So the group started chatting about the fabric shop, and Jiang Zhi took the opportunity to bring up motherwort granules, wanting to conduct a market survey.
She first talked about the effects and price of the motherwort granules.
When the woman heard that Huo Family Pharmacy sold such convenient medicine packets, she immediately said, "Huo Family Pharmacy's medicines are all good. My family often buys Zhengqi San and Liushen Wan from them. I didn't even know when they started selling granules."
Since this good stuff exists, and it's cheap, and more convenient than seeing a doctor, I should give it a try.
With the Huo family's pharmacy signboard in sight, the woman had no doubt about Jiang Zhi's words and immediately wanted to buy the medicine, showing no sign of dissatisfaction with the price.
Jiang Zhi nodded secretly. The Huo family's reputation in Pingchuan County was indeed good, and they didn't need any advertising or promotion. It seemed that this was the source of Miss Huo's confidence in raising prices.
After selecting the fabric, Jiang Zhi and Dejin's wife carried several bolts of cloth out of the shop.
Dejin's wife waved over two sedan chairs soliciting customers by the roadside, offering them to Jiang Zhi and herself: "Auntie, it's getting hot, it's hard to walk carrying the cloth, let's take the sedan chairs back!"
The sedan chair is the most distinctive mode of transportation in Bavaria County. It consists of two bamboo poles tied to a bamboo chair to carry people, and anyone with labor can earn money.
Guests can sit on it to cool off and enjoy the view, unlike the stuffy sedan chair. For just a few coins, you can travel with your goods, making it very affordable.
So Jiang Zhi sat on the swaying sedan chair and paraded through the crowds on the street.
In the crowd, another pair of eyes were fixed on her!
Behind the bamboo curtain under the eaves, "Second Sister" was pale, clutching the handkerchief in her hand tightly, staring intently at the woman on the sedan chair.
This time, she no longer doubted her eyes; yes, it was indeed her sister-in-law from her maternal family.
It's still that same face, that same fierce expression, those same thin lips, and that same shrew!
She could foresee that if her sister-in-law caught her, she would definitely be scolded and then asked for the money she had spent raising the child over the years.
She's not afraid to spend money, but this matter can't be publicized!
Thinking of this, "Second Aunt" almost snapped her red nail polish. Watching Jiang Zhi's sedan chair disappear into the distance, she quickly beckoned to the waiter beside her, took out a handful of copper coins and stuffed them into his hand: "Follow that sedan chair and see which family she belongs to!"
The waiter nodded: "Alright! Madam, wait here!" Then he ran into the crowd and chased after the sedan chair.
"Second Aunt" raised her hand to wipe non-existent sweat from her forehead with a handkerchief, then quickly turned around and went into the shop.
This is a newly acquired general store, which is also part of my daughter's dowry.
Even behind the shop, "Second Aunt" couldn't sit still. She remembered that the cotton-fluffing craftsmen and their wives next door were from Pear Blossom Town.
She had been avoiding that matter and hadn't inquired about it before, but now she thought she should still ask about Xujia Village.
Jiang Zhi bought some things on the street and had lunch in the city before she and Er Rui took the car that Xiang Dejin had arranged to return to Xujia Village.
As time went by, Qingquanwan Pharmacy's powder production entered a phase of full-scale profit-making.
Tian Gui and Xu Gensheng together carried the firewood that the Shi family had piled up outside to the pharmacy.
The Shi family members are simple-minded, but there is one smart one in the family.
One night at school, Stone Monkey told Xiaoquan to ask Tao'er to ask Village Chief Jiang if they could sell their firewood to the pharmacy.
Xiaoquan relayed the message to her older sister, Tao'er, who then told Xiaoman. By the time Jiangzhi found out, it had already gone through several twists and turns.
Stone Monkey didn't dare ask the village chief, knowing that the villagers didn't like his family, and several aunties would spit on him and mutter curses when they saw him.
He knew that was because last winter, everyone in the village was busy repairing each other's houses, and only his own family members didn't come out to work.
My three older cousins and aunt only know how to collect firewood and oak branches every day.
My uncle and father were throwing mud bricks by a mound of earth near their house, saying that they would fire blue bricks to build a house.
The two of them either farmed or broke bricks, and could only make a dozen or so a day.
Tian Xiaoquan said that with the small amount of bricks his family makes, it would be a long time before they have enough to fire a kiln.
In less than two years, the firewood piled up outside exposed to the sun and rain will definitely rot completely, so it's better to sell it now and turn it into money.
So, the stone monkey decided to bring the firewood from his home to the medicine shop, so he could chop firewood again when he needed to make bricks.
I just don't know if the pharmacy will want it?
After Tian Xiaoquan relayed the message, Jiang Zhi found out and immediately ordered Tian Gui to bring the firewood over.
Everyone in the village knew that the Shi brothers made bricks. The two brothers made bricks every day, like children playing house, treading on mud.
Several months passed, and only thirty or forty finished brick blanks were stacked next to the shack.
Kilns come in all sizes, and bricks range from thousands to tens of thousands. The fire burns for days and nights without stopping, so making bricks at home is no easy task.
Xu Gensheng and his ilk, those meddlesome and gossipy people, even count how many they've made every day, wondering when they'll have enough for a whole kiln.
Jiang Zhi did not stop the Shi brothers from wanting to make bricks.
Although they are a bit simple-minded, they do things honestly, don't cause trouble in the village, and are not disliked.
Just as the story of Yu Gong moving mountains illustrates, the story of the Shi family making bricks illustrates this. Failure is to be expected, but success would certainly be a remarkable achievement.
He only asked the stone monkey to deliver the firewood, and he could return the firewood to the stone monkey when he needed to fire the brick kiln later, instead of buying it with money.
Jiangzhi has no shortage of firewood now, and the Shi family might lose the money even if they take it.
There are few people and the mountains are vast. Charcoal can be made here, and the surrounding mountains are full of firewood.
Moreover, when they were building houses and roads in Qingquan Bay, they made Errui and his men cut down a large area of miscellaneous trees around the area.
The Vitex negundo, Cinnamomum camphora, and Broussonetia papyrifera trees on the hillside near the ditch are also growing vigorously and need to be cut down every year.
Xu Genqing and Wu Yang put the medicinal herbs into the mill and ground them for an hour at a time, leaving time to prepare firewood.
They could still store their own firewood, but they couldn't store the Shi family's.
There was really no other way; this whole family was either working in the fields or gathering firewood around the neighborhood every day.
As the piles of firewood around the shack gradually grew taller, I was really worried that one day I would be buried by the firewood.
They were also afraid that there were a few idiots living in the shack, and if a fire broke out, they would be cremated.
When they were leaving with the firewood, the eldest son of the Shi family was a little unwilling, but the little monkey cried and made a fuss, insisting on selling the firewood.
The three mentally challenged older sisters, aged twelve to fourteen, stared blankly, while the pregnant aunt next to them also watched.
There was only one male heir in the family, and everything had to be done his way.
So, the stone monkey finally took charge of the household and emptied the pile of firewood outside the shack.
Soon, the women of the Shi family were again scurrying around like ants, carrying firewood everywhere.
Xujia Village flows like a mountain stream, unremarkable day after day.
In Pingchuan City, the new medicine launched by the Huo family's pharmacy caused a small stir.
Given the previous promotion of Banlangen granules, Yimucao granules are even more popular among women.
After spending a few dozen coins to buy the medicine, Nuannuan drank it down and no longer needed to discuss private matters with the doctor.
Medicines are distributed to various pharmacies, and each pharmacy has its own staff selling them. However, what the shopkeepers are vying for is the Tibetan incense.
While it's marketed as a mosquito repellent, it can actually refresh the mind, making it perfect for students.
Putting aside selling to outsiders, every family has a student at some point, so the best things have to be kept for ourselves first.
Otherwise, when reading, one would say: Spring is not the time for reading, summer is too hot to sleep, autumn has mosquitoes and winter is too cold, packing up books is another year!
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