When Cai Wen heard his friend speaking out rashly, he couldn't help but stretched out his hand to stop it, but it was already too late.
"Young lady, we all know your brother, so you're welcome..." the young man said with a smile, while calling the young man over.
"Thank you, Master..." Gu Shiba Niang hurriedly lowered her head and thanked her. As she spoke, she took out a handful of money and handed it to the young man who was in a daze. "It's just that I have already bought it and I don't dare to let the Master spend the money."
"You buy? What do you buy? You have the money...hiss..." The young master shook his head indifferently. Before he could finish his words, Cai Wen poked him hard in the back, and he couldn't help but grin.
He turned around to look. Cai Wen's face was gloomy, with displeasure on his brows. The young master swallowed back the rest of his words.
"Brother, take it, do you see enough?" Gu Shiba Niang said to the boy.
Which song is this from? The boy was a little confused, but he really bought the book. He counted the money in his hand and handed back a few more with a smile on his face, "That's enough, that's enough. Twenty coins is enough."
When Douhua heard the price, she held up the little rabbit and opened her mouth.
Gu Shiba Niang took the extra money, thanked the boy, took the book, and then gave a slight salute to Cai Wen and the young master, "Two senior students..."
Cai Wen nodded as a greeting, and then Gu Shiba Niang took Douhua and walked away.
"Hey, this little lady..." The young master shook his head, "I helped her out of kindness, but I still don't appreciate it..."
Cai Wen glared at him.
"Okay, okay, I know..." The young master didn't wait for him to speak, and hurriedly said, "I was wrong, I did bad things with good intentions, and made that little lady spend money that she shouldn't have spent..."
Cai Wen turned his head and ignored him and stepped forward. The young master hurriedly dropped the book in his hand and followed him.
"…..I know that some scholars are poor and sour, and like to act noble, but I didn't expect this little girl to be like this...You say they are thinking too much now...It's just a book...They are too cautious...Okay, okay, I won't say anything..."
The voice disappeared, and looking at the backs of the two of them, the young book seller curled his lips in disdain and patted the erotic storybook that the young man threw into his arms, "It's really...I thought you were rich...after reading it for a long time. No, I didn’t buy it either…”
"Eighteen Niang..." Douhua carefully avoided the crowd and looked at the book in Gu Eighteeniang's hand with awe. It turns out that a book is so expensive. Scholars are really different from her, a small business woman, who is willing to give up. Spend your money on this.
Gu Shiba Niang looked depressed, looked at the book in her hand and sighed, is this retribution? Sure enough, nothing in the world comes for free.
"Hey..." Douhua bumped into her. Compared to the price of the book, what interested her more was the two young men just now. She smiled and whispered, "Who are those two people? Are they familiar with you? "
"My brother studied together..." Gu Shiba Niang saw her thoughts and scratched her nose with a smile, "What are you familiar with? I only met her once. I'm sorry, I can't introduce you to her... ..”
She smiled as she spoke, and Douhua smiled with a blushing face. Unexpectedly, the conversation turned to herself, and he stretched out his hand to tickle her. The two girls walked across the street laughing.
"Want to go to the theater tonight? It's the last show today..." Douhua did not forget to greet her when they parted.
Gu Shiba Niang shook her head. To be honest, she didn't watch these two or three scenes at all.
"You don't like theater?" Douhua thought about her reactions these few times and was a little confused, "It's so beautiful, why don't you like it?"
Gu Shiba Niang couldn't help but smile, watching a show? Of course, who doesn't love going to the theater? The happiest thing for her in that life was to be allowed to watch a big show.
But at this time, she is like a terminally ill patient who knows the date of death. Apart from survival, what else can she like in this world
When Gu Hai came in with a stack of used papers, Gu Shiba Niang was putting away the recipes for preparations that she had copied during this period.
"Eighteenth Mother, let me give you some more..." Gu Hai handed the paper in his hand to her.
In order to save money, Gu Shiba Niang did not always use the paper used by Gu Hai to copy. When Gu Hai found out, he took the initiative to keep it for her and even picked up the unwanted paper used by others in the school.
"Okay, brother, I don't have to argue anymore," Gu Shiba Niang smiled and took it, placing it on the table.
"Did you... buy it?" Gu Hai asked in surprise when he saw the book on the desk. Then he felt that his words would easily make his sister think of blaming her for spending money recklessly, so he quickly changed his tone and said, He made a look of joy and said, "That's right, as much as you can recall just by thinking about it, it's better to buy a book and read it directly."
Gu Ba Niang naturally knew what Gu Hai was thinking, and her smile was a little sour.
"Read hard and you can earn more money..." Gu Hai said a few words with a smile and then went to review his homework.
Gu Shiba Niang sat in the yard and finished clearing the dishes. The sky was getting dark, and the excitement on the street echoed over the yard. Mrs. Cao hadn't come back yet. She went to the Jade Emperor Palace to help people cut the ceiling and floor sheds. She could earn as much as one night. Good money.
"Mother Gu." Someone knocked on the door, with impatience in his voice.
Gu Shiba Niang opened the door, and a man and a woman stood outside.
"Three uncles and three aunts." Gu Shiba Niang recognized them as being from Qian Street and hurriedly said hello.
"Where's your mother?" The woman looked inside.
"My mother is in the Jade Emperor Palace." Gu Shiba Niang replied and invited them to come in and sit down.
"Where are you sitting? Your mother is back. Tell her to pay us back quickly..." the woman said impatiently.
"We have no money," Gu Hai walked out of the house, his expression slightly stiff, "Uncle and aunt, please give me a little more grace..."
"No money?" the man shouted loudly, "You are a liar! Who doesn't know what you are selling...what are you selling?"
He turned to look at his woman.
"Selling medicine!" the woman took over and said, "I've made a fortune..."
"Who said we made a fortune selling medicine?" Gu Shiba Niang interrupted the woman.
"Who said that? Everyone is saying..." the woman snorted, "...don't even think about lying to me. Your mother has already paid back Niu Er's one tael of silver. Why do you still care about my three hundred coins?... You don't want to pay her back?" It’s time to pay us back first…”
"Three uncles and three aunts..." Gu Hai had already come over to bow and once again explained that his family had no money and asked them to give them some time. The man and woman naturally refused to do it and chattered endlessly.
Gu Shiba Niang looked at the person in front of her opening and closing her mouth, and the only thing in her ears was the sentence "Selling medicine to make a fortune..."
Shopkeeper Zhou is indeed acting like a villain! She couldn't help biting her lower lip and sneered.
"I'm telling you, I'll give you three more days at most! If you don't pay back the money, we won't be finished! You think we're easy to bully!" the two said and left aggressively.
"Baba Niang..." Gu Hai closed the door, clenching his fists tightly, tears glistening in his eyes. He turned around to see Gu Shi Niang in a daze, and quickly calmed down his emotions to comfort her, "Don't be afraid, don't be afraid, it's okay, it's okay... ..”
"It's okay, brother, I'm not afraid." Gu Shiba Niang looked at him and nodded.
Sure enough, my sister has grown up. In the past, she was so scared that she hid in the room and cried. Gu Hai sighed in his heart, but when he thought about what happened in the past few days, he frowned.
Many people came to ask for debts, and they all said they had become rich... .
After thinking about it, he felt that the source was the dispute between his sister and Shopkeeper Zhou. Although everyone recognized her medicine, it also made others mistakenly think that they really made money.
"You see, everyone thinks the medicine you made is good..." He smiled and stroked his sister's head, "My sister is really capable."
Gu Shiba Niang couldn't help but laugh, her nose felt a little sore.
With Shopkeeper Zhou's interference, life has become more difficult than before. Polygala alone is far from being able to meet the needs of life. What else should be done? What is more expensive than Polygala
"Ba Niang, are you going to sell medicine?" Zhou Liniang looked at Gu Ba Niang who was passing by the door with a medicine basket on her back, and hurriedly walked out to say hello.
Gu Shiba Niang originally planned to ignore her, but then she thought about it, turned her head and nodded with a smile.
Seeing that she paid attention to her, Zhou Liniang was very happy and walked down the steps, "Should we go to Hezhong County? It's so far..."
Gu Shiba Niang hummed and stopped talking, waiting to see what she was going to say.
"Eighteen Mother," Zhou Liniang said with a sincere face, "Now that you have the medicine, sell it to us."
Gu Shiba Niang smiled, did not refuse or agree, waved her hand and walked away quickly.
"What? You know the medicine is good and you want it?" Douhua kept watching from the other side and shouted loudly.
Zhou Liniang glared at her and turned around to enter the room. Shopkeeper Zhou was sitting behind the desk, calculating, maybe because business was good, and he was humming a little tune happily.
"Dad! What's going on with Peng Yizhen? Where does he lack those few kilograms of medicinal materials..." Zhou Liniang said quietly and angrily.
"Of course he doesn't lack those few kilograms of medicinal materials..." Shopkeeper Zhou was still happy and said, "I know, I know, he just wants to smear my face... Let him go, this is no big deal, promoting a salesman Is it possible that this little girl who just takes medicine can make our shop close down? What a joke!"
"This Peng Yizhen is really annoying. He always wants to go against us!" Zhou Liniang said angrily, wringing her handkerchief.
"The reason he is so petty is because he resents me for stealing the store his father favored, so he ignored him..." Shopkeeper Zhou said with a smile, put his plan aside, and glanced at his daughter, "It's you, with that How is the relationship with Gu Shiniang?"
Zhou Liniang pouted, full of displeasure, "It's not bad. Although she is still lukewarm towards me, she has started to talk."
"That's good, that's good..." Shopkeeper Zhou Nianxu said with a smile.
"Dad, did you let people say that her medicine is good and we paid a high price to buy it?" Zhou Liniang frowned and said, "Why are you putting money on her face?"
Shopkeeper Zhou laughed loudly, looked at his daughter and said meaningfully: "Liniang, the Gu family's life is not good. I heard that they still owe a lot of foreign debt. To the neighbors, we can help her as much as we can, so that she can earn more. What’s wrong with money?”
Zhou Liniang was stunned for a moment, then quickly understood the meaning of her father's words and smiled.
"Dad, was it Zhang Dahu's idea? I saw him sneaking around to find you, and he also had issues with that girl? Why should we listen to him? What benefits has he given us?" She thought of something else, He asked hurriedly.
Shopkeeper Zhou coughed and said, "What a wealthy person... I tell you, don't run around all day long. Sooner or later you have to take over this pharmacy. Even though it's a woman's house, you still have to learn a little bit, so as not to be deceived later." …..”
She is the only daughter in the Zhou family. Now that she is getting older, she cannot find a good person to marry outside. Besides, shopkeeper Zhou is also reluctant to let the drug store he runs fall into the hands of others after a hundred years. Finally, he decides to let Zhou Liniang recruit a son-in-law. .
Zhou Liniang was reluctant to this decision in every possible way, but she had no choice but to agree. Shopkeeper Zhou knew that his daughter had a good temper and a good mind, but she was a layman in running a pharmacy. She was afraid that her son-in-law would bully her in the future, so he forced her to learn medicinal materials. .
"...In a few days, there will be a large pharmaceutical fair in Hezhong County. Many drug dealers from other places are coming back. Come with me to get to know each other..." Shopkeeper Zhou twirled his beard and smiled meaningfully, "There will be another event then. It’s a good show…”
At this time, Gu Shiba Niang, who was standing in front of Peng Yizhen, also received an invitation from the Great Medicine Association.