Five days later.
Early in the morning.
On the streets of the small town, Ye Fan, dressed in a white robe, and Akatsuki, who was wearing a crystal mask, walked side by side, strolling leisurely.
Although the sky had just brightened, the streets of the small town were already filled with all kinds of medicinal herbs. Ginseng, deer antler, lingzhi musk, dendrobium candidum, caterpillar fungus, Tianshan snow lotus, and everything else.
This place was not far from Changbai Mountain and was located in a central area. The terrain was flat and surrounded by rivers, making it convenient for water transportation. Therefore, it became a famous medicinal herb distribution center.
Now was the time for medicinal herbs to come out of the mountains. Medicinal herb vendors from all over the country had gathered here, choosing cheap and powerful medicinal herbs to make a big profit.
"What are we doing at this medicinal herb market so early in the morning?" Akatsuki asked Ye Fan in confusion.
"I heard from the shop assistant that today is the annual medicinal herb festival. All the major medicinal herb merchants from all over the country will gather here today. I just happen to be preparing to buy some good medicinal herbs, so I brought you here," Ye Fan looked at the dazzling array of medicinal herbs on both sides and said to Akatsuki.
"You want to buy medicinal herbs?" Akatsuki turned her head to look at Ye Fan in confusion. "Are you sick?"
In her opinion, with Ye Fan's spirit qi cultivation, he would probably never need such things in his life.
"What illness could I have?" Ye Fan turned his head to Akatsuki and smiled. "I'm preparing to buy some ginseng and lingzhi for Xiao Zhao so that she can recover her human body as soon as possible."
Ever since Baihu ate the thousand-year-old ginseng and lingzhi sent by Akatsuki and Onigirō last time, her spirit qi had clearly improved greatly. Now that they were passing by this medicinal herb market, he was preparing to buy some precious herbs to strengthen Xiao Zhao's spirit qi and recover her human body as soon as possible.
He had thought of transferring his spiritual power into Xiao Zhao's body, but Xiao Zhao was in the form of a fox and did not have a Sea of Qi in her body. He could not guarantee that this method would work if she accepted his spiritual power as a white fox. Moreover, his current spiritual power was obtained from practicing the Mystery of Xuantian. It was the purest form of Yang energy. If Xiao Zhao, who was in the form of a fox, could not withstand this overbearing spiritual power, the consequences would be unimaginable. In the best case, her spiritual power would go berserk and her meridians would be displaced. In the worst case, her entire body would explode and she would die on the spot.
He had already lost his beloved wife, Fujiwara No Chiko, and could not lose Xiao Zhao as well.
Before he obtained Nie Qing's Hundred Herbs Pill, the best method was to use spirit herbs to nourish his body.
"Oh …" After hearing Ye Fan's words, Akatsuki suddenly understood and nodded, "So that's how it is."
After a series of rustling sounds, Baihu's furry head came out from the side of Ye Fan's hat and intimately rubbed her head against Ye Fan's cheek.
Ye Fan's concern for her made her very happy, and her heart was very sweet.
"Silly girl." Ye Fan smiled and patted Baihu's head and said.
Seeing Ye Fan and Baihu's intimate and tacit understanding, Akatsuki felt envious.
She did not know when Ye Fan would call her a silly girl, but if that day really came, she would be willing to die. Akatsuki thought in her heart.
Two people and one fox walked in the bustling crowd while looking for good medicinal herbs.
However, although this was a medicinal herb distribution center, things like thousand-year-old ginseng and thousand-year-old ganoderma were rare, and the other so-called precious medicinal herbs did not enter Ye Fan's eyes at all.
The two stopped and walked for a while, and finally stopped in front of a shop with the words "Hundred Years Old Shop, Emblem Medicine Shop".
This shop was elegantly designed and had an antique flavor. At first glance, one could tell that it was an old shop.
Compared to the surrounding medicinal herb shops that were bustling with people, this Emblem Medicine Shop could be said to be deserted, and there were almost no customers.
"This shop's business is so bleak, there shouldn't be any good medicinal herbs." Akatsuki looked at the medicine shop in front of her and said to Ye Fan.
"Since it's a hundred years old shop, it must have its own way of doing business. Let's go in and take a look." Ye Fan said to Akatsuki.
"Okay." Akatsuki nodded.
She had already formed a habit of doing whatever Ye Fan told her to do.
Ye Fan lifted his leg and stepped into the medicine shop, and Akatsuki followed closely behind.
The shop was clean and tidy, and the smell of medicinal herbs assailed their nostrils. All kinds of precious medicinal herbs were neatly arranged, and there was no mess.
A few shop assistants were quietly arranging the medicinal herbs and packing them.
With his amazing eyesight, Ye Fan saw a long cloth bag in the hands of one of the shop assistants.
The cloth bag was more than a foot long, and it was wrapped in red cloth. The shop assistant held it gently, and one could tell at a glance that it was a precious medicinal herb.
Seeing this, Ye Fan's eyes suddenly lit up.
Other than ginseng, there was nothing else that could be wrapped in red cloth.
Judging from the length of the red cloth bag, the ginseng inside was quite old.
Looking at the medicinal herbs in the hands of the other shop assistants, all of them were precious.
No wonder this shop was so quiet. It was not that this shop did not have good things, but that ordinary people could not afford to buy them.
It seemed that he had made the right choice this time.
"What do the two of you want to buy?" Behind the counter, the shopkeeper, who was wearing a silk robe, saw that Ye Fan and his companion were dressed strangely. They were wearing luxurious clothes and jewelry, so he immediately greeted them.
"Ginseng, Ganoderma lucidum," Ye Fan said.
"The two of you have come at the right time. The ginseng and ganoderma lucidum in my shop are all more than a hundred years old, and each of them is a precious treasure," the shopkeeper said.
"Do you have anything that is more than a thousand years old?" Ye Fan looked at the other medicinal herbs in the shop and asked.
"More than a thousand years old?" When the shopkeeper heard Ye Fan's question, he was stunned at first, then he smiled and said, "The two of you have come at the wrong time. The shop does have three thousand years old ginseng and two thousand years old ganoderma lucidum, but someone has already ordered them."
"Ordered them?" After hearing this, Ye Fan frowned and turned to look at the medicinal herbs in the hands of the shop assistants, "Don't they have good ginseng in their hands?"
"To be honest with the two of you, the medicinal herbs in the boxes were ordered by that customer. The three ginseng and two ganoderma lucidum are among them," the shopkeeper said with a smile.
"Shopkeeper, can you sell these ginseng and ganoderma lucidum to me? I will pay twice the price," Ye Fan asked.
He lacked many things, but he did not lack money.
Money could make the devil turn millstones, and twice the price was enough to make the other party compromise.
"Sir, you must be joking," the shopkeeper said with a smile, "Although this shop is not big, it is based on honesty and honesty. Since we have already received the customer's deposit, we naturally have to be honest and keep our promise. Not to mention that Sir is willing to pay twice the price, even if Sir were to pay ten times the price, this shop would not sell these medicinal herbs to Sir."
Ye Fan was stunned.
The money that he used every day was actually not used today.
The shopkeeper in front of him kept his promise, and was completely different from the other businessmen he had seen before who were unscrupulous in the face of profit.
"This one admires Sir for keeping his promise. Sorry for the disturbance." Ye Fan cupped his fists to the shopkeeper, then turned and walked out of the door.
Ye Fan had always been polite and respectful to people who valued friendship and kept their promises. He was humble and modest.
However, just as Ye Fan and the shopkeeper reached the door of the medicine shop, a woman who looked to be in her twenties and wore a pink dress walked in from the door and brushed past Ye Fan.
Ye Fan stopped in his tracks and turned to look at the woman.
The woman had fair skin, a delicate face, and a pair of gem-like eyes that were clear and spirited.
"Shopkeeper Wang, is the batch of medicinal herbs I ordered ready?" the woman asked the shopkeeper. Her voice was pleasing to the ear, and her words were crisp like the chirping of a lark.
"Miss, the batch of medicinal herbs you ordered is being packed, and it will be ready soon," the shopkeeper said to the woman.
"That's good." The woman took out banknotes from her bosom and handed them to the shopkeeper, "This is the remaining seventy-three thousand taels, please take care of it."
"Good, good." The shopkeeper took the banknotes and said with a smile, "Then I will thank Miss."
The woman smiled brightly.
"Feixue?" Ye Fan, who was wearing the white jade mask, muttered to himself.
This woman was none other than Ye Feixue, who had saved his life in the cave.
The medicine shop was extremely quiet, and Ye Fan's words were clearly transmitted to Ye Feixue's ears.
This extremely familiar voice caused Ye Feixue to instantly turn her head to look at Ye Fan.
"You … you are … you are Brother Ye?" Ye Feixue's eyes widened as she looked at the white-robed man wearing the white jade mask in front of her with a face full of pleasant surprise.
Although Ye Fan had disguised himself and was completely covered from head to toe, Ye Feixue still instantly recognized Ye Fan.
"It's really you?" Ye Fan said in surprise.
"Brother Ye!" After confirming that the person in front of her was Ye Fan, Ye Feixue immediately shouted and dashed over. She immediately hugged Ye Fan tightly.
Ever since Ye Fan left the Ye Residence with Fujiwara No Chiko, she didn't eat or drink everyday. If she wasn't foolishly smiling, she would silently cry. When Elder Ye saw this, he sighed and shook his head every day.
He only had this one precious daughter and viewed her as the pearl of his palm. Now that he saw his daughter lose her appetite for food and drink because of a man with a wife, how could he not be anxious?
Seeing that the annual Medicinal Herb Festival was about to arrive, and the Heavenly Medicine Hall's medicine shop just happened to be lacking a batch of medicinal herbs, in order to let his daughter go out and relax, Old Man Ye handed this important task to Ye Feixue to handle.
Ye Feixue was proficient in medicine and her medical skills weren't shallow. She was naturally able to purchase medicinal ingredients at her fingertips.
According to tradition, every time the Ye Family went out to purchase medicinal ingredients, they would burn incense and pray in front of the Medicine King Bodhisattva that they worshiped at home to pray for a smooth trip.
However, this time, when Ye Feixue burned incense for the Medicine King Bodhisattva, she didn't pray for a smooth trip, but to be able to see her beloved.
Now that the Bodhisattva had appeared, she really did see the Ye Fan that made her lose her appetite for food and drink.
Ye Feixue's sudden warm hug made Ye Fan feel at a loss. He had an awkward expression and didn't know whether to push her away or not. He could only allow her to hug him tightly.
Ye Feixue's curvaceous figure made him blush under the mask and his entire body heat up.
Akatsuki bit her lower lip and turned her head to the side.
The scene in front of her made her feel very uncomfortable.
In other words, she was jealous.
It was obvious that the relationship between this beauty and Ye Fan wasn't ordinary.
"Fei … Feixue …" Ye Fan gently patted Ye Feixue's back and awkwardly said, "You … why are you here?"
"Father asked me to come buy medicinal ingredients. I didn't expect to meet Brother Ye here." Ye Feixue released Ye Fan and smiled like a child.
"Hello, Sister-in-law Chiko." After releasing Ye Fan, Ye Feixue nodded and bowed to the crystal masked Akatsuki.
Akatsuki's figure and eyes were very similar to Fujiwara No Chiko, so Ye Feixue thought that she was Ye Fan's wife.
"Miss, you … you've got the wrong person. I … I'm not your Sister-in-law Chiko." Akatsuki's face was red under the mask as she stuttered.
"You're not Chiko's Sister-in-law?" Ye Feixue looked at Ye Fan in shock.
"This isn't a good place to talk. Let's talk somewhere else." After calming down, Ye Fan turned around and walked out the door.
There were too many people here, so he couldn't reveal his identity.
Akatsuki and Ye Feixue looked at each other and followed behind Ye Fan.
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