Chapter Seven Packing

  After finishing the distillation equipment, Song Kai walked into the inner room again and looked at Sun Tang, saying: "Master Sun, take a look at this prescription..."

  "You said it yourself, payment upon effectiveness, don't worry, I won't welch on the deal," Sun Tang refused while focusing on brewing medicine.

  Song Kai shook his head in disdain and then waved his hand, saying: "I'll leave first."

  Sun Tang gave Xue Weihai a look, and Xue Weihai understood. He smiled and said, "Why don't we have lunch together?"

  Song Kai rubbed his belly, he was indeed very hungry, hadn't eaten breakfast, and the reason he didn't take action earlier was because he was too hungry. Now that Xue Wei Hai offered to buy him lunch, of course, he agreed, but somehow it seemed like these two old men had ulterior motives that had nothing to do with food.

  "Alright, but I'll order and then the two elders will pay the bill, can that be okay?" Song Kai asked.

  "Haha, of course," Xue Wei smiled wryly. He found that Song Kai was indeed very straightforward.

  Sun Tang also had some questions to ask Song Kai, so he handed over the messy things in the medical hall to his granddaughter, and went to a nearby wine house with Xue Weihai and Song Kai.

  Song Kai didn't stand on ceremony and ordered a table full of dishes.

  "Song Langjun, this is a bit of a waste..." Xue Weihai spoke out to stop him.

  "No big deal, can't finish it? Take it away then. Oh, no plastic bag? Just use the medicine bowl." Song Kai said with a thick face.

  Xue Weihai and Sun Tang were both scared stiff, unable to eat or take it away? This... this is too humiliating! Too, too humiliating!

  At the banquet, Xue Weihai and Song Kai exchanged pleasantries, inquiring about Song Kai's situation. Song Kai only said that after being hit by a brick by Yang Huayan, he had forgotten many things.

  "Yang Huaiyan? Yang Jialangjun, why did he slap you? And what is a board brick?" Xue Weihai found that Song Kai was spitting out some words he couldn't understand.

  "It was just a stone, the reason is that Old Xue saw it yesterday too, he wants to marry that woman, but that woman has a crush on me, so he's jealous of me and then hit me with a stone, that's about it," Song Kai explained while eating his meal in big mouthfuls.

  "Infatuated with you? Could it be that you and that little girl have already secretly agreed to marry? Hehe, Song Lang, this is a matter of parental orders and matchmaker's words, but still... Haha, just listen to me," Xue Wei Hai stroked his beard, but he wasn't an old pedant, he was just saying this, and he actually had a open-minded view.

  Song Kai waved his hand and talked about some concepts of freedom of marriage and gender equality.

  Xue Weihai couldn't help but burst into loud laughter from time to time, making a few excuses, without saying whether these ideas were right or wrong.

  Sun Tang felt stifled and said, "You two stop talking nonsense. Song Lang, can you tell me the meaning of these two prescriptions? Why use these medicines?"

  "No problem, it just so happens that our family's ancestral recipe also records Fang Yi," Song Kai wiped his mouth and began to explain without hiding anything.

  The prescription mainly revolves around the idea of "activating blood and resolving stasis". Before the Yuan Dynasty, or even before the Qing Dynasty when a foolish doctor named Wang Qingren appeared, ancient doctors did not pay much attention to this therapeutic method. However, during the Qing Dynasty, there was a foolish doctor who would go to the cemetery every day to dig up corpses, visit the execution ground to watch prisoners being beheaded, and then dissect them. When he saw a pool of stagnant blood in the prisoner's chest cavity, he suddenly had an epiphany and invented a series of prescriptions for activating blood and resolving stasis.

  He said that people get sick and die because their blood stops flowing and forms clots.

  Actually, how can there be blood clots in a living person? Dead people don't have flowing blood, so it's natural to have blood clots.

  Anyway, no matter what, this doctor, based on his own obscure theories, has led traditional Chinese medicine to take a big step forward, a very big step.

  Sun Tang listened with his eyebrows furrowed together, occasionally opening his mouth to say: "It doesn't make sense, it doesn't make sense... It's not right, it's not right."

  Song Kai didn't bother with him either, and after eating his fill, he ran back and really found a bucket from the Hui Chun Tang.

  "Alright, you two elderly gentlemen, have you finished eating? If so, I'll take the leftover food back with me."

  Xue Weihai's face turned pale and he hastily raised his hand, "Wait, wait, wait... uh, wait until I get downstairs before you leave."

  As they spoke, Xue Weihai pulled Sun Tang away quickly, the two of them refusing to acknowledge Song Kai, it was too embarrassing.

  Song Kai carried his rice bucket back to the inn.

  Fu Bo was tidying up the shabby inn, occasionally drinking a large bowl of water. Nie Lingdang sat bored in the backyard playing horseshoes.

  "I'm back! There's food now!" Shouted Song Kai.

  "Ah ah ah ah," Nie Zhengyang heard that there was food and suddenly turned around, making a strange noise in his throat as he rushed over.

  At the dinner table, it was said that Song Kai brought back food from someone else's restaurant, Nie Lingdang looked down on Song Kai while eating with relish.

  Song Kai was depressed, this is a white-eyed wolf, but this white-eyed wolf should be quite beautiful in women's clothing, huh, when the guest shop opens, as a female waiter, it will definitely attract many male customers, haha, it must be right...

  A Fu ate while crying, "It's all the fault of this old slave... now letting the young master lose his identity as a scholar and do such lowly things... it's all because this old slave is incompetent...... Oh, this fish is quite fresh..."

  In the Hui Chun Tang, Xue Wei Hai and Sun Tang sat beside the sickbed. The middle-aged man's body temperature slowly dropped down, although he had only taken the medicine once, the effect was already showing up.

  "Old Sun, how is Zhou Lang's condition?" Xue Wei Hai asked, his voice slightly tense. He had seen many storms and waves, and should have been indifferent to life and death, but Zhou Ce was the one he trusted most, also the most important piece in his chess game. If Zhou Ce died, all plans would be ruined.

  Sun Tang held the prescription in both hands, sighed, "Xue Gong, I...I really can't believe it, this prescription actually has such an effect. Maybe this prescription was created by Hua Tuo's ancestors, who knows? Fortunately, Zhou Douniu's life is saved, as for how many days he will recover, it depends on Zhou Douniu himself."

  Upon hearing this, Xue Wei Hai let out a long sigh of relief and burst into three loud guffaws, "Heaven bless the Great Tang! Heaven bless Zhou Lang!"

  Sun Tang could see that it was not the "heavenly blessing" but rather the two prescriptions sent by Song Kai that had saved Zhou Ce's life. However, the principles of these prescriptions were truly unheard of. Thinking of this, Sun Tang spoke up: "Sir Xue, do you know anything about Song Lang? From his speech, it seems...it seems he is not a serious scholar."

  Xue Weihai shook his head and burst out laughing, "Yesterday by the riverbank fishing, this little guy didn't care about his own life or other people's women's chastity, directly jumped into the river to save someone, haha, thinking of this scene, it's actually quite interesting. Whether he's a scholar or not isn't important, as long as his heart is good, that's what matters. This prescription, really is priceless."

  Sun Tang nodded, solemnly putting the prescription into his bosom. "Actually, I was just very puzzled. Today at the dinner table, listening to Song Lang discussing medical prescriptions, I always felt...I thought he was very brilliant. Many medical principles, when first heard, may seem confusing, but now thinking carefully, they also have their own logic."

  Two old men were talking, Sun Ximei lifted the curtain and walked in, holding a jug of distilled water in her hand. She "bang" put the wine on the table and said: "Grandpa, you must have thought wrongly, I just inquired that Song Kai is just a bookworm, his grandfather was quite famous, Song Huaiyuan Gong, but when it came to his father and him, the family declined, now hearing that they can't even afford three meals a day. What kind of person is this, where would he be a great doctor?"

  Xue Weihai and Sun Tang were both taken aback, then looked at each other and smiled. Sun Tang said: "Tomorrow you bring ten taels of gold to give to that Song Kai."

  "Grandpa!" Sun Ximei was startled, "A prescription, how can it be sold for so much money?!"

  Ten taels of gold is equivalent to fifty taels of silver, which is also fifty guan of money, enough for an ordinary family to live a worry-free life for three years. An ordinary prescription sells for two guan of money, which is already a sky-high price.

  Sun Tang furrowed his brow, waved his hand and said: "Let you go then, a life-saving favor..."

  Sun Ximei left with a whisper.

  Xue Wei Hai cupped his hands together and said, "Tomorrow I will send someone to deliver the money to you."

  Sun Tang shook his head, "Xue Gong, no need, not just for Zhou Duyu's life-saving grace, this prescription is actually worth that much. This surgical prescription, if placed on the battlefield, could save tens of thousands of lives."

  Xue Wei Hai opened his mouth, but in the end he just nodded solemnly and stopped talking.

  In the Hongchen Guest House, Song Kai directed Ah Fu and Nie Ling to sweep the courtyard, collect tables and chairs, and prepare for business.

  "Zheng, you go and fetch a bucket of water to wipe down the counter in front, the store must be kept clean. Fu Bo, you tidy up the kitchen." Song Kai instructed while rearranging the wine jars.

  "I, a noble county lady, will not do such rough work!" Nie Lingdang said in a low and resentful tone, "I won't go!"

  Song Kai raised his voice, "Fu Bo, actually Niece Tingting is..."

  "Shut up!" Nie Lingdang stepped forward and covered Song Kai's mouth, "I'll go, the young lady will go fetch water!"

  A Fu turned his head and looked at Song Kai with a puzzled expression.

  Song Kai smiled slightly.

  A Fu sighed and said, "Big brother, this... reorganizing the guest house is a good thing, but... we can't even afford to eat now, how can we open for business?"

  Nie Ling Tong also gritted his teeth and said: "That's right! Even a woman's clothes are not allowed for the young lady."

  Song Kai ignored the two people's complaints, "Tomorrow there will be money, today hurry up and tidy up, tomorrow prepare to open for business. Oh, right, Fu Bo, you tell me about Liu Niangzi's situation, after we make some money, you'll help me propose to her, that little girl, I'm quite fond of her."

  "Hmmph..."

  Nie Lingdang laughed with her head thrown back, her arms akimbo, "Song Kai, you're not starving to death, are you? Someone's sending you money, and you still want to marry a wife. First, fill your belly!"

  A Fu sighed and muttered about Liu Yujuan's affairs.

  Song Kai nodded as he listened, it seemed that the owner of this body was indeed stupid and silly, but with Liu Yuxian, they could be considered childhood sweethearts. When they were young, Liu Yuxian's family was not well off, Song Kai would secretly take money and pastries from home to give to Liu Yuxian. Now that the Song family had completely fallen, the Liu family's fabric business was thriving, and it had become common for Liu Yuxian to support Song Kai.

  Three people were busy, the door of the shop rang with a knock, Nie Lingdang hastily put on a hood and tied it around his head, Song Kai was puzzled for a moment, walked over and opened the door.