Chapter 141 Pan Shop

   Afternoon,

Liu Zhihua led the children to plant the saplings they bought back, and cleared out an open space in the backyard. They planned to plant some shallots, peppers, and perilla leaves in two days. It is inconvenient and expensive to buy in the town, and it is convenient to grow some in their own yard. .

  Looking at the tidy yard, Liu Zhihua suddenly patted his forehead and said, "Oh, I forgot to ask if there is any land when I just bought the yard."

  Ordinary households have several acres of land. When they moved out of Xiaoshu Village, the land on the slopes was out of reach.

  There is no open land near the new courtyard. The purpose of farming is not to sell food and money, and in the future, the family will open their mouths to eat. Planting half an acre of wheat and sweet potatoes is enough for their rations for a year.

   "No, when your father comes back, I have to go to Qing'an Temple tomorrow."

   After finishing speaking, Liu Zhihua asked Erya to play with her younger siblings, while she went back to the house to prepare the souvenirs she would bring tomorrow.

   Fortunately, in the past two days, there are all kinds of pastries at home, and she will make some vegetarian food for Master Xu Yi.

  …

  The sky is getting dark,

  Wang Zhuangzhi drove back in a carriage.

  As soon as he entered the door, he looked happy, and shouted: "Mother, I have something to discuss with you."

  Liu Zhihua, whose back was facing the door in the room, was taken aback. She turned around and patted her chest. She frowned and looked at the head of the house and asked, "Is there anything you can't come in and sit and talk about it? Why are you shouting at the door? It's scary."

  Wang Zhuangzhi saw that the children were not in the room, so he closed the door, pulled Liu Zhihua and said, "His mother, I talked about a business today, and I will tell you to listen."

   Liu Zhihua was still at a loss, and asked: "Didn't you go out to ask about herbal medicine, what business are you doing?"

   "I ran around a few big towns today, and in one of them I ran into an acquaintance. You've seen that person before. It's Xiaolang Song Dong who stayed at our house for one night." Wang Zhuangzhi said.

  He never thought it would be such a coincidence that Song Dong's cousin opened a drug store, and now Song Dong is helping in his store.

   "Song Dong, I remember." Liu Zhihua nodded, and then asked with doubts on his face: "But, what does this have to do with your business?"

Wang Zhuangzhi smiled, and then explained cheerfully: "The pharmacy in the town I went to today was opened by his cousin, and he is now helping to keep the accounts in the pharmacy. He heard that our family has herbs, and he paid the purchase price for all of them. .”

  Liu Zhihua's eyebrows brightened, and she said with a smile: "This is a good relationship. You saved his life back then, and this is considered a good return."

  Wang Zhuangzhi coughed lightly, but he hadn't finished speaking yet.

   "Mother, this is not the business I was talking about. Uncle Song Dong owed a lot of foreign debts and was planning to sell the shop. When I heard about it, I sold it."

"what!"

   Liu Zhihua looked at the master in disbelief, pulled out his ears and asked tentatively again: "You said, you got the offer?"

Wang Zhuangzhi nodded, and then hurriedly comforted him: "No, I'm not helping others. There are only two pharmacies in that town. Uncle Song Dong's pharmacy is larger and has a complete range of products. The remaining pharmacy is smaller, with The medicinal place is crowded, and the passenger flow is not as much as this one."

"The most important thing is that the price of this shop is not expensive. If you buy it, it is a ready-made shop. There is an old doctor in the clinic, a drug boy, and Song Dong who keeps accounts. Their wages are not expensive. I summed it up and thought it was a good fit.”

  Liu Zhihua was so anxious that she had a toothache, her heart was up and down, and she always felt uneasy when she had never seen it before, so she muttered: "Then you can't just buy the shop quietly, you have to come back and discuss it with me."

Wang Zhuangzhi scratched his ears in embarrassment, his rough face turned red, and explained: "At that time, there was another person who came in to inquire about the shop, and that person was very interested. So I directly signed with Uncle Song Dong and gave fifty taels of deposit, leaving a day for them to pack their things, and I will give the remaining eight hundred taels when I pick up the shop the day after tomorrow."

   Eight hundred and fifty taels!

Hearing this number, Liu Zhihua's temples twitched, and she grabbed the head's arm and said angrily, "Eight hundred taels is what you said was cheap, and our family is now full of money and only five hundred taels are left. You really don't want to keep a cent." Give it all to Huo Huo."

  Wang Zhuangzhi rubbed his nose when he heard this, and the shop brought some common medicinal materials with a total price of 900 taels without negotiating. It was the Polygonum multiflorum that Uncle Song Dong saw for him, and the Polygonum multiflorum was worth 50 taels, which made it 850 taels.

Seeing that Zhihua was so irritable at the moment, Wang Zhuangzhi didn't dare to talk about it again, but hurriedly coaxed: "His mother, those silvers are dead things in our hands, and now they are replaced by shops. Isn't this money making money?" .”

Liu Zhihua glared at him, "You said it lightly, that place is not close to us, won't it take time to run back and forth all day? Besides, buying and selling medicinal materials requires close and reliable people to keep accounts and collect money. The two of us can't read , what if someone fools you."

  I thought he said small money, one or two hundred taels would be fine, but this is more than eight hundred taels!

Wang Zhuangzhi took his wife to sit down, and slowly explained: "I have thought about these issues long ago, and I don't go there often once every half a month, and now Uncle Song Dong can't take care of himself, and Song Dong's parents are missing, so he will stay in the store He is honest and kind, and we are his benefactors, so it should be impossible to tamper with the accounts."

  Liu Zhihua frowned, "I've never been with him before, so I can only know his character based on meeting him once. It's really like a shop. If he ran away with the money, wouldn't the money be wasted."

Wang Zhuangzhi shook his head resolutely, and said, "Song Dong is very smart. He asked us to weigh the weight of the medicinal materials when we delivered them, and calculate the total price according to the stipulated price. We will send it out once a month, and then we will collect the medicine money once. , so that it is not easy to be stolen.”

  Liu Zhihua still felt that this matter was unreliable. It cost more than 800 taels, and the family only had about 500 taels of silver. Could it be possible to borrow the remaining 300 taels?

   "Where did you get the eight hundred and fifty taels of silver?" Liu Zhihua asked.

Hearing this, Wang Zhuangzhi smiled embarrassedly, "I asked Song Dong about the price of those medicinal materials, and they can be sold for more than three hundred taels, which is about the same. Although the family has no savings, they are waiting for the next day Now we will have profits, and we will earn back more silver than this in the future."

   Liu Zhihua stopped talking immediately.

   She could think of eight hundred and fifty taels of silver, and she felt a sudden pain in her heart, eight to five hundred taels, even the old money and the medicinal materials were taken out, and there was not a penny left in the house.

  The second time she entered the courtyard, Jiaojiao was feeding Meow Miao, and she could clearly hear the conversation between her parents.

  Father bought a shop, but the family doesn't have enough money?

  Jiaojiao thought for a while, got up and walked back to her room.

   Miaomiao was eating fish head with chopped peppers in a bowl in the yard. From time to time, she glanced at Jiaojiao's door and asked, "Jiaojiao, what are you doing?"

   squeak —

  Jiaojiao opened the door and came out, then carefully hid the gold bracelet in her hand, and ran all the way to the kitchen.

  I found an open space with soil. Because of the rain yesterday, the underground soil was wet, and Jiaojiao buried it without much effort.

  (end of this chapter)