Ling'er took out the brocade quilts in the box one by one, and kept chattering: "I don't understand, if we don't want to make money, why do we spend 6,000 taels of pharmacies to come back and feed so many idlers? ”

Yuan Xi lay on the side of the table and played with a small hairpin poking lamp oil. Ling'er finished making the bed, also made it to the table, and poured a bowl of tea: "I'm dying of thirst." ”

"Nagging for so long, can you not be thirsty?" Yuan Xi threw down the little hairpin and asked with interest: "Your mother sent you into the house back then, wouldn't it be because you nagged?"

"I'm a good heart, and you should ignore it. Ling'er sat down angrily: "If Aunt You and the clan elders knew that we were spending money so lavishly outside, we would have to marry you off." ”

"I listen to their jokes. Yuan Xi took the medicine list sorted out by the guys in the pharmacy and looked through them one by one: "If I listened to them, I don't know how many times I would have died." ”

"Miss, you've never done such a strange thing, why are we buying this medicine shop for?" Ling Er stepped forward and followed Yuan Xi to see the medicine list, but she couldn't understand it, and she knew two or three of the various names on the medicine list.

"I really want to know, if you cook me a bowl of hot noodle soup, I'll tell you. Won-hee took the pen and ink and began to sketch on the paper.

Ling'er was curious, so she could only cook and roll noodles, and it was only half an hour before she brought a bowl of steaming shredded chicken noodle soup. The soup is translucent, the green coriander floats, and the noodles are thin and firm.

Seeing that Yuanxi took a sip of soup, Ling'er said eagerly: "Can you say it now?"

Yuan Xi smiled: "Do you know who opened the pharmacy on the same street as Shopkeeper Li?"

Ling'er shook her head, this Yue Xizhou is not familiar with the people, how does she know who is who? Ling'er held her little hand like a cat: "Who is it?"

"The eldest son of the emperor. ”

"Huh?" Ling'er's eyes widened, full of disbelief: "How do you know, you didn't look at it." ”

"Don't you still need to see this? Didn't you hear Shopkeeper Li say that the proprietor behind that pharmacy is a big official in the capital, and even the prime minister is afraid of him. The prime minister is above 10,000 people under one person, who can make the prime minister afraid?" Yuan Xi picked up a few thin noodles and put them in his mouth: "Our prime minister Gao covers the sky with one hand in the court, but he is afraid of one person - Xiao Rongshen." ”

Ling Er looked at Yuan Xi intently, slowly sent peanuts to her mouth, and only after a while did she sneer: "Miss, what you said is so interesting, let's have another paragraph." ”

Yuan Xi tapped lightly on her head: "Dead girl, do you treat me as a storyteller in a teahouse?"

"No, I really think it's funny," Ling Er stepped forward: "You said that the prime minister doesn't want to listen to the emperor? The emperor is below the prince, and the eldest son of the emperor has not yet been crowned king." Why is he not afraid of the prince, but the eldest son of the emperor?"

"Gao Bingyan and Prime Minister Gao used to be Xiao Rongshen's young master, and sixteen years ago, Gao Bingyan served as both prime minister and young master. Because of the discord between him and Shangguan Linqing, the then suzerain of Donglinzhou, the two fought to the death in the court. Gao Bingyan was one move away, and he was about to lose the whole game, Xiao Rongshen, who was only fourteen years old at the time, set up a plan, and the murdered Shangguan Linqing was all over the house. Yuan Xi sneered: "Think about it, can you set such a ruthless trap at the age of fourteen not make people afraid?"

Ling'er looked at Yuan Xi in a daze, and even forgot to put peanuts into her mouth: "What's the plan, it's so powerful?"

"At that time, the imperial court had just finished a big battle in Donglinzhou. The military power was not collected, and the army was under the control of Shangguan Linqing. Xiao Rongshen pretended to pass on the holy decree and asked Shangguan Linqing to lead his troops north to guard the frontier. Shangguan Linqing was defenseless, so he went north with his army. You know, the imperial court is in the north, and the emperor didn't know what was going on at that time, so he sent seven edicts to inquire, but they were all detained by Gao Bingyan. Neither side could get the letter, Gao Bingyan took the opportunity to frame Shangguan Linqing for raising troops to rebel, just like that, inexplicably fought another battle, Shangguan Linqing was defeated and killed, and the people in his house were also wiped out by Gao Bingyan. ”

Ling Er let out a long sigh of relief and shook his head: "It's so miserable! No wonder I feel chills when I see the emperor's eldest son." ”

Ling'er put away the dishes and chopsticks, and then reacted: "Miss, how do you know those stories so clearly?"

Won-hee was stunned by her question. How did she know? Of course, Xiao Rongshen proudly preached to her after drinking in her previous life, but it was a pity that she didn't notice Xiao Rongshen's humanity at that time. In fact, he has been exposed a long time ago, but he has been deceiving himself and others, and he has harmed himself after all.

Rong Zhan told me. Yuan Xi smiled secretly in his heart, Xiao Rongzhan's name is really useful, any pot can be pushed on him, anyway, no one can hold him accountable.

Ling'er sneered: "I used to pinch as soon as we met, but now I have a mouthful of Rong Zhan, and I call it really affectionate." ”

"So many words!" Yuan Xi rinsed his mouth and stuffed the sorted medicine into Ling'er's arms: "Tomorrow I will punish you for working all day, see if you are still verbose!"

Ling'er flipped through and looked at Yuan Xi stupidly: "What is this for?"

"Tomorrow, you bring your buddies and put together the medicinal herbs I drew in a circle, and the rest will still be in the basement. Won-hee sat down in front of the dressing table, untied his hairband, and draped his jet-black hair behind him like a waterfall.

"Medicine is expensive in this place, and poor people can't afford medicine when they're sick. Let's first sell the finished medicine left by the shopkeeper Li at half price, the finished medicine can't be stored for a long time, and it will deteriorate in about a year. Yuan Xi took off the earrings and put them in the jewelry box: "Half price is just right, we don't make money or lose money, and the people can afford it." If we are cheap here, the people will buy our medicine. ”

"If the emperor's eldest son's shop also lowers the price, then what should we do?" Ling Er slowly combed Yuan Xi's hair and quietly plucked out a white hair.

"We just want him to reduce the price," Yuan Xi said with a sly smile: "Let's set a rule, the store only sells a hundred pills a day." The common people are cheap, so they must get up early to line up with us. If Xiao Rongshen doesn't reduce the price, he will have no business every day, if he lowers the price, we can drag him for a while, he loses a lot, and the people benefit more. ”

Ling Er gradually smiled: "I understand, you are forcing him to help the poor! We are not trying to make money, but the eldest son of the emperor is trying to make money, even if he only earns a penny per pill, he has to sell it, right? We can sell a hundred pills a day, he can't." So we can flow here for a long time, and he is the flood that opens the floodgates. ”

Yuan Xi said with a smile: "I see that there are many elderly people in this Ankang Town, and it is inevitable that they will be sick when they are old, but now they can take medicine and their bodies will recover." ”

"Miss, you have such a good brain, unlike me, who has a mushy head and doesn't understand anything. Ling'er pursed her lips and combed her hair carefully: "No wonder those princes can't open their legs when they see you, but Brother Tianbao doesn't even look at me." ”

"Silly girl, do you like Liu Tianbao?" Yuan Xi looked at Ling'er in the mirror, her age was similar to herself, and she was the age to be married in the boudoir. The youngest daughter Hanchun is quite cute.

Ling'er was a little embarrassed: "Miss, you said I want to be smarter, can Brother Tianbao like me?"

"What's so hard about this, I'll tell him tomorrow. If he wishes, I will give you five hundred taels as a dowry. Won-hee took the warm handkerchief and wiped his face carefully.

"Still don't want it, what if he says let's make fun of him and get annoyed?" Ling'er brought a bowl of warm soothing soup that had been placed: "Let's take one step at a time." ”

"That's okay, the war is raging in the west of Vietnam, even if you get married, everything has to be simple, and when we go back to Beijing, I will tell my grandmother that you will marry Liu Tianbao in a beautiful way." Yuan Xi drank half a bowl of soothing soup in one go, rinsed his mouth with water, and lay on the bed: "Wait and see, in less than a month, His Royal Highness the eldest son of our emperor will come to the door to ask for guilt." ”

"Ask the guilt?" Ling'er was taken aback, she was afraid when she thought of Xiao Rongshen's murderous face, but he killed three sergeants in a row that day, but he didn't even blink an eye.

"Don't be afraid, I've already thought of a way out, let's let go of our hands and feet and fight with him, let him know that he knows how powerful the Wei family is. Yuan Xi got up and blew out the lamp at the head of the bed: "Sleep, start work tomorrow." ”

......

Ling'er got up early in the morning, blindly matched the names according to the medicine list given by Yuan Xi, and classified the medicinal materials. With the six sons of the former Li shopkeeper's shopkeeper to return to Yuan Xi, the six sons gave birth to a simple face, and his figure was also stocky, and when he saw Yuan Xi, he still had beads of sweat on his forehead.

Yuan Xi said with a smile: "Tired, right?"

Liuzi gasped twice and wiped the sweat off his head: "No, I haven't done this rough work here in the store for many years." Boss, all you left in the warehouse are stab wounds and anti-plague medicines?"

Yuan Xi's eyes lit up: "Do you know a lot? Are you also the apprentice of Shopkeeper Li?"

Liuzi shook his head: "The apprentices have all been taken away by Shopkeeper Li, and I will hear these things secretly when Shopkeeper Li prescribes medicine." ”

"You're a smart man. ”

Liuzi smiled shyly: "Dongjia, your true spirit, there was a long queue in front of us in the morning, I asked someone to go and see it secretly, and there was no one in the Jishitang at the corner of the street, so they all came to us." ”

What a master who understands the eyes, Yuan Xi secretly praised himself. If you want to achieve great things, you really can't do without such people helping under your hands. Yuan Xi nodded: "Did Shopkeeper Li ask you to purchase medicinal materials before?"

Liuzi scratched his head: "I've been with Shopkeeper Li, but I'm just a young man, and I haven't passed through it." ”

"Will you look at the color of the herbs?"

Liuzi nodded a little proudly: "I'm good at this, those apprentices always bullied me as a miscellaneous person, and they didn't give us a chance to show our faces, but in fact, we can see it more accurately than them." ”

"It's not that you want to see any mountain ginseng and deer antler velvet, it's just those musk, camphor, yellow wax and the like, do you make it?"

"Done. Don't worry, I won't talk about the price, but if you ask me about the good medicine, I will be able to explain. The sixth son replied firmly.

"Great, you just pack up, I want you to do something. Yuan Xi beckoned to the shopkeeper Hu: "You go with Liuzi and buy me all the medicines on this medicine list, the capital Xi Yintang has just passed a sum of money, don't be afraid to spend money." ”