"What did the visitor say?"
"Tell me to come back in three days to hear my answer."
"I see."
Logically speaking, Zhang Dai's matter should be handled by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs - the Senate does not have such a role as the United Front Department - but the Ministry of Foreign Affairs has no representative in Guangdong, so Liu Xiang's municipal government will manage it for the time being. In general united front work with famous indigenous figures, either he would appear in person, or Lin Baiguang would appear.
Why did Zhang Dai suddenly appear in Guangzhou? Liu Xiang thought about it and suddenly remembered something. He took down a thick memo from the bookshelf and searched in the "z" column in the keyword search column. After a while, he found a telegram summary. .
The telegram came from Hangzhou station more than three months ago. Keywords: Zhang Dai, Hangzhou, Zhao Yingong, Lingao. Zhao Yingong reported in the telegram: Zhang Dai intends to go south and is very likely to come to Lingaolai.
Fortunately I still remember this! Liu Xiang thought to himself that our level of information processing and sharing is still too low.
He immediately copied the number on a note and rang the bell to call the new secretary: "Go get a copy of the full text of this message!"
Yang Shixiang was sitting in the brand-new Runshitang Guangzhou flagship store, looking at the bright hall and crystal clear glass counter, feeling extremely satisfied.
After the liberation of Guangzhou, Yang Shixiang moved the head office from Lingao to Guangzhou under Liu San's persuasion. Although the current prosperity and population of Lingao are not inferior to those of Guangzhou, its geographical disadvantage makes it too remote both for the sales market and the origin of raw materials.
Yang Shixiang is also eager to expand his business in a "big terminal" like Guangzhou. The two hit it off immediately, and Runshitang's head office moved to Dajijia. In addition to store retail, Yang Shixiang is also preparing to open a new pharmaceutical factory locally.
Because it is a brand new head office, Yang Shixiang has made a lot of money in recent years and strives to be "magnificent". It can be said that "no expense was spared" in the decoration, and it has rented the largest storefront on the commercial street in the world. It is renovated according to the model of a traditional medicine shop, and the huge gold-lettered signboard was taken from an old Lingao shop - to show that "the roots are not forgotten". The wall behind the counter facing the door is a huge medicine cabinet one foot high. It is made of camphor wood and has a white pine lining. It is infinitely taller than the oak wood medicine cabinet in the old Lingao store. The counter is no longer the old-fashioned large wooden cabinet, but the same glass counter as used in Ziminglou, which displays all Chinese patent medicines and some "Australian miracle medicines". During the original design, he also proposed to change the large medicine cabinet to an all-glass one, but Liu San rejected it because it was "too traditional". Yang Shixiang deeply regrets this, and at the same time feels completely incomprehensible - Australians themselves are the most "untraditional", so why should "losing tradition" be used as an excuse for such a high-end and elegant design like a large all-glass medicine cabinet.
I remember that my dream back then was just to bring my own brand back to Foshan one day and give my father a good fight. Who would have thought that Runshitang would now arrive in Guangzhou and open such a large store! It was comparable to the time when my father crossed the sea to buy medicinal materials, but was plundered by pirates. The cargo was all gone, and he fled back to Lingao alone, crying endlessly in front of his grandfather. The scene today was enough to comfort my father's spirit in heaven.
Putting aside these unpleasant memories, Yang Shixiang thought of the military master named Ye: Ye Siman was Liu Dafu's personal bodyguard - the latest instructions conveyed to him, and he couldn't help but feel a little uneasy. Today, in addition to "inspecting and guiding the work of the Guangzhou flagship store", he also had a special task, which was to receive a Jiangnan scholar who specified that he wanted to meet the "Master of Runshitang". Although this "eldest son" did not go well in the examinations and still failed to pass the examination even in his forties, he became famous as a scholar in the place where Jiangnan is a gathering of people and culture. This paragraph is about Ye Ye What the military master told Yang Shixiang - it can be seen that there must be something extraordinary about him. However, at this time when Guangfu was changing, a scholar from the south of the Yangtze River appeared in Guangzhou and wanted to meet the "Master of Runshitang". This is intriguing...
Liu San is a senator, and his status is self-evident. In recent years, with the expansion of the power of the Senate, the authority of the senators has become increasingly strong. Even though they still maintain a low-key style that is close to the people, ordinary naturalized people and indigenous people also feel that they have status. The gap is getting wider and wider. If anything happened to him, Yang Shixiang couldn't bear it.
After asking the clerk on duty that day - according to Australian custom, he should be called a salesperson - only a boy came and handed over a famous card and an "eight lines" letter. He did not say that he wanted to see a person that day. In other words, he just asked the salesperson to hand over the famous thorn and the request: "Come back in three days and wait for a reply."
Yang Shixiang is already over 40 years old. From this point of view, he can see the tension and expectation of the other party. He also roughly believes that the other party is not a spy or the like, and has no intention of kidnapping the elders - this is what he wants to see. " "Master of Runshitang" obviously does not refer to him, Mr. Yang, but to the sworn elder Liu San of Jinlan.
This morning, the boy who sent me the name card came again to inquire about the news. Yang Shixiang, who had received Liu San's notification yesterday, responded in person and said that he could meet at any time from afternoon to evening. The old servant replied that there were many inconveniences at night. It was hot and there were few visitors at that time, so his master came to bother him for "inquiry". The two sides made an appointment to meet.
Compared with Shaoxing, the sun in Guangfu is of course more poisonous. According to Kun Ren's book, this land in the south is close to the equator, and the angle of the sun is higher. If you compare the length of the shadow, at the same time, you will be there. The shadow in Guangfu should be shorter than that in Shaoxing. After a while, Zhang Dai came to his senses and became "distracted" again. As a middle-aged man who had no doubts and had gloriously joined the army of old scholars, he understood very well that the reason why he failed to pass the examination was not only due to bad luck and his deep dislike of eight-legged essays, but also because he was "confused on the stage." ”, as soon as I looked at the test questions, my “mind was scattered” to no end, and in the end I was “unable to understand”. Speaking of which, the word "thinking scattered" used by Kun is really subtle... However, it seems that the thinking has become scattered again...
A small sedan has been parked outside the small gate of the small courtyard where he lives. In order to avoid suspicion, he did not use the Liang family's sedan today, but hired one from an outside sedan dealer. Zhang Dai was fully dressed and walked outside the door. He only told the doorman of the Liang family, "I'm going to go shopping in the market today." Then he got into the sedan chair and the servant opened the rattan box in his hand. Inside was In an insulated box with a thick layer of kapok insulation, several bottles of kvass were chilled with crushed ice taken from the Liang family's ice cellar. The boy pressed down the marbles and handed the bottles to Zhang Dai respectfully before closing the box and holding it in his hand. Follow and serve outside.
The sedan slowly stood up, and Zhang Dai took a good gulp of the cold drink - he needed to calm down again.
Although today's action can be regarded as "thinking twice before acting", it is not frivolous after all. Although he is not an important person, his reputation in the Jiangnan literary world and the power of his old Zhang family in the Jiangnan generation make him seem to have some value after all. With such an embarrassing identity and a "visit" of unknown purpose, what will the other party think? If the opposite party were Donglu and a robber, I would probably never have the idea of "seeing him". Even if he was unfortunately "trapped" like now, he would probably not only find a way to escape, but also choose to commit suicide. You must be loyal and filial. What was it about this Kun man that gave him the idea of "seeing him once"?
The sedan was moving slowly - not because the bearer was delaying on purpose, but because the streets in Guangzhou were being renovated and it was really "digging all over the city" - Zhang Dai was also slowly sorting out his thoughts in the sedan.
At noon in the summer in Guangfu, people who can't go out will not go out casually. In the lobby of Runshitang flagship store, apart from the clerk, there is Yang Shixiang, the big boss. When the big boss sat in the hall, the air pressure in the whole store dropped. The new recruits made the clerks afraid to show their anger. They rummaged through the cabinets one by one to check the medicinal materials in each medicine drawer, or wiped the glass counter with wet and dry rags. The light is bright, no matter whether they are really busy or fake, no one dares to take time off.
The doctor sitting in the flagship store is Xu Zhiling, the second son of the Xu family of Baohe Tang, an old store in Wenchang County. Although the two families are "far apart", there are only a few medical clinics on Hainan Island that have both medical schools and shops. , they can be regarded as family friends. According to tradition, Xu Zhiling is not qualified to inherit the family business, but he failed to enter school and only loves to study medicine. He is more talented than his brother Xu Zhishen. The Qiongzhou medical community believes that the fourth generation of Baohe Hall only inherits the inheritance from direct descendants. I was afraid that this long tradition would be broken in this generation, but I didn't expect that when the Australians came, Xu Zhiling abandoned her roots in her hometown and went to Lingao to take the Australian Traditional Chinese Medicine Physician Qualification Certificate. After getting the certificate, he passed Liu San's screening and entered the establishment. He went all the way to the countryside and up the mountains to deliver medicines and medicines and made great achievements. Now he was finally promoted to sit in the flagship store of Runshitang.
Xu Zhiling saw that there were no patients coming for consultation at noon, and the boss was sitting in the hall under pressure. Everyone was busy busy for a while, but they were more tired than when the patients came, so he took out the "Chinese Pharmacopoeia" published by the Elders' Academy and flipped through it at will. In Chapter 1, I went to "Uncle Yang Shi" for advice. When the guys in the store saw that the discussion between Dr. Xu and the boss was getting more and more heated, they relaxed a little and stopped trying to make a presence known.
Time passed quickly amid the arguments. The shouts of bearers getting off the sedan came from the door of the store, which attracted Yang Shixiang's attention. Xu Zhiling resigned quickly - he knew that the big boss was actually waiting for someone today. The waiter who received the "Jiangnan scholar" that day saw the young man coming up to post a message and knew that the person the big boss was waiting for had arrived. He nodded and signaled inside. Yang Shixiang also straightened his clothes, rolled up his sleeves and walked slowly. Went to the door of the store.
