farmhouse ditty

Chapter 153

Master Wang hurriedly walked to the cabinet, with a wrinkled old face, and a clerk made a friendly question.

"Hey, Uncle Wang, haven't you just come back, why are you going out again?"

Master Wang didn't seem to hear it, he didn't respond and ignored the guy, and went straight to the door.

The guy looked at it, curled his lips, his subordinates were busy grabbing the medicine, and babbled, "What's the matter, don't you just rely on yourself after going into the mountains for a few years, and recognize those herbs, isn't it just like that, isn't it? I don't know how to handle the Erbao vine in the house, so I deserve to be scolded by the shopkeeper..."

"Hey, kid, come here..."

The guy was muttering, when he heard a sound suddenly, he looked up and saw Master Wang came back again, waving to himself.

This startled him a lot, his hands trembled, and he hurriedly said, "Oh, Uncle Wang, I didn't mean you, I didn't say anything."

Master Wang frowned, wondering what this guy was up to, "You son, I'll let you go to the stables at the entrance of the alley and pull over the shopkeeper's cart, what are you yelling about?"

The guy paused, heaved a sigh of relief, hurriedly responded, and ran out.

"Hey, Mr. Wang, sit down, I'll go right away."

Master Wang went back to the backyard. He didn't want to go out this time. If the clerk from another pharmacy saw it on the street, he wouldn't bother him to ask about the Erbao vine. Now it's Erbao. When the vine stubble was in bloom, but they hadn't brought out the herbs until now, and the shopkeeper had collected their deposit earlier, so it's no wonder that those families were not in a hurry.

At this time, more than a dozen guys came in from the back door, all of them were sweating, and they carried a big bamboo basket full of Erbao vines. When they saw him, they all greeted him, "Master Wang!" .

Master Wang looked at each of them, and suddenly felt a little headache, "What's wrong, it's all here."

A guy in the lead wiped his sweat, "Hey, Master Wang, that's all there is to it."

Master Wang pursed his lips, "It's done, you guys put the Erbao vine in the house, and called Li Tou to call some people to clean it up, and go rest when you're done."

The dozen or so guys laughed, thanked Master Wang, and murmured in their hearts that they could finally rest.

Master Wang waved to them to let them go, and then took out the cigarette stick behind him, thinking about finding a secluded place where he could smoke a pipe to relieve his worries.

"Wangtou, hey, Wangtou, the shopkeeper told you to come up..." the accountant old Wu stood at the stairs and shouted.

Master Wang looked at it and responded, rolled the cigarette bag around the pole, pinned it to his waist, and went upstairs.

Shopkeeper Tian was sitting in front of the desk, holding his forehead, and there was an account book in front of him. He glanced at Master Wang, and said to Old Wu, "Old Wu, go on."

Old Wu nodded, "Shopkeeper, the situation in our waizhuang is similar to that here, and all the shops are rushing for goods."

Shopkeeper Tian listened, and looked at Master Wang, "Master Wang, tell me how the Erbao vine in the field is doing?"

Master Wang stood in front of him, "Shopkeeper, earlier we planted Erbao vines on our ten acres of land, but the yield per mu is only about [-] catties..."

Old Wu squinted his eyes and smiled, "Oh, hahaha... that's not bad, one mu is around 2000 catties, and that ten mu... is about [-] catties..."

Master Wang cleared his throat, took a look at Old Wu, and continued talking to shopkeeper Tian, ​​"Shopkeeper, if we dry this hundred or so catties, then, there won't be much left."

Old Wu pursed his lips, nodded and said, "Well, if this hundred or so catties is dried, there will not be much left. I reckon...it will be about ten catties."

Master Wang gave a "tsk", glanced secretly at Shopkeeper Tian, ​​and complained to Old Wu in a low voice, "Old Wu, what are you doing? Why are you still talking about this at this store!"

He glared at Old Wu angrily, this old guy really didn't open any pot and carried which pot. The shopkeeper had already scolded him a lot for these Erbao vines that didn't grow flowers a few days ago, and almost put him on the ground. Kicked out of Tairen Pharmacy, he was the one who talked about it, and asked the shopkeeper to see him for all these years, so he was not fired by the shopkeeper, but why is this old guy talking about it now, he is really an old fool !
Old Wu pretended not to hear what Master Wang said, and still had the shopkeeper Tian smiling on his face, but he was anxious and angry in his heart, scolding this Master Wang behind his back, and now all this matter has to be blamed on him!

If it weren't for the king's head, he patted his chest to make a promise, saying that he could raise the Erbao vine well, and kept instigating the shopkeeper to buy new seedlings.But when all the seedlings in the field were planted, he didn't care about it. He just called his relatives in the countryside to look at the field. Those peasants didn't know how to feed the precious seedlings at all.

At this time, a clerk came upstairs and said that the carriage was ready and he was waiting for the shopkeeper at the door.

Old Wu saw that shopkeeper Tian didn't speak, so he sent the guy to wait outside the shop first, and then said to shopkeeper Tian thoughtfully.

"Shopkeeper, it's not too early today, let's go to Xiayang Village earlier, so we should come back sooner."

Shopkeeper Tian looked up at the two of them, "Master Wang, just follow what Old Wu said just now. Those Erbao vines in our field have been dried. Is it enough for the shops on the order?"

Old Wu heard what shopkeeper Tian said, and shook his head secretly. It seems that the shopkeeper still can't swallow the scholar's arrogance, and he doesn't want to go to Xiayang Village to find that woman.

Master Wang thought about it and said, "Shopkeeper, shopkeeper, those Erbao vines in the field are all sun-dried, and they can produce about [-] catties. That's all, we have to use half of them in our own pharmacy. ..."

Shopkeeper Tian was silent for a while, then suddenly patted the table, and pointed at Master Wang, "What did you say at the beginning, why can you pick several thousand catties of Erbao vines in a dozen acres of land, you should go to the field to see now , except for dead branches and rotten leaves, there is not a single plant that is fully blooming!"

Master Wang shrank his neck, "Shopkeeper, I went to buy the seedlings a while ago, that's what the person who bought and sold the seedlings said. If the two precious vines in this acre are well raised, they will cost two to three hundred catties. It's long (zhang) miles—"

Shopkeeper Tian looked at Master Wang and said that he covered his mouth halfway. He squinted his eyes and said loudly, "You also know that people say 'well-raised'! Are you patting my chest? Say it’s okay! Look at what you’re doing here!”

Master Wang cried and said, "Oh, shopkeeper, I am living according to what the little woman said. Didn't you just look at it before, how well those Erbao vines in our yard are growing. I saw a lot of flower buds sprouting from those, that's why I told the shopkeeper that."

Shopkeeper Tian was a scholar after all, he yelled a few words, let out another breath, and then sat silently.

Old Wu looked at it, and still kindly reminded, "Shopkeeper, as the old saying goes, it's useless to find the salt dealer for how much salt you put in the pickles, you have to find the pickle master. You'd better go to Xiayang Village first this time..."

"No need, the big deal is that I won't do this business. Anyway, the Erbao vine doesn't only bloom once. The ones picked now are saved first, and they will be sold together when the next flowers bloom."

Shopkeeper Tian said angrily, he just didn't want to admit this cowardice, and when he thought of going to ask that country woman for advice, he didn't get angry at all.

Old Wu sighed, "But, shopkeeper, we have already collected a deposit."

Shopkeeper Tian disapproved, and frowned, "Then go door-to-door to pay back, these are not big money."

Old Wu opened his mouth, then paused suddenly, thinking that if he said it directly, the shopkeeper would definitely not listen to him, so he thought about what to say in another way.

He said in a calm tone, "Hey, I listen to the shopkeeper... But, shopkeeper, you can take out the deposits from the pharmacies in our town first, but it's a bit inconvenient for those in other villages."

Shopkeeper Tian frowned, "Old Wu, what do you mean by that? I remember you said earlier that all the money collected by Waizhuang is in the bank. What's the inconvenience?"

Old Wu still didn't react much, "The shopkeeper, the original money is saved, but for a part, you got the head of Li and asked him to go to Nancheng to make up for the medicinal materials. Those haven't been sold yet. It can’t be exchanged for money, and besides, in the first two months of the first year, the Waizhuang didn’t make much money, so it’s good if you don’t take money from outside, and some deposits were collected before, and they were all subsidized on the cabinet.”

He narrowed his eyes, "Furthermore, we can't take out all the money we have saved, we have to save some spare money for activities, right?"

Shopkeeper Tian's brows became more and more wrinkled and his face became more and more serious when he heard this. Master Wang was sweating coldly as he looked at it. This matter is really getting more and more troublesome.

Old Wu thought about it, and found an excuse to ask Master Wang to go downstairs and bring the account books on the cabinet. Master Wang reacted quickly and ran away in a hurry. Then he can't eat and walk away.

As soon as Master Wang turned around and ran faster than the rabbit, Lao Wu saw it and waited for a while before talking to shopkeeper Tian.

"Shopkeeper, calm down and listen to the old man say something unpleasant to you. The most taboo thing for us in business is anger."

Shopkeeper Tian glared at him, "Old Wu, you are also an old man of Tairen Pharmacy, you should know the rules here, you are just..."

"Hehe, shopkeeper, of course Old Wu knows that he is just a bookkeeper, but my old man has been doing accounts for decades, so he can more or less tell what is good and what is bad."

Old Wu smiled kindly, "Of course, the old man also knows an old principle. If he knows how to be cowardly, he won't be cowardly."

Shopkeeper Tian looked at Old Wu, pondered over his words, and thought about letting him sit across from him first.

This old Wu is also in his 60s, so it's not good to let him stand all the time.

"Old Wu, you continue."

"The shopkeeper, old man, I will rely on my old man to sell my old man..."

(End of this chapter)