Tong Jia anecdote

<one zero zero>

"Jiuye?" Fuchami saw Tong Jiu who was squeezed behind the crowd at the door, took off his sunglasses, ran over with a smile, and said in surprise, "Didn't you go south to Jiangnan, why are you in Dezhou?"

"Oh, walking on the canal, smelling the smell of grilled chicken by the pier, I couldn't walk anymore, so I came down." Fuchami is different from her sister Fuchaqin, she has a lively nature, Tong Jiu likes it on weekdays joke with her.

The two talked and walked back to the back house, Fuchami said with deep hatred, "You said that under Madam's eyes, they dare to use Dangshen as ginseng, and then take out these ginseng to resell. Didn't they eat it?" Is the leopard so daring? It's really hateful!"

"It's really hateful." Tong Jiu echoed absent-mindedly.

Just arrived at the back house, no matter how far away you can hear Yang Gu's loud voice, "Brother, you don't know how good this Lingxiu girl is. Her slender hands can play the sound of fairyland. Every time Lu goes to Linxian Pavilion, her room is the one she likes to go to the most."

"Really?" It was Ji Lan's tepid voice.

"Don't listen to Uncle Tong's jokes, he is making fun of the little girl." A woman said.

"I came here this time because of brother Zhulu's help. I have to thank him well. To put it bluntly, his family has a big business, and it seems that he has everything. But I know his suffering. " Yang Gu continued.

"Oh? I would like to hear the details." Ji Lan listened attentively.

"His wife is a well-known tigress among our banner people. She is so much older than him, what fun can there be?" Yang Gu laughed and said, "This woman is still like this. She is charming, caring and considerate. In my opinion, he just lacks such a lovely confidante."

Hearing this, Tong Jiu stood at the door, and whispered to Fuchami, "Well, I won't go in for now. Later, let me know which courtyard Madam lives in, and I'll go find her... .”

"Second Master, Ninth Master is back with me!" Before Tong Jiu could finish speaking, Fu Chami announced inside.

Tong Jiu paced back and forth at the door for two steps. Seeing that Fuchami had already entered, he had no choice but to follow in with embarrassing steps.

Looking at Ji Lan at this moment, dressed in a different outfit, with a beard on his face, bowing his head and blowing the hot tea in the tea bowl, he couldn't see any joy or anger.

"Husband, cough... Fu, Second Master Fu." Tong Jiu called out dryly.

"Old Jiu, Uncle Tong redeemed Miss Lingxiu for you, and sent it all the way. You have to accept this kindness." Ji Lan put down the teacup in her hand, and stood still while speaking. Get up, walk to Tong Jiu's side, "I can't live up to this girl's friendship."

Before Tong Jiu could speak, Ji Lan turned his head and asked Fu Chami behind him, "How is the front? Call that Zhou Jingtang to the study, I want to ask questions."

"I'm already waiting in the study." Fuchami replied.

Ji Lan turned around again, looking at Tong Jiu who was standing there awkwardly, somewhat at a loss.Taking a closer look, she saw that she was wearing a silver-gray brocade robe and a moon-white waistcoat outside, and the ancestral jade plaque of the Fucha family hung crookedly in front of her lapel.Looking at it coldly, it is still clean.

There was still that cute and well-behaved look between his brows and eyes, with an expression of grievance.

So, she sighed helplessly, stretched out her hand to caress the jade plaque in front of her lapel, straightened it and went out without saying a word.

Watching Ji Lan lead the Fucha sisters away, Tong Jiu took off the hat on his head, touched the cold sweat on his forehead, walked to Ji Lan's chair and sat down.

"Who is this person? It's a good manner!" Yang Gu looked away from the door, couldn't help but praise, and asked curiously, "Is he a banner man?"

"Dare you not know who she is?" Tong Jiu rubbed her brows in annoyance, and said, "She is..."

Glancing at Yang Gu who didn't know what was going on, Tong Jiu said helplessly, "He's my wife's cousin!"

"Yo, it's actually your uncle." Although Yang Gu was a little surprised, he didn't care much and said with a smile, "Why are you afraid of him?"

"No, who told you that my wife is a tigress?" Tong Jiu looked at his playful smile and said unhappily, "Which wicked person said this, huh?"

"Don't deny it." Yang Gu teased her, and said, "Forty-nine cities, but anyone who knows your brother, no one knows that you are a fear of guilt. Speaking of which, this is a different kind in your house." style."

"Come here." Yanggu waved to Lingxiu, and said, "Why are you looking at the Master Han you miss so much, why don't you hurry up and greet him?"

"It's gotta be." With that outburst just now, and seeing Lingxiu approaching, Tong Jiu got up in panic.

He waved his hands, dismissed Lingxiu's gift, and sent Yanggu away, saying, "You and Miss Lingxiu, we're exhausted from traveling and traveling, let's go back to have a little rest, and we'll talk later at the table." After finishing speaking, he arched his hands, took the hat on the table and was about to go out.

"Hey! Where are you going?" Seeing that she walked away without any appreciation of his kindness, Yanggu thought that she was a young man who was short in love affairs.

Then he grabbed her and said, "I brought fine wine, dried meat, and this beautiful woman from outside the pass, just to get drunk with you!"

Tong Jiu retracted the arm that was being pulled by him, and explained, "I'm going to wash my face, and I'll come when I change my clothes."

"A man doesn't stick to trifles, why do you look like a girl, and you have to wash up after eating?" Yang Gu refused to let go, and called his attendants loudly.

The little followers deftly put the jerky and other food he brought from outside the Great Wall on the table and backed away.

Tong Jiu twirled a piece of cheese on the plate and put it in her mouth to chew. The sweet and sour milk fragrance made her squint her eyes, patted the cheese crumbs on her hands, and nodded repeatedly, "Delicious!"

"Is it delicious?" Yang Gu laughed and pulled her into the table, opened the altar of wine, ordered Lingxiu to play music to cheer the two of them up, and said, "No matter how prosperous and prosperous this pass is, these things are always not as good as those outside the pass. What? Stuff, once it enters the gate, it will change its taste."

As he spoke, he picked up the bowl and raised it towards Tong Jiu, advanced half of the bowl, and exhaled hotly, "Outside the pass, the blue sky grassland is clean, and the people's hearts are also clean. The people's hearts in the pass..." He shook his head , Drink up the other half of the bowl.

He grabbed the jerky on the plate and ate it, and said, "The Bannermen have been in the customs for two or three hundred years, and each family lives its own life, and there is estrangement between close relatives, not to mention those of us who are far away. I can be regarded as coming out of the same door, and when I look at you, I always want to mention those old people."

"You are the coat from Tong's mansion, you should know." Yang Gu poured the wine and said mockingly, "It's also Tong Jia, what a grandeur it is in their mansion. In those years, I and the people in their mansion The young masters are still on good terms, especially Tong Wu and Tong Qi, without them recommending me to his Ama, I would not be able to join the army."

Hearing Yang Gu talk about this, Tong Jiu took a sip of wine lightly.

"The day their house was ransacked, I went." Yanggu shook his head regretfully and drank the wine.

Sighing, "Later, I was demoted from customs and was about to take up my post. Before leaving, I went to see them in prison. In such a situation, I knew that going away would be my farewell."

"Your wine is spicy." Tong Jiu wiped her face with her sleeve, and said reluctantly, "But I'm not used to it."

"A few days ago when I went to Beijing, I saw that the former Tong's mansion has become a scholar's mansion, and the former Tong family's illustriousness has been ruined. This shows that the fame and fortune are nothing more than that." Yang Gu poured wine for Tong Jiu, pretending to be angry. "Don't be evasive, I know how much you drink."

Tong Jiu waved his hand and said truthfully, "Since I had a stroke last time, I have rarely been contaminated with alcohol. This is the first time that it has been so strong."

While the two were talking, a gust of warm breeze passed through the hall.

Yang Gu took a deep breath and said, "This kind of spring breeze can really soften people's temperament. Look at what the bannermen in Beijing look like now. I'm not boasting, just my riding and shooting Kung fu, beat them ten. But because no one gave me money, I couldn't go back to Beijing."

Speaking of these, Yanggu patted the table with some righteous indignation, and said, "Zhulu, if things go on like this, the Qing Dynasty will not be guaranteed."

Seeing his concern for the country and the people, Tong Jiu smiled, and said, "I'm just a businessman."

Yang Gu shook his head, patted Tong Jiu on the shoulder, and drank the wine.

After the two of them had a meal, they were both very drunk.After the banquet was over, Tong Jiu went to the study to look for Ji Lan with swaying gait.Hongxiao persuaded and refused to listen, and couldn't talk about it, so she had to follow her closely.

The atmosphere in the study was dignified, when the door slammed, Tong Jiu stepped in, and several people all turned their heads to look at her.

Tong Jiu gasped and looked at Ji Lan who was sitting there, walked straight over, grabbed her hand, and said with a silly smile, "Aji..."

"What are you doing, let's talk about business." Ji Lan smelled the alcohol in her body, and when she came over, she pulled and pulled as if no one else was there, and while holding her hands, she reprimanded in a low voice.

"I also have something to talk to you about." Tong Jiu went to grab Ji Lan's hand again, seeing Ji Lan frowning and staring at herself, she simply put aside Hong Xiao's hand that was holding her in the way, and stepped forward to hug Ji Lan tightly into arms.

"You!" Ji Lan blushed with embarrassment at being held in her arms like this in front of everyone.

But seeing the foolish appearance of this person playing tricks after drinking, he was angry and funny, reached out to pinch her ear, and said, "What are you doing? Why don't you go back and rest first?"

Seeing Tong Jiu drunk like this, Fu Chaqin had no choice but to let everyone go back first.

Back in the bedroom in Kuayuan, Ji Lan gently put her on the bed, seeing that Tong Jiu was still holding on to her sleeve, pushed her, and asked, "What can you say?"

"I, miss you." Tong Jiu looked into Ji Lan's eyes, stretched out her hand and tore off the beard on her face little by little, watching her reveal her original face.

She smiled foolishly again, and said, "After being together for a long time, the feeling of being separated this time is really sad."

Seeing Tong Jiu approaching to kiss her, Ji Lan covered her mouth, pushed her away and said, "Didn't you go to Jiangnan? You go! I, Fucha Ji Lan, killed your family, and I will die with you." Let's stay away, so that you don't want to feel sorry for your ancestors, and you want to feel sorry for her."

"It's my fault to leave in the morning." Tong Jiu held the hand on her chest that was pushing her blindly, and held it firmly in her heart.

Swearingly, "On weekdays, anger turns into anger, and sometimes there are quarrels, but I have always liked you in my heart, and it has never changed."

"Tong Laojiu, don't think that your temper is coming up, give me a face, and leave as soon as you say it. The temper is over, say a few nice words, and come back as soon as you want..." Ji Lan struggled Pushing Tong Jiu who came closer again.

Before he finished speaking, after feeling the soft touch in his hand, he squeezed his hand in a habitual manner, stopped speaking harsh words, and just turned his head away, not looking at her.

Tong Jiu took advantage of the situation and leaned forward, biting Ji Lan's lips, the familiar back and forth between the lips and teeth could not hide the emotion between the two.

"It's all my fault." Tong Jiu repeated vaguely, "It's all my fault...."

<one zero one>

The next day, Tong Jiu and Yang Gu were on errands, and they were in a hurry to board the ship to catch up with the schedule.

But the matter of the Jilan Pharmacy has not been dealt with, so he can't leave for a while.After careful consideration, he left Fuchami and the accompanying stewards in Dezhou, and took Fuchaqin with Tong Jiu to go south.

Yanggu's official ship was in the front, followed by Han's merchant ship and Fucha's Jilan's own cruise ship, and the line of ships echoed each other back and forth, following the waves.

In the cruise ship behind, Ji Lan sat on the rocking chair on the second floor basking in the sun, occasionally swaying leisurely a few times, casually flipping through the medical books in his hand, very happy.

Hongxiao came from the boat in front, took a thin cloak in her hand, covered Ji Lan's lap, pursed her lips and said with a smile, "Brother Jiu asked me to bring it over, saying it was cold spring."

"I just made lotus seed soup. I'll go get sister Hong a bowl to try." Fu Chaqin went downstairs and went to the back after speaking.

Ji Lan flipped through two more pages of medical books, and seeing that Hongxiao was still standing there, she put the scroll in her hand on the small table next to her, and while she sat up straight from the rocking chair, she let her in, saying, "Sit down. Have something to say?"

Hongxiao stroked her hem that was blown by the wind and sat down, looking at the scenery on both sides of the boat, said, "It's rare to be so comfortable, just sit for a while."

Ji Lan picked up the western binoculars on the table, looked at the boat in front, and saw Yang Gu and Tong Jiu gesticulating and talking to the eagle in the cage, and Lingxiu was sitting on the other side playing the pipa.

He chuckled lightly and said, "Lin Wu, the eagle, has surrounded the two of them." After speaking, he handed the telescope to Hong Xiao.He turned around and poured a cup of fruit wine, leaned on the railing and drank it.

"In the beginning, I was a little worried about this old-fashioned story. After all, I was from the old school. I was afraid that brother Jiu would let her drink to the fullest, and she would reveal something between the lines." Hong Xiao looked through the binoculars.

He said with relief, "After two days of watching, she still has a clear idea in her heart."

With the wind blowing, Ji Lan took a sip of the medicinal wine, but said nothing.

Hong Xiao said again, "It's just that every time Yang Gu mentions those things about those people, after all, his flesh and blood are close relatives, which will inevitably make her sad. She also has no choice but to lose her temper at those close to her, and show some temper. Madam is old, don't Compete with her."

Ji Lan was still sipping the medicinal wine with a calm expression on his face.

"Speaking of those people, Brother Jiu is the closest to Master Qi among the brothers. The two are very close in age. When they were young, they often looked as good as one person today, but tomorrow they may not be able to say what they are fighting for. Even the ancestors scolded them." Hong Xiao said with a smile, "But after the temper passed, I realized that the two were originally an ancestor."

"When we ran out of the pass, Qi Ye arranged for the horses we used on the road and the support in various places in private." Speaking of these, Hong Xiao took back the binoculars.

To Ji Landao, "It is said that there is no overnight feud between husband and wife, and there is nothing difficult between sisters."

"Huh?" Ji Lan was swallowing the medicinal wine with difficulty, when she heard Hong Xiao's sudden change of tone, she asked in surprise, "She asked you to persuade me?"

"I said a few words when I changed clothes in the morning." Hong Xiao said emotionally, "Because of Yongxi Baylor's incident, the two families have become like this. My aunt is also in a dilemma, but she is also your wife's compatriot. "

"What does Brother Jiu mean, the weather is better now, let the elders of the clan go to the palace to pass Zhang Guining's post. She will pay the money, and invite the aunt and other clansmen to go back to the old house in the south of the Yangtze River to relax." Hong Xiao expressed Tong Jiu's thoughts.

At this time, Fu Chaqin came upstairs with a food box, seeing the atmosphere of the two of them was a bit dignified, not knowing what they had just said, so he didn't talk to them.

He ordered the maids to serve refreshments, and he filled the lotus seed soup and handed it to Hongxiao.

"Sister Mi isn't here, so she won't be active anymore." Hong Xiao took the lotus seed soup, nodded politely to Fu Chaqin, and said.

"Hey, that sister of mine, doesn't it look like she came out of my family?" When mentioning Fuchami, Fuchaqin smiled gently, "When I was at home, I always thought she was inappropriate, and I just liked to contradict the ninth master."

As he spoke, he looked out, and said worriedly, "But this one is not in front of me, and I am worried about it. I am afraid that she will not matter where she is, and cause something wrong for the master."

"Sit down with Sister Hong for a while. I'm tired. I'm going to rest for a while." Ji Lan took off his cloak and threw it on the rocking chair, and then ordered Fu Chaqin, "Let them close the doors and windows tightly. The sound of the pipa is disturbing."

When Ji Lan went downstairs, Hong Xiao asked Fu Chaqin in a low voice, "Is this not going your way?"

Fu Chaqin waved her hand, telling her not to care.He looked at how much was left in the wine warmer on the table, and said, "Yesterday I was on the road for a long time, and I didn't rest well at night. When I woke up in the morning, I complained of a headache, but I didn't want to let Master Jiu know that I was here alone. We got into a fight and drank medicinal wine for a while."

Talking about putting away the wine cups on the table, he said, "Look, after drinking so much, it's time to sleep."

Seeing the resentment on Hong Xiao's face, Fu Chaqin shook his head more and more helplessly, and said, "These two are not good masters to serve, what's wrong with Master Jiu? After a drink, I won't mention it anymore." .We, we keep everything in our hearts, hold on to our faces, and refuse to say anything with our mouths."

"You guys just left on this trip, and someone said something about the Texas semicolon later, and they were so angry that they slammed three teacups in private." Fu Chaqin looked at Hongxiao's eyes that widened unexpectedly, and said, "I can't think of it? How sooner?" I haven’t dropped anything in the past few years. Besides, I can’t persuade you.”

"Hiss, these two are interesting." Hong Xiao said while drinking the lotus seed soup, "You have seen Brother Jiu get messed up, and he chopped down the table a few years ago. No matter how angry he was, he turned to Madam It’s nothing at all, it’s all about me.”

"Oh, there are too many things going on in the house recently." Fu Chaqin said, "I hope that Master Jiu will make a smooth progress. If the masters are happy, we will naturally be relieved."

Hong Xiao went back to the boat ahead, and it happened that Tong Jiu had just returned from Yangguna.Hearing from Hongxiao that Ji Lan fell asleep because of a headache at the moment, Tong Jiu hurried over to visit her.

Hurriedly entering the cabin, he saw that Ji Lan was not asleep, but with loose hair, leaning crookedly on the soft pillow at the head of the bed, holding a letter in his hand and concentrating on reading it.

"I still have a headache and I'm still blowing on it." Tong Jiu reproachfully said, and sat next to Ji Lan on the bed with her hem lifted, reached out to test her forehead, looked at her complexion, and asked, "Is the pain serious?"

"It's okay." Ji Lan put away the letter in his hand, and lay down slowly on the soft pillow.

"A letter from the Texas government?" Seeing that she had no interest in speaking, Tong Jiu got up and pulled the quilt to cover her up, then turned around and sat on the head of the bed, rubbed her hands together and said, "I'll rub your head for you, just to make sure it helps."

As he spoke, he lightly rubbed the temples on both sides of Ji Lan's head with his ten fingers. After rubbing for a while, it was obviously beneficial. Ji Lan let out a sigh, tilted his head slightly to Tong Jiu's hand, frowned and said, "It's not Dezhou, it's Jining. "

"I don't want to worry about those things for now. An'an should sleep well. Let's talk about it when we come to rest. It's still some time before Zuo Li arrives in Jining." Tong Jiu buried her head and pecked her frowning brow lightly, coaxing with a smile "I'll watch over you."

Ji Lan stopped talking, Ren Tongjiu rubbed her head for her, and took a nap.

After a long time, seeing that she was fast asleep, Tong Jiu stopped the hand rubbing her head, gently took the letter from the pillow, and slowly retreated to the outside room, for fear of disturbing Ji Lan by making a slight noise.

"Jiuye?" Fu Chaqin, who was guarding the outside room, saw her come out, and said in a low voice, "The incense is on."

"Okay." Tong Jiu was looking at the letter in his hand, and asked Fu Chaqin in a low voice, "Is the person who delivered the letter from Jining still there?"

"Let him go down to eat." Fu Chaqin replied.

"After eating, send him to my side. When Madam wakes up, I have something to ask him when I go back." After Tong Jiu explained, she went into the inner room again.

It turns out that Yangzhengtang in Jining Prefecture has encountered many problems one after another in its operation since the Chinese New Year. Hearing that Jilan is going south to Jingning, the shopkeeper of Yangzhengtang in Jining Prefecture hastily sent a staff to deliver the letter, hoping that the owner can come and have a look.

The letter said a few things in total, one is that since Yu Hetang opened a new store in the upper reaches of the canal, the people in the ten miles and eight villages and the people on the other side are not willing to detour to Yangzhengtang downstream to buy medicines, which has affected the business of Yangzhengtang .

In addition, Jining Prefecture has been spreading rumors that Yangzhengtang's medicines are not genuine.Such rumors even started from Dezhou and spread all the way to the whole Shandong.

Finally, there is the official government office in Jining. After the year, various donations and donations were cleverly established, and they intensified their excessive collection of Yangzhengtang.Although this kind of thing happened in the past, but when the business was good, I didn't feel anything.The current business has plummeted, how can it afford such exploitation.

That's why they sent someone in such a hurry to ask Ji Lan to make up his mind.

Tong Jiu returned to the bed, took off his boots, got on the bed, and lay down next to Ji Lan.On the surface, he closed his eyes and rested his mind, but in his heart, he was thinking about the trivial but imminent things about Yangzhengtang mentioned in the letter just now.

Thinking about having Prince Yi as the backstage, first Mu Yun Zhang Luo opened some opium den, and now Yu Hetang resurgently ran to Jining to fight Yang Zhengtang.

Dezhou hasn't listened to the reply yet, whether the ginseng matter is also related to Yu Hetang.

Thinking of this, Tong Jiu opened his eyes, tilted his head to look at Ji Lan who was sharing the bed with him at this time, and saw Ji Lan's eyebrows furrowed while sleeping, with a completely uncomfortable look, and his heart tugged.

The person closest to me in this world is lying here, and the others are all secondary.

He said more than once that he wanted to treat her well when he was with her, but how did he treat her well?Just because she has a headache and rubs her head, is it okay?

Ji Lan is a proud and upright woman, what she wants is not blindly caring for her, nor blindly tolerant and tolerant of her because of love, what she wants is her share of justice.

Between her family and her grievances, between her cousin and her, between Yang Zhengtang and Yu Hetang, what she wants from herself is a fair attitude.

She could disregard the fact that she seduced her as a widow and was unfaithful before the secular world, and she could also disdain Yanggu's idiot words about the tigress, but her questioning at the grave and the later morning's unreported No, it undoubtedly broke her heart.

I don't even want to give her a fair trust, how can I entrust her, what can I say is good for her?Therefore, Ji Lan didn't even want to mention her headache.

She wasn't making trouble with herself, but she was chilling with herself.Thinking of these, Tong Jiu's heart shuddered a little.

??<one zero two>

"It's said that the spring is cold, but if you are willing to listen to my advice, you won't be so uncomfortable." After Ji Lan woke up, not only did he have a headache, but his forehead became hot again. Fu Chaqin muttered worryingly, Go out and get your medicine right now.

"It was too comfortable to live in Beijing year after year, but now that I'm out, I can't stand the bumps." Ji Lan sat up, and said to Tong Jiu with a heavy head, "It shows that this worry can rejuvenate the country, and Yiyu can die. reason."

Tong Jiu reached out to touch her forehead, and said, "You are so burnt out, you are talking about yourself." Then he took the antipyretic powder from Fuchaqin, and said, "I still need to listen to Qinqin more in the future." Sister's."

Ji Lan wanted to drink the medicine by herself, but Tong Jiu refused to let go, and insisted on feeding her carefully spoonfuls, and said softly, "Let me also do my best."

"It's just a bit of wind, I can't stand you like this." After drinking the medicine, Tong Jiu took another cup of water to give her a sip, and Ji Lan said a little uncomfortable seeing her suddenly being so attentive.

"Husband and wife, if you are not good, then I am not good." Tong Jiu said while rolling up her cuffs, and twisted a warm towel in the copper basin, and when she came back, she carefully covered Ji Lan's forehead, Said, "So, you must not have any high mountains and low waters."

"What's wrong with you?" Ji Lan withdrew his hand from the tightly covered brocade quilt, pulled Tong Jiu to sit in front of him, and asked, "Who said what to you?"

Tong Jiu shook his head, stroked Ji Lan's hand, and said for a long time, "I just thought about it. I was blindfolded by the past things a few days ago and vented my anger on you. After that, I was only thinking about others, but I didn't care about your situation. , now I feel sorry for myself."

Hearing her earnestly say these words, Ji Lan smiled and said in a slightly nasal voice, "Your appearance now is somewhat like a husband."

"That's because Ma'am, you were so fierce in the past that you couldn't show me." Seeing her smile, Tong Jiu also smiled and said, "It's rare for me to be so fragile today, so naturally I appear to be extraordinarily magnanimous." As he spoke, he still did not forget to throw back the braids in front of him chicly.

Ji Lan looked at this man's smug look that he couldn't even praise, nodded and said, "Yes, such a good-natured Master Jiu is being bullied by a tigress like me all day long. No wonder your brother from the same family is complaining about you everywhere, thousands of miles away. All the way, I never forget to put some Yingyingyanyans in your arms."

"Why waste your time on these irrelevant things?" Tong Jiu listened to her talking about these things, stepped forward and turned over the scarf on Ji Lan's head, "It's just that this look is very beautiful."

When he pulled away, he pursed his lips and approached Ji Lan with a smirk, and said in a low voice with deep meaning, "Your kindness, I just know it, how can I let them peep at it!" Ji Lan glanced at his chest.

"It's getting more and more serious!" Ji Lan saw Fu Chaqin hastily took the medicine bowl and hid out, glared at Tong Jiu, and pretended to be annoyed, "What does it look like?"

Tong Jiu let her lie down disapprovingly, and said, "You are suffering from the wind and cold, and you are not feeling well, and you still have some time left and right, so let's not make things worse. I thought, go to the Yangzhengtang in Jining to raise a few Day, what do you think?"

"Well, Jining is going." Ji Lan covered his mouth and nose with a handkerchief, sniffed after sneezing.

"Then I'll go to the front and tell the people in the fleet to come here when I get it. You take the medicine and sleep for a while." Tong Jiu got up and covered the quilt for her, and said, "You have to sweat to reduce the fever. Don't hold your arms." The littering of the legs is covered tightly."

The merchant ships that returned to the Han Mansion were mostly for office use, not as elaborately arranged as the Jilan sightseeing boats.

After talking with Yanggu and others about the arrangement of staying in Jining for a few days, he called the boy who delivered the letter from Yangzhengtang in Jining to question him.

"What's your name?" Seeing that this boy was about the same age as him, Tong Jiu picked up the teapot and poured two bowls of tea, handed him a bowl, and asked gently.

"Little Liang Bai." The servant took the tea bowl and answered politely, not restrained.

"Oh, Liang Bai." Tong Jiu raised his hand, telling him not to be polite, took a sip of tea by himself, and asked, "Now, how is the business in the shop?"

Liang Bai shook his head, thinking it was not good.

"What's wrong?" Tong Jiu sat down, fiddling with the bracelet that he just brought from Jilan, and said, "I heard that someone is spreading the word that our Yangzhengtang's medicine is not genuine. Are you here?" So buddy, let me tell you, what are the so-called falsehoods?"

"What a bad way..." Liang Bai pondered and said, "Let's put it this way, since I started working as an apprentice at the shop when I was ten years old, it's been xx years now, and the business of our Yangzhengtang has never been so bad. .At the worst time, there wasn’t even a single person to grab the medicine in three days.”

Tong Jiu nodded, and then asked, "Then how did the rumors that this thing is not true come about?"

Liang Bai replied, "You know, the medicines in our shop are divided into secret medicines and common medicines. Needless to say, the secret medicines are all from the pharmaceutical factories in Beijing or Jiangnan with seals on them. There is no false statement at all. The common medicines Well, most of the pills are tonic, and most of them are made by the masters who have been dispensing according to the prescriptions that have been followed."

"When dispensing medicines in different batches, high-quality ginseng was replaced with Codonopsis ginseng. Does your file have this phenomenon?" Tong Jiu said bluntly, "It's only you and me, just say it."

"There is absolutely no parental heart between doctors!" Liang Bai assured, "Master, I dare to guarantee with my life that our own medicine is fine. The business of Yangzhengtang is not good, it is because someone deliberately scattered those fake ones." Rumors, entrap us."

"Rumors only stop at the wise, if it's not our own negligence, then it's easy to say." Tong Jiu had already made up his mind, and said, "You go back first and tell your shopkeeper, I will be there tomorrow after talking to my wife." .Let him take the boys to meet us on the pier and make it more lively."

"Okay, I'll go back now, little one." Liang Bai got up and went out after cupping his hands.

When he went out, Tong Jiu looked down at the bracelet in his hand, the warm rosary was covered with eye-catching cracks, presumably it had been touched by a blow.

Looking at those cracks, Tong Jiu was slightly distracted, remembering the situation when the Qi family uncle brought Mu Yun to the Han Mansion to plead guilty that day, and he still vaguely remembered the scene when he swore that he would never fight with Yang Zhengtang again. .

Thinking of this, Tong Jiu got up, opened the window in front of him, smelled the slightly fishy air, and said to himself, "The Qi family's account should be settled."

On the second day, seeing the pier in Jining, Tong Jiu held up a Western-style binoculars and looked back and forth towards both sides of the canal.

"There's nothing new, what's there to see?" Holding a shawl in her hand, Hong Xiao urged Tong Jiu, "It's almost here, put some on."

Tong Jiu put away the binoculars, looked out of the boat again, and said, "Have you heard the sound of firecrackers? They are here to welcome us."

"Madam has a headache, you made such a noise, it's not what you want when you look back carefully." Seeing that she still likes to be lively, Hong Xiao said helplessly.

"Noisy? I just want to be noisy and noisy, so that those who plot us openly and secretly will listen. I, Tong Jiu, are here!" Tong Jiu finished speaking and went out, looking at the pier on the shore. Not only were there firecrackers, but also There were many people beating gongs and drums, making it as lively as welcoming relatives.

Tong Jiu glanced at Yu Hetang by the pier, and said amusedly, "It's so close to the pier, aren't they afraid that they will be flooded one day?"

Besides, Yang Gu and Tong Jiu wore official uniforms, and the water warriors from the official family cleared the way and went ashore.The people passing by watched the excitement, wondering which grand master had arrived in Jining.

They have lived on the ridge of the canal for a long time, and they recognize that this kind of official ship is specially used by the imperial court for comprador procurement, and they are even more curious about who is favored by the imperial court and can receive such grace.

Seeing them being surrounded by Yangzhengtang shopkeepers and walking towards Yangzhengtang, many people who watched the fun began to mutter, didn’t they say that Yangzhengtang sold fake medicines, and they didn’t work after taking them? What about officials coming to compradors?

Suddenly, in front of the door of Yangzhengtang, which had been deserted for several months, there were many more people walking back and forth.

In order to welcome the arrival of the owner, the shopkeeper made arrangements, and the two gates of the Yangzheng Hall were decorated with lights and festoons inside and out, which can be described as a new look.

I have seen several shopkeepers, accountants, and the doctor who dispensed the medicine. Hearing Ji Lan's suppressed cough, Tong Jiu said, "While the gentlemen are here, why don't you let them show you what medicine to use? Get well sooner."

"I know my own body well, I'm finally home." Ji Lan said as he stood up and went to the cabinet in front of the Yangzheng Hall, saying, "I'll go to the cabinet to grab whatever I want to eat."

Tong Jiu knew that she was going to go to the cabinet to test the medicine herself, and she didn't understand the way of making and testing the medicine, so she had to go with Ji Lan along with the others.

Ji Lan casually grabbed some medicines from the cabinet and the storeroom, said that he was tired, and went to rest at the back, leaving a group of people to hang out in the hall, with different expressions.

After Ji Lan left, Jiang's shopkeeper in the Jining sub-colon looked at Tong Jiu, who was still looking like a child, wearing a brown crystal mirror, looking at the velvet antler in the jar of medicinal wine in the hall with great interest, and felt a little restless.

He originally thought that Ji Lan would understand that Jining Yangzhengtang was in dire straits after reading the letter he sent earlier.

This son-in-law likes to talk about pomp and pomp, so it's okay to let himself go far and near to send it off.

But how come Ji Lan didn't say a word about the business when he came?

He originally thought that when Ji Lan came, he would have to ask questions first, and then solemnly seek everyone to discuss solutions and countermeasures.

Unexpectedly, when this aunt came, she was busy getting medicine for herself first, and her complexion was nothing more than a common ailment such as a cough due to wind flu, but she didn't know what prescription she gave herself, so she was stunned. He tossed the medicinal materials on the cabinet and the warehouse upside down.

In order to receive these two ancestors, the front and back yards have been extremely busy since yesterday, but the more I look at them, the more I feel that these two people are unreliable. Isn't this just to add to the chaos.

"This is the first time I've come to our Jining Yangzhengtang." Tong Jiu greeted them, and said, "Master Jiang, let Liang Bai take me out for a while. I've been on the boat all day, so I'm tired of it." .”

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After sitting in front with those people for a while, Tong Jiutuo said that he would go back and change into casual clothes, and then went to the back.

"Ma'am, is everything settled properly?" Out of the main hall, Tong Jiu took off the hat she was not used to wearing, and asked Hong Xiao to find an ordinary gown for herself, and entered the main room.

It happened that Fu Chaqin came out and said, "Sister Qin, Husband