Zuo Shaoyang said with a smile: "Mother, don't worry, this is simpler than washing clothes, sewing clothes and cooking, you cook so well, so complicated needlework, what can't you do." It's not tired, it's all step-by-step, and when it's time to do what I say, just do it. ”

Liang sneered: "Okay...... then I'll try?" ”

Father Zuo nodded and said, "However, you have to remember that this concoction technology is our family's business of exchanging money, and it can't be known to outsiders, otherwise, the money won't be earned." You have to close the door when you make it, and don't tell outsiders about it. Do you hear that? ”

"This one of my province! Hehe, one or two or five dollars a month! I won't say anything about killing me. ”

Fennel grinned and said: "I originally had the intention to come over to help, but when I heard my father say this, I will forget about the girl who got married, lest my father suspect that my girl is outgoing and leak the secret recipe for making money." ”

Zuo Gui said: "It's not that I can't believe you, I haven't been busy here to ask you to come back." You're still busy with your family. ”

Zuo Shaoyang said again: "Dad, in the future, we often have to concoct medicinal materials, I think the firepower of our family concocted medicinal materials is not well used, and most of the firepower is sent out of the chimney in vain." It should be used reasonably, and if it is used reasonably, the heating at home should be able to be solved to a certain extent! ”

Zuo Gui said: "What is the solution?" ”

"Transform our stove, change it into a long strip, put a cauldron on the passage of the fire discharge, use the remaining fire to boil water, this cauldron is connected to a copper pipe, connected into the lobby, and then made into a swirl shape, coiled around the lobby, and finally returned to the cauldron in the processing room."

Zuo Shaoyang designed a simple household plumbing circulation system according to the style of modern urban plumbing. The comparison was said to Zuo Gui. After hearing this, Zuo Gui stroked his beard and said, "How much does it cost to repair this thing?" ”

Zuo Shaoyang froze for a moment, he didn't know the cost of the project in the early Tang Dynasty, and looked at his brother-in-law Hou Pu. Hou Pu smiled: "This thing that Da Lang said is a little interesting, but since it is all copper, it is a bit expensive, if you want to repair it like this, I am afraid that I can't repair it without two thousand Wen." ”

Zuo Shaoyang was dumbfounded for a moment, and looked at Zuo Gui's father.

Zuo Gui snorted coldly: "Think of something boundless!" Dine! ”

Zuo Shaoyang had no choice but to eat silently.

Hou Pu saw that the scene was a little embarrassing, and he had nothing to say to play a round: "Have you heard?" The son of the Jingguan next door to our house who told the old man to return to his hometown killed and injured people, but I am afraid that he will be exiled thousands of miles away! ”

Zuo Shaoyang sighed, thinking to himself that the oil and salt shop on the right next door to the pharmacy, the owner is an old man with a stuffy gourd, it shouldn't be a Beijing official who has returned to his hometown, then it should be the one on the left, that is, the one separated by a wall in the back door alley, the mossy green brick high wall, the stone lion with missing toes at the door, and the door that has been closed and peeled off the paint, I feel that the house is deserted, and there is no sound. Presumably that's it, he pointed to the left with his chopsticks and said in a low voice, "Is this the case?" ”

"Not really. His son somehow injured someone, and he didn't have the money to dredge up, so he was beaten by the county magistrate and escorted to the state government for disposal. I heard that I was going to be sentenced to exile, and I don't know if it's a thousand miles or two thousand miles, anyway, I want to go back to my hometown in this life. Alas! Poor thing. ”

Zuo Gui has long known that his family is a Beijing official who has returned to his hometown, and he is also a Beijing official of the sixth grade, which is much higher than the eighth rank official of his grandfather. So I have always been in awe, although it is a neighbor, separated by a wall, but over the years, it is rare to see each other a few times, and the family rarely interacts with people, and the door is always closed. At the end of the year, it's just that someone is sick, and when he wants to come to the shop to see the disease, he will meet and say a few words.

Liupin Jingguan looked for Lang Zhong in his small pharmacy, which made Zuo Gui feel a little flattered, and later learned that this Jingguan family was difficult, and people were sick, and he looked down on a high-priced famous doctor like Huimintang. Even so, Zuo Gui still feels a little flattered, and this Beijing official is very gentle, he has no official frame at all, and treats people very kindly, but he doesn't like to talk very much, and he always keeps his head down and thinks about it. The health is really not good, sometimes I am seriously ill and can't get out of bed, Zuo Gui also went to the clinic to see it. This Beijing official is an old couple, a son and a daughter, the son married a daughter-in-law, but did not give birth, the daughter married, the life is thin, and the son-in-law both died of illness, leaving only one daughter, no one to take care of at home, so come to the grandfather of the old Beijing official.

This Beijing official said that it was not easy, there was only this old house left in the house, with high walls and deep courtyards, but it was a little old, and the place where the carved beams and painted buildings were not real, the paint was peeled off, and the homes inside were very dilapidated, and it must have been a little difficult.

It stands to reason that the official of Zhengliupin Beijing returned to his hometown, and he could still receive a part of the monthly salary, but for some reason he still had such a difficult time. Zuo Gui is not an inquiring person, so he didn't ask much. The two families get along so plainly.

Now that he heard that his son had a lawsuit and might be exiled to another country, Zuo Gui not only had some sympathy, but stopped his chopsticks, stayed for a long time, and sighed leisurely: "Forget it, every family has a scripture that is difficult to read, don't mention it!" Let's eat! ”

Zuo Shaoyang was still waiting to ask again, but after hearing this, he didn't dare to say more, so he buried his head in eating.

After the family had eaten, Fennel helped her mother clean up, and then went back with Houpu. Zuo Shaoyang began to teach his mother how to concoct aconitum, aconite, and Aracea. Zuo Gui also watched from the side, and after listening, he frowned and said, "Can you get rid of poison so easily?" Does it work? ”

Zuo Shaoyang said: "Yes, I concocted it like this last time, and the old shopkeeper of Hengchang Pharmaceutical Company felt very good after eating it, so he asked me to sign a contract." ”

Zuo Gui stroked his beard and was noncommittal, he had practiced medicine for so many years, and he had never heard of such concocted Aracea, Aconitum and Aconite, he didn't know if the medicinal materials concocted in this way were really so effective, however, it was a fact that Hengchang Pharmaceutical Company signed a contract with himself, and now for him, whether it is useful or not is secondary, the key is to make some money. So I didn't say anything and went out with my hands behind my back.

Early the next morning, Zuo Shaoyang got up, smashed the pine cone and fed the little squirrel. Mother Liang had already gotten up, first looked at the medicinal materials soaked in the concoction room, changed the water according to the method of Zuo Shaoyang's teaching, and found that there was white foam on the soaked water surface, so she added an appropriate amount of alum to it. The concocted medicinal materials must be careful, and Zuo Shaoyang was relieved to see his mother so attentive.

Daddy Zuo Gui also got up, and after washing, he took Zuo Shaoyang to the fragrant tea shop.

Fennel sewed a small bag for Zuo Shaoyang and tied it around his waist to hold the little squirrel. The little squirrel curled up in a small bag, poking its head out from time to time and looking around.

Zuo Shaoyang also brought the money he used to hold money in the Qingxiang Tea Shop last time, wrapped the fabric and silk cotton in a piece of blue cloth, and carried it to the tea shop with his father Zuo Gui.

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Fragrant Tea Shop Kitchen.

Father Sang was talking to Mother Sang: "Just now I wish the old man that let's not embarrass the three girls." Count him to save face. He also said that many people are talking about this now, saying that we should use righteousness to squander wealth and help the poor......"

"!" Sang Mu tilted her head and said to the backyard with a crooked voice, "What kind of righteousness and squandering money, helping the needy, the old lady only knows that the silver of the white flowers is gone!" Want me to let this damn girl go? No way! I haven't gotten out of luck yet! If you offend the old lady, don't think about having good fruit to eat! ”

"Be quiet!" Daddy Sang pulled him hard, "Are you blinded by lard?" You bitch! If you want to offend Zhu Laohan, how can this tea shop be opened? ”

Sang's mother was indeed mad, she didn't know that Sang Xiaomei took the jewelry and gave it to Zuo Shaoyang to pay off their debts. In the afternoon, a tea guest came to drink tea, praising the two of them for helping the poor, she thought it was a joke, and heard a tea guest say this, only to feel that something was wrong, smiled and inquired from the side, then she figured out, she didn't know that her mother-in-law gave Sang Xiaomei so much jewelry in private, otherwise, she would have come over the jewelry a long time ago. She didn't know that her daughter was so bold and thick-skinned, and she used the dowry as money to pay off the man's debts in private, regardless of her shame. After hearing this, he suddenly became angry, rushed into the kitchen, and saw that Sang Xiaomei was burning the fire, so he scolded and picked up a firewood from the ground to beat Sang Xiaomei. Sang Xiaomei ran around the stove, Sang Mu was short and fat, and she was old, so she couldn't catch up with her, so she had to throw firewood, panting and scolding with her waist and fingers.

She scolded all the filthy words, and she didn't target this matter, the tea guests heard it outside, and they only scolded her mother when Sang Xiaomei did something wrong, this Sang mother is a shrew, and she is used to scolding the street, and no one pays attention to it.

Sang's mother scolded until it was dark and closed the door, the foul language and scolding were really ugly, Sang Xiaomei was so angry that she wiped her tears, didn't eat in anger, and hid in the house to cry. The Sanmusuo had a lock that locked her in the house. Tea and rice are not given.

Sang Mu was going to go to Guizhi Hall to find Zuo Gui to get the silver back. But he was pulled by Daddy Sang's death, Daddy Sang said, if you can't bear it, you will make a big plan, now that the wood is in the boat, the money has been divided up by the creditors, Guizhitang has no money to pay them back, if you go to trouble now, not only will you not get the money, but you will also have a good reputation in exchange for being invalidated. What's even more terrifying is that in this way, the truth of the matter will be exposed, if people know that it was Sang Xiaomei who took the dowry as money to repay the debt to the Zuo family Xiaolangzhong, it would definitely be a laughing stock all over the city. Who would dare to marry such a woman who is looking for her own in-laws in the future? The dream of using my little sister to earn a large dowry is also in vain. So I have to wait, it is estimated that Guizhitang will talk about this debt, and if it doesn't come in a few days, I will go to them and talk to them at that time.

Sang Mu can't see so far, although she thinks it is reasonable, but the anger in her stomach is not smooth. When I got up the next day, I still sat at the top of the stairs and cursed, and I didn't open the lock to let Sang Xiaomei out. Huang Qin wanted to send Sang Xiaomei something to eat, but she couldn't go upstairs.

Early the next morning, the medicine cabinet came, and told Daddy Sang not to embarrass Sang Xiaomei, Daddy Sang naturally slapped his chest loudly, so that the medicine cabinet could rest assured, saying that this matter was originally a matter of their husband and wife, how could they embarrass their daughter. I wished the medicine cabinet a little unexpected, and asked where Sang Xiaomei was, but Sang Daddy lied that she was not very comfortable and had not gotten up yet. I didn't ask much about the medicine cabinet. I went to the backyard river alone to blow the cold wind and drink hot tea.

(To be continued)