noffsinger Chapter 237: Open Robbery
Chapter 237: Open Robbery
Yuan Huazi ignored Zhou Chang, as if his medicine jar was more beautiful than Zhou Chang's face. After a while, he said impatiently: "Please go back. Don't delay me from making medicine and treating you."
Yuan Huazi's voice seemed to have the effect of solidifying the air, but it made Zhou Chang feel even hotter.
"It's okay. I have the patience to wait." Zhou Chang couldn't help but pull open his collar and take off his outer robe. "As long as the Taoist priest is committed to saving the people of the world and is compassionate, we are fellow Taoists."
Yun Huazi continued to check the temperature of the medicine jars one by one.
"Why doesn't the Taoist priest give me the prescription so that I can cure more poor people? Or are the rumors false and the Taoist priest doesn't have the prescription?" Zhou Chang said as he looked at the various medicinal herbs and utensils piled up in the room.
"Just pretend that I'm not here." Yun Huazi checked the medicine bottles one by one and was about to go out.
Only then did Zhou Chang discover that there was a door next to a window in the corner of the room. He didn't know where the other side of the door led to. It was probably either a warehouse or a back door.
She took two steps forward to stop him, but she felt so hot and uncomfortable that she pushed the window next to her to get some fresh air.
“No…” Yun Huazi raised his hand to stop him. “For the medicine boiled in these rooms, the temperature is the most critical. The fire must not be extinguished by the wind. Be careful, be careful with the medicine powder…”
Zhou Chang withdrew his hand and noticed that there were many ground or half-ground medicinal powders on the table under the window. They all seemed to be afraid of wind.
"What are these medicines? Are there any that can treat this epidemic?" At least Yun Huazi said a few more words, so Zhou Chang took the opportunity to pick up the medicine jar closest to him, opened it and took a look.
Yun Huazi ignored him, but was obviously nervous about the medicine pot: "Although I have the prescription, it's not for someone like you. Please go back."
"What kind of person am I?" Zhou Chang opened the medicine jar, smelled it, put it down with disgust, picked up another one and lifted the lid.
"The branch of orchid is like a hairpin worn by a boy. The leaves of orchid are like a bracelet worn by a boy." Yun Huazi did not answer directly, but recited these two sentences.
Zhou Chang vaguely felt that it was a poem, very similar to the Book of Songs, but he really didn't understand what it meant.
When Yun Huazi saw Zhou Chang's blank expression, he knew that she didn't understand and couldn't help but chuckle.
That smile didn't sound like a mockery, but more like tolerance for a child who knew nothing. However, it made Zhou Chang feel more uncomfortable than a mockery.
"Don't worry if you don't understand." Yun Huazi turned around and walked in the opposite direction. If this way didn't work, he could go the other way. "Most of the families of high-ranking officials and dignitaries are ignorant and uneducated. A young man living in wealth and not knowing how to be rich and noble is the beginning of disaster. You called yourself a prince just now, but are you a prince?"
Zhou Chang didn't know whether he should admit it or not. He knew that Yun Huazi had no good impression of the princes' sons, so he didn't say anything.
"I have not been in Jindu for a long time, but I heard recently that there is a prince who is greedy for money and property." Yun Huazi didn't know if he had seen something, but he shook his head while speaking, and he smiled with three parts of sarcasm and three parts of helplessness, "It's interesting, interesting."
"What a coincidence, you are talking about me." Since Zhou Chang was seen through, he simply admitted it generously.
As soon as these words came out, Yun Huazi's eyes suddenly became sharp and stared at Zhou Chang.
After a long while, he said nothing and lowered his eyes again: "Just leave after you finish talking. Your coming here shows your attitude. The patients outside are still waiting for me and these medicines."
"Master, how many people can you save by diagnosing one person's pulse?" Zhou Chang roughly guessed Yun Huazi's thoughts and also adopted the attitude he treated towards the pedantic old man.
Yun Huazi just shook his head and said no more.
"In that case, I won't be polite." Zhou Chang pulled open the collar of his inner garment again, went up and took down the peach wood sword hanging on the wall.
"What are you doing?" Yun Huazi was puzzled.
"Open robbery." Zhou Chang said two words, slinging the peach wood sword on his shoulder, and rummaging around on the table. "Since Taoist priest has heard of my reputation of 'leaving traces when the wind blows, plucking feathers when the geese pass', and has such an attitude, then he must believe it. My principle has always been not to bear such a reputation in vain, so if that's the case, I must not return empty-handed."
“???” Yun Huazi was stunned.
I'm nearly a hundred years old, and I've never met anyone who behaves like this.
"Ding ding bang bang..." Zhou Chang rummaged around and got the peach wood sword. The Bagua Gate was over someone's head and it was difficult to snatch it by force, but where was the Qiankun bracelet?
Relying on the memories left by Xiao Lan, she still couldn't find out where she had seen the Qiankun Bracelet when Xiao Lan came to Chaotian Temple that day.
Yun Huazi saw Zhou Chang rummaging around and was disgusted: "Get out if you have nothing to do. If you don't leave, don't blame me for being rude. Don't say you are just a prince. Even if the emperor comes, I won't be afraid of him."
This time it was Zhou Chang's turn to turn a deaf ear, bend over and tinker with Yun Huazi with his back turned.
"Okay, if you don't leave, I'll leave." Yun Huazi couldn't persuade Zhou Chang, nor could he force him, so he turned around and was about to leave.
"Master, please wait." Zhou Chang turned around again, holding a packet of medicine powder in his hand. His phoenix eyes smiled like a fox. "Master, don't worry. Guess which medicine jar I put this medicine powder in just now?"
"What?" Yun Huazi widened his eyes.
"I mean, I just randomly put this powder into one of the medicine jars just now. Taoist priest, guess which one it is?" Zhou Chang smiled as if it was not a joke, and shook off the half of the brown powder left in his hand.
"Do you know what medicine that is?" Even though Yun Huazi had a high level of cultivation, he was still so angry that he was fuming.
"I don't know, but it doesn't matter..." Zhou Chang said nonchalantly, "As long as the Taoist priest is willing to hand over the prescription and ask me to use it to treat illnesses and save lives, I will tell you which medicine jar I put it in just now, otherwise..."
Yun Huazi had already walked up to Zhou Chang, opened the medicine jars, and smelled them one by one.
"Can you tell the difference by smelling it like this?" Zhou Chang turned around, put down the powder in his hand, changed another bag of powder, and opened it. "If that's the case, I'll have to change another medicine jar."
"Put it down." Yuan Huazi's voice was as loud as a bell and his authority was unmistakable.
Zhou Chang's ears were buzzing from the shock. He tried to calm himself down and took off the lid of another medicine jar: "Master, do you agree? If you don't agree, all these medicines will be wasted."
In terms of concentration, a hundred Zhou Changs are no match for one cultivator, but Yun Huazi lost his composure because he was concerned about the patient.
"Aren't you the prince? What are you doing? It's so disrespectful to act like this." Yun Huazi had beads of sweat dripping down his temples.
"Give me the prescription." Zhou Chang said just four words, put down the lid of the medicine jar, and stretched out a hand. "Master, you look like a Taoist master, but I didn't expect your thoughts to be so pedantic and rigid. You can't save many people like this. If you really have compassion, why bother about your status and position? Why don't you use the prescription to treat innocent people? One more day of delay means dozens of lives will be lost. This account will be counted on Master."