Wang Decai was always excited, grinning happily and saying no, this person is still very reliable and can be trusted with integrity. He must have been delayed by something else. Judging from the situation, I guess the ship boss is an acquaintance of yours, otherwise He himself came back early!
Zhao Chuan said he hoped so.
Zhao Chuan was worried that there were two servants on the other side of his plantation, so he ate a few hastily, and then said you guys should eat first, I have to go back to make elixirs, and come back when I have something to do.
When Zhao Chuan returned to the plantation, it was already dark, only to find Huang Jin and Liu Shouyi waiting there. Under a dim oil lamp, Huang Jin was stomping back and forth.
"Oh, Uncle Huang, it's you indeed!" Zhao Chuan rushed to say hello, "Why don't you go to the pharmacy in town and come to this place? This place is too simple."
Huang Jin said there were many people there, but it was better to talk here.
Zhao Chuan smiled and said, "What's the matter? Uncle Huang, do you have any other dirty secrets you want to tell me?"
Huang Jin said it was nonsense. I don't have any dirty secrets. I just don't want too many people to recognize me.
Zhao Chuan was even more confused when he heard this and said, Uncle Huang, you don’t want people to recognize you, or you have done something bad and are afraid of being recognized and arrested, or you have become a high official or made a fortune and are afraid of attracting attention. Get into trouble with each other. Which one are you?
Huang Jin said, don’t guess. Last time on the luxury passenger ship, we treated the few women who paid tribute to the Marquis. The Marquis appreciated me and let me join the army. I joined the navy in the name of the Marquis. I have become a general on a large ship, so I can't just go ashore and show off.
General of the building? What an official this is, congratulations to you, you finally achieved your goal. Zhao Chuan said.
What kind of general is he? He is just the captain of a large ship, Huang Jin said.
Zhao Chuan said, isn't that right? I heard that a new southwest route was opened and you became the boss of the ship.
Huang Jin talked about opening a new route. In fact, many soldiers died due to the plague, and more than half of the 200,000 people were lost. The Marquis asked me to drive a boat to the southwest to recruit troops. Once the people were recruited, they would be shipped back, at least once a month.
Zhao Chuan said that's it. In name, you are doing business by shipping people, but in fact you are a human trafficker.
Huang Jin chuckled and said something else was so unpleasant, so why not do it? Wasn't I a doctor like you before?
Liu Shouyi said that General Huang was right. As long as there was something promising, I could do anything. General Huang asked me to be the captain on the ship.
"Farewell!" Zhao Chuan hurriedly stopped him, "You, Liu Shouyi, are over fifty. Why are you still following General Huang at such an old age? You should follow your original plan, get on the ship to the destination, disembark and join your old friend. Let’s go with the relationship.”
Zhao Chuanxin said that Huang Jin was not a good person. He was just a deceitful master. He had never seen any good in him when he was a doctor.
Zhao Chuan told Huang Jin that Liu Shouyi was over fifty, and he didn't know if Huang Jin knew Liu Shouyi's actual age.
Huang Jin was displeased and said that now is the time for the Marquis to employ people, and this is a good opportunity.
Zhao Chuan said that everyone has his own ambitions, so let Liu Shouyi decide for himself.
Zhao Chuan winked at Liu Shouyi while talking.
Huang Jin looked around and found that the place was very shabby, so he said, Zhao Chuan, why don't you come on board the ship with me, and if you join the Marquis, you can become an officer or something.
Zhao Chuan said forget it, Uncle Huang, I don’t have much desire for fame and fortune, and I’m not interested in being a soldier. I just want to be a doctor, treat people, and earn a few small bucks.
Huang Shi saw medicinal materials piled everywhere in the house and felt strange, "Are you going to open a medicine shop?"
Zhao Chuan said that I was refining elixir.
"Alchemy?" Huang Jin was very surprised, "You know how to make alchemy?"
"Of course!" Zhao Chuan said, "You can help people treat their illnesses and make a lot of money at the same time. Why not?"
Huang Jin asked how much money he could make?
Zhao Chuan said that the money for today's order alone was only 80,000 taels of silver. If he didn't believe it, he and Liu Yishi could go to town and ask the drugstore shopkeeper.
Eighty thousand taels of silver? The muscles on Huang Jin's face were trembling, and his eyes were unreadable.
Zhao Chuan said, Uncle Huang, you used to travel all over the north and south, how about getting up and taking a look at these medicinal materials of mine?
Huang Jin looked around and said that these are all medicinal materials from the south. They are warm, gentle, and slightly dry. If you are making elixirs, it is better to use the medicinal materials from the north, especially those from the area north of Shanhaiguan. They are cold and thick, and the effect is crude.
Zhao Chuan smiled and said that Uncle Huang also knows how to make alchemy, but ginger is still hotter with age.
Huang Jin said that I was just talking on paper and just listened to what others said.
After seeing Huang Jin off, Zhao Chuan felt a little uneasy when he came back.
The uneasiness came from something Liu Shouyi whispered to himself before leaving: when he exchanged the Xuanlong sword and Wang Decai for intoxicating ginseng, he did not tell him that the Xuanlong sword needed to recognize its owner to be effective, otherwise it would be just an ordinary blade.
Why did Liu Shouyi tell himself this before leaving? This sword is neither in my hands now nor did I trade it for it.
Logically speaking, Liu Shouyi himself told Wang Decai about this matter. What does it mean to tell this secret to an outsider?
Ten days later, Zhao Chuan refined five pills.
Ten days later, eight pills were released.
In the last ten days, fifteen pills were produced.
There are fifteen pills for resolving phlegm and clearing the lungs, eight pills for prolonging life and longevity, and five pills for promoting blood circulation and removing blood stasis.
After settling the accounts with Wang Decai and deducting the costs, Zhao Chuan made a net profit of 20,000 taels of silver.
Zhao Chuan left the furry boy in Wang Decai's pharmacy and became his apprentice.
It was originally said that Mao Hai would be an apprentice to Wang Decai, and Zhao Chuan would pay the wages. When Zhao Chuan now wanted to pay Mao Hai one year's wages in advance, Wang Decai disagreed and said that he would pay the wages in the future, and the salary was increased to five taels of silver a month.
Zhao Chuan said this is your own idea and has nothing to do with me.
Zhao Chuan wanted to give Damao a thousand taels of silver notes, saying that he would pay three years' wages in advance plus reward money. Damao didn't want it, saying that he didn't have a family now, his parents were gone long ago, and there was no one at home in the countryside, and he didn't want to follow the master now. It costs money.
Zhao Chuan insisted on giving it, but Da Mao refused.
Zhao Chuan said, let's accept this thousand taels of silver. You can go to the town to find a suitable place to buy a few houses to open an inn, and then hire a few people to be waiters and cooks.
Damao didn't understand what Zhao Chuan meant.
Zhao Chuan said that I have no fixed abode and am used to freedom. If you follow me and I disappear one day, won't your work be in vain? So let me take care of your family business first. If the day comes, you two brothers still have a way out, right? Besides, having your own house in this town is also a place to stay.
Damao thought about it and agreed.
The southern drug dealer returned, and Wang Decai made a lot of money.
Huang Jin went to the southwest to recruit troops as his general of building ships, and Liu Shouyi went to Xichuan County to seek refuge.
It's just that Zhao Chuan didn't handle his own affairs well. Where did Qi Yatou go? Zhao Chuan stayed in this small town for more than a month and did not wait for her to come back.
After being out for more than a month, Zhao Chuan wanted to go back to Mengcheng because his goal had been achieved.
The original purpose of coming out was to ask Master Xiaoyaozi to solve the acupuncture points for him, but now he didn't need to solve the acupoints for him, and he himself ran away without a trace.
But Qi Yatou is missing. There were two of us when we came here. It's not a big deal if we lose her this time.
These seven girls have to be found. They want to see people alive, and they want to see their corpses if they die. I don’t know how to live or die.
I originally thought that this seventh girl was a vixen with eight hundred years of Taoism. She knew some magic and had a certain level of cultivation. How could she just say that she was gone? Zhao Chuan couldn't figure it out.
Understand the causes and consequences of things.
Qi Yatou was drugged by Jinyi Gongzi and his group, which caused her to lose her cultivation. Later, she escaped in order to avoid being captured by this group of people. During the escape, she was caught by Taoist nun Hun Yuanzi and brought back to the inn. Later, Hun Yuanzi When Motoko left, no one in the inn saw her leaving.
After much deliberation, Qi Yatou's loss was directly related to Hunyuanzi, and the inn was also a place to look for her.
I searched the inn several times inside and outside, but only had to dig three feet deep.
But it is not easy to find Hunyuanzi. This Hunyuanzi is the senior sister of master Xiaoyaozi. This pair of senior sisters and brothers are both weird, they are both wandering Taoist priests, they have no Taoist temple to belong to, and they have no fixed place to live.
But wandering Taoist priests are also organized. If you have a Taoist monk, you can run away, but you can't run away from the temple. If you can't find Hunyuanzi, you go to find Hunyuanzi's master.
Who is Hunyuanzi's master? have no idea.
Third uncle Zhao Kai said that Xiaoyaozi is from the Zhengyi sect, so Hunyuanzi is Senior Sister Xiaoyaozi, so she is also from the Zhengyi sect. Where is the home base of the Zhengyi sect? Don't know yet.
Da Mao's work was very effective. In just three days, he found a house, hired people, and opened the business.
However, one thousand taels of silver was not enough, so he withdrew another 500 taels of silver from Zhao Chuan before opening.
Zhao Chuan went to check it out. The newly opened inn was located in the southernmost part of Xintang Town. There were no other hotels further south, but it was close to the intersection of the west gate of Qingfengguan on Lingyin Mountain.
This inn turned out to be a hotel. It closed down due to poor management, so Da Mao took over the store.
Because it was originally a restaurant, it has three floors facing the street. In fact, inns are usually two floors, because two floors are enough, and people staying in the hotel are afraid of climbing up and down the building.
But when it was converted into an inn, Damao used the third floor as a high-end dining area.
This inn has three floors facing the street, with five rooms on the bottom, five in the middle, and five on the top.
The bottom five rooms serve as the front hall, with several tables placed inside. The five rooms in the middle are used as upper rooms, and the five rooms above are used as dining rooms.
The inn has a large courtyard, which is very long. There are six wing rooms on both sides. There are also five houses, stables and warehouses at the back door of the courtyard.
The inn is really not small, no wonder it costs a lot of money.
Two waiters, two cooks, and an old shopkeeper and accountant in his seventies were hired, and Da Mao really became the hands-off shopkeeper.
I really don’t know where Da Mao found this old shopkeeper. He turned out to have a red nose and clear blue eyes. At first glance, he looked like a foreigner from the Western Regions. However, she speaks Chinese well, and I heard she can speak more than a dozen other languages.
When it opened, Da Mao invited all the innkeepers in the town to have a feast, as well as local officials and prominent figures, as well as those who killed pigs and sold meat, and sellers of chickens, ducks, fish and vegetables.
Da Mao came to invite Zhao Chuan, but Zhao Chuan was too lazy to go and tinkered with elixir making in the plantation.
After the hotel opened, Damao permanently reserved a guest room for Zhao Chuan on the second floor of the inn, and Zhao Chuan agreed.
Damao asked Zhao Chuan to name the inn. Zhao Chuan thought about it and said it would be called Qingfeng Inn.
Zhao Chuan couldn't let go of the missing Qi Yatou, so he sent Damao out and asked him to go to Jiangzhou City or nearby counties to see if he could find Qi Yatou or Hunyuanzi.
Just half a month after Qingfeng Inn opened, a strange person came.
