After all the turmoil this morning, the second roommate of the Su family and Mrs. Su are now at peace.
Xu Xiuyi made a bet to herself that Baoning Hall would be fully operational in three months. To be honest, she didn't know if three months would be enough, but she believed that it all depends on man-made efforts.
She worked non-stop and had to do her best, so she went to the old lady's house in the morning and was knelt down. In the afternoon, she didn't even take a lunch break, so she took Jinyu out.
She changed into neat clothes, her hair was neatly cut out with only a twist, she tied it into a bun on the back of her head with an emerald and silver hairpin, and then went out with her gold and jade.
Jin Yu didn't know where she was going before, but when he saw that she had forgotten to go to the refugee camp in the east of the city, he couldn't help but frown.
"Grandma, this place is very dirty. What are you looking for?"
"There is no distinction between high and low people, and there is no such thing as dirty. What is dirty can only be the soul. People here are from their hometowns. They come from all over the country and from all directions. Masters are among the people in all directions. Don't you know this sentence?
Ever heard of it?”
"Grandma is here to see the master?"
"That's what I said. I'm here to find useful talents. Go and find out if there are any refugees from Guixi here."
"Yes, grandma."
Guixi is rich in medicinal materials. There is a poem about Guixi - Honeysuckle outside Xiaohuang City. The morning glow rises ten miles away. There are people in front of and behind the flowers. Every family grows flowers like mulberry and hemp. It is said that every family in Guixi grows medicine and medicinal materials.
Throughout the country, in the early years, Guixi was an important "pharmaceutical capital" with a large number of drug dealers, numerous drug stores, and drug giants selling more than 2,000 kinds of Chinese herbal medicines.
Later, the imperial capital moved from Yangcheng near Guixi to the current capital. Those medicine houses and famous doctors from Guixi also moved to open pharmacies and medical clinics at the feet of the emperor. Guixi has slowly declined since then. The ancestors of the Su family are from Guixi.
, Baoning Hall was also moved from Guixi.
Even though Guixi is not as prosperous as it used to be, today everyone still grows and sells medicines. Most of the medicinal materials in the Su Family Baoning Hall come from Guixi, but there is a medicinal materials dealer in the middle, so the price will naturally be higher.
In fact, Baoningtang has skipped medicinal material dealers and purchased medicinal materials in Guixi before. However, because many medicinal materials are not suitable for storage and cannot be purchased in large quantities, it is difficult to receive them if the farmers are unwilling to sell them.
For more precious medicinal materials, the output of each herb farmer is small, and it is necessary to visit many stores to purchase them all, which is a waste of manpower, material resources and time.
Add in the cost of hiring a fleet of ships to transport them back, and sometimes you have to hire a team of escorts for rare medicinal materials. After all these costs are calculated, although it is still cheaper than buying it, it is really a hassle.
Moreover, the purchased medicinal materials are not inspected because they are purchased too much at one time and the time is tight. It is inevitable that some treacherous medicinal farmers will pass the goods off as good ones. After all, it is a loss of money. It is better to go to the medicinal materials dealer to carefully select what is needed.
Buy as much as you need, saving manpower, material resources and energy.
Therefore, Baoningtang's current medicinal materials are all purchased from drug dealers. Su Jinyi grasps this point and wants to stop Xu Xiuyi. If a pharmacy cannot receive the medicinal materials, it will close down.
Xu Xiuyi closed the door as he wished.
But she is hiding her strength and biding her time, not raising the flag to surrender.
The first step was to solve the problem of medicinal materials. She said that she was stingy and she would not be surprised if the pharmacists in the capital begged her to buy medicines from now on. She would find medicines and people by herself.
Jin Yu went there for a while and brought over a forty-year-old man, Guixi Qiang, who spoke in a strong voice. Xu Xiuyi had difficulty listening, and she roughly understood that he was from Guanjiazhuang, Yuyang County, Guixi, and his name was Guan Dahu.
Although he is a refugee, he is tall and thick-set. He is not at all like the sallow and skinny people around him. His clothes are also clean. He is probably a refugee who has just arrived in the capital, has a lot of money and is well-fed.
"Brother Guan, can you help me find some of your fellow villagers? I'll be the host in the evening and treat you to dinner at the Lihua Inn. I'm probably as old as you are and in the best situation. If your family used to do business, then I'll support you."
Okay, if my wife has children and wants to come and have a meal, I will also set up an extra table."
Xu Xiu Yisheng was elegant, but her words were generous and generous, and her mouth was sweet. She looked like a lady from a wealthy family, but she called her Brother Guan. Guan Dahu was so moved that he hurriedly responded: "Chengcheng, I'll go find some."
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"Just seven or eight."
"It's done, it's done!"
He smiled, showing his white teeth, and he looked very happy.
Xu Xiuyi made a verbal agreement with him about the evening meal and left. On the way, she also gave alms to a few poor old women and children. She felt that this place was too desolate, so she said to Jin Yu: "Come here to give porridge another day."
Give me a meal."
She has a golden and blessed body, so she praised her: "Grandma has a bodhisattva-like heart."
"hehe."
Xu Xiuyi smiled, feeling a little thirsty, but still had something to do, so she asked Jin Yu to get some water from the car, while she waited on the roadside.
Xu Xiuyi's body was not very healthy. After running around for a day, she was already a little tired. Her feet were sore and numb. She rested against a wall behind her. Next to the wall was a shop floor and the door.
It was open, and several people came in and out.
Xu Xiuyi didn't pay attention to what kind of store it was. She looked down at her toes. Suddenly, a pair of black satin shoes with gold auspicious cloud embroidery jumped into her field of vision.
Looking up following the pair of shoes, she could not believe that the world was so small and that she could meet Mr. An Cheng at the door of an inconspicuous shop in the east of the city.
Counting back to the last time, Xu Xiuyi had been feeling sorry for the fact that she had received a great kindness from him and received a lot of gold and jade from him in vain. She was thinking about one day when she would have free time, so she would give a thousand-year-old ginseng as a gift in return. However, she never had the free time. See you today.
It was a surprise to see An Chengshao.
"Why is Mr. An here?"
This is the east side of the city, and rich people rarely come here.
An Chengshao smiled slightly and pointed to the teahouse next to him: "Drink tea with the Fifth Prince here."
The fifth prince was really in such good spirits that he even drank tea and came to the refugee camp.
The fifth prince was also arrogant and dared to take Young Master An Cheng out to drink tea. He was afraid that if he met him along the way, he would inevitably point fingers at him and Young Master An Cheng.
Although Xu Xiuyi knew that Young Master An Cheng was the fifth prince's favorite boy, it was still a little difficult to accept that such a seven-foot-tall man had a dragon-yang addiction. Moreover, she and Young Master An Cheng had lived together for a while.
At that time, when she took off his clothes and changed his medicine, he would blush, and she really didn't realize that he was a broken sleeve.
"I'm waiting for my girl here."
She felt that when Mr. An Cheng's identity as Duanxiu was revealed in front of her, she felt unnatural and didn't know what to say, so she simply said such a sentence.
An Chengshao still had a smile as warm as the April sunshine on his lips: "My home is nearby, do you want to go and sit there?"
An Chengshao’s home?
I thought he lived in the prince's mansion, but I thought it might be an outhouse bought for him by the prince.
"No need!" She declined, "I have something else to do."
As she said this, she suddenly felt a sharp pain in her calf. When she lowered her head and looked down, she saw that this little child from nowhere was actually holding her calf and taking a sip of medicine. The child was three or four years old and had a black and charred body.
Her head was the same, and now it bit her calf like a dog and refused to let go. She endured the pain at first, but now she screamed in pain: "Let me go."
An Chengshao's brows also tightened, and he bent down to pry the child's mouth. He was very strong, and the child was pried open. The place where Xu Xiuyi had been bitten had blood oozing out from it. The bite was so hard.
Xu Xiuyi frowned in pain, and in a blink of an eye, the child was no longer there.
She yelled in her heart, "Fuck you," but she couldn't show such a strong look on her face. It was just that her silver teeth were pinched and she gasped in pain.
Seeing this, An Cheng couldn't care less about the difference between men and women. He picked her up and turned around to go to the alley next to her.
He said his home was nearby, but she didn't expect it to be so close. The backyard of the shop just now was his home.
After carefully placing her on the chair, he was about to lift her skirt, but when he held the hem of the skirt with his hand, he stopped again and said to the outside: "Lu Hong."
Lu Hong.
The relationship between Lu Qing and Lu Hong should be brother and sister.
Sure enough, after hearing the call, a little girl who looked about thirteen or fourteen years old, smart and very similar to Lu Qing, entered the door and was slightly surprised when she saw Xu Xiuyi.
"Master, why did you bring a woman back?"
Xu Xiuyi was a widow in a wealthy family, so she naturally knew that this wealthy family had strict rules, but from Lu Qing and Lu Hong's words, Xu Xiuyi could tell that An Chengshao's upbringing was not strict and his servants were more lively.
And from Lu Hong's surprised look, it could be seen that An Cheng Shaoping would never bring a woman back.
No wonder Lu Hong was surprised. Is Mr. An Cheng a cut-sleeve man? It would be weird to bring a woman back.
"Ms. Xu's foot was bitten by a child. You gave her medicine and bandaged it."
Miss Xu...
Could it be that he called her by the wrong name? She is now Grandma Su San. Although she is guarding a girl, she has no connection with the word "young lady" at all.