The prelude to the fourth year of Huangyou's reign was kicked off with the sound of firecrackers.

This year, Bianjing City is as lively as ever, and the restaurants on Mahang Street are full of big shows, singing, dancing and entertainment are even more non-stop every night.

Xin Yi originally wanted to set the opening time after the Lantern Festival, around the seventeenth day of the first lunar month, but Uncle Zhang specially invited a Mr. Yin and Yang to calculate a hexagram for her. said that on the seventeenth day of the first month, the ten evils were defeated, and they did not gather wealth, and they were also punished with Xin Yi's birthday.

Xin Yi didn't believe it, after all, her real birthday was actually a negative number.

Pinching her fingers, she will not be born for more than 900 years, and she can't rush.

However, there are many things that need to be prepared for the opening of a new store, medicinal materials need to be replenished, and there is a shortage of manpower.

Therefore, it takes some time to concoct medicinal herbs, train and screen the guys.

Xin Yi listened to Mr. Yin Yang's suggestion and set the opening date on the first day of February.

The busy days have diluted the smell of the New Year.

Xin Yi settled down, so he booked two tables in Jintailou, asked people to send them to the store, and invited Xiao Cao Niangzi and Uncle Zhang's family to come to dinner to express their gratitude.

A group of adults, a few children, happily, eating so lively.

Xin Yi prepared tea, pastries and melon seeds and other snacks, and gathered in the backyard after the meal, talking and laughing, looking forward to the future appearance of the pharmacy.

"Boss, the plaque you ordered has arrived."

The loud voice from the outside came into the inner room, and Xin Yi threw the unfinished melon seeds into the fruit bowl and came out with a smile.

"So fast?"

"Boss, where is the plaque? Wait for you to open and hang it again, or will we just hang it for you? ”

"Hang up, lest you go back and find someone again......"

Carrying a plaque outside the door are two guys in the store.

On the horizontal plaque are written three large gilded characters - Xinyi Fang.

Good nanmu, black primer, the font is covered with gold leaf, and the corners are carved with herbal stripes, simple and generous, and it looks very elegant, but whether it is the material or the workmanship, it looks a little too extravagant.

"How much does it cost?"

Xin Yi counted the silver distressedly, pointed to the horizontal plaque and asked.

"I remember I ordered camphor wood, right? Is your boss mistaken? ”

Golden silk nanmu is an extremely valuable wood in any era, although the signboard is the face of a business, but Xin Yi does not want to be so extravagant and wasteful.

After all, she doesn't have much money on hand right now, and she's nervous.

"Hey! You don't need to give money from the lady. ”

The two guys put the plaque at the door of the store, picked up the towel and wiped their sweat, "Commander Cao has already given it for you." ”

Xin Yi's heart jumped.

"Commander Cao......?"

"Yes." The man was about to speak, his eyes swept away, and he suddenly smiled, "No, the main master is here!" ”

Xin Yi's eyelids jumped, and when he looked up, he saw Cao Yi coming from a horse.

He was dressed in a dark cyan auspicious cloud pattern straight body, covered with a gold brocade fur on the outside, the smile on Jun's face wandered in the joy of the New Year, the son was noble, gentle and gentle, and a smile exuded the sunshine on the street.

"Mrs. Zhang."

He jumped off his horse, handed the reins to his attendants, took two steps forward, and waved his hand at Xin Yi, congratulating her on her housewarming and the opening of the new shop, and then turned around and smiled:

"This horizontal plaque is written by the medical official envoy Liu of the Medical Officer's Hospital, he writes vigorously, magnificently, is a bold doctor, it is suitable to use here, and it will definitely add a few points to Mrs. Zhang's shop."

Xin Yi returned the courtesy: "There is Lord Lao Cao, but how can I dare to let Medical Officer Liu personally catch the pen......"

Cao Yi smiled: "Little lady, don't thank me." Speaking of which, this matter has nothing to do with me, it was Medical Officer Liu who heard the allusion of the little lady and admired it...... This is the one who is willing to be entrusted with the pen, otherwise, according to his old man's temper, how can I beg for it, he will not be. ”

After that, Cao Yi smiled again.

"As for the cost of the plaque, it's nothing, just as my congratulatory gift to Mrs. Zhang, and I hope that Mrs. Zhang will accept it with a smile."

Xin Yi looked at Cao Yi, his mouth moved slightly, and he wanted to ask something, but in front of so many people, it was inconvenient to brush his face.

"Then I'll be cheeky enough to accept it."

People sent the congratulatory gifts to the door of the store, and there was no reason for people to carry them back, and it said "Xinyifang", which is a fait accompli, and it cannot be returned.

At this time, a group of people from the three little ones and Xiang Lingliang also came out of the inner hall lively, giggling and watching the signboard of the business.

When Xiao Cao Niangzi saw Cao Yi, she affectionately called "Seventh Uncle" and beckoned him to sit inside.

Only then did Xin Yi react.

"Xiang Ling, serve tea to Lord Cao."

Xiang Ling responded, and went to the joy of it.

Cao Yi glanced at Xiao Cao Niangzi, smiled at her, saluted each other and said to Xin Yi, "I won't drink tea." I have business to do today, so I'm leaving. On the day the pharmacy opens, I will definitely come to eat you with a glass of water and wine. ”

Xin Yi thanked him and didn't keep it.

Xiao Cao Niangzi sent him all the way back before coming back, glanced at Xin Yi, and whispered: "My seventh uncle is a noble person, don't say please, eight sedan chairs can't lift him, this is good, personally write a plaque for you, send it to the door, but I am reluctant to take a sip of tea." ”

Xin Yi saw that her eyes were full of flirtatious banter, knew what she was thinking, and smiled lightly.

"Lord Cao has the style of a gentleman, I just did him a little favor, and I was really embarrassed to give him such a generous gift."

"A little favor?" Although the surname is the same Cao, Xiao Cao Mansion and Da Cao Mansion are separated by one layer, and Xiao Cao Niangzi does not know everything about Da Cao Mansion, and she is very curious when she hears it.

Xin Yi hummed calmly, turned his head to look at the two guys hanging a horizontal plaque in the front shop, and replied casually.

"Master Cao's family had a minor illness and asked me to go for treatment."

Xiao Cao Niangzi suddenly realized.

"No wonder, I'll just say that Uncle Seven is so enthusiastic......"

"Boss, have you seen it right?" The guy from the front shop stood on a wooden bench with a smile on his face, and looked back to ask Xin Yi innocently.

Xin Yi took the opportunity to go out, avoiding more inquiries from Xiao Cao Niangzi, and raised his neck to command the men to hang up the horizontal plaque.

"A little left."

"Yes, yes, and then to the right. No, it's a little higher in the right corner. ”

"Okay, there it is. Yes, it's right! ”

Xiao Cao Niangzi followed and walked out.

"Look at those three words, it's wonderful."

The new store was unveiled, and the neighbors and passers-by also stopped to watch and discuss enthusiastically.

Bianjing City has developed commerce, hundreds of industries, and there are many kinds of plaques hanging by merchants, and the patterns are endless.

Xin Yi has observed before that many pharmacies will hang out their main medicines, or "children's accumulated food", "wounded medicine bruises", "wind and cold accumulated food", and so on, or famous people's homes, they will directly play the surname signboard, such as "Sun Family Pharmacy", "Tan Family Pharmacy", "Xie Yi Envoy's Family", "Qi Rongzhai" and so on.

Compared with some reputable old stores, Xin Yi is a newcomer and doesn't want to be so fancy, but he also uses his own name directly.

It's just that I didn't expect that the original ordinary "Xinyi Fang" was lined with brilliance because of this bronzing signboard.

That is, after the horizontal plaque was hung up, Xin Yi found that there was a red seal below, and she couldn't recognize the seal engraving font, but she roughly guessed that it was the signature of the medical envoy Liu.

It's not even open, and it's getting angry.

The people in the medicine shop were all excited, one by one, smiling, but Xin Yi sighed silently.

There are more and more personal debts owed to Cao Yi, and she is about to pay them off, so she has to devote herself to treating Queen Cao.

Due to the busy chores in the palace during the New Year's Festival, these days, Queen Cao did not have the opportunity to leave the palace, nor did she recruit Xin Yi to go for diagnosis and treatment. Xin Yi remembered this, sent the guests away in the afternoon, sorted out the medicinal materials in the store, and took the medicinal materials he had sorted out to Caofu.

Cao Yi was not there, and the porter said that he was going to pay New Year's greetings, and there was still a blessing bag hanging outside the gate, so that Xin Yi could leave a post.

Xin Yi put down the medicine packet, thought about it, and left another note.

"Lord Cao is gracious, and Xin Yi will be rewarded in the future."

She believes that Cao Yi can understand this sentence, which is a thank you for the plaque presented to him, as well as a thank you for the thousands of dollars that she rented the store, and also expressed her intention to return the principal and interest to him in the future.

When he left Caofu, Xin Yi was much more relaxed.

Earn your money and pay off your debts.

Xin Yi made up his mind, and when he returned to Mahang Street, he summoned the guys from the original Sun family pharmacy, and each of them handed out an "exam question", which included some basic knowledge of traditional Chinese medicine processing and pharmacology.

She wanted to touch the bottom of these people first, to see which people could stay and which could not, so that she could know in her heart......

Xin Yi was guarding the guys to do the question, and she never thought that the lady she had saved in Yongqiu Xigang would come to the door with her daughter.

opened his mouth and said, "My surname is An, and my maternal uncle also runs a medicine hall." I grew up in my uncle's pharmacy, I know medicinal materials, I know a little pharmacology, I want to find a job here from my mother, I don't know if I can do it? ”