Chapter 169 There is no airtight wall
After this incident, Hong Zhuozhi completely collapsed and could not afford to get sick.
Chen Xi did not tell Hui Niang and others about Hong Zhuo being beaten, but just went to the inn to visit him while he was in school and after school. Hong Zhuo was depressed. Chen Xi was worried that something might happen to him, so he took his pulse every day and prepared medicine in person, and then sent it to the inn for the waiter to decoct the medicine for him to take.
Although Hong Zhuo was beaten up because Chen Xi was fueled by the fire, Chen Xi felt that what he had done was done was full of righteousness. Hong Zhuoke was in a foreign land and was now suffering from a life blow, only Chen Xi could help him.
After more than ten days like this, Hong Zhuo's injuries were healed, but he still looked listless and stayed in bed all day and didn't go out, and his whole body was a little stinky.
"My little master, do you think you have paid Mr. Hong's house and meal money?"
That day, after school, Chen Xi came to see Hong Zhuo, but was stopped by the waiter. The store owner's meaning was very clear. Hong Zhuo stayed in the inn and refused to leave. Not only did he not pay the house, but he even had to eat and drink for free. Although Hong Zhuo had been generous before, he had already run out of money now, and the inn was not a good hall and needed to open the door to do business.
Chen Xi asked, and Hong Zhui owed more than four taels of silver in the inn, which was not something he could afford.
"Can I wait for me to come and check out tomorrow? I didn't bring my money today." Chen Xi wanted to drag it on for a day and go back to talk about this with Hui Niang, but I thought Hui Niang wouldn't care. But the waiter's face immediately turned cold: "If you don't have money? If you don't have money, live in the woodshed. When the money is sent tomorrow, then move his luggage back to the guest room." Enter the subtitle website: Hei Press Пge to watch the new chapter
The waiter was not polite, so he went upstairs to move Hongzhuo's luggage and asked Hongzhuo to move to the woodshed to live there.
Chen Xi went to the woodshed and looked around. There were piles of chopped firewood around. There was a bed in the corner next to it, and there was not even bedding. Just lay some thatch on it. Fortunately, it was early summer, so living in the living room would not be too big.
"Young Master Hong, it seems that you are going to make you feel wronged here." Chen Xi just said, and Hong Zhuo's head tugged on the bed and "faced the wall to think about his mistakes" against the wall.
Chen Xi shook his head helplessly. Hong Zhuo was too unwilling to be arrogant. He was just beaten and mocked by others, just like the sky fell. Even if Gao Chong's group of people were domineering, they would never openly go to the pharmacy to steal people. Isn't his "Xie Family Girl" good?
Chen Xi returned to the medicine shop, and unexpectedly there were no customers in the medicine shop.
Zhou and Xie Yuner sat behind the counter to sort out herbs. The two women rarely had time to get up and talk. The maids were drying herbs in the backyard.
"Xiaolang, why have you come back so late after school these days?" Zhou frowned and looked at Chen Xi who was slipping into the door, and asked with a stern face.
"Mom, isn't it summer? The days and nights are long and short, and you feel a little late, but it's actually quite early." Zhou thought about this sentence in his mind, and quickly recalled it and cursed: "You guy, do you want to fool your mother? You should come back earlier than you do. Look outside, the sun is about to set."
Chen Xi quickly explained: "Mr. Long wants to teach us more knowledge. Is it late for school?"
Zhou thought about it and seemed that there was no problem in logic, so he felt relieved.
Chen Xi took the opportunity to run to the counter, wanting to see if he could go out to pay Hong Zhuo’s room fee, but he thought that my mother was so tight that she would lose four taels of silver. This crime might be on the head of a maid, so it would be better not to harm others.
Although his family has a lot of pocket money, Chenxi is also very useful. In addition to buying various books related to the imperial examination, he also has to secretly give Lin Dai and Lu Xier pocket money to buy snacks, so now he only has a few hundred yuan in his hands. At present, he has no way to make money. Even if he wants to make a fake painting and sell it, it will take more than ten days. By then, Hong Zhuo would have starved to death on the streets long ago.
Chen Xi decided to wait until he came back in the evening and discuss the matter with Hui Niang alone. Hui Niang would pay for the money to send Hong Zhuo away.
After thinking things through, Chen Xi sat next to the counter to do his homework, and could also listen to the conversation between Xie Yuner and Zhou.
Zhou and Xie Yuner were talking as if no one was around. After four or five months of getting along, Xie Yuner had a very harmonious relationship with Zhou and Huiniang. Xie Yuner was well-educated and polite, and took the initiative to lower her attitude. She did not have the arrogance of being a wealthy family.
She also hopes to get the care of others like this, and Hui Niang and Zhou are both people who are honest with others. This allows Xie Yuner to find two intimate sisters. If there is any inconvenient thing to tell her family, she will also use it to tell Zhou and Hui Niang.
"Sister, you are a scholar. If you know poetry, I don't understand. What's good about this poem is in my opinion. As long as it is a word, it is almost the same. Anyway, it knows me and I don't know it, so my sister will treat it as a treasure."
Xie Yuner and Zhou seemed to be talking about poetry. When Xie Yuner heard Zhou say this, she couldn't help but smile: "Sister, do you want your sister to read the contents of the poem to you?"
Zhou nodded: "Then my sister will give you Niannian. I see what's good about this poem? I can make my sister talk to me."
Xie Yuner took out a neatly folded piece of paper from the medical book she brought with her, with beautiful small characters written on it. Chen Xi stretched out his head and looked at it. Because the counter was a bit high, he couldn't see it clearly without standing on the chair.
"Taohua Temple in Taohuawu" As soon as Xie Yuner read the verse, Chen Xi knew that this was the poem he used to save Hong Zhuo. He didn't expect Xie Yuner to like it. Seeing her serious look when reading poetry, she should like poetry, songs and other things.
After Chen Xi wrote this poem in public, it caused a sensation in Tingzhou Prefecture, and literati and poets rushed to recite it. Even Xie Yuner, who was diagnosed with people in the medicine shop, could learn about it.
I guess she loved it too much, so she even copied the full text back and read it.
After she finished reading, Zhou nodded slightly: "This is a peach blossom tree and a peach blossom fairy, it's really a bit of a mouth-wrinkle, but it sounds quite pleasant. Who wrote this poem?"
Xie Yuner smiled and shook her head: "Everyone in the city said it was written by a child, but she also said that the child also heard it. The person who wrote this poem did not use the real name Lanling Xiaoxiaosheng, which sounds quite poetic and picturesque."
Zhou didn't think anything, but Chen Xi was a little ridiculous.
As a great writer in the Ming Dynasty, Lanling Xiaoxiaosheng made a famous work like Jin Pingmei that has been a famous masterpiece for all ages. However, Lanling Xiaoxiaosheng was just a writer and didn't even dare to sign his own name for fear of affecting his reputation.
"Mom, I've finished my homework. Let's go to the backyard to play with Dai'er and Xi'er." Chen Xi carried his schoolbag to the backyard.
"So quickly? Forget it, go, don't make you dirty, don't eat snacks, keep your stomach for dinner tonight."
Zhou's nagging a lot. In the past, she always liked to criticize Shen Mingjun when there was no one. Now she and her husband are inseparable, so she uses this nagging spirit to the people around her.
When Hui Niang came back in the afternoon, Xie Yuner had not left yet, but she looked a little gloomy when she saw Hui Niang's face: "I heard from the Chamber of Commerce that when I saw Mr. Hong living in a woodshed in the inn, I asked, I found out that he had been beaten a few days ago and was seriously ill."
Chen Xi didn't expect Hui Niang to have such a good news. So, there is no need to discuss it privately now. Xie Yun'er wanted to speak but stopped. Zhou asked first: "What the hell is going on?"
Hui Niang sighed: "It is said that he was a drunken word. He told Yun'er's sister about it and several dandy boys in the city. As a result, those people came to the pharmacy to make trouble. When he heard that, he was so angry that he went to the pharmacy to argue with these people, and he was beaten to pieces all over his body."
"I deserve it!" Xie Yuner was very angry.
When it comes to the grudges and entanglement between Xie Yuner and Hong Zhuo, Hui Niang and Zhou Shi are not easy to interrupt.
Hui Niang asked tentatively: "I'm going to look back and find someone to send him some money and ask him to leave Tingzhou Prefecture. Sister Yun'er wants to meet him again?"
"A person like him doesn't know the hardships of the world. He always thinks that everything is easy. Now that he is going to Tingzhou, he can always give him a memory. I have no relationship with him, and seeing him will only add to his imagination. I have to bother my sister and spend money this time, but deducting it from my sister's monthly money and dividends is to settle this stump, and I will never owe him anything to the Hong family again."
Chen Xi felt that Xie Yuner could let go, but she might not have really let go in her heart. Hui Niang seemed to have noticed this and nodded, "Sister, don't go back today, stay in the pharmacy. At night, the three of us sisters sat down and talked carefully. Business has been bad recently, so we will discuss it."
Xie Yuner felt that her mental state was not very good, and her family would inevitably notice her emotional fluctuations when she returned, so she nodded.
Hui Niang immediately asked Xiu'er to go to the Xie family to inform him.
While Hui Niang was settled by the counter alone before dinner, Chen Xi jumped onto the chair beside Hui Niang, which seemed to be taller than her: "Auntie, do you know why the pharmacy business is not good recently?"
Hui Niang looked sideways and smiled and said, "I don't know, you know?"
"Um."
Chen Xi was a little angry, "I heard that the doctors in and outside the city hated us for making medicine and robbing their business, and secretly slandering us, saying that our medicine is of poor quality and expensive, so that those patients can go elsewhere to get medicine."
"What!?"
Hui Niang was fiddling the abacus, but when she heard Chen Xi's words, she stopped and asked in surprise: "Xiaolang, who did you hear this?"
Chen Xi grinned and said, "Auntie, wasn't Mr. Hong beaten that day? I asked someone to help him to take the beating doctor. The beating doctor didn't know my identity and specifically reminded him not to come to our pharmacy to buy medicine. Later, I asked Mr. Han Wu to go to other doctors in the city to pretend to see a doctor, and those doctors said the same thing. I realized that it wasn't two doctors who were slandering us behind the scenes."
Hui Niang was shocked when she heard this. The pharmacy business gradually became deserted these days, and she was looking for the reason.
The Lu's pharmacy has a good business, and it is the reputation accumulated by the pharmacy over a long period of time. However, the reputation is being erased by those doctors because ordinary people are still very convinced by the doctors. The people think that the Lu's pharmacy's medicine is not good, and the medicine is directly related to the patient's condition or even life and death. How dare they visit?
"These people are so ungrateful, and we have not offended them."
Chen Xi smiled bitterly: "You haven't offended yet? Let's make these doctors unable to survive anymore. It's a waste of their jobs. It's natural for them to fight back." It's not to be continued.
Chapter completed!