Mid-October is the time when Mr. Dong’s pharmacy sells large quantities of medicinal materials.
During this period, the big medicine shops in the capital and several Dafu cities would send people to Hezhong County to fight over prices to get the most medicinal materials.
This time has also become a busy day for a large or small medicine store in Hezhong County.
The always deserted Mr. Dong’s drug store was crowded with people, some came just to watch the excitement, and some came to take advantage of the opportunity to sell medicine.
After all, Mr. Dong's medicines are limited and cannot meet the needs of all medicine shops. Everyone can't help but want to take a chance. For a while, various pretexts appeared outside Mr. Dong's shop, such as "Hezhong County Time-honored Brand", "Hezhong County Dong's" "Waiting for every possible means to get in touch with Mr. Dong.
"Give me, give me..." Peng Yizhen held up a disguise and squeezed into the crowd, attracting countless eye rolls.
Gu Shiba Niang and two boys followed him carrying the wooden board, and finally came to a good position.
This position was occupied by Peng Yizhen in advance.
"What are you doing here to join in the fun? It's useless. Those merchants have very high eyelids and won't come to the medicine stall to take a look..." Peng Yizhen put the cover in place and mumbled.
"What if..." Gu Shiba Niang was busy arranging the Chinese medicines and said with a smile, "It's always good to try it. If you wait in the medicine store, you have no chance..."
Peng Yizhen was a little speechless after hearing this. He really didn't expect that this girl really wanted to run a medicine store. He occasionally went over to see her and knew how hard this girl worked, but he still had to say some things in advance.
"Eighteen Mother..." He rubbed his hands, "You know, my family's business is actually not very good..."
Peng's Medicine Store is currently not only unprofitable, but is constantly losing money. As long as it is open for a day, it has to invest an extra amount of money, and it also spends money on purchasing and storing medicinal materials, etc... and I have wasted a lot of money by learning how to cook. Few medicinal materials
Gu Shiba Niang understood that Peng Yizhen had no intention of actually running this medicine store.
"...Eighteen Mother, why bother..." Peng Yizhen sighed and his eyes fell on the little girl's hands. She was as young as fourteen or fifteen years old, but her hands were already very rough, unlike those who worked hard all day. The woman is different. There are cuts and burn marks on her hands, as well as faint yellow spots left by being soaked in certain toxic Chinese medicines.
Comparing it to my own daughter, although my family background is average, my daughter has not suffered like this...
"Baba Niang, that house is in a good location, rent it out..." He sighed and persuaded.
If they rent it out, the rent can sustain their family's life. Gu Shiba Niang knows that, in fact, she doesn't know why she would do this. That day after she was refused by Mr. Dong to taste the whole scorpion, she stood on the street and already wanted to do this. Yes, but…
It was that book... After getting the book concocted by Mr. Liu, the idea of becoming a pharmacist was formed in her mind without even realizing it, or to put it more bluntly, she wanted to earn more money instead of just relying on rent. Get through it.
"Uncle Peng, I know..." Gu Shiba Niang smiled bitterly. She knew that Peng Yizhen didn't have that much money to fill this medicine store. Even if he had money, he couldn't do it himself.
Forget it, even if this medicine store doesn't exist, she can still go to other medicine stores. If she takes a step back, the worst she can do is continue to sell powdered medicines.
Thinking this way, Gu Shiba Niang nodded with a relaxed expression, "I understand, don't worry, Uncle Peng."
Seeing that she didn't look displeased, it seemed that she had really figured it out. Peng Yizhen breathed a sigh of relief and said that's fine, that's fine. He still had to sit in the court for consultation, so he left.
Whenever someone who looked like a businessman from out of town came over, Gu Shiba Niang, like everyone else, shouted loudly, but she was a daughter after all, and it was her first time to do such a thing, so her little voice was soon heard. Drowned in the crowd.
The morning passed in the blink of an eye, and indeed as Peng Yizhen said, the merchants coming and going did not stop for a moment in front of their stalls.
Gu Shiba Niang was slightly disappointed.
"Little girl, are you here for your adults?" asked a man next to him.
"This is our second shopkeeper..." The young man squatting on the ground and chewing pancakes rushed to introduce him.
The man was a little surprised, the second shopkeeper? Generally, it is enough for a medicine store to have one shopkeeper, but I heard that in some big medicine shops, there are two shopkeepers and three shopkeepers.
Whose new trick is this? The man looked over and laughed even harder when he saw the guise of Peng's Medicine Shop.
Everyone knows about the counterfeit medicine incident in the previous period, and also knows that Peng Yizhen opened a medicine store and became a joke in several counties for a while. I didn't expect that there was something even funnier...
"Second shopkeeper?" He smiled and looked at the little girl again. Seeing her delicate face, he couldn't help but smile ambiguously and turned to the other person, "Peng Yizhen is stupid. He hired a little girl to be the shopkeeper? Isn't that right? Give him the little wife he seduced for his son..."
A burst of laughter broke out around her, but Gu Shiba Niang didn't say anything or paid attention. The boy was so angry that he swallowed the pancake in several mouthfuls and stood up and said angrily: "This is our master craftsman, what are you talking about!"
Processor? After a moment of silence, the laughter grew louder.
"I think Peng Yizhen is crazy..." The man laughed so hard that tears came out.
The young man wanted to say something else, but Gu Shiba Niang waved her hand to signal him not to speak, and the young man squatted down angrily and continued to eat the pancake.
"Let's see, what are you concocting..." The man didn't respond to the teasing. He was quite bored, so he reached out and grabbed a handful of the medicine Gu Shiba Niang had placed.
"Hey, what is this... Kudzu root... Why is it so dark..." The man looked at it and smiled.
Gu Shiba Niang glanced at him and said, "Simmer kudzu root."
"Stew kudzu root...?" The man laughed, "Little girl, can you still simmer kudzu root?"
Pueraria lobata can be used as medicine if sliced into slices, as it has always been.
Gu Shiba Niang glanced at him and said nothing. Of course, kudzu root can also be simmered. Liu Gong said that if it is raw, it will have a quick effect, but if it is cooked, it will have no dispersing properties. It can be purified and used to strengthen the intestines and stop diarrhea.
However, this method of preparation has not spread yet, and not many people know about it.
"How do you simmer it? Stew it with bran? What kind of simmering?" The man didn't understand and asked, but saw the little girl glanced at him and didn't answer.
The method of preparing medicinal materials is subject to the confidentiality techniques of various medicine shops. It was really rude of him to ask this.
The man smiled coquettishly and muttered: "...I'm afraid I want to learn from you...I've been doing this for so many years, but I still don't know why Pueraria lobata can't be concocted. I also tell you that the little girl's Pueraria lobata is still good for raw use. Speaking of simmering, it’s not easy to do. Even Mr. Dong rarely simmers it..."
Just as he was speaking, there was a sudden noise in front.
"Shopkeeper... look here..."
"What do you want, shopkeeper? Come and see my family...my master once studied under Mr. Dong..."
Gu Shiba Niang and the man couldn't help but stand up and look over. They saw three people dressed as foreign merchants looking at the stalls on the street one by one.
"Oh my God, I'm lucky this time!" The man didn't even bother to talk to Gu Shiba Niang. He quickly put down the medicine in his hand, grabbed his own medicine bag, and started shouting hard.
However, these three people ignored everyone's greetings and glanced at the stall casually without stopping. Two of them were talking in low voices and did not receive any enthusiastic interference from the surroundings.
"...Third brother, this time it is clear that they deliberately raised the price..."
"I know.."
"Third uncle, what's the big deal? We don't want it anymore. Could it be that apart from Mr. Dong's kudzu root, the other ones are just kudzu root?"
"But this kudzu root, Mr. Huang specified that it was cooked by Mr. Dong. It's not like you don't know Mr. Huang's weird temper... I don't dare to fool him with any other kudzu root, unless it is more famous than Mr. Dong. of people…”
"Shopkeeper, take a look at the kudzu root."
A clear female voice rang out amidst the chaotic shouting. Coupled with the coincidental mention of kudzu root, the three of them couldn't help but be distracted. They looked up and saw a little girl standing in front of the medicine stall with some installments. I looked over with some trepidation.