The chubby Young Master Ding was smiling eagerly at them. The fat on his cheek squeezed his features together in an odd way, making his originally somewhat elegant look looking just eerie now.

“I wonder what kind of medicine did the two of your give to my father?” Young Master Ding rubbed his hands together, asked them to have a seat, and even personally poured them tea.

Noticing that his granddaughter didn’t like that much, Gu Xiao scratched his head and said, “But this is the only one that looked like it’d be suitable for a young girl. It has bridge colors and the cotton inside is soft and thick. It’d be warm on you. Let’s get this for now, and get you a better set when we have a chance to visit Yan.”

Suddenly, Landlord Ding let out a long breath and started breathing on his own.

“He’s alive! Landlord Ding is alive!!” The crowd standing around let out loud cries and they all looked at Gu Ye with surprised, uncertainty, and amazement. Who was this commonly-look girl that could revive the dead?

“Young Miss, this man has no heart beat or pulse any more. He is beyond help.” The young man shook his head, picked up his medical kit and rushed away. Before he took off, he didn’t forget to remind her, “Whose kid are you anyway? Stop messing around. You don’t want to be blamed!

“Ge, are you tell me that that little girl was the sage apothecary’s disciple?” Bai Ji’s face immediately turned into the shape of a bitter melon, “Ge, I have offended her. What do you think I should do now?”

“Hrm! You should have put in more effort when you were studying. You couldn’t even distinguish the signatures of the few master apothecaries. What have you learned in the last ten years?” Bai Ji started at his brother wishing that he’d be more studious.

At this moment, Housemaster Zhao regretted deeply that Baicao Hall did not have a branch in this nameless little town. Baicao Hall had been focused only on large provinces and therefore overlooked small towns. Unlike the up and coming Jimin Hall, who has branches over all provinces and towns.

“Housemaster Zhao, I was just about to express my interest to purchase when you interjected. I never expressed that I wasn’t interested either! I don’t think it was right for you to barge in.” Bai Ji wasn’t going to back off either. Jimin Hall and Baicao Hall, one was a up and coming in the herbal field and the one has been around for over 100 years; naturally, their competitions could be observed all over.

Every medicinal herb merchant pride themselves to have the sage apothecary’s herbs for sale; unfortunately, the sage apothecary was an odd person who enjoyed teasing the herbal merchants that chased after him. Plenty of times he would have processed herbs, but instead of bring them to the merchants himself, he’d have all individuals from all walks of life to deliver for him, and set the prices to be higher than normal herbs, but lower than the top notched ones.

Bai Zhi felt disheartened. This little brat! Why was she so friendly to others but acted like a little tiger pup whose teeth hasn’t even all grown out yet when it came to him? That difference between her mannerism was so drastic. He never thought about that if he wasn’t being impolite to her in the first place, Gu Ye, who strongly believed in conflict-avoidance, would never had treated him the way that she did.

“Have you looked at my processed herbs yet? If you haven’t yet, that what gave you the rights to comment on them? In addition to the time spent, the skill of apothecary was also about talent. As far as I know, the number one participant at last year’s herbal convention was a young man who had just reached adulthood, right?

The young man in azure gave him a stare and noticed that his obstinate young brother finally stopped talking. He looked at Gu Ye’s pair of hands and said in a soft voice, “Young Miss, it seems you have experiences in prepared medicinal herbs. Did you bring any of your herbs? This one is the shopkeeper of Jimin Hall. Why don’t you let him take a look? I trust that he will offer you a fair price for them.”

Gu Ye, who was ignored, shrugged and kept on walking.

“Two Young Master, as I have said before. All you can find here are very commonly-seen herbs, nothing worth looking at,” urged a man in his forties with short beard to the two identical-looking boys following behind him.

“Okay! Grandpa will take you to get some good food too!” Gu Xiao patted his granddaughter’s fuzzy little head and agreed to her request with a smile.

The next morning the two of them got up before it was the sun was up. Gu Ye bossed her grandpa around loading the bags and bags of herbal medicines onto the back of the horse. Gu Ming pouted unhappily as he was helping out. Grandpa was going to take his sister to town, but not him. He was so sad!