Zhou Zhoulang patted his chest and said, "What's the relationship between us? Can't I sell the goods I just brought back? I specially wanted to keep them for you."
He said: "After the Mid-Autumn Festival, every family will have to prepare winter clothes. If you buy them at that time, the fur will be too expensive. Our brother, I will give you a cheaper price."
Zhou Lijun laughed at the side, and explained to the three of them: "Fourth uncle went out this trip and exchanged all the money he could use into goods, and now he doesn't have much money on him."
But he still has so many people under his command. Even if there is food, it still costs money to go out to meet people, buy some meat, clothes and so on.
Zhou Lijun said: "Grandma thinks that Uncle Fourth spends money without counting, so let me take care of the account and don't add more money to him."
So if Zhou Zhoulang wants to have cash, he has to cash out the goods.
Man Bao smiled gloatingly, Zhou Zhou Lang turned his head and glared at Li Jun angrily, "Can't you save me some face?"
Although Bai Erlang is usually stingy, he is very generous when spending money. He thought for a while and said, "If it's good, I'll buy it."
Zhou Zhou Lang patted him on the shoulder and assured him: "Is there any shortage of my goods?"
After discussing this matter, Lang Cai and Man Bao said on Thursday: "I will go back to the capital tomorrow, and I will bring back some medicinal materials first. If Ji Shi Tang wants me, I will give them, and then distribute some to other pharmacies. That's it. Jun, the herbs we brought back are all good."
Zhou Lijun often stays with Man Bao and Lu's, so he knows some methods of processing medicinal materials, and he is better at identifying medicinal materials than Zhou Zhoulang, so the medicinal materials selected this time are good.
He said: "I asked the shopkeeper Zheng Da, the price of this medicinal material has directly doubled."
"It depends on what kind of medicinal material it is. Some medicinal materials are easy to process and can be dried, which is not much different from raw medicinal materials. Some need to be processed with other things, such as wine, so the price difference is big," Man Bao looked at The list of medicinal materials he brought back seemed to know what he was thinking, and said: "Most of the medicinal materials you brought back were raw medicinal materials, but you made a lot of money. The processing of medicinal materials also requires secret recipes. Even if I can find the secret recipe, now our family Many medicinal materials are also not processed well."
Man Bao also learned how to process medicinal materials from the shopkeeper Zheng Da, but so far she can only do it. It is impossible for her to process all the medicinal materials independently. Although she can do it, the quality cannot be guaranteed.
Man Bao said solemnly: "Some medicinal materials are poisonous, and the poison will remain in the medicinal materials if they are not prepared properly. Taking medicine is not a cure but a poison."
Zhou Lang, who really wanted to hand over the medicinal materials to the fifth sister-in-law and Li Ru, made up his mind, "Okay, I'll talk to shopkeeper Zheng Da later."
Zhou Zhoulang's medicine business already has regular customers, and with Man Bao's face, it is basically not difficult to sell.
Not to mention cattle, who doesn't lack cattle
Not to mention far away, as far as their Zhuangzi is concerned, it is also very scarce, not to mention that there are so many fields in the capital and Yongzhou, so the cattle are not worried about selling.
However, Zhou Zhoulang did not sell all the cattle. He kept more than a dozen of them to pull carts, and decided to send them back to Qili Village after the Mid-Autumn Festival.
In the words of the old Zhou Tou, such a good thing has to be cheaper for the villagers. We can’t use cattle here, and people pull plows at home, right
Moreover, Lao Zhoutou and Qian Shi also plan to go home after the Mid-Autumn Festival. They have been away for a year, and they don't know what is going on at home.
It happened that Master Bai was going home after the Mid-Autumn Festival, so they decided to go together.
Zhou Dalang and Qian's were left behind, Zhuangzi is now under the supervision of Zhou Dalang and Qian's, and Lizhong and the others occasionally come to help.
Such a large piece of land is more than the fields at home. Old Zhou Tou is not at ease to hand it over to outsiders, and Man Bao is busy, so he still keeps Zhou Dalang and his wife.
Man Bao was overjoyed, and the sadness of her parents' leaving disappeared instantly. She specially made a lot of pills for them, and labeled them for them to see, "This is the diarrhea caused by the acclimatization, this is the wind-cold, this is the wind." It's hot, it's a fever..."
"Anyway, you take it with you, you can keep it for half a year, and you can take it home if you are safe on the way." He took out a lot of medicine bags, "This is for mosquito repellent, dad, you take it with you, the mosquitoes outside are too vicious, Don't get bitten, or you will suffer."
Old Zhou Tou accepted them all with a big wave of his hand, and then took Man Bao's hand and sighed, "I don't know when Dad will come to see you again after he leaves."
Man Bao said: "What's the matter, you will come with me when the fourth brother goes to Beijing."
"Forget it," old Zhou was a little disgusted, "He still has business, how can he take us with him? And he didn't celebrate the New Year at home last year. This year, he has to pay homage to his ancestors. If he wants to come again..."
Old Zhou gritted his teeth and said, "We have to finish Qingming next year."
Man Bao let him relax, "Come whenever you want. Anyway, it's only nine days from home to the capital. Our family now has both a car and a mule, and brothers and sisters-in-law work in the field. If you and your mother are bored at home Then come to the capital to see me, if you think the capital is too hot, then go home to escape the heat.”
Old Zhou was stunned, it seemed very simple to travel so difficult when Man Bao said so.
He smacked his mouth and thought about the taste, "It's true, let your fourth brother put two more cows in the house later, so your mother and I don't have to go to the field. If you miss you, you can just drive the car out. I see that the roads are very safe these few times, and there are no bandits."
Man Bao nodded again and again, "Just take the official way, don't take the small way."
Old Zhou Tou nodded thoughtfully, thinking it was feasible.
Old Zhou thought of something, looked out and whispered to Man Bao: "Man Bao, where did you hide all your money?"
Man Bao subconsciously covered the purse and asked, "What's wrong?"
Old Zhou glanced at her and said, "Will Dad rob you of your money? Didn't your mother clean up your room yesterday? I went in and took a look, but I didn't see any place to hide the money. How much money do you have?" , don't waste money."
The main reason is that Zhuangzi has collected all the grain and money from this summer's harvest, and now that the autumn harvest is coming to an end, and the things that Zhou Zhoulang brought back from the business trip are almost sold out, so the money will definitely be divided by then.
Man Bao gave a lot of capital at that time, and she shared the most, not to mention that she still had a monthly salary.
Old Zhou Tou wandered around her room and didn't see any money, so he was a little panicked, "Did you put money out like the second young master of the Bai family?"
"No, it's illegal to release money," Man Bao said righteously, "And I'm still an official, how can I break the law?"
She paused and then whispered: "Father, Bai Er is not lending money, he just lent it to a few friends, and the interest is not high."