Zhao Guihua and Zhou Laoda couldn't resist Xingxing's coquettishness and quickly surrendered, agreeing to take her to the county.
Since she agreed so easily, Ruru thought for a moment, then reached out her hand to Zhao Guizhi and said softly, "Mother, Ruru wants to go too. Ruru wants to go with Sister Xingxing."
"We're going there to run errands. If you both have to come, we'll have to take care of both of you. How can we get things done then? It'll be such a waste of time and energy," Zhao Guizhi thought to herself.
However, after muttering to himself, he remained as gentle as ever on the surface, saying, "If we really have to go together, then you have to be obedient along the way and not throw a tantrum."
"Xingxing is very well-behaved. Not only will she not hold us back, she will also help us," Xingxing said confidently.
Ruru quickly chimed in, "Ruru is also very well-behaved and won't cause any trouble. I promise I won't delay Mom and Auntie and Uncle from doing their business."
"You should take the two little girls with you. It's a rare trip to the county. Xingxing and Ruru are both sensible children and won't cause any trouble." Chen Shunping meant that having two more children would definitely be troublesome, but these two children were more well-behaved and sensible than the other children and would be easy to take care of.
So Zhou Laoda and his two companions took Xingxing and Ruru to the county town.
It takes an hour to walk from Shanshui Town to Lishan County, and an hour and a half by oxcart, so by the time they arrived in the county, it was almost noon.
The group found a food stall for lunch, and then went to find a pharmacy to sell the Ganoderma lucidum and ginseng to see how much money they could make.
Two Ganoderma lucidum mushrooms were kept for Chen Shunping to nourish his body, and the rest were sold off, leaving none behind.
"Let's ask first. If the price is too low, we'll go to another pharmacy," Zhao Guihua said to Zhou Laoda, who nodded in agreement.
The three of them had only been to the county a handful of times and were not familiar with it. However, they asked several people about the number of clinics in the county and learned that there were actually seven in total, three of which were large pharmacies and the other four were small pharmacies.
"Let's go to these three large pharmacies first. The prices there should be higher," Zhao Guihua analyzed. Zhou Laoda and Zhao Guizhi nodded in agreement.
They thought they would have to visit several pharmacies to sell them, but things went very smoothly. The first pharmacy they visited bought all the Ganoderma lucidum and wild ginseng, and the price was reasonable.
The pharmacy owner was a connoisseur; he could tell the age of the Ganoderma lucidum and that it was freshly picked. The wild ginseng was over 600 years old—all high-quality goods. He didn't try to cheat them and offered a fair price.
In the end, the eight Ganoderma lucidum mushrooms sold for one hundred taels of silver, and the wild ginseng sold for one hundred and twenty taels of silver, for a total of two hundred and twenty taels of silver. After receiving the silver, the three of them took the two children and left.
Before they left, the pharmacy owner told them that if they had any good products next time, they could sell them to his pharmacy.
"The owner of this pharmacy is a nice guy, an honest man. If I can find good stuff again next time, I'll definitely sell it to him," Old Zhou said with a simple smile.
Zhao Guihua was a little dazed, feeling as if she were walking on cotton. "More than two hundred taels! We have two hundred more taels of silver now, hehe."
"Is this more surprising than bringing back two thousand taels of silver in a box?" Zhao Guizhi chuckled and patted her sister's back to bring her back to her senses.
She had heard from her sister and her husband that morning that the Song family had given her two thousand taels of silver as a reward. Although four hundred taels had been distributed, there were still more than a thousand taels left. In addition, there were a thousand taels that had been dug up on the mountain that had not yet been spent, so the family had nearly three thousand taels of silver in savings.
Logically, she should have only earned a little over two hundred taels from selling Ganoderma lucidum and wild ginseng today, so she shouldn't have been so distraught. But she acted as if she had received two thousand taels more than she would have.
"No, it's not that. I'm just happy." Zhao Guihua grinned. She felt like she was rolling in money these past two days, with piles of silver falling on her, making her dizzy and unable to describe her feelings at that moment.
I'm so happy, I feel like I'm floating on air! I'm so incredibly lucky!
Suddenly, Xingxing stood up from Zhou Laoda's basket and shouted anxiously to the two carriages that were rushing towards them, "Stop! Wait! Stop right there! Don't go any further!"
"What's wrong, girl? That's someone else's carriage. Let's not get involved. If we anger those wealthy families, they'll cause us trouble." Old Zhou was afraid she would fall out of the basket, so he quickly gestured to Zhao Guihua to take Xingxing out.
After Xingxing was taken out of the basket, she twisted her body to get down. Don't be fooled by the little girl's soft and pink appearance; she's quite strong, and she managed to break free in a moment of inattention.
Xingxing ran to the middle of the road to stop the carriage. Zhou Laoda and Zhao Guihua were so frightened that their faces turned pale. Without thinking, they rushed out to grab their daughter and bring her back.
"Whoa..." The coachman managed to steer the carriage in time, because he could see someone blocking the middle of the road from afar, so the carriage stopped several meters away from Xingxing.
"Whose child is this? Why are you blocking the way? If the horse isn't controlled in time, someone could be killed by being trampled under its hooves!" The coachman's face was grim, and he cursed angrily.
Seeing Zhou Laoda and Zhao Guihua run out and hug the little girl, the coachman shouted even louder at them, "How do you take care of the child? Are you trying to extort money or cause trouble? Do you even know who's in the carriage? Do you think you can afford to mess with them?"
"I'm sorry, we didn't mean it, the child is still young..." Before Boss Zhou could finish his apology, a loud "boom" came from behind him.
Looking back, I saw that a dilapidated little building not far away had collapsed. There were two very tall and thick pillars in front of the building, and the pillars had fallen straight down onto the road.
If the carriage hadn't stopped and had continued forward, it might have run over the fallen pillar and collapsed, killing everyone inside.
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