Seeing that Mi Zhen and Diao Chan, who were still quarreling just now, suddenly changed their faces and wanted to go shopping together, everyone couldn't help but feel a little confused.
Sima Yi scratched his head: "The two of them had such a fierce quarrel just now, why are they so friendly all of a sudden?"
Zhuge Liang swung his feather fan and said indifferently: "Public is public, private is private, it's a very simple reason. I think Aunt Mi and the master's wife are quite speculative, and they will become business partners in the future. I don't think they will be twice as good as each other."
Sima Yi chuckled: "Is it just like the two of us?"
Zhuge Liang glanced at Sima Yi lightly, then raised his nose and said "hum".
Obviously, he didn't feel that he and Sima Yi were very close.
When Tao Shang saw that Mi Zhen and Diao Chan had reached an agreement, his heart moved slightly and he began to think about another thing.
Tao Shang smiled and asked Mi Zhen: "Miss Mi, Tao has a private matter and I would like to ask her for advice. Please feel free to give me some advice."
When Mi Zhen heard this, for some reason, she suddenly remembered the second request Mi Zhu made to her before leaving Pengcheng, and her face turned red involuntarily.
Asking for personal advice?
Did he want to ask me if I was married?
The pottery merchant didn't care about anything else and just asked: "Mi's business is spread all over the states. May I ask if your business includes medicinal materials?"
Mi Zhen didn't expect that the pottery merchant would ask him this, so she nodded and said, "Yes."
"Then are your medicinal materials sold to Guanzhong?"
Mi Zhen pondered for a moment and whispered: "Guanzhong is far away from Xuzhou, and there are many Qiang people in Liangzhou. The Mi family's business has not been done there, but there are still some shops in the counties around Chang'an.
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When the pottery merchant heard this, his spirit was suddenly shaken.
"Tao has a recipe in his hand that he wants to promote in Chang'an. At that time, he would like to use the staff of the school affairs office to borrow the Mi family's name. I wonder if this is possible?"
Mi Zhen nodded and said: "This is a trivial matter. I just don't know what recipe the young master wants to sell?"
"Ah, this... I still need to think about it more. When the recipe is ready, it won't be too late to reveal it to Miss Mi."
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The recipe in the pottery merchant's words has actually been thought about for a long time, but it has never been fully formed.
The potter is not a god. He may know some things, but he has never practiced them. Even though he knows the general ingredients of some recipes, he does not understand the specific ingredients.
If you want to make the prescription into a patent medicine, you still have to let the doctors in Jinling City help you figure it out.
On this day, the pottery merchant, dressed in casual clothes, led the four Pei brothers to a medicine shop in Jinling City to conduct some private business.
Since the last time the pottery merchant agreed to Wang Yun's request to get rid of Dong Zhuo, during this period of time, the pottery merchant came to this apothecary shop every now and then for consultation.
The old doctor received remuneration from the pottery merchant every month, and the amount of money was far greater than the amount he spent on daily diagnosis and treatment.
The potter is not a fool, on the contrary, he lives a smarter life than anyone else. The reason why he wants to pay the old doctor is to let him assist him in figuring out a dialectical formula, and then make a patent medicine based on its properties.
A patent medicine that has harmed the literati of the Wei and Jin Dynasties for more than four hundred years.
"Stalactite, sulfur, white quartz..." the old doctor frowned, and ground the medicinal materials one by one to the pottery man's bowl, then handed them to him, saying: "This should be enough."
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"About?" The pottery merchant snorted softly and said, "It's much worse! How many times have you fooled me in the past few months? You don't know it, but just because of the medicine you prepared, I couldn't
How many mice have been killed? Do you know how much blood my hands are now covered with?"
The old doctor was quite unconvinced when he heard this.
"You are the one who came up with the prescription. You just memorized the ingredients in it, not even the weights and proportions. It's all up to me to mess around here alone. Before this thing is formed, it can't be tried by others.
, It’s rare for me to be worthy enough to be like this. If it were anyone else, I wouldn’t be able to take on your job!”
"Just blow it." The pottery merchant twitched his lips and said, "This time I can be somewhat sure that the effect I mentioned will be achieved."
The old doctor replied calmly: "Three to four points."
"Three to four points?" The potter's eyes widened: "You paid me for several months, studied and studied, and in the end the finished product you gave me was only three to four points sure? Are you kidding me?
?Believe it or not, I will beat you up!"
The old doctor was not ashamed at all and raised his head: "Your prescription is incomplete and there is no fixed dosage. It is all because of my ignorance. When asked what you do, you insist that it is used to treat typhoid fever."
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The potter's face turned a little red, and he said sternly: "It is originally used to treat typhoid fever...isn't this medicine not dry in nature?"
The old doctor snorted and said: "Dryness is dryness! The problem is that the dryness medicine for treating typhoid fever does not meet the requirements you put forward? You said that after taking it, your whole body will feel hot and hot. You must take off your clothes, take off your clothes, drink alcohol and take a cold bath."
, I feel so ecstatic... Are you asking me to prepare typhoid medicine or aphrodisiac?"
The potter's expression became increasingly grim.
Why is this old doctor so unpopular despite his age?
"Refund! I won't do it with you anymore!"
The old doctor was obviously troubled, and he shook his head like a rattle: "Refund? That's not possible. I have worked hard, and even if nothing happens, you still have to pay the money."
The potter's visit to this pharmacy was a private visit incognito. The old doctor didn't go out on weekdays, so he didn't even recognize the Danyang County Sheriff.
The potter took a deep breath, raised his hand and nodded the old doctor's nose, saying: "Okay, you wait, wait until I have developed the prescription, and I will use you to test the medicine on the mice."
"How dare you! In broad daylight, there is no king's law."
The potter grabbed the medicine on the table, turned around and left.
Because the pottery merchant was walking in a hurry and without looking at the road, he bumped into a middle-aged man who walked into the drug store.
The medicine bag in the potter's hand fell directly to the ground and scattered the flowers.
The middle-aged man who was knocked down by the pottery merchant sat down on the ground, covered in dust.
The middle-aged man looked down at the potion that the potter had dropped on the ground, with an apologetic look on his face, and said hurriedly: "I'm sorry! I'm really sorry! I was in a hurry to grab a few pills, and I was too late.
I was a little panicked...I didn't look at the road for a while."
The potter shook his head, and while squatting down to collect the medicinal powder scattered on the ground, he said: "It has nothing to do with you. I left in a hurry, so it doesn't matter."
The middle-aged man stepped forward to help the potter pack the medicine and said guiltily: "Look, you've spilled all the medicine... Oh, I'm really ashamed. How about I compensate you?"
The pottery merchant was in a bad mood, but surprisingly he didn't trick him: "No need, there are prescriptions on the left and right that are only 40 to 50% certain. It's useless if I take them back. At most, it will just poison another white mouse..."
Before he finished speaking, the middle-aged man frowned, dipped his hand into the powder ground on the ground, took it to his nose and smelled it, and then his complexion suddenly changed.
"Five stones scattered?!"
When the pottery merchant heard this, his heart suddenly trembled.
He looked up at the middle-aged man in surprise, and saw that the middle-aged man was also staring at him deeply at this moment.
Potter: "How do you know about Five Stone Powder?" (Middle-aged man: "What do you do with Five Stone Powder?")
Potter: "Do you know the formula of this thing?" (Middle-aged man: "Do you know that this thing is extremely toxic?")
Potter: "Can you tell me the recipe?" (Middle-aged man: "The method of arranging this thing must not be passed down to the world.")
After a while...
The pottery merchant turned around and called the Pei brothers at the door to come in, then pointed at the middle-aged man: "Take him back to me!"
Middle-aged man: "..."
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Since the Pei brothers met the pottery merchant in Suanzao County, in addition to their ability to fight in battle, they have also developed the unique skill of kidnapping and robbing people. This skill was not asked of them by the pottery merchant, but by the Pei brothers.
After following the pottery merchants for a long time, they always strive for perfection in times of crisis. They know in their hearts that if they don't have a few unique skills, they will never be able to make ends meet with the pottery merchants.
Who knows what kind of shameful deeds this Prince of Taiping might think of when he has nothing to do every day.
I don’t have too many skills to overwhelm myself, and all the hard work I put in during my free time finally came in handy today.
After the middle-aged man was kidnapped back to the governor's house, the pottery merchant met him in the main hall, personally untied the rope from his body, drank wine to calm his shock, and showed great courtesy.