Chapter 14 The Snipe and the Clam Fight
Shops in the county town usually don't open after sunset, and Fang Xingtang naturally went to the door to announce the end of the day's business amid the regret and discussion that the crowd could not see more lively chatter. However www.biquge.info the old owner of Fang Xingtang did not have the slightest pleasure as the winner of the competition, the taste in his mouth was bitter, and he was more at a loss about the future than when he decided to close the shop.
It seems that the Jin Hantang, which is a behemoth, the Jin Hantang of the ten old pharmacies in the county town, and the Jin Hantang, which has the financial resources, the ancient recipes, and the real "Yangzhou Blue" town store, were defeated so easily, no, not to mention that the blue is a fake -- the owner of Fangxingtang has never even seen a fake before today! Not only has he not seen it, but even his father and ancestors have never seen it! Before today, he didn't expect that the main store of Jinhantang would actually take out even a touch of blue as a thing for the town store for the sake of this branch, if he had known at that time, he might have managed to change his career to other businesses! Compared with Jinhantang, what does his family have? Jizu is a few medicine books on the road, a medicine garden in the countryside, and a small façade in the city, which are not the first in the county, if they can compete with Jinhantang, then there will be ghosts!
In the past, he thought that if it weren't for the county official surnamed Mao who paved the way for Jin Hantang, if several old shops in the city joined forces, he might not have no chance, but today, seeing the medicinal materials displayed by Jin Hantang, he knew what a big bet Jin Hantang had made in order to capture Shuanghe County!
This bet is simply something that a few of their old shops can't afford to go bankrupt! With the support of the Mao family behind the backing, how can Jinhantang, their local shop, be able to resist it?
However, all this careful preparation and accumulation in front of the female apprentice Hua Ling was like a joke!
The owner of Fang Xing Tang is the master of Hua Ling's apprenticeship, he is her elder, she must use honorifics on him, and he has the power to use corporal punishment on her. In other respects, he is the owner of the land and the shops in the South Gate Commercial Street from his ancestors, a decent person with a little status in the county, at home, he is the head of the family, he controls the marriage and life of his grandchildren, he has the right to decide their inheritance, or whether to sell them, the rest of the family, not to mention. And what about Hua Ling? She is the daughter of a poor family in the North Gate, and her assets have nothing to do with her, not only because her family is poor, as a woman, nominally she can't own any property, even if the golden rain falls on her in the sky, it is not hers, it is her male parent, even if the so-called head of the household is her young son, in fact, she herself is a property, which is also one of the reasons why the owner of Fangxingtang was unwilling to accept female apprentices before, no matter how well she learns, she may be sold as a maid by her family at any time or reduced to a more unbearable place.
Therefore, even if Fang Xingtang has been reduced to the situation of closing down at any time, at the beginning, he still has a full psychological advantage over Hua Ling, he is a human being, a superior person second only to the big families, and Hua Ling is basically not a human being. He accepted the money from his apprentices and apprentices, and he didn't plan to teach anything, so what did he need to teach? Hua Ling should still spend more time learning how to fry tofu.
This attitude of his cannot be said to be pure malice, but a conventional and habitual view, a natural way of looking at people by their origins, which has been cultivated only by mediocre people for decades, so that after meeting a true genius, his little psychological advantage immediately collapses.
Then, Hua Ling took it upon himself to start a contest with Jin Hantang, without asking his opinion at all -- he did not agree to smashing Jin Hantang's signboard! Yes, Jin Hantang had driven his family into a dead end, and he wanted Jin Hantang to disappear and close the door more than once, but ...... He really never thought that in broad daylight, he would smash the signboard of Jin Hantang in public!
That's the Jin Han Tang with the support of the Mao family! It's the Jin Han Tang with 30 guys in this branch alone! It's the Jin Han Tang with the power of the state city!
How dare he smash the signboard of Jinhantang in public?
Hua Ling dare!
Not only did she dare, but she really smashed it to everyone, fake a touch of blue, fake a touch of blue, the big families in the county don't understand pharmacology, they don't know how rare a touch of blue (even if it's fried to the soup), after today, they only know that the things of Jinhantang are fake! Even the female disciples of Fangxingtang can recognize the fake! When his business was prosperous, he had married a big family in the county, and several other old shops naturally would not let go of such a good opportunity to blow the wind in front of their relatives, they would seize this life-saving straw and blow it desperately, anyway, it was not them who smashed the Jinhantang signboard in public, it was Fangxingtang! If Jinhantang was not convinced, he would fight with Fangxingtang again! In the end, no matter which family fell and died, they would be happy! The owner of Fangxingtang knew, because if it were him, he would think the same way!
What? Not at his behest?
Come on, don't talk about Jin Hantang, he himself doesn't want to believe it, a young female apprentice who has just apprenticed to his teacher, dares to smash the signboard of Jin Hantang, which has been grudging with his family for a long time, in public? It must be the instruction of the old shopkeeper, it's a certain thing. He denied it? What did he deny? Said that Hua Ling was not from his family? After seeing Jin Hantang's true strength, he knew how easy it was for the angry Jin Hantang to run over him, and the only lifeline he could resist Jin Hantang's attack and survive was ......
The owner of Fang Xingtang thought of this, and actually had a slight feeling of suffocation, he and Jin Hantang were both strangled by the same noose, the difference was that Jin Hantang would not believe it, and he, he couldn't even let go of this rope that might hang him.