Chapter 122 Ambergris

With a snap, the fish's tail swung towards the approaching little face without any hesitation.

"Hey! You look pretty energetic, little guy."

Jiang Wan stuffed the fish directly into the kelp.

The fragrance doesn't come from the fish, so where does it come from?

She looked around. Usually, there was only sea water here after high tide. There was nothing but sea water, sand and rocks around, and the forest was far away.

Jiang Wan didn't notice anything unusual, and finally her eyes fell on the big rock on the beach.

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It was normal to have rocks on the beach, so she didn't think much of it at first. But when she couldn't find anything unusual around it, this was the only thing left.

Jiang Wan squatted down and put her whole face against the stone and sniffed hard. She immediately smelled a stronger fragrance.

That's it!

Ordinary stones don't have fragrance, unless...

Jiang Wan's heart started beating wildly.

She had seen many stories of people picking up treasures at the beach in modern news. Once, a fisherman found a stone with a strange fragrance at the beach. He took it back to find someone to take a look at it, only to find out that it was actually ambergris.

Ambergris has been a very valuable medicinal material and spice since ancient times. It is very expensive, and even my mother’s old clinic only had a small piece of it.

I heard that this stuff is sold by gram. An unprocessed gram costs hundreds of dollars, while a processed gram can sell for thousands of dollars.

The piece of ambergris found by the fishermen in the news weighed 20 kilograms and was eventually sold for nearly 4 million.

It was like a windfall.

Who doesn’t envy?

Jiang Wan was also quite envious. She was particularly diligent in fishing for a while, but unfortunately she was not lucky and could only catch some small fish and crabs every day.

Is it that today is a reward from God for doing good things?

She picked up the 'stone' with some excitement; it was so heavy!

At least a dozen kilograms!

I'm rich! I'm rich!

Jiang Wan held it tightly in her arms, once again dropped the wooden barrel and kelp and hurried home.

Compared to ambergris, those things were not important. She had to get this treasure home as soon as possible. Only when she got it home could she feel at ease.

Yin Huaixi sat in the pharmacy, watching her daughter mysteriously carry something back to the room, then quickly run out again, only to come back carrying a bucket after a while.

Hey! Are you still taking the ones in the bucket? The little girl actually picked up some kelp today, that's great~

She didn't know that a big surprise was waiting for her. After giving the medicine to Baozhu and her daughter, she turned around and went to check on the old man's leg in the village.

Since Ayong's father's leg was treated by her, although it has not yet healed, the old man can walk without hindrance and the pain has been greatly reduced.

Rheumatism is a stubborn disease that is difficult to cure, but she can help patients reduce pain to the greatest extent possible without affecting their normal life. Therefore, villagers with this disease come to her for treatment.

Some needed acupuncture, some needed moxibustion, and some needed leg compresses. I was so busy that I felt dizzy.

She began to miss the apprentices she had brought up.

By the way, do you want to recruit two apprentices in the village?

Yin Huaixi became interested and mentioned it to her daughter in the evening when no one was at home.

"Recruiting in the village? But the children in the village are illiterate, how can they learn about medicinal materials and how to write prescriptions? It's too tiring for you to teach your apprentices step by step from the beginning."

"Then I'll hire two smart guys to help me first. If they have talent, I'll teach them how to practice medicine."

Jiang Wan nodded. She couldn't always stay by her side to help, so it would be a good idea for her to hire two people to help her.

After dinner, the mother and daughter continued to do their own things.

Jiang Wan was going to make oyster sauce, Yin Huaixi was going to go to the pharmacy to roll up moxa sticks and prepare some medicinal herbs.

"Mother, wait a minute, I'll show you something."

After holding it in for the whole afternoon, Jiang Wan finally couldn't hold it in any longer. She ran to the small stone house and took "Stone" out.

In fact, she couldn't be 100% sure that this was ambergris, so she decided to let her mother take a look first.

Ambergris is a medicinal herb, A Niang will definitely be able to recognize it.

A large piece of "stone" was placed on the table. Yin Huaixi didn't understand what it meant at first, until she smelled the fragrance, her eyes widened.

"Wanwan, did you pick this up at the beach?!"

Her voice was trembling with excitement.

Jiang Wan nodded, patted the 'stone' and said, "Mother, do you think it is ambergris? I have never seen one this big, so I am not sure."

"It's ambergris!"

Yin Huaixi gave her daughter a positive answer.

She always has ambergris in her medicine cabinet, so she is very familiar with it.

This smell, this feel, you can't go wrong.

Wow, it’s so big, it would be sold for millions in modern times, and it should be sold for more here.

Because ambergris can only be obtained from sperm whales. Sperm whales are large and only live in deep seas. With the conditions of ancient fishing boats, few of them could sail to the deep sea.

Moreover, ancient people probably didn't know that this thing came from sperm whales. It was said to be the saliva dripping from dragons in the sky, so it was called ambergris.

This is a treasure, an extremely rare treasure.

Jiang Wan smiled fascinatedly.

"I remember that ambergris was a very expensive spice in ancient times. I'll go to the city and ask about its price someday when I have time."

Wait, ambergris has the word "dragon" in its name, would ordinary people dare to buy it?

Jiang Wan frowned.

"Mother, is there anything taboo about this?"

Yin Huaixi shook her head.

"As far as I can remember, there is no taboo. However, ordinary people cannot use these things. Only the rich and powerful can use them. It is fine for medicinal purposes."

"ah……"

Why aren't ordinary people allowed to use it?

Jiang Wan has a pouty mouth.

"So what should we do with this? Sell it or keep it?"

"Keep it for now, so I can get more to make medicinal herbs. If we are short of money at home, we can sell it."

It’s such a big piece, you should at least keep half of it for yourself.

Yin Huaixi happily carried the big pill back to the pharmacy.

At this time, the sky was gradually getting dark, and every household had dinner and prepared to go to bed while the weather was cool.

Lian Baozhu's family had just turned off the fire, and what they were cooking was not rice but medicine.

"My dear, please tell me what you did today. How did you fall into the sea when you can't even swim? How can we help you if you don't tell us?"

Yu Mei always thought that her daughter was the most well-behaved and that she must have been murdered by someone because she almost drowned.

Lian Baozhu lowered her head in shame, too embarrassed to tell the truth.

"Don't ask me, Mom. I fell into the sea by accident."

"Okay, it's that little bitch Qian Yue again, I'm going to skin her alive!"

Yu Mei rolled up her sleeves, and the couple ran out like a gust of wind.

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(I have a migraine today, so the second update will be a bit late.)