B City , The Five Families

In B City lies the central business district, entertainment industries, companies, there are several tall glass buildings, from low-rise to high-rise buildings, they are scattered about B city is a prosperous city housing millions of people. Mo xuanyu was born and bred in B City. her family was one the five great family ranking the third . The Mu Family, Tang Family, Mo Family, Song Family and Duan Family, there are other great families in B city but they don't have as much prestige or power as the Five great family , (The First Family Mu) Came from the military they have been serving the country since the ancient days, the Mu Family is a force to be reckon with apart from the president of the state , they are next in line when it comes to power, authority, influence and prestige, they are the giant amongst men, they are called the mysterious family hardly will you ever see or read news about them , the family members are not much but each and everyone of them is a giant.

(The Second FamilyTang , Originated from Herb Valley) They comprises of group of people before becoming a Family, We tend to use the word "pharmacy" these days. Today's modern pharmacists have their roots in the apothecary, which is exactly what they would have been making their medicines out of.

Apothecaries were popular between the medieval times till the end of the 19th century. In medieval times, if you needed medicine, you had three choices: go to the local monastery and hope that they had a physic garden where they were growing medicinal herbs; go out and gather your own herbs and hope that you had a positive identification of the herb in question; or go to the town apothecary shop.

The latter was probably the best choice. Apothecaries were skilled men of the merchant class. They studied plants for years. First they had to know what each plant looked like. Then they had to know which part of the plant to harvest, then the appropriate time to harvest it. Some had a garden where they would grow all of their medicinal plants and some gathered from the countryside. When trading became available with the big ships going to other countries and bringing back obscure flora, this opened up a whole new line of spices valued for their culinary fines, and ancient healing like cinnamon, black pepper and ginger.

Apothecaries also had to act as the doctors. If you were sick, you went to the apothecary, told them your symptoms and then they figured out what you would need. The answer, many times, was bloodletting. The medieval people thought that when there is illness in the body, one of the four humors (blood, black bile, yellow bile and phlegm) must be off. So to balance the humors, you needed to get rid of the one that was too prevalent. Usually this was blood and it was done in a few barbaric ways. One was to strap you down and slice open your veins and let the bad blood drip out into a pan. As time went on, someone invented a little machine that quickly put a gash into you. But the all-time favorite of the apothecaries was leeches. Usually right up on the counter was a big jar of leeches, just waiting to suck out all of your bad blood and make you better.

If they decided that it was a medicine that you needed, they would make it right there on the spot (compounding). They would figure out exactly what herbs might help with your affliction and mash them together in the apothecary's tool of choice, the mortar and pestle. They would use this tool to grind up each herb into a powder. Sometimes you a liquid form to consume. So the Tang Family consist of doctors who dabbled in ancient and Chinese medicine likewise the western medicine, they are also force to be reckon with in the state.

Now let's move unto our dear protagonist family!!