Apprenticeship in a herbal medicine shop

Early the next morning, Shen Roujiao brought food and played with the two puppies in the yard. Zhou Huaiyue's half face was swollen and he didn't want to pay attention to her.

"Master, where is Dahuang?" She looked up and saw Zhou Huaiyue pushing the door open with an extremely swollen brow bone. "Why is it so swollen?" As Shen Roujiao spoke, she had already reached out to touch the big swollen bump.

"Don't move. You'll get better faster if no one is watching you." Master Zhou pushed her hand away, and along with it her concern.

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What does it mean?

No one cares? Does it mean I don't care about him?

Tsk, I’m used to you.

"What truth are you talking about? I brought tofu pudding specifically because I'm worried about Master's injury." Shen Roujiao forced a smile and pointed to the lunch box on the windowsill.

"Hmph, thank you." Zhou Huaiyue turned and went into the house, no longer paying attention to her.

"Master will definitely not be angry with me. His mind is broader than the sea, and his vision is higher than the mountains. He is my most admired idol." She followed him, praising him in a hypocritical way like a green tea girl, but was shut outside by Master Zhou with a bang.

Shen Roujiao was so angry that she made a fist gesture at the door for a long time.

When she caught sight of the two quarreling puppies, her eyes rolled and a plan came to her mind.

He brought a stool and sat at the door of Zhou Huaiyue's room. He picked up the puppy and said to the people in the room in a deliberately sweet voice, "Oh, what cute puppies! What names should we give them? Wang, Cai! Fu, Gui! Huang, Mao! Hei, Dou! Cui, Hua..."

"Shut up!" The door was suddenly opened, and Zhou Huaiyue glared at Jiaojiao with a cold face, "You, if you don't speak, no one will think you are dumb."

The words "emerald" and "flower" crossed Zhou Huaiyue's aesthetic bottom line and he couldn't bear it.

"Oh, Master doesn't like it. What should I call it then?" Shen Roujiao avoided Zhou Huaiyue's sight and rubbed the dog's head affectionately, talking to herself, "How about Jixiang and Ruyi?"

She raised her head suddenly and looked into Zhou Huaiyue's eyes. The other party was stunned for a moment and looked away.

"No objection means agreement! Master, don't be angry anymore. Sit down and eat your tofu pudding. I'll tell you a good news." Shen Roujiao moved aside the stool and let Master Zhou sit down. She then brought the lunch box. After opening it, the aroma was tempting. She handed over the spoon and it tasted really good.

"What good news?" Zhou Huaiyue's mood improved visibly after being comforted by the delicious food.

At the market last night, Qi Nanhua used his uncle's words to praise Shen Roujiao, saying that she had a talent for business and wanted her to consider helping out in the store on weekends after school starts, which would allow her to earn money and learn something.

"Well, you guys go to sell goods every weekend and I'll be there. We'll grab whatever has the highest selling price. Isn't it like killing two birds with one stone?" She said this happily, not noticing that Master Zhou was silent, and her face darkened again.

He snorted coldly, "Very good. Much better than following me to dig herbs. You do your best." His tone was neither salty nor cold, and his attitude was neither cold nor warm. He stood up and went into the house, not forgetting to call the puppy, "Jixiang Ruyi, come in."

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These words didn't sound like they were telling her to do a good job.

The smile on Shen Roujiao's face froze. She stood there awkwardly, muttering in her heart: What's going on? She keeps bumping into the muzzle of the gun. I just coaxed her for less than two minutes.

Master Zhou is angry again!

Yes, she touched Zhou Huaiyue's scales, which she could see last time. However, compared with knowing and digging medicinal herbs, she needed to learn more about grading, purchasing, transporting and selling medicinal herbs. Her ambition was not to be a herbalist, but a herbal businessman.

But Zhou Huaiyue couldn't teach these.

In Boss Chen's shop at the south alley, she could get first-hand information about medicinal materials and understand the market demand for medicinal materials the fastest. It was a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity that she could not give up.

I feel tired.

She couldn't think of any good solution for a while. Master Zhou was still angry, but she didn't intend to give in on the key issue. She didn't want to coax her anymore. "Then Master, will you still take us to dig herbs today?"

Her tone was lost, as if she had been abandoned on the roadside and no one cared about her.

Zhou Huaiyue looked at Shen Roujiao through the glass window. Her cleverness had disappeared. She pouted her little mouth and stood stupidly in the yard, like a weed, small but full of tenacity.

"What? You don't want to dig herbs with me now? Then just leave." He leaned against the door frame, looking ruthless and heartless, as if he wanted to draw a clear line between them once and for all.

Get me!

My family can't control me, how can you control me? Dream on, that must not be possible.

"Master." Shen Roujiao came up to him in a flash, raised her head and touched the swelling on his brow. This time Zhou Huaiyue didn't block or hide. "If you feel uncomfortable, just rest at home today and you can dig it out tomorrow."

If the hard approach doesn't work, try the soft approach. It's a delaying tactic. I'll go back and think of a solution slowly. I shouldn't have told him if I had known.

"Shen Roujiao." This was the first time Zhou Huaiyue called her by her full name.

Oh no, it’s over!

Master Zhou is serious about this, he won't expel her from the sect. She's only been his disciple for two days and she's sworn to him.

Yes, I have sworn an oath, and once I say something, I cannot take it back. Master Zhou wants to shirk his responsibility, but it’s impossible!

"Shen Roujiao will always be Zhou Huaiyue's apprentice! Master, you will always be my master." He turned the tables and smiled cunningly.

The clever Jin'er came back and blocked Zhou Huaiyue to the point where he had nothing to say. He laughed in anger, and was actually controlled by her. At that time, he forced her to swear, but now he was lifting a stone to drop on his own feet.

"Stop talking nonsense, let's go up the mountain." Holding his breath, getting angry.

Master Zhou locked the door, picked up his tools, and walked out, hearing a "Ah!" behind him.

Perhaps because she was too proud of herself, or perhaps because she was in a hurry to catch up with Zhou Huaiyue, Shen Roujiao didn't notice the bench in the yard at all, and she tripped and fell out.

Zhou Huaiyue threw away what he was holding, rushed over and tried to help her up, "Plop, plop." Blood dripped onto the yellow earth, turning into red dots.

The blood was flowing from Shen Roujiao's nose. She was so frightened that tears welled up in her eyes. She looked so pitiful. Zhou Huaiyue's heart was in a knot and hurt.

"You just bumped your nose and it's bleeding a little. Keep your head up and don't move." Master Zhou took off his vest, folded it a few times, and asked her to cover her nose with it.

Uh!

Master, what clothes are you taking off?

This size, this distance, it's within reach.

The nosebleed could not be controlled and flowed more violently.

"What's going on?" Zhou Huaiyue was even more concerned, his voice full of nervousness.

I'm asking you, why are you taking off your clothes? Why don't you go into the house and get a towel? Oh, the towel is too black, so he won't let me use it.

Master Zhou asked her to tilt her head upwards again, forcing her eyes away from that beautiful body, and her nosebleed finally stopped.

"Don't move!" After taking off the clothes that were pressing on her nose, Zhou Huaiyue held Shen Roujiao's head with both hands, allowing her to continue lying in the upward position.

"What are you doing?" Shen Tiancheng shouted at the entrance of the yard.

"They are in love." Shen Rushan was afraid that he didn't see it clearly, so he emphasized it.

"I'm not blind."

I wanted to pass by here and go up the mountain together like yesterday. As a result, as soon as I stood at the entrance of the yard, I saw my younger sister looking up, Zhou Huaiyue with his upper body naked, looking down, his hand on my younger sister's face, and the two of them seemed to be kissing.

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"Brother." Shen Roujiao wiped her nose with her wrist. There was still some blood. She was about to stretch out her hand to show her second brother when Shen Tiancheng pulled her behind her.

"Are you two in that kind of relationship?" Shen Tiancheng looked like he was questioning a scumbag.

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"What kind of relationship? I don't understand." Zhou Huaiyue picked up the vest thrown on the ground and walked into the house.

Shen Tiancheng grabbed her and asked, "Did you kiss just now?" He saw it clearly.

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"No, brother, you misunderstood." Shen Roujiao explained, but she couldn't control her eyes. Her gaze fell on Master Zhou's muscular body, which looked thin when dressed but muscular when undressed. A few drops of blood flowed from her nose again.

"Little sister, what's wrong?" Shen Tiancheng hurriedly used the sleeve of his white shirt to wipe the blood from the corner of her mouth.

"She just fell down and I helped her wipe the blood from her nose. Don't think too much. I didn't need to kiss her." Zhou Huaiyue unfolded his vest and let them see the red bloodstain in the middle.

"Hey, what do you mean? My little sister is not worthy of you. Don't you look at yourself?" Shen Rushan almost said that he was a toad wanting to eat swan meat, but was stopped by Shen Roujiao's eyes.

Zhou Huaiyue went into the house, changed his vest, and threw the bloody one under the washbasin. When he came out again, he still saw Shen Rushan's stern face.

On the other side, Shen Tiancheng rubbed his younger sister's face again and again, and Zhou Huaiyue's identical movements flashed in his mind.

Did he see it wrong? But the look in his eyes was clearly not right.

They are all men, how could he be wrong? That look was definitely not innocent.

"What happened?" Shen Tiancheng raised his hand and swept the dirt off his little sister's knees.

She pointed at the bench leaning to one side and said with a smile, "I wasn't paying attention and tripped over it."

Why are you laughing? I’m happy in my heart!

Although he bled a little, this fall completely wiped out Zhou Huaiyue's anger. No wonder there is a strategy of self-torture in the Thirty-Six Stratagems.

You know what, it actually works.

It is very useful.

Not only was Zhou Huaiyue not angry, he also kept reflecting on himself while digging herbs. He thought he shouldn't have been so harsh on her, shouldn't have forced her, and shouldn't have stopped her from doing what she liked.

Shen Roujiao, on the other hand, was like a normal person. She took notes as usual and looked like she was studying very seriously. She called "Master, Master" very attentively.

"Little sister, you wouldn't really like that lunatic, would you?" Shen Rushan gossiped beside Shen Tiancheng, looking at Zhou Huaiyue with disdain in his eyes.

"Don't talk nonsense, it's impossible." The second brother said firmly.

He just asked last night!

After the dog-holding painting, on the way home from the stall, he asked Xiaomei very seriously, "You and Zhou Huaiyue are not in love, right?"

"How is that possible? He is my master, our God of Wealth. There will be many things to do with him in the future, and we need to worship and coax him. Besides, didn't we agree to be a happy single dog? I will never, ever fall in love. Don't worry, brother! I don't want to fall in love, I just want to make money."

When Shen Roujiao spoke, her eyes shone with love for money, without any pretense.

She is probably like this, she is clear-headed in the world, she doesn’t want to be single, she just wants to get rid of poverty!