Hui Niang raised the price of medicinal herbs a little and no longer sold them at a loss.

In autumn and winter, because of the relative lack of medicinal materials due to the difficulty of roads, and the excessive consumption of medicinal materials due to the plague of that year, medicinal materials in western Fujian became extremely scarce.

Although the people who came to ask for medicine had a few opinions, after all, they all knew that the price of medicinal materials sold by Hui Niang here was lower than that of other pharmacies, so they didn't have too many complaints.

But at this time, other pharmacies in Ninghua County saw that Hui Niang's business was booming, and in order to ensure their own survival and at the same time hit their opponents, they simply joined forces to implement a strategy of drastic price reduction, preparing to hurt people with their own hearts, so that Hui Niang could not continue to do the business of the pharmacy.

In the first two days when the prices of medicinal materials in other pharmacies were greatly reduced, Shen Xi found that there were indeed fewer people who came to Huiniang Pharmacy to buy medicines, and no matter how they said that the patients hoped to cure the disease with the least amount of money, so the people heard that other pharmacies had reduced their prices, and they changed their places to buy medicines under the introduction of Fang Langzhong.

In the past few months, seven or eight of the ten people in the city who are sick will go to Hui Niang's pharmacy to buy medicine, and now under the word-of-mouth effect, although the prices of other shops are lower than Hui Niang's, but the business is only one or two percent less, and the impact on Hui Niang's pharmacy is not particularly great.

On the contrary, because there are fewer people, Hui Niang and Zhou don't have to be too busy, and after closing the shop in the afternoon, they can prepare dinner early, and Shen Xi no longer has to wait to be hungry.

After a few days, as soon as the freshness of other pharmacies reduced prices passed, Shen Xi was surprised to find that there were more people coming to Huiniang's pharmacies than before.

Even if other pharmacies reduce their prices again, it doesn't seem to have much effect on the situation, and the people should come to Hui Niang or continue to come. In the end, medicinal materials are not like firewood, rice, oil and salt, the most important role is to cure diseases and save people, now everyone in the city and outside the city knows that the medicine sold by Hui Niang Pharmacy is authentic and not adulterated, and Hui Niang is famous, and the imperial court Qin sent to ask for medicine here, so it is absolutely impossible to buy it here.

By the middle of winter, when Sun Huiniang distributed the dividends of running the pharmacy for the second time, although Shen Xi didn't know how much the old lady had shared, but when she saw the old lady coming out of the house and smiling from ear to ear, she knew that she must have made a lot of money.

"Hanwa'er, Dai'er, you get up early tomorrow morning, let's go to the tailor's shop to make you two new clothes, but you have to go back quickly, otherwise it will be bad to delay the opening of the shop."

With money, although the Zhou family will save money, it will not treat Shen Xi and Lin Dai badly.

Shen Xi didn't think so, anyway, there was not much difference between new clothes and old clothes, Lin Dai was very happy, Zhou was not her biological mother after all, now Zhou thought about her whenever he had good things, she could feel Zhou's love for her, which was more important than anything else.

The next day, before the sky was fully opened, Zhou took Shen Xi and Lin Dai to make clothes.

Because Zhou had worked as a helper in a tailor's shop, the shopkeeper of the tailor's shop knew her, and the manual fee for making clothes was much less than that of others.

At this moment, the whispers of two women came into their ears, and one of them said: "I didn't expect that the medicine that cures the sick and saves people can eat people to death, it seems that the widow surnamed Sun is indeed vicious, and even the medicine she sells is not clean." ”

When Zhou heard this, he was furious and reprimanded angrily: "What are you talking about, what do you mean that the widow's poison is not clean, when has our medicine ever eaten and died?" ”

The two women glanced at Zhou, ignored Zhou, and left directly.

Zhou wanted to chase out, but was pulled by Shen Xi, Zhou was a little angry, but these people were talking bad about the pharmacy behind their backs, glared at Shen Xi, and scolded in his mouth: "Han Wa'er, what are you stopping me for?" People like this gossiping behind their backs should tear their mouths apart! ”

"Mother, this is a tailor's shop, it's not good to make a fuss! I think it may be that the business in my aunt's shop is too good, attracting the jealousy of the villain and maliciously slandering and slandering. Shen Xi comforted.

"Do you still have to say that? My mother also thinks these people are too angry. Okay, okay, do you measure it, let's leave early, and when we go back, we have to help your aunt open a shop...... Xiaolang, my mother is so busy every day, you can't be lazy in the school, you know? ”

Shen Xi nodded, but he thought in his heart that he didn't seem to be very relaxed, and he had to go to the pharmacy to help every day when he came back from school.

When Zhou returned to the pharmacy with the two small ones, he saw that many people had gathered in front of the store, and these people did not seem to have come to seek medical advice, but to watch the excitement.

In front of the main entrance of the pharmacy, a few people wearing linen and filial piety carried an old man of fifty or sixty years old with the door panel, and the old man did not move, as if he was dead. These people were noisy and shouted fiercely, Hui Niang had already come out of the store and was gently consoling, but those people did not appreciate it at all, and their attitudes were extremely arrogant.

“…… My father is just typhoid fever, his old man has always been tough, he never thought that he came to this vicious women's shop yesterday to buy medicine and go back, my father drank medicine and fell asleep, and his hands and feet convulsed at night, it must be this woman who moved her hands and feet in the medicine and wanted to kill my father...... Hmph, pay for my father's life! ”

A man in his thirties was shouting loudly, as if he was afraid that others would not hear him.

Shen Xi glanced at the crowd of onlookers next to him, and the shopkeepers of the rest of the pharmacies in the city were all here, and they were hiding in the crowd to watch the excitement at this moment.

Although Shen Xi didn't know if this matter was maliciously framed by these people, at least it was instigated by them to deliberately let people come to Huiniang Pharmacy to make trouble outside, taking the opportunity to ruin the reputation of Huiniang and the pharmacy.

Hui Niang said anxiously: "Since the old man has not passed away yet, then you should go to the doctor to see a doctor." ”

"Does it work? We went to see several doctors, and they all said let's go home and get ready for the future...... Now my father is not even angry, you give back my father's life, otherwise we will sue the government and let the official master judge the reason. ”

If it were in the past, if Hui Niang was involved in anything, the villagers would definitely point out that she was a widow, and they would not stand on Hui Niang's side. And this time, even if Hui Niang seemed to be at fault in this matter, the crowd of onlookers was very calm, and none of them came out to give advice, just some people whispered, but not all of them spoke for the families of the deceased.

Zhou pulled Shen Xi to the door, meaning to stand with Hui Niang, and everyone faced difficulties together.

Just now, Zhou was still disdainful of the discussion of the two women in the tailor's shop, and now I heard that the meaning of these people who made trouble was indeed to take medicine and eat the dead, Zhou couldn't help but be a little nervous, she stood in front of Hui Niang, and argued with the onlookers around her: "Those who ask for medicine and medicine, who can guarantee that medicine will cure people?" Even the doctor has accidentally killed people. ”

It's okay not to say this, but the onlookers are talking louder.

Shen Xi pulled Zhou's hand: "Mother, don't talk if you can't speak." ”

"Stinky boy, is my mother wrong? Originally, the doctor didn't say that he would be cured, these people are messing with your aunt, and you are still on their side, right? ”

Shen Xi had no way to communicate with the troublesome Zhou clan at all.

Zhou was in a hurry, and he said something that should not be said without clarifying the reason, and now the question is not whether the doctor can cure the patient, but whether the medicine has killed people. These people came up and set the tone that the old man was just typhoid fever, that is, it was not fatal, and he would only die after taking medicine.

If according to Zhou's statement, isn't that not self-confession?

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