Mu Huaixi was reborn to the day of her wedding, determined to fight the渣男 (scumbag) who was an alcoholic and abusive in her previous life, but was rescued by her military officer fiancé who ar...
The so-called black market is not big, and it is bustling with people, more like a vegetable market.
"We live in the mountains, so naturally we rely on them for our livelihood," Lin Sen said, pulling off the black cloth covering his face, a little unaccustomed to it. "It's not easy for the mountain dwellers to come to the county town, and gradually this place was built."
The black market is of course illegal, but we cannot let the mountain people go without money and the people in the county town go without food, so this place has become illegal but reasonable. Almost everyone knows about it, but no one will report it.
Mu Huaixi also pulled the black cloth on her face and took it off awkwardly. She was originally afraid of being seen and getting into trouble, but after entering here, she found that she would attract more attention like this. There were many people with their faces covered like her, but looking around, she could tell that they were all newcomers like her.
She hadn't been to the black market much, but Lin Sen was clearly very familiar with it. He took her on a roundabout way until they reached the deepest part of the market. There were far fewer people here than before, and the stalls displayed a wide variety of goods.
Most people might mistake tree stumps, roots, stones, branches and leaves for firewood or garbage, but Mu Huaixi's eyes lit up. All the herbs on the stall were medicinal herbs!
"How much is this blackbird?"
"This angelica is pretty good. Did you prepare it?"
"Is the Astragalus yours too? How much is it?"
Mu Huaixi walked back and forth in front of these stalls excitedly. The quality of the medicinal materials here was better than what she had seen in Jiangcheng, but many of them had not been processed and were still raw herbs, which needed to be processed after returning home.
I am not surprised, because most of the people who come here to buy medicinal materials are "drug dealers". They buy raw herbs, prepare them in large quantities and then sell them. These are the Chinese medicines that Mu Huaixi saw in the Jiangcheng medicinal materials market.
In fact, not only Mu Huaixi was excited, but the mountain people who set up stalls to sell medicinal herbs were also very happy. The medicine dealers coming and going in the market mostly wanted common medicinal herbs, and there were very few people like the person in front of him who was knowledgeable and wanted good medicines.
Mu Huaixi walked around for a long time and was attracted by everything she saw, but she finally came to her senses. This time she came to the county town in a small car and originally wanted to bring some daily necessities back. She was afraid that there would be no place to bring the medicinal herbs she wanted to buy.
Besides, she didn't bring enough money this time, so she could only negotiate with the stall owner to have them deliver the goods to the health center. However, the medicinal materials she wanted were not available at a single stall, so the negotiation was very troublesome.
"Doctor Mu, how about I deliver it to you?" Lin Sen suddenly spoke, which made Mu Huaixi stunned and turned to look at him.
Lin Sen was a little embarrassed, but his eyes were full of seriousness. "I'm familiar with everyone here. How about I collect the herbs you want and send them over?"
"Will it be too much trouble?" Mu Huaixi hesitated for a moment, "Didn't you say you wanted to find a job?"
With Lin Sen's help, she was definitely relieved, but she was also afraid that this would delay his work.
"It's okay. It won't take long to get into the mountains. I have a brother who works in the car team. I can borrow a car." Lin Sen waved his hand quickly. He scratched his cheek and asked a little embarrassedly, "Doctor Mu, is there a market near your clinic? How about I bring some things over to sell?"
"This..." Mu Huaixi was shocked. She didn't expect Lin Sen to be so bold and tell her this so bluntly. After all, "scalping" was illegal at that time. But she also thought about how much injustice Lin Sen had suffered and how he had lost his job. She was afraid that he was trying to earn enough money to buy a good job. She also felt that it was not wrong for him to plan for her like this.
"There is a market," Mu Huaixi told him the dates of several large markets nearby. After thinking for a moment, he added, "There will also be people selling inferior cloth at the market, but they have to give permission to the team."
The inferior cloth sold in the mountains is the cloth that has been accumulated in Curry for who knows how many years, but even so, it is still a best-seller at the market, but you have to give permission to the team leader before you can sell it.
Mu Huaixi's words seemed like a warning, but in fact they were reminders. Lin Sen's eyes lit up, and he smiled more sincerely. He nodded at her and said, "Don't worry, I will definitely bring these herbs to you."
Mu Huaixi naturally wouldn't let him go in vain. She listed the herbs she had just picked out, and also wrote down some herbs she hadn't seen today, and listed the prices she could accept. "If you can find these, the health center will also accept them."
She had a certain purchasing quota, and after purchasing moxa from Furongqiao Commune, she had some left. She planned to use it all to purchase this batch of medicinal materials, as a way to help Lin Sen.
Lin Sen looked at the list she gave him, pointed at some herbs on it and said, "I remember Old Song picked these, but he hasn't been here recently. I'll ask him for you when he comes."
Lin Sen raised his hand and glanced at the stalls in front of him. He lowered his voice and said to Mu Huaixi, "These people have some good medicinal herbs hidden in their pockets, but they don't show them to others easily. Once I find out more, I'll buy them all for you!"
He had helped people dump a lot of things before, but they were all daily necessities. He rarely visited the medicinal materials department, otherwise he could help Dr. Mu dig out all their good medicines now.
"That's not necessary," Mu Huaixi laughed, but she suddenly remembered the Black Jade Drynaria, so she mentioned it to Lin Sen, "If anyone has seen such a medicinal herb, or if anyone has picked it in the mountains, I will buy it."
"......" Lin Sen thought for a few seconds, "The medicinal material that looks like black jade and monkey's paw..."
"Yeah," Mu Huaixi nodded. She thought that just describing it wasn't enough, so she wanted to draw a picture for Lin Sen so that he could help find it. But he slapped his head and pointed to the stall next to it.
"Lao Hu, his family has it!"
"Huh?" Mu Huaixi blinked and didn't react. Drynaria fortunei was rare, and the black jade drynaria fortunei was just her guess. She asked Lin Sen to help find it just hoping for a chance, but she didn't expect that he would find it directly.
Lin Sen was smiling happily. He could finally repay Dr. Mu. "Last time, Old Hu sold a batch of medicine. I was the one who arranged it for him. His pile of monkey paws had some black and some red ones. When they were returned to him, he got very angry."
Mu Huaixi followed Lin Sen over and heard him greet the stall owner familiarly. After flipping through a few herbs, he asked, "Old Hu, do you still have those pieces of black ginger that were returned from the last batch of stone ginger you sold to Jiang Cheng?"
"Black ginger?" Old Hu frowned, and pulled out a shriveled black object from the basket behind him and threw it over. "No one wants this stuff, so I won't pick it anymore. It's a hassle to dig it out, and I have to go into the cave to get it."
"No," Lin Sen handed the thing to Mu Huaixi. Seeing her nod slightly after checking it, he took Lao Hu and whispered to the side. After a long time, he brought her back good news.
"Old Hu said the black monkey's paw was found in a cave. I can bring you a fresh batch next month. I'll charge you the same price as regular ginger!"