At first, there were also a bold medicinal ingredient vendors who secretly sold some raw aconite to other small medicinal shops, because the price offered by the Tong clinic was too low. However, at night, the medicinal vendor was at his doorstep and was beaten up hard by someone in a sack.
After a while, the slaughter was a bruised nose and a swollen face, and I couldn't even say it clearly.
The family of the medicinal ingredient merchant was resentful and went to the yamen to complain, but without any evidence, he was scolded by the official and drove out of the government office.
From then on, no one dared to disobey the Kaitong Medical Center and sell aconite to other pharmacies in private.
"Isn't this just a monopoly?" Xiao Ruo said angrily.
"What? What monopoly?" Manager Qian was a little confused, thinking that Miss Xiao had good skills in cannon medicine and was also good at human nature, but sometimes she couldn't quite understand what she said.
Realizing that he had missed his mouth, Xiao Ruo smiled awkwardly and explained: "That is, he wants to occupy all the aconite, and he will decide how much he wants to sell it at that time."
"That's the reason!" Qian Zhanggui slapped his thigh and said, "In order to make this monopoly, he has to eat all the aconites in Qinzhou. If we want aconite, we have to buy it at Kaitong!"
"There is a lot of aconite in Qinzhou. He has so much money to eat?"
"Aconite is the best produced in Shaanxi, and it is also grown in other places, but most of them are transported by caravans. The amount of aconite that can be sent to our Qinzhou every year is indeed quite large. I heard that Kaitong borrowed silver from Guang'an Money House this time.
Eat all the aconite.”
"Borrow money to stock up on goods..." Xiao Ruo narrowed her almond eyes. It seemed that she had to find a way to cure the conscience Kaitong Hospital.
"Shopkeeper Qian, don't worry, wait until I go back and prepare. I will tell you how to let Kaitong Hospital spit out the aconite you ate."
Manager Qian was shocked and sued the government and could not even open the Tong Clinic. What can this girl Xiao do?
But no matter how he asked, Xiao Ruo smiled mysteriously and asked him to wait patiently, and he would know tomorrow.
After collecting the medicine money from Yu Bai with extremely thin slices, Xiao Ruo walked home with an empty basket.
The gate of the house was indeed as tight as when she left. She bent her knuckles and knocked on the door panel, and a soft sound came from the door.
"Who is it?"
"It's me, Niao Niao asked my grandfather to open the door for my sister." Xiao Niao was short and could not reach the door bolt. Hui Hui had to call Old Man Cen or Zheng Dongyang to open the door.
Sure enough, the footsteps of Xiaoniao running into the house came from the yard, accompanied by her shouting at the adults.
"Grandpa, grandpa, sister is back~"
After a while, the sound of the door bolt being pulled came from the door. With a "creak" sound, the courtyard door was pulled inward, and it was Zheng Dongyang who opened the door.
"Ruo Ruo is back. You're tired. Go in and take a break." Zheng Dongyang said.
"It's okay, Senior Zheng, I'm not tired, why don't you see the old man?" In the past, Old Man Cen was the one who opened the door, but today it was Zheng Dongyang. Xiao Ruo was a little curious.
Zheng Dongyang's index finger stood up in front of his mouth and shrewd, signaling her to make a little less, then turned around and stretched his neck to observe the room, confirming that Old Man Cen had not heard their conversation.
Xiao Ruo was even more curious. What happened today? Why is Zheng Dongyang so strange?
"He is angry with himself." Zheng Dongyang whispered to Xiao Ruo's ear.
"Angry? Why are you angry?"
"Hey, not long after you left today, I was sleepy and went back to the house to sniff. I don't know how long it took, but he suddenly opened my door and called me to get up to accompany Niao Niao. After I got up, I suddenly opened the door.
, He went back to his room angrily, and the door was closed with a loud noise."
Xiao Ruo asked, "Is Niao Niao naughty?"
"No, I asked Niao Niao later and found out that they were already in the yard after I fell asleep. In the middle, Brother Cen probably wanted to get something in the house, so he left for a while. Niao Niao heard someone outside the door at this time.
When knocking on the door, she looked out through the crack of the door. According to her, there was a very beautiful puppet and puppy moving around outside the door."
Xiao Ruo felt nervous when she heard this, but she did not interrupt Zheng Dongyang and asked him to continue talking.
"Niao Niu asked who was outside the door. The puppet outside the door shook his head and said that she would go out to play together. The little girl only knew that strangers could not open the door. Now she was a talking puppet puppet who could not be killed.
Go out."
"She couldn't reach the door bolt, and she was quite smart and knew to move a small stool to cushion. When Brother Cen came out, Niao Niao put her little hands on the door bolt, and she almost opened the door bolt. Brother Cen asked Niao Niao what she was doing.
, Niao Niao said there was a ragdoll puppy who could only talk outside the door, and asked her to play with the puppy."
"When Brother Cen opens the door, there is no puppy outside the door, there is nothing!"
Xiao Ruo understood that this talking ragdoll puppet is probably a way to traffic in children with human teeth, and trick the child out of the house and take him away.
Old Man Cen probably was angry that Niao Niao was almost abducted, and then he became frustrated.
"I understand." Xiao Ruo put down the empty box and gave Zheng Dongyang a soothing smile: "Please help me take care of Niao Niao again, I'll persuade the old man."
Zheng Dongyang nodded and called Xiao Niao over. He came to continue reading the book he hadn't finished reading just now.
When Xiaoniao heard that she could continue the story of the knight that had just been interrupted, she ran over and sat down obediently.
Xiao Ruo pushed open the door of Old Man Cen and saw the old man sitting on the bed with his back hunched over to the door, with regret and anger revealed in his back.
"Old man? I'm back."
Old man Cen didn't say anything.
"What's wrong, old man, you're so arrogant?"
Old man Cen still said nothing.
Xiao Ruo sighed, walked to Old Man Cen and squatted down, making her gaze level with him. She saw Old Man Cen's somewhat cloudy eyes red and swollen, and Old Man Cen cried.
"I just heard Senior Zheng talk about what happened in the afternoon." Xiao Ruo said softly, "You can't blame you. Human teeth are emerging one after another. Who would have expected that they would use dolls to trick their children out?"
"Almost...Niao Niao would be almost...If I hadn't come into the house to find a medicine bowl and leave Niao Niao alone in the yard..." Old Man Cen said with sobs. "If Niao Niao was gone, I would never have lived in this life
Forgive myself…”
"Niaoniao is fine now, don't blame yourself anymore. Let's learn from our mistakes and this kind of thing will not happen again in the future."
Seeing that Old Man Cen was still in a low mood, Xiao Ruo pretended to be angry and said, "The little girl Niao Niao is the same. I will hit her little butt a few times later so that she can remember it. If you can't open the door to strangers, you can give it to strangers.
The puppy opens the door?”
When he heard that Xiao Niao was going to be beaten, Old Man Cen didn't care about blaming himself and quickly persuaded Xiao Ruo.
"Niao Niao is still young, just talk to her well, you can't hit her!"