Chapter 77 Selling Ginseng, a Pleasant Business
"Well, I like collecting these little things. It's so fun to get the stamp wrong. I want to take it back and let other people see it. This stamp is eight cents, and I'll give you ten cents. Is that okay with you?" Chu Yue spoke softly with a smile on her face, looking at the other person with her bright eyes.
The young man looked like he had just entered society, young and immature. When Chu Yue looked at him like that, his heart suddenly started beating wildly.
What's the difference between a penny and a penny? Since Chu Yue found it interesting, I still sold it to her at 80%.
After Chu Yue walked away with the stamps, the young man was still at the post office door, scratching his head. Suddenly, he realized, "Oh no! I forgot to ask for your name."
Chu Yue felt so happy holding the misprinted stamp.
You should know that after a few decades, the more misprinted the stamps are, the more valuable they are. Sometimes a small stamp can be worth a house.
She wanted to keep this stamp and give it to Lu Yuanbao later.
Chu Yue put the stamp into her personal space and went to her next destination - a Chinese medicine store to sell ginseng.
The clerk at the drugstore greeted Chu Yue, "Comrade, are you looking for medicine? Do you have a prescription?"
Chu Yue shook her head and said, "I'm not here to get medicine, I'm here to sell medicinal herbs."
"Come on, come on, this is a medicine store. We're open for business, not a place to sell things at a market."
The Chinese medicine store has regular herbalists who they cooperate with. For example, Chu Yue didn't know anyone at all and asked to come to the store to sell medicine. The store clerk would ignore her and just wave her away, even though she was a young girl.
If it was a middle-aged man who was making trouble, he would have been kicked out directly.
Chu Yue was not frightened by the clerk's bad attitude. She took a look inside the drugstore and saw a middle-aged man wearing glasses on one side. He was about fifty years old, tall and thin, and he was obviously the owner of the drugstore.
She walked over, took out the ginseng in the box and handed it over.
"Shopkeeper, this is a good thing, you really don't want to take a look?"
The middle-aged shopkeeper slowly raised his eyes and frowned subconsciously when he saw Chu Yue's fresh face. He also thought that she was some overconfident girl. But when his eyes fell on the ginseng that Chu Yue took out, his eyes suddenly lit up.
The middle-aged shopkeeper put down the herbs in his hand and walked over to observe them closely.
Chu Yue broke off a thin piece of wild ginseng from its lush roots and handed it to the shopkeeper. "Shopkeeper, try it. It's pure wild."
When the shopkeeper saw Chu Yue's actions, he knew that this was a knowledgeable person. Even if he didn't know about medicinal herbs, he knew the rules of doing business.
He will know whether it is good or not after tasting it.
The shopkeeper put the ginseng root into his mouth, took a few bites, and the depths of his eyes glowed darkly.
He pushed up his glasses that had slipped down his nose and said to Chu Yue, "Miss, what's your price?"
Chu Yue spread out the palm of one hand to cover her left hand, placed her left hand on the palm of her right hand, stretched out two fingers, and calmly quoted the price.
There is a black market in every era, whether it was in the 1970s or in modern society. Chu Yue has done a lot of business with the inventory in the Lingbao space, so she knows some industry skills.
When doing business like this that brings you windfall, remember not to tell anyone about it.
The shopkeeper looked at Chu Yue's skillful movements and raised his eyebrows in surprise.
Two hundred yuan is the market price for ginseng of this quality.
"make a deal."
The shopkeeper readily agreed. When handing the money to Chu Yue, he folded it and hid it in his sleeve, then placed it in Chu Yue's palm while covering it.
The clerk at the drug store nearby widened his eyes, but he couldn't figure out how much money was paid in the transaction between Chu Yue and the shopkeeper.
After seeing Chu Yue get the money, he showed a satisfied smile on his face and said to the shopkeeper.
"Shopkeeper, you are a straightforward person. I will come to you again next time when I have something good."
The shopkeeper no longer looked down on Chu Yue as he did at first. He smiled and nodded, "Remember our Pei Family Pharmacy. Feel free to come find me."
Here, after walking out of the drugstore, Chu Yue found a secluded place, took out the money and counted it. It was exactly two hundred yuan, and it was brand new.
Adding the three hundred yuan she brought from the Chu family, she now has five hundred yuan!
Chu Yue patted her pocket, feeling satisfied.
In order to make big money, she had to make a lot of money, but she couldn't miss out on small profits either. She carried a lot of pine nuts and yams down with her, and would sell them at the market in the afternoon, earning about ten or twenty yuan.
On the other side, after the shopkeeper took the ginseng, he carefully packed it in a box covered with red velvet cloth, sewed each ginseng root with a thin thread, and then turned to the accounting office behind the drugstore.
"Miss, look—our pharmacy received something good today."
In the accounting office, there was a young woman with fashionable clothes and curly hair. She was counting the accounts with her head down. She slowly raised her eyes, revealing a pair of charming and sharp phoenix eyes.
The woman was holding a child of four or five years old in her arms. Only half of the child's pale face was exposed. The child snuggled in the woman's arms and made soft coughing sounds, cough, cough, as if he had a cold.
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Chu Yue left the pharmacy near noon, which was almost the time she and Pei Hanchuan had agreed on.
She hurried towards the state-owned hotel.
Because it was close to the New Year, there were inevitably a lot of people on the road. A boy of about seventeen or eighteen bumped into Chu Yue's shoulder.
Chu Yue suddenly stopped and looked at the boy's back with a frown.
It wasn’t that Chu Yue was hurt, but it was—the thief!
That man is a thief!
Chu Yue is meticulous and careful. When she gets something good, she puts it directly into her personal space and never puts it in her pocket.
The moment the boy's shoulder bumped into hers, he touched her pocket at a lightning speed, which Chu Yue could clearly feel.
This thief is not very old, but his technique is quite skillful and it is obvious that he is a veteran.
If he couldn't succeed with Chu Yue, he must have succeeded with someone else.
Right at this moment.
"My wallet! My wallet is gone—Ouch, my wallet is gone—"
On the side of the road, a silver-haired old lady suddenly shouted.
The old lady was about seventy years old. She was not dressed luxuriously, but you could tell her clothes were made of good fabrics. Her hair was especially meticulously combed, her clothes were neatly dressed, and her face was wealthy, completely different from the average pale and skinny old lady.
No wonder the thief targeted her.
The old lady staggered over and tried to chase the thief.
Chu Yue immediately grabbed the other person, put down the bamboo basket on her back, and said quickly, "Grandma, wait here for me, I'm going to catch the thief!"
Before he finished speaking, Chu Yue's figure had already flown out like an arrow.
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