Xi Ri slept until seven o'clock before Lin Xiazhu got up. When she got up, she found that Xiao An was no longer in bed, probably having gone outside to wash up.
Lin Xiazhu woke Lin Taozi up and took the toiletries with her outside. Sure enough, they saw Xiao An coming out of the communal washroom.
"Xiao An, you're up so early." Lin Xiazhu greeted him casually.
"Sister, go wash up, I'll go buy breakfast," Xiao An said.
"No need, wait for me in the room, we'll go out to eat." There's a small bathroom in the room, but you can't use the toilet there, so everyone comes to the public toilet to wash up and relieve themselves.
When Lin Xiazhu and Lin Taozi finished washing up, Yan Xin, Lin Chacha, and Lin Xiaoxue also came over. The three of them were a little anxious when they saw that she had finished washing up.
"Sister, wait for us! Don't leave with Xiao An and Taozi first." They weren't familiar with the city, especially after being robbed last night, which left them with some lingering trauma. Right now, no one seemed like a bad person.
"I know, how could I possibly abandon you all?" Lin Xiazhu replied with amusement.
Although yesterday's luck wasn't great, everything went smoothly today. After breakfast, Lin Xiazhu carried a snakeskin bag to a pharmacy that looked quite large and showed the owner some Ganoderma lucidum and some medicinal herbs that Xiao An had collected.
Wild Ganoderma lucidum and other hard-to-find medicinal herbs were also available. The shop owner, a connoisseur, quoted a price and said he would buy as many as he could get. Of course, the shop owner dared to say that because he knew that even the best things couldn't be too plentiful.
When Lin Xiazhu arrived carrying several snakeskin bags, the pharmacy owner was a little surprised. But when he opened them and saw that there was only half a snakeskin bag of Ganoderma lucidum and the rest were various herbs, he smiled knowingly.
"I thought there would be at least one bag of Ganoderma lucidum." I was a little worried that the money from collecting the medicinal herbs wouldn't be enough, since some of the Ganoderma lucidum plants were almost a hundred years old and were quite expensive.
However, half a snakeskin bag is quite a lot, weighing about ten kilograms.
"The price of the medicinal herbs is reasonable, I have no objection, we can sell them directly." But the price of wild Ganoderma lucidum is too low. Other herbs that are decades old are reasonably priced at 160 yuan per catty, but those six herbs that are over a hundred years old should cost at least 1,000 yuan. Otherwise, it would be better to take them home and stew them into chicken soup.
"So, what do you think is a suitable price for these few hundred-year-old wild Ganoderma lucidum?" the pharmacy owner asked tentatively. These people were dressed casually and probably didn't know much about the market.
"A lingzhi mushroom that's been growing for over a hundred years is worth at least a thousand yuan per plant, otherwise I won't sell it." Lin Xiazhu said as she put several lingzhi mushrooms into a bag, looking like she didn't intend to discuss it further.
"Hey, don't rush, we can negotiate the price. I didn't say I couldn't raise it." The pharmacy owner quoted 600, and he was saying it to Yan Xin.
But after a heated argument, he realized that the only adult was not in control. The woman was in the shop with three children, and the little boy in front of him was calm and composed.
Despite having only two children, they were incredibly shrewd, more decisive and tactful than he, a businessman with over twenty years of experience, and their imposing presence was intimidating, holding their own against him in the slightest.
The younger generation is truly formidable; this little kid is practically a genius!
The price of 1,000 yuan per Ganoderma lucidum was too high. In the end, the pharmacy owner gritted his teeth and said, "800 yuan per plant, that's the most I can offer."
If a wealthy family hadn't inquired beforehand, expressing a desire to find wild Ganoderma lucidum that was over a hundred years old, and assured that they could sell it immediately and make double the profit, the pharmacy owner might not have bought all six at once.
In the end, the Ganoderma lucidum and herbs sold for more than 8,000 yuan, paid in cash. Luckily, they were all in 100-yuan notes. If it had been ten or twenty years ago, the largest amount would have been only 10,000 yuan, which would have filled half a snakeskin bag.
Lin Xiazhu put the thick wad of cash into her handbag, smiled, and led her family out of the pharmacy before boarding a bus and leaving.
The children were overjoyed. It was their first time riding a bus, and they thought it was big, spacious, and comfortable without any bumps.
Only Yan Xin remained indifferent. In her previous life, she was always chauffeured around and rarely even took a taxi. She disdained taking the bus. Now, she had fallen to the point where she was excited about taking the bus. That was truly something else.
"Sis, where should we go next?" Lin Chacha asked excitedly.
"Let's sell those mountain goods first before we talk about having fun." Otherwise, she wouldn't be able to focus on treating everyone to good food and drinks. That's just how she is; she always likes to solve one problem before thinking about another.
If you can't sell at night, you can go out and shop. But during the day, you can't waste time; you have to sell the goods first to feel comfortable.
After getting off the bus, they walked around and found a shop in the market in the south of the city that wanted to buy mountain products. After inspecting the goods and finding the price reasonable, Lin Xiazhu and her companions immediately rushed back to the north of the city, moved all the mountain products from the hotel, rented a three-wheeled motorcycle, and transported the goods there.
This batch of mountain products sold for over a thousand yuan, and combined with the money from selling Ganoderma lucidum and herbs this morning, it brought in over ten thousand yuan. Lin Xiazhu waved her hand and said with great enthusiasm, "Come on, let me show you around and broaden your horizons."
Then, they went to the zoo, checked out of their hotel room that night and went to a hotel. The next day, they went to eat seafood. Because S City is not by the sea, seafood is relatively expensive, so Lin Xiazhu didn't order too much.
We only ordered shrimp and grouper, which cost 100 yuan, but everyone ate as much as they wanted and were quite full, so it was worth it.
After visiting most of the tourist attractions in S City, Lin Xiazhu and her group had already spent six days in the city and over a thousand yuan, which was quite extravagant, considering that the salary in many companies is only three or four hundred yuan.
In rural areas, a unit only pays around 200 yuan, while a little over 1,000 yuan can cover half a year's salary.
The day before she was to return home, Lin Xiazhu took her family to the station to buy train tickets, which cost her over a hundred yuan. The two thousand yuan she had brought with her was all gone. One thousand yuan was spent on purchasing goods, which could be disregarded. Of the more than ten thousand yuan she had earned from selling mountain products, she now had nine thousand yuan left.
The remaining money cannot be squandered; it must be saved for something big. Lin Xiazhu thought of something and said to Yan Xin, "Remember to return the money for the goods to me when you get back. The invoice shows the total price, so don't forget."
"I know, it's not like I owe you anything." Yan Xin pouted. Actually, she really hoped that Xia Zhu could forget that she was the one who paid for the goods first.
Sigh, fine, she deliberately forgot to bring her money, hoping Lin Xiazhu would take it out first, and then see if she could get some advantage. She opened a savings account half a year ago and has already deposited five hundred in it. It's so hard, when will she be able to deposit a thousand?
If I don't have to pay back the money for this purchase, I can save more than a thousand yuan. It's not easy to make money in the countryside. It's good enough to just cover expenses. It's really not easy to save any money.
"You are you, and I am me. Don't get them mixed up. No matter how much money I have, it's still mine. If you want to earn more, you have to work hard yourself." Lin Xiazhu could always see through her thoughts at a glance and then ruthlessly retort until she was speechless.
However, these words were always spoken quietly to Yan Xin, so that her sisters and Xiao An could not hear them, otherwise it would seem too strange.
"Sister, airplane, airplane..." Outside the station, Lin Chacha jumped and shouted, pointing at the huge thing gliding through the clouds in the sky.
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