Chapter 13: Revenge and Face

According to Zhao Gongming's observation, his shopkeeper has been in the room in the backyard for several days, even if Zhao Gongming occasionally asks, the money shopkeeper is only vaguely confused, which makes Zhao Gongming's curiosity more and more intense. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. biqUgE怂 ļ½‰ļ½Žļ½†ļ½

However, because Zhao Gongming himself was also worried about a problem, he did not try to peek into the secrets of his shopkeeper.

After reading the entire Pharmacopoeia, Zhao Gongming still couldn't find any record of the snake's moult, so he began to focus on another question.

The balance that once appeared in Zhao Gongming's sea of knowledge has not appeared since the snake molting incident, but he found another change in the sea of knowledge, the tip of the bud that emerged from the shell has grown significantly, twice as tall as it was at the beginning.

Zhao Gongming suspected that this was related to the money he rubbed on the counter every day, and his behavior was inadvertently discovered by his own shopkeeper once, and the shopkeeper said so at that time.

"You kid said a few days ago that you want to get some kind of medicine and put it in the store to solicit business, but why hasn't there been any movement these days? My old man's shop was originally a small business, and he didn't expect to make any money, and you pinched the little money in the store in your hand every day, could it be that you can figure out some tricks?"

"Memorize that "Pharmacopoeia" as soon as possible, this store will have to be handed over to you sooner or later, and don't lose my face as a master when the time comes. ā€

After listening to the words of his shopkeeper, Zhao Gongming was ashamed for a quarter of an hour, and then when the shopkeeper wandered to the backyard, he began to study the mysterious connection between Fu Qian and sprouting.

Skylark came to the pharmacy twice, and the medicinal materials brought were not rare varieties, and Zhao Gongming remembered the money for research, so there was no conflict with the sister, and of course it was impossible for anything to happen that everyone liked to see.

However, every time Skylark comes to the door, the money shopkeeper will always appear at an appropriate time, although he did not interfere with the transaction between his apprentice and the medicine girl, but Zhao Gongming always felt that the timing of his shopkeeper's appearance was too coincidental, and it was difficult for the second spring of the old man to become rich.

Although Zhao Gongming agreed that the old man also had sunset red, the imagination of a pear tree pressing the begonia really made him complain.

Zhao Gongming, who was pregnant with gossip psychology, once tried his shopkeeper between words, but he always didn't say a word, and was easily brought by the old man to the question of the learning progress of the pharmacy apprentice, Zhao Gongming couldn't help but sigh that Jiang was really old and spicy.

When the whole sprout emerges from the shell, it becomes a stunted "bean sprout". When Zhao Gongming touched Fu Qian again, he could already detect the trembling of the bud body.

But when Zhao Gongming got the talisman money that he had already touched once back in his hand, the bud body in the sea of consciousness did not react.

It was only when another one was put on that the buds began to vibrate. Then Zhao Gongming tried several talisman coins, and the intensity of the tremor caused by each talisman seemed to be different, and there were also those that could not trigger the bud body reaction at all.

This made Zhao Gongming's previous speculation completely valid, he did absorb some unknown energy from Fu Qian, this energy can promote the growth of "bean sprouts" in Zhihai, just like growth hormone, and a Fu Qian can only absorb this "growth hormone" once.

Although he didn't understand the use of the "bean sprouts" in the sea, Zhao Gongming was still looking forward to the second appearance of the balance, and this crossing benefit did not come with a manual, which made Zhao Gongming, who was groping in the dark, extremely depressed.

The Zhao family medical hall next door to the pharmacy has changed since Zhao Langzhong's accident, but it is Zhao Kuo's father, Zhao Lao Langzhong.

Why Zhao Laolangzhong, who has been raised in the family for many years, will return to his old business, this starts from the rules of the Zhao family presiding over various shops in Caoxu Town.

According to the rules of the Zhao family, in order to avoid internal friction in the clan, each store in the town was established by a designated person in the clan at the beginning, and the descendants of the store owner were allowed to inherit by hereditary, and the income of the store was divided between the family and the host.

If there is a loss in the store, it will be borne by the host, and those who cannot afford it are allowed to give up the right to host the store and choose another person from the clan.

If the presiding officer has no offspring, another person shall be selected from the clan.

If the host is unable to assume the responsibility of hosting the store for any reason, another person will be selected from the clan.

The Zhao family medical hall is inherited by the hereditary family of Zhao Kuo's father and son, and now Zhao Kuo was assigned to the family convoy for some reason, and he went to Guanshan County, and his life and death on the way were uncertain.

If Zhao Laolangzhong didn't want to give up the rich income of this medical center that had been passed down from generation to generation, he could only come out and preside over it himself.

In the early years, when Zhao Laolangzhong was in charge of the hospital, he and the Qian family pharmacy could be regarded as well water and not river water, and the two families had been safe for many years.

Maybe it's because the elderly are easy to take care of their shortcomings, but now in Zhao Laolangzhong's opinion, his son was assigned by the clan, and the trouble was the Qian family pharmacy.

Therefore, when Zhao Laolangzhong entered the main medical hall again, he began to brew a way to deal with the pharmacy next door.

Zhao Laolangzhong, who has decades of experience than Zhao Kuo, has learned from the past, of course he will not make things boil.

As a result, Zhao Gongming found that the business of the pharmacy was getting worse and worse, and the daily turnover of the store was plummeting. Although there are many patients who come to the door, the turnover rate is pitifully low.

The customers who came with the prescriptions from the clinic next door, the medicinal materials listed by the prescription were the ones with the highest price among the medicinal materials with the same efficacy, while the Qian family pharmacy was limited to limited capital, and the purchases in the store were all ordinary cheap medicinal materials, so the customers could only take the prescriptions to Huairentang to buy medicines.

Zhao Gongming couldn't do anything about this kind of method that was obviously aimed at his own pharmacy. Because the Zhao Family Medical Center next door is the only medical center in Caoxu Town, it completely monopolizes the medical business in the town.

The rule of this world is: the hospital does not sell medicine, and the pharmacy does not prescribe prescriptions. The patients in Caoxu Town could only take the prescriptions prescribed by the Zhao family medical hall and go to the pharmacy opened by the Zhao family to buy medicine.

Even if Zhao Gongming could see that many of the prescriptions prescribed by Zhao Laolang could be replaced by cheaper medicinal materials with the same efficacy, he could not change the prescription casually.

Because in the eyes of the patients in the town, the pharmacy is always just a place to buy medicine, and only Lang Zhong of the medical hall is qualified to prescribe the right medicine.

In the past, only those in the town who could not afford to pay for the high-priced medicinal materials, and there were people who were suddenly ill and waiting to be saved, so the dead horses were regarded as live horse doctors, and they would ask for money in private.

Even if the money shopkeeper has been in Caoxu Town for more than ten years, he only occasionally intervenes to help replace a few medicinal herbs in the prescription.

Of course, Zhao Gongming knows that "cutting off people's financial means is like killing parents." However, the current situation is obviously that Zhao Laolangzhong is deliberately targeting the Qian family pharmacy. Zhao Gongming can conclude that he is venting his anger because of the previous incident with Zhao Langzhong.

This is the first time Zhao Gongming has felt powerless since he came to this world.

At the beginning of the crossing, in his eyes, this new world was like a role-playing game in his previous life, he was the player, the protagonist of this world, and everything else was just an NPC in Zhao Gongming's eyes.

Especially when he successfully solved the incident created by Zhao Langzhong and Niu Er, it grew his arrogance in his subconscious.

But Zhao Gongming forgot one thing, even in the game in the previous life, players were limited by the rules of the game.

If you want to jump out of the game framework, you can only change the rules of the game by becoming the designer of the game, but such a player is no longer a player.

What's more, this new world is bigger and more complex than the role-playing games in the previous life, and the rules in the world are more and more solid.

Now Zhao Gongming's setback is just touching a trivial rule in this world.

Just like a gamer in a previous life, a top player must learn how to dance within the framework of the rules before there is no game-changing power.

Zhao Gongming's mentality has changed since then, he no longer regards himself as the protagonist of this world, and it is impossible for the world to dance around him.

Then accumulate enough power to jump out of the chessboard, until one day you will go from a chess piece to a chess player, and even further to become a chessboard rule-maker.

This is the oath made by the traverser Zhao Gongming!

Zhao Gongming began to try to adapt and take advantage of the rules of this world.

As a teenager who couldn't fully control his emotions, one day, the pharmacy apprentice couldn't help but complain in front of his master.

The shopkeeper just lightly told the apprentice that when Zhao Langzhong came back from the county seat, he would personally go to the next door to talk.

The money shopkeeper didn't care about the lightness of the pharmacy business, and still tossed around in the backyard pharmacy all day long.

Once Zhao Gongming couldn't help but take a peek and found that his shopkeeper was in the pharmacy, using the pot-bellied copper stove he had seen.

Moreover, the money shopkeeper takes from the treasury every day is a different combination of medicinal materials, and there is only the snake that has been kept in the pharmacy, and it is obvious that the whole work is revolving around it.

After several days of statistics on the entry and exit of medicinal materials in the warehouse, Zhao Gongming suspected that his master was using the exhaustive method to carry out snake molt verification experiments.

However, the inventory of medicinal materials in the warehouse is limited, and Zhao Gongming believes that if the rich inventory of the Zhao family's Huairentang can be added, the probability of his shopkeeper getting the correct answer may increase a little bit.

In addition to expressing his admiration for the money shopkeeper's unremitting research spirit, Zhao Gongming felt that his shopkeeper might be trying to save the face he had lost in front of the medicine picking girl before, after all, the money shopkeeper openly claimed that he didn't know the snake moult breed at that time.

Zhao Gongming completely agrees with the pursuit of their own happiness by the elderly, but he feels that his shopkeeper should take the initiative to make it clear to the other party, in case the old man has unrequited love in the end. As the only employee and punching bag of the Qian family pharmacy, Zhao Gongming said that there was a lot of pressure.