The Southern Song Dynasty began with the apprenticeship of Huang Shang

Chapter 9 Purchasing Medicinal Materials
The wines brewed in the previous twelve times were not satisfactory, and were all rejected by Yang Chengye.

This time it has been No.13, and Yang Chengye said that this time it will be successful.

"brother!"

At this time, Shen You came to Yang Chengye who was waiting for the wine, and said: "Today is the last day to remove the gauze for my mother, you can go, I will guard here."

Yang Chengye shook his head with a smile, and said, "It's okay, it will be demolished tomorrow, so don't be so anxious."

"Master, look, the wine is out!"

At this time, the butler Fu Bo pointed to a wine jar and said loudly.

The butler, Fu Bo, is an old man with only one arm.

When Shen You saw him wandering here alone, he kindly gave him some silver and dry food to let him go home, but Uncle Fu said he was homeless, and Shen You was kind, so he left him in Gangzi Village.

In order to repay his kindness, Uncle Fu took the initiative to ask to be a slave in the Shen family, and he has been doing this for more than 20 years.

Hearing this, Yang Chengye and Shen You looked at the wine vat at the same time, and saw drops of fragrant wine dripping from the still into the wine vat.

Shen You impatiently stepped forward to take a bowl of wine, and drank it with his head raised.

Shen You swallowed the wine, closed his eyes and savored it carefully.

As soon as the wine enters the mouth, one can smell a scent that fills the mouth, it enters the throat softly, and then turns into a warm current that flows into the stomach, and immediately feels comfortable all over.

After a long time, Shen You slowly opened his eyes and looked at Yang Chengye without blinking.

"Brother, brother, you, are you sure this is wine or not?"

Shen You stammered and asked Yang Chengye.

Yang Chengye frowned and said, "Is there anything wrong?"

Yang Chengye said that he also took a bowl and drank it all in one gulp.

"Well, it's right this time, this is the taste of Nurhong!" Yang Chengye said to himself.

"Brother, brother, this is the first time for me to drink such a good wine. Could it be that this wine is what you call a centenarian?"

Shen You couldn't help being tempted, took another bowl and drank it down in one gulp.

Yang Chengye nodded and said, "Yes, this is the centenarian."

"Brother, just let them brew according to the method I just told you."

"Okay, okay, don't worry."

As Shen You said, he pushed Yang Chengye away, and said while pushing, "You're so rambunctious, go and see your mother."

Yang Chengye left the winery and walked towards Shen's house, he could still hear Shen You's shouts even after he was far away, it was nothing more than being careful and smart, this is the treasure of Shen's family and so on.

Yang Chengye shook his head with a smile, and said, "Isn't it just a drink, as for looking at a baby?"

At that time, the Huaihe River burst its embankment, and all the houses and fields downstream were submerged. Countless people were homeless and fled southward.

Since ancient times, the lower reaches of the Huaihe River and the lower reaches of the Yellow River have been very difficult to manage. Every few years, the embankments will burst, flooding villages and fertile fields, which has become a heart disease for rulers of all generations.

Refugees in the lower reaches of the Huaihe River are heading towards Lin'an, the capital, intentionally or not, and Jiaxing is the only place to go to Lin'an.

At the same time, the magistrate of Jiaxing also received the emperor's imperial decree, ordering him to stop the victims in Jiaxing and not allow him to go beyond the threshold, otherwise he, the magistrate, would have come to an end.

The magistrate of Jiaxing, surnamed Wang Ming'an, was a genuine scholar. He was born as a Jinshi.

Although Wang An loves money, he doesn't take it by force. He only accepts some filial piety. In his words, a gentleman loves money and gets it in a proper way. He was nicknamed "Sour Confucianism" by other officials.

After Wang An received the notice, he hesitated. He didn't know what to do. He stopped the victims.

If you don't stop it, you will resist the order and don't obey it. Dismissal from office will be light, and there will be a plague.

At this time, he thought of Shen You. As his distant relative, Shen You was a good hand in business, and his vision was beyond ordinary people.

Wang An immediately sent someone to contact Shen You, and asked Shen You to rush to the magistrate's yamen.

At this time, Shen You was reconciling the accounts at home, and Uncle Fu was standing beside him, and in front of him were four shopkeepers, all of whom were in charge of various shops in the Shen family.

One is in charge of his paddy field, one is in charge of his tea garden, one is in charge of his salt business, and the other is in charge of his restaurant business.

In the past month, the paddy field, tea garden and salt business have not changed much, and they are still as stable as before, but the newly opened restaurant is different.

The shopkeeper in charge of the restaurant business is an old man named Pan Yi, who is nearly fifty years old, with a hale and hearty face and a red face.

I only heard Pan Yi report to Shen Youhui with some excitement: "Master, our restaurant has a total income of [-] guan in the past month. Excluding the expenditure of [-] guan, the net income is [-] guan, and there are still some money back. I haven't received it, if all of them are recovered, the net income should be [-] Guan."

"what?"

"This is impossible!"

"How come there are so many?"

"It is impossible for the entire Jiaxing Mansion to receive [-] guan in a month, at most [-] to [-] guan will be good."

"Old Pan, did you calculate correctly?"

Hearing this, the other three shopkeepers screamed out, and even Fu Bo looked at Pan Yi in disbelief.

Pan Yi glanced at the other three shopkeepers and said, "My old Pan has been running the Shen family's business for so many years. How has there ever been a mistake?"

"The accounts of the restaurant are all with the master, if you don't believe me, go ask the master."

After hearing Pan Yi's words, the three shopkeepers all looked at Shen You, hoping that Shen You could reject Pan Yi's words.

But to their disappointment, Shen You always had a smile on his face, as if everything was in his expectation.

I only heard Shen You say: "I know everything about the situation, and it is within my expectation that the restaurant can make so much profit."

"What we have to do at this time is to send people out to purchase medicinal materials. Who do you think is appropriate to send?"

Hearing this, the four shopkeepers were all surprised, the Shen family had never set foot in the business of medicinal materials, why did the master buy medicinal materials on a whim?

I saw that Shen You took out a piece of paper, on which many medicinal materials were densely written, Wu Neng was in charge of the salt business, and had been an apprentice in a pharmacy when he was young.

Wu Neng took the paper from Shen You's hand, glanced at it briefly, and said, "My lord, these are common medicinal materials. What's the use of collecting these medicinal materials?"

Shen You shook his head, and said: "I don't know about this either, it was my second brother who asked me to accept it, so it's always right to listen to him."

Everyone knows that Shen You has a sworn brother, and the business of the restaurant depends entirely on this person.

Wu Neng said: "In this case, let me go, I know a little about medicinal materials."

Shen You nodded, and said: "Okay, you can go, remember to follow the name and quantity recorded above, if Jiaxing City is not enough, go to Ningbo and Quanzhou."

After dismissing the four shopkeepers, Shen You excitedly went to the backyard.

At this time, Wu Ruolan's room was already full of people standing in the backyard of the Shen family, waiting for the moment to witness the miracle.

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