"Or is it the medicine for knife wounds and plague?" The sixth son scratched his head, this proprietor didn't know what was wrong, how could he recognize these two things and not let go? He didn't dare to ask more, so he could only make up for one.

Shopkeeper Hu was a little flustered, he had been dealing with antiques for half his life, and suddenly let him stick to the prescription, he really couldn't turn a corner. After all, the interlacing is like a mountain, and the shopkeeper Hu has no bottom in his heart: "The owner, although the sixth son will look at the quality of the medicine, but after all, he doesn't know the market of this medicine, how much each medicine should be sold for, we don't count it in our hearts, it's really black." ”

Yuan Xi smiled and shook his head: "Be smart, don't rush to buy it when you get to the market, listen to how much money others pay first." Tell Liuzi to take a good look at the medicinal materials, don't say anything, and tell you quietly. Wait for someone to make a bid, and you follow up. ”

Shopkeeper Hu nodded, and that was the only way. Shopkeeper Hu remembered one more thing: "Yesterday, I took stock of the East Shop, and you were asked to collect all the things in the store?"

"I've already entrusted the dart bureau to transport it back to the capital. Those things are worthless here, and when they get to the capital, the price will soar all the way. Yuan Xi pondered for a while: "There are few things in the west shop, so there is no need to move, keep the guarantee." ”

Shopkeeper Hu sighed and hesitated: "Owner, I really want to ask, we have been buying a medicine shop and selling antiques in the past two days, what are we doing?"

"The battle in Donglinzhou is getting tighter and tighter, can we live in peace here? Can those jade and agate houses save lives? At the critical time, it must be medicinal herbs, grain and salt. Yuan Xi talked about grain and salt, and remembered another thing in his heart: "How much silver has the salt in Ankang Town been sold for?"

The shopkeeper Hu snorted: "All we eat in Ankang Town is private salt, and the collusion between the government and salt sellers makes a profit of three or seven per bucket." As soon as the government lets go, the salt we have here will be expensive, one or two halves of silver and a bucket. ”

The official salt in the capital is 500 wen and one bucket, and this Ankang town is actually three times that of the capital! Yuan Xi made an abacus in his heart, took 200 taels of silver from his purse and handed it to the shopkeeper Hu: "100 buckets of salt, and the remaining 50 taels will be given to the government." ”

Shopkeeper Hu said with a smile: "The salt merchants themselves will share the accounts with the government, so we don't have to give it anymore." ”

"Confused, a hundred buckets is not a small amount, there is no benefit from the government, can people let you buy so much? ”

Yuan Xi had eaten refreshments, it was past noon, and the hundred pills had been sold out, but there was still a long queue outside the store. Liu Tianbao stood at the door and shouted: "Everyone, let's go back first, tomorrow is still a hundred pills, until the short sale!"

There was a sigh outside the door.

"After a day of queuing, I still didn't get it. ”

"Alas, why do you sell a hundred pills, sell more!"

Liu Tianbao smiled and arched his hand: "Fellow villagers, take care of it." ”

Yuan Xi hooked his hand and called the sixth son. Pointing to the young man who was eating bread in the teashed opposite, he asked, "Do you know him?"

"It's a guy from Jishitang at the corner of the street, you can't be wrong. Liuzi rolled up his sleeves: "The owner, he's spying on us, wait for me to catch him in and beat him!"

Yuan Xi stretched out his hand to stop: "Don't go, just let him sit there." ”

"If he learns this trick from us, we won't work. ”

"I'm afraid he won't be able to learn," Yuan Xi curled the corners of his lips: "Ling'er!"

"Boss, what do you command?"

Yuan Xi pointed out the window: "You go to meet him, just according to what I taught you last night." ”

Ling'er understood, took a small amount of money from his purse and entered the tea shed: "Boss, come to ten cakes, hurry up." ”

When the guy from the Jishitang saw that Ling'er came out of Li Ji's pharmacy, he hurriedly accosted her: "What's the matter, the girl buys so many cakes?"

Ling'er smiled: "No, I'm afraid there won't be enough to eat." ”

The guy looked into Li Ji's shop: "Why is this Li Ji's business suddenly so hot? ”

Ling'er lowered his chin: "Of course, you don't look at who the current owner is." ”

"Changed owners?" The guy clicked a pair of small eyes: "Is it the one you yelled at just now?"

"He, he's a guy in our shop, our owner is from the capital, can you see it easily?" Ling Er showed a slightly meaningful smile: "I don't want to tell you, our owner is in the capital, and you can earn a lot of silver by casually hooking your hands." ”

"That's pretty powerful," he looked left and right, "but the price is so low, can you make money?

"Oh my name, our boss won't make that kind of black money. Ling'er took the cake and pretended to be proud and said: "To tell you the truth, our owner said that the price is not afraid of being low, even if it only earns one penny per pill! Anyway, our price is half lower than the one at the corner of the street, and the common people will definitely come to us to buy it!"

After Ling'er finished speaking, he jumped into Li Ji with the cake, handed the cake to Liuzi, and asked him to divide it with a few guys. Back to the window, the guy from the Jishitang had already secretly left.

Yuan Xi smiled: "The acting is good, I have seen it all." ”

Ling'er blinked: "Look, see when they go." ”

The next day, just after the dawn, the sixth son rushed all the way back to the store, and shouted vigorously without even breathing: "The owner, they have descended, they have descended!"

"How much?"

"Like us, it's halved. The sixth son took a sip of the tea given by Ling'er, and gestured with his hands and feet: "They have a big red paper at the door, and the price of all medicines has been reduced by half, the owner, they are determined to fight with us!"

Everything was as expected, Yuan Xi nodded gently: "Today, we only sell fifty pairs of medicines in our store." ”

"Yesterday I said a hundred, but today it will become fifty?" The sixth son was a little confused: "The owner, while the people haven't reacted yet, let's sell more, right?"

"Don't sell more, don't sell more than one pair of medicines!" Yuan Xi said with a smile: "Liuzi, there are a number of finished medicines on the counter, if you sell one more pair, you will have dinner tonight." ”

Yuan Xi took his small money bag: "Ling'er, let's go out for a walk today." ”

Ling'er didn't like cornmeal porridge for breakfast, so she said happily: "Boss, let's go outside to the restaurant, shall we?"

"Okay, what is the name of the restaurant where Shopkeeper Hu invited us to eat on the day we came? Hongbin Building? ”

......

Everything in Ankang Town has an ancient charm, just as Xiao Rongshen said, small bridges and flowing water, and ancient roads are westerly. There is also a small wooden tube that rides a bull and plays a flute and slowly drives through the bluestone path. Yang Liu Yiyi, really a bit of calligraphy and painting artistic conception.

I chose a window seat in Hongbin Building and ordered a few plates of side dishes to eat, which made Ling'er eat sweet.

"It's pretty quiet today, no nagging. Yuan Xi slowly drank a bowl of lotus seed porridge.

"It's a real understatement. Ling'er pouted, but didn't forget to eat the vegetables: "You think I'm as stupid as the sixth son." A hundred pills become fifty pills, and the finer the flow of our water, the longer it can flow. If we continue at this rate, we can drag him to death. ”

Yuan Xi smiled: "Good girl, I've really become smarter, let's go and see the price of rice later." ”

"By the way, look at the rice bran. Ling'er took a big sip of porridge: "Bran is much cheaper than rice, and it can also wrap the stomach, and rice mixed with bran can feed more people." ”

"Dude, check out!"

The runner happily put a piece of silver into his tray: "Two, is it okay to eat?"

"You're a northern rice, aren't you? It's rare to get this rice in this place. ”

Ran Tang was stunned: "Yo, guest officer, can you, this is all eaten? I won't tell you, because the rice in the north is more fragrant than the rice in the west, and the rice that our shopkeeper specially imported from the north at a high price! You don't know, our road in this place is not easy to walk, and the car can't get in, and the guys carry it in bags!"

Yuan Xi took a tael of silver from his pocket and threw it to the man: "Reward you." ”

Out of Hongbin Building, Ling'er was still unsatisfied: "If you want to eat hometown rice in the future, you can come here." Miss, shall we go to the market again?"

Yuan Xi shook his head: "Ling'er, let's go to the entrance of the town." ”

The entrance to the town is a dirt road with craggy stones, no wonder the car was bumpy on the day it came.

Ling'er suddenly realized: "Miss, no wonder that guy said that the car can't get in, and the car is really not as fast as two legs on this road." We came here with so much hay on the ground, and it was still so upside down that my butt still hurts. ”

"How much silver do you say it will cost to build this road?" Yuan Xi stretched out his hand to probe, and the stones did not move at all, presumably a large part of them were buried in the ground.

"It's not a few hundred taels, I'm afraid I won't be able to get down, right?" Ling'er was a little dazed: "Miss, what are you going to do? Isn't our silver used to buy food?"

"The grain is dead, but the road is alive. Ankang Town is the closest road into Donglinzhou. If you don't go to Ankang Town, you will have to go around the mountains for hundreds of miles. If we repair this road, not to mention the grain trucks, even the army of the imperial court can walk from here. ”

"But even if we don't buy food, we won't be able to get so much money to build roads. Ling'er sighed: "The common people during the war years were really miserable, and even the government didn't care about them. ”

"If we want to do this, we have to go through the government, and I'm afraid that half of the silver will fall into the government's pocket. "Yuan Xi weighed for half a day, and it didn't count the labor costs, just the bluestone slab had to cost a lot of silver taels.

After thinking for a long time, Yuan Xi suddenly sneered: "Thinking too much, aren't we here to build a palace, aren't we just to make the road surface smoother?

Ling'er smiled: "In this way, the cost will be smaller, but where can the workers find it?"

"What's so rare about this? So many beggars and vagrants, call them together, two pieces of bread and one mustard greens per person every day, are you afraid that everyone will come? Yuan Xi said with a smile: "The money that the government received from the imperial court to help the victims of the disaster has been saved, they have made a lot of money, and the people have food and shelter, and they will not make trouble, and it is too late for the government to be happy." ”

"But in this case, isn't it conniving at them to embezzle disaster relief money?"

"Don't worry, let them swallow first, and it won't be long before I let them spit it out intact. Yuan Xi patted the dust on his hands: "Let's go, let's go back first." ”