Xin Yi was a little surprised.

When they first met, she was just moved by Mrs. An's motherly love for risking her life to protect her daughter. She rescued her because of her temperament, but she did not expect that Mrs. An actually knew some medical skills.

Xin Yi was overjoyed.

"If that's really the case, then that's good."

After a pause, she took a look at the little daughter held by Mrs. An. Her clothes were thin and her little face was blue and blue from the cold. She looked pitiful and quickly asked her husband to take her to the back hall to warm up by the fire, and then took out the remaining test papers.

One piece and handed it to Mrs. An.

"Come and try it too. I treat everyone equally."

Mrs. An said with a bitter look on her face, "I can't write."

Xin Yi was slightly startled, "No?"

Mrs. An nodded and lowered her eyes, "I have only been working in a medicine hall since I was a child and know some pharmacology. However, I am blind and cannot read a few words, let alone write."

Xin Yi:……

Madam An pleaded with her face, "I was really desperate, so I came to seek refuge after someone pointed me out... If Madam An doesn't believe me, why don't you test me?"

Xin Yi asked her to sit down and thought for a while, "What do you mainly do at your uncle's house?"

Mrs. An: "Concoct the medicinal materials."

Xin Yi smiled and looked at her for a moment, "Then let me test you. If you want to make medicine from pomegranate root bark, how should you do it?"

Mrs. An thought for a while and said softly: "Dig in autumn, soak in slurry water for one night, and then you can use it. The ones with intact skin and yellow color are better. However, pomegranate roots are extremely iron-averse, so don't use iron tools to dig them."

Xin Yi: "What if Bai Qian concocted it?"

Mrs. An said: "Wash the white root, cut it into sections, dry it in the shade, and then you can use it. You can also soak it in raw licorice water for a day and night, then filter it out and use it. Remove the fibrous roots and bake it for medicine. However, the raw white root has a pungent taste.

It can easily cause stomach discomfort. It is best to use honey to refine it."

Xin Yi couldn't help but be overjoyed when he saw her answering questions fluently.

Mrs. An, who is illiterate and cannot write, is actually a master at making things?

Especially the method of refining Bai Qian with honey was not commonly used by people at that time, but it is highly praised in modern research.

Although this may be the original setting of the planning, Xin Yi still likes it very much.

She stood up and waved to Mrs. An, gesturing for her to follow her to the medicine cabinet and open a drawer at random.

"What kind of medicine is this?"

"Platycodon."

"What about this?"

"rhubarb."

"this……"

"Dendrobium."

"..."

"Comfrey."

"..."

"aconite."

One pulls the drawer and the other reports the name of the medicine, all are correct.

The smile on Xin Yi's face became even wider, and he asked her some related pharmacology, and everyone answered her fluently.

It's just that Mrs. An is relatively unfamiliar with the aspects of consultation, prescribing, and taking pulses.

Although she doesn't know a single word, her understanding of medicinal materials is better than ordinary people. Sure enough, she grew up in a medicine hall.

Perhaps it was the same life experience that made Xin Yi more fond of Mrs. An. He closed the drawer and smiled at her.

"From now on, you will be the manager of medicinal materials in Xin Yifang, right?"

"Headmaster of Medicines?"

Mrs. An was greatly shocked. She seemed to have never expected that she would be reused by Xin Yi, and she immediately started to stutter.

"No, no, no, I, how can I do it?"

"Of course you can."

Seeing her nervousness and panic, Xin Yi pursed her lips.

"From now on, you and Xiao Zhen'er will live with us in the house, but the place is not big. Now I'm afraid I have to trouble you two to squeeze in the utility room. I don't know if you can do it?"

Mrs. An was overjoyed and said, "That's right, that's right. We two can sleep on a bunk on the floor."

"Then it's settled. As for the monthly salary, right now I can only give you five hundred Wen to take care of your mother's food and accommodation. When your business gets better in the future, you can raise your salary depending on the situation. What do you think?"

Xin Yi has already calculated the purchasing power of five hundred coins. It is certainly not high for the level of general manager in a pharmacy in Bianjing City, but it is not unkind either.

"It's too much, little lady, this is already too much." Tears welled up in Madam An's eyes, and she told the truth, "When I came here, I just wanted to have a place to stay..."

When Xin Yi heard this, he frowned suddenly.

"By the way. Just now you said you were prompted to seek refuge with me?"

Mrs. An nodded.

Xin Yi asked: "Who is it?"

Mrs. An said: "Eunuch Sun from the Imperial City Division. I was separated from my young lady on the boat that day, and was taken back to the Imperial City Division by the Prince of Guangling County. When I gave my testimony, I confessed my origin, and Eunuch Sun learned about my natal family path.

Far away, there is no one around anymore, I have nowhere to go with a girl, but I have just learned about pharmacology, so I came here with guidance..."

Xin Yi said oh and nodded.

"Eunuch Sun is a kind-hearted person."

Madam An opened her mouth, "Prince Guangling..."

When she said this, she suddenly stopped talking.

Xin Yi asked suspiciously: "What happened to the Prince of Guangling County?"

Mrs. An seemed to be worried, she shook her head with a worried look, and smiled bitterly, "It's nothing. Prince Guangling didn't make things difficult for me. The past few days in the Imperial City Division have been the most comfortable days for both of us in the past few years.

It’s been a good year.”

Xin Yi smiled and nodded, and without saying anything else, he asked his beloved to come over and take the two of them down to settle down.

Only then did she learn that Mrs. An's maiden name was only Jin, and her daughter also took her surname and was named An Zhen'er.

Jin means beautiful jade. Xin Yi felt that the name An Jin was not chosen casually at first glance, but Zhen'er seemed casual.

She didn't know what Mrs. An had gone through, but since she didn't tell her, Xin Yi didn't ask.

It turned out that most of the clerks in the Sun Family Pharmacy were recruited by Dong Dahai. Xin Yi felt awkward, so after the exam, he left two model scores and scored high on the answer sheet, and spent some money on the rest.

Sent away.

She doesn't plan to get it done in one go. At the current scale, these people are enough and she can no longer amortize labor costs.

"Sister." When Xiang Ling came in, Xin Yi was bending over to take out the damp wood incense from the cabinet.

Hearing this, she asked: "What's the matter?"

Xiang Ling wrung his handkerchief and said nothing.

Xin Yi noticed her emotions and turned around: "What's wrong? Are you in trouble?"

Xiang Ling bit her lower lip, "It's not that I'm in trouble, it's Wen Zi."

Xin Yi groaned, stood up slowly, and put Mu Xiang on the counter, "What's wrong with Wen Zi?"

Xiang Ling seemed a little embarrassed, "She asked us if we still have people in the store..."

Having said this, Xin Yi lowered her head without waiting for a reply.

"My husband and I don't know much about medicine. We are just freeloaders, and Wen Zi doesn't know much about it... I know my sister is in trouble and doesn't agree to me, so it's okay..."

Xin Yi laughed.

"I didn't say anything, so you just finished it for me. Tell me, what's going on with Wen Zi? Isn't she a good helper in the herb shop? Why do you suddenly want to change jobs?"

On the day they moved, Wen Zi came to help.

However, there seemed to be a lot going on in the fragrant medicine shop. Although she lived very close to him, Wen Zi rarely came to see Xiang Ling.

Xin Yi thought that Wen Zi had too little money and too many things to do, but she didn't expect that the answer was actually for the love of a girl.

Wen Zi fell in love with Du Zhongqing, the shopkeeper of the apothecary shop, and they got to know each other day and night, and their hearts beat like wild deer. But she was married to someone, and all the gifts were collected. She only waited until the day came for her to get married, so she could no longer let her heart beat wildly.

?

But she couldn't just quit her job and leave because she was afraid that her stepfather would beat her up, so she wanted to find a job in a drug store instead to earn some money, not to meet Du Zhongqing, and not to be disliked by her family.

Xin Yi thought for a moment, "Our store is still short of manpower, but what's the point of us being so close to Du's Fragrant Medicine Store? Ask her clearly before we talk."
To be continued...