Hui Niang increased the price of medicinal materials slightly and no longer sold them at a loss.

In autumn and winter, there is a relatively shortage of medicinal materials due to the difficulty in traveling on the road, and the plague that year consumed too many medicinal materials, which made medicinal materials in western Fujian extremely short of people.

Although the people who came to ask about the medicine had a little opinion, they all knew that the prices of medicinal materials sold here in Hui Niang were lower than those of other medicine shops, so they didn’t have much complaints.

But at this time, other pharmacies in Ninghua County saw that Hui Niang was doing a prosperous business. In order to ensure her own survival and to attack her opponents, she simply joined forces to implement a strategy of significantly reduced prices and prepared to hurt people with their own expenses, so that Hui Niang could not continue to sell the pharmacies.

In the first two days when the prices of medicinal materials in other medicine shops were significantly reduced, Chen Xi found that there were indeed fewer people who came to Huiniang Pharmaceutical Store to buy medicine. After all, patients hoped to cure the disease with the least amount of money. Therefore, ordinary people heard that other medicine shops had lowered prices, and under the introduction of the doctor of the prescription, they changed the place where they bought medicine.

In the past few months, seven or eight out of ten people in the city have become ill and will go to Huiniang's pharmacy to buy medicine. Now, under the reputation effect, although the prices of other stores are lower than those of Huiniang, the business is only 20% less, and the impact on Huiniang's pharmacy is not particularly large.

On the contrary, because there were fewer people, Hui Niang and Zhou didn't have to be too busy. After closing the shop in the afternoon, they could prepare dinner early, and Chen Xi would no longer have to wait to go hungry.

After a few days, the price reduction of other pharmacies passed by. Chen Xi was surprised to find that there were more people coming to Huiniang pharmacies than before.

Even if other pharmacies are reduced in price, it seems that they will not play a big role depending on the situation. People should come to Hui Niang. After all, the medicinal materials are not like food, rice, oil and salt. The most important function is to cure diseases and save people. Now everyone in and outside the city knows that the medicine sold by Hui Niang Pharmaceutical Store is authentic and does not adulterate. Moreover, Hui Niang is famous, so the imperial envoys from the court come here to ask about medicine, so it is absolutely impossible to buy it here.

By mid-winter, when Sun Huiniang distributed the dividends of running a pharmacy for the second time, although Chen Xi didn't know how much I had divided, when she saw her laughing from the house, she knew that she must have made a lot of money.

"Yanwa, Dai'er, you get up early tomorrow morning. Let's go to the tailor shop to make you two new clothes, but you must go and go back quickly, otherwise it will be bad if you delay opening the shop."

Although Zhou's family has money, they will save money, but they will not treat Chen Xi and Lin Dai unfairly.

Chen Xi didn't think so. Anyway, there was no difference between new and old clothes for him, and Lin Dai was very happy. Zhou was not her biological mother after all. Now Zhou Yi had good things and thought about her. She could feel that Zhou's love for her was more important than anything else.

The next day, before it was fully opened, Zhou took Chen Xi and Lin Dai to tailor the clothes.

Because Zhou had worked as a helper in a tailor shop, the shopkeeper of the tailor shop knew her and the handicraft fee for making clothes was much less than that of others.

At this moment, the whispers of the two women came into their ears, and one of them said, "I didn't expect that the medicine to cure and save people can kill people. It seems that the widow named Sun is indeed vicious and is not even the medicine sold."

Zhou Shiyi was furious when she heard this and angrily scolded: "What do you say? What is a widow's evil medicine and it's not clean. When did we kill anyone with our medicine?"

The two women glanced at Zhou's eyes, ignored Zhou's, and put down the material and left.

Zhou wanted to chase him out, but Chen Xi pulled him away. Zhou was a little angry but these people were talking bad things about the medicine shop behind their backs. They glared at Chen Xi's eyes and cursed: "Silly kid, why are you stopping me? People like those who gossip behind their backs should tear their mouths!"

"Mom, this is a tailor shop, it's not good to open it! I think it may be because the business in the aunt's shop is too good, which has attracted jealousy from villains and malicious slander." Chen Xi comforted.

"You need to say this? Mom also thinks these people are so angry. OK, okay, have you measured it well? Let's leave early. When you go back, you will have to help you open a shop for Aunt Sun. I'm so busy every day, you can't be lazy in the school, do you know?"

Chen Xi nodded, but thought to himself that he didn't seem to be very relaxed. He would go to the pharmacy to help when he came back from school.

When Zhou took two young men back to the pharmacy, he saw a lot of people gathered in front of the store. These people did not seem to be seeking medical treatment, but watched the fun.

In front of the main entrance of the pharmacy, several people wearing mourning clothes were carrying an old man in his fifties and sixties with the door panel. The old man was always moving, as if he was dead. These people were making a big fuss and shouting fiercely. Hui Niang had already come out of the store and was comforting her with tender words, but those people were not grateful at all, and each of them was extremely arrogant.

"My father is just typhoid fever. His body is strong. He never thought that he came to this vicious and tricky woman shop to buy medicine. My father took the medicine and went to bed. At night, his hands and feet twitched. It must be this tricky woman who was wiggling in the medicine and wanted to kill my father and pay my father's life!"

A man in his thirties shouted loudly there, for fear that others would not hear it.

Chen Xi glanced at the crowd watching next to him. All the shopkeepers of the other pharmacies in the city came, and they were hiding among the crowd to watch the fun.

Although Chen Xi didn't know if this was framed by these people maliciously, at least they were instigated by them and deliberately asked someone to come to Huiniang Pharmacy outside to make trouble, taking the opportunity to ruin Huiniang and the Pharmacy's reputation.

Hui Niang said anxiously: "Since the old man has not passed away, he should go to the doctor to see a doctor."

"Is it useful? We saw several doctors, and they all said to go home and prepare for their funeral. Now my father is gone. You can return my father's life, otherwise we will sue the government and ask the official to judge."

If it were the past, if Hui Niang was involved in anything, the villagers would definitely point fingers and say that she was a widow, and would not stand on Hui Niang's side. This time, even though Hui Niang seemed to be in the wrong place in this matter, the onlookers were very calm and there was no one to give me some advice. There was only someone talking in a low voice, but not all of them were speaking for the family of the deceased.

Zhou pulled Chen Xi to the door, meaning that he wanted to stand with Hui Niang and face it whenever he had difficulties.

Just now, Zhou was disdainful of the two women in the tailor shop. Now, the meaning of these people who were causing trouble was indeed a death-death of taking medicine. Zhou couldn't help but feel nervous. She stood in front of Hui Niang and argued to the people watching around: "Who can guarantee that the medicine can cure people? Even the doctor accidentally cured the person."

It would be better if you didn't say this, but the onlookers were talking louder.

Chen Xi pulled Zhou Shiyi and said, "Mom, don't talk if you can't speak."

"Boy, did you say it wrong? I didn't say it would definitely cure the disease. These people are having trouble with your Aunt Sun, and you are still standing by their side, right?"

Chen Xi had no way to communicate with the perverted Zhou family.

Zhou was impatient and said something he shouldn't say without clarifying the whole story. The problem now is not whether the doctor can cure the patient, but that the medicine will kill people. These people set the tone when they came up and said that the old man was just typhoid fever, which is not fatal, and he will die after taking the medicine.

If it is according to Zhou’s statement, wouldn’t it be a matter of self-inducing?

PS: The first update is given!
Chapter completed!