GBP Chapter 249 Give everything you have
Chapter 249 Give everything you have
When Prince Jing arrived, the young princess naturally followed. She immediately jumped to Li Xiaonuan's side, pestering her to show her some fun things.
Prince Jing also inquired with Xiao Gang with great interest.
"Xiao Gang, tell me what fun things you've got. This old man loves fun things the most, why don't you let me play with you? I was even thinking of teaching you a few bone-setting techniques later." Prince Jing gently patted Xiao Gang's head and said.
"I heard there's something new and interesting out there, why don't you even let anyone call me 'Old Taoist'? You ungrateful bastards!" The old Taoist's voice came from downstairs as soon as Prince Jing finished speaking.
"How did you know that something new had been released?" Li Xiaonuan asked the young princess in confusion.
"The person behind the imported goods shop is a member of the royal family. Therefore, as long as something new and interesting comes out there, the entire royal family will know about it," the young princess said nonchalantly.
No wonder the shop's only manager and employee was so low-key. It turns out, he had such powerful backing that he wasn't worried about any fools causing trouble.
Furthermore, the artisans there possess truly exquisite craftsmanship, which Li Xiaonuan greatly admires.
"By the way, do you still have the scented soap you consigned to their shop?" The young princess asked Li Xiaonuan, ignoring her distraction.
"There are still quite a few. What scented soap would the young princess like?" That was the soap that Li Xiaonuan started making as soon as she arrived in the capital.
"I want it all." The young princess was not polite at all. Of course she would give Li Xiaonuan the money, but she was afraid that Li Xiaonuan would refuse to accept it.
Li Xiaonuan smiled wryly and said helplessly, "Little Princess, several ladies have already placed orders with me, so I can't give them all to you. Also, I have to send a batch to the shop, so there aren't many left. I can't do that much by myself."
"Then sell me the recipe, and I'll find someone to make it myself. Don't worry, I definitely won't steal your business." The young princess was always straightforward.
"Qingning, stop fooling around," Prince Jing scolded the young princess. But he still wanted to spoil his daughter. "Miss Li, why don't you sell a copy of the recipe to Qingning? I promise I won't leak the formula."
What else could Li Xiaonuan say? She could only nod in agreement. Anyway, she only made them for her own people to use; she just made a little extra and put them in the shop to try consigning.
With Li Xiaonuan's approval, Qingning happily grabbed Li Xiaonuan's arm and shook it.
No one present was surprised by Qingning's affectionate gesture. However, Li Xiaonuan felt somewhat flattered and quite reserved.
Seeing Li Xiaonuan's unnatural expression, the old Taoist priest quickly spoke up to help her out.
"Li girl, lend your fun toys to this old Taoist priest to play with."
Taking advantage of the opportunity, Li Xiaonuan pulled her arm out of the little princess's hand and took out the binoculars that she had painstakingly put away one by one.
"These are the things I call telescopes. They're mirrors that allow you to see distant objects," Li Xiaonuan explained.
"Oh? Is there really such a magical thing?" The middle-aged man standing quietly to the side asked in a deep voice. He took a few steps forward, picked one up, and looked at Li Xiaonuan for her opinion.
Xiao Gang stared blankly at them for a while before picking one up and holding it up in front of him with the narrower end facing out.
The middle-aged man found Xiao Gang's series of actions quite adorable, so he started imitating him.
Coincidentally, the middle-aged man was holding the very same pair of glasses that Xiao Gang had mentioned had the widest view.
The middle-aged man gazed in the direction of the imperial city for a long while before putting down his binoculars. He examined the binoculars carefully before handing them to Wei Yu.
Wei Yu took the binoculars and looked towards the imperial city. What he saw filled him with astonishment. Such a valuable tool was incredibly useful.
After Prince Jing and the old Taoist priest had also looked at it, they exchanged glances. Apart from the bewildered little princess and the Li Xiaonuan siblings who had already seen it, everyone else was filled with shock.
"This item can only be found in the hands of royalty. Furthermore, this craftsmanship must never be passed on to outsiders." After a long silence, the middle-aged man stared intently at Li Xiaonuan and said.
Everyone else's eyes turned to Li Xiaonuan, eager to know how she would answer.
Amidst the many gazes, Li Xiaonuan said somewhat uncomfortably, "The process is quite simple, so it's probably impossible to keep it a secret. Besides, it's not only Qisong that has such things. I believe that in other countries, there are many things that are more advanced than ours."
“Even so, this thing still has to be controlled by the royal family. Only the royal family can possess it,” the middle-aged man said decisively.
Before Li Xiaonuan could ask for a few more, Wei Yu cut her off.
"Let's do it this way. If Miss Li has anything else, why not bring it all out at once? Otherwise, it will be less valuable if we try to sell it later." Wei Yu was implying to Li Xiaonuan that she should make her demands now.
If Li Xiaonuan still didn't understand the middle-aged man's identity at this moment, then she would be truly foolish.
No wonder the Li family members felt a strong sense of oppression when they first met the middle-aged man.
"There's another one, which is useful for medicine. That stuff is only suitable for Prince Jing. However, if that stuff can be extracted, the survival rate of the soldiers on the border will be higher," Li Xiaonuan said somewhat uncertainly.
After all, penicillin isn't very useful to the country. If neither the emperor nor Prince Jing is interested, she can only return it to Qi Ji as a favor.
"Penicillin? What kind of medicine is that? What use is it for border soldiers? Can it prolong their lives?" Upon hearing anything related to medicine, Prince Jing couldn't help but ask.
Li Xiaonuan glanced at the emperor, seeing his interested expression, before saying, "It's an anti-inflammatory drug. Many wounded soldiers won't survive if they get a fever. But if we inject them with penicillin, their survival rate will increase significantly."
"Girl, please explain in more detail," the old Taoist priest, who had been silent for a long time, suddenly said seriously.
In her previous life, after suffering from sepsis, Li Xiaonuan had cultivated penicillin herself. Therefore, she could answer the old Taoist's question with ease.
"As you said, many people are resistant to penicillin. What should we do if those people are injured and have a fever, or if they have tuberculosis?" The old Taoist priest hit the nail on the head.
“Grandpa, penicillin can only reduce some of the inflammation; it cannot cure tuberculosis. Therefore, tuberculosis remains incurable. But if you really want to cure tuberculosis, there is a way: extract something called streptomycin,” Li Xiaonuan said regretfully.
“However, that project is too massive and too far in the future. If you were to actually study it, it would definitely take a lot of time and effort. Furthermore, the financial cost would be staggering,” Li Xiaonuan continued.
“That’s alright. Miss Li, just tell us what you know. How to study it is our business. If someone had developed the medicine you mentioned back then, Emperor Taizu wouldn’t have died young.” Prince Jing said with some sorrow.
So the founding emperor died of tuberculosis. No wonder, as wise as he was, he didn't live to see the ships set sail and return with all the things he desired.
Li Xiaonuan recounted all the information she had previously gathered about streptomycin from Baidu. The old Taoist priest and Prince Jing listened attentively.