Chapter 34: The Crab Feast
Fan Qing'an welcomed Doctor Zeng's order to the main seat, and then bowed for a long time, and after a few thorough courtesies, he said to Fan Cheng: "Fan Cheng, let the shopkeeper Xu serve the food!" β
"Great!" Fan Cheng answered and walked out quickly.
"I won't stay long, Mu Yicheng has already promised to promote the 'White Tiger Ginseng Soup' in the name of Jishi Medical Society the day after tomorrow! Eat a little bit, and I'll go back to decorating! Tomorrow may not be busy, but tonight will have to stay up late! β
Hearing this, Fan Qingxin felt a burst of ecstasy and said, "Mu ...... Doctor Mu approved? β
Zeng Yiling nodded, and said with a smile: "Exactly!" β
Fan Qing'an asked: "We have prepared a lot of ginseng here, and the price will be doubled immediately when the time comes!" β
Zeng Yiling took a mouthful of thick phlegm and reprimanded: "You are stupid! Slow down, take your time and lift it to me! At first, it was sold at the market price, but when other firms sold out, you slowly raised the price! β
Fan Qingan was stunned for a moment, and suddenly reacted: I raised the price so urgently, didn't I want to push the Zeng Medical Order to the fire to roast?
Fan Qingan said: "Yes! Be! 1. QiΔ Obey the meaning of Zeng Yi's order! β
Zeng Yiling said lightly: "What Li Yicheng means, this year, your Fan Chamber of Commerce will increase the amount of silver on our side by fifty percent, and in the future, it will be according to this number, and you will bring the words to Fan Yongdou." β
Li Yicheng is the head of the three elders in the Jishi Medical Society, and his status is second only to Ye Wentian, the secretary of the Jishi Medical Society, and he is staying in Beijing at the moment.
Fan Qing'an tightened his head, although over the years, the amount of silver that the Fan Chamber of Commerce had given to Li Yicheng and Zeng Yiling and others had increased from 30,000 to 50,000 and now to 80,000. And now that Dr. Zeng has ordered this opening, he wants to raise the price to 120,000 this year, which is really a sky-high asking price.
However, backed by the big tree of Jishi Medical Society, the major affiliated firms under the Fan Chamber of Commerce have also made a lot of money. The most obvious is the plague in Penglai County this time - once this white tiger ginseng soup is designated by Jishi Medical Society, the ginseng will definitely be sold well.
Fan Qing'an didn't dare to have the slightest sense of bargaining, after all, the current ginseng deal was what Fan Yongming from Jinan and Li Yicheng from Beijing agreed upon. If you want to ship these ginseng in your hands, you must also count on Jishi Medical Society!
Fan Qingan smiled: "Now that I know, I will definitely transfer Li Yicheng's meaning to the head of the family." Presumably, the head of the family will not disappoint Li Yicheng and Zeng Yiling, after all, we still have to cooperate for a long time, long-term cooperation-"
Zeng Yiling bowed slightly, took a sip of tea, and squinted his eyes to recuperate.
Not long after, the table ordered by Fan Qing'an came up like a stream.
Fan Cheng couldn't get on the table, and bowed down to stand behind Fan Qing'an. On the main seat sat Zeng Yiling, and Fan Qingan sat alongside.
Zeng Yiling glanced at the dishes that the guy put on, and saw that Fan Qing'an ordered a table of crab feasts, and couldn't help but move his index fingers. He loves to eat crabs, and Fan Qingan seems to have put a lot of thought into it.
Fan Qing'an saw that Zeng Yiling's face was happy, and he was also a little proud in his heart: This table of crab banquet cost a full twenty taels of silver!
Now that it is late autumn, it is a good time to eat crabs.
Usually this table of crab banquet is only four taels of silver, and the shopkeeper Xu dares to accept twenty taels of silver, so naturally he has his reason
Fan Qing'an ordered this crab feast, and Mingyuelou couldn't accept it at all. Since the outbreak of the plague in Penglai County, prices have skyrocketed, where can the crabs from outside be transported in?
However, Dr. Zeng loves to eat crabs, and no matter how high the price is, Fan Qingan must get a table, which has shown his flattery.
In desperation, the shopkeeper Xu went up and down, and finally transported a basket of crabs from Weishan Lake from Qixia County.
Just for the filial piety of the officers and soldiers guarding the city and the county officials, it will cost no less than seven or eight taels of silver. In this way, a crab feast of twenty taels of silver for a table is really not expensive under the eyes.
Fan Qingan said with a smiling face: "I heard that Zeng Yiling is from Suzhou for a long time, and he loves crabs. The lake crabs of Weishan Lake in Shandong Province are naturally not comparable to the lake crabs in the south of the Yangtze River, but they also have their own northern flavor. β
Zeng Yiling glanced at Fan Qing'an, and said lightly: "I knew at a glance that there was a lake crab on the table, but I didn't expect it to be from Weishan Lake, and the shopkeeper Fan had a heart." β
Fan Qing'an looked happy and said with a smile: "Crabs are divided into six grades, and lake crabs are the first. followed by river crabs, river crabs again, and the rest of the brook crabs and ditches
Crabs and sea crabs are difficult to get into the hall of elegance. β
Fan Cheng handed over a set of "eight crabs", which were eight kinds of hammers, upsets, pliers, shovels, spoons, forks, scrapers, and needles. Zeng Yiling hadn't eaten crabs for a long time, so he took the tools and began to eat.
Zeng Yiling said while knocking and beating: "We Suzhou people eat crabs, and there are always as many as 8864 tools, and these 'crab eight' are just a small thing. β
Fan Qingan nodded yes again and again, poured another glass of Shaoxing rice wine, and toasted Zeng Yiling.
Zeng Yiling took a bite dry, ate happily, and said: "Huang Tingjian, a former Song Dynasty scholar, has a poem "Crab Eater": 'Ding Si costs 10,000 yuan, and jade food is often Luo Zhen. I comment on Yangzhou Gong, this thing is really superb. That's what I'm talking about! It's delicious. β
Fan Qing'an accompanied him to eat two, then put down his tools and watched Zeng Yiling's unique skill of eating crabs. Although Fan Qingan was well-informed, he couldn't help but be a little surprised.
I saw that the "eight pieces of crab" were in the hands of Zeng Yiling, and the hook and knock clamp were useful, and the crab shell was not broken.
Zeng Yizhi said: "Eating crabs also pays attention to the suppression and frustration, eating legs is the overture, eating the cover is gradually getting better, eating ointment is yellow **, and finally eating chela, the song ends and the aftersound lingersββ"
Looking at Fan Qing'an's surprised look, Zeng Yiling smiled slightly, with a look of fascination on his face: "When I was young, I saw a crab-eating master, who ate all the meat, and his shell could still spell out a whole crab - but I sighed to myself!" β
A table of crab banquet will Zeng Yiling eat a full stomach, Zeng Yiling is not happy, and asked Mingyuelou to pack all the uneaten crabs with a food box, and then in Fan Qing'an's gift, he left slowly.
Before going out, Zeng Yiling turned around and advised: "Let's not meet again during this time, Mu Yicheng is not a fuel-efficient lamp." The more he doesn't move, the more bottomless I feel in my heart - besides, I don't care how your Fan Chamber of Commerce sells ginseng, but remember to look good! β
Fan Qingan nodded again and again: "Zeng Yiling, please rest assured, we will make proper arrangements in the future, and we will not show our clues lightly!" β
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Zhang Zhang returned to his home on Lantern Street, and saw that Kang Xing'an and Gao Yuanliang were still busy cleaning up the medicinal herbs in the front yard room, so he walked into the house quickly.
Kang Xing'an and Gao Yuanliang were sorting and packing the medicinal materials, and said nervously: "Anzi, Yuanliang, you stop for a while, there is something to discuss with you, I'm afraid it's a little troublesome." β
Hearing Zhang Li say this, Kang Xingan and Gao Yuanliang both stopped what they were doing, and Kang Xingan opened his mouth and asked, "Young Master, what's wrong?" β
Zhang Zhang frowned, and said slowly: "Look at this room full of plaster, I'm afraid it's going to be bad!" β
Gao Yuanliang was a little puzzled: "What? Young master, I bought the wrong plaster? β
Kang Xing'an also opened his mouth wide: "Young Master, gypsum is just an ordinary medicinal material, although we have made a lot of progress, but it is not a poison, how can it be bad?" β
Zhang Zhang sighed and said: "Jishi Medical Society is about to promote White Tiger Ginseng Soup, and gypsum is indispensable in this decoction!" We had bought too much before, and something was wrong. β
Kang Xingan was a little puzzled: "Young master, we didn't do a traitor, we just bought some more plaster, as for it?" β
Gao Yuanliang's eyes narrowed into a slit: "Anzi, you don't have to forget about the Rejuvenation Hall." In this Penglai County, there are many young masters with medical skills, and it is always good for young masters to be careful. β
Seeing that Zhang Zhang nodded slightly, Gao Yuanliang said again: "If it is a prescription promoted by Jishi Medical Society, if there is an abnormal shortage of any of the medicinal materials, someone will track it down, and the young master will be implicated at that time." There's a lot to do here......"
Kang Xing'an said: "Then what should I do, or should I return the plaster to the pharmacy?" β
Zhang Zhang shook his head: "There will be such a large amount for a while and a half, and the pharmacy may not be willing to accept it." Even if I sell it to them at a low price, I always feel that it is not appropriate to have a small tail. Why did we buy a lot of it before, and now sell it at a low price before the white tiger ginseng soup comes out? How to explain this matter of buying high and selling low? β
When the three of them were discussing how to deal with this tricky plaster, Wang Xiancheng's voice came from outside the hospital: "Little Divine Doctor-Little Divine Doctor, is the little divine doctor available?" β
As soon as Zhang Zhang heard that it was Wang Xiancheng's voice, he immediately walked out of the room and greeted him out of the courtyard.
When he came to the gate of the courtyard, Zhang Zhang found that a double sedan chair was parked not far away, and Wang Xiancheng was dressed in civilian clothes and holding a letterhead in his hand.
Zhang Li bowed down and said, "Lord Wang, hurry, please inside-"
Wang Xiancheng waved his hand, with a tired look on his face: "The county government is busy with affairs, I will leave after a few words." β
Zhang Zhang nodded, knowing that the people of Jishi Medical Society live in the county government, and all of them are uncles, how can Wang Xiancheng afford to offend him in the background behind him? Presumably, Wang Xiancheng's life is not easy, there are many little bodhisattvas in the temple!
Wang Xiancheng took two steps forward, handed the letterhead in his hand to Zhang Li, and whispered: "Little Divine Doctor, this is a letter from the Guogong Mansion to you, let me pass it on." β
When Zhang Zhang heard this, he hurriedly took the letterhead, only to see that on the envelope was a dignified line of small letters, "Zhang Li's personal opening", which was probably written by Miss Ruochen herself.
Wang Xiancheng was in front of him, and he was in a hurry to open it.
Wang Xiancheng said with some embarrassment: "This letter was delivered the day after you left the county seat to go to Loess Mountain, and I never had a chance to hand it over to you." Later, when the adults of Jishi Medical Society entered the city, I was busy with affairs, and I forgot about it again. I suddenly remembered it today, and I sent it to you. Don't blame the little miracle doctor! β
Zhang Zhang smiled and said, "What did Lord Wang say?" It's really a frustration! β
Seeing that Zhang Zhang had no intention of blaming, Wang Xiancheng said goodbye, then turned around and sat in a small sedan chair and left.
As he walked back to the courtyard, he opened the letter and looked at it.
The letter is not long, it is indeed written by Miss Ruochen to herself. It turned out that Ruochen had gone out to visit an old friend of their mother, and they had been delayed for some time. At present, the plague is epidemic in Penglai County, and if they go to the southeast for a while, they will take refuge in the southeast for a while, and then return to Penglai when the plague has passed.
This was also the proper meaning of the plague when it struck, and Zhang Li didn't feel that there was anything wrong with itβif Miss Chen was infected, it would be quite bad.
Zhang Zhang happened to put the letter in his arms, but saw Gao Yuanliang and Kang Xingan walking out of the house.
Gao Yuanliang walked up quickly and said, "Young master! I think of someone who might be able to help us with these plasters! β
"Oh?" Zhang Zhang was a little surprised, and then his face turned happy, and he said eagerly: "You say, who can help us deal with the plaster?" β
Gao Yuanliang said: "Young master, do you still remember the shopkeeper Li who was the head and mouth?" His father-in-law is a wealthy merchant in Penglai, and he has several shops in the city, including a pharmacy! β
Zhang Zhang patted his head and said with a smile: "It's really yours!" Without further ado! Let's go, let's go to Shopkeeper Li. β