"Didn't you say no to increase the price?"

"Why did you leave like this? How many people don't lock it?"

"That's someone falsely accusing the shop!"

"Everyone, it's not that the store raises prices at will, but that there are not many medicines stored."

"If you think it's expensive, then wait for the new medicine to come in before coming."

Can you wait for anything else, can you wait for a disease?

Can adults at home bear it and bear it, can older people withstand it?

Bear with it, buy it with your nose?

The back of the official officer went away, and the person who sold the medicine at a high price turned his anger at an instant to the official officer. He did not dare to yell, but he cursed in his heart.

Zhao Shi did not walk through the front door, but accompanied by several shopkeepers of the Lianhua Hall nodding and bowing, he lowered his head and walked out of the back door with his heart full of thoughts.

The rain had already stopped. Even though there was no wind, Zhao Shi felt a little cold.

He kept his head down and quickly walked through the crowded crowd, and could not help but look at the people who were crying in front of the rice and rice shop, and were full of anxious faces. He looked like a child who had done something wrong, with a look of shame.

Just walking like this, half an hour later, the purple gate of the Chengen Hou Mansion was clearly visible. The Zhao family was no longer the Zhao family, and the family members of the past were now unattainable.

The magnificent gatehouse, the towering eaves, the arrogant slaves standing at the door...

Suddenly, Zhao Shi felt that the two lifelike lion stone statues at his doorstep were particularly dazzling.

A wealthy family emphasizes inheritance, and this inheritance is wealth and honor. There is also a deep mansion with hundreds of people, everyone has rich clothes and food, and everyone is the best. What can you maintain? Relying on what land alone?

"The little marquis is back!" The doorman saw Zhao Shi from a distance, and four or five servants suddenly ran out to greet him.

"Go away!" Zhao Shi scolded with a rare cold face, and walked towards the backyard amid the accusations of his servants.

I have to pass the front hall to go to the backyard. There are faint sounds coming from the living room, and bursts of laughter are pouring out.

Zhao Shi knew that it was his father meeting guests. There were always many guests at home, his father was always busy, and the warehouse was always filled with gifts from someone.

He quietly looked over there, as if he had been a long time and had not spoken to his father well. Even if the father and son were talking, they were not as casual as before.

Pass through the vestibule, then through the garden, then through the moon gate, then through the corridor, and then through the triple door...

It was not until Zhao Shi was tired of walking that he arrived at the backyard.

The styles of the backyard and the front yard are completely different. The front is dignified and elegant, and the back is carved beams and painted roofs.

Standing at the door, what caught my eye was a hard pen painting lotus flowers, and then a corridor with various story paintings even under the eaves.

Those painted story paintings are exquisite and vivid. The Three Kingdoms, the Yang family generals, Tieguai Li, Lan Caihe...

He looked quietly and suddenly felt an indescribable sense of strangeness towards these things.

At the same time, the home of his childhood, which was a small family suddenly appeared in his mind.

The house is not big, and I ride on a wooden horse, and you can see my mother and sister in the kitchen in the main hall. In the hot smoke of the cooking stove, the two of them always pick vegetables while talking about the dish's bad heart and the price of meat rises.

I always say that the rice is not fragrant and the fire in my house is not strong.

Then when it was dark, my father would go home on time with exhaustion.

At that time, my father would raise him up, tie his little face with his hard beard, and would raise his hand to tease him with a paper bag wrapped in pork head.

When he was at the dinner table, he and his nephew pushed and scrambled to the best pig. He was always the winner, but the price of victory was that his nephew grinned and his mother scolded him.

And my sister always quietly buried his favorite pork belly in his bowl, and watched him eat it with a smile.

"Little Marquis, you are here!"

A thirteen or fourteen-year-old maid saw Zhao Shi at the gate of the courtyard and bowed respectfully.

Zhao Shi noticed that she was holding a bowl of hot soup in her hand.

"What is this?" Zhao Shi asked.

"Go back to the little marquis!" the maid whispered, "Young Master Sun and the second master have not eaten for the past few days. The wife ordered the kitchen to make bird's nest and said that they would nourish their bodies for the two masters."

Bird's nest!

I haven't heard of it when I was a child. At that time, I was sick, so I could eat at most two pieces of rock candy!

"Little Shitou is back! Come in!" From the main room, the loving voice of his mother Zhao came from, "Hurry up and bring a bowl of bird's nest to Xiao Shitou!"

Zhao Shi lifted the curtain and in the hall of the main room, on the round table of red sandalwood with hollowed-carved iron porcelain, two plates of red fruits exuded a fresh fruit fragrance.

Two maids stood outside the dormitory with their hands hanging down, waiting for the call at any time.

The ground is a ceramic tiles that can reflect one's own figure. Each piece comes from the official kiln in Jingdezhen, which is of great value.

In the dormitory, the two children leaned against the Zhao family with a slightly yellow face. The older one was the Zhao family's grandson and the younger one was the half-brother of Zhao Shi.

"Brother!" Seeing Zhao Shi enter the house, the child stretched out his pink little hand and smiled on his face.

Suddenly, Zhao Shi felt a pain in his heart again.

Since the child was born, he was carried by his mother in her house and raised himself. Until now, the child only recognizes his mother, not his own mother.

"Just come back from the palace?" Zhao clapped his little grandson and smiled, "Can you see the Empress and the Crown Prince today?" As he said, he instructed, "Son, it's a decent job for the imperial court. You have to do it well, don't embarrass your sister. This morning, the third wife of the Duke of Zheng's mansion came and said that their family wanted to ask for the grace of a guard, but they didn't ask for it! Tsk tsk, that's the emperor's mother clan..."

Amid Zhao's nagging, Zhao Shi sat down with mixed feelings and looked at his mother.

My mother is elegant and luxurious now, and she doesn’t have the same appearance as her former life as her food, rice, oil and salt.

"Why don't you know how to change the clothes when they are dirty?" Zhao saw the mud and water stains on the corner of his son's skirt, and frowned and said to the maid outside, "Go to the eldest master's room and put in the new Su Shi clothes..."

"Mom!" Zhao Shi spoke, "Son has something to say!"

In Zhao's surprised gaze, Zhao Shi spoke with difficulty, "Lotus Hall, what does it have to do with our family?"

"Why did you ask about this?" Zhao was a little surprised, but she smiled, "Since you asked, I won't hide it from you. Lianhuatang has 30% of our stocks, so it's not that I won't tell you. You are still young, and I'm afraid that I'll delay you if I tell you..."

"Mom, why do we have something to do with the pharmacy?" Zhao Shi asked again.

"It's not that they deliberately flattered!" Zhao said with a smile, "The shopkeeper of the Lotus Hall and your father are fellow townsmen. A few years ago, your father was planning to find the ancestral tomb. After hearing this, they rushed to run around and behind. They didn't find the ancestral tomb, but they also found a few distant relatives from your father. He came to the door to kowtow for every holiday. He was a kind person!"

"Tell me about the investment!" Zhao Shi's eyelids twitched.

"It wasn't a shareholding at the beginning!" Zhao clapped the little grandson in his arms, touched the child's forehead and continued, "Don't we have some spare money in our house? Just your sister entered the palace and the emperor rewarded her with a total of eight or nine thousand taels of silver."

"This money is also kept. The shopkeeper Zhang said that he could lend it to them, Lotus Hall, and give our family interest!"

Zhao Shi's temple also jumped up, this is a loan shark!

"Later, your father said that it was not good to borrow money, so Manager Zhang thought of a compromise solution, and our family invested in the shares..."

"Mom, you are confused!" Zhao Shi couldn't help it and said, "Lotus Hall has four shops in the capital alone. Two and a half percent of the raw medicine business is in the hands of others. Xuzhou, Yangzhou and Suzhou also have a semicolon. Eight thousand taels of silver sounds like a sky-high price, is it enough for others to have 30% of the money?"

Zhao looked at his son strangely, "You really think your mother is a woman who doesn't know anything? Our family may not have enough money to invest, but his Lianhuatang is begging us!" He smiled, "If our family has not greeted them in the past few years, can he do such a big business?"

"Since you know, you still do this?" Zhao Shi stood up, "Don't you know that the imperial court has repeatedly dictated that noble families are not allowed to get involved with merchants?"

"Don't other people do this too!" Zhao's eyes stood up and said unhappily, "What are you doing when you are shocked?"

Zhao Shi sat down dejectedly and sighed.

Although his days in the palace were shallow, what he could see was completely different from the people outside the palace.

Some things are not just talk about, nor does it mean that you don’t know. If you really want to be serious, you will lose face.

"Mom!" Zhao Shi begged, "Come back the stock?"

"What?" Zhao said in surprise, "Why, that's 10,000 or 20,000 a year..."

"Money, money, money!" Zhao Shi couldn't help it anymore and shouted, "Do you just recognize money like that? Is the family short of money now? Do you know what Lianhuatang is doing outside with the power of our family?"

"I'm for your own good!"

"You are harming your son..."

Bang!

A slap directly hit Zhao Shi's face.

Wow!

The two children burst into tears.

Zhao Shihan looked cold, "I am your mother, you just talk to me like this? Can I not admit money? Your sister is in the palace, will she give her filial piety for three holidays and two birthdays? Do you want money when you have sex with others? I just sent her to the palace today. Do you think this money is blowing by the strong wind? In the future, you will find a wife and build a house and a garden. You have a younger brother and a nephew..."

"I won't tell you!" Zhao Shi groaned, turned around and left, "I'll go find my father!"

"you......"

With a bang, the door was slammed.
Chapter completed!