CHAPTER 97: CHAPTER 97: EXTRAVAGANT SPENDING

The two of them came out from the back, Ah Tie was still waiting in the front, and Manager Wang watched Yun Jiao leave with a worried look.

Although only the two of them knew about selling the ginseng, he was still worried. So much silver, just a child, sigh—

That Brother Gu, now no one knows if he’s alive or dead, leaving behind an orphan and a widow. Now it’s just the little girl Yun Jiao depending on selling household items to live on, how pitiful!

After leaving the Wang Family Pharmacy, Yun Jiao first found a place to use the toilet as an excuse, putting the silver and silver notes in the medicine chest, leaving only a few dozen taels of silver in her pouch.

Then she filled the empty bundle with some licorice and astragalus, making it look like a full pack.

When she came out, Yun Jiao went to buy some pens, ink, paper, and inkstones. Now, Liu Lang and Xiao Chuan were learning characters with Jiang Youzhi, and in the future, Ah Tie would also need to write.

And when prescribing, she couldn’t always borrow Jiang Youzhi’s pens and paper.

Yun Jiao also bought a medicine pot and a medicine box for her own use.

Ah Tie was very conscious of being a servant. Whatever Yun Jiao bought, he took and carried it all.

After buying these sundries, Yun Jiao thought that winter was coming and bought a few fire pans, a large bag of coal, then turned into a fabric shop, bought a few quilts, over ten catties of cotton, and several bolts of cloth, planning to let Mrs. Chen make a set of winter clothes for everyone in the family.

She also bought a small canopy bed, planning for Ah Tie to sleep on.

Liu Er’s cart was full again.

Every time Liu Er saw Yun Jiao come to town and buy a bunch of things, his heart trembled. This child sure spends money lavishly.

How much silver would it take to keep spending like this!

They kept buying until it was noon.

Yun Jiao had Liu Er drive the cart to the small restaurant where they had meat sauce noodles last time, got off, and ordered three bowls of meat sauce noodles.

Liu Er held the noodles and ate sitting on the cart; he had to watch over Yun Jiao’s things, making sure no one messed with them.

After eating a bowl of noodles, Yun Jiao figured that Liu Er and Ah Tie might not have had enough, so she bought two buns, splitting one for each of them.

Liu Er tucked a bun into his arms, intending to take it back for his son to eat.

When Yun Jiao got back on the cart, Liu Er gave her a thumbs-up, "Doctor Gu, even though you’re a girl, you do things with great generosity."

"Villagers often call my cart, and only by going with you can I mix in a free lunch."

"Not just any bun to brush me off, but real meat sauce noodles."

Yun Jiao laughed as she got on the cart, and Liu Er continued, "I often travel outside and have seen a lot of people. Someone as generous as you is sure to get rich in the future!"

Yun Jiao smiled cheerfully, "Well, thank you for your kind words."

Liu Er sighed again, "Scholars really have a way with words." With that, he cracked the whip and drove off.

On the road, Yun Jiao asked Ah Tie, "You heard it today, right? I’m planning to open my own pharmacy in the future. Would you like to follow me and become an assistant, learning to recognize and make medicines?"

Ah Tie nodded vigorously, "Miss is Ah Tie’s master; whatever Miss asks Ah Tie to do, Ah Tie will do."

Yun Jiao didn’t know how coming to the county turned her into Miss, nor who Ah Tie heard call her that, but she was too lazy to correct him and continued, "Recognizing medicine is actually quite okay; staying in the pharmacy for a while, and you’ll recognize most of them."

"But to recognize them well and accurately is another difficult matter."