Chapter 925 Getting to Know Each Other
Manager Zheng led Manbao out and clapped his hands in the lobby. Everyone stopped what they were doing, and the doctor behind the curtain also comforted the patient before coming out.
Shopkeeper Zheng came out with his fellow pharmacists. When everyone was present, Shopkeeper Zheng introduced Manbao, who was carrying a small backpack. "This is Dr. Zhou from Yizhou City. She will be working in our pharmacy from tomorrow. We will all be working together from now on. I hope you can take care of each other."
Manbao stepped forward and saluted everyone, smiling brightly as he said, "You can call me Manbao, or you can call me Doctor Zhou. Please take good care of me in the future."
Doctor Gu looked at her and smiled, "Young lady, are you the doctor who invented the Sanqi Hemostatic Powder?"
The shopkeeper Zheng at the side coughed lightly. Doctor Gu paused and then passed over the topic. He bowed and returned the greeting to Manbao, saying with a smile, "I've heard from Old Ji that the young lady is extremely talented and has a rare book in her possession. It's just that she's young and inexperienced. With time, her achievements will far surpass ours. I don't dare to ask for your advice. Let's just communicate with each other in the future."
Doctor Gu took the lead in demonstrating, and Doctors Tao and Yu quickly followed suit. Even the shopkeeper Xiao Zheng came over with a smile and bowed to Manbao.
Seeing everyone enjoying themselves, Manager Zheng was very satisfied and said with a smile, "Well, now that we've met, everyone should go back to their respective duties and don't keep the patients waiting anxiously."
The three doctors returned to their own clinics, and the shopkeeper, Xiao Zheng, also returned to his counter.
The patients waiting in the lobby looked at Manbao curiously. It was obviously the first time they saw a female doctor, and a female doctor so young at that.
But according to what Manager Zheng and the other doctors said, this female doctor's medical skills seem to be quite good.
The old lady, who had just received the medicine and hadn't had time to leave, hesitated for a moment before coming up and asking, "Young lady, are you a doctor too?"
Manbao smiled and nodded.
"Well, then, can you see the rash?"
"A rash? What kind of rash is it? Is it in patches or just individual spots?"
"There are both in clusters and individually. Oh, how about I bring her over to show you tomorrow?"
Manbao nodded, "Okay, then bring it tomorrow."
The old lady clapped her hands happily and said, "Then I will come early tomorrow morning. You must wait for me."
Manbao nodded and said he would wait.
After she happily left, Manbao looked curiously at the shopkeeper Zheng. The shopkeeper Zheng led her to the back, and after avoiding the patient in front, he smiled and said, "This old lady has a granddaughter. She is only thirteen years old and is about to get married. But she has inexplicably developed many red rashes on her body. Unfortunately, the rashes are on her chest and abdomen, so the doctors can only listen to her description and have not seen her."
He said, "The doctors diagnosed her with dampness and poison in her body and have been prescribing medication. However, after more than half a month, her condition has recurred and shown no improvement. Instead, her skin is festering. From what the old lady has described, the red rashes are clinging together, stinging even the slightest brushing with clothing, and there's also yellow fluid oozing out."
"Have the doctors never seen the patient?"
Manager Zheng shook his head. "It doesn't matter if she's younger or twenty or thirty years older, but she's in her teens. Even if the doctors dared to see her, her family wouldn't agree."
Manbao nodded to show that he understood, "Then I will come over early tomorrow and wait."
Manager Zheng smiled and nodded, then took her to the backyard. "Back here is the pharmacy, and there's also a place for the doctors to eat and rest. I'll have someone clean up this little room and put a small bed in there for you to rest."
The backyard is quite large, with two large rooms for people to rest. One is for Zheng's father and son, and the other is shared by three doctors.
According to the shopkeeper Zheng, the pharmacy has to keep a doctor on duty every night to treat patients with urgent illnesses at night, and sometimes he even has to make house calls.
So in addition to the doctor, a waiter must also be reserved, and even the shopkeepers Zheng Da and Zheng Xiao have to work the night shift.
Of course, Manbao, who is hanging up the order, doesn't need it. She comes here to study and exchange knowledge. Just like in Yizhou City, she only comes to Jishidiang for half a day every day. Unless she encounters an emergency, she will not stay long.
After all, Mr. Zhuang has a lot of homework to do.
Manager Zheng took Manbao to visit the important pharmacies and talked about the rules and customs of Jishidiang in the capital. The whole morning passed like this.
Manager Zheng treated Manbao to a sumptuous lunch before sending him to the door.
Manbao got on the carriage and waved goodbye to the shopkeeper Zheng with a smile on his face. After seeing them say goodbye, Daji drove away in the carriage.
Halfway through the journey, Daji couldn't help but ask, "Miss Man, why have I never heard you mention the Sanqi Hemostatic Powder?"
Man Bao said, "I gave them the prescription for the Sanqi Zhixue Powder, but after researching it with Doctor Ji and Shopkeeper Old Zheng, we found that the ointment was much more effective than the powder, so we modified the prescription and made the ointment. Doctor Ji deserves the most credit here, followed by Shopkeeper Old Zheng. The most I did was provide the Sanqi and the frame."
Manbao knew what Daji wanted to say. She said, "I also have the ointment recipe. Even the Ji family has a copy. If I want to do business with this ointment in the future, I can just give it to them. But it's impossible for me to sell this ointment to other pharmacies without going through Jishiditang."
In Manbao's view, this is the most basic human morality and professional ethics. For example, the Ji family has a prescription, but they will not do business with it, nor will they disclose the prescription to other pharmacies. At most, they will use it themselves or make finished products to give to relatives and friends.
Or record the recipe in a book and pass it down.
Why do aristocratic families have so many books and countless secret recipes?
Isn’t that how it happened?
But they did not publicize it to the whole world, nor did they use every one of them. The reason why a secret recipe becomes a secret recipe is that it must be kept secret in the first place.
In fact, Manbao herself doesn't like this very much. She prefers to be like Jishidiang, where when she has good things, she will make them and publicize them so that people all over the world can benefit from them.
It's only because Jishidiang has its own interests involved, otherwise Manbao wouldn't mind spreading the recipes of Sanqi Hemostatic Powder and Hemostatic Ointment.
Anyway, this thing is used to save people, not to harm people.
Daji was speechless for a long time. Sometimes he really couldn't understand Miss Man. Sometimes she was very similar to Mr. Zhou, and seemed very stingy, but sometimes she was also extravagant when spending money. She gave away a lot of money without blinking, and bought many things without even blinking an eye; there were some benefits that she would give up without even blinking an eye. For example, she knew that this prescription could bring great profits, but she would let it go at a loss.
I wonder how much profit Jishidiang can make from its current business of hemostatic powder and hemostatic ointment.
See you tomorrow
(End of this chapter)
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