Chapter 71 Inquiry

The three big words of Shunhetang broke into her eyes, and Gu Bainiang only felt a bang in her head.

She couldn't help but turn around and run backwards, when there were many people on the street, and it was inevitable to collide.

"What's wrong with this little girl?"

"How do you walk?"

"What's wrong with the little lady?"

After running across a street in one breath, Gu Bainiang stopped, holding on to the tree on the side of the street and panting, her heart was still pounding, and her underwear was wet with sweat.

How did she get there, how did she get there...

She bit her lower lip, and it took a long time to calm down, sort out her thoughts, and look at the direction again before heading to Jiutang Street again.

After going down from the big archway, without looking around, she went straight to the west, and bought some gastrodia from a few medicine pickers, as well as the basic tools for concocting medicinal materials, and the money she brought out today was used up.

"The little lady is going to concoct her own medicinal materials.." The young man who sold the tools asked kindly, "Use it yourself?" ”

Gu Bainiang put the cutter and brush into the medicine frame, squatted down and carried it, and shook it a little. The young man hurriedly reached out and helped the medicine frame while handing her the chrysanthemum sieve under his feet.

"Thank you." Gu Bainiang smiled at him gratefully, and replied to his words, "No, it's for sale." ”

"Do you want to sell pure medicinal herbs?" No mistakes, no word skipping. The young man asked, not surprised.

The people in the big place are really well-informed, Gu Bainiang smiled and nodded.

"Since the little lady knows how to concoct medicinal materials, why don't you go to the shed and try it." The young man laughed.

Shed, that is, the medicine shed, speaking of this medicinal material business, can be divided into the medicine shop medicine shed medicine shop, the pharmacy naturally needless to say, the medicine store and the medicine village to buy and sell medicinal materials, regardless of raw or cooked, and the medicine shed, is from the medicine store and the medicine village carefully delineated from a special medicine store, medicine village bulk purchase of raw materials, medicinal materials processing place.

These Gu Banniang have a simple understanding, if they are subdivided, they can also be divided into mountain goods, traditional Chinese medicine, cutting medicine, pill powder and so on.

These are also only in the big state capitals, and for those small places, it would be good to have a medicine store and a medicine store.

"Which shed is going to be recruited?" Gu Bainiang asked.

"Well, it's not far.." The young man stretched out his hand and pointed, "Dayousheng..... I heard that they urgently need to ship a large number of goods, but there are not enough people." ”

The medicine shed is a real concoction business, Gu Bainiang couldn't help but nodded, it was worth seeing.

According to the young man's instructions, Gu Bainiang came to the Dayou crude medicine shed, which is a three-sized store, and from time to time there are guys carrying sacks in and out on their backs.

A middle-aged man with a goatee leaned against the counter and munched on melon seeds while watching the guys busy.

Today's Gu Bainiang is not so timid, and walked forward to say hello.

"The little lady wants to buy it?" Goatee immediately stood up and asked with the gentle smile of his custom.

They are not allowed to judge people by their appearance, which is the most basic rule.

"That's right." Gu Bainiang returned the salute, "I heard that you are short of manpower, so come and take a look." ”

"Oh?" Goatee glanced at her, it is not uncommon for poor daughters to come out to work, and there are many girls and daughters-in-law in their medicine shed, doing some small work in the purification of medicinal materials.

"That's right, we don't need a small worker.." The goatee shook his shoulders and straightened his neck.

"What do you need?" Gu Banniang asked hurriedly.

Goatee smiled, listening to the tone of this little girl, could it be that they needed her?

"We?" He rolled his eyes, "Need a water infiltration overseer." ”

Liu Gongshu said that when filing all kinds of medicines, it is necessary to obtain the law, or slight water infiltration, or a slight fire attack.

The water infiltration supervisor mentioned in the mouth of this goatee should be to check whether the medicinal materials that need to be purified with water are qualified.

Gu Bainiang's brain quickly slipped through the water purification method recorded in the book.

"No problem, I can." She nodded, and said with full confidence, "Rinse and soak and rinse, I will do it." ”

Goatee couldn't help but be a little surprised when he saw that she immediately said several ways to make water.

"I've been a master concoctioner." Gu Bainiang added, while hurriedly putting out the back basket, showing him gastrodia and pharmaceutical tools.

Does this little girl really know how to concoct medicinal materials? Goatee was a little convinced, and his face was immediately a little embarrassed.

Seeing the expression of the goatee, Gu Bainiang couldn't help laughing at herself, it seemed that she was thinking too much, and people were just joking casually.

Seeing the momentary gloom on the little girl's face, Goatee knew that she understood, and felt a little apologetic and a little surprised.

This little girl is very sensitive to words and looks.

Where are good families willing to let their daughters come out to work, but whoever comes out is in poor family conditions.

Goatee felt a little sorry in his heart.

"That's so, little lady," he thought for a moment, with a little apology, "I believe you're the master of the concoction... It's just that this water infiltration overseer has a lot to do with it..."

Seeing him apologize to himself, Gu Bainiang was a little surprised and a little happy, which at least proved that the person in front of her respected her.

"I know that the book says that seven points of work and three points of cut, which shows the importance of this water infiltration." She pursed her lips and smiled, and the gloom of the moment was swept away.

Seeing a smile in the corner of the little girl's eyes, the goatee breathed a sigh of relief, and his eyes fell on the little girl's hand, and at a glance he could see that it was really a pair of concocted master's hands.

"When there is a shortage of people, I will pay attention to you for the little lady." Goatee laughed.

Gu Banniang thanked her, looked up at the signboard of the store, and asked, "Then do you accept medicinal herbs?" ”

"Generally, we don't accept it, and the medicines we come out of are all called by us, so we don't dare to collect them indiscriminately." Goatee explained to her.

It seems that if you want to sell clean medicinal materials, I am afraid that it is not easy, and the best way out is to go to other people's medicine stores to be a processing master, or else to open your own medicine shop...... Prescribe your own medicine shop...... Gu Bainiang couldn't help but sigh.

"Thank you, uncle, for listening to me." Gu Bainiang saluted him and said goodbye, carrying the medicine basket.

"Hey, there it is." Goatee remembered something and called her, but hesitated a little to speak.

"Uncle still has orders?" Gu Bainiang asked.

"If you want to say that there is a taste for collecting medicinal materials, you don't pay much attention to the outside collection. . . ." Goatee hesitated.

"Yes?" Gu Bainiang was busy and happy.

"I ordered a lot of toad crisps," said the goatee, "Little lady, you might make toad crisps?" ”

Toad crisp, also known as toad pulp, as the name suggests, is taken from toad secretion, which is poisonous.

Toads, most people can't avoid them when they see them, let alone catch them for slurry.

"We want as much as we want." Goatee added.

"Thank you, uncle." Gu Banniang smiled and thanked her again.

The goatee twisted his beard and said with a smile that he didn't, and he was just angry and wealthy.

"It's just that it's cold, and it's hard to find toads.," he said, "The little lady can go to the pond and river outside the city..."

"Thank you, uncle..." Gu Bainiang thanked her again and walked out of Dayousheng.

On the way back, she hesitated, but slowly walked to the entrance of Yaohang Street, standing behind a big tree and quietly looking at Shunhetang.

The vigorous and powerful Shunhetang Shen family five big characters on the door plaque are from the hands of Wei Yanqing, a famous scholar of the previous dynasty, and they have not been replaced since the day they were hung up, no, they were almost replaced again, and everyone wanted to sell it, only she insisted, and did not hesitate to put down her body and show her face, worrying about the centrifugal master and man, and persuaded the merchant who asked for the debt, just to get a smile from her husband。。。。。

I don't know how long I stood there, until there were snow particles hitting my face, Gu Bainiang raised her head, only to find that the sky was cloudy again.

The wind blew the guise of Shunhetang, and two young men ran out with their heads and sleeves in their hands, and took off the guise, as if sensing the gaze, and one of them turned his head to look this way.

Gu Bainiang subconsciously hid her figure behind the big tree, only to feel that her heart was beating hard, and when she looked at it again, the two young men had already entered.

She couldn't help laughing at herself, afraid that she was not the young grandmother they were swept out of the house now, and she had nothing to do with them now.

The pedestrians on the street quickened their pace, the snow particles became tighter and tighter, Gu Bainiang tightened her collar, put the medicine basket on her back and slowly turned around and walked in the direction of home.

On the way, she looked back again, and the big characters of Shunhetang fell straight into her eyes, her hands couldn't help but clench, and a thought flashed in her heart.

I'm going to get it

I must get it, I want to change the door plaque of Shunhetang Shen and turn it into my Gu Baniang's medicine hall

That's right, this is the fate that Shunhetang should have, since it was fate that I kept it, and now that there is no me in the fate of the Shen family, then Shunhetang naturally can't be saved, so it can no longer be named Shen

Gu Ba Niang took a few deep breaths, her body was full of inexplicable strength, and her steps became light and firm.

Two carriages drove past her one after the other, and after walking a short distance, one of them stopped urgently, and the carriage behind immediately stopped, a tall seventeen or eighteen-year-old girl got down from the back carriage, hurriedly came to the front carriage, listened to the people in the car said a few words, and then turned around and smiled and walked towards Gu Bainiang, who was walking with her head down against the wind and snow.

"Miss Eighteen... She called.

Gu Banniang raised her head, as if she felt that she had seen it somewhere.

The girl Shi Li introduced herself: "Miss Eighteen doesn't recognize me? The maid belonged to the third grandmother's family, and she saw it that day。。。。。 ”

The day she said naturally refers to the day when the patriarch's house was discussed about the house, and Gu Bainiang knew it.

"The third grandmother said that the weather is not good, Miss, you took these things again, get in the car quickly, and send you back." The little maid continued, pointing behind her as she spoke.

Three grandma? Gu Bainiang looked up and saw a carriage gradually moving away.

The third grandmother was the woman who pointed out the title of the sixth uncle to her in the patriarch's hall that day, and afterwards Gu Eighteen Niang asked the Cao family to know that she was actually the most senior person in the Gu family.

The third grandmother's name is Huang Shiying, born in the Bianjing Wang family, but that was once, when Dajin raided south, the Great Zhou army was defeated, Shangjing was lost, and the royal nobles and magnates fled south, and the catastrophe destroyed nearly one-third of the Wang family, which was very difficult, and the Huang family was among the third.

The young lady of the family who lives in the south of the Yangtze River happened to talk about a family affair and married a somewhat incredible husband to fill the house, this husband is the brother of Gu Qi, the head of the Gu family, that is, the uncle of the current patriarch Gu Changchun, Gu Liang, when the groom just passed his sixtieth birthday.

Three years later, Gu Liang died, and twenty-year-old Huang Shiying became a widow, and now seven years have passed, and after the death of the old patriarch, she has become the highest-ranking person in the Gu family.

Shaohua's legitimate woman is always dressed in plain clothes, not worthy of Zhu Hai, unless she is asked by the person in charge of the clan, she can easily ask about the affairs of the clan, and she only reads and writes at home behind closed doors every day, and there are signs of passing away before she arrives at thirty.

Speaking of her young age, but no one in the clan dares to underestimate her, although there are people behind the back who can't chew their tongues, but they don't dare to show their minds in front of them, it is said that there were unobtrusive children in the clan who had bad intentions, and their words were a little offensive, and the third grandmother didn't say anything, and the patriarch took the seven people in power in the clan to immediately expel the Gu family, and even their family was driven away and removed from the family tree.

In this world, being expelled from the family is like being sentenced to death, and the end is very miserable, which shocks the whole family, and no one dares to show the slightest disrespect to this widowed young third grandmother.

This third grandmother has a cold temperament, she never interacts with people in the clan, and she has never heard of anyone looking the other way, Gu Bainiang believes that she didn't know that there was a person like Gu Leyun in the family before, let alone his wife and daughter.

So this should be a different look at her today? Does this have anything to do with what happened in the Patriarch's Hall that day?

"Miss Eighteen, get in the car, you see, it's snowing heavily... The servant reminded with a smile.

Gu Bainiang came back to her senses from surprise, said thank you, and followed her into the carriage.

"This is the carriage where the slaves and maids sit, please take a moment for Miss Eighteen," the maid smiled, and handed her a hand stove, "Miss warms her hands... ”

The carriage was covered with flower blankets and hung swaying sachets, and she didn't have such a good carriage as a young grandmother of the Shen family in that life, so she really didn't settle at all.

Gu Bainiang did not refuse, took the hand stove and thanked her, the maid was very kind and decent, and did not ask you to do anything like that, but introduced some of Jiankang's customs and customs, and soon, the carriage arrived at her door.

"Miss Eighteen, slow down." The servant got out of the car first, held the umbrella and then carefully supported her.

"Thank you." Gu Banniang said.

The coachman carried her medicine basket to the door.

"I'll do it." Gu Banniang said with a smile, looking at the servant, "Thank you for me, Third Grandma." ”

The maid smiled and said that Miss Eighteen was polite, and said that she must bring it, so she didn't say anything more and got into the carriage and left.

The snow flakes had already withdrawn, Gu Bainiang looked at the direction of the carriage and was slightly distracted, and heard the footsteps of Suo Suo behind her, turned her head to look, and saw two people standing timidly from behind the horse stone on the side.

A thin layer of snow had been draped over them, and they were wearing white hoods on their heads.

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