C131 Night Scouting Herbal Medicine Shop
C131 Night Scouting Herbal Medicine Shop
They had travelled for a long time without stopping, and did not know how the news of them going out leaked out. There were a lot of people ambushing them along the way.
"Let's find an inn and stay there for the night." Xu Yanlin was sleepy and wanted to yawn.
"Alright."
The two of them led the horse towards a rather luxurious inn.
"Customer, are you staying in a restaurant? Or do you mean to hit the jackpot? " Seeing that Mu Chen and Luo Hua City Mistress were dressed in extraordinary clothes, the waiter immediately smiled and came over with a flattering look on his face.
"Residential quarters, two upper rooms." Xu Yanlin took out a silver ingot and threw it at him, "Our horses need to be fed with good food."
"Alright." The waiter received the silver and quickly ordered the horses to be moved to the stable to take care of them. "Esteemed customer, please follow me."
The two of them followed the waiter up to the second floor and chose two neighboring houses.
"Waiter, this grandpa wants to ask you something." Xu Yanlin gave the waiter some money.
The waiter weighed the copper coins in his hand, his heart was filled with joy. He hurriedly said, "Master, please do not hesitate to ask. This little one will tell you anything, no matter what you say."
"Which shop is the biggest medicinal herb business in Pingyang County?"
"The best medicinal ingredients in our Qingyang County can be counted as the benevolent Hall of the Qiao Family, but the largest medicinal ingredients shop is the Baoan Hall of Shen Family." Touching the money in his hands, the waiter revealed mysteriously to Xu Yanlin, "The guest is an outsider, so we might not be too clear about it. The Qiao and Shen Families are the biggest merchants in our Qingyang County, and they handle the herbs, cloths, cotton, and tea leaves … There are countless people here, but the people who built their Shen Family within the past two years have been living a smooth sailing life. "
"You really know a lot?" Xu Yanlin laughed.
"Qingyang County is only this big, and news of what happened in the big families spread very quickly. You don't know that a few days ago, the girls of Shen Family were playing with their male pets, and died playing with their lives."
"Miss Shen Family also has a male pet?" Isn't this a bit too bold?
"That's right, there's something wrong with that girl's head. She once got drunk at our inn and beat up anyone she caught. She even said that she was a princess, but Master Shen spoiled her." The waiter shook his head, "How arrogant."
Xu Yanlin's face changed. Princess? Was this really something wrong with his head, or was this some kind of secret?
"Alright, you may leave."
"Master, if you need anything, just call me." When she closed the door, the waiter shouted towards Xu Yanlin.
"Fourteen, did you hear that just now? He's talking about princesses. " His Majesty didn't have any princesses left behind in the commons these days.
"That girl is crazy."
"You believe that? That girl wasn't stupid enough to accept a male pet. " How dare the Shen Family people let her go out?
Mu Chen did not reply, but instead continued speaking with a cold smile, "Then there must be a problem with the Shen Family, the ointment for this problem was all provided by his family, and he even made a princess! Either his family wanted to usurp the position, or his family was a spy from another country."
Mu Chen looked at him as a hint of ridicule flashed past his eyes.
After the two of them were done packing, they went downstairs to eat.
"Sir, would you like something to eat?" Knowing that Xu Yanlin was rich and generous, the waiter came to serve them the moment he saw them.
"Two bowls of noodles, a plate of lamb slices, a roast duck and a plate of vegetables."
"Alright. Guest, please wait for a moment. We'll be there shortly." The waiter swiftly went to the kitchen to announce the dishes, and then neatly poured tea for Mu Chen and Xu Yanlin.
"Is this the first time you two esteemed guests have come to our Qingyang City?" The waiter was an active person, he could not finish his sentence.
"I've been here once before." Mu Chen said.
"There are a lot of fun places in our Qingyang City. If there's a chance, we must have some fun." The waiter poured some tea and went to greet the other customers.
"This inn is rather lively." Xu Yanlin picked up the tea and took a sniff, it was not really a good tea, so he was barely able to taste it, "Why didn't I know you came to Qingyang City?"
"At that time, you were still in the capital."
Mu Chen did not mention anything about the military camp. Xu Yanlin understood everything in an instant.
Xu Yanlin picked up a few pieces of mutton meat for Mu Chen, "I heard that the mutton meat here isn't bad, hurry up and eat it."
He drank a mouthful of soup, nodded his head in satisfaction, then ate a few slices of mutton meat. It was mixed pretty well with the sauce, and after Xu Yanlin ate a few mouthfuls, he shouted to the waiter, "Waiter, give me a pot of wine.
"Drink less." Mu Chen reminded him, they weren't here to play, they still had things to do tonight.
"Sure, I know my limits." He only had that little hobby.
With the wine, Xu Yanlin enjoyed this meal a lot. Seeing him like this, Mu Chen unknowingly ate quite a bit too.
After eating his fill, Xu Yanlin poured and sipped his wine, but at the same time, a young master led a group of people and swaggered in.
"Waiter, serve me a table full of your signature dishes." The young master in the lead was dressed in silk clothing and confidently took out a bag and placed it on the table. From the sound of it, one could tell that it was not cheap at all.
The waiter hurried to serve him, "Young Master Shen, what do you want to eat?"
"What do you have here?" "Give me one serving, I have money, so I can afford it." Young Master Shen took out a tael of silver and threw it to the waiter, "Hurry up and go."
After receiving the silver, the waiter did not mind Young Master Shen's vile attitude and hurriedly went to inform the kitchen to cook.
Young Master Shen turned his head to look at the people he brought over, "Take a seat, don't be polite. This young master will treat you today. You can have any meal you like."
"Young master Shen is indeed generous." One of the young masters who was dressed in an extraordinary attire said in a flattering tone.
"Being friends with Young Master Shen is really a blessing for us."
"..."
Young Master Shen was praised to the point that he seemed to be floating in the air. Thus, he immediately promised to go to the Flower Pavilion and listen to music later on. The debt would be completely up to him.
When the people heard this, they flattered him even more.
"People from the Shen Family." Xu Yanlin sneered, wasn't that young master Shen the one that Shen Jingli said, a fool with a lot of money?
"Young Master Shen is generous, I don't think you're a foreigner."
What did he mean? Was there a need for him to curry favor with Young Master Shen?
The group of young people with Young Master Shen were probably Qingyang's playboys. If they didn't open their mouths, they were either the flower ladies of the flower pavilion or the gambling den … It was all a shady business.
"Young Master Shen, I heard that your sister bought another servant to serve her a few days ago. Could it be that the one from before has broken down again?"
It was not unusual for the big miss of Shen Family to have a male pet in Qingyang City. That big miss of Shen Family had a very shrewd personality and he dared to take liberties with men in public.
Young Master Shen felt a little embarrassed at their questions. He inwardly cursed his sister for being so arrogant, but he still kept a straight face and said, "That's not true. My sister has been living in White Cloud Temple all this time. How could she do such a thing?"
"Oh, Miss Shen actually went to White Cloud Temple to eat and recite Buddhist scriptures. This is a great miracle in Qingyang City."
The popinjays laughed loudly. Young Master Shen was a bit embarrassed, and wanted to throw a tantrum, but did not dare to do so. The people gathered here were all foppish popinjays of Qing Yang's reputation.
This group of people made a lot of noise and then ate and drank to their heart's content before heading to the Flower Tower together.
"Do you want to follow them?" Xu Yanlin asked.
"Stupid as that, I don't think he knows anything." Mu Chen looked down on Young Master Shen.
"..."
high dark wind
Mu Chen and Xu Yanlin changed into night clothes and snuck into the medicine shop of the Shen Family.
When they chatted with the waiter during the day, they had already investigated the location of the Shen Family and medicine shop, as they were here to investigate during the night.
There were many ingredients stored in the Shen Family warehouse: ordinary Du Zhong, Lian Fu, Huang Lian, as well as valuable ginseng and Lingzhi.
"There's actually another thirty to seventy percent. This Shen Family's medicinal ingredients are pretty complete." Xu Yanlin picked up a piece of 3/7 and looked at it for a while while facing the light of the moon. Then, he smelt it again.
The two of them walked around the warehouse a few times and looked at a lot of herbs, but didn't find anything wrong with it.
"They are all good herbs, a thousand years old ginseng, a hundred years old lingzhi …" This Shen Family is pretty thick. " The smile on Xu Yanlin's face carried a little ridicule.
"Alright, let's hurry up and go so that we won't be discovered."
Just as they were about to leave, they heard two men's voices coming from outside.
"Liu Er, let's go. I can't take it anymore." A man said in a pleading tone.
"Third Brother, please bear with it. Once we've gathered ten thousand silver taels, we'll leave and go somewhere else to live."
"But I really can't take it anymore." The man knelt down, crying as he spoke, "Miss Shen is not a human at all, she torments us every day. If this goes on, I'm afraid I won't be able to control myself and will kill her."
The man called Liu Er immediately knelt down as well and hugged him, consoling him affectionately, "Third brother, I know you've suffered for our future, but you have to endure it for a few more days. Shen Mudan just bought a new servant recently, she won't keep his eyes on you anymore."
"Third Brother, after this is done, we will have enough money. When that time comes, we will leave immediately."
He continued to console Third Brother and leaned over to kiss Third Brother's cheek. Third Brother was convinced, so he kissed Liu Er back.
"Then I'll bear with it."
"Third Brother, after we leave the Shen Family, I'll marry you. We'll go live somewhere else, buy a few lands, and grow our own crops. I still have to bear your children."
Only now did Xu Yanlin and Yue Yang know that the man called Liu Er was a double.
"Liu Er, Liu Er..." If she hadn't relied on her family's wealth to steal him away to be her male pet, he would have already married Liu Er long ago. Maybe he would even have a child already.
After the two of them spoke to each other about their feelings, they returned back to their own homes. Mu Chen and Yue Shan took the chance to leave the medicine shop.
"These two people actually met in secret to the Medicinal Herbs store. Isn't that a little strange?" Was Shen Family's medicine warehouse a place anyone could enter?
Xu Yanlin didn't even have time to take off his night attire before he drank the tea.
"There's something wrong with the one called Liu Er. Go and ask around tomorrow."
"Find out about a pair?" Isn't this too despicable?
Mu Chen immediately shot out a blade eye, a cold light flashed, and Xu Yanlin felt as though he was being pierced by needles, "I'll go and ask, I'll go and ask tomorrow."
"Go back to your room."
"Tsk tsk, Mu Shisi, you are really not a cruel person." Xu Yanlin acted as if he had been abandoned, and quietly went back to his own room.