Chapter 83: Chinese Herbal Medicine
The shopkeeper of the pharmacy will not push the customers out.
But in fact, he has a request for Tan Qingqing.
"You misunderstood me. Although I am the shopkeeper of this pharmacy, to run such a large pharmacy is indispensable to the love of the people in the city. ”
"For example, the white zombie silkworm you bought before was a silkworm merchant who sold me the dead dried whole worms. As for beeswax, it is also a big beekeeper outside the city, and the leftovers that cannot be sold out are sold at a high price. ”
"Besides, these drunken fish grass, purslane, and parsnip were all dug up by the people on the roadside in the field and put in my small pharmacy."
"Without everyone's help, how difficult would it be for the villain to find a place to live in this huge city?"
Tan Qingqing said that the shopkeeper Huang didn't need to talk to her so twists and turns.
"My family runs a dart game, and I am not a small sericulture and beekeeping trader, what can I help you? I don't have any herbs to sell you. ”
What's more, some medicinal herbs must be specially planted.
Otherwise, if you rely on wild collection alone, the yield will be too low, and it will not be enough for the demand of a pharmacy.
And Tan Qingqing has never been in contact with medicinal materials since his ancestors.
Most of the family's fields are also planted with grain, and they have never touched the medicine fields.
Therefore, the shopkeeper Huang pinned his hopes on Tan Qingqing, which was really difficult for some strong people.
When the yellow shopkeeper saw Tan Qingqing answering, more smiles appeared on his face.
As if he made a request, Tan Qingqing would definitely agree.
"That's right, I can find a source of general medicinal materials. But poisons like scorpions, centipedes, poisonous snakes, spiders, toads, etc., no one dares to catch and breed. But your Tan Clan's dart game is from the army, if you Tan Clan can help when you go up the mountain......"
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Tan Qingqing replied to him directly, "Our Tan clan is a martial artist, but our family has no experience in dealing with poisons." ”
"It doesn't matter, if you can't hunt poison, you can also pick dendrobium and blood bird's nest from the cliffs. There is also Ganoderma lucidum in the deep mountains and old forests...... In short, as long as you can bring back the medicinal materials in good condition, the price of my purchase will not be low. ”
"Take centipedes, for example, a piece of three cents to ten cents."
"Ten pennies can buy more than a pound of flour in Yuzhou City."
Unexpectedly, the price of this poison was okay.
Tan Qingqing was a little moved.
But this does not mean that Tan Qingqing has to take risks and help the shopkeeper Huang go into the mountains for such a trip.
She is not short of money for the time being.
If her cousin helped her sell all the hibiscus powder, she would even be profitable.
But......
Who would dislike having less money?
The shopkeeper of the pharmacy saw that Tan Qingqing was still hesitating, so he added another code.
"Girl, you will definitely come to my little shop often in the future, right? For example, this red and blue flower, I can sell it at cost price in the future. Or, the villain can give you some. ”
Ah, this ......
That's a bit of a gracious affair.
Indeed, it is estimated that she will come to the pharmacy many times in the future.
After all, you have to earn potential.
If you can let the shopkeeper Huang lower the price of medicinal materials, it is equivalent to indirectly helping Tan Qingqing save money.
"I know what you mean. But mainly I haven't had the idea of going up the mountain lately. ”
"But don't worry, as long as I enter the mountain, I will definitely help you pay attention to the matter of wild medicinal materials. But no matter how good I am, I'm just a martial artist, not a medical family. It is inevitable that some precious medicinal materials will not be fully recognized. ”
"Moreover, even if I recognize some medicinal herbs, I may not be able to dig them. Take wild ginseng as an example, if you accidentally hurt the roots or something, wouldn't you waste the ginseng in vain? ”
Shopkeeper Huang understood what Tan Qingqing meant.
The shopkeeper took out a book from the book box on the counter. At first glance, this book was printed by the shopkeeper Huang at his own expense. The cover catalogue is "Complete Chinese Herbal Medicine", which is printed with the appearance of various common medicinal materials, the part of herbs used in medicine, and the collection method.
Although it is relatively rudimentary.
But as long as you are literate, you can basically identify one or two by looking at pictures.
In the book box of the Huang shopkeeper, there are many books like this.
At first glance, I often ask people who go out to help collect medicinal materials.
"The medicinal materials that the pharmacy needs are basically there. And the price of the acquisition is written on each page. You Tan can go up the mountain whenever you want, and the villain is not in a hurry. But the villain only asks for a little, and the medicinal materials you dig up and collect are better sold to me first. As for the money for the purchase of medicinal herbs, it is easy to say. ”
For the sake of Shopkeeper Huang's diligence, Tan Qingqing reluctantly agreed.
"Okay. I know. Tan Qingqing included "Complete Chinese Herbal Medicine" in his bag.
"If I had the goods, I would consider it."
Tan Qingqing bought some medicinal materials for making rouge in the pharmacy and left the pharmacy.
At the beginning of making rouge, Tan Qingqing still did not choose rouge. After all, the price of cochineal is too high, and one or two cochineal insects are sold for ten taels.
So much so that raw materials like cochineal, in terms of Tan Qingqing's current financial resources, can only be seen.
Walking out of the pharmacy and returning to the courtyard, Tan Qingqing air-dried the medicinal materials he bought on the basket next to the fence.
After preparing the rouge gouache herbs that Ming'er wanted to use, Tan Qingqing boiled hot water and prepared to take a bath and sleep.
In the courtyard next door, there was a sound of giggling all the time.
Tan Qingqing approached and listened, and heard the voices of Tan Jiexing, Tan Yunxing, Tan Rongbai, Tan Songbai.
Good guy, what are these people doing while she's not there?
Tan Qingqing hurriedly took a shower, changed into clean pajamas, and rushed to the courtyard next door.
I saw the courtyard next door, and Tan Jiexing set up a square table in the middle of the courtyard.
On the square table was the mahjong tiles that Tan Qingqing had previously made on the Cao Yun boat.
These four people sat in the four directions of the square table.
One person didn't play cards, but he grabbed a handful of melon seeds and knocked them in his mouth.
The other three were drawing cards and playing cards, looking very interested.
"The ledger in the dart game has finally been cleaned up. I've been exhausted from carrying account books these days. Bump, eight of a kind. Tan Songbai took two two-cylinders and put them on his own deck. As for the eight jo he just shouted, he was beaten out.
"What are you? You're just carrying the ledger, and you're tired. Aren't all the accounts I calculated? Hachijo yes? Lever. "Tan Rongbai's card has exactly three eight-of-a-kind. plus Tan Songbai's eight, it is four.
"Hey, you guys are a piece of. I'm out of luck. Nine cylinders. ”
Tan Jiexing didn't touch it, and there was no bar, so he could only touch the cards, and then sighed, and played the cards he had just touched.
"I'm going to collect the rent today. Those tenants, all of them are like ghosts. It is not that this year's floods and droughts have reduced production, but that locusts have eaten the grain. I have to reduce the rent. Although I haven't been in Yuzhou City for three years, has Yuzhou City really suffered a locust plague? ”
Tan Jiexing complained while asking Tan Yunxing to grab some melon seeds for her.
"They just think I'm a girl, and I'm a bully."
Someone dared to bully Tan Xiaosi? Those tenants don't look at their arms and legs, whether they can twist Tan Zhuxing.
"Then how did you collect the rent?" Tan Songbai asked curiously.
"If you can't talk about them, just beat them." Tan Jiexing knocked on the melon seeds and said casually, "Some people, if you talk to him well, he just won't listen?!" I have to force people to take out their fists and compare with him. ”