Chen Nan retracted the colorful thoughts from his mind and looked at Song Ziwei. "Ziwei, how much silver do we have left?"
Song Ziwei instinctively clutched the twenty taels of silver and looked at him with helplessness. "Young Master, I beg you, please stop reading those books, okay?"
"I want to buy medicine," Chen Nan said, almost in tears. "If you don't believe me, you can come with me to the pharmacy."
Song Ziwei hesitated.
Finally, she agreed to accompany Chen Nan to the pharmacy.
If the young master was indeed depleted, then they would find a way to replenish it.
"Young Master, wait for me a moment. I'll hang the clothes to dry, and then we'll go buy medicine," Song Ziwei said, and then hung the clothes on the drying rack.
At the same time.
Xia Lan, Qiu Zhu, and Dong Ju also returned to Leng Qingmei's separate courtyard.
They told Leng Qingmei what had happened at Chen Nan's place.
"Just as I guessed, Chen Nan's 'rash' behavior today was actually to help my Leng family."
"It's just..."
"He was too high-profile."
"He shouldn't have mentioned that I wanted him to accompany me to the City Lord's mansion before Xia Lan had spoken."
"One who bends too easily breaks; he needs a lesson."
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At the herbal medicine shop.
A staff member politely said, "Sir, this shop has all the herbs you require, but the total cost for all of them will be around one hundred taels of silver."
"Around one hundred taels? That's too expensive!" Chen Nan was full of surprise.
This was just the cost for one medicinal bath.
If he were to take a medicinal bath every day, the expense would be enormous.
Of course, thinking too far ahead was for later.
At the very least, he couldn't afford the herbs for a medicinal bath right now.
Song Ziwei cautiously asked, "Young Master, are these herbs really that important to you?"
Chen Nan nodded solemnly.
The host's physical body was too weak; he needed to build a solid foundation to cultivate the Yin Gathering Technique.
This directly related to his ability to establish himself in this world.
It related to whether he could become a Yin Officer, enter the eighteen layers of hell, and see Empress Houtu.
It related to the lives of trillions of beings in the Three Realms.
To put it bluntly, this prescription was comparable to the fulcrum that could lift the Earth.
Song Ziwei took a deep breath. "Since this prescription is so important to you, Young Master, then let's buy it!"
"???"
"Do we have that much money?" Chen Nan looked at her in disbelief.
In his memory, the host spent more than half of his monthly allowance of ten taels on books.
Even though Song Ziwei was frugal and managed their household well, the money saved was not much.
One hundred taels of silver was by no means a small sum for them.
Song Ziwei took out a gold bracelet from her embrace. "A few days ago, I went to visit Madam, and she specifically gave me this gold bracelet. She hoped that you could use it for emergencies when you were in urgent need, so you wouldn't have to ask the Leng family."
Looking at the familiar gold bracelet before him, Chen Nan felt an unprecedented warmth surge through him.
For the first time in his life, he experienced the feeling of maternal love.
He experienced what it felt like to be in his mother's heart.
A child travels far, and a mother worries.
Even though he had become the son-in-law of the Leng family, his mother still gave him her most precious gold bracelet.
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In fact, Chen Nan had experienced maternal love before.
Although Jia Cui was not his birth mother, she had always doted on him.
However, the bond of blood was something Jia Cui could never compensate for.
Recalling his birth mother on Earth, and then looking at the birth mother of this current body, Chen Nan's mood was complex.
He was also very fortunate.
To have such a mother in the Underworld.
This made up for the regret of not having experienced maternal love in his life.
"Put the bracelet away. Actually, this medicine isn't that important to me." Chen Nan needed these herbs, but he couldn't use his mother's gold bracelet to buy them.
Perhaps the host, before his death, would have been excited to see this item, and even sold it to squander.
But.
He absolutely could not do that.
Because it was his mother's most cherished possession.
It was a memento from his grandmother before she passed away!
"Young Master, didn't you say these herbs were very important?" Song Ziwei followed Chen Nan's steps, her eyes full of curiosity.
Chen Nan glanced at the sun above and a faint smile appeared on his face. "Even if it's important, how can it compare to Mother's bracelet?"
At this moment.
Song Ziwei felt that the young master's changes were very significant.
However, they were developing in a positive direction.
Chen Nan really wanted to visit the host's mother at the Chen family's residence.
Of course, she was also his mother.
Ever since he had merged with the host's memories, the host's emotions, love, and hate had been influencing him constantly.
They were no longer separate.
It's just that...
The host was too much of a scoundrel.
He had a wife and forgot his mother, and he had made his mother angry many times before.
Therefore, Chen Nan felt ashamed to see his mother.
He had to grow up and become outstanding.
Then, he would appear before his mother.
Chen Nan said, "Ziwei, go buy some pastries that Mother likes and visit her for me."
"Tell her that the young master has finally opened his eyes and will become outstanding."
"When I am reborn and famous, I will go and pay my respects to her!"
Song Ziwei's eyes welled up with tears. "Young Master, Madam just wants you to live each day happily. Nothing else is important."
Chen Nan felt an inexplicable pain in his heart.
He thought of his birth mother on Earth.
She had abandoned him decisively simply because he had no talent for cultivation.
Whereas the birth mother here only wished for his happiness.
Some things could not be compared.
Some people could not be compared either.
"Even though she doesn't care if I'm successful or not, I still want to become outstanding, so I don't shame her!" Chen Nan smiled and walked towards the Leng family.
On the way back, Chen Nan pondered how to make money.
Actually, making money was not difficult.
As long as he became a cultivator, with his previous alchemy skills, he could completely refine pills and earn a large amount of money in a short period.
But now.
Becoming a cultivator had stumped him.
He had no startup capital at all.
Nor did he know what he could do to accumulate enough funds to buy herbs in a short time.
Just as he was racking his brains.
A bookstall in the distance was shouting, "Step right up, don't miss out! Master Lan's latest masterpiece, 'Bird Enters the Phoenix Nest,' is now officially on sale."
"The introductory price is only three taels of silver, and it comes with a beautifully signed illustration. Limited quantities available, so hurry!"
Chen Nan instinctively stopped in his tracks.
He looked at the crowded bookstall beside him.
Master Lan was once the host's idol.
He was a very famous writer in Tongcheng.
His works were always sensational and full of techniques.
Some people said that to have a worthwhile experience in a brothel, one must first read Master Lan's books.
Although the host never thought of going to a brothel, he wanted to learn techniques from Master Lan's works, so that he could one day use them on Leng Qingmei.
Seeing so many people eagerly buying Master Lan's "Bird Enters the Phoenix Nest," Chen Nan had a flash of inspiration.
A grand plan for getting rich surged into his mind.