Chapter 57: Meet the Old Lady Again
When Director Zheng heard this, he felt that Xia Juanjuan's reason was reasonable.
Secondly, since Song Xiuyue was fired, she tried to recruit a few country girls to look after the counter, but she was not very satisfied with any of them. She just fired the one with dirty hands and feet these two days, and the position of salesperson is vacant!
She had some feelings for Xia Juanjuan and wanted her to be the salesperson.
Every time Xia Juanjuan came to buy things, she bought a large quantity and a variety of things. When she was just starting to calculate the amount on the paper, Xia Juanjuan had already blurted out the total amount!
She didn't quite believe it at first, but she calculated until the last pair, and there wasn't a single mistake!
After thinking about it, Director Zheng decided to do Xia Juanjuan this favor. He also took the opportunity to observe her again while going to the county to purchase goods.
Therefore, Director Zheng smiled and said, "You are so lucky. I just have to go to the county department store to buy goods tomorrow! Go back to the village and get a letter of introduction, and come early tomorrow morning, and we will take the bus together!"
Xia Juanjuan didn't expect it to be so smooth. She couldn't help but smile and said, "Thank you, Director! I will definitely come early tomorrow!"
After leaving the supply and marketing cooperative, Xia Juanjuan went to the black market again.
Now that I don’t have a bicycle, it takes almost an hour to walk to town, which is not easy. I can’t waste it.
This time, she did not run into Yan Haotian. Xia Juanjuan did not care, and she took out fifty eggs and twenty wild duck eggs, two old hens, five pounds of fat hind leg meat, and a basket of crispy and tender winter bamboo shoots from the space in advance.
Chicken eggs were 1 cent each, and wild duck eggs were 1.5 cents each, and they were all sold out very quickly.
The old hens were alive, weighing almost two kilograms each, and were quickly sold out at the price of three yuan each. Judging from the tone of the buyer, he probably wanted to buy them home and raise them secretly for laying eggs.
Xia Juanjuan didn't care whether the other party bought it to eat or feed it to lay eggs.
Anyway, these are chickens raised in space, so they will definitely not fail to lay eggs and cause trouble for people.
The hind leg meat was divided into small pieces of one pound or half a pound. The ones taken out from the space were freshly slaughtered and much fresher than those sold in state-owned butcher shops! The price was 1.6 yuan per pound, which was not expensive at all, and it was sold out quickly.
However, no one is interested in winter bamboo shoots.
Xia Juanjuan thought about it and couldn't help laughing at her own stupidity.
Although the town is more lively than the village, it is still a rural area after all. Those who can come to the black market to buy things, even those with better-off families, are in need of meat, eggs, poultry and the like. The poorer ones are in need of staple foods such as white flour and sweet potatoes.
Winter bamboo shoots were a rare seasonal item in the era before she traveled through time, and were only eaten for a short period of time.
But in this day and age, who would be willing to spend money to buy some vegetarian dishes without any oil?
However, there is no market in the town, but there should be some markets in the county and the city. So when doing business, you can't just sell blindly, you still have to think more.
After Xia Juanjuan sold all the meat, eggs and old hens, she gave up selling the bamboo shoots and planned to pack up her stall and go home.
Just as she reached the dark alley, she was stopped by the old woman who had exchanged two jade bracelets with her for ginseng, cotton and the like.
"My dear, I... I finally met you again!" The old woman was obviously very excited. She grabbed Xia Juanjuan's hand and refused to let go, fearing that she would run away.
Xia Juanjuan was a little depressed. She had wrinkles on her face and judging from her appearance, she must be a village woman in her thirties or forties. Why didn't Yan Haotian recognize her and tell her that she was not the one? Why did this old woman also ask her to call her "girlfriend", a youthful title?
She couldn't help but whispered, "Old woman, how do you know I'm... young?"
The old woman was stunned for a moment before she said, "My eyesight is not very clear, but my hearing is still OK. My lady, you have a young voice..."
Xia Juanjuan was stunned for a moment, then couldn't help laughing. She was in the dark under the light, but her voice was not easy to fake.
Without waiting for her to speak, the old woman anxiously asked, "My dear, do you have any ginseng or other herbs for treating colds? My little...my niece Wan'er is weak and caught a cold these days. Now she has a high fever and it won't go away. I'm so worried!"
Xia Juanjuan frowned slightly, feeling a little embarrassed.
She did have medicinal herbs in her space, but she was not a professional doctor. Although she also stocked books on Chinese and Western medicine in her space, because there were medicinal herbs in her space and she was afraid of selling the wrong ones, she secretly read medical books such as "Compendium of Materia Medica" and "Treatise on Febrile Diseases", but she only had a vague understanding of them.
Just fever, in Chinese medicine, is divided into two types: wind-cold and wind-heat, and the medications used are two completely opposite directions. If you get it wrong, it can be fatal!
"Old lady, I have tonics like ginseng and angelica. Are you sure the fever is caused by the cold wind? If so, you can make some soup with ephedra, cinnamon twigs, and saposhnikovia divaricata... But I'm not a professional doctor, so it's safer to let the doctor take a look!"
When the old woman heard this, she grabbed Xia Juanjuan tightly with her wrinkled hands and said, "My dear girl! If I could find a doctor who is willing to see my sister Wan'er, I wouldn't have to rush here to buy medicine myself! Please be kind and sell me the herbs if you have any! Don't worry, it's God's will if anything happens, we will never blame you! By the way!"
As the old woman spoke, she quickly took out a handkerchief from her inner garment close to her chest. After opening it, she found a small and exquisite pure gold incense burner carved into the shape of an animal!
"Is this enough? If not, I'll get you something else tomorrow!"
The 'golden beast' in Li Qingzhao's "Ruinaoxiaojinshou" refers to this kind of incense burner, which is used to burn spices. It was a small item used by the ladies of ancient times to fumigate clothes or rooms.
This time, Xia Juanjuan was certain that the sister Wan'er mentioned by the old woman was definitely from a wealthy family.
Let’s not talk about anything else, the pair of jade bracelets last time, and the ‘golden beast’ made of pure gold this time, which one is not priceless?
"Old lady, I'll sell you the medicine, but this incense burner is too expensive..."
Without waiting for Xia Juanjuan to finish, the old woman firmly stuffed the 'golden beast' into her hands and said, "Girl! You are a good person for saying that. However, in this world, human life is worth less than grass. If you can exchange these things for food and medicine, it will save lives! There is no better deal than this! Besides, my sister Wan'er is not someone who likes to take advantage of others or owe others favors. If you don't accept it, she will die rather than drink the medicine I bring back!"
After hearing what the old woman said, Xia Juanjuan took the medicine, packed up ephedra, cinnamon twig, saposhnikovia divaricata, and a five-year-old ginseng weighing 150 grams, and gave them to the old woman, instructing her not to use too much and to try it out.
After thinking about it, Xia Juanjuan took out two aspirin pills and wrapped them in hand silk and gave them to the old woman.
"Old lady, this is Western medicine. Your sister Wan'er must be able to recognize it. If the high fever does not go away after drinking the soup, you can take half a tablet orally. It should be very effective in reducing the fever..."