Unexpectedly, Song Lingyue covered the corners of her lips and bent over with a smile, and when she straightened up again, there were tears in the corners of her eyes, "Haha!" Look at Qi Mo's appearance just now, it's so funny! ”

Qi Mo glared at Song Lingyue viciously: "What's ridiculous!" You're a healer, and you're not a farmer. ”

"Poof, haha." Song Lingyue still couldn't hold back and kept laughing.

The other people in the courtyard were driven by Song Lingyue's laughter, and they all laughed along.

"Alright, alright! I won't tease you. Knowing that you have a habit of cleanliness, you will not raise cattle at home. Song Lingyue stepped forward and patted Qi Mo on the shoulder, "I just discussed with that young man to buy his milk, and I didn't have enough money to let him come back together, didn't you see the way you looked just now, your face turned white, as if you would faint as long as I said the words 'want to raise cattle'." ”

A touch of shame appeared on Qi Mo's porcelain-white face, realizing that he was nervous and making a joke, and hurriedly coughed a few times to hide the embarrassment on his face.

Song Lingyue motioned for Liu Liang to bring the milk to the kitchen, and motioned for Qi Mo to come with him.

The two came all the way to the study, and Song Lingyue motioned for Qi Mo to sit down opposite the desk, turned around and covered the door of the study.

"Okay, they're not here at this time, you should be able to tell me, the shopkeeper, how you talked to the Liu family pharmacy, right? I just asked you, you look like you want to say something, what's going on? Didn't you negotiate it? ”

The moment the door was closed, Song Lingyue's grinning expression instantly converged and became extremely serious.

Qi Mo sighed, glanced at Song Lingyue with some embarrassment, opened his mouth, and organized the vocabulary for a long time before he said:

"The shopkeeper of Liu's pharmacy bit it to the point and wanted to increase the price, I discussed it with him for a long time, and finally the result was that the minimum amount of money for every ten catties should be added. I don't know if you can accept the price, so I came back first, and wanted to ask what you mean. ”

Song Lingyue frowned: "But something happened to the medicine field in Liuzhou?" Or is there something big going on in Liuzhou recently that has affected the harvest? How can there be a monthly price increase? Have prices also risen in local pharmacies in Liuzhou? ”

Qi Mo shook his head and said in a deep voice: "On the way back, I also went to other pharmacies in Liuzhou, and the prices of the pharmacies there are almost the same as the prices in our store, and I have also asked the people of Liuzhou, and there seems to be no trouble." I always feel that the price increase of medicinal materials this time does not seem to be simple. ”

"Are you saying that the Liu family deliberately raised the purchase price of medicinal materials?" Song Lingyue's mind sank, if the purchase price of medicinal materials was too high, it would inevitably increase the cost.

Boholtang's reputation is to make it affordable for the poor, and the cost of pills, creams, and medicinal materials, including consultation fees, is one-third cheaper than that of generalist pharmacies.

Sometimes, when encountering a particularly poor patient, Song Lingyue will mobilize other neighbors to raise donations for the patient, and when the situation is really urgent, she will even treat the patient first, pay the medical expenses herself, and repay the money after the patient is better.

If the purchase price of medicinal materials increases, then all the costs will increase except for the consultation fee.

"I don't think that's the way to go." Qi Mo broke the suffocating silence, and Song Lingyue raised her head and looked at Qi Mo expectantly.

Qi Mo said: "If we don't have our own medicine field, then the channel for the purchase of medicinal materials will definitely be in the hands of others, we have always been too passive, if we have our own medicine field, if we can grow most of the medicinal materials, we will not be so passive now that we can only talk about cooperation with others." ”

"I know that too." Song Lingyue thought that Qi Mo had any high opinions, but she didn't expect Qi Mo to hope that she could stand on her own.

Of course, it's good to stand on your own! However, it takes money to buy a medicine field! Moreover, the medicine field is not the same as ordinary farmland, and the asking price is much more expensive than ordinary farmland.

"I'm shy right now, there's really nothing I can do! An acre of medicine field costs 30 taels of silver, so why do we have to buy about 10 acres to support our pharmacy? That's three hundred taels of silver, where can I get three hundred taels of silver? ”

Many problems in the world can be solved with money, but Song Lingyue's current problem is that she has no money.

"If I knew this would happen, I shouldn't have spent money so extravagantly before." Song Lingyue was remorseful.

Thinking about it, she hasn't spent less money recently, in order to celebrate Lin Jinlan's adulthood, she spent dozens of taels of silver to buy flowers to refine hydrosol and essential oils.

said that she wanted to surprise Lin Jinlan, but now that she thinks about it, she is not a little inflated and vain because the hospital has made a little money recently, and she is afraid that the gift she gave will not stand out at Lin Jinlan's coming-of-age banquet.

If the thirty taels are not spent, at least one acre of medicine field can be contracted now, which can also temporarily alleviate the urgent need.

"Now is not the time to be upset, you calm down." Qi Mo picked up the teapot on the table and poured a cup for Song Lingyue, "Drink some tea to clear the fire." ”

"Why are you still so calm now!" Song Lingyue was about to go crazy.

"You're the shopkeeper, I'm a handyman, of course I'm calm." Qi Mo took a sip of the teacup and tasted it, "Well, it's a little cold, this tea foam is indeed not as good as drinking Longjing tea in the Song family's mansion, and the Longjing tea is called a long aftertaste." ”

"You still have time to dislike my tea foam." Song Lingyue snatched the teacup in Qi Mo's hand, the tea spilled, Qi Mo hurriedly went to shoot, but made more water stains.

"You have to compensate me for this, white clothes stained with tea are the most difficult to clean." Qi Mo pointed to a light brown stain on his chest that had been stained by the tea.

"Okay, okay! When I finish dealing with the medicinal herbs, I will definitely pay you back. Song Lingyue is anxious now, so she has to deal with this, so she responded casually, "Can you help me imagine what to do now?" The inventory of medicinal materials in the pharmacy is enough for a month at most, and if there is no more supplier of medicinal materials, the pharmacy is afraid that it will close its doors. ”

"Didn't I give it to you? Contracting medicine fields and making your own suppliers. Qi Mo spread his hands.

"Didn't I tell you the same? I don't have any money right now! If I had the money, I would have contracted it a long time ago. Song Lingyue felt that she was already on the verge of going berserk.

"Then let's go make money." What Qi Mo said is called a light cloud, as if making money is as easy as touching the upper and lower teeth.

"It's not that easy." Song Lingyue knocked on the table and complained dissatisfiedly: "Just by seeing patients, it is a question whether you can earn three hundred taels of silver in two years. Besides, the people who come to me for medical treatment are all from the villagers, and if the consultation fee is too expensive, I am afraid that they will not be able to afford it. ”

"You are really......" Qi Mo couldn't find an adjective for a while, so he could only sigh lowly: "It's okay to be soft-hearted and kind, but it's still a little confused at a critical time, and I don't know how to do it when I make money." ”

"Why am I confused? Now that there is a problem with the supply of medicinal herbs, I just want to make some more plasters to sell. Song Lingyue swiped her fingers on the tabletop, looking a little depressed.

Qi Mo coughed lightly, and pretended to speak casually: "I forgot to tell you, the shampoo you gave me that day is very useful, and the smell of pine wood is very healing." ”

Wait a minute! Song Lingyue's eyes lit up all of a sudden, how could she forget! She also has shampoo specially made for Lin Jinlan in her hand!

Although it is not comparable to the texture and fragrance of modern shampoos, it is much more convenient than the bath beans used here to wash hair.

There are still leftovers of the hydrosol made by distilling the flowers I bought before, and the shampoo made is more floral than before, so it should be more popular with girls.

If she sent this gift to Lin Jinlan in advance, asked her to try it, and persuaded her to promote it with other nobles at her daughter's banquet, I believe that with those nobles' pursuit of beauty, they should want to buy some of this shampoo, right?

If you can really expand the market, maybe it's another entry! And in addition to shampoo, many Chinese herbal medicines have the effect of skin care and skin nourishment, which can be made into skin and beauty masks for sale, I believe those noble ladies will also like it.

Qi Mo hooked the corners of her lips, it seemed that she had already figured it out, and she didn't need him to say more.

Thinking of this, Song Lingyue's nervous mood gradually let go, it seems that this is the endless road.

"Doesn't you think you're worried?" Qi Mo whistled and raised his eyebrows to sweep Song Lingyue's face.

"I'm still worried, but isn't there an old saying that the boat will go straight to the bridge! Besides, I'm not at the end of my rope yet! Even if I go to a desperate situation, then I have to dig out the desperate situation! Song Lingyue clenched her fists, her eyes full of determination.

"You're recovering quite quickly, and I'm worried that the price increase of the Liu Family Medicine Workshop will have a fatal blow to you." Light brown eyes swept across Song Lingyue's determined face, flashing a touch of appreciation that he had not noticed.

"As long as the wind and waves are over, it will be a smooth road, and I never thought that opening a medical clinic would be a simple and easy thing." Song Lingyue shrugged her shoulders, of course, she didn't expect that there would be so much trouble when opening a medical hall.

"By the way, you can accompany me to Shanghe Village tomorrow."

"Shanghe Village?" Qi Mo frowned slightly, thinking about the location of Shanghe Village, and said softly: "Shanghe Village seems to be in the northernmost part of Jizhou City, right?" I heard that there is a piece of Muyuan over there, why do you want to take Yanzhi and Xiangling to the spring tomorrow? ”

"Lu Li, it's the cowherd who sold us milk before, and his family is in Shanghe Village." Song Lingyue explained to Qi Mo, "He said that his mother has symptoms of angina, and she fainted a few days ago, and the situation is very serious." I guessed his mother might have a heart condition, so I wanted to check it out. ”

"Needless to say, when you said you want to go and see, you actually want to help, to see if you can help his mother heal, right? Don't plan to collect money again this time? Qi Mo raised his eyebrows, Song Lingyue didn't speak, he knew that he was right:

"I really don't know what to say about you! You're running a medical center, not a charity hall! You said before that it's good that you want the poor to afford to get sick, but you can't always stop paying for the consultation because you are poor! ”

Song Lingyue couldn't raise her head by Qi Moxun, so she could only stick out her tongue and say:

"But I see that those people are pitiful, and they are all neighborhoods, and some of them are indeed more difficult, and I can't say that they will not be cured. Besides, don't I want those people to write me IOUs? When they earn money from their work, they will pay it back to me. ”

"I really don't know if I should say that you are kind or that you are naïve." Qi Mo sighed deeply, "Just tell me, how many people are on your books now who are taking medicine to treat diseases in our pharmacy on credit?" And how many people take the initiative to repay the money on a monthly basis? ”