Now, including the medical fees from the Zhenbei Marquis Mansion and the household expenses that Wei Ting asked Xiao Hei to send, she had a small amount of start-up capital on hand, and should be able to rent a decent shop in the capital.

According to the needs of the two, Li Baoren selected five shops, including two on Zhuangyuan Street, one large and one small.

The small one was originally a pub, but the owner was running the business poorly and is now transferring it urgently.

The big one is an old-established pharmacy that has been open for more than ten years. Its original business was indeed good, but last year, a Renxintang opened next door and a lot of their business was taken away.

Last month, a person was almost killed by the treatment. Thanks to Renxintang’s timely rescue, otherwise a life would have been lost.

"It can't be run any further." said Li Baoren.

The first store they looked at was this pharmacy.

The drugstore has two floors. The first floor is the lobby and pharmacy, and the second floor is the accounting office and side rooms. There is also a spacious backyard and two back rooms that are open from north to south.

"This is fine..." said Doctor Fu.

Su Xiaoxiao nodded.

She felt very satisfied the first time she came in.

The walls and floors are very clean, the lighting is excellent, the medicine cabinet is ready-made, and the functionality of the wing room can be modified, but overall there is almost no need to make any major changes, and the business can be opened immediately after renting it.

Most importantly, it is close to Lihua Lane.

"Is this the closest one?" Su Xiaoxiao asked Li Baoren.

Li Baoren said, "Yes, there is another shop very close to us on Changliu Street, only one mile away. It was originally a wine cellar, but they thought the place was not big enough, so they rented a shop in the East City and closed the old shop."

Su Xiaoxiao asked: "How does it compare to this shop?"

Li Baoren said: "The wine cellar is even bigger, and above ground is a large house with one floor, which is similar to the medicine shop, except that it lacks a back room."

Su Xiaoxiao had an idea in her mind: "How much does it cost to buy this shop?"

Li Baoren took out the booklet, flipped through it, and asked, "Do you want to rent or buy?"

Su Xiaoxiao hummed: "Is this shop also for sale?"

Li Baoren smiled and said, "The house they are selling is their own. If you want to buy it, now is a good time. After such a big mistake, the market here is not good. The price can be pushed down further."

Su Xiaoxiao said: "Just tell me how much it costs."

Li Baoren stretched out his hand and made the number eight.

Su Xiaoxiao said calmly: "Eight hundred taels?"

The three little ones were running around in the lobby.

Xiaohu imitated him: "Eight hundred taels! Eight hundred taels!"

Li Baoren shook his head awkwardly.

Su Xiaoxiao blinked: "It can't be eighty, right?"

Li Baoren: You are so bold...

Li Baoren coughed lightly: "Eight thousand."

Click! Doctor Fu opened the medicine cabinet and pushed it back violently.

He turned around and said to Li Baoren, "What kind of shop costs eight thousand taels? It's too expensive! I won't buy it!"

Li Baoren smiled and said, "If you really want it, the price can be negotiated."

"What's the rent?" Su Xiaoxiao asked.

Ah, do you really not want to buy it? Li Baoren was stunned for a moment, then replied, "If you rent it, it's one hundred taels a month, two deposits and three payments."

Su Xiaoxiao said, "One hundred taels is not cheap. Do other shops charge the same price?"

Li Baoren said, "The shops on Zhuangyuan Street are about the same price. The ones on Changliu Street are 20 to 30 taels cheaper, but the location is not as good and they are not as big."

Su Xiaoxiao looked at him and said, "Are you trying to say you get what you pay for?"

Li Baoren smiled and said, "That's right."

Doctor Fu came over, pulled Su Xiaoxiao aside, and whispered, "I think it's too expensive. This shop has had problems before, but they still charge such a high price. How much would it cost if nothing happened? Why don't we go to another shop and have a look? If that doesn't work, let's find another guarantor."

Su Xiaoxiao felt that Li Baoren was a good person. He had the shrewdness of a businessman and was not treacherous. The price he quoted was not much different from the market conditions she had learned about in the past few days.

"Okay, let's go look somewhere else."

Su Xiaoxiao agreed and said to the three children, "Big Tiger, Second Tiger, Little Tiger, let's go."

The group left the shop and Li Baoren locked the door.

Su Xiaoxiao tilted her head to look at the Renxin Hall next door: "Is this the clinic that is doing so much business?"

"That's right." Li Baoren put away the key. "Ren Xin Tang has opened several branches in Beijing. The earliest one has been open for 30 years. It can be considered a time-honored brand."

Su Xiaoxiao: "Oh."

The group walked towards another shop on Zhuangyuan Street.

No matter the size or layout of the pub, Su Xiaoxiao was not satisfied.

"Can you still walk?" Su Xiaoxiao asked the three kids.

The three little ones nodded: "We can walk!"

So the group went to Changliu Street again.

They first looked at the wine cellar, and as soon as they opened the door, the smell of strong liquor hit their noses.

Xiaohu covered his nose exaggeratedly: "It's so stinky!"

Erhu stuck out his tongue: "I'm going to faint!"

Li Baoren was amused by the children.

He was not worried that the children's reactions would affect today's business, because the wine cellar was not suitable at all, and he bet that the girl would not choose it.

Su Xiaoxiao looked at Doctor Fu: "What do you think?"

Doctor Fu cleared his throat and said, "Ahem, let's go see the next one."

The remaining two shops are still in business, one selling tea and the other selling cloth. The prices are indeed cheaper than those in the pharmacy, but they are a bit far from home. In addition, they are small in size and not ventilated from north to south, so the lighting is not very good.

Su Xiaoxiao asked Doctor Fu: "Which shop do you like best?"

Doctor Fu glanced at Li Baoren, who was teasing the three little ones not far away, and whispered, "The price in the tea shop is the most suitable."

Su Xiaoxiao said: "Let's put aside the price."

Doctor Fu: Are you so arrogant now? "The first one."

He told it truthfully.

Su Xiaoxiao nodded: "Okay, then the first one."

No, why is it that good?

Is this decided?

The rent is one hundred taels a month!

How many patients do we have to see? Doctor Fu was a doctor in the town, treating mostly poor people, and often his income was not enough to cover his expenses. Forget about a hundred taels. He was lucky to earn seven or eight taels a month.

"Isn't this... a bad thing? There's a clinic next door... aren't we stealing their business?"

"When Renxintang opened a clinic, didn't it also steal the business from the pharmacy?"

Doctor Fu was speechless.

Su Xiaoxiao walked over to Li Baoren and said, "Invite the owner of the medicine shop to come out so we can negotiate a price."

…

Su Xiaoxiao is a decisive person. If a problem can be solved today, she will never put it off until tomorrow.

After bargaining with the owner of the drug store for an hour, he finally bought the store for six thousand taels.

Su Mo gave her a medical fee of 2,000 taels, of which she took 60% and the other 40% was given to Doctor Fu. In addition, there were 3,000 taels given by Wei Ting, 1,000 taels that Su Yu Niang stuffed into her pocket before she left, and the money she earned from making snacks these days.

Su Xiaoxiao finished her calculations and said, "I still need another six hundred taels."

Doctor Fu took out the medical fee that Su Xiaoxiao had given him without saying a word.

A total of eight hundred taels, all given to Su Xiaoxiao.

Just when both parties were about to sign the contract, a small incident occurred.

Qin Yanran is here.

She appeared with Hu Biyun, the daughter of Hu Yuanpan's family. She saw Su Xiaoxiao in the lobby of the pharmacy at first sight.

"I'll go say hello." She said to Hu Biyun.

Hu Biyun frowned slightly. The two of them were classmates in the palace school, and privately they were aunt and niece. If anyone wanted to say hello, it should be Miss Su who came over.

People who come from the country really don't know the rules.

Hu Biyun was not interested in why Su Xiaoxiao appeared in a bankrupt pharmacy.

"What? You want to buy this shop and open a clinic?" Qin Yanran exclaimed.

"Who is this girl?" asked Li Baoren.

"Not familiar." Su Xiaoxiao said indifferently.

She took the pen and was about to sign.

Qin Yanran dissuaded him: "Do you know what you are doing? Don't spend the money your uncle gave you on other people—"

Doctor Fu frowned.

Su Xiaoxiao glanced at Qin Yanran sarcastically: "Do you know that the money was given to me by someone else?"

Qin Yanran asked back: "Isn't it? Where did you get the money?"

Doctor Fu was known for his good temper, but at this moment he couldn't help but get a little angry: "Miss Qin, please be careful with your words!"

He witnessed with his own eyes how this little girl started out by selling things on the street and worked her way up to where she is today.

All her money was earned through her hard work!

Qin Yanran said earnestly: "Doctor Fu, you cured the old marquis's illness. I admit that you are a great doctor, but I still want to advise you not to follow her and make trouble."

Hu Biyun at the door slowly spoke: "Miss Qin, I think you'd better stop talking. They don't appreciate it at all. It's useless to talk so hard. Some people just won't turn back until they hit the wall."

Qin Yanran sighed: "After all, we are a family, I don't want to see her suffer."

Su Xiaoxiao said calmly: "Do you not want to see me suffer, or do you wish I would suffer?"

"Of course I'm doing this for your own good..." Qin Yanran shook her head helplessly and said to Li Baoren and the owner of the medicine shop in the room, "You probably don't know, Miss Su grew up in the countryside, and this is her first time in the capital..."

Two people: So she is a country girl...

Hu Biyun said arrogantly, "In the whole capital, no pharmacy dares to open near our Renxin Hall. Otherwise, how do you think this pharmacy went bankrupt? Or do you think that Renxin Hall's business is so good that there are too many patients to see, so you want to pick up some of the leaks from our mouths?"

The two of them were chattering, and Su Xiaoxiao became a little impatient. She frowned slightly, and a hint of coldness appeared in her eyes.

She looked at Hu Biyun: "Renxin Hall, the Hu family?"

"Which Hu family?" asked Doctor Fu.

Qin Yanran was surprised: "Don't you know about the Hu family that Hu Yuanpan is?"

Doctor Fu was stunned for a moment, then turned to look at Hu Biyun: "Your father... is he Hu Jiusheng?"

Hu Biyun raised her chin and said, "It's my father."

Doctor Fu was filled with shock. He grabbed Su Xiaoxiao's wrist and said, "Excuse me!"

He pulled Su Xiaoxiao to the backyard.

He looked at the three kids squatting on the ground playing with rocks, and whispered to Su Xiaoxiao, "Let's not keep this shop anymore."

Su Xiaoxiao asked strangely, "What's wrong?"

Doctor Fu said: "The one called Hu Jiusheng, if I am not mistaken, it is most likely that Hu Jiusheng!"

Su Xiaoxiao: "Which Hu Jiusheng?"

Doctor Fu clenched his fists, trying to control his emotions. He said with a complicated expression, "My father... used to work in the Imperial Hospital. He faked his death and left the capital because he committed some crime and feared that he would be killed. Hu Jiusheng is my father's favorite student. My father mentioned him to me more than once, saying that if I had half his talent, his medical skills would not have to be passed on to outsiders. Renxintang belongs to his family... we can't compete with him!"

In fact, there is one more thing he didn't say.

Hu Jiusheng is not a good person. It was he who reported the secret, which forced his father to fake his death and leave Beijing.

He himself didn't care, but he didn't want to implicate Miss Su.

Su Xiaoxiao took a deep look at Doctor Fu, her eyes fixed on his fist that was almost bleeding: "Oh."

The two returned to the lobby.

Qin Yanran looked at the two of them and asked, "Have you decided?"

Li Baoren and the drugstore owner closed their eyes in disappointment.

It’s over, it’s yellow again.

This shop...is no longer available for sale...

Su Xiaoxiao took the Indonesian ink, dipped her fingertips in it, and pressed her fingerprint.

Qin Yanran's eyes flashed.

Hu Biyun looked at the owner of the medicine shop next to her, then at Su Xiaoxiao, and said sarcastically, "The He family is a time-honored brand, and they only lasted a year. Miss Su, I bet you won't last more than half a year."

"Half a year? That's too long." Su Xiaoxiao picked up the contract calmly, "Three months."

Hu Biyun chuckled and said, "You are quite self-aware..."

Su Xiaoxiao looked at Hu Biyun and said word by word: "In three months, your Renxintang will disappear from this street!"

We are also a protective family!

PS This is a fat chapter

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