Hearing that there was a store selling lime powder in the town, Xing Rui bought some and wanted to go back and paint her house.
If I had known there was such a thing for sale, I would have bought it and painted my house.
I bought the dried Sichuan clams I brought with me for a few taels of silver, but Xing Ruile also broke them. I didn't expect this stuff to be so valuable when dried.
Xing Rui suddenly thought of her ginseng. She wondered if that could be sold for a few dollars.
"Well, wait a moment."
Just after walking out of the drug store, Xing Rui ran back again, and Liang Sheng was a little surprised.
"Hey, what did you forget?"
"Well, I forgot something. I'll be back as soon as I go. Please wait a moment."
Xing Rui hurriedly turned around and ran back. When she came this morning, she secretly took out a ginseng.
Naturally, I didn't dare to take out all the boxes. I wanted to see how much this one was worth first, and I would look for opportunities to sell the rest elsewhere later.
You can never sell this thing in one place, otherwise it will inevitably arouse people's suspicion.
"Why are you back again? Is there anything else?"
The boy who was greeting customers in the store looked up and saw Xing Rui leaving and returning, and asked Xing Rui doubtfully.
"Well, can I meet your boss?"
"Is something wrong?"
The boy asked again.
"Well, there's something I want your shopkeeper to take a look at."
"Okay, please wait a moment while I finish getting the medicine for this guest officer."
Xing Rui stood aside and waited. Finally, after grabbing the medicine, the boy walked out of the counter and looked at Xing Rui in confusion.
"What kind of good thing is it that we, the shopkeeper, must see?"
Xing Rui smiled and did not answer the boy, but said lightly,
"Please ask me to lead the way."
Seeing Xing Rui's mysterious look, the boy also smiled coldly, stretched out his hand and said,
"Then please come to me."
As he said this, the boy led the way, and Xing Rui followed behind.
When we came to the back of the drug store, we arrived at a yard and stopped in front of a house.
"Wait a moment, I'll go back to the shopkeeper right now."
Xing Rui nodded and watched the little boy walking towards the big blue brick house in the middle.
Coming under the eaves, he bowed and said,
"Shopkeeper, a guest brought something and asked the shopkeeper to show it to the shopkeeper."
"What do you want me to control?"
"The guest officer didn't say anything. He only said that you would not take the things out until you see the shopkeeper."
"Ah……"
The person in the room laughed mockingly and said,
"Then bring people here!"
"yes,"
The boy said yes, turned around and ran over.
"My shopkeeper asked you to come over,"
Xing Rui nodded and walked over. The boy turned around and ran towards the shop in front.
"From the shopkeeper,"
Xing Rui stood under the dripping eaves and did not knock on the door, but said hello.
"come in,"
Xing Rui then walked over and opened the door with a creak.
Just look at a middle-aged man sitting on a chair, holding a tea bowl in his hand and looking towards Xing Rui with disdain.
"If you have any good stuff, please bring it out?"
Xing Rui was not in a hurry and slowly took out the ginseng wrapped in floral cloth from her waist.
To be honest, Xing Rui was still a little uneasy. After all, this ginseng was the forest ginseng grown in the mountains at the home of the Northeastern eldest sister.
You can tell it at a glance, but no one cultivated ginseng in this dynasty, so I guess they couldn't tell the authenticity of this thing.
"What's inside?"
Seeing Xing Rui taking it out so carefully and wrapping it with a piece of cloth,
The shopkeeper hurriedly put down the tea cup in his hand and stared at the things in Xing Rui's hand very seriously.
"Come closer."
Xing Rui walked over holding ginseng wrapped in floral cloth.
"Open it, let me see what good thing it is, wrapped so tightly by you?"
Xing Rui carefully opened it layer by layer until the whole ginseng leaked out, clatter...
The shopkeeper suddenly stood up in excitement and accidentally spilled the tea on the desk.
"Where are you from?"
"What I returned to the shopkeeper was that I found it on the mountain last autumn. I wanted to save it for the sick people at home, so I dried it in the sun.
Later I heard that this thing was quite expensive, so I thought of taking it over and asking the shopkeeper about the current market price of ginseng."
Judging from the shopkeeper's whole body trembling uncontrollably at this moment, he has run a drug store for so many years and has never seen ginseng in such good quality.
Generally speaking, a ginseng that has grown for six or seven years is very good. This kind of ginseng should be more than a hundred years old.
The key is that after drying, it can still preserve its complete appearance. Even he, who has been playing with medicinal materials for many years, cannot do it.
"Do you want to sell this ginseng?"
"If the price is reasonable, of course you can consider selling it."
Xing Rui didn't know much about the growth cycle of ginseng. She just heard from the Northeastern elder sister in the hospital,
Generally, ginseng is considered mature when it reaches six years old and can be dug out and sold.
If it lasts for decades, it is of good quality.
Also, the weight means seven or eight taels. As the old saying goes, seven taels is a ginseng and eight taels is a treasure.
Only modern planting technology can make something of this quality and weight grow so large and preserve it so completely.
In this kind of dynasty, things are probably very rare.
The shopkeeper stretched out his hand slightly, took the ginseng in Xing Rui's hand and looked at it again and again, and found it very rare.
"How about one thousand taels of silver?"
Xing Rui was stunned and cursed in his mind, "I'm so stupid! One thousand taels of silver, isn't this a big fortune?"
Although Xing Rui's heart was filled with excitement at this time, she was a person who had gone through great things after all, so she could naturally hide the ecstasy in her heart very well.
His expression didn't change, he didn't say anything, he just reached for his ginseng.
"If the price is not good, we can discuss it again. What do you do with ginseng?"
Xing Rui smiled, it seemed like she really liked him.
"Three thousand taels, no bargaining.
"Xing Rui came up with three thousand taels, and the shopkeeper was so frightened that he didn't even open his mouth for a long time.
"If it doesn't work, forget it. I happen to be going to the state capital tomorrow, so I'll go there and ask if there are more."
"No no no..."
When the ginseng was in the shopkeeper's hands, it seemed like it was his property. He held it tightly and refused to let go.
"Fifteen hundred taels, no more. No matter how much it is, I will lose money.
Girl, this is one thousand five hundred taels, which is enough for a farmer to live for a lifetime."
Xing Rui smiled lightly and said,
"I know that one thousand five hundred taels is enough, but I am afraid that I will only be able to find this one ginseng in my life, so naturally I want to buy a few more.
Shopkeeper, do you think this will work? You don’t need one thousand five hundred taels, and I don’t need three thousand taels. Let’s compromise on two thousand taels of silver.
If that’s alright, how about you take the ginseng and I’ll take the money?”
"this?"
After all, it was two thousand taels. The shopkeeper was a little hesitant.
When Xing Rui saw his attitude, she reached out unceremoniously to take back her ginseng.
"Since the shopkeeper can't bring it out, then give me the ginseng!"
"Okay, okay, two thousand taels is two thousand taels,"
The shopkeeper gritted his teeth and finally agreed. Just as Xing Rui was about to take back his hand, he said again,