Chapter 42 Medical Benefits

  "Prince of Qin." As soon as Qin Yu entered the main hall, several richly dressed merchants stepped forward and bowed, their faces full of smiles, their postures extremely low.

  Qin Yu bowed with a fist, smiled and returned the courtesy, saying "Hello everyone."

  Qin Yu's attitude immediately won over the favor of several merchants. Not to mention that Qin Yu was the son-in-law of the Duke of Lu and the nephew of the Duke of Wing, but just as a scholar, he could have ignored the existence of the merchants. However, Qin Yu chose to treat them with an equal attitude, so how could they not feel good about it?

  Following Qin Yu's house servant, at this time, the wooden box covered with red cloth was placed on the table, and a small metallic collision sound came out. The businessmen suddenly became eager, looking towards the wooden box on the table together.

  It goes without saying that what's inside the wooden box covered with a red cloth is silver, not copper coins.

  Qin Yu looked at the brick merchant and smiled, asking, "Are all the goods ready?"

  "Lord Qin, the goods have all arrived. They are now unloaded at the place you specified. Lord Qin can send someone to inspect them." The brick and tile merchant hastily replied.

  "No need." Qin Yu raised his hand and said, "It's all said that Deng's bricks and tiles are among the best in Chang'an, with good quality, fair prices, and never shortchanged. I trust you."

  As soon as the brick merchant heard this, his face lit up with a smile. "Deng Mou thanks Qin Gongzi for his trust. Deng Mou doesn't dare to guarantee anything else, but he absolutely dares to vouch for the quality, quantity and price of these bricks and tiles. Even in the great Tang Dynasty, Deng Mou's bricks and tiles are still the same, no cheating of the young or the old."

  Qin Yu smiled and nodded, this was an advertisement, but what he said was true, Cheng Huailiang introduced it that way, and many dignitaries' houses used bricks and tiles bought from him, this was a well-established brand, having been in business since the Sui Dynasty, naturally wouldn't casually damage this signboard.

  "Alright, I remember the price is thirty-two guan in total. Since that's the case, Qin will pay with silver. How about it?" Qin Yu said, looking at the merchant surnamed Deng.

  "Of course, if Master Qin pays in silver, he only needs to give Deng 31 taels." The merchant surnamed Deng said happily.

  Although silver is rarely circulated in the market, it does not mean that people do not know the value of silver. The Deng surname businessman naturally likes silver more.

  "Good." Qin Yu didn't waste any words, and after finishing speaking, he lifted the red cloth, took out thirty-one silver coins from inside, and handed them to the brick merchant. He opened his mouth and said, "In that case, both money and goods are clear."

  "Yes, thank you, Master Qin." The brick seller said with great joy. How could he not be happy? Those wealthy and powerful people rarely paid in full at once when buying bricks, and even if they did pay in full, they would often shortchange him, using copper coins, which couldn't compare to Qin Yu's generosity.

  "Prince Qin..." The merchant who was covering the house saw this and wanted to speak but stopped, ultimately unable to say anything, with a look of distress on his face.

  The merchant's surname was Wang. At first, Qin Yu and Cheng Huiliang chatted along the way, and the content of their conversation was overheard by Mr. Wang, who took the initiative to find Qin Yu and offer to take over his winery, which surprised Qin Yu for a while.

  In the Great Tang, when building houses, people usually found some masons or used slaves from their own families. There were no specialized construction teams. But this merchant surnamed Wang gave Qin Yu a big surprise. He had actually gathered some masons to build houses for people and charge them a labor fee.

  Qin Yu suspected that this guy might have come from another time and space, but after a few questions and some English phrases, the Wang surname businessman was confused. Only then did Qin Yu believe that the Great Tang still had capable people, and without hesitation, he signed him up, or rather, entrusted the wine workshop to him.

  Qin Yu saw the merchant with the surname Wang wanting to speak but stopping, swallowing his words, slightly stunned for a moment, and then suddenly understood the cause and effect of the situation.

  However, this Wang surname businessman lost money in business and had no spare change. If Qin Yu hadn't given him some deposit, he wouldn't even have the money to change his clothes. At this moment, he was hesitant and obviously in a difficult situation.

  The difficulty is simple, it's just a big group of people to support, if they can't pay the wages of the gathered bricklayers on time, this first construction team in the Tang Dynasty will be annihilated in the historical corridor.

  "Qin will give you some more money, but there's one thing to keep in mind: the winery needs to be built as soon as possible, but it can't be done sloppily, it has to be solid." Qin Yu said, looking at the Wang merchant.

  Mr. Wang, the merchant, heard this and was overjoyed, his worried face disappearing instantly. He hastily bowed and said, "Thank you, Mr. Qin, thank you, Mr. Qin! I, Wang, guarantee that our wine workshop will definitely satisfy you. If not, I'll come to see you with my head in hand."

  Qin Yu nodded and handed over ten silver coins to the merchant surnamed Wang, who took them with gratitude and thanked him again. Apparently, he was quite excited at this moment.

  The last merchant was a glue dealer, Qin Yu simply asked a few questions and handed over the money to him. The merchants left with joy, Qin Yu let out a long sigh, "I should find a housekeeper."

  The best and fastest adhesive is cement, Qin Yu wanted to get cement, but unfortunately, there was no iron ore belonging to Qin Yu here, let alone that the iron ore belonged to the imperial court and private mining was not allowed.

  Qin Yu thought that even if he wanted to do it, he would have to get Li Shimin's approval, or cooperate with a large family that privately owned an iron mine, but that was no different from looking for death, and Qin Yu naturally wouldn't do it.

  Qin Yu was just about to go check on the progress of the donkey hide gelatin, when a maid rushed over hastily and said, "Young Master, the donkey hide gelatin is ready."

  "Good." Qin Yu's eyes lit up and he exclaimed with joy, hastily going forward to inspect the finished donkey hide gelatin.

  When they arrived at the front yard, the servants presented the finished donkey hide to Qin Yu. After touching it, he nodded his head in satisfaction and said, "Good, everyone will be rewarded."

  Qin Yu patted his chest, only to find that he didn't have any copper coins, but only silver ingots. He sighed silently, "One doesn't know the value of firewood and rice until one runs a household." Then, he took out a silver ingot and tossed it at a maid, saying, "You take it and divide it among yourselves."

  "Thank you, young master." The servants looked at the maid who had caught the silver coin, their eyes shining in unison, and hastily opened their mouths to shout.

  Qin Yu smiled slightly and said, "It's all packed up. I'll have Young Master take it away later."

  As soon as Qin Yu's words fell, the servants rushed to collect the donkey hide gel, and soon they had packed it up and put it in a wooden box.

  Qin Yu took the wooden box, glanced at Shi Tou who was wildly swinging his giant hammer and sweating profusely, and shouted, "Shi Tou, follow me to Chang'an."

  "Alright, young master." Shi Tou immediately restrained his hammering momentum upon hearing Qin Yu's order and shouted loudly.

  Qin Yu nodded and immediately returned to the backyard, packed up a thousand taels of silver, and handed it over to Shi Tou to carry. This thousand taels of silver weighed at least a hundred kilograms, and with Shi Tou being such a super strong man, who else could carry it if not him?

  "Huh? Brother-in-law, where are you going?" Cheng Huailiang was bored and came to find Qin Yu, but saw that Qin Yu was preparing to go out with a stone, so he quickly asked.

  "Going to Chang'an to visit Uncle Zhong, how about you, are you going?" Qin Yu said with a smile.

  "Hurry up and go, I still have things to do." Cheng Huai-liang said without hesitation, apparently this guy didn't dare to go to the Qin Manor. Indeed, the atmosphere there was a bit oppressive, with just those few people, each with a murderous aura, it would be strange if one could feel at ease there.

  Qin Yu helplessly shook his head and left Qingfeng Residence with Shi Tou.

  As soon as they arrived at the foot of the mountain, a loud voice shouted from behind the stone, "Old Gun, hurry up, the young master needs to use the carriage."

  Che Fu Lao Gen hurriedly ran out of the house, one after another, and paid his respects. Qin Yu saw this and was slightly stunned, then asked, "Lao Gen, have you caught a cold?"

  Chefu Laogen knew that Qin Yu was going out as soon as he saw his appearance, let alone Shi Tou had already shouted. However, at this time, he didn't dare to say that he was sick or couldn't drive the carriage. What if it caused Qin Yu's displeasure and replaced him? How would he make a living then? He hastily opened his mouth and said: "Ah, young master, no problem, no problem! Young master is preparing to go where?"

  "This wind and cold can be taken care of, just right, I'm going to Chang'an, you come with me, when we get there, find a doctor to take a look, grab some medicine, the young master will pay." Qin Yu said with a smile.

  But Qin Yu saw that his symptoms were not severe. If they were severe, Qin Yu would naturally not let him continue driving.

  "Thank you, young master, thank you, young master! You are truly a living Bodhisattva!" Coachman Lao Gen said with tears of gratitude.

  It's hard not to feel moved, as a servant I've fallen ill, but rarely does any master offer money for medical treatment.

  "Lao Gen, you've become too weak. You were only out for half a night and look at the state you're in now." Shi Tou said with great emotion.

  The car husband Lao Gen's face suddenly stiffened, but he didn't dare say anything. Facing the stone with a missing tendon, where did Lao Gen dare to reason? What if the stone gave him a punch, who would he go to for justice?

  Qin Yu looked at him and asked in confusion, "Shitou, what's wrong with Lao Gen?"

  The stone naturally knew that there was nothing to say, and everything had been said. He told Qin Yu about the old root's affair with the big hammer last night. After listening to Shi Tou's account, Qin Yu twitched at the corner of his mouth and thought, "Indeed, Shi Tou is Shi Tou. If it were someone else, they would probably have kept their mouths shut."

  Qin Yu scolded Shi Tou a few words with a mixture of laughter and tears, then hurried to Chang'an. Qin Qiong was still waiting for the Angelica sinensis to replenish his blood, this couldn't be delayed.

  Bring the silver, but it's to buy a hundred-year-old ginseng for Qin Qiang first. It will do for a while. Before that, Qin Qiang only drank ginseng soup with one or two roots. Qin Yu didn't forget, it was too expensive to buy, but buying a hundred-year-old ginseng was still possible.

  Arriving in Chang'an, Qin Yu directly went to the pharmacy, where there was also a doctor. He asked the carriage driver to take a look at his condition, which wasn't serious. The doctor prescribed him some medicine, and Qin Yu paid promptly, moving the carriage driver but astonishing the onlookers.

  Qin Yu looked like a master, but this master actually spent money to treat his servant's illness, which was even more bizarre. It couldn't be said that there were none, only that it was an occasional one or two cases, and that was because the servant had made great contributions in the past. But what could a coachman have done to deserve such treatment?

  Qin Yu naturally didn't mind these things, and chose a ginseng worth a thousand taels of silver. He then set off towards the Qin Manor, and on this journey, the coachman used 500% of his strength to drive the carriage. Qin Yu watched with his eyes, and thought to himself in his heart.

  "It seems that this is a good way to win people's hearts, huh? Medical benefits can be implemented from now on. In the future, if our family's servants get sick or something, we'll cover everything. It won't cost much money and we can gain people's hearts. Not bad, let's do it this way."