Chapter 225 Digging a hole
Shitou had asked Shang Wan before, whether it was unethical to shut down Qionghua Restaurant for no reason without provoking him?
At that time Shang Wan only asked him to wait.
Isn’t this what you’ve been waiting for?
She has taken care of the business of Qionghua Restaurant a few times recently, and has never taken any action against Qionghua Restaurant. It is not certain that Young Master Qiao will miss the opportunity to cause trouble in her Spiritual Medicine Pavilion.
Shouldn't this be a good repayment?
Shang Wan quickly passed through several simple repayment plans in his mind.
To bring down a restaurant, you can only start from three aspects: food, service and reputation.
As long as there are no customers to eat in the restaurant, it is only a matter of time before it goes bankrupt.
Of course, the most direct thing is to kill the boss. Without the boss, the restaurant will naturally not be able to open.
Shang Wan was just thinking about it when Lu Chengjing's words pulled her thoughts back.
"A-Nian's brother told him in the letter that he should follow Boss Zhong back to Beijing. Is there any reply from Boss Zhong?"
"Boss Zhong is a busy man." Shang Wan put the money in the wooden box and locked it. "I will probably not reply until I set a date for my return to Beijing."
The child's eyes were red from crying yesterday. Shang Wan thought something was wrong, but it turned out that the child was about to leave and he couldn't bear to leave them.
Last night, the children took the initiative to tell them the contents of the letter, and Shang Wan also deduced the truth about the growth of Lingtian from the letter.
Most of the medicinal materials she sold to the pharmacy before were sent to the border with other medicinal materials.
The enemy's spies poisoned the medicinal materials. Most of the soldiers in the military camp were poisoned, including several generals, and Chu Zhao was one of them.
When military doctors inspected the medicinal materials, they found that although some of the medicinal materials had been poisoned, after cleaning, their medicinal properties were not affected by the poison.
The military doctor prescribed a prescription to delay the onset of toxicity based on the existing medicinal materials, and ordered the person to endure it for a while. At the same time, he also worked hard to research the real antidote.
With the support of the batch of medicinal materials, there were no large number of casualties among soldiers in the military camp, and several generals also survived.
The growth of the spiritual field is indeed related to saving people, and the more people we save, the more important it is, the faster the spiritual field will grow.
That day, the number of spiritual fields jumped up as if on steroids because the medicinal materials sent by Shang Wan saved most of the military camp.
Chu Zhao also explained in the letter that the person they sent to pick up Chu Xu was intercepted and killed on the way.
It happened that there was trouble in the military camp, and the father and son were unable to investigate. They only sent a few confidential letters, asking Chu Xu to stay at the Lu family. They would send someone to pick up Chu Xu after the incident in the military camp was over.
However, Shang Wan and the others only received one reply, and the subsequent letters went nowhere.
If Chu Xu had not sent a letter to the border again this time, the Chu family and his son would not have known that the letter they sent had been intercepted.
I guess the spies haven't been cleared out yet.
Zhongli once owed Chu Zhao a favor, and Chu Zhao concluded from the news coming from the capital that something big was going to happen in the capital.
Chu Zhao always knew that Zhongli was in Qingyang Mansion. If something happened in the capital, Zhongli would definitely have to go back.
So he wrote a letter to Zhongli specifically, asking Zhongli to take his younger brother back with him and send him back to Dingguo Duke's Mansion in full and complete form, as a way to repay his favor.
Zhongli agreed readily. He had been busy these days and was preparing to return to Beijing.
The letter also mentioned something. The military camp was looking for the source of medicinal materials that were not affected by poisons, and it had now been traced to Qingyang Mansion.
Thanks to these medicinal materials, there was no major incident in the military camp. Marshal Chu prepared a reward of five hundred taels of silver from his own pocket.
Shang Wan had some conspiracy theories.
Shopkeeper Qi couldn't wait to take action against the Spiritual Medicine Pavilion. Could it be that he had received the news and wanted to keep the reward for himself?
If something happens to the Spiritual Medicine Pavilion, as the owner and shopkeeper of the Spiritual Medicine Pavilion, all her attention will be on solving the troubles in the Spiritual Medicine Pavilion, and she will naturally not care about other things.
Maybe by the time she gets the news, the money will already be in Shopkeeper Qi's pocket.
Tsk, so vicious.
Last night I was still too gentle.
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After finishing the accounts, Shang Wan went to Baohui Bank holding the money box. Half of the income is deposited in the bank, and half is deposited in the space.
After returning to the shop for half a day, Shang Wan was so bored that he yawned.
There were too many people working, so she, the shopkeeper, had some time to spare.
Shang Wan lowered his head and drew circles on the paper, preparing to streamline the staff again.
In addition to his own family, the last four people left were Yuan Musheng, Yuan Qiao, Aunt Yao and Liu Cheng.
Yuan Musheng is responsible for seeing doctors and taking medicines, Yuan Qiao is responsible for selling ointments and medicinal powders, Aunt Yao is responsible for buying vegetables and cooking, and helping Yuan Qiao when she is busy, while Liu Cheng works part-time as a clerk and delivers medicines.
Liu Cheng knows some boxing and kicking, and is strong, so he won't be at a disadvantage if he fights someone outside.
The four of them each perform their duties, and with Shang Wan as the shopkeeper, the shop can handle everything.
Others returned to the village to make medicine, while Xiaohuan and Shitou were responsible for checking and settling wages.
Lu Chengjing can still help now, but after the Mid-Autumn Festival, he will have to concentrate on reading the books of sages.
At the same time, three people dressed as merchants came to Yushu Village and purchased medicinal materials in the village at prices exceeding the market price. Regardless of the quality, they took as much as they could get.
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"It's closed."
Shopkeeper Shang took the time to close the shop and asked the waiters to clean up and inventory the medicinal materials. After registering, the medicinal materials will be replenished.
Lu Chengjing handed the calculated account book to Shang Wan.
Using the cover of the counter, Shang Wan directly placed the account book into the space.
Something as important as a ledger must be kept in the safest place.
Lock the door and go home.
It was getting dark, and the entrance to Yushu Village was lit up with little fires.
When I got closer, I realized they were torches.
Led by Father Wu, there were about ten people standing at the entrance of the village.
The light of the torch shone on their faces, reflecting the solemn faces of each one as they faded away.
Shang Wan secretly raised his eyebrows, something was wrong.
Others also felt that something was wrong in the atmosphere, and gradually stopped talking and laughing, and looked suspiciously at everyone's faces.
Shitou was the first to speak and asked: "Uncle Wu, it's dark today, why are you guys standing at the entrance of the village?"
"Waiting for you, someone is sincerely making life difficult for our village." Father Wu raised his hand and everyone stepped aside, revealing the three people behind them who were tied into rice dumplings.
Under the firelight, the three people's faces were bruised and bruised, and they must have been beaten.
The mouths of the three of them were so tightly blocked that they could not utter a single word except for the sound of "Uh-huh".
Glancing at the three of them, Shang Wan asked doubtfully, "Who are these three?"
"They claim to be merchants and want to buy medicinal materials from our village at high prices." Father Wu told the story in detail.
After the three people entered the village, they shouted to collect the medicine. The price was still high, which attracted many villagers.
The three of them talked to the villagers overtly and covertly, asking for news about Shang Wan's family.
When Father Wu heard the news and rushed there, many people in the village had already been tricked, and some wanted to go home to get medicinal materials to sell, so Father Wu woke up with a few words of scolding.
The three of them thought that Father Wu was in the way and wanted to incite the villagers to lock him up, but unexpectedly, they were the ones who were locked up.
The villagers were confused for a moment, but after Father Wu analyzed it in this way, everyone understood.
It's not pie in the sky, it's a hole dug for them.