After Zhang Hulan came out, she took down the Polygonum multiflorum from the ox cart and said, "Shopkeeper, this is the Polygonum multiflorum we dug up yesterday. It's raw. How much do you think it costs per pound?"
The shopkeeper rummaged through the backpack, took one out, looked at it, and pinched it with his fingernails. "It's pretty good."
"I only dig the ones with older years. I don't dig the ones with younger years."
The shopkeeper nodded and said, "If it's processed, it's 80 wen per jin. But for raw Polygonum multiflorum, I can only give you 15 wen per jin."
Fifteen cents per pound, Wang's eyes widened. He didn't expect this thing to be so valuable, much more valuable than grain.
Zhang Hulan showed the shopkeeper a bag of cicada shells. "Shopkeeper, where are the cicada shells? How much is one pound?"
There was nothing to see in the cicada shells, so the shopkeeper said directly: "Cicada shells are 200 coins per pound."
"Wow! So expensive?"
Two hundred coins per pound? Wang was a little surprised.
Zhang Hulan said with a smile: "Mom, don't underestimate this thing, it's really expensive. You see, this big bag probably weighs less than a pound."
The shopkeeper asked the medicine boy to weigh them. The Polygonum multiflorum weighed 42 kilograms, while the cicada shells weighed only a little over 13 ounces.
The shopkeeper took the abacus and quickly gave the amount, "Polygonum multiflorum is 630 coins, and cicada shell is... I'll give you 170 coins, so the total is exactly 800 coins."
"Eight hundred coins?" Wang's heart was pounding.
I only earn 800 wen in half a day, and an average family cannot earn 800 wen in a month.
Zhang Hulan handed the copper coins to Wang, "Mother, please keep this money."
Wang said, "Why give me the money?"
"Mom, this money also has a share for my eldest brother and his wife. This is what we earned together when we were young, so of course I have to give it to you for safekeeping."
After hearing what Zhang Hulan said, Wang accepted the money. Both her son and daughter-in-law had a share, so she couldn't give all the money to her daughter.
"Mom, sister, Dad's leg has been reconnected." Zhang Hujun shouted at the door of the clinic.
Zhang Hulan and Wang immediately entered the consulting room. "Old man, how do you feel?"
Old man Zhang waved his hand and said, "It's okay. The doctor is very skilled. It didn't hurt much when I connected it."
Wang immediately bowed to Doctor Yang and thanked him, "Thank you, Doctor. Thank you, Doctor!"
Doctor Yang waved his hand, "You're welcome. I'll write you a prescription and get seven doses of medicine, one dose per day. After seven doses, he won't need to take any more medicine. Just let him take good care of himself. Let him lie still for a month, and come back after a month so I can remove the clamp. After a month, he can walk, but not too much. Take it slow."
"Also, I'll write you some fresh herbs. We don't have any here. Anyway, you know herbs, so go to the mountain to find some, crush them, and wrap them around the fracture. Change them once a day for seven days."
Doctor Yang wrote the prescription and handed it to Zhang Hulan, "Go get the medicine."
"Thank you, Dr. Yang!"
Wang said quickly, "Doctor, please bandage my daughter's wound as well. She also has a wound on her head."
Doctor Yang saw the wound on Zhang Hulan's head yesterday, but she didn't tell him and he didn't feel comfortable asking her to treat her.
Doctor Yang checked the wound on Zhang Hulan's head and found that it was not a serious problem. It was just a broken scalp and could be treated with a simple bandage.
After the bandaging was completed, Zhang Hulan took the prescription and went to the shopkeeper to get the medicine. The money for the medicine, the bone setting and the money for Zhang Hulan's bandaging totaled one tael and two hundred coins.
Zhang Hulan was about to pay, but Wang refused, so he paid the money.
The shopkeeper instructed, "Let this medicine soak for half an hour before boiling it."
"Okay, thank you, shopkeeper!"
Zhang Hulan and Zhang Hujun lifted Old Man Zhang onto the ox cart and drove back.
When passing by a grain store, Zhang Hulan walked in and Wang followed her into the store.
When Zhang Hulan asked about the price, she learned that brown rice cost 35 wen a dou and rice cost 60 wen a dou, which made Wang very distressed.
"Nier. It's so expensive, you'd better not buy it."
"Mom, we need to store more food. At this time, it's useless to keep the silver."
Zhang Hulan wanted to stockpile food, and Wang had nothing to say.
Zhang Hulan said to the grain store owner, "Boss, give me five dou of brown rice and three dou of rice."
Wang quickly stopped him, "Just buy brown rice. Why are you buying rice? It's so expensive. It's not worth it."
Zhang Hulan said, "Mom, Dad has a leg injury and my sister-in-law is pregnant. Dad and my sister-in-law can't make do like us."
"You...ah..."
Wang was both relieved and distressed that her daughter always cared about her father and sister-in-law.
Wang said nothing more, and walked to the door and shouted, "Dajun, come in and move your things."
Zhang Hulan paid the money, and Zhang Hujun came in without saying anything and carried the rice onto the ox cart.
"Brother, it's not good to put the rice in the backpack if others see it."
Zhang Hulan only bought this much today because she didn't want to buy too much at once and let the villagers see her. If they ran out of food, it would be easy to cause trouble if the villagers knew that they had food.
Old Man Zhang said, "Yes, we need to hide some of it. Food in a disaster year is more valuable than gold."
Old man Zhang said with some emotion, "Daniel is now more thoughtful than Dajun."
Zhang Hujun smiled and said, "My eldest sister is smart, but she is a little stubborn."
Hearing Zhang Hujun exaggerating Hu Lan, Old Man Zhang's face suddenly hardened again, "Smart as hell, if she was smart, she wouldn't have been so stupid back then and insisted on following Chen Dalang."
"Dad, you just praised my eldest sister for being thoughtful, how come you suddenly turned against me?"
Old man Zhang just snorted and said nothing.
Zhang Dajun drove the ox cart back again. When they passed a pork stall, Zhang Hulan jumped off the cart again.
"Boss, how much is the pork?"
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