"Looking at the current trend, the price of anchovy is finally going to stabilize. Ding Qi came back from Qixia Town and was extremely emotional.

Since the news that the anchovy grass can offset the military service, it has spread in Qixia Town. The price of this rather unpopular herb began to skyrocket. It can almost be said that it is one price a day.

Various pharmacies have also begun to vigorously purchase anchovies. The anchovy grass picked by the mountain people will be snapped up by various pharmacies in an instant.

The price of herbs has also gradually changed from three layers higher than the original price to four or five layers higher. There was even a time when it was more than double the original price. Only recently, it fell back to a level six or seven levels higher, and stabilized at this level, and there has been no major change for a long time.

Many pharmacy owners, including Boss Wang, believe that the final price of anchovy grass will probably stay in this position.

When the news of the phoenix grass first spread, the owners of pharmacies such as Wang Ji didn't think so, and most of them were optimistic that it was because of this measure of the imperial court. The price of anchovies will be double or even double the original price.

Judging from the current results, after the news spread, the price of anchovy has indeed continued to rise. However, it is also obvious that it is not as high as Wang Ji and others expected.

In the past few days, from Boss Wang, Ding Qi also knew that the owners of the pharmacy finally figured out the reason why the anchovy did not reach the expected high price.

In the final analysis, there are not many families who can offset military service by paying anchovy.

Buying enough anchovy grass to offset the military service of the imperial court is simply an impossible task for ordinary families. Even according to the original price of anchovies, the price of 1,000 anchovies is more than ten years of expenses for ordinary families. At the current price of anchovy, it is even more impossible for ordinary families to raise so much money to buy anchovies in two years. Only those who originally had a little assets in the family could consider using this method to offset military service.

For ordinary mountain people, the only impact of that official list was only to let them sell the anchovy grass they picked from the mountains at a high price, and the final result was that they could only helplessly wait for the military service to come.

In this situation, where most people cannot afford to buy anchovies, it is obviously impossible to raise the price of herbs to a higher price.

The anchovy grass did not reach the expected high price, which made the owner of the pharmacy, who had some of this herb in his hand, a little disappointed. However, there were not many herbs in their hands. The batch of anchovy grass that I originally had in my hand had already been bought up by the big businessmen from Liangcheng who got the news earlier.

Most of the anchovy grass in their hands was newly purchased from the mountain people after the news spread. So, in general, there is no big loss, just a small profit, and no one cares too much.

The only thing that's a little different is probably the shopkeeper Wang.

After the price of anchovies stabilized, Ding Qi found that the number of anchovies sold in the entire Qixia Town was inexplicably much higher. Maybe others don't understand why. However, Ding Qi, who has been paying attention to the situation of Wang Ji's pharmacy, knows very well what is going on.

The shopkeeper finally began to sell the anchovy grass he had hoarded.

Recalling Wang Ji's sullen appearance in the past two days, Ding Qi felt that people's hearts were really complicated and difficult to understand.

"Shopkeeper Wang, I'm really a little greedy!"

With the batch of anchovy grass hoarded in his hand, the shopkeeper Wang can naturally make a lot of money, and it stands to reason that he should be extremely happy.

However, this is not the case.

Because the herbs did not reach the high price he expected, on the contrary, the shopkeeper Wang, who wanted to take this opportunity to obtain huge profits, felt that he had suffered a big loss, and his mood was a little uncomfortable, and he was depressed for the past few days.

This made Ding Qi, who knew the reason for the king's shopkeeper's sullenness, sigh that people's hearts are complex and unpredictable, so that he has a trace of incomprehensible understanding and vigilance about people's hearts.

"It's a pity that anchovy is a medicinal herb that cannot be cultivated and transplanted by ordinary methods, and can only be harvested in the mountains. Otherwise, plant a batch in the medicine garden and sell it ....... Thinking of this, Ding Qi felt a pang of regret.

When he was reading that book before, Medicinal Cultivation Notes, he saw that many medicinal herbs can only grow naturally in the mountains and forests, and cannot be artificially transplanted and cultivated. As an important production of Qixia Mountain, many people have tried to cultivate it through artificial methods in the past, but they all failed.

Thinking of this, another thought came to his mind: "Maybe ......." ”

As the thought kept spinning in his heart, Ding Qi was happy at first, and then a little hesitant.

"The price of anchovy will stay at a high level for not too long, at most a year or two. When the time for military service in the imperial court is over, the herbs will fall back to their original prices. It's a shame to miss out on this rare opportunity. Ding Qi thought secretly.

Unlike others, he has the advantage of picking anchovies, and it is easier to find herbs. If you can take advantage of the high position of the herbs to pick and sell, you can definitely make some windfall and use it to buy medicines for practice.

The only problem is that going up the mountain to pick anchovies is quite time-consuming. After all, he has the responsibility of looking after the medicine garden, picking herbs in the mountains, but not staying in the medicine garden, is somewhat suspected of not doing his job, which makes him hesitate, not knowing whether to do this.

Eventually, he made a decision.

"There is very little work in the medicine garden, as long as it is arranged in advance, it is okay to have a little scruples, and nothing will go wrong. ”

Every day in the medicine garden, he just spent most of his time cultivating innate skills. Even if you go up the mountain to collect medicine, you have plenty of time, so as long as you take care of the medicine garden when necessary, there is no problem at all.

After thinking about this, Ding Qi had already decided to go up the mountain to collect medicine and sell it for money. Make some preparations for buying medicines for yourself in the future and practicing innate skills.

Thinking of the medicinal herbs used in the cultivation exercises, Ding Qi couldn't help but take out the brocade silk with innate skills recorded in his arms.

At the back of the innate gong, there were several recipes for pills used for cultivation, and now he took out the brocade silk to check that part of the content.

Looking at the elixir formula recorded behind the brocade, Ding Qi really didn't know whether he should be happy or worried.

There is a special pill that goes with the exercises, which is naturally a thing to be happy about. However, every time he saw the various precious herbs recorded on the Danfang, which were needed to make the pill, he was worried.

Each of these herbs is a very expensive way to obtain. There are also some herbs that are so precious that they have no price. It is very difficult to see it in ordinary pharmacies.

Even if he took advantage of the high price of anchovy grass this time to make some windfalls, it is estimated that he can only make up the amount of medicine that he can use a few times, and the effect on the practice will not be too long.

"But with medication, it's better than nothing. Thinking of the troubles, Ding Qi could only comfort himself in his heart.

After making a decision, he began to plan to go up the mountain to collect medicine. Ding Qi didn't plan to go to the mountains every day to collect medicine, he also had to spend time cultivating innate skills and dealing with other chores in life.

After thinking about it for a while, he decided to divide the time for cultivating innate skills and going up the mountain to collect medicine in half, that is to say, the day before practicing innate skills, and the day after that was used to collect medicine on the mountain, and the time was arranged accordingly.

"In the past two days, there is nothing to take care of in the medicine garden, so you can go up the mountain with confidence. So, let's start right away from tomorrow. After making up his mind, Ding Qi sat cross-legged on the bed, calmed his mood, and closed his eyes slightly.

Soon after, as if he had fallen asleep, he became motionless, and even his breathing became vague, and he entered the cultivation state of innate gong.

With the arrangement of going up the mountain to dig herbs, the time for him to cultivate innate skills was shortened by half. In this way, he had to seize every moment of free time to cultivate.