After the lively New Year, on the third day of the Lunar New Year, Xiaocao and the others said goodbye to their host and continued their journey.

I just arrived at the predetermined place on the 15th. This place belongs to a county under a certain government of the Nanzhong Chief Administrative Office. Although half of the Nanzhong Chief Administrative Office belongs to high mountains and ridges, it is rich in various kinds of medicinal herbs, which are extremely rare.

There are countless common ones. Here, the herbs Xiaocao wants can basically be obtained immediately.

Considering Wei Tingyu's health, they did not go to high ground.

Although this is a small county town, there is actually a certain scale of medicinal material cultivation in the entire county. Therefore, this can be said to be a medicinal material trading market. Many medicinal material merchants traveling from north to south gather here, and some people will have various needs.

And if you need anything, there will always be someone who can make it appear. Therefore, although this place is not big, it is really prosperous.

Correspondingly, places such as restaurants and inns are almost always full. Even though many ordinary people have found business opportunities and built "residential residences", demand still exceeds supply.

The people under Wei Tingyu have always been more capable than others. However, at this moment, it seems very powerless to find a place to stay, especially when there are so many of them. Even those with deep pockets want to make a living.

Even if you buy it with money, they won't sell it at all.

Didn't Xiaocao know the situation when he chose this place? Of course not. The development here has not been a year or two. In total, it has been about thirty years. Xiaocao once stayed here with the genius doctor Lin.

It took less than half a year.

When Xiaocao slowly pushed Wei Tingyu and introduced the situation here, the people below finally came back frustrated. You must know that they arrived a day early, but... they expressed that they were not doing well and asked the master to punish them.

——Wei Tingyu also ordered before that not to disturb the government, otherwise his status as the heir apparent of the Hou Mansion can still be used in a place like this, and the effect is estimated to be quite good, but accordingly, there will be a lot of trouble.

Xiaocao heard it funny and didn't know whether to say they were responsible or servile? "Since I chose the place, why didn't you ask me first? Do you really think I don't understand anything?

You don’t know anything, so you just rush here in a daze?”

Hearing Xiaocao's words, they knew that she had already made up her mind and was so embarrassed. After all, it was their fault that they mistook their wife for a woman who was inexperienced in the world, obsessed with medicine, and had no idea what was going on outside the window.

"Xuan'er and Divine Doctor Lin have been to this place before?"

"Yeah." Xiaocao nodded, "The Zhao family, the largest family of medicinal herbs here, has a good relationship with my adoptive father, especially the old man. He and his adoptive father have been acquaintances for decades. They can be said to be irreconcilable friends. A few days ago,

Didn't we inquire about it? Today, Mr. Zhao is still in great health. Although he no longer cares about his family business, his intimidating power is still the same.

The fact that the current head of the Zhao family, Mr. Zhao, can be ignored by the old man and directly asked to hand over the position of head of the family to him is a testament to his ability. However, twelve or thirteen years ago, he was still a sick boy living here with his adoptive father.

In half a year, on the one hand, there are many medicinal materials here, which makes it easier for my adoptive father to teach me, and on the other hand, I have been treating this old man's illness."

Xiaocao seemed to have thought of something and couldn't help but laugh, "Because of seniority, the Zhao family's uncle, who was in his twenties back then, called me my aunt who was only a few years old, and his children all called me my aunt.

Aiwujiwuba, the Zhao family also likes me very much. Originally, it was hard for my adoptive father to take me alone, so he wanted to adopt me, but neither my adoptive father nor I agreed."

"I'm afraid Divine Doctor Lin won't be able to let go of your talented disciple." Wei Tingyu said with a smile.

"In fact, I also like medicine very much."

Normally, it would not be a good idea to bring so many people to the door to bother him. However, Xiaocao felt sorry for Wei Tingyu. If he wanted to give him a comfortable place to recuperate, he had to be shameless.

However, friendship must be established to a certain extent. If you just pass through the door and stay out, you will be on the outside.

In the past ten years, this small county town has expanded a lot, but it has been expanded to the outside. The inside is still not much different from before. Therefore, Xiaocao is naturally very familiar with it. The Zhao family has a big business, except for its own house.

After all, the medicinal herb shop alone occupies an entire street. As the head of the household, he usually spends at least an hour on that street in the afternoon. I guess the rules have not changed, so Xiaocao plans to directly

Look for him, of course, even if you can't find him, it doesn't matter, just go to the Zhao family residence.

On the street of Zhao's house, people were coming and going. Medicinal materials were constantly being carried out of the warehouse, and there were also some who were obviously new to this industry and looked a bit unfamiliar.

When it comes to business, Xiaocao definitely doesn't understand, but when it comes to medicinal materials, looking at all the countries in the world, there aren't many people who can be better than her.

In this environment, what others smelled was probably a mixed smell of medicine, but Xiaocao was different. She only needed to know what the packaged medicines were through the very faint smell.

As she identified the flavors one by one, she would smile unconsciously.

However, in such an environment, most people will probably be tempted to cover their noses. Of course, these people nowadays are usually people who are used to this kind of smell, and they will find it nice to smell if they are used to it.

In front of a shop, there was a man who looked to be in his thirties, and he was seeing off another group of people. He was clearly a businessman, but he had a somewhat elegant air about him.

This is obviously the purpose of Xiaocao and the others coming here, the current head of the Zhao family.

After the guests left, Xiaocao and his party came forward - of course, there were only about ten people accompanying them, and Xiaocao only brought two of his maids - Xiaocao said directly, "Master Zhao."

Wei Tingyu also nodded accordingly.

Businessmen who want to do business well must naturally develop a pair of sharp eyes, not to mention the magnanimity of their profession. As long as they are not blind, they should know that this is not an ordinary origin. In fact, along the way

, there are not a few people looking at them.

The head of the Zhao family smiled and cupped his hands, "Zhao is polite, but I wonder what you need." Although he doesn't look like a businessman, there are just a few situations that come to his door. This businessman pays attention to being kind.

.

Xiaocao suddenly smiled and waved his hand, "Eldest nephew, do I, Xiaocao'er, still remember?"

The other party was obviously startled, with a look of disbelief in his eyes. He looked at Xiaocao carefully with some impoliteness, "Auntie?"

"Oh, dear nephew, you look very good now. You have also taken over the Zhao family, and you are all in high spirits." Xiaocao said with a bit of ridicule.

The slim woman in front of him finally overlapped a lot with the little girl from more than ten years ago. The little girl liked to raise her head with a smile and call her eldest nephew. Although she was still a little unsure, there seemed to be no need for anyone to pretend to be that little girl.

The girl came to their Zhao family.

The head of the Zhao family couldn't help but smile a little, but there was a kind of back-looking look in his eyes, just as doting as he did more than ten years ago, "It's been more than ten years, my aunt is fine."

"You're fine, you're fine."

The head of the Zhao family pulled the young man behind him and said, "This is Jing Ming, does my aunt still remember? Jing Ming, why don't you call someone quickly?"

Xiaocao watched the young man's face turn red. Perhaps he remembered something. The man who was quite steady at first had his eyes widened and his face turned red. When he didn't take a closer look, he didn't realize that this

Upon closer inspection, it coincided with the person in my memory. The eyebrows and eyes had almost not changed, but the face had become longer. Xiaocao also thought of something, "Is it the one who is one year older than me and refuses to do so?"

The one who called me great-aunt, shook his fist at me, grabbed food from me, and was beaten by me, and then cried miserably and complained to my father? Ouch, he has changed a lot."

The young man's face turned even more ugly. He had a dark history when he was a child! "Lin Xiaocao——"

"Tsk, there are no rules, call me aunt." Xiaocao said with a smile.

This made the other party even more angry, but the Zhao family leader next to him couldn't help laughing. Such a trivial matter is usually not known to anyone who is not me, "Auntie, please don't bully him, because because of auntie, he

But I avoid the girls at home."

"Oh, that's right, but it doesn't matter. As long as you don't shy away from your wife, then there will be no problem."

The head of the Zhao family smiled and shook his head, "This drug store is not the place to talk. Why don't you follow me back to the Zhao family?"

"To be honest, my eldest nephew may need to stay in Zhao County for a while. Everyone knows about the situation in Zhao County, so I have no choice but to visit him shamelessly." Xiaocao said bluntly.

"That's the case, of course it's the best. Let's take a walk and talk when we get back." The head of the Zhao family said and was about to leave directly.

"Just leave, this way..."

"It's okay. All the things that need to be dealt with today have been dealt with. The rest can be handled by the people below."

On the way, the head of the Zhao family spoke to Dr. Lin again, "You know, two years ago when Dr. Lin came to Zhao County, my grandfather didn't see my aunt. He still talked about her for a while, saying that she was just such a good niece. I don't know if she has ever seen her again.

day."

"Dad came to Zhao County two years ago? He didn't tell me, but I didn't meet him much. We were busy discussing medical matters. You also know who he is.

He lacks interest in medical skills and other things."

"This is indeed the style of Divine Doctor Lin. I just wonder where Divine Doctor Lin is now?"

"He is already very old in the Imperial City now, and I don't want him to continue traveling around."

"Imperial City?" The head of the Zhao family focused his eyes, then looked at Xiaocao, but there was a strange look on his face.

Xiaocao turned his head and looked over, but didn't react much for a moment.

However, Wei Tingyu, who had been silent all this time, suddenly said, "Does the head of the Zhao family also know about the old cases of the Lin family?"

Before, Wei Tingyu deliberately lowered his sense of presence, but after she spoke, it was impossible to ignore him. The head of the Zhao family looked sideways at him, with a bit of solemnity in his eyes that he had never seen towards Xiaocao, "

I forgot to ask you about the identity of the young master."

"My surname is Wei, and I am Xuan'er's husband. Of course, my current identity should be my fiancé. Doctor Lin returned to Zhao County before, so he must have inquired about Xuan'er's situation. Xuan'er got married to me when she was eight years old, and something happened later.

, but Divine Doctor Lin has been away and is not clear about these things. You should know that Xuan'er is the adopted daughter of Divine Doctor Lin. Now Xuan'er has found her biological parents. Her father is now the Minister of Rites, and due to various reasons

, the past affairs between Xuaner and I were concealed, and we got engaged again.

And this time we came out because I was in poor health and came out to look for medicine.

Originally, Divine Doctor Lin was away all the time, but it was only because of me that he was found last year. Because Lin's body refused to enter the imperial city, we learned about the old affairs of the Lin family. However, the Lin family has been wronged. Divine Doctor Lin

In the imperial city, there is nothing to worry about."

"I see." The head of the Zhao family nodded, completely convinced this time.

Xiaocao finally understood, "It turns out that my eldest nephew is doubting me."

The head of the Zhao family laughed, very calmly, not embarrassed, and deliberately sighed, "The Zhao family is also a big business, and my aunt should understand my feelings. After all, I haven't seen my aunt in so many years. At that time, I was just working

Here’s a skinny little girl.”

Xiaocao nodded with deep understanding, "That's right. You are the head of the family now, and you are responsible for the whole family and even the whole clan. You should be more cautious."

Naturally, the matter was revealed like this.

Then talking about Divine Doctor Lin, "It's good that Divine Doctor Lin can finally settle down. Originally, when he came to Zhao County two years ago, his grandfather intended for him to stay directly in the Zhao family. However, Divine Doctor Lin did not agree. Now he is in the Imperial City.
To be continued...