Chapter 211: The Lion Opens His Mouth
Now that the disaster relief plan has been decided, the next question is implementation. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. biquge。 As for how to implement it, there is no need for Chen Fang and other major figures to do it personally, just put the plan in the hands of the people below, and they will naturally do everything, so Chen Fang, who was able to get out, went to the medicine store with a letter from the county government.
Prevention is better than cure. He didn't want to wait until the plague really came to try and regret it. Now it is the right way to pick up some medicinal herbs to cook a medicinal soup to ward off cold, dampness and heat and distribute it to the victims to prevent dysentery and plague.
There is only one medicine store in Guangliang, and the scale is not large, but the medicines are quite complete, at least the medicinal materials needed for Chen Fang are available, but the number is a little less.
"Shopkeeper, is there a way to prepare more medicinal herbs for me?" After counting the medicinal materials needed, Chen Fang felt that his head was big for a while, now is the critical time to prevent and control the plague, if the prevention and control is not in place because of the lack of medicinal materials, then the plague will break out, don't think that there will be enough medicinal materials to treat it.
Businessmen, profit-seekers too. Merchants all over the world are not willing to push their business out of the door, even if they make less money, as long as they can make money, they will do their best to make money, but for the requirements of Chen Fang, the shopkeeper of medicinal materials is very difficult.
"Master Chen, it's not that I don't want to help you, it's just that the flood has dragged me down, and now the road to several nearby medicinal material procurement points has been destroyed, and I really can't transfer medicinal materials from other places for a while." The shopkeeper of the medicine store is difficult.
Chen Fang frowned and said, "Is there no way at all?" Walk by water, can't you? I could have paid you more. ”
The shopkeeper of the medicine store smiled bitterly: "Master Chen, this, I'm afraid this won't work, the medicine in our medicine store has never walked through the waterway, and it has no experience, if something happens and it gets into the water, it will all be ruined." ”
"It's okay, it's okay to get water, anyway, the medicinal materials will be used up as soon as they arrive, and it doesn't matter if you put in some water." Chen Fang said hurriedly.
"This ......" The shopkeeper of the medicine store was very embarrassed, and suddenly his eyes lit up, and he said excitedly: "Master Chen, in fact, I don't have the medicinal materials you want here, it's just that these medicinal materials have been ordered by other pharmacies and are temporarily stored with us." If so......"
"What if?" Chen Fang asked.
"If Master Chen can convince the shopkeepers of these pharmacies to give up this batch of medicines, or sell them from them, it may be enough."
"Buy? Shopkeeper, otherwise, you can return all the deposit to them and sell me the medicine, rest assured that I will support you with another amount of money as compensation. ”
"No way!" In the face of Chen Fang's proposal, the shopkeeper shook his head firmly, and said to Chen Fang apologetically: "Master Chen, keeping promises is the foundation of our medicine store's survival, and we will never smash our own signboard." ”
Hearing this, Chen magnified to be disappointed, but he did not anger the shopkeeper because of this, no matter what year it is, a businessman who keeps his promises is definitely worthy of respect.
"So, shopkeeper, can you tell me the names of these apothecaries, and I'll talk to their shopkeeper?" Chen Fang retreated and asked for the next way.
The shopkeeper's expression slowed down slightly, and he nodded, "This is okay." ”
After taking the medicinal materials and getting the information from the pharmacy shopkeeper, Chen Fang asked a few people to press the medicinal materials back to the yamen first, and he alone took the list to find the pharmacies that bought the medicinal materials.
There are a total of four pharmacies that have taken these medicinal materials, two of which are known to Chen Fang, one is Li Rentang, who he only went to yesterday, and the other is Chunhetang, which has been lost for a long time.
In the past, when Liu Ziyong was still sitting in the Chunhe Hall, he would occasionally go over to exchange and learn a thing or two, but since the Liu family's father and son were taken away by Cang Tianao, he has never been there, and no matter how he thinks about it, he feels that he is a little sorry for the Liu family.
However, in today's situation, the demand for medicinal materials is imminent, and there is no room for delay.
That's it, stretching out the head is a knife, and shrinking the head is also a knife. Since you can't hide, let's face it calmly.
Thinking of the disaster, Chen Fang let go of the hesitation in his heart and went to Chunhetang first.
It's been a long time since I've been to Chunwado, and everything in Chunwado has become different, at least the front of the door is much cleaner than before.
Chen Fang, who walked to the gate of Chunhe Hall, couldn't help but pause, his face was full of surprise, the open space in front of the door of Chunhe Hall in the past would always guard many people who came to see him, but today he didn't see a ghost, and he couldn't help but be startled.
Could it be that no one in the whole Guangliang City is sick?
With all kinds of doubts, he walked into the Spring and Harmony Hall.
As soon as he walked into Chunhe Hall, Chen Fang immediately felt a completely different treatment from when Liu Ziyong was still there.
There was hardly a single person who didn't give him a good look.
"That, little brother, take the liberty to ask, who is the shopkeeper in Chunhetang now?" Chen Fang inquired about the boy who was picking up the medicine, but before the boy could give any answer, Liu Dehong's strange voice came.
"Yo, what's the matter, I've wiped out Old Liu's shopkeeper, do you want to wipe me out now?"
Liu Dehong is a person Chen Fang has not been in contact with a lot before, but he still has a certain understanding of him, in his heart Liu Dehong is an old doctor with mediocre medical skills and average medical ethics, and now his words have greatly reduced Chen Fang's impression of him, but it also makes Chen Fang understand why everyone looks at themselves differently, and everyone blames Liu Ziyong's disappearance on his head.
Anyway, he didn't come to gather the old, seeing that Liu Dehong didn't mean to greet him, Chen didn't plan to beat around the bush, so he directly took out a prescription from his arms and handed it over.
"Shopkeeper Liu, now the disaster is urgent, and the yamen urgently needs a batch of medicinal materials to prevent and control the plague, and some of these medicinal materials have been ordered by your Chunhetang, and I hope that the shopkeeper Liu can do a good deed and resell these medicinal materials to the yamen."
"Medicinal herbs? Yamen wants to buy medicinal herbs? Liu Dehong chuckled and said he didn't believe it, but he still took the order.
Glancing at it, his brows furrowed. The medicinal materials on the list are all ordinary medicinal materials, but there are a lot of scary types, which are used to prevent and control the plague?
When he thought of something, his heart suddenly fluttered with excitement, but on the surface, he still maintained his composure, raised his eyelids, and asked without yin or yang: "So many medicinal herbs?" How much? ”
Chen Fang quickly replied: "Yes, how many Guibao are there, how much do you want?" ”
"Hehe, how much do you want?" Liu Dehongpi looked at Chen Fang with a smile, and Chen Fang nodded solemnly.
But in the next second, the corners of Chen Fang's eyebrows jumped up with anger.
Liu Dehong smiled contemptuously, threw the list back on him, and said, "How many are good ones, but have you asked me if I want to sell them to you?" ”
"You ......" Chen Fang was furious, but he reacted immediately, immediately suppressed the anger in his heart, and said in a deep voice: "Shopkeeper Liu, this matter is not a personal grudge, but a virtuous act for a thousand years, you and I are both medical practitioners, why not put aside your prejudices and create a good deed?" ”
"Hey, wait." Liu Dehong shook a finger, interrupted Chen Fang's words, and said: "You are right, but there is one thing you said wrong, I am the one who practices medicine, you ...... Not yet. ”
The clay figure also has three points of anger, in the face of such a villain, Chen couldn't be polite anymore, glanced at the empty Chunhetang, and sneered: "Shopkeeper Liu, whether I am a doctor or not, but at least I will not run a good pharmacy into a fly house." ”
Chunhetang is famous, decades of gold-lettered signboards, so that countless peers and people praised it, now described by Chen Fang as a fly hall, Liu Dehong's lungs are almost blown up, but this is the truth of the facts, since the Chunhetang handed over to his hands, the business is plummeting, take this time as an example, it is not an exaggeration to describe it as idle to shoot flies.
But the facts are the facts, Liu Dehong, who considers himself the master of Chunhetang, felt that he had been slapped in the face in the face, and it was the kind of "popping" sound, so he suddenly waved his hand and said angrily: "Come on, send off guests." ”
"Don't bother, thank you, you better save some strength to swatt flies." Chen Fang was also angry, squatted down, picked up the medicine list, got up and walked straight out.
Seeing him stuff the medicine slip back into his arms, a different emotion flashed on Liu Dehong's face, and seeing that Chen Fang was about to step out of Chunhetang, he hurriedly said, "Slow." ”
"What, any advice?" Chen put his head and didn't go back to the tunnel.
"You're saying these herbs were purchased to deal with the plague?" Liu Dehong asked.
Nothing can be said to others, Chen Fang nodded and said, "Yes." ”
Liu Dehong groaned for a while, and suddenly said: "So, you can come back and talk." ”
Hearing this, Chen was surprised, could it be that he had misunderstood this guy all along? This guy actually has the same noble character as Liu Ziyong?
With joy in his heart, Chen Fang turned back and was about to say "no" to Liu Dehong, but Liu Dehong didn't look at him, and walked directly to the side and sat down.
Chen Fang, who felt that his hot face was sticking to his cold buttocks, touched his tall nose, walked over, and sat down without waiting for someone to say hello.
"Show me the list." Liu Dehong said with a straight face, Chen was overjoyed, and hurriedly took out the medicine list from his arms and handed it over, "Shopkeeper Liu, please see!" ”
Liu Dehong said "um" in a nasal voice, took the medicine list and looked at it.
Liu Dehong thought about it in his heart and said: "There are no precious medicinal materials, but even so, if you want all the medicinal materials in our Chunhetang's hands, you have to go up to at least three thousand guan, count you three thousand guan, can you afford such a large amount of money in the yamen?" ”
"Three thousand? Guibao has many of these herbs? Chen Fang was a little surprised by this price, according to the price of medicine in the medicine store before, wouldn't there be a lot of Tibetan medicine in Chunhetang? If there are really so many, then the rest can be left unattended.
Liu Dehong snorted conceitedly and said, "We have a lot of medicinal materials in Chunhetang, and there are probably seven or eight catties of each." ”
"Only seven or eight pounds?" Chen Fang cried out in a lost voice, seven or eight catties of each, so it was not about fifty percent more expensive to take this batch of medicinal materials from Chun Hetang's hand than to take them directly from the medicinal materials?
"Shopkeeper Liu, this is all a virtuous thing for the victims, you need three thousand pounds for every one of seven or eight catties, I'm afraid it's too much." Liu Dehong's lion mouth made Chen Fang quite dissatisfied, but who would have expected to face his accusations, but Liu Dehong didn't raise his eyelids.
"What seven or eight catties and three thousand guan, half, three thousand guan, I only sell half of your medicinal herbs." Liu Dehong raised a finger and didn't care about the authenticity.
"Three thousand kan is only half sold?" Chen Fang shouted again, his face was extremely pale, this price was not only half more expensive than the original price of medicinal materials, it was almost tripled.
"Shopkeeper Liu, I'm afraid the asking price is too high." Chen Fang couldn't hold back his anger and gritted his teeth.
But Liu Dehong didn't care at all, he shook the list in his hand casually, hugged his hands, looked like he was ready to eat, and said, "You don't want it to be expensive." ”
"You...... There wasn't that much cash in the yamen. After saying this, Chen Fang's tendons twitched, this price is simply sky-high, but if he wants to prevent the plague, he must order this batch of medicinal materials, although there are three pharmacies behind, but who knows if they are willing to sell it?
Liu Dehong hummed proudly and said: "It's okay, this shopkeeper cares about the victims, and he can also be accommodating, so let's make an IOU on behalf of the yamen." ”
Chen Fang gritted his teeth and said: "Cheng, but I have to pick up the goods today, no problem!" ”
"No problem!" Liu Dehong nodded proudly, beckoned the guys in the store to bring the four treasures of the study, and asked Chen Fang to write down an IOU, which was attached to the name and quantity of the string of medicines, and the repayment date was within half a year.
Looking at the IOU in his hand, Liu Dehong added a sentence at the end, "If you don't pay it within the time limit, you will be fined ten times the fine!" Only then did he let Chen Fang sign and put his handprint.
"In this way, please ask Shopkeeper Liu to send someone to prepare one or two, and after half an hour, I will send someone to pick up the medicinal materials." After that, Chen walked out of Chunhetang without looking back, the fire in his heart had nowhere to go, he hadn't eaten such a sullen loss for many years, and even his kidneys were going to explode when he ate it.
Let's hope the next one won't be so excessive.
However, things in the world are always so undesirable, and after visiting two houses in a row, Chen Fang didn't ask for many medicinal materials, and only got some symbolic donations, which made him instantly feel that the three thousand guan were not spent in vain.
The last one was the old doctor's clinic yesterday, but before leaving, Chen Fang went back to the medicine store, one was to ask the person who moved the medicine to go to Liu Dehong to ask for medicinal materials, and the other was to buy a set of stone needles.
After learning about Chen Fang's intention, the old doctor agreed without saying a word, and refused Chen Fang's practice of paying, but accepted the set of stone needles returned by Chen Fang and only left a small amount of medicinal materials for backup, and donated all the rest.
Chen Fang was moved to tears.
There are still virtuous and respected people in this world.
(To be continued.) )