farmhouse ditty

Chapter 45 Honeysuckle

(The work and rest time during the Spring Festival is chaotic. I was in a hurry to update yesterday and didn’t pay attention. It looks a bit long-winded today, so I will add more new ones. (∩_∩) has been revised)

The Tairen Pharmacy looks small from the outside, but the room is very deep, and there are several counters lined up in a straight line.

One by one, two waiters were arranged to guard the prescription, one looked at the prescription, and the other held a small copper scale to grab the medicine.

The guy who raised the price with Xiu Niang was in the first row. He watched Xiu Niang come in, and he was very proud, so let's go around outside, why don't you come to him again, this time But it's worth listening to him talking about the price.

He grinned, "Hey, sister-in-law, don't take out your basket of herbs."

Xiu Niang looked at him, and put the basket on the counter again, "Dude, take out a box of your best gold sore ointment."

The little fellow sneered, turned around and took out a small porcelain vase from the cabinet, and slapped it in front of Xiu Niang, "Or as I said earlier, you still have to come to my place. The price I give is the most fair."

Xiu Niang ignored it, opened the small porcelain lid and smelled it, there was a faint smell of medicine, rubbed it on her hand, but it was very delicate, this kind of ointment was good for entering the skin and flesh, promoting blood circulation Removing blood stasis is also fast.

Earlier, she was driving an oxcart stubbornly, passing through a dirt pit, don't pay attention to it, knocked herself and Chugo together, and now her forehead is still red, she needs to find something The ointment was wiped off.

She took the porcelain bottle and waved it towards the guy, "How much is this?"

The little guy laughed, "It's still the same price as in the morning. It's worth a tael of silver. If you keep this basket of herbs, I'll spare you a tael, how about it?"

Xiu Niang looked at him and smiled, "I'll give it to you in threes and twos, how much do you plan to report to your shopkeeper?"

The guy's face changed when he heard that, "Hey, I said you don't care too much, and the saved money won't go into your pocket, so what are you worrying about?"

Xiu Niang smiled and closed the porcelain box, "I'm teaching you how to be a human being. Come on, you wrap up some ointment and give me four taels later."

The guy frowned and said loudly, "Hey, you little country woman... Yo, shopkeeper, you're back."

Shopkeeper Tian stepped forward and smiled at Xiu Niang, "Sister-in-law, please rest here for a while, and I will settle the payment for you."

Xiu Niang looked at the tables and chairs under the window sill for people to rest, and sat down there in response to the sound.

The guy was surprised, why did the shopkeeper say hello to a country woman, and even invite you to sit down, what's going on?
He was muttering, when he saw the shopkeeper turn around, stare straight at him, pointed at the bamboo basket and said to him, "You stupid bastard, bring this up to me!"

The guy listened to the fog, but saw that the shopkeeper was getting angry, so he could only carry the basket and follow. He didn't expect that what he just said, he told the shopkeeper Tian to put it aside and listen. He is talking about extorting people's money, so can the shopkeeper of the field not get angry?

Xiu Niang stood aside and watched, and saw that shopkeeper Tian had taken the medicinal herbs down, but she wanted to weigh the jin to check the quality, and she couldn't just listen to what she said. Well, that fits well.

What's more, the price offered by the shopkeeper of the field is not bad, and she will have to deal with him in the future. The fact that she lied to that guy just now is to lay the groundwork for herself, and she won't have to deal with her herbs in the future.

Since this is Xiu Niang, she doesn't know, but she went to a pharmacy in the morning, and those guys only gave her a price of two taels, and they were still greedy for her dozen or so eggs, so she turned her head in annoyance. Let's go, she knows the price. If they weigh a catty or something, they will charge eight taels of money.

But waiting for her to pass by the window, and listening to the people in the room nagging, "Hey, you said that the little aunt has gone, will you come back?"

"Guaranteed to come, she is a little country woman, who knows what good things she can get, and she will give it to someone who is two or two tall."

"That's right, my brothers also need some tricks."

"When she comes over in a while, I won't give her two taels, but I will give her one tael or five. When the shopkeeper comes, we can say that it is six taels."

"Yes, that would cost a pound of two taels. Then we would say that it was a whole catty and we would spare two taels. The shopkeeper would have to boast that we did a good job."

It was the one who listened to the wall, and he co-authored to remind Xiu Niang that the business was so big that all the clerks under him would make money. No wonder that in the drugstores all over the street, each family gave less money than the other.

Shopkeeper Tian came out from the back hall, saw Xiu Niang sitting there, and went up to laughing, "Sister-in-law, your Erbao vine is in good condition, and there are no flowers, it's all made of new buds. Very nice."

Xiu Niang smiled, "If you can get into the eyes of Shopkeeper Detian, that's good."

Shopkeeper Tian turned around and sat on the side, waved his hand and called a waiter, who put a porcelain box and four taels of money on the table, put Xiuniang's bamboo basket on the ground, and left after finishing.

Shopkeeper Tian said, "Sister-in-law, this is four taels of money, and the ointment you just wanted to apply, and I kept the Erbao vine, and those eggs and baskets were sent out for you."

Xiu Niang counted the money carefully, took it and put it in her arms, "The shopkeeper of the original field called these herbs Erbaoteng, which is very strange."

Shopkeeper Tian smiled, "These places have their own names. As far as I know, there are people who call them winter vine, mandarin duck vine, zifeng vine, and two-color flower vine."

Xiu Niang smiled and said, "There are quite a few famous names, I only know one name, and that is honeysuckle."

Shopkeeper Tian smiled, "Honeysuckle is as white as silver and as bright as gold, but it is a good name."

Xiu Niang said, "Yo, but you are a scholar, and what you say is pleasant."

Shopkeeper Tian waved his hand lightly, "Where is it, my sister-in-law is laughing."

Xiu Niang smiled, "Hey, Shopkeeper Tian, ​​you have a big business, you must have gone to many places, but you are in other places, don't you also like us, don't like this honeysuckle?"

Shopkeeper Tian asked, "Sister-in-law, why do you say that?"

Xiu Niang said, "Originally, I came to the town today, but no one shouted to accept this, just told me to walk around the street, and the people who came with me were all ignorant, and said blankly. Look at me, this is dried cauliflower."

Shopkeeper Tian laughed, "This little sister-in-law is wrong. This Erbao vine has excellent heat-clearing and detoxifying effects. It is very precious in other big towns, but its flowering is uncertain, and no one expects it to be accurate, so the quantity is small, isn't it?" We can collect whatever we want.”

Xiu Niang thought about it and said, "Hey, why don't you hire someone to go up the mountain to collect it? I'm afraid there will be no medicinal materials to sell in such a big medicine shop."

Shopkeeper Tian shook his head and smiled, "Little sister-in-law doesn't know something. Those who go to the mountains to collect herbs can see the stems of this thing all over the mountains and plains, but they can't get a single bud of this thing."

Xiu Niang paused for a moment, she had some ideas in her mind, she just nodded her head sullenly, thinking about Xiao Jiujiu herself.

Shopkeeper Tian looked at Xiu Niang and said nothing, he thought about it and smiled, "So I was amazed when I saw my sister-in-law's herb today, may I ask, how did my sister-in-law get such a good thing?"

Xiu Niang looked back at shopkeeper Tian, ​​she got up with a smile, picked up the bamboo basket, took out the eggs inside and put them on the table, "Here are the native eggs raised by my family. Brother Tian, ​​try something new, although the shell is broken, it is still good, and it will be fragrant when fried."

Shopkeeper Tian took an egg and looked at it, and smiled, "I said, little sister-in-law, you've been telling me so much, co-author, can't I even ask a question?"

Xiu Niang put the bamboo basket on her arm and smiled, "No, I'll see you tomorrow." After saying that, she went out, ignoring the person with a dark face.

When she returned to the gate of the town, just in time to see Chu Ge looking for her, Xiu Niang looked at him and yelled, and ran forward after a few steps.

Chu Ge came here early this time, earlier he brought the pheasant to Cook Wang, who looked at the eggs on the cart, which were big and round, and they were about to lay them together.

Since he has half a basket of good eggs left, he is going to the back street. Those grocery stores definitely don’t want them, because the eggs are not enough for the basket, but they are not enough to sell. I have a lot to spare.

Catch up with Chef Wang, someone ordered trough cakes at the tavern today, and asked for a lot of eggs. Although the price is not much, let's do it, so he doesn't have to waste time to go to the back street.

Not to mention, just now Lao Gao's sun was still hanging in the sky, but now it was covered by a lot of thick clouds. It seemed that the sky was about to change, so he thought of coming to her first, okay go home.

Xiu Niang shook the empty basket in front of him, whispered a few words, and saw Chu Ge staring wide-eyed, "What, you paid four taels of silver for that basket of dried cauliflower."

She listened with a smile, walked over to Chugo's arm and said, "Yes, I also exchanged a dozen eggs for a box of gold sore ointment."

Chu Ge looked at Xiu Niang's little hand that took his arm, and he didn't say what he said. He touched the little bag on his head and murmured in his heart, if he knew he would have left two eggs, now I bumped into it, so I can cook an egg and roll it around, and I can still eat it...

(End of this chapter)