In a flash, it was a few years later, and the life of Qin Zhihong and the Xu family became more and more impressive, which made the local advocates in the village feel sour, but relying on the medical skills of the ancestors of the Qin family, coupled with the unknown Seven Spirits Scattering, although the Zhang family held a grudge, they were helpless, at least on the surface, they were a group of harmony.

It's just that the situation in the imperial court has become more and more unstable, since the emperor was imprisoned, the imperial court has also collapsed, and the Eight-Nation Coalition Army entered Beijing, needless to say, and then the Russo-Japanese War that broke out outside the customs made the Qing Dynasty lose face. Although the Empress Dowager Cixi also wanted to reform and change the law, it was too late, and there were uprisings of revolutionaries all over the country, which made the imperial court, which had no real power, tired to deal with. Finally two years ago, the emperor died of illness and died in Yingtai, Zhongnanhai, and it was also rumored that the queen mother ordered the emperor to be poisoned.

But in any case, the old man Yang said that this is a sign of the death of the country, at this time China is like a plate of scattered sand, when the Eight-Nation Coalition invaded China, the imperial court had ordered that the southern provinces can mediate with the foreigners alone, although the original intention of this approach is to make the foreigners can not invade at will on China's long coastline, but the final defeat of the war also increased the provinces and the imperial court have centrifugal force, when the catastrophe comes, it is often self-protection regardless of the life and death of the central government.

However, those events that make the times remember often lead to some seemingly inconspicuous things. In fact, at this time, the imperial court's finances were almost paralyzed, and all taxes had to be used to repay the war reparations, but in order to continue to build railways, the imperial court borrowed money from the private sector, and even resorted to foreign banks. However, in order to control the railway, the imperial court looked everywhere for fault, intending to nationalize the railway, in fact, this was a trend in the world at that time, and today's railways are also controlled by their own government, which began at that time.

Sheng Huaixuan advocated the state-owned railway, but this was strongly opposed by shareholders in Sichuan and other places, so the Sichuan Road Protection Movement broke out. Mr. Yang said that when a country is really in a financial crisis, nothing can be done.

There was nothing to do that day, Qin Zhihong made a pot of tea and tasted it slowly, if there were no people who came to see the doctor, Xu Wende arranged other tasks. So Qin Zhihong walked by the river, but as soon as he went out, the porter told him that someone came to look for him. So Qin Zhihong returned to the hall, and when he saw that person, Qin Zhihong immediately recognized it as Xiao Danzi, Shan Wanzhao.

It turned out that when the small list was in turmoil in Beijing, he lived in Boss Wang's shop, but after Qin Zhihong left, Boss Wang felt that he had framed Qin Zhihong, and then swept him out of the house.

Although Qin Zhihong knew that Xiao Danzi intended to frame himself last time, he also felt that he and his cousin attacked Xujialou back then, although it was out of morality, but it was also a fire at the city gate, which affected the pond fish, making him run around, and he was a little reluctant to go, so Qin Zhihong asked Xiao Danzi's intention.

Xiao Danzi was already a buddy of the Zhang family at this time, and said:

"Qin Ye, I haven't seen you for a few years, don't come unharmed."

Qin Zhihong immediately interrupted Xiao Danzi's speech and said, "Xiao Danzi, I still like to call you that, it seems kind, if you have anything to say, just say it." ”

Xiao Danzi immediately changed his words and said: "Qin Ye is really happy, although I once offended you in the capital back then, but I still don't believe that you have nothing to do with the Boxers." But let's go over the past, now that the old man of the Zhang family thinks that we are old people, so let me talk to you about a deal with Master Qin. ”

Qin Zhihong smiled noncommittally and said, "What kind of deal?" I'd love to hear about it. ”

Xiao Danzi still didn't touch Qin Zhihong, so he smiled, found a seat and sat down, and said: "Master Qin, in Chai Jiawa and the capital, I have seen your medical skills, it is indeed clever, three times five divided by two, and the Chai family's ** milk and that foreign hairer were cured, so the master of the Zhang family came to let me talk about cooperation with you." ”

Although Qin Zhihong said that he was unhappy in his heart, but after practicing for the past few years, his heart was much calmer, and he still asked with an unchanged face:

"How to cooperate?"

Xiao Danzi said: "My lord knows that you have excellent medical skills, especially your Qin family's medicine Seven Spirit Flowers, which can be said to be the elixir of trauma, so I want to cooperate with you and produce together, and the profits will be divided fifty-fifty." Presumably although you have this recipe, but it is only a little famous within a hundred miles, our lord said, if the two families do it together, ensure that the seven spirit flowers are scattered and famous in the world, and then the two families will be rich together, Qin Ye, what do you think? ”

Qin Zhihong thought to himself, in fact, the Seven Spirits Flower Scatter is indeed a magical recipe, but the preparation process is very repeated, and the danger is extremely high, if you are not careful, it will be highly toxic, Qin Zhihong has actually thought about expanding the scale for a long time, but because of the limitations of this recipe, he has been making a small fuss for several years, fortunately, Qin Zhihong is not a person with great ambitions, but he is also at ease, but now that the Zhang family has taken the initiative to discuss this matter, although he is also itching, but there is nothing to be done.

So Qin Zhihong said: "Little list, you don't know, although my house is miraculous, it also has many weaknesses, so I will personally invite Master Zhang to dinner when I have time, how about talking about this matter in detail?" ”

When Xiao Danzi heard this, he couldn't help but be happy in his heart, thinking that Qin Zhihong had the intention of cooperating, so he said happily: "Qin Ye said so, I can go back to my life, how rude I was just now, I think you will also be an adult and ignore the villain's life, and I will leave the little list." ”

After the little list left, Qin Zhihong sat on the chair and thought for a long time, and said in his heart, this little list has actually always held a grudge against himself, but it is also reasonable, although Lian'er and I said it was unintentional, but it also made him suffer a lot, so I will compensate him well in the future.

A few days later, Qin Zhihong sent someone to invite the old man of the Zhang family to the restaurant in the town to go to the banquet, and when he saw it, Qin Zhihong couldn't help but wonder, it turned out that the old man of the Zhang family was a young man of about the same age as himself, and the two exchanged a few words of greeting, and learned that the old man Zhang's name was Zhang Zongqi, and his father was over the age of six, so he handed over the family business to his son, so now Zhang Zongqi is already the master of the Zhang family, so Qin Zhihong immediately changed his name to "Young Master Zhang" again.

After three rounds of wine and five flavors of food, Qin Zhihong got to the point, and Zhang Zongqi was also scheming, and he was not in a hurry to talk about cooperation with Qin Zhihong, but was just talking about rumors and anecdotes. Qin Zhihong said:

"Young Master Zhang, I invited you to drink this time, not for anything else, I just want to tell the truth, and tell you that we can't cooperate this time."

Zhang Zongqi couldn't help but be surprised, and wondered: "Oh, then tell me, why can't we cooperate?" ”

Qin Zhihong raised his wine glass and said, "Actually, I have long planned to expand the scale, but I am suffering from the limitations of my own recipe and cannot use it. You may think that I am prevaricating you, but if you look at the monthly output of my medical hall, you will understand that these Seven Spirit Flowers are in short supply at all. ”

Zhang Zongqi then asked: "Then I think Qin Ye, you are very leisurely every day, how can you have limitations?" ”

Qin Zhihong said: "It's not a secret, I have to buy medicinal materials almost every month, but I still can't keep up with the output, the reason for this is because the toxicity of this recipe of the Seven Spirits Flower Scatter needs to be reduced in the preparation process, over the years I have also summed up the experience, the original recipe is only a few days, but for the sake of insurance, on the basis of not damaging the efficacy, the process of strychnine detoxification is lengthened, so that the whole pair of medicine down for at least half a month." Saying that, Qin Zhihong drank the glass of wine that he had raised a long time ago.

Qin Zhihong continued: "And the person who prepares this powder must be an expert who is familiar with the entire recipe, in this way, there are very few people available, and it must be a reliable person, let me ask Young Master Zhang, do you have such a person under you?" ”

When Zhang Zongqi heard this, he also felt reasonable, but he still suspected that Qin Zhihong was lying to him, Qin Zhihong didn't know this, so he continued:

"Young Master Zhang, you may think that I am prevaricating you, in fact, if I prevaricate you, I will not invite you here, in fact, I also want to cooperate, but the conditions do not allow, and I myself know your sincerity, so I don't want to go, I came to invite you to the banquet and made it clear in person. Thinking that in the future, the two of us will have a place to use each other or make money together, and I, Qin Zhihong, naturally don't want to make the future fortune of our two families because of this matter, you say yes. ”

Zhang Zongqi listened to Qin Zhihong's words very sincerely, but he was a little bit of a villain's belly, so he picked up the wine glass and said: "Brother Qin, if this thing is not successful, the little brother will not take it to heart, and it will be a long time in the future." As he spoke, he drank all the wine in his cup.

Qin Zhihong said with a smile: "Since you and my brother are commensurate, Brother Zhang, I am willing to transfer a part of the prepared Seven Spirit Flower Scatter to Brother Zhang every month, and my medical hall will be known within a radius of a hundred miles, and Brother Zhang's family has a big business, I heard that there are deals with the pharmacists in Jiangnan, as long as the two families do not conflict with the business of the Seven Spirit Flower Scatter." ”

Zhang Zongqi immediately got up and saluted, and said solemnly: "Brother Qin, I have long heard that you are righteous, and you really hate to see each other, you can give me a part of your business, it can be seen that you are honest, but in this way, I didn't rob you of your money to make money, I really don't dare to accept this." ”

Qin Zhihong said with a smile: "I moved my family to Hedong Village, and I am already very satisfied to have a foothold in Guibao Land, I don't want to be rich and noble, if you don't accept it, you will look down on me Qin Zhihong." ”

Zhang Zongqi was speechless, so he simply picked up the wine glass and drank a full glass to show his gratitude.

The two rode back to Hedong Village together and went home to rest, not to mention Zhang Zongqi, after Qin Zhihong returned home, he told Lian'er At this time, Lian'er couldn't help but say angrily:

"You're stupid! If you can't sell what you sell, why do you have to sell some of it to him? ”

Qin Zhihong was just about to speak, but it happened that Old Man Yang came to Qin Zhihong for a drink, and heard that he went to the town with the Zhang family to get drunk during the day, so he couldn't help but come to see him, and just heard Lian'er reprimanding Qin Zhihong. Old Man Yang also understood a rough idea, so he argued for Qin Zhihong:

"Lian'er, you have wronged Zhihong, if I guess correctly, Zhihong is only borrowing chickens to lay eggs."

Although Qin Zhihong was so drunk that he couldn't stand steadily, he couldn't help but be overjoyed when he heard his father-in-law say what he thought, so he said to Lian'er:

"See, my father-in-law still understands me."

Lian'er was still puzzled, but Ziyi was snickering on the side, thinking to herself, these two are also a couple, and they think of everything together. And Old Man Yang's Jia Lian'er was still puzzled, so he explained:

"Do you think, Lian'er, Zhihong has been busy working in the past few years, isn't he also a little famous in Shili and Eight Townships? Even if SD is famous, but his Zhang family has dealings with big merchants in several provinces, if the Zhang family is allowed to shout all over the street with these seven spirit flowers, is there anything more than this to enhance the reputation of their medicine? In the art of war, this is called 'borrowing a corpse to return the soul'. ”

Qin Zhihong was drunk and did not forget to give a thumbs up and praise his father-in-law.

Lian'er suddenly realized and said, "It turns out that you are both such thieves, a little fox and an old fox!" ”

Old Man Yang pretended to be angry and said, "Presumptuous, did you say that about your father?" ”

Qin Zhihong was smiling and watching the father and daughter arguing with him, and Lian'er muttered reluctantly: "It was originally ......"