HCB Chapter 134: Selling Medicine Smartly
Chapter 134: Selling Medicine Smartly
She grabbed two handfuls of rice to cook porridge and fried a plate of small fish.
The deer ear chives in the vegetable garden have grown. I picked a handful, they are very tender, and used them to fry eggs.
After finishing a quick and simple meal, the candle burned down and she quickly cleaned up the kitchen.
The hot water was boiled early, mixed with cold water, and he took a quick bath. Then he held a candle and called Heihei back to his room to sleep.
She lay down on the bed and blew out the candle on the bedside table. "I'll go see if there's any lamp oil tomorrow."
As far as she knew, lamp oil in ancient times was mostly made from animal fats and was expensive, unaffordable for ordinary families.
If it's expensive, you can only think of replacing it with something else.
She had to get up early tomorrow and go down the mountain with the Li family. She put aside all distractions and went to sleep peacefully.
The next day.
At about four in the morning, Xia Qingyue woke up. She was still half asleep and thought she had gotten up late, so she jumped up and looked through the gap in the window. It was dark outside.
so far so good.
I walked to the kitchen stove in the dark, lit the fire, and cooked breakfast. While cooking, I prepared food for the poultry. I prepared a little extra food just in case, in case I couldn't make it back today.
After finishing, I came back to wash and comb my hair, and tied up the three thousand strands of hair with a cloth ribbon that had been washed to a light blue color.
If the weather is hot in the summer, she will also cut her hair.
I picked out some kimchi and fried some wild onions and eggs.
After eating, before daybreak, she took all the things she had prepared the night before. The medicinal herbs were dried so they were not very heavy, but the dried wormwood was the heaviest and took up more space, so she filled a backpack and a sack with them.
Put the rest of the herbs in two vegetable baskets and carry them in your hands.
We walked to the raspberry field and reunited with the Li family. It was already dawn.
Several people hurried down the mountain. They had to sell medicinal herbs and buy things, so there was a lot to do.
At about eight o'clock in the morning, several people arrived at Xiushui Village. They went back to Li's house and put the prey at home.
The main purpose today is to sell medicinal herbs for money to buy food.
Datong Town.
There were queues outside the three pharmacies in the town.
The Li family had waited and inquired at the pharmacy in advance, and after comparison, they selected a pharmacy that was good in all aspects, so they went straight to that pharmacy.
There was a long queue outside the drugstore, with some lazy and idle men standing or sitting around.
Xia Qingyue glanced around and said in a low voice:
"Uncle, although there are patrol soldiers in the town, there are always places they can't take care of. We have a lot of medicinal herbs, and most of them are valuable and good medicines. To be on the safe side, how about we not queue up later and pretend to see a doctor and go directly into the shop?"
"Yes, this is a good idea, let's do it!"
"Dad, Sister Qingyue, you guys go ahead. I'll go check on the grocery store."
Li Benfu said, "Go ahead, Kang'er."
Li Weikang ran there.
"Ouch, it hurts so much, I'm dying, Dad, my stomach hurts so much, it feels like a knife is cutting my flesh."
Li Weisheng covered his stomach with his hands and leaned on Li Benfu, with Xia Qingyue supporting him on the other side.
The three pretended to be seriously ill and desperate to see a doctor, so they rushed into the drugstore.
The doctor in the shop saw them and hurriedly stood up and came over to ask what was wrong.
Li Benfu called the doctor aside and explained the situation to him.
After listening to this, the doctor said, "Nonsense, how can you ..."
"I have ginseng, Ganoderma lucidum, cinnamon, star anise, and Bletilla striata..." Xia Qingyue reported a string of medicinal herbs and successfully shut the doctor up.
"Really?" The doctor's eyes sparkled.
"You'll know after taking a look." Xia Qingyue put the two vegetable baskets in her hands on the ground and uncovered the blue cloth covering them.
The doctor had been dealing with medicine for many years, so he recognized it after a few glances. He changed his previous attitude and said politely, "Come on, everyone, please go to the backyard to talk in detail."
Several people went to the backyard.
After looking at the medicinal materials of Xia Qingyue and the Li family, the doctor said, "Wait here for a moment. I will go get paper, pen and abacus to calculate carefully."
He took the things over and counted the Li family's first, because Xia Qingyue had slightly more medicinal herbs.
The doctor counted the medicinal materials, registered them in the register and quoted the prices of the corresponding herbs.
Two quarters of an hour later, the doctor added up the money for all the medicines on the account and reported the amount: "A total of thirteen taels, five hundred and sixty coins."
The Li family members were illiterate. Xia Qingyue took a look at the account book, which was written in traditional Chinese characters. She calculated in her mind and found that the number was correct.
Li Benfu and his son took the money and stood aside waiting.
After waiting for more than three quarters of an hour, Xia Qingyue's medicine was counted. The abacus in the doctor's hand was banging loudly, as if sparks would fly at any time.
After the calculation, the doctor held up a brush and wrote a line on the account book, "A total of eighty-eight taels and five hundred and twenty coins."
Li Benfu and his son were dumbfounded.
Xia Qingyue raised her eyebrows slightly, this amount was within her expectations.
Among so many medicinal herbs, two dried ginsengs are the most valuable, worth more than fifty taels, followed by Ganoderma lucidum, cinnamon and star anise.
The doctor ran to the accountant to withdraw money. The amount was quite large and it took some time.
After counting the money and making sure there was no problem, Xia Qingyue put the heavy ingots of silver into a cloth bag and put it in the backpack, and the small change into the small cloth bag she carried with her.
There is a sycamore tree in the backyard of the drugstore, and the ground is covered with a layer of tender green leaves.
"Doctor, can you give us those leaves?"
"Ah?" The doctor was stunned for a moment, not understanding why she said that. Then he thought that the sycamore leaves were worthless, so he waved his hand and said generously, "If you want them, take them away."
Xia Qingyue and Li Benfu thanked the doctor and then packed the sycamore leaves into a sack.
Li Weisheng raised his hand and scratched his head, a little confused.
Li Benfu seemed to have a worm in his stomach and knew what his son was thinking. "When we came in, we were carrying a backpack and a sack full of things. If we leave with nothing, what will others think? They are not blind."
"Yes."
The three of them picked up their things and helped Li Weisheng out.
Their appearance did not attract the attention of the people queuing at the door, but attracted the attention of several men standing nearby.
The men looked at each other, and one of them pointed at the backs of Xia Qingyue and others who had walked some distance away. Then he walked to the front and followed Xia Qingyue and others, not too far away.
After walking for a while, Li Weikang ran back and reunited with Xia Qingyue and the others.
"Someone is following us." Li Weikang remained calm.
"Are you still going to the grocery store to buy things?" Li Weisheng looked around warily.
"If we go now, it will undoubtedly tell them that we have money. Why don't we go back first and come back later?" Li Benfu said to Xia Qingyue.
She nodded, "Safety first."
The few of them talked as they walked, pretending that they didn't notice they were being followed and just had a normal chat.
On the street diagonally in front of me, a young man in gorgeous clothes waved a folding fan in his hand, and looked at the people coming and going on the street with a pair of slender eyes, with an impatient expression, "There is not even a single person worth looking at in this broken town, everyone is so crude and shabby, it really pollutes my eyes!
No, I'm going to go back and tell my dad that I'm not staying here anymore!"
He was followed by six trembling followers.
One of the followers looked up and saw a slender figure walking on the street in front of him. He showed joy on his face and pointed forward, "Sir, look over there."