Chapter 24: The Kind Heart of a Doctor
"Mom has never been to the county town, how can she know which way to go? You all come with me."
Li Laoer walked forward a few steps and looked back. Qin Fangci and Li Baisong were still standing there.
"Mom, why don't you leave?"
Qin Fangci and Li Baisong stepped forward and said, "Let's go to the pharmacy first. You said on the road that there are three pharmacies in the county. I saw one, so let's go to theirs first."
"Mom, the people at the drugstore won't want the weeds in your basket. Let's go sell some dried meat first. I know a wealthy businessman who travels all over the country. Let's sell this dried meat to him."
Li Laoer was very anxious. Master Liu had only told him to give him ten days or half a month. Now ten days had passed, and he didn't know whether Master Liu had left or not.
"How about you and my younger brother go to the medicine store and take a look. I'll take the dried meat to find Master Liu. I'll come pick you up later and I'm sure I'll bring you good news."
Qin Fangci took out a small cloth bag from the basket she was carrying and handed it to Li Laoer. Li Laoer was confused and asked, "Mom, what is this?"
"Second brother, give me the backpack. There are samples in the cloth bag. Take it to Mr. Liu first and compare the prices. Don't make a decision yet."
Li Lao Er glared, "Are you teaching me how to do business?"
"I'm not teaching you this, Xiaowu. This is my idea. This is the business that supports our family. If the price offered by Mr. Liu is not suitable, I will lend you ten taels of silver after I sell the dried meat. If you want to ruin my business for the sake of your big business..." Qin Fangci narrowed her eyes dangerously. In her opinion, Li Laoer seemed to have been brainwashed. He was impatient and excited.
"Mom, why don't you believe me?"
Qin Fangci corrected, "It's not that I don't trust you, I just don't have money."
Li Laoer: "..."
"Give the dried meat to your little brother. You need to go find Master Liu and Master Wang. Go ahead."
Li Laoer took the small cloth bag, turned around and left. After a while, he quietly opened the cloth bag and saw that there were only two small pieces of dried meat in the bag.
Li Laoer: “!”
Looking back, Qin Fangci and Li Baisong were standing at the door of the pharmacy, waving to him.
Li Laoer was so angry that he stamped his feet but didn't go back to grab the basket.
Why did Qin Fangci deliberately send Li Laoer away? She didn't want Li Laoer to participate in the medicinal materials business yet.
This is a business with no capital investment. As for the Li family, Qin Fangci only trusts Li Laosan and Daya, so she only brought them with her when picking herbs yesterday.
If Li Lao Da and Li Lao Er knew that they could pick up money with their bare hands, who knows what they would do.
The dried meat business is different. The meat at home can be made into dried meat and sold for a few taels of silver. If you want to do this business again in the future, you need to buy meat and ingredients, which all require costs.
It’s different if you spend money on something and if you get something for free, it won’t make people too crazy.
Li Laoer was indeed thinking about this business in the same way as Qin Fangci thought. He knew the prices of meat and ingredients. Three pounds of meat could make one pound of dried meat. Even lean meat would cost thirty-six cents at the cheapest. The seasoning her mother added yesterday cost at least thirty cents. If the dried meat was sold later, the cost per pound would be sixty-six cents.
If you don't sell this dried meat for eighty cents per pound, you won't make any profit.
Few people in Guangyi County can afford something that costs eighty wen per pound. This thing has to be sold to big cities, where people have enough money to afford it.
If you want to make big money in business, you can't do small things. It's hard for people to pull out one or two kilograms of goods, let alone ten or eight kilograms. Not to mention whether you can make money, you have to pay hundreds of coins first.
From Li Laoer's point of view, they cannot pick up wild boars for free. This business is too risky and their family cannot do it.
So his plan was to make all the wild boar meat in his home into dried meat, and then sell this batch of dried meat to Mr. Liu, and then sell the recipe as well. These would be considered as the cost he invested in Mr. Liu. When Mr. Liu made money, he could just lie back and share the profits, and there was no need to work so hard himself.
However, this road has just been blocked.
Seriously, he didn't reveal a single word the entire time. Is his mother a worm in his stomach? Even this could be guessed?
How come you are so smart?
It must be Xiaowu who thought of telling his mother secretly.
After reading for two days, he really became smarter and got into so many troubles. If I had known earlier, I would not have sent him to school.
But if I hadn't sent it there, I wouldn't have found a wild boar at home, and I wouldn't have had this dried meat...
Forget it. If it doesn't work, he can only wait for the dried meat at home to be sold. He has three taels in his hand, and it will be enough if he can earn seven taels by selling the dried meat at home.
Let's see how much Mr. Liu can offer later, and also give Mr. Liu a hint that he can raise the money, so we can wait for him.
Li Laoer figured out the situation and walked into Yeerxiang Hutong with a heroic and confident look.
Qin Fangci and Li Baisong also stepped into the gate of Qiancaotang.
The waiter had already seen them. As soon as the two came in, the waiter's eyes fell on Li Baisong, who had his head covered.
"Are you guys here to see a doctor or get some medicine?"
"Brother, do you collect medicinal herbs here?"
The little medicine boy's gaze moved from Li Baisong's face to the baskets on the two men's backs.
"We don't accept ordinary medicinal herbs." The little medicine boy said seriously, "There are a lot of wild grasses on the edge of the field that can be used as medicine, but you don't understand medicine. Bringing herbs and weeds together is a nuisance. You should leave quickly and look somewhere else."
Don’t let Doctor Su hear it, or he will buy it again and suffer the consequences.
What you fear will come true. Qin Fangci and Li Baisong were about to turn around and leave when Doctor Su came out of the clinic after seeing his last patient.
"Are you two here to see a doctor?" Doctor Su looked at Li Baisong's head. "You have a head injury? Come in, I'll take a look at you. It's okay if you don't want to get medicine. I won't charge you for the consultation."
It is not easy for country people to take the initiative to go to the city to see a doctor. Doctor Su knows that unless the disease is particularly serious, most country people can just endure it or find a barefoot doctor in the countryside to prescribe a few prescriptions.
This child has a clear and bright look between his eyebrows. It would be a pity if he hurt his brain.
The little medicine boy wanted to say that they were here to sell medicine, but he opened his mouth but couldn't say it. It would be better to say that they were here to see a doctor than to say that they were here to sell medicine.
Why is it so inch!
Qin Fangci and Li Bosong stepped forward and said, "Thank you very much, doctor. Please take a look at my son. He suffered a head injury from a fall the other day."
Doctor Su brought the two people into the clinic, and the little medicine boy who was left behind quietly walked to the side of the shopkeeper who had finished dispensing the medicine, with his head hunched and lowered.
The shopkeeper nodded his head and said, "You."
Doctor Su is the treasure of their store. He has superb medical skills and is particularly kind-hearted.
Qin Fangci and Li Baisong also felt Dr. Su's kindness.
At the end of the busy farming season every year, Qiancaotang Pharmacy is always crowded with people.
Most of the time, Doctor Su was out seeing patients, so Qin Fangci and Li Bosong were lucky to meet Doctor Su in the pharmacy today.
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