Chapter 42 fourth quarter

At the entrance of the Heshou Hall in Guoshang No. 3, Zhang Dahong's notice was posted impressively, with four small characters written horizontally on it: "Ancestral Secret Recipe".Below it is vertically written five large characters of "Xiao's Toxin-removing Ointment".Another big red notice next to it read: "Remove pus in one day, reduce swelling in two days, heal in three days, refund if invalid." As soon as these two red notices were posted, for several days in a row, there was an endless stream of people buying plasters, and the Heshou Hall was very lively.

Guo Shengsan and Guo Yanjie and his son sat in the hall, making diagnosis for the patients and guaranteeing the drug buyers.Guo Shengsan said that Xiao Congfu, who was sitting next to him, was a younger brother who had studied medicine with Cheng Yunhe since he was a child. Someone asked, "Then why didn't your old Mr. Guo sell this kind of plaster?" Guo Shengsan smiled and said: "Everyone's job is different. How can there be a junior who sells plasters, and a senior who also sells plasters? Is there still medical ethics?" The questioner said: "So, Mr. Guo Lao will also make this plaster."

Xiao Congfu took it and said, "It's because my senior brother doesn't want to steal my job. It's not that my senior brother doesn't know how to do this." After hearing this, Guo Shengsan didn't comment, just laughed. Xiao Tianyong felt that Guoshengsan was bragging and wanted to use Xiao's poison-removing ointment to elevate himself, so he whitened Guoshangsan again and again with his eyes.When Xiao Congfu found out, he quickly called out Xiao Tianyong with his eyes, and reprimanded him, "I borrowed his family treasure to sell our medicine, and we made money. He watched him, can he not be angry? With a few words of self-boasting, he can really make this plaster." Why take it too seriously! When begging him, what can we do if we pretend to be stupid?"

In this way, for half a month, Xiao Congfu and his son each carried a sack of plaster from home to the city every day, consigned some of them in the Crane Shoutang, and his father and son went around the city to sell some.Every day at the end of the day, there was almost nothing left of the plasters I had brought back, and all the money I sold was stored in the National and Provincial Three Departments and I didn't take it back, so that I could buy the raw materials together at the end. On this day, Xiao Congfu calculated that the medicine stock at home was about to be sold out, and he had earned more than ten times the original cost in half a month. He was overjoyed, and decided to buy all the money from selling the medicine into raw materials to produce a large number of plasters.When he earns more than ten times the money next time, he, Xiao Congfu, can buy a house and land, and marry his son a wife.

Having made up his mind in this way, that afternoon he took out all the sixty or so yuan from Guo Shengsan, hired two oxcarts with flower wheels on the spot, and the father and son went to several pharmacies selling Nan medicine separately, and bought enough for them respectively. Croton, Jinwen rhubarb, Pangea, white scorpion, frankincense, myrrh, pangolin, especially Feijingxue pill, etc. are used in large amounts.In order not to let Guoshengsan know what medicine he had bought, after the purchase, their father and son greeted Guoshengsan and his son, and then went straight out of the city to Yaowangmiao town with two oxcarts. .

In the first month, the sun turns, and when it is past noon, there will be mud in the low-lying places on the country roads, and it will be worse in the evening, and the ox carts will also move slowly.Xiao Congfu and his son sat in a cart full of herbs, just like sitting in a cart full of plaster, just like sitting in a cart full of oceans, the mood was sweet and sweet.Xiao Congfu imagined that these two carts of raw medicines, together with some herbal medicines produced in this town, would be worth seven or eight hundred yuan after half a month of processing and one or two months of peddling!I want to make money and I am jealous, but how can I think that money is so easy to earn?Of course, the ensuing question is: how to spend so much money?How many houses to buy?How much land?What kind of wife will you marry your son?It's a pity that the cardamom girl in Baicaoyuan doesn't say what she looks like, but after all, she is already a brothel girl, and her reputation is not very good. Moreover, how can a woman who has a good life with him as a father be a daughter-in-law for her son... Just like this Thinking about something good, he suddenly heard the sound of horseshoes approaching behind him, and turned his head to see a fast horse carrying a man in a leather coat and hat galloping towards him. Xiao Congfu's heart sank suddenly—couldn't he meet a bandit? right?He had thought about this question at first, but he felt that the city was only a dozen miles away from the Yaowang Temple, and it was a flat river. Besides, it was not yet the season of green gauze tents, so how could it be so coincidental?But... Before Xiao Congfu could make a judgment, the man on horseback had already come to him, and he yelled, "Stop!", and he was already in front of the two cars.

Xiao Tianyong, who was sitting in the car behind, also realized that he had encountered a bandit, but seeing that there was only one person, he was not too scared.At this time, he jumped out of the bullock cart and asked the man on the horse: "Which brat is the boss?" "Zhao Yizhuo's son in Luyang Mountain." The man said, "How about it, my brother, should you give me these two cars and you go your way, or do you need to spend more time talking?" When Xiao Congfu heard the words "Luyangshan Zhao Yizhuo", he immediately remembered that the person who delivered the poisonous snake to Cheng Hanqing's old imperial doctor last year also reported the same name, but so far he has not verified it.With such an association, he suddenly had an idea, and asked, "Are you the boss who gave the gift box to our old imperial doctor Cheng last year?"

The man was taken aback when he heard this, and asked back, "What do you mean?" Xiao Congfu immediately concluded that this must be the person who sent the snake, so he jumped out of the car and said, "Nothing else, boss, I know you are not Zhao Yizhuo's son, but I admire you as a hero who is alone in the world. In this way, Let's discuss and discuss, now the car is full of herbs, it's useless if you want it, wait for me to make these into plasters, if I can exchange them for money, we can add two to one to make five, what do you think?" "Hahahaha..." The man looked up to the sky and laughed when he heard Xiao Congfu's words, and said, "Xiao Congfu, Xiao Congfu, you've been at a disadvantage all your life, and you don't understand at this age. I want to die. You have no choice but to expose me first, first you say that I am not Zhao Yizhuo's gangster, but a single-handed runner, and that I am a gift box for the old imperial doctor Cheng, which makes me want to let you live There's no way to let it go. Then don't blame me for doing everything wrong." After speaking, he took out his pistol and pulled the trigger at Xiao Congfu.Most of Xiao Congfu's face was blown away, and he fell to the ground before he could say anything.Seeing that the situation was not good, Xiao Tianyong turned around to run, but was shot again by the man and fell to the ground.

The man on the horse waved his hand to the two bosses who were driving the car, and said, "Drive the car back to the city!"