Bianjing little doctor

Chapter 222 Dragon Boat Festival Mulan Soup

The next day is the first day of May.

The Dragon Boat Festival in the Song Dynasty is a big festival and is highly valued.From the first day of the new year, the market has been bustling with preparations for the festival.People selling wormwood, cattail leaves, mulberry leaves, peach branches and other various herbs are everywhere in the streets and alleys.The embroidered women are selling sachets in the shop, and the shopkeepers are pushing carts to sell herbs...

Bianjing city in May is very prosperous.

Every festival in ancient times was very novel to Xin Yi.

Last night, as soon as Fu Jiuqu left, Mrs. An found her and talked about the Dragon Boat Festival.

On the fifth day of the fifth lunar month, every household wants Mulan Tang, which is said to be able to drive away evil spirits and cure diseases.Mrs. An felt that Xinyi Pharmacy could not miss this opportunity to make money.I want Xin Yi to collect some herbal medicines and make them into herbal medicine bags, which are convenient for customers, and people in my own shop can also use them.

When Xin Yi was a child, his grandmother forcibly washed herbal medicine water on the Dragon Boat Festival. Later, when his grandmother was gone, this custom of solar terms was lost...

The Dragon Boat Festival has also become a symbolic festival, except for eating a zongzi to show off, there is no atmosphere at all.

Xin Yi followed Mrs. An's suggestion, and several people made a plan, and got up early that day, and Xiang Ling accompanied Xin Yi to collect the herbs.

When they passed by Ma Xing Street, they found that other pharmacies had already set up herbal medicine counters with door panels, piled up with herbs, and even Tan's family was open for consultation as usual, selling Lantang herbal medicines.

"Hey." Xiang Ling took a look and snorted dissatisfiedly, "The Tan family ordered a guy to come to our pharmacy to secretly change the medicinal materials, almost killing someone, why didn't the government search their house?"

Xin Yi frowned slightly, thinking of Renzong pardoning the prisoners, he smiled coolly.

"Big things turn into small things. The county king said that the Tan family found an unfavored aunt to take the blame, saying that the aunt ordered people to do it, so the government took the aunt to question and beat the [-]th. board, others will not be punished..."

Xiang Ling felt aggrieved when he heard this, "This family is really cruel! Huh! A vicious person opens a medical clinic, and sooner or later something will happen."

Xin Yi agreed deeply, smiling and pulling her arm.

"Then let's stay away from his house, and be careful of blood splashing on us."

Xiang Ling was amused by her description, "Okay, sister, let's go faster, the sun will come out after a while, and the herbs will wilt."

The entrance of the vegetable market on Maxing Street was crowded, and rows of herbs on the ground stretched all the way inside, most of which were brought to the city by the rural people to sell.

Xin Yi went to chat a few times. The herbs are all picked from the ground, and the prices are very cheap. Some stall owners even saw the sun rise, and even lowered their prices to sell them.

"Little lady, buy mine, buy mine, I got up early this morning and cut it, it's fresh."

"What do you want, little lady? Come and see my house."

Xin Yi looked around the stalls, and slowly stopped in front of a small herbal medicine stall.

The stall guard was a boy about eleven or twelve years old. He was very strong, but there was no aura in his eyes, giving people a dull feeling. When he saw Xin Yi approaching, he asked nervously.

"Buy, buy herbs?"

Xin Yi looked at the herbs in his house. The mud had been washed away, and small handfuls were neatly stacked and placed on the ground by category.

"Buy." After Xin Yi finished speaking, he looked around, "Where is your adult?"

The child's face darkened, and his voice lowered a little, "I don't have an adult. I am an adult."

Xin Yi lowered his head, bent down and picked up a handful of Changpu, "Are you selling herbs yourself?"

"Yeah." The child lowered his eyelids, not daring to look at him, "What do you want? I cut it myself and sold it cheaply."

Xin Yi said: "Yes."

The child smiled, and a dimple appeared on the corner of his mouth, "Which one do you want? How much?"

Xin Yi's eyes fell on the tattered bamboo basket behind him.

Apparently, the kid used this basket to carry the herbs to the market.

"I want it all." Xin Yi smiled and said, "However, you have to help me deliver it to my home."

The child was stunned for a moment, and immediately agreed, "Okay, where is your home?"

Xin Yi said: "Go south, Xin Yi Pharmacy. Do you know?"

The child was a little confused and looked at him for a while without saying a word.Seeing this, Xiang Ling laughed: "Oh, don't be dumb. Pack up all your herbs and come with us."

"Oh. Well..."

Xin Yi originally wanted to buy more, but when he saw the dissatisfaction of the two women with big arms and round waists next to him, he lost his mood and asked Xiang Ling to help the boy pack the herbs, and they went back to the pharmacy together.

After unloading the herbal medicine, Xin Yi looked at the child's shoes with exposed toes, asked Mrs. An to pay him the money, and asked Xiang Ling to bring some pastries and hand them to him.

"Going out early, didn't have time to eat, right? Come, fill your belly."

"Thank you..."

"You really picked these herbs yourself?"

The child took the pastry, his fingers were stiff, his expression was very uncomfortable, but he was obviously less defensive towards Xin Yi.

He shook his head, "My mother and I picked it together..."

"Then why didn't your mother come?"

"My mother, I can't come." The child's eyelids drooped, "My mother is crippled and can't walk far."

"Where's your father?"

"died."

The child's head drooped even lower, as if not having a father was a very disgraceful thing, which made him dare not meet Xin Yi's eyes.

"My father was dispatched to the south, Yong, Yongzhou... Later, he died."

The status of soldiers in the Song Dynasty was not high, far inferior to that of later generations. Prisoners were sent to the army and soldiers were equal...

Xin Yi sighed slightly, and frowned, "What's your name?"

The child said: "My name is, my name is Quanzi."

"What?" Xin Yi thought he had misheard.

"Gouzi means dog."

"..."

Ok.My life is easy to feed.

Xin Yi thought for a while, then lowered his head and stared at him.

"Do you think this is good? In the future, you will collect herbs and send them to my medicine shop. You don't need to wash them so clean, because we have a medicine room here, and someone will deal with them. There are also people in your village who want to sell herbs. , you can also ask them to send them to my pharmacy, I want you to introduce them, I will give you a commission in addition to the money for buying herbal medicines for them... Well, what do you think of it?"

The child was stunned, not happy, only surprised.

"Why...why don't you go to the market to buy, why do you still give me a commission?"

Xin Yi smiled, "One side of the water and soil raises the other side of the medicine, the source is different, and the properties of the medicine are different. I saw it in the market just now, and your herb is the best. It must be because your village has good water and soil, which is suitable for the growth of medicinal materials. Wouldn’t it be my loss to sell it to someone else? So, if you introduce them to sell it to me, it will be a great help to me. Do you understand? But, you have to remember one thing, I only want good medicines, not defective ones.”

The child seemed to understand, but still happily took the money and left.

Xin Yi noticed that the child didn't eat those pieces of cakes, and secretly stuffed them into his arms, probably to take them back to honor his mother.

Mrs. An watched the child walk away with the basket on his back, and sighed.

"The lady is really kind."

Xin Yi said disapprovingly: "We have to buy medicine anyway, who else is not buying it?"

After finishing speaking, she turned around and called Zhou Daozi.

"Mr. please write a few words for me, please?"

Zhou Daozi narrowed his eyes and looked at her, "What to write?"

Xin Yi thought for a while, "Just write: Ancient French soup buns, anti-filthy fragrance body, on sale on the fourth day of May, limited to [-] packs, first come, first served."

Zhou Daozi counted, "Little lady, these are not just a few words."

Xin Yi was taken aback and laughed.

"Sir, don't worry about how many characters you have in total. Write quickly. In our pharmacy, your handwriting is the best. That's pretty good..."

Zhou Daozi was flattered by the praise, he stroked his beard and nodded, and went to prepare his pen and ink.

Mrs. An was puzzled and said: "We can get the Lan Tang Bao tomorrow, why did the lady wait until the fourth day of May to start selling it? And, why only sell [-] packs?"

Xin Yi smiled, "You have to leave some room for others to survive."

This explanation is hard to convince.

Of course, the current Mrs. An didn't know that Xin Yi's orchid soup buns were going to be sold for as much as five taels of silver, so she went to open the store dubiously after hearing this.

As soon as the sun rose, someone from the pharmacy came to deliver herbal medicine, and someone brought Pei Lan.

Peilan is also called vanilla. Originally, the raw material of Dragon Boat Yulan soup was Peilan. Only because this kind of herb was rare, there were other herbs to replace it. They were all called Lantang.

These people were all found by dogs.

Quanzi's small body was also caught in the crowd, and when he saw Xin Yi, he became cautious, with light and fear in his eyes.

"My lady, these, these are all from our village..."

Xin Yi smiled slightly, "Come in through the corner door."

Quanzi was very concerned about this matter. The people he called had herbal medicines neatly stacked, which looked much more beautiful than the messy ones on the market. Of course, the price Xin Yi offered was also higher than the market price.

But she only took high-quality herbal medicines, and didn't want any second-class herbs.

The herbal medicine sellers left one after another, and Xin Yi gave Gouzi a commission and told him specifically.The pharmacy only accepts good medicinal materials.

The dog left sensiblely.

"Don't worry, lady, I will tell them."

(End of this chapter)