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Chapter 43: Addicted
On the road, Wen Nuan was sitting in the cart. Wen Jiarui was pushing the cart when he remembered to ask about the matter of selling songs: "Sister Nuan, have your songs been sold?
He is not asking how much silver it has been sold for, but whether it has indeed been sold. He doesn't think Wen Nuan's songs can be sold at all.
"Sold it, sold for five hundred and fifty taels." There was no one on the road, so Wen Nuan said it freely.
Wen Jiarui, who didn’t expect her to be able to sell it, said: “Five hundred and fifty copper coins is quite a lot. That is comparable to selling a few barrels of snails. That doesn't seem right, Sister Nuan, what did you just say about five?”
Wen Jiarui was pushing the cart and immediately stopped in the middle of the road.
"Five hundred and fifty taels. I think it was a bit cheap, selling for six hundred taels should be possible too!"
The cart almost rolled into the fields on both sides of the road!
Scared, Wen Nuan sat up.
She began to feel this part of the road was a little unstable. She tightly grasped the handle of the cart, really worried that Wen Jiarui would accidentally push it into the river.
They made it through the county road without any further risk, and the village road was full of farmland on both sides.
Harvesting season was in full swing, and there are many villagers in the fields.
Wen Yongfu had finished cutting a handful of rice, and moved to stretch her waist just in time to see Wen Jiarui walking by with a cart. She couldn't help but raise her voice and ask: "Wen Jiarui, the snails were sold out so soon, did you make a lot of money?"
She saw their family gathering snails two days ago. She thought they were so poor they had to eat snails! She smirked at them secretly.
Unexpectedly, they are selling fried snails, and they taste pretty good. This day, they went out to sell in three separate carts. In total, over a dozen barrels of snails are sold. How much money did they earn?
She is a little bit jealous.
It's a pity that the snails made by her mother-in-law are terrible!
Many villagers stopped working and looked at them, asking Wen Jiarui whether it was good to sell, and how much he made.
"I made some hard-earned money. You also know that my family doesn't even have a house. It's almost winter. If we don't make some money and build a house, we won't survive!"
After hearing this, everyone said that the house must be built, and when the time comes to build the house, ask themselves to help.
Wen Jiarui smiled and agreed.
After they walked away, someone said:
"It's naive to want to build a house after selling snails for a few days. A house is not so easy to build. Besides, who would buy this snail dish after the busy farming period?"
"Yeah! The silver earned from selling snails is just enough to buy medicine for his family's plague star!"
"As long as the plague star in his family does not die, Wen Jiarui will not be able to build a house in this lifetime. The plague sick has been sick all her life, and no amount of money can be saved! I don't know what he thinks! If the plague star had been thrown to the back mountain long ago, who knows how good his family's life would be now?!
"No, I remember that Madam Wang's dowry was so lavish back then. That day, the whole village had a look. Who wasn't envious? Now, they are the poorest in the whole village!"
"Thinking about it, I'm afraid this family won't survive this winter..."
Everyone talks about each other in the village.
Listening to this chatter, Wen Yongfu thought, why should she be jealous of the poorest peasants in the village, and how much money they made?
These kind of people can't fly far without letting the plague star go!
The Wen Family mostly doesn't know what others say about themselves, and they don't care when they do know. They don’t have time to care. The best thing to do is to hurry up and live their lives.
So the two of them just headed home, and Wen Jiarui hurried off to help Madam Wu gather snails.
They can no longer sell them in town, but they asked Boss Tang if they can continue selling fried snails in several villages during the few days left of the busy farming season.
Selling in the villages will not affect the business of his restaurant, so Boss Tang agreed without saying a word.
Wen Jiarui was still a bit unsteady on his feet, and even bumped his head into the courtyard door when he walked out.
Wen Nuan laughed, then shook her head, rolled up her sleeves, and started cooking.
Not far away, Nalan Jinnian and Feng Nianchen were walking unhurriedly with a wolf and an eagle, and came just in time to see Wen Jiarui hitting the courtyard gate, then quickly run off.
Feng Nianchen: "Who is that fool, and why is he so stupid?"
Nalan Jinnian didn’t speak, but was a little surprised at Wen Jiarui’s excitement. What good thing has happened to cause this?
Nalan Jinnian brought Feng Nianchen to Wen Nuan's home.
Wen Nuan saw Nalan Jinnian and Feng Nianchen both coming, and had a headache: "Why are you here?"
Is this guy addicted?
"Eat." Nalan Jinnian casually pulled out a bamboo stool and sat down, familiar with it as if he had returned to his own home.
Feng Nianchen put a medicine box on the bamboo table: "Little girl, I'm here to give some of the various pills that I have developed. Some are good for health, some can cure all kinds of diseases, and some can cure all kinds of poisons. There are also youth and beauty products, in short, everything should be available. Each bottle has instructions and prescriptions for you. You can see if there can be any improvement."
He gave her a copy of all the babies he worked hard to develop over the years.
Wen Nuan's eyes lit up, her clear gaze stained with a trace of interest, and all impatience just disappeared.
This gift suits her very well.
Medical skills are endless. Wen Nuan is very interested in medical developments. She also wants to know what kind of pills Feng Nianchen has developed, so she can compare them with her own. She smiled and thanked him.
Nalan Jinnian glanced at Wen Nuan's happy little appearance, thinking that when she received his own gifts, she was not so happy. He suddenly felt that Steward Yuan did not do his job well! Isn't this not preparing enough?
Feng Nianchen looked around: "Little girl, is this your home?"
In this bamboo house, wind enters on sunny days, and water on rainy days. How can they live in here?
Wen Nuan: "Yes!"
Feng Nianchen was silent. He felt that one hundred taels of silver a month was too little, the little girl's family was so poor that she didn't even have a house.
He took out banknotes worth five hundred taels of silver from his sleeve: "Little girl, I'm here to join in with your household too. This is for food!"
Wen Nuan saw the five hundred tael banknotes and would not take it: "There is no need to bring so much. Seventeenth Brother gave enough."
What she makes is not the delicacies of the mountain and the sea!
"What Seventeenth gave is for himself. This is not only for food, but also for apprenticeship! I don't even think this a bit of money is enough!"
Five hundred taels is too little, but he only carries so much on him right now.
To think he paid respect to that bad old man as a teacher, and gave a generous gift of tens of thousands of taels.
That bad old man doesn’t care about him, how can he compare with this little girl who explains everything in such detail? If it weren't for his own extraordinary talent, and brilliant intelligence, how could he become the little genius doctor?!
Nalan Jinnian said faintly: "Accept it, he is not hurting for money."
The title of “genius doctor of Fengxiao Hospital” is not exaggerated. Most people are willing to spend a lot of money to find him for treatment. Whether he will treat those people or not, depends on his own mood.
And this is indeed what she deserves, there is no reason to teach him acupuncture.
Feng Nianchen nodded and put the silver banknote into the medicine box: "Yes, little girl accept it, otherwise I'm embarrassed to learn acupuncture with you. And this money also includes my meal expenses! After eating a lot, I'm afraid you will still lose out!"
How can his little master continue to live in a bamboo house?!
Wen Nuan only pinched her eyebrows, and said nothing.
"Sit down, I'll cook."
Wen Nuan made them a pot of tea, then went to work.
Feng Nianchen did not sit, but looked around Wen Nuan's house, and even took Nalan Jinnian out to look at the nearby terrain.
Feng Nianchen: "The feng shui here is quite good. I should buy this piece of land, including the lake. Then build a courtyard here, set up an acupuncture treatment building on the lake, and build it over there."
Feng Nianchen planned it all one by one.
Nalan Jinnian walked beside him, his posture superb, tall and straight like a pine, with a graceful aura. Wearing silver-gray brocade and jade robes, he strode through the countryside like an emperor patrolling his territory.
Occasionally, villagers passing by looked sideways, but did not dare approach, and even hurriedly left after taking a look, worried they would offend the nobility.
"It's a good idea." He retracted his gaze and raised his foot to walk back.
Feng Nianchen felt energetic as soon as he heard it: "You feel it's good too, then so be it! I will find that fellow, Ouyang, tomorrow to buy land!"
How can his little master not even have a mansion?!
It just so happened that the garden master, Fu Jingyuan, wanted him to help his old mother.
Let him design it, and he will not charge the medical expenses.
Wen Nuan had just finished cooking the meal when the family members came back one after another.
Feng Nianchen greeted the elders very politely, and introduced himself to the people younger than him. Feng Nianchen is more talkative than Nalan Jinnian, and Madam Wang was amused by him.
Everyone has a very good impression of Feng Nianchen, and invited him to come visit their home more.
Feng Nianchen looked at the plate of crystal elbows on the table, the boiled fish, abalone chicken soup, leeks and scrambled eggs, snails with tender bamboo shoots and fish heads, jasper spinach, cucumbers, pumpkins, etc. all exuding attractive aromas, and worked hard to maintain his composure. After swallowing his saliva, he said with a serious face: "I will definitely here come as a guest often!"
Everyone was amused by him again.
Madam Wang thought to herself, who said that most of the children of rich parents are hedonistic? Aren't these two good?
brocade garments, jade meals: luxurious, extravagant
crystal elbow: thinly sliced pork dish, dipped in garlic sauce and often arranged in a flower shape on the plate
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