Chapter 425: The Peasant Girl’s Splendid Manor
**Chapter 425: Conflict (1)**
Mo Yan was greatly shocked. She shook her head in response to Shopkeeper Xing's hopeful gaze: "No, the potion I gave you earlier is already the strongest I can make right now. Shopkeeper Xing, are you asking because the potion has lost its effectiveness again?"
Shopkeeper Xing nodded, his expression becoming very serious: "Miss Mo, is there truly no way to make the potion stronger?"
Mo Yan furrowed her brows tightly and said, "Shopkeeper Xing, forgive me for asking, but what exactly is the disease that your master's friend is suffering from, which requires such constant use of the potion?"
The person had been using the spiritual spring water for a year. Even if it couldn't cure the disease, it should at least help detoxify and maintain health. The fact that it had lost its effectiveness could only mean that the person's body had deteriorated to a point where even the spiritual spring water couldn't reverse it.
Shopkeeper Xing glanced at her and did not hide anything: "It's not a disease, but a poison—an extremely aggressive, incurable poison!"
Poison? Incurable?
Mo Yan was even more puzzled. Even if it was a severe poison with no cure, the spiritual spring water should not have lost its effect!
Perhaps noticing her confusion, Shopkeeper Xing explained solemnly: "The poison was inflicted in childhood and has already penetrated the lungs and viscera, growing together with the flesh and bones, making it nearly impossible to remove! The potion you prepared has already neutralized the toxins floating in the bloodstream, but it is ineffective against the toxins lurking in the internal organs."
"I see!" Mo Yan suddenly understood, recalling an ancient saying she had learned in her previous life. It roughly stated that diseases on the skin were easy to cure; if they were in the muscles, it would be more troublesome; if they reached the intestines and stomach, it would be very difficult; and if they penetrated the bones, there would be no cure.
The poisoning was similar. The normal functions of the internal organs and bone marrow had probably already been largely lost, and the spirit spring water was too mild, only capable of expelling surface toxins without reaching deeper, thus losing its effectiveness.
Seeing her understand, Shopkeeper Xing, holding onto a last thread of hope, asked: "Miss Mo, since you can prepare such miraculous potions, do you have any way to detoxify?"
Mo Yan, seeing his urgency, felt a bit compassionate but could only speak the truth: "Shopkeeper Xing, I am not skilled in the medical arts. Even the potion was something I stumbled upon by accident. As for detoxification, I am truly powerless."
"Alas, it's my fault for making unreasonable demands," Shopkeeper Xing sighed weakly. His master was so worried about this matter that he couldn't even relax during the New Year. Even if there was only a slight possibility, he would not give up. Now, hearing Mo Yan's words, he finally gave up completely.
It was the first time Mo Yan had seen Shopkeeper Xing so despondent. She wanted to help but had no means to do so. If the spirit spring water could be upgraded once more, it might still be useful, but expecting the space to upgrade again was like a drop in the ocean.
After arriving at the timber shop, they delivered the New Year's gift to the shopkeeper and collected last month's dividends. Mo Yan and her father didn't stay long and drove the carriage to the rice shop.
Tomorrow was New Year's Eve. Whether there was money or not, meals had to be prepared, and the rice shop's business was better than usual. The border wars had not ceased, and rice prices remained high. Fortunately, the court later issued laws to curb merchants from arbitrarily raising prices. The price of ordinary rice was kept at nine wen per pound, which wasn't excessively high.
After greeting everyone, Mo Qingze helped attend to customers outside while Mo Yan brewed a pot of tea and sat in a small room to review the accounts.
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