Before the start of the autumn harvest, Lin Zhu and Mrs. Li picked the first batch of wolfberries finally dried, Lin Zhu originally wanted to let Dr. Zhang show if it was to the extent that it could be sold, who knew that he had not come back when he went out, there was only one gatekeeper at home, and even the housekeeper was not there, so she had to collect the dried wolfberries according to her previous experience, and prepared to go to Fushengtang in the county seat to sell them, which was what Dr. Zhang said when he sent the housekeeper over before.

Lin Zhu inquired with Aunt Li that Linjiazhuang belongs to Baihe Town, and Baihe Town belongs to Song County. Song County is thirty miles away from Linjiazhuang, Lin Zhu wants to go to the county, he has to start before dawn, and if he takes the ox cart back and forth, it will take four hours, so he has to go back quickly. After discussing with Aunt Li, it was decided to go over as soon as possible, or wait until the autumn harvest, people would be busy enough just to work, and there would be no time to send them to the county, not to mention that cattle are also important laborers. So they asked Lin Dazhu to send them to the county seat.

Originally, Lin Dazhu was a little reluctant to go to the county seat so far away, but when Lin Zhu paid 30 yuan, he readily agreed. In order not to expose the purpose of going to the county seat, she and Aunt Li wrapped the wolfberries very tightly. Even when Lin Dazhu asked curiously, Aunt Li also made an excuse to prevaricate. Even Aunt Li's family, only the village chief knew what they were going out for, and the rest of the family went to a relative's house as Aunt Li.

Along the way, Lin Zhu looked at the surrounding environment, for her, although everything here is backward, it is incomparable to the previous reinforced concrete world, there is no air with the smell of gas, it is very fresh, there is no sky covered by haze, pure and immaculate.

The closer to the county seat, the more people there are, there are farmers walking with baskets on their backs, there are hawkers who carry burdens, and there are people who push chicken carts forward, and they have to pay the entrance fee to the county seat, two pennies per person, Aunt Li took out the money first, Lin Zhu wanted to come out, but Aunt Li didn't let her, and told her afterwards that she was still too young, so that people knew that if she had money in her hand, she would be targeted by thieves, and the county seat was not as good as the town, and there were always some people with unclean hands and feet.

After making an appointment with Lin Dazhu to go back and the place to meet, Aunt Li took Lin Zhu and walked to the city, the street was very lively, the shops on the street were next to each other, the two walked around the street for a while, found someone to ask where Fushengtang was, and went to Fushengtang.

When he arrived at the place, Lin Zhu found that although the façade of Fushengtang was not large, as soon as he walked inside, he found that there was not only a pharmacy inside, but also a doctor sitting in the hall who was diagnosing the pulse, and the two parts were carried out in an orderly manner. The guys at the pharmacy were busy with their work, and everything was in order.

A guy who was about fifteen or sixteen years old saw Lin Zhu and the two people who entered the door, and stepped forward to greet them, "Are you two going to see a doctor or take medicine?" Aunt Li glanced at Lin Zhu and said to the young man, "We don't see a doctor, we don't take medicine, it's some wild fruits that you don't collect." ”

When the guy heard this, he was a little dissatisfied, and said that I am not a vegetable market here, how can I collect any wild fruits, and then said contemptuously, "We are a pharmacy, we only accept medicinal materials, and we don't accept other messes." ”

After listening to the young man's words, Aunt Li was a little timid, after all, it was the first time to sell things in a pharmacy, and she didn't know if the wolfberries she brought could be used as medicinal materials, so Aunt Li looked a little timid. As soon as the young man saw her like this, he was sure that they were countrymen who didn't know anything, and looked down on them even more. "If you don't see a doctor or take medicine, don't get in the way of others, let's go." Directly opened his mouth to drive people away.

Lin Zhu also knew that no matter what age it was, there were always some snobbish guys, and they didn't care about the younger guys, seeing that Aunt Li was a little flinching, so she stepped forward and spread out her hands with the little guy, and she grabbed a few dried wolfberries in her hands, "It's not a mess, we came here to let you see if you can collect these wolfberries." ”

Lin Zhu took out the wolfberry, the color is pure, the dried fruit after drying is not full and moist before, Lin Zhu also specially screened the wolfberry that has been sun-dried, and the fruit is bright red, oily, fat and sweet, about one or two about 400 grains are packed together, and there are about 12 or 600 grains packed together, these dried fruits are smaller, and the best kind is shown to the guys.

In fact, when she entered the county seat, Lin Zhu saw that there was a dried fruit shop, and if the Fushengtang introduced by Dr. Zhang did not accept it, she was going to go there to have a look. It is also appropriate to come to Fushengtang and show them the wolfberries.

The young man saw the wolfberry in Lin Zhu's hand, the quality is very good, although the wolfberry is very little in medicine, but it is also an indispensable medicine in the pharmacy, many large families will buy high-grade wolfberry from them, as a tonic for daily use, so the amount of wolfberry here is still quite large, but because this thing is often wild, it is not easy to find, it is not easy to preserve after picking, it has to be dried in the shade and then exposed to the sun, ordinary people do not know this.

The young man didn't dare to make his own decisions at this time, so he hurriedly found the shopkeeper, and walked out of the hall A middle-aged man in his forties walked up to Lin Zhu and Aunt Li, "Do you have wolfberries in your hands to sell to the shop?" Seeing that the two of them nodded, waved their right hands, and made a gesture of invitation, "Please speak inside." ”

Entering the inner hall, the middle-aged man first invited Lin Zhu and Aunt Li to sit down, and then asked someone to serve a cup of tea, "I don't know if I can take a look at the wolfberries in your hands first." With such a pharmacy, Lin Zhu was not afraid of anything wrong, took out the wolfberries from the package, took out some of the two different wolfberries, and handed them to the middle-aged man, "My name is Lin Zhu, I don't know what to call you?" Seeing that the middle-aged man showed a satisfied look at her when she took out two kinds of wolfberries, he explained the differences between the two kinds of wolfberries.

"I am the shopkeeper of this Fushengtang, surnamed Wang, you can just call me the shopkeeper of Wang." Shopkeeper Wang put down the wolfberries in his hand with satisfaction, and smiled at Lin Zhu and the others, "Your wolfberries look good, I can take them, but I don't know if you still have them?" ”

"We have two different grades, is the price different?" Lin Zhu was afraid that his store would bully customers, so he asked directly, "Of course, the wolfberries you brought, one has reached Grade A, and the other has reached Grade B. Our Fushengtang is the most honest, Grade A is eighty wen per catty, and grade B is fifty wen per catty." The words of the shopkeeper Wang made a big stone in Lin Zhu's heart fall to the ground, fortunately, she could sell it for a good price, and she could explain it to Aunt Li's family, she didn't follow the busy work in vain, she turned her head to look at Aunt Li, and Aunt Li was also full of surprise.

Lin Zhu took out all the wolfberries in the package of the two, and the shopkeeper Wang carefully inspected them, and then asked them to be weighed.

"There are still some at home, which are being dried, and it may take them out after a while, do you still need it here?" Lin Zhu thought that there were so many wolfberries at home, and it would be great if he could sell them all here.

"If it's all like the one you got today, I can take it all." Shopkeeper Wang also happily gave Lin Zhu a positive answer. After a while, the guy came in and reported the number of wolfberries, there were ten catties for grade A and fifteen catties for B.