After Dugu Hao, Ye Xuan's number one suitor, left, Ye Lan breathed a sigh of relief. Although Xiao Han's methods were too vulgar, the ending was acceptable to her.
Xiao Han, who continued to return to the pharmacy to grind medicinal materials, was not as relieved as Ye Lan. .
Because he discovered that although Dugu Hao was Ye Xuan's suitor, he was obviously more interested in Ye Family Pharmaceuticals. Every time he came, he ostensibly asked about Ye Xuan, but in fact, he used Ye Xuan to ask questions. It¡¯s a matter of many pharmacies.
During Ye Xuan¡¯s absence, he came every few days. On the surface, he was waiting for Ye Xuan¡¯s return, but in fact, he seemed to be controlling every move of Ye Xuan¡¯s pharmacy.
Xiao Han couldn't help but think of the gangsters who wanted to enter Ye's pharmacy a few days ago. Although Xiao Han solved the problem before the gangsters took action.
But he still had a vague feeling that something was wrong, so he had been collecting information about the gangsters in the past few days, and found that before they attacked the Ye family, they had only secretly stolen medicinal materials from several drug stores, without even hurting anyone.
But when it was the Ye family¡¯s turn, they were obviously on a killing spree.
This also means that the stolen medicinal materials they did before were just paving the way for the bloodbath of Ye Family Medicine.
After the incident, others would only think that maybe the Ye family's drug store resisted excessively and aroused the murderous intention of the thieves. They would not suspect that the actions of this group of gangsters in "Yingcheng" during this period were ultimately just to target the Ye family.
As for the force behind the manipulation of these gangsters, Xiao Han vaguely felt that it might be the Dugu family after Dugu Hao appeared.
In the Great Yan Empire, the Dugu family is the overlord of the pharmaceutical industry. The Ye family followed closely behind. Under Ye Xuan's management, the Ye family pharmaceutical industry jumped from fifth to second place in just three years.
Everyone has reason to believe that as long as Ye Xuan is given another three years. It is inevitable that the Ye family will replace the Dugu family and become the overlord of the pharmaceutical industry in the Dayan Empire.
Therefore, the Dugu family does not have many options to prevent the Ye family from getting bigger. One is that the young master of the Dugu family marries Ye Xuan and takes this business genius into the possession of the Dugu family.
The Dugu family themselves know that this is not very realistic, because now the person with the most say in the entire Ye family is the acting head of the family, Ye Xuan. No one in the Ye family will object to her opinion, so based on her personality, it is obviously not true. Will sacrifice his own marriage. At most, in the process of Dugu Hao's pursuit, he would just wait for the Ye family to grow up before making a clear statement.
The second option for the Dugu family is to kill the Ye family, which is about to become the overlord, no matter what means are used. Before it ascends to the throne of overlord.
The headquarters of the Dugu family and the Ye family's pharmaceutical industry are both in Yancheng, the capital of the Great Yan Empire, and the real place of prosperity for these two pharmaceutical companies is the "Yingcheng" where dragons and snakes are mixed.
So in a sense, if any "prosperity store" is eradicated. This means that this pharmaceutical industry will inevitably begin to decline.
The Dugu family's previous private operation of hiring gangsters to bloodbath the Ye family drug store was unexpectedly ruined by Xiao Han, a "passing by" person.
Xiao Han speculated that if he had not sabotaged this operation, then the Dugu family would have taken action against the Ye family. It will be in full swing the next morning.
And now, he appears as a "mysterious passing expert". Disrupted the layout of the Dugu family.
After two days of adjustments at the Dugu family, Xiao Han had a hunch that they would use Dugu Hao's visit to the store as an opportunity. Launch their long-planned action.
The next day, when Ye's Pharmacy was busy all day, Ye Lan excitedly told everyone that since he became the acting shopkeeper, he had set the highest sales record in the history of the pharmacy since its opening, and many kinds of medicinal materials were directly sold out. .
While most people in the drug store were rejoicing, Lao Sun, who was responsible for managing the medicinal materials, muttered that buying such a large amount of medicine was not the behavior of ordinary customers.
Ye Lanze happily explained that some colleagues were in a hurry, so they purchased large quantities directly from their own stores. Anyway, it was a profit for the Ye Family Pharmacy, and tomorrow the eldest lady would bring the purchases from other places. The medicinal materials are back, no matter how many medicinal materials are sold short, it will not affect the store's business.
As a result, Ye Xuan did not come back on the day she was expected to return. She just had someone send her a message saying that there were some problems with the largest supplier of medicinal materials in Nanzhou, and the delivery would be delayed for a few days, so she could only Wait there for a few more days.
This news is almost a heavy blow to Yejia Pharmacy. Many medicinal materials are out of stock, which means that it is almost impossible to operate normally.
Ye¡¯s Pharmacy has been in business for hundreds of years, and this prosperous store has never stopped operating for a day.
Ye Lan was immediately confused. She began to regret that she had been too generous yesterday and sold out the medicinal materials.
Of course, the so-called short selling is not a complete short selling. The drug store will reserve a few medicinal materials, but this meager amount of leftover medicine cannot even last half a day.
Lao Sun asked Ye Lan to calm down first, and before the medicine market was over, he could take Xiao Han to replenish some out-of-stock medicinal materials.
Ye Lan nodded repeatedly and placed her hopes on the medicine market. As a result, when Lao Sun followed Xiao Han to the medicine market, he found that the dozens of medicinal materials that Ye Family Pharmacy lacked were not available in the entire medicine market. The sellers said that They were all swept away early in the morning.
When Ye Lan heard the news, she was stunned. Then she made a decision, that is, to go to other medicine stores in Yingcheng to replenish the medicines at a high price. Even if they lose money, they must make up for the missing medicinal materials first.
This time she took action personally, and the outcome was still the same as Xiao Han expected. All pharmacies said that they did not have the stocks of these medicinal materials on hand, and they could only operate normally without help.
"How could this happen?" Ye Lan, the temporary acting shopkeeper, sat slumped on the chair.
"Obviously, someone is targeting our Ye Family Medicine Store. Not only did they take away all the medicinal materials we need, they also warned other medicine shops not to sell medicine to us." Old Sun paced back and forth by the door of the meeting hall with his hands behind his back. pace.
"Who has such power?"
"Those who can have such a powerful force are either the Dugu family, which ranks first, or the Lin family, which ranks third. The Lin family is relatively less likely." Old Sun's face was full of anxiety.
"What on earth do they want to do at our Ye Family Medicine Store?"
"I don't know exactly what they are going to do, but the general direction is already clear. They are going to completely overhaul our Ye Family Medicine Store and take away the necessary medicinal materials so that we can't operate normally. I'm afraid this is just the first step." Sun said through gritted teeth.
"Look at it this way, the eldest lady is in Nanzhou because the supplier is slow to deliver. And if she can't come back in time, it may be the Dugu family who is causing trouble behind it." Ye Lan is quite smart and reacted immediately.
"I think that's the case most of the time."
"Then what are we going to do? We can't just sit back and wait for the Dugu family to take action against us, right?" Ye Lan asked worriedly.
"We don't know the opponent's next move. We can only block it with soldiers and water with earth." Lao Sun sighed again.
"Okay, let's start with this. There really isn't much we can do at the moment. First of all, we have sent a message to the eldest lady's voice transmission Yugui. However, it is a long way from Nanzhou to here, and the fastest it will take eldest lady is five days. Then we can rush back to Yingcheng." Ye Lan looked like he was forcing himself to calm down. "Second, we have sent people to nearby cities to purchase medicinal materials at high prices. We hope to succeed."
"I hope God will bless my Ye Family Medicine Store this time." Lao Sun's words carried a heavy sense of powerlessness.
"We will be lucky to have our own destiny." While speaking, Ye Lan suddenly looked at Xiao Han who was standing aside, "Dai, you go to eat first, you have worked hard all morning."
"I'm not hungry." Xiao Han said lightly.
"Things are in a mess here now, Dumb. I may not be able to care about you these days. You should be smart and take care of yourself." Ye Lan squeezed out a forced smile at Xiao Han.
"I know."
The Dugu family's action unfolded more quickly than Xiao Han expected. That afternoon, a group of injured warriors poured into the Ye family pharmacy. What they need is the few medicines that are already vacant in the Ye family.
No matter how Ye Lan explains to them, these medicines are not available for the time being. They couldn't listen and started roaring in the store one by one. He chased away other customers and even clashed with the martial artist guarding the store.
Fortunately, Lao Sun had anticipated that something like this would happen, and spent some money to hire guards from "Yingcheng" to patrol the area for a long time. So as soon as the incident happened, the Yingcheng guards who received the news from Lao Sun rushed over. " Extinguishing".
After the troublemaking warriors were driven out of the Ye Family Pharmacy in a few clicks, the matter did not calm down. These warriors spread the word that the Ye Family Pharmacy was unwilling to save people, and even bullied customers and drove them away.
In less than half a day, this "carefully processed" unfavorable news spread throughout Yingcheng. Everyone in the city was talking about the poor management of Ye's Pharmacy, which led to the former shopkeeper Xu Hong absconding with money, so the pharmacy has fallen into a trap. An extremely chaotic situation.
Not only did they not save their customers, they also stopped stocking many basic medicinal materials in the pharmacy.
This "carefully fabricated" rumor was intertwined with each other and was half true and half false, so it spread very quickly throughout Yingcheng.
Early the next morning, things happened one after another that made Ye's pharmacy even worse. Lao Zhou, the master who had worked for the drug store for decades, resigned directly. He did not resign to Ye Lan, but foundHe joined the Yingcheng Pharmaceutical Association and resigned on the grounds that Yejia Pharmacy had been selling fake medicines to deceive customers, and his conscience couldn't bear it, so he couldn't continue working at Yejia Pharmacy.
At the same time that the sitting master Lao Zhou appeared at the "Yingcheng Pharmaceutical Association", a group of customers who claimed to have been victimized by the Ye family's counterfeit medicines angrily rushed to the Ye family pharmacy, although they were all stopped outside the store by the Yingcheng guards. , but the whole increasingly serious fake drug incident has caused an uproar again.
The Ye family¡¯s drug store was suddenly roasted on fire, and the public opinion spread in the city became increasingly unfavorable to the Ye family.
"The Dugu family is so ruthless."
At dusk, Lao Sun, who went out to inquire for information, braved the fine wind and snow and rushed back to the drug store.
"How is the situation now?"
Ye Lan tightly grasped the arm of Xiao Han who was standing aside. Xiao Han could clearly feel that her pressure was so great that a straw could destroy her.
"The general director of the Dayan Pharmaceutical Association has initiated an arbitration meeting regarding this matter to discuss whether to deprive our Ye Family Pharmacy of its pharmacy qualification." Lao Sun said worriedly.
"Are you kidding me?" Ye Lan was about to go crazy. "You want to use this matter to deprive us of our qualifications and to drive our Ye family out of the world of medicine business?" She did not expect that the Dugu family would be so ruthless.
"Don't worry, our Ye family also has people in the Pharmaceutical Association. At least three directors are from us, butexcept for the three of them, everyone else has probably been bribed by the Dugu family." Lao Sun I also felt that the more I spoke, the more frustrated I became.
"What makes me sad is Uncle Zhou. How could he betray us? We have been with the Ye family for so many years, and the Ye family has been so good to him" Ye Lan clenched her fists, and there was mist in her eyes, "He he actually Report us out of nothing.¡±
"Well, it's not Lao Zhou's fault for this. It seems that the Lonely Family took away his wife and children, so he had to cooperate."
"What should we do? What should we do? When will the arbitration meeting to disqualify our Ye Family Medicine Store be held?"
"About two days later, well, if the eldest lady is here at this time, maybe she can come up with a solution."
"Yes, the eldest lady is not here at the most critical moment. When the eldest lady comes back, how will I face her? How will I explain to the eldest lady that I failed to keep the Ye Family Medicine Store?"
Ye Lan gritted her teeth to prevent her tears from flowing out.
Xiao Han, who was standing aside, patted her shoulder gently.
"Ah-Dai, you are so sensible and know when to comfort girls." Ye Lan smiled tiredly, "I can't be weak, especially when the eldest lady is not here. I can't rely on her like before. This time I have to You have to solve it yourself.¡±
"Well, maybe if we wait a little longer, things will turn around." Xiao Han said softly.
"Ah-Dai, you are right. There is always a path. The eldest lady has worked hard to run Yejia Pharmaceutical to the present level by herself. It is impossible that just a few days after she left, everything would fall apart and be completely destroyed. I dropped it, things will definitely turn around later." Ye Lan murmured to herself as if she was analyzing the situation, but also as if she was comforting herself.
"The word "turnaround" is like the last life-saving straw. Ye Lan holds it firmly in her heart. It becomes her last hope.
She was so exhausted that she just lay down on the table in the "meeting hall" and fell asleep. Xiao Han took her back to the room.
When a new day approached, the turning point that Ye Lan hoped for did not appear. Instead, the Ye Family Pharmacy encountered a new crisis.
It was the landlord of the Ye Family Pharmacy who had rented the store to the Ye Family for generations. He said that due to an emergency, they wanted to take back the store immediately.
They will pay liquidated damages to the Ye family, but the Ye family must also move all their belongings within three hours.
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