bookrebus Chapter 271 Smoked Wolf
Chapter 271 Smoked Wolf
When the Marquis of Danyang saw that Ye Yanran was living such a good life, they immediately tried to curry favor with her, hoping that Ye Yanran would help the Marquisate. Now the Marquisate is living an extremely difficult life, the old Marquis does not want to split up the family, and each branch is scheming and trying to get money into their own pockets. At the moment, the Marquis of Danyang is only looking good on the surface.
When Old Madam Ye saw Ye Yanran making money, she was naturally very tempted. Their Danyang Marquis Mansion also had some reputation in the capital, and their network of contacts was many times stronger than that of the Gan family.
When she learned about Ye Yanran's way of making money, she immediately joined in to help people make money.
By the time the old marquis found out about this, it was already too late. Old Madam Ye had already earned tens of thousands of taels of silver. It was too late for her to stop now, so she could only tie herself to Xiao Yi.
"How foolish! If the emperor finds out, our Danyang Marquisate will probably be confiscated."
If it was any other minor matter, Emperor Jing might have spared the Ye family's lives after the incident because of their past friendship. But since it involved the buying and selling of official positions, this matter would probably make Emperor Jing furious.
"What's so scary about this? Is there anything scarier than the division of the Marquisate? Besides, this matter was arranged by the Prince of Qi. Even if it is discovered, we have the Prince of Qi and Imperial Noble Consort Dehui to take the blame. What is there to be afraid of?"
Old Madam Ye spoke so eloquently that the old marquis was speechless.
If the Marquis's Mansion was divided while he was still alive, his face would probably be trampled on by others.
"You have to keep this a secret and don't let any information leak out."
After a long silence, the old marquis could only accept the fact.
"Our mansion is in such a state today because of Ye Jintang's ruthless heart. She obviously knows medicine and has a recipe that can make money, but she hides it from us. She followed the King of Qin to his fiefdom, and would rather let outsiders run the herbal medicine shop in the capital than give it to the mansion. If we had known that she would be so disloyal, we should not have brought her back to the capital and let her fend for herself outside."
When it comes to Ye Jintang, Old Madam Ye is filled with resentment.
She just sneered and continued, "She treated the Marquis' Mansion like this, so she deserves her bad luck. If she follows the King of Qin to Ningchuan Prefecture, it is uncertain whether she can survive to her fiefdom. Even if she goes to a desolate place like Ningchuan Prefecture, she will not live long."
Old Madam Ye scolded Ye Jintang harshly, but she didn't know that before Ye Jintang left the capital, she had already placed spies in the capital to keep an eye on the Marquis of Danyang's Mansion at all times. It wouldn't take long for Ye Jintang to receive the news of what she had done.
Ye Jintang has never found anyone related to her grandmother, Aunt Xia. Even when she asked Xiao Mo to investigate, he didn't find any clues. She always felt that there was something fishy about this matter. If Aunt Xia died of natural causes, the traces of her life in the Marquis' Mansion could not have been wiped out so cleanly. The more so, the more she wanted to get to the bottom of it, but she didn't expect to gain other things from this matter.
Sitting in the carriage and looking at the large red maple leaves outside the window, Ye Jintang suddenly sneezed twice. She rubbed her nose and muttered, "Who is thinking about me again?"
"It's probably Mr. Wen. I think he's worried about you. Since the pigeons started sending letters, he's been writing to you every now and then to ask about your situation."
Xiao Mo took a cloak and put it on Ye Jintang.
We walked for more than half a month, and after September, the temperature difference between morning and evening became greater the further west we went.
They wear summer clothes at noon, and when they camp outside at night, they have to put on an extra coat on the outside and change their sleeping quilts to slightly thicker ones.
"My grandfather was afraid that I would suffer. Only in his eyes, I was still a child."
As she spoke, Ye Jintang showed a faint smile on her face. She asked someone to send some health pills to Grandpa Wen. She didn't know how weak he was now. If the longevity pills could be made, she would send some to him. She hoped that he could get well, and when she settled down in Ningchuan Prefecture, she would take him over to enjoy his old age.
"The maple leaves in Nanping are so beautiful. I couldn't get enough of them along the way."
Ye Jintang looked at the maple forest beside the official road. It looked like a painting from afar, and it was so attractive that people couldn't take their eyes off it.
“Nanping is not only about beautiful maple leaves.”
When setting up camp at night, Xiao Mo specially called Shi Bin over.
"Nanping City is ahead. Shi Bin, pass the order down and tell everyone to be more careful when patrolling at night. There are often wolves around Nanping City. It's no joke if you encounter one."
"I have long told everyone to be careful. I remember a few years ago when we passed by Nanping City, we encountered a pack of wolves hunting in broad daylight. We rode our war horses and galloped for more than half an hour before we finally got rid of the wolves."
Shi Bin still feels scared when talking about that past event.
Wolves are very smart and extremely patient. Once they target you, it's not easy to get rid of you.
"With such a large team of carriages, the wolves won't be so stupid as to attack us by surprise."
Ye Jintang had never fought against a pack of wolves before and knew nothing about it.
Among the medical books she memorized, there were several prescriptions specifically used to drive away wolves.
"The wolf packs near Nanping City are very large, and caravans passing through here are often ambushed. For a carriage team like ours, the wolf packs will definitely dare to confront them head-on. When the two sides fight, they will specifically target the old, weak, sick, or injured. If you are dragged away by the wolf pack, you will basically die."
Such things have long been circulated in the caravan. Although Xiao Mo has not experienced it personally, he has heard many people say so.
"The wolves are really powerful. They even dare to target humans. Aren't they afraid of encountering a tough guy? We can just destroy their pack directly." Ye Jintang asked doubtfully.
Xiao Mo laughed out loud.
"No matter how powerful wolves are, they are just beasts. When they attack people, they gain benefits, so they naturally remember them and never forget them. Even if they suffer great losses, they will not learn their lessons."
After everyone chatted for a while, Ye Jintang turned around and went back to her tent. She took out more than a dozen Chinese medicinal herbs from the space, mixed them together in a certain proportion, and ground them into powder.
"Jintang, what are you busy with? We'll have dinner soon. We'll have pheasant tonight, and it tastes really good."
"I remember there was a prescription in a medical book that could drive away wolves. It said that if you put Chinese medicinal herbs in a fire and burn them, the wolves would smell the odor and feel uncomfortable, so they would give up attacking humans."
"There is such a magical prescription? I have never heard of it."
"This is the prescription my master gave me. It must be correct."
Ye Jintang crushed the herbs skillfully, took them out and put them on the fire for everyone to burn.
Watching the light white smoke slowly dissipate, Xiao Mo said with some concern, "When the smoke dissipates, the wolves won't be able to smell the medicinal herbs. Do we have to keep throwing herbs into the fire?"
"It only takes two hours to burn it. The smoke from these herbs dissipates very slowly. Once the wolves smell it, they will run away immediately and won't come after us again."
"I see. I'll tell the patrolmen to burn the herbs on time and drive away the wolves."
Xiao Mo would rather believe it than not. As long as it could prevent the wolves from attacking them, he was very willing to burn some medicinal herbs.