Reborn as the Blissful Wife in the countryside-Chapter 993: Escaped

Miss Gu told him that this recipe, to be taken for three days, is used to kill worms, and thus it contains some poisonous ingredients, but it won’t harm the body, so he and his grandson can eat it without worry.

The doctor listened, then frowned, feeling a bit dissatisfied, and said: "The Red Candle Grass and Purple Worm Root listed here are poisons. If you take such medicines back, there will definitely be trouble when your family consumes them."

Making a troubled expression, the doctor said: "For prescriptions that contain poisons like this, our pharmacy usually doesn’t dare dispense them. If you want the herbs, you have to take us to find the doctor who prescribed them. Only after confirming that there will be no issues can we provide them."

Yuan Jiagui frowned: "So serious, the prescribing doctor must come for the herbs to be dispensed?"

After hearing this, the doctor observed Yuan Jiagui’s expression and thought he was scared. With a bang, he slapped the prescription on the table, saying: "This is a matter of life and death. We must see that doctor; otherwise, we won’t dare dispense the medicine and will have to take you to see the official!" 𝘧𝘳𝘦ℯ𝓌𝘦𝒷𝘯𝑜𝑣𝘦𝓁.𝒸𝘰𝓂

Before the word "official" had finished echoing, Yuan Jiagui had already grabbed the two prescriptions and rushed out of the pharmacy.

The doctor was stunned with fright and took a moment to react before shouting: "Catch that old man quickly, don’t let him escape!"

The doctor’s voice was so shrill that the attendants in the pharmacy hesitated for a moment before, under the murderous gaze of the doctor, rushing out of the pharmacy.

But they searched the entire street and several nearby streets, yet couldn’t find Yuan Jiagui.

Unrelentingly, the doctor decided to close the pharmacy and took the attendants to search the city, specifically instructing them: "You guys go keep watch at the pharmacies in the city. If you see an old man in gray clothes, with white hair, looking frail trying to get herbs, don’t worry about anything else, just bring him in first!"

He thought for a moment and added: "If someone tries to intervene, just say that old man is a poor wretch who stole our pharmacy’s materials. In any case, you must bring him back to me."

"Yes, yes, yes." The attendants saw the doctor was so anxious and didn’t dare question further, only able to comply.

But Yuan Jiagui, having survived hard times, had some skills. After suspecting the doctor was strange, he dashed out of the pharmacy and ran into the alley, intentionally taking paths without people, then through the ruins and broken houses in West City, turning several alleys until he returned home.

You San’an was helping Yuan En clean up things when they saw Yuan Jiagui rush in in a hurry, without any herbs in hand, and immediately knew something had gone wrong. He dragged him into the room, slammed the door shut, checked outside through the crack for a moment, and only after confirming no one had followed did he relax and asked: "What’s happened?"

Yuan Jiagui recounted what happened in the pharmacy: "That pharmacy on the main street in South City, don’t know its name but know that the doctor is surnamed Cen."

He continued: "Doctor Cen is very strange, insisting Miss Gu’s prescription has issues, wanting to meet Miss Gu. If I don’t take him to meet her, he won’t dispense the herbs and wants to take me to see the official. What kind of doctor is like this? He obviously has another motive; once I sensed it, I ran away immediately."

You San’an listened with great appreciation: "You did right, leave this matter to me, I’ll investigate."

In Great Chu, not everyone can open a pharmacy, even in the prefecture. The number of pharmacies doesn’t exceed ten, and there are even fewer in South City, a maximum of three.

Finding a pharmacy with Doctor Cen among these three is really simple, it won’t even take two hours.

You San’an said: "Give me the prescription, I’ll get the herbs and you stay indoors, don’t go out today."

Yuan Jiagui nodded, handed him the two prescriptions, and added: "Remember to buy two gourds, they are to be used as the medicine."

"Got it." You San’an nodded, took the prescriptions, left the Yuan family residence, and first went to the ruins in West City, where he found beggars under Xiao Sui, instructed them to split into two groups: one to secretly protect Yuan Jiagui’s family nearby, the other to go to South City to check out the pharmacy with Doctor Cen, then headed to Liu Family Clinic.

Doctor Liu loved money and never cared whether you wanted poisons or tonics; as long as you paid Silver, he would give you the medicine. Anyway, as long as Liu Family Clinic didn’t mess up the herbs, even if you died eating them, he wouldn’t care.

As expected, the attendant at Liu Family Clinic didn’t ask any questions, simply looked at the prescriptions and dispensed the herbs, only saying, while handing them to You San’an: "This doctor is just like our Doctor Liu, who loves poisons, quite formidable."

You San’an agreed greatly, the Young Master indeed loved poisons, and it’s said he filled a room with them, quite frightening. But the master loved the Young Master, and there was nothing they could do, only hope the master wouldn’t accidentally poison himself.

After getting the herbs, You San’an bought some food, plus the two gourds, and hurried back to Yuan residence in West City.

He handed over the herbs, food, and gourds to Yuan Jiagui, then left to the beggars’ old house in the ruins.

After waiting for three quarter-hours, the little beggars who went to inquire at South City returned, saying: "Brother An, we found out, it’s the Cen Family’s pharmacy in South City. Now the Cen Family’s pharmacy has closed, everyone is out looking for an old man."

Then they explained the situation of Doctor Cen and the Cen Family’s pharmacy in detail.

Finally said: "The old beggars mentioned that the Cen Family pharmacy doesn’t actually belong to the Cen family, there’s a Boss behind it, but no one knows who the Boss is."

You San’an listened, frowned, and immediately said: "Get everyone back, don’t go to South City recently."

The master ordered, until it’s clear how powerful the other side is, don’t rashly send too many people to investigate, or else we might be tracked by their hidden Shadow Guards.

"Yes, Brother An." The little beggars replied and ran out to call back those who hadn’t returned yet.

You San’an then went to North City, where the master and the Young Master were, busy finalizing the location for an underground passage in North City.

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At the Mu family’s place in North City, Gu Jinli was holding the completed blueprint for the underground passage while listening to You San’an: "Doctor Cen? Cen Family’s pharmacy? Boss behind it?"

Qin San Lang thought for a moment, asked: "Could they be after your worm-killing medicine recipe?"

Last summer, Xiao Yu created a Convenient Medicine specifically to treat parasitic infections. Once it was produced, the pharmacies under Yuanzi Pharmacy there were thrilled. After several months of validation proving it could indeed treat parasite infections, they immediately sold this worm-killing medicine at all Yuanzi Pharmacy locations, selling extremely well and curing many people’s parasitic infections.

This good medicine made many people envious, and they always wanted to come up with the worm-killing medicine recipe, but Xiao Yu’s worm-killing medicine contained a seemingly inconspicuous medicine that the doctors couldn’t figure out.

It appears now that they are truly at a loss and want to capture someone to steal the recipe.

Realizing this, Qin San Lang immediately instructed You Xi: "Forget about the underground passage, keep an eye on Cen Family’s pharmacy, don’t let them succeed."

Then instructed Daqing: "Take your men and protect Xiao Yu well, if there’s a slip-up, you know the consequences."