Chapter 40: Qianzhitang
It was late autumn, and before 3 o'clock in the afternoon, the sun had already finished its work, and it was very stingy to drag away its warm robe.
Li Tong stood on the street in front of a pharmacy on the east side of Chongwenmenwai Street, and in front of him was a two-story building facing the street with three doors, and there was an endless stream of customers coming and going.
Li Tong now only hopes that the attitude of the staff in the store will not be as disappointing as the three stores he went to in the morning, especially Qingrentang on Dongsi North Street.
"Oh, why are you so naughty, why are you running to the pharmacy in the morning to tease our female staff? Get out, get out! "The public manager of Qingrentang saw that the new female apprentice was not working well and was making fun of a child, so he immediately came to pry people with a cold face.
"Manager, I'm going to greet customers." A female clerk who looked seven points similar to Liu Yifei blushed and bowed her head slightly, turned around and ran to the counter to choose medicine for a lady with a headscarf.
"Goodbye, beautiful sister, don't forget what you promised me."
Li Tong waved his hand on tiptoe at the female clerk who was standing behind the counter again, and the manager of Yong'an Hall, who was looking at him fiercely, was treated as air by Li Tong.
This man was very annoying, and he didn't know if it was because he had nothing to do, so he stood guard at the gate of the pharmacy and saw everyone like a thief. As soon as Li Tong walked in, he came up to ask about the east and the west, and asked the east and west in Li Tong's ear as if he was checking the household registration, and he was sent away after two sentences.
I didn't expect such a big man's heart to be so small, Li Tong finally chatted with this female clerk named Liu Cuiqin who looked like Liu Yifei, and the other party promised to help Li Tong pay attention to the seeds of ginseng and other medicinal materials, and then Li Tong was kicked out by the public manager of Qingrentang.
The other two families are not much better, and they all treat Li Tong as a little hairy child.
"Go, go, we don't sell any ginseng seeds, you can play somewhere else."
"Little brother, think about it, did your family ask you to buy ginseng flowers, and you heard that they became ginseng seeds?"
In this regard, Li Tong said that he was very angry, although he was indeed a little hairy child.
Before entering Qianzhi Hall, Li Tong looked up again at the black-on-gold plaque above his head, and couldn't help but feel a sense of righteousness in his heart.
Looking at the eaves on both sides, the signboards with red letters on a white background immediately broke this artistic conception, which is simply a suit with slippers - nondescript.
Li Tong laughed angrily, walked behind the crowd with his head tilted and walked into the two-story building, and soon Li Tong was shocked by the decoration in the building.
It doesn't mean the wide hall where there is almost no place to put your feet, nor the two rows of counters that are at least ten meters long and the medicine cabinets with hundreds of medicine compartments more than three meters behind the counters.
It refers to the colorful paintings on the beams in the house, which makes Li Tong look stupid.
If you have to use any words to describe it, carved beams and paintings, golden and brilliant, these eight words are really just right here.
The technique used in the Liang Fang color painting on the beam frame in the house is one of the Su paintings in the middle of the Ming Dynasty, and it is also the most gorgeous one, which is called Jin Zhuomo Su Painting.
The whole beam is used as a canvas, and the pictures of flowers, birds, fish and insects are separated by brocade hoop heads, and there are also patterns and characters or clusters around it.
The lines of each picture, especially the petals and the lines of the picture, are outlined with gold lacquer, while the rest of the picture is covered with large pieces of gold leaf at the end to achieve the overall effect of highlighting the pattern.
The carved beams and paintings are described as exquisite patterns and exquisite techniques, adding a layer of brilliant colors to the drug delivery shop.
The resplendence refers to the large amount of gold used in the whole Jinzhuo Mosu painting, which shows off the magnificence of the pharmacy.
Compared with the head ridge of the ash tube and the ceiling of the wellhead on the Xujia hall, it is better to say that the chrysanthemum is to the peony.
The former is full of vitality, red like fire, white like snow, and pink like xia; The latter is graceful and luxurious, immaculate, pure, and elegant.
Don't talk about the bad ones.
The room was crowded, and the customers in front of the counter, old and young, men and women, both cadres in woolen jackets, and workers in blue labor protection cloths, their expressions were either happy, worried or sluggish, but the expressions of the clerks in Qianzhitang behind the counter were the same as ice.
At first, Li Tong felt that they were a little indifferent, didn't this era pay attention to serving the people, why did the attitude of the clerks in this pharmacy be even worse than the first three.
How does this make Li Tong tease the girl.........
However, Li Tong soon realized that the coldness on the faces of the clerks seemed to be just an illusion, and although there was no smiling service model, their work was absolutely conscientious in the face of customers who came to grab medicine.
Li Tong stopped at the side of the counter and observed a young woman with a bitter face coming to buy medicine, perhaps the elderly or children in the family were sick, and the doctor's prescription list she got from the hospital was wrinkled.
"Hello, I'm sorry for you to help catch the medicine, thank you."
Behind the counter, a male clerk in his early twenties took the prescription list and the cashier's receipt with a cold face, and nodded lightly without saying a word.
Instead of rushing to pick up the medicine from the hundreds of medicine compartments behind him, he threw the receipt into a wooden box, put the crumpled prescription list on the counter and flattened it with his white gloved right hand, and pressed it with a hardwood paperweight to prevent the list from falling.
The dark eyes seemed to casually sweep over the prescription list, and the whole person seemed to have wind under his feet, and quickly joined the team of other clerks who were grabbing the medicine, and his every move seemed to be relaxed.
Soon, the young male clerk brought back all the Chinese herbs listed on the prescription list. Pick up the weighed medicine and do not rush to put the medicine, but first turn the pot over, and use the rod to knock the bottom of the pot twice to prevent the residue of the herbs that have just been weighed inside, so as not to make the slightest mistake when weighing the medicine.
After weighing the medicine, the male clerk from the previous year was not in a hurry to pack it directly, and then he actually took a step back with his hand down, standing quietly in place as if waiting for something.
The young woman was waiting a little anxiously, and just as she was about to urge, she saw a middle-aged man in a white coat and black-rimmed glasses walking slowly towards this side. He first picked up the prescription list under Zhen Mu, looked at it, then put it back in its place, casually took off a copper chopstick in the chest pocket of his coat, and gently tossed it a few times in the Chinese herbs on the square straw paper on the counter.
After about ten seconds, the middle-aged man with glasses nodded slightly to the male clerk, and then moved on to the next clerk.
The young male clerk's fingers fluttered like butterflies, and in the blink of an eye, he tied up the five packets of medicine and handed them to the young woman.
"I've kept you waiting, this is your medicine, please take it."
"Thank you." The young woman thanked her and turned to leave.
Li Tong likes the work attitude of the Qianzhitang clerk very much, never greets each other with a smile, the clerk with customers is not in a hurry to work, and the clerk without customers is very calm and quiet when standing or sitting, unlike the salespeople in other stores who get together and chatter.
In addition, Li Tong also found out that Qianzhitang also provides decoction services, but it should still charge money, so the young woman who bought the medicine just now did not choose to decoction in the store.
"Little brother, I see that you seem to be alone, are you here to catch medicine for your family?" A black-haired old man in a white coat stood behind Li Tong with a smile and asked.
Li Tong turned his head slowly, a smile appeared on his young and handsome little face, and said word by word.
"No, I'm here for ginseng!"
Occasionally, if you get a green Yunzhi, you can get immortality:
Yu has no gains, and there are thousands of Zhizhi in the world;
The world has a long life, and the rest of the heart begins to comfort the ears;
The name of Qianzhitang contains tens of millions of immortal medicine Ganoderma lucidum, and I hope that everyone in the world can get Qingyunzhi and live a long life.