Chapter 215: Harm others and yourself
"Mist, how much are you going to sell this ginseng for later?"
Just a few steps away, Da Niu suddenly grabbed her.
Da Niu's concern is not for no reason, Huawu grew up in the countryside since childhood, and the price of this ginseng is different, and the ginseng in the quality of the year can even be sold for a thousand taels of gold.
And the general year is short and costs a few hundred taels of silver, and the difference is too big, and he is a little worried that Huawu will be fooled.
"Let's go and see the market first." Hua Wu smiled faintly and told Da Niu his plan.
In fact, she didn't know much about the value of ginseng in this era, but it was certain that ginseng was a precious tonic at all times.
And this strain in her hand has been at least more than a hundred years, so she decided to go to other pharmacies first.
The two gentlemen went to a time-honored pharmacy on the street, and only the shopkeeper looked at the store.
Maybe it's because the business is cold and habitual, although the shopkeeper sees someone walking into the mausoleum, he loves to ignore it.
The lazy tone casually asked, "Are you two going to see a doctor or buy medicine?" ”
Hua Wu stepped forward and said with a smile, "Naturally, I'm here to buy medicine, do you have ginseng?" ”
When she asked, she didn't expect the shopkeeper's reaction to be a little funny.
The thief's eyebrows looked at her, and he said with a foolish expression, "Girl, what are you?" I heard me right, you came to my store to buy ginseng, teasing me, didn't you? ”
As soon as I saw the shopkeeper's reaction, I knew that he definitely didn't have ginseng here.
Hua Wu changed his way and asked, "Don't hide it from the shopkeeper, we are new residents, because relatives and friends at home need to use ginseng, if the shopkeeper doesn't have it, please tell me one or two, where do you need to buy ginseng?" ”
The shopkeeper looked at the two of them with some disdain, and said after a while, "It's not that I look at it in this poor country, what a precious thing that ginseng is, even a little whisker costs one or two taels of silver, and then look at the clothes on the two of them should also be from a poor person, how to use ginseng?" ”
Sure enough, people wanted to be dressed in gold, and the shopkeeper concluded that they could not afford to buy ginseng based on their clothes alone.
Hua Wu was also laughed at, but she didn't want to be like this person.
After thinking about it, he said, "It's our business whether we can afford it or not, but please tell the shopkeeper where to buy it, and how much silver does a ginseng cost?" ”
"Huh." The shopkeeper smiled contemptuously, "You probably don't know, although our Chu country also has locally produced ginseng, but its quality and medicinal effect are not as good as the goods imported from the Northern Liang Kingdom."
An ordinary variety of ginseng for decades needs hundreds of taels, and there is no upper limit to the top, our town is not big, and the only one that sells ginseng is the semicolon of the hanging pot pharmacy on the street. ”
"I see, thank you shopkeeper."
Hua Wu and Da Niu came out of the pharmacy and had an idea in their hearts, and pinched the ginseng wrapped in a cloth in their hands. You should be able to buy three or four hundred taels.
At this time, the hanging pot pharmacy was lively, because today was the day when the shopkeeper of the general branch here in Yueshan City came to inspect.
"Recently, there have been frequent frictions on the border between our Chu State and the Beiliang State, which has also affected the trade caravans between the two countries, which has led to the shortage of ginseng."
A man dressed in vegetable blue brocade leaned on a wicker chair and said lightly, with a slightly worried look between his eyebrows.
He is Gao Ziyu, the chief manager of this hanging pot medicine shop in the southern branch, and at present, other medicinal materials are still available in Kaichun, but the supply of ginseng is missing.
Hearing his words, the shopkeeper who had been standing aside also looked sad, "How is this good, please think of a way as soon as possible." ”
"This..."
Gao Ziyu's face is difficult, ginseng is an important source of profit for their pharmacy, but now it is not only this semicolon that is out of stock.
Instead, the goods stored by the various large semicolons in the entire south are rapidly consumed, but they cannot be replenished, and the war on the border does not know when it will end, which has a great impact on their business.
At this moment, Hua Wu and Da Niu walked in, and the shopkeeper apprentice who was guarding outside with his only son smiled and greeted him.
"Yo, if you two come to grab the medicine, do you have a prescription?"
Hua Wu and Da Niu exchanged glances, and then said, "We're not here to grab medicine, may I ask where your shopkeeper is?" ”
Seeing that the two of them came to find the shopkeeper, it was not to catch the medicine, and the apprentices were a little unsure of what they were going to do.
It wouldn't be a door-to-door payment, but the apprentices didn't remember that they had come to buy medicine before.
After thinking about it, he asked, "Dare to ask why the two of you are looking for our shopkeeper?" ”
Hua Wu smiled and said, "We're here to sell medicine." ”
"Selling medicine?"
The apprentice looked a little surprised, and said, "That's right, all the medicinal materials in our store have special supply channels, and for the sake of quality insurance, we don't accept bulk goods from the people." ”
Over, the apprentice's face also lost his original enthusiasm, since he was not a door-to-door customer, he naturally would not waste his expression.
Besides, there were no special good medicinal materials in Yuxi Town and several nearby villages, and he didn't believe that the men and women who were not very old in front of him could have any good goods, so he just wanted to send them away as soon as possible.
Da Niu stood aside with his arms crossed, a little disliked the attitude of the apprentice, Hua Wu chuckled and walked to the counter, took out the package with ginseng from his sleeve, and opened the cloth covering it.
A white and fat ginseng with a complete number of roots appeared in front of him, and the apprentice was so surprised that he almost didn't bite off his tongue, and strode forward, observing the ginseng on the stage.
Reaching out and touching it, I'm afraid of banging, "Where did you come from?" ”
"You don't care where we come from, as long as we don't steal or rob!" Hua Wu said word by word.
The apprentice's eyes seemed to be rooted in the ginseng Yes, "This thing is extremely precious in the Chu State, even if a town-level semicolon like theirs can only be allocated half or one in a year, and those who can afford it on weekdays are all from people with good conditions, and even rich families can only afford to buy a little cut of whiskers every time."
Even he himself hasn't seen a complete ginseng for two consecutive years, and every time the shopkeeper goes to the county seat to get the goods, he cuts off the remaining half of the tail.
In the room in the pharmacy, Gao Ziyu was still discussing the purchase issue with the shopkeeper, and he heard the apprentice talking to someone outside for a long time.
I couldn't help but look outside, and I saw two young people, a man and a woman, both of whom looked very good, but they were wearing coarse linen clothes.
Gao Ziyu stared at the outside and frowned slightly, these two temperaments are so incompatible with the dress, they can't be from the rivers and lakes, right?
Generally, the most afraid thing about doing business like them is to meet people in the rivers and lakes, because those people will not reason with you at all, and they will definitely encounter bad luck if they find them.
At this time, the apprentice who was outside determined that the flower mist was taking real ginseng, and he couldn't pay attention to it.
Let Huawu and Da Niu wait for a while, and then go into the back room to report to the shopkeeper.
Gao Ziyu drank a cup of tea in his hand slowly, and when the shopkeeper saw the apprentice come in, he asked, "What's wrong?" “