Chapter Twenty-Six: The Heart of a Wicked Son
Doctor Shi came out of Yueke and went to Li's mansion, and he promised Li Fenghuang that he would report Zhou Zheng's situation at any time. When he arrived at the gate of the Li Mansion, the disciple had already received Li Fenghuang's orders and led him in directly.
"Miss Li, meet again." After passing through the courtyard of the Flower and Grass Garden, Imperial Doctor Shi was brought to Li Fenghuang. He and the Li family are old acquaintances, so they are not polite, and they sat down and drank tea without waiting for the host's family to sit down.
"Doctor Shi...... Ahem......" Li Fenghuang smiled, and was about to make a joke, but couldn't help coughing. After coughing a few times, she relieved herself, but she was no longer interested in joking, and asked, "How is the situation with the surname Zhou?" ”
Shi Tai Medical Tea Gai'er pushed the tea leaves, took a sip, and sighed: "It's still the most authentic tea you have here." ”
"Tea is the foundation of my family, how can it not be authentic."
"Hehe, your father's tea is not very good."
Hearing Imperial Doctor Shi mention his father, Li Fenghuang's face changed slightly, and he was stunned for a while. After a long time, she shook her head lightly and explained: "My father is not a tea lover, and the tea for hospitality is inevitably a little unparticular, so don't be surprised by Doctor Shi." ”
"I'm not surprised, anyway, I always rely on tea to drink, and I don't spend my own money, so I don't feel distressed. But I think, if the tea sold by your family is so unpopular, I'm afraid it's not good, right? If the foundation of the foundation is lost, there will be no place to stand. After saying that, Imperial Doctor Shi took another sip of tea, shook his head and closed his eyes, quite happy.
Of course, Li Fenghuang knew that what Imperial Doctor Shi said was true, but she had not cared about the family's business for a long time, and at this time, there was nothing she could do. After thinking about it, she could only divert the topic and said, "Don't talk about this, I didn't talk about this when I came to you today." ”
When Imperial Doctor Shi heard this, he nodded and said, "The kid surnamed Zhou has a great life, and he can't die, so you can rest assured." It is precisely because he is safe and sound that I have the leisure to drink tea and chat and talk about your family affairs. After all, it's hard to find a big customer like you, and I don't want good people to go unrewarded. ”
Every year and every festival, Li Fenghuang will send condolences to the poor people around Jinshui Town, the Spring Festival is pork and white rice spring couplets, and the Dragon Boat Festival is zongzi realgar wine calamus...... As long as he is indeed poor, as long as he is really in need, Li Fenghuang rarely has a time to be stingy. If there is a famine or epidemic around her, then she will give porridge and medicine, regardless of hard work or expenses.
Of course, thanks to the luck of heaven, Pingjiang Mansion has been a rich and blessed land since ancient times, and there are not many natural disasters. But even so, the lives of ordinary people are not very comfortable. Spring plowing and autumn harvesting, just like doing it against people, are carried out in the season when people want to rest most and are most tired. If you want to stagger it, you can't do it, but when you stagger the season, the rice refuses to grow seedlings and refuses to tassel. It is said that agriculture is the foundation of the country, but the days of the country are the worst.
For example, the floods in the south of the Yangtze River in May and June always come twice in ten years. Even if the flooding is not severe, mosquito breeding is easy to bring epidemics, and people are busy plowing the fields, and it is inevitable that there will be a heat stroke headache.
Another example is the late autumn and midwinter, which is the time when children have fever and the elderly have asthma. For those who have some money in the family, it is naturally not a big deal, but for the already extremely poor people, isn't it just a thunderbolt? Therefore, in summer and winter, Li Fenghuang would purchase standing medicines from Shi Taiyi's pharmacy on time and distribute them to the poor families she had recorded, so as to save these people from being poor and sick and dying of life.
Therefore, there is the saying that Shi Taiyi is a "big customer".
"I also heard that your family's business is getting worse and worse, and it has long lost the prestige of the first-class tea merchant in Pingjiang Mansion that day. If your father comes again, I'm afraid your family will be finished. ”
Li Fenghuang knew that this Imperial Doctor Shi was telling the truth, but what could he do if he told the truth? If speech can change the world, wouldn't everyone be emperors? She really couldn't answer this question, so she didn't answer the conversation, but couldn't help but smile bitterly. Then she rolled her eyes, played a trick, and said, "You see that my economy is so difficult, why don't you always lower the price for me?" ”
When Imperial Physician Shi heard this, his head shook like a rattle, and he refused: "This kind of thing, don't talk about the door, there are no windows!" ”
"When you study medicine, don't you have a heart to help the world?"
"Yes, it's the hanging pot to help the world. But the ancestor passed on this craft, and he didn't say that he couldn't make money or enjoy it! If you really want to make the doctors poor, do you say that there will still be people willing to study medicine in the future, so won't the medical path be over? In short, it's easy to say anything, there's no way about the price, besides, isn't the price I gave you good enough? ”
"I think I can still get a little bit more discount."
"Then I'm not modest, it's better for you to ask for another smart one." Imperial Doctor Shi also reacted, Li Fenghuang just deliberately diverted the topic, but he didn't really want to negotiate the price, so he also put away the urgency just now and said: "Besides, saving people, pay attention to saving an emergency and not helping the poor." If someone suddenly falls ill, then I will help, and it doesn't hurt to not charge for medicine and consultation. But where is there anything like you, who are you, a Buddha or a Bodhisattva? Helping the poor buy food and medicine year after year, it is also a loss because of your family's great business, and if you change ordinary people, you should have gone bankrupt 800 times. ”
"I'm not that great, and I'm going to die on a budget for a year, in short, it's 10,000 taels a year. Is there more, is there less, and more will be distributed during the New Year. When Li Fenghuang said this, his tone was flat, as if 10,000 taels was just a small amount of money.
"Yo he, it's amazing my Miss Li." Just because he earned three thousand taels from Wen Siqi, Imperial Doctor Shi, who had been complacent for a long time, couldn't help laughing when he heard Li Fenghuang speak in this tone: "You still have a high realm and regard money as dung." ”
Li Fenghuang sighed lightly: "I won't hide it from you, my grandfather had a preference for me back then, and on the day of my marriage, he drew 15,000 acres of paddy fields to my name, and said that he would be my do......wry in the future." It's better to cultivate a yin virtue for his grandfather. ”
Because of Li Fenghuang's uncle who loves alchemy, Imperial Doctor Shi and the Li family are not unfamiliar, although they are not world friends, but at least they have a good relationship. It is also because of this that Imperial Doctor Shi took care of himself and put on the posture of an elder, wanting to persuade Li Fenghuang to take care of his business, so that he could be worthy of his old friend. As a result, he didn't expect that there would be such a reason for this...... Li Fenghuang's matter, he is naturally clear, in this way, it seems that he deliberately revealed people's scars.
For a moment, Imperial Physician Shi couldn't help but be dumbfounded.
Fortunately, Li Fenghuang was not an ordinary daughter's family, she wiped away her tears and raised her head again, as if nothing had happened: "Speaking of which, it's okay to be okay that week, otherwise it's all my responsibility." Actually, I can't say why, one blames me for not letting go of the past, and the other blames him for being too stupid, I really have never seen such a stupid person. ”
Doctor Shi sneered: "In front of you, there are not many smart people. However, he had only seen Yiren crying, and he didn't dare to talk nonsense anymore, but just said along with the meaning: "Yes, yes, it's okay, there are other adventures." At this time, he also told Zhou Zheng about his martial arts.
Li Fenghuang didn't have much to do with it, but replied casually: "That's fine." ”
"Aren't you afraid that he will come to your house to seek revenge after he has practiced martial arts?"
Li Fenghuang smiled slightly: "Such a fool should not be able to do such a smart thing." ”
Doctor Shi laughed twice, and then said, "What about the Miao boy, he is not stupid." ”
"I repaired a book overnight and arrived in Fucheng, entrusted to a reliable friend, and this matter is worry-free."
"That's good, that's good, but I advise you to be more attentive about your business. These days, it's hard to find big customers. After that, Imperial Doctor Shi took another sip of tea, the water was cold, and the fragrance was still there.