Chapter 637: Chapter 637, It’s Retribution (2 more updates)
This was also the reason she accepted the house from Sun Yian.
The Sun Family would be confiscated sooner or later, and the day Li Hengyi returned would mark the ruin of the Sun Family.
When the confiscation happened, many items’ whereabouts would bee unknown, but now that she had the chance to acquire them, she took them. What to do with them would be decided in due time—perhaps sell them for medicinal herbs to help those women who were too scared to seek treatment or go to the pharmacy for medicine.
Xie Zhinuan handed all the deeds to Aunt Chen, “Take some people over there and collect everything!”
“Miss…” Aunt Chen softly called out.
“The items in that house have been plundered from the people, causing many to go bankrupt and lose everything, including their lives. Now that they’re in my hands, I can assure they’ll be used without fail. If they end up in someone else’s hands, much will never see the light of day again!” Xie Zhinuan spoke, then sat down in the chair.
The maid brought over a cup of tea, and Xie Zhinuan took it and sipped, “Who knows how many have been tainted by these possessions? Go and collect them, and when the time es, see if anyone es looking…”
“If no one es to claim them, sell them to buy medicine, or to help those suffering families!”
Upon hearing this, Aunt Chen pondered for a moment and then quickly nodded.
Of course, His Highness would not consider such details, being a man, he thinks on a grander scale, not in terms of household sentiment.
Only a person with such meticulous thoughts like the young lady would consider these details.
“I’ll make the arrangements immediately!”
The delivered supplies were all unpacked, the medicinal herbs kept, and the jade pieces, gold, and silver were taken by Manager Meng to be sold elsewhere for the medicinal herbs listed in her prescriptions.
All these herbs were eventually to be boiled into a medicinal decoction, cleansed, or pounded into medicine pills for external use.
She feared that once news of many in Gaocheng County contracting the disease spread, the price of medicinal herbs would skyrocket. The wealthy could afford medicine easily, as they had both money and a stock of herbs at home, but the poor would truly be in trouble.
“Manager Meng, this matter requires your careful attention!”
“Is the situation very serious?” Manager Meng asked.
“Manager Meng, look, just this morning, we received gifts from over a hundred families, which means a hundred households had someone fall ill. This disease is contagious, how many in Gaocheng County haven’t been infected? The scariest part is if the water supply bees contaminated…”
Xie Zhinuan said, pausing to catch her breath.
One bees two, two bees four, four bees sixteen…
The growth rate of the epidemic was truly frightening. Left uncontrolled, the entire Gaocheng County could be quarantined. Those merchant caravans that had e to Gaocheng County and visited brothels or those who had slept with a servant just once…
Could carry the disease out of Gaocheng County.
Xie Zhinuan realized this and so did Manager Meng.
His plexion also grew grave.
“Miss Xie, rest assured, I will make sure to purchase all the medicinal herbs for you!”
Xie Zhinuan then took out three hundred thousand taels of silver and handed them to Manager Meng, “I truly appreciate it, Manager Meng. When the herbs arrive, that will be the day the Xie Residence opens its doors wide to diagnose and treat the mon people again!”
Previously during her diagnoses, she hadn’t identified this disease because she hadn’t spent much time with the mon folks. It was only after Sun Yian and others appeared that the disease emerged. Most of the previous patients were moners, poor, with little chance to frequent courtesans, meaning that the wealthier families with many different female partners had a higher chance of contracting the disease.
It was retribution!
“Will you charge a fee for the diagnoses, Miss Xie?” Manager Meng asked.
“We’ll discuss it when the time es!”
She hadn’t decided yet whether to charge.
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