Tibetan Sea Pearl

On the table were silver silk rolls, white rice porridge, pickles...the table was full. Looking at her son's thin face, Wang felt sorry for her son, and even specially ordered a bowl of Yangchun noodles for her son. A freshly fried poached egg.

Sitting at the table, Mrs. Wang watched her son eat Yangchun noodles.

"Mr. Huang said that he wanted to start the business of selling goods from the south to the north with me. Yanjing is full of waste. I went to Yanjing this time and saw with my own eyes that the goods from the south in Guangdong are selling well there. "Su Qing was not in a hurry to eat, and talked about Mr. Huang with his family.

Mrs. Wang was a little hesitant. She was a woman, and she didn't understand business matters. The Su family had only dealt with Mr. Huang twice, and she didn't know whether the other party would trust her or not. She still had to wait for Su Yuanshan to come back to make an idea.

After Su Yuanshan got up in the morning and went to the academy to watch the students study, he didn't come back until noon, and he didn't have breakfast at home.

Su Yue hugged Sister Gui on her lap, and Sister Gui pointed to the table with her little finger, wanting to eat this or that, clamoring for Auntie to bring it to her.

Su Yue gave Sister Gui a silver roll with a blank expression, and scooped two spoonfuls of white rice porridge into a bowl to cool, wondering whether Mr. Huang could be trusted.

Su Qing and Mr. Huang got acquainted because of her relationship before, but this time the ship and goods transporting white porcelain were seized. It was Su Qing who found someone and delivered the goods to Mr. Huang himself. It's the friendship between Su Qing and Mr. Huang.

"Brother, did you meet the rest of the Huang family when you went to Yanjing to deliver goods?" Su Yue asked.

Su Qing didn't answer either. Thinking about the delivery to Yanjing this time, the Huang family not only came to pick up the goods at the pier in person, but also sent a senior steward. Yes, but the person didn't seem very happy, and when he came, he simply ordered his subordinates to move things, and said very little.

Su Qing could tell that the Huang family didn't seem to like doing business with their Su family. It might be because they were looking for a boatload of white porcelain, and the merchants valued profits. It's no wonder that the Huang family didn't like it.

Su Qing lived in Huang's house for a few days, intending to ask the servants who served him.

Su Qing succinctly told Su Yong about the background of Huang's family that he had found out.

The Huang family is a Shanxi merchant, and they have been in business for three generations. They started by selling cotton grown in the field and accumulated some capital. Later, they sold cotton cloth from Songjiang, and silk from Jiangsu and Zhejiang to the north. , silk, medicinal materials and porcelain and other fields.

More importantly, the Huang family's business was so big that it did not involve the Ministry of Internal Affairs.

Su Yong listened carefully, pondered for a moment, and then asked Su Qing, "Aside from the Huang family, is Mr. Huang worth handing over?"

The Huang family didn't get involved in the House of Internal Affairs to become an imperial merchant, so since then, the Huang family's family affairs have become much more innocent.

Mr. Huang went to the tea shed to drink herbal tea to heal his face. Through many contacts, Su Yong found that Mr. Huang was not a bad person, but also very kind-hearted, so he paid them extra money many times. That said, it might just be a handout.

Su Qing nodded, "I think this is a good opportunity."

Su Yong also believed in Su Qing's intuition, and felt that she could give it a try, selling goods from the south to the north. They were in Guangdong, and the imperial court set up a shipping department in Guangdong, which had a geographical advantage.Su Yue is eager to try but is troubled in her heart. She just doesn't know if her father can pass this test. Su Yuanshan is pedantic and guards himself. He would rather keep the Su family's shop down than let Su Qing sell blue and white porcelain.

I don't know if the business of selling goods from the south to the north will succeed this time.

Wang urged Su Qing, "Hurry up and eat the Yangchun noodles that mother made for you. It won't taste good when the batter gets cold."

Su Qing buried her head in eating noodles.

After the whole family had finished their breakfast, Mrs. Jiang made wine fermented eggs and served them out.

Mrs. Jiang is a servant girl that Mrs. Wang found for the Wang family. Mrs. Jiang gave birth to three daughters, and they are all married now. The family has no son-in-law, and her knees are lonely. She envied others to have grandchildren, so she came out to find a job and did not live at home. , come to help with housework during the day, and go back after dinner in the evening.

Mrs. Jiang has only been here for a few days, and Mrs. Wang is wary of Mrs. Jiang and will not let her interfere in Su Yu and the child's affairs.The fermented egg flower was used for milking. Mrs. Wang brought it to Su Yu's room in person, and did not forget to tell Hong Jiao, "Go to the academy and see if the master has anything important to do in the morning? If there is nothing wrong, let him come back first." .”

Hongjiao took the order, answered yes, and went out.

Mrs. Jiang took the vegetable basket hanging on the kitchen porch.

Mrs. Wang brought out a bowl from Su Yu's room, and said, "I need to buy more vegetables today, and I also need to buy a piece of fish."

"I know, the young master is back. To make a delicious meal, I need to cook two more dishes." Mrs. Jiang smiled and went out to buy vegetables with a basket on her shoulders.

Not long after Hongjiao went out, she came back and said that the master had to go to class in the morning, and he couldn't leave. If there was anything else, he would talk about it when he came back.

To everyone's surprise, when Su Yuanshan went home for dinner at noon, he heard about the sale of goods from the south to the north, and agreed without saying a word.

"Father, why are you so good today?" Su Yue said excitedly, and made a cup of tea for Su Yuanshan graciously, "Did Mother say something nice for us behind my back?"

"Don't flatter me." Su Yuanshan chuckled, "I see Ah Qing running around for the sake of the whole family, not eating well or sleeping well, and losing a lot of weight. I don't want him to work so hard."

Su Yong is ashamed and a little guilty. She has grown up so much, she hasn't done anything for her family, and she has always grown up under the wing of her family.

Su Yue suddenly thought of the tea shed. She managed the tea shed as a contribution to the family. Thinking of this, Su Yue pursed her lips, straightened her back, and held the teapot in her hand to refill tea.

Since she decided to start the business of selling goods from the south to the north, capital is indispensable, so Su Yue quietly gave Su Qing the 500 taels of silver she earned from selling herbal tea.

Su Qing was shocked when she saw that Su Yong took out so much money all of a sudden, "Don't worry about the money, leave it to my brother, and I'll figure out a way." She said with some guilt, "You should keep the money well. Then, when you get married in the future, it will be used at the bottom of the box."

"When I get married, I have to wait for several years. Instead of just leaving it like this, it is better to use it for you. Don't you often say that you need money to make money and let the money flow to accumulate wealth. If the money is left alone, it will become dead." Money, if you go on like this, you will just sit and eat." Su Yue smiled and put the small box containing the money on the table, "I don't want to sit and eat, I also want to wait until I get married, and my brother will give me a big dowry .”

She knew that since Su Qing ran the family business, the savings on hand at this time were only five hundred li of silver at most. For a small family like her, five hundred li of silver was enough for a year's expenses, but it was not enough to do business. up.

Su Qing also knew what southern goods could be bought with 500 taels of silver, but he didn't want to make his sister work so hard. The money was earned by her sister selling herbal tea. Thinking of the dilapidated tea shed, Su Qing felt half guilty and half emotional, and stroked his hands. Helping Su Yue's black hair, "If you don't want to open that tea shed, we won't open it."

Su Yue looked at him and shook her head seriously, "I don't just open a tea shed to make money, I do it to treat people."

Her grandfather said that Wang's herbal tea can clear away heat and detoxify, and can cure diseases.

Su Qing thought of the herbal tea recipe from her grandfather's house, which was passed down to the grandchildren of the Wang family, and it was almost lost. It was only Su Yue, a silly girl, who regarded the herbal tea recipe as a treasure. Su Qing also thought that Su Yue was messing with those Medical books on medicinal materials, etc., smiled and said to Su Yue, "If you want to learn how to cure diseases, I know a barefoot doctor outside the city. He used to be an imperial physician in the Imperial Hospital. His medical skills are superb, and he is known as the rebirth of Bian Que..."

Before Su Qing could speak, the person in front of him ran out, "I don't want to learn to heal diseases with some barefoot doctor. The rebirth of Bian Que and the rebirth of Hua Tuo are all lies." came from outside the door There was a sound of footsteps fading away.

Su Yong didn't believe those famous doctors who claimed to be Bian Que's reincarnation and Hua Tuo's reincarnation. These so-called titles were often bluffing. She would rather believe in the medical book in her hand, which was a rare copy and very precious.

Su Yue hid in the room to read medical books, flipping through the medicinal materials she got from Guangxiao Temple, holding thin medicinal materials, facing the sunlight on the window sill, and carefully identifying the pictures in the book.After Su Yue identified the package of medicinal materials she received, she took notes on the paper, and then picked up the package of medicine that Hongjiao received, with the words "clearing heat and detoxifying" written on it.

Su Yue smiled at the four big characters that she often hangs on her lips, "clearing heat and detoxifying, isn't it just herbal tea?"

Opening the medicine bag, Su Yue felt that the medicine was a bit strange, standing in front of the window sill, she called Hong Jiao loudly, "Come here."

"Second Miss, what's the matter?" Hong Jiao was worried that her second lady had some orders, so she ran in hastily.

"Where did this pack of medicine come from? Is it really a gift from Sunguangxiao Temple on the Buddha Bathing Festival?" Su Yue pointed to the medicine pack on the table, "It's exactly the same as our prescription, but with a few more flavors of licorice drugs like that."

Hongjiao is often by Su Yue's side, and she knows a little bit about medicine. Licorice is sweet, and it is mostly used as a gift to add sweetness.

Hearing what Su Yue said, Hong Jiao also felt that the matter was serious, so she threw herself on the table and went to find the medicinal materials in the medicine bag.

Guangxiao Temple's prescription has only a few more herbs than theirs, but the other ingredients are the same.

Hongjiao cooks herbal tea in the tea shed all day long, and has already memorized the herbal tea recipes by heart. The extra licorice and other medicines are dispensable, just to neutralize the bitterness of the herbal tea.

There is a problem with the prescription of Guangxiao Temple!

Hong Jiao's heart sank, and she looked at Su Yue.

Su Yue bit her lip, thinking about who stole her herbal tea recipe?

This herbal tea recipe is from my grandfather Wang’s family, and it was only passed on to the grandsons of the Wang family. As for why my grandfather passed on the herbal tea recipe to her, it was because her skin was sensitive and prone to rashes when she was a child. My grandfather was worried that she would suffer from rashes all her life. .

The past is vivid in my mind, and my grandfather's words at that time can still be heard in my ears, "Xiao Yueyue, use this prescription to boil water and drink it three times a day, and drink it for a month, and your rash will be cured."

When she was young, she was ignorant and disliked the herbal tea made by her grandfather, which was bitter and unpalatable. It was her grandfather who fed her a sip of herbal tea and a sip of candied fruit for a month, and her rash never happened again.

The Wang family's herbal tea recipe is only handed down to males and not females, and the Wang family has no female relatives to practice in Guangxiao Temple. Su Yong really can't think of anyone other than her who has this prescription.