Chapter 208:

On that day when the Shen family collapsed, the "Chen's Xiaoshi Pills" drug store opened by Yu Qiulin suddenly became popular. Xu Yi originally thought that a thousand pills would be enough, but now it is far from enough.

Yu Qiulin wanted to write a letter to ask Zhang Tiegou to come to Zizhou with pills. When Xu Yi heard this, he laughed at him for why he chose to stay far away.

"As long as A Xu and I are here, we can make three to four hundred pills every day." Xu Yi counted with his fingers and knew that this matter could not be delayed.

Sure enough, they had just agreed today that when they went to the drug store tomorrow, they saw many people queuing up to buy pills outside the store. After asking, I found out that most of these were helpers and housewives from wealthy families in the city. Thinking that Chen's Xiaoshi Pills were so good and affordable, they wanted to take the opportunity to buy more and stockpile them.

Wealthy people are accustomed to eating a lot of fish and meat. If they eat too much meat, they will not worry about eating too much and spoiling their stomachs with these Xiaoshi Pills.

Yu Qiulin took the key and opened the shop, entered from the side door, turned around and said to Xu Yi: "I was just thinking that these wealthy households have the habit of hoarding pills, so I was worried that there would not be enough Xiaoshi pills. The result turned out to be a prophecy. It really didn't happen." It's ready."

"It needs to be arranged as soon as possible." Xu Yi looked around the shop. It was only decorated with a few simple tables and chairs, and two cabinets, but there were nine rooms in it. Empty, not much stock.

He rolled up his sleeves and said: "When we came out, A Xu also set out. I think we can buy the medicinal materials soon."

After saying this, Xu Yi thought that it would be okay to continue. They couldn't do it. If I stay in Zizhou for a long time, I won't be able to keep my shop open for a long time by relying on them.

Otherwise, hire a shopkeeper who knows everything about it so that the shop can continue to operate normally when Yu Qiulin is not in Zizhou.

Thinking of this, Xu Yi came back from the shop and told Yu Qiulin about this. Yu Qiulin immediately agreed and was about to write to Zhang Tiegou, asking him to arrange for someone to come from home.

"No rush." ​​Xu Yi looked at him with a faint smile, "I know someone who seems to be quite honest. If there is a local in charge of the shop, it is better than having someone come from Yanting."

Yu Qiulin thought about it carefully. , understood the meaning of his words, raised a smile and said: "It makes sense."

There are many trusted people in Yanting, but they all live there, who wants to be away from home for such a long time without being able to go home, unable to What about getting together with your wife and children?

If someone is really willing, they will have to bring their family with them. Over time, I'm afraid this shop will no longer belong to him and Xu Yi.

After thinking about it, Yu Qiulin immediately went to see Bai Xiuyun.

When Bai Xiuyun heard that they were looking for a shopkeeper to manage the drug store, he sat up straight, thought about it for a while, and said with a sincere expression, "May I ask Mr. Yu how to arrange it?"

"This shop only sells Xiaoshi pills. What's the price? That's all. Determine the amount." Yu Qiulin smiled lightly, looked at him sideways and said, "The shopkeeper and the shopkeeper only get a monthly payment. The shopkeeper gets two coins, and the shopkeeper gets six hundred coins. Does the manager have any ideas?"

Bai Xiuyun did not respond immediately, but turned his attention to Xu Yi.

Xu Yi said: "In addition to these conditions, there are also requirements. As long as the hands and feet are honest, the shopkeeper is an idle clerk. He only takes care of people and goods, keeps accounts, etc."

After hearing this, Bai Xiujun hesitated and asked: "My second nephew He is twenty-one years old and is now in charge of the accounts in a restaurant. He is literate and has a way of disciplining people. What do Doctor Xu and Yu Guanren think

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"It's easy to talk. I'll ask him to come and see you." After Bai Xiuyun said that, he stood up, saluted, and left Xu's house in a hurry.

He went home and told his eldest brother and sister-in-law the good news.

After hearing this, Mrs. Qi called her entourage to the restaurant to find her second son. Bai Er worked as a cashier in the restaurant and received a monthly salary. The work was relatively easy, but he had little money.

He was called home in a daze, and when he heard that it was his second uncle who introduced him to the job, he said confusedly: "My job in the accounting office was one that you got through your connections back then, so I just gave it up." ? Not so good. "

The Bai family didn't have the ability to be picky in the past. Having such an errand is already a good thing.

Bai Xiuyun twitched the corner of his mouth: "..."

"If you give up the accounting job, there will be a shopkeeper who will entrust you with the job, and the monthly salary will be doubled." Bai Xiuyun said, changing the subject, " But Mr. Yu must take a fancy to you first, otherwise it will be just a fantasy."

"How could such a good thing come from my second uncle?" Bai Er said happily.

Shopkeeper?

Is there two silver coins in monthly money?

There are two shopkeepers in the restaurant where he works. One of them worked as a cashier for more than ten years before he was promoted to shopkeeper. The important thing is that if you really become a shopkeeper, with these two coins, you can subsidize a lot of family expenses.

"This sounds familiar to Mr. Yu. I think I've heard it several times in the neighborhood recently." Bai Er frowned and thought, then quickly glared and said, "I remembered that the owner of a Xiaoshi Wan shop in the city now... Her surname is Yu. Could it be..."

He looked at Bai Xiuyun expectantly, and was even more surprised when he saw Bai Xiuyun nodding towards him.

"How did the second uncle know him?"

Bai Xiujun said with a smile: "This official Yu is an old acquaintance with Dr. Xu, and Chen's Xiaoshi Pills were also concocted by Dr. Xu."

"In this case, the case of the Shen family ..." Mrs. Qi is smart and immediately knew that this matter was not simple.

Sure enough, Bai Xiujun shook his head and said softly: "From the outside, there is no doctor's hand in this matter. That means it has nothing to do with him. Sister-in-law, we are out here, so don't say more."

"I am . Understood." Then Mrs. Qi also gave her son a few words.

Bai Er had only heard of "Doctor Xu" from family members and had never met him formally. He was confused and scratched his head in response.

Soon, he met Dr. Xu himself.

Xu Yi and Yu Qiulin asked him a few questions and found that he was a good candidate. They decided on the shopkeeper in a short time.

The remaining two shop assistants were easy to find. Bai Xiujun went to the drug store and recruited a few honest people. Yu Qiulin selected two of them and signed the lease agreement. Then these two shop assistants could work at the drug store.

Yu Qiulin could finally take a break. At the Xu family's residence, he drank the mulberry wine brewed by A Xu, paired with the salty whitebait bream, and sighed that life was worth it.

"Sometimes, I envy you so much that you can travel around and be happy." Yu Qiulin looked at Xu Yi beside him, raised his hand to clink glasses, and took a sip of mulberry wine, "Every time I go out, I miss Cai Cai. Mom, they are not at ease."

Xu Yi said with a smile: "You have to give up and you have a lot of children now. How can you not be happy?"

"That's true." Yu Qiulin smiled with satisfaction.

Having said that, Fang Caiyi stopped having children after Xu Yi's contraceptive prescription. In the past two years, she has been raising her body at home. She has become more agile and can take care of household affairs with his mother.

Thinking of this, he thought of Tao Qinghao...

Yu Qiulin glanced at Xu Yi casually, and the corner of his eye fell on Yan Quyue's belly, but he quickly moved away.

This year, the Tao family had some troubles again. I wonder if Xu Yi knew about it.

The Tao family was in the restaurant business, which had nothing to do with their business, but the rouge shop managed by Tao Qinghao had always had dealings with them.

At first, Xu Yi only got three years' share of the facial fat. Later, Xu Yi added a few more facial fat recipes and extended it for another three years. When settling the accounts, it was Yu Qiulin who came forward on Xu Yi's behalf and sent the accounts to Xu Yi.

Like this time, when Tao Qinghao learned that he was coming to find Xu Yi, he first counted the accounts and asked Yu Qiulin to bring them over.

Yu Qiulin knew the accounts clearly. In half a year, three hundred silver coins were distributed.

Yanzhi's business was extremely profitable, and when Yu Qiulin saw him again, he was very excited.

But he also understands that this business is chewing off more than he can chew, so it is better to cultivate his one-third of an acre of land.

Xu Yi looked at him with squinted eyes: "You are watching furtively, do you have anything to say?"

Yu Qiulin: "..."

He smiled awkwardly and pointed to himself: "Is it that conspicuous?"

"What do you think. "Xu Yi raised his eyebrows.

Yu Qiulin laughed apologetically, yawned lazily, and said, "I'm just a little drunk. This mulberry wine has a lot of stamina."

"That mulberry wine, Ah Jin won't get drunk even after drinking two cents of it." The corner of Xu Yi's mouth twitched slightly, seeing He didn't want to say it, thinking that it was probably nothing good.

...

There were still three days left before the Mid-Autumn Festival. Seeing that the city was getting more and more festive, Xu Yi decided to wait until the festival was over before they left.

At this moment, Yan Quyue and Ah Jin were the happiest. They put on their favorite clothes and took Xu Yi, who just wanted to stay at home, to the night market to choose lanterns for the festival.

"My husband has been making pills for so long, it's time to come out and take a look at the excitement outside." Yan Quyue took Xu Yi to a stall selling clay figurines, and took a clay figurine that looked like a scholar and gestured at him, " "Look, does this look like you?"

"It does." Xu Yi was very cooperative.

After hearing this, Yan Quyue was a little hesitant to put the clay figurine back: "It's not similar enough, and the eyes are not as beautiful as yours."

As soon as she finished speaking, the stall owner also started to praise it.

Xu Yi blushed at the praise, and immediately gave the stall owner a copper coin, took the clay figurine, and pulled Yan Quyue away.

Yan Quyue pursed her lips and said, "Why are you still blushing? If he compliments you on your beauty, that's because you are really good-looking. Even this fake person can't compare to you."

Xu Yi: "..."

He is good at it He made a fist, coughed violently into the corner of his mouth, and lowered his voice and said, "Madam, don't say anything else."

If he continued, everyone around him would hear it.

He was already thin-skinned when he went out to play with the two girls, and now he wanted to find a tea shop and let them go shopping alone.

He was thinking this in his mind, but his body was honest.

He followed Yan Quyue step by step, acting as a temporary bodyguard and follower, carrying various gadgets and food bought from the market.

In an instant, a red string for blessing and safety appeared on his wrist.

The rope is strung with bodhi trees as big as beads, and the fragrant cakes are smoked, giving off an elegant woody fragrance.

He freed up his hands, picked one for Yan Quyue, and tied it around her wrist. The red rope made her wrist thin and white. Xu Yi touched and pinched it and knew that there was a callus on her fishbone where she had been holding a knife all year round.

Her hands were not as delicate and weak as those of ordinary ladies.

But a beauty full of power.

When Ah Jin saw it, her eyes rolled and she couldn't help but snicker. She came to the stall and thought about choosing one. She couldn't help but think of Er Qing's fool, so she picked two more in her hand.

After thinking about it, I took another one and settled the money.

When they returned home with their full load, Ah Jin gave one of the two extra red ropes he bought to his brother and the other to Erqing.

Er Qing hid the red rope like a treasure. Ah Jin rolled his eyes and took it over to tie it for him.

"This red rope is just for wearing it in your hand to keep you safe. What's the matter with you hiding it?"

Erqing was told this and looked at A Jin infatuatedly without saying anything back, thinking of letting A Jin say more. A few words, he likes to hear them.

"Aren't you willing to hear it?" Ah Jin raised her eyes, looked at his dazed look, and said deliberately.

Erqing quickly shook his head: "I like to hear it."

"Pfft~"

"Look how beautiful you are." Ajin smiled, "You like to hear it, but I'm not happy to say it. I asked you to make a new wooden bow last time. You You haven’t given it to me yet. If I didn’t urge you, you would have forgotten it.”

At that moment, the wooden door creaked open from the outside, and Xu Yi came in and heard the flirting words.

"..." Xu Yi looked at Ah Jin and then at Er Qing.

Ah Jin's cheeks immediately turned red with embarrassment, and he pretended to be calm and asked, "Why did Mr. Lang come into the kitchen?"

Xu Yi said, "I'm here to get firewood and ashes."

After saying that, he suddenly said, "I'm disturbing you two." "

A Jin's eyes widened, and when he saw the joking look in Lang Jun's eyes, he realized what she and Er Qing were thinking. Xu Yi had already known it.

On the other hand, Erqing was still naive and didn't know.

When he heard this, he just thought it was Xu Yi who asked casually, scratched his head in embarrassment and said, "Ajin said he bought too many red ropes and gave me one as a gift." "

..." Xu Yi looked at him with a complicated expression. , I thought, how about choosing someone smart for Ah Jin.

"Do you know the meaning of this red rope for blessing?"

Erqing was stunned.

Xu Yi ignored him and said to A Jin: "A Xu is looking for you. I will go to the drug store later. From tomorrow on, there will be no need to concoct pills."

A lot of pills have been concocted these days, enough to last until mid-autumn. , waiting for Zhang Tiegou to come to Zizhou with new pills.

"Yes." Ah Jin blushed, not daring to look into Xu Yi's eyes, and quickly left the kitchen with lowered eyes.

When Erqing wanted to ask more questions, Xu Yi excused himself to be busy and returned to the pharmacy first.

Erqing, who was stunned in the kitchen, suddenly thought of something. He returned to the house and picked up the finished wooden bow. When Ah Jin finished his work, he came over to find it.

"Ajin, why did you give me the red rope?" Erqing asked with courage.

Ah Jin stared at him: "You don't know?"

Erqing straightened the corners of his mouth and whispered: "I'm afraid I thought wrongly and misunderstood you and made you unhappy."

"That's what you think . "Ajin bit her lip and looked at him with sparkling eyes.

After the words fell, Erqing raised his head.

The surroundings were so quiet that one could hear the sound of insects. The two people's eyes were locked in one place, so entwined that they could not be separated no matter what.

The autumn wind blew the treetops, and the fallen leaves fell with the wind and fell on Ah Jin's head.

Erqing suddenly got lucky, stepped forward, raised his hand and took down the fallen leaf.

"This fallen leaf..." He opened his mouth, still a little clumsy.

Ah Jin smiled sweetly: "The leaves fell so cleverly, just like what was written in the storybook."

...

After mid-autumn, Zhang Tiegou came to Zizhou.

As soon as he arrived in Zizhou, Xu Yi was about to leave. Zhang Tiegou stopped cursing after encountering this coincidence a few times.

Then he changed his approach and said to Xu Yi: "Next time when you want to find someone, don't just think about finding that guy Qiulin. He often whispers in my ears that he can't take care of his wife and children at home when he is a businessman. My wife and children are ashamed."

Xu Yi looked at him with a suppressed smile.

Zhang Tiegou didn't know, and thought he had listened, and continued while the iron was hot: "If you ask me, I have more experience than Qiulin boy. I often run around, and I can make more money to spend on Meng Niang. Meng Niang is very powerful, and there are also things to do Since my mother is here, I don't have to worry about them having a good time at home."

Xu Yi nodded and coaxed: "Okay, I will write to you next time."

After saying this, they talked about Brother An. My son has attended private school for several years, and now he has not only finished studying "The Thousand Character Classic", but also the Four Books and Five Classics, and is also learning it bit by bit.

Zhang Tiegou said happily: "Brother An is very smart and learns things quickly. I haven't read the "Thousand-Character Essay" for a few days, and I can't remember some words, but he can still teach me."

As long as An Ge'er is mentioned, Zhang Tiegou will be happy. There are countless sayings.

He babbled a lot about how awesome An Geer was, then thought of something and took a package to Xu Yi.

"An Geer asked me to bring it, saying it was a letter written to you." He said.

Xu Yi opened it and saw dozens of letters inside, and was slightly surprised: "So many?"

"Yeah..." Zhang Tiegou looked dazed, and he also wanted to know why.

His son did not kiss him, but kissed Xu Yi. When he was a child, Xu Yi had been away for so long, but he still remembered it.

As I get older, I have more ideas.

He didn't listen to his father's words on weekdays, which made him feel happy and angry at the same time.

Xu Yi didn't even blink as he listened to his rants. He opened the letter and read it, and An Geer's childish handwriting came into view.

In the letter, An Geer first greeted his godfather affectionately.

Then he talked about the interesting things that happened to him in the private school, what books he read, and how much he missed his godfather...

The child has simple thoughts and expresses his emotions very directly.

In this regard, An Geer perfectly inherited Zhang Tiegou's frank temperament. However, he also took advantage of Li Mengniang's intelligence. As time went by, his calligraphy became more and more beautiful, and his writing skills began to take shape.

Seeing the words as the face, Xu Yi's mind pictured the tall and slim An Ge'er as a quiet and delicate little scholar. Even if he was wearing a simple cotton gown, he could not hide his clear features.

"Are you listening to me?" Zhang Tiegou became a little angry when he saw him wandering away.

Xu Yi looked at him with a raised eye: "You keep saying these words every time, and my ears feel numb."

Zhang Tiegou: "..."

Even so, he couldn't say anything angry.

Because Xu Yi will leave Zizhou soon, as a brother, he cherishes the days with Xu Yi.

The next day, when he woke up, he saw Xu Yi practicing boxing in the courtyard and wanted to compete with Xu Yi.

Xu Yi agreed wholeheartedly, and although the two of them hit the target, they showed no mercy, and they fought each other for hundreds of times.

In the end, Zhang Tiegou showed his flaws and was defeated.

"It's so boring to lose to you every time." Zhang Tiegou complained, and then said in a blink of an eye, "I haven't hunted in Zizhou before. Brother Xu, will you go hunting with me?"

Xu Yi gasped and held the Wiping his sweat with a face towel, he said loudly: "Erqing is familiar with the mountains in Zizhou. Why don't we let Erqing lead us?"

"No, the mountains are not the same anywhere. I don't believe that we can't hunt without brother Erqing to lead us. " Got something." Zhang Tiegou spoke confidently.

Xu Yi knew his hunting ability, so he let him go.

While it was still early, they took their tools and went out, asked A Xu and others to look after the house, and then drove the donkey cart out of the city.

After traveling for more than an hour, the donkey cart stopped at the foot of a mountain.

When they saw an old man selling firewood at the foot of the mountain, they asked whether the mountain had a main mountain or an unmaintained mountain.

Knowing that it was Wuzhu Mountain, they paid for the old man's firewood, spent another two cents to park the donkey cart outside the shed, and went up the mountain with wooden bows and iron knives.

"What good things do you think there will be in this mountain?" "

Pheasants, hares."

"No foxes?"

"I haven't seen Erqing hunt a fox, so I don't think so."

"It's strange, look at these footprints, they look like It's a fox paw." Zhang Tiegou stopped and squatted open a patch of grass, revealing several very obvious animal paw prints.

Xu Yi couldn't understand, and his eyes stopped on the plant next to the paw prints.

It was a burnet burnet with purple-red flower buds. In "Properties of Medicine", burnet burnet was used to treat metrorrhagia and stop bleeding, moles and dysentery.

In fact, it has other medicinal values, such as detoxifying and curing sores, water and fire burns, and carbuncles and sores. Different uses have different usages. If you are bitten by poison, you can use it raw, crush it and apply it to the injured area. If it is used to stop bleeding, you need to fry it with charcoal.

If you see burnet burnet on weekdays, you can dig it up, dry it in the sun, and cut it into sections for storage.

When needed, you can decoct it and take it, or grind it into powder and make it into pills.

Thinking of this, Xu Yi dug out the burnet plant and took it away.

Seeing this, Zhang Tiegou did not forget to ridicule: "Your habit of digging for medicinal materials at any time has not changed."

Xu Yi explained: "Even when you get old, this habit will not change."

On the next mountain road, they followed their paws Keep going in the direction of Yin. Not long after, they saw a turbulent stream. On the bank of the stream, they found a pile of animal excrement.

Zhang Tiegou pinched some of it with his hands and rubbed it open. When he saw something inside, he said, "Yes, it belongs to the fox."

"That's where the fox should have gone." Xu Yi raised his eyes and pointed to a dense forest.

As they advanced, the wild catalpa trees in the mountains grew denser and thicker, blocking out the sky and the sun. Before the sunlight even reached the ground, they were torn apart by the surrounding dense leaves and scattered in all directions.

Xu Yi narrowed his eyes and said, "Brother Zhang, I'm afraid we can't go in anymore."

"Why?" Zhang Tiegou saw that there were no traces of other large beasts around, so he was thinking about the fox he had never met.

If he hunted the fox, he could make a new fox fur scarf for Meng Niang before winter.

"It's foggy." Xu Yi raised his chin slightly. He had good eyesight and could see the wisps of fog gradually surging.

They stayed by the stream for a while, and the mist surrounding them became thicker. If they continued to explore inside, they would easily lose their way.

The temperature difference in the forest was quite large, and Xu Yi could already feel the coldness coming from the soles of his feet.

Zhang Tiegou was silent: "..."

Xu Yi's words instantly diluted his thoughts of catching the fox.

He said with some fear: "Fortunately, you reminded me. I was only thinking about catching the fox, and I forgot about it for a while."

Life has gotten better in the past few years. He doesn't often go to the mountains to hunt. Instead, he has learned about hunting. Throw your skills aside.

"It's up to you, let's go back." Zhang Tiegou didn't get angry, so he said quickly and turned back.

They didn't hunt anything good, and they didn't come back empty-handed.

Pulling a cart of firewood, it should be today's harvest.

A few days later, autumn was getting stronger, and the charcoal needed for the winter was ready, and Xu Yi and others were leaving Zizhou.

Bai Xiuyun and Zhang Tiegou practiced it for them in the tavern.

After three rounds of drinking, everyone was drunk.

Bai Xiujun held the wine cup in his hand and came over to talk to Xu Yi with a smile. He said, "Doctor Xu, I only know that you are leaving, but I don't know where you are going." "

Fuzhou," Xu Yi said.

Bai Xiujun repeated "Fuzhou" softly, and then looked at him: "I remember that on the way to Fuzhou, I seemed to have to pass through a miasma forest. If I took a detour, I would have to walk dozens of miles longer."

Xu Yi had already prepared a strategy. He smiled lightly and said, "No detour."

They were going to the miasma forest.