You have to pay an entrance fee to enter the city. Nowadays, even a bare-bones person has to pay a penny to enter. Of course, a kid like Datou doesn't pay for it.
But Zhou Dalang still felt a lot of pain.
He paid for it, because he had spent several coins just after entering the city. He was very worried, so he didn't go anywhere and took the cart directly to the drug store.
There is only one pharmacy in the county, which is Jishitang.
When the clerk saw Zhou Dalang coming, he said: "You are here to sell medicine, right? Wait a moment, our shopkeeper will be here soon."
Zhou Dalang came twice, once with fresh Ligustrum lucidum to inquire about the price, and once with dried Ligustrum lucidum to ask if it was prepared correctly, so the clerk remembered him.
The shopkeeper came out quickly. Zhou Erlang was afraid that too many people would annoy the drug store, so he asked Wu Lang and the children to wait outside. Only Man Bao curiously followed Zhou Erlang in to watch the fun.
Zhou Dalang and Zhou Zhoulang glanced at Yaomei, said nothing, and even took the person forward so as not to lose them.
These Ligustrum lucidum have been dried after being soaked in hot water and are packed in fine cloth bags.
Zhou Dalang opened the bag and showed it to the shopkeeper.
The shopkeeper put it in the palm of his hand to check the quality, ate another one, nodded slightly and said: "The sun is not bad, it will be better if it grows for a while next time when you go through the water."
He flipped through the ones below and found that they were of similar quality, so he nodded and said, "Okay, weigh them, we'll take them all."
The clerk immediately took the scale and said after weighing it: "It's a total of twelve and a half kilograms."
The shopkeeper said: "You are of average quality, so I will give you fifty cents per catty, a total of six hundred and twenty-five cents. If any ligustrum comes to me in the future, as long as it is of good quality, we will accept it."
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Man Bao asked curiously, "Brother, shopkeeper, can the pharmacy sell so many Ligustrum lucidum?"
When the shopkeeper lowered his head, he discovered that there was a little girl at the feet of the two brothers. Hearing her address, he twitched his lips and said: "Our Jishitang has drug stores all over the world. Of course we can eat this little Ligustrum lucidum.
It doesn't matter if it's a hundred times or a thousand times more. Little girl, you should call me uncle."
Zhou Dalang wiped the sweat from his forehead and apologized repeatedly, saying: "My sister is young and not sensible. Please forgive me, the shopkeeper."
The shopkeeper then looked at Man Bao again and said with a smile: "It turns out she is your sister. No wonder."
He looks about the same age as Zhou Dalang. No wonder this little girl calls him brother instead of uncle.
The shopkeeper laughed and shook his head, but he didn't mind.
Man Bao was still very interested, and he changed his words without hesitation: "Uncle shopkeeper, if my family grows a lot of ligustrum in the future, can your family also buy it at this price?"
The shopkeeper originally asked the waiter to bring them money and was about to turn around and leave. Hearing this, he turned around and asked, "What, do you want to grow medicinal materials at home?"
Man Bao said: "I want to plant it."
The shopkeeper said: "This is not easy. This kind of medicinal materials is prone to insect pests, and may also suffer from drought and floods. What medicinal materials do you plan to grow?"
Man Bao asked him first, "What medicinal materials do you think our place is suitable for growing?"
The shopkeeper looked down at the little one, paused and then smiled and said: "I think we have a lot of medicinal materials suitable for growing here. The key is, can you grow them?"
"Isn't it possible to learn?"
Seeing that she was acting like a little adult, the shopkeeper couldn't help but laugh and said: "As long as you can grow them, the medicinal materials will not be unsold, because people will get sick, and when they are sick, they have to take medicine."
Man Bao understood, turned around and dragged her second brother to help her carry their centella asiatica in.
When the shopkeeper saw them dragging in two large sacks, he stopped curiously.
"Uncle shopkeeper, this is the centella asiatica we dried. Do you want it in your pharmacy?"
The shopkeeper bent down and touched it, and found that it was quite dry in the sun. He nodded and said, "Yes, this thing is a good thing to relieve the heat in summer. It costs twenty cents per pound. Let's weigh it."
Even though there are two big sacks in this thing, it is actually not heavy at all. The two big sacks combined weigh only thirty-five kilograms.
The extremely excited Wu Lang who were lying at the door were shocked. They had obviously pulled out so many, but why was it so light?
They were all a little disappointed, but when they saw the waiter took out seven strings of money and gave them to them, they were shocked again.
It seems like it’s a bit easy to make money.
Zhou Dalang was a little surprised when he saw several children earning more than them.
But the shopkeeper said: "Don't send centella asiatica next time. This stuff is available everywhere. There is no need to transfer it from outside. This is almost enough for our pharmacy to use in the summer."
Man Bao rolled his eyes and said, "It's definitely not enough. Summer is so long. Your family has to make medicinal soup every day. You need at least a handful a day. Even if a handful is a pound, the thirty-five pounds is only enough for thirty-five pounds."
It’s only five days.”
Seeing that she knew how to understand it at such a young age, the shopkeeper couldn't help but burst out laughing. He touched her little head and said, "In our small county, we don't need a pound of centella asiatica a day. You want to make everyone miserable? This
A little is enough, I won’t accept it if you send it again.”
Man Bao was very sorry. She didn't expect Centella asiatica to be a one-shot deal. She sighed like a little adult.
The shopkeeper thought this kid was very interesting, mainly because he knew all the herb collectors in this area. Zhou Dalang and Zhou Erlang looked like farmers, not herb collectors.
He was curious that they could get to know Ligustrum lucidum.
Many flowers and plants in the countryside can be used as medicine, and even many elderly people know how to use these flowers and plants, such as centella asiatica. Many people in the countryside use centella asiatica to stop bleeding after falling or cutting.
But they don’t know that Centella Asiatica has other functions, and they don’t even think that Centella Asiatica is also a medicinal material in drug stores, let alone dried and sold in drug stores.
If Centella asiatica can be used as medicine just by drying it in the sun, then many other medicinal materials require special processing before they can be preserved and used as medicine. This is what doctors and herbal collectors know.
Most people in the world only like to do things they are good at, and avoid things they are not good at.
This is risk aversion, which is human nature.
If a person suddenly enters an unfamiliar field, he must have someone to rely on. If the other person is an honest and friendly person, the reliance will only be greater.
The shopkeeper wondered if they had medical books in their hands.
He also inquired with Zhou Dalang, but Zhou Dalang just laughed at this, and he didn't know if he was really stupid or fake. While the clerk was paying them, the shopkeeper simply took Man Bao's little hand and sat aside, and asked her, "Your family
Who did you learn to prepare Ligustrum lucidum from?"
Man Bao: "Hey, wasn't it taught by the shopkeeper's uncle?'
The shopkeeper thought, as if he had mentioned something, he paused and asked: "Then who recognized Ligustrum lucidum as a medicinal material?"