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Chapter 338 Distinguished Guest
This time, the two servants looked even more confused. After they reacted, they all shook their heads to indicate no.
Meng Heshan swallowed subconsciously when he saw this. If the servant did not lie, did not let anyone into the house, and did not hear the conversation in the house, then could it be that he had been talking to a ghost for most of the day?
His eyes fell on the things in his hand, and Meng Heshan dismissed the idea again. A gentleman does not talk about strange things. If they are not human, then how do you explain these things in his hand?
Those two men were able to enter the study without alerting the gatekeeper, and they were not worried about the servants hearing anything they shouldn't hear. They were doctors, and medicine and poison were inseparable. They must have done something to the two servants.
If this is true, then what they have produced might actually be able to cure smallpox. In this case, he has to pay more attention to these two people.
Meng Heshan had a new assessment of Lin Chuyi and the other man. He waved to the two servants, signaling them to go back to the study and continue guarding. He turned around and went to the front hall to find the steward of the mansion.
When the steward heard from the servant that the master was waiting for him in the front hall, he quickly put down what he was doing and rushed to the front hall to meet Meng Heshan.
The chief steward bowed and saluted Meng Heshan, then asked, "Master, you are looking for me."
"Yes." Meng Heshan put down the teacup, looked at the butler and said, "I asked you to come here for two things. First, go outside and invite a few doctors with superb medical skills to come over. After they come, bring them directly to the front hall to see me."
When the chief steward heard the words "call a doctor", he suddenly raised his head and looked at Meng Heshan, asking with concern: "Master, why do you suddenly need to call so many doctors? Are you okay?"
Meng Heshan waved his hand and said, "I'm fine. I asked them to come here because I have other things for them to do."
The chief steward breathed a sigh of relief. As long as the master was fine, he didn't continue to dig into the matter. Instead, he agreed immediately: "I understand. I will do it myself."
"Just tell your men to do it. I have another more important task for you."
"Yes."
"I have two distinguished guests in my study. Please arrange a room for them in the mansion and lead them there in person. No matter what they ask for, try your best to satisfy them and make sure to serve them well with good food and drink."
The chief steward frowned. How could he not know that a distinguished guest had come to the mansion? Although he was thinking, his reaction speed was not slow. "Yes, I will do it right away."
"Well, let's go."
Soon, the people sent by the butler invited back the doctor who was widely praised for his medical skills in Liuzhou City.
The doctors were led to the front hall where Meng Heshan was. After the greetings, Meng Heshan had people give them seats and serve them tea. When most people had arrived, he distributed the prescriptions and medicine bottles he brought with him to the doctors present, asking them to tell whether the ingredients in them were good or bad.
Although he had promised Lin Chuyi that he would give medicine to smallpox patients, he was a suspicious person and thought it would be more reassuring to let the old doctors in the city check them first, which led to this scene.
The doctors took turns passing the prescription around, sometimes looking at the medicine samples, sometimes discussing in a low voice. Meng Heshan listened quietly at the side without making a sound to disturb them.
About two incense sticks later, the doctors finally reached a consensus and sent the most experienced doctor among them as a representative to announce the results of their analysis to their governor.
"Sir, only one of the herbs on the first prescription is relatively expensive, and the others are common herbs. It's just that we have never tried this ratio and combination, so we don't know what disease this prescription is used to treat. But what is certain is that the pills made with this prescription are harmless to the human body after taking them."
"The second prescription looks strange. It doesn't look like a prescription for curing an illness. It looks more like a weakened version of the previous one."
"As for the herbs in this third prescription, some of them have scar-removing effects, while others can be added to blend and enhance the efficacy of the medicine. This is a combination that none of us have thought of before."
"I'm not sure about other things, but the cost of the ointment made with this scar removal recipe will be half of the scar removal ointment on the market, and the effect will be better than scar removal creams of the same price, or even high-end scar removal creams."
Different fields have different worlds. Although Meng Heshan had been listening to the doctors' discussion, he did not understand many of the professional terms. Now, after hearing the summary of the doctors' discussion, he finally understood.
Although the doctors' conclusions could not prove the actual effectiveness of these prescriptions in treating smallpox, they invisibly deepened his trust in Lin Chuyi and the others, and made his mind more inclined to treat smallpox rather than solve the problem of the sick people as originally planned.
"If we want to make tens of thousands of pills described in the first two prescriptions within three days, how many medicinal materials are needed? How much silver will it cost approximately?" After thinking for a while, Meng Heshan began to inquire about the medicinal materials and silver needed to make the medicine.
Although the doctors didn't know why the governor wanted to mass-produce these pills, they had their own considerations about what the governor wanted to do, and they only needed to answer the questions raised by the governor.
Therefore, the doctors began to report the approximate cost and the various difficulties encountered in actual operation based on the actual situation of their own pharmacies.
At the same time, Lin Chuyi and Ping'an had already moved into the best and largest guest house in the mansion under the personal guidance of the butler.
When the chief steward suddenly went to the study and said he wanted to go in to look for a distinguished guest, the two gatekeepers standing at the door of the study felt very puzzled. When the chief steward really led an old man and a young boy out of the study, they were even more dumbfounded.
The study is an important area. For safety reasons, there are always people guarding the door of the study room day and night. Since the shift change, even if you go to the bathroom, there is always at least one person guarding the door. They can swear to God that they have never let anyone in secretly.
So when did these two people enter the study? But no matter how they entered, they could not escape the crime of dereliction of duty. Now they could only pray that the manager would give them a lighter punishment, whether it was a monthly salary deduction or a beating with a stick, but they must not be sold out.
The two men were terrified for a long time, but a month passed and neither the chief steward nor the minor steward punished them for this incident. This made them feel unbelievable, but also because the prefect did not care, they became more loyal. They performed their duties faithfully every day, and determined not to let the same thing happen a second time.