Chapter Eighty-Five: The Burden Kicks Back
It started to rain late in the afternoon.
At that time, the spring grass grows. The land of Jianghuai, which should be idyllic, was soaked by excessive rain this spring, and even the cracks in the walls smelled damp and moldy.
There is an antique heavy eaves building on the side of Wuliu Street, the courtyard is magnificent, covers an area quite wide, and is very eye-catching.
A pure black bronzing door plaque has four big characters written on it: Shou'an Pharmacy.
There are couplets on both sides of the door: I hope that people in the world are free of disease, and would rather put medicine on the shelf to produce dust.
At present, when the epidemic is frequent, the business of the pharmacy is quite deserted.
Occasional pedestrians enter, and they come out quickly. Some carried one or two paper medicine bags, and some left empty-handed and disappointed.
There were three or five guys in the store, sitting around and chatting. Only a young man with a simple face and a burn scar on his jaw was wiping dust on the counter with a rag.
A woman in a pine green short shirt was surrounded by several men in the middle, holding a handful of pumpkin seeds in her hand, her lips opening and closing, and spitting out the flying melon seed skin.
The pointed peony embroidered shoes stretched out halfway from the water-red pleated skirt, hanging in the air and swaying, shaking out a bewitching style.
The girl has apricot eyes and peach cheeks, and her skin is white and greasy. Delicate and tender, like a handful of shallots just pinched out of the field. The words he said were extraordinarily mean:
"Do you say Chen San is that idiot? Giggles, that guy can't even speak, how could I fall in love with him? I'm teasing him. Chen San'er is much more obedient than you slippery heads. ”
With two fingers on a pumpkin seed, he threw it at a guy whose eyes were swirling on his chest: "Go, go, you pervert!" ”
The crowd burst out laughing.
The man who was wiping the counter seemed to be accustomed to this, and everyone laughed and did not look back. Continue to lower his head and wipe the dust on the counter, wiping it very carefully, not even letting go of a crevice.
He threw the rag into the basin, wrung it and dragged it out, and looked up casually, but he was stunned, staring out the door in a daze, forgetting the movement of his hands.
A guy over there saw it and shouted: Jiang Hong, what are you looking at, look like you!
Then he looked out, and he was stunned for a while, his expression was in a trance, and he was a little confused, and muttered: "Fairy ......"
I saw that it was raining outside the door, and it seemed to be a heavy fog.
A woman holding a black umbrella with a red plum blossom oil paper umbrella at the bottom walked slowly from the end of the long street.
The woman's eyebrows were extremely cold, and the shape was beautiful, like an ink drawing. It seems to be clear, distinct and shallow, as if a thin layer of smoke is enveloped, which tends to not disperse and cannot be erased, lining the eyebrows and eyes to the extreme, not like ordinary people in the dust.
The woman's figure is slender, tall and slender, and with every step, her skirt is swamping, and her feet are like smoke.
All the medicine hall guys who looked at it were stunned.
The girl still cocked her fingers covered with dankou, and spit out the skin of melon seeds: "Chen San, that idiot, ......"
At this time, Mu Dianke had already gone up the steps, and the guy who shouted at Jiang Hong suddenly stood up, rushed out of the door a few steps first, and spoke a little unfavorably: "Aunt... Girl...... What to buy? ”
Mu Dianke looked at those straight eyes, and his heart suddenly became disgusted. Thinking that more things are better than less things, he didn't look at the guy, took the umbrella, walked straight to Jiang Hong at the counter, and asked, "May I ask if the shopkeeper of your hall is there?" ”
The voice was as cold as snow, although it was polite and polite, it was full of coldness.
Jiang Hong had come back to his senses, and was a little cramped in his indifferent eyes at Shang Mu Dianke, so he lowered his head and avoided it, and said, "The shopkeeper went out early in the morning." ”
Mu Dianke asked again: "Then who is in charge of you here?" ”
The man who met him at the front had already caught up and said, "It's me, I'm in charge here." ”
At the same time, the guy who peeked at the girl's chest also raised his hand and responded cheerfully: "I, I, I can take care of things." ”
The girl was so angry that she slashed out at the fellow with her eye knife, and threw half of the pumpkin seeds in her hand at the fellow's face.
There was another burst of laughter in the hall.
Mu Dian took a step back without a trace, distanced himself from the guy who came in to greet him, and said: "You tell your shopkeeper, just say that there is a boss on Huaijing Street, who has skullcap, zhimu, magnolia, and licorice in his hands. If he wants the goods, he will bring a lot of money to negotiate the price. ”
The guy was stunned: "Is this true?" ”
You must know that these four medicinal herbs were sold out yesterday morning, and the price of the medicine is like a weed that has seen the rain, and it grows wildly. That's it, at the moment, I can't replenish the goods with money.
The shopkeeper was crazy about this, and he personally took people out of the city forty miles early in the morning to procure.
Mu Dianke had a very bad impression of this guy, and he didn't want to say much to him.
After the word was delivered, he did not stop, but turned around and left.
The girl who knocked on the melon seeds suddenly stood up, pointed at Mu Dianke's nose and scolded: "Why are you so uneducated? Didn't you hear what I was talking to? ”
Since ancient times, literati have been despised by each other, and so have beauties.
Since Mu Dianke entered the door, the girl held back the fire in her belly, and at this time, she happened to come out by hair.
Everyone could see that this girl was jealous, and a guy gently pulled down her sleeve and called softly: "Xiaoyu." ”
Xiao Yu stared at a pair of apricot eyes, her expression became more and more annoyed, her eyebrows raised, and she was about to scold.
Mu Dianke suddenly turned his head, and his gaze swept lightly over Xiao Yu's face.
It's very light, but it's very cold, like ice on nine cold days, cold to people's hearts.
Xiao Yu shuddered, and swallowed back the words that had reached her mouth.
Seeing Mu Dianke go out and walk away, he sat on the cushion of the chair with his butt down, and even his legs were soft.
But they didn't understand what was going on. The woman clearly only glanced at her, why did she have such deep fear?
Xiao Yu patted her chest, her face was still spontaneously pale, and she murmured, "This woman...... It's horrible. ”
Mu Dian came out of Shou'an Pharmacy and went to Wansheng Pharmacy on Zouma Street.
The shopkeeper is an easy-going middle-aged man who personally guards the counter. After listening to Mu Dianke's intentions, he was very surprised, but he said that the price could not be decided, and he had to return to the owner.
It just fits Mu Dianke's intentions.
She is not good at bargaining with people, not to mention Xu Younan's hoarding of goods...... It's not very decent!
Then he smiled and said, "It's okay." After the shopkeeper checked the price with the owner, he went to the intersection of Huaijing Street and Yang Street and found a boss surnamed Nian. ”
Xu Younan threw the burden over, if he could, of course he had to kick it back.
Xu Younan had already returned early, sitting in the backlight behind the door, his fingers wrapped around the grass stalks, and carefully weaving a grass dragonfly.
There is an unfinished sandalwood fragrance on his body, which shows that he is not lying, and he has indeed gone to the temple to offer incense.
Mu Dianke put the umbrella in the corner, walked over and sat down opposite Xu Younan, and asked, "What did you let Yunyang do?" ”