Seeing off the people from the Qin Mission, Xie Duo and the government, Hui Niang breathed a long sigh of relief.

Originally, Hui Niang was still a little worried that the reception would not be good, but she didn't expect that this Xie Qincha was old and approachable, and he didn't even feel the kind of high-minded and domineering official atmosphere from his body.

"Xiaolang, the people are gone, let's just close the door, we shouldn't be able to do business today." Hui Niang greeted Shen Xi and began to clean up the chairs that had been put out.

Originally, in order to receive Xie Duo and the people from the government, Hui Niang specially borrowed tables, chairs, coffee tables from neighbors, and bought oranges, melon seeds and other snacks and fragrant tea, but Xie Duo didn't even drink a cup of tea when he came, and all the preparations didn't come in handy.

After everything was cleaned up, Hui Niang went to buy chicken, duck and fish meat and prepared an extremely sumptuous meal. Hui Niang originally wanted to entertain Xie Duo, the imperial court, but in the evening, someone from the Yamen came to spread the word, saying that Xie Duo had left Ninghua County overnight and returned to the provincial capital.

Come in a hurry, go more urgently.

Shen Xi felt that this Xie Duo was thoughtful, and he didn't put on a show like ordinary court officials inspecting places, and he had to do everything himself, and even tried to get pox himself, but he didn't know if with Xie Duo's old and healthy body, after planting pox and the fatigue of the journey, he would not be able to afford to get sick on the road.

In the evening, the two families ate together again, and Shen Xi was full of oil and addicted. It's a pity that Shen Mingjun still hasn't come back, Zhou didn't say anything at the dinner table, and began to talk on the way home.

Back in his yard, Zhou sat in front of the hall and sighed with emotion: "I didn't expect that I, a peasant woman, would be able to see the emperor when I entered the city...... It's a pity that your father is not here today, otherwise he can have a good time. Han Wa'er, if you have the ability in the future, you can be sent to the place to inspect the place, then the mother will be too happy. ”

Shen Xi said with a smile while rinsing: "Anyway, the Wang family is not far from here...... If my mother misses her father, she can go over to see it from time to time, or simply ask her father not to do things in the Wang family, she is tired and panicked. ”

"Go, go, how can your father support you and your daughter-in-law if he doesn't do things? You are a little conscienceless, your mother can help in the pharmacy, but your father will not be able to, he is a man, your aunt is a widow, this widow has a lot of rights and wrongs in front of the door, if your father often goes in and out of the pharmacy, it is difficult to ensure that the neighbors will not chew the root of the tongue. ”

"Alas, forget it, you don't understand this, you go to bed early after washing, my mother doesn't care about the two of you." Zhou Shi entered the door after speaking, she was very saving, but when the moon was bright, she would never light an oil lamp.

Shen Xi simply washed and went back to the room, and naturally told Lin Dai a story before going to bed.

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In the next few days, the matter of Qin's visit to Ninghua County gradually faded, but the business of the pharmacy was booming.

In the past, Hui Niang wanted to buy medicinal materials, and those traveling merchants bullied Hui Niang for being a female streamer, always raising the price, but now knowing that Hui Niang is valued by the imperial court, and there is a county government to take care of it, these people begged Hui Niang to buy from them, and the price of medicinal materials was lowered a lot, and Hui Niang followed the price reduction, and the passenger flow surged again.

As soon as the business is good, there is an endless stream of people who come to Huiniang Pharmacy every day to ask for medicine, and several other pharmacies in the city are all light business, almost full of doors.

“…… The Sun sister's medicinal materials here are good, and the treatment is very effective, even the imperial court has come here to see the disease, but unfortunately the Sun family's sister can't come out for a consultation, otherwise the business will definitely be prosperous. ”

The long-tongued women in the neighborhood used to show up because of Hui Niang's moral corruption, but now they are afraid that they will not be able to do so.

Hui Niang is good anywhere, but she doesn't know how to refuse.

These people in the neighborhood came to talk to Hui Niang when they were fine, but in fact, they just wanted to get some medicinal materials to go back, but whenever it was to treat small problems such as wind cold, headache, brain fever, etc., Hui Niang would not charge money if she could not collect money.

When Zhou's shareholding in the pharmacy expired one month and the settlement expired, he found that the pharmacy had not only not made money, but had been trading at a loss. Hui Niang counted the account book to Zhou, and her face was full of apology: "It's my sister's, I invited my sister to come over and run the pharmacy together, but I even had to lose the capital." ”

Zhou looked indifferent: "Look at what my sister said, it was originally the silver that my sister gave me, and now I take it out as a turnover, why not?" ”

Shen Xi fanned the flames beside him: "Mother, you are careful about every penny on weekdays, it is really insincere to say such things!" ”

"Stinky boy, dare to entertain your mother? Although the old lady saves on weekdays, isn't it for you to study? Is it for herself to be a mother? ”

Zhou scolded Shen Xi, and finally made the scene not too embarrassing.

Hui Niang said: "I've thought about it these days, now that winter is coming, the plague has passed, even if it breaks out again, it will have to wait until after the beginning of spring." Let's make the business lighter later, so we can simply increase the price of medicinal materials a little, and just have a small profit of two or three points...... We can't afford to lose our money, we have to support our families, right? ”

Zhou slapped his thigh and praised: "My sister's words have gone to my sister's heart...... Yes, it's time to raise prices, and it really has to be! ”

Shen Xi stuck out his tongue when he heard this, and said, "Mother said before that she didn't care? Now I care about it! ”

Zhou casually touched the account book on the table and wanted to greet Shen Xi, but Shen Xi was so clever that he fled to the backyard with his homework, and Zhou's scolding could be heard from afar: "Stinky boy, don't come back for dinner today if you have the ability." ”

When Shen Xi got home, put his homework away, and the first thing he did was to break the pigsty and get his calligraphy and painting.

Because he had been helping in the pharmacy before, Shen Xi rarely had the opportunity to get it, but he finally made a fake, this time he did not imitate Wang Meng's painting, but made a landscape painting of Huang Gongwang, who was the same "Yuan Four Family" as Wang Meng.

With the experience of the last time, this time Shen Xi is even more experienced in penmanship and distressing, and he can almost be real.

Holding the antique painting, Shen Xi quietly slipped back to the street where the pharmacy was located, and took advantage of no one's attention to go directly into the calligraphy and painting shop "Sigu Zhai", which was only one wall away from the pharmacy.

When the shopkeeper of "Sigu Zhai" saw Shen Xi coming in, he greeted happily: "Yo, isn't this a little miracle doctor?" How do you have time to come to the Despicable Number? ”

"Uncle Xu, aren't you entertaining me? I'm here to sell paintings. Shen Xi carefully took out the fake calligraphy and painting and presented it.

The shopkeeper of "Sigu Zhai" is surnamed Xu, and Shen Xi doesn't know what his specific name is, but the neighbors call him Uncle Xu, who is a scholar himself, although he was not admitted to Xiucai, but he is a child who has passed the government exam. His ancestors knew calligraphy and painting antiques, and this calligraphy and painting shop was the ancestral property inherited.

"It's calligraphy and painting that hasn't been framed again...... How are you going to divide the account for this sale? Uncle Xu looked at Shen Xi and asked.

Shen Xi is no longer afraid that Uncle Xu will tell his family about it this time, if he lets the Zhou family know that Shen Xi was severely cheated by Uncle Xu last time he sold paintings, he would definitely come over and make a big fuss.

Zhou's pungency is well-known in the neighborhood.

When he first moved here, Zhou was able to be a low-key person because he was not familiar with the place, but now Zhou is half the shopkeeper of the pharmacy, and the pharmacy has recently been rewarded by the imperial court...... Who dares to deal with this hot-tempered aunt and grandmother head-on now?

"Uncle Xu, let's be fair, how about **** account sharing? I'm six and you're four, don't have any cats in there...... Actually, the last painting was given to me by an old gentleman, and now this one is the same, and if the old gentleman still sells paintings in the future, I will still bring the paintings here. ”

Uncle Xu pointed at Shen Xi with a smile and said, "You kid is really smart and clever, you scared me into a daze." Okay, then it's up to you, **** to divide the account, this framed money is given to you for free, but don't tell your mother when you go back. ”

Shen Xi pursed his lips: "I won't say it, she still beat me when I went out before." ”

Xu Bo took the painting in his hand, looked at it carefully, and the more he looked at it, the happier he became.

The painting that Shen Xi sold last time was actually sold for ten taels of silver, but it was Han County who bought the painting and gave it to Lin Zhongye of the Ministry of Works.

Lin Zhongye, who was born in Jinshi, naturally understands calligraphy and painting, and is very satisfied after seeing the Wang Meng landscape painting, and at first said that it was too precious to accept it, and Han Xie said that this was a fake painting that was not worth anything at all, and Lin Zhongye really couldn't refuse, so he had to accept it and bring it back to the capital.

Since Lin Zhongye left Ninghua County, there has been no news.

In fact, after Lin Zhongye returned to Beijing, he presented the southern opera script as a congratulatory gift at the birthday banquet for Empress Zhang and the prince.

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