38 Pharmaceuticals sell for money
It seems that he must come up with a safe way to sell the medicinal herbs while trying to avoid revealing his identity.
Thinking of this, Ye Qin withdrew his feet that were about to step out of the inner room, turned back to the old shopkeeper Zhao and said lightly: "I laughed, I don't know what the old shopkeeper Zhao has to say, but I would like to listen to it?"
The old shopkeeper Zhao laughed.
"That's right, it's probably not the first time that Brother Ye has done this kind of thing. Let's talk. Counting up, we are like-minded people, and the old man is the incense master of the Pingzhou Eight Chorads in Zhuqi County, and his main business is to deal in jade. However, the top-grade medicinal materials and top-grade medicines in the Medicine Picking Hall have always been a must-have for my people in the rivers and lakes, and they are also the items that my Octad has spared no expense to buy.
The old man is not only in the business of Brother Ye, many disciples of the Medicine Picking Hall have sold medicines to the old man in private. Of course, the names of these people cannot be revealed to you, otherwise it will cause a lot of trouble.
If Brother Ye sells me some of your top-grade medicinal materials, it will definitely be more cost-effective than handing them over to your medicine collection hall. If the little brother can get the high-grade medicine, then the old man can't ask for it. The price given by the old man is also absolutely fair, and he buys your medicinal materials and medicines at 50% of the price in the county trading market. How?"
Hearing the offer of the old shopkeeper Zhao, Ye Qin was taken aback.
Apprentices who collect herbs and hand over medicinal materials to the herb collection hall can only receive a reward of 5 to 10 percent of the price of the herbs. Herb pickers are better paid, 10 to 20 percent. There are about 30 to 50 percent of the herb pickers.
If you sell it privately to this old shopkeeper Zhao, you can get 50% of the money, which is ten times higher than the income of the medicine picker apprentice, and comparable to the income of the medicine picker.
However, the risks are just as great, and it turns out to be a dead end.
The old shopkeeper Zhao also did the private business of many medicine picking disciples in Zhuqi County, as long as one of them was discovered, and Shun Teng touched the melon to this Chunyu shop, it was likely that he would be implicated.
The old shopkeeper Zhao said that he was a member of the Pingzhou Octophora.
Ye Qin sneered in his heart.
What kind of third-rate gang was this, he hadn't even heard of the name of this gang before. Such a small gang is not at all in the eyes of the Medicine King Gang, the fifth largest gang in Pingzhou. If the Medicine King Gang knew that the people of the Octad were instigating the disciples in the gang to sell medicinal herbs privately, maybe the Medicine King Gang would be angry and would destroy the Octad. Those disciples who used to have private dealings with the Octada will also be very likely to be served in one pot. Therefore, it is very unsafe to do private buying and selling transactions with people in the Octad.
Ye Qin knew the details of the old shopkeeper Zhao, and he didn't have any confidence in this old shopkeeper Zhao. I secretly made up my mind in my heart, and tried to completely dissociate myself from the Chunyu shop, so as not to burn myself. As long as he didn't fall into the hands of the old shopkeeper Zhao, even if the Medicine King Gang tracked down the old shopkeeper Zhao one day, they couldn't implicate themselves because of the old shopkeeper Zhao's empty words.
As for the white jade embryo of the town store, the treasure of the Chunyu shop, it is expensive, and the old shopkeeper Zhao should not be able to sell it in the short term. Find a way to get some money first, and then think about a complete solution to get it safely.
"Old Dong Zhao, there is no need to mention this matter. This piece of white jade embryo, you can sell it to whoever you want to sell it to, I am just a disciple of medicine picking, and I have limited money and can't afford it. After speaking, Ye Qin didn't give Old Shopkeeper Zhao more chance to persuade him, so he left the inner room and left the Chunyu shop quickly.
The old shopkeeper Zhao got up with a smile and sent him off, holding his old pipe, swallowing clouds and spitting fog, looking at Ye Qin's back as he left quite playfully, hehe sneered: Boy, you are still pretending, as long as you want to buy my jade, sooner or later you will have to sell medicine to raise money. What is the difference between selling to someone else and selling to an old man? If you sell to someone else, there will only be more people who know about it.
When Ye Qin left the Chunyu shop, it was already dark. Lanterns are hung on the main streets of the entire county, illuminating the streets of the night market that are full of people.
He didn't want to continue to visit other jade shops, and returned directly to the Medicine Picking Hall. All he was thinking about was how to get enough money to buy that piece of white jade embryo so that he could improve his cultivation speed.
His original plan was to directly find the people in the rivers and lakes in the county town to sell the grass in their hands in exchange for some gold leaves, and then go to the jade shop to buy jade containing aura. But now it seems that this plan is not well thought out.
I take the grass very seriously, and think that it is at least worth more than a gold leaf.
But most people in the rivers and lakes may not recognize what Lucao is, and it is difficult to sell it at a high price. Most of the people who can recognize Lucao are pharmaceutical experts, and I am afraid that they have a deep relationship with the Medicine King Gang.
If you ask people one by one at the trade fair if you need to show herbs, the people in the medicine hall will soon realize that they are secretly selling herbs.
Ye Qin thought carefully for a while, took out the volume of "Zhencao Illustrated Book" in his arms, flipped through it, and his eyes stayed on the last few pages of "Lu Cao". It contains a recipe that can be used to refine the herb into a pranayama medicine.
Now it seems that the most appropriate way is to make the dew grass into "Qingxin Pills" first, and then sell it. This kind of excellent pranayama medicine is a good thing that everyone in the rivers and lakes is vying for, and there are many people who know it, and it is easy to sell it out of their hands, and the selling price will be higher than selling it directly.
However, it is still necessary to avoid revealing your identity as much as possible.
In the following two days, Ye Qin used dozens of silver leaves to buy medicinal bowls, wax and other items in different places in the trade bazaars of the county seat, as well as some by-medicinal materials for making Qingxin Pills.
Then he came alone to a remote and dense forest ten miles away from Zhuqi County, and secretly refined medicine.
As a disciple of the medicine collection hall, he mainly mastered the two skills of medicine collection and drug identification, but he was actually not good at medicine. Ye Qin can only make a few very common healing and poison-curing drugs such as "hemostatic powder", "detoxification powder", "insect repellent incense" and so on.
Fortunately, he had the complete formula of the "Qingxin Pill" in his hand, and some of the books on medicine collection and medicine in the library of the Medicine Harvesting Hall did not restrict his disciples too much, so it was not difficult to learn the primary medicine technique.
The main herb dew grass and more than ten side medicines "licorice, dried pearls, musk, bezoar, Lianzi" and so on are dried, ground into powder, put into a bowl according to a certain ratio, simmer for half an hour, the medicinal power is fully dissolved, the water evaporates, and then kneaded into pills and sealed with wax. The four procedures of refining medicine, combining medicine, making pills, and sealing are made into a Qingxin pill and put it into a Dan bottle.
He just started refining this Pure Heart Pill, failed to master the heat, and failed twice, making two waste pills.
With the increase in the number of refining medicines, it gradually got better, and successfully refined a pale cyan pill, smelling the fragrance of the medicine, it seemed that there was a refreshing breath that refreshed people's hearts and lungs, which made the mind wake up.
Ye Qin was overjoyed, this was exactly the same as the color and smell of the Qingxin Pill recorded in the medicine book, and a superb pranayama pill that went mad was refined.
He found that one plant of dew grass could refine a Qingxin pill, and with more than a dozen side medicines, the cost of the medicine was not high. As for the price of the Qingxin Pill, it's hard to say, the Medicine King Gang hasn't refined this kind of superb pranayama medicine for some years.
Ye Qin refined four more pieces one after another, and was going to take them to a buyer to sell them to see what the price was. If the price is good, he plans to make some more, scrape together enough thirty gold leaves, and then find a way to buy the white jade embryo back from the Chunyu shop.