Lin Yuexi carried a backpack and got on Grandpa Xia's ox cart at the brigade headquarters. After arriving in the town, she took a bus to the county seat.
Relying on the original owner's memory of having been to the county town once, she kept asking people around. After half an hour, she finally saw from afar a three-room shop connected together facing the street. On the door hung a large horizontal plaque with the words "Bencao Yiyuntang" inscribed on it. Next to it was a sign that read "Company Joint Venture". It was exactly the place she was looking for.
Lin Yuexi walked in with a backpack on her back. The shop was made up of three connected storefronts. The walls were filled with medicine cabinets. There were hundreds of drawers, and even the air was filled with the smell of Chinese medicine. One could tell at a glance that this was a long-established shop.
In the middle of the lobby, there was an old Chinese doctor who was taking a patient's pulse and treating him.
Lin Yuexi saw two clerks at the counter, dispensing medicine for people. She immediately walked over and asked one of them, "Do you sell Chinese herbal medicines here?"
"Come on! I'll take you to the backyard!" said one of the two guys.
After saying that, he walked out of the counter and took Lin Yuexi to the backyard.
The backyard is very large, with four main rooms and three side rooms. Someone could be vaguely seen moving inside the door.
The waiter shouted: "Master Bai, it's time to collect the herbs..."
"Coming..." someone responded.
The waiter pointed at the bamboo chair in front of him and said to Lin Yuexi, "Wait here for a while, someone will be here soon, I have to go to the counter."
Lin Yuexi then put down the backpack. Seeing that the man had not come over yet, she quickly took out more than ten kilograms of Gastrodia elata from the space and put them in the backpack.
Just after putting it away, a tall middle-aged man came over and asked, "Young comrade, what Chinese herbal medicine did you bring..."
Seeing the question, Lin Yuexi quickly opened the bag in the backpack, took out a piece of Gastrodia elata and handed it over, saying, "Gastrodia elata..."
Master Bai took it and looked at it, and said in surprise, "Wild Gastrodia elata..."
Seeing this, Lin Yuexi took out some more from the bag and showed him the Chinese herbal medicines she had picked in the mountains.
Master Bai looked at it and said, "Your Chinese herbal medicine is not worth much, but this Tianma is very good, and it is dug very flat.
How about this! I give you five dollars a pound? "
"Okay..." Lin Yuexi replied.
I thought, five yuan a pound, that’s five yuan a pound, I have plenty in my space, and I bought wild Gastrodia elata seeds anyway.
Since Gastrodia elata is so valuable, ginseng must be even more valuable. I might as well go up the mountain again tomorrow and say I have dug up some ginseng, and then take out one or two from the space to sell.
When I save enough money, I will buy a courtyard house in the county, divorce that scumbag Lu Cheng, bring my two kids to live in the county, and completely get rid of this family.
Master Bai didn't know what Lin Yuexi was thinking. He felt that he was very lucky today to have encountered such good wild Gastrodia elata, and he was very happy.
He weighed all the Tianma on the scale under the corridor, "35.5 kilograms in total. There are also 10 kilograms of Chinese herbal medicine, which will be charged at 0.2 cents per kilogram..."
After that, he took out a pen and paper from the schoolbag hanging on the wall, wrote quickly for a while, and then handed the note to Lin Yuexi and said, "Go to the concierge over there to get the money!"
"Thank you, Master Bai..." Lin Yuexi took the note. She walked to the concierge window and handed the note in.
A young man calculated with an abacus, took out 179.5 yuan from the drawer, counted it twice and handed it to Lin Yuexi.
Lin Yuexi took the money and pretended to put it into her clothes pocket, but actually she put it into the cash box in the space. There are still a lot of thieves these days, so it is better to be safe.
Afterwards, she found Master Bai again and asked, "If I dig up Gastrodia elata or other precious medicinal herbs, would you still want them?"
"Yes! As long as the medicinal materials are good, we will take as much as you send us. We are a public-private partnership. The medicinal materials we collect will be handed over to the state and allocated to other pharmacies..." Master Bai looked at Lin Yuexi and said with a smile.
Lin Yuexi finally understood what was going on. She smiled, nodded, and walked out.
35.5 kilograms of Gastrodia elata were sold for 179.5 yuan. Now a worker’s monthly salary is only 20 yuan, and this is almost equivalent to a worker’s half-year salary.
If you continue working for another month or so, it will be enough to buy or rent a courtyard house in the county!
Lin Yuexi felt much better when she thought of this. It's already November, and maybe that scumbag will come back to celebrate the New Year. I'd better prepare early!
After Lin Yuexi left Bencao Yiyuntang, she went shopping in the department store, then went to a state-owned restaurant, ordered two dishes, and ate them leisurely.
After dinner, I slowly strolled around the county town. The county town is not big, but it has everything!
Lin Yuexi strolled leisurely on the streets of the county town. Looking at the dazzling array of small shops on the street, she couldn't help but feel a longing for her future life.
She walked into a stationery store and took a look, but found that the notebooks of this era were indeed different from the stationery she had stockpiled, so she picked out some paper, pens and small notebooks, intending to take them back for Lu Ziyan and Lu Xiyun to use for study.
After coming out of the stationery store, she walked along the street again to truly feel the atmosphere of this era.
Unconsciously, the sun began to set, and Lin Yuexi knew it was time to go back. She went to the bus station and got on the bus back to town.
In the bumpy car, she held the backpack tightly, but her thoughts drifted far away. She thought about what precious medicinal materials she could take out to sell, and how to choose a suitable courtyard house in the county town.
After returning to the town, she got off the car, took out some snacks and various dried vegetables in the space, pretended that she bought them in the county town, put them in the backpack, and then walked to the place where Grandpa Xia always parked the ox cart.
Sure enough, Uncle Xia was waiting at the same place.
When Grandpa Xia saw Lin Yuexi, he said, "The third daughter-in-law went out today..."
"Well, Uncle Xia, I dug some herbs in the mountains yesterday and sold them in the county to add some food to my family." Lin Yuexi said with a smile.
"Oh, Third Brother's wife, you are really hardworking...Other girls would do nothing if they had their husband's allowance..."
"Uncle Xia, what are you talking about? It's still a bit difficult for my family in Lucheng to raise two children with only 30 yuan of living allowance. I'd better support myself..."
After listening to Lin Yuexi's words, Grandpa Xia nodded slightly, and he admired her hard work and understanding. "Old Third Wife, you are right. You can earn money by yourself, and you can stand tall."
Lin Yuexi smiled, and then a few more villagers who came to the market came. After they all got on the car, Grandpa Xia started to drive the car back.
On the way, Grandpa Xia drove the cattle and chatted with her. "Old Third Wife, you are really good at digging herbs. It's not easy to find herbs in the mountains."
Lin Yuexi replied: "Uncle Xia, my grandmother was the heir of a family of traditional Chinese medicine. This matter may be difficult for others, but not for me."
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