Chapter 140: The Rich City Lord

The shopkeeper is a gray-haired man over fifty years old, with a slightly blessed figure, kind eyebrows, especially when inquiring about illness, he looks and hears, and has a calm heart. Pen Fun Pavilion wWw. biquge。 Info raised his head, and although he saw that the person who came in was followed by the guards of the City Lord's Mansion, he did not immediately greet him, but continued to see the patient.

The leader of the guards surnamed Chen behind him was just about to walk towards the shopkeeper, but Feng Jiu Yuan raised his hand to stop him, and walked straight to the counter and said to Xiao Er: "Is there a Qingxin Pill for sale in the hall?"

Xiao Er stopped dispensing medicine in his hand, and looked at the shopkeeper over there, as if he had to make a decision even to say "yes" or "no".

Although Feng Jiu Kite's voice was light and peaceful, and the shopkeeper over there was far away, he heard her words clearly, glanced at Feng Jiu Kite, finished writing the prescription in his pen, and said something to the waiting patients, then he got up and walked over here, handed the prescription to Xiao Er, and said to Feng Jiu Kite: "Do you want to buy the Qingxin Pill?"

Feng Jiu Yuan smiled slightly and nodded.

The shopkeeper looked at the five guards of the City Lord's Mansion, and knew that it was the City Lord's Mansion who wanted it, so he got straight to the point and said, "How much do you want?"

"How many shopkeepers are there?" said Feng Jiu Yuan.

"Wait a minute!" said the shopkeeper entered the counter, lifted the dark blue curtain behind the counter and walked in, and after waiting for about a cup of tea, he came out again.

He put a mahogany brocade box in his hand on the counter and opened it, revealing the red, white and blue porcelain vases lying flat inside, unplugged the soft cloth under the porcelain vase, took out a folded clean handkerchief, and picked up the white porcelain bottle in the middle, uncorked the bottle, poured out a small pill onto the handkerchief, and handed it to Feng Jiu Kite.

Feng Jiu Yuan took it, took the pill to the tip of his nose with the handkerchief and sniffed it, then took the white porcelain bottle handed by the shopkeeper, poured all the five pills in it into the handkerchief, looked at it carefully and asked, "I don't know how much this pill costs?"

The shopkeeper smiled gently, raised three fingers and said, "At least thirty gold coins." ”

Thirty gold coins? Feng Jiu frowned, although she rarely went shopping in this world, and she didn't know the price of various grades of pills on the market, but just because she was born sensitive to the word "money", thirty gold coins is inevitably pitfalling, right?

However, before she could say anything, Yunhua on the side said angrily: "Shopkeeper, seeing that you have a kind face, your heart should not be bad, how can you give birth to a few pills and sell them so expensive! Do you know that these pills are used by the City Lord's Mansion to treat those people who have been stung by poisonous bees? ! Moreover, these pills of yours are not of the highest quality!"

Speaking of this, the guards behind coughed, took off the Qiankun bag around his waist, took out a money bag from it, and poured out one hundred and fifty gold coins to push down the shopkeeper in front of him.

"Alas!" Yunhua was very puzzled by the guard's behavior, and said in her heart, how could there be such a stupid guard in this world?!

After the guard collected the money bag, he explained to Yunhua and Feng Jiu Yuan: "The two girls may not know much about the rules of the City Lord's Mansion when they first enter Yunan City. The lord of the castle had a rule that in the purchase and sale of transactions between the lord's mansion and the ordinary merchants or common people registered in the city, the merchants or the common people could demand twice the price of the goods from the lord's mansion on the basis of the value of the goods themselves, except for the wealthy, of course. ”

"Huh, there are such rules?" Yunhua thought incredulous.

This Yunan City is really rich to the people, but thinking of the boldness and generosity of the city lord waving his hand when he left the mansion before, he took 10,000 gold coins from the tent, and if it was not enough, he could take it again. I thought of the courtyard of the City Lord's Mansion that was full of wounds, whether it was medicine or food, it was provided by the City Lord's Mansion. And in order to treat those wounded, the city lord spent a lot of money to find a pharmacist......

Presumably, there is much more to the money than that. Although Yunan City is not small, the City Lord's Mansion does not sell goods to the outside world like merchants, so to maintain such a huge economic operation, is it only based on taxation?

She wondered, "Does the City Lord's Mansion rely only on the taxes of the city residents to maintain the food and clothing of the people in the mansion?"

In order to reduce the burden on the townspeople, the taxes were paid by the townspeople, and even the fees paid by the caravans according to the length of stay were reduced year by year. The girl's words made the lord of the city seem to be a faint king who squeezes the fat of the people and the ointment. ”

From the words of the guard, it can be seen that he admires and maintains the city lord, because Feng Jiu Yuan and the others are the distinguished guests of the city lord, so they naturally dare not show displeasure, but their words are already displeased. If this topic continues, it will inevitably hurt and anger.

"I'm just curious, not with ulterior motives, and I ask Guardian Chen not to mind!" Feng Jiu Yuan smiled slightly, bowing his head to show his apologies.

Seeing that Feng Jiu Kite was a woman, and his manners were polite and measured, Escort Chen, who was originally slightly blocked in his heart, was relieved, it was not that he was stingy, he was just protecting his heart.

"Next, are we going to buy medicine one by one?" asked Chen Huwei.

Feng Jiu Yuan looked at the crowded market in front of him and said without thinking: "Although there are many medical halls and pharmacies in Yunan City, not every one of them has this pill for sale, so we are divided into three people, Chen Escort can arrange two guards to ask for medicine along this street, from the street to the end of the street, and then arrange for the other two guards to choose a more conspicuous place to hang a sign, and buy the Qingxin Pill at a high price, those passing monks and merchants may have it in their hands, which can save a lot of time." At sunset, we meet at the end of the street and go home together. ”

Chen Huwei nodded happily and said, "This is indeed a good way, so what should we do next?

"We have our own arrangements, as for you. She thought for a moment, "Whatever you want!"

After saying that, he gave Yunhua a look and walked forward.

Yunhua looked back at the five guards behind her, and said to Feng Jiu Kite, "Nine Kites, what are we going to do?"

"Of course it's shopping! The market in this Yunan City is so lively, it's a pity not to go shopping! Second, I don't know the price of the pills and spiritual weapons on the market, and I will inevitably be deceived in the future, so I still need to know more!"

When Yunhua heard this, she was immediately overjoyed, "Nine kites, you are still witty! I have long wanted to go shopping! I heard that there is a well-known Dharma clothing shop in Yunan City, and many monks buy it there, whether it is the style, size, or clothing, it is highly praised! Why don't we go and take a look?"

"Good!"

After just a few steps, Yunhua's pace slowed down again, and she hesitated: "Nine kites, you said that if we leave like this, will they make a mess of things?"

(To be continued.) )