Using Earth Escape all the way, Jiang Hao quickly returned to Hangzhou. He appeared on the street from a small alley. Hangzhou City was lively and prosperous, with crowds flowing through the streets and thriving shops on both sides. When Jiang Hao passed a pharmacy, he stepped inside.
The shop clerk hurried over and asked with a smile, "What medicine would you like, sir? Do you have a prescription?"
"I'm not treating an illness. I need a few herbs for another purpose: fish glue and alum." Jiang Hao listed four or five medicinal ingredients, all used to make human-skin masks.
"Also, two taels of cinnabar." That was for drawing talismans.
The clerk quickly gathered the requested amounts. The total at the counter came to four hundred and sixty copper coins, mainly because the cinnabar was expensive.
Jiang Hao felt around in his pocket and took out a piece of broken silver. The shopkeeper weighed it and gave him back a little over fifty copper coins. Looking at the stack of coins in his hand, Jiang Hao realized that was now his entire fortune.
He left the pharmacy with the medicine, pretending to tuck it into his sleeve when he was actually placing it in his storage space.
There was a paper shop nearby. Jiang Hao bought a ream of yellow paper and spent all his remaining money.
Now he was completely broke.
He still had many things to buy, and that would not do without money. He needed to find a way to make some.
As he walked the streets, taking in Hangzhou's ancient customs, he soon arrived at his sister Xu Jiaorong's home. He entered without announcing himself.
Hearing him, Xu Jiaorong came out through the side door. When she saw Xu Xian, a loving smile appeared on her