Chapter XVI Negotiations
Later that day, the owner of Fangxingtang lit an oil lamp on the account table, spread out the heavy account book, and counted the broken silver received that day. The copper coins were all placed in different categories, he first pointed out two and a half silver coins, Fang Xingtang's account table has not appeared so beautiful and new money for a long time, and then there are a few gray silver horns, but the color is beyond doubt, followed by a few stacks of copper coins, all of which are thick and good money, the words on the money are beautiful and clear, the edges are wide, and the bad money that will be received every day, the kind of small copper pieces that have been pre-cut off the edges and smoothed out the surface have not appeared on the account table today. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info
All this would have pleased him, and there was no coolie to force him to take the small pieces of copper, which were actually worthless, and the rice merchants and firewood sellers would not block his door, and they would shout loudly for a few small pieces of copper and swear not to do his family's business next time, and the other day, when Cinnamon went to the pawnshop to redeem what they had pawned, the shopkeeper kindly accepted the tickets, and sent them back, without saying a word of unpleasantness, and asking when they would have that kind of good medicine to sell again. He can imagine that with the further spread of the reputation of the new drug and the guarantee of supply, Fang Xingtang is about to restore its original prosperity, and there will be men and apprentices behind the counter to be busy, Yu Gui does not have to cook the fire herself, and her brother does not have to do the work of the door board, and he may have the leisure to go to the restaurant next door to sit down, order a pot of "Shuanghe Bai", and then order fried shrimp, and kill time with nothing to do.
However...... His mind was not on the ledger or the money at all, he stared at the ledger until Yu Gui finished all the chores in the back kitchen, and saw that his grandfather was still in a daze at the ledger.
"Yu Gui, call Hua Ling. He said he had to do something, even if he couldn't figure out much.
Hua Ling soon came, and she stood quietly in the corner like a shadow, like the obedient and lovely maid that every man dreams of.
"I only took you on today," he said carefully, trying to make his words sound majestic and weighty, "So, what you are doing does not represent Fang Xingtang, I don't know who instructed you to come, but ......"
Hua Ling interrupted the rest of his speech: "Master, although I am the teacher I worship today, a few years ago, you discovered my talent, gave me a medicine book and gave me a point or two. ”
"It's not true!" shouted the owner of Fang Xingtang, "There has never been such a thing!"
"Oh—but there are ten men in Gourd Alley to attest to that. Hua Ling said slowly, he felt that he didn't need to remind the master and apprentice that he was the daughter of the Ah Xing family in Hulu Lane: "You have discovered my talent, but you still have doubts about whether I can do it, and in order to avoid possible peer competition, you did not tell others, including your grandchildren, so as not to be informed by Jin Hantang, until I can match Jin Hantang - you have finally waited for the opportunity to fight back against Jin Hantang." ”
The owner of Fang Xingtang felt that this was the most ridiculous story he had ever heard in his life: "Nonsense! I have never been to Hulu Lane!"
"It's not nonsense to have ten witnesses, master, what kind of credentials do you have to prove that you have never been to Hulu Lane secretly?" the girl smiled lightly: "Besides, what do you want to prove?"
"What?"
"Do you want to prove that you have nothing to do with what happened during the day and at night? Not to mention that you don't have any evidence, but if you do, how do you think Kenhando would write a report to the head office - what do you think their boss would think about the destruction of their business by a nine-year-old girl who had only started her apprenticeship on her first day? Would you be relieved that they had been beaten by someone who had just been apprenticed for a day? Or is it written that this is a deliberate revenge by the local shop, asking the head office to give more support so that the local resistance can be completely eradicated?"
The master of Fang Xingtang was silent, this was a very simple reasoning, Jin Hantang must be more willing to blame him than a young female apprentice, so as to show that their failure was not too stupid.
Regardless of the law, according to customs or according to age, he has an overall advantage over Hua Ling in terms of age and gender, and now this advantage has turned into a rope to strangle him, Hua Ling's last sentence is even more obviously threatening, she knows that Jin Hantang can only rely on her to resist in the next revenge, ah, of course she knows, she made all this out of the first place!
Why? The advantages are obviously here with him, he has a white beard, he has an ancestral inheritance, he has the advantage of gender and the name of the master, Hua Ling hugged his thighs and he still had to think about it, why did the ending become that he was pitted by Hua Ling, and he still had to hug Hua Ling's thighs, and it was not okay not to hug him!
He stared at Hua Ling viciously, biting his lips tightly, lest a few of the most vicious curses blurt out, and the latter was no stranger to this kind of expression, in the previous life, those people hesitated whether it was better to him or better, he had always been magnanimous to these inner activities, anyway, they had to do it for him in the end:" Soon the whole county will know how you worked hard to break the old rules and finally beat Jin Hantang in one fell swoop, and your legend will be passed down from generation to generation in this city, and at the same time, Fang Xing Tang's medicine will sell far more than Jin Hantang in the most prosperous era, isn't that good?"
This can probably be regarded as a promise, and the owner of Fang Xingtang knows that he has no second way to go, he has to act as Hua Ling's "mastermind", and he has to sell the pile of things she made for her, that pile of things, collect money, and settle accounts, that is to say, he is busy being her accomplice all day long, and in the end, Fang Xingtang may become the kind of prosperous shop she promised, but even he can guess that Fang Xingtang at that time may have nothing to do with him and his grandchildren.
"You have to stop Jin Hantang's revenge. He muttered, of course, for someone.
"Rest assured, I'll take care of it. Hua Lin's words were extremely sincere and moving, he said this sentence about a thousand times in his previous life, and his demeanor and tone were as skillful as his signature: "If there is nothing to do, I will leave, master." ”
"A touch of blue. The old shopkeeper said suddenly.