Everything is difficult at the beginning, a good start is half the success, Zhu Gui's shopkeeper successfully opened on July 2, although there were no major problems at that time, it was generally smooth and smooth. However, in recent days, the number of patrons has become less and less, so that by July 7, no one had come to buy medicines, and the fundamental business of the pharmacy was the wholesale of medicinal materials, and no one had come to negotiate a single business.

In desperation, Zhu Gui asked a few guys to pretend to be civilians the next day and inquire everywhere, but the people who were generally asked were silent and hurriedly avoided. The next day, Zhu Gui asked a guy to pretend to be a commoner, stay in the inn outside the store at night, and come to the pharmacy to buy a dose of medicine at noon. Then he walked towards the remote alley, and sure enough, two or three idlers followed behind, and when they came to a place where there were few people, the idlers suddenly rushed forward, pressed the fellow to the ground, and knocked the fellow to the ground with a fist and kick. Before leaving, the idlers said to the fallen man and the onlookers: "Whoever wants to go to the Nashan Pharmacy to buy medicine in the future will be the end." ”

Where did the onlookers dare to care about him, he lay on the ground for a long time, got up by himself, and returned to the inn with difficulty. A few of the men there had already entered his room pretending to be wicked people. He was healed. And the guy went back to the pharmacy in the evening. Zhu Gui asked the attending physician to give him further diagnosis and treatment.

Then, the people sent out came back to report that the group was actually Ma Liu's subordinates, and they belonged to Ha****. After hearing this, Zhu Gui walked towards the courtyard and entered the second layer of the door, which was the residence of "Wuji", Liu Jianwu, Xiao Shiqian and Qiu Ming. After listening to Zhu Gui's report.

After listening to his report, "Wuji" said: "We can't just guard this small temple for development, it seems that it is time for us to form our own thug organization, and we still have to solve the problem of customers." If it's a problem of our poor management and we don't have customers, then it's understandable, but if someone has to stop customers, it's not trivial. ”

Zhu Gui said: "Before leaving, the hall owner asked us to go to the eldest prince when we were short of manpower." ”

Liu Jianwu asked, "Where is the eldest prince now?"

Zhu Gui said: "The eldest prince is actually a chess piece buried by the owner of the pavilion in the state city as early as possible, the purpose is that once something happens, his people can take over, and he is currently working as a nursing home in Zhang Dahu's house in the north of the city." Come down, I can contact him and ask him to gather the people scattered in the state city of the Yamayama Martial Arts Hall and prepare for a protracted battle with Ma Liu's people. ”

"Wuji" said: "I haven't seen my eldest brother since I got married, you will contact tonight, and let my eldest brother form our thug team in the future." In the future, these people opened another martial arts hall next to the pharmacy as a hiding place for these people. If something happens, we can also take care of each other. Next, let's take a trip. ”

So, the five of them went their separate ways.

On the sixth day, Zhu Gui posted a notice in front of the door according to the arrangement: Confucian students and widows and lonely people can enjoy less than 50% off the cost of medicine, and those who have difficulty moving can also send medicine to their homes. In addition to this, he arranged for a few men to distribute leaflets everywhere, and the contents of the leaflets were the same as the notice.

Sure enough, there were some people in the store, including poor Confucian students and elderly people with limited mobility, Zhu Gui not only asked the resident doctor to treat them for free, but also reduced or exempted the medicine fee according to the other party's property situation. Of course, there are some "idlers" wandering around the pharmacy, including the back streets. At least, by the end of the night, there were no incidents of harm to customers.

On the seventh day, there were slightly fewer customers. It was almost noon, but something was wrong among the customers. I saw a few local old men pointing at a hunchbacked old man and scolding: "Do you want to be shameless, your son is blocking people everywhere and not allowing you to come to people's mountain pharmacies to buy medicine, how can you still have the face to be greedy for this little cheap, you just let your son give you some ginseng and bird's nest." The other old men also laughed and cursed. At this time, the hunchbacked old man took Zhu Gui's hand, and the old man burst into tears, crying silently.

Zhu Gui hurriedly helped the old man to sit down on a chair and asked the man to bring him a cup of tea.

When the old man saw Zhu Gui treating him like this, he was even more ashamed and angry, and took Zhu Gui's hand and said: "Boss Zhu, I'm really sorry, that brute followed Ma Liu, eating, drinking, prostituting and gambling, doing all kinds of evil, he has done all the bad things over the years, and sooner or later he will be punished." ”

After hearing this, Zhu Gui said kindly: "Old man, I have no enmity with him for a long time, and I have no grievances for a long time, I don't know why he wants to be unhappy with me?"

When the old man saw him say this, he sighed and said, "You are new to the city, and you don't know how deep the water is, it must be that you don't worship the mountain, otherwise, how could you be treated like this by them." ”

How could Zhu Gui not know about worshipping the mountain, but he pretended to be surprised and asked: "Worship the mountain, who to worship, and what are the requirements?"

The old man said: "The hill of these two streets in the south of the city is Ma Liu, and above Ma Liu is the old man Yin, and I don't know who is above it. Whoever opens a shop, does business, big and small affairs, the main family gets Ma Liu to worship the mountain, he is the king of the mountain in these two streets, once he offends Ma Liu, he doesn't even know how to die. I advise you, it's better to go to give gifts to other people's Maliu as soon as possible, and pay the money on a monthly basis, otherwise, the kicking of the hall will still happen. ”

Zhu Gui knew this, but he didn't necessarily know it so carefully, so he asked: "How much gift money does a store like mine have to prepare for others?"

The old man thought for a moment, and then stretched out two fingers.

Zhu Gui thought about it, just open a shop, two taels of silver is enough, but the old man shook his head and said, "Is it twenty taels, it's really dark enough." There is also a lot of monthly share money. ”

The old man nodded, indicating that this was the number.

Then Zhu Gui smiled and said to the old man: "Trouble Daddy to say love to the dog, you see that my store is small, please ask him to say a favor to Ma Liuye, can you do less?"

As soon as he heard this, the old man stood up and walked out, and Zhu Gui hurriedly stopped him and said, "If you don't say it, forget it, let's just hold on to the bricks in Jiebatu (1)." What medicine do you want, I'll give it away. ”

The old man stopped and said fiercely: "That beast not only doesn't care whether my two of us live or die, but also often asks his brother who is in charge of us to bully his head. I must have done evil in my last life. The goods, with pus on the top of the head and sores on the soles of the feet--- are simply bad, and they can't die well. ”

After hearing this, Zhu Gui didn't say anything, and simply dragged the old man to the resident doctor to check the pulse, and took the medicine, sent it out of the store, and then came back.

As soon as he was about to go out, he saw a neighbor rushing to him and whispering something to the dog, but he saw the old man's face change abruptly, so he hurriedly ran in the direction of the house.