Chapter 21 She Knows Medicine

Not long after, Shopkeeper Zhang came out of the inner room and said to Chu Chenyin and Fu Yanting with a smile, “Two esteemed guests, you want to buy fifty dou of rice?”

Chu Chenyin nodded lightly, “Yes, we are going to visit relatives in a distant place, and we heard that your rice is good, so we want to take some back.”

Rarely having such a good business, Shopkeeper Zhang didn’t think much of it, he had his servants pour a cup of tea for Chu Chenyin and Fu Yanting, “Okay, of course, but we don’t have that much rice in the shop now, we have to get it from the rice warehouse, if you are not in a hurry, you can wait for a day or two.”

Chu Chenyin smiled, “Of course, but can the price be a little lower?”

Shopkeeper Zhang narrowed his eyes, stroked his beard, and said with a lecherous smile, “Two esteemed guests, you are buying so much rice at once, I can naturally give you a lower price, but you know, grain is scarce now, it can’t be lower than the point where we have no food to eat.”

He said, taking out his abacus and calculating, “It’s about seven hundred taels of silver in total.”

Seven hundred taels of silver was a sky-high price for ordinary farmers, Shopkeeper Zhang wanted to take this opportunity to slaughter them.

Chu Chenyin didn’t haggle, she took out twenty taels of silver from her bosom and placed it on the table, “This is a deposit, we will come to collect the rice in two days.”

Shopkeeper Zhang took the silver, held it in his palm and smiled so hard that his mouth couldn’t close, “Okay, esteemed guest.”

Chu Chenyin slowly got up, and took out paper and pen for him to sign a document.

Shopkeeper Zhang didn’t even think about it and signed it.

Chu Chenyin looked at the document and said earnestly, “Shopkeeper, you must remember, we must see the rice in two days.”

Shopkeeper Zhang didn’t even think about it, he replied loudly, “Don’t worry, esteemed guest, the rice will be ready in two days.”

“That’s good.” Chu Chenyin’s lips curled up slightly, she put the document in her bosom, got up and walked out.

“Take care, esteemed guest!” Shopkeeper Zhang bent over and smiled, his squinting eyes fixed on Chu Chenyin, as if he was lost in thought looking at the beautiful and generous woman in front of him.

As Fu Yanting passed by him, he stopped, lowered his eyes, and said slowly in a cold and piercing tone, “Look again, and I’ll gouge out your dog eyes.”

Shopkeeper Zhang was startled, when he looked up at Fu Yanting again, he had already walked out of the shop and stood beside Chu Chenyin.

“Esteemed guest, I…” Shopkeeper Zhang was angry, but for such a big deal, he had to endure it, he blew his beard and hurried back to the shop to have his servants prepare the rice.

Chu Chenyin followed Fu Yanting out of the market and found a secluded alley to hide in.

“General…” Chu Chenyin was about to say something important when she saw Fu Yanting flick his braid, step onto a stone stool, take out a map and spread it on his lap, drawing a few circles on it, “Here, and here, these are most likely the Bai family’s granaries and warehouses.”

Chu Chenyin was stunned.

Was this Fu Yanting a treasure chest? He just pulled out a map of Mengru County.

Fu Yanting raised his gray-brown eyes to look at her, “We can go to his warehouse tonight, and then to his granary tomorrow, so as not to be discovered by him.”

“Okay, I’ll listen to you.”

But it has to be said, Fu Yanting was quite impressive.

A cunning merchant like Shopkeeper Zhang would naturally not store his warehouse and granary in one place, they would mostly find three or four different places to hide them.

Firstly, to prevent people from stealing their grain, and secondly, to have a place for them to cheat.

The places Fu Yanting had drawn were remote but accessible, convenient for transportation, but not easy to be noticed.

They were all good places for warehouses and granaries.

Chu Chenyin agreed with him immediately, they decided to act that night, before it got dark they went to several medicinal herb shops.

Ephedra, cinnamon twig, ginger, agastache, perilla leaf, angelica root, magnolia flower, safflower, angelica root, catnip, notopterygium, cocklebur, mint, burdock seed, vitex, cicada slough, mulberry leaf, kudzu root, bupleurum, angelica root, fermented soybean, anemarrhena, etc.

Chu Chenyin bought all the medicinal herbs she could find and put them all in her space.

“I remember we took a lot of medicinal herbs from the palace last time.” Fu Yanting looked at Chu Chenyin in confusion.

Chu Chenyin smiled, “We still have a long way to go, of course we should stock up as much as we can, it’s better to be safe than sorry, we will need them someday.”

Fu Yanting stared at her for a moment and asked, “Do you know medicine?”

Chu Chenyin hesitated for a moment, then nodded, “Yes, I know some medicine.”