant will have to stay open for a long time! Shouldn’t we try to earn those 50 taels of silver now?”
The owner glared at the boss, who was still reluctant to accept this loss. “Stop nagging. Hurry up and get to work.”
Although the boss was still a little reluctant, she didn’t dare to disobey her husband’s arrangements, so she turned around and left to prepare the food for the shop today.
As the couple discussed this matter, Lin Suisui also found out about the dispute at the eatery. However, she didn’t say anything after hearing Bai Guo’s report. She only instructed Yuan Niang to handle everything.
Yuan Niang handled this matter quite quickly. After returning, she arranged for a servant to deal with everything. She still had to save her energy to deal with the unforeseen events that would happen in the medical center.
The prescription that Lin Suisui had concocted according to the journal was quite effective. Just as Doctor Luo had said, the two patients with the mildest symptoms finally woke up that afternoon.
Although their bodies were still very weak, it didn’t stop them from speaking and presenting a completely different story than that of the two spies.
It turned out that they were really merchants who sold silk and cloth to the western region. However, they usually didn’t have a lot of goods, so if they wanted to complete the transaction, they could only follow a familiar caravan most of the time.
They had lived this sort of life for many years, so they were already used to the dangers of this trip.
This time, they did save two merchants who claimed to be from the empire along the way. These two people were none other than the two spies who had cried non-stop previously.
“They were in a very pitiful situation at that time. They cried and begged the eldest son of our caravan for a long time. The leader was a kind person who sympathized with their difficulties.
Therefore, he agreed to bring them along.
After all, it was just a matter of bringing two people along. The food and water on the way didn’t cost much money. In addition, although those two people were separated from their caravan, they had a lot of money with them. They took out a thousand taels of silver in one go and said that if we could bring them back to the empire safely, they would reward everyone in the caravan.
“Our caravan actually doesn’t earn much from traveling back and forth, so everyone was naturally happy to hear about such a good deal.”
When the merchant surnamed Guo mentioned this matter, he couldn’t help but smile bitterly. “But how can there be free lunch in this world?
Along the way, the two of them behaved normally. It wasn’t until we entered the northern barbarian grassland that something happened to our caravan.
At first, the camels and mules who were pulling the goods fell sick one by one. Later on, the old man in charge of leading the way in our caravan also fell sick.
Without the old man’s guidance, we quickly lost our way.
At this moment, the two of them said that they knew the way and asked us to follow them. At that time, we listened to their advice and followed them all the way through the grassland. Just as all of us were exhausted and felt that we couldn’t hold on anymore, we arrived at a grassland tribe and finally had a chance to catch our breath.
Later on, we realized that the place we entered wasn’t a good place. The people there didn’t treat us as humans at all. Instead, they treated us like animals.
There were more than twenty of us at first, but in the end, only the five of us were left alive.
“After that, we lost consciousness and were dragged onto the horse by them. When we woke up again, I saw you guys.”
In the end, Mr. Guo was already sobbing. “We really didn’t expect those people to be so vicious!”
“Alright, it’s over.” Doctor Luo advised softly, “After you guys recuperate some more, you guys can return home.”
While Doctor Luo was consoling the two merchants inside, Lin Suisui had already stood up and left. Things were as she had guessed. The two spies were actually the real outsiders.
Their goal was to enter Cloud Mountain City and think of a way to stir up trouble in the northern region. Getting the journal back from her was just one of the many missions they had come to the empire for.
“Lu Ze isn’t back yet?” Lin Suisui asked Su Le, who was following outside the carriage.
Lu Ze left the city early this morning and had gone up the mountain with Pei Qian to deal with Madam Gao. It was unknown if he had returned to the city yet.
“Not yet. I heard that he was delayed by something, but he’ll probably be back late. He might not come back until tomorrow morning,” Su Le replied quickly when he heard Lin Sui’s question.
Lin Suisui nodded and instructed Su Le to arrange for a carriage to return to the residence. She had a feeling that the peacefulness in front of her was just the calmness before the storm.
Some people couldn’t sit still anymore.
After all, there were many people in Cloud Mountain City who wanted something bad to happen to the medical center.
Before the medical center opened, many ordinary people in Cloud Mountain City could only go to other pharmacies and medical centers in the city to treat their illnesses. Many ordinary families couldn’t even afford the consultation fee.
Whether it was the consultation fee or the medical fee, their medical center was much cheaper than those of other medical centers. In addition, Doctor Luo and the other doctors were quite skilled. In just a month, they had already snatched away many businesses from other pharmacies and medical centers in Cloud Mountain City.
Actually, this outcome wasn’t difficult to understand. Some herbs only cost one copper coin in their medical center, but elsewhere, but same herbs would cost five or even ten copper coins. Even a fool knew which to choose!