14. Medicinal Herbs Market

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There was a light rain in the middle of the night, and Monday morning was much cooler than usual. The leaves outside the window are washed more spiritually, green and verdant, and I am seriously nostalgic for my last days.

After breakfast, the students left the dormitory one after another to go to class. The study life of the university is starting to get on track. Zheng Xin asked Zhang Kai and the others to bring their leave slips and hand them to the teacher.

After waiting for the roommates to leave for a while, Zheng Xin got up and locked the door. He stood at the window and looked out for a while. After feeling that everything was in order, his thoughts flashed and he entered the Holy Crystal.

The Sacred Crystal was still the same as the last time he came in, the small pit was flat and the water was clear, and the jade bowl was full of clear water. It was a small piece of land, flat brown and black, free of debris. Zheng Xin squatted down and picked up a handful of dirt, which seemed to be the same as the land outside, only darker in color and wetter.

Points can only be earned here. Zheng Xin still has no clue.

Raising fish in the puddle or selling water to make money, Zheng Xin didn't think about it at all. This is subject to many conditions and is not realistic. It seems that the only way to do it is to plant.

Ordinary fruits and vegetables don't seem to work, how much can be grown in such a big place? Selling it is also a problem. It is necessary to grow cost-effective things.

How about medicinal herbs? But Zheng Xin didn't understand this at all. He pulled out his phone and tried to look it up. Suddenly remembered, is there a signal here?

Saint Crystal replied immediately: "For everything in the real world, Saint Crystal is nothing. It will not affect the normal operation of the real world. ”

"Oh, then why can't I perceive the outside world here?"

"Only the master can feel the specific existence of the Holy Crystal, so it will also be restricted by this existence."

"Is there a way for me to perceive the outside world in the Holy Crystal?"

"Gain snooping skills."

Alas, it seems that there is still a long way to go. Zheng Xin no longer bothered about this matter, and began to use his mobile phone to search for information about planting medicinal herbs. The first thing that comes to mind is ginseng.

It takes at least six years from the planting of small seedlings to the harvesting of ginseng, that is, more than 2,100 days, even in the holy crystal, it will take more than 210 days, more than seven months, and if you want to make a profit, you have to wait until next spring. And even if it is successful, it will only cost 1,800 yuan per plant.

Find out if there are any medicinal herbs that can be harvested during the one-year growing season? Zheng Xin entered and searched according to this request, and the result really made his eyes shine.

There are many annual herbs. Zheng Xin looked at several medicinal materials with high returns and found that gastrodia was more suitable.

The growth period of gastrodia is from May to July, spring planting and autumn harvest or autumn planting and spring harvesting. The yield per mu is 1,000 kilograms, and the income is 7 or 80,000 yuan, but the cost is also high, and the planting is cumbersome, 3 or 40,000 yuan per mu.

You can try. Zheng Xin decided to go to the medicinal herb market now. He searched and found that the local medicinal herb market was on the outskirts of the eastern part of the city, more than ten kilometers away from the school.

Zheng Xin withdrew from the Holy Crystal, cleaned up briefly, put the gauze wrapped around his head and hands into his backpack, and went downstairs and walked out. I went out of the south gate of the school and got on the bus that was checked. The road in front of the school is an arterial road that runs east and west of the city, and you can reach your destination all the way east.

After nearly an hour, Zheng Xin finally came to the city's largest medicinal herb market. This is a large courtyard enclosed, and halls are built in the courtyard, and according to the classification, there are all kinds of Chinese medicinal materials traded.

Zheng Xin searched for a long time, and finally found the Tianma trading hall. He walked in and saw that there weren't many people in the hall. The booth was a lot empty, and my heart was half cold, it seems that the situation in reality is not as hot as it is uploaded on the Internet.

Come to a booth with people. The owner was a man who looked to be in his 40s. On the stall are pieces of dried gastrodia. The stall owner raised his eyes and saw that the person who came was a teenager, so he didn't care and didn't make a sound.

Zheng Xin had no choice but to speak by herself: "Do you buy fresh gastrodia here?" ”

A smile appeared on the stall owner's face and said, "Collect, little brother, do you have gastrodia to sell at home?" ”

Zheng Xin also smiled and said, "Yes, how much is a catty?" ”

"Oh, it depends on the quality. The price is not the same. ”

"What about the good quality?"

"A good price can give 70 or 80 a kilogram, and a bad price is only 50 or 60 a kilogram."

"Excuse me, do you have gastrodia seedlings for sale here?"

"Yes." The stall owner is a little confused, is this young man going to sell or buy? ”

"Where?" Zheng Xin looked around to see what the seedlings looked like.

The stall owner laughed and asked, "Little brother, do you really grow gastrodia?" ”

Zheng Xin's face turned red, but then he said matter-of-factly: "Yes, but it's not me, it's my father who planted it." I went to school here, and he asked me to learn about the market first, and then I was ready to sell it. ”

The man nodded. said: "If you plant it at home, you will have seedlings." Now the early-planted gastrodia has just been harvested, and it will take about a month to really go on the market in large quantities. I haven't received the goods here. ”

Zheng Xin understood. However, he was a little unwilling, and asked, "There should be something for sale now, right?" ”

The man pointed to a place in the distance where there was a man and said, "It seems that someone is selling over there." You can go over and have a look. ”

Zheng Xin hurriedly thanked him and prepared to walk over there. But the man called out to him, handed him a business card, and said, "If you want to sell goods from your house, come to me." Rest assured, the guarantee is the best price here and won't let you lose out. ”

Zheng Xin took the business card, looked at it carefully, said thank you again, and left.

Zheng Xin came to the place that showed him, there were more people here. Sure enough, a sack of fresh gastrodia had been weighed and was being carefully taken out and placed in place, and gastrodia was like a piece of small white potato.

Zheng Xin looked at it for a while and found that just like the boss said just now, such gastrodia was sold for 80 yuan a kilogram, and a sack was more than 40 kilograms, and it was sold for more than 3,000 yuan.

Zheng Xin sees that the transaction has been completed. The goods have been shipped in the hands of the seller. I found the stall owner who bought gastrodia and asked, "Can you sell me a little bit of gastrodia?" ”

The stall owner is older and looks to be in his early 50s. He was stunned and said with a smile: "Little brother, this Tianma has to be reprocessed before it can be used medicinally." I have a finished product here, you want a finished product, right? ”

Zheng Xin smiled and shook his head, and said, "I just want to buy some of this fresh, do you think it's okay?" ”

The man looked at Zheng Xin and asked suspiciously, "What do you want to do here?" ”

Zheng Xin had already thought of the answer: "I am a student at the University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, and I want to test the drying process. ”

"Oh, that's right. Okay, how much do you want? ”

"Give me a kilometre, how much is it?"

The man saw that the seller was still on the sidelines. Said happily: "80 yuan a kilogram, and I will give it to you at this price." ”

Zheng Xin hurriedly thanked her, but then offered to pick it herself. The stall owner was not happy when he heard it, and was about to refuse, but saw that Zheng Xin had already picked it up and picked a small one. The stall owner glanced at Zheng Xin in surprise, so he stopped saying and found a plastic bag for Zheng Xin to fill a kilogram. Zheng Xin paid the money and left with Tianma.