379 This Huo Zhi is very cool
The eldest master of the Wang family started teaching Ping An and Huo Zhi at noon the next day.
He first tested the two of them and was satisfied with the results. Ping An had solid basic skills and an amazing memory, so he naturally set the goal for Ping An to be the top three.
Huo Zhi was seven years older than Ping An. He was already a scholar and his academic performance was not bad, but he could not compare with Ping An.
Even though Ping'an is only a student now, he has learned well in all aspects. His Wang family has four Jinshi (imperial examination candidates), and several of his grandchildren are good at studying, but they are not as talented as Ping'an.
However, Huo Zhi had no intention of taking the imperial examination to become an official, so his studies were not very important to him.
"Ping An, the survey just now proves that you have been studying hard during this period. The teacher will make a three-month study plan for you starting today. You must study hard.
Huo Zhi, I'll just leave it at that for you. Try to study with me in the morning and take care of your own affairs in the afternoon. Ping An is different from you in this respect."
They both responded in unison.
From then on, Ping'an studied with Master Wang every day. He used the early morning time to practice martial arts, which was a regular practice. He spent two hours in the morning and one hour in the afternoon reading and writing. The one hour in the afternoon was his free time.
Occasionally he would play chess with the old man and tell jokes, and occasionally he would visit the clinic or Sun's house. Qingshi and the others were very busy.
Just be busy.
After lighting the lights at night, he would complete the homework assigned by the master during the day. It would take at least two hours to finish these homework.
He can totally handle this pace. Who didn’t pass the college entrance examination this way in the previous life?
Huo Zhi was different. He studied in the morning and did his own things in the afternoon. It was up to him whether to do his homework in the evening. The master did not force him and gave him complete freedom.
This made him feel relieved.
That day, Ping An had just come back from the old man's courtyard when he saw Huo Zhi coming back with a gloomy face.
"What's the matter? Who made Young Master Huo angry? Or who borrowed rice from you but gave you bran in return?"
Huo Zhi couldn't help laughing: "It's you, you borrowed my rice but gave me bran in return, what do you say?"
The two sat down in the room.
"Brother Huo, what's going on?"
"I'm afraid the owner of the clinic here doesn't want to work anymore. He's obviously an old man in the Hua family, but he's not sensible at all. We've been here for half a month, and his little daughter has been coming here every day, asking for this or that. Today, she even tried to bump into me, and I got mad at that time."
Ping An's gossipy heart was ignited.
"Tell me, how did you get so mad? Brother Huo, you are really good. There are so many peach blossoms around you, but unfortunately, they are all rotten."
Huo Zhi fell onto the kang. It was true. In the past half month, he had indeed attracted quite a few bad peach blossoms. The love-crazy girl from the Lu family, a wealthy businessman from Yingtian, who was not sure whether she was a legitimate daughter or a concubine's daughter, would come to him whenever he went to the clinic. They either wanted to buy some medicine or wanted him to diagnose their pulse in person. Everyone knew his intention.
"Ping An, you are really smart. On the second day after arriving here, you used facial cream and dressed casually. Look at you now, you are like a completely different person."
"Isn't this good? Brother Huo, you should use some facial cream little by little, not all at once, or it will look fake. But if you are still so handsome, I'm afraid you will have many bad relationships in the future. By the way, you haven't told me how you got mad?"
Huo Zhi gritted his teeth and said, "I scolded the shopkeeper severely and told him that I was already married and would not accept a bride. He was really blackmailing me. He was just taking in a maid and I might sell her off one day.
He said he didn't mean that. He was not blind. How could he not know that his little daughter kept coming to the clinic? Ping An, I don't plan to keep this person. I will replace him within a month. "
Ping An frowned, "Since he has worked here for many years, you should check his background and accounts carefully. Didn't he sign a contract with your family?"
"I signed a five-year contract, which will end next month. If this hadn't happened, I would have planned to sign another five years with him. Since this is the case, forget it. Fortunately, some of the important medicines are over-the-counter medicines, and the prescriptions that can be prescribed are ordinary prescriptions, which are still in the hands of doctors."
Huo Zhi thought about Ping An and decided that it was necessary to carefully check the accounts here.
The daughter of a shopkeeper, wearing gold and jade, is her condition so good?
The shopkeeper here in Yingtian must be someone who has a contract with the family.
"I will write back tonight and ask my grandfather to send someone with the contract. If we hurry, it should be in time. I'm fine. I'm tired of these things now. It's a pity that no one has taken over."
My cousins from the next room wanted to take over, but this was the family business. I could give them some benefits, but I couldn't give the family business to others.
"Okay, calm down. The world is full of surprises. Brother Huo, you are upset because too many people envy you. Look at me. I still haven't decided which path to take in the future. Everyone has many frustrations. You have them, and so do I."
Huo Zhi certainly knew that Ping An liked to practice medicine freely, but his parents and teacher wanted him to try his luck in the imperial examination.
"Ping An, you should study hard for the imperial examination. Being a doctor is not easy. You are smart and good at studying. If you are assigned as an official in the future, come to me. The beautiful Jiangnan is waiting for you. Do you want to practice medicine? Who says that officials cannot understand medicine?"
Ping An smiled: "Brother Huo, I will miss you after you leave."
Huo Zhi said in a deep voice: "You and I have such a deep connection, there will definitely be many opportunities for us to meet in the future.
I will go back to Jiangnan in early June. It is impossible for me to go to the capital again in a short time. My grandfather is over 60 years old. This time I go back, I will be ready to take over. Be safe. I will write to you, and you must write to me too. "
Ping An saved his life twice, but he was unwilling to give him a real thank you gift, as if they would no longer be brothers after giving him a thank you gift. He wanted to be Ping An's real brother.
"Okay, I'll have someone build a big house near your home so it will be convenient for me to visit you in Jiangnan."
Half a month later.
Huo Zhi really found out the problem with the shopkeeper, and Ping An was the one who helped to keep the account books. In just five years, the shopkeeper had embezzled nearly ten thousand taels.
Huo Zhi called the yamen runners on the spot. He was prepared to turn a blind eye to the several hundred taels of silver he embezzled every year. Now he was embezzling almost two thousand taels of silver every year.
What does this mean? It means that half of the profits of his Huashoutang went into his pocket.
It was no use for the shopkeeper to cry out to the heavens, as Huo Zhi wanted to scare the monkeys by killing a chicken. The facts and evidence were irrefutable, and the government made a judgment in a few days. All the embezzled money was returned to the Huo family, and the shopkeeper's family was exiled to the northern border for five years.
If he comes back alive five years later, there is a high probability that no one will invite him to be the shopkeeper.
Ping An thought Huo Zhi was very cool and efficient in doing things. He now had the demeanor of the owner of Huashoutang.
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