Crossing the Qinghe Landlord gl

As the oldest temple in Fuzhou, Longquan Temple has been built since the Tang Dynasty, and it has been repaired by several governors in this dynasty, so that it has been standing in Fuzhou City.For so many years, its incense has been so prosperous that many peddlers and pawns doing small business have gathered in front of the gate.

Because they were worried about Xia Luosi, Zhang He and Xia Jiniang were not in the mood to buy anything, so they looked for Xia Luosi among the many shopkeepers.Zhang He still didn't forget to ask: "Is there anyone selling herbal medicine here?"

After inquiring for a long time, Xia Jiniang recognized Xia Luosi at a glance: "Second brother!"

Xia Luo sat on the ground with a silk head wrapped in a handkerchief, with herbs wrapped in cloth in front of him, and he peddled: "Astragalus, Sophora flavescens..." Hearing Xia Jiniang's voice, he shook his body, and immediately got up from the ground , "Ji Niang?!"

"Second brother, why are you..." Seeing that he was fine, Xia Jiniang breathed a sigh of relief, but she didn't know why he was reduced to selling herbs here.

"Brother-in-law." Zhang He also walked over.

Xia Luosi didn't expect that Zhang He would also come, and he felt a little embarrassed immediately. After thinking about it, he put away all the herbs on the ground.These herbs were wrapped separately in cloth so that they would not be mixed together, and after Xia Luosi wrapped them up, he stuffed them into a sun-shaded backpack and said to them: "Let's find a cool place Talk, let's dry it here."

"I know there is a teahouse near here, so let's sit down and have a sip of tea!" Zhang He said.

When they arrived at the teahouse, Zhang He ordered three bowls of tea, and Xia Jiniang said concernedly: "Second brother, we went to the raw medicine shop to look for you, but Yuan Jiulang said you... What's going on?"

Xia Luosi put the basket by her feet, with a somewhat indifferent expression on her face: "I don't work there anymore."

"But what happened? Why didn't you go home?"

Xia Luosi was silent for a moment, and when the waiter at the tea shop served the tea, he took a sip and said, "It's not a big deal, there's no need to tell the family to make parents worry."

Xia Jiniang sighed: "But when Dad came to look for you and found that you were no longer in the raw medicine shop, he would always ask. And if you don't tell Dad and Mom, or tell us, we will be worried. Does Big Brother know?"

"It's almost August. I can't tell my brother. It's distracting him."

"Then what happened?"

Only then did Xia Luosi slowly talk about the matter. It turned out that Yuan Jiulang had deducted his wages for various reasons a month ago, and Yuan Jiulang also asked him to help pour the footwashing water and wash the clothes.He used to do these things often, but this time, because he asked Yuan Jiulang when he was allowed to take raw medicine, Yuan Jiulang kicked him, splashing his face with footwashing water.

Yuan Jiulang scolded: "You want to know where these crude drugs come from, so that you can betray your master, don't you? I don't know how your parents gave birth to such a bastard like you..."

Xia Luosi was already full of resentment because Yuan Jiulang deducted his wages. Recently, he can only eat some buns and pickled vegetables, and he has to be picked on by Yuan Jiulang during the day.Now it doesn't matter if Yuan Jiulang insulted him, but he insulted his father, mother and brother together. He immediately scolded: "I came here as an apprentice when I was 14 years old. It's been eight years. Is there ever a day when you didn't insult me?" I was born by my parents, but I was taught by a bastard like you, I'm a bastard, you are even more bastard than me!"

Yuan Jiulang, who had never seen him resist, was stunned for a moment, then became furious, picked up the footwashing water, splashed him, and cursed: "You are such a white-eyed wolf, I will take you as a disciple when you are 14 years old, let you Follow me to study, but now that you have learned something, is that how you treat me?"

"Bah, I haven't had enough food for a whole day when I'm here with you. Last time my sister got married, you agreed to let me go back, but I deducted half a month's wages after I came back! If my parents hadn't given it to me in private I'll subsidize, I'm afraid I'm going to starve to death here! And..." Xia Luosi counted Yuan Jiulang's disgusting deeds one by one.

Yuan Jiulang was furious, so he called two other apprentices to drive Xia Luosi out, not even cleaning up the soft silk.Later, those two young apprentices secretly helped him tidy up and gave it to him, and he was living on the street for a while, but he couldn't find Xia Luojin.

He seems to have no other ability besides gathering and strengthening crude medicine.He went to the nearby mountains to collect herbs and sell them on the street. Fortunately, every spring and summer festival, major medicinal material shops and herbal medicine shops would sell some medicinal materials near Longquan Temple, and he sold them for Yuan Jiulang many times. No stage fright.

After Zhang He listened, he asked, "Then you made a contract with him?"

Xia Luosi shook her head and said, "No. If not, how could he withhold my wages?!"

Yuan Jiulang took advantage of his fear and inability to leave, so he did not sign a contract with him.On the one hand, he deducted his wages and abused him habitually, on the other hand, he treated him well occasionally and seduced him with the source of crude medicine.Even without a contract, Xia Luosi would not leave easily.

"Since you're gone, it's fine, go home, don't worry your parents." Xia Jiniang said.

"I can't go back." Xia Luosi was depressed, "I..."

"Second brother, listen to me, no matter what, you go home first, so that parents can feel at ease. Think about it later." Xia Jiniang persuaded.

"That's right, you are not in the herbal medicine shop now, and if there is any trouble outside, no one will know." Zhang He also followed Xia Jiniang to persuade Xia Luosi.

After talking for a long time, Xia Luosi finally compromised and said, "Okay, then I'll go home soon."

Zhang He and Xia Jiniang planned to send him back to Liujiaqiao Village, but he didn't want to trouble them, so they had to give him some money and let him find a place to stay.

After returning home, Zhang He always remembered about Xia Luosi, and she asked Xia Jiniang: "I remember Ji Niang said that brother-in-law has always wanted to open his own herbal medicine shop?"

Xia Jiniang said: "Yes, Second Brother mentioned this before."

"But if brother Liangxing is a Jinshi and becomes an official, the family will not be allowed to do business, right?"

"But at the moment, the eldest brother has not yet obtained his fame."

"Then why don't we subsidize the brother-in-law and let him open a small herbal medicine shop, which doesn't need to be as big as Yuan Jiulang's raw medicine shop, just enough for him to eat and wear." Zhang He said, asking Xia Luosi to do some small business, so that he can If you run your own raw medicine shop, you don't have to worry about wages being deducted.

Xia Jiniang shook her head: "Let's not talk about how much it costs to open a crude medicine shop. Even if we can subsidize him, if he doesn't have the ability to identify herbs and gather crude medicine, he will have trouble sooner or later."

"No matter what, he has been studying for eight years. Let's go back to Xia's house and ask him. If he has no problems, then it will be easy."

"But he doesn't know the source of the crude drug?"

"Aren't some traveling monks often passing by in the countryside? Ask them if they know a thing or two. Secondly, you can put up a sign in front of the door to collect crude medicines widely. In this way, some people who make a living selling scattered crude medicines will naturally come to the door. Come."

The method Zhang He said is naturally feasible to a certain extent, but Xia Jiniang is in charge of the family's money, and she knows all the income and expenditure.Excluding the budgeted money, if Zhang He wants to support Xia Luosiu to open a herbal medicine shop, he will probably have to spend half of his family fortune.

Even if it's just a small shop, I'm afraid it will cost forty or fifty pennies, and that's not counting the rent for the shop.She also didn't know if the Xia family could pay most of the money, after all, the old man Xia always believed that Xia Luojin could be a Jinshi and shine in the family, so he looked down on Xia Luosi to make a living by doing business.

Zhang He seemed to know what she was thinking, and said, "I'll just lend this money to my brother-in-law. Isn't it the same when he returns it to me after his business gets better? It's better than him going to find Jiaozi." It’s better to get a loan from the shop and Jiaozihui!”

Jiaozipu has a private usury business, while Jiaozihui is a government-run usury institution. No matter which one it is, if you borrow money from them, you will become heavily in debt and even ruin your family if you are not careful.

Xia Jiniang thought for a moment, and said firmly: "No, this money cannot be lent by Erlang, so let it come from my dowry!" That part needs to be done by the Xia family.Naturally, the premise is that Xia Luosi can open a herbal medicine shop.

Zhang He couldn't hold her back, so she let her go.In this regard, Xia Ji Niang has always been very calm and clear, except for some matters involving small money, which she will do to subsidize her parents for selfish reasons.Therefore, members of the Xia family would occasionally say behind her back that she would not subsidize her natal family.

These are all learned by Master Xia Jinxue's words last time, so he accidentally told Zhang He, but Xia Jiniang didn't know, because Xia Da and Xia Cuishi would never tell her.

Zhang He did this because he didn't want Xia Jiniang to return to Xia's house to visit her relatives one day, and become an outsider completely, and even be pointed at by people in Liujiaqiao Village.

It was the Dragon Boat Festival again, and Zhang He vaguely remembered that before the Dragon Boat Festival last year, she proposed to Xia Jiniang, and the smile that Xia Jiniang promised made Zhang He's heart colorful.

Zhang He was sitting on the swing chair, thinking of the past, the corners of his mouth almost grinned to the ears.Xia Jiniang saw that she looked stupid, and she went to her side without being noticed, so she stretched out her finger and flicked her forehead.

Zhang He was in pain, covered his forehead and looked at Xia Jiniang intently, dissatisfied: "Ji Niang, what are you doing to scare people?"

Xia Jiniang didn't know why she suddenly became unhappy, and said: "I have been here for a long time, but Erlang didn't notice, why are you blaming me now?"

Zhang He pursed his lips, didn't speak, but moved his hips silently, and gave half of the swing chair to her.

Xia Jiniang thought about it for a while, and suddenly realized: Zhang He must have not gotten the sachet from her, so he was playing with his temper.

A few days ago, because of the Xialuo silk incident, Zhang He and Xia Jiniang were not in the mood to carefully shop for the Dragon Boat Festival. They only bought some peach willows, pu leaves, and glutinous rice wrapped in dumplings.After Zhang He came back, he forgot about the sachet, but he never wanted to recall the past last year today, so he remembered this one again.

Xia Jiniang turned around and went back to the house. Zhang He was looking forward to seeing this, but he was afraid that he was thinking too much. After all, how could Xia Jiniang know that she was unhappy because of a small sachet?

"Could it be that she didn't notice that I was unhappy and ignored me?" Thinking of this, Zhang He's expression became sluggish.

Seeing Xia Jiniang come out suddenly, her heart jumped with joy and anticipation again.

Xia Jiniang looked at her amusedly, and asked, "Does Erlang have anything to say?"

Zhang He withdrew his expectation, grabbed the armrest of the swing chair and began to swing, pouted: "No!"

"Really?" Xia Jiniang asked.

When Xia Jiniang asked, she had a question: "Do you love me?"

Xia Ji Niang was at a loss for words, she went to gently rock the swing chair for her, and replied: "Well, I really like you."

"I don't want you to be happy, I want you to love me." Zhang He said.

Xia Jiniang grabbed the swing chair, slowly let it stop, and immediately took out the sachet hanging from her wrist, put it in front of Zhang He, and said softly: "If you don't love you, why bother to give it to you?" Make sachets?"

Although Zhang He forgot about the sachets when she came back, she didn't forget, thinking that buying sachets outside would be better than making a few by herself.However, due to the short time, she could only embroider some lace, showing the pattern of decoration, but it was no better than the ones she bought.

Zhang He was stunned, and immediately grabbed the sachet and sniffed it, his heart beat a little faster for joy.

"Ji Niang made it herself! What spices are in it?"

"It's not better than the one you bought. If Erlang doesn't like it, just give it back to me."

Zhang He hung it on the leather belt, and said cheerfully: "Who can say it's not good? What Ji Niang made is the best!" Xia Jiniang bought the sachet for her, and she could carry it with her until it was broken. Don't mention that this is a handmade sachet.

Zhang He said again: "Ji Niang's heart, Ji Niang's love, I must always carry it with me."

When Xia Jiniang heard the words, she suddenly felt that the sachet was carried by Zhang He all day, as if she was declaring her heart to everyone, which was a bit shy.

Zhang He got up and took Xia Jiniang's hand and sat down on the swing chair with her. Zhang He smiled and said, "I'll go to Liujiaqiao Village in two days. I see that some winter melons are ripe. I'll pick them." Go and give it to my father-in-law and mother-in-law, and I will rely on Ji Niang to take care of the family."

Xia Jiniang originally planned to go back with Zhang He, but it was when she was menstruating, and she would feel uncomfortable under the bumps, so Zhang He asked her to rest at home.She had already settled this matter with Zhang He, and this time she just wanted to ask about Xia Luosi's situation, and she believed Zhang He could handle it well.

After Zhang He drove out in the donkey cart, Xia Jiniang rubbed her sore waist, and was about to go back to settle the account of eight acres of eggplant, when she heard a delicate voice asking, "Is this the mansion of Zhang He and Mr. Zhang Lang?"

The author has something to say: I really don’t know anything about medicinal materials, it’s pure nonsense, _(:з」∠)_

"After all, who knows what little things a girlfriend can be unhappy about?"