Farming with medicine

Chapter 84
Osmanthus fragrans watched anxiously from the side, and urged, "Mother, are you talking?"

"Ah," Zhang's mother-in-law raised her finger anxiously and pointed to her throat. She bared her teeth and claws for a long time, but couldn't come up with a word.

The magistrate of the county didn't like cardamom coming in and out here at all. Seeing the old woman babbling and not saying a word, he lost his patience and slapped the gavel, "You bitch, how dare you despise me, come here!" , twenty palms."

The Zhang family's mother-in-law was anxious, and after a long time, she pointed her finger at the cardamom, making a gesture to hit the cardamom, but the sweet-scented osmanthus hurriedly protected the child and hid aside, "Mother, you are talking."

Cardamom blinked her innocent big eyes and watched as the grandma couldn't speak a word, so the yamen servant walked up to the grandma with a palm board, raised her hand and started beating.

The Zhang family's mother-in-law vomited blood, but she still couldn't speak a word.

"What a hard-talking bitch, who despises the court and also despises the official, come here, drag it down, and try again tomorrow," the gavel slapped, and two yamen servants stood out on both sides, dragging Zhang's mother-in-law out of the court.

After retiring from the court, Ruyi and Osmanthus still don't know what happened in the court just outside the county government office.

"My mother, why doesn't she say a word, she looks like a mute." Osmanthus fragrans asked the sister-in-law beside her incomprehensibly.

Ruyi shook her head like a rattle, she didn't know what happened.

"Just now I kept cursing in the car, who knows what happened."

The county magistrate stopped trying the case, and after leaving the court, the yamen servants received orders to go to Gejia Village to arrest people and come back for trial. Osmanthus and Ruyi were worried, and planned to wait outside the yamen for news.

Cardamom told her aunt and mother to go shopping in the market, and then she sneaked to Baiweitang to find Boss Zhang.

Boss Zhang's prescription processing capacity is limited, and those asters have to find a workshop to process them.

When Cardamom left, Boss Zhang happened to come back.

"Miss, you came at the right time. I got your message. I have found a processing workshop. Your medicinal materials can be delivered in large quantities. I just don't know if the time can be brought forward?"

It's not that Boss Zhang is greedy, it's because people in the city are panicking now, and there are too many people who can't afford medicine. The poor people in the entire county are counting on his Baiweitang.

"I'm not sure about this. I'll go back and talk to my father. I can only try my best, because no one in the villages around the mountain that my family owns dares to work on the mountain. There is a big shortage of workers."

Boss Zhang also heard from the fellows who came back about what happened when collecting asters, it was really not easy.

While the two were talking, someone quarreled in front of them.

Cardamom followed Boss Zhang to the front to check the situation, and found that the door of Baiweitang was blocked by the people who came to buy medicine. A middle-aged strong man fell directly to the gate of Baiweitang with a pack of medicine in his hand. Brick smashed the signboard of Baekweitang.

"What's going on?" Boss Zhang didn't criticize the troublemaker, but asked the reason first. These good intentions made the troublemaker unscrupulous.

"What's going on? Like other pharmacies, your Baekweitang has raised the price to make us unable to afford it. These medicines have doubled compared to before. You are really a profiteer with a bad conscience. We have misjudged you, Boss Zhang."

Boss Zhang also has something to hide. In the past, the medicinal material market was not monopolized. Now that it is monopolized, not only the medicinal materials themselves need money, but also the labor costs for later processing. The workshop he found has the lowest price.

"Brother, listen to me, this price is already a price with no profit, and I can't help it. In business, I can't do business at a loss. In this way, I will find a way to try to minimize the price. OK?"

After finally sending away the troublesome middle-aged man, Boss Zhang heaved a deep sigh when he heard the loud complaints in the store.

"Now this business is even more difficult," Boss Zhang shook his head helplessly and walked back to the inner hall, out of sight and out of mind.

"Why doesn't Boss Zhang process it himself, and it can save a lot of labor costs?" Cardamom's proposal, it's not that Boss Zhang has never thought about it, it's just unrealistic.

"Young lady doesn't know, processing and concocting herbal medicine requires a lot of space, and it's all expenses. I really can't afford it in this small shop."

A small county town is not small, with [-] people, but it is not big. If you start a new processing workshop by yourself, if you only rely on his store to eat up the inventory, you will definitely lose your money. .

"Miss Cardamom, it would be great if you could send the prepared medicinal materials over."

Boss Zhang has a pharmacy, so she can't run a processing workshop. She only provides goods from this pharmacy, and she can't afford to support the workshop.

"Why don't you start a wholesale business?" Cardamom thought of a good idea with twinkling eyes.

"Wholesale? Do you mean to supply us with herbs in large quantities?"

"It's a way to provide herbal medicines to many companies. For example, you get medicinal materials from me, and then you resell them to other pharmacies. In this way, you are a wholesaler and earn the difference between them." Cardamom can start a workshop.

When Boss Zhang heard this, it seemed like a good idea, and he finally saw a smile on his face, "This is a good thing, but I have to spend two days to discuss it with the shopkeepers of various pharmacies. Everyone is worrying about the medicinal materials purchased at high prices If you sell it at a higher price, there is no way to open it day by day.”

Cardamom and Boss Zhang agreed on a period of 7 days. During this period, Cardamom only needs to deliver all the fresh herbs, and for the rest, these pharmacies in the county will set new rules and prices to fight against bullying the market.

When Dou Kou returned to the gate of the yamen to look for her aunt and mother, she heard that people from Gejia Village had been escorted back and were being interrogated. How many people were talking, was passed in by the county magistrate.

Of the gamblers in Gejia Village, only three were caught, and one of them was the villain who often played money with Zhang's mother-in-law.

Kneeling in the hall, they were talking about how Zhang's mother-in-law owed money and how they failed to collect the debt and were slapped by a strong man, but they did not mention that Zhang's mother-in-law broke her leg.

The county magistrate also passed on the Zhang family's mother-in-law to intervene.

"Mr. Zhang, do you know these three people?"

Zhang's mother-in-law couldn't care less about the trial, she wanted to bite her to death when she saw the cardamom, now she couldn't speak, and when she thought about it, she thought that there was something wrong with the two bowls of "sweet water" that the suddenly behaving cardamom gave her.

Zhang's mother-in-law opened her teeth and claws at the cardamom not far away from the hall with a fierce look on her face. The county magistrate frowned and said impatiently to the master, "I'm going to take a rest first, you are here to teach these country rough people rule."

The master respectfully sent the magistrate away, walked slowly in front of Mrs. Zhang, and asked coldly, "Do you know that it is a capital offense to despise the court and despise the court order?"

Zhang's mother-in-law had a broken leg and could only sit on the ground. She raised her head to look at the master in horror. Seeing the master's eyes narrowed slightly, she crawled out of the hall with hands and feet in fright. They were dragged back again.

(End of this chapter)