CH 7.2

Zhang Fangyuan didn't think it was expensive, mainly because he was used to be extravagant. Although he was determined to be frugal, he thought that the money was spent on the real thing, and it was not a waste of money. When he used to spend money recklessly, he used to go to Fengyuelou, where a meal cost more than 1,000 copper coins, but today it cost nearly 300 copper coins to buy these things, and he just found it troublesome, he didn't feel distressed either.

The two came out of the shop, Chen Si said: "My mother asked me to buy some candles and salt, how about we meet up at the tea shed outside the city after shopping?"

Zhang Fangyuan replied, "Okay."

On the left and right, he also needed to buy some things that were missing at home, and the two of them would go separately to buy things, and it would be faster.

Zhang Fangyuan was going to a dried fruit shop to buy some dried fruit for Xiaomao’s snacks. Before leaving, he passed a small medical clinic.

"We don't pay on credit or keep accounts in our medical clinic. How much should it be?"

"Three doses of common typhoid medicine are only 30 copper coins, why are two doses here 40 copper coins?”

"The price of food, cloth and clothes can be increased, can’t the price of our medicine for curing diseases and saving lives go up?" Yaotong (a medical boy) who picked up the medicine said impatiently: "Can you afford it? It's only thirty copper coins, so you don't have it?"

Xu He opened his mouth: "I don’t want it anymore.”

Hearing this, Yaotong  stroked his sleeves: “The medicines are prepared and you say no, you are so funny, you don’t need the things, but you have to pay for them!”

It was also the first time for Xu He met such a strong seller. He frowned and turned around to leave without answering Yaotong. Suddenly, two men came out of the door and guarded the door.

"If you want to leave, it's not so easy if you don’t lose money." Yaotong put down his abacus and came out from the counter, sneered and approached Xu He with his hands behind his back: "What's the matter, to lose money or not?"

Xu He's heart beat a little faster, and he subconsciously looked back, surrounded by a few men who were so unkind, how could you not be afraid in your heart: "How much do you want?

Seeing the two gatekeepers being kicked openly, and a tall and burly man coming in against the light in front of the door, Yaotong swallowed slightly and took a step back. "No, nothing."

Zhang Fangyuan threw the medicine bag on Yaotong's face, and pulled Xu He's wrist out of the hospital.

"You have to spend money to see a doctor and buy medicine. From now on, you will see that there is no customers in this small shop in a remote area. You, a little ge’er, don't go in alone. There are many people in the city who look peaceable, but the mixed fish and dragons are not comparable to a village. It’s much more troublesome in the city. Some of them are black shops, which specialize in catching orders and bullying them.”

[The dragons and fishes mixed together: talented/good/honest people and stupid/bad/evil people are mixed up in the society and thus it is hard to distinguish them (when a bad guy pretends to be a good guy and mixes up with a crowd, it’s not easy to find out)]

Xu He didn't know that the person in front of him stopped suddenly, and it was true that what happened just now made him felt lingering fear, but after Zhang Fangyuan came in, he breathed a sigh of relief. With a bang, he bumped directly into Zhang Fangyuan's body and was almost knocked to the ground.

Zhang Fangyuan frowned: "Did you listen to me?"

"Yes, I remember."

Zhang Fangyuan was angry, but seeing that the person seemed not sober today, he softened his tone: " Everything is sold?"

"I sold a chicken coop and a few back ropes."