Chapter 12: The Year Ahead

In the first year she came here, she ate a lot more hearty than usual, stewed dried mushrooms with pheasant, fried egg cakes, and fried fresh radish cherry seeds. Since there are not enough bowls at home, there are only two dishes, but the portions are not very large. That radish cherry is still the radish that was planted at the door before, although it doesn't grow very well, but she planted a lot. And the radishes she planted eventually produced turnips, very small turnips, and she washed all the radishes and put them in the pickle jar. There's a lot of stuff in there.

The weather is getting warmer, and the weeds and trees in the mountains are starting to sprout. She knew that spring had come, that a new year had begun, and that she had been here for almost a year, and that this year she would be eleven years old.

As soon as spring arrives, many wild vegetables begin to sprout and appear, and she starts to get busy again. On the way down the mountain, we collect wild vegetables, and if we can't finish eating, we dry them and put them away. In February, she was going to go down the mountain, after all, February 18 was the original owner's birthday, and it was her birthday. Now she's turned on the remaining eighth.

This time, she brought some He Shou Wu and a bowl-sized Ganoderma lucidum from home, and she wanted to go to the pharmacy to see if she could accept these, and then think about making money in the future. But for the sake of insurance, she still brought the rest of the family's money with her, and if she didn't sell it at that time, she still had money to buy other things.

Because she drove out for a while, it took nearly half a day less to go down the mountain this time than before, and it took a day and a half to arrive. By the time she arrived, it was almost afternoon, and many of the vendors had already closed their stalls. But luckily, everything she wants to buy and sell is in the town. She first inquired about the location of the town's medical center and the reputation of the medical center, and finally she found that there were three medical centers in a small White Tiger Town. There is a ** thatched cottage medical center, which is basically said by everyone, and they all say that Dr. Shi has good medical skills and a good reputation, and he never cheats people or anything.

After inquiring, she carried her things to the Spring Grass Hall. There were only a few people in the Spring Grass Hall, and she went in to find a place to sit and wait for a while. After knowing that everyone was gone, one of the people in the store should be a medicine apprentice, so he called her: "Little sister is you." She hurriedly got up and said, "This little brother, I'm not here to see a doctor, I'm here to ask if you can accept medicine, I have some sun-dried He Shou Wu and Ganoderma lucidum." "This...... Let me ask for you. "Okay, thank you, little brother." And so she waited a little longer.

It didn't take long for the little brother just now to come to her again and said, "That's the case, our doctor Shi said that he can accept it, but he must check it to see if it's true." "Well, well, where is that?" "It's over there, look, that's Dr. Shi." The little guy said as he asked her to see. The doctor looked to be about forty years old, with black hair tied up with a hairpin, a long robe, and a long black beard on his chin. There was a gentle feeling in the whole person, as if she was writing something when she looked at him, as if she felt that she was looking at him and raised his head and smiled at her.

Seeing this, she hurriedly took her things and walked over. came to Dr. Shi and shouted, "Hello Dr. Shi." "Hello, are you going to sell Shou Wu and Ganoderma lucidum?" "Yes, look at it." After speaking, he took out the shou wu and lingzhi in the basket and put them on the table in front of him. "You sit." Doctor Shi said to her. After that, he went to look at what she had put on the table, and she sat aside and didn't bother anymore.

After a long time, when she was almost impatient, she heard the doctor on the other side say: "Yes, these shou wu of yours are very good, they are not mixed with other things, and they are also very well dried; As for this lingzhi, it looks like it is very old, not bad. "Doctor, do you accept these medicinal herbs?" Hearing Doctor Shi's words, Yang Xue immediately said. Hearing that she was in such a hurry to answer, the doctor smiled, and then said, "Little girl, don't worry, I didn't say I wouldn't accept it, I took your medicinal herbs." In this way, you have simply dried these Shouwu, and I will give you three coins of silver and a catty, as for this Ganoderma lucidum, I will give you a total of fifty taels of silver. "This ......" Yang Xue hesitated a little, she didn't know if it was this price. Seeing her hesitating, the little brother on the side hurriedly said: "Little sister, our doctor Shi generally does not accept other people's medicinal materials, unless it is particularly valuable or in urgent need." And the price given to you by Dr. Shi is the best, and our medical clinic has a good reputation in the town. ”

When she heard what the little brother said, she decided to sell it, and she had also inquired, and this medical hall did have a good reputation. He said: "Okay, I'll sell, it's me who looks good, I'm sorry, doctor, I didn't expect to be able to sell it for so much money, you can call it." "I'm a little embarrassed. The little brother weighed the Shou Wu, a total of seven catties, and together with the Ganoderma lucidum, it was sold for a total of fifty-two taels and one yuan. took the silver handed over by Dr. Shi, and the rest of a fifty-tael silver ticket was seven yuan and three coins of broken silver. Looking at the fifty taels of silver ticket, she hesitated a little, and Dr. Shi looked at her hesitation in her eyes and asked, "What's wrong, is there something wrong?" "I haven't seen a silver ticket, so I ......," Yang Xue replied. She didn't finish speaking, but Dr. Shi already understood what she meant, so he said: "Don't worry, this silver ticket is valid for the whole country, and there is a money bank in our town, if you don't worry, you can take it and redeem it immediately." I am mainly afraid that the silver will be too heavy for you to handle, and I am also afraid that you will be in danger. Hearing Dr. Shi's words, she agreed. After packing the silver ticket and silver, she asked, "Doctor Shi, if I have the same medicinal herbs in the future, can I still sell them to you?" "Yes, but I don't get much here. You can take as many as you want from Ganoderma lucidum. Doctor Shi said. Okay, I see, thank you. Then he went away with the basket on his back.

Then she went to the money bank to see that she had just received the silver ticket, which was true, but when she heard that interest was to be charged, she exchanged it for silver. Then she was very careful all the way, and after she didn't find anything special, she went to the grain store and bought five catties of white flour, two catties of cornmeal, two catties of rice, and two catties of broken rice. I went to the grocery store and bought some bath beans, a wooden barrel, some hemp rope, four bowls, two large and two small, went to the seed shop and bought some vegetable seeds, and also went to the iron shop to buy a sickle and a shovel. In the end, I went to the cloth shop and bought a piece of linen, a piece of cheesecloth, ten feet of fine cotton, and a lot of cotton thread, and asked the boss to build some cloth heads.

It was already late when she came out of the cloth shop, and she wanted to buy some meat, but she was afraid that the stall would have been closed or sold out, but it wouldn't take much time to go to the butcher's shop if she wanted to see it.

When I came to the meat stall, the meat was not sold out, but the rest was not good meat. There was only some lean meat left, some minced meat, a pig's foot, and a cage of intestines. Although she was a little disappointed, she was still a little disappointed, but in the end she still bought a pound of lean meat and a pig's foot.

After shopping, she left, and she was going to buy some steamed buns, but everyone had already closed the stall. She didn't stay in the town any longer, she left after shopping, and it was safer to go home with her previous experience and a huge amount of money of more than ten taels on her.

When she returned home, she calculated that she had earned a total of fifty-two taels and one dollars this time and spent eight hundred and fifty-five wen, plus the two hundred wen she brought from home, and the total was ten taels of silver, one tael of broken silver, and two hundred and forty-five yuan of copper plates, which was fifty-one taels and four hundred and forty-five wen.