However, the pharmacy doesn't have much honeysuckle and chrysanthemum left, probably not enough for that rich young master to drink two pots of wine.
Zhao Guihua had excellent hearing, and upon hearing this conversation, she immediately shouted, "Selling honeysuckle! Freshly dried honeysuckle! Top-quality honeysuckle!"
Um?
What a coincidence!
However, the wealthy young master still came out with his servant. The young master was dressed in brocade, with a sachet and several jade pendants on his waist.
His belly was noticeably protruding, and the hand holding the folding fan was chubby. Looking at his plump face, he looked to be in his early twenties, but there were five dimples on the back of his hand.
It really is because I ate too much high-fat food.
"Bring the honeysuckle over so my young master can take a look." The servant beckoned Zhao Guihua and her companion over.
Zhao Guihua deftly unloaded the basket and showed the honeysuckle inside to the chubby young man. The chubby young man couldn't understand it, so he asked the old doctor to come and take a look.
The old doctor had his apprentice bring over a sieve, and then asked Zhao Guihua to empty all the honeysuckle from her basket. After inspecting it, he nodded.
"They're all of excellent quality and very dry." This means the chubby young master can buy them.
The medicine arrived just in time, which was also a stroke of luck. The fat young master wasn't stingy, so he gave three taels of silver directly, and then another tael as a reward.
"Here's another tael of silver for you. If you have any more honeysuckle of this quality, you can have it delivered directly to the Wang family mansion in the west of the city." Then, the young master Wang gave Zhao Guihua another tael of silver.
In other words, Zhao Guihua received a total of five taels of silver. This young master Wang is really carefree. He didn't even ask her name before giving her a deposit of one tael. Isn't he afraid that she will run away with the silver?
Actually, this young master Wang is quite famous in Shanshui Town. His grandfather was once a fifth-rank official in the imperial court. After retiring, he returned to his hometown of Shanshui Town. Young master Wang's father was not good at studying, but he was very good at doing business and made a lot of money.
However, he only had one son, Master Wang, whom he doted on to the extreme, spending money as he pleased, but the family's traditions were still quite good.
Aside from his love of eating, playing, and spending money, Young Master Wang doesn't have any of the bad habits that other spoiled brats have. He doesn't go to brothels, doesn't bully the common people, and is even a bit silly and honest.
"If you have any chrysanthemums, you can send them to your residence as well." After saying this, Young Master Wang left with his servant, fanning himself with a folding fan.
"What a wonderful person!" Zhao Guihua exclaimed in amazement, her voice trembling with excitement as she clutched the five taels of silver she had just received.
Later, perhaps out of respect for Young Master Wang, the old doctor accepted the root of the myrtle from Old Master Zhou's basket. This root can dispel blood stasis and treat injuries from falls and blows, and has high medicinal value, though most people don't know this.
"Does anyone in your family recognize medicinal herbs?" the old doctor asked tentatively.
“I know some. I studied with the village doctor for a while. He’s not good at treating illnesses, but he knows a lot of medicinal herbs.” Zhao Guihua had already prepared an excuse in her mind. She absolutely could not say that her daughter knew medicinal herbs.
The old doctor nodded. "I'll give you six hundred coins. Are you willing to sell?"
"If you're willing to sell, doctor, you can give me whatever you think is fair." The truth is, neither she nor Zhou Laoda knew the market price, and besides, if this pharmacy didn't take it, they'd have to carry it back.
With five taels and six hundred coins in her pocket, Zhao Guihua led Zhou Laoda to the rice shop. Due to the disaster, rice and flour prices had skyrocketed.
However, Zhao Guihua still bought ten catties of wheat flour and twenty catties of rice, which cost one tael of silver. Normally, one tael of silver could buy at least two shi of rice.
Then they bought five catties of salt and a bolt of cloth, which cost them another tael of silver. Prices were higher during times of natural disasters, and while five taels of silver seemed like a lot, it was really not enough at this time.
Since she couldn't buy much salt from one shop, she had to go to another shop to buy five more jin (2.5 kg), which cost her another six hundred wen (0.5 kg). Zhao Guihua couldn't bear to spend the remaining three liang (0.5 kg) of silver, so she went to the city gate with Zhou Laoda to wait for the others to return to the village.
Yegou Village.
Xingxing and Sanfu added firewood to the stove, Sifu and Wufu brought in the washed vegetables to chop, Dafu stewed meat soup, and Erfu stir-fried vegetables.
"Make sure you cook a lot, so there will be food for Uncle and Aunt when they come back," Xingxing reminded her again, showing great concern.
Chow Tai Fook replied with a laugh, "I know, little housekeeper, I've put in enough meat and mushrooms."
After a while, Xingxing got up to go out, saying, "Third Brother, I'll leave this place to you. I'm going out to take a look."
The gate is locked, what can the little girl see? If her parents come back, they'll open the gate and come in themselves. My younger sister is the youngest, but she's the most worried.
Sanfu silently complained in his heart, but said on the surface, "It's okay, you can go."
Xingxing walked out of the kitchen, went to the gate of the yard, and peeked out through the crack in the door for a while, but didn't see a single person. It seemed that her uncle and aunt hadn't returned yet.
Sigh, what a worry.
The little boy paced back and forth with his hands behind his back, his face serious and looking worried.
Suddenly she looked up at the sky again, "Oh God, why do you have to bring about natural disasters? How are the people supposed to live?"
"Pfft, little sister, if you keep frowning, you'll turn into a little old lady." Zhou Dafu heard her words as soon as he came out of the kitchen after the meal was finished.
The tone was exactly the same as that of the old men and women cooling off under the big tree at the village entrance. Occasionally, Xingxing would also go to play under the big tree, and that's probably when she learned to speak like that.
"Xingxing isn't an old lady. I'm only five years old, still very young, and I don't have a single wrinkle on my face." None of the old ladies in the village are as pretty as Xingxing.
"Alright, come and eat, or you'll get hungry again." The Zhou family used to eat two meals a day, but during the disaster, they only ate one meal a day. Since Xingxing came to live with them, they've started eating three meals a day.
Perhaps because she was used to eating three meals a day regularly, Xingxing would rub her stomach and complain of hunger at noon. She didn't know that the villagers ate two meals a day because Zhao Guihua was afraid that she would go hungry, plus she had found a wild boar before.
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