Siheyuan: I stand for Xu Damao because he is my brother

Since Xu Damao had already made up his mind, his younger brother of course praised him to death: "That's right, brother, you are worthy of being the smartest person in our Xu family! What is the Personnel Department? When you have established a firm foothold there, we can help each other."

Xu Dacan almost said, "I'll buy you an AK, and I'll get you a rifle. Let's grow bigger and stronger together and create more glory..."

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Ten days or half a month passed in a flash, and in the blink of an eye it was the day to deliver the goods to Xu Jiang.

The astragalus that he had been searching for all over the world for fifty years had been in Xu Dacan's space for more than ten days.

Today is Sunday, and Xu Dacan did not go to Tongrentang, but went directly to Xu Jiang's house.

His family lives at No. 59, Donghecao Hutong, Chongwen District.

Xu Dacan found the place by following the house number and asked, "Excuse me, does Xu Jiang live here?"

"What do you want to see him about?" A pleasant voice came from behind.

Xu Dacan looked back and saw that the person talking to him was a young girl. She was wearing the most popular white floral shirt at the time, blue pants, and a long shiny braid that stretched from her left shoulder to her chest.

Although this girl is pretty, she is not in Xu Dacan's taste. He likes the kind of "epicanthus, gummy smile, sloping shoulders..."

But she is a beautiful and relaxed person.

So I was just stunned for a moment, then asked, "Hello, I have an appointment with him, who are you?"

The girl didn't answer the question directly, but just said, "Then come in with me."

The layouts of their two courtyards are similar. Xu Jiang also lives in the third courtyard and in the main house.

The girl led him all the way to the door, and then she shouted inside: "Master Xu, someone is looking for you!"

Hearing the noise from inside, the door curtain was quickly opened. As soon as Xu Jiang's iconic head popped out, he shouted in surprise, "Brother Damao!"

Xu Dacan didn't react for a while, and then he remembered that he had never told Xu Jiang his real name...

Xu Jiang took two steps at a time and came to Xu Dacan, holding him tightly and refusing to let go, as if he was afraid that he would run away.

Xu Dacan let him be dragged into the house, and the girl followed him in.

There was another person in the room, with a broad face and square mouth, angular features, wearing glasses, and well-mannered. He looked more like a teacher than Yan Bugui.

Xu Jiang quickly introduced the two parties: "This is Xu Damao, the man I mentioned to you, my good brother!"

"Xu Damao, this is the famous Divine Doctor Liu! This is his daughter Liu Yueru."

Doctor Liu? Liu Yueru? For some reason, Xu Dacan wanted to ask him: "Is your name Zhennan? Are you also the leader of the Jiangnan gang?"

Upon hearing this, Doctor Liu looked at Xu Dacan in surprise. Isn't this young man too young?

He quickly said modestly: "I don't deserve the title of miracle doctor. My name is Liu Huangbai."

Huangbo? A traditional Chinese medicine with the effect of clearing away heat and drying dampness. Xu Dacan thought that the name of this Dr. Liu was really interesting.

After they sat down, Liu Huangbai asked first: "May I ask if there is someone in your family who is the head of the family?"

The so-called big head is the leader of the mountain herders.

He was responsible for organizing the manpower, bringing carefully selected young and strong people, usually in a team of 5 to 7 people, to go into the deep mountains and forests to look for mountain products every once in a while.

He obviously knew that Xu Dacan sold ginseng to Xu Jiang, so he asked this question.

Xu Dacan fooled him casually, and then handed the box he had prepared long ago to Xu Jiang: "Here, the fifty-year-old astragalus you asked for."

Sure enough, the attention of all three of them was attracted by Huangqi.

With Liu Huangbai around, Xu Jiang didn't dare to touch the box. He just stood by and watched him carefully open the box and look at the cross-section of Astragalus exposed inside.

Astragalus

Liu Huangbai subconsciously adjusted his glasses and looked at the cross section carefully, with a look of surprise on his face: "Good, really good!"

After he called out "OK" twice in a row, he looked at his daughter and said, "Yueru, let me ask you, how do you determine the age of the astragalus?"

Liu Yueru was well-educated and said without hesitation: "First, look, second, smell, and third, taste."

Everything she said was right, and Xu Jiang nodded repeatedly.

Liu Huangbai said to her, "Then you come and test it."

Seeing that Xu Jiang and Xu Dacan had no objection, Liu Yueru stepped forward and picked up a root tuber from the box. She first carefully looked at the depth of the root circle on the cross section, and then put it under her nose, wrinkled her nose cutely, and sniffed its odor.

Liu Yueru soon got the result: "The texture is firm, the smell is sweet, and there is no peculiar smell."

Then it was time to taste it. Xu Jiang took a knife and cut off a thin slice. Liu Yueru put it to her lips, tasted it lightly, and said, "It tastes slightly sweet, without bitterness or other abnormal tastes."

The abnormal here refers to fumigation with sulfur, or soaking in other medicines.

Xu Jiang led the applause: "As the saying goes, a good father will have a good daughter. It looks like Yueru will be able to open a clinic soon."

Hearing him praising his daughter, Liu Huangbai, although modest in words, could not hide the smile in his eyes: "Haha, you are too kind, she still has a lot to learn..."

There was no problem with the item, so the next step was to negotiate the price. When Xu Dacan casually said the sky-high price of "960 yuan", not only did Xu Jiang almost faint in shock, even Liu Yueru opened her mouth in surprise.

On the contrary, Liu Huangbai was calm and looked like he didn't care about the price at all.

It had nothing to do with him in the first place. He was only responsible for prescribing the medicine and then asking Xu Jiang to collect the consultation fee. As for how much money Xu Jiang paid for the astragalus, it had nothing to do with him.

On the contrary, the girl Liu Yueru had a very subversive view. She and the female college student who came later saw a beautiful cake in the mall, and when she asked the price, it was: 1900!

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Xu Jiang made full use of the difficult character of a businessman. He pulled Xu Dacan to cry poor and beg for help. His rhetoric was exactly the same as what Xu Dacan had heard in Red Romantic in his previous life: "The gambling father, the sick mother, the domestic violence ex-husband, the two-year-old child, and the brother who went to school were all unable to overwhelm the poor girl"!

Xu Jiang spoke so much that his mouth became dry and sweat appeared on his forehead.

This "Xu Damao" doesn't look like a young man in his 20s. He speaks very carefully, has an extremely clear mind, doesn't buy into his flattery at all, and is extremely difficult to deal with.

Xu Dacan was also very annoyed. This Xu Jiang was very much like a small boss he knew in his previous life. He was more shrewd than anyone else when it came to business, and he would calculate every dollar with him clearly.

The two people argued for a long time, and finally, with the help of Liu Huangbai, they both took a step back and the deal was concluded at a price of 840 yuan!

With Liu Huangbai's consent, Liu Yueru copied a copy of the previously agreed prescription for Xu Dacan.