The shopkeeper looked at Su Luo. Did this thin woman know about medicinal herbs? He shouldn't be like those villagers, trying their luck with wild herbs. That kind of thing has happened many times before.

If it weren't for a big shot from the county coming to keep them in check, they really wouldn't want to pay any attention to those villagers.

"We'll accept good medicinal herbs, but not the rest."

It's normal for pharmacies not to accept common herbs or medicines with insignificant effects; Su Luo understands the reasons behind this.

Su Luo unloaded the basket from her back, removed the leaves from it, and revealed a large piece of Smilax glabra, about the size of her arm, saying, "It's in excellent condition and quite old; it's a top-grade Smilax glabra."

The shopkeeper took a look and confirmed that it was indeed top-quality Smilax glabra, far superior to the ones they had bought from the Chamber of Commerce.

After taking the pulse, Du Xiuyuan heard the commotion and came over to see what was going on: "The quality is quite good. Madam, how much do you plan to sell this Smilax glabra?"

"Dr. Du!" the shopkeeper called out.

Looking at the shopkeeper's attitude towards the doctor-looking man, Su Luo figured that this man must be the real owner of Ji'an Hall.

Su Luo remained composed, though she didn't quite understand the prices in this world: "Dr. Du is a man of integrity; as long as the price is reasonable, I'll sell to him."

Du Xiuyuan suddenly laughed, looking at the woman in front of him. She was dressed in rags, but spoke with great depth. She first praised him highly, and then let him make the offer. She was definitely not an ordinary person.

He took the Smilax glabra in his hand, examined it, and said.

"These Smilax glabra rhizomes were just dug up. I need to wash, slice, cut into chunks, and dry them before I can collect them. It will take a lot of work. So, I can only offer you three hundred coins per catty. How does that sound, miss?"

To preserve it for a long time, the subsequent processes are indeed complicated, so the price of 300 coins is very reasonable.

"Okay, I'll sell it."

Doctor Du immediately instructed the shopkeeper to weigh Su Luo. The total weight was 18.7 jin, and at 300 wen per jin, that was 5,610 wen, which was equivalent to 5 taels and 610 wen in silver.

Su Luo received the silver; it was only a dozen catties of Smilax glabra, but the money was almost as much as the money the Chen family had spent to buy her.

She also saw several more plants on the mountain. She planned to dig them up and sell them for money, so that Chuan Chuan could go to school and Huan Huan could have enough to eat.

“Young lady, if you have any good medicinal herbs in the future, you can bring them to Ji’an Hall to sell. If they are dried and processed, they will be worth more than three hundred coins.”

"Thank you, Dr. Du. I will."

After saying that, Su Luo picked up her basket again and went out. Now that she had the money, she couldn't let the children keep eating wild vegetables. She was going to buy rice and some meat to take back.

Upon arriving at the rice shop, Su Luo noticed that the rice buckets were priced differently: top-grade rice, medium-grade rice, low-grade rice, and even the smallest broken rice.

Top-grade rice has plump grains and a stronger aroma. Medium-grade rice grains are broken. Low-grade rice is almost entirely mixed rice, only slightly better than broken rice. Broken rice is the rice residue at the bottom after the paddy is pounded into rice.

"How much broken rice would you like to buy, my lady?"

Seeing Su Luo's attire, the shopkeeper realized that someone like her could only afford broken rice.

Su Luo looked at the high-grade rice and asked, "How much is that rice per pound?"

The waiter glanced at Su Luo. Could she afford top-quality rice? Was she some kind of beggar trying to mess with him?

"Top-grade rice is fifty coins, medium-grade is thirty coins, low-grade is ten coins, and broken rice is five coins. So which one do you want to buy?" The waiter stopped smiling and finished speaking in one breath.

With her outfit, it's no wonder that others look down on her. Pointing to the top-grade rice, she said, "I want twenty catties of top-grade rice."

The waiter immediately raised his head again, and, unsure if he had misheard, asked, "Top-quality rice is fifty coins a pound. Are you sure you want twenty pounds?"

"Sure!"

"Okay...okay!" The shopkeeper quickly took out a burlap sack, filled it with rice, weighed it, and handed it to Su Luo.

She spent one tael of silver on twenty catties of top-quality rice, and she still had four taels and six hundred and ten coins in her hand, so she went to buy some meat to take home.

At the butcher shop, a pound of pork cost thirty-five coins. Su Luo bought five pounds of pork belly. Seeing that the owner had cleaned the pork bones and placed them aside, she asked, "Boss, how much are those bones?"

The shopkeeper glanced at it and said, "Two coins a pound. People in the county buy it to feed their dogs."

Is this for dogs?

It's such a pity that such a good thing is wasted.

"Boss, sell me those four bones, I'll take them."

"Alright!"

The shopkeeper wrapped the pork bones in oil paper and gave them to Su Luo. There were eleven pounds of pork bones, which cost two coins per pound, so it cost twenty-two coins. He also added five pounds of pork belly, which cost thirty-five coins per pound, for a total of one hundred and ninety-seven coins.

When I passed by a pastry shop, I bought two packs of mung bean cakes, each pack costing fifty coins, for a total of one hundred coins.

Looking at her own clothes, Zhao Ruyun and her two children wore hand-me-downs from others. She still had some money left over, so she went to buy a few more clothes.

Inside the clothing store, the female shopkeeper smiled and asked Su Luo, "Miss, would you like to buy fabric or ready-made clothes?"

"Ready-to-wear!" Of course, the best is something you can wear immediately.

"The ready-made clothes are over here, please, miss."

Su Luo looked at the clothes here, and they were almost all made of cotton and linen. Could it be that there was no cotton or pure cotton fabric?

"Shopkeeper, don't you have any better fabrics here?" Su Luo asked.

“Girl, we do have some, but they’re all silk. If you still have farm work to do, I don’t recommend you buy them.”

"Do you have pure cotton fabric?" Su Luo asked again.

The female shopkeeper pondered for a moment and said, "I've never heard of this kind of fabric in Nanning Kingdom. I'm afraid it doesn't exist."

"Really not," Su Luo thought. She could plant cotton seeds in her space later. A business opportunity quietly formed in her mind.

Su Luo chose a light blue coat for herself, an indigo coat for Zhao Ruyun, a pink dress for Huanhuan, and a light gray robe for Chuanchuan.

The four people's outer garments were made of cotton and linen, so they were relatively cheap, costing only one tael and five hundred coins for the four garments.

Both children have delicate skin, so I bought them two silk undergarments, which cost two taels of silver. I bought my own and Zhao Ruyun's clothes casually, which only cost one hundred coins.

After a while, Su Luo had spent almost half of the money she made from selling medicine. After careful calculation, she only had 713 coins left. Money was too cheap to spend.

There are still so many things to add to the house, so we can only take it one step at a time.

When she arrived at the place she had agreed upon with Uncle Li, he was already waiting for her. Seeing that Su Luo's basket was full of things and she was carrying two large bundles in her hands, it seemed that she had indeed bought some things and made some money.

"Uncle Li, I'm sorry to have kept you waiting."

Uncle Li helped Su Luo put her basket on the oxcart and said, "No, I just arrived too. Let's go back."

"good!"

When they arrived at Changping Village, Su Luo stuffed five coins into Uncle Li's hand and ran off, afraid that he wouldn't accept them. Uncle Li had already spent two coins to stop the oxcart, so she gave him an extra coin to make sure she wasn't losing out.

Su Luo returned to the Wayaoyao with large and small bags. Many people saw her on the way, but they didn't pay any attention to her and thought she had gone crazy to pick up something.