Chapter 2 second quarter

Xiao Congfu was also Cheng Yunhe's disciple in his early years, and he carried a medicine box for Cheng Yunhe, so he and Cheng Hanqing are brothers, he is three years younger than Cheng Hanqing, and he is called Cheng Hanqing's elder brother. When Cheng Hanqing started to see a doctor for Cheng Yunhe at the age of twenty, he also joined in the fun, helping Cheng Hanqing prescribe small prescriptions for patients, but because he kept making mistakes, Cheng Yunhe had to stop his medical practice and let him stand in the cabinet instead. Grab medicine.Although he still made mistakes frequently, Cheng Yunhe kept making use of him because of the favor of his family's old man. Over time, he also became the old-fashioned master in Huichuntang drugstore.After Cheng Yunhe's death, Cheng Hanqing went to Beijing again to become an imperial physician, leaving Huichuntang to be run by Cheng Hanqing's second brother Cheng Hanru.Although this Cheng Hanru and Cheng Hanqing inherited his father's career, but because of his lazy nature and lack of career, he can't always grasp the four words "looking, hearing, asking, and cutting".Xiao Congfu took the opportunity to intervene, and Cheng Hanru was generous, open-minded, and didn't care about it. Gradually, Xiao Congfu became the head of Huichuntang instead of customers.As a result, in less than two years, Huichuntang went out of business due to constant mistakes, notoriety, and operating difficulties.

This time Cheng Hanqing returned to his hometown, and the two twin sons who had been awarded the title of imperial doctor by the Empress Dowager Cixi also achieved academic success.But considering that Xiao Congfu was an old team member of Huichuntang after all, he was reactivated.For many years, Xiao Congfu has been relying on Wuzi teahouse to survive. He monopolizes herbal teas with traditional Chinese medicines such as wolfberry, schisandra, dodder, cassia, and shijunzi as the main flavors, and licorice, chrysanthemum, hawthorn, and jujube.Mixed with folk artists who sing Errenzhuan and talk about storytelling, the business can't be said to be good or bad, and it can always be maintained.Now that Cheng Hanqing has reactivated him, he handed over the Wuzi Teahouse to his son Xiao Tianyong and his old wife to run it. He said to his old wife and son: "The Wuzi Teahouse can only make a living, not make a fortune. I will go to Huichuntang to try to steal some from the Cheng family." When a good prescription comes out, we will open a medicine shop and make a fortune." Xiao Congfu said this, and moved all the bedding and clothes to the Huichun Hall, as if he didn't turn back if he didn't succeed.

When Fan Chenxiang found Xiao Congfu, Xiao Congfu was instructing two young men to add medicine to the medicine rack. The Huichun Hall was about to open, and there were a lot of preparations to be made, so he led the men to work at dawn. "Morning Congfu!" Fan Chenxiang greeted through the door outside Huichun Hall. "Oh, it's Chairman Fan!" Xiao Congfu exaggeratedly agreed, and hurried out to greet him, clasping his hands together: "Please sit inside, please sit inside." Fan Chenxiang walked into the Hall of Rejuvenation with his hands behind his back. "Please use tea, Mingqian Longjing just brought from Hangzhou." Xiao Congfu turned around and brought out an exquisite Nanni pot from the back room, handed it to Fan Chenxiang and said, "The tea is good tea, but it is a little lacking. It's only two taels, and I'll give you half of it later."

"Brother Congfu's words are enough." Fan Chenxiang took the Nanni pot with a smile, gently lifted the lid of the pot, smelled it, nodded and said: "It really is from Ming Dynasty, it seems that Brother Congfu is good Not shallow! The real Mingqian tea in Longjing Village is only a few hundred catties per year. As far as I know, the annual tribute to the palace is 28 baskets, 800 packs per basket, and 1 coin per pack, totaling 222 teas. Fourteen catties, and then sort it out at the gates of the yamen, there is not much left, and you, brother Congfu, can get two taels, which is quite a blessing!"

When Xiao Congfu heard this, his eyes narrowed into a smile, and he hurriedly said, "To tell the truth, President Fan, this tea was originally a tribute to the emperor, but when the emperor went out, all the officials dispersed, and those who paid tribute could not find anyone to pay tribute to." Men'er, it's up to him to change the silver. The barbarian who gave me hangbai chrysanthemum and hibiscus skin just caught up with the opportunity, so he made some. He boasted in front of me that day, so he asked me to meet and split them in half. .” "Wow, wow! Brother Congfu is a blessed man!" Fan Chenxiang said, holding the spout of Nanni pot, and started to drink heavily.

Seeing Fan Chenxiang's hand raised higher and higher, Xiao Congfu knew that the tea in the pot was about to be annihilated. He was very distressed, but he had no choice but to regret that he should not show off his good tea in front of Fan Chenxiang. Fan Chenxiang drank all the water in the pot, and kept saying: "Good tea! Good tea! It seems that the emperor will go to the field, and we ordinary people can get some benefits!" "That's, that's. Come on, I'll refill it for you." Xiao Congfu accosted, and hurriedly took the Nanni pot from Fan Chenxiang's hand, and turned to go to the back room to refill the water.

Xiao Congfu refilled the pot of water, and instead of turning around and serving it to Fan Chenxiang immediately, he held the spout of the pot and drank it suddenly. While drinking, he thought to himself: first pot of leaves and two pots of tea, hum, what you Fan Chenxiang drank just now The first pot, the taste has not yet come out, I am drinking the second pot now, it tastes good!Thinking of this, he was very proud, and regardless of the heat of the water, he swallowed a pot of water into his stomach despite the heat, and then refilled the pot with water before turning around and handing it to the outside room. To Fan Chenxiang, said: "Come on, try this second pot of tea, the tea taste is all in the second pot!"

"Thank you, brother Congfu. As the saying goes, one pot of delicious food is enough." Fan Chenxiang knew Xiao Congfu's personality very well, and he knew that the second pot of tea had already entered Xiao Congfu's stomach, so he took advantage of the situation to return. Topic: "I got up early today to ask you Brother Congfu for help." "Be polite, be polite." When Xiao Congfu heard Fan Chenxiang say that he would no longer drink tea, he was in the middle of his heart, and when he heard that he had something to ask for, he quickly smiled and said, "President Fan, if you have any orders, just say it. I, Xiao Congfu, can do it." .”

"Okay." What Fan Chenxiang wanted was Xiao Congfu's words, and he told him all about his idea of ​​asking him to be a matchmaker and betrothing his daughter Fan Xiaojin to the unengaged twin brothers of the Cheng family. Finally, he put a high hat on Xiao Congfu and said: "This The matter is so important that Brother Congfu cannot handle it, but you and Cheng Yuyi are brothers and sisters, we are like brothers and sisters, we will surely succeed immediately." After hearing Fan Chenxiang's intentions, Xiao Congfu immediately understood what Fan Chenxiang was thinking, and couldn't help secretly admiring his shrewdness.Based on his own understanding of Fan Xiaojin, he also thought that his appearance was similar. Moreover, he knew that after he got engaged to He Shouwei's family, Cheng Hanqing was also actively trying to arrange a marriage for another son so that the twin brothers could get married at the same time.

Therefore, Xiao Congfu is very confident that this matter will be done, but he knows that once Fan Chenxiang becomes Cheng Hanqing's in-laws, he will no longer take Xiao Congfu in his eyes. Before He Qian, he gave him a hard blow, then he got an idea and said seriously: "President Fan believes in me so much, I am very honored, but there is one situation that has to be explained. , I don’t know if Brother Hanqing already has someone he likes. If he already has someone he likes, President Fan will be one step too late for this matter, and I’m afraid it won’t be possible. At that time, don’t laugh at me. It’s fine if you don’t lose face in front of Brother Qing.”

After hearing Xiao Congfu's words, Fan Chenxiang smiled slightly, stood up and patted Xiao Congfu's shoulder and said, "Brother Congfu, I understand." As he spoke, Fan Chenxiang took out a handful of silver dollars from the pocket of his mandarin jacket and slapped Xiao Congfu's hand, saying, "This little trick is a little tea money. After it's done, there will be a big thank you! I'll wait for the good news." After speaking, he pulled his legs and walked outside. "Hey, wait a minute, I still want to get you some tea!" Xiao Congfu was a little flustered by the heavy silver dollars, and shouted coyly from behind. "Let's enjoy it together after it's done." Fan Chenxiang left this sentence and walked away.