“Dad has thick skin and flesh, so mosquitoes can’t bite him. It’s your mother who occasionally gets bitten, so she can just pick some mint leaves and put them on.
In the past few days, Song Wan Yue hadn’t really thought about this problem, but now that she thinks about it, the family rarely gets bitten, so it should be because the yard is clean and there are no flowers or plants.
“I’m going to the doctor’s house, I may be late.”
“Go on, be back before dark.”
Song Wangyue answered, left the house and returned to the carriage, “Go to your oldest doctor’s place, I want to ask him something.”
Gu Yi couldn’t wait to spend more time with her, and immediately instructed the carriage driver, before picking up a piece of lotus seed pastry and handing it to her, “Try it.”
Song Wan Yue took it, and Gu Yi also picked up a piece and put it in his mouth and took a big bite, squinting his eyes in satisfaction.
……
When they arrived at the door of the old man’s courtyard, Xiao Si went to knock on the door, and it was a long time before the old man’s voice came, “Here it comes, here it comes!”
The door was opened, the oldest doctor saw Gu Yi and Song Wan Yue at a glance and subconsciously blocked the door, “Young master, you are …… today?”
“Little girl has something to ask you.”
Not coming to see the medical book, the oldest doctor breathed a sigh of relief and let his body go, “Young master, Miss Song please come in.”
When he went and sat down in the room, seeing that Gu Yi kept looking towards the room where he kept his medical books, the oldest doctor was trepidatious, “Little Miss Song, I don’t know what you want to ask?”
“I want to ask Doctor Yao, how do people in general repel mosquitoes? And how do you deal with mosquito bites?”
“This ……”
The oldest doctor didn’t know why Song Wan Yue asked this, and quietly looked at Gu Yi, seeing that he was still staring at the doorway of his study, he was frightened and hurriedly answered, “Generally people use some flowers and plants to repel mosquitoes and insects, and slightly wealthier people wear incense pouches to repel mosquitoes.”
Song Wan Yue nodded her head and asked directly, “Is there any mint oil used to repel mosquitoes?”
“This, I haven’t heard of it.”
Gu Yi stood up.
The oldest husband miso ran to the door of his study and blocked it, “Young master, young master, this study really can’t be entered.”
Gu Yi looked at him with disgust, “Who said I want to go to the study, I want to go to the pharmacy, to get some medicine to repel mosquitoes for the little girl.”
The pharmacy couldn’t let him go to Huohuo either.
“You don’t move, you don’t move, I’ll go get it for you.”
“That’s fine, hurry up.”
Gu Yi sat back down again.
The old man took three steps forward and two steps back towards the outside. His first foot was out of the room, and the next foot Gu Yi stood up again, “Little girl, I’ll let the wind out of your sails, go in and take whatever you want, take whichever book you want.”
Song Wan Yue,……
The first thing you need to do is to get a copy of the book, which she hasn’t finished reading, but since Gu Yi said so, it seems a bit too much for her not to take it.
The oldest doctor was running to the pharmacy, took the incense pouches and medicine and ran back, when he returned to the house, he saw that Gu Yi and Song Wan Yue looked the same before he let out a sigh of relief and put all the things in his hand on the table next to Song Wan Yue, “Miss Song, you take it.”
Song Wangyue didn’t feel polite and said thank you.
Gu Yi raised her hand to let him see the bag in her hand, “There’s nothing left at home either, go get more, I’ll take it back.”
“Aigoo, young master, how would you ……”
The old man took a quick step to see, Gu Yi took his hand back, “Go get it, I have to send the little girl back.”
“Young master wait a moment.”
The boss doctor ran out again, just after he was out of the door, Gu Yi stood up, quickly went to the door of the study and pulled it open, picked up the medical art that he couldn’t put away in time earlier and could only throw on the floor, walked to the door, stuffed it into his sleeve and quickly walked back to the chair and sat down.
When the oldest doctor came back panting, he calmly instructed Xiao Si to get his things and took Song Wan Yue out the door.
When he got on the carriage, he pulled out his medical book and looked at Song Wangyue with bright eyes, “Little girl, I’m smart, right? I told you I’m the smartest person under the sky, if you want to be betrothed to me, you definitely won’t lose out.”
Song Wangyue,……
……
After dinner, the Song family sat in the courtyard to cool off. Song Wangyue gave one of the incense pouches she brought back from the oldest doctor today to Grandma Song and Xu and Liu Cui Lan.
“What’s this?”
Liu Cui Lan took it under her nose and sniffed it curiously, while Grandma Song and Xu also took it over and turned it over to look at it.
“It’s to repel mosquitoes and insects, young master Gu sent it here today.”
There was a silence in the courtyard as everyone looked at her in unison.
“I wanted to go to the doctor’s house today to ask something, and I ran into Young Master Gu on the way, and he said he had a very good doctor at home, so I followed ……”
Before she finished her sentence, Song Lin scuffed up, “He didn’t bully you, did he?”
“Father, what are you thinking? Young Master Gu is just a little bit less intelligent, he’s still very nice.”
“Keep less contact with him in the future too, who knows what he will do to you?”
Song Wan Yue nodded obediently, “I know, I did have something to do today before I went along, I won’t do it again.”
With the a*surance, Song Lin’s heart fell back.
“However, I really found a business opportunity today. If we can refine some mint oil, we can make a lot of money, not to mention one hundred and thirty taels of silver, but even one thousand three hundred taels of silver.”
There was another silence in the courtyard, making thirteen hundred taels, they couldn’t even dream of it.
“How do you refine it?”
For a long moment, it was Song San Xiao who reacted first and asked with a shaky voice.
The rest of the group also reacted, all excited.
“I read a medical book from the Gu family’s oldest doctor today, the medical book recorded the method of refining mint oil, I wrote it down, it’s very simple, it needs some highly concentrated spirits, tomorrow we’ll buy a catty back, I’ll try it out first.”
“It’s a deal!”
Elder Song clapped his hands, “You all listen to Yue’er tomorrow, buy whatever she says?”
It’s just a catty of good spirits, how much can it cost? If the oil is really refined, the old Song family will be rich, and if it’s not refined, it doesn’t matter, it’s just a matter of losing this amount of silver.
“We also need fresh mint leaves.”
“This is better to do ……”
Song Lin was more excited than the others, “Father will pick them first thing tomorrow morning.”
“Your legs are not convenient, it is better not to go, and the others should not go either, I will go and find Daya Niang, ask her to help pick some, and give her a penny for each catty.”
The courtyard was quiet again, it was so easy to break off relations with that side, Grandma Song did not want to have anything to do with it again.
Song Ming’s daughter-in-law was really pitiful too, after she had forced Daya to follow Young Master Gu that day, she had been beaten up by Song Ming, and even so, she still dragged her body to work in the fields.
She sighed as she thought of this, “That’s a poor person too, let’s just give her a hand, but give her the word to keep this a secret and don’t tell anyone.”
