The space boss's daily life of raising cubs, loving husbands and farming

Chapter 221 Digging a hole

Shitou had asked Shang Wan before, since the Qionghua Restaurant had not caused any trouble for them, wasn't it unfair to close it down for no reason?

At that time, Shang Wan just asked him to wait.

Isn’t this what we’ve been waiting for?

She has taken special care of the business of Qionghua Restaurant several times recently and has never made any move against Qionghua Restaurant, but it is not certain that Young Master Qiao will miss the opportunity to cause trouble in her Spiritual Medicine Pavilion.

This shouldn't be repaid well?

Shang Wan quickly thought of several simple and unpretentious ways to repay the debt.

To bring down a restaurant, there are three main aspects to start with: the food, the service, and the reputation.

As long as there are no customers going to the restaurant to eat, it is only a matter of time before it goes bankrupt.

Of course, the most direct way is to kill the boss. Without the boss, the restaurant will naturally not be able to operate.

Shang Wan was just thinking about it when Lu Chengjing's words brought her back to her senses.

"Anian's brother wrote a letter asking Anian to follow Boss Zhong back to Beijing. Has Boss Zhong replied?"

"Boss Zhong is a very busy man." Shang Wan put the money into the wooden box and locked it. "He will probably reply when he sets a date to return to Beijing."

The child cried yesterday and his eyes were red. Shang Wan thought something was wrong, but it turned out that the child was about to leave and couldn’t bear to leave them.

Last night the child took the initiative to tell them the contents of the letter, and Shang Wan also deduced the truth about the growth of the spiritual field from the letter.

Most of the herbs she had sold to the pharmacy before were sent to the border along with other herbs.

The enemy's spies poisoned the medicinal herbs. Most of the soldiers in the barracks were poisoned, and even several generals were caught, Chu Zhao being one of them.

When the military doctor checked the medicinal materials, he found that although some of them were poisoned, their medicinal properties were not affected by the poison after they were cleaned.

The military doctor wrote out a prescription to delay the onset of the poison based on the existing medicinal materials and ordered people to boil it and distribute it, while also working hard to research the real antidote.

Thanks to that batch of medicinal herbs, there were no large number of casualties among the soldiers in the military camp, and several generals survived.

The growth of the spiritual field is indeed related to saving people, and the more and more important people are saved, the faster the spiritual field grows.

The number of spiritual fields soared that day as if they were injected with hormones because the medicinal herbs sent by Shang Wan saved most of the military camp.

Chu Zhao also explained in the letter that the person they had sent to pick up Chu Xu was killed on the way.

It happened that there was a commotion in the military camp, and the father and son were too busy to investigate. They only sent a few secret letters, asking Chu Xu to stay at the Lu family, and they would send someone to pick Chu Xu up after the matter in the military camp was settled.

However, Shang Wan and his friends only received one reply letter, and no one knew where the subsequent letters went.

If Chu Xu had not sent a letter to the border again this time, the Chu father and son would not have known that the letter they sent was intercepted by someone.

I guess the spies haven't been cleared out yet.

Zhongli once owed Chu Zhao a big favor. Chu Zhao inferred from the news coming from the capital that something big was going to happen in the capital.

Chu Zhao has always known that Zhongli is in Qingyang Prefecture. If there is trouble in the capital, Zhongli must go back.

So he wrote a special letter to Zhongli, asking him to take his brother back with him and send him back to Duke Dingguo's Mansion safely, just to repay the favor.

Zhongli agreed readily. He has been very busy these days and has been preparing to return to Beijing.

The letter also mentioned that the military camp was looking for the source of medicinal materials that were not affected by poisons, and now they have found the source in Qingyang Prefecture.

Thanks to these medicinal herbs, nothing serious happened in the military camp. Marshal Chu paid out of his own pocket and prepared a reward of 500 taels of silver.

Shang Wan had a little conspiracy theory.

Shopkeeper Qi couldn't wait to take action against the Spiritual Medicine Pavilion. Could it be that he had heard the news and wanted to keep the reward money for himself?

If something happens to the Spiritual Medicine Pavilion, as the owner and manager of the Spiritual Medicine Pavilion, she will focus all her attention on solving the problems of the Spiritual Medicine Pavilion and naturally will not care about other things.

By the time she got the news, the money might have already gone into Manager Qi's pocket.

Tsk, how vicious.

I was too lenient last night.

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After settling the accounts, Shang Wan took the money box and went to Baohui Money House.

Half of the income is deposited in the bank, and the other half is stored in the space.

After staying in the shop for half a day, Shang Wan was so bored that he kept yawning.

There were too many people working, so she, the shopkeeper, had some free time.

Shang Wan lowered his head and drew circles on the paper, preparing to streamline the staff again.

Apart from their own family members, the only four people left were Yuan Musheng, Yuan Qiao, Aunt Yao and Liu Cheng.

Yuan Musheng was responsible for seeing patients and prescribing medicine, Yuan Qiao was responsible for selling ointments and powders, Aunt Yao was responsible for buying groceries and cooking, and helping Yuan Qiao when she was busy, while Liu Cheng worked part-time as a waiter and delivered medicine.

Liu Cheng knows some martial arts and is strong, so he won't be at a disadvantage if he ever fights someone outside.

The four of them each have their own responsibilities, and with Shang Wan as the shopkeeper, they can handle all the affairs in the shop.

The others went back to the village to make medicine, while Xiaohuan and Shitou were responsible for checking and settling the wages.

Lu Chengjing can still help out now, but after the Mid-Autumn Festival, he will have to devote himself to studying the books of sages.

At the same time, three men dressed as merchants came to Yushu Village and bought medicinal materials in the village at a price higher than the market price, regardless of the quality, and they would buy as much as they could.

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"Closed."

The shopkeeper closed the shop at the appointed time and asked the staff to clean up and count the herbs. He would then replenish the herbs after registering them.

Lu Chengjing handed the calculated account book to Shang Wan.

Taking advantage of the cover of the counter, Shang Wan placed the account book directly into the space.

Something as important as a ledger must be kept in the safest place.

Lock the door and go home.

As the sky gradually darkened, little flames lit up at the entrance of Yushu Village.

Only when I got closer did I realize that they were torches.

Led by Old Man Wu, there were about ten people standing at the entrance of the village.

The light from the torches shone on their faces, flickering and reflecting their solemn features.

Shang Wan raised his eyebrows secretly, something was going on.

The others also felt that the atmosphere was not right, and gradually stopped talking and laughing, with suspicious eyes wandering across everyone's faces.

Shitou was the first to speak, asking, "Uncle Wu, it's already dark, why are you all standing at the entrance of the village?"

"I'm waiting for you. Someone is really trying to make life difficult for our village." Old Man Wu raised his hand and everyone made way, revealing the three people behind them who were tied up like dumplings.

In the light of the fire, the three men's faces were bruised and purple, probably because they had been beaten up.

The three people's mouths were blocked tightly, and apart from making "mmm" sounds, they couldn't utter a single word.

Glancing at the three people, Shang Wan asked in confusion: "Who are these three?"

"They claim to be traveling merchants, and they want to buy the medicinal herbs from our village at a high price." Old Man Wu explained the whole story.

After the three men entered the village, they started shouting and selling medicine at a high price, which attracted many villagers.

The three of them asked the villagers questions in both overt and covert ways to find out the news about Shang Wan's family.

When Old Man Wu rushed over after hearing the news, the villagers had already been tricked by many people. Some of them even wanted to go home to get herbs to sell, but Old Man Wu’s scolding woke them up.

The three men thought Old Man Wu was a nuisance and wanted to instigate the villagers to lock him up, but they didn't expect that they would be the ones to be locked up.

The villagers were just confused for a moment, but after Old Man Wu's analysis, everyone understood.

It's not a pie in the sky, but a pit dug for them.