My Lady Always Lacks Ambition-Chapter 262 - 261: Want Medicine, Bring Silver

Ms. Gao stood frozen, tears incessantly streaming down, feeling utterly devastated and reluctant inside.

Upon her return home, a middle-aged steward in a robe was already there. She couldn’t make out what had been said, but her mother-in-law and her child’s father were both visibly shocked and yet filled with joy, dragging her immediately to receive someone.

It was on the road that she found out that the promise of a thousand taels of silver had been made by the man to take the child and the medicine named Jade Snow Skin back.

A thousand taels of silver was an unimaginable sum for people like them, an unreachable amount by any means. All along the way, her mother-in-law incessantly mumbled how this silver would allow her younger brother-in-law to marry a daughter of a Scholar who was literate and numerate, and her sister-in-law could have a decent dowry to marry into a well-off family.

Her mother-in-law was so jubilant, as if the thousand taels were already in her hand.

Ms. Gao was completely stupefied and only managed to ask: "What about Yan’er?"

"Yan’er is just a servant girl; as long as she can bear children, she will always have a place to marry into, no matter her unsightly face. For a woman, the most important thing is to bear sons. Otherwise, even if she were beautiful as a flower, it would be wasted," her mother-in-law said profoundly.

These words had a deep implication.

She herself looked quite appealing but had failed to provide the Gao Family with a son.

Ms. Gao looked at her husband, who averted his eyes, clearly sharing his mother’s views.

Ms. Gao lowered her gaze: "What if I refuse?"

Her mother-in-law slapped her across the face, saying sharply, "Since when do you make decisions in this household? If you refuse, Quan’er, give her a divorce letter and tell her to get lost."

Ms. Gao, covering her face, looked again towards Gao Xiaoquan: "Yan’er is your own daughter. If her face is ruined, so is her whole life."

Gao Xiaoquan remained silent, his silence expressing his stance.

"What if I don’t even accept the divorce letter? Would you kill me and Yan’er too?" Ms. Gao felt a chill in her heart and muttered softly.

"Stop the nonsense, just go. If you scare my Yan’er, I’ll take your life," the mother-in-law pushed her out the door.

Ms. Gao thought about Qin Liuxi’s words until now.

If she went back, she couldn’t protect the medicine, and perhaps not even her own life.

That was the message, wasn’t it?

"What are you still standing there for? Aren’t you going to go?" Mrs. Gao raised her hand for another slap.

But the slap never landed, her hand seemed to be grabbed by something, unable to move.

Mrs. Gao froze, tried to move, but couldn’t at all, her expression shifting from shock to horror. What was happening, why couldn’t she move?

"I, I..." Mrs. Gao was almost frightened enough to scream.

Was there a ghost here?

Qin Liuxi looked at Si Lengyue and slightly shook his head with a smile.

Si Lengyue flung aside, coldly saying, "While it’s common for mothers-in-law to bully their daughters-in-law, seeing her beat the daughter-in-law in public like this, I cannot endure it."

Suddenly, Mrs. Gao’s hand regained freedom, turning ghostly pale, and looked around warily.

Manager Ye looked at Qin Liuxi, What do you make of this mess?

Qin Liuxi with his hands behind his back, said, "If they want to take the child, let them take the child. Manager Ye, appoint someone to escort them to fetch the child."

Ms. Gao was startled, while the others showed delighted expressions on their faces.

"What are you waiting for? Go get her." Mrs. Gao pushed Ms. Gao, annoyed at her dazed expression, to the point of almost stomping her feet, then pushed her son, "You go and carry her yourself."

Manager Ye, seeing Qin Liuxi was not joking, nodded to an assistant, "Take him."

The assistant then carried Yan’er out with Gao Xiaoquan.

But, what about the medicine?

Gao Xiaoquan and Mrs. Gao looked at each other, then turned to Ms. Gao, saying, "How can you be a mother and not bring out the medicine?" Seeing her as if she hadn’t heard, they couldn’t help but get angered, pushed her away, and with a forced smile asked, "So, Doctor, where is the medicine for my granddaughter’s face treatment?"

Si Lengyue really couldn’t help but laugh ironically, saying coolly next to Qin Liuxi, "Ever since they came in, they haven’t asked once about Yan’er’s injury. Now that the child is brought out, the father doesn’t show a bit of heartache to his daughter’s bandaged face. The grandmother didn’t even glance at her, let alone show concern. Oh, now they suddenly care about the medicine, how ridiculous."

Qin Liuxi’s expression remained completely unchanged.

This is human nature.

Qin Liuxi asked, "What medicine?"

"The one for treating my granddaughter."

Mrs. Gao looked at her granddaughter, whose face was wrapped in a bandage, frowned for a moment, then relaxed.

Qin Liuxi said, "The medicine for treating her facial wounds is my own secret recipe, not shared with others, but if the price is right, I can prepare it for you to take home and apply."

Mrs. Gao was startled, "Pay in silver, how much?"

Qin Liuxi looked to Manager Ye, "Tell them how much Jade Snow Skin is sold for in the market."

Manager Ye coughed lightly, and said, "A bottle of Jade Snow Skin, about the size of my finger, starts at ten thousand taels of silver, and it’s hard to get. If you bid for it at the auction house, it might double. Do you know about Jiuxuan Auction? Jade Snow Skin once sold there for the highest price of a hundred and ten thousand taels."

Of course, the volume of that bottle was larger.

In recent years, Jade Skin Flower has been rare, and someone has been too lazy to make it, so few bottles of Jade Snow Skin circulate in the market, hence the high price.

"What, how much?" Mrs. Gao’s lips began to tremble.

"One hundred and ten thousand taels."

Mrs. Gao’s legs gave out, and she fell to the ground.

Gao Xiaoquan nearly couldn’t hold his daughter, his legs also going weak. freewebnσvel.cøm

Whereas Ms. Gao was completely shocked; she knew the medicine that Third Grandmother Tu was so insistent on was incredibly expensive, but she did not realize it was this costly.

Yet Qin Liuxi had taken less than a penny’s worth of silver from her.

Ms. Gao suddenly looked at Qin Liuxi, her pupils contracting and lips quivering, tears flickering in her eyes.

"Your granddaughter’s facial injury, not to mention the main ingredient Jade Snow Skin, even the pearl powder used is of the highest quality. Just the pearl powder used in that one application of medicine, considering it a bargain, would also cost fifty taels of silver." Manager Ye smilingly said: "You see, doesn’t this one application itself cost over a thousand taels? And several applications are needed for it to heal."

"That’s just a money-losing deal, charging thousands of taels for treatment, are you robbing us!" Mrs. Gao’s voice trembled.

Manager Ye’s expression hardened, and he said sternly, "Ma’am, you’re also living in Qingzhou City, right? Throughout Qingzhou Prefecture, who doesn’t know that medicine from Changsheng Hall is famously effective but expensive, fair to all ages, sold willingly, not forcing anyone to buy. Those who claim we are robbing, you’re not the first, but even as they accuse us of robbing, they exactly come here to rob, just like the noble who asked you to come."

Mrs. Gao’s expression changed, her eyes dodging, stammeringly said, "I, I don’t know what you are talking about."

"Whether you know or not doesn’t matter, just letting you know, we can prepare the medicine for you to take back, given how pitiful Yan’er looks, for a thousand taels per application. Bring the silver to get the medicine." Manager Ye blandly said, "If you don’t have the money, then goodbye; no need to see you out."

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