Seeing her concern about this matter, Ye Xuanchen explained, "You can rest assured about that. Now that I have given them to you, they are your people. From now on, they will only listen to your orders, and even I cannot order them around."
After he finished speaking, he gestured with his hand, and immediately a man and a woman dressed in close-fitting clothes came out and bowed to him.
"Greetings, Master!"
"Mo Ba, Mo Jiu, from now on, Miss Jiang will be your only mistress."
Remember to respect her above all else. If you dare to betray her, this general will not forgive you, understand?
"Yes, we will treat Miss Jiang as our equal and never betray her. If we break this vow, may we be pierced by ten thousand arrows and die." Mo Ba and Mo Jiu knelt down and swore an oath.
Ye Xuanchen waved for them to rise: "Alright, then go to your master's side, ask her to bestow names upon you, and await her orders."
Mo Ba and Mo Jiu walked over and bowed to Jiang Luoxue, saying, "Greetings, Master. Please bestow a name upon us."
Jiang Luoxue knew that after giving them names, these two people would truly belong to her.
After thinking it over, she renamed Mo Ba to Qiu Ming and Mo Jiu to Zhu Ying.
After changing his name, Qiu Ming disappeared into the shadows, while Zhu Ying stayed by her side.
Jiang Luoxue was overjoyed. Suddenly having two powerful confidants felt like winning the lottery.
Overjoyed, she immediately decided to reciprocate.
"General Ye, since you are so generous, I will also give you something in return."
"No...."
Ye Xuanchen had barely uttered a word of refusal when Jiang Luoxue said, "I don't know when you'll find the antidote for your Fiery Charm Poison, and it will take time to prepare. I happen to have a newly developed potion here that should be able to alleviate and suppress your poison. Even if it can't completely cure it, it will at least reduce your suffering when it flares up every month."
Jiang Luoxue was referring to the spiritual spring water, but she didn't know if the Fiery Enchantment Poison was one of the poisons that the spiritual spring could cure, so she only vaguely said that it should, or that it could suppress it.
If it really works to cure the poison, then she can just use the new potion and pretend that all its effects are still under investigation.
Upon hearing this, Ye Xuanchen was overjoyed. He immediately swallowed his initial reluctance and instead expressed his gratitude: "Then thank you very much, Miss Jiang."
Jiang Luoxue told him to wait in the garden, then returned to Wensi Garden, filled a bamboo tube with spiritual spring water from her spatial storage, and gave it to Ye Xuanchen, instructing him to drink a cup of it morning and evening.
Ye Xuanchen thanked her and took a look. He saw that the water in the bamboo tube was clear and transparent, without any trace of the medicinal liquid it should contain.
This... is medicine!!
Is it really not water?
Seeing his master in a daze, Yanqing curiously peeked over and thought the same thing about his master.
Is this really medicine?
He glanced at Jiang Luoxue suspiciously;
Could it be that this Miss Jiang felt guilty for taking in two experts from her master, and had nothing else to repay them with, so she just made up some water to fool his master?
Seeing that the master and servant were staring intently at the bamboo tube, their eyes flashing with doubt.
Jiang Luoxue immediately realized that the spiritual spring water was too clear, which aroused the suspicion of the two of them.
She secretly blamed herself for her mistake; she was so focused on getting water that she forgot to take some food coloring from her spatial storage to put in and confuse the situation.
After a quick thought, she immediately came up with an excuse.
She feigned mystery and said, "Aren't you two wondering why this medicine doesn't look like medicine, but rather like water?"
The master and servant looked at her with expressions of eagerness to hear more.
Jiang Luoxue cleared her throat and began to seriously confuse the two ancient people.
"Don't underestimate my watery medicine; it's extremely precious and very difficult to make."
"It is this 'Jade Marrow Dew' that I obtained by braving the wind and snow to retrieve the ice and snow from the highest mountain outside the city on the coldest day of winter every year. The water was then filtered through seven layers of mulberry paper to remove impurities. I added precious medicinal materials such as the aged 'Jade Leaf Ophiopogon japonicus', 'Clematis armandii', and 'Snowy Russian Velvet Calyx' and soaked it for forty-nine days. Finally, I used special vessels to distill it repeatedly."
She pointed to the bamboo tube in the man's hand and continued blowing:
"Do you know that just this one bamboo tube of 'Jade Marrow Dew' took me several months of time and effort to make, not to mention the materials?"
"It's only because General Ye is a good person that I am doing this."
"If it were anyone else, I wouldn't be willing to give it up."
Her boasting left the master and servant wide-eyed.
Ye Xuanchen was deeply moved. He never expected that she would give such a generous gift in return for simply giving two people to Miss Jiang.
The materials and the methods used sound expensive and complicated.
Miss Jiang gave him a whole bamboo tube in one go, how could he possibly repay her!
"Miss Jiang, your medicine is too precious and too rare."
"How could I possibly accept something so valuable from you for nothing? You should take this Jade Dew back!"
Ye Xuanchen was about to return the bamboo tube when he said that he now had the prescription and believed that he would be able to find the medicinal materials and make the antidote soon. He would just have to wait it out.
You accepted such a big gift after offering only a small favor.
This is certainly not the behavior of a gentleman.
Seeing that he wouldn't accept it, Jiang Luoxue waved her hand and refused to take the bamboo tube back.
"It's alright, General Ye. Although the medicine is valuable, it needs to be given to the right person to be effective."
"Besides, this medicine can't be kept for too long, otherwise it will become ineffective and be wasted."
Unable to refuse, Ye Xuanchen withdrew his hand and handed the spirit spring water to the steady Yanmo, instructing him to keep it safe.
Now that Yanmo knew how precious the medicine was, he naturally dared not be negligent and carefully held it in his arms, afraid of making the slightest mistake.
Ye Xuanchen accepted the medicine, but felt guilty for taking advantage of the situation.
He took out about ten thousand-tael silver notes and a jade pendant from his pocket and handed them to Jiang Ruoxue: "Miss Jiang, here are some silver notes for you to keep first, and this jade pendant for you to take. If you need anything in the future, take this jade pendant to the General's Mansion, and the people in the mansion will be at your beck and call at any time."
Jiang Luoxue glanced at what was in his hand and immediately returned the silver notes.
"Thank you, General Ye. You can keep the silver notes, but I'll accept this jade pendant."
What she lacks now is someone to serve her. Since she has people from the General's Mansion to use, why not?
As for money, she has plenty of space now and doesn't care about it.
It's better not to accept it at all, so that the man's gratitude accumulates more, making it easier to ask him for help in the future.
The two chatted for a while longer when Mo Qi, who had been keeping an eye on the front yard, came to report that the people from the Dali Temple had left, but they hadn't found out anything. They left only to tell Minister Jiang to wait for news before departing.
Jiang Luoxue lowered her head slightly, concealing the smile on her lips; these ancient people would probably need high-tech cameras to find evidence.
What a pity! It's not here.