Chapter 034: Sky-high price

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Sun Jianing listened to these interesting things about Sun Baicao with relish, but Li Wenjun just listened to them casually, but he didn't take these things to heart, he was more concerned about whether he could find the herbs he needed at the trading conference. If he could buy medicinal herbs such as Mochizuki Cliff Grass at the trade conference, it would save him the hard work of collecting in the future, and he would be able to devote more time to cultivation and other things.

The county seat is a little far away from Fengshou Town, and it takes at least half a day to sit in a carriage, and there is nothing to do, Sun Baicao finished talking about the dirty things between the county lord and the county master that he heard about, and began to talk about other interesting stories.

He said a few things in a row, but Li Wenjun was not very interested, and when he was about to arrive in Fengshou Town, Sun Baicao said a detail that attracted Li Wenjun's attention.

Although Sanshan County guards three mountains, the number of wild herbs on the mountains is limited every year, which cannot meet the needs of medicinal herb merchants to purchase large quantities, and many years ago, medicinal herb merchants have been trying to encourage more farmers to give up growing wheat, corn and other crops and plant various medicinal herbs instead.

It's just that the cultivation of medicinal herbs is much more troublesome than the cultivation of food crops, and requires more experience and skill. In order to be able to meet the needs, those medicinal herb merchants have invested a lot of money, and every year they will specially invite people to come over and give lectures to the medicinal farmers who grow medicinal herbs in Fengshou Town.

In the beginning, these lecturers were mainly people who were good at growing medicinal herbs, but then I don't know when the lecturers began to become diverse, and now they are all kinds of people.

From the cultivation, drying, and primary processing of medicinal herbs, to how to use these herbs, and even how to treat people's diseases, there are public teachings at the annual trading conference.

Because of the preservation of these contents, the trading conference of Fengshou Town is no longer just a trading conference of medicinal materials, but has become an academic conference related to all related industries such as disease and treatment.

Hearing this, Li Wenjun's heart moved, he had been worried about how to start refining Qi Gathering Disperse recently. When pharmacies sell medicine to sick people, they not only sell herbs to them, but sometimes they also sell some finished pills.

How to turn medicinal herbs into pills, such a process, may be helpful for him to understand the alchemy techniques on the "Changchun Gong".

Li Wenjun secretly made up his mind that after arriving in Fengshou Town, he must find those people who teach pharmaceutical pills and listen to them with his own ears, maybe this is an excellent opportunity to solve his current predicament.

Sun Baicao is an old guest in Fengshou Town, he is familiar with the carriage, and takes Sun Jianing and Li Wenjun to a family in the town, this family is a little close to their Sun family, Li Wenjun uses this place as a base every year when he sells medicinal herbs. Of course, he can't use other people's places in vain, when he comes, bring some snacks, cut some pork, and when he leaves, leave some money, that's all the proper meaning of the question.

Sun Baicao's relative's house has two courtyards, each with several houses, and an independent gate facing the street. Knowing that Sun Baicao was coming over, the master's family had already vacated the courtyard in advance and came out, and handed it over to Sun Baicao for use.

After getting out of the carriage, Li Wenjun helped Sun Baicao and his son unload the herbs on the carriage and received them in the warehouse.

After eating, Sun Baicao consulted Li Wenjun's opinion, and simply arranged that he and Sun Jianing, father and son, would live in the same room, and Li Wenjun would live in a room alone. After being tired for a long time, Li Wenjun wanted to sleep, but he still insisted on cultivating for an hour before falling asleep.

The next day, after getting up and having breakfast, Li Wenjun asked him to go outside by himself, Sun Baicao reminded him to pay attention to safety, and Li Wenjun went. Sun Jianing originally wanted to go with Li Wenjun, but let Sun Baicao stop him, and the herbs they brought from their family had to find a good family to sell as soon as possible, otherwise they would be in trouble if they smashed into their hands.

Li Wenjun walked alone on the streets of Fengshou Town, looking for the lecture hall that Sun Baicao said.

There are thousands of households in Fengshou Town, which is not a big town in terms of scale, but it is full of taverns and teahouses, and every year when it comes to the medicinal materials trading conference, the business here will be very prosperous, and there is a saying that it will not be opened for one year, and it will be open for three years.

Every household in Li Wenjun's current harvest town revolves around the trading meeting, and a sign hangs at the door of each house, which usually says that the hospital has purchased or sold a certain medicinal herb, and the number of purchases and sellers and who is stationed here in detail.

Li Wenjun casually looked at a few brands, and there were no herbs he needed. Thinking about it, he had been wandering around Wufeng Mountain for more than a month before he collected the half-medicine basket Moon Cliff Grass and other medicinal herbs, the number of wild medicinal herbs was extremely limited, and it was almost impossible to find the medicinal herbs he needed casually in Fengshou Town.

The trading conference will last for half a month, and there is still plenty of time, so the matter of finding medicinal herbs can be put aside for the time being, and it is much more important to master the techniques of alchemy medicine. Li Wenjun gave up the idea of continuing to look for medicinal herbs and concentrated on finding a lecture hall.

There is a mouth under the nose and there is no way to ask. Li Wenjun stopped a passer-by and asked.

The passer-by was very enthusiastic, and he told him that the lecture hall was divided into two kinds, one was public school and the other was private school.

As the name suggests, the former is a public lecture, the location is public, the number of people is not limited, anyone can listen, and there is no need to spend money. Such lectures are usually held by wealthy herb dealers to promote themselves. However, the public is public, but the content of the lecture is difficult to be different from the people, most of them are big road goods, like that kind of exclusive experience, it is difficult to hear in the public lecture.

Private learning means that the lecture location is semi-public, the number of people is limited, and whoever wants to listen has to spend money, and as for how much it costs, it depends on who the lecturer is, what is the content of the lecture, what depth the lecture content involves, and so on.

Public schools are usually held at a random stage outside the town, or simply have lecturers stand in a horse-drawn carriage to preach. The places where private schools are held are more complicated, some are in the private houses of wealthy merchants or landlords, some are in taverns and teahouses, some are in the schools of Mengxue, and so on.

However, whether it is a public school or a private school, where it is, who is invited, when it is taught, and what the content of the lecture is, it will be announced in advance. In the same way that each household announces what medicinal herbs it purchases and sells, the place where the lecture is held will put a sign at the door of the house to publicize it.

Li Wenjun thanked the enthusiastic passer-by again and again, and began to wander through the streets and alleys, looking for a suitable place for him to go.

The area of Fengshou Town is not small, and Li Wenjun has been turning it around until half an afternoon, and he has barely turned the entire town. He turned to the end and came to the outside of a magnificent mansion, where he saw that the house was decorated with lanterns, and two huge Kong Ming lanterns were floating in the air, and the big red banners hung down from under the Kong Ming lanterns, and the ends of the banners were fixed to the ground.

One banner reads "Warmly welcome the famous doctor of Jingshi, Master Xu Yidan comes to the mansion with a wonderful hand of rejuvenation", and the other banner reads "At two o'clock tomorrow, Master Xu will personally teach the art of elixir, limited to 50 people".

Inside the gatehouse of the house, there are also two lanterns hanging with the words "Zhang Fu" written on them. Li Wenjun didn't know much about Fengshou Town, if he did, he would know that this was not an ordinary place, but the mansion of Zhang Jianjie, the largest wealthy merchant in Fengshou Town.

Li Wenjun saw the huge Kong Ming lantern and the bright banner from a long distance, walked closer, and looked at the four words "The Art of Pills" on the banner, he was very excited.

After a round in Fengshou Town, I saw a lot of lectures announced, this is the only lecture that talks about the "art of pills", no matter whether this lecture has any enlightening significance for him to refine Qi Gathering Dispersion, Li Wenjun does not want to miss it.

There were a lot of people around the door of the house, and some of them couldn't hold it anymore, so they came forward to sign up and prepare to listen to the lecture. Li Wenjun also walked over, ready to sign up with the family at the door.

I saw a family member standing on the steps, and said in a hoarse voice: "Everyone, everyone, I have explained it many times. Master Xu traveled all the way from Beijing, and he worked hard, not to be lazy, we always have to give them some filial piety. Whoever wants to come tomorrow to listen to the lecture, whether it is a man or a woman, young or old, will not be able to pay five hundred taels of silver each, not one less copper coin. ”

Li Wenjun gasped, he didn't expect that listening to a lecture would cost so much five hundred taels of silver, could it be that Xu Yidan's words were golden mouths and jade words, word by word?

Li Wenjun hesitated, his money is limited, the gold and silver ornaments in the storage package that he grabbed from the old way are equivalent to silver, about a thousand taels, he has already spent a lot, when he robbed the wild mountain spirit, he bought two horses and threw them away, as well as bought props for makeup, etc., and spent some money, and the cost of learning martial arts is also a large expense. He is not very economical in daily expenses, and the cost is not small.

As of now, he probably has about seven hundred taels of money left, and if he spends the five hundred taels today, there will only be two hundred taels left. Not to mention the food and clothing in the future, the trading conference will last for half a month, if he listens to Xu Yidan's lectures this time, and there is no gain, he will definitely have to listen to other people's lectures, is two hundred taels of silver enough? If it is not enough, where should the cost of listening to the study come from?

Li Wenjun always thought that he was not short of money, but when the matter came, he realized that he was not short of money, but very short of money. It seems that Sun Jianing is right, he really thinks of a way to see how to make money. Sitting on the mountain and eating empty is not the right way.

Li Wenjun was in a dilemma, and when it was difficult to make a decision, he saw a group of people coming over, for the sake of Pharmacist Kong, and he was followed by two yacha.

Ever since he lost the Wild Mountain Spirit, Pharmacist Kong has remained in the county seat. There is a medicinal herb trading conference here in Fengshou Town every year, and he knows it, and he stays, on the one hand, to avoid going back to the prefecture and facing the thunderous wrath of the prefect, and on the other hand, he wants to see if he can have enough luck at the trading conference to get another century-old medicinal herb.

Like Li Wenjun, Pharmacist Kong also saw Kong Minglan from afar, and he had heard of Xu Yidan for a long time, so as soon as he saw the words on the banner, he hurried over.

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