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"Be careful!"

Sun Chun grabbed Xia Li's slender waist and pulled her away from the place she was standing. With a crisp sound, Day Rui and his group crashed into a pillar behind them, and the two of them slid down the pillar.

"What's wrong with you all? "He's not stable at all. How can I be at ease with letting you guys take care of my shop when it's like this?"

Xia Li calmed his heart down and scolded Day Rui and her.

Day Rui rubbed the big bag on his forehead, straightened his clothes and replied with his head lowered: "Innkeeper, the dozen or so hospital s we have in the outside world urgently need to purchase a batch of medicinal ingredients to replenish our stock, but for some reason, the suppliers who had been cooperating with us previously all changed their mind in an instant, refusing to sell us the medicinal ingredients no matter what."

"What are you saying? You've offended their big boss." Day Rui didn't make a sound in the end.

"The two of you go back first. We'll do our usual practice and see to the patients. We'll pacify the various teams. I'll deal with the rest of the stuff." Xia Li instructed the two of them without changing his expression.

"Yes, shopkeeper." After they finished talking, they left the courtyard together.

"You're giving me a hard time already?" Xia Li felt a stifling sensation in his heart, the feeling of being suppressed was not pleasant at all.

"Then, are you going to lower your head to old man Hu Yong and hand over the prescription in your hands?" Sun Chun asked Xia Li.

"Of course not. If he wants to give me an all out deal, then I'll come to borrow an arrow from a boat." Xia Li said confidently.

"Are you planning to buy medicine in large quantities from the south? After all, in the southern counties, although he has a branch title, he has yet to completely monopolize it. " Sun Chun asked curiously, his handsome eyebrows staring straight at Xia Li.

"That's not certain, but he will not be able to do anything on the ship that is transporting the drugs. After all, the southern water route is mostly filled with water and there are too many variables. I think so." Xia Li said, went close to Sun Chun's ear and told him what he had thought of.

"Then what if you continue to be like this for a long period of time? What if all the guests run over to the other party's place? No one is willing to run back and forth, and those who are sick don't have the patience to wait."

Sun Chun thought that this method was not suitable.

"Their goal is to suppress me and force me to hand over the prescription, but this is impossible. There will always be a better solution." Xia Li held Sun Chun's hand, "Believe me, after experiencing so much, I'm no longer the Xia Li from the past who has met with problems and can only wail and beg for help."

Sun Chun was pleased with Xia Li's calmness today. Having restrained her impatient nature, she had become much more mature.

"Alright, I'll do as you say." He smiled and nodded, concealing the cold sternness that flashed past his eyes. Just who was backing Hu Yong up, why had he never heard of him before?

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Ten days later …

"Qing Ning, during this period of time, from the books, it seems that your performance in Red River Town and a few other hospital s have rebounded. You also broke the channel for Xia Li to purchase medicine from that silly little girl, you did a good job."

Hu Yong sat in the pavilion, looked at the lotus flowers in the pond, and casually said.

"Thank you …" Before Qing Ning could even finish, he was interrupted by Hu Yong, and then his expression slowly darkened.

"However, her movements were still too slow and the results were too poor. My personal guard reported that the dozen or so hospital s she distributed in the other counties and prefectures were still operating as usual, and only wrote a prescription to come to our hospital to buy medicine. She was still selling painkillers normally, and other than increasing our performance, we did not get any benefits!"

Qingning's face turned pale and he kneeled on the ground in fear. His voice trembled as he pleaded, "This subordinate has done something unfavorable. I beg …"

With a "bang", Hu Yong smashed the teacup in his hand onto Qing Ning's head, causing hot tea to flow down from his forehead and drip onto his neck. It was so hot that his face was completely red and swollen, and his forehead was smashed by the teacup.

"If you don't want to hear your nonsense, then show me the results. If you can't handle it well, then scram. I don't raise idle people here." Hu Yong said as he clapped his hands. The lady in red, who was waiting at the side, walked in with a lute in her arms and bowed towards Hu Yong. Her red lips slightly curled as she sat on his lap and started playing the lute.

Qing Ning kneeled on the ground and clenched her hands into fists. She then loosened her hands and wiped the blood droplets on her forehead. Then, she stood up and left gloomily.

The lute in the woman's hand fell to the ground with a clang. It was more like his pride had been stepped on by someone, making him feel extremely sarcastic.

Xia Li stood at the hospital entrance and sneezed dozens of times. He looked at the bright sun hanging above him and said, "Who is the one who is speaking ill of me!"

She clutched her waist as she blew her nose and glared at the sun. After she finished venting the fear in her heart, she readjusted her mood and was about to start treating the patient, but just at this time, a carriage stopped at the entrance. The carriage opened the curtain and two people got off, causing Xia Li to freeze on the spot.

"Why? It's been over a year since we last met and you don't recognize me? Or could it be that once I become rich, I will look down on you, the First Aunt! " Madam Zhou alighted from the carriage, and directly walked in front of Xia Li, went past her, and directly entered the hospital, went through it, and looked at it from top to bottom, as if it was trying to stir up trouble.

Xia Li glanced at Jin Xi'er, who was walking over. Looking at her strange smile, he could guess that the Madam Zhou must have been found by this woman. What was she trying to do?

As Xia Li was feeling suspicious, Sun Chun had not gone out for the past few days. In time, Sun Chun, who was closely following by her side, came to her side as well.

"My wife, what's going on?" Sun Chun looked at the Madam Zhou and Jin Xi'er who were present and shouted.

It had been a long time since Sun Chun called her that, and she was not used to it. She was stunned for a moment, "I'm not too sure either, they suddenly came."

In a short span of time, dozens of patients came to the hospital one after another. Day Rui quick-wittedly brought them all to the hospital to line up, leaving Xia Li and the others with room to communicate.

"My wife, are you tired? Let's go back." Just as Sun Chun was about to drag Xia Li and walk back, he was stopped by the Madam Zhou.

"My wife?!" Sun Chun, did I hear wrongly? The two of you are not married yet, much less engaged. Since when did you start calling each other so intimately? According to Xi'er, for the past year, all of you will be living together in the same room every few days. Tsk tsk, my good elder sister, does she not even care about Xia Li? "

"A girl that hasn't even left the pavilion yet, how can you be so thick-skinned? hubby, hubby is shouting everyday and hanging out with a man of unknown origins, don't you know shame?"

Along with the Madam Zhou's blaring voice that sounded like a trumpet exploding, the amount of people spectating on the streets became more and more, and even the people who were treating the patients inside the hospital were unable to resist their curiosity, and gathered around Xia Li and Sun Chun.

Xia Li felt a burning sensation on her face that reached her ears. She stood at the hospital entrance, listening to the noisy discussions from all directions, looking at the unfriendly fingers of the people around her, curiously and even disdainfully looking at them. All of this was like a sharp knife that mercilessly stabbed into her heart.

Madam Zhou stood in the middle of the crowd with his hands on his hips, proudly looking at the reactions of the people around him. From time to time, he and Jin Xi'er would look at each other.

"Everyone be quiet, please listen to me! I am an outsider who passed through Tianshui Village to do business and fell into a deep pond after being attacked by criminals. It was Miss Xia Li who saved me and I stayed at her house to recuperate for a few days.

Many of my relatives and friends have not been notified, so it is understandable that no one is aware of this. Now, I, Sun Chun, once again promised that this year, we will definitely hold a grand wedding and invite all of the neighbors over as witnesses. Sun Chun politely bowed and bowed to all the people who came to watch the show, his lips smiling all the way.

"My son-in-law was right. At that time, our family was poor and we didn't have the money to hold a banquet. We only gave the two of them a simple marriage ceremony and it was truly a pity. This year, more than half of them would have had a banquet."

It was unknown when Lee's arrived in front of them, and explained to the people around them along with Sun Chun.

"Even though I, Xia Li, am a woman, I am also a merchant. I have been showing my face to the outside world for many years to open hospital to take care of patients, so I do not care about these empty courtesies. Our relationship as husband and wife is a certainty, and there is nothing to suspect, and the weather is getting hotter and hotter.

"Really? Boss Xia is treating us personally? "

"The weather is getting hotter and hotter, let's go in quickly!"

"Wow, a free treat, what a rare opportunity!"

"Sigh!" Don't leave! I'm not done yet! " Seeing that everyone had left, Madam Zhou panicked. He helplessly stood there and looked towards Jin Xi'er who was beside him as if he was begging for help.

Only then did she realise that Jin Xi'er had long disappeared and she was the only one left on the streets.

"First Aunt, he already left, what are you still standing here for! "Where are you from? Go back to where you came from! We don't welcome you here!" Xia Li impolitely began to kick him out.

"Eldest sister-in-law, it's not easy for you to travel all the way to the county city. Take this bowl of iced sour plum soup and drink it. I'll arrange for a carriage to drive you back to Li Village later, okay?" Lee's didn't want to make Madam Zhou's face too ugly, so he gave her a few steps in time.

"Stop being so hypocritical, do I still want a bowl of broken ice? I have my own feet to walk on, so I don't need you to care about me! " Once Madam Zhou's pride rose, he directly sent Lee's back home.

"Mother, you don't have to worry about it. People say that we are hypocritical. Let's just leave!" As Xia Li said this, he pulled Lee's into the hospital area. Sun Chun left as well, leaving him alone at the same place.

"Damned Jin Xi'er, why is she gone? I only have a few tens of coins on me, I think it's all going to be spent on renting the carriage, if I knew earlier, she wouldn't have come!"

Lee's was thirsty and tired at the same time. He looked at the ice shop beside the hospital and his stomach growled as he wiped the sweat off his forehead. He turned around and went to find a horse carriage shop and rented a horse carriage before going back dejectedly.

Xia Li stood on the second floor, looking at Lee's's figure walking far away, she felt extremely upset. When she was criticized by everyone, even someone as thick-skinned as her could not hold it in, it was a test of her endurance.