Chapter Twenty-Nine: I Earned a Lot of Silver
After selling things, the three of them were packing up their things and preparing to go to the pharmacy to sell herbs, Shen Chengyao just came back, and he didn't find a short-term job, and now there are more people looking for work in the farm, and many people have not found a job and stay at the dock. Pen Fun Pavilion wWw. biquge。 info
Shen Chengyao carried two baskets of herbs to the ox cart, and the three children jumped on the ox cart and set off for Tongde Hall.
Tongdetang is the largest medical center in the prefecture and also has a pharmacy. When they arrived at the door of the medical hall, Shen Chengyao stayed outside to watch the ox cart, and the three children went in to sell herbs by themselves, Shen Chengyao was going to go in, but Xiao'er said that they could handle it themselves, so they gave up, and they should give the children a chance to exercise.
As soon as the three of them entered the pharmacy, someone stepped forward and asked, "Do the three of you need to see a doctor or buy medicine?"
Xiao'er asked Jing Rui to sell, Jing Rui is the eldest son of Sanfang, and this family needs him to be the one in the future, so he has to be cultivated early.
Jing Rui was a little apprehensive in his heart, but he still stepped forward and put the basket on the ground, pointed to the raw herbs inside and said, "We are here to sell medicinal herbs, may I ask the eldest brother, do you accept raw herbs here?"
The pharmacy guy glanced at the medicine in the basket and nodded, "Accept it, please wait a moment." With that, he lifted the curtain and walked in. Soon came out of a forty or fifty-year-old shopkeeper: "Little brother is selling raw herbs?"
Jing Rui nodded: "Doctor, do you need this herb in your pharmacy?"
"I'll see what kind of herb it is. The doctor squatted down and carefully looked at the medicinal materials in the two baskets, and saw that all of them were medicinal materials, and there was no mistake, and some of them were still growing well, so he nodded, and then stood up and said, "We will collect all these medicinal materials, follow me to the backyard, there is a scale." ”
When I came to the backyard, a special guy stepped forward to take the basket and began to administer medicinal materials for inspection, sorting and weighing.
"You dug up these herbs yourself, and how do you know them?" the shopkeeper stood aside with a pen and paper to register.
"When we saw the village doctor digging, we followed suit. ”
"We accept all these medicinal materials, but because they are raw and have not been concocted, the price is relatively cheap, and the quality of the medicinal materials in them is different, and the price is also different. Chicken bone grass generally collects six wen a catty, good eight wen, comfrey general eight wen, good tenwen, soil poria cocos general eight wen, good ten wen, three seven general thirteen wen, good fifteen wen, plantain general two wen, good three wen. What do you think, if it's okay, weigh it. "The shopkeeper will explain the situation clearly.
Xiao'er felt that the herbs she took out of the space were really much better, so she pointed to the pile of herbs that were obviously much better and said, "These are all high-quality raw herbs, can the price be higher?"
The shopkeeper glanced at it, and also felt that the pile of herbs was much better than what he was used to, and after thinking for a while, he nodded: "Then how about adding a pound to everything?"
Xiao'er nodded, and Jing Rui said, "Yes, it's the price." How much do you charge for the herbs that the doctor has concocted?"
"The processing also depends on the quality, if it is processed well, it is at least twice as much as raw. ”
Jing Rui's eyes lit up when he heard this: "Then we will send it over next time, do you still want it?"
The shopkeeper smiled: "Yes, we have branches in Tongdetang all over the country, and we need a large amount of medicinal materials." ”
The man has weighed all the medicinal herbs, chicken bone grass 15 catties and 6 wen, 10 catties and 9 wen, comfrey 11 catties and 8 wen, 10 catties and 11 wen, soil poria cocos 20 catties and 8 wen, 30 catties and 11 wen, 376 catties and 13 wen, 12 catties and 16 wen, and plantain 10 catties and 2 wen.
The shopkeeper took the abacus and fiddled with it for a long time before he came up with a number: "A total of one thousand one hundred and fifty-eight texts." ”
When Xiao'er wanted to say it directly, forget it.
The shopkeeper told the man to fetch the silver, and then took the book and taught the three of them to recognize a few herbs, saying that they could sell it next time they picked it.
After getting the silver, the three of them happily walked out of the pharmacy, met Shen Chengyao at the door, and got on the ox cart to go to the grocery store.
Jing Hao sat in the ox cart and said happily to Shen Chengyao: "Dad, we sold a lot of silver. ”
"Yes, you're all better than Daddy. Shen Chengyao praised happily, the child is capable, and of course he is proud to be a father. However, he thought that they could earn a few tens of dollars at most, and they could earn a lot of dozens of dollars. Now it's only 20 to 30 yuan a day's work.
"Dad, why don't you ask us how much money we make? You're too uninteresting!" Jing Hao was unhappy, his father didn't go on the road at all.
"Haha, I don't ask, can't you say!How much money did you make?" Shen Chengyao was made to laugh by his youngest son.
Xiao'er leaned into Shen Chengyao's ear and said a number.
"What, eleven ......" Shen Chengyao couldn't help but exclaim.
Xiao'er hurriedly covered his mouth and whispered, "Dad, don't show your wealth." ”
Shen Chengyao also reacted that he was too loud, and nodded hurriedly to show that he knew. And he didn't dare to ask any more, he just wanted to hurry home.
Xiao'er originally wanted to go to the grocery store to sell jars of wine, but Shen Chengyao said that he would go to the town tomorrow to buy it, and now go home first. He was worried that a few children would be remembered by people who had sold things and got so much silver, and now it was safer to go home when the official road was the most crowded.
Xiao'er didn't insist, more things are better than small things.
When I arrived at the county gate, I happened to see Shen Zixuan and Li Zhewei just about to rent a carriage to go home, and when they saw their ox cart, they didn't dislike getting on the ox cart and going back with them.
Li Zhewei sat on the ox cart and did not feel comfortable at all, as if the ox cart was a BMW.
"What are you doing in the county?"
"We picked some mountain goods, and we came to sell them for some silver on today's market day. Jing Rui handed him a straw hat, the sun was still a little fierce now, and the ox cart was open-topped.
"Oh, what mountain goods?" he reached out and took it, and naturally put it on his head, he hadn't hunted for a long time, and he wanted to go up the mountain to play.
"Chestnuts and herbs and some fruit. ”
"What kind of silver are these things worth, why don't you get a sika deer, a fox or something. ”
Xiao'er was helpless, she thought about the sika deer and the fox, but she didn't see their shadows three times up the mountain.
"What's worthless, we sold it for more than ten taels of silver!" Jing Hao was dissatisfied when he heard this.
Xiao'er couldn't help but roll her eyes in her heart, these two fathers and sons were really biological, Jing Hao is sometimes very smart, why did he suddenly drop the chain, how much money was sold, do you need to say it so loudly? You see that everyone nearby has seen it.
Jing Hao saw that everyone else was looking over, and he also realized that he was too loud, and he looked annoyed.
Li Zhewei didn't think that more than ten taels of silver was too much, but thought that they had picked more valuable herbs.
"Zixuan, have you ever been up the mountain, let's go up the mountain tomorrow to have fun." By the way, catch some prey and go to the third uncle's house as a guest. ”
"Li Gongzi is too polite, just come to my house directly, you don't need to bring anything. ”
"I also miss the cooking skills of the third aunt and Xiao'er, and catching some prey is just right to satisfy your hunger. Xiao'er, you need to get me some bait, only one bag was useful last time. ”
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A few people talked and laughed all the way back.
Back in the village, Shen Chengyao sent Shen Zixuan and them home first, and then went back to his own home, and as soon as they entered the courtyard, they smelled the unique fragrance of chicken soup wafting out of the kitchen of the east wing. Xiao'er's heart chuckled, and a sense of foreboding swelled up, and the two brothers obviously felt it too, and ran to the back of their house. Guys