Uncle Yao's hand holding the cane trembled violently, and his gray goatee also trembled, "Dao Yan, our Yao family moved from Bianjing to Suzhou in the last years of the Song Dynasty, and since then it has taken root, and the ancestral tombs of several generations of our ancestors are here, how can we say that we will move away?" I was forced to have no way, so I thought of splitting up the family, and asked your second room Jitong and Miaoyi to move to Nanjing, and our big house stayed in Suzhou to guard the ancestral tomb and ancestral industry. ”

Of course, there are also selfishness, Yao Ji Pharmacy has been operating hard for many years, so there is today's achievement of making money every day, if you go to that strange place in Nanjing and start again, God knows if the business will collapse.

I see!

Gao Yao's family is mean, but the Yao family's family is not a bad person, just ordinary people who escape change, and the two people adopted by the second room are indeed not related to the big house, so it is not difficult to make the decision to separate and relocate.

Yao Miaoyi glanced at Yao Jitong, nominally, Yao Jitong was her brother, and he had to decide the affairs of the family.

Yao Ji comprehended with one heart and said: "Since this matter has been settled by the government and the wood has been completed, our Yao family must move out of a room to Nanjing." Then according to the uncle's arrangement, Miaoyi and I went to Nanjing to open a pharmacy, where millions of people have moved, and the business should not be bad. Don't worry, uncle, we will have a good life. ”

Sister-in-law Yao took out a handkerchief to wipe her tears and said, "Okay, you are all sensible children, and after you go to Nanjing, you often bring letters back." If your eldest brother and I are free, we will go to the yamen and ask for a guide to see you. ”

At the beginning of the world, Emperor Hongwu was very strict in the management of household registration and road guidance in order to prevent spies from deserting in and out, restricting the travel of ordinary people.

Brother Yao was not good at words, so he immediately took out three hundred taels of silver and ten yuan to Yao Jitong and Yao Miaoyi.

A good show of family competition for property was dispersed before it was staged, looking at the silver of the white flowers, Gao Yao's disappointed at the same time, he was jealous, and sneered: "Yo, the eldest brother is really generous, these two people have blood that is not the Yao family, you can give so much." My own sister picked it up from the side of the road? ”

The poor aunt and widow have been unemployed all these years, and the amount we have subsidized to you is definitely more than this amount! Sister-in-law Yao was not angry and wanted to argue, but her husband secretly pulled her hand, so she had to hold back and not say anything.

Uncle Yao took the case and accused his sister once, "Sister, you have to speak with your conscience, I have treated you well all these years." Whatever I can give you, I've given you. But if you still want to reach out and take a bite from the hands of your juniors, you are insatiable. ”

"Although Jitong and Miaoyi are not the biological children of their younger brother, their names are entered into the family tree, and they are registered in the yellow book of Suzhou, and they will inherit the second house of incense in the future, and these silver coins are what they deserve."

Gao Yao looked at his eldest brother in disbelief, his eyes full of resentment, "You-oh my God!" My father and mother died early, marrying a husband is a short-lived ghost, the children are still young, the younger brother is a monk and doesn't care about everything, and now even the eldest brother dislikes me, woo, you all bully me as a widow and unemployed, I don't live anymore, I go to the ancestral hall to cry and cry ......"

The Yao family's two-room family divided the property and the family peacefully, and said goodbye, but the married aunt made a few troubles, but this time Uncle Yao gritted his teeth and resolutely refused to give in, and the Gao Yao family saw that he couldn't get the slightest bargain, so it slowly stopped.

A month later, the summer gradually converged, with the coolness of early autumn, the "Baihetang" pharmacy opened in the second brocade workshop on the east side of Jubaomen Street in Nanjing's northern city.

The northern city of Nanjing is basically a new rich family and artisan family from other places, walking on the street, bustling with all kinds of accents from all over the world.

Almost all the neighborhoods on the east side of Jubaomen Street in Beicheng are engaged in weaving, embroidery, tailoring and other textile-related craftsmen, so the name is called Brocade No. 1 Workshop, Brocade No. 2 Workshop, and Brocade No. 3 Workshop from north to south.

Baihetang is in the middle of the second brocade workshop. The house on Jubaomen Street is too expensive, and at the same time, it is too ostentatious for Suzhou people like them to move from other places to buy, so Yao Miaoyi and Yao Jitong chose the store here in a place called Baojin Street, the two-story building facing the street is a shop, and behind it is a quiet small courtyard.

The shop and yard cost a total of five hundred taels, which almost emptied Yao Miaoyi's family.

The plaque of Baihetang is written by Zen Master Daoyan himself, but he is a senior monk who has been personally examined by Emperor Hongwu, and was ordered to participate in the compilation of the "Yuan History" in Tianjie Temple, and Yao Jitong served and studied by Daoyan's side, so Baihetang is actually taken care of by Yao Miaoyi alone.

In the third year of Hongwu, August 17. easy to open, break ground, and marry; It is not easy to litigate and seek heirs. Yao Miaoyi set off a string of firecrackers at the entrance of Baihetang and opened in a low-key manner.

Baihetang only has Song Xiu'er brought by Yao Miaoyi from Yao's family, as well as Ah Fu, two old servants. The old servant Ah Fu is responsible for driving the car, guarding the door, and sprinkling and sweeping; Song Xiuer waited for Yao Miaoyi's daily life, and settled accounts and other miscellaneous items. There was also a Mingjiao secret party who acted as a handyman, turning over medicinal herbs in the courtyard.

There was an urgent shortage of manpower in the store, so Yao Miaoyi asked Ah Fu to post recruitment notices in the streets and alleys of Jinling, looking for a few handymen who could take care of medicinal materials and doctors who could sit in the store.

It's been three days since the notice was posted, and there hasn't been a decent applicant. Bohol Hall is full of birds, business is bleak, and he can't sell a few pieces of medicine every day.

On the fourth day of opening, I waited until noon, and there were no customers. The old servant Ah Fu dozed off at the door, and Song Xiu'er stood behind the counter, holding her cheek with her left hand, and fiddling with the abacus beads with her right hand.

"Ah Fu, how knowledgeable you are, when will Baihetang's business improve?"

Ah Fu sat on the threshold, squinted at the passers-by on the street, and sighed: "If you are not familiar with life, it is difficult to do business." If you don't have a big house, why don't you move to Nanjing by yourself? ”

"Besides, most of the people living in this neighborhood are ordinary craftsmen, and ordinary people who have a headache and brain fever usually carry it first, who will watch the doctor take medicine at every turn."

Song Xiu'er put her hands on her cheeks, and her face was sad, "Alas, you are right, this is not our hometown in Suzhou, the Yao family has practiced medicine for several generations, and many people go to Yao Ji Pharmacy to see a doctor and grab medicine. ”

Song Xiu'er pursed her lips helplessly, "Nanjing is different, a patient came yesterday, and when he saw that our Dr. Yao was a woman, he turned his head and left." Hmph, in Suzhou, how many rich and noble families drove to invite our young lady to see a doctor. ”

Ah Fu comforted and said: "Don't be angry, that's because they don't have luck - Xiu'er, Dr. Yao often runs out alone these days, and she doesn't want me to catch the car, usually hiring a sedan chair or a mule cart, what does she do?" ”

Song Xiu'er said: "There are no customers in the store anyway, Nanjing is prosperous, she walks around, sometimes she goes to the Tianjie Temple to talk to Zen Master Daoyan and Yao Jitong, and sometimes it's-"

said that Cao Cao Cao arrived, Song Xiuer didn't finish speaking, Yao Miaoyi's hired car and horse stopped at the door, Song Xiuer hurriedly ran out to help Yao Miaoyi get out of the car, and Ah Fu brought a few packs of dim sum tea and fruit in the car to the store.

Yao Miaoyi divided the delicate dim sum in the package with the three guys in the store, and said with a smile: "I went to the Heavenly Realm Temple to visit my father-in-law and brother-in-law, and I happened to be rewarded with dim sum made in the palace, and my father-in-law gave me all his share, come, you can also taste what the nobles in the palace eat." ”

Tianjie Temple is compiling the "History of the Yuan", and the two presidents who presided over the compilation are Song Lian and Wang Yi, leaders of the Jiangnan literary circle and scholars of the Hanlin Academy. Emperor Hongwu is an eclectic selection of talents, capable people live in it, and do not care about the origin, in addition to the bachelors of the Hanlin Academy, there are many monks and Taoists, so the dim sum given is not taboo.

There are Yao Miaoyi's favorite butter snails, as well as Ah Fu's love to eat shelled pork pies, and Song Xiu'er's love to eat the nest silk candy made inside.

But today Ah Fu and Song Xiu'er are preoccupied, and they are listless eating their favorite snacks, Yao Miaoyi asked the reason, and said secretly in her heart:

These days, I patronize Zhou Kui, an old aide who inquired about my father, and Guo Yangtian, who rebelled against Mingjiao, and I don't care about the business of the store. If the guise of Baihetang has been operating dismally and not going out of business, it is easy to show its feet and make people suspicious, what must be done to make the business of the store a little better......

Thinking about it, Yao Miaoyi picked up a ghee snail, "Don't worry, I heard that the newly opened shop will only take three years to return to its original cost, so don't worry." We are new to the market, we don't know the market, in the afternoon we went to the Suzhou Hall to find familiar fellows to inquire, there is always a way out. ”

Song Xiuer and Ah Fu glanced at each other, both smiled happily, and even the dim sum made in them was reluctant to eat, so they carefully packed it up and wrapped it, ready to give it to their fellow villagers as a meeting gift, and even Yao Miaoyi's favorite butter snail refused to let go.