farmhouse ditty

Chapter 143

The guy didn't understand, so he thought about it and asked again, "Shopkeeper, you mean, do you want me to keep that little sister-in-law?"

Shopkeeper Tian pushed the window open so that he could see the stone table downstairs at a glance, "Yes, after you go down, just tell her that and ask her to wait in the yard. Go down later."

The guy replied dully, "Oh, I understand the shopkeeper." It's very strange, didn't the shopkeeper ask him to kick the little sister-in-law out just now?
Shopkeeper Tian left the window, walked to the desk, sat down and said, "Also, after you go down and finish talking, go directly to the cabinet and ignore her."

The guy responded again, walked out two steps, suddenly thought of something, and came back to ask again.

"Hey, I know the shopkeeper... the shopkeeper, what if the little sister-in-law can't wait?"

Shopkeeper Tian let go of the ledger, and searched for the place he saw just now, "Then let her go...ah, if she says she will come again next time, you agree, and then you will go to the cabinet and explain, In the future, if this country woman says she wants to come to me, you can tell her to wait in the backyard, and ignore her, just let her wait."

The guy paused, "Hey, I understand the shopkeeper."

Shopkeeper Tian picked up the writing brush at hand, dipped in some ink, and didn't lift his head, "Also, there's no waiting for tea, remember?"

"Hey, I remembered the shopkeeper."

The guy responded, stood there and waited for a while, and then went out after seeing that shopkeeper Tian didn't say anything more.

Xiu Niang was sitting on the edge of the stone table, looking at the yard in her free time. The guys from the Tairen Pharmacy were busy unloading goods and coming in from the back door, and several sacks were piled up in the corner.

Some guys were holding scissors, opening the mouth of the bag, taking the herbs out, holding them aside and chopping them up for later use.

Xiu Niang saw that it was more than two months now, the shopkeeper Tian's business was getting better, and so were the shops on the street, and it was time to get lively.

Thinking of this, she suddenly became a little worried. If she was buying or selling a house this time, she would be in a hurry. Now that the business has improved, how could it be so easy to vacate the house and sell it.

Xiu Niang was anxious to look over to the small second floor, but she wanted to come over, and she sat down patiently. She muttered in her heart, this shopkeeper Tian is a very shrewd person, he should not be so stupid, follow others Pay as much money as you say.

While waiting for a bag of cigarettes, Xiu Niang has not seen the shopkeeper Tian, ​​but only saw the guy from earlier coming down from the second floor.

The guy looked at Xiu Niang from a distance, and smiled, "Well, little sister-in-law, you wait here for a while, our shopkeeper is still busy, he will be down in a while."

Xiu Niang didn't think much, and smiled at him, "Oh, I see, thank you little brother."

"Hey, that's OK, sit down, sister-in-law, I'll go to the cabinet first."

The guy nodded, and went out after talking. He secretly turned his head and glanced at Xiuniang as he walked, thinking in his heart, is this little sister-in-law looking good? I don't know why I offended the shopkeeper, so he asked him to find a way like this treat her.

This time an old man in a long gown came over. He had just bought some rice paper outside, and when he entered the courtyard, he bumped into that guy.

He frowned and pointed at the guy, "You you you little brat, why don't you look at me when you go far away, you almost knocked my old man over."

This old man is the accountant of Tairen Pharmacy. His surname is Wu. Except for Mr. Tian who calls him Old Wu, everyone else calls him Uncle Wu. It is not because he is old, but because he has spent the longest time in Tairen Pharmacy. , it seems that Wu's accountant has been here since shopkeeper Tian's father's generation.

The guy helped him and smiled, "Hey, Uncle Wu, how can I, why don't I follow you?"

Old Wu took the rice paper in his hand and tapped the guy vigorously, "Go, go, I don't need your help, you little devil will look at the road in the future, it doesn't matter if you fall, it doesn't matter if you get hit by someone..."

The guy rubbed his forehead and smiled, "Then Uncle Wu, please go."

Old Wu said something to the guy, turned around to look at Xiu Niang in the yard, and asked another question.

He pointed at Xiu Niang and shook his hands, "Hey, isn't this... Isn't this girl here to send the Erbao Vine, why just sit here?"

Inviting him aside, he whispered all the things shopkeeper Tian explained in the morning.

Old Wu listened, without any expression on his face, he just asked the guy to go back to the cabinet, then walked across the yard to the second floor.

He came to shopkeeper Tian's room, took a pot of water from the table, and refilled water in shopkeeper Tian's teacup.

"Shopkeeper, if you don't want to see that woman, ask her to come up and say a few words, and you can send her away. There's no need to ask her to sit in our backyard and block my eyes."

Shopkeeper Tian looked up at him and knew what he meant, "Old Wu, you are in charge of the account room in the backyard, and you don't understand the front cabinet. That woman is very cunning. You can't just because she gave you the money earlier. You have a few eggs, and you speak for her unreasonably."

Old Wu choked when he heard that, just now he was interceding for Xiu Niang, but not because of those few eggs, but he felt that this woman was not simple, she dared to take the prescription of Er Bao Teng to tell the shopkeeper If she wants to change the shop, then she must have her own little calculations in her heart, and it's not good if it gets too stiff in these two steps.

He glanced at the window and asked, "Shopkeeper, what are you doing?"

Shopkeeper Tian smiled and didn't answer Old Wu's words, "Hehe, Old Wu, I know you lived in the country before, so you must have seen a mountain monkey before?"

Old Wu didn't understand why shopkeeper Tian got involved in this, so he nodded his head and said something.

Shopkeeper Tian still smiled, "Old Wu, you should know that when the mountain monkey was first caught, it was not so obedient and obedient. The monkey tricker must be tamed first, so that those self-righteous mountain monkeys will see him Don’t dare to do it again.”

Old Wu listened, and frowned, thinking about what to say, "But the shopkeeper, you..."

Shopkeeper Tian waved his hand at him, "Old Wu, I know how to measure the size, anyway, this country woman has already told us how to grow Erbao vines, we don't have to be too polite to her, that's all, you go down Show me the account book from last month."

Seeing that it didn't make sense, Lao Wu couldn't do anything, so he responded and went downstairs.

Shopkeeper Tian then finished reconciling the accounts at hand, took a break, and drank some tea. He thought to himself that Xiuniang was exhausted in his pharmacy today, and she would definitely chatter with the three aunts and the six wives when she returned. Anyway, they Those country hawkers secretly have joints.

He just wants to take advantage of this incident today so that other country peddlers can take a look. If he wants to enter his Tairen Medicine Store in the future, he had better behave himself, and don't rely on his ability to find the way through the mountains. He's had enough of charging wild prices for some rare wild yam herbs...

Almost half an hour later, Xiu Niang still didn't see Shopkeeper Tian's shadow, the field where she was sitting now, the sun was bright at noon, and it was ready to bask in her.

This time, a guy took a few medicinal herbs to the second floor, presumably they were the medicinal ingredients he thought of, and he wanted to get them upstairs to ask Master Tian and Master Wang to check their quality. Xiuniang wanted him to take a look at them. Shopkeeper Tian finished his work, but before she could speak, the guy went up.

Xiu Niang looked at it and sighed, her back was sore from sitting, she got up and walked around, she watched the guys coming and going in the yard, in order not to hinder them, she walked to the corner to move around.

But after walking a long distance, she smelled a bad smell. She looked along, glanced at it, and then walked in a different direction. It turned out that the area was a hut.

Xiu Niang covered her nose and shook her head, she was thinking of walking away, but suddenly she turned her head again, she saw a few short trees planted not far from the hut, she walked over ponderingly, and looked The few vines I saw were originally Erbao vines, and I thought they were the six vines I brought over by myself a few years ago.

She walked around these Erbao vines a few times, and found that the manager of the field was quite fond of these Erbao vines. He specially asked someone to dig a piece of land in the yard, and then transported some fertilizer from outside. Come and pour it inside, and then plant these Erbao vines, well, it looks really good, but——

"Oh, sister-in-law, so you are here?"

Xiu Niang turned around and saw that the person who came was the guy who brought the medicinal materials upstairs just now, "Brother, do you have anything to do?"

The guy said casually, "Oh, our shopkeeper asked me to come down and take a look to see if you've left."

Xiu Niang's eyes lit up, and she smiled, "Oh, it was Manager Tian who asked you to come and look for me. Are you done with your work? I'll go up and look for him in time."

The guy was stunned, "Huh? Our shopkeeper...uh, our shopkeeper has gone out."

Xiu Niang said strangely, "Going out? But didn't you just say..." She blinked as she said this, and suddenly changed her words, "Oh, that's it, I understand, thank you brother."

Hearing what Xiu Niang said, the guy secretly heaved a sigh of relief, said something to Xiu Niang and went out.

Xiu Niang took a few steps outside and looked at the small building in the backyard. There was a window on the second floor, which seemed to be facing the stone table, but when she left the stone table and walked to the hut, she had arrived at a A blind spot, let alone being able to see this side from the window.

As she watched, she murmured in her heart, could it be that the manager of the field has been upstairs the whole time, but he just didn't come to see her? He just saw that there was no one on the stone table, and thought she was gone, so he called Dude came down to see?
But after thinking about it, Xiuniang couldn't figure out the reason why shopkeeper Tian didn't see her.

She scratched her ears, and felt that she was thinking too much, so she should go to Mrs. Liu first, so as not to make him wait in a hurry.

Xiuniang was about to go out, but she suddenly looked at the Erbao vines in front of her. She thought about it for a while, looked around, and saw that no one was coming, so she picked up a handful and put it on the sack in the corner. scissors, towards Erbaovine...

(End of this chapter)