The next day was the first day of the fifth month.

The Dragon Boat Festival of the Song people is a big festival and is very valued. From the very beginning of the new year, the market has been bustling with activity to prepare for the festival. People selling wormwood, cattail leaves, mulberry leaves, peach branches, and other herbs are everywhere in the streets. The embroidery girls sell sachets in the shop, and the merchants push the cart to sell herbs......

Bianjing City in May is very prosperous.

Every festival in ancient times was very new to Xinyi.

Last night, as soon as Fu Jiuqu left on the front foot, An Niangzi found her on the back foot and said about the Dragon Boat Festival.

On the fifth day of the fifth month of the fifth month, every household wants Mulan soup, and An Niangzi feels that Xinyi Pharmacy can't miss this opportunity to make money. I want Xin Yi to collect some herbs and make them into herbal medicine bags, which are convenient for the customers and can also be used by the people in his shop.

When Xin Yi was a child, he was forcibly washed with herbal water by his grandmother during the Dragon Boat Festival, saying that it could drive away evil spirits and cure diseases, but later his grandmother was gone, and the custom of this solar term was lost......

The Dragon Boat Festival has also become a symbolic festival, except for eating a zongzi to express it, there is no atmosphere.

Xin Yi listened to An Niangzi's words, and several people summed it up, and got up early that day, and Xiang Ling accompanied Xin Yi to collect herbs.

When they passed by Mahang Street, they found that the herbal medicine table had already been set up with a door panel at the entrance of other pharmacies, and it was full of herbs, and even the Tan family was opening as usual.

"Wow." Xiang Ling glanced at it and snorted dissatisfiedly, "The Tan family instructed the guys to come to our pharmacy to steal and change the medicinal materials, almost killing people, why didn't the government raid their house?" ”

Xin Yi frowned slightly, thinking of Renzong's pardon of the prisoner, and smiled coldly.

"Big things turn into things, and small things turn into nothing. The king of the county said that the Tan family found the unfavored aunt to blame, saying that the aunt instructed someone to do it, and the government also took the aunt to interrogate, and slapped fifty boards, and others did not punish the crime again......"

Xiang Ling was indignant, "This family is so ruthless! Hum! If a villain opens a medical hall, sooner or later something will happen. ”

Xin Yi agreed, smiled and pulled her arm, and quickened her pace.

"Then let's stay away from his house and be careful of blood splattering on our bodies."

Xiang Ling was amused by her description, "Sister, let's go faster, the sun will come out in a while, and the herbs will wilt." ”

The entrance of the vegetable market on Mahang Street is crowded, and the ground is full of herbs, all the way to the inside, most of which are pulled to the city by the villagers themselves to sell.

Xin Yi went to talk to a few, the herbs were all picked from the ground, and the prices were very cheap, and some stall owners saw the sun coming up, and even lowered the price, ready to sell and leave.

"Little lady, buy mine, buy mine, get up early this morning and cut it, it's fresh."

"What does the little lady want? Come and see my family. ”

Xin Yi's eyes wandered around the stall, and his footsteps slowly stopped in front of a herb stall.

The stall keeper was a boy of about eleven or twelve years old, who was very strong, but there was no aura in his eyes, giving people a feeling of woodenness, and when he saw Xin Yi approaching, he asked nervously.

"Buy, buy herbs?"

Xin Yi looked at his family's herbs, the mud was washed, and small handfuls were neatly stacked and placed on the ground in different categories.

"Buy." After Xin Yi finished speaking, he looked left and right, "Where is your adult?" ”

The child's face darkened, and his voice was a little lower, "I don't have adults. I'm an adult. ”

Xin Yi lowered his head, bent down and picked up a handful of Changpu, "Did you come out to sell herbs yourself?" ”

"Hmm." The child lowered his eyelids, not daring to look at him, "Are you either?" I cut it at home and sell it cheaply. ”

Xin Yi: "Yes." ”

The child smiled, and a dimple actually appeared at the corner of his mouth, "Which one do you want?" How much? ”

Xin Yi's gaze fell on a basket behind him.

Apparently, this kid used this basket to carry herbs to the market.

"I want them all." Xin Yi smiled: "However, you have to help me send it home." ”

The child was stunned for a moment, and immediately agreed, "Okay, where is your home?" ”

Xin Yi said: "Go out to the south, Xin Yi Pharmacy." Do you know? ”

The child was a little confused, and looked at him silently for a long time. Seeing this, Xiang Ling laughed: "Oh, don't be stupid. Pack up all your herbs and come with us. ”

"Oh. Good ......."

Xin Yi originally wanted to buy more, but when he saw that the two women with big shoulders and round waists next to him showed dissatisfaction, he lost his mood and asked Xiang Ling to help the kid load the herbs and return to the pharmacy together.

Unloading the herbs, Xin Yi looked at the child's shoes with his toes exposed, asked An Niangzi to take the money over to settle the bill for him, and asked Xiang Ling to take a few pieces of pastry over and hand them to him.

"I went out early, didn't I have time to eat, did I? Come on, cushion your belly. ”

"Thank you ......"

"Did you really pick these herbs yourself?"

The child took the pastry, his fingers stiffened, and his expression was very uncomfortable, but he was obviously less defensive against Xin Yi.

He shook his head, "It was me and my mother who picked the ...... together."

"Then why didn't your mother come?"

"My mother, I can't come." The child's eyelids drooped, "My mother is a cripple and can't walk far." ”

"Where's your father?"

"Dead."

The child's head hung lower, as if not having a father was a very dishonorable thing, so that he didn't dare to look into Xin Yi's eyes.

"My father was sent to the south to fill the army, Yong, Yongzhou...... Later, he died. ”

The status of the soldiers of the Song Dynasty was not high, far inferior to that of later generations, and the prisoners were assigned to the army and the same as the soldiers......

Xin Yi sighed slightly, his brows furrowed, "What's your name?" ”

The child said, "My name is dog, my name is dog." ”

"What?" Xin Yi thought he had heard something.

"Dog, that's what dog means."

“……”

All right. It's easy to feed a cheap life.

Xin Yi thought for a moment and lowered his head to look at him.

"Do you think that's good? In the future, if you pick herbs, you will send them to my pharmacy, and you don't have to wash them so cleanly, because we have a herb shop here, and someone will handle them. Also, if there are people in your village who want to sell herbs, you can also ask them all to send them to my pharmacy, but if you introduce them, I will give them a commission in addition to the money to buy herbs...... Well, what do you think? ”

The child was stunned, there was no joy, only surprise.

"Why is the lady...... If you don't buy at the bazaar, why should you give me a commission? ”

Xin Yi smiled, "One side of the water and soil raises one side of the medicine, the origin is different, and the medicinal properties are different." I just looked at the market, your herbs are the best. It must be that the water and soil in your village are good, suitable for the growth of medicinal materials, if your village people sell the medicine to others, wouldn't it be my loss? So, when you introduce them to sell to me, you're doing me a great favor. Do you understand? However, you have to remember that I only want good medicine, not bad products. ”

The child didn't seem to understand, but he still happily took the money and left.

Xin Yi noticed that the child didn't eat those pastries, and secretly stuffed them into his arms, probably to take them back to honor his mother.

An Niangzi watched the child walk away with the basket on his back and sighed.

"The lady is really kind-hearted."

Xin Yi said disappreciatively: "We all have to buy medicine anyway, who doesn't buy it?" ”

With that, she turned around and called Zhou Daozi.

"Could you please help me write a few words?"

Zhou Daozi squinted at her, "What to write?" ”

Xin Yi thought for a while, "Just write: Ancient flange soup dumplings, deodorant body, on sale on the fourth day of the fifth month, limited to 500 packs, first come, first served." ”

Zhou Daozi pinched his fingers and counted, "Little lady, these are not a few words." ”

Xin Yi was stunned and laughed.

"Sir, don't worry how many words there are, right? Write quickly, write quickly, in our pharmacy, you are the best at handwriting, so it's called a good-looking ......"

Zhou Daozi was praised flutteringly, stroked his beard and nodded, and went to prepare pen and ink.

An Niangzi said puzzledly: "We can sell the blue soup buns tomorrow, why does the lady have to wait until the fourth day of the fifth month to start selling?" And, why only 500 packs? ”

Xin Yi smiled, "You have to leave someone else a little way to live." ”

This explanation is unconvincing.

Of course, the current An Niangzi didn't know that Xinyi's Lan soup dumplings were going to be sold for as high as five taels of silver, so she went to open the door with half a doubt.

As the sun rose, someone from the pharmacy came to deliver herbs, and someone else brought Peilan.

Peilan is also called vanilla, the raw material of the original orchid soup is Peilan, only because this herb is scarce, so there are other herbs to replace, all called orchid soup.

These people are all found by dogs.

The dog's small body was also caught in the crowd, and he was a little cautious when he looked at Xin Yi, his eyes jumping with light, and fear.

"Lady, these, these are all from our village......"

Xin Yi smiled slightly, "Pick it in from the corner door." ”

The dog was very concerned about this matter, and the people he called for it, the herbs were also stacked neatly, and they looked much more beautiful than those in the market, and of course, the price given by Xin Yi was also higher than the market price.

But she only accepted the superior ones, and the inferior ones did not ask for them.

The herb sellers left one after another, and Xin Yi gave the dog a commission and specially told him. The pharmacy only collects medicinal herbs.

The dog sensibly departed.

"Don't worry, lady, I'll tell them."