The fragrance of medicine is alluring, the farm elder sister is cool and cool

Wen Qingcheng went to the back of the pharmacy, scooped a ladle of clean water into the basin, washed her face, and immediately felt refreshed. She was very hungry after a busy day, so she sat down on the stone bench and didn't want to get up.

When it was time to get off work, Wen Qingcheng rushed to the stable and led the horse out, thinking that he must hurry home today to avoid worrying his mother. He got on the horse and was stopped just as he ran out of the door of the medicine shop.

Wen Qingcheng reined in her horse and stopped, only to see Manager Pang with a stern face, waving his hand and asking her to go back? Wen Qingcheng was stunned, but she still led the horse back.

Manager Pang came over angrily, his face darkening, "Who told you to leave?"

"I saw it was time to leave work, and the others had left."

"Who did you see go?"

It was the second day since Wen Qingcheng arrived, and she didn't recognize everyone yet. How could she know her name? Even if she knew, it would be difficult to tell her now. "I don't know her, what's wrong?"

Wen Qingcheng's words sounded like a challenge to Manager Pang's authority. "You're leaving now after you finish your work?"

"It's done. The pharmacy has been cleaned." Wen Qingcheng stated.

"Another cart of motherwort has arrived. Go and unload that one." Manager Pang pointed to the three carriages in the yard.

Wen Qingcheng suddenly felt as if there was a stone blocking her chest, an indescribable feeling of suffocation. She clenched her fists tightly, trying hard to resist the urge to walk away.

"The truck with the goods arrived an hour before work was finished. Why didn't you tell me earlier?" Wen Qingcheng took a deep breath.

"You were all working at that time, so you all have time after work to unload together. Do you have any questions? If you have any, get back to work."

Wen Qingcheng nodded speechlessly, and went back to unload the truck. By the time he finished, he was already covered in dirt. After finishing, Wen Qingcheng saw that several pharmacists did not leave, but just sat there and wasted time.

Wen Qingcheng was a little anxious. If she went back late, Ye Xiuying would definitely be worried to death. She and Zicheng would definitely not eat first and wait for her to come back.

"We can't just waste time here. The truck has been unloaded, and it will take a while to finish picking and sorting." Wen Qingcheng lost her patience and ran to find Manager Pang.

Manager Pang happened to come out of the room, and the pharmacists all stood up. Manager Pang glanced at everyone and said, "It's not that I don't want you to leave, it's that you haven't finished your work. The He family in Kyoto is waiting for motherwort, so we have to hurry up. Wangji will take care of your food and drink, and pay you wages, so you have to have a spirit of dedication. Hurry up and you can leave after you finish your work."

The pharmacists seemed to be used to being enslaved. They put on their bibs and started working without saying a word. Wen Qingcheng was anxious to leave, so she came to Manager Pang and said, "Manager Pang, my home is far away, and the road is not easy to walk on after dark. You see..."

Manager Pang often breathed a sigh of relief, "Wen Qingcheng, if your home is far away, you can live in Wangji. It's not like there's no room. Everyone is working, and you leave by yourself. What will they think?"

"My mother thought I was going back. If I stayed here, she would be worried to death." Wen Qingcheng was so anxious that she broke out in a sweat.

"If you are afraid that your mother will worry, just stay at home, find a man to marry, and serve him. Why do you need to come out to find a job? If you have time to tell me these things here, you can finish the work in a moment!" After Manager Pang said this, he turned around and left.

Qi Zhen came over and pulled Wen Qingcheng's sleeve, "Qingcheng, come here."

"He did it on purpose. Why didn't he tell us earlier that there was work to do? He asked us to carry five large jars of water, but we didn't use it today." Wen Qingcheng said angrily.

"Forget it, Qingcheng, just be patient. We can pass the exam to become junior pharmacists and then be transferred to the pharmacy." This time it was Qi Zhen's turn to persuade Wen Qingcheng.

......

Manager Pang came out of the herbal medicine shop, crossed several alleys, and came to Wangji Pharmacy. Manager Qin of the Pharmacy was sitting in the house drinking tea leisurely. When he saw Manager Pang coming, he smiled and offered him a seat.

"coming."

"Brother, you are so leisurely. Unlike us in the herbal medicine store, we are busy every day. I don't have such a leisurely life as you."

The two men looked at each other and laughed. Manager Qin was in his forties, with a big face and thick neck, and looked pot-bellied. He was the manager of Wang Ji's Qinghe County branch.

"Manager Qin, the pharmacist at the medicine store found out today that Wen Qingcheng has no background at all and just got in through an interview." Manager Pang said.

Manager Qin curled his lips and said, "She doesn't have much background to begin with. Manager Liu and the eldest lady at the head office have talked about sending her to the herbal medicine business to train her well. How has she performed in the past two days? Should she continue to work there?"

"I am working on it."

"Hmph, she's quite persistent. Village girls are generally able to endure hardships. What do you think of her?"

"He's quite diligent, but I can tell he has a bit of a prickly temper."

Manager Qin said, "I don't think he has a soft personality, otherwise he wouldn't have offended the young lady."

Manager Pang leaned over to Manager Qin and whispered, "At first I thought she had someone at Wangji or Qihuang Zushi, but after all this time I found out she was just an ordinary village girl, and she even offended the eldest lady. Now I know what's going on."

In fact, Manager Pang had already received a notice from Manager Qin, asking him to keep an eye on Wen Qingcheng. At the beginning, he didn't dare to act rashly because he didn't know her background. Now that he had the instructions from the eldest lady and Manager Qin, he had nothing to worry about.

Manager Pang also had his own selfish motives. If Wen Qingcheng and Qi Zhen did not come, he would have waited until after Wang Ji's unified enrollment period and arranged for his nephews and nieces to come.

Although the work in the herbal medicine store was dirty and tiring, he took care of her and arranged light work for her. She could come over to show up and lend a hand symbolically, and she could receive two taels of silver per month according to the wages of a herbalist, and lunch was provided. Who knew that Wen Qingcheng and Qi Zhen had taken up the quota?

It was also his fault that his nephew and niece were not up to the task. If they were interviewed, they would not even pass the initial test. Once Wen Qingcheng and Qi Zhen were removed, he could legitimately squeeze them in.

The moon was rising over the branches. Wen Qingcheng and the others had finished their work, but they did not dare to leave until Manager Pang came. Wen Qingcheng could not wait any longer. The work was done anyway. Manager Pang could not say anything, and no one knew where he had gone. He was probably going to eat. It was almost midnight, and so many people were hungry. There was no point in waiting any longer.

"Qi Zhen, I'm going home first. If Manager Pang comes back and doesn't notice me, don't mention me."

After Wen Qingcheng finished her instructions, she rode away. At this time, the county town was also pitch dark. Most of the shops were closed. There were only a few lanterns scattered on the street. There were no lights on the country roads.

Fortunately, the moonlight was like water tonight, shining on the country road, so I could see the road clearly. There were dense woods on both sides, and the night wind rustled through the trees. If a girl in the boudoir dared not ride alone at night.

There were no vehicles on the road at night, so Wen Qingcheng sped all the way and soon arrived at the village entrance. It was already nine o'clock, and the village was shrouded in darkness, with only two strings of lanterns hanging on the stone gate at the entrance.

The lights have been turned off in every household. In the countryside of the Great Qi Dynasty, people worked on the farm all day, and after dinner they would wash up and go to bed. There was no other entertainment at night, so it was common for villagers to have four or five children in a family.