Chapter 85: Isn't a Dog Far Better Than Him?

Hearing Chi Nan Yi's words, Mo Jun Heng's expression darkened enough to drip ink: "You actually compared me to a dog?"

"This commoner girl did not mean it that way."

How could she compare him to a dog? Was a dog not far better than him?

Chi Nan Yi stood behind the screen; Gao Feng took out the ointment and was about to apply it, when Chi Nan Yi's voice came from behind the screen: "You cannot apply it directly. You must use a Silver Needle to puncture every red rash on His Highness's body, squeeze out the pus, and then apply this ointment."

"What?" Mo Jun Heng felt darkness swim before his eyes.

"Your Highness, I told you from the start that the treatment would be extremely painful, like flaying skin and pulling sinews. This first step is nothing compared to the pain that follows."

Hearing her say this, Mo Jun Heng's vision went dark again and again.

If even this was nothing, the pain that followed...

The veins on his forehead twitched. Just then, Chi Nan Yi said with a smile: "Surely His Highness is not so delicate! When I treated Prince Li, the scars on the Prince's body were layered one upon another, and that was far more painful than applying ointment."

Mo Jun Heng glared at the screen, then turned and nodded to Gao Feng.

Gao Feng picked up the Silver Needle beside him and, fingers trembling, pierced down.

He was a grown man; wielding a knife or sword was no trouble at all, but handling an embroidery needle was the one thing he was not skilled at.

Some needles went deep, some shallow, making the veins on Mo Jun Heng's forehead stand out prominently. When squeezing out the pus, Mo Jun Heng truly could not hold back a muffled groan.

Chi Nan Yi heard it and felt immensely pleased.

They all said that sometimes being alive was far more painful than being dead.

The first two were merely appetizers; what was truly unbearable was the ointment.

The burning, stinging pain on the wounds was like someone sprinkling chili water on them.

"What... what kind of devilish thing is this!" Mo Jun Heng looked at the pitch-black ointment, his teeth chattering from the pain: "What exactly is in this?"

"All things that help your wounds heal. Rest assured, Your Highness—as long as it is applied continuously for seven days, it is guaranteed to cure the illness."

What?

Seven days?

It actually took seven days?

Such suffering, and he had to endure it for seven consecutive days—this was worse than simply taking his life.

"I shall trust you this once. If I am not fully recovered in seven days, I will certainly take your life."

"Yes, Your Highness."

Over the next few days, Chi Nan Yi did not go to the Crown Prince's villa again. Every day she was either at the shop in town or writing medicinal cuisine recipes.

Chi Nan Yi understood in her heart that for medicinal cuisine to have an immediate effect, the water used to prepare it was crucial. As long as Spirit Spring Water was added, not only would the taste improve, but its efficacy could also multiply several times over.

So she was not afraid of others stealing these recipes.

Even if they stole them, they would not be able to make them.

On this day, the villagers building their house were gathered together eating lunch when several carriages stopped at the entrance of the Chi Family home.

Such luxurious carriages appearing, everyone craned their necks and kept staring.

"Miss Chi." The shopkeepers of several pharmacies in Qingjun County stepped down from the carriages and cupped their hands to her with a smile: "Miss Chi, might I ask if this batch of pills is ready?"

Ever since the Chi Family started building their house, their pills went from being delivered to town to having the shopkeepers personally come to the Chi Family to pick them up.

"They are ready." Chi Huai Qian handed the pills over.

"Miss Chi, apart from these cold remedy pills, are there any other pills for sale?" Zhou Heshan said with a smile: "Miss Chi's pills are inexpensive and astonishingly effective; they sold out completely in just a few days. If you have any other pills, please think of me!"

"And our Miraculous Hands Hall as well."

"Our Longevity World Hall wants some too."

Their reactions were entirely within Chi Nan Yi's expectations.

The cold remedy pills were merely bait she had cast out, but this bait was enough to drive those pharmacy shopkeepers mad.

"You several shopkeepers have come at just the right time. This is a newly developed Bone-Continuing Pill." She brought out the pills and said with a smile: "If there are broken bones or contusions, after setting the bone normally, take the pill—two consecutive days of use and one can recover fully."

If anyone else had said this, they might not have believed it, but having witnessed the efficacy of the cold remedy pills, they figured this Bone-Continuing Pill would not be far behind either.

"Might I ask the price..."

"The same as the cold remedy pills."

"So cheap!" The several shopkeepers could not help but be overjoyed: "Good, good, good—then the same as the cold remedy pills, two thousand pills."

Looking at the silver notes in her hand, her gaze sweeping over the curiously watching villagers, Chi Nan Yi's lips curved slightly upward.

After the pharmacy shopkeepers left, several villagers gathered over.

"Chi Family girl, what were those people doing just now?"

"They are the shopkeepers of several pharmacies in the county."

"Pharmacy shopkeepers from Qingjun County? What did they come here for!" they asked while glancing at the silver notes in her hand: "Is your family doing business with them?"

"That is right." Chi Nan Yi nodded: "I know some medicine, can identify medicinal herbs, and can make some pills. They found the effects quite good, so they come to me to buy them."

"I saw it was just a small box—worth that much silver?"

What they usually saw were bits of loose silver, and the denominations of silver notes were not small. Looking at the silver notes in Chi Nan Yi's hand, to say they were not envious would be a lie.

"Medicinal herbs are precious. Moreover, those shopkeepers have dealt with medicinal herbs for decades—would they really be swindled by a little girl like me?"

Hearing this, everyone crowded over and said with a smile: "Chi Family girl, can we make these pills too?"

"Yes, yes! Why don't you take us along! There's silver to be made—let everyone earn together!"

"That may be so, but none of you understand pharmacology. Besides, I developed and created these pills myself. Shopkeeper Zhou of the Hundred Medicines Workshop in Qingjun County offered several hundred taels to buy my formula and I still refused to sell—how could I just give it away?"

"Several hundred taels? You wouldn't sell even for several hundred taels?"

"Naturally."

Hearing her say this, the villagers were all astonished.

They had never imagined that a single formula could earn that much silver.

"Chi Family's young lady, is there anything we can do? As long as we can earn some silver, that's fine." Wu stepped forward, smiling, and said: "To be honest, my husband has passed away, leaving us widowed mother and orphans at home; this year's harvest in the fields is poor, fortunately we can help your family build houses and work for wages, otherwise we mother and daughter wouldn't know how to get by; as long as we get some wages, I'll do any work."

"We can too, we can too."

"In a moment, the villagers of Yuping Village all stepped forward eagerly, fearing to miss the chance to earn silver; the Chi Family's house will eventually be finished, and if they cannot find other livelihoods, they will have no silver to earn."

"If speaking of work, there is some; nowadays the daily demand for medicine pills is increasing, we need someone to roll pills, rolling pills for a day earns twenty wen in wages, okay?"

"Rolling pills?"

"It's that simple to earn silver?"

"Wu hurriedly nodded: 'Good, good, good, I can, I can!'"

"Good."

"Seeing this work snatched by Wu, everyone couldn't help but feel anxious."