"This is the Fang family?"

Early in the morning, Mu Shengbai personally came to the door, stood in front of the open wooden door, and looked inside.

"I don't know if you're it?" A woman with her head wrapped in a cloth walked out, holding a basket of vegetables in her hand, and looked at Mu Shengbai suspiciously.

"Below is Mu Shengbai, the shopkeeper of Lanwu Pavilion, who came to visit today to ask you to help us make a batch of rouge gouache." Lanwu Pavilion is the name of the shop opened by Liuyun Villa in Jinling City.

"Really!" The woman suddenly became excited, "Shopkeeper Mu come in quickly, I'll go and ask my family to talk to you." ”

Mu Shengbai was taken to sit on a chair in the center of the hall, and saw the woman shouting inside as she ran, "Old Fang, come out quickly, the shopkeeper of the Lanwu Pavilion is here." ”

"What kind of shopkeeper Mu, why are you arguing so early, you mother-in-law." A middle-aged man with a beard and cheeks walked out of it carrying a wine jug, and he was so drunk that he seemed to have drunk a lot.

"You still drink, you know how to drink all day long." The woman angrily pulled off the wine jug in his hand and pulled him to Mu Shengbai, "Shopkeeper Mu, this is our family, if you have anything, just tell him." ”

After speaking, he stood nervously with his hands folded, and the man sat on the chair drunk.

"Hello, it's Lan Wuge Mu Shengbai, I'm here today to hire you to help me make a batch of rouge gouache, if you can cooperate for a long time, it's naturally the best, and the remuneration is good, we will naturally not treat you badly."

Mu Shengbai stood up and said kindly.

The man straightened up in disbelief, and turned to look at the woman next to him in a daze, "Daughter-in-law, did I hear it wrong, this Mu shopkeeper said...... I'm not really drunk and delirious. ”

"No, no, no, the shopkeeper Mu said that he would hire us to help." The woman's eyes were red and she pressed against the man's shoulder.

"Our ancestor has appeared hahaha." The man looked up to the sky like crazy and roared, then swept away the decadence, and said to Mu Shengbai with a radiant look: "Shopkeeper Mu, my Datong still thought that our family's craftsmanship was about to be defeated in my hands, but I didn't expect to meet you like Bole, I thought yesterday that I would go to the dock with my relatives to work on the dock to support my family." ”

"Can you go to work in the shop tomorrow? What do you think of eleven two months? ”

Mu Shengbai was naturally happy with Fang Datong's attitude, but he just heard that his skills were good, and he didn't know what the real level was, so he planned to pay this price first, and if the cooperation was happy in the future, of course it would be appropriately raised.

"Absolutely." Fang Datong's eyes lit up suddenly, he thought that Mu Shengbai would just offer a price, but he didn't expect the price to be so high, you must know that one or two pieces of silver is the cost of their family of three for a month.

Early the next morning, before the boy opened the door of the Lan Pavilion, Fang Datong and his wife were guarding the door, and the boy hurriedly invited them in, and then went to inform Mu Shengbai.

"Shopkeeper Mu, I don't know where we work, we husband and wife can start making it now." The two of them were full of interest and enthusiasm, and Mu Shengbai had asked people to prepare the raw materials yesterday, so they would not be at a loss.

He told the boy to take the two of them there, and he himself went to wash, and it was just after midnight, and it was still dark, and there were very few pedestrians on the street.

When Mu Shengbai went to the place where the two of them were preparing to make rouge gouache, the husband and wife were engrossed in the work in their hands, and they didn't even notice his arrival, and the air was filled with fragrance.

And when he was in Liuyun Villa, he also learned from the people who were good at these in the house, plus he had a special idea, and he also joined the research of the two people, and the three of them did all kinds of research in it all day, and actually made some more special rouge gouache, such as incense powder that can attract butterflies, and rouge that can remove wrinkles and brighten the complexion.

As soon as they were launched, they were immediately snatched up by the young ladies who love beauty, and they were in short supply. Now in the entire Jinling City, who doesn't know that the rouge gouache of Lanwu Pavilion is a must-have in the city, and even half of the people who go to Qibao Zhai have gone to Lanwu Pavilion instead.

Seeing the front door of the Lanwu Pavilion, Mu Shengbai smiled proudly, and Xia Chang hated it even more. I tried every possible way to inquire and learned that it was Fang Datong and his wife who made these spices, and they also used a lot of money to hire two people over, but they were refused.

Helpless, I can only see that there are fewer and fewer people visiting Qibao Zhai.

On this day, Fang Datong and his wife came over with a sad face to ask him if he could mention the payment, and Mu Shengbai asked only to know that their son Fang Hehe suddenly had a high fever and went to the medical center in the city, but the Jinling City Medical Center charged quite a lot, and their son used the medicine for several days in a row but did not get better, and the family's savings were spent, so they had no choice but to come to seek help from Mu Shengbai.

Mu Shengbai agreed, although the couple only needed their half a month's salary, he still did not hesitate to give them ten taels of silver. At the same time, he also wanted to send people to other towns to find doctors with better medical skills, after all, if Fang Datong's son had a long-term high fever, it would definitely have a great impact on his body.

He had nothing to do on this day, and the man he had sent out to look for the doctor had not yet returned, so he thought that he would go out to look for it himself, and went out of the city.

Walking all the way in the direction of the sun, it didn't take long for Mu Shengbai to see a somewhat old city gate, and the faded "Seven Colors City" sign hung on the city wall. Unlike the endless stream of Jinling City, it looked rather deserted, and few people entered and exited through the door.

Mu Shengbai felt strange, and couldn't help but walk in, and found that there were relatively low and dilapidated houses on both sides of the road, and there were very few big houses, and even on the street, there were only a few vendors selling food and a few customers with hurried looks. The further you went inside, the more sparse the houses became, but there were more and more trees, mostly bare, with only a few layers of snow hanging from them.

In the end, he didn't see a house alone, he turned back, and just saw a lady who came back from shopping for vegetables, and hurriedly greeted him, "Auntie, why are there so few people here?" ”

But the eldest lady didn't hear him speak, and he walked over without paying attention, Mu Shengbai had no choice but to continue to walk forward, but he met nine people in a row, as if he was a cow ghost, snake god, and he didn't want to say a word to him.

Mu Shengbai didn't want to go on like this anymore, thinking that it was getting dark, so it was better to find an inn here for one night before returning to Jinling City, but after walking all over the town, he didn't even see the shadow of an inn. No matter how deserted a town is, it won't even have an inn, right?

But this is indeed the case, Mu Shengbai had no choice but to rush back to Jinling City overnight.