Their cloth shop will ship a batch of cloth from nowhere every month, and the only people who handle this batch of cloth are the boss and the shopkeeper. The person who purchases the goods is the boss, and the person who moves the cloth into the warehouse is the shopkeeper. There is no other way.
A person's hand.
It's already weird for a shopkeeper to move cloths into the warehouse by himself. What's even weirder is that the cloths are not fine cloths, but ordinary linen or brocade linen, which are not worthy of such careful treatment.
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Others turned a blind eye, but Qi Dong had a problem. He was very curious.
So I often pay attention to this matter quietly.
Once when the shopkeeper was moving cloth in the warehouse, he pretended to go to the latrine and found a position he had noticed for a long time to take a peek.
He didn't see anything at first. He saw the shopkeeper taking out exquisite palm-sized jars from the middle of the cloth. He thought that the boss and the shopkeeper were using those worthless cloths to transport some good medicine.
That kind of jar is very similar to the jars used to store ointments in drug stores.
The price of good medicinal materials is high. If the good medicinal materials are made into an ointment with certain effects, the price will only be higher. It is indeed a good business in the eyes of businessmen.
Qi Dong remembered that their boss did have a good relationship with the owner of a well-known medical shop in the city. The wife of the medical shop owner often came to their cloth shop to buy cloth, and the shopkeeper would lower the price every time.
Maybe the boss is helping the owner of the medical store transport ointment?
So Qi Dong didn't take this matter seriously. He just saw it and got over it and never cared about it again.
Until one month before he came to Qijia Village.
Although Qi Dong had some connections with the shopkeeper, after all, he was just a distant relative and not close to the shopkeeper. He was just living off his wages.
He didn't live with the shopkeeper, but rented a house to live outside.
Qidong's monthly salary was two cents of silver, of which he would keep one cent to take home to treat his wife, who had been sick for a long time at home, and half the cent for marrying a wife in the future, leaving only half the cent for monthly living expenses.
So of course the house we rented is not that good. Is it in a small alley on Yong'an North Street near the city gate, or is it a small courtyard shared by more than a dozen people, or a few people sharing the same house.
Qi Dong's death had something to do with several people who lived in the same house.
"We live in one house with four people. The people in our house are all relatively wealthy in the courtyard. I work as a waiter in Cloth Village, and Aqiu is the same as me. It was Aqiu who introduced me to the house when I rented it.
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"The other two are called Fangzi and Bangen."
"Fangzi works at the port to move goods for people. He is strong and honest. He is very comfortable at the port. He can sometimes earn as much as four or five taels of silver in a month."
"Bangen and Aqiu are acquaintances. He works as an apprentice at Mingrong Medical Center. The monthly salary is quite high, but he often steals some medicines and sells them to people around him. It is said that he is the richest in our house.
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What follows will start with Ban Gen, who is an apprentice at Mingrong Medical Clinic.
There are no rich people in the area where Qi Dong lives. It should be said that the entire area in the north of Yong'an City near the city wall is populated by poor people. Some places are even a place for helpless beggars.
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It is difficult for poor people to see a doctor, but the disease will not ignore you just because you are poor.
What should I do if I don’t have money for medical treatment or medicine?
Spend it.
At this time, Ban Gen appeared, who often stole medicines from medical clinics and sold them, and he could be said to be the savior of this area.
Therefore, Bangen is very popular in that area and is respected wherever he goes.
Although Qi Dong was not ashamed of his stealing behavior,...
So Qi Dong kept turning a blind eye. After all, Ban Gen's behavior could be regarded as saving many people.
"On September 9th, the shopkeeper said that the boss had negotiated a big deal with a distinguished customer in the capital, and he happily gave us a half-day holiday.
I came home and saw that my roommate Fang Zi was at home. Fang Zi's father was a gambler and had a lot of debts outside. So he worked very hard to make money. There were more port jobs like September 9th than usual.
He used to be so busy that he wouldn't come back until he couldn't see the road clearly at night."
Qi Dong was worried that something might happen to Fang Zi. When he stepped forward, he saw that he was indeed trembling with sweat all over his body. He was already confused and kept muttering something like, "Give me one bite, just one bite, please."
At that time, Qi Dong thought that Fang Zi had typhoid fever, so he wanted to ask a doctor. Typhoid fever can kill people.
"At this time, Bangen and Aqiu came back. Bangen said that he knew what was wrong with Fangzi and that he had medicine in his hand. Aqiu also advised me not to worry, saying that it was best to wipe Fangzi off if he sweated a lot.
I gave him dry clothes and asked me to boil water in the kitchen with him."
Qi Dong still didn't think much and followed Aqiu to the kitchen. After the two boiled water, they went inside and wiped Fang Zi's body together and changed into dry clothes.
Qi Dong is a curious person, and curious people also observe carefully. When he entered the house with hot water, he found that the prescription seemed to be good, but there was something wrong with the good news.
Fang Zi's face didn't look like he was recovering from an illness, but more like a satisfied look as if he had been satisfied.
Besides, no matter how ignorant Qi Dong was about medicine and pharmacology, he had never heard of a person who just a moment ago looked pale and trembling all over his body, and now his face turned rosy, as if he had taken Shiquan Dabu Pills.
Something is wrong, very wrong.
If there was such a magical medicine in this world, how could there be no sound from it till now?
Besides, it’s not that he looked down on Bangen. Although the medicines in his hands were all stolen from big medical clinics, he had never been in trouble from Mingrong Medical Clinic, and he had never heard of Mingrong Medical Clinic outside.
Judging from the fact that medicines were lost at Rong Medical Clinic, it is absolutely impossible for Ming Rong Medical Center to lose valuable medicines.
In other words, the medicines that Bangen stole from Mingrong Medical Center were generally piled in piles, and the few that did not attract attention were the most common ones that could not even be considered medicines.
If Mingrong Medical Center had a magical medicine that could work so quickly, the whole city would have known about it, and Mingrong Medical Center must have kept such medicines very preciously, so that even the smallest amount could be discovered.
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Even if Mingrong Medical Center had precious medicine that had to be hidden for some reason, and it was stolen by Ban Gen by coincidence without being discovered, Qi Dong relied on his usual understanding of Ban Gen,
I don’t believe that Bangen would give this magical medicine to Fangzi at will.
There are too many doubts.
Qi Dong didn't show it on his face, but secretly began to pay attention to Ban Gen.
Gradually, he discovered that Ban Gen, Fang Zi and A Qiu seemed to be doing something quietly in private. The three of them often avoided him and were mysterious.
Because they often avoided him, Qi Dong didn't want to alert the snake. Every time they thought he didn't notice, he pretended that he didn't notice, so he didn't see what Ban Gen gave them.
Until one time when he went to the latrine, Ban Gen and Fang Zi were muttering in a corner not far from the latrine. They were a little panicked when they heard his footsteps. From the corner of his eye, he saw Fang Zi looking at a familiar person in a panic.