Medicine in Song Dynasty

Chapter 263
Su Tong was going to visit Zhaojiazhuang, and Fu Ye simply went with her.

Zhaojiazhuang is very different from before, not in terms of the appearance of the houses, but in the atmosphere. The village used to have an inexplicable silence, but now there are more noises.

Su Tong first went to Fan's place to have a look.

Mrs. Fan was not at home, and said she had gone to Beijing to buy medicine. Zhang's mother had been in poor health and had to take medicine. The doctor tried to choose common herbs for the prescription, but the medicine was still not cheap.

Speaking of which, although Fan's family background was not very rich, she was also a weak girl raised in a deep boudoir, and she would learn housekeeping from her sister-in-law on weekdays, but their family ate bird's nest and asked a doctor to see a doctor and prescribe medicine when they were sick. Sad, in fact, those black medicinal soups are really annoying, and Fan's often secretly poured them out.

As a result, within a few days of arriving at Zhang's house, she began to regret it.

If only a little bit of the wasted property could be left behind, I don't know how much trouble it would save her and the A family.

But there is no regret medicine in the world.

Sometimes Su Tong couldn't help thinking that no matter how stubborn Fan's temper was, if she hadn't met herself, if she hadn't brought the students in the school to help her, maybe she wouldn't last long and would compromise with her family.

That might not be bad, in that case, her life would not be as difficult as it is now.

After walking around the gate of Fan's house, Su Tong went to Yan Xiaosan's place.

His sister, Xiaoxi, was carrying water home from the outside. When she saw Su Tong, a bright smile appeared on her face: "The little lady is here? Come in."

She hurriedly greeted Su Tong into the yard.

Yan Xiaosan was sitting in the yard, knocking on the ground to build a wooden box.His hands were originally inconvenient, but after so many years, he got used to it. With a stone tied to his shoe, he smashed nails, used both hands and feet, put together wood, and did some carpentry work. Although it was slower, he did it well. not bad.

And he knows his own weakness, so he is very careful in doing it, not only is not worse than others, but even better.

There is also a ready-made sample in front of it, which is a sample that Su Tong asked people to build and distribute.

Seeing that he was holding the brush with only two fingers, and carefully brushing on two layers of paste to seal the gaps, Su Tong couldn't help but heaved a sigh of relief when he saw that the movement was very light.

As soon as he saw a guest coming in, he showed a trace of embarrassment, wiped his hands and stood up to salute: "Little lady, Mr. Fu, sit down quickly, brook, is there still no water?"

He doesn't have much tea at home either.

Tea is really expensive, even ordinary people are reluctant to drink it, but the sweet well water is enough, at least Fu Ye and Su Tong are not picky.

"Is the work difficult?"

Su Tong picked up Yan Xiaosan's box and looked at it. The handwork was good, and the size was about the same. He also painted a layer of moisture-proof and moth-proof paint made in their laboratory. The smell is not bad. There is no such paint pungent smell.

Yan Xiaosan sighed: "It's nothing difficult, and I'd like to thank the little lady for finding such a job for us. Hey, the life in the village is getting more and more difficult. The strong laborers who are healthy and healthy go out to make a living, and most of the rest work hard. It doesn’t require heavy physical work, and this box doesn’t require any skill, it’s so simple that anyone can make it, even the elderly can make more than a dozen in a day as long as they don’t lose their eyesight.”

"The price given by Mrs. Xia is also very fair, and we don't have to worry about anything else. She will send someone to collect the goods when the time comes. We can just do the work and save a lot of trouble."

Nowadays, all the people in Zhaojiazhuang, men, women, old and young, who are idle, start making boxes of the same size according to Su Tong's request.

This job is very simple, the price Su Tong gave is not high, the manual cost is only ten yuan, the wood and other materials needed are all purchased and delivered by a special person in the name of Mingyuefang.

In Yan Xiaosan's family, he and Xiaoxi divide the labor and cooperate, and can make more than [-] boxes in a day. The money they earn cannot be compared with running a shop, but it is much more than farming.

At least, Yan Xiaosan and his wife's medicine money have been settled.

Su Tong breathed a sigh of relief, as long as she can do it, in fact, at the beginning, she had no idea. After all, although carpentry is not heavy physical work, it is impossible to do it well without strength.

At the beginning, Axia and the others even complained a few words, saying that their little lady was showing kindness indiscriminately, but they tried it once later, using those boxes to pack the goods, swallowed all the objections immediately, and complained that the boxes were not enough, It should be a little more.

At this time, the traffic was really inconvenient. Every time Axia and the others transported goods, whether it was from the capital, or various raw materials from other places, it would take half a month just to load the ship, and the labor cost would be even more expensive. Wen Cheng's official status is still easy to use, and there are not so many barriers to travel, so they dare not sell the low-priced cosmetics of Mingyuefang to other places. If they sell them, they will have to increase the price by more than ten times, so it is better to buy high-end products directly.

Now that there are containers, although the various requirements for container transportation that Su Tong wrote down are terribly cumbersome, and they are still very unskilled, the efficiency has doubled compared to before, and the consumption of human resources has also been greatly reduced. There are all sorts of obvious and non-obvious benefits.

A-Xia didn't dare to underestimate the double time, and at the end of the calculation, the money saved by Mingyuefang was almost one-third of the previous transportation cost.

Yan Xiaosan babbled a lot of words of thanks, and his sister Xiaoxi's complexion also looked a lot better.

Su Tong came out of Yan's house in a very happy mood. He thought that in the future, their school could hand over some low-tech jobs to the surrounding villagers, just like when they were in Qingzhou, such as making a toothbrush and making a toothbrush. Toothpaste and the like are very simple. If they sell well, it can be regarded as making more income for the villagers.

"Persist in this way for a while, and persist until father and the officials discuss how to start the postal system. The problem of redundant soldiers in the Song Dynasty in the future may not be so serious."

Fu Ye was leading the horse, but he didn't hear what Su Tong said clearly, so he couldn't help asking curiously.

Su Tong laughed: "It's okay... let's go, today is just free, I will accompany you to check the victim's birth date, and then go to the place where you found the pile of 'murder weapons', maybe the murderer's head became hot for a while , ran back again."

Fu Ye laughed.

Su Tong was indeed joking, but as soon as the two of them entered the capital, the yamen servant from Kaifeng Mansion rushed over and said, "Mr. Fu, I have found you. A boy came to report the case and said he knew who the murderer was."

Fu Ye was stunned, Su Tong blinked, and shrugged speechlessly - she still has the talent for prophecy?
The two hurriedly rode back to Kaifeng Mansion. Su Wencheng had asked about it a long time ago. The kid who reported the crime said that the murderer was his little lady, and he helped her to order those tools. He met the people from the Yamen yesterday. , When he went to the blacksmith shop to inquire about the buyers of those props, he knew it was not good, he hesitated all night, and then came to report the crime in the morning.

The informant was temporarily placed in the guest room.

(End of this chapter)